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The Saint-Boniface Museum's collections document the evolution of the Francophone community since it established itself in the Canadian West, particularly as it developed in Manitoba. There are some 30,000 artifacts in the Museum.
The collections may be divided into four main categories:
- historic
- ethnological
- fine arts
- archival
The historic collection includes, for example, the following: French-Canadian and Métis furniture (the Proulx loom, the Malo chest-on-chest, a Quebec armoire, the Moïse Richard table and armchair); craftsmen's tools (blacksmith, carpenter, tinsmith) and professional equipment (Doctor Collin's surgical instruments); objects typical of pioneer living (butter churn, oil lamp) and of agriculture (scythe, sickle, plough); and objects linked to religious observance (liturgical vestments, crucifix, candlesticks). Objects related to leisure time and entertainment include toys and home made statuettes, and musical instruments such as violins that belonged to Claude Ayotte and Andy De Jarlis.
The collection of ethnological artifacts from the First Nations of the Prairies includes beadwork (gloves, a coat, moccasins), a pestle used for pounding pemmican, a "tikinagan"or baby carrier, and archaeological specimens that include arrowheads, spearheads and stone tools.
The fine arts collection contains paintings, sculptures, watercolours, and drawings created by Franco-Manitoban and Métis artists such as Réal Bérard, Jules Desjarlais, Hubert Garnier and Miguel Joyal; portraits of the mayors of St. Boniface painted by Victor A. Long; several of Pauline Boutal's works, including a painting of the old Grey Nuns' convent. Part of the Museum's archival collection is stored in the Centre du patrimoine (Heritage Centre), which is managed by the Société historique de Saint-Boniface. There, more than 1,300 photographs and hundreds of documents are made available to researchers who are interested in Franco-Manitoban and Métis history. Moreover, the Museum holds some 1,800 rare and older books in this collection.
Exhibit Themes
The themes that the Museum interprets shape its collections and influence the way exhibitions are developed. The themes are:
- the fur trade (Hudson's Bay Company trade gun, voyageur sash, model of a Montreal canoe, small box);
- the origins and development of the Métis nation (tea kettle, Red River cart, snowshoes, beadwork [leggings and cushion], furniture, tools, artifacts from the Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba);
- the Red River Colony; · the arrival of the missionaries and the Grey Nuns
- Louis Riel (moccasins, tuque, hairs from his beard, part of his suspenders, his revolver) and the creation of Manitoba (gun seized at Upper Fort Garry);
- the City of St. Boniface (the mayor's chair, a councillor's cap, publications);
- the evolution of the French-speaking population in various fields after the second wave of French and French-Canadian immigration – socio-economically (artifacts from businesses), educationally (school supplies and collections of books), and linguistically and culturally (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day medal).

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GLASGOW — Hilary Caldwell was a fraction of a second from climbing one step higher on the podium at the Commonwealth Games.
The Victoria swimmer had the lead halfway through Sunday's final of the women's 200-metre backstroke, only to be passed by two Australian competitors — including one right at the wall — in having to settle for bronze.
Caldwell finished 1.27 seconds back of Belinda Hocking for first place, but was just 0.04 seconds off Emily Seebohm's silver-medal time of two minutes 08.51 seconds.
"I knew it was going to be pretty quick. Those Aussie girls are always fast," said Caldwell, who finished in 2:08.55. "It's never great to be out-touched (at the wall) for any medal. I was just off the silver and a little bit off the gold today.
Caldwell was fastest in qualifying, and swam even faster in the final, but wasn't able to hold off either Hocking or Seebohm over the final 100 metres in a race that saw Genevieve Cantin of Lac Beauport, Que., finish seventh and Sinead Russell of Burlington, Ont., wind up eighth.
"Belinda is always a back-halfer. She's negative split them before," said Caldwell. "That's definitely her strong suit, the back end of the race. I struggled a bit with being sick a bit on and off this year so maybe my fitness isn't quite where it needs to be."
Still, the 23-year-old collected Canada's fifth medal at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre through four days of competition.
Meanwhile, Remi Pelletier-Roy of Longueuil, Que., added another bronze for Canada in the men's 20-kilometre scratch race — the country's first of the Games in cycling — after the 24-year-old finished third behind New Zealand's Shane Archbold and Australia's Glenn O'Shea at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
"The track program came here with big goals and I think getting a medal was the very least we were hoping for," said Pelletier-Roy. "Getting to the last race, it was our last chance to do it so I'm pretty happy to put that on the board for us as a program and for myself."
After four days of competition in Scotland, Canada sits tied for sixth in the overall medal standings with 18 — seven gold, three silver and eight bronze.
Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Que., wasn't able to add to the tally or match her gold-medal winning performance from the women's 100-metre butterfly in the 50-metre fly, finishing sixth with a time of 26.27 seconds.
"To be honest I'm a little bit disappointed," said the 21-year-old. "I was expecting faster, but I have the 200-metre butterfly (on Monday) so I'm going to focus on that."
England's Francesca Halshall was first in 25.20 seconds, followed by Arianna Vanderpool Wallace (25.53) of the Bahamas and Australia's Brittany Elmslie (25.91). Montreal's Sandrine Mainville was eighth.
"The other girls were just faster than me today," added Savard. "It's not a really good time for me. A small thing can make a big difference."
Staying in the pool, Calgary's Yuri Kisil grabbed a surprising fourth-place finish in the men's 100-metre freestyle behind a trio of Aussies. Kisil qualified for the final with the seventh fastest time, but touched in a personal best 49.27 seconds.
Aurelie Rivard of Haut-Richelieu, Que., finished fourth in the women's para-swimming 100-metre breaststroke, followed by Katarina Roxon of St. John's, N.L., in fifth.
Ottawa's Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson was fifth in the women's 200-metre individual medley, with 17-year-old Sydney Pickrem, who swims out of St-Jerome, Que., finishing eighth.
In the only other final involving Canadians, Calgary's Russell Wood finished seventh in the men's 50-metre backstroke.
Meanwhile, Toronto's Brittany MacLean advanced to the women's 800-metre freestyle final, while Mainville moved onto to the women's 100-metre freestyle final where she will be joined by fellow Montrealers Victoria Poon and Alyson Ackman.
Tera van Beilen of Oakville, Ont., and Kierra Smith of Kelowna, B.C., will swim in final of the women's 100-metre breaststroke, while Toronto's Martha McCabe failed to advance.
Edmonton's Richard Funk qualified for the men's 50-metre breaststroke final, but Vancouver's Coleman Allen, as well as Evan White and Gamal Assaad, both of Oakville, failed to advance in the men's 100-metre butterfly.
Elsewhere at the Games, Lanni Marchant, from London, Ont., finished fourth in the women's marathon, completing the two-loop course that wound around Glasgow in two hours 31 minutes 14 seconds.
Mohammed Ahmed raced to fifth in the men's 5,000 metres on the first day of track and field. The 23-year-old from St. Catharines, Ont., ran 13 minutes 18.88 seconds — a personal best and the third fastest time ever by a Canadian.
"Fifth, you know, I was really close but I gave everything I had, I just made tactical errors," said Ahmed. "I am a bit disappointed, I really wanted to go out there and be right there with those guys.
"But I am a bit closer than I was last year and I have another race coming up on Friday (the 10,000 metres) and another Canadian there with me (Cam Levins) which will make it a little bit easier. So I am just going to go out there and have fun."
Notes: Sultana Frizell of Perth, Ont., threw a Commonwealth Games record in qualifying for Monday night's women's hammer throw final. The 29-year-old defending champion threw 68.92 metres, almost a full metre better than the rest of the field. … Canada's men's and women's field hockey teams picked up wins over Trinidad and Tobago as each improved to 1-2. … Canada lifted the rugby sevens Bowl after beating Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and the Cook Islands at Ibrox Stadium. The Bowl is awarded to the winner of the consolation bracket, putting the Canadians at ninth overall.


