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By Corinthian (Paul Green):
Hyundai A-League – Season 11 – 2015/2016 – Round 10
5:05pm, Sunday 13th December 2015 – Hunter Stadium, Broadmeadow
Newcastle Jets FC 0
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Melbourne City FC 4 (Aaron Mooy 43′, 59′, Bruno Fornaroli 56′, 62′)
Newcastle Jets, who began the season with an opening round win in Wellington and then put together a few satisfactory results, soon after that, have fallen into a bit of a slump and Sunday evening's game against form side, Melbourne City, was to offer them no way out of it.
City have struck form with a vengeance, so much so that they are already being spoken about as potential title-winners, certainly strong contenders, even capable of putting cross-city rivals, Melbourne Victory, in the shade.
It's taken the former Melbourne Heart time to hit their straps, last season's team only showing up well in patches, without really threatening to take the competition by the scruff of the neck.
Under John van't Schip, who took over from John Aloisi in the middle of last season, after returning to the club where he'd been the inaugural Head Coach, until leaving at the end of the 2011-12 season for another post, City have steadily found their feet again this season
The coach has had to contend with a few issues during his tenure and there was no certainty that he'd be handed the gig again this term, such are the ambitions of a club that falls under the aegis of Manchester City FC, also owners of New York City FC and who effectively rescued a flailing Melbourne Heart, whose support base has dwindled, after making no better than a moderate start as a club.
At least the establishment of a Women's team this season and a huge financial commitment to that has seen the dividends paying off, as the earlier game here at Hunter Stadium demonstrated.
The Women are unbeaten after eight outings, but the men are fast catching up, under the astute eye of the Dutch-Canadian coach.
He faces the mouth-watering clash against Victory on the coming weekend, but he'll be a lot more confident this time around, than he was previously, on the strength of a third win in a row here against the struggling Jets.
The fact that Victory have now lost three on the trot won't hurt his team's chances either.
City were contained early on in this match, as Newcastle went at them from the opening whistle, appearing to hold no fear in launching a series of attacks.
But this Melbourne team, while still missing some injured personnel, has a very sound defence and a very capable captain in central defender Patrick Kisnorbo.
Furthermore, they have the hot shot midfielder of the A League, local star, Aaron Mooy, who can do no wrong at this stage.
After winning 5-1 at home two weeks earlier they went to Gosford and beat the Mariners by the same scoreline a week later.
Here they put four past the Jets, without reply and one has to say that it was a thorough pasting for the home team, who showed signs of wanting it to all be over, a long way from the finish.
Newcastle were able to bring Leonardo back into the starting line-up and he did his best to spark his side early, as did veteran winger David Carney.
But the absence through injury of linchpin defender and captain, Mike Boogaard, was keenly felt as Newcastle stalwart, Ben Kantarovski, had to shoulder more than his share of duties in the backline, against a formidable strike force deployed by City, that included French striker Harry Novillo and the much improved Bruno Fornaroli, who's finding the net regularly enough these days.
Both Mooy and Fornaroli scored a brace, deserving no less, with both working hard, aided and abetted by Novillo and a solid midfield, the tall Erik Paartalu a standout, as in most games he plays.
The formula is working well now, so City will want to take the same level of dominance they showed here and against their last two opponents, when they face Victory on the weekend.
Newcastle looked good early in the game, but the danger presented by the visitors was always significant and Jets' keeper, Mark Birighitti, was kept very busy.
Leonardo was doing his best to fire the Jets into life, returning to the side, having missed a number of games already this season through a persistent injury.
Milos Trifunovic and Enver Alivodic were the striking partners who latched onto the pass from Leonardo in the opening five minutes, which might have given the locals the lead, but it all broke down near goal.
Thomas Sorensen in the Melbourne goal also made a good save from Darren Carney, just two minutes later, with the 10,000 strong home crowd getting right behind the Jets.
Trifunovic blasted wide, after bursting clear in the ninth, but after that early flurry, Melbourne City began to make their own presence felt much more strongly.
After Bruno Fornaroli had been denied by the keeper in the 39th, Aaron Mooy was able to give his side the lead in the 43rd, angling the ball across the keeper and in at the far-post with an authoritative finish.
The second-half began with the Jets once again looking to attack, by now even more in need of an early goal.
After Newcastle had forced some unproductive corners, things once again turned City's way and it needed a big save from Birighitti, tipping over Mooy's booming shot in the 53rd, to keep the deficit down to one.
A smart piece of play from 27th minute-substitute, Benjamin Garuccio, led to Fornaroli making it 2-0 in the 56th.
After that it was virtually one-way traffic as Melbourne City held sway, with Mooy in full control in the middle.
Ivan Franjic made a strong run down the flank and crossed for Mooy to bury the ball in the roof of the Newcastle net in the 59th, the City team looking unstoppable by that stage.
Mooy turned provider in the 62nd, releasing Fornaroli, who got the better of his marker, before crisply poking the ball past a spreadeagled Birighitti.
A late chipped effort from substitute, Nicholas Cowburn, was looking like providing a late consolation for a well-beaten Newcastle side, but the reliable Patrick Kisnorbo was able to clear the ball off the line.
A good evening's work indeed by one of the most improved teams in the A League.
It's hard to believe that a few weeks ago Newcastle came from two goals down to win 3-2 in Melbourne, but they never looked like replicating that here.
Match details
Crowd: 10,087
Newcastle Jets FC: 1. Mark BIRIGHITTI (gk); 22 Lachlan JACKSON, 3.Jason HOFFMAN, 5.Ben KANTAROVSKI, 13 Kijie LEE; 8.Mateo POLJAK (c), 6.Cameron WATSON (24.Nick COWBURN 60); 10.LEONARDO (27 Braedyn CROWLEY; 7.Enver ALIVODIC (Ryan KITTO 69), 9.Milos TRIFUNOVIC, 23.David CARNEY
Subs not used: 20.Ben KENNEDY (gk), 17.Radovan PAVICEVIC
Yellow Cards: Jason Hoffman 42; Red Cards: Nil
Coach: Scott Miller
Melbourne City FC: 1. Thomas SORENSEN (gk); 22 Jack CLISBY, 4 Connor CHAPMAN (19 Benjamin GARUCCIO 27), 24 Patrick KISNORBO (c), 5 Ivan FRANJIC (10 Robert KOREN 69); 6 Erik PAARTALU, 25 Jacob MELLING; 8 Aaron MOOY; 21 Stefan MAUK, 23 Bruno FORNAROLI, 9 Harry NOVILLO
Subs not used: 20 Tando VELAPHI (rgk), 15 David WILLIAMS, 18 Paulo RETRE
Yellow Cards: Erik Paartalu 19; Red Cards: Nil
Coach: John van't Schip
Referee: Chris Beath
Assistant Referees: Ryan Gallagher and Leigh Pigram
Fourth Official: Stephen Lucas
Points and ratings
Referee 6/10
Match 7/10
Pitch 8/10
Player points:
3. Aaron Mooy (MC)
2. Patrick Kisnorbo (MC)
1. Jacob Melling (MC)
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Wickham 1-380
January 20, 2011
The Department of Environmental Conservation (Department) hereby gives notice, pursuant to Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) § 23-0901(3)(d), that a public hearing will be held at the time and place stated below to address compulsory integration of interests in the following well:
|Well Name
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|Wickham 1-380
Well Operators: Norse Energy Corporation, USA, 3556 Lake Shore Road, Suite 700, Buffalo, NY 14219 (Contact: Mr. Dennis Lutes)
Project Description and Departmental Action Proposed: The Department proposes to issue a compulsory integration order pursuant to ECL 23-0901 integrating mineral interests within the Vernon natural gas formation for the well listed above. Objections to the draft order for the well were raised at a compulsory integration hearing, which resulted in the referral to the Department's Office of Hearings and Mediation Services for adjudicatory proceedings.
Among the potential issues raised for adjudication at the compulsory integration hearing is whether the Wickham 1-380 well is producing or has produced natural gas from any formation other than the Vernon formation. Additional issues may be identified at the issues conference described below.
SEQRA Status: Department staff published a Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program in July 1992 (GEIS). On September 1, 1992, Department staff issued a SEQRA (ECL article 8) findings statement concluding that the conduct of compulsory integration hearings pursuant to ECL article 23 would have no significant impact on the environment. Department staff, on behalf of the Department as lead agency, determined that these proceedings are being carried out in conformance with the conditions and thresholds established for compulsory integration hearings in the GEIS and the findings statement. Accordingly, no further action is required under SEQRA (see 6 NYCRR 617.10[d][1]).
