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The year's 20 weirdest stories from Florida, America's weirdest state
Chances are, if you are reading about some really crazy stuff.... there is a strong likelihood it took place in Florida.
These are the best of the Year in Florida.
A Florida teacher made students wear dog cones to discipline them.
Tysheka Pink and Katina Summerset, the alleged “bra bandits,” were arrested for stealing hundreds of bras and panties.
Gov. Rick Scott gave out the number of a phone sex line instead of a helpline for a meningitis outbreak.
This Manatee County resident allegedly attacked her boyfriend for climaxing during sex before she did.
A giant eyeball the size of a softball that washed ashore near Fort Lauderdale was thought to either come from a sea monster or a large marlin. With Florida, you never know.
A group of atheists used "unholy water" to unblessed a stretch of U.S. Route 98, previously blessed by a Christian group.
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport offered a job with a $76,252 salary to scare birds away.
Shrimp boat captain Matt Willingham found a prosthetic leg lost by a former football player while he was swimming.
Police tasered Daniel Jensen for trying to put out a fire at his neighbor’s house. He said cops told him, "That's what insurance is for."
Mellisa Mansfield was nabbed for car theft after she stopped on the side of Interstate 95 to relieve herself.
An impatient Miami woman attempted to cut in line and crashed into pumps at a gas station, causing a fire.
A woman was arrested for riding a manatee in Fort De Soto Park.
Rudy Eugene, the “Causeway Cannibal,” was killed by police for chewing off the face of Ronald Poppo.
Miami Beach Senior High School arrived at their prom to find “the largest adult event in the country dedicated to love and sex” booked in the same venue.
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Here are links to the stories:
- School says teacher made kids wear dog 'cone of shame'
- Florida drunk driving suspect has craziest mug shot ever
- Cops say they've nabbed Florida's notorious bra bandits
- Florida governor mixes up phone sex line with meningitis help line
- Anticlimactic sex blamed for alleged attack on boyfriend
- Giant-eye mystery solved, Internet heaves a sigh of relief
- Atheists use 'unholy' water to unbless Florida highway
- You can make $76,000 a year scaring birds in sunny Florida
- Jesus' face appears on power box in Florida
- Shrimp boat finds ex-football player's leg floating in Florida
- Teacher quits after alleged interest in student 'boobage'
- Cops use Taser on man for trying to put out fire in his house
- Cop fired for using patrol car to move mattresses
- Cops say they caught car thief on run when she had the runs
- Impatient driver cuts in line, blows up gas station
- Manatee joyrider caught on camera turns herself in
- Here's why fans shouldn't use a mirror to apply their face paint
- Police kill naked cannibal who was chewing off a man's face
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As I see some of the search terms used by people to get to my blog here, I’m more inspired to write a little FAQ type post on some Disney World basics to help people out with some of these things.
First and foremost, Disney World is really really big. Actually, it’s HUGE. There are FOUR full-size theme parks: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Disney’s Hollywood Studios (formerly known as MGM Studios.) There are two very large water parks: Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach. There is a totally separate shopping and dining area called Downtown Disney. Not to mention all the various on-property resorts, golf courses, Wide World of Sports, etc. Put it all together and it’s over 40 square miles large! (I find conflicting info as to whether it is 43 or 47 square miles. Regardless – that’s just really big.)
Let’s talk some helpful info in easy-to-read bullet points….
•First, let’s get something straight – Disney World and Universal Studios are two completely separate parks that have nothing to do with each other. There is no transportation between them. You either have to have a car, rent a car, or hire a cab or go through a transportation company to set up a transfer. (Mears is one of the most popular transfer companies in the area.)
•You cannot walk from one park to another. The exception is between Epcot and Hollywood Studios. There is a walking path between the resorts, but you’re going to be probably walking about a half hour. There is also a boat that will take you between the resorts – that is my preferred mode of transport between those two parks.
•To get between Magic Kingdom and Epcot, you have to take the monorail.
On that note, let’s talk monorails. You’ve essentially got three monorail options out there. There is one totally separate monorail that runs between Epcot and the TTC (Transportation and Ticket Center across the lake from Magic Kingdom.) This is your only option as far as getting between Magic Kingdom and Epcot, unless you have your own car on site.
When you are at the TTC, you have two monorail options to get to Magic Kingdom. Both monorails run the same route around the lagoon, but one is the “Resort Monorail” (that stops at Grand Floridian, Polynesian, and Contemporary Resorts in addition to Magic Kingdom and TTC), and you have the direct route monorail that just stops at TTC and Magic Kingdom without the resorts in between. (I usually prefer the resort monorail – the line is SO much shorter.) You can also take the ferry boat across the lake from the TTC to the Magic Kingdom.
•There are only THREE resorts on the monorail around the lagoon: Polynesian, Grand Floridian, and Contemporary/Bay Lake Tower. That’s it. No others. There are only three monorail resorts!
•You can walk to Magic Kingdom from the Contemporary Resort/Bay Lake Tower.
•A boat connects the Wilderness Lodge with the Magic Kingdom. There are also boats connecting MK with the Grand Floridian and the Polynesian, since you can’t walk to MK from them. (In case those staying at the Polynesian and Grand Floridian don’t feel like taking the monorail.)
•As I mentioned in another post, there are some resorts located behind Epcot that give you the convenience of being able to walk into Epcot through its back entrance – called The International Gateway. Those resorts are: Yacht and Beach Clubs, and Boardwalk Inn and Villas. (The Swan and Dolphin are also located in this area, but they are not full-out Disney resorts.) These resorts also have boats connecting them to each other and Epcot and Hollywood Studios.)
•You can walk to Hollywood Studios easiest from the Boardwalk Inn and Villas. You can also walk there from Yacht and Beach Clubs, but it’s a longer walk. I would take the boat.
•There are also boats connecting resorts that are near Downtown Disney: Saratoga Springs, Old Key West, and Port Orleans. For all these resorts, you can hop on the boat and take a leisurely ride to Downtown Disney. If you’re staying at Saratoga Springs, you can walk to Downtown Disney.
•All other transportation is via Disney’s bus system.
•There is no resort to resort transportation, except for those monorail and boat options mentioned above. So if you have a dinner reservation at Animal Kingdom Lodge, but you’re staying at Port Orleans Riverside, you’ll have to take a bus to a park and then transfer to another bus to get to the Lodge. For obvious reasons, you’ll want your transfer park to be one that is close by either you or your destination. If you are staying at a non-monorail resort, but want to get to the Contemporary for a character breakfast, you can take your bus to the Magic Kingdom, then hop on the resort monorail. The point is, you will have to have a brief “layover” to get from resort to resort. This is why Disney always recommends to allow lots of time for getting to your dinner reservations – you never know how long it will take you to wait for the transportation.