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Your Bloguero just got the text message from CodeRed. It warns of yet another winter storm, more than a foot of snow, extreme cold, and yadda yadda. This idea arrived embedded in the text: maybe this is the last big winter storm for this season? And maybe the next thing is crocuses.
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TRC Inc. staff attended the 17th Annual Automotive News PACE™ (Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contributions to Excellence) Awards on April 11, 2011 during the SAE International Exposition in Detroit, Michigan. TRC Inc. is a proud sponsor of the PACE ™ Awards, which honors automotive suppliers who have embraced innovation or adapted and reinvented themselves to meet the demands of the original equipment manufacturers. This prestigious award sets the standard for excellence and is recognized around the world.
TRC Inc. staff members who attended the ceremony are pictured above from left to right: John Phillips, Vice President, Durability and Dynamics Operations; Jeffrey Sprague, Vice President, Contract Services and Marketing; Milt Dunlop, Senior Vice President, Operations; and Kelli Simon, Manager, Customer Development.


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Yesterday afternoon I got a telephone call from some Vxxxxr Singh of the Punjab Cyber Crime Cell, Mohali. He told me some Mxxxr Singh had filed a complaint against me and I needed to appear before them on Monday at 11:00 am. I know who Mxxxr Singh is. He is a former client. I worked for him once and he not only not paid me but also threated me. Angry, I created a blog where I wrote about the whole incident and mentioned his real name, his phone number and his website in the post. This enraged the guy. A couple of months ago, the police phoned me. I went there and I was not even allowed to speak. In the end, I had to sign an apology letter written by someone else. So when I got the call, it frightened me to death.
The police system is so corrupt here that we have a special term for people who are taken by the police for interrogation but never reappear or get killed in encounters (extra judicial killings). I don't think that they would treat me that bad. But again, who knows? This is India and here, as long as you have money, law doesn't apply to you. Anyways, that's not what I want to talk about right now. The purpose of this post is to show how media is only nominally free in many countries.
When I am typing this sentence, there is a protest going on the Wall Street. Thousands of people there are protesting against the corrupt system. Strangely, there is no word about the incident on the Homepage of my favourite news website the BBC. I thought VoA could be doing a better job. To my surprise, there was no mention of the protest in which more than 10,000 people participated according to Democracy Now. Perhaps, some are better at pretending they have a free media.
Here are the screenshots of the Homepages of these three webistes on 9 October, 2011 (for future reference):
Democracy Now:
BBC (five top news stories):
And here is the VoA:
I did that because a friend suggested me to go to media. I couldn't explain it to him that I'm no celebrity and media wants masala (sensational stories) and not true stories. It is the same story everywhere, I believe. Feeling bad but not disappointed.


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Classification of Low Voltage Cables
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Low voltage data transmission wires are normally referred to as LAN cables or networking wires. However, their generic name is Unshielded Twisted Pair or UTP. Low voltage wires have many applications such as telephone lines, interconnecting computers on a network, and DSS.
ISO / IEC have divided low voltage wires into different categories based on how much shielding they can provide from outside interferences. The higher the category number, the greater the shielding level and data transfer rate.
The categories of low voltage wires are as follows:
- Grade 1, Grade 2, Category 3 and Category 4: These wires are now obsolete, so no discussion is necessary.
- Category 5: This category comprises of unshielded twisted pairs of wires which offer an impedance of 100 Ohm and support frequencies less than 100 MHz.
- Category 5e or Enhanced Category 5: This category is better than Category 5 in terms of performance. The specifications have also been improved for Near End Cross Talk (NEXT), Power Sum Equal Level Far End Cross Talk (PSELFEXT) and attenuation.
- Category 6: This class is similar to Category 5e because it supports the same networking standards. Its advantage lies in the fact that it is compatible with lower category grades.
- Category 7: This category supports frequencies up to 600 MHz and offers an impedance of 100 Ohm.
- 10 Gig: This type has not been classified officially. It supports up to 10 GB transmission speeds.
The standard wires used in computer and telecom applications belong to category 5, 5E and 6 because they reject more interference and support faster data transmission equipments. Each cable consists of four twisted pairs of insulated copper wire which is further enclosed in thick plastic. One cable can support 4 telephone lines or a single network connection. The ratings of category 5, 5E and 6 wires are 100 MHz, 350 MHz and 550 MHz, respectively.
A few standards have been set with low voltage wires. These are:
- The cabling has been restricted to 100 meters or 328 feet.
- The minimum grade for structured wiring is Category 5e.
- When installing, all components used must be compatible with that category to achieve optimal performance.


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Directed by Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile), co-written by Alan Ormsby (Cat People, Children Shouldn`t Play With Dead Things), and featuring performances from the legendary Ann Sothern and Joe Spinell (Maniac), there was a possibility going in that The Little Dragons might be a fun, breezy kid's movie. Unfortunately, even as kiddie entertainment it leaves plenty to be desired as while the combination of youngsters and martial arts would hit big a few years later (which i'm sure explains the re-title here), and the idea of inserting a bit of Bad News Bears attitude into things could have been enjoyable, we're left with a flat, slow-moving bore that plays (and looks) like something made-for-TV.
Zack and Woody are precocious (and foul-mouthed) karate students who travel to a campground with their grandfather J.J. (character actor Charles Lane) for a karate exhibition. Also travelling to the camp is the young Carol and her bickering parents, who get some help from "hill people" Carl and Yancey (John Davis Chandler and Joe Spinnel) after getting lost in their top-of-the-line RV. While they eventually reach the camp, Carl and Yancey (along with their mama, played by Ann Sothern) hatch a plan to steal the R.V.,a plan that quickly goes awry when they find Carol inside and make the quick decision to kidnap her.
Zack, who bonded with Carol during a camp hootenanny, follows the hillbillies to their mine-shaft hideout, while Carol's parents, J.J. and Woody have to deal with dumb-shit sheriff and his son. Thankfully, once the ransom note arrives things are passed over to the (slightly more competent) F.B.I., though it's eventually up to the KARATE KIDS (along with their karate classmates, and with the help of some friendly bikers) to take down the rednecks in a display of their martial arts skills. If you're guessing that Joe Spinnel ends up down the hole of an outhouse, then you're obviously way ahead of me.
Look, i'll admit that I haven't been a kid for a long time, and even when I was I tended to reject crap like 3 Ninjas (and its various sequels) as predictable and inoffensive crap. In fact, I think making entertaining, original and challenging children's films might be one of the most difficult things for filmmakers to get right - which is why what Pixar has been doing this decade has been so amazing. But even 12 year old me wouldn't have gotten much out of The Little Dragons, which has almost no action to speak of until the final ten minutes and humor that even ten year old me would have found immature.
Here's an example of the film's humor. J.J., unimpressed by Woody's use of the word "shit", tells the boys that their father used to make up his own curse words as a child. When prompted by the kids, J.J. says that one of his favorites was calling people "soufflé". Ok, now that's dumb, but fairly inoffensive. Except, the film decides that it would be hilarious to keep calling back to this joke: Woody gets in trouble for calling a biker gang leader a soufflé, J.J. calls the idiot sheriff a soufflé. It sounds like something out of a particularly awful sitcom, but the film is full of hacky moments like this, though still required four (FOUR!) credited writers to churn out this pablum.
In any other context Joe Spinell's ridiculous man-child overacting as Yancey would be irritating, but his performance is actually a relief when compared with the sedentary pace and sleepwalking performances by most of the cast. In fact, the hillbillies are really the only interesting characters in the film, though their motivations (go to Las Vegas and see Wayne Newton) are a bit suspect, and their wish to kill the two kids at the end seems needlessly mean-spirited. The other supporting players are all ok, and most have had long careers in television and movies, but it's all so bland and dull that any spark if interest tends to stand out. The kids actually do a fine job, though Woody smart-aleck comments sort of reminded me why smart-alecky kids are annoying.
Curtis Hanson is a fine director, but I imagine he leaves this one off of his resume as it features little of the rapid pacing and polished dialogue of his more successful efforts. Cinematographer Stephen M. Katz did both The Kentucky Fried Movie (Bong Soo Han, who played Dr. Klahn in the legendary A Fistful of Yen makes a brief appearance here) and The Blues Brothers, but he also went on to be the Director of Photography on Baby Geniuses so I guess nobody's perfect. All the other technical specs are perfectly average, vanilla and forgettable.
The Little Dragons is part of the Millcreek 50 film Martial Arts collection, and is presented fullscreen in a print that looks like its had a bit of a rough time. There's minor damage throughout, and a scratch that runs through the opening credits. Colors are washed out and faded, though consistent throughout. Music is by TV veteran Ken Lauber, and it's fine though - like the rest of the production - ultimately forgettable.
There are no special features except a few randomly placed chapter selections. At least it's something.
Lifeless and dull, The Little Dragons has a fine pedigree but suffers from writing that seems straight out of a Scooby Doo cartoon. The villains seem to be having fun, but everyone else is sleepwalking through their roles and while the precocious kids do a good job, they are never given much interesting to do. Many of the people involved either did, or would do, much better work, but The Little Dragons is definitely a film worth forgetting.


