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NWSB Insider and Writer Reggie Gill talks about Century Link…errr Seahawks Stadium, home of the Seattle Seahawks football team. Got the family with you? Check out Touchdown City. Check out the raising of the 12th man flag. Just before the game starts, the crowd is whipped into a frenetic frenzy. Tailgate close to the stadium, and the best part check out the Seattle Sea Gals cheerleaders. WOW.
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Anybody up on their consumer rights?! I booked an Alitalia flight to go to Argentina in June and it now looks as though the airline will may well have ceased operating by then as are that broke they can't continue flying. So does anyone know what happens in this instance? I booked at a UK branch of STA travel using a VISA credit card. My insurance company said I wouldn't be covered with them. I heard rumour that STA may be responsible as they are part of the ATOL scheme or maybe even VISA.
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I get something similar to you Broncos game wise courtesy of Sky. Lucky enough to get the first two games at least and I can catch a glimpse of the Broncos via Redzone on weeks when they aren't showing the games. Our internet connection is not the fastest so I haven't signed up for Gamepass, but I have audiopass.
I became a fan of the Broncos back in 2004 as a result of my then teenage son buying Madden for his playstation! He couldn't figure out the rules so we did some research via Nfl.com. We liked what we saw. He became a fan of the Dolphins and wanted me to pick a team. Being a big soap fan in the 80s and knowing my favourite soap was set in Denver I randomly picked the Broncos. Haven't regretted it one bit. Glad to say that over the past year or two my son has converted to the Broncos as well. How about you? How and how long have you been a fan?
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WINDHAM – Calvin Field singled home Joey Francoeur, then scored on Jack Herzig's double Thursday as the unbeaten Windham Merchants used a two-run sixth inning to rally to an 8-7 victory over Bethel in a Zone 3 American Legion game.
Windham (7-0), trailing 2-1, used a bases-loaded triple by Field to score five times in the fourth.
But Alec Manning and Jesse Bennett each stroked two-run singles as Telstar (2-3) countered with a five-run sixth to take a 7-6 lead.
BIDDEFORD-SACO SAVINGS 6, MASSABESIC 4: Taylor Reuillard hit a three-run homer in the third inning for Biddeford-Saco Savings (4-2) at Biddeford.
Patrick Wilson pitched six innings with four strikeouts and three walks for the winners.
Casey Nava and Brian Wardwell had two hits and an RBI each for Massabesic, which totaled 12 hits.
FAYETTE-STAPLES 7, NOBLE 2: Campbell Jackman drove in three runs to pace Thornton Academy at Saco.
Thornton scored four runs in the first inning; Campbell drove in two with a single and Justin Cloutier brought in another with a sacrifice fly.
Josh Hill pitched four innings for the win. Hill gave up three hits, two unearned runs and walked three. Drew Gelinas finished the game, giving up two hits with a strikeout and two walks.
SOUTH PORTLAND 4, BRISTOL SEAFOOD 2: Nicholas Whitten doubled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning as South Portland (2-4) downed Deering (3-3) at Portland.
Whitten also gave up nine hits to go with six strikeouts and a walk.
South Portland led 2-0 in the top of the sixth. Dan Marzilli tied it with a two-run single in the bottom of the inning.
SACO-BIDDEFORD SAVINGS 1, STANDISH POST 0: Keenan Lowe struck out 10, walked two and gave up one hit through six innings to lead Westbrook over Bonny Eagle (2-3) at Standish.
Lowe gave up a single to Max Salevsky in the first inning.
Aaron Stauble led off the fourth inning with a double, moved to third on a sacrifice fly and scored on a passed ball.
Kyle Labrecque of Bonny Eagle struck out eight and hit two batters.
MOODY'S COLLISON 6, FIRST TITLE OF MAINE 0: Damon Wallace allowed just a first-inning single to Drew Ferrick, striking out eight and holding Cheverus (1-4) to the one hit at Portland.
Gorham opened the scoring with a four-run second inning. Spencer LaPierre tripled home Dillon Turner and also scored.
SACO BAY PT 4, STAPLES CROSSING 4: At York, Marshwood and York-Wells played to a 4-4 tie in a game that was called after five innings.
Adam Bailey of York-Wells struck out five, walked six and gave up five hits. Deion Stewart struck out five and Al McLean struck out three for Staples Crossing.
LIBBY-MITCHELL 2, CUMBERLAND 0: Sam Warren pitched a two-hit shutout to lead Libby-Mitchell at Scarborough.
Brendan Kane led off the bottom of the first inning with a double, went to third on Tim Ross' single, then scored when Ross got caught in a rundown between first and second. Warren then scored on an error in the sixth.
POST 86 6, WINDHAM MERCHANTS 2: Tyler St. Pierre struck out 11 for Gray-New Gloucester (6-3), holding Windham (2-5) to four hits at Gray.
Evan Harmer lined a two-run single during a five-run fifth inning that gave Gray-New Gloucester a 6-2 lead.
SOUTH PORTLAND 4, SCHWARTZ & SCHWARTZ 1: Sam Troiano and Drew Abramson scored as South Portland (4-3) took advantage of mistakes to break a 1-1 tie with a two-run third inning against Deering (0-8) at South Portland.
Griffin Kelly, Ben Conte and Nick Troiano combined to strike out eight, holding Deering to six hits.
WESTBROOK 4, STANDISH POST 2: Bailey Sawyer drove in the winning run with a double in the sixth inning as Westbrook (4-3) downed visiting Standish Post (2-6).
Jack McCullough followed with an RBI single. McCullough was 3 for 3.
Parker Chabot of Westbrook pitched a three-hitter with four strikeouts and a walk.
FALMOUTH POST 4, BRUNO'S 3: Reece Armitage struck out seven and walked four to lead Falmouth Post (4-3) over visiting Bruno's (4-2).
Hogan Tracy drove in Rob Armitage with the winning run with a single in the sixth inning. Cam Guarino provided a two-run single in the fifth as Falmouth tied it with three runs.
CHASE CUSTOM HOMES 8, FIRST TITLE 4: Cam Smith pitched six innings with 11 strikeouts and five hits to lead Gorham (8-1) over visiting Cheverus (3-5).
Mike Chapin had three RBI on three singles.
THE OLD Orchard Beach Raging Tide had a game against the Seacoast Mavericks suspended due to rain.