•If you’re not sure what you’re doing while you’re in WDW, just ask a CM! (CM = Cast Member. Everyone who works at Disney is a “Cast Member.”) Something went wrong? Talk to a CM! Problem with your room? Talk to a CM! (See a pattern? 🙂 )
•FAST PASS! I see more misunderstandings about Fast Pass than almost anything else. Now, let me first say that Disney has been in the testing stages of a new system called FastPass+ (“Fast Pass Plus”.) There’s still LOTS of speculation as to how this will all work. (But it has to do with pre-booking various headline attractions 60 days out. There is still not enough definitive info out there for me to pass along to you, but I will update this section when more info becomes available.) HOWEVER, currently as it stands, FastPasses are FREE and are first come-first serve. If you want to avoid potential long regular stand-by lines, you get your FastPasses at popular attractions so you can come back later at a designated time and enter at the special FastPass entrance to avoid the regular line. FastPasses that run out the fastest are Toy Story Mania in Hollywood Studios and Soarin’ in Epcot. I also recommend FastPasses for Expedition Everest in Animal Kingdom, Space Mountain and Splash Mountain in Magic Kingdom, and Tower of Terror and Rockin’ Rollercoaster in Hollywood Studios.
For help with using the current FastPass system, just check out the How-To video I posted awhile back on my Destination Mouse Facebook page: How To Use Fastpass.
Note that this system is very different from Universal’s “Front of the Line” pass, which is available for free to those staying on Universal property, OR is available to BUY for non-Universal resort guests.
•Now on to dining reservations. You might have read my previous post about this very subject, but if not, you need to know that dining reservations open at 180 days. That’s right – six months out. So if you have a little princess who absolutely must have lunch with the rest of the Disney princesses at Cinderella’s Castle (aka, “Cinderella’s Royal Table,” or CRT for short), you need to be ready to make that reservation six months out. (Or have your handy dandy travel agent take care of it for you!) Overall, it’s very difficult to get walk up seating at a Table Service (sit-down) restaurant during busy seasons. Besides character meals, other popular restaurants that book up early are: Le Cellier, Coral Reef, O’Hana, and dinner at the new Be Our Guest Restaurant. Signature restaurants, dinner shows, character meals, and some of the popular restaurants do require a credit card hold. They don’t charge your card unless you are a no-show. ($10 per person no-show fee for most.) CRT requires pre-payment UNLESS you are on the Disney Dining Plan – in that case you will still have to do a credit card hold.
•Can I save money by going into the parks for six days vs. seven days?
No. Disney puts the per day price high on the first few days of a ticket, then it’s literally less than $10 a day more to add extra days on your ticket. So if you are a family of three traveling, you’ll save less than $30 by dropping a day off of your week long ticket. My advice: get the extra day on your ticket, even if you only go into a park for three hours on your last day – it lets you enjoy an extra meal or ride before leaving for hardly any extra money. Just do it.
•A few other points: I always advocate staying on-site. Always. I also get the Dining Plan every time I go. It saves a little bit of money (not tons), but think of it as pre-paying for your meals and then having the freedom to order any meal off of the menu without looking at the price. Also – many don’t know that having a travel agent book your Disney trip for you is the same exact price as doing it yourself through Disney – except you get lots of help all along the way! (That’s right – the same exact price!) So you can go ahead and spend hours a week researching for your own trip, or have someone like me (who knows all this stuff already) take care of everything for you – and it doesn’t cost a penny extra!
Let me know if you have any other questions – feel free to share them in the comments section, and I will answer them there as well!

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February 1: Nepal AVO and Aakansha Creation have signed an agreement to “create jobs” for women displaced by landslides and floods in Sindhupalchowk district. Aakansha Creation’s Tekka Initiatives, a social campaign of the company, will lead the project in collaboration with the local ward office. The campaign will organize trainings for the displaced women on making soft toys.
The materials used for making the soft toys and the training will be provided free of cost, the organisers said in a joint statement.
“Once the training is completed, they will be provided an opportunity for employment to produce soft toys for AVO Nepal. The concept is build with an aim of improving the livelihood of displaced women and helping them become economically independent. These toys will be sold via different outlets throughout Nepal, India and Japan,” the statement added.
“It’s our absolute pleasure to collaborate with Tekka Initiative to start something inspiring,” said the Co-Founder and Director of AVO Nepal Sudixya Adhikari, adding, “Our company is focused on promoting Nepali Avocado and its various sub-categories of products. To launch our brand with soft toys is not only a part of our business strategy but also our intention to help marginalized communities, especially women. We were looking for a company that worked with women and found Tekka Initiative as a perfect match for our objective”.
The Managing Director of Aakansha Creation said, “We plan to offer training on crochet and supply materials free of cost. Once they complete the training, we will use their skills to manufacture soft toys with an intention to provide jobs to at-least 100 women in the next six months”.
Battered by a series of natural disasters in July and August that caused huge loss to life and property, Sindhupalchowk was declared a crisis-hit region by the government on 24 September, 2020, the statement further said. The government is reortedly planning to reconstruct the disaster-ravaged physical infrastructure in the district with the assistance of World Bank.


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Home automation is one of the latest trends worldwide. The development of home automation solutions like Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple’s Siri has led to many fantastic products. Such products can adjust different parameters at home like temperature, light, etc. However, these solutions are limited to adjusting some indoor conditions only. When physical motion is needed, these automation solutions cannot do much.
In such cases, linear actuators provide the motion for many home automation applications. Linear actuators are mechanical (electromechanical in some cases) that deliver controlled linear motion. The necessary mechanical power to produce movement can come from hydraulic, pneumatic, or electric sources. Currently, electric linear actuators are most commonly used in home automation. If you want to learn more about linear actuators, click here.
The top applications for electric actuators in home automation include:
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The possibilities are practically endless. You can use your creativity to find innovative applications for linear actuators at home. In this article, we will give you some ideas that you can use as references. Discover how linear actuators can make your home smart.
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Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, many office workers started to work from home. Remote work allows for managing one’s time more efficiently. In this way, workers can find a better balance between work and family life. However, working in front of a computer for many hours can lead to health problems if you sit for several hours every day. Life-threatening diseases like obesity, diabetes, and hypertension result from a sedentary life.