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Not really for the general public but a few shots of our Christmas Day, which was spent at the Taj Palace Hotel, Wilingdon Island, Cochin.
Liz and I were joined by our friends Mike and Gabi, who were effectively on their honeymoon, and the usual suspects of Terry and Fiona of Roam II and Ants and Div of Divanty.
It is a real pleasure to be eating turkey, brussel sprouts and stuffing whilst supping on a nice glass of Chianti, in India where all of these things are hard to find!


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Further details on the "Watchmen" confidential court settlement have come to light via Variety.
Sources have indicated that 20th Century Fox will receive between $5 million and $10 million upfront to reimburse the $1.4 million the studio invested in development fees along with millions of dollars in legal fees incurred during the case.
Fox will also get a gross participation in "Watchmen" that scales between 5% and 8.5%, depending on the film's worldwide revenues, and will be a gross player in any sequels and spinoffs.


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This column was founded a few months after Breakout West came to Kelowna.
During three days in 2009, our city was filled with some of the best live music from around Canada. The energy was pretty inspiring, and it left a bit of a legacy of folks eager to support live music in our community.
A friend of mine, Jason Lane, started compiling a list of live music in town. He runs a blog locally called www.laner.ca.
He also sends out a weekly email every week to which you can sign up: http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=912465f885e96e557dd9f5036&id=bc4c3029dc
Here is a listing of live music happening around the Kelowna area over the next few weekends:
Friday, November 13
Hank Stallion
Jon Bos
Kelowna Lake City Casino
O'Flannigans Pub
North of Here
Milkcrate Records
Steel Toad
Fleetwood Public House
The Ashley Hundred
Fernandos Pub
The Brothers Roepel
Sandhill Winery
The Goods
The Blue Gator
Patricia Dalgleish
Wine + Art
Saturday, November 14
Arsen Shomakhov
Mission Creek Golf Course
Kelowna Community Theatre
Bobby Van Grootheest hosts Karaoke
Fleetwood Public House
Frigg Off
Fernandos Pub
Hank Stallion
Jon Bos
Tonics Pub
Kman and The 45s
Doc Willoughby's Pub
Lucy Blue
Minstrel Cafe
Monica Tracey
Wine & Art
The Goods
The Blue Gator
The Lion
Streaming Café
My pick: The Lion, at Streaming Cafe. Christopher Aruda has this enchanting, vocally-driven, soft acoustic folk style that will chill you out after a long week of work.
Friday, November 20
Daniel Wesley
DJ Blackout
Doc Willoughby's Pub
Non-Prophet Society
Fleetwood Public House
Rann Berry
The Blue Gator
O'Flannigans Pub
Sherman Doucette
Kelowna Lake City Casino
Stephen Fearing
Kelowna Folk Club's House Concert
The Brothers Roepel and Sonder
Fernandos Pub
Saturday, November 21
Dan Mangan / Dralms
Kelowna Community Theatre
Fernandos Pub
Devon Coyote
Doc Willoughby's Pub
Jon Bos
Tonics Pub
Rann Berry
The Blue Gator
The Regals
Minstrel Cafe
Towers and Trees
Streaming Café
My pick: Dan Mangan: I caught him a few years ago at Rifflandia. He is one of our most famous indie artists, and it's great to see him return to Kelowna for a gig.
I also want to remind you that TEDx comes to Kelowna this Friday. Get your tickets here: http://www.tedxkelowna.com/details


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The Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said that the Hollywood movie "Fifty shades freed" prevented the Russian paintings to collect decent box office in theaters.
According to the head of Department, a week ago, this picture was taken 70% of the sessions in theaters. "I don't know what social problems are solved this absolute masterpiece of world cinema, but 70% of the sessions in our cinema, of course, is the invisible hand of the market, they gave him, than, of course, brought down a number of our wonderful films that are now showing", — quotes the Minister RNS.
The Minister of culture asked the Vice-Prime Minister with a request to support a bill to limit the percentage of sessions allocated to cinemas on any one film.
The film "Fifty shades of freedom" (the final part of the trilogy "Fifty shades of grey") started in Russian cinemas on Thursday, February 8. According to the UAIS, the first weekend the film grossed 359 million rubles and became the leader of hire in Russia and the CIS. Russian paintings at this time in the rental was the film "Selfie," and sports drama "moving up". Fees "Selfie" in the first weekend rental (from 1 February) amounted to 118 million rubles, and in the second of 43.9 million rubles. Other domestic films, according to unofficial reports, the first weekend was even sadder: "Women against men" (63 million), "Selfie" is 48 million rubles, "Zомбоящик" — 1.4 million rubles.
In January, there have been several knockando with the participation of the Ministry of culture. First moved the start of the screening of the film "the adventures of Paddington 2", then the Ministry of culture revoked already issued a rental license from the satirical Comedy "Death to Stalin".


