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2BHK & 3BHK Apartments for sale in Arakere, Bangalore at Comfort Flora.
Comfort Shelters Pvt. Ltd.system allows precise management of the budget and schedule associated with your custom project. We work with the customer to maintain budget along with the construction timeline, while allowing for the flexibility associated with custom building.
Our quality of construction provides value to every project we build. Our goal is to exceed the expectations of our customers and provide the highest levels ofprofessionalism, integrity, and honesty.
Swimming Pool
Fully-Equipped Gym
Land-Scaped Garden
Children's Play Area
One Car parking for Each flat
Separate Toilets for Labours/Servants/drivers
Rock Garden Elder's Sitting Area
Round the Clock Security
Intercom Facility
Standby Generator for Common Areas
Partial Power Backup for Every Individual Apartment
CCTV Camera
R.C.C Framed Seismic 11 Compliant Structure
Solid Concrete block masonry(internal/external)
Security System
24/7 security with camera in the security room
Security will screen the visitors by camera and confirm the resident by forwarding the image of the visitor through dedicated channel
All internal walls are plastered with smooth lime rendering
External walls plastered with sponge finish
Internal : Oil Bound Distemper
External : With textured cement paint
Back-up Generator
Stand by generator for lights in common areas, lifts and pumps
Provision for one light in all flats with stand by generator
Passenger elevator of ISI make
Black Shaped granite kitchen platform with stainless steel with drain board
Dado in glazed tiles above "I"
Shaped granite kitchen platform
Provision for Aqua-Guard point
Provision for washing machine in utility area
One TV point in the living room and in the master bedroom
Anchor/Finolex are the electrical wires used
Modular electrical switches of Anchor/Manikchand make or similar
One Miniature circuit Breaker[MCB] for every individual Flat
Distribution box provided within each flat
Telephone points in living room and mater
Bedroom with adjacent power point
Toilet : Fittings& Accessories
Ceramic glazed tiles dado upto 7' Height
White sanitary ware of Hindustan Paryware or equivalent make in all toilets
Hot and Cold water mixer in toilets
Make or equivalent for shower area
Concealed master control cock for toilets from inside provision for exhaust fan
Group EP ABX System
An exclusive group EPABX will be installed with Cabling in each flats
This will be operated by a franchisee intercom facility to receive direct incoming calls as dial Outside Local/STD/ISD calls from EPABX
Doors & Windows
Teak wood door frame with threshold, for main Door flush type teak veneered from both side and finished with melamine polish
All other door frames in sal/hone wood in bedrooms
Balcony door shutters shall be commercial with enamel paint
Brass hardware for main door and all other doors
Aluminum powder coated mortise
Locks used for toilets doors, baby mortise handle and baby latch from inside
Aluminum type windows in Translucent glass with mild steel grills from outside toilets ventilators of mild steel [Enamel painted with translucent glass]
Structural Payments
Initial Payment : 20%
Ground Floor : 10%
1st Floor : 10%
2nd Floor : 10%
3rd Floor : 10%
4th Floor : 10%
Masonry Work : 10%
Flooring : 10%
Electrical & Plumbing : 5%
Finishing/Handling over : 5%
Additional costs to borne
Car Parking
Sales Tax
Extra alteration if required apart from the specification
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text: Each week, we talk about the impact that funding from voter approved Proposition 63 makes in treatment, anti-stigma and suicide reduction. Today, Helena Ditko, LCSW shares information about her pilot program with NAMI which involves the entire family in recovery! Kevin Hines is an incredible story. In this interview with Jen, he recalls very specific and vivid memories from the worst time in his life. What led him to jump… what was the aftermath, and an incredible story about the difference a Sea Lion made! Kevin's book is "Cracked But Not Broken: Surviving and thriving after a suicide attempt". For more information on Kevin, go to www.kevinhinesstory.com.

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The most eclectic and magical shoot'em'up ever released. Glider Pro sees you guide a lone paper aircraft on an unknown quest through the vastness of an empty mansion. Buoyed by the occasional gust from an air vent, perturbed by the vagaries of a fan and downright terrified by the prospect of a paper shredder: making your way through this prison is a constantly challenging experiance; with each room offering new obstacles, enemies and puzzles. Included was a powerful level editor which helped spawn a thriving community of interior designers giving Glider Pro a deep reservoir of fan based content; there was even an electronic periodical "Glider Tech" which reviewed new houses, provided construction tip, articles and editorials. The heyday of Glider Pro was in the mid nineties but there is still an active online community and the legacy of a game this endearing will surely last a lifetime.
Download from John Calhoun's Homepage
Wikipedia Article
Slumberland: Glider Fansite
Glider Yahoo Group
The older Glider 4.0 (also a classic) is available for PC as well as Mac. All later editions of Glider Pro were designed for Mac OS 9 and X; with the level editor only available on OS 9. Since the publishers of Glider Casady & Greene went bankrupt the author John Calhoun has made all versions of the game freely available from his website.


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Key Features
- Developer: Lionhead Studios
- Publisher: Microsoft
- Platforms: Xbox 360
- Release date: 12 October
- Price: £39.99
Fable: The Journey Review
To begin with, Fable: The Journey is extremely pleasant. Playing as Gabriel, a young Albion tribesman with a voice like Brian Cox, your first job is simply to clean your horse. And for a while, everything fits; given basic tasks like these, the Kinect feels like the perfect relaxation tool, giving your hands a few fluid motions to go through while brush your horse down, and listen to the chirpy, northern-accented patter between Gabriel and his uncle. The whole tutorial feels like pony-trekking in Devon. Trotting along at a gentle pace, swapping stories with your pal; there's not a lot for you to do with the Kinect, but it still feels tactile. Compared to the high-octane opening levels of a lot of computer games, Fable: The Journey's first section is a welcome retreat.
But things go quickly and severely downhill from there. Usual Kinect issues aside, Fable: The Journey is gigantic hardware error from start to finish. Even perfectly calibrated, the Kinect feels wrong.
Muck about
Albion, as we and the other Fable games know it, is a sprawling, endless sandbox world replete with opportunities to explore and muck about. In Fable: The Journey, it's a long straight road, funnelling players from one action beat to the next. Hopelessly limited by the Kinect's motion-sensitive functionality, which only allows for players to grab, throw and rub things, Lionhead has been forced to boil their Fable series down to its core, and beyond. The closest thing the game has to a sandbox world are small, contained hitching posts, where you wander around for a few minutes feeding your horse and picking apples. There are optional paths to take, too, off the beaten track, but these rarely amount to anything except a brief Kinect brawl with some critters and a quick bit of loot. The true sense of wandering, which gave former Fable games their substance, is missing from The Journey.
A lot of the time, it feels like a lightgun shooter; railroaded from one battle to the next, most of Fable: The Journey is spent shooting bad guys with your magic. But thanks to its neat combination of offensive and defensive moves, combat is The Journey's strongest point and action scenes can generally be relied on for fun. Attacks come in two flavours: There's your Bolt spell, which is fired by jabbing at the Kinect, and Push, a telepathic shunt activated by holding your left arm up, then straightening it out towards your opponent. Moves can be countered, too; crossing your arms over your chest like a shield blocks enemy attacks. Get the rhythm and the motions right, and fighting in The Journey becomes remarkably satisfying, as you string together combos of Bolt and Push, and quickly parry incoming projectiles. Scenarios vary from zapping enemies from inside a runaway mine cart to enormous boss battles, that require you to physically lean out of the way of incoming attacks. One level sees you caught upside down in a bear trap, flipping the Kinect controls to leave you flailing to defend yourself from encroaching Balverines. It's exciting stuff, a welcome change to standard, lightweight Kinect fare.