Public Hearing: A legislative hearing to receive unsworn comments about the proposed integration order will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, in the Hearing Room at the Department's Region 7 Office, 615 Erie Boulevard West, Syracuse, New York.
Written comments on the order may also be submitted to the Office of Hearings and Mediation Services, at the address below, in advance of the legislative hearing. All persons, organizations, corporations, or government agencies that may be affected by the outcome are invited to attend the hearing and to submit oral or written comments. Interpreter services will be made available to deaf persons, at no charge, upon written request to the administrative law judge (ALJ) at least five business days prior to the date of the hearing. The hearing location is reasonably accessible to persons with a mobility impairment.
Please note that the Wickham 1-380 well is claimed to target the Vernon shale natural gas formation. Upon information and belief, the well does not target the Marcellus Shale, nor is the Marcellus Shale proposed for development by the well. At the legislative hearing, the ALJ will limit public comment to the listed well.
Issues Conference: A pre-adjudicatory hearing issues conference will be conducted at the same location immediately following the legislative hearing. The purpose of the issues conference will be to define, narrow, and resolve, if possible, the proposed issues for adjudication. Any persons filing notices of appearance or requesting party status, as described below, must appear or be represented at the issues conference in order that all proposed issues may be fully discussed.
Party Status: Pursuant to a ruling of the ALJ (see Matter of Dzybon 1, et al., ALJ Ruling on Procedural Issues, June 6, 2007 [available online at www.dec.ny.gov/hearings/34993.html]), the well operator and all uncontrolled mineral rights owners in the spacing unit are automatic full parties to the adjudicatory hearing with the status of an applicant (see 6 NYCRR 624.5[a]). Uncontrolled owners are mineral interest owners in a spacing unit who have not entered into a voluntary lease or participation agreement with the well operator, including potential participating owners, non-participating owners, and royalty owners (see ECL 23-0901[3][a]).
All automatic full parties wishing to participate in the issues conference and any subsequent adjudicatory hearing that might be required for the well listed above must file a written notice of appearance. The notice of appearance must fully identify the party together with the name(s) of the person(s) who will act as the party's representative(s), the issues the party seeks to address (whether in support of or in opposition to the proposed integration order), the scope of the issue raised, and the nature of the factual proof, if any, the party intends to present. Please see 6 NYCRR 624.4(c)(1)(i) and (ii) and 624.5(a) for further information on automatic full party status and identification of issues.
All other persons wishing to participate in the issues conference and any adjudicatory hearing that might be required for the well listed above must file a written petition requesting party status, pursuant to 6 NYCRR 624.5(b) (also see 6 NYCRR 624.4[c]). The petition must fully identify the proposed party together with the name(s) of the person(s) who will act as the proposed party's representative(s), the proposed party's interest in the proceeding, any interest relating to the statutes administered by the Department relevant to the proposed action, whether the request is for full party status or amicus status, and the precise grounds for opposing or supporting the proposed integration order. Mere opposition to the proposed integration order is not a sufficient basis to be granted party status. Please see 6 NYCRR 624.4 and 624.5 for further information on party status and identification of issues.
Petitions for full party status must demonstrate that substantive and significant issues exist concerning the proposed integration order. Please see 6 NYCRR 624.4 and 624.5 for further information about requesting full party status and identifying issues for adjudication.
All notices of appearance and all petitions requesting full party or amicus status to participate in the issues conference and any subsequent adjudicatory hearing for the well listed above must be received at the Office of Hearings and Mediation Services at the following address no later than 4:00 P.M. on Tuesday, February 15, 2011. Telefaxed or emailed copies will be accepted, provided a hard copy is sent by first class mail and postmarked no later than Tuesday, February 15, 2011. Notices of appearance and petitions must be submitted to: James T. McClymonds, Chief Administrative Law Judge, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Office of Hearings and Mediation Services, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233-1550 (Telephone: 518-402-9003).
All persons filing notices of appearance or petitions for party status must also send a copy of their notice or petition at the same time and in the same manner to: Jennifer Maglienti, Esq., Associate Attorney, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Office of the General Counsel, 625 Broadway, 14th Floor, Albany, New York 12233-1500 (Telephone: 518-402-9507). A copy of the notice of appearance or petition must also be sent to all persons on the service list for the well. A copy of the service lists are available from the ALJ or Department staff, or at the location listed under "Document Availability" below.
Document Availability: All filed documents, including the draft integration order for the spacing unit, are available for inspection during normal business hours at New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Elmira Suboffice, 100 N. Main Street, Suite 104, Elmira, New York 14901 (Telephone: 607-732-2214, Attn: Joy Brewer [appointment recommended]), and at the Office of Hearings and Mediation Services at the Albany address above. A copy of 6 NYCRR part 624 may be obtained from the Office of Hearings and Mediation Services at the address above, or online at www.dec.ny.gov/permits/6234.html.
Statutory and Regulatory Provisions: ECL article 1 (General Provisions); article 3, title 3 (General Functions); article 8 (State Environmental Quality Review); article 23 (Mineral Resources); and 6 NYCRR part 550 (Mineral Resources); part 617 (State Environmental Quality Review); and part 624 (Permit Hearing Procedures).
James T. McClymonds
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Albany, New York
January 20, 2011

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Beginner's Pluck.
Interviewed by Sue Leonard.
Published in the Irish Examiner on 29th December
Beginner's Pluck Declan Dunne.
Dunne has always been interested in creating stories. His father, an editor with several regional papers, worked with Patrick Kavanagh during the 1950's. After school, Dunne became a journalist, writing for the Tuam Herald. Whist there he got involved in the Tuam Theatre Guild, directing, writing, and acting.
In 1998, he edited a paper for the Irish Community in Britain. Returning to Ireland two years later, he freelanced, and then joined RTE.
It took him four years to write Peter's Key.
"Peter Deloughry was my grandfather. I spent my childhood listening to my mother disappointed that her father's story was not known. After all he had done, he didn't seem to have been given any credit for it."
Who is Declan Dunne?
Date of birth: 1st May 1962 in Wexford.
Education: St Peter's College, Wexford. Then school in Clontarf.
Home: Dublin, but I go to Paris a lot.
Family: I have a sister and a brother; and I have four nephews and nieces.
The Day Job: RTE. Chief Sub-editor in the Newsroom.
Interests: I love American comedy up to 1960; the films, the TV and Vaudeville.
Favourite Writers: Thomas Hardy; Shakespeare; Moliere and Beckett.
Second Book: I've written plays. I'm now working on a novel about psychiatry and Afghanistan.
Top Writing Tip: You have to want to do it. It's no use writing something you're not interested in. And you shouldn't try writing if you don't like the process.
Web: www.peterdeloughrytd.com Twitter: @declandunne
The Debut: Peter's Key. Peter Deloughry and the Fight for Independence. Mercier: €19.99. Kindle: €11.55
In February 1919, three prisoners, including Eamon de Valera, escaped from Lincoln Jail, simply by unlocking the gates. This was thanks to fellow prisoner Peter DeLoughry, who made the key. The key became a symbol of the success that could be achieved by co-operation and hard work. Later, however, the relationship between the men became fractured. Mayor of Kilkenny, Deloughry served in the first Seanad.
The Verdict: This biography shreds new light on Ireland's Civil War History.
© Sue Leonard. 2012


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They are the "heart" of this Philosophy class because they are the area in which the ideas are exchanged and through INTERACTION with your instructor and classmates a dialectical process of thought is to be developed.
It is your responsibility in this course is to participate in the on-line Discussions. This document provides instructions on how to initiate and respond to these discussions. You can also return to the MANUAL in TOOLS section for a "refresher".
You should be entering the discussions on at least three different days each week in order to allow for INTERACTION
You should be responding to each discussion forum topic and get involved in at least one student lead discussion in each module. You should at least attempt to lead one yourself.
Important Note: Student-led discussions are not informal "chat rooms!" Your questions and answers should be focused on the course content. Every post should contribute some substantive information.
The Student-led discussions are "threaded discussions". This means that the contributions made by the participants will "line-up" so that when you look at the list, you will see an outline of the discussion and you will be able to see which responses go together by how far they are indented.
In order for this system to work, each participant in the discussion needs to know how to do 2 things:
1. Responding to the main item - this is how you answer or ask your question for each module.
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I am delighted!
Jennie Cain is to sue her employers, the school, its headmaster and the council for alleged religious discrimination. I think she should certainly sue but wonder why those who victimised her and her five year old daughter were not dealt with.