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Not long after helping to sail one of the new America's Cup catamarans around ghostly San Francisco Bay, four-time winner Russell Coutts scoffed at accusations by two foreign challengers that defending champion Oracle Team USA is benefiting from safety changes.
Coutts, the CEO of Oracle Team USA, also defended regatta director Iain Murray, who said Wednesday that he was frustrated that Emirates Team New Zealand and Italy's Luna Rossa have protested his ability to recommend safety changes following the death of Andrew "Bart" Simpson in the capsize of Artemis Racing's 72-foot catamaran on May 9.
The Kiwis and Italians are unhappy with Murray's requirement that the high-performance boats have deeper rudders with larger winglets to give them additional stability.
Team New Zealand's protest is set to be heard Monday, a day after the Kiwis face Luna Rossa in the opening race of the Louis Vuitton Cup for challengers.
If the jury sides with the two teams, Murray said he has "no choice but to go back to the Coast Guard and inform them that the safety plan hasn't been met and a discussion will have to be had whether the permit to race stands or doesn't stand. Without a permit to race on San Francisco Bay, there will be no racing."
Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa have suggested that the changes to the rudders will aid Oracle, which doesn't have to race until the opener of the 34th America's Cup on Sept. 7. The changes to the rudders were among 37 safety suggestions made by Murray that range from lower wind limits to additional safety equipment worn by the sailors on the fast, space-age catamarans.
"They're making these accusations as if we're having to do things because we're not confident about winning," Coutts told The Associated Press at Oracle's headquarters in a massive old shipping warehouse on Pier 80. "I'm confident in our team. I think we've got the best sailing team out there and I think we've proven that over the last two years. Frankly, I think we have the best technology. But even if we had even technology, I'd be betting on us because I think our team has proven we're better than them."
Coutts is the most dominant skipper in America's Cup history. He sailed undefeated through three straight America's Cup matches, the first two with his native New Zealand and the third with Alinghi of Switzerland. His fourth victory came in 2010 while serving as BMW Oracle Racing's CEO, although he didn't sail on the boat in either race.
Oracle Team USA is loaded with former America's Cup winners and Olympic gold medalists. Ben Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history with four straight gold medals and a silver, is helmsman of Oracle's backup boat while Jimmy Spithill steers the syndicate's newest boat.
Coutts also defended Murray, an Australian who's a former America's Cup skipper.
"There's been a lot of stuff that's been unfair to Iain Murray," Coutts said. "He's a skilled naval architect and an extremely honest and credible guy, and knowledgeable guy. To suggest he would favor one team over another, frankly, is insulting to him, and it's also insulting to us. We play by the rules and we win playing by the rules."
Coutts said Oracle supports Murray's recommendations.
"If you ask most of the sailors, they'd say, 'Give us the safest options you can,'" Coutts said. "But it's a bunch of rules advisers and wannabe lawyers sitting around a room arguing over what they think's going to make them more competitive."
Murray said claims that his 37 safety rules were changing the game just before the regatta starts are baseless.
"I made these recommendations to the teams on May 22, over six weeks before the first race of the Louis Vuitton Cup," he said. "At that meeting, all of the teams agreed to all 37 of the safety recommendations. Grant Dalton (managing director of Emirates Team New Zealand) walked to the front of the room, shook my hand, and told me, 'Good job. You won't get any push back from us.'"
Murray said the official measurers have informed him that both Luna Rossa and Emirates Team New Zealand comply with the AC72 Class Rule even though they haven't changed their rudders.
"They can race on the first day with their equipment as it is now because it already meets the minimum requirements set out in my safety rules," Murray said. "So this isn't about teams not being able to comply. This is about two teams trying to gain an advantage from changes I've implemented to make all of our racing safer."
After Simpson was killed, some suggested that the 72-foot catamarans are too big, fast and powerful.
They're also spectacular, as Oracle proved while testing its two boats Wednesday. They sped up and down San Francisco Bay for two hours, from the Golden Gate Bridge, where only the tops of the two towers poked through the fog, to misty Alcatraz Island, where tourists lined a railing to watch the boats speed by.
Both boats lifted up on their hydrofoils as they sailed downwind faster than 40 knots as chase boats struggled to keep up.
Coutts has heard the criticism of the boats, but said: "It's going to be awesome. Let's wait and see how the finals are."


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A vintage whine, straight from the World Cup in South Africa
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
JOHANNESBURG -- Four days into the month-long World Cup, a sound is building on the playing fields from Cape Town to Johannesburg that threatens to rival, if not overtake, the high-pitched din of South African vuvuzelas.
It is the sound of whining.
Not a day has gone by that a global soccer star or highly compensated coach hasn't complained about one thing or another that's spoiling the beautiful game.
The high-tech Adidas soccer ball designed expressly for the 2010 World Cup is a disaster, according to a host of players, who say it's flummoxing world-class goalkeepers and otherwise prolific scorers with its erratic spins and bounces.
The semi-artificial field at Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane -- a mixture of grass and synthetic fibers -- is oddly fast and unpredictable, opposing coaches carped after a poorly struck ball led to a goalkeeping gaffe that handed Slovenia a 1-0 upset of Algeria.
And the incessant buzz of the plastic horn known as the vuvuzela is drowning out all conversation on the field. "It is impossible to communicate," said Argentina's Lionel Messi after his country's 1-0 victory over Nigeria. "It's like being deaf."
It's an open question whether there's merit in the griping or it's simply a case of finicky millionaire athletes fixating on all that's different about the first World Cup contested on African soil.
But it's a familiar refrain to former player Alexi Lalas, a member of the United States' 1994 and 1998 World Cup squads, who's in South Africa as a member of ESPN's broadcast team.
"It's all whining," said Lalas, 40. "It happens at every World Cup with regard to the ball. It happens every World Cup with regard to the surface. When you're at a World Cup, and a billion people are watching you -- whether it's a case of losing or not playing well -- it's human nature. You try to look for reasons other than the fact that you made a mistake."
Elite soccer players hardly have a monopoly on complaining in sports.
National Basketball Association players hated Spalding's new microfiber composite basketball so much when it was introduced in 2006, saying it was slippery and cut their fingers, that the league reverted to the traditional leather model.
Major league pitchers famously balked over the more tightly wound core of a redesigned baseball that juiced up hitting averages and put a dent in their own ERAs.


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Eva Longoria Gave Victoria Beckham an 'Amazing' Tip - Find Out What it Was!
Eva Longoria shows off her new haircut as she leaves the nail salon on Tuesday (February 18) in Hollywood.
The 38-year-old actress got a manicure and a pedicure that afternoon – she chose a lovely blue polish for her fingers!
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It was just revealed that Eva gave some advice to Victoria Beckham.
"I don't shave my legs. I got laser which is amazing. You can go back for little touch-ups if you do see little hairs appearing. But I've been very lucky that I haven't had to. That was one of the best tips that Eva Longoria ever gave me," Victoria told Allure magazine in her cover interview.