Several studies have found that shifting between sitting and standing during a work day is more beneficial to your health than just sitting all day long. To accommodate these posture changes, standing desks allow adjusting the height of the tabletop with the push of a button. This is possible with a lifting column, which is a type of linear actuator specifically designed for this application.
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Whether you work for a business or run your own, great communication skills will serve you well.
And there is a wealth of knowledge and experience out there to learn from. Including among the 60-plus episodes of my Virtually Amazing podcast.
Here are just some of the topics featured on the recordings which cover different aspects of business communication.
This is more than just having a logo. This is about how you present yourself to your audience. How you position yourself in the marketplace. How you stand out from others.
The importance of how you want to be perceived, being consistent and other aspects of branding is explained by Rebecca Newenham (episode 29 of the podcast).
For many businesses, their website is the first port of call for potential clients and customers. It’s a way to create a great first impression.
Many sites are built using WordPress and a guy who knows all about that is Simon Graves. He shares his web tips in episode 4.
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The professional assistant may find themselves asked to create or work with marketing materials.
If you have your own business, there will be a time when you will have to get to grips with marketing.
For tips on how to tell your story and write better copy, listen to strategic copywriter Gary Spinks in episode 9.
It really is important to be clear about your audience and your message.
If you want to discover how to batch and re-purpose content for marketing, digital content writer Sara Bussandri has you covered (episode 10). If you want to understand some of the essentials of content marketing, there’s plenty of wisdom from Sarah Arrow (episode 16).
The more I look back at the podcast, the more I realise just how many episodes tackle the theme of communication.
When you’ve got something to say and are keen to put content out into the world, you’ll want to get to grips with social media.
Advice on what the best platforms are for you – and how to measure the impact of your online efforts – are shared by Jude Turner (episode 58), an experienced social media expert.
And if LinkedIn is a good platform for you, award-winning Jennifer Corcoran can guide you on how to make the most of it. Your profile. Your connections. The way you engage with it. Was it really way back in episode 3 of the podcast that Jennifer talked about all that with co-host Jo Brianti and me?
If you work with social media, you may well find yourself taking advantage of the merits of video. If you’ve not given it much thought or are just starting out with it, the ‘King of Video’ Matthew Hughes (episode 61) has some good advice about how to use it for marketing and communication.
Building a network and using networking are important skills for the professional assistant, especially if you are looking to start and grow a VA business.
The Virtually Amazing podcast has a string of episodes dedicated to different aspects of this topic.
There’s probably no better place to start than with the ‘Queen of Networking’, Michele Ibbs (episode 33). She talks about how to craft a perfect 60-second piece about yourself – and what you do – so you stand out to an audience.
As the founder of the PA Forum, Daniel Skermer understands the value of a strong network. In inspiring episode 40 of the podcast, he talks about the importance of consistency.
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It’s always a good thing to keep your skills up to speed. That way you can handle whatever is thrown your way with greater efficiency and confidence.
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As we mentioned yesterday, the discussion draft of the Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” which was released on Tuesday is notable both for what it includes and the significant portions it leaves to be decided at a later date.
In summary, the bill contains four titles:
- a “clean energy” title, which promotes renewable energy through a portfolio standard of 6% in 2012 rising to 25% by 2025, additional funding for carbon capture and sequestration, a low-carbon transportation fuel standard, and authorization for federal agencies to enter into long-term contracts with renewable energy providers;
- an “energy efficiency” title, which calls for a nationwide building efficiency code, and directs EPA to set emission standards for locomotives, marine vessels and non-road sources;
- a “global warming” title, which specifies that greenhouse gases are not to be treated as criteria pollutants or regulated in new source review under the Clean Air Act (the authorities currently viewed to be EPA’s best tools in regulating greenhouse gases), lays out up to 83% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2050 and creates the framework for a cap-and-trade auction system to be overseen in part by FERC, but does not specify how allowances would be allocated or auctioned, nor how auction proceeds would be spent, other than giving a portion to preventing international deforestation; and
- a “transitioning” title which establishes a new council within NOAA to prepare an adaptation plan and fund, but does not provide details on where the funds come from, and lays out various programs creating release valves to be triggered by increasing prices, but again withholds critical details, such as how the programs will provide assistance to consumers.
After the jump, we provide more detail about Title 3, the Global Warming section.
Here are more specifics on Title 3, the Global Warming title:
- Modeled closely on the recommendations of the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a coalition of electric utilities, oil companies, chemical companies, automobile manufacturers and environmental organizations
- Preemption: the bill explicitly preempts state and regional cap-and-trade programs after 2012, but provides for the exchange of existing allowances. The bill also specifies that CO2 and other greenhouse gases may not be regulated as criteria air pollutants or hazardous air pollutants on the basis of their effect on global warming, nor would they apply to New Source Review.
- Cap + Trade Program:
- Who: the electric utilities, fuel distribution companies, geological sequestration sites, and large industrial sources included under the cap are similar to those included in EPA’s recently released reporting regulations, individually emit more than 25,000 tons of CO2e, and are collectively responsible for 85% of US global warming emissions
- What: must annually surrender allowances equivalent to their emissions, beginning with the first tier of entities’ 2012 emissions, or pay a penalty equal to twice the market value of the missing allowances, plus offsetting those emissions within the next year. The downward trajectory of the cap begins with 3% reductions from 2005 levels by 2012.
- How to get allowances: the bill sets up the framework for quarterly auctions, similar in details to the RGGI auctions now occurring, except that the names and amounts of winning bids would be announced. The program allows unlimited banking and borrowing from the next year’s vintage allowances. The bill leaves blank the proportions of allowances that would be sold at auction and those that might be allocated directly to covered entities.
- Alternative Compliance: offsets may be surrendered at 5:4, but nationwide use is limited to 2 billion tons; the bill also allows use of international allowances and compensatory allowances (for instance, from the destruction of CFCs)
- Safety valves: the draft directs EPA to create a “strategic reserve” of 2.5 billion allowances (equivalent to 1/3 of US annual emissions), from which allowance will be made available through closed auctions to covered entities, if allowance prices rise to high levels. The proceeds of the auction will be used to purchase allowances to replenish the reserve.
- Additional Deforestation Initiative: a portion of the allowances/proceeds will go to creating supplemental reductions through agreements to prevent international deforestation. By 2020 the reductions must be equivalent to 10% of US’s 2005 emissions.