Thin, straightforward and dull
But it's not a Fable game, at all. Balverines aren't the only connections to Albion lore - series staple Theresa returns in a supporting role, and there are several mentions of other Fable characters - but these connections are tenuous, and in fact servce only to highlight how far removed The Journey is from the rest of the series. As a marketing ploy, the Fable brand has worked against Lionhead this time: Though understandably eager to capitalise on the franchise's success, Lionhead has scuppered The Journey by placing it alongside other Fable games. Next to Fables 1, 2 and 3, The Journey feels thin, straightforward and dull; perhaps as a new IP, The Journey would have stood a better chance
But, despite Lionhead's patronising assurances that no, really, it's for 'core gamers' too, Fable: The Journey is utterly insubstantial. It almost makes up for it with style (even when you're racing by it on your horse and cart, Albion is very pretty) but Fable: The Journey has a little to offer serious game fans. As a matter of fact, it might even struggle to win over Kinect users; at fifteen plus hours long, and with plenty of cutscenes, The Journey is likely to put off anyone who plays games casually. As such, it's an army without a country, a game without a market; as Lionhead's first experiment with the Kinect, Fable: The Journey is a total failure.
- Gameplay - 6/10: The Kinect ruins Fable: The Journey, stripping out the series' trademark sandbox fun. Combat is still solid
- Sound - 6/10: A bland score is helped along by wonderful voice acting
- Graphics - 7/10: Albion is still gorgeous, but you won't have time to see much of it
- Replay value - 4/10: Fable: The Journey is a dull game. You will struggle to finish it once
- Overall - 5/10: A lifeless cash-in that feels forced out. Nothing here for Fable or Kinect fans


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Next we went to the National History Museum, and viewed the Bronze Age exhibition and saw some the lunulas and other celtic jewellery. After this, we went to the Bog Bodies exhibition, which I found absolutely fascinating. It's hard to believe that bodies over 4000 years old can still exist. I was also amazed by how much scientists can tell about the person just from half of their body or even just a torso.
Thanks so much to Mrs B for organising this lovely trip and thanks to all the teachers who came with us :)
Slán go fóill,
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Do you ever look at what is available in the Silhouette software and think "I can't see why I would use that"? I had read about using different line colours, or colour fills or layers to order what bit of your design cuts first, but I had never thought of an idea when I would need this, until the other day. To access the Advanced cutting options, you only need the Basic edition software.
I had designed some stickers for my personal planner and wanted to cut holes for the rings, which would cut right through the sticker paper, but I also wanted to do a " kiss cut" for the stickers. The first thing that occurred to me was that the kiss cut needed to be done before the through cut which would cut out the pages to the correct size. To further complicate the tutorial I decided to write on the stickers with Silhouette pens! That would have to be done before the cuts, so order was going to be important.
Measure your planner pages. My personal planner needs rectangles 171 cm x 95 cm . I could fit two rectangles onto an A4 sticker sheet. Draw six circles 0.5 cm for the spine of the page at the correct distance for your planner. I usually cut these on some scrap paper first to ensure they are correctly placed. Alternatively, scan one of your planner pages, File/Merge that to your design area and trace it!
Silhouette cameo + mat
Colour printer
DIY stickers:
There are lots of lovely sticker designs available in the Silhouette Design shop. If you want to use a bought design, open them up from your library, and adjust their size to your planner page. However, it is very quick to make some Rounded rectangles.
Draw one rectangle, copy and paste it, and then Scale it to 80%. Fill the back rectangle with a colour, or a pattern fill. The rectangle lying in front I fill with white, or when I want the back pattern to show through, I fill with white then under advanced settings alter the transparency. It's a feature I love!
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To make a flag shape, draw a rectangle and a square. Move the square to lie over the rectangle and follow the instructions below.
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Setting up the line colours
Go to Cut Settings, Cut conditions and select Advanced. Think through the process. I have to start with a sketch pen inserted in the holder, then pause to remove it and put in the cutting blade at the right depth (1), then at the last pause I can re-adjust the blade depth to 2 in order to cut out the holes and pages.
Select the words you want drawn in pen. I used a font called Amy Lou. Make their lines (for example) Green. Remember it doesn't matter what colour you make them as you are not printing them, and you are going to choose a Silhouette sketch pen colour to determine the final colour.
Select the Kiss cuts which will be the sticker outlines. Make their lines (for example) Red
Select the planner holes and the outline of the pages that you want cut through. (for example) Blue
Make sure the colours are in the right order, and that they are assigned the correct type of cut. Do this by clicking on them and dragging them before or after one another. Click on one colour e.g. the green, then you can select how this is to be cut from the Material Type options below. Finally, right click when this is still highlighted and you can insert, or delete a pause. Although this set up takes some time to get it just right, once you have done it, it will save you time for files you want to use again and again.
See image 3 below, where I have ticked in the box to see what has a blue line and will cut. In image 3, despite the lines around the holes being blue, they will not cut as the second setting, (as shown by the red arrow on the right) is set as"Cut edge". In image 4 I have corrected this, and so the lines which are affected are highlighted. Switch on Registration marks.You should be good to go!
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The steps:
- Print the design with Registration marks enabled.
- Load the sheet, on its mat , into Silhouette. Insert Silhouette pen to the machine holder (I chose orange) and to do the lettering.
- Send to Silhouette for "cutting", which in this case will in fact be writing by the pen! The machine will automatically Pause once the lettering is done.
- Remove the pen and put in blade set to cut for stickers. Do kiss cuts with blade set at 1. Resume cut. Pause
- Adjust blade to cut through the copy paper. I used setting 2. Resume cut.
OK, that's it. It may seem a bit complicated, but once set up I reckon it is pretty clever. With the new Silhouette 3, of course, the blade will be automatically adjusted for you, and having two pen holders your Silhouette pen can also be in place at the start. Great if you are using your Silhouette for business and have lots of orders.
By the way, under the advanced cut settings, if you prefer, you can cut according to which layer an item is on e.g. you could have the writing on layer 1, sticker cut on layer 2 and through cut on layer 3. Similarly cuts can be assigned depending on fill colour. It's just a matter of personal preference.
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Back to torture
The vicious people who run our national government are back to their old tricks. God forgive our shameful country.
The vicious people who run our national government are back to their old tricks. God forgive our shameful country.
It seems from what I read that Bubba also favors torture as is on " 24 " the TV series.
All these fine christian politicol's upholding brutalization is another mark of hypocrisy by our government.
At least there are a few people who haven't lost their way on this disheartening subject. This one's even a former member of what was then the republican party.
Jack, it is not the country that is shameful, or that should be ashamed. it is the administration, and those who elected it. I didn't. And I am proud of this country and have confidence we will ride this out, though damaged, hopefully not irrepairably so.
it is not the country that is shameful, or that should be ashamed.
Sure. Just a few bad apples.
Simon, I wish I could agree with you. I'd be a happier man.
But no. This shame is ours. It is shared by - at least - every citizen of voting age in 2004. Yes, even by those of us who voted and spoke against this administration and its torture policies. Every one of your co-workers, every one of your fellow students or teachers, your mother, your spouse, all of us should be ashamed.
Because this government will not be fixed while we tell ourselves that it's some other guy that's screwing things up. This is supposed to be a government by, for, and of the people yet we are eager to disclaim it at every turn, or to duck our moral responsibility for its actions and inactions. To fix it, we must remember that this government is ours, we must believe that we own it lock stock and barrel, and we must act accordingly.
This land is our land, and so also this shame is our shame.
No tasering? Sissies. Gonzales was an idiot....he should have just rendered terrorists to Egypt and Saudi Arabia for 'questioning' like W's predecessor did.
The fact that the American public allows the people who formulate this official American policy to remain in office is the shame of every breathing U.S. citizen.
I disagree. We have elections, not coup d'etats. Yes, the election was stolen. And yes, the Supreme Court appears to me anyway, to have been complicit. But short of Congress having the juevos to impeach, we are stuck. Marching in the street? Fine. protesting? Fine. But violence for change? No. I will not endorse that.