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We are a flat green bowls club based in Hucclecote, a district of Gloucester City.
We have a resident green keeper who is also an advisor for Bowls England. Our green can accommodate 7 rinks and is fully compliant with Bowls England requirements. We have a large clubhouse and there is ample parking within which we can accommodate coaches for bowls clubs touring Gloucestershire.
We have over 50 playing members and the club is open to everyone of any age. We have an annual open day to encourage new members either new to the game or experienced. We have recently purchased some small sets of bowls for use by young persons and others with small hands!
Pineholt is a mixed club and we have a full programme of games throughout the playing season of mixed friendly and 'seniors games'. We also play in a ladies and mens league together with the Glevum League which is mixed. Matches are at weekends and through the week and club members often organise 'roll up' sessions amongst themselves on week day afternoons. Members can take part in club, County and National competitions if they wish to do so. We also organise an Open Tournament in August which is supported by teams from many clubs in the county and surrounding counties.
We host several clubs each year who are on bowls tours to Gloucester and Gloucestershire
We also host County finals and inter county games such as Johns Trophy and Middleton Cup games.
The playing season is from mid - April to mid/late September.
During the winter months we hold social events indoors at the club and we have the facility of playing Short Mat Indoor Bowls.
play during our open mixed tournament held in August
The club badge indicates the link with the old Gloucester Aircraft Company(GAC)


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Louis Tomlinson Says New Single 'Back To You' Will Be 'A Little Less Soppy'
Louis Tomlinson is spilling on his upcoming song "Back To You," featuring Bebe Rexha and Digital Farm Animals.
The 25-year-old singer will officially be releasing the new single on July 21.
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"I'm so excited to announce my single 'Back To You' with Bebe Rexha and Digital Farm Animals is out on July 21st!" he said in a statement. "With this song we wanted to write something a little less soppy. It's about that one person that no matter how hard you try, you keep coming back to. All your support has been amazing and I can't wait for you to hear the track. "
Could it be about his girlfriend Eleanor Calder, whom he rekindled a relationship with after their 2015 breakup?
Louis co-wrote the track, which follows his hit "Just Hold On" with Steve Aoki in December 2016.


text: DUBAI - Novak Djokovic won his fifth title in six tournaments and his 36th altogether, and extended his unbeaten run to 18 matches as he regained the Dubai Open title with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Tomas Berdych.The world number one from Serbia underlined his pre-eminence in the world game with a thoughtful as well as athletically aggressive performance against the world number six from the Czech Republic, who the night before had knocked out Roger Federer, the titleholder. Berdych made the first break and had chances to take control of the first set but Djokovic often provoked errors by subtlely making Berdych generate his own pace, and counter-attacked brilliantly.Perhaps Djokovic's worst moment was when he was given a time warning by the umpire at deuce when he was serving for the match, but the incident hinted at the strength of his temperament which was a major factor in the triumph. "It's a thrilling feeling to prevail in the end in a great tournament like this," said Australian Open champion Djokovic after claiming a fourth Dubai title. "Tomas is a fantastic player and he beat Federer in an incredible match. It was very close today and could have gone either way."


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St. Thomas's Cathedral, Kuching
The Church of England sent its first missionary to Borneo in 1847 at the request and invitation of the first white Rajah, Sir James Brooke. The Revd. Francis Thomas McDougall, priest and doctor was chosen for this pioneer work and his team landed in Kuching on 29th June 1848 after sailing for 6 months from England. A considerable area of jungle-covered hill behind the old town then was given to the church by the Rajah.


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Formal Garden
Wethersfield Garden is a 3-acre formal garden created mainly in the Classical Italian style. Mr. Stillman's inspiration was the garden of the Italian Renaissance with its use of water, sculpture, topiary, and terraces.
Throughout the Garden are sculptures created by deMarco, Watts, Flannagan, and Stachura. The Garden blends these formal elements with those found in the native landscape and were designed for enjoyment in all seasons.
Architectural features such as a terrace, or statues and urns work as visual nodes; flowers play a role accenting and provide contrast for these focal points, as well as exotic trees, such as orange and gardenia. The Arborvitae Allée with a Naiad Fountain, the Peacock Walk, and the Belvedere are some of the Garden's most stunning features.
The attention to detail in the context of the grand traditional design makes evident the many years of improvement Mr. Stillman and his landscape architects dedicated to the Garden.


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It was just a check-up! Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck were seen entering Cedars-Sinai Medical Center yesterday and we couldn't help but wonder if Violet's little brother or sister was about to arrive. However, later that same day, Jennifer and her 3-year-old daughter Violet were seen enjoying some quality time shopping at Williams Sonoma in Santa Monica. It looks like baby Affleck will be born in 2009 after all.
What a sweet mother-daughter duo! 😉
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Caterhams are light and fast. Take the company's flagship CSR260, for example. Weighing in at around 1300 pounds and packing a 260-horse 2.3-liter Ford Duratec screamer underhood, the car flashes from 0 to 60 in 3.1 seconds and tops out at 155 mph. Now the company has decided to up the ante with the introduction of the CSR260 Superlight.
Apparently, it was felt that the regular car could benefit by going on a diet, so the windshield, carpeting, heater and weather equipment (wipers, etc.) all got tossed in the dumpster. A carbon fiber wind deflector is installed in the spot vacated by the windshield. The material is also used to form the cockpit's new dashboard and wings
The Superlight shares the 0-60 times and top speed of the regular CSR260, and really, that's fine. Any faster and the car would run the risk bending the space/time continuum without requiring the use of a flux capacitor.
Finished car pricing starts at £37,995 (around $70,000 USD), and Caterham is taking orders now. Delivery of the new rides this August..
(More pictures and Caterham's press release after the jump ... )
[Source: Caterham Cars Ltd.]
07 June 2006
In a perfect example of automotive alchemy, Caterham Cars is set to deliver all the driving excitement associated with its stripped-out Superlight versions to the range-topping Caterham CSR260 model, to create the brand new Caterham CSR260 Superlight.
Aimed at the enthusiast, the 2.3 litre Cosworth-powered road legal Caterham CSR260 Superlight brings all the performance credentials associated with its stablemate, like a supercar-humbling 0-60mph time of 3.1 seconds and a licence-losing top speed of 155mph, yet swaps the windscreen, carpet, heater and weather gear for a limited slip differential and a quicker steering rack. Decisively, it also premiers 'Dynamic Suspensions' dampers manufactured by MTCe as original equipment for an undiluted performance driving experience.
The result is a breath-taking Caterham experience that blends no frills road legal agility with devastating track capability.
Twenty five kilos lighter than the standard CSR260, this model variant also adds distinctive Superlight styling to the exterior, including a wind deflector, a carbon fibre dashboard and wings, a black powder coated cockpit, quick release MOMO steering wheel and 'black pack' that disguises otherwise aluminium detailing.
A natural extension of the CSR range, this Superlight model delivers all the thrills of frantic acceleration, pin-sharp steering, high revving eager performance mated to a close ratio six speed box, in a sportscar that is perfectly balanced to focus the driver solely on driving and smiling.
With a power-to-weight ratio of 460 BHP per tonne, the Caterham CSR260 Superlight finds itself in similar company to the £323,000 Porsche Carrera GT or the £118,000 Ferrari F430.
In a now customary move, Caterham has developed an options list that highlights the cost alongside the weight of items such as windscreen, heater, weather gear, dry sump, track day roll-over bar and fire extinguisher.
Caterham is taking orders now with the first cars delivered in August. Prices start at £37,995 fully built. Visit www.caterham.co.uk for further information.


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Tonight's 'Coronation Street' is going to be full of drama for Ken and Adam Barlow, when the former finds out about his grandson's drug money secret.
On Monday (6 March), we saw the pair nearly come to blows over Adam's recent questionable deeds, which include stealing money and even a car.
And now, things are going get seriously heated when Ken learns Adam has become involved in dealing.
It all happens when Ken finds the holdall full of cash in Adam and Daniel's flat, and unaware of the true extent of Adam's situation, Ken takes the cash, planning to burn it all in the back garden.
In need of the money, and eager to have it over to the nasty Ronan, Adam pleads with Ken to leave the cash alone - but will he stand strong? Or hand it over to a desperate Adam?
Adam and Daniel have caused plenty of problems for Ken since they arrived in Weatherfield, and the latter recently started a relationship with Sinead Tinker.
The couple have faced a tough few weeks though, following Sinead's discovery that she's pregnant.
'Coronation Street' airs tonight at 7.30pm. Catch up on all the latest soap news and spoilers here.