The Mavericks led 2-0 when the game was called at Portsmouth, N.H.
MOUNTAINEERS 2, MAINERS 1: Mike Triller hit an RBI single in the third inning and Kenny Towns added an RBI double in the sixth to lead visiting Vermont (11-4) to an eight-inning win over Sanford (7-7).
The game was called due to rain with one out and a Sanford runner on second in the bottom of the eighth.
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Allergan reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and sales and said it is cutting 1,500 jobs, or 13 percent of its work force, in a restructuring.
The Botox maker, embroiled in an unsolicited $53 billion cash-and-stock takeover bid from activist investor Bill Ackman and Valeant Pharmaceuticals, earned $417.2 million, or $1.37 a share, in the second quarter, up from $359.9 million, or $1.17 a share, in the same period a year ago. Sales rose 15.9 percent to $1.827 billion. Allergan shares are up 51 percent this year.


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This lovely little Amethyst pressed glass dish was produced in 1975 to commemorate the bicentennial of Paul Revere's midnight right to alert the colonial militia that the British forces were on their way to Concord. The dish is a horseshoe in shape with grapes and leaves in the center of the bowl and the words "Paul Revere Concord 1775" around it.
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My brother and I always were always known as the big duo. We would always hang out, and we were fat. We embraced our weight, and didn't make any attempts to change, but as we got older, we started to see that maybe our weight wasn't what it should be. Compared to other people, we would have a harder time doing things, and our quality of life wasn't as great. We looked for Pro Diet reviews that would give us a little insight on how to finally lose the weight that we had been parading around with for most of our lives.
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Capacity Building for the Ballast Water Management Convention
UNEP's Caribbean Environment Programme has partnered with the GEF-UNDP-lMO GloBallast Partnerships Project, International Maritime Organization (IMO) and RAC/REMPEITC-Carib (Regional Activity Center / Regional Marine Pollution Emergency, Information and Training Center) to convene a regional training workshop on compliance, monitoring and enforcement of the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention. This workshop will be hosted in Kingston, Jamaica through the Maritime Authority of Jamaica between 14-15th November and will target Port and Flag State Control Officers from the Caribbean.
The Training Workshop is expected to provide practical knowledge on approaches to compliance, monitoring and enforcement related to the implementation of the Ballast Water Management Convention. Emphasis will be made on Port and Flag State Control procedures required under the Convention. Enforcing ballast water management requirements typically involves flag and port state control authorities inspecting national and foreign ships, reviewing ballast water certificates and record books, boarding selected ships to review documents and inspect equipment, and upon occasion using sanctioning powers to detain or levy monetary penalties on vessels for failure to meet their legal obligations.
The Ballast Water Convention requires ships to establish an on-board ballast water management system which will replace uncontrolled ballast water uptake and discharge operations. In the future, all ballast water will have to be treated on board before being discharged into the marine environment. This will reduce the potential transfer of organisms, e.g. small fishes, benthic organisms or plankton, or pathogenic bacteria, which are released into the environment when the ballast water is discharged and may become invasive.
The training is based on a training package that has been developed by the GloBallast Partnerships project in partnership with the lnternational Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Maritime University (WMU), with support from the Total Foundation and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.


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So you're happily playing Tiny Empires, and someone mentions the term 'Census'... but you don't know what they mean. Or perhaps you're playing and suddenly a message pops up in the Offers tab, saying that a census was taken and that you got gold from it. Nice! Now, what happened?
First off, Censuses occur in January of even-numbered years... so you get gold once every two years of play (assuming you aren't coming on and leaving at just the right or wrong times). But before you can participate in a Census, you need one thing:
That's right, subjects. You get so many gold for each DIRECT subject you have. So, if you have zero subjects... no census for you. On the other hand, if you have ten direct subjects (you can't have more), then you get a nice lot of gold! The amount of gold you get per direct subject is based on how much you pay per acre. I get 1/60th of an acre price. (So with ten direct subjects, that would mean I get 1/6th of what an acre costs me in each Census.)
Now the fun part begins... the Federation Hud.
Do you have the Federation Hud? If not, then you won't see this next part.
As a Federation HUD user (who has subjects!) you not only get the normal census gold, you get one piece of gold per 9 citizens in your Federation HUD population. (Remember, these are NOT real people- real subjects- just the Population number on your hud.) As you handle disasters (or not), your citizen population goes up or down acccordingly. Handle them well (costs lots of gold) and you get more citizens. Handle them poorly (or not at all) and you lose citizens. But getting citizens means you also get more census gold.
So if you get one gold for every nine citizens, just keep handling disasters well. You can pile in as many citizens as you want and keep going, the sky is the limit, right? Well, not quite. You can never have a citizen population amount that is higher than 5,000 percent of your "capacity". Capacity is determined by all of the subjects below you- what rank they are, and how much land each have. More land and more high ranking subjects means more capacity for you... giving you the ability to get more citizens in the census! And since you can have 5,000 percent (or fifty times) your "capacity" amount in citizens, small changes in capacity mean a lot more or less citizens, and more or less census gold.
As an example, I can count on gaining 6,000 citizens in capacity when a Duke or Duchess under me becomes a Prince or Princess (yes, it goes the other way, too!) That 6,000 increase in capacity, multiplied by 50, means I can squeeze in 300,000 more citizens into my population number before overcrowded conditions wipe me back down to my 5,000 percent maximum. Now, in the census, I get one gold for every nine citizens, so 300,000 divided by 9 means 33,333 gold in census money every two years.... just because I have the Fed Hud and someone under me became a Princess!
Note that the exact formulas for how capacity is determined are probably unknown to anyone but the emperor... I suppose if someone systematically worked at it, they could determine it, but if they have, I don't know of it. (Anyone???) It really doesn't matter, since the basic point remains the same: get as many high ranking subjects in your downline as possible, with acreage, and you get more gold in the census because you can get more citizens in your population.
....and that's about it for the census... from your first direct subject to a line filled with Princes and Princesses and a Fed Hud... it's all yours for the working!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Census Time
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actually you get 1g for every (rank #) citizens. King/Queen get 1g for every 10. Duke/Duchess for every 8. ect..