And I am not sure there is never a place for torture. The tired example is if torture of one or ten or twenty people would have stopped 9/11, I'd have been fine with it.
The problem is torture would not have stopped 9/11.
And yes, I do in fact reserve the right to be a hypocrite.
We are fortunate that this country and our institutions are strong enough to ride things like this Fourth Reich out. I hope.
I was referring to impeachment in my comment. What should happen is the public the sense to force the impeachment issue on congress--our President and VP should be impeached, hands down. How we force that issue??


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Best New Product 2018 - Nominee: Nescafé Frappélatte
Counting Down To The 20th Staging Of The Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards, Thursday, May 31, 2018
Nescafé Frappélatte is... the newest indulgence from Nestle
It is a... unique and refreshing treat with the perfect balance between the best of Nescafé and delicious ice cream.
Launched in November 2017, Nescafe Frappélatte is... currently available in multiple locations across Jamaica — hotels, supermarkets, universities, restaurants and petrol stations. The product is sold on its own at an affordable and attractive price point or in some instances, bundled with your favourite lunch meals. New locations such as places of attraction are to be added in the near future.
Our major challenge is... Nestlé provides to all establishments the machine free of cost and all its accessories — straws and premium sexy branded Nescafé Frappélatte 4oz Champagne flutes. The major drawback has to do with the 4oz cup size, as the product is so indulgent that consumers cannot seem to just have one serving. We encourage retailers, however, to upsize the offer using dome cups which are more convenient for the on-the-go consumers.
Future plans include... Jamaicans love ice cream and we want to help them enjoy their favourite treats by providing more flavours for them to enjoy. Currently Nescafé Frappélatte comes in one flavour — coffee — marketed under the leading Nescafé brand name, but we are looking to extend to other delicious flavours such as Milo.
Jamaicans should support this product because... Nescafé Frappélatte is a product of Nescafé, marketed under the Nescafé brand and as such, consumers can rest assured of the product's superior quality and great taste. Nescafé Frappélatte is more than a coffee beverage and more than an ice cream; it is a delicious iced coffee!
Our product is successful because... Nescafé Frappélatte is an industry game-changing "moment of truth" that builds upon the increasing popularity of cold, milky coffee beverages and our world-leading Nescafé brand. The product is offered through an intuitive operating system that delivers the product in a convenient and consistent way; providing people with a superior Nescafé coffee experience. The simple and comfortable handling of the machine guarantees optimal serving even at high traffic. It is quite versatile and can be enjoyed on its own or jazzed up with different garnishes that suit each consumer's taste buds.
If we knew then what we know now... We would have launched additional flavours of Nescafé Frappélatte at the same time to provide more ways for consumers to enjoy their creamy frozen coffee essert!
Nestlé Jamaica Limited
Address: 1 South Street, Ferry Pen, St Andrew
Website: www.nestle.com.jm
Tel: 926 - 1300
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Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Project website:
IF: you are an attorney interested in our program, we will provide you with:
- A day-long training class on veterans' law issues.
- When you accept a case referred from the Program, we will provide you with the following services:
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Our lenders operate responsible lending policies. They will not lend you more than they believe you can afford to repay - they do not want to put your personal finances under stress. Therefore when you make an enquiry you should expect any lender you choose to complete your loan through to request information from you that allows them to make this affordable lending assessment.
Please also bear in mind that if you take out a loan and you fail to repay it in lines with agreement that you have made with the lender that there will be financial consequences. A lender may levy extra charges and ultimately you could find yourself in default, with a CCJ and with a severly diminished credit rating. In the case of a guarantor loan your guarantor is likely to become liable to make loan repayments on your behalf and this is likely to have a negative impact on your relationship. Please do not make any application for credit if you know that you will struggle to meet your financial commitments.


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Over 120 years experience in over 50 countries, insuring over €890 Billion of commercial transactions globally.
Euler Hermes has a AA- credit rating from Standard & Poors, reflecting our financial strength and ability to provide assurance to our customers.
More than 1,500 risk specialists as well as top economists who provide unique insights to help you evaluate your buyer's credit rating.
In Thailand, our credit insurance covers are offered in cooperation with 5 insurance companies thanks to the partnership and reinsurance arrangement. In order to improve the local service, a commercial and a risk team in Bangkok, from where we service existing policyholders, liaise with the local partners and intermediaries, and monitor a part of our Thai risks.
Credit insurance protects your business from non-payment of commercial debt. It makes sure that your invoices will be paid and allows you to reliably
manage the commercial and political risks of trade.
Credit insurance does more than just ensure your invoices are paid. It can help your business succeed by providing the following benefits:
In the current difficult trade environment, companies need to meet the challenges of traditional markets and grasp the opportunities of emerging markets. In order to win sales opportunities, many companies will give buyers the requested amount of debit. But have you ever been hesitant about the buyer's credit? Especially when you are faced with unfamiliar buyers or markets. It is easier to decide on the amount of money that each buyer will pay.
Euler Hermes continuously monitors the risk database of over 4 million enterprises. Providing more than 55,000 businesses around the world with impeccable buyer analysis to avoid taking additional credit risk.
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Globally, we have over 600 professional debt collection staff, and have operated successfully in 150 countries to collect arrears. Overall we have been entrusted to deal with the accumulation of more than 1 billion euros. Euler Hermes provides professional cross-international, comprehensive overdue arrears collection services. We have a sound global network that supports us in various markets, negotiating in various languages, and properly handling local legal matters. Our services cover preliminary debtor consultations and deal with litigation in the countries concerned to ensure that customers avoid losses through efficient collection programs.
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We're going to let our pals at CrackBerry do the legwork on this one, but it's a number that needs to be noted here: RIM just announced in its Q2 earnings call that it's shipped just 200,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets -- and that's shipped, not sold -- in three months. We care, of course, because RIM's hacked a sort of Android emulator (they call it an "Android Player") onto the thing. But at this point, we're not even sure the might and muscle of Android can salvage things.
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Chamber memberships and involvement are an excellent way to help you grow your business via B2B networking, education, and leadership training. Explore the possibilities at your local chamber (s). Area economic development agencies\offices (EDA, EDO) typically offer resources related to financial assistance with loans, grants and tax-exempt bonds, business location and site selection assistance, employee recruitment and training assistance.
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Jack London Aquatic Center, Inc.
Terminates Management Agreement
with City of Oakland
Deteriorating municipal finances and private fund-raising challenges have caused another non-profit to halt operations. Jack London Aquatic Center, Inc. ends public-private partnership and will turn facility back to the City of Oakland.
Oakland, CA, February 1, 2011 - The Board of Directors of Jack London Aquatic Center, Inc., the non-profit that has played a key role in the development and operation of Oakland's municipal boathouse since its inception over fifteen years ago, has voted to terminate its management agreement with the City of Oakland, effective February 28, 2011. City officials were notified Friday afternoon.
In taking this action, JLAC, Inc. cited a 69% reduction in the management fees paid by the City to support the costs of maintenance, insurance, repairs and administration, as well as a difficult fund-raising environment.
JLAC, Inc. hopes that the City will continue to operate the facility in order to serve the rowers, kayakers, dragon boaters, outrigger canoers and event planners whose participation has increased three-fold in recent years. Those affected include JLAC's own junior crew, masters crews, charter school kayaking programs, the University of California Lightweight Crew and Berkeley High Crew. The Oakland Strokes will not be affected by this change.
"We deeply regret having to take this action. In the past three years, we aggressively increased sliding-scale user fees and received helpful resources from outside agencies, foundations and individuals. But
we finally concluded that our fund-raising efforts, despite strong efforts from companies like
Thick Ass Glass
, just could not offset the rapid, but understandable, decline in City fees," said Fred Brown, Vice President of the Board.
