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|Roanoke, Indiana
|Broadcast area
|Fort Wayne, Indiana
|Classical 94.1
|94.1 MHz
|First air date
|February 14, 1978
|Public radio, Classical music
|3,400 watts
|100 meters (330 ft)
|Facility ID
|Former callsigns
|National Public Radio
Northeast Indiana Public Radio
(Northeast Indiana Public Radio)
|Sister stations
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|WBNI/WBOI Website
WBNI-FM (94.1 FM) is a Fort Wayne, Indiana-area public radio station owned and operated by Northeast Indiana Public Radio. The station is a member station of National Public Radio. Local programming originates from the Northeast Indiana Public Radio broadcasting facility at 3204 Clairmont Court in Centennial Park.[1]
The station currently transmits from a tower in Roanoke. All programming is also carried on a digital channel transmitted by WBOI in Fort Wayne and via live streaming on the Internet.
WBNI began broadcasting in 1978 as WIPU-FM at 89.1 MHz on the campus of Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne (IPFW) with a very limited schedule using university staff and students. The station acquired enough of a following that by 1981, The Friends of WIPU was incorporated as a support organization.
Later that year, budget cuts threatened to force WIPU to shut down. The Friends of WIPU incorporated as Public Broadcasting of Northeast Indiana (now known as Northeast Indiana Public Radio), and bought the station in an effort to save public radio in the area. PBNI officially took control on March 16, 1982; changing the call letters to WBNI.
With new owners came new studios in the historic YWCA facility on North Wells Street. The schedule was gradually expanded and effective radiated power was also increased. Programming was mostly classical music, jazz, and folk music with some news and information programs from National Public Radio, including "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered." The station began airing occasional tapes of local concerts, including the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1993, Northeast Indiana Public Radio's 600-foot (180 m) transmitter tower was erected in Centennial Park and effective radiated power was raised from 31,000 watts to 50,000 watts, greatly expanding the coverage area in northeast Indiana, southern Michigan, and northwest Ohio. A new broadcasting facility was dedicated in the spring of 1994. Programming remained much the same until early 2002, when a sister station, WBOI, began broadcasting from the same building using WBNI's old tower in Orland.[2] At the same time, a 10-watt translator was set up in Fort Wayne to repeat WBOI's programming at 88.7 FM.
With WBOI's sign-on, it took all NPR news, jazz and folk music programming from WBNI, which became a 24-hour classical music station. By 2003, the two stations swapped frequencies, with WBOI moving to the stronger 89.1 and WBNI moving to 91.3.[3]
In February 2007, Northeast Indiana Public Radio management announced plans to acquire the transmitter of WCKZ, a rock music station operating at 94.1 MHz and licensed to Roanoke. NIPR took over the frequency and power of WCKZ and began field tests in April. General manager Bruce Haines announced that WCKZ began broadcasting classical music on May 1, providing the Fort Wayne metropolitan area with a stronger signal for the classical music programming currently carried on WBNI. The transmitter covers most of Allen County and all or portions of Noble, DeKalb, Whitley, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Wells, Adams, Grant, Blackford, and Jay counties in Indiana. The station continued to use the Orland transmitter, now known as WCKZ, and the Fort Wayne translator. WBNI is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to "Roanoke-Fort Wayne" on 94.1.[4]
In November 2007, WBNI replaced the directional antenna on the tower in Roanoke with an omnidirectional antenna, resulting in a better signal in the coverage area. There was no change in effective radiated power, which remains at 6,000 watts.[5]
In 2008, Joan Baumgartner Brown was selected as president and general manager of Northeast Indiana Public Radio (NIPR). The veteran local nonprofit leader oversaw operations at both WBNI and WBOI. Brown replaced Bruce Haines beginning August 4.[6] Haines became president and general manager of WFWA (Channel 39), Fort Wayne's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television station.[7]
On January 20, 2009, Brown announced that the NIPR Board of Trustees had decided "to pursue the sale of the analog stations now carrying classical music - WBNI 94.1, WCKZ 91.3, and W204BF 88.7. The signals are available for sale immediately. We expect that a finalized sale may take some time, and until the time of a sale, our plan is to continue broadcasting on these three frequencies as usual." However, Brown also said that the station would continue offering a high definition signal at WBOI's HD-2 program, transmitted from the Centennial Park tower, and the programs will also continue to be heard via live Internet streaming at www.nipr.fm. Brown said the station found that financial support was not sufficient to continue with the three analog signals, especially since "NIPR has been affected by the weak economy."[8]
On April 15, 2010, Northeast Indiana Public Radio (NIPR) announced the sale of WCKZ and the 10-watt Fort Wayne translator to Star Educational Media Network, pending approval from the FCC. WBNI's transmitter tower in Roanoke was also offered for sale, then taken off the market in early 2011. Once the sales of the analog stations was completed, classical music programming continued at 94.1, on WBOI's HD-2 program, and via live streaming on the Internet.[9] The sale of the two transmitters was completed in June 2010; the official station ID now only includes WBNI.[10]
In November 2010, Brown resigned as president and general manager of NIPR.[11] On December 10, 2010, NIPR announced that its new president and general manager would be Will Murphy, who had been the general manager of WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana; he took over at NIPR in January 2011.[12] It was announced on December 4, 2012, that Murphy would be leaving NIPR to run another Indiana public radio station, WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana. David Hunter, the membership manager, became the interim general manager.[13]
On January 29, 2013, NIPR's board announced that Peter Dominowski is the new president and general manager of NIPR. He has four decades of experience in broadcasting, mostly in public radio.[14]
In July 2016, Peter Dominowski announced that Northeast Indiana Public Radio had purchased a two-story building on Jefferson Boulevard in downtown Fort Wayne to serve as the future headquarters for WBNI and WBOI. Fund raising will continue to cover the costs of major renovations. Dominowski said it would probably be two to three years before the building could be occupied.[15]
94.1 FM history[edit]
Prior to acquisition by NIPR, WCKZ had been a Modern adult contemporary station as "Star 94.1" with the call signs WGL-FM and WYSR. The WYSR call-letters continued as the station flipped to Rhythmic oldies, first as "Y94", then as "Groovin' Oldies 94.1", in 1998. In 2001, the station acquired the WCKZ call-letters from sister station 102.3 and retooled the format on that frequency to Urban AC as "94.1 The Wiz". Most recently, the station was Classic rock under the moniker "Z94".
By August 2006, Z94's parent company, Summit City Radio, announced a station realignment and sale that would include the return of heritage rock station, Rock 104 WXKE at its previous location on the dial at 103.9. It was also announced that Summit City would be selling 94.1 to Northeast Indiana Public Radio in early 2007. All radio personalities, promotions, and the classic rock format moved to 103.9 FM. During this period, WCKZ simulcast Rock 104 while Northeast Indiana Public Radio raised the money needed to purchase the station. It announced plans to take over WCKZ and begin transmitting WBNI's classical music programming by May 1, 2007.[16]
In April 2007, Northeast Indiana Public Radio acquired the station, placing WBNI's classical music format and call-letters on the 94.1 signal. The WCKZ call-letters moved to 91.3 in Orland and simulcast 94.1's programming until the transmitter was sold in June 2010.
WBNI today[edit]
Much of WBNI's programming today is from classical music services including "Classical Works" in Bloomington, Indiana and "Classical Music Indy" from Indianapolis. A few programs produced by National Public Radio (NPR) and other public radio outlets are broadcast on WBNI, including "From The Top," "Sunday Baroque, "Harmonia," and other programs.
Mondays through Fridays, from 7 to 9 p.m., WBNI broadcasts recorded concerts by major orchestras. WBNI also carries the live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on Saturdays from December through May, usually beginning at 1 p.m.
There are still a few locally produced live classical programs such as the afternoon "Matinee" program, 12 to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, hosted by Stan Whippo. Other locally produced classical programs include "Symphonically Yours with Rob Nylund," a program devoted to symphonic music, on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. In January 2017, Nylund began hosting "Classical Mornings" on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The station now offers classical music 24 hours a day and is available on the World Wide Web at http://wboi.org. Current programming is listed on the station's website, [1] wboi.org.
Throughout its history WBNI has utilized mostly volunteers to host its local programming. Like other National Public Radio stations, WBNI is supported by contributions from listeners, businesses, and corporations. There are also spring and fall on-air pledge drives, usually lasting a little over a week.
WBNI has long been known for its special holiday programming in December and January, including celebrations of the "12 Days of Christmas" and Hanukkah.
Although WBNI no longer has regular news broadcasts, it does give regular weather forecasts and bulletins from the National Weather Service.
WBNI's longtime general manager, Bruce Haines, was succeeded by Joan Baumgartner Brown in August 2008. Will Murphy took over as general manager in February 2011. Kevin Kreigh was the operations manager and programming director; he resigned in February 2011 and was replaced by Andrew Anderson, who resigned in February 2012. Janice Furtner was the longtime music director (26 years) and host of the weekday "Con Brio" broadcasts, as well as the host of "In the Spotlight", a show of recorded concerts by local music groups, including the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Heartland Chamber Chorale, Fort Wayne Children's Choir, et al.; her position was eliminated by management in June 2010. WBNI resumed airing selected Fort Wayne Philharmonic concerts for the 2008-09 season, after a funding hiatus of one year, with the opening concert on September 20, 2008.[17] The board of directors announced at a December 4, 2012, volunteers recognition dinner that Will Murphy was leaving as general manager; a search began for a new general manager. David Hunter, the membership manager, served as the interim general manager. Peter Dominowski became the new president and general manager of NIPR in January 2013.[18]
Transmitter Sales[edit]
In January 2009, Brown announced that the 94.1 signal, along with WCKZ (91.3) and the translator W204BF (88.7), was available for immediate sale. Besides financial considerations caused by a weak economy, Brown said the NIPR Board of Directors determined "that even with a stronger signal on 94.1, our analog stations are unable to provide the fidelity needed for the deep complexities of classical music." WBNI's classical music programming would continue, however, via the digital program offered on WBOI (89.1) HD-2 to those with high definition radios and over the Internet, via live streaming, at www.nipr.fm.[19] NIPR received FCC approval of the sale in June 2010 of WCKZ and W204BF to Star Educational Media Network.[20] WCKZ and W204BF now simulcast the contemporary Christian format of Star Educational Media's "Star 88.3" (WLAB Fort Wayne). However, attempts to find a buyer for the 94.1 signal were unsuccessful and in early 2011 the station was taken off the market.
- ^ NIPR brochure
- ^ Interview with Bruce Haines, NIPR general manager
- ^ Eyewitness account by Robert E. Nylund, NIPR program host since July 1992
- ^ Interview with NIPR staff, NIPR flyer
- ^ Doug Gruber, WBOI program director
- ^ NIPR Names New President and General Manager - Newsroom - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
- ^ WFWA - Public Broadcasting for Northeast Indiana
- ^ Letter from Joan Baumgartner Brown to NIPR members, January 20, 2009
- ^ http://www.indianaeconomicdigest.net/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=155&ArticleID=53800
- ^ http://wboi.org
- ^ http://www.fwbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8970&Itemid=265; Doug Gruber, WBOI jazz coordinator
- ^ NIPR news release, December 10, 2010
- ^ http://nipr.fm/staff
- ^ http://nipr.fm/
- ^ http://wboi.org/post/nipr-buys-building-downtown-fort-wayne#stream/0
- ^ Interview with NIPR staff, February 2007
- ^ Robert E. Nylund
- ^ http://nipr.fm
- ^ Letter from Joan Baumgartner Brown
- ^ http://www.indianaeconomicdigest.net/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=155&ArticleID=53800; http://www.nipr.fm/
External links[edit]
- Northeast Indiana Public Radio website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WBNI
- Radio-Locator information on WBNI
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WBNI