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Everyone, and certainly those who have been diagnosed with cancer, must consume adequate calories and appropriate amounts of protein for cellular regeneration. After all, if you don't make enough red blood cells you will feel weak and tire easily and if you don't make enough white blood cells you will have a tough time fighting off even the mildest of colds.
The word "protein" comes from the Greek root meaning "of first importance". Indeed, protein is needed for every cell in the body and is critical for nutritional well being. The key is determining how much protein you need. Too much protein may tax the kidneys and too little protein may lead to malnutrition. Most healthy adults need between 45 and 60 grams of complete protein per day, which should account for 10 to 15 percent of their daily caloric intake. Adjustments may need to be made for specific disease states. Check with your nutritionist to see what your protein requirements are.
Protein can be divided into two groups: complete and incomplete. Complete proteins have all essential amino acids in the correct proportion for growth. Sources of complete proteins include dairy products, eggs, fish, fowl and meats. Incomplete protein, otherwise known as low quality protein, lacks one or more of the essential amino acids or contains them in the wrong proportion for growth. Sources of incomplete proteins include beans, grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables.
If you combine two types of incomplete proteins, they can become complementary to each other, creating a complete protein in the process. These complementary proteins are formed by combining legumes and grains, legumes and nuts or seeds and nuts or seeds and grains together.
Should you choose to consume animal products for their protein content, try and purchase products derived from organically fed, hormone free animals. Plant based proteins should be organic as well.
Along with being the only plant based complete protein, soy has many other cancer fighting characteristics, including being a good source of calcium, acting as a phytoestrogen and promoting antiangiogenesis. So, instead of ordering that steak, how about asking for a veggie burger?
Combing two or more plant proteins to obtain high quality protein depends on matching the amino acid strengths and weaknesses of individual foods. Nuts, seeds and grains are generally low in lysine and relatively high in tryptophan and sulfur-containing amino acids. In general, legumes are good sources of lysine and poor sources of tryptophan and sulfur- containing amino acids.
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Songs Recap: Sept
I'll try to recap some of the songs I listen to on radio or in films and series soundtracks I'm watching with a little brief.
- KIOSK "Yarom Bia" – Never listened to "Yarom Bia" or any Iranian songs before, but not until I watched The ending credit of "Maz Jobrani: Im not a terrorist, but i've played one on TV" on Netflix I've listened to like a 20 songs already. Very good song, I liked it.
2. Narcos – Tuyo by Rodrigo Amarante – You just can't ignore Narcos theme song when season 2 is just released.
3. This guy's in love with you – You can pick up so many from The Simpsons. In an episode where Smithers trying to come out and share his love with Mr. Burns. This song fits very well.


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Last week, I attended the Smart Girl Summit in Washington, D.C. The conference was filled with women of strength, of brains, of beauty and of fierce resolve. Women from all walks of life who came together, fighting and trying to do what is best for their children and this country. But, I was struck by something else; to the Left, these women are either whores or some creepy new invention of faux women, worthy of only mocking and ridicule.
Many told of times where they had been, like I have, called "gender traitors" or not real women. I've been called a dumb tart, just a rack, and told "I have better meat for her mouth." I've been accused of being a wholly owned subsidiary of male dominated culture, whatever that means. We dumb tarts can't seem to figure out things like that.
Every woman I met laughed such things off. That part didn't shock me. See, we don't relish victim-hood. We are also secure and comfortable in our own skins, breasts and fancy wombs and all. But, another reason it is laughed off did bother me. Because we are "used to it." The thing is, we shouldn't be. It shouldn't be happening. Yet, it does. Over and over.
Kirsten Powers attended the panel I was on, called Feminism 2.0, the New Face of Feminism, with Jenn Q. Public and Pamela Gorman, moderated by Adrienne Royer. While Kirsten is an unabashed liberal and likely disagrees with us on most policy points, she listened and understood the vile hatred toward conservative women that comes out of the Left. Her article at the Daily Beast today reflects that. She touched on some examples, including the most recent one whereby Jerry Brown called Meg Whitman "a whore." She's a dame, you see. Thus, anything concerning financial things, which women can't possibly understand, is whore-y. Am I right, fellas?
Jerry Brown isn't alone. And it isn't just coming from men. Alleged feminists are some of the worst offenders, spewing sexist and outright misogynistic garbage at conservative women. Because, abortion. They have grossly tied up equality and "women's rights" with a legal ability to kill your unborn children. Killing the unborn is a cause to them and women who dare to challenge them by pointing out the vile nature of such a thing must be gender traitors or dehumanized in any way possible. Kirsten Powers notes the following:
While we, sadly, are all too familiar with the casual misogynistic comment, what perhaps is more surprising is where these slurs lately have been coming from—progressive bastions like the Brown camp, and liberal women.
Last month, liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller laughed uproariously when a female guest on her show said that if she ever met Michelle Malkin, "I would kick [her] right in the nuts," and warned, "Wear a cup, lady."
Nice, huh? Stay classy, femisogynists! My only quibble is that it's not surprising at all. The past year alone has shown that.
Gloria Steinem recently said conservative women cannot be Feminists. Cannot. Why? Because you are anti-woman if you are pro-life. Many other faux-feminists, or femisogynists, have been flapping their soy-drinking gums with outrageous, and shrieking, outrage in a similar vein. "Oh noes!" they say "Conservative women are trying to steal Feminism! They can't be feminists. They are icky!" Um. Selective support for only "the right kind" of woman and slamming the doors you claim to open right in their faces is antithetical to actual feminism. Shatter that glass ceiling, but only if you do it by walking in lock-step with us!


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Community Health and Counseling Services will help Foster and Kinship Families enhance their ability to meet the safety and wellbeing needs of youth in the care and custody of the Department. These are dedicated services for the Foster Families themselves. Foster Families will improve their ability to manage challenging youth behaviors and the percentage of Foster Families who maintain youth placements until permanency occurs will increase.
This service will provide several levels of services for Foster and Kinship Families:
- Liaisons will be placed in OCFS District offices to initiate and build relationships with foster families and other members of the team, including providers, OCFS staff, and informal/formal supports. Liaisons will provide exceptional customer service by responding to phone calls or emails from Foster Families, answering their questions as able, and triaging needs related to a Youth's case planning. This Liaison position will allow for enhanced communication amongst Foster Families, OCFS staff, and community-based contracted staff delivering this service array.
