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Review Category ‘Guitar’
Friday the 13th was certainly a lucky day for patrons of the BJC. A fabulous night featuring the dulcet and smooth as velvet vocals of Robyn Brown and the international guitarist and favourite of the BJC Libor Smoldas (Prague). Backed by a superb line up of OJ Newcomb on bass, Jason Bray on drums and Marnix Van Bruggen on piano this was a slick night of Jazz, Blues and Gospel launching their “Touch of Blue Tour”.
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The Ravi Welsh Trio hosted an evening of guitar heaven.
Bruce Woodward – Guitar
Atienne Bakker – Guitar. This pair played a selection of lovely, melodic jazz standards. The beautifully haunting, skilful guitars unencumbered by other instruments made a pleasant change from traditional lineups.
Davis Orr – Guitar
Chris Pearson – Bass
Mark Henman – Drums
The second set was quite a contrast to the first. The music was real bluesy with great vocals by David and Chris. Mark as usual played brilliant drums.
This was the debut performance at the BJC for Atienne, a very accomplished young guitarist, who was supported by of some of Brisbane’s finest musicians. The guys played a superb variety of contemporary jazz from the likes of such composers as Wes Montgomery, George Benson and John Scofield.
Throughout the sets there were some brilliant solos from all the players. Particularly impressive was when sax and guitar combined to play the melody in unison.
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The Hot Jazz Alliance with Andy Schumm, from USA on cornet and piano, Michael McQuaid on clarinet and alto sax, Leigh Barker on bass, Josh Duffee, from USA on drums, Jason Downes on clarinet, John Scurry on guitar and banjo.
This superlative sextet transported us back to that Art Deco time when Jazz was king. They dazzled us with tunes, played superbly, from the roaring twenties. Michael took the role of Emcee for the band and was charming and funny, engaging with the audience. He and…

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Jungle Brothers Biography
It's hard to believe it's been ten years since the Jungle Brothers and their Native Tongues movement swept hip-hop off its feet. Ten tumultuous years, some gloriously high, some depressingly low, but while others of their ilk have foundered and fallen by the wayside, the Jungle Brothers soldier on. In a genre where many talk of longevity, but few attain that level of durability, the Jungle Brothers have achieved just that without succumbing to passing fads that slide snake-like in and out of rap. They remain true to themselves and their beloved art.
If, as pundits claim, hip-hop is going through a creative crisis, the Jungle Brothers don't seem to have noticed and it certainly hasn't affected them in the slightest. As they step back into the rap arena with their newest album, the aptly named, Raw Deluxe, a twelve-cut smorgasbord of beats, rhymes and good vibes aplenty, there's much reason to celebrate. The JBs are back in full effect.
"The name is pretty much self-explanatory..." explains the amicable Mike." It's the sweetest of the seed. The purest of the pure.""We definitely wanted to produce hip- hop of the highest quality." Afrika Baby Bam interjects. "It took a while, but I think we achieved what we set out to do and I think the public is more than ready..."
The seeds that spawned the Jungle Brothers were formed during hip-hop's halcyon days. With the bright graffiti on the city's street corners, parks and trains as a surreal backdrop and Afrika Bambaataa, Treacherous Three and the Cold Crush Brothers prov iding the soundtrack, the JBs were religiously soaking up rap by osmosis. Rappers Nathaniel 'Afrika Baby Bam' Hall and Mike G met while attending Manhattan's Murray Bergtraum H.S. and often hit block parties together. When the two MCs decided to enter the school talent show, they enlisted the spinning services of Sammy B a/k/a Sweet Daddy and, to use a well-worn cliche, history was made.
"We knew Red Alert because he was Mike's Uncle. Red used to DJ at the Roxy and had just started doing a show on New York's KISS FM," Sammy explains. "He used to take us to all of his gigs and up to KISS FM with him." After watching him, Sammy hooked up some old mitch match turntables and started DJing. With Red's encouragement and support, Sammy became good enough to fill in when Red was out of town. Red eventually got them into the studio to record their first demo and brought them to Warlock Records where they got their first deal.