To remind you for the details, a small child told her friend about the Christian faith and was then reprimanded by her teacher. That a child should process her thoughts and ideas by talking them over with a friend does not surprise me, and should not surprise a teacher.
That the teacher reprimanded the child at all disgusts me. The teacher may not be guilty of a hate crime according to the definition of the new law, but surely this is at least Christiaphobic behaviour which should have been firmly challenged by the employer? That teacher was not disciplined or corrected.
The child's mother was then so alarmed at the way things had been handled that she sent a PRIVATE email asking Christian friends for prayer. A copy of her PRIVATE email ended up in the hands of the head teacher. The mother, a receptionist at the school was then suspended for her prayer request for four months. It is unclear to me whether she was suspended for the words of her child or because of her PRIVATE correspondence.
I am at a loss to know how it is that both the head teacher and the Christiaphobic teacher have escaped escaped disciplinary procedures.
The news that Jennie Cain is to sue came to my attention about the same time as our news was filled with the detail of two children torturing another two children, and the outcry was, "Where has our society gone wrong?"
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If you are an astute reader of McKnight's, you have probably seen mobile health apps featured in Product News or in New Products pretty consistently over the past two years. Many of the apps featured — one that can track a patient's gait, one for wound care information, another for controlled substances — are geared toward long-term care providers, not patients.
But some apps — like those that are meant to track blood pressure or give medication reminders — are geared toward your future residents. And that's where the trouble can arise, according to a group of experts writing in the New England Journal of Medicine. Their main argument is that more oversight is needed by the Food and Drug Administration, noting that while around 100,000 mHealth apps are on the market, only about a tenth of those have been cleared by the FDA.
Author Nathan Cortez, a professor and Dedman School of Law Associate Dean of Research at Southern Methodist University, spoke with me about the goals of the article, and his concern that some of these apps can be harmful.
Describing a scenario involving a diabetic patient, Cortez said he has found the quality of apps for those patients are not always reliable.
"If there are bugs in the software or a software flaw that is hard to detect, patients may get readings that are lower or higher than reality, and may be giving themselves too much or not enough insulin," he said. "The risk is pretty clear with that kind of app."
Mobile health apps have been touted as potentially solving some of the big problems in healthcare, namely lowering cost and broadening access to care. Plus, there is "an undeniable coolness factor," Cortez said.
Cortez is, to a certain extent, fighting against the tide, and he knows it.
"There is tremendous enthusiasm for these products across the board," he said. "But I draw a parallel to the dietary supplement industry: There's no good science behind them."
Beyond the FDA — which I know is far from a favorite agency among long-term care providers — Cortez and I also discussed the role of healthcare providers using apps. If consumers think health apps are cool, some providers, especially physicians, think of an iPhone and its apps as the Holy Grail of healthcare.
Trained healthcare providers using apps — such as for imaging, measurements and other biometrics — is obviously less worrying than an 85-year-old senior diagnosing her pulmonary diseases through her smartphone.
"If there's a gradient and range of users we should definitely be most concerned about, it's lay users with no training," Cortez said.
But he's also looked at automation bias with physicians using equipment, and found that they can trust computerized readouts and advice through automated processing too much.
"There is a risk of blindly trusting computers," he said.
I suspect that's refreshing to hear for clinical staff increasingly told to rely on technology rather than their training or instincts.
And that brings us back to the role of the FDA. I tend to agree with Cortez — give the FDA more resources to evaluate what legitimately works among the many, many mobile health apps. Technology is great, but not at the expense of consumer safety.
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Afghan police say a suicide bomber has killed at least three people in the south of the country.
Local police chief Jawid Ahmad said the bomber was also killed Saturday when he detonated his explosives while riding his motorcycle in the border town of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province.
Eight people, including women and children, were wounded in the attack.
Spin Boldak is a major crossing point between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Wednesday, a suicide bomber killed at least five security guards escorting a NATO convoy in a similar attack in the area.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.


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It is no joke that we have a new double page sketch to share with you, and loads of gorgeous DT inspiration, too! But first let's pick a winner from our March sketch challenge entries!
And now here is your sketch!
And here is your Team A DT inspiration!
If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.) Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!
*note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords. However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Voluminous, three-dimensional knits that are rich in texture and detail are a trademark quality to Motohiro Tanji's work. For Fall 2016 Tanji delivered this aspect, but chose to ground his pieces by pairing the knits with distressed denim and plain white tees. The look was refreshingly different for the designer, without being removed from the quality that makes his work wonderful. The elaborate work that went into each piece was given a chance to shine, and suddenly, aspects like peek-a-boo "neck holes" that cropped up on backs and rib cages, extra arms, and layers of densely woven scarves leaped off the runway and felt wholly wearable. The strongest showing yet, from a designer that always delivers a beautiful show, the Motohiro Tanji Fall 2016 was truly something beautiful to behold.
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University of Lynchburg is committed to providing equal access and equal opportunity to students with dietary disabilities. Residential students have a mandatory University meal plan. University of Lynchburg recognizes the importance of providing reasonable accommodations in its dining services' policies and practices where necessary, for individuals with disabilities to use and enjoy University Dining Services.
A reasonable dietary accommodation is an exception to the usual rules, policies, practices, or services that a resident with a disability may need to have an equal opportunity to use and enjoy college dining services. The Accessibility and Disability Resources Coordinator works with students on an individualized basis through an interactive process for determination of reasonable dietary accommodations.
Dietary Reasonable Accommodation Policy (PDF)
The Center for Accessibility and Disability Resources works with students to provide accommodations for housing needs related to cognitive, mental health, physical and medical disabilities in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) and the Fair Housing Act Amended (FHAA). ADAAA defines disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. Under this definition, an impairment is a disability if it substantially limits the ability of the person to perform a major life activity as compared to the average person in the general population.
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CMHC Closing In On Limit
Last week, it was reported that CMHC was fast approaching it's limit for mortgage insurance outstanding based on restrictions set by Ottawa. At the end of September, 2011, the Crown corporations had hit $541 billion of its $600 billion limit. In 2008 the limit had already been bumped from $450 -billion to the $600-billion mark and many industry insiders are not expecting that another exception will be made this time around.
Ottawa's prudence in the matter may come from an effort to slow the housing market or out of concern for additional risk to the tax payers. CMHC is best known for providing mortgage default insurance to lenders when homebuyers are investing less than 20% in the purchase or refinance of a property ( reffered to as a high ratio mortgage). Should an insurerd mortgage go into default, CMHC reinburses the lender for the mortgage amount, thereby protecting banks and financial institutions loss due to mortgage default.
However, CMHC also insures high risk products such as mortgages for self employed individuals as well as bulk insuring both high and lower risk, low ratio mortgages to increase bank liquidity. This bulk insuring of low risk mortgages is most likely to be the focus of any pull back we see from CMHC in the near future.
To the average potential homebuyer, this means that lenders may increase rates on conventional mortgages ( where a homebuyer is putting MORE than 20% down when purchasing) because these products will no longer be insured and will have to sit on the lenders own balance sheet, so to speak. This ties up bank funds and is therefore more costly to the lender, thus the increase to the interest rate.
Also, we may see more lenders removing riskier product from their offering such as stated income products and mortgages for self employed individuals. At the very least we'll probably see an increase to these interest rates as well.
In addition, some non-bank lenders whose entire portfolio is backed by CMHC may really struggle or even go by the wayside. Conversely, we may see the smaller, private lenders pick up the slack on the riskier mortgages that may soon be taken off the menus of the major banks.
Lastly, lenders and homebuyers may be saved in the short term by the country's private sector mortgage default insurers, Genworth and Canada Guarantee. These companies are currently allowed to take on $250 billion of liability between them and recent legislation will see that limit bumped up to $300 billion. Genworth has already commented that they are well positioned to take on plenty of business for 2012 and beyond.
Read more about the history of CMHC and the purpose of mortgage default insurance here.
As the company's first employee, Jennifer has been a Licensed Mortgage Associate since 2004, but her current role is not focused on mortgages. She is the resident blog writer and…


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rworange has put together a Google Map of all the Portuguese restaurants, bakeries, and groceries she knows of in the Bay Area.
I, Thi N., the Editor of CHOW Digest San Francisco, hereby confer to rworange the Official Medal of Portuguese Google Mapping Awesomeness. This is sort of like being made a knight, but with less fighting and more salt cod. Congratulations.