- In-home Supports will be provided, and will include either a clinical component, a skills-based component, or both.
- Master's level staff will work in the home to provide clinical support, assessments, trauma education, and oversight.
- Bachelor's level staff will assess needs, make referrals, ensure safety, and coordinate services, as well as focus on skill-building to increase parenting skills and capacity.
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The Development of Physical Aggression
During Childhood and the Prediction of Later
Using data on the prevalence of serious violent crimes from the American National Youth Survey, Elliott (1994) reported that black and white adolescent males and females in the United States became more and more at risk of committing serious violent crimes as they grew older, from 12 to 17 years of age. This sharp increase of violence was then followed, from ages 18 to 27, by an equally dramatic fall in the prevalence of serious violence. Violence appeared to peak at 17 years of age for both black and white adolescents in this national probability sample born between 1959 and 1965. This phenomenon has been labeled the age-crime curve (Farrington, 1987) and appears to have first been published by the Belgian astronomer-statistician-criminologist Adolfe Quetelet in his 1833 book entitled Research on the Propensity for Crime at Different Ages.
The author wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the National Science Foundation through the National Consortium on Violence Research, the Molson Foundation, the Donner Foundation, the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, the Québec funding agencies CQRS, FCAR, FRSQ, the Québec Ministry of Health and Social Services, Santé Québec, the Canadian funding agencies NHRDP, SSHRC, the Canadian Ministry of Human Resources Development, and Statistics Canada. A large number of colleagues have contributed to the work presented in this chapter. Special thanks go to Daniel Nagin, Frank Vitaro, Michel Boivin, Mark Zoccolillo, Raymond Baillargeon, Lisa Broidy, Christa Japel, Daniel Pérusse, Jean Séguin, Robert Pihl, Linda Pagani, Jacques Montplaisir, and Ronald G. Barr. A still larger number of support personnel have been instrumental in making this longitudinal work possible. The author is especially grateful to Lyse Desmarais-Gervais, Hélène Beauchesne, Pierre McDuff, Chantal Bruneau, and Katia Maliantovitch.


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TV drama Baaghi is picking up its pace and we're seeing lots of new characters enter the frame.
One of these characters will be Osman Khalid Butt, who's said to play Fouzia's love interest in the series and will be making his appearance in the coming weeks.
Is his character based on a real-life wooer of Qandeel's? Why did he sign on to Baaghi? What does he hope to say through his latest project? OKB takes our questions:
Images: Your character on Baaghi will be introduced soon. What can you tell us about it?
Osman Khalid Butt (OKB): In a sea of angry men who wanted to manipulate this kind of headstrong but ultimately naive woman who had no idea what she was getting herself into, my character comes along as a respite.
He represents the kind of characters that I personally as an actor want to also represent, which is somebody who is not judgemental, somebody who sees beyond what's happening in front of him.
He really searches for depth and a connection with this woman, and finds it. Which to those who label her with words one should not mention, it should come as a surprise. The idea that this woman was just not only what you saw on your Facebook and social media feeds, that there was a living, breathing, thinking entity there and what caused her to do what she did and why she crossed the line that she crossed.
I don't want to put the character on any kind of pedestal, he is a human being too and goes through his own set of emotions. He's gone through heartbreak and loss himself, so maybe that helps him empathise better.
A very surprising connection is formed, which neither of the characters anticipated.
Images: When we spoke to Baaghi's writers, they made sure to say that the series is inspired by Qandeel's life but it's not, strictly speaking, an exact biographical account. But I'm wondering if your character was based off of someone from her life...
OKB: I did have a conversation and there are kind of conflicting reports. I myself was kind of unsure.
There was somebody who had promised marriage to her. But for me the character wasn't so much about picking up the characteristics of a person because obviously, that's a whole different research that goes on like the whereabouts of this alleged man that nobody knows.
Read on: Qandeel's family gave us complete liberty to tell her story, say Baaghi's writers
So I instead chose to draw inspiration from the more reasonably minded people in our country, whether they're men or women. And I chose intentionally to be that kind of voice because there's a fine line between attempting to correct someone and attempting to condemn them. Those lines, unfortunately, get blurred in this country.
We've just recently seen one of our foremost actress' [Mahira Khan] picture being put up and everyone issuing their fatwas sitting in front of their laptops. So we don't know where that line is and I feel that this character for me represents the scores of people who were perhaps, even with the real Qandeel, kind of waiting as to what her next step would be. People who saw that this woman was taking her opportunity but there was definitely something more, which her interviews have revealed post her death.
"I'm really happy this project highlighted Qandeel's past because no matter which side you fall on, at least it corners you to think and understand the circumstances that led her to doing those things."
Those voices of reason kinda got held by this overpowering narrative that she was bad or somebody who just used her body as an asset and nothing else.
I chose to instead kind of pick up on a lot of those voices of reason and people who were not necessarily supporting her but anticipating what was next from her and were not so quick to pass judgement and who saw that beneath all the facade there is something real. I chose to represent them.
Images: Did you have any reservations about this project? Did you have any concerns about how it is ultimately a fictional account and how you may not be able to accurately portray the messier, gritty aspects of her life?
OKB: Obviously we are bound by PEMRA at the end of the day. There are certain rules and regulations as per our local authorities that we cannot bypass. I feel that the story was too important to be not spoken of in such a public way with one of our leading actresses at the helm of the project because what it intended to do it was already doing.
I actually think this is a pretty gritty project already. They've given a backstory to this very strong woman. I'm really happy this project highlighted [her past] because no matter which side you fall on, the pro-Qandeel or horribly anti-Qandeel, at least it corners you to think and understand the circumstances that led her to doing those things.
I'm sure not many people invested time into finding out her back story, even after her demise. The fact that she had a kid, the fact that she was married, people don't know all of these details.
Through a medium like this, we've drawn light to the fact that she didn't just appear out of a cave and start doing these random videos to garner public acclaim, there was a method to the madness, however crude it was.
Images: But there are aspects of her life — like her marriage — that seem to have been sanitised to make the story more palatable or relatable to viewers...
OKB: When I read the project what I liked about it was that the play does not romanticize QB. The way Saba has handled it, it's not like she's presented as some kind of saint. We haven't shown many things explicitly on screen but things have definitely been eluded to.