"It has been JLAC's mission to open the Oakland waterfront to all of the communities of Oakland - and particularly to the youth of Oakland - for recreation, education and competition. We have addressed the barriers that have kept many Oaklanders from their waterfront, such as the lack of swimming skills, the lack of transportation, and the relatively high costs of water sports. Looking back, we are pleased with our leadership role in bringing ethnic and economic diversity to the rowing and paddling sports," said Brown.
JLAC, Inc. is in the process of meeting with program participants and event planners, and will try to connect them with officials at Oakland Parks and Recreation in the hope that they will be able to continue to use the facility.
Fred Brown, Vice President of the Board of Directors JLAC, Inc.
[email protected]
Participants in JLAC programs, holders of Regatta (Community) Room reservations, and JLAC sub-licensees should contact Fred Brown, Vice President of the Board, if they have questions. Fred can be reached by email at
[email protected]
JLAC vendors who have questions should contact JLAC's bookkeepeer at
[email protected]
Oakland Parks and Recreation
will provide scheduling of the Community Room. The website is:
Office of Parks and Recreation
Central Reservations Unit
1520 Lakeside Drive
Oakland, California 94612
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Here are my top 10 picks for Fall from premier ankara retailer, Zuvaa.com.
1. A jumpsuit.
If it's good enough for Michelle Williams, it's good enough for me ;) How gorgeous is this print and cut from Melange mode? Michelle is no stranger to designs from Yvonne, creator of Melange mode and this color suits her so well.
It is available for purchase HERE.
2. Full sleeve ankara dress - for the chilly Fall days.
This mixed-print dress is 1 of several stunning pieces from Karissa, the designer behind A Leap of Style.
Available for purchase HERE
3. Maxi halter
Who says maxis are just for summer? Feel free to wear a pair of leggings underneath and a cardigan ontop for added warmth but this maxi dress can definitely be a part of your Fall wardrobe!
Also by A Leap of Style and available for purchase HERE
4. Mini skirt
Yes, you read right, a mini skirt in the Fall. You know there are some better days during the Fall when it's warm enough to wear a mini skirt (with or without leggings/tights) and this one is too irresistible to ignore-look at those Fall browns and blacks! Now imagine it paired with a leather jacket, ankle boots and a clutch??!! Banger!
Skirt is by Melange Mode and is available HERE
5. A coat dress.
Coat dresses have always served as effortless ways to stay chic without trying. They're classy enough to be worn to work and casual enough to wear for a casual dinner with friends. Either way, I'm loving this one by Tribal Groove. Available for purchase HERE
6. A pair of fitted pants
Pants go hand in hand with Fall, we all know that. How about taking things up a notch with a pair of vibrant Ankara pants? Paired with a pair of heels or flats, they will definitely make you stand out, regardless.
These ones are from Canadian designer, Rahyma of Rahyma Designs and can be bought HERE
For the office or for a party, pencil skirts and white shirts definitely bring on the Umph. Just ask Yvonne Nelson who was recently sported wearing this trend.
Why not give this cotton candy version from Tribal Groove a try? Available HERE
8. A midi dress
Midi dresses are another way to look effortlessly chic. It's all about fitting when it comes to these-the waist needs to be accentuated and made to look smaller and the midi length keeps things classy and chic. This one by Tribal Groove fits the bill and the V-neck adds another does of femininity! Available for purchase HERE
Whether high waist or not, pencil skirts are definitely going to give you your money's worth this Fall.
This one by Tina Lobondi just creams of Fall with those burgundy hues. Grab yours HERE
10. Last but not least, we have a maxi skirt.
This one is a maxi with a twist-peplum detailing! I have yet to find someone on whom peplum was not flattering. The electric blue on this skirt along with the black stripes adds for some excitement to this MABM Designs skirt. It can be purchased HERE.
So, which of these would you be most likely to rock? Do you wear ankara in the Fall? Let me know in the comments.
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More autonomous management for a more performing Network Manager
On 24th October, in the presence of Henrik Hololei, Director General of DG MOVE, and Simon Hocquard, Chair of the Network Management Board, Frank Brenner, the Director General of EUROCONTROL signed a number of Delegation Decisions giving increased managerial autonomy to the Director Network Manager to deliver the Network Functions of the Single European Sky.
Greater management autonomy will ensure that the Network Manager is accountable to its stakeholders both from an operational, financial and administrative perspective and will help to ensure even greater cost-efficiency going forward.
This major step comes in response to the European Commission's request to make the Network Manager even more effective and efficient by giving the Director Network Manager direct responsibility within the EUROCONTROL Agency for all management decisions necessary for delivering the Network Functions obligations according to the Network Manager Implementing Rule.
"Increased managerial authority for Director Network Manager is a means of ensuring that EUROCONTROL is focused organisationally, operationally and technically in delivering one of the top responsibilities arising from the Single European Sky," said Frank Brenner, Director General EUROCONTROL.
"I am very pleased that this important step will allow the NM Directorate of the EUROCONTROL Agency to operate with greater autonomy and in line with the EU requirements. This is significant improvement and contributes positively to the role of the Network Manager," added Henrik Hololei, Director General of DG MOVE.
The decision to go ahead with management autonomy for the Network Manager was agreed by the EUROCONTROL Member States at a Council meeting on 28 March 2017. It followed on from an independent review of the NM mandated by the European Commission and an action plan agreed between DG MOVE and EUROCONTROL in June 2016.
"This managerial autonomy dovetails perfectly with the objective to provide high level performance and demonstrate compliance with the EU rules in the light of the forthcoming nomination of the next Network Manager for the period of the Performance Reference Periods RP3 and RP4. I hope it will be the ideal foundation for the preparation of the operational and technical evolution of the Network Manager to be ready for new challenges
," said Joe Sultana, Director Network Manager.
The management autonomy will be effective as of 1 November 2017.
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Suite 718 Sneaker Boutique needed their site prepped for the eventual online shopping platform. Their local store requires the same product inventory integration so we designed a site for them that was easily adjustable to introduce new categories and easy image swaps for new products and lines. We created both a national and local SEO Content strategy to help their site grow both in the Miami area as well as nationally to all who wish to purchase their products in the near future.


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Nicoleport, HOSTEL in Istanbul Turkey.
Kalyoncu Kullugu Mah Tekir Sok No:15 Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
Located near: Only 330 metres to the lively Istiklal Avenue, Nicoleport is centrally located in Taksim. There are numerous restaurants with international and local cuisine, cafes and bars at the lively streets of Istiklal Avenue. Bus stop is so convenient, just 25 meters away from the hotel. Taksim Metro Stop is 850 metres away, allowing easy access to other sites of the city such as the historical Sultanahmet district. Ataturk Airport is 20 km away.


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- Changing student search habits (less focus on speciality databases, using links rather than searching systematically) and the appearance of "competitors" like Google Scholar and perhaps Windows Live Academic make research into multidisciplinary databases necessary
- Content: Scopus has almost 28 million record and WoS -including backfiles- 37 million. Scopus includes 15.000 journal titles against almost 9000 in WoS.
- Coverage: •preliminary conclusions: –Scopus has after 1996 about 30% more, and béfore that about 10% less coverage than WoS –Scopus coverage has a whimsical, hard to explain course through time –Coverage in bio/earth/geog/enviro/engin/comp very good –Coverage health also very good, but doubt over most recent years –Coverage psych/antropo/econ/chem acceptable, but before 1996 there are several gaps –Coverage phys/astro/math/socio less good, or reasons for doubt –Hardly coverage philo/theo/arts/lang
- Up-to-dateness: there is hardly any difference between WoS-Scopus considering the speed of updating records
- Citation details: again the difference is rather small, there is a large overlap between WoS-Scopus, but the difference with Google Scholar is larger and it finds more ánd more unique publications.