- New Regulations for Hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) and Black Carbon: the bill authorizes EPA to act under the Clean Air Act to create new regulations specifically for these contributors to global warming
- Citizen Suits under CAA: adds a citizen suit provision to section 304 of the Clean Air Act allowing anyone who is harmed by air pollution or climate change (even a general harm) to bring suit against the EPA for a failure to act


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Is there a limit to freedom of expression? Should some actions not be forgiven? These two questions form the core of Israeli author Gail Hareven’s powerful novel Lies, First Person.
That’s partly why I wrote the novel: how do you find that solitude and how to claim it? In some ways this city is very good for us—its rhythms dictate to you, it’s testing you, it causes you to adapt, improvise, stretch. But in other ways, especially if you’re interested in reading and writing, it can be a challenge and a little deranging.

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I wanted to make a fast pulse generator like the one designed by the great Jim Williams1. Unfortunately, the required chip for the high voltage power supply (LT1073) is not available where I live. I found several similar circuits using different approaches to generate the required voltage. I particularly liked the one in Dangerous Prototypes2, in which an astable multivibrator made with transistors is used to drive a step-up and It got me thinking ¿could be possible to “make” the entire LT1073 with transistors?
I looked for the datasheet3 and found a block diagram of the device.
Comparator A1 compares the feedback pin voltage (Fb) with the internal voltage reference. When the feedback drops below 212mV the comparator A1 switch on the oscillator. The driver amplifier boosts the signal level to drive the output NPN power switch Q1. The switch cycling action raises the output voltage and the feedback pin voltage. When the feedback voltage is high enough the comparator turn off the oscillator.
I made the oscillator with an astable multivibrator (like the one in DP). I opted for the version with waveform correction4.
I added a transistor to control the oscillator. When the feedback voltage is lower than the reference the comparator goes low and the oscillator is activated in order to rise the output voltage. According to the datasheet the oscillator is set internally for 38µs ON time and 15µs OFF time. I calculated the resistors needed using a 1nF capacitor but later on I tweaked the values in the breadboard until I got close enough to the required ON and OFF time.
For the reference I made a variable zener with a pair of transistors5.
I set it to 1V and made some measurements to see how stable the reference was:
The measurements were done with the converter working making the reference voltage quite noisy. Without a 1uf capacitor between Vref and ground (not shown in the schematic) it looked even worse:
These are the measured values in a much compact graph:
I build the simplest comparator I could find:
For testing I connected the (-) input to a potentiometer and the other input to the oscillator output:
Moving the potentiometer up and down changes the comparator output width:
It is not the best comparator you could find but it is good enough for this application. I’m not using hysteresis like the comparator inside the Lt1073 does.
Tried first with a single BC548 but couldn’t get more than 30V, adding a 2N2222 in a Darlington configuration I could reach a little more than 50V:
I also added a diode-capacitor voltage step-up network (as in the original circuit with the LT1073) and this is what the final circuit looks like:
and the block diagram of my version:
Then did some test to see if the whole thing was regulating properly and how the output changed with voltage supply variations.
Again the values from the previous oscilloscope captures in a single graph:
I also made some captures of the output from the oscillator as the supply voltage decrease:
It can be seen how the pulse trains increase with the reduction of voltage supply. With voltages lower than 1,7 V the converter can’t regulate properly.
I was able to source locally the 2N2369 used in the original application. I connected it in the protoboard to see if the converter could get it to avalanche. The blue trace (Figure 16) shows the voltage in the capacitor, it charges until the voltage is high enough to avalanche the transistor rapidly discharging and generating a fast rising pulse shown in the yellow trace.
All this testing was done on the protoboard so is no surprise that the pulse looks like crap:
I used a 22pF capacitor but even without using one the parasitic capacitance in the protoboard where high enough to make it work anyway. Now I need to build a proper board.
1. Application Note 72, APPENDIX B, Measuring Probe-Oscilloscope Response
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On March 20, 38 percent of Senegalese voters participated in a constitutional referendum that President Macky Sall chose to initiate halfway through his first presidential term. Of those who voted, 63 percent approved proposed amendments to Senegal’s constitution that were promoted by the president and his ruling coalition as 15 major propositions “to modernize the political regime, reinforce good governance and consolidate rule of law.” The propositions included reducing the presidential term from seven to five years, lowering barriers to independent candidacy in all types of elections, designating the leader of the largest parliamentary party as “head of opposition” and increasing the number of Constitutional Council members while diversifying their mode of appointment. These amendments might further democratic consolidation in Senegal, which has long enjoyed a reputation as a beacon of democracy in the region. But the politics of the referendum have been more complex than a mere “up or down” vote on strengthening certain aspects of Senegalese democracy.
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March 20, a day some analysts dubbed “Africa’s Super Sunday,” included a referendum in Senegal on the question of whether to reduce presidential terms from seven to five years. By the next day, both the press and the government were projecting a sweeping victory for the “yes” camp. The divisions surrounding the vote may seem strange at first: President Macky Sall and his supporters favored the reduction, while opposition parties opposed it. Sall emerges from the referendum battle politically strengthened. He can put a nagging controversy behind him, and he positions himself to approach the next election on his own terms. The issue of presidential term limits looms large across Africa, but it has unusual parameters in Senegal. Elsewhere, the issue centers on the question of term limits, while in Senegal there has been controversy about both limits and length. Sall’s predecessor, Abdoulaye Wade, was elected to a seven-year term in 2000, but a new constitution in 2001 reduced the length of subsequent presidential terms to five years. Wade was re-elected in 2007, and the following year Senegal’s National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment reverting to seven-year presidential terms. Wade then went back on an earlier pledge and ran again in 2012, claiming that the constitutionally imposed two-term limit, passed in 2001, did not apply to his first term. That controversy was settled at the ballot box rather than in the courts, with Sall’s victory, but the issue of term length has lingered in Senegal.
Senegalese residents on Sunday voted on a constitutional referendum that could see sweeping constitutional reforms including a reduction of presidential powers and terms from seven to five years, on a continent where many leaders try to hold onto power. More than 5 million people are expected to vote Sunday to determine if 15 reforms will be adopted, according to the election commission. The proposed changes include measures to strengthen the National Assembly, improve representation for Senegalese abroad, provide greater rights for the opposition and boost participation of independent candidates in elections. “We are a modern African democracy. Today in Africa, many countries impose mandates. Here we are giving referendums for which people can say yes or no,” said voter Mamadou Diagne, 58, a human resources representative at an oil company. “It’s very satisfying to be a Senegalese today.” Diagne said all of the reforms represent advancement.