Images: Pakistani dramas have a tendency to resolve everything neatly and end on a happy note. How do you think we can expect the drama to handle a sad ending?
OKB: Those are episodes that I am also a part of and I feel like they've been handled beautifully.
I think that it will no less upsetting, there is no way to try to make it less of a gutpunch as it should be. I feel a project like Baaghi is now getting good ratings and it's the talk of the town but when we were shooting it, we would discuss the risks attached for such a mainstream project. It could have really gone either way and there was a huge narrative of people saying "why her?".
I feel one of the most pressing issues, as evidenced by even liberals turning against someone like Mahira Khan for what, living her life for one instance in a closely scrutinized 8-9 years of her being in the public eye, is this so-called moral outrage we have when it comes to women, how we lurk in the shadows waiting for women to do something wrong and shatter their self-worth and that of millions of other girls who will be served this as a cautionary tale.
"The idea is to question the norm that the judge, jury and executioner role is always taken up by the man whenever a woman does something that's wrong."
Obviously people know the end [of Qandeel's story], no one is changing that.
Everyone is aware that we are heading towards a tragic culmination yet they're taking the journey, we want people to see the saint, the sinner and everything in between, to see a fleshed out woman. Hopefully they'll learn to empathize with women and the double standards, hypocrisy, misogyny and sexism and God knows how many other isms women have to deal with here regardless of whether their choices are right or wrong.
The idea is to question the norm that the judge, jury and executioner role is always taken up by the man whenever a woman does something that's wrong.
It was a very bold move and I hope the ending does stir a debate, which is what we had hoped for all along because that's what projects like this are supposed to do.
Images: You posted a message on social media defending Mahira Khan after the backlash against her photo with Ranbir Kapoor, so you're using your position as a celebrity to send a message. Do you talk to men and your industry peers about equality and activism in your private life too?
OKB: Definitely. There is a great responsibility, Here I felt it's not just an actress under attack, it's the entire industry. It's the same myopic view that you enter the showbiz industry, obviously you have no morals and you're a rich person who doesn't work and lives a stupendously glam life.
There's this perception that we really need to rid this country from; we might be entertainers, but we'll never get respect. They could love you or hate you but in the back of their mind, they think we're just miraasis or kanjars, sorry to use this language but these are terms I've actually heard.
This one picture has brought so much stuff to the forefront; we're just waiting for the next woman to make a mistake. Then suddenly it's about Islam, and it's as though the yards of cloth a woman's wearing on her body can cause the destruction of the Muslim ummah.
This notion is just ridiculous. This is something that I can proudly say: I practice what I preach. Of course, everyone makes mistakes and I might have too but I'm conscious and cognitive of this. I continue to be more and more aware as I experience life in Pakistan.


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Sunday, April 12, 2015
Capilano Watermain Project
Metro Vancouver Site
82 comments:
Maintenance of infrastructure is a fact of urban (and suburban) life. Would you prefer the main be allowed to deteriorate to the point of being unusable and then repaired or replaced at even greater expense to the tax payer? John, this post reflects a real lack of understanding of the operations of any municipality, no matter the rate of development. You're attempting to create a bogeyman where none is present. If you want to look for someone to blame, blame the people who insist on allowing inefficient sprawl and single occupant automobile usage. The traffic that you complain about is made up of all the residents of your community, including all those who rail against development and the mythical north shore 'gridlock'.
- Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:46:00 am
Nasty, nasty. Perhaps you should start your own blog, you are obviously not open to any understanding or debate about densification in our communities.
Which developer do you work for? Or how are you making money off of densification on the North Shore?
You certainly don't seem to be uninformed enough to push this all through unless you have $$$$ on the horizon.
As far as this "mythical north shore gridlock" I was caught in it recently when I tried to get home to Lynn Valley from Edgemont. It took more than an hour.
- Sunday, April 12, 2015 1:42:00 pm
- Barry Rueger said...
For God's sake. The Transportation and other departments at the District have worked very hard to make this massive project relatively painless.
There have also been more than one public meeting and local communications to make sure that anyone affected knows that it will be happening.
By any reasonable measure the District has done an excellent job in planning for this work.
Whatever you might want to complain a about, this is not it.
- Sunday, April 12, 2015 7:13:00 pm
John, its an 80 year old pipe replacement, it needs to be replaced because it is 80 years old, not because of the "pace of development'. The actual pipe is sitting almost entirely within the Capilano River Regional Park. They could replace it on sight without much disruption to the roads, but it would require a 25m swath to be cut through the park so they can dig the trench deep enough. I think I would prefer building it properly under the road.
- Sunday, April 12, 2015 7:27:00 pm
- John Sharpe said...
Geeez lighten up a little. Just asking if there might be a revival of a significant event in recent municipal history. I think I understand these projects need to be done. People may react to it or they may not. Devil's advocate?
- Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:05:00 pm
John, don't post crap and then ask people to "lighten up". You have an agenda to inflame your anti development crowd at whatever cost. Yellow journalism. You should be ashamed.
- Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:00:00 pm
Let's see who out of five comments thus far, not including John, lives on the West Side, north of Marine Drvie, needing to use Capilano Road as a means of getting to and from their homes to work, to school, to UBC, to YVR, to Park Royal, to Lonsdale Quay, Second Narrows,etc.?
Who would want to put up with the construction of a pipeline from August 2015 to February 2016?
Who would enjoy winter driving condition?
Hands up if GROUSE MOUNTAIN RESORT will remain calm and cool as they see their bottom line drop Fall and Winter and Spring HURT.
Hands up if the direct and indirect local jobs at Grouse Mountain Resort will be less than previous years, except for 2008, of course (Sub-Prime Mortgage-crash).
Capilano Suspension Bridge, great new parking lot being built.
Montroyal's to and fro cross-over to Delbrook/Westview will be delightful, mixed in with William Griffin construction traffic.
The Greater Vancouver Water District should give property owners a tax break for SIX months of inconvenience.
- Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:31:00 pm
And there it is. "The normal operations of my own municipality is inconvenient to me. I want compensation!" The selfishness of some people never ceases to amaze me. Just a heads up, Capilano is the only road that will get you from point a to b.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 8:19:00 am
Normal is defined as: Expected
A 1935 water line that is replaced 80 years later with a construction time line of 6 months is NOT normal.