Board Link: Google Map of Bay Area Portuguese food


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The Macintosh Portable was actually the very first portable computer by Apple and, possibly, the most impressive laptop of its era, what with its cutting-edge display, 16Mhz 16-bit processor, 40MB hard drive and price tag of $7300. Thankfully said pioneering laptop can be grabbed for much less via this Apple Macintosh 5120 Portable eBay auction.
This particular Mac comes with an extra megabyte of RAM, has had its logic board recapped and comes with a modem card, PSU and trackball. Though it does work and according to its seller/restorer has passed all tests, there are a few problems: the HDD cannot be accessed and sometimes floppy disks are not ejected. So, do have a careful read of the auction text before you bid please.
Seller ships to most places worldwide.


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Archive for the 'Warm and cosy' Category
An essential modern masterpiece
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Poets are poor but readers of poetry are rich.
Rake is a slim book of poems by the rakish Matthew Caley, published by Bloodaxe Books. Some of the poems are tiny, four or five short lines. Some take up more than a page. But even with the long ones, if you like making notes there is plenty of space to do it. Or you can write your own poems underneath or beside Matthew's if you are feeling frisky.
It is £9.99 well spent.
I chose to snuggle under the covers this cold Saturday morning and warm myself to its pulsing rhythms and insinuating cadences. Fancy an Acute Hot Knee?
If I behold your/rucked up dress, revealing as/it does one acute/hot knee in all its bare-assed/actuality, nothing//is composed.
Mmm, I don't think he's joking.
There is more. (This is not one of his short ones.)
I can't do justice to his word placement. He is very cheeky with it.
There's a poem here about a Giantess that caught my attention, after Baudelaire. Matthew's take on it is quite erotic.
It's not his only nod to the decadent Frenchman.
Baudelaire is clearly quite an influence, even when not named. He leads the London hipster to Hither Green (a very sexy poem), and then there is Bling, an acknowledged re-working of Les Bijoux.
My love is naked/almost, for knowing my kink/she keeps on her bling…
Tantalising, isn't it? Or do you prefer the original?
La très chère était nue, et, connaissant mon coeur,
Elle n'avait gardé que ses bijoux sonores,
Dont le riche attirail lui donnait l'air vainqueur
Qu'ont dans leurs jours heureux les esclaves des Mores.
I feel richer for having Matthew Caley's version. He leaves out the Moorish slave women in their happier moments, substituting a jangly American rock group called Audioslave. Witty?
You decide.
But, outrageously, Matthew's rake claims to have had Jeanne Duval before Baudelaire did. In Brixton!!
This is some poetic licence!
It's quite tricky to do humour in a poem. Even harder to do it in an erotic poem. But this collection aims high. The poems succeed in being erotic and funny at the same time.
How can you afford to be without this essential modern masterpiece?
I surrender
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Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Nora and I do not usually give each other expensive presents but I made an exception at Christmas when I bought her a Kindle. It was getting embarrassing because she kept borrowing mine and commenting on how much porn I was reading.
I asked her all through January and February, "Have you used your Kindle yet?"
"No, I've been too busy."
"Too busy even for my shorter stories?"
"I haven't figured out how to download any yet. What I want to read isn't on the Kindle."
She was reading the letters of the Mitford sisters. It was taking her an age. So in March I stopped asking. I never expected that in April she would go behind my back and figure out how to download Fifty Shades Darker. A paid version. Not like the free Fifty Shades of Grey I gave her.
"I hope you're not becoming addicted to bad writing," I told her.
"Is it bad writing?" she asked innocently.
"Susan Hill says so."
"Who's she?"
"She's an English novelist. She says women who read it should be ashamed of themselves. It's not just porn. It's badly-written porn."
"I don't think anyone should feel ashamed. All women have desires. But the sex in this one isn't arousing anymore."
"What? You've grown tired of it already? You need something more hardcore now?"
"Well, it's like in a horror film that starts off with a very scary image. But then you keep on seeing it and it stops being scary."
"Isn't it also because it's badly written?"
"No, I don't think it's badly written. Well, I can't judge. I can't write English. I can't write a sex scene. I can do it but I can't write it. How do you write it without repeating any words?"
"But you're still enjoying it?"
"I enjoyed the story. I wanted to know what happened."
"Enjoyed? Have you finished it already?"
"I'm reading the next one now."
"I'm a very quick reader."
"No you're not. You were reading that Nancy Mitford book for months."
"Well, this is different. It's full of clichés but you want to know what happens next. Every chapter ends on a cliffhanger."
"Oh no!"
"Don't worry. I'll read another of your stories eventually."
I ran straight to my room, fell onto my bed, shoes and all, and howled. I curled up, desperately clutching my black silk blindfold, and surrendered myself to my grief.
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I took a week off from the tough business of writing explicit sex stories last week and went to the London Book Fair. I was hoping to forget about sex completely and meet a suave, European intellectual who could talk to me about concertina folds, bump exposure and blind embossing. Instead I was handed a free copy of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Naturally I started reading it as soon as I got home. Not at the beginning, of course. I'm far too impatient for that. I wanted the sex.
It didn't take me long to discover that the book was a page-turner.
Disturbed by the wails coming from my room, my flat-mate, Nora, banged on the door and burst in. "What's wrong?" she demanded.
"Holy cow!" I cried. "Take this book away from me, please!"
"Is it that bad?"
"No, it's that good! I can't waste time with this shit, I've got my own shit to write."
That was six days ago. Tonight Nora came into the kitchen. "I've finished that book," she said breezily.
"So quick?"
"Yes. I've never read a book so quick in my life!" (Nora is a slow reader.)
"And? What's your opinion? It was crap, wasn't it?"
"No, actually it was quite good."
"You enjoyed it?" (Incomprehension.)
"Well, the BDSM stuff was a turn-off. I just like normal sex. But the normal sex was not bad, actually."
"Tell me more. I promised Random House I'd write a review."
"Well, there is nothing new in this novel, but it brings together many things from elsewhere that I think readers want. I'm a reader, after all. I'm not a writer. So, as a reader I have to say it's not bad. I mean, many women, I would say, have the fantasy that a handsome man, a rich man, quite a clever man, actually, falls in love with her and pursues her. It may be unrealistic, but it's a common fantasy, and, well, my first boyfriend was handsome but it didn't work out with him and my next one — "
"Yes, yes, people don't want to hear about your love life, Nora. Stick to the novel. Was it a good plot?"
"Yes. I thought the story was very well done."
"Would you read the next one?"
[Blank stare.]
"There are three!" I told her. "Would you read number two in the series?"
Her eyes lit up disconcertingly. "Yes, probably."
"You would?" [Disbelief.]
"Yes, why not?"
"How many stars would you give it?"
"For Goodreads. How many stars out of five?"
"Oh, four at least."
"Really? Not three?"
"Oh no! Four."
"Five, even?"
"No, it wasn't that good! Four."
"Phew, but my books get five, don't they?"
"Oh yes, she can't write as well as you."
Thank goodness for that! My inner goddess was doing the merengue with a zumba shimmy.
La Chamade by Françoise Sagan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I felt supremely intellectual and sensitive while I was reading this book, all the more so because I read most of it while standing in the queue for the David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. Not that David Hockney is an intellectual. But the standard of badinage in the queues at the Royal Academy is generally pretty high.
I should also point out that the edition I was reading was not chosen lightly. I settled on the translation by Robert Westhoff only after a protracted internal struggle.
Nevertheless, although I liked this book and couldn't fault individual sentences, it didn't hold my attention as much as I'd hoped.
The dialogue is a bit precious. There is some wan and winsome philosophizing. The characters drift along in a haze of amorality, without too much to do. But there are some very sensual descriptions, which I adored. Chapter 7 is very good, for example. It's only a page and a half but it has sentences like this:
I'll never be able to meet you without blushing," said Lucile, "or see you leave without feeling pain, or speak to you in public without turning my eyes away."
and this:
As she turned, he closed his fingers and held the lower part of her face, almost fiercely for a second, her mouth pressed to his palm. Gazing at each other, they wordlessly promised to have thousands of such moments together, no matter what happened."
Even in English this is very French: classic, simple, understated and intense.
The English have more words but, as one of the characters states in the (very short) closing chapter, "where poetry is concerned, France reigns supreme."
Françoise Sagan is perhaps not the greatest French writer but she does justice to the tradition of beautiful, clear, poignant love stories into which she was born.
Impressed by the furious wanking
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
English men can be very complicated, especially if they've had a good education, as Julian Barnes proves in this short, pithy, ironic story of an English man looking back on his life.