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(Is 'Thrashers' the Worst Nickname in the NHL?) The Bolts finish up their two week stretch of division games tonight against Atlanta. Winner of the game takes the division lead. Normally I would point you in the direction of BoltsMag but John has apparently decided to take this game off.
(When are They Bringing Back the Hit Show?) One of this sites favorites blogs, Rays Index is back and bringing the big stick. With the start of spring training, The Professor, is all over the
(Sign Andre Wadsworth!) Scott continues to make the argument for keeping Simeon Rice, and I'm starting to buy what he's selling. What with the dearth of free agents and the ass load of cash teams have from the new CBA/TV deals I get the feeling we are about a month away from seeing some baseball style exorbitant contracts. By comparison Rice's contract may not seem so painfully high.


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At Deafway, we recognise the importance and strength of the international Deaf community and we have therefore developed an exciting new partnership with the Deaf centre in Recklinghausen in Germany. They will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the opening of their Deaf centre in August 2015 and as a sign of our support, a number of Deaf people from Preston and staff from Deafway will be attending.
We were fortunate to welcome two Deaf representatives from the Deaf Centre, Hermann and Uwe, who visited Deafway from the 13th to the 15th of May 2015. We had fruitful meetings which developed our partnership and Hermann and Uwe took the opportunity to meet a number of Deaf people from Preston, including staff and students from UCLAN Deaf Studies, iSLanDS and they spent an enjoyable afternoon with members of Preston Deaf Club.
In future, we aim to continue and build on our partnership with Recklinghausen Deaf Centre and create new links with other Deaf organisations in the towns Preston is twinned with across Europe.


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God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Full version of the original Reinhold Niebuhr (ca. 1942)
When I was young my grandma gave me a necklace. Praying hands on the face and on the reverse the serenity prayer. Words to live by ...but not easy.
A couple of weeks ago my pastor prayed for my colleague and I who were facing a difficult work situation and the thing that really resonated with me was when she prayed for discernment for us. I'm not a naturally intuitive person so I'm really praying for and trying to practise this gift.
'Hear it on Sunday, live it on Monday'
I heard on Sunday that we need to be able listen to the Spirit's direction. Discernment again.Then my Word live study notes on Acts continued the theme when Philip is called one day to preach to a crowd in Samaria then to an individual Ethiopian.Two really different situations.Courage and wisdom in buckets. That's what I need. A bucket of wisdom.