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Tekken 6 Gets Online Co-op Next Week
Similar in concept to Streets of Rage or any other arcade brawler, Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign sees two players working their way through stages and beating up "vicious opponents and their legions of minions" instead of engaging in one-on-one combat. Previously, it could only be played offline with a computer-controlled ally.
The download will also bring with it "Improved Mokujin AI," with Namco explaining that "in online versus mode, Mokujin's fighting style changes with every round."


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Arthur Darvill: Alex Kingston calling me dad was strange
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- 26 August 2011
'Doctor Who' star Arthur Darvill admits it took a while to get used to being called ''dad'' by Alex Kingston on set
'Doctor Who' star Arthur Darvill admits it took a while to get used to being called "dad" by Alex Kingston on set.
The actor and the rest of the cast struggled to get their heads around the revelation that Alex's character River Song was the daughter of Rory - portrayed by Arthur - and Amy (Karen Gillan), especially when she started referring to them as her parents in the scripts.
Arthur exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "It was a strange thing but brilliant- it's something that sort of hits the ground running in the next episode and lots more is revealed and there are lots of questions answered in this episode coming up. But it makes sense, because that's who we are."
'Doctor Who' returns to BBC One on Saturday (27.08.11) with the episode 'Let's Kill Hitler' and as well as answering some of the fans' questions, Arthur insists it is one of the best adventures he has starred in.
He added: "I was amazed when I read the script - there's a few moments in it where I was like, 'You can't do that!' But I love it when 'Doctor Who' goes back into real historical events. I think Steven Moffat has done the best 'Doctor Who' going back to the Second World War that you could do."


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I caught Beautiful Girls (1996) on Hulu recently. For a movie that explores different versions of masculine ambivalence on the eve of a high school reunion (a reunion in winter? huh?), it comes as no surprise that it's hard to feel anything but ambivalence toward the movie itself. I had seen it once before, years ago, and it was memorable only in my memory for featuring a young Natalie Portman (albeit in a slightly creepy subplot). It's the kind of movie that substitutes songs for character development.
So about a half hour into the film, hapless girlfriend Sharon (Mira Sorvino) commiserates with her girlfriends about her cheating boyfriend Tommy (Matt Dillon).
Her friend Gina (Rosie O'Donnell) cheers her up by painting this scenario:
You're going to have to break up with him, and you're going to have to break up with him now. Now getting over him, that's going to be the hard part. I know. Believe me, I know. It's true. At first, after the breakup, you'll have these visions. Of you alone, 57, 58, walking around wearing a nightgown, your hair in a bun. Maybe you're a librarian, heating up a can of soup for one and worrying about the cobwebs that are growing in your womb.
Again, the specter of the Spinster Librarian nightmare. Gee, thanks.
At this point, I thought, ok, it's going to be a Class V film, one that mentions a librarian but doesn't include an actual librarian. But I was wrong.
An hour and ten minutes in, right after another inspiring soliloquy, this one by actor Michael Rappaport about the allure of supermodels ("A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning") we cut to a scene in the public library, where Tommy is trying to end his affair with Darian (Lauren Hutton). Is it merely coincidence that a librarian — this time an actual one — provides the backdrop for yet another breakup scene? Methinks perhaps not.
The older female librarian (uncredited) is standing up behind the circulation desk, checking out books to a couple of young boys. Her grey bobbed hair and bangs match her grey blazer, and her glasses sit low on her nose. No lanyard or bun in sight, thank goodness. She sits down as the camera pans to the back of the library toward Tommy and Darian. The bit of the desk visible reveals the standard movie props for libraries: stacks of books, a globe, a carousel of book stamps, a small card file, a bookstand, and in a nod to modern technology, a computer and scanner. Your average Information Provider, elevating the film into the Class IV category.
This scene was filmed at Franklin Library, a branch library of the Minneapolis Public Library system. This site provides a very thorough exploration of the filming location, plus more recent photos of this beautiful Carnegie library.
Related articles
- I got your Information Provider right here (reel-librarians.com)
- A brief encounter with a librarian (reel-librarians.com)
- Franklin Library from "Beautiful Girls" (iamnotastalker.com)


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"He commended the firefighters and emergency services for their efforts to protect the community and prays that assistance and support will be speedily available to those who have lost their homes or are otherwise affected."
Archbishop Doyle said a special bushfire collection would be taken up at all Masses in parishes across Tasmania this weekend.The money raised will be directed to the St Vincent de Paul Society Tasmania Vinnies Bushfire Appeal.
Pope must be slipping. He missed a chance to blame this on gay marriage.
Tasmania Police were still searching properties around Dunalley and to the north of the town following concerns that as many as 100 locals and visitors were unaccounted for.


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Cosmic Pharmacy by Karim Rashid
The world-famous designer, winner of many prestigious awards in the field of design Karim Rashid this time decided to try his hand at interior design. He developed the interior of pharmacy Oaza Zdravlja in Belgrade. Interior turned out an unusual, bright and a bit cosmic, as well as other creations of the designer. It's good innovation to transform standart farmacy interiors in creative ones.