The language is exemplary. The jokes are elegant. The sensibility is refined. The wanking is furious.
And then there's the philosophy…
Julian Barnes's real-life English teacher once said, "Of course everyone's worried about what happens when Ted Hughes runs out of animals."
"We thought it was the wittiest thing we had ever heard," Barnes confessed in an interview in the Paris Review (Winter 2000).
The fictional Tony Webster's English teacher says the same thing and Tony finds himself thinking about it often over the years. But Ted Hughes never did run out of animals. That's the really funny and wonderful thing.
Our lifelong concerns are often misguided, aren't they? The things that impressed us when we were young turn out to be facile in the end.
In fact this story is a kind of meditation on how our memories distort reality, if reality is, indeed, ever in a state that could be said to be undistorted. How much of what is passing for reality do we actually understand? How much is fact, how much is fiction, how much is simple ignorance? Or complicated ignorance, if you've had an English public school education.
Is Tony Webster Julian Barnes?
Probably not. Tony Webster is bald and Julian Barnes has a full head of hair. Or so it seems.
But the questions go on.
Do the people who read this story understand it? Some of them do. But if you take a look at the reviews on some websites, you will see that a lot of people missed the point. Some have even made up completely different stories based on an unfathomable logic all their own.
If I were Julian Barnes I would probably sigh and hold my beautifully coiffured head in my hands and wonder if it was all worth it.
And then I'd probably write an elliptical, poignant, ironic novel about how elusive philosophically self-evident truths can be.
Too funny for words
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Excuse Me Where Is The Exit? by Stella Deleuze
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Life is a lot funnier than a TV sitcom. It's all a question of attitude.
Stella Deleuze has oodles of attitude.
Take her little piece on cycling. Cyclists are a pest. Cyclists ignore traffic lights. Cyclists hiss at you and speed up in situations where motorists would brake. Cyclists don't have brakes. They have SOMETHING TO PROVE. German cyclists are the worst because they always have the right of way, even on the pavement, and especially on the piece of pavement that you happen, in your ignorance, to have strayed onto just before they hurtle into you at 25 miles per hour from behind.
Stella is a German cyclist but does this bother her? Not at all.
"Pedestrians are worse than tanks," she writes.
But she is also lovely. Because Stella doesn't behave like a cyclist. She behaves like a human being.
She uses the brakes for the bloody idiots. She actually stops at traffic lights. She admits her failings. When she is nearly killed by a bus it is, of course, her fault. When a confused Frenchman stumbles out of a taxi straight into her path, she forgives him. "He'll have the bruises after all," she concedes.
Which is why you can't stop laughing.
But humour is a personal thing so I gave this book the acid test. I read some of it aloud to my flatmate.
Howls of laughter.
Kindle stolen again while I was out.
It's really hard to find a book that makes you split your sides laughing. Especially when you share it with someone. Keep this one to yourself. Don't read it in public. And don't read it out loud.
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by John Joseph Adams
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I wasn't expecting much of The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, to be honest. I listened to a quite well written introduction by, I presume, John Joseph Adams, which was read by someone who insisted on pronouncing Moriarty as Moriarity about fifteen times, which didn't bode well.
But the stories themselves were surprisingly good. I haven't listened to them all yet but I really look forward to them and most of the time I'm not disappointed. I like listening in the dark. Some of them are very spooky. They are also witty in a way, playing upon our expectations. They've all been published before in some form so they have a pedigree. There are some great writers here and some Victoriana specialists, so the standard is generally very high.
So if you like Sherlock Holmes (I love him!) and you're open-minded, give it a try. The stories are a little improbable but that's why they're fun. Even die-hard fans of Sir Arthur (I'm one!) won't be disappointed by these re-workings of the famous Conan Doyle canon.
(Everyone who reviews this book has to mention the Conan Doyle canon.)


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Clue: Charles's game
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Hewlett-Packard and Dell are continuing to build servers that bring graphics chips into the data center.
HP officials on May 17 announced that Nvidia's new Tesla M2090 GPU (graphics processing unit) will appear in a number of upcoming HP ProLiant servers aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, a move they say will address organizations' demands for greater performance and energy efficiency.
The announcement from HP and Nvidia came a day after officials from Dell and Advanced Micro Devices, at the Microsoft TechEd show, said the server maker will roll out the PowerEdge M610x blade, which will include AMD's FirePro V7800P GPUs. Officials with both Dell and AMD said the combination of Dell blades with AMD GPUs will help in such areas as HPC and desktop virtualization.
HPC organizations have been particularly strong adopters of GPUs for computing tasks. For workloads optimized for parallel processing, companies can get much more performance with GPUs-which offer hundreds of cores-than with traditional CPUs alone, and without increasing power consumption.
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"The high performance computing (HPC) segment has an endless thirst for performance and this has made the use of GPUs a disruptive force," Ed Turkel, marketing manager for HPC for HP, said in a May 17 blog post on the Nvidia Website. "For researchers, scientists and engineers, enhanced performance allows for faster innovation that will result in the kinds of discoveries that can change the world."
Nvidia officials called the Tesla M2090 the world's fastest parallel processing chip, which can hold as many as 512 cores and can offer application acceleration 10 times that of CPUs alone. The Tesla M2090 GPU will be available on HP's new ProLiant SL390 G7 4U server, which Nvidia officials said was built specifically for hybrid computing environments that use both GPUs and CPUs.
According to HP's Turkel, the Tsubame 2.0 supercomputer in Japan-named the world's fourth-fastest supercomputer on the Top500 list in November 2010-is an example of what GPU computing can offer. The system uses 1,408 ProLiant SL390s G7 servers, and delivers similar peak performance as Cray's XT5 Jaguar system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. However, Tsubame 2.0 does all that with 92 percent fewer servers and consumes one-seventeenth of the power than Jaguar, which is powered by AMD's Opteron chips.
"Take that into consideration and it's easy to see why GPUs have made such an impact in HPC," Turkel said.
AMD officials said Dell's new server is the FirePro's first foray into the data center. The FirePro V7800P is designed to offer fast performance and massive parallel processing in what officials said is a passively cooled form-factor. Like FireStream GPUs launched a year ago, the FirePro V7800P are designed without fans; instead, the heat sinks use air flow in the server chassis for cooling.
With the new offering, Dell and AMD are continuing what has been a successful partnership over the past few years, according to Brian Payne, executive director of platform marketing for Dell's PowerEdge server portfolio.
"We're collaborating together to drive innovation around graphics processing solutions and you won't find a better example than our Dell PowerEdge M610x blade," Payne said in a statement. "This blade helps support and accelerates multiple remote users while providing a rich graphical experience and maximum hardware asset utilization."
In addition to graphics, AMD's FirePro V7800P can be used for a wide range of workloads, according to Sandeep Gupte, director of professional graphics product management at AMD.
"The AMD FirePro V7800P is AMD's first multifunctional server solution for compute, VDI [virtual desktop infrastructure] and professional graphics offering, IT departments GPU compute for high-performance computing matched with leading-edge graphics virtualization," Gupte said in a statement. "The AMD FirePro V7800P allows AMD to draw upon a powerful professional graphics solution to meet the needs of an entirely new set of data center customers."


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Thread: Help!!!
- 05-29-2010 #1
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Since yesterday, my penis head has been starting to get cold and I wonder what can cause this and what can i do to take care of it.
On the other hand, i have had some sort of supergrowth you might say,
I've gained an inch in long and girth in...two months, if not one and a half.
Might be my body compensating the new size?
I don't know, I'm just wondering. please any idea is appreciated.
- 05-30-2010 #2
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Well, congratulations on your gains! Wow!
My guess is that your new, bigger, penis needs more blood that your body is used to sending it. I would give it a few days of rest but include lots of warming to increase your blood flow. Erection tea sounds like a good idea as well.
Please let us know what happens.
- 05-30-2010 #3
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I agree with Pirate, perhaps a few kegals for blood flow. Fantastic gains.
- 05-30-2010 #4
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Thanks, i'm really excited about the gains because i know that gaining an inch in so little time is not that easy!!
so this is my only worry i've been like this for 2 days now, and i havent done any sort of PE these days.
All i've been doing is Jonpops warm up routine,
This is the routine that gave me the gains so i gotta say
THANK SO MUCH JONPOP haha!
and i'm glad to hear that it might be only my body compensating that is what i thought aswell,
And i'm kind of a newbie around here so heh,
Erection tea? lol
- 05-30-2010 #5
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Hi Kinglord,
Congrats on your gains.