- Speed: Google Scholar is faster than WoS or Scopus. WoS has the disadvantage of being a little slower than Scopus.
- Opinions: most "power users" like the Scopus interface and value the Refine and Citation Tracker, but it can not replace -for the time being- the Journal Citation Reports, according to them. Citation Bosman, J., I.v. Mourik, M. Rasch, E. Sieverts & H. Verhoeff (2006). Scopus doorgelicht en vergeleken: de dekking en functionaliteit van de citatiedatabase Scopus, inclusief vergelijkingen met Web of Science en Google Scholar. http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/DARLIN/2006-0704-200257/Scopus-UU.pdf.
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Our Story
The Process of Re-Wilding Myself
The Art of Re-Wilding is what I call my work and it is also the name I give the journey I began ten years ago. Today I'm a Re-Wilding facilitator and practitioner, designing and leading courses and continuously upskilling in a range of contexts.
But like all meaningful things, it begins with a story and the following are key moments:
It's winter. I am in the French Alps, off the main ski-season track. I am familiar with this peripheral place as I've visited it many times as a girl, but although I have spent much time here over the years as a skier, I haven't appreciated it much beyond that aspect. This is the first time I see beneath the veneer of its functionality as a ski resort and begin to appreciate the enduring landscape for its own sake. Most of my time I spend hiking alone, just me and my camera, far away from the crowds. The slow spaciousness and soft diffuse light permeate everything the way that snow effects sound, and the interior of caves. This unexpected but welcome way of paying attention to, and appreciating the landscape allows an opening. The camera galvanises my attention in such a way that I become sort-of re-enchanted. In retrospect, looking at the quiet, understated aesthetic of the images I make, I realise that my meditation practice has fallen off the cushion and into the sensate world around me. To my delight, I begin to fall in love with the everyday, the quiet and the previously overlooked.
Midsummer 2012
I'm in the centre of Paris, spitting distance from the Seine. It's the private view for my first solo photographic show. I'm smiling, chatting with guests and sipping cheap red wine. Even though Art has been central to my life since my teens I have only relatively recently 'gone for it' - a decision that emerged out of the shift in my photographic practice that took place in 2006. I have just completed a two year masters degree and begun to exhibit nationally and internationally. This is the moment I have been working towards. This is it, but I feel remarkably untouched by it all. I stand outside in the dark, on that quintessential Parisian pavement - wondering to myself about this emptiness. I ask myself, 'if this isn't it, then what is?'. All I can hear are the words 'I want to be outside in nature.'
It's summer, I'm back in the French Alps again, a decade later.
My intention is to spend a month mainly in solitude, mainly outdoors engaging in wilderness and arts practices, in part, informed by the work of Bill Plotkin who I began training with the previous year. The first evening I arrive I have a dream. This is no ordinary dream. Rather than dreaming it feels as though I have been dreamt. My intention to 'show up' has been noticed and something, in turn, also 'shows up'.
What immerges over the following month is a mysterious dialogue, an improvisation-of-sorts that comes to life in places where myth and archetype can breathe.I record the dreams, often paint them, then offer the work to the landscape and wait for the next dream clue to turn up. Much of my time I feel I'm in a spontaneous open-ended treasure hunt, and I'm a go-between with my dreams and the landscape. It's a process in which the dream seems to travel through my body and into the earth, imbuing both with meaning. At times, I feel utterly lost and ridiculous – in those moments all I can do is lift my chin up a centimeter, put one foot in front of the other, and walk. Without a map, surrendering to being lost, opening to this slow and numinous process which seems to be rooted somewhere between my open chest and the mountain forest valley.
My Work Today and Influences
In some ways I'm still making sense of this latter experience, attempting to keep the embers of it alive and exploring how it might integrate it into my everyday life.
I love Bruce Chatwin's, The Songlines, and at times wonder if I am engaging in a contemporary version of a songline, with specific stretches of land. I document these experiences in the wild mostly through photography, as this has been my primary mode of artistic expression, but latterly also through audio recordings, painting and poetry. Apart from Chatwin, I also draw inspiration from the relevant work of various artists and practitioners: Charles Eisenstein; Bill Plotkin; Annie Bloom and Martin Shaw who call this variously 'soul work', 'deep' or 'cultural ecology'. From an art history point of view, I place this way of working as informed by Susie Gablik's Re-enchantment of Art and Lucy Lippard's Overlay of Contemporary Symbols and Ancient Cultures.
In the field, I am committed to a lifetime of learning, and my training thus far includes completing the year-long foundation in experiential outdoor facilitation at Schumacher College, ongoing work with Bill Plotkin from the Animas Valley Institute, and mentoring from Annie Bloom. Alongside this in 2015, I completed the The River of Soul course and in 2016, the year long at The West Country School of Myth.
Passing It On
Motivated by a deep-seated care for community, deep ecology, and a desire to live a meaningful and connected life, I have been gathering these threads into what I see as the next chapter in my facilitation practice, and I am increasingly ready and involved in the important job of sharing the insights I have been so fortunate to gain. Teaching is a precious opportunity to synthesize my extensive background in the arts, mindfulness and facilitation, along with my more feral side and innate connection to the natural world. In the Autumn of 2016 I piloted a ten-week Re-Wilding Course, with great results. The group I was fortunate to work with exceeded all my expectations, as can be seen many of the photos and testimonials here. I have two new courses, 'Re-Wild Yourself', and 'Re-Wilding & The Artists Way' coming up in April 2017 at The Art of Re-Wilding and Evolution Arts Centre respectively.
The Next Step
Early Spring, I head to Utah to spend 5 weeks with my mentor Annie Bloom. My stay is to take the form of a nature-based arts residency and I see it as a precious opportunity to be in VAST landscapes - an essential ingredient for the evolving of, and emersion in, my personal arts practice. Feeding this reflective engagement will help incorporate the 'personal' into the 'public' elements of my artistic endeavor, and prepare me for leading my courses in April.
Post Script
As you can probably imagine I have been to, and returned from Utah... Much has occurred in the intervening time including a move off-grid to live in a cabin in the woods in Germany with my partner. Living in the city and taking excursions to vaster landscapes, for me, was becoming increasing untenable. Though I know this need not be the case for everyone, the deeper I immersed myself in wilderness practices the greater the tension I felt returning to my home in an urban landscape. There is so much I could say about 2017 and also about how this new 'Cabin' chapter has begun, and I will...
once the wood stock is higher and our routines are more established here.
Warmly, Natasha
"Re-wilding the Artist's Way" has been fundamentally the most soul nourishing thing I have ever done for myself. It has led me on a journey of self-discovery, self-appreciation and courage. I long for being in the wilderness like never before, and notice the peace and feeling of being alive that it brings me. Natasha is patient, encouraging and very human in the way she leads this course and I am forever grateful to her.
It's great to have quality teaching which is accessible and close to home. Natasha is obviously a gifted facilitator. She ran the session creatively with a varied tempo which held my attention and seemed to draw from a wide range of teachings. In just a few hours, I feel re-inspired with my own practice and wanting more of this kind of thing.
Thank you for a wonderful evening. The part with the trees in the darkness was amazing! It which gave me a much needed nature boost, and a new relationship - with tree. Natasha was knowledgeable, but also relaxed, caring and playful. She held the space and the group with a good mix of strength and flexibility. I have learnt to appreciate Stanmer Park (my local wild space) in a new and deeper way. The feeling and new awareness from this event will stay with me. Thank you
Natasha's incredible skills in transformative learning, using a gentle-and-yet-strong approach are so rare, I feel very lucky to have experienced this.
It's completely different to anything I have ever done - and I can't believe it. Nature, I feel is an integral place to creativity and with so much busyness around and everywhere, it is amazing and vital to restore myself through being out and exploring creativity outdoors in the wild.