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The Great Deficiency of The Bible
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I've been thinking about why so many people have trouble with getting past things like pattern and organization when it comes to religion, when Jesus stressed changes in heart and life and action. As I thought about this earlier, I was reminded of something a dear friend once said to me. It went something like this, "You people in the church of Christ only pay attention to the letters of Paul. You should be called the church of Paul."
In a sense, he's right. We spend more time dealing with the details of Paul's interactions with and instructions for the early churches who were experiencing specific issues from growing pains, to poverty, to inertia, to misconduct the likes of which was not even tolerated by the pagans of that day.
When we were children, we heard the stories of the great heroes of the Old Testament. Every child in Sunday school knows about Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, Joseph, Jacob and Esau, Elijah, David, Solomon, Samson, Daniel and the other exciting stories. In the New Testament, children hear about Jesus and the apostles. And this is well and good. But somewhere along the way, we read about needing strong meat, and not milk and we get the idea that the gospel story of Jesus is just milk, maybe because we tell the stories mostly in Sunday school. Paul serves up the meat in the New Testament. All the other stuff is just background. That seems to be the perception, at least. And I was told by a wise dean once that perception becomes reality.
I believe with all my heart that we have gotten things turned around. The gospel message of Jesus is as strong a meat as any in our practice of religion. We need to tear apart every story about Jesus in the gospels, every teaching he presented, and get every bit of truth and meaning from each and every one of them. Jesus is the focus of the gospel message. His life is the one Paul said he was emulating.
So what is the deficiency I am talking about? First off, that was just one of those "made you look" phrases. Writers call them hooks. If you're reading this far, the hook has been set, and I hope you will continue through the conclusion of the essay.
The deficiency is not so much with the Bible itself, but in our understanding of it. The Christian life, or the Way as it was called in those days after the Crucifixion and that first Pentecost after it is not an organization. It is indeed a Way of Life. It is Jesus, translated into the life-language of every follower.
What did Paul say in Philippians 1.21? "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." Contrary to what some seem to think, Paul never said, "To live is church…." So what did he mean? I think he was saying that it was needful for his friends that he not die at that juncture, but carry on and teach and serve and encourage them. To live is to act.
Paul's writings are rich with truth. Make no mistake. But many of his letters were addressing specific issues experienced by the groups to which he was writing. Personally, I have never been tempted to eat meat sacrificed to idols. I don't think I would be offended by it if anyone did. I have never known of a case of step-mother/step-son incest in any church with which I have been associated–not that there cannot be such. Certainly, principles applied in dealing with those situations have value and merit and are instructive to us.
But the letters are not histories, either. They tell us precious little about how people lived and what they did. Paul alluded to some of these things throughout his letters, and a rich cache of comments praising the actions of many of Paul's friends and associates is found at the close of Romans and in other letters.
While there are those who would squeeze the scriptures to find commands and patterns to follow and bind them on all, there is a wealth of examples that we have rarely ever considered, at least not in the light of "living Christ." So who did "live Christ" in the New Testament? In Acts 9, there is the story of Dorcas, or Tabitha of whom it was said, "…she was always doing good and helping the poor." Sounds like Jesus to me. In Romans 16, Phoebe is commended as a servant of the church at Cenchreae. Later in the same chapter, Tryphena and Tryphosa and Persis, all were praised as women who had worked or were working hard in the Lord. Rufus' mother had been a mother to Paul–that takes action, not words. Urbanus was a dear co-worker. Mary worked very hard for the Christians in Rome. Sounds like Jesus to me. What about Paul's description of Timothy as showing genuine concern for the Philippians' welfare like no other: it was not just spiritual welfare. It was their physical, temporal well-being, as well. Epaphroditus was commended as one who saw to Paul's needs, and was distressed for his friends at their concern over him in his recent, near-fatal illness. Sounds like Jesus to me.
In these examples and in many others, the emphasis is on action, not perfect, lock-step conformity. In Matthew 25, at the scene of the great Judgment, the separation of sheep from goats was based on acts of service and mercy, not doctrinal purity and organizational correctness. I am in no wise saying that those things are not important. They are. But they must not be pursued to the exclusion of justice and mercy.
Jesus addressed such issues throughout his ministry. Work on the Sabbath was forbidden by Jewish law, but Jesus and his disciples plucked heads of grain and winnowed the kernels in their hands, working for a bite of sustenance. Jesus gave relief to the suffering on the Sabbath in direct violation of the Law, and made the point that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. In each of these examples, an action was taken to address a physical need. He reminded the Pharisees of the prophecy, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice." His brother James reiterates that "mercy triumphs over judgment." Mercy, in any time and in any culture, carries the connotation of action in service to another.
So to set the record straight, The Bible is not deficient. We are. When we fail to see the shadow of Christ in the merciful actions and service of every disciple mentioned even in passing, we are deficient. When we plow the field searching for shards of buried commands and cover over the precious jewels that are the wonderful characters who lived Christ, we are deficient.
We should always remember Paul's comment, "To live is Christ." We should internalize it, and live Christ, too. He is the Way. He is the Truth. He is the Life that leads to a better and unending life. Let the world see Jesus in us, not just Peter, or Paul, or Martin Luther, or Alexander Campbell or any other reformer who tried to light the way back to Jesus.
To live is Christ.
That should certainly give us a lot to think about.
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For the last twenty years, Anthony "Tony Bees" Planakis has been the NYPD's go-to guy for all things bee-related in New York City. A lifelong beekeeper, Planakis was promoted to Detective during 2012's "Summer of Bees." He retired from the force in August of 2014 but remains a hero in our hearts and hives.
When did you become interested in beekeeping and why?
I got started with bees in the early 70's. Growing up in a strict Greek family, when your father says he would like something done, it translates to: do it or die! My "childhood" was spent with a hammer, nails and a paint brush. I was responsible for the assembly of all the wooden ware, though I had no clue what it was for. In 1971, my family traveled to the beautiful island of Crete, Greece (where my parents are from), and wouldn't you know it, it was harvest time. I got the s—t stung out of me and wanted no part of it. That's when I realized what I was building at home. As time went on, my father continued to be into his hobby, and I continued to supply the labor, but it really wasn't until the spring of 1977 that I learned to appreciate these "creatures."
How did you get the nickname "Tony Bees" during your tenure as an officer with the NYPD?
In the N.Y.P.D, everyone's got a nickname. By 2004, I had collected enough swarms that I was officially known as "Tony Bees." What kind of places have I found swarms? You name it!
What goes through your mind when you're removing a swarm for the NYPD?
In the military, we were taught "If you can't compromise, you improvise, and if you can't improvise, you have to compromise." When I was sent to do a job, my first and foremost concern was the safety of the public, and then, the safe, humane removal, transport and relocation of these wonderful creatures.
Who will collect bee swarms in our city now that you've retired?
In 20 plus years with the department, I've met some very knowledgeable beekeepers in the city, and some beautiful residents. Some are sincere, others... let's just say I've raised some eyebrows. But I think we'll be fine. I'm still in the area and operations will call me when they need to.
Tell us your favorite swarm story!
Four years ago, I responded to a job up in the Bronx, and while I was awaiting the Fire Department to arrive with a tower ladder, as luck would have it, the bees re-swarmed! I had to chase them down the street until they landed 1 1/2 blocks away. I hadn't had a chance to get my gear on, so I was in a t-shirt in the middle of a swarm… paradise!
What protective gear do you wear?
Like everyone else, I wear a standard jacket suit, and sometimes a hood.
What's the most painful/hilarious place you've been stung?
Above the left eye. I walked into work yelling "Cut me Mick!" My eye was swollen shut.
What's your favorite kind of honey?
Favorite honey... hmm that's hard. It depends on what I'm using it for. I like clover honey on granola; I like buckwheat honey on almonds, pecans, walnuts and yogurt; linden honey is good in pasta with garlic. I also like buckwheat honey for all my stews and chilis.
What's your favorite bee product besides honey?
I like to use the wax and propolis for my lip balms.
If you were a bee, what caste of bee would you want to be?
Celibate Drone, hah!
What advice do you have for the wanna-beek?
First off, take a step back and think about why you've taken on this hobby: why do you want to be a beekeeper? It better not just be because the "Joneses down the block" are doing it. Secondly, read, read, read! Become educated! Pick up the writings of the old-timers: Langstroth, Root, Quimby; learn the art before you jump into it. I've met people who scare me. Do you perform surgery without going to Med School?! No. Do your time in the Apiary: look, listen, learn, and remember: the bees are your extended family!
Do you have a prediction for the first swarm of 2015?
I put 3-1 odds on a feral first swarm on Mothers Day!
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Americans are used to seeing ads pop up on the Internet, TV and even our smartphones. Now you can add one more place -- bank statements.
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These bank statement rewards are transaction-driven, since they match your buying habits with targeted deals and discounts for future purchases. The ads typically appear on your online bank statement beneath a recent transaction, and they're marked by a company logo.
Say you recently spent $50 at Target. Target could then offer you a $10 discount for future purchases on your bank statement next to the purchase price. Customers can then choose to redeem these retail offers online through a clickable ad or print them out for use in stores.
Many U.S. banks and credit unions are already offering statement rewards.
These rewards are aimed at consumers who don't want to be hounded by other offers, says Debbie Wood, general manager of marketing and industry research at Jack Henry and Associates Inc. The Missouri-based firm partners with Truaxis, owned by MasterCard, to create statement rewards programs. "These friendly offers have an extra level of protection, since you know they're coming from your own bank," she adds.
Redeeming rewards