Kegels as suggested & yes Erection Tea https://www.pegym.com/forums/erectil...-new-post.html
would be a good idea - as it tends to increase blood flow in flaccid state also ~ which will help with the coldness.
Ginko Biloba is a supplement that is good for blood flow, one of the more popular PE supplements.Vulcan
7.25 (start July 2009)>>>>>>8.125"BPEL (current)
5.25 (start July 2009)>>>>>>5.75"EG (current)


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The 20th Annual General Meeting for the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) took place on Monday, 1st of August at the City Lodge O.R Tambo International Airport.
TBCSA Annual General Meeting Session
The AGM resolved that the minutes of the 24th of July 2015 AGM had been accepted as a true reflection of that meeting.
TBCSA Board Chairman's Report
In the absence of the TBCSA Chairman Mr Mavuso Msimang, Deputy Chairman Mr Clifford Ross read the Chairman's 2015 report to the meeting.
The Chairman's report highlighted the significant contribution of trade sector associations in advancing the interest of their members and the broader business community. Other highlights for 2015 from the report include:
- The formation of an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Immigrations, chaired by the Deputy President, that announced a number of positive concessions to the immigration and visa regulations;
- That the tourism sector has become the first to have its own B-BBEE Sector Codes gazetted;
Internally, the Chairman highlighted the TBCSA's involvement and constructive stakeholder engagement on the following industry issues:
- Review of the National Tourism Sector Strategy (NTSS), as well as that of SA Tourism; is testament to the improving working relations between government and private sector;
- Significant progress in engaging the Department of Home Affairs, regarding the impact of the new immigration regulations on the sector;
- The positive platform to showcase the importance of travel and tourism to GDP, created by Business Unity South Africa (BUSA)
Lastly, on a slightly sombre note, this AGM marks the end of tenure for Mr Msimang as Board Chairman. He would like to express sincere gratitude to the Boards of TBCSA and TOMSA for their support and cooperation throughout 2015. Mr Msimang is also grateful to the lean and mean TBCSA team, led by the capable CEO, Mme Mmatšatši Ramawela. Last but certainly not least, Mr Msimang extends sincere appreciation to members of TBCSA and levy contributors for their faith in the Secretariat and their continued affiliation.
TBCSA Chief Executive Officer's Report
TBCSA CEO Ms Mmatšatši Ramawela thanked all industry stakeholders, namely Government and South African Tourism (SAT); members, levy contributors and other industry stakeholders affiliated to the organisation for their hard work during 2015.
Other key highlights from the CEO's Report included:
- Continued engagement with the National Department of Tourism and SA Tourism;
- The improving relationship between other government departments and TBCSA;
- The appointment of a new SA Tourism Board;
- Implementation of a new TOMSA-SAT MOU;
- The TBCSA hosting of the Secretary-General of the UNWTO, Dr Taleb Rifai and his private sector counterpart from the WTTC, Mr David Scowsill at UJs School of Tourism and Hospitality;
- The TBCSA hosting of the Parliament Portfolio Committee on Tourism;
- And certainly not least, the opening of the relocated TBCSA offices in Centurion.
The CEO concluded by thanking her colleagues at the TBCSA, the boards of both TOMSA and TBCSA for their hard work during a tough 2015. The CEO then also gave a special thanks and appreciation to the outgoing Chairman, Mr Mavuso Msimang, for consummate leadership and inspirational guidance.
2015 AGM and the Annual Financial Statements
The audited financial statements for the 2015 financial year were accepted and adopted by members of the AGM. It was also agreed that BDT Chartered Accountants Incorporated be appointed as auditors for the forthcoming year. Finally, members agreed that TBCSA membership fees would increase as of 01 January 2017, based on the CPIX (Consumer Price Index) for 2016.
Ratification of new TBCSA Board Chairman and official farewell of outgoing Chairman
The AGM officially ratified Mr Tito Mboweni as the new TBCSA Chairman. Mr Mboweni officially accepted the role of TBCSA Chairman and extended sincere thanks to the TBCSA Board for unanimously electing him as Chair. Mr Mboweni also officially acknowledged and showed sincere appreciation to the outgoing Chairman, Mr Mavuso Msimang. The AGM also ratified Mr Ravi Nadasen (Tsogo Sun) as the new TBCSA deputy Chairman.
With no further business, the AGM concluded at 12:15 p.m.


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Anna Todd's fan fiction story 'After', about Harry Styles, is being considered for a film adaptation according to Deadline. Stoyline: 'A happy, optimistic young girl falls in love with a guy with a dark side that is addictive, and their relationship is a rollercoaster ride.'
Todd's Wattpad novel has been read by more than 500 million One Direction fans, literary agency UTA agreed to represent the screen rights for the series. The movie version of After won't be able to use Harry Styles' name or the names of any other members of One Direction.
Her statement: 'Fanfictions are turned into books/ movies all the time so I hope those of you who dislike After or me, will just take a step back and look at this as an opportunity for yourself and with all the amazing things happening with Wattpad you could be the one having a movie next!
So try to remember that Wattpad is an amazing and positive community, that being said I won't engage in any fights so please leave your hateful comments on your own page."
One Direction have already hit the big screen, of course, in their 2013 documentary movie 'This is Us'.'


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New to genealogy, but have decent research skills because of my real life job. Willing to go to any in-county locations to find records.
I will let you know if it costs, or you can call, find out what copies cost and let me know what you need.
We have marriage records, cemetery records, old Council Grove, KS newspapers on film. We have marriage records, cemetery records, old Council Grove, KS newspapers on film. We also have a genealogical library in town that has lots of info on our county.
Our local library has microfilm of all of the historical newspapers for Neodesha, Kansas. There is an index to all obituaries within those papers (see link below). The library also has the journals and documents created by now defunct genealogical society. These include indexes to marriages for Wilson County through 1996. There are fairly good indexes to many of the local cemeteries and I would be willing to look for stones to photograph if they are not too far from my home base in Neodesha. I have several other resources, including copies of research I have done for others in the past.
I have access to a few books and records for Marion and Marion County. I no longer live there, but would be willing to look in my records for information on specific names. The books I have include both WWI and WWII books of service men and women (many include pictures) from Marion County. I also have a 1926 community "yearbook" printed by Marion's local Kiwanis club. It includes a few bios and many ads of businesses. I also have Marion High School yearbooks for 1913, 1974, 1975 & 1976. Also information about many rural schools and an index of teachers for many years of their existence. I am working on an index to a 1940's era landowner map of Marion County which could produce information on coordinates for land ownership.


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I finally took some pictures of the table today after I finished putting the trim around the edges. It really looks good and I am proud of it. It's a great work surface and is very study and stable.
I trimmed the top edge with some Douglas Fir 1x that was ripped down to the width of the table top. I fastened it with some odinary drywall screws and wood glue, countersinking every screw so that I can come back and put some dowels in the holes to clean it up a bit. Be sure not to over tighten the screws when your attaching these and I put on plenty of glue expecting the MDF to soak it right up.
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Another year rushes to a close and we wonder sometimes where they go. They say it's a sign of age, or maybe it's just keeping busy with no time to squander. Yes, it's been very busy 'au Chardon' and we have been in France over five years now, and Le Chardon has been open for two and a half. It certainly doesn't feel that long. I was with Jeep for ten years and that felt like a life sentence!!
We managed to get away in October and drove down to Sandy and Les who live just north of Alicante. Although we haven't seen them since 2003 we just seemed to pick up where we left off and had a super stay.
On our way back we spent two nights in Barcelona, then crossed the Pyrenees via Andorra to spend a few days with Karen and James in St Antonin. A lovely break but 3000 kilometres in ten days is a bit tiring.
To carry on from where I left off in the last bulletin, the grape harvest this year came up to and exceeded all expectations in terms of quality and will be a wine that will be worth 'laying down' for a few years to improve it. Normally, a Maconnais wine should be drunk within three years, but this will mature for up to five or six years (if you are able to keep it that long!). The big co-operative, the Cave de Lugny, of which the Cave de Chardonnay is a part, had a bumper harvest, despite a breakdown the very first day of the conveyor which feeds the presses. This led to a backlog of some eighty tractors and trailers waiting to offload, and a six hour queue. Fortunately the weather was not overly warm as if the grapes had started to ferment before they could press them, they would have to have thrown them away. Some 1200 tonnes – that's a lot of wine lost!! They sorted it all out in the end, and Chardonnay rumbled with the sound of tractors pulling trailers piled high with grapes for the next fortnight. The presses were running twenty four hours a day and the smell in Chardonnay was intoxicating. I reckon even if you just drove through the village with your window open and got breathalysed the other end you'd fail!!