Paying their dues and proving themselves on New York's unmercifully hard talent circuit, as well as doing promos on mentor and longtime friend Red Alert's radio show, the trio amassed a respectable underground following. The JBs eventually decided to make the transition from talent show performers to recording artists. In a small studio tucked away in Coney Island, the Jungle Brothers produced Straight Out Of The Jungle which spawned the titillating jams "Jimbrowski," an affection ode to man's best friend, and "Because I like It Like That" as well as the seminal hip-house single, "I'll House You," a huge European hit, which resulted in their first trip to Europe, where they were promoted by Jon Baker's independent label Gee Street Records. On their triumphant return to the States, rather than rest on their laurels, the trio went back to the studio to record the groundbreaking Done By The Forces Of Nature (1990).
On the Warner Brothers imprint, this time they enlisted a group of friends that were on the same creative wavelength: De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Monie Love and Queen Latifah. The result was the loose, but influential collective known as the Native Tongues. While the album didn't rack up the sales units everyone expected, creatively it is still considered a hip-hop classic with its positive, highly inspirational pro-black messages.
After a three-year hiatus The Jungle Brothers released JBeez Wit Da Remedy, which marked a change in direction for the JBs. Though the album achieved some success with the rough and ready "40 Below Trooper," the NYC based trio decided to step away from the plate and rethink their strategy. The demise of the JBs was never an option.
"Initially, with Warner Brothers we jumped in because we saw gold. Getting there you realize the workings of a corporate label is nothing like an independent. We were four or five years with Warner, they spoiled us, then it was over. We made our mistakes, but we've learned from them." Mike G continues, "What we have, the reason we're still around comes from friendship. If we weren't friends and were just doing this for the money, we would have broken up by now. For us being in the Jungle Brothers is all about friendship, we just kept our heads together and looked forward."
Raw Deluxe marks the Jungle Brothers' return. It sees them a little older, much wiser and mature, something that reflected in their work. "We're family men now, which makes us more responsible about what we say and do. We realize what we do is consequential, so we watch what we say and do. We respect ourselves and others, but that doesn't mean we have softened, on the contrary!," Mike says. Afrika and Sammy nod in agreement.
And of their new home at Gee Street Records? "We're old friends, it feels like coming home." Afrika smiles. "When we deal with them it's business, but we know they'll work the project to the best of their ability."
Packed with veritable gems like "How You Want It," "Where You Wanna Go" and the JBs favorite "Moving Along," Raw Deluxe has a fresh, spontaneous feel to it. The album is mainly produced by the Jungle Brothers, with the exception of tracks produced by Roc Raider, Djinji Brown and The Roots.
"We're new, we're born again. That vibe, that feeling that's present on the album isn't forced, it's all totally natural." Afrika explains. "It runs right through us. On Raw Deluxe there's spontaneity, the moods, messages and beats all lock in together."
After ten years, the Jungle Brothers show no signs of slowing down, they can trounce their opponents and still rock a party with the freshness of their formative years and that's just how they like it.
"We've been through growing pains, but we've come through them constantly building our friendship, that's why we're still together after all these years. I'm happy with where I am and I believe that Mike and Sammy are too," says Afrika.
Mike continues, "When we're here another ten years from now, come see us. That's what we're working towards. We're in the middle of our careers, we still have a lot we want to do. We can think like that because we've come through a lot still standing, that comes from true friendship.
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Strategic benchmarking study for the pharmaceutical branch
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Project objectives :
- Provide a benchmark analysis on national and international competitors/markets to help tunisian companies to position themselves against worldwide competition, thus allowing them to develop a strategy aiming at improving their competitiveness.
- Report on current statut of the branch's activity in Tunisia and weigh its current level of development compared to selected foreign countries.
- Analysis of the main economic and institutional data
Project implementation :
Branch's presentation and evolution during the past 5 years
- Analysis of current worldwide situation :
- market segmentation,
- evolution by country,
- R&D, licensing policy, "in licensing",
- the new industrial strategy,
- benchmark studies,
- threats and opportunities.