Its not about compensation, its about reducing property taxes during the construction period for residents and businesses.
Its no different than what is currently done by the BC Transportation Ministry to property owners effected by spill overs from their highways onto local streets.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 9:10:00 am
Again, we residents of the North Shore are subsidizing Metro exactly the same way we are expected to subsidize TransLink. We already pay more than our fair share, and subsidy also includes inconvenience to our lifestyle and ability to move around. And we are just EXPECTED to pay more! We have lousy politicians at the DNV.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 9:37:00 am
- John Sharpe said...
From my experience as I accompanied Jim Hanson knocking at doors from one end of the District to another during the election this past November was traffic congestion. Pace of development was a close second. Whether these concerns are genuinely valid depends on who you talk to.
"You have an agenda to inflame your anti development crowd at whatever cost. Yellow journalism." - You should be ashamed." is an extreme statement that is a bunch of crap.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 10:48:00 am
Total crap. John is a non-inflamatory person.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 11:29:00 am
- Barry Rueger said...
From my experience ... this past November (one of the big concerns) was traffic congestion. ... Whether these concerns are genuinely valid depends on who you talk to.
Um, traffic congestion is one of those things that can actually be measured, and evaluated against accepted standards within the profession.
I much prefer that our District make decisions based on solid research and measurement, by professionals, not on the opinions of Bubba sitting on his front porch going "Yer right Rhonda, them traffic jams in Lynn Valley is darned massive!"
(Postscript: the phrase "gridlock" is one of those things that actually has a definition. "It took me three extra minutes to get to Save-On" is not "gridlock.")
- Monday, April 13, 2015 3:24:00 pm
"Accepted standards within the profession."
These guys band together to make these standards. They are based on bias and $$$.
It's the same as the Coast Guard saying that the oil recovery in English Bay was well within professional standards within the industry.
Well....it's not good enough to have people policing and setting standards for their own industry. Some even give out awards!
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 1:41:00 pm
Anon 1:41pm, what are your qualifications that make you better informed than a professional? Do you display the same level of disdain for your doctor when you're told something you don't like?
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:53:00 pm
Every time a development proposal comes forward there is a traffic study.
Every time the study says that there will be little or no problem with traffic.
The development is approved.
Then the traffic problems start.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 1:03:00 am
The traffic problems started when homeowners bought into the need to own a car for every family member. Need to blame someone for the traffic, then go blame every household that has multiple cars in their driveway.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:17:00 am
- Barry Rueger said...
For those that like details, here's the Metro Vancouver web page about the project.
Of particular note, only 200m at a time will be closed, with the work zone moving from North to South, and detours adjusted as needed.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 6:03:00 pm
Now then Barry, don't let reality get in the way of letting the vocal minority display their usual histrionics...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:04:00 pm
- Barry Rueger said...
Also, when they're done with the watermain, Metro is going to build hi-rise towers and Cap Road will be JUST LIKE METROTOWN!
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 7:08:00 am
Capilano Road Closure 200 metres at a time still means Capilano is CLOSED for the duration other than local traffic.
Adding insult to injury, Capilano at Edgemont intersection will be closed indefinitely. Sorry for the Inconvenience Village
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:33:00 pm
Oh, the inconvenience of maintaining an aging infrastructure! Have you any idea how ridiculously selfish you sound? Use a different route! There are options available to you! The fact that your tax dollars are being used for their intended purpose should be enough to make you appreciate some short term inconvenience for long term access to drinking water!
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 7:15:00 pm
I will side with the nutbars on one aspect... The District does get a terrible deal considering the inconvenience of hosting these major regional infrastructure pieces.
We are billed at the same rate for water that White Rock pays, but to get the water to white rock and to retreat the water at a substation near White Rock costs a lot more than simply delivering the water to North Van. Our water rates should either recognize the lower cost of delivering the service or we should receive higher grants in lieu to cover the inconveniences and lost revenues from hosting the major infrastructure pieces.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 1:29:00 pm
7:15:00 pm
My taps (Upper Capilano Road) are working perfectly except for a little cloudiness. Apparently the One.Two Billion Dollar Twin Tunnel Filtration Plant Project has the engineers flushing out the system with the residue being dumped into Capilano. Grand opening is later this month.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 4:01:00 pm
It is a Regional Water Board not a N. Van Water Board. So the Region pays a similar rate.
So what if they didn't do proper maintenance and replace an 80 year old pipe? It ruptures, due to low pressure in the line the weight of the earth and roadbase collapse the pipe for blocks (see Deep Cove Rd. a few years ago). Torrents of water flow downhill onto residential properties flooding the homes and destroying landscaping. Potable water is under a boil advisory for a couple of weeks and temporarily unavailable until it can be rerouted. Water pressure in fire hydrants is zero for a wide swath of N. Vancouver jeopardizing commercial, industrial, and local residents.
Hmmmm...scheduled proper maintenance vs or sparing some folks an inconvenience. Can't think which is smarter and better in the long run.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 7:01:00 pm
What about the asbestos concrete water mains that run through the district and are only being replaced at a rate of $12M per year? When these pipes burst, it is on the homeowners, not the DNV, who has to pay even though the DNV admits risk.
Let's spend our money on the mountain biking community! Insanity.
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 5:13:00 pm
How much money ids being spent on the mountain bike community? Nice defection, by the way.
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 7:57:00 pm
Got to agree that fresh water, sanitary and solid waste removal, public safety through police and fire depts, and a good road system trumps nice to have stuff.
Resources should always be dedicated to fully fund critical infrastructure way before the frills.
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 10:33:00 pm
What if the "critical infrastructure" is constantly being challenged by municipal councils approving density that this infrastructure cannot support? Then they cry to other levels of government and ask for public input on possible solutions.
The only solution is to get people to pay more attention to municipal politics and quit electing morons. With a 20% voter turnout.
- Sunday, April 19, 2015 10:46:00 am
I agree, stop permitting the sprawl which is the most wasteful kind of density.
- Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:17:00 am
Look at what is happening in Surrey. Too many people too fast. Where is the planning? Oh, sorry, the municipal PLANNERS by definition need something to PLAN. And they are increasing exponentially.
- Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:29:00 am
Some people just need to complain, or they aren't happy. Let the infrastructure collapse, then you'll really have something to complain about.