The political barometer in Senegal is getting higher and tenser by the day as the country approaches a crucial referendum scheduled to be held on March 20 on 15 proposals for amendment of the Constitution submitted by President Macky Sall. It would be recalled that during his campaign for the presidential elections in 2012, President Sall…
New and more inclusive elections in November have been proposed as military leaders said the general behind the coup will lead the country during the transitional period. The proposed plan will be taken up Tuesday in Abuja, Nigeria, by West African member states of the regional bloc known as Ecowas. The announcement by Senegal’s President Macky Sall comes after a day fraught with tensions that began with an attack by pro-coup demonstrators and elite presidential guard soldiers on the hotel hosting the talks. Earlier in the day, angry protesters had clashed outside the hotel where negotiations were taking place, with some shouting: “No to Diendere! No to military rule!”
Mediators in Burkina Faso’s political crisis proposed new and more inclusive elections in November, though the military that seized power in a coup last week indicated Sunday it still wants its general to lead the country during any transitional period. That could prove to be a serious sticking point after a draft agreement was released late Sunday following two days of talks led by the presidents of Senegal and Benin. The proposed plan will be taken up Tuesday in Abuja, Nigeria, by West African member states of the regional bloc known as ECOWAS. Senegalese President Macky Sall, who helped lead the weekend talks, said the draft was the result of discussions with all parties. “We have two ways out here: The first one is through peace…that will lead to an end of the crisis through fair and democratic elections,” Mr. Sall said, adding that the other route would lead to “chaos.”
Senegal’s new President Macky Sall has won a huge majority in legislative elections, official results show. His Benno Bokk Yakaar (United in Hope) coalition won 119 of the 150 seats. The Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) of former President Abdoulaye Wade gained only 12 seats, while a breakaway PDS faction won four seats. After 12 years in power, Mr Wade was defeated by Mr Sall in March’s tense elections which saw at least six people killed in anti-Wade protests.
A coalition backing new Senegalese President Macky Sall was poised to win majority seats in parliament, according to provisional results reported by local media on Sunday after legislative elections in the west African country. Early counts reported by Senegal’s APS news agency showed that Sall’s Alliance for the Republic party (APR) and the Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition were leading in several constituencies across the country. Results on APS’s website showed that the leading coalition had won the vote in several major districts including Thies, Kaolack, St. Louis and the capital Dakar. Complete provisional results are expected by Tuesday.
Senegal’s President Macky Sall is seeking to win a parliamentary majority in a July 1 election to push ahead with plans to combat corruption and cut government spending. Sall, 51, leads the Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition that’s running for the National Assembly’s 150 seats. The main challengers are the Parti Democratique Senegalaise, headed by ex-President Abdoulaye Wade, and the Bokk Gis Gis coalition led by the current head of the parliament’s upper house, Pape Diop. The president needs control of parliament to help implement changes, such as audits of government departments, that he’s made since defeating 86-year-old Wade in a March presidential election, said Abdou Fall, a Senegal analyst at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa.
Campaigning begins in Senegal on Sunday ahead of next month’s legislative polls, with the former ruling party crying foul over corruption probes launched against key members after the election of President Macky Sall. Twenty-four lists of parties and party coalitions are contesting the July 1 elections, in which voters will pick 150 lawmakers for a five-year mandate. The polls mark the first popularity test for Sall, who won the March 25 presidential election run-off against Abdoulaye Wade, ending his 12 years in power. Sall’s presidential coalition is favourite to win the legislative polls. But the former ruling Democratic Party of Senegal (PDS) has accused the new administration of harassing its members in the run-up to the elections.
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Teaching U.S. election law in the shadow of a presidential election is an election law professor’s dream. There is no better backdrop for the material or more engaging context to capture student interest in the subject. However, as I also teach a comparative election law course that examines election law issues internationally, I had a difficult time deciding which to offer this fall in light of the seemingly record number of presidential and legislative elections this year. On no other continent is this cloudburst of elections more evident than in Africa. The concentration of African elections is owing not just to Africa having more countries and democracies than any other continent; rather, the combination of the Arab spring and the happenstance of calendrical synchronicity has yielded a mother lode of elections on the continent. Africa is evidence that, against many odds, democracy is at work. In the United States, democracy works in large part because of deeply entrenched historical values and a multiplicity of modern interests that depend on democratic institutions. Indeed, in much of the Western world, democracy enjoys a worn expectation as a successful form of governance. In modern Africa, however, democracy increasingly prevails because the lion’s share of its inhabitants is moving steadfastly and stubbornly against authoritarianism and the one-party state in hopes for a fairer, freer, and more equal form of government. Simply put, democracy in Africa grows from the same soil of revolution and idealism that nourished the seeds of U.S. democracy nearly three centuries ago. For those of us interested in the study of democracy, Africa is a place to watch in 2012.
Senegal’s new president won the runoff election in a landslide, garnering nearly twice as many votes as the incumbent of 12 years, according to provisional results released Tuesday. Senegalese officials announced that Macky Sall had won 65.80 percent of ballots cast in Sunday’s runoff ballot, benefiting from a united opposition in the second round of voting. Incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade won 34.20 percent of the vote — slightly less than his percentage in the first round last month. It marked a sharp drop-off from the last presidential race in 2007, when he easily won the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff. “It’s a landslide victory for President Macky Sall,” said Mbaye Ndiaye, who represents the opposition coalition that supported Sall in the runoff.
The moment that crystallized this nation’s reputation as one of Africa’s established democracies was in the morning after the presidential election 12 years ago. In the neoclassical presidential palace, Senegalese President Abdou Diouf stayed awake all night, counting and recounting the results that showed in no uncertain terms that he had lost. Mr. Diouf could have rigged the election from the start, as his neighbor to the north in Mauritania had the habit of doing. He could have stacked the court in charge of validating the election with supporters, the strategy his neighbor to the south in Ivory Coast would put to good use one day. He could have deployed the army to keep his grasp on power like in nearby Guinea, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau – all of which share a border with Senegal, a nation of 12.4 million on Africa’s western edge. Instead, the 64-year-old president emerged from his office, told his aides to draft a statement conceding defeat and picked up the phone to congratulate the man who had beaten him, Abdoulaye Wade.
Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade accused the foreign powers that lined up against his bid for a third term of being dupes on Sunday after casting his ballot in the West African state’s most contentious poll in its recent history. The 85-year-old leader, whose bid to extend his rule triggered deadly street riots in the normally peaceful country ahead of a February first round, was urged by the United States and France not to run. He is expected to face a tough challenge from rival Macky Sall, a former ally and prime minister who has won the support of Senegal’s myriad opposition parties since taking second place in the February vote.