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What did the "other" comments say about additional resources that nonprofit board chairs completing the Alliance for Nonprofit Management survey found helpful? Were there resources, not represented in the options the research team provided, that they considered useful?
At least one reader had that question after Monday's post, and I suspect he wasn't alone. Today, instead of the usual "inquiring" post, I'd like to share a few notes about the open ended comments left by respondents to the questions related to helpful information resources and helpful people. It's been awhile since I last really examined the thoughtful comments left in those spaces. Answering that burning question – for myself and others – is timely.
Helpful people
I'll start with responses to the most recent set of data highlighted here, on the people found most helpful, because the summary will be surprisingly short. I initially thought we'd see a long list of other human friends, mentors and others, since the options presented in the question were so few in number. Yesterday, as I was revisiting the "other" responses, I saw virtually none of that.
The few who actually named people almost always reiterated some version of one of the options presented in the question, e.g., a consultant, coach or the CEO. Instead, the majority of the 210 comments centered around one dominant theme: experience somewhere else. (That may ring familiar if you read the previous two posts in this series.) Especially popular was previous experience as a board chair, work-related experience that translated to a board setting, service as a nonprofit CEO, and the occasional experience as a nonprofit consultant.
I have a general observation and a question, since we can't go back and prod respondents' recollections for why they offered the answers that they did. The observation: this one came before the "helpful information sources" question, which may truly be where their most helpful sources in preparing for the board chair role lie. (We also opened the door a bit to other types of responses by closing the choices on the question with an "observing…" option rather naming than another person like the other choices listed.)
The question, which I know we can't answer in hindsight: could these very helpful survey participants be offering up other types of sources (without knowing the next question would probe for many of those responses), because they simply didn't have any other human sources of support? We had to limit our options on the question itself, so I – and probably others on the team – more or less assumed that we'd learn of other helpful helpful folk that we'd either left off or not considered in the "other" category. For the most part, that didn't happen.
Again, there is no way to know at this point. But it is a surprising outcome as I reflect on it today.
Helpful information sources
Respondents offered 102 comments tied to the question related to helpful sources of information. As with the other set of comments, I hadn't reviewed these in awhile. Reading them with fresh eyes both affirmed what I expected, based on data from the survey, and offered a surprise or two.
Experience was again a common theme in these comments – specifically, experience on other boards and as chairs of other boards. They learn by participating in nonprofit governance. If you've followed my work on adult/nonprofit board learning here, that probably isn't shocking: adults do a lot of their learning by doing.
But this also begs the question posed earlier: what if that experience is less than optimal? What if the examples include a good share of dysfunction? What if that experience doesn't include exposure to models and ways of working that may be even more effective and satisfying for board members? If they only have the same experience base from which to draw, they may never have the chance to discover what else exists to enhance their leadership effectiveness.
A less common, but still observable, theme in the comments tied professional expertise and experiences to their work as board chairs. Representative comments from that pool included:
"Luckily, I have an undergrad degree in psychology, an M.A. in Education and come from an orientations, student development career. This helped me to be prepared to run meetings, understand group dynamics and best serve the organization."
"business leadership background"
"my experience in my profession"
"mentored by several professional people"
We also heard from consultants (hopefully, responding as board chairs, since that was the focus of the survey) in the comments for this question.
"I work for a management consulting firm that advises for-profit Chairmen"
"Wisdom gleaned from my years as a consultant to board of faith based nonprofits"
"I am a Licensed Standards for Excellence consultant and have broad access to both literature and examples of what makes for a good (or bad) board chair."
One additional, personally pleasant surprise was the number of comments noting completion of courses offered in academic settings. Since I've been known to offer some of those myself, and I am acquainted with many of the leading governance faculty around the country, those comments were heartening to read.
That is so for two reasons. One, practitioners actually found something of value in those formal academic experiences (bridging the theory-to-practice divide can sometimes challenge.). Two, they counter some refrains I've heard about board members being too busy/lazy/unwilling to take time for development activities. At least some of these respondents were motivated enough, by something, to turn to the most formal of learning experiences. It may or may not have been sparked by their board chair service (we don't have that additional detail), but they were interested enough in nonprofit issues to sign up for college courses on related topic(s).
This brings me to the focus of the next post in this series, a delightfully rich set of responses from an open-ended question posed in the "preparation" section of the series that hasn't received the visibility it really deserves. Let's just say "board developer/adult educator me" re-discovered her "told you so" dance when I re-read those responses. Expect that post on Monday.
NOTE: This post is part of a brief series reflecting on the findings from the recently released Alliance for Nonprofit Management board chair survey that I found most noteworthy. While I'm generally not alone in my interpretations of these findings, observations conveyed in these posts officially represent my own and not necessarily those of my research team colleagues of the ANM.


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Let's talk about the bamboo palm tree! The spring and summer rains can be a very welcomed event for the palms and bamboo gardens of the south Florida area. It seems off and on all of Florida goes under water restrictions…
Besides rains helping any drought conditions, every year it helps push out new growth on one of my favorite indoor palms and considered one of the best indoor houseplants that clean air.
It's the Chamaedorea seifrizii commonly known as the "bamboo palm" or "reed palm".
There is nothing like rainwater to water your bamboo plants with. It sort of works like a natural fertilizer for indoor plants! Generally, it's clean and just seems to have that little extra that makes "happy plants"
Palms grown indoors can experience attacks from mealybugs and problems with spider mite infestations.
Seifrizii as most palm species such as the kentia palm, Lady Palm – Rhapis, parlor palm, areca palm, "Majestic" – Majesty Palm and more… are grown from seed, which isn't a fast process.
The seed sprouts in about 9 months and the young seedlings are planted into small containers and grown in the shade.
As the plants get larger they are then stepped to a larger size pot, require more potting mixture and placed out into the full sun.
Once the plants reach a salable size, which could take 2-5 years they are moved under shade to begin the acclimation process.
Here the plants will spend the next 3 – 6 months where they'll get their robe of dark green acclimated fronds.
When You Bring Your Bamboo Palm Home – What To Do?
Most growers use a granular, slow-release fertilizer in growing their palms. Seifrizii is sensitive to soluble salts, so remove the time-release fertilizer from the top of the pot and leach the soil thoroughly with water. Allow the plant to completely drain.
This plant likes to stay uniformly moist, remember that's moist NOT wet. When the soil has dried down about one third or half way down from the top you should water the complete top of the soil.
Make sure the excess water that can accumulate in the bottom of the planter is removed. These plants do not like to sit in water.
New plants can have a thick canopy… you should expect to lose of some of the interior foliage as the plant begins its acclimation to your indoor setting.
If you are overwatering, you'll usually notice the leaf tips begin to turn yellow and fall off from the stems as well as the new growth coming out very pale. The plant may also experience stem rot.
On the other side if you're under watering the tips of Seifrizii will turn brown as well as the new growth.
As with most palms the biggest problem with pest is mites. Regularly cleaning the plant's leaves with a soapy solution will help reduce their attack.
Once your plant has become acclimated to its new interior home it can be enjoyed for a long time. Just remember to not over water your Chamaedorea and provide as much bright indirect light as you can.
What Is The Best Lighting Conditions indoors?
Most Bamboos are nurtured and shade-acclimated for interior use and should do well in most locations.
Any lighted area (natural or artificial) should be adequate. As with many indoor palms watch out for spider mites, they love the dry conditions in homes and offices.
Take care and avoid both direct sunlight and low light areas such as dark corners.
The palm's natural look and symmetry can be maintained by turning the container 1/4 turn every week to allow light to penetrate the foliage canopy of your bamboo palm.


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Projects and Events
Upcoming Projects & Events
We have a busy Fall 2018 semester planned! Please join our Facebook group "Phi Theta Kappa- Phi Lambda Chapter" for the latest details. (It's a closed group per CPCC policy, so ask to join and we'll add you!)
If you're already a member, check for emails from our VP of Communication for the most up-to-date information.
Annual Projects
American Cancer Society
At the beginning of each semester, PTK members sell raffle tickets for a premium parking space in the student parking deck 3 at Central Campus. The raffle money is donated to the American Cancer Society. Thank you to everyone who supports this cause!
Keep America Beautiful
Phi Theta Kappa teamed with Keep America Beautiful, Inc. for our 2007-08 International Service Project, and we have continued the partnership ever since. We look forward to working with Keep America Beautiful in cleaning-up and raising awareness on campus and in the community.
Adopt-A-Street Clean-up
Phi Lambda sponsors the clean up of Elizabeth Ave. at least once a semester. We are responsible for the stretch from Presbyterian Hospital to McDowell Street. Volunteers are always needed on clean-up days to help pick up trash and other debris. Pick-up sticks, buckets and bags are provided.