Every year, to celebrate the end of the harvest they all go out for a meal. This year they chose us. We had 56 people for an entrée of 'trio of salmon' (poached, smoked, and paté), followed by a fricassee of wild boar (now on our recipe page), then cheese and finally, to finish off, Eton Mess!!! This was specially requested, (it's the only thing on our menu that we cannot change) but it cannot be made in advance. Thanks to Linda and Victoria we did 56 individual Eton Mess in 15 minutes.
They'd also asked if we could lay on some entertainment for the evening, something like a boules tournament. We suggested ten pin bowling – yes, seriously. Having got a taste of the Wii at Deb and Jonathan's the last time we were in UK we bought one. It went down a storm after having to explain, in FRENCH, to most of the participants, how to bowl using the controller. The highlight was the managing director, amidst much jeering from the rest of the crowd, taking his turn and getting a 'strike' first go. Everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves and went home very happy. We'd suggested at the outset, that being winemakers, they may like to bring their own wine, and we would waive the normal corkage charge. They were very happy with this arrangement and the day before the 'do' delivered enough wine and crémant to sink a battleship. After everybody had left, there were still some forty bottles left. What do you want us to do with them, we asked. Keep them, they are yours, they said, and thanks for a wonderful night!!
Amongst the enormous amount of people who have passed through our doors, we have welcomed old friends who have made a detour to see us. Aidan and Caron arrived on 'Fluffy', Aidan's Honda Valkrie and stopped a couple of nights before heading into the Alps. Peter and Paula did likewise on their tour of France. And Denise and John arrived with Dad and Wendy for another week in the gite and were here for our paëlla night.
A group of villagers have set up an association to put on events to promote the village. This year has seen a flower sale, a 'brocante' (a cross between a flea market and car boot sale) and the paëlla night which we hosted. Cooking paëlla for sixty people tested my cooker to the limit – it only just created enough heat for the pan which was three feet across. I had it sitting over three burners. We had a Spanish guitar quartet who were excellent and with sixty people crammed into the bar there was a terrific ambience. We finished about 1 am and it looks like becoming a regular feature in our calendar.
As I mentioned in the last bulletin Mr Sarkozy, the French president, reduced VAT for hotels, bars and restaurants from 19.6% to 5.5%. We haven't had to pay any VAT this last six months, in fact they owe us about 900€. Anyway, the object is for restaurants to either…take on extra staff (I don't think so, not with French employment law)…..bring the kitchen up to latest standards (we already are)….or invest in new equipment. So we bought the hot-tub (no, we didn't). We did much better than that!!! Becca has got her new 10kg washing machine which has halved the number of washes she has to do. Only problem being is she can't carry the full basket of washing up the stairs from the cave to the garden (it's too heavy). And we've invested in a new wine fridge for the bar. It's awesome. It's multi-temperature. No idea how it works as it's just a big fridge with lots of shelves and holds 240 bottles. The thing is that you put reds at the top where it is 18 degrees and work down the temperature scale finally stacking champagnes at the bottom where the temperature is 5 degrees. Amazing. Answers on a postcard please (or e-mail). We'll put up a bottle of Crémant for the best one – but you'll have to drink it here!!!!
All in all, it's been another very good year for us. True, there have been less Brits than normal, the financial crisis bringing the pound down almost parity with the euro. We are only glad that we made the move when we did as if we were renovating now the current exchange rate would have meant an extra 70.000 € to find, about 30%. There have, though, been more eastern Europeans visiting. Their journey to France is a minimum twelve hours but we have had Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Slovakians, and even a few Russians. They were very happy to find us as invariably their command of English is far better than their French.
French bureaucracy continues. I got notified of a course that I had to attend on the subject of kitchen hygiene. One day at a hotel in Chalon, lunch and diploma included, thirty euros. It was very interesting – not!! Fortunately when I arrived I fell in with a friend, Daniel Rogie, who has a restaurant not far from us. The difference between him and us is that he has the Michelin Star. One hour into the course and it became apparent that they (Brussels) are trying to turn restaurant kitchens into food laboratories. This is EUROPEAN STANDARDS they said. Then why can you still freeze fresh meat in England and Ireland but not in France? says Daniel. That's an exception, they explained. Hey ho, we just grin and bear it!!
We finished off 2009 with our traditional carol concert. We get enquiries about it from the middle of November and usually have between fifty and sixty people for a good old sing-song with mulled wine and mince pies followed by tartiflette or cassoulet. However, this year we hadn't counted on the snow which started falling on the Thursday evening and didn't let up until Saturday morning. One woman from Lugny, having pirouetted down the road in her Mercedes, abandoned it in the car-park and came in. She made a couple of calls to see if someone could come and rescue her – to no avail. She ended up staying the night!! By
Saturday night it was minus 15 degrees and we had 15cms of snow. There was no change Sunday but 28 brave souls made it and we had a good evening. Marie-Eve, Colette and Dominique provided the music. The only downside was our waistlines. With a 50% turnout we were still eating cassoulet on Wednesday!!
On the Monday afternoon the temperature began to rise. By Tuesday lunchtime it was plus 15 degrees (a thirty degree swing) and all the snow vanished. Mr Cortot, who is 80 years old and has lived in the village all his life, said he had never experienced such a dramatic change in temperature.
Christmas Day looked like being a very quiet affair. Jo and Jean-Marc were off to Germany to meet up with Alex and Annabel at her parents and ours stayed in UK. However, Dick and Elli decided to come down as their son and daughter were at respective in-laws and they kindly invited us to join them. They brought all the things we can't get out here and we had a wonderful day. They showed us a short video of a variety act from the late fifties (I think) which is shown on German television every Christmas. Hilarious!!! Go to YouTube and type in 'Dinner for One'.
Well, that just about wraps up 2009. It only remains for all of us to wish all of you a very Happy, Prosperous, and most importantly, a Healthy New Year.
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Hi there! Now it is the middle of August and in the Arctic city of Rovaniemi there is already a sign of the end of summer in the air. Sunshine is softer and wind is cooler, and dark nights have been back.
And now it is the season of the crop! Many kinds of berry like blueberry, raspberry, redcurrant, blackcurrant are ripened, and since about 2 weeks ago during the weekends, we have been busy to pick berries in buckets, and making juice, smoothie, jam and cakes and freezing berries in small boxes.
There is a lovely tool in Finland to pick blueberries and cowberries in the forest that is like a box with a handle and a rough comb. You can get some berries at a time with it and a valve-like part works to prevent berries dropping out. There is variety of this tool from classic one made of iron, to wide design made of plastic, and small size for kids. After touching blueberries, your fingers become violet and people can guess that you have been in the forest picking berries.
There are some more kinds of berry in the forest. At first it was difficult to tell what kind, but if you look at them carefully, differences are obvious because their leaves are really different. Crowberry is an eatable black berry. Cowberry is still green now, but it will be beautiful red when autumn deepens.
Although many Finns plant raspberry trees in their gardens, they can be found on a side of a road as well because they are strong, and I know at least 2 places where they are growing nearby my home. I pick and eat raspberries if I find during walking. Raspberry is so sweet that there often a maggot in a berry, but I don't hesitate to touch it any more and just throw it away.
Redcurrant is in the garden of our apartment, and blackcurrant and gooseberry are planted in the garden of our family cottage. Today we were picking blackcurrant. The vegetable garden of my father-in-law is also having the crop season, and our each dish has something from the garden. The white flower is potato flower.
And mushrooms are also coming up in the forest. We love mushrooms called herkkutatti (penny bun) and koivunpunikkitatti (orange birch bolete), and penny bun is very seasonal mushroom that can be found in a short period of the season. It is easy to cook without need of boiling and delicious like peanuts. We fry penny buns with butter and season with salt and a lemon, on the day of picking. I cook it with rice, too, seasoning with Sake and soy sauce. Maggots also know what good mushrooms are, and big mushrooms have been already eaten by them quite often. It is a competition against maggot that faster is the winner. We didn't find any penny bun last weekend, and today we found many, but about half of them were already eaten.