- Tunisan market survey :
- the health sector :
- medical structures, the Government's objectives, life expectancy, organisation of the branch, healthcare expenditures,
- foreign trade,
- product lines manufactured in Tunisia,
- legal environment and regulation:
- social security,
- market authorizations,
- controls and inspections,
- sale prices,
- The pharmaceutical market in Tunisia :
- size and outlook,
- market analysis by products, manufacturers, geographical zones,
- distribution networking, organisation, status, margins;
- numbers, rank, marketshare, geographical distribution,
- partnerships, exports, national market,
- manufacturing infrastructure,
- Governement's role.
- Market outlooks.
Development strategy for the tunisian pharmaceutical branch and action plan
- identification of promising niches/markets,
- manufacturing, exports,
- distribution network,
- regulations and generic products,
- recommendations for the branch upgrading (tangible and intangible aspects, global approach, identification of a marketing plan, relations with the authorities).
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The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet - Germany
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was one of the most exciting war planes ever built.
It made it's first flight in 1941 but due to it's radical design, it didn't enter service until 1944.
The Komet was powered by a rocket engine and could climb up to 9140 metres in two and a half minutes.
But it did have an unquenchable thirst for fuel and it could only fly for ten minutes before it needed to be re-fueled.
To reduce weight, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet had a detachable undercarriage, and to be able to land it had to skid on its belly.
But it's life was short lived as by the time they were introduced into service, the Nazi's were staring at defeat.


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First trading platform to allow simultaneous execution of multiple bonds in one package with a single counterparty
“Our portfolio trading functionality showcases Tradeweb’s unique ability to connect innovative technology with deep pools of liquidity to create greater efficiency for our clients,” said
“The expansion of our portfolio trading solution is a significant step forward for the execution of credit bonds in Europe,” said
Portfolio trading at Tradeweb enables institutional investors to package hundreds of European Credit bonds in one basket, negotiate a portfolio level price with multiple liquidity providers, and execute in a single transaction. Clients can include both buy and sell orders for individual bonds within the same portfolio trade, which allows for more efficient and timely execution. They are also able to minimise information leakage by sending orders directly to a designated portfolio trader, and reduce the risk of human error inherent in manual types of trading, thanks to end-to-end electronic workflows.
“Tradeweb’s portfolio trading solution provides the investment management community with an effective way to access liquidity for bonds that may be difficult to trade unless they are part of a package,” said
Although portfolio trading has been available in equities markets for many years, buy-side firms have now become more active in adopting the strategy of simultaneously transferring large amounts of credit risk. One of the key drivers for its increasing adoption by institutional traders is the growth of fixed income ETF assets, which has prompted higher numbers of dealers pricing thousands of bonds in real-time to facilitate the ETF creation and redemption process.
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Natalie Groom on Producing for Tonya Burton's "Reger Three Suites"
I like to say if you find someone you can make music with, be friends with, and do business with, you need to hold on to that person forever. Tonya Burton is one of those remarkable people. Having been a musical collaborator and friend of Tonya’s for a while, this year I had the pleasure of hearing her work from a producer’s perspective during recording sessions of her debut album: Reger Three Suites for solo viola.
Tonya and I met in 2019 while we were doctoral students at the University of Maryland, College Park. I was preparing a clarinet recital and needed a violist collaborator; Tonya was new to UMCP and came highly recommended by another good friend and violist. She was on board with my mission to program music by women composers, and that concert is what brought us together. We performed Prelude, Allegro, and Pastorale by Rebecca Clarke and Shades of Violet by Jenni Brandon. I remember our performance of the Clarke vividly because it’s a very intimate and introspective piece; Tonya treated it incredibly sensitively, and I heard this same musical thoughtfulness reappear two years later in her Reger recording sessions.
We started gigging together and eventually became the Natonya Duo. Standing to her left through many rehearsals and performances, I learned her sound concept and saw the unique individuality she brought to each piece, so I was delighted to work with her on the producer side this past spring during her recording project. Having known her playing well and having already developed a clear picture in my mind of the “Tonya sound,” I felt comfortable and equipped to help shape the artistic product (along with recording engineer/producer Neil Brown and producer Syneva Colle). It was a pleasure to just sit back and listen to the lovely music she made.