Senegalese superstar Youssou Ndour, who has lent his golden voice to politics, hit the campaign trail a week before run-off polls to rally support for presidential challenger Macky Sall. Ndour, along with all 12 presidential candidates who fell out of the country’s electoral race in a first round of voting, are campaigning hard for Sall, to block a controversial third term bid by 85-year-old incumbent Abdoulaye Wade. The Grammy-award winning artist has been at the forefront of this campaign since his own attempt to run for office was thwarted by the constitutional court which said he did not have enough signatures supporting his candidacy.

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Over the past four years residents and businesses in Bankside have been developing a new vision for the Bankside neighbourhood, which has been convened by Bankside Neighbourhood Forum.
Complementing the Bankside referendum process is an exhibition of recent work by artist Adrian Chappell and photographer George Nicholson.
The exhibition showcases over 60 digital drawings and photographs (many depicting the original Bankside Power Station and adjoining neighbourhood in the late 19th century) to explore Bankside’s ‘past in the present’. A programme of talks in the gallery and guided walks around Bankside are planned to complement the exhibition.
The exhibition’s imagery and storylines are derived from Bankside’s changing industrial landscapes dating from the late 18th century to the present day. It also includes some of stories behind the key individuals, events and organisations in the Bankside neighbourhood over the last 40 years
As well as the materials on display, Bankside neighbourhood organisations will be setting out the proposals in the new neighbourhood plan which will be subject to a public ballot later in the year. Also complementing the show, will be a series of ‘Open Studio’ sessions taking place on 3 June as part of the London Festival of Architecture, based around some of the key individuals and events in the more recent past that have literally shaped Bankside’s future.
Visit curiouscurators.org.uk to browse some of the images and stories which will form part of the exhibition.
London Festival of Architecture 2017 – Open Studio – Saturday 3 June
Responding to London Festival of Architecture’s theme of ‘memory’ the exhibition features two free talks under the title “Tales from the River Bank”. Led by George Nicholson and some of those directly involved in the regeneration of Bankside, the talks explore images and stories of Bankside’s recent ‘past into the present’ – and its far-reaching impacts.
- 12-1pm: From Abercrombie to Ernie’s Beach – making it happen
- 3-4pm: From Coin Street to Kolkata – a tale of two pizza restaurants

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How to cite this article: Smets EMA, Stam MMH, Meulenkamp TM, van Langen IM, Wilde AAM, Wiegman A, de Wert GM, Tibben A. 2008. Health-related quality of life of children with a positive carrier status for inherited cardiovascular diseases. Am J Med Genet Part A 146A:700–707.
Health-related quality of life of children with a positive carrier status for inherited cardiovascular diseases†
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Smets, E. M.A., Stam, M. M.H., Meulenkamp, T. M., van Langen, I. M., Wilde, A. A.M., Wiegman, A., de Wert, G. M. and Tibben, A. (2008), Health-related quality of life of children with a positive carrier status for inherited cardiovascular diseases. Am. J. Med. Genet., 146A: 700–707. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32218
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2 edition of War Without End found in the catalog.
War Without End
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World Without End is a best-selling novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. It is the second book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to 's The Pillars of the Earth.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin Powell Wednesday presented ChevronTexaco with the Secretary of State's 2003 Award for Corporate Excellence for its corporate citizenship in Nigeria.
"We applaud Chevron Nigeria's commitment to its employees, and to the people of the Niger Delta. More than a good corporate citizen, Chevron Nigeria is a good neighbor, and a model of excellence and trust," noted Powell in his remarks.
ChevronTexaco Chairman and CEO David J. O'Reilly accepted the award on behalf of the company's Nigeria-based employees, Chevron Nigeria Ltd., partners and contractors at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.
"We will continue our efforts to harness our human, financial and technical resources to help communities where we work. The power of partnership has great strength to create and sustain positive change," said O'Reilly.
The Award for Corporate Excellence recognizes the important role U.S. businesses play abroad as good corporate citizens. The Secretary of State's office selected ChevronTexaco for initiatives in Nigeria including:
* A March 2003 airlift of 2,000 villagers to safety who were fleeing civil strife after their homes were destroyed.
* Establishment of a river boat clinic, which provides on-board medical treatment to thousands of residents.
* The Chevron Workplace AIDS Prevention Program which focuses on peer education, community-based prevention and training for supervisors.
* Furnishings and equipment for 54 schools which have improved student attendance and performance.


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Western Cape gives parched Karoo farmers a R50m lifeline
Drought-hit Karoo farmers will be given R50m in emergency funding to buy fodder for their livestock, the Western Cape government said on Wednesday.
Finance MEC David Maynier and agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer said the money would go to farmers in the Central Karoo, Matzikamma and Little Karoo areas.
"This drought will be felt for years to come - especially in the rural areas, where agriculture is the main generator of the Western Cape economy," said Maynier.
"The socio-economic impact on farm workers and farming communities would be significant should the agricultural activity in the Western Cape collapse."
Meyer said the provincial government had asked the national agriculture department for an additional R147m in drought support.
"The Western Cape department of agriculture will also make a further R100,000 available to extend its current humanitarian support by providing pastoral and psychological support to farmers and farm workers," he said.
“Currently, 125 households and 625 individuals in Kannaland are benefiting from food parcels ... and 666 agri-workers in Kannaland, Matzikamma and other affected districts are also benefiting from our extended public works green opportunities programme.”
A drought assessment by the provincial government in March found that the northern part of the West Coast district, the entire Central Karoo and parts of the Eden, Cape Winelands and Overberg districts were still struggling with severe drought.
In many areas, no natural vegetation had survived the drought, planted pastures and fodder banks had been exhausted, surplus animals had been culled and farmers were confronted with selling breeding stock to survive.
The MECs said they feared that farmers would not have the capital or other resources to rebuild their farms when the drought ended. As a result, job security and food security in these areas was under threat.
At least three years of average or above-average rainfall are needed to recover from the drought.
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I made this skirt ages ago and just got around to post it. I had this vision of this skirt in parachute fabric and i had to walk ,practicably into every store in the street in order to find the fabric of my dreams ( which happens quite a lot actually ), eventually i found it and it was certainly worth it.
It gives the skirt that certain crispiness which i was looking for. I gave it a light blue sateen lining
which gives it a slight glow threw the white fabric and n extra body. Beside gathering all the materials, it was an easy project to make. While taking the pictures, my dear cat was posing around me, so i honored her with a pic of her own.