Our short summer is ending. I am already missing it…
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Category: Cosmic Education
Where the magic happens …
So, Being in charge of taking care, so to say, making sure that everything is and shall be in an orderly and proper shape, does bring along various challenges…often it leads to non-thought-through decisions, fast executed actions and uncontrolled verbal outlets…not to speak of gestures, if well intended or rude…Hypocrisy is often the outcome…for self-protection or selfishness…Being in balance with what is important, being loved and being loving…truthful and honest, respecting the world around oneself does fulfill true happiness… leading to the right decisions, to take care of what was offered to look after…
(Christoph Schiebold)
Dear All,
One is always exposed to unmovable and frozen impressions, opinions and objects. These have, for good and for all, to be transformed into something organic, livable and emotional. Once this has been accomplished and put in place, set up and emerged out of the given, me, by its means and powers has the awesomeness and strength to be. Resting and accepting, leaving things the way they are, static and stiff, is, and always has been the beginning of the end.
(Christoph Schiebold)
Cosmic Education II
"Reasoning keeps things in their relation to one another, compares them, deduces from them, arrives at conclusions and when the conclusions have been arrived at, there is a state of psychic satisfaction and with this is a sense of calm and respose."
Quote by Dr. M. Montessori
Dr. Montessori talked about…
The children need to be able to imagine for themselves and reflect on these ideas. It is only in introducing the children to the universe in this way, that we are making use of the psychological characteristics in the second plane of development.
Cosmic Education
Dr.Monessori said:
"In this intellectual period the child's questions are immunerable. He wants to know everything, his thirst for knowledge is so insatiable that people generally are at their wits and about it. Therefore they mostly choose the easy way, and simply force the child to be silent and to onlt learn what we group up and consider useful for the child.
And to do so…we destroy spontaneous interest.
Learning then becomes a tidious and tiresome business. The result is all sorts of deviations in the child's personality. It should be realizes that genuine interest cannot be forced.
Therefore all methods based on centres of interest, which have been chosen by adults, are wrong. Moreover, these centres of interest are superfluous, for the child is interested in everything.
A global vision of cosmic events facinates the child and his inerests will soon remain fixed on one particular part as a starting point for more intensive studies. As all parts are related, they will all be scrutinized sooner or later. Thus, the child will develop a kind of philosophy, which teaches him the unity of the universe.
This is the very thing to organize his intelligence, and to give him a better insight into his own place and task in the world and at the same time presenting a chance for the development of his creative energy".cosmic,education,love,understanding,freedom,connected,together,montessori,maria
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"This house believes that industrial policy always fails."Lerner, whose expertise is mostly in rich country (US & Europe) innovation policy, argued for the motion; Rodrik, a development economist, argued against.
This Lerner-Rodrik debate is worth revisiting for two reasons. First, Lerner and Rodrik are exceptional intellects with imposing publication records, debating an important topic. Second—most entertainingly for me as the guy in the bleacher seats—they both manage to be wrong, in spite of having ostensibly staked out opposing positions.
Let's start with Lerner.
Here, as when he first wrote on this topic over a decade ago, Lerner focuses on what he characterizes as "the disastrous history of most loan programmes to finance high-growth entrepreneurial businesses." To evidence the disasters, he points to two problems:
- bureaucratic incompetence as evidenced by failure of programs to be self-sustaining, because they demand too little of the few "winners" and thus are rapidly depleted as a consequence of the majority's losses, and
- "regulatory capture" whereby "programmes geared towards boosting nascent entrepreneurs may instead end up boosting cronies of the nation's rulers or legislators."
The initial reaction of a financial economist to the argument that the government needs to invest in growth firms is likely to be skepticism. A lengthy literature has highlighted the role of financial intermediaries in alleviating moral hazard and information asymmetries. Young high-technology firms are often characterized by considerable uncertainty and informational asymmetries, which permit opportunistic behavior by entrepreneurs. Why one would want to encourage public officials instead of specialized financial intermediaries (venture capital organizations) as a source of capital in this setting is not immediately obvious.Now no economists is going to dispute either that financial intermediaries play a role in "alleviating moral hazard and information asymmetries," or that "young high-technology firms are often characterized by considerable uncertainty and informational asymmetries." No disagreements there. But there are real problems with the following sentence: "Why one would want to encourage public officials instead of specialized financial intermediaries (venture capital organizations) as a source of capital in this setting is not immediately obvious."
First of all, venture capitalists have long conceded that they're not particularly interested in seed stage, technology-based ventures. (See e.g. this 2001 piece [p. 104] by venture capital legend David Morgenthaler, or just Google the topic to sample the veritable avalanche of substantiation that has been published since.) As the median size of venture capital deals grew beginning in the mid-1990s and pressure on managing partners to provide attractive returns to investors in mammoth funds intensified accordingly, venture capital tended increasingly to flow to projects in later stages of development, to already-proven technologies, or to other investments with potential be rapidly "flipped." But a real science-based company—one of the few that aspires to accomplish the difficult transition from invention to innovation—can take a decade or more to get to the point where it earns revenue, much less a profit. Given such technical and market uncertainties, venture capitalists and even many individual "angel" investors understandably preferred to avoid funding speculation. The very success of the venture capital industry has driven it away from funding technology entrepreneurs in the early stages. High "hurdle rates" for expected returns to venture capital investments translate into high hurdle rates for reading business plans. The gap between the resources required by early stage technology entrepreneurs (typically, in the $100K to $2 million range) are inconsistent with the deal size required by mature venture capital firms to support operations given their current scale of operations.
As Lerner himself implies in the above quote, simple labor economics suggests that a public official on a government salary will be less capable of evaluating the market prospects of a new technology than will a highly paid venture capitalist. To suggest otherwise is, rightly, to invite derision. However, the same set of basic principles suggests that venture capitalists are, typically, highly compensated because their skill set is not easily imitated. Barriers to entry and high compensation both imply that the venture capitalist's opportunity cost of time is much higher than that of the public official. For that reason, the efforts of public officials to evaluate the commercial dimensions of technical proposals—for example, the review of applications for competitive government awards such as those given by the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program—are better understood as complements to, rather than substitutes for, the due diligence performed by venture capitalists.
Differences between venture capital and public modes of support for technology entrepreneurs go beyond both the capabilities of specialized intermediaries as compared with those of public officials and the quantity of funding sought. As work by David Hsu (and others since) has documented, entrepreneurs who seek venture capital investments are typically seeking more than funding. They also seek mentoring, access to contacts, and strategic guidance. In return they relinquish a degree (sometimes large) of control over their organizations. In contrast, a technology entrepreneur seeking a government award can not expect to benefit from mentoring and other such forms of support. At the same time, however s/he can be assured that his/her equity stake will not be diluted. The risk/reward profile of the two forms of financing is thus sufficiently different to call into question the appropriateness of terms such as "public venture capital" frequently used to describe various modes of public financial support to technology entrepreneurs. While the funds supplied may be public, the mode of support bears very little resemblance to venture capital.
To the extent that the sort of there are systematic and persistent impediments to the funding of potentially high-growth, technology based firms, they do so—again!—because the skill set of individuals specialized in evaluating linked technical and commercial opportunities is very difficult to imitate. For this reason, varied contractual arrangements coexist, each offered within one of a diverse set of institutional contexts. Taken together, in a vibrant technology ecosystem, these arrangements provide technology entrepreneurs with a menu of options each with a distinct risk/reward profile. Design and implementation of effective policies to support technology entrepreneurs begins not by looking at one or another category of support in isolation, but rather with an understanding of, and appreciation for, the entirety of this menu of options.
As it turns out, I'm also quite familiar with this program, having spent three years as part of the research team for a National Academy of Sciences study of its effectiveness. (I was the research lead for the Department of Energy report). In the actual context of the SBIR program, evidence of "regulatory capture" usually focuses on a few "SBIR mills" who receive a disproportionate share of grants without demonstrating real commercial impact--ostensibly proving that they're gaming the system. I studied one such company while I was working on the of the National Academies study--Creare, based in Hanover, New Hampshire.When visited Creare I saw lots of geeks with PhDs, and not too many crony-looking types. I ultimately learned that Creare had incubated more than a dozen spin-off companies, with aggregate sales at that time of over $300 million. None of that impact would have shown up as "commercialization" in the terms employed by Lerner in his original, and still most serious work on this topic.
So the problem with Lerner's argument is that he happens to direct his attention just the one type of "industrial policy" that is actually most likely to work: competitive, professionally evaluated awards extended to early stage companies in countries with highly developed private equity markets. Can such programs be worth while? Yes. If they count as "industrial policy," then the motion fails.
Now as for Rodrik's argument against the motion...
This post draws from Philip Auerswald (2007) "The Simple Economics of Technology Entrepreneurship: Market Failure Reconsidered," in David B. Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and Roy Thurik eds., The Handbook of Entrepreneurship Policy, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.