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Zonal Workshop of KVKs of Zone-I organised
28-30 December 2017, Jammu
A three-day Annual Zonal Workshop to review activities of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) of Zone-I was organised by ICAR-ATARI, Ludhiana during 28-30 December 2017 at SKUAST, Jammu (J&K). The workshop was aimed at reviewing the work done by 74 KVKs and 6 ATICs of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand.
Sh. Gulam Nabi Lone Hanjura, Minister of Agriculture, Jammu & Kashmir was the Chief Guest. In his inaugural address, he emphasised the need to improve the financial position of farmers and importance of KVKs in making it happen. He highlighted the role of KVKs in taking latest technologies and improved agricultural practices to the farmers. He also talked about various issues of farmers and agriculture in Jammu & Kashmir and the role of agricultural universities and KVKs in addressing those issues.
Dr. A.K. Singh, Deputy Director General (Agril. Ext.), ICAR, in his presidential remarks, highlighted the significance of KVKs at the grass root level. He detailed the house about the national contribution of KVKs in terms of distribution of soil health cards, directly or indirectly contacting the two crore farm families, rising indigenous production of pulses from 18 to 22 million ton etc. He urged the KVKs to educate farmers about use of soil health cards while realizing the dream of doubling farmers' income. He also talked about nutrition sensitive agriculture and need to popularize bio-fortified varieties. He appreciated the role of KVKs in Punjab in addressing the issue of residue burning and combating white fly attack in cotton in a systematized campaign.
Dr. P.K. Sharma, VC, SKUAST, Jammu also addressed the delegates and lauded the role played by KVKs in the development of agriculture.
Dr. Rajbir Singh, Director, ICAR-ATARI, presented an overview of activities of KVKs in the region and presented few cases of technological interventions which have made a strong impact in the region.
Earlier, while welcoming the delegates and dignitaries, Dr. R. K. Arora, ADE & In charge KVKs, SKUAST, Jammu expressed his views about strengthening the technological backstopping to the KVKs in performing their duties.
There were six technical sessions, viz. Technological backstopping to KVKs, Progress Report and Action Plan of KVKs of each state and Progress Report and Action Plan of ATICs of Zone-I. Lectures were also arranged in each session by experts of various ICAR Institutes/SAU.
About 200 delegates including Directors (Ext) of SAUs, Programme Coordinators of KVKs, ATIC managers, Scientists of KVKs and farmers participated in the three day deliberation. More than a dozen farm publications and DVDs were also released during inaugural session.
(Source: ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Ludhiana)


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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be raising a daughter, not nearly as much time as I probably should. I'm too caught up in the day to day of working and parenting a little girl. But today, today is a day for every parent of a little girl to take notice of her. Today, although your calendar might not have mentioned it, is the International Day of the Girl Child.
That's right. It's not a holiday dedicated to some old guy who has been dead for a hundred years or more. We have enough of those kind of holidays, so many that it can be a little disheartening for a little girl. What about them? What about the females who are changing the world every day, bit by bit?
They may only have gotten their own "day" two years ago when the United Nations created the first Day of the Girl, but they're here. They're there. They're everywhere.
And so we asked them -- the real girls of America -- what it is that girls, girls just like them, can do to change the world.
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I've updated my poll with Disney animated films that weren't 'adaptations', etc to include The Emperor's New Groove and A Goofy Movie(I've explained why I didn't add them early in the comments): link Posted 3 months ago
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Back in June of 2016, I wrote an artikulo where I listed of 10 of the dumbest mistakes Disney ever made. I went easy on Disney in that article, saying that while Disney has made many bad decisions but every company made bad decisions and Disney wasn't any different. I merely made it so I can express that Disney isn't as perfect as people perceive it to be. But now the kid gloves are off. It's been two years since I wrote that, and Disney has gotten even worse. So bad in fact, that I'm not afraid to say that I dislike the company now. I know what you're going to say "But Renegade! Didn't you...
Hi guys, I just watched Coco and the film left me breathless. So, here is my review on this wonderful Pixar film.
The Story
The story is about being motivated, it reminds me of the Sound of Music. In which I will write down later, it was very interesting to see the ending where Ernesto gets killed sa pamamagitan ng the same fate during his last earthly moments! I really like how his fans saw his true colours and booed him during his grand concert.
Another great moment was the film introduces Mexican cultures and colours, another topic that I will write about later.
Hi guys, in preparation for the sequel 'Mary Poppins Returns'. Here is my review on the 1964 film!
The Film
I was really amazed sa pamamagitan ng the visualisation of Mary Poppins, especially when 2D animations come to life considering this film was released in the swinging 60's and there were no CGI back then!
I knew Julie Andrews from The Sound of Music, which came out the taon later after this film. But Mary Poppins was the first Julie Andrews' film I watched since my childhood days.
I loved this and the first movie ever since I was four I like the segundo one way better than the first one. Soon after watching the full movie again I have to say I generally think the segundo one is better than the first as a movie. I know a lot of people are gonna disagree with me, but I don't care this is MY opinion.
When pagbaba the plot it does sound simple and how the Disney sequels. The plot is kinda predictable but it's a good message for anyone.
uy guys, just to let you know that Dinosaur is a sombrero film. Anyway, remember CAPS? sombrero is Computer Animation Production System. It's a digital ink and paint system made sa pamamagitan ng Pixar. sombrero is a Disney process system used in animated feature films, the first at a major studio. Here are the projects produced using CAPS.
Projects produced using CAPS
Feature films
The Little Mermaid (1989) (ending scene)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Hi guys, I watched 2 of these films and I notice a number of similarities. Ready?
Okay, I remember I watched this 2011 film with my mom, and it was really because the pamagat character Nawawala his dad after the latter only appear 5 minutos of the film when it started!
He tries to survive and along the way, he meets a girl names Isabelle to whom he befriended. She helps him a lot especially about his father's inventions, speaking of Hugo's dad, he also introduces his son to inventions and mechanism.
There's a lot of really cute mga sanggol animated sa pamamagitan ng Disney so it's time to ipakita some appreciation to them! The listahan includes all Disney Animation Studios movies.
10. Baby Lucky
Such an underrated scene, it's so touching when the the little tuta actually makes it. It's a tiny little thing with a kulay-rosas nose and a white amerikana and even if his eyes weren't open, it just made it cuter. It was so heartwarming as a child and still is now. I couldn't help wanting a tuta of my own after this scene especially seeing his...
1. Come up with a ridiculously cheesy plot.
2. Make all or most of your characters really, really, really boring and unlikable. If the audience doesn't wanna strangle the characters sa pamamagitan ng the end of the movie, then you're doing it wrong.
3. Hire really horrible songwriters to write awful songs with atrocious lyrics.
4. Auto-tune the sh*t out of the songs. If your songs don't sound like they have the entire world's worth of auto-tune on them, then you're doing it wrong.
9. Gisselle and ponchastos
Giselle- She stands at 9th : At the beginning of the film, she is originally the stereotype of a Disney Princess. Because she lives in the perfect pantasiya world of Andalasia, she has barely felt emotions that are rare to the land such as frustration, sadness, and anger, which, of course, are common on Earth. She dreams of having her own Prince Charming, whom she will fall in pag-ibig with and live happily ever after. She also loves animals, who help her both in Andalasia and on Earth. She understands pag-ibig for all and life.
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Fantastical costumes worn sa pamamagitan ng Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Richard E. Grant and Eugenio Derbez in the movie on display
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The Closet
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|Miramax Films; R; 86 minutes
|Daniel Auteuil, Gerard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte
The latest shipment of imported French wit comes from writer-director Francis Veber (The Dinner Game). He assembles a top-notch cast and milks a great scenario with glee. The plot is as follows: a straightlaced factory worker is about to lose his job. His wife has left him and his teen son thinks—correctly perhaps—that Dad's a loser. Poor François (Daniel Auteuil) is about to end it all when his gay neighbor offers an unorthodox solution. He'll kickstart a gay rumor at the condom factory where François works. The boss, fearing bad publicity quickly values François and begins instating anti-sexual discrimination policies. The best part of the gag is that Auteuil plays the exact same character throughout—it's just other people's responses that change. Suddenly his stiff conservatism makes sense. Women find him attractive. The meaty office homophobe (Gerard Depardieu) lavishes eyebrow-raising attention on him after being warned that he must treat François better.
Veber is a master of French comedy, and his usual shtick combines well with light social satire. The Closet was a hit in France, and, subtitles aside, its humor should translate well for American audiences.