- Sunday, April 19, 2015 12:34:00 pm
- Barry Rueger said...
@Anon 11:17:00 am
Well played sir, well played.
- Sunday, April 19, 2015 4:10:00 pm
Anon 12:34. You're absolutely right. Problem is infrastructure isn't sexy and it doesn't get a lot of political brownie points.
Try this. We replaced more pipes than we thought we would! vs We promise to spend $1,000,000 on state of the art artificial turf fields for sports teams!
Infrastructure really is "out of sight, out of mind" except when it fails then the blame game begins and things get serious.
- Sunday, April 19, 2015 8:00:00 pm
Some are missing the point. Why shouldn't the DNV spend money on replacing the asbestos lead pipes instead of building a parking lot for mountain bikers? And maintaing said parking lot with showers and flush toilets?
- Monday, April 20, 2015 10:30:00 am
- Barry Rueger said...
You know Anon, we do have the option to do both.
Once upon a time government figured out what services the population needed to be happy and productive, then set tax rates to cover the costs.
Some governments still do.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 7:54:00 pm
There is simply no reason for the DNV to subsidize the mountain bikers in our community.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:43:00 pm
Anon 6:43pm, maybe the mountain bikers will follow your thinking and stop patronizing DNV businesses. I hope you realize how much money the mountain bike community injects into the community by supporting local business.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:59:00 pm
Prove it!
I think you're wrong.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 8:12:00 am
You don't think mountain bikers (both those who live in the District and those who visit) contribute to the local economy?
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 12:11:00 pm
It isn't whether or not they contribute, it is do they contribute enough to offset the exclusive use of, and the erosion of a big chunk of our wilderness.
My view is that if they are content to improve upon and work within the space that is outlined in the Alpine Rec Plan, then I am supportive, If every few years they get bored of those trails and decide to keep cutting unauthorized trails then I am not supportive.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 3:36:00 pm
Last I heard, everyone who wants to has access to the wilderness. It isn't the sole realm of mountain bikers. I hike the trails with my dogs on a regular basis. This is a recreation area for everyone to use. So, rather than sitting behind your computer getting your shorts in a knot, just go out and enjoy them. You might discover that those rude, brutish, inconsiderate mountain bikers are just a figment of your imagination.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 4:27:00 pm
You don't think mountain bikers (both those who live in the District and those who visit) contribute to the local economy?
How many are we talking about here, bikers and hikers? per day, per week, per year
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 4:49:00 pm
We're talking about all of them. Regardless of the numbers any given day, week, year, don't you think they contribute to the local economy by patronizing local business?
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 6:55:00 pm
Mountain Bikers / Hikers contributing to the local economy? Local being the North Shore? Visiting the local Starbuck for a drink and a snack: $9 and then leave the North Shore
The NSMBA has a knack for twisting words, name dropping, just to pat themselves on their backs. In a presentation to DNV Council they included this. Our "Economic Importance: The North Shore is a World Heritage Site for mountain biking".
UNESCO World Heritage Site doesn't have the North Shore listed for anything. Too literal?
NSMBA can be proud about their trail building capabilities on the North Shore but only if they had left out the word 'Heritage'. As it is Top of the Podium belongs to Whistler with nine other communities in British Columbia with these nine runner ups: Squamish, Fernie, Nelson, Golden, Kelowna, Kamloops, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Revelstoke.
Does anyone see District of North Vancouver?
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 8:19:00 pm
What's mountain biking got to do with repairing water mains on Capilano? Is anyone actually managing this blog?
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 9:46:00 pm
Mountain biking has everything to do with this Post. Cars will be blocked going up and down Capilano over the duration of 'cut and duck for cover' six foot diameter pipeline from August 2015 to March 2016. What better way to travel, anywhere.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2015 10:15:00 pm
The mountain bikers can hijack virtually anything to spread their message.
The old pipe will be replaced as part of infrastructure replacement which is completely appropriate. Period.
Tempest in a teapot.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 7:45:00 am
with 2,500 full patch members the nsmba are a force to be wreckoned with, imagine if they were a party
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:30:00 am
"IS" a force to be "RECKONED" with.
Unfortunately this is true, as John's letter in the NSN recently pointed out, they are a huge "lobbying group" and that is their forte. However, with the Kraal case coming before the courts, the "real" logistics will be out there. The uninformed are being informed.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:19:00 am
- John Sharpe said...
Speaking of 'managing' since the topic has gone astray, was just thinking that there should be a post about Kraal pleading guilty of the 'booby trapping' of Skull Trail. The thing is there has been so many posts here on the mountain biking controversy.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 8:56:00 pm
Why don't you manage your blog and delete the off topic comments?
- Friday, April 24, 2015 8:30:00 am
- John Sharpe said...
That seems a little rigid.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 8:41:00 am
Hardly. It's about keeping a discussion on course. There are plenty of threads dedicated to mountain biking, so maybe encourage people to continue that discussion in one of those.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 10:51:00 am
@Anonymous whatever..
"Unfortunately this is true, as John's letter in the NSN recently pointed out, they are a huge "lobbying group" and that is their forte."
If you're going to correct an Anonymous's grammar, be sure not to post run on sentences whilst doing so.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 11:33:00 am
@Anonymous April 24, 2015 10:51:00 am "It's about keeping a discussion on course".
The diversion away from Capilano Watermain Project slipped sideways on April 21, 2015, at precisely 6:43:00 pm
"There is simply no reason for the DNV to subsidize the mountain bikers in our community."
A rather cryptic comment, but a lot of truth. At a March 31st 2015 Special Called Meeting of DNV Council the NSMBA requested $100,000 to rehabilitate the North Shore mountain biking trails. Multi-Use trails not mentioned.
2,500 mountain bikers , $100,000??
Economic Benefit is for whom?
- Friday, April 24, 2015 1:28:00 pm
So, let the other trail users organize and do the same. Where are are the other users when it comes to maintaining trails? Hell, I'd just be happy to see them pick up their garbage and dog poop.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 1:48:00 pm
2500 mountain bikers... How many are DNV tax payers and residents?
- Friday, April 24, 2015 1:48:00 pm
- Barry Rueger said...
It always amuses me when a group that actually gets their act together enough to work with the District, to lobby Council, to build a positive public image, and an international profile, and who actually got one of their number elected to Council, is portrayed as somehow abusing the process.