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Oral Health For Your Pet
February is officially pet dental month. Sponsored by AVMA to highlight the neglect of oral care by pet owners. Not a week goes past that i don't hear from a customer that their vet wants hundreds of dollars for a dental cleaning and now they want a chew or toothpaste to fix the problem overnight. The reality is that pet oral care is no different than human care. Daily care is required and regular examines by a vet. Bacteria build up can affect a pets overall health from the liver and kidneys to heart health.
Consistency is key. My advice is always pick the product that you find easiest to use therefore you are more likely to use it frequently. If you’re not going to brush your pet’s teeth at least a few times a week don't buy a toothbrush. If you’re dealing with a sensitive stomach or over weight pet don't buy a dental chew. There are multiple types of products on the market today so choose one that fits your time, budget and pet.
I am not one who wants to fight my dogs with a toothbrush every day. They get groomed once a month and we brush their teeth then. So for regular maintenance I add enzymes to their water. Couldn’t be easier and i get 60 day supply for $17.99. The dental chew is always the most popular product, and why not it doubles as a treat and pets love them. Make sure you are using a quality proven product, just like pet food there are a lot of poor quality chews that are not at all effective out there. The reason I went away from chews is that one of my dogs is picky and won't eat them consistently.
Bone, bully sticks, hide chews etc. while not having oral health ingredients are a good way for dogs to scrape their teeth and remove tartar build up. Make sure your dog is using all his teeth to chew therefore not leaving some untreated. A good trick is to get an oversized bone that they have to try harder to get their mouth around. That makes them use their whole mouth.
Good nutrition is key to a heathy mouth. Processed food will always play a large part in plaque and tartar build up. So being proactive with oral care is important. One of my biggest pet peeves, excuse the pun, is that kibble cleans teeth. It actually causes the bulk of the problem. Does eating a crunchy cereal keep the dentist away? I doubt it and my dentist has never recommended it as a good solution. Fresh or raw feeding eliminates additives in the food and regulates gut bacteria much more effectively thus reducing the buildup of tartar causing bacteria’s keeping the mouth healthier.
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A Look Inside Verizon’s Flooded Communications Hub
Eleven years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Verizon Communications Inc. is once again scrambling to repair severe damage to a key switching facility inside its historic headquarters building in lower Manhattan.
The massive facility for interconnecting key communications lines sustained heavy damage after planes struck the Twin Towers more than a decade ago. This time the enemy was water shoved ashore by Hurricane Sandy.
The building is one of the worst hit of a number of facilities that carriers were rushing to fix Wednesday. The Federal Communications Commission said the number of cellphone tower outages dropped on the second day after the storm made landfall, with just over a fifth of the sites in storm-affected areas in the Northeast offline, down from about a quarter on Tuesday.
Phone companies supplemented those efforts with extraordinary measures to bolster service. Wireless carriers AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA, for example, said they would switch each others’ customers between their networks depending on which was in better shape in a particular area.
The steps came as cellphone users around the New York City area reported more trouble keeping and completing calls as businesses started to open back up and people tried to go about their workdays. The FCC said pockets of serious damage remain that will take a long time to repair.
The depth of the challenges facing telecom providers was on display inside Verizon’s facilities in lower Manhattan.
The company’s headquarters—a key communications hub just north of the World Trade Center site at 140 West Street—was in a state of crisis not seen since the 9/11 attacks, which partially destroyed the building.
Mud still covered parts of the ornate lobby. Down below, 3½ floors of the building’s five-level basement were still submerged, the brackish water sloshing up the walls of the stairwell.
Verizon employees said Monday night’s storm surge was so powerful that it breached the protective plugs that surround cables coming into the building. As a result, water flooded the critical basement “cable vault” that takes in communications cables and directs them to switching gear upstairs, which wasn’t damaged. On Wednesday, Verizon employees took a reporter inside the vault, illuminating the huge dark room with flashlights. The cables were still damp, and leaves littered the floor.
At another Verizon switching facility downtown, on Broad Street, the situation was even worse. Water had flooded critical electrical equipment, leaving the entire building inoperable.
“There is nothing working here,” said Mr. Melone. “Quite frankly, this is wider than the impacts of 9/11.”
Telecom hubs like Verizon’s flooded buildings downtown act as collecting points for phone and data traffic, serving as key “nodes” in the phone network. Mr. Melone said that area landline customers, cellphone users, and businesses like the New York Stock Exchange were served by Verizon’s hubs downtown.
Verizon said it had built in enough redundancy to be able to operate its network in a limited way. Mr. Melone said it was still able to provide service to the stock exchange on Wednesday, and that cellphone service was improving.
Outside the Broad Street facility, water being pumped out of the basement was rushing down the street as Verizon executives, including Mr. Melone and Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, oversaw the efforts of scores of workers. The entrance to the darkened building was held open with a sandbag.
At 140 West, Mr. Veltri and other Verizon officials had to take unusual measures. Mr. Veltri said no one expected the water to flood as much of the building as it did. The force of the storm surge was so strong that it bent the 86-year-old Art Deco skyscraper’s steel and bronze doors. To pump out the water, workers stuck a pipe down an elevator shaft.


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By Isabel Reviejo
Ensenada, Mexico, Jun 25 (EFE).- Ideal climatic conditions and the effervescence of a new vintage still forging its own identity from grapes that flourish in the Valle de Guadalupe are elements of certain Mexican wines that come as a welcome surprise to the palate.
Valle de Guadalupe in the northwestern state of Baja California covers around 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres) of vineyards that run along an approximately 25-kilometer (16-mile) corridor.
The history of viticulture in this state goes back to the 18th century when Jesuits arrived and began planting grapevines.
However, the success of the region is a relatively recent phenomenon, having taken off with the consolidation of the Wine Route less than 10 years ago.
The Valle currently produces 90 percent of Mexican wines and has turned the Ensenada municipality into a key spot for oenotourism.
“One of Valle de Guadalupe’s charms is that almost all of us here are first generation, regardless of our age,” Fernando Perez Castro, whose family owns the La Carrodilla and La Lomita vineyards, told EFE.
In his case, the focus in on four varietals – Chenin Blanc, Shiraz, Cabernet and Tempranillo – as well as on having the grape reflect “what is really happening in the countryside…without being too manipulated in the winemaking and aging process.”
A few kilometers from there are the vineyards of Amado Garza, who told EFE that the difference between wines from Baja California and other parts of Mexico is the climate, which assures the crops “an incredible phenolic ripening.”
“That’s why Baja California wines have such a fine structure and, obviously, so much alcohol,” Garza said.