And they can be redeemed in different ways. Some rewards are issued as coupons that can be used for purchases, electronic gift cards that offer future discounts or cash-back rewards with benchmarks for qualifying. The latest twist is geo-location statement deals sent as text messages to your smartphone whenever you're near one of your favorite retailers.
Offers differ widely, according to Consumer Reports. Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank has Prewards, which are digital coupons that are linked to debit card purchases. Bank of America has a program called BankAmeriDeals, where online bank promotions are linked to transactions. Offers are made by, say, your favorite restaurant or a rival restaurant that wants your business.
And Ohio Valley Bank, based in Gallipolis, offers statement rewards as part of its NetTeller online banking. Like many programs, these rewards are triggered by debit card usage. "More usage triggers more discounts," says Bryna Butler, a vice president and market and e-strategies officer at Ohio Valley Bank.
Ohio Valley Bank began offering NetTeller statement rewards in 2011. "We saw that customers were using Groupon or LivingSocial coupons," Butler says. But the bank's cost to offer these coupons was prohibitive. So, statement rewards were offered instead.
"They're easy to use," she says.
Jack Gillis, spokesman for the Consumer Federation of America, says statement rewards help customers save money. "Statement rewards can be effective money-saving tools for consumers," Gillis says.
Statement rewards also benefit banks, since they receive a small fee for offering them. "Fees are very nominal, though," says Suzanne Copeland, chief marketing officer at Montebello, New York-based Provident Bank. The bank's own program lets you personalize your offers by clicking "like" or "dislike" buttons near a statement reward offer.
"These customized offers work well with our customers," Copeland says. At Provident Bank, only 1% of its customers have decided to opt out, she says. At Ohio Valley Bank, two customers out of 6,000 have opted out, Butler says.
Downside of statement rewards
Still, despite their success, statement rewards do have downsides, consumer advocates say. For starters, customers are automatically enrolled in programs and must opt out on their own. "And most people don't realize you can opt out," Consumer Federation's Gillis says. If consumers are interested in statement rewards, they should also scan the exact details of any statement rewards program before signing up, he says.
People who struggle to control their spending should automatically opt out, Gillis says. "It's too easy to click on a product or service and build up credit card debt," he says, since impulse purchases are easier than ever these days.
"Bank statements are important documents," Gillis says, "When they contain promotional material, ads have more credibility."
In all statement rewards programs, consumer privacy is protected. Names, addresses and account numbers aren't revealed, says Wood of Jack Henry and Associates. Instead, data-mining companies sift through aggregated customer transactions to glean how much is spent and where, according to Consumer Reports. Ads are then tailored to a customer's spending patterns.
Gillis says more types of statement rewards are on their way. "Banks have realized that they can sell this information because it's valuable," he says. "Bank statements are extraordinarily rich avenues."
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Darren Britz - SARS Disputes And Delays
The normal everyday interaction with SARS has been analogised with that of a turbulent flight.
Flying is generally a pleasant process, but once you have been through a rough one, flying is never quite the same. The same symbiotic relationship normally applies to taxpayer and SARS. The system is designed to operate smoothly and effectively, however, every now and again, perhaps due to a taxpayer being mischievous or SARS officials chasing a collection target, the taxpayer soon learns of the turbulence that can be experienced with SARS.
Tax Ombud Involvement
Where we take over a complex matter of a taxpayer, one of the tell-tale signs of an uninformed strategy is where the Tax Ombud has been approached. In reality, the Tax Ombud remains toothless and requires a drastic law change before it can become a binding authority and feared by SARS. It cannot get involved in tax technical disputes, so their mandate finds very limited application.
The Office of the Tax Ombud
had to get special permission from the then Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, before it could investigate, based on numerous complaints and the perceived inadequacies of the South African tax system. These complaints were founded on allegations that SARS officials were exploiting the tax system to unreasonably delay the payment of refunds.
Tax Ombud and SARS Disagrees
In the Ombud's Final Report issued on 28 August 2017, the honourable retired Judge B M Ngoepe found that the tax system allowed for SARS to unduly delay the payment of verified refunds, that this was a systemic issue and that the tax system did not sufficiently protect taxpayers.
The Final Report is quite damning and portrays a certain segment of SARS as being devious in its treatment of taxpayers. The perception was also noted amongst certain taxpayers that SARS was deliberately obstructive in its treatment of tax disputes in order to delay payment of funds to the taxpayer.
On 4 September 2017, SARS issued a brief media release in response to the Final Report, in which it acknowledged certain shortcomings in the tax system. SARS, however, also pointed out that the Ombud's findings were made in relation to less than 1% of refunds which SARS processed and it therefore refuted that delays of refunds were a systemic problem. The jury is still out as to who is correct, as obviously the Tax Ombud only investigated certain cases and no-one is sure whether this is genuinely only 1% or the tip of the iceberg.
The Legal Approach
In our experience, we tend to agree that SARS is not systemically being obstructive in the manner in which it deals with tax disputes. This, however, gives little comfort when a spurious audit finding is made against
you, there is an overdue VAT or Customs refund or you have a long-standing dispute with SARS.
The Tax Administration Act
became effective 1 October 2012 and the Rules on Dispute Resolution, which are in the process of being revised, were promulgated under section 103.
The Rules are binding on both SARS and taxpayer, and are key to putting the taxpayer on equal footing with SARS. These are both functions of law and having a qualified attorney with litigation experience is crucial, albeit that you almost never end up in Tax Court. Tax matters are won, or lost, long before they reach the tax litigation stage.
The notable trends that we have picked up and are currently in play:
SARS Audits and Refunds: Where you have a VAT or customs audit, there is often a consequence of additional taxes payable or refund delayed where your supporting documents are not spot-on. The approach by SARS to prevent fraudulent VAT claims cannot be faulted, thus a good investment of your time is to revisit that you have the correct processes and procedures in place and are legally compliant. There are unfortunately some instances where SARS refund auditors have broken their own rules and procedures. Consider an approach to make clear that you hold SARS accountable to the law. This is the quickest and most secure means of ensuring you are payed your dues.
Tax Additional Assessments: The process of a tax audit often results in an additional tax assessment, with the now standard 100% penalties and interest being raised. The best stage to get a qualified tax attorney involved is even before this additional tax assessment is raised, as SARS needs to give you "reasons" under rule 6 and you must be afforded the opportunity to respond thereto under Rule 7.
Tax Collection: Where you have any SARS tax assessment pending against you, as soon as you indicate a dispute, you must apply for suspension of payment under section 164(2). This is a process which must be carefully executed, as the "pay now, argue later" principle is well entrenched in our law. The reprieve under section 164(2) is a particular valuable tool in instances where SARS hold the officers of the company personally liable for its tax debts, which, we have found, is an increasing trend.
Tax Clearance: Where you have a tax dispute you can still get a tax clearance certificate by following the correct legal process. Consider using an experienced hand, as you only have one opportunity to get this right. Becoming tax savvy enough to apply the tax laws in your favour is key to levelling the playing field when going toe-to-toe with SARS. In our experience, once a tax attorney invokes the appropriate legal mechanism, a SARS auditor would rather assess the merits, take steps to understand the taxpayer's position and thereby seek to resolve the matter. This is far more advantageous than following SARS' lead and which can be a painful and drawn-out process.
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Abdullah Abdullah ponders the future of his country, which he sees as a problem as long as Hamid Karzai is president.
While Dr. Abdullah Abdullah was talking this week about the crisis in Afghanistan, he made it clear that nothing good would happen here as long as Hamid Karzai is the president.
Logically then, the situation would be hopeless — if he is right.
Now, I'm new here and there's a lot I don't know, but I do understand the meaning of hopeless. You don't have to refer to the definition in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, which I include here so we don't end up debating the definition of "is" and that sort of thing.
1a: Having no expectation of good or success: despairing
b: not susceptible to remedy or cure
c: incapable of redemption or improvement
2a: giving no ground for hope: desperate
b: incapable of solution, management, or accomplishment: impossible.
That would seem to sum up things in Kabul on this sunny Friday morning, except that Abdullah, a physician and resistance fighter-turned-national politician, leaves a little wiggle room around hopeless, despairing and impossible.
"Very, very difficult," Abdullah said. "I wouldn't say hopeless."
This sounds much more like a politician than a former confidant of one of Afghanistan's most famous anti-Soviet resistance fighters, Ahmad Shah Massoud, assassinated by suicide bombers only two days before 9-11. Just before he refused to rule out all hope, Abdullah noted that nothing has changed since last year's disputed election.
The country today has the same president, ministers and system as it did when he abruptly dropped out of the winter presidential runoff, giving Karzai a second term.
That response led to the next question, and Abdullah's interesting response.
"If the logjam continues, what should I do? I will try to help the country, yes, in one way or another. But if somebody is in a position that he needs help, the first one who has to help him has to have to be he himself. You know what I mean?"
Yep, I did. But could Karzai really change his stripes, as the old saying goes?
Abdullah took a breath.
"That's the problem. I don't know how I can help this situation. In terms we mentioned, we talked about, we deferred at least to personalities, but there is also problem in the system. Our system has many flaws as whole. It is a highly centralized system and the president cannot be questioned by the parliament, he's not accountable in any way. He makes all the appointments, bad governors are being decided from one province to the next, leaving the people resentful and dissatisfied, and in some cases grieved in not being accountable. The constitution has been stepped upon, and so on and so forth."
Fixing the system is a bit complicated, so that's for tomorrow's blog.
But if Adbullah is right, the big changes he seeks that might seem arcane and unimportant to people back in the United States could be a real difference-maker, the kind that just could save the life of your son, daughter, husband or wife. As our side loses ground amid governmental gridlock as big as Afghanistan, that is the definition of not quite hopeless.


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