There's a peace and openness that you get from studying outdoors that I haven't experienced before. Thanks Natasha
I know that participating in this course is me being in exactly the right place at the right time
Natasha is amazing at what she does. She manages to combine fun with all kinds of ways of seeing into you and getting you to keep your feet on the ground, your head in the clouds, and follow your dreams.
Thanks for this evening. Even though it was freezing cold, it was a magical evening.
Natasha brings a light touch and embodied wisdom to the serious work of transformation.
Thanks for EVERYTHING. You've been a truly inspiring, loving, and supportive mentor. Don't ever stop doing what you do so well.
Natasha is an absolute mistress of holding space. She holds space really really well. She's very intuitive in the sense of not having a rigid structure for what we are going to do but just feels what everybody needs in the groups session and comes up with the most perfect exercises just when they are needed.
About the course - ABSOLUTELY BLOODY NECESSARY
Natasha's course is a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with our creative selves and our natural surroundings at the same time. Being outside gave the space, for self-expansion needed, to be able to reconnect with my creativity.


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I find myself in a common situation where I want to open all of the .csproj files in my source directory for editing. My editor of choice is Sublime Text and I've got a customized environment to help me locate all of my development tools via common paths (I think I wrote about that in another post, if not I'll write about how I set up the environment in the next post). I could write a batch file to handle that via the Windows cmd, but I figured how hard could it be to write a small tool in C#.
It wasn't hard at all and took about 20 minutes. For me it's a win. So without further ado, here's the main parts of the code.
public static void Main(string[] args) { try { var files = GetProjectFiles(); var files_path = GenerateExeArgs(files); var exe_path = GenerateExePath(); Process.Start(exe_path, files_path); } catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); } }
private static string[] GetProjectFiles() { var root = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(); var files = Directory.GetFiles(root, "*.csproj", SearchOption.AllDirectories); if (files.Length == 0) throw new FileNotFoundException("No .csproj files found under current directory"); return files; }
private static string GenerateExeArgs(IList files) { var files_path = ""; for (var i = 0; i != files.Count; ++i) { var filename = files[i]; files_path += " " + filename; } return files_path; }
private static string GenerateExePath() { var sublime_dir = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("sublime_dir"); if (sublime_dir == null) throw new NullReferenceException("could not find the %sublime_dir% variable"); var exe_path = Path.Combine(sublime_dir, "edit"); return exe_path; }
Alright. Not too much to comment on that. Note that I do have a sublime_dir environment variable already declared. And the use of Process.Start() to run the executable.
"I fell for you like a child, Oh, but the fire went wild."


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Somewhere in all this I have to do the farm GST bookwork…… grumble grumble………As many know I hate bookwork!!!
Three photos below show the Wilpena Woolshed and my paintings hanging on the wall. The woolshed belongs to National Parks, hence the artist have to make sure that we do not add to the demise of the shed by further damage. The holes in the shed iron are actually sealed with clear filler so that our paintings are safe from the elements. It is truly a wonderful experience working as artist in residence under the roof of this woolshed. The tourists get a real kick out of it as well.
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B.C. sake brewer seeks fertile fields
When you raise a glass of champagne, sparkling wine or whatever fine bubbly at the end of the week, spare a thought for Masa Shiroki's New Year plans.
The Vancouver-based entrepreneur has been working for a few years to elevate the ranks of Japanese-style sake, brewing it in small batches from a Granville Island shop, and trying to get it on high-end shelves and tables.
This year, in a bid to qualify for a significantly better tax rebate, and in response to consumers wanting to buy more locally sourced products, the owner of Artisan Sake Maker started growing sake rice here in B.C. instead of importing the premium ingredient from Japan.
It wasn't exactly fields of lush green-terraced paddies, but on tiny plots in select B.C. locales, it was the beginning of an experiment that Shiroki plans to expand in 2010.
Because his business is classified as a commercial winery, Shiroki's sake doesn't qualify for as large a tax rebate as it would if it were a so-called "land-based winery," as per Liquor Control and Licensing Branch rules. The B.C. government agency issues licences for making and selling liquor.
"That's how all of this [rice growing] got started," said Shiroki.
If his business could qualify as a land-based winery, "Our bottom line would change quite dramatically," he said. "From a business perspective, it nets us quite a bit. Currently, we sell it to [the LCLB] and they mark it up 117 per cent."
To be a land-based winery, "you have to have a minimum of two acres, either owned or leased. In order to get the tax advantage, you need to use 100 per cent ingredients made locally," said Shiroki. "The difference is enormous. The land-based wineries benefit by not having to sell with as high a mark-up."
And so, starting two years ago, Shiroki, a former government bureaucrat who oversaw the province's Japan desk during the heyday of B.C. trade with Japan in the 1990s, started tapping his old contacts.
As he puts it, this isn't a story about official memorandums of intent or any formal commercial exchange.
Basically, he started talking to "a government-funded organization [in Japan] where they teach farmers there how to grow certain rice and how to maximize yields. They knew my plans and were interested in helping by supporting us with information and advice."
Indeed, when it online blackjack strategy card comes Online Blackjack to growing rice, that most political of staples, there are "hundreds of scientists working to improve the capability of crops. It used to be that it was impossible to grow rice in Japan, the more north you go, but now they can do that and there are over 30 varieties … I started to think that there must be somewhere in B.C. where we can adopt Japanese rice growth," said Shiroki.
He gathered Environment Canada stats about temperature changes and rainfall amounts in different parts of B.C. and compared it to data from his contact in Japan. "I started to see some interesting matches, where we could do this," he said. "Kamloops, Ashcroft, Agassiz, Lillooet and Chilliwack all came up."
In May, Shiroki and his wife, Yukiko, planted their first crops of rice, getting right into the fields themselves, but also enlisting farmers to help them. All in all, the couple made more than 10 trips back and forth from Vancouver to various five-by-10 metre plots in Kamloops, Ashcroft and Agassiz to tend to their seedlings. Four months later, when it came to harvesting the rice, the Kamloops crop had been destroyed by birds, but the ones in Ashcroft and Agassiz showed promise.
Next year, the plan is to get a larger plot of land, "a hectare, which is 2.5 acres, and to produce five tons of rice, which is required to support our operation right now. It's not much. We only produce 1,000 cases a year, but we would be sustainable," said Shiroki, adding that he would be open to producing more too.
Shiroki is eyeing Agassiz or somewhere else in the Fraser Valley as his top pick because it is relatively close to Vancouver. He will start to meet farmers there in January and, in February, he plans to go back to Japan to finalize arrangements for buying agricultural machinery used for rice planting.
"When it was five-by-10 metres, it was easy to do ourselves by hand, but if it's a hectare, we need machinery. Some investment will be needed, but it will be worth it."
Aside from gunning for the tax advantage, said Shiroki, "the other thing is that, increasingly, people want more regional products, to see the faces of who is making what they consume. Sustainability is important. It's a big theme everywhere."
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UK hackers linked to the Anonymous group are encouraging supporters to attack the Home Office website this Saturday (7 April) in protest at the extradition of three UK citizens to the US.
The planned attack, given the Twitter moniker of #OpTrialAtHome is being encouraged by the @AnonOpUK hacktivist group, which has publicised the attack on its Twitter page.
The group says its action is in protest against the extradition of UFO hacker Gary McKinnon, businessman Christopher Tappin and Richard O'Dwyer to the US. O'Dwyer controlled a website that carried links to TV programmes and films that allegedly broke US copyright law.
Supporters have been encouraged to launch denial-of-service attacks on the Home Office's IP address, which Anonymous has revealed. Those not savvy enough to launch automated attacks on the site could contribute to the effect by simply visiting the site in large numbers.
"#OpTrialAtHome has been initiated, we are inviting every #Anon to join us in our fight against #Extradition and the #EAW [European Arrest Warrant]," said the group on it's Twitter account.