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Adios to the Brushlands
Arturo Longoria
In a little-known area of South Texas, extending across the Rio Grande into Mexico, a mysterious, lush land once harbored mighty trees, bushes, and grasses--brushland home to a plethora of wildlife. In Adios to the Brushlands native son Arturo Longoria remembers this chapparal land of his childhood: hot summer days and frigid winter mornings walking with his grandfather or his best friend through the dense underbrush, watching birds, studying reptiles, identifying plants. Boyhood hunting and varmint calling, encounters with rattlesnakes and fierce pamorana ants, hours spent with his grandfather, Papagrande, and cousins bring to life another time and place. A trained biologist and one-time investigative reporter, Longoria brings his skills of observation and expression to sing the song of this vanishing habitat that once covered nearly four million acres of the Rio Grande Valley. In moving but understated prose he captures the wonder of the brushland and symbolically and emotionally links its loss, through rootplows and bulldozers, to the death of his grandfather, who had introduced him to that world. He reports as well the public policies and private actions that have reduced the brushland to less than five percent of its former extent. He chronicles the efforts to publicize the brushland's destruction and to save the remaining richness for future generations. At once a celebration of a region's nature and a call to preserve the little bit of it still left today, this book is to the South Texas Brushlands what Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was to the nation's wetlands or John Graves's Goodbye to a River was to the Brazos River. Rife with the natural history of an endangered ecology and capturing as well the binational culture of the region, Adios to the Brushlands draws readers into a land as raw, beautiful, and complex as life itself. A unique descriptive documentary of a disappearing natural treasure, it is a slice of the new natural history that weds the details of the physical world with their significance to the human heart.
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". . . an empassioned call to action, to awareness. . . . After reading Longoria, you'll agree it's worth fighting for." --Valley Morning Star
". . . Longoria is an environmental essayist in the vein of John Graves, and Adios is a serious book that is both personal and political. . . ." --The Austin Chronicle
"Arturo Longoria's Adios to the Brushlands is a passionate and evocative tribute to the now almost entirely vanished brushlands of deep South Texas. . . . This book is a welcome and significant addition to the environmental literature of our region." --Texas Books in Review
" . . . the remaining natural habitat is some of the most diverse in the world, and Longoria, as a passionate native son, express the beauty, meaning, and importance of those places. Longoria sings the joys and lamentations of his place just as John Graves and Annie Dillard did for theirs." --Western Historical Quarterly
"Adios to the Brushland is an unforgettable story in which author Arturo Longoria describes the natural character of his lower Rio Grande Valley homeland . . . Like the land it springs from, his story is many-layered. . . . Longoria writes in an engaging, journalistic style that is easy to read. . . . He is a remarkably honest writer who reveals both the heart and harm of his youthful attitudes . . . Adios to the Brushland is a 'must read,' not only for native plant and wildlife enthusiasts but also for readers interested in the history, politics and culture of the South Texas border. Readers will find a lively, bi-lingual flavor in the text . . . Beyond its regional intrigue the book has a broader relevance, for Longoria writes with a depth that gives readers an understanding of their relationship to the whole of nature and with a passion that will inspire them to preserve it." --Native Plant Society of Texas
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OAKLAND PARK — Police said Friday they have arrested a 57-year-old woman who had been selling a variety of narcotics out of her home for possibly as long as a year.
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Godrej Life + Sprawled over 18 acres of land, this ongoing project will be surrounded by lush greenery and natural view. The project is focusing most on the middle class and the complex will have the units comprising the 2BHK and 3BHK flats. Each apartment will have a private courtyard and activity terraces.
Thus, the project has paid a special attention to giving a new way to the luxury and privacy. Godrej Life + Eternity assures the safety, security, peace and luxury. There will be 800 units distributed in G+3 floors with the budget of 52 lakh onwards and priced at Rs. 4199 per square feet.
There is a lot of social and retail infrastructure development going on around the area. The incorporation of the location with the NICE ring road has improved its connectivity with an additional of the Cauvery water supply. The other reason why this area is preferred over other premium localities of Bangalore is because the area is affordable, much more than those premium localities
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Like all the other projects of Godrej, Eternity will also be a pure pleasure to live in. It has kept itself close to nature among the valuable greenery. It will also give you a chance to gaze at the star filled the sky, something we don't really get a chance to watch. So, before you regret on not having an apartment in this project, invest in it.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Hope and Food Production
First, I've been asked a few times if I'm working. I'm not. Secondly, I've been asked how the kids are doing. They're fine. They're better than fine. They're amazing. I haven't taken pictures in months. Here I will be a good playwright, and put the plot exposition into the opening scene: pictures stored on computers, computers stolen, pictures lost, ensuing sadness/freedom, awareness that I can admire that gorgeous life spark emanating from my kids at any time, even without the aid of technology…total lack of inspiration to take more pictures. But because I was thinking of you, dear Internet, I dusted off the camera. Results attached: uneven but heartfelt.
And how is Nick? Ask him yourself! You can friend him on Facebook. After close to two years of stalwart resistance, he finally became a Facebook convert about eight months into my experiment, when the upstairs neighbor got unsecured wireless and I took a trip to Nicaragua. I didn't mind, really. I gave him my password and asked him to count my friend requests.
And me? What have I been doing with myself? Not much. In fact, I have been doing as little as possible. I did too much in my twenties. I'm thinking I might take this decade off.
In truth I have made a practice of stillness. It feels good. And, even if it didn't feel good, I'm due for it. I have a lion's share of listening and learning left to do. So far my studies are inexhaustible and inexhaustibly rewarding. I tell my pen pals that I am going to Do It Yourself grad school. I'm a candidate for a DIY degree.
Don't ask me, though, what field I'm in. Some days I'd like to reclaim the M.R.S. degree, transforming that mean joke into an open door to all the sons and daughters of our mothers. To so many of our mothers the kitchen was a fox trap, because their dreams were hung outside the home. But a generation later, as we seek ways to reclaim humanity and human connection, and resist the ubiquity of commercial enterprise, an advanced degree in home and family sounds like a lifeline.
Of course I can't take the gender out of the MRS. Gender is a real thing, and it does exist, and it is used as a tool in hands we know and hands we don't know. If I could tidy up that knot in a single line of exposition, you must believe that I would. But I can't. Instead I set it aside, still breathing, still tangled, and trace one single thread: how I as a feminist chose to reclaim my own kitchen.
In the very first days of my experiment, I was hyperaware of one activity: eating. As I broke the addiction – and yes, I do think it was an addiction – I found myself turning constantly to food – for entertainment, consolation, and as the centerpiece of social behavior. I had nothing else to do. I began to cook. Having ordered out or eaten from the grocery store deli for most of my adult life, I was just learning how. First I learned to make dinner from scratch. Then I learned to make a vegan dinner from scratch. Then I learned how to make a vegan dinner from local ingredients. In August, sitting down at a coyantura in Nicaragua, hearing an historian ask the assembled travelers on which topics we most wished for her to speak, I was surprised to hear myself saying, "agriculture and economics." Not art, not feminism, not that sexy poet assassin who killed the first of the Somoza dictators. (And doesn't that sound like a great story?) No, I wanted to hear about food: who grows it, who eats it, and who gets paid.
Now some of you will remember my mother. She wrote a book about this sort of thing. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention. I am paying attention now.
To some degree, following in my mother's footsteps in this way is only an aspect of the largest accomplishment of my year without Internet. This is a slight but measurable increase in personal integrity. I left the Internet in search of authenticity. And I most certainly found it. What I found is that genuine lifestyle change is grueling and incremental. I did make changes. But other things have not changed. I did read some of the books that I have always thought I ought to read. But others I found boring and put back on the shelf. I have awakened and healed some of my broken or abandoned relationships. But others are still lost.
But the year has given me a tremendous burst in hope. Back on the Internet for one week, I see that the anger has not subsided. There is the fear. The desire to convert. The voices that are speaking but not being heard. It wears on me. I realize that beginning to take a square look at global food production – which is not a pretty picture – depends on my ability to retreat from the more fruitless aspects of ideological conflict. I have to be able to rest. I have to be able to find silence. Otherwise I will not be able to hear. I cannot constantly be on the attack. Nor can I lie back against the rope and allow myself to be pummeled. At least occasionally, I have to step out of the ring.
And in the resting, with silence, that heals and also transforms, there is this unexpected burst of hope. Change is possible. Positive change is possible. Start now. Start anywhere.
From Hafiz, "The Friend comes into my body looking for the center, unable to find it, draws a blade, strikes anywhere."
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DIY Grad School. I love it. Maybe you can be the Dean.
Vegan Local Food!! YES!!! (Wish we could share a meal. Perhaps we can at least share a recipe.)
It is hard to not become overwhelmed when looking at the problems of our food production. I, too, often freak out when I look at the big scary picture. But I have to do my part every day and know that somehow that little bit helps. And that, at least, helps me sleep.
And yes, I think you should take this decade "off". You will, I am certain, accomplish amazing things in doing so.
- Dec 10, 2010, 12:56:00 AM
- Noelle said...
I would love to talk to you about Nicaragua. I went there this year too!
I didn't know you were posting missives to the interwebs while you were off the web. Damn. I would have checked.
Anyway, I can't catch up all day today, damnit, but I will soon.
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The Samsung Galaxy Apollo GT-i5801 has a number of features that could appeal to individuals who are considering selling their old mobiles to raise cash to buy a new handset.
CNET UK awarded the device a four-star rating and said the mirrored finish "really looks the business".
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Nikita followed up last week's awesomeness with a sometimes compelling but sometimes kinda dull episode where the pieces on the writers' game board were moved into position as we lead up to the season (please not series, please not series) finale. There was some great character stuff, but in the grand scheme of things, not a lot happened.
The main focus was Alex's inevitable bad reaction to Sean's death and Nikita's attempt to bring her back into the fold. I loved the misdirect where Alex appeared to be sliding back into drugs when instead she went all Charles Bronson on a bunch of human trafficker scumbags. Later, she was shown literally and figuratively trying to treat her own wounds and it wasn't working out too well. Drowning in survivor's guilt, she needed her mentor, Nikita.
"Self-Destruct" featured several fascinating flashbacks to some of Nikita's darkest days, immediately after Percy had Daniel killed (by Owen) because of Nikita's closeness to him. Daniel's ghost loomed large in Nikita's life before she and Michael reunited romantically at the end of Season 1. It was intriguing to see Michael come damn close to professing his love for her while she fumed at being left off a mission that might end her life--and thus her suffering. The next flashback showed Amanda shrugging at Nikita's suicidal thoughts and sending her off with a typically warm and fuzzy, "Maybe you should jump."
I was tickled at what almost seemed like annoyance on Nikita's part that Alex was still on an Amanda-influenced rescue kick. Of course, Nikita will always ride to Alex's emotional rescue--she's got a savior complex that's all-natural. It was heartbreaking when Alex finally realized that Larissa wasn't real and then had to confirm with Nikita that her latest salvage project, a group of girls in a New Jersey brothel, were indeed real themselves. Nikita and Alex's relationship is the core of the series. Their separation is often necessary for story purposes but it's always a relief when they're back on the same page. Nikita's heart to heart with Alex about needing to face her demons was long overdue--though her experiences with Amanda are going to really make it hard for her to find a therapist she can trust.
It's always great when we get to watch Nikita and Alex fight their way out of a tough spot as a team. However, while I loved the "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" homage as they found themselves trapped and low on ammo and decided to go out in a blaze of glory (the "You jump, I jump, remember?" line from that film tying in nicely with Amanda's take on jumping off a ledge), I found myself wondering why it was necessary. They knew Michael was en route and maybe I'm missing something but it seemed to me like they could've slipped out the same way Nikita slipped in, or at least hid somewhere and called the cops. I also didn't buy that these lowlifes would be so determined to kill them instead of just scurrying off like cockroaches.
I liked the fact that the girls came back to help Nikita and Alex from a writing standpoint, but the execution felt really cheesy. The shot of them hitting the creeps with rocks reminded me of the Ewoks beating up on the storm troopers in "Return of the Jedi" and while I'm not as much of an Ewok-hater as much of my generation, it just didn't work for me. It looked staged, something the stunts on this show rarely do.
The scenes back at Division were hit and miss. What did work was philosophical conflict between the cagey Ryan and the stalwart Michael, as well as Birkhoff's bitterness toward Michael and Nikita, whom he used to worship. But in general, it was a little like Downton Division--too talky for this show this close to the end of the season. There was talk about next steps, about blowing up Division, about what to do about the 308 loose ends running around with knowledge that could severely damage the U.S. government, about what to do about the Black Box that has the Division roster on it (yes, another NOC list), but if someone who missed the episode asked me what happened, I'd have to say in terms of story, not much.
I know I'm a broken record on Sonya, but I see her standing in the inner circle and I don't get it. Maybe when I get the season on Blu-ray this summer there'll be all these great Sonya scenes where we learn how she ended up at Division and she kicks all kinds of ass and has all these hilarious one-liners, but as it stands she still feels like a doomed Red Shirt who happens to have off-camera sex with Birkhoff. I did like the scene where she said that many in Division felt loyal to Nikita because she came back there to fight for them, and it would've been great to have gotten more of a sense of that vibe earlier in the season from the now in-the-wind Divisionites.
In the end, this episode was about our heroes reaffirming their status as the good guys. Ryan acknowledged that he got a little power hungry--for the good of the country, but still. Nikita opted to use the Black Box instead of destroying it and now they're all at risk. She owned that, and tried to inspire the battered Super Friends (and Sonya) to fight the good fight with her. And also to believe that she won't go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs on them like Alex just did, even though Amanda drilled into her brain just the other day. Hopefully she's right, but Birkhoff's comment that Nikita was good at inspiring stupid people to do really stupid things felt just as ominous as it was snarky. Three weeks left. Here we go again.
Christine Seghers is a writer at IGN TV. She lives in her own little world and rarely interacts with people, but you can still attempt to follow her on Twitter at @CMSeghers and IGN at ChristineSeghers.