Tonya displays emotionality and attentiveness in her interpretation of Max Reger’s three solo viola suites. In particular, I find myself gravitating toward the first suite, movement three. It’s a beautiful melody. I hear the warm richness of the opening statement, which feels kind and welcoming, and it’s contrasted with a second character that sounds like gentle hesitation. Tonya creates a very effective musical dialogue that evokes an actual conversation. This movement is wonderfully expressive and varied, and it speaks to the depth and breadth of Tonya’s creative interpretation and inner personality. Beyond the aural soundscape, the visuals she selected for the album artwork reinforce many of the musical atmospheres she captures in the performance as well.
It brings me so much joy to see Tonya’s hard work and artistry come to fruition like this, from both the perspective of a producer and a friend. It’s just one more accomplishment we can add to the list of things to celebrate together!
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AUSTRIAN PHOTOGRAPHY | UNCOMMON PLACES
Boris Hristov House of Culture, 15 Gladston Str
In the last few years art photography in Austria has had an impressive ascent. The new generation of photographers creates interesting trends and approaches, while framing contemporary events and important issues in Europe, the United States and other places around the world. The purpose of the exhibition is to show the photography platform Young Austrian Photography to a wider audience. The beginning of the platform was laid with its participation in PhotoWeekDC, Washington DC/ USA in 2012, where three exhibitions have been held in total so far. Besides that they have presented exhibitions in Maryland, New York and Chicago, and were recently a part of the VIP program Paris Photo in Los Angeles. The exhibition Austrian Photography | Uncommon Places will be opened in the Night/Plovdiv on the 11th of September and can be seen until the 30th of September. You can see works by Stephan Ola, Bruno Klomfar, Luise Hardegg, Monica Nguyen, Six & Petrich, Laurent Ziegler.
The exhibition is held in cooperation with the Austrian Embassy Sofia.
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Austrian Photography | Uncommon places Photo Exhibition


Administration takes Thresher editorial out of context
In an email sent to the student body to clarify concerns surrounding the credit hour cap proposal recently passed by the Faculty Senate, Provost Marie Lynn Miranda and President David Leebron referenced the Thresher when describing past student input. They wrote, "The Thresher endorsed the proposal in a March 22 editorial, even before additional student input was incorporated."
The Thresher would like to clarify its stance on the proposal. The original editorial was titled “Careful Consideration Required Before Credit Limit.” While it is true that the editorial did support the ideas behind the proposal, we emphasized that student opinion must be taken into consideration before passing a proposal that would directly impact undergraduates. Provost Miranda and President Leebron’s email took our editorial out of context by foregoing any of the caution we called for when we wrote that “These proposed changes have admirable intentions, but those alone are not reason enough to institute them.”
Furthermore, this original editorial was actually published in our February 24 issue, well before any student input had been gathered. (The March 22 time stamp on the online version is a mistake on our part, and we do not fault Provost Miranda or President Leebron on this point). Once it became evident that the vast majority of the SA survey respondents opposed this proposal and that many students intended to protest at the Faculty Senate meeting, the Thresher wrote its latest editorial regarding the CUC proposal on April 19 in which we stated, in no uncertain terms, that “a vote by the Faculty Senate to approve this proposal is a slap in the face to the many students who have voiced their legitimate concerns.”
Provost Miranda and President Leebron conveniently decided to gloss over our latest editorial, which made abundantly clear the Thresher’s opposition to passing this proposal, whatever its possible merits, in light of students’ concerns. If the administration truly cares about students’ voices, then they shouldn’t cherry-pick the ones they deem convenient and misrepresent them to fit their own agenda.
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A new instalment in Capcom’s zombie franchise Resident Evil may be in development at Slant Six Games, the Canadian developer behind SOCOM: Confrontation, if a document received by Kotaku is to be believed.