In simple terms, if you and your neighbours really want to eliminate mountain biking all that you need to do is emulate the democratic practices that the NSMBA have demonstrated for you.
Or is that too much work?
(Disclaimer: spent a very enjoyable evening this week with Mathew Bond and members of HUB and the District's Transportation Consultation Committee, riding bikes around Lynn Valley looking at where preferred cycle routes might be.)
- Friday, April 24, 2015 3:28:00 pm
@Barry "Disclosure" not Disclaimer
1. the act of disclaiming; the renouncing, repudiating, or denying of a claim; disavowal.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 3:54:00 pm
- Barry Rueger said...
Ah! I have been well and truly pedanted!
- Friday, April 24, 2015 6:03:00 pm
Barry, I doubt many of the vocal minority against mountain biking have actually spent any time on the trails in our community. I've been walking these trails with my dogs for nearly 11 years and have never had a bad experience with any user. My biggest complaint is the idiots who can't pack their garbage or dog waste out with them.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 6:26:00 pm
I doubt whether riding a bicycle has anything to do with replacing an old water pipe.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 7:04:00 pm
That point has been raised, anon 7:04, but it seems that the blog owner doesn't see any merit in keeping these discussions on topic.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 7:45:00 pm
- Mocrael said...
Interesting, how this dialogue on
Watermains turned into the "hot potato" topic of mountain biking (without me starting it, this time around).
It's just a topic won't go away, will it? Well so be it...To play the Devil's advocate, this time around...(we already know nothing is going to change with the present NSMBA status quo.)
There is plenty of evidence (for those without their "full-face helmet" blinders on) that the recent flooding and debris flow from Kilmer and Hastings Creeks, last Fall, was caused by a very degraded, compacted, and eroded watershed.
This, courtesy of all the indiscriminate MTB activities over the years, along with almost non-stop NEW trail building by the NSMBA (since 2008) and their "too many" ignorant supporters who continue dole out the funds to aid this destructive fiasco in the woods.
With all this MTB funding silting downstream, it only proves to bring in **negative revenue**. You cannot legislate stupidity.
Too sad, so many people continue to applaud and reward it. BTW, the $400,000 Fromme Parking Lot is now "budgeted" for $585,000 in DNV's Financial Plan. WhoOt! Gotta love it, don'tcha!
Next "MTB Love-In" nuttiness coming out of DNV Council will be the digging another hole in our pockets with the second proposed Fromme Parking Lot, budgeted at $800,000 (which will most likely grow in cost -- say perhaps $1 million...?) All this for appeasing of one very selfish-interest group?
Or, NOT...?
Perhaps, all of this is just a means to an end for DNV? NSMBA is merely paving way for future housing, road, and Watermain Development up our mtn. slopes...after all, Metro Vancouver has no more need to protect the watersheds on Fromme with the new Twin Tunnel Filtration Plant in completion(Perhaps DNV -- or rather, Metro Vancouver is as sly as a fox, as its volunteer NSMBA "chain gang" is played for fools...?)
What else can you do with a damaged watershed, anyhow? People can't keep picking up the pieces every time the damaged watershed fails to do the job it was naturally made for (flood and debris/mudslide control). It will be the only way the District can collect on all those millions of dollars in MTBing's negative revenue silting downstream.
Goodness me, did I really say that? ;) After all, I am just playing the Devil's advocate, this time around...
Plus, I have asked DNV to correct me if I am wrong -- (BUT, I have never heard anything back about NOT building future homes on the slopes of Fromme...)
Makes you kinda wonder, doesn't it? Time will tell.
- Saturday, April 25, 2015 1:20:00 pm
Does anyone know if MLA Thornwaite has apprised Finance Minister Mike de Jong that she has some prime upper slope North Shore surplus land waiting to be con-veyed to developers for 2/3 of its appraised value, but only if a deal can be struck before the end of the month?
- Saturday, April 25, 2015 1:45:00 pm
- John Sharpe said...
I see merit in free speech.
- Saturday, April 25, 2015 1:48:00 pm
Are these Seymour's Federal jurisdictional CMHC lands, Mountain Forest and Cove Forest lands? Prime real estate.
Those same lands championed by Muri and her much loved mountain biker GUARDians?
If so, isn't this the ultimate irony? Lol!
- Saturday, April 25, 2015 2:28:00 pm
- Mocrael said...
Barry, your comment on Friday, April 24, 2015 3:28:00 pm is just so full of it.
What you are saying is that if a strong-armed selfish interest group can intimidate, bully and threaten the opposition --- and then get support for all their wrong-doing from our politicians, public land managers, and corporate cohorts and industry interests -- that is called democracy?
You really need to take off those rose-coloured glasses you wear, Barry. This was far from fair and democratic public process that gave the NSMBA their present status quo -- and I am sure that you know it, too.
- Saturday, April 25, 2015 3:09:00 pm
Mocreal, I haven't seen any evidence that the councils have been bullied into anything. Just because the councillors disagree with you doesn't mean they are afraid of the measly 300 mountain bikers who vote in DNV.
They like the mountain biking community because it supports youth activity in our community. That's it.
- Wednesday, May 06, 2015 1:10:00 am
Funny how the self-appointed keepers of 'whatever' always claim a lack of democracy when it turns out the voting majority don't agree with them.
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Electron repulsion integrals for self-energy calculations
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Title: Electron repulsion integrals for self-energy calculations
Authors: Y Pavlyukh , J Berakdar
Abstract: A fast algorithm for the calculation of the electron repulsion integrals in an atomic basis is a prerequisite of any ab initio quantum chemistry method. Unlike the case of a self-consistent field (SCF) approach, correlated methods often require a full or partial integral transformation to the molecular basis. The run- time of such an algorithm scales unfavorably as O(N ? where N ? is the number of the basis function, and additionally poses high requirements on the computer memory. The problem is aggravated in the case of large highly symmetric molecules which can only be modeled by fully taking the symmetry into account (as was recently demonstrated by us in J. Chem. Phys. 135 (2011) 201103). Wedescribe here the algorithm for the calculation of the electron repulsion integrals, the transformation and their use in the correlated Green s function approach for systems with icosahedral symmetry.
Publish Year: 2013
Published in: Computer Physics Communications - Science Direct
Number of Pages: 9
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