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Everyone has heard about the benefits of exercising. Indeed, a healthy body requires regular exercise. Physical activity that includes a combination of cardiovascular workouts indoors and/or outdoors (such as bicycling, running, tennis, or football), strength/weight bearing training (weight lifting), and flexibility/balance training (for example, dance, yoga, Pilates, or stretching exercises) provides invaluable benefits to the body. Dr. Laskowski at the Mayo Clinic recommends 30 minutes of moderate exercise at least 5 times a week, or 20 minutes of vigorous exercise 3 times a week, plus strength training twice a week. According to Mayo's exercise scientists, seven proven benefits of physical exercise are:
- Mood. During physical exertion, the body releases chemicals such as endorphins that lift mood. For that reason, people feel noticeably less stressed right after exercising.
- Chronic disease.Exercise combats chronic diseases, such as osteoporosis and diabetes. For example, exercise triggers the production of new bone cells and lowers blood sugar levels.
- Weight management.Exercise burns calories. It also makes digestion more efficient, increases energy demands to repair muscle tissues, and raises resting metabolism (energy needed at rest).
- Heart and lung strengthening.Exercise improves blood circulation throughout the entire body. It aids the passage of nutrients and oxygen to tissues.
- Sleep.Exercising during the day helps with smooth transitions between stages of sleep. People who exercise on a regular basis fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and reach deep sleep more easily.
- Sex life.When people are healthier, happier about their weight, and feel more energized, sex becomes more rewarding.
- Fun.The best kind of exercise is the type that combines efficacy and enjoyment. There are many forms of physical activities to choose from for all temperaments, body compositions, and life styles. It is common for people to try several programs before finding one that works for them. Individuals' motivation frequently rises and falls, until exercise becomes a need which they find intolerable to neglect.
At BYU-Idaho, students have numerous choices of physical activities. PE instructors, Fitness Center personnel in Hart 152, and physicians at the Student Health Center are among those who can guide you in creating a system that works for you. To stay motivated, fitness incentive programs are available through BYU-I activities. To enroll, go to:
Consult current and past issues of the BYU-I Campus Wellness Newsletters at http://www.byui.edu/campuswellness/Newsletters.htm, for useful information on physical exercise.
Get more information from the Mayo Clinic about how exercise can help with anxiety by clicking here.


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Dining at The Bushnell
The Bushnell Cafe
Visit our cafe for a quick bite before the show. The cafe features pastries, soups, salads, sandwiches and more.
The cafe is open two hours prior to most shows.
The Horace Bushnell Suite
A private, 3rd floor dining suite is available to donors and for special events.


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Ryan Murphy's 'American Crime Story: Katrina' is Currently 'Stalled'
It's beginning to sound like we may never get to see American Crime Story: Katrina, the planned second season of the Ryan Murphy anthology series.
The season was supposed to air in the beginning of 2018 followed by the third season, focusing on the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
Despite several of the key roles being cast months ago with Dennis Quaid, Annette Bening, and Matthew Broderick all attached to star, the show has not yet begun production. The Versace season instead will air in the beginning of 2018 and it is expected that Katrina will air later the year.
Now, director Anthony Hemingway, who worked on the first season of the anthology series and was slated to work on Katrina, says he's not sure what will happen.
"That just kind of got stalled," he told THR. "We're all standing by waiting to find out what's happening."
"Nothing has really been done. We haven't started prep on it at all," he added. When asked if there is a chance the season won't happen he said, "Who knows. It's all up to Ryan Murphy."