No details are offered on the supposed game codenamed ‘Resident Evil: Raccoon City’ beyond it being “team-based.” This could indicate a multiplayer slant or simply that it’s squad-based, like the SOCOM series.
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<biography, history of philosophy> Russian-American novelist and essayist (1905-1982). In addition to the social theories reflected in her popular novels, Rand introduced the philosophy of objectivism in Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1966) and defended a version of ethical egoism in The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (1964). Recommended Reading: Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: Her Life and Thought (Objectivist Center, 1999); David Kelley, The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand (Objectivist Center, 2000); Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (Meridian, 1993); and Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, ed. by Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra (Penn. State, 1999).
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Ken Wallace is back at the top of Australian kayaking but it’s anyone’s guess which boat he’ll be paddling in at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Wallace, the 2008 Beijing gold-medallist, was Australia’s star of the canoe sprint world championships in Moscow, defending his K1 5000m title and also taking a surprise silver in the K2 1000 with Lachlan Tame.
Sprint specialist Tame was only partnered with Wallace just before the Moscow event due to the 31-year-old Gold Coaster being beaten to his pet K1 1000 event by Murray Stewart.
The new combination led for more than half the K2 final but were overtaken by Slovakia before holding off Serbia to win their silver.
Wallace admitted they fared much better than expected and wouldn’t rule out his own switch from the solo boat.
“A bit of training and who knows what could happen,” Wallace said.
“After the heat and the semi, it almost made us a little nervous that we thought we might go alright at this.”
Wallace underlined his enduring talent by beating off German powerhouse Max Hoff in the long-distance race in 20:12.981 – his seventh win from his last eight international 5km races.
“It means a lot to me, it is a very tough race,” he said.
Unfortunately for Wallace the K1 5000 is not an Olympic event, and no longer is the K1 500 he won in Beijing.
He will start 2015, a pivotal qualifying year for the Rio Games, battling against Stewart for selection in the K1 1000.
Stewart missed the final in the blue-riband event at the London Olympics but impressed on this year’s World Cup circuit, taking silver behind Hoff in Hungary last month before finishing fifth in a personal best time on the weekend.
There’s also some pressure on Stewart’s priority, the K4 1000, as Australia’s defending Olympic champions bombed in Moscow by missing the final after a late seat change backfired.
Canoeing Australia has admitted they will review the crew of Stewart, Tate Smith, Jake Clear and David Smith in their build-up to Rio.
The women’s K2 crew of Jo Brigden-Jones and ironwoman Naomi Flood showed promise in their first season together but could only manage seventh in the final on Sunday night (AEST).
West Australian Alana Nichols missed the final of the K1 500 but won the B final.


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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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This paper discusses some of the varied and abundant literature that exists regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The paper discusses the conclusions from many of the studies and how they are, at least in some cases, seen as very controversial, and are sparking a large amount of scholarly debate over the correct methods of addressing such a prevalent problem.
From the Paper:"Other studies look to treat not just the physical ailments, disabilities or anomalies of ADHD but look to discover how treatments used to treat other disorders can affect those with ADHD if they were treated with them. One study showed the effects of behavioral therapy on autistic children and concluded, "Results suggest that behavioral treatment was effective for children with autism in the study" (Eikeseth, Smith, Jahr, Eldivik, 2007, p. 264). This leads to the question of whether such treatments can also assist those who are affected by ADHD. This particular study could be of interest because it dealt with such young subjects (ages 4-7) and it showed excellent results. If these same type of treatments were available for individuals with ADHD, and they worked as well, it would seem that implementation of this type of treatment would be beneficial to society, just like a study on a community's water source might also be beneficial."