According to figures from the Mexican Winemaking Council,” the per capita consumption of wine in Mexico is 750 milliliters, and in recent years has grown between 8-12 percent annually.
Foreign wines are still preferred: 70 percent of the wine imbibed in the country is imported, mostly from France, Spain, Argentina and Chile.
Consumers of Mexican wines tend to be a younger segment since they don’t necessarily favor foreign wines, but rather appreciate “things that are made well in our country” and have a sufficiently “open mind” to try something new.
“If you want a wine to surprise you, I’d say a Mexican wine would be your best choice,” Perez Castro said.


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Application form for Iowa's TAP funds
Iowa’s Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) is a new iteration of the former Transportation Enhancements (later Transportation Alternatives) program that has been in existence since 1991. The most recent transportation authorization act, Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, was enacted in 2015. Implementation of this act placed further restrictions on the selection of projects for funding under the federal TAP program structure which has led Iowa to implement a modified version of the federal program. Eligible project activities for Iowa’s TAP funding continue to include a variety of smaller-scale transportation projects such as pedestrian and bicycle facilities, recreational trails, safe routes to school projects, and community improvements such as historic preservation, vegetation management, and some environmental mitigation related to storm water and habitat connectivity. Detailed information about Iowa’s TAP program may be found in the program guidance.
Iowa’s TAP program can be accessed in two ways. Statewide and multi-regional projects should apply directly to the Iowa DOT by October 1 annually for consideration in the Statewide TAP program. Access to funding for smaller, local projects is dependent on geographic location. Iowa’s Transportation Management Areas (TMA), Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO), and Regional Planning Affiliations (RPA) will select local projects for funding. In support of the state’s history of encouraging regional planning through these organizations, a majority of funding is distributed to them to directly select projects locally. With the goal of distributing funding as equitably as possible across the state, the Iowa DOT retains $1 million annually to administer a Statewide TAP program, geared toward statewide or multi-regional projects, while targeting the remaining funding to the TMAs, MPOs, and RPAs through the Local Projects TAP program. The map below will provide application submittal deadlines based on the project location.


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English National Ballet’s Cinderella in-the-round reimagines the rags-to-riches story as a stunning fairy tale for our times.
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella, choreographer Christopher Wheeldon develops a quirky narrative centred around humanity and nature. In short, Cinderella’s compassion, creativity and courage – combined with a little mystical assistance from her dearly departed mother – help her make her own magic.
Wheeldon devised his imaginative interpretation in 2012, as a co-production between Dutch National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. He has revisited it for English National Ballet, restaging it as Cinderella in-the-round at the Royal Albert Hall.
The Royal Albert Hall is a gloriously distinctive London venue, renowned for its domed roof, regal interior and vast oval-shaped performance platform. Unlike a traditional proscenium arch auditorium, the seating curves around the stage. This is unconventional for ballet so creates extra choreographic challenges. Nonetheless, English National Ballet has previously presented epic adaptations of Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Albert Hall to great acclaim. Cinderella in-the-round is a third triumphant rendering for this majestic setting.
Such a substantial space showcases Wheeldon’s gift for using fluid movement to generate swirling patterns of ensemble dancers. They flood the stage with colour and charisma when embodying the changing seasons in the first act. Later, they grandly sweep across the dancefloor as waltzing courtiers in the palace ballroom.
More profound moments between key players do not translate quite as effectively in-the-round, simply because they are dwarfed by the surroundings. This is a minor grumble though; the central characters are generally well-developed and always beautifully danced.
The title character is presented as a forlorn but resilient girl who must cope with losing her mother to tuberculosis and being persecuted by a stepmother and two stepsisters. Cinderella spends her childhood visiting her mother’s grave and, from the tears she cries, a magnificent tree grows. This tree, four Fates who watch over Cinders, and an assortment of weird and wonderful forest creatures all help Cinderella grow into a kind-hearted young woman who appreciates and understands the miraculous dance of life. Exactly the type of girl a down-to-earth prince could easily fall in love with.
It is a touching tale, exquisitely told through three acts of captivating dance and impressive stage craft. Lavishly detailed digital projections are accompanied by a few striking pieces of scenery that are rolled into the performance space. Truly magical moments transpire with deceptive ease, particularly when Cinderella’s horse-drawn carriage is conjured up by the dancers with little more than four wheels and a billowing sheet of golden yellow silk.
Without a doubt, Cinderella in-the-round is a thoroughly enjoyable narrative ballet, staged in an incredible venue. It has all the humour, inventiveness and intrigue needed to make it equally engaging for children and grown-ups. The dancing is dazzling. Prokofiev’s dramatic score is played live, to stirring perfection, by English National Ballet Philharmonic. And the crystal-clear storytelling intelligibly communicates the power of love; maternal love, self-love and romantic love.
Watching this ballet is a surprisingly intimate and immersive experience considering the cavernous arena it is performed in. What’s more, thanks to the diverse entrances and exits Wheeldon incorporates, dancers regularly glide past those of us lucky enough to be seated in the stalls.
You almost feel as if you could get up and join them – quite an appropriate feeling for a ballet about seizing the day and making the most of an invitation to a ball!
* Cinderella in-the-round campaign photography by Jason Bell.
* Cinderella in-the-round production photography by Laurent Liotardo and Ian Gavan.
I watched the Friday 7 June matinee performance, with first soloist Emma Hawes as Cinderella and principal Francesco Gabriele Frola as Prince Guillaume (both debuting in their respective roles).
English National Ballet’s Cinderella continues at the Royal Albert Hall until Sunday 16 June 2019.
English National Ballet returns to Milton Keynes Theatre in November 2019 with Le Corsaire.
Le Corsaire is a thrilling ballet about Conrad, a dashing pirate, and his love for feisty Medora, a beautiful harem girl. This swashbuckling drama features plenty of adventures on the high seas – kidnap and rescue, disguise and conspiracy, love and betrayal. Not to mention a breathtaking shipwreck.
Although Le Corsaire is a classic story ballet with many celebrated passages which are often extracted and performed independently, English National Ballet is the only UK company to perform it in its entirety. The company’s extravagant production has enthralled audiences across the world since its world premiere at Milton Keynes Theatre in October 2013.
*Le Corsaire production photography by Laurent Liotardo.
English National Ballet will perform Le Corsaire at Milton Keynes Theatre from Wednesday 20 until Saturday 23 November 2019.
This review is also featured on Total MK.
Georgina Butler is an editor, a dance writer and a ballet teacher.

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