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HOUSTON --A Houston police officer killed in the line of duty is being laid to rest. Hundreds have packed a northwest Harris County church to say a final goodbye to Officer Kevin Will. He was killed early Sunday morning, hit by a car driven by an illegal immigrant who was allegedly drunk. As you can imagine, it was a very sad and somber mood inside as family members and hundreds of law enforcement agencies from across the state said their final goodbyes. There was silence earlier this morning as the body of Officer Will was wheeled inside Champion Forest Baptist Church hours before the service. One and after another, hundreds of HPD officers and others filed in, preparing to pay their respect. Then, a round of applause for Officer Will who saved the life of another before losing his own when he pushed a witness out of the way before the crash. The officer was struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver and during the funeral service, two officers picked by Officer Will's family stood and spoke about their friend. Many of the officers told us they did not know Officer Will personally, but they say they still feel this loss. "It's a very somber mood when you have an officer killed in the line of duty this way, that was out there trying to help the public; and actually he's a hero because he was able to warn somebody to get out of the way and he took the hit that cost his life. You become one, you become family no matter what uniform you wear. We're all police officers and we all care about each other," said Officer Roger Salazar of the METRO Police Department. After the service came to a close, hundreds of HPD officers lined up shoulder to shoulder for a wall of honor to salute the casket as it came out of the church. That was followed by an HPD fly-over, a 21-gun salute and a riderless horse to symbolize this fallen hero. A private burial service was scheduled after the funeral. At the Houston police officer's memorial, flowers have been laid and eventually Officer Will's name plaque will be installed on the monument. Kevin Will's life lasted only 37 years, but in that time he earned love and respect which was seen here today. HPD Police Chaplain Monty Montgomery had to tell his parents. "Miss Will, there was one thing you said when we were sitting on the couch that really I thought brought strength to many people in this place today -- when you looked at your husband and you said, 'Harold, he beat us to heaven,'" Montgomery said at the funeral. Officer Will's biggest job though was just months away -- his wife is pregnant with his first child, a boy. Today with her two children, the widow accepted a flag and a police badge that is now retired. "He was taken from us way too soon, but I am honored to say I know Kevin Will, the hero," said HPD Sgt. J.K. Richards. Tiger Kaufman, son of a policeman and childhood friend of Will's, said, "I was fortunate my Dad chose his retirement. So Kevin and all the officers that protect our us and serve our city are constantly in my prayers." Officer Will's wife plans to name their child for his late father. Suspect charged; immigration debate renewed On Wednesday evening, dozens of people came out to the visitation services at Klein Funeral Home. It was the same day Rodriguez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who has been deported twice before, made his first appearance in court. Court records show the accused gang member's blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit and he had cocaine in his pocket when police say he hit Officer Will. Rodriguez faces felony charges and a possible life sentence. He remains in jail. This case has renewed the debate over whether local police officers should be allowed to check a person's immigration status. Supporters say it would allow officers to stop illegal immigrants from committing crimes. Opponents say immigration is a federal government issue. A bill that would give Texas police officers the authority to ask people about their immigration status was refiled in Austin on Wednesday, but it is not expected to be taken up during the special session. Stay with Eyewitness News for continuing coverage of the sanctuary cities debate. Help for fallen officer's family
The 100 Club announced that donations are being accepted to its "Survivor's Fund," which provides benefits to the dependents of peace officers and firefighters who are killed in the line of duty.Officer Will died in the line of duty on Sunday morning, May 29, 2011, while working a hit-and-run motorcycle accident on 610 North Loop near Yale. A $10,000 check will be given to Officer Will's family to assist with any needs they may have. Additional financial support for the family will be provided, after a review is made by the Club, to include current financial and children's educational needs.
If you wish to help, contributions may be made at www.the100club.org, or mailed to 100 Club Survivor's Fund, 5555 San Felipe Street, Ste 520, Houston TX 77056-2733. One-hundred percent of "Survivor's Fund" donations go to the dependents of law enforcement officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty.


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CTMedia spin-off becomes dualStream!
A new CTMedia spin-off has been created to commercialize the products that La Salle has been developing during the last years in the field of digital TV and new media. The new brand is called dualStream and it is offering cutting-edge products and services in the field of digital broadcasting. With a team of highly experienced engineers with over 12 years history in the digital TV domain having developed turn-key products and solutions for major content providers, broadcasters and network operators throughout Europe.
dualStream now offers a complete set of products for broadcast head-ends, analyzing & monitoring, hybrid broadcast-broadband networks and connected TV applications. The DVB-T2 focused solutions lead the field in terms of flexibility and efficiency. Visit their website www.dualstream.com!


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Flashcards:Delorean: I think for most users on BT, they are after a plan that simply can't be offered for the price they want to pay. Telecom could give them 1000GB pm - for a price.
My 2c worth
Can't or won't?
Can't in the context of an unlimited plan for $60 pm, not sure about won't, that something only telecom can answer.
I think personally the caps telecom have are low considering most users do consume more data as the speeds have improved in the last 2 yrs. that's the result in the improvement of their service. I think the data caps haven't increased accordingly.


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Fittest Loser trainers ready to work with contestants
The drive behind this year's Fittest Loser Challenge contestants can be found in the seven personal trainers from Push Fitness in Schaumburg. Each of the competitors will be fueled with nutrition advice, guided through rigorous workouts and encouraged over the next 12 weeks by these highly skilled fitness experts.
Michelle Amsden
Michelle Amsden is a certified personal trainer and boot camp instructor with nine years experience in weight loss. Amsden, a marathon runner, has competed in three marathons and three half marathons.
She specializes in a variety of training styles for weight loss and muscle toning. She is passionate about health, running and training hard. According to Amsden, the best part of her job is encouraging, teaching and pushing her clients to work hard within their capabilities.
Amsden is teamed up with competitor John Bohanek.
Steve Amsden
A NASM-certified personal trainer, Steve Amsden is in his sixth year participating in the Fittest Loser Challenge. He trained the winner of the first competition, Lisa Notarnicola, in 2009.
Amsden has more than a decade of training experience in all facets of fitness and nutrition. He specializes in cardio strength training, which entails high-intensity circuits utilizing free weights, kettlebells, medicine balls, etc. His style is ideal for fat loss, muscle gain, body shaping and overall toning.
"I have little tolerance for excuses and complaining," he says. "Everyone wants results, but that only comes with discipline, hard work and dedication."
This year Amsden is training contestant Tim Lange.
M. Brodie Medlock
M. Brodie Medlock is a licensed chiropractor and NASM-certified trainer with a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology from the University of Oregon and a doctor of chiropractic degree from Parker College of Chiropractic.
Medlock, a lifelong athlete, has competed in soccer, basketball, football and track. He currently enjoys participating in CrossFit competitions, sprint triathlons and myriad adventure races to stoke his competitive fire.
Medlock implements the latest exercise and nutritional research into his clients' programs to enable them to realize their greatest potential for living. He utilizes a wide variety of fitness modal to build fitness levels while maintaining peak client focus on constant goal-setting and achievement.
Medlock is paired with contestant Chris Kalamatas.
Wade Merrill
Wade Merrill, who trained the winner of the 2012 Fittest Loser Challenge, Michael White, is a certified personal trainer and boot camp instructor with eight years experience. He and his wife, Joanna, enjoy running, biking and training together.
ACSM-certified, Merrill specializes in weight-loss training, high-intensity boot camp training as well as stabilization training. Seeing the evidence of a changed lifestyle is Merrill's favorite part of personal training.
Merrill is working with contestant Allie Monroe.
Joshua Steckler
Personal trainer and owner of Push Fitness in Schaumburg, Joshua Steckler received a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Indiana University. He is ACSM certified with 16 years experience.
Steckler, who trained the winner of the 2011 Fittest Loser Challenge, Bob Pearson, specializes in high-intensity, total-body and functional training styles to enhance fat loss and muscle density and enjoys combining ballistic movements with functional exercises to improve body composition, strength, power and stability.
He enjoys training in the gym, but really loves getting outside and staying active through running, hiking and mountain biking.
Steckler is training Lisa Jones Townsel.
Lindsay Vigna
A former softball and volleyball athlete, Lindsay Vigna is a CrossFit certified trainer with six years experience. She specializes in varied functional movements designed to improve strength, stability and flexibility. A cross-fit competitor herself, she understands how competition can bring out the best in people.
Vigna is training Cheryl Seibert.
Brad Parotto
Brad Parotto will teach the weekly boot camps and organize a run club to help prepare the contestants for a 5K run. He has a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Western Illinois University.
Parotto is a NSCA certified trainer with nine years experience. He specializes in sport-specific training designed to prepare an athlete for events such as triathlons or marathons using functional circuit training and high intensity interval training. He's a lifelong track and field athlete and has completed several marathons.


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AJC quotes Selig Center Director Jeff Humphreys on new stadiums' impact on economy
The AJC called on Jeff Humphreys, director of the Selig Center for Economic Growth, to help explain how the construction of two new stadiums around Atlanta—one for the Falcons and another for the Braves—will affect the local economy.
Humprheys said the Atlanta economy started accelerating last year, and the new jobs created by stadium construction will continue that momentum.
"This all collectively confirms that the economic recovery has staying power at this point," he said.
But now, the local economy is shifting into the passing lane, he said: metro Atlanta is likely to grow more rapidly than the national economy. "This implies a pretty good outlook for 2014."


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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The disciplinary panel of Taiwan's ruling party has suspended the veteran legislative speaker, a move that portends potential problems for the China-friendly approach of President Ma Ying-jeou.
Spurred on by Ma, Wednesday's decision against Wang Jin-pyng effectively strips him of his job and legislative seat. It follows claims by special prosecutors that Wang and former Justice Minister Tseng Yung-fu pressured prosecutorial officials not to appeal the acquittal of an opposition lawmaker on breach of trust charges. Tseng resigned under pressure from Ma on Friday.
Ma's moves to oust Wang have provoked deep resentment among many Nationalists, who say the president is engaged in a personal vendetta. Any Nationalist split could aid the return to power of the China-wary opposition in 2016 elections, by diluting Nationalist strength.