McKinnon and O'Dwyer are still fighting extradition, and Tappin is already in the US awaiting trial for allegedly dealing in banned weapons materials to Iran.
The hacking group are demanding that any alleged wrongdoing by the three men should be heard and tried in a UK court. The three face more severe sentencing if found guilty of any alleged crimes in the US.
The fact that the group has publicised the attack in advance presents a sticky problem for the government. If the site crashes over a usually slow Easter weekend despite the warning, the government will find it hard to argue that it is equipped to defend future and more serious cyber attacks.


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Previously known as the York Reptile & Pet Expo (YRPE), the Mid-Atlantic Reptile Expo is a sales and educational event geared toward reptile & amphibian enthusiasts. The event is held at the Carlisle Expo Center, allowing us the flexibility to grow the event in ways that we were unable to in York as well as offer a more direct route for guests and vendors coming in from Maryland and Virginia as well as Philadelphia, Scranton and beyond.
Admission. Entrance bands are $8 for all guests 13 years of age and older, guests 12 and under are free. Tickets are available for purchase only at the door.
Enjoy a day immersed with other enthusiasts who share your passions for exotics including snakes, lizards, frogs, spiders and more.
Chat with the experienced hobbyists and breeders in attendance or have a seat for an educational seminar.
Access 100+ tables of reptiles, amphibians, arachnids, supplies and reptile themed merchandise all in one place.
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Corporate History
Comtest Laboratories began as the test house for the Australian Government's Telecommunications department "Telecom", and assessed the compliance of all telephony products including transmission, protocol and safety standards for terminal, data and PABX equipment.
Comtest was later privatized with most staff transitioning from Government-run Telstra to the new "Comtest Laboratories Pty Ltd". Comtest was structured under the management of Greg Caspar (Business Director) and Peter Arms (Technical Director). Under the guidance of Peter Arms and Greg Caspar, Comtest expanded into new fields of safety testing, performance and approvals testing and efficiency testing. Comtest maintained the lead in A-tick (RCM) testing and is still the only Australian test house that is NATA-accredited for testing all telecommunications technologies including xDSL and ISDN. Comtest also has a wide range of accreditations for Europe and New Zealand.
When Comtest Laboratories relocated to the present address of 1/570 City Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, it enabled an expansion into new testing fields, and included the installation of a screened room and a high voltage laboratory. Shortly after, Comtest's management, realizing the compliance and regulatory needs of their customers, formed a subsidiary company "Compliance Folder Management Pty Ltd".
Comtest maintains a close relationship with ACMA and the state electrical regulators. This association has assisted Comtest's customers with compliance and approvals issues. Comtest has since been accredited as a Certification Body to assist industry in gaining access to the market for products where there is no Recognised Testing Authority, and by Telecom New Zealand Access Standards to most PTC standards including all the digital standards. As well as being determined as a European Designated body for the Low Voltage Directive (LVD) and the Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Directive (TTE Directive), Comtest is also accredited for testing to the Minimum Energy Performance (MEPS) standards and efficiency standards, and can perform testing for various Government energy saving schemes.
Comtest's status as a both a NATA-accredited laboratory and a CB Scheme Testing Laboratory (CBTL) has ensured Comtest maintains the highest level of technical competence as required by both NATA and the IECEE.
In April 2013, Comtest Laboratories had its accreditations increased to provide equipment calibrations as a public testing service. This accreditation covers two categories: indicating and recording instruments (such as multimeters and LCR meters) and frequency analysers / waveform measuring instruments (including oscilloscopes).
Comtest has always been involved with standards development committees and industry forums. For example, Comtest participated in the committees that developed the AUSTEL and then the ACIF standards and continues to do so. Comtest is a member of Standards Australia, Australian Industry Group (AIG) and the Communication Alliance (formally ACIF). Comtest is also a founding member of ECTA, the Electrical Compliance Testing Association of which Peter Arms was president for 10 years.


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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Why DNA hydration is different from that of proteins
Why trehalose confers protection against urea-induced denaturation of proteins is investigated by Subrata Paul and Sandip Paul of the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati using MD simulations for a protein analogue (N-methyl acetamide, NMA) (JPCB 119, 9820; 2015 – paper here). They find that direct interactions are the key. NMA hydration water is displaced by hydrogen-bonded urea, but the addition of trehalose only modestly decreases the urea density close to the amide. Rather, trehalose molecules largely replace water molecules in the hydration shell (so that trehalose and urea bind to NMA simultaneously). For proteins this would reduce the ability of water to solvate exposed backbone in the denatured state.
Another structure-stabilizing osmolyte, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), is studied by Yuki Nagata of the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz and colleagues (JPCB 119, 10597; 2015 – paper here). Their ab initio simulations look at the effect of TMAO on water reorientational dynamics, and show that these are retarded significantly close to the TMAO's oxygen atom due to its hydrogen bonding with water – a result not seen using a simpler force-field model that represents the oxygen as a single point charge. Since TMAO is generally excluded from protein surfaces, its stabilizing influence seems in this case to be an indirect effect, for which the authors say this interaction with water seems likely to be important. These conclusions are supported by the work of Gerhard Schwaab and colleagues at Bochum, who have used THz/FIR and Raman spectroscopy to look at the solvation dynamics of TMAO (L. Knake et al., JPCB 119, 13842; 2015 – paper here). They too find strong hydrogen bonding between TMAO and water, which supports an indirect mechanism for its biological effects.
How proteins denature in pure water as a result of low temperature or high/low pressure is still not entirely clear – in particular, are the mechanisms of these two processes essentially the same or distinct? That questions is addressed by Valentino Bianco and Giancarlo Franzese at the University of Barcelona using MC simulations of a coarse-grained protein model (represented as a self-avoiding hydrophobic or mixed hydrophobic/hydrophilic chain) with explicit water solvent (Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 108101; 2015 – paper here). They argue that both denaturation processes involve a balance of free energies between hydration and bulk water. For cold denaturation, this balance favours the unfolded protein conformation for energetic reasons relating to the increasing stabilizing effect of water-water hydrogen bonds in the hydration shell. High-pressure denaturation, meanwhile, is driven by changes in local water density near the unfolded protein, giving a dominant PV contribution to the free-energy change of denaturation. And low-pressure denaturation is enthalpically driven, again by changes in the number of water-water hydrogen bonds in the hydration shell. In sum, the authors say, "For [all] these mechanisms is essential to take into account how the protein-water interactions affect the stability of the water-water HB and the water density in the hydration shell."
A strategy for attacking antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens that has been afforded increasing attention recently involves disabling not the mechanisms by which they synthesize key cellular components but those that contribute to virulence. One such target is a dehydratase enzyme DHQ1, present in several typical "superbugs". Concepción González-Bello at the University of Santiago de Compostella and coworkers describe an inhibitor containing an ammonium group that binds to DHQ1 without relying on the reactive epoxide functionality of previous such drug candidates (C. González-Bello et al., JACS 137, 9333; 2015 – paper here). It binds to and covalently modifies the enzyme's active site thanks to hydrogen-bonding to a single water molecule, while a second conserved water molecule participates in the reaction that leads to covalent modification.
Another water-assisted enzymatic mechanism is described by Ana-Nicoleta Bondar of the Free University of Berlin and colleagues. Using MD simulations, they look at the proton-transfer protein PsbO, a subunit of photosystem II, and find low-mobility water molecules close to its surface that form part of a water-carboxylate network that could facilitate proton transport (S. Lorch et al., JPCB 119, 12172; 2015 – paper here). Some of these waters might, they say, also assist the docking of PsbO into the PSII complex.
The water-carboxylate network on the surface of the proton-transfer protein PsbO.