Sample of Sources Used:
- Avila, C., Cuenca, I., Felix, V., Parcet, M., Miranda, A., (2004) Measuring impulsivity in school-aged boys and examining its relationship with ADHD and ODD Ratings, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 295 - 304
- Bouchard, M., Laforest, F., (2007) Hair manganese and hyperactive behaviors: Pilot study of school-age children exposed through tap water, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, No. 1, pp. 122 - 127
- DuPaul, G.J., White, G.P. (2006) ADHD: Behavioral, educational, and medication interventions, The Education Digest, Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 57 - 60
- DuPaul, G.J., Jitendra, A.K., (2006) Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Are there gender differences in school functioning?, The School Psychology Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 292 - 308
- Eikeseth, S., Smith, T., Jahr, E., Eldivik, S., (2007) Outcome for children with autism who began intensive behavioral treatment between ages 4 and 7, Behavior Modification, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 264 - 278
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The external appearance of EDAG’s current concept car is just as unconventional as its visionary interior, and breaks with all existing restrictions. The “Soulmate” body concept is EDAG’s appeal for a new form of lightweight automobile design, as it uses revolutionary technologies from the field of “3D printing” or additive manufacturing. In Geneva, EDAG will be demonstrating concrete examples of how additively manufactured components could, in the near future, find their way into automotive volume production.


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It was time to find another engine for my ’63 Wagon. Frontier Auto Wrecking in Sunland turned out to be the place where I found a gold mine of parts for it. I had gone looking for a power brake booster setup, as this car, with its 10″ drum brakes, was really hard to stop. The guy there at Frontier took me into the yard and showed me a 1970 Plymouth that had been in a rollover accident, with power brakes. But the setup wouldn’t fit my ’63; I couldn’t use it. He told me I could buy anything off this car at a reasonable price, as it had been included in a group sale—they’d had to buy it, even though they “really didn’t specialize in late Chrysler product stuff”, as he said. I kept that in mind, and found and bought a brake booster from some older Mopar there.
After getting the brakes updated with power, the car stopped so much easier. I went back a few Saturdays later and asked how much he wanted for all the running gear, engine to rear end, and the front disc brake setup. The ’58 Fury back in Jersey—still in service with my parents!—had developed rear-end gear or bearing problems, and Dad had asked what to do to repair it. I needed to find another rear axle for the Fury, so I spent two Saturdays at the yard disassembling this 5,234-mile ’70 Belvedere. I basically bought the whole car, less the body.
Years later, I learned from a Chrysler factory representative that the rolled-over ’70 Plymouth I’d raided for near-new working parts, VIN RL41G0E295104, had been leased to MGM Studios to be used in the movie ‘Vanishing Point’ starring Barry Newman (and co-starring the new 1970 Dodge Challenger). In a chase scene, the Belvedere—done up as a police car, chasing ‘Kowalski’ driving the Challenger—rolls over into a ditch:
The car was totaled, and that’s how it ended up in a Southern California salvage yard. It had the 318 with a 904 TorqueFlite, and a 2.93:1 8¼” rear end in it, an integral rear axle assembly—you can unbolt the cover to take a look at the gears, but that’s as far as it goes for easy disassembly. That would have been tough to transport cross-country to install in the Fury, so on 13 March 1971 I installed that rear end in the Belvedere, gaining modern 10″ rear brakes.
From 30 March to 2 April, I worked to install the ’70 318 engine in the ’63 Belvedere. I also overhauled its 727 TorqueFlite transmission, and installed a second gas tank in the right side quarter panel that I bought at the same wrecking yard, Frontier. Now I had a car with at least a 38-gallon fuel capacity, which I could drive almost all day without refuelling. At the same time, I installed the front spindles with the attaching hardware with the disc brake calipers and rotors, as well as the double-chambered master cylinder. The wagon’s brakes were now 1970-spec, and I was ready to roll.
On 14 June 1971, I left LA and headed east to New Jersey to deliver and install the much-easier-to-haul center chunk or “pumpkin” from the 8¾” rear axle I’d removed from the ’63, into the Fury in New Jersey. On several occasions, I managed to pump nearly 40 gallons of fuel into the wagon at one fill-up. So no stopping for fuel during the day, unless I saw someone having a price war along the way. Once I found such a place and filled both tanks at 11¢ a gallon! (83¢/gal in 2023 money).