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Get the 1&1 Terraform Plug-In
Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- Introduction
- Install Terraform
- Install the Plug-In
Getting Started
Before you begin you will need to have signed up for a 1&1 account. The credentials you create during sign-up will be used to authenticate against the API.
To view or contribute to this project, visit the GitHub repository.
This is a plug-in for Terraform. Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve production infrastructure. It is an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Install Terraform
Terraform must first be installed on the machine where you plan to run it. Terraform is distributed as a binary package for various platforms and architectures.
To install Terraform, download the appropriate package for your system. Terraform is packaged as a zip archive.
After downloading, unzip the package into a directory where Terraform will be installed. (Example:
~/terraform or
Add the Terraform Directory to the PATH
Note: The adjustments to the PATH environment variable as outlined below are temporary. There are numerous examples available on the internet describing how to make permanent changes to environment variables for each particular operating system.
If you prefer not to change the PATH, you can invoke Terraform directly by going to the directory and using the command
./terraform, or from anywhere using the full path such as
To add the Terraform directory to your PATH:
If you plan to run Terraform in a shell on Linux and placed the binary in the
/home/[username]/terraform/ directory, you would use the command:
Mac OSX
If you plan to run Terraform in a shell on a Mac and placed the binary in the
/Users/[username]/terraform/ directory, you would use the command:
If you plan to run
terraform.exe in PowerShell on Windows and placed the binary in
c:\terraform directory, you would first find the existing value of PATH:
echo $env:Path
If it ends with a ;, then run:
$env:Path += "c:\terraform"
If it does NOT end with a ;, then run:
$env:Path += ";c:\terraform"
Verify the Terraform Installation
After installing Terraform, verify the installation by executing
terraform or
terraform.exe. You should see the default "usage" output similar to this:
$ terraform
usage: terraform [--version] [--help] <command> [<args>]
Available commands are:
apply Builds or changes infrastructure
destroy Destroy Terraform-managed infrastructure
get Download and install modules for the configuration
graph Create a visual graph of Terraform resources
init Initializes Terraform configuration from a module
output Read an output from a state file
plan Generate and show an execution plan
push Upload this Terraform module to Atlas to run
refresh Update local state file against real resources
remote Configure remote state storage
show Inspect Terraform state or plan
taint Manually mark a resource for recreation
validate Validates the Terraform files
version Prints the Terraform version
Install the Plug-In
Download the desired release archive from the 1&1 Terraform Provider Releases. Extract the binary from the archive and place it in the same location you used for the Terraform binary in the previous step. It should have the name
terraform-provider-oneandone or
Build the Plug-In from Source
The build process requires that the GO language be installed and configured on your system.
Once you have GO installed and working, then retrieve the Terraform 1&1 provider source code using the following command:
go get github.com/1and1/terraform-provider-oneandone
Then change to the project directory and run
make install:
cd $GOPATH/github.com/1and1/terraform-provider-oneandone
make install
The resulting binary can be copied to the same directory you installed Terraform in.
It seems that the repo for the Terraform-Plugin (see the provided link) doesn't contain any binary ... ???
Hello rsz, the binary file that is referenced in this tutorial is the contents of the .zip file that you can download from the provided link on the Terraform website.
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A few weeks friends of mine from Durban convinced me to join them for drinks in Kloof, and what became a nice evening was interrupted by Eskom's load shedding. Of course, by that time we had already had enough liquor in our systems to carry on with the aid of candle lights – such is the life in Cape Town. The mega utility's management and sole shareholder representative, the South African government, are the ones to blame for the failures that peaked in 2008, and again in 2014 through to this year.
Their incompetence is in far contrast to that of the South African-born men who run SolarCity, a company based in California, which now boasts the largest and fastest growing clientèle of solar energy in the United States.
Meet Lyndon and Peter Rives
SolarCity – as a utility – and its South African founders find relevance right now not least because of Eskom's failure to do what taxpayers pay it to do, but makes due the question why these two men and their more famous cousin, Elon Musk, opted to take the fight against big electricity utilities to America and not South Africa. Lord knows we could use their help!
The Rives brothers, Lyndon and Peter, where born in Pretoria. According to their company profile, it was their cousin and current company chairman, Elon Musk, who convinced them that solar energy was going to be the next big thing, and they bought it. Solar has been the next big thing since before I was born, but it's never really amounted to much because of the costs per mega watt of solar power, in other words, it's been darn expensive to provide such energy than the tried and tested burning of coal. Just over 10 years since its inception, Elon has made R13-billion, and the brothers own R3-billion of a company that's worth R64-billion at today's exchange rate.
Eskom's Real Business
Eskom is in the business of polluting the world, as the single biggest CO2 emitter according to some estimates. Okay, maybe that may not be the fairest of descriptions. Eskom is in the business of providing reliable electricity to South African citizens [first] and foreign countries that the company has supply contracts with. Unfortunately, the scale at which the company plays may not make SolarCity the best example to compare our public utility with. Its main priority since 2008 has been to burn up as much coal as possible at the Medupi and Kusile power stations, which has been a spectacular failure. Its next priority is proposed to be the fusion of uranium and plutonium at the cost of a whopping R1-trillion.
The unfortunate thing here is that Eskom does not have a Peter and Lyndon Rives at the helm, and does not have Elon Musk as a major shareholder. Instead, we are stuck with government-deployed individuals whose interests could be questioned, and thus strain the input that [qualified and] capable people give to the SOE.
Part of the reason I wrote this was to shed light on the incredible success that three Pretoria boys have had in a foreign country, which I dare say would've been harder in South Africa given the way Eskom is handled, and the way that itself behaves. And those of you who will comment and say that America is different from South Africa, you're 100% right – but the people are the same: we want affordable and reliable energy – therefore SolarCity wouldn't struggle getting a market here as well. Another reason that I wrote this is was because of the success the company recently had with the Hawaiian Electric Company (there's more than just one Eskom in the USA), where its customers feed their excess solar power into the grid which allows for the power company to redistribute that energy to places where demand is higher. This is not to say that Eskom hasn't looked at these innovative solutions, but it's really frustrating that we're having a repeat of 2008 all over again.
SolarCity delivers better energy
SolarCity is America's largest solar power provider. We make clean energy available to homeowners, businesses, schools, non-profits and government organizations at a lower cost than they pay for energy generated by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.
Our approach is to install systems to the highest engineering standards while making the switch simple for our customers. We've revolutionized the way energy is delivered by giving customers a cleaner, more affordable alternative to their monthly utility bill.


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Shiny as a Droid is children's book published by Random House in 1986. It was written by Virginia Holt and was fully illustrated by Feito. It was one of two "Things to See, Touch, and Smell from a Galaxy Far, Far Away" books, the other being Fuzzy as an Ewok.
Publisher's summaryEdit
Young children will find that outer space is no farther than their fingertips when they stroke a serpent's scaly stomach, touch a strange hairy plant, scratch and sniff an alien fungus--and more--while helping Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio search for the crystal they need to fix their spacecraft.
Plot summaryEdit
C-3PO and R2-D2 are on an unidentified planet about to leave for Tatooine when R2 points out their ship needs a new supply of energy crystals before it can take off. On their way to a cave where the crystals can be found they put an orange serpent to sleep by stroking its belly, escape a carnivorous plant Threepio accidentally discovers under a rock, and touch the paw of a furry four-armed creature which in turn points the way to the cave. Finally they find the crystals they need near a smelly orange fungus. The droids use the crystals to refuel their ship and blast off for Tatooine.
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Key Points
- Costs incurred in preparing to comply with disclosure orders not payable by liquidators
- Protection for wasted costs should have been sought earlier in the proceedings
The Facts
The liquidators of two companies wound up in the Cayman Islands (SICL and SHL) sought disclosure of documents relating to those companies from PwC in Bermuda. Orders were made at first instance and then set aside, in the case of SICL by the Court of Appeal of Bermuda and in the case of SHL by the Privy Council. This judgment deals with the costs incurred by PwC in preparing to provide documentation prior to the orders being set aside.
The Privy Council (Lord Clarke dissenting) held that the costs which had been sought (but not obtained) by PwC during the course of proceedings were only the costs of compliance and not the costs of preparatory work which later proved to be unnecessary due to the disclosure orders being set aside. Protection in relation to such wasted costs could have been achieved (if at all): "by appealing, seeking an extension of time for compliance or a stay of execution pending determination of the appeal and, if this is resisted insisting, as a condition of the refusal, on an undertaking in damages to cover costs wasted." PwC's application was therefore dismissed.
The position on costs of compliance with a disclosure order in an insolvency scenario (in the English context pursuant to, for example, section 236) is not entirely settled but case law favours costs not being met out of the insolvency estate. Nevertheless, in relation to the costs of compliance which are later wasted (because orders are set aside), this case is a clear statement to seek appropriate protection on such costs at the outset. Whether or not such protection will ultimately be granted remains a separate question.
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