In contrast to the often slow dynamics of "functional water" at protein surfaces, Songi Han at UCSB and colleagues report anomalously fast water diffusion near DNA surfaces (J. M. Franck et al., JACS 137, 12013; 2015 – paper here). They use Oberhauser effect dynamic nuclear polarization (ODNP) to look at water translation dynamics along the backbone, which entails adding spin centres along a DNA backbone to act as "reporters". Anomalously fast here means bulk-like, in contrast to the retarded diffusion of most of the hydration water, suggesting that the DNA-water interactions are only weak for a significant proportion of the hydration shell. Such water is relatively easily displaced when proteins bind to the DNA. Thus, in comparison to proteins, DNA would be capable of storing less free energy that can be released entropically in binding interactions – and, the authors argue, makes DNA duplexes less specific in their interactions (outside, of course, of the specificity supplied by the sequence itself). So "the high mobility of the solvation water around DNA may have been tailored to its role in biological function."
I had the pleasure of meeting Xiao Cheng Zeng of the University of Nebraska in Shanghai in November, and hearing about his interesting work on monolayer and bilayer ices. He and coworkers have recently explored the mechanism by which a preference for potassium over sodium ion transport arises in synthetic hydrophobic organic nanopores, namely the stacked macrocycles reported by Zhou et al. in Nat. Commun. 3, 1-8 (2012), and compare them with carbon nanotubes (H. Li et al., PNAS 112, 108512; 2015 – paper here). At face value the preferential K+ transport is surprising, given that K+ has the larger hydration sphere. But the researchers explain this selectivity (which is also seen in some biological ion channels) in terms of the greater robustness and structure of the Na+ hydration shell. Moreover, the roughness of the interior surface of the organic nanopores lowers the diffusivity of both ions – but more so sodium – relative to smooth-sided carbon nanotubes, with the result that the CNTs offer the highest rate of selective K+ transportation.
Jianzhong Wu at the University of California at Riverside use a combination of thermodynamic measurements (Henry's constants) and MD simulations to examine how the degree of hydrogen bonding among water molecules changes in hydrophobic hydration shells (J. Kim et al., JPCB 119, 12108; 2015 – paper here). They find that the extent of H-bonding is slightly reduced, and that this is a significant factor in the positive hydrophobic hydration heat capacity. Certainly nothing ice- or clathrate-like here.
How do we assess the hydrophobicity of heterogeneous surfaces, composed of a mixture of hydrophobic and hydrophilic patches? Well, it's complicated. Damián Scherlis at the University of Buenos Aires and colleagues find in simulations with coarse-grained mW water that there is a rather complex variation of water-droplet contact angle on such surfaces with the amount, distribution and arrangement of hydrophilic (hydrogen-bonding) domains on a hydrophobic surface (M. H. Factorovich et al., JACS 137, 10618; 2015 – paper here). In this case, there may be a nonlinear variation of contact angle with composition, the angle being largest for a particular fraction of hydrophobic species (about 0.6 when randomly mixed). In other words, this mixture can have a larger contact angle than the purely hydrophobic surface. What's more, this variation depends on the size of the domains: the nonlinearity tends to vanish for hydrophilic domains bigger than about 2 nm, when the behaviour returns to being reasonably well described by the Cassie model. The same conclusions are supported by looking at the desorption pressure of water in nanopores of these compositions. This appears to offer considerable scope for tuning the wettability of surfaces.
And I have just discovered that a paper to which I contributed in a very small way, on the notion of chaotropicity as a way of understanding the limiting tolerances of biofuel-producing microorganisms, was published at the end of last year (J. A. Cray et al., Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 33, 228; 2015 – paper here). My coauthors are to be credited with everything of real substance in this interesting and potentially useful article.
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I wonder why the paper by Jianzhong Wu states a lack of clathrate-like water structures in hydrophobic hydration, but use a picture of a pentameric water pentagon in their main illustration. Such a structure is a key feature of clathrates.
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This morning, I read Alan Mutter's post on "A digital publishing model that works" and what stood out above all is the need for more solid product development at media companies.
Mutter thoughtfully analyzes the revenue and audience development success of LinkedIn via a digital publishing strategy compared with newspaper job classified verticals.
"While newspapers stuck with the classic model of putting job ads in front of thousands of people in hopes of matching employers with job seekers, LinkedIn leverages the full power of digital publishing to identify ideal candidates for employers – even when they're not looking for jobs," Mutter writes.
It's no secret that the media industry has a tradition of slow and often closed-off reactions to market changes around once monopolized revenue streams. I happen to work in a market with a strong jobs vertical, which is atypical of many media organizations. It won't be long before market winds create enough inertia to move audience and revenue elsewhere, I fear. Marketplace, autos and real-estate dollars were lost in the past decade by shifting from mass market penetration to innovative, audience driven solutions with targeted advertising and content models. Media companies were slow or didn't react at all. And the obituary revenue model shift is likely happening now or coming soon, along with others.
So, what can be done? Well, I argue media companies need to invest in product development, and ideally people with a background in ecommerce and digital publishing.
There are many reasons why I feel this way. Here are three:
To balance audience-driven solutions with customer-driven solutions – It's a balancing act that media companies have a hard tradition to overcome. In the past, advertisers drove many product decisions. Now, if the product or service is not solving a problem for the audience or creating remarkable experiences the revenue and the users won't be there. This means actually talking and listening to users and customers before a product is put in the market.
To analyze and react to the vast amount of available data – Product developers love to react to data. Data helps create meaningful solutions. Takes the jobs vertical, for example. If there are 50 job listings for nurses in your market and those are being viewed 40 times more than any other posting a product developer can create targeted revenue solutions for customers that meet audience demands in a matter of hours, and that is just one example. I bet most media organizations aren't looking and reacting to that type of data daily, weekly or monthly. The problem is our competitors are.
To experiment – Product managers are doers. A great quality in this makers society. Often media companies hire outside consultants with the allure of doing innovative things. Consultants are smart, and I have some as good friends. But in my experience consultants get paid by the hour, which makes them ideal talkers. They give good advice and sound direction but too many of them won't get into the dirty details. Product developers do.
As I mentioned, those are just three arguments on why media should invest more fully in product development. Do you have examples of successful product development at a media company? Please share.
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APFIC (The Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission) established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations publish a range of research documents, including research into Myanmar aquaculture and inland fisheries (note: 6.84 MB) available as a free download.
This report is the outcome of two concurrent missions, one to coastal areas and one to inland areas, fielded by FAO-RAP, the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). The purpose was to review the status of aquaculture and small-scale inland fisheries, identify areas for technical assistance related to sustainable development of coastal and inland aquaculture and management of aquatic resources, and identify immediate assistance opportunities. The report includes the findings of the missions as well as conclusions and recommendations in support of the long term sustainability of fishery resources in Myanmar.
Fish and fish products are crucial in the nutrition and livelihoods of the Myanmar people. Whilst it is certainly recognized that fish is second only to rice in the diet of Myanmarians, little information is available on their patterns of consumption, inter-regional differences, availability and types of fish consumed. In this respect Myanmar is similar to many south-east Asian countries where emphasis is paid to rice production as a crucial element of food security, with little or no recognition of the fish component, which gives the rice-based diet much of its nutritional value outside of calories and crude protein.
Myanmar has impressive freshwater capture fisheries. The aquatic resource area of the river systems within Myanmar encompass a total of 8.2 million ha of permanent and seasonal water bodies. There were 29000 ha of freshwater fishponds and a further 40716 ha of shrimp ponds in 2001. These resources support, in many ways, the livelihoods of the people of Myanmar. Myanmar has a long coastline of nearly 3000 km and coastal aquaculture contributes significant export earnings and shows potential for future development and diversification. Of the total aquaculture production, an estimated 18794 tonnes comes from coastal aquaculture. Shrimp farming in particular has grown significantly in the past ten years, and small amounts of marine fish and crabs are also produced.
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