A strange thing developed as I was traveling along on this trip: I would be passed by hurrying travelers in their newer cars and SUVs during the morning, then again by the same ones in the afternoon, and once again in the early evening. Many of the passengers looked surprised as they passed me that second or third time, wondering how I managed to get ahead of them again and again (by not stopping for fuel and eats).
Arriving at my parents’ home on 17 June, after a little rest and preparation, I installed the rear axle and then had some time to visit family and friends. The great thing with Mopars: parts are interchangeable over so many years and models.
On 26 July it was time to head back to Los Angeles; I arrived on the 29th. That’s 7,433 miles between 14 June and 29 July. Average economy was 14.2 miles per gallon, with a vehicle weighing 5,540 pounds.
I was still living in Los Angeles, but looking to move to another Chrysler product Dealer—I was still working at the Auto Club, as I recall. I found out a Dodge dealer in Oxnard was looking for a mechanic, and went there, but the position had been filled. They told me Bailey Chrysler-Plymouth, there in town, was looking for a tune-up mechanic so I went there and got the job. Here they worked 5½ days a week, which was OK with me. The prima-donna tune-up guy had quit over having to work part Saturday. So I rented an apartment in Port Hueneme, and went to work.
On Friday, after work, us guys would frequent Domenic’s Pizza joint next door to the dealership. We would order a couple of pitchers and glasses, and unwind before driving home. Our server was a young gal of about 23, named Brenda. She was a cute blonde and, I found out, of Norwegian descent. After a few weeks of frequenting the place, I decided to have dinner there after work instead of at the apartment. Brenda and I became better acquainted, and one day she asked if I would like to meet her Norwegian parents and her brothers, so on a Saturday I drove to her parents’ home in Camarillo. Everybody liked me, especially her father and mother; you likely know where this is leading.
Time passed and we went out here and there and I really don’t remember where. She found out where I lived, and one night after midnight she was at my door, banging on it furiously. I got out of bed and answered. She came in crying, saying her father had tried to rape her and she was afraid to go home. Oy vey, what do I do with her in the middle of the night in a bachelor apartment, simply furnished, with only one single bed?
We kept seeing one another. One day when I was visiting her home, her mother came to me, overjoyed, telling me how happy she was for us, that we were going to marry. Oh! We are? Oh! And so Brenda became my second wife. And she needed a car to drive. Being a little bit too naive (or something; y’think?), I almost bought her the car she really wanted, a Porsche 911. But the price was a little too steep for me, and so she had to settle for a 1969 Datsun 2000 roadster. It was silver and had the 2-liter 4-cylinder engine with twin side-draft carburetors, and a 5-speed manual transmission. It sure was a fun car to drive ! But it was also a cold car to drive in other-than-sunny weather, and Brenda wanted a hard roof, so I bought an aftermarket hard roof which fit on the car very snugly. Better in the rain and chill, but now it became difficult to get into or out of this car.
I felt that Brenda needed a more all-around daily driver, and by and by the ‘73 Honda Civic was introduced. The Honda dealer was right next door to the Chrysler dealership where I worked; I knew their sales staff, and they offered me a great deal. I sold the Datsun to my service manager at the Chrysler dealership, and we had ourselves a new car large enough for us to transport my three children when we had them on visitation weekends—we all hadn’t fit well in the Datsun. The Civic looked about like this:
When the ‘73 energy crisis struck, we were fortunate to have the Civic. I used my double-tanker ‘63 Plymouth as a fuel storage facility, and would pump fuel into the Honda whenever it was low. This way Brenda would not have to sit in long lines to pump only a few gallons. When my Belvedere got low, I would find a convenient time to go fill her up.
While I was working at the Oxnard Chrysler dealer, they took in a very nice, clean-looking 1971 Plymouth Scamp with the 318 and TorqueFlite, on a trade-in. It had around 117,000 miles on it but ran great, except many of the 14 core plugs in the engine were rusted out and leaking—including the ones between the engine and transmission. ‘They’ decided to wholesale it rather than recondition it, so I managed to buy it cheaply. My Uncle was still driving his 1962 Valiant, which was getting old. I thought the ’71 Scamp would be a nice improvement for him, as it had power steering, so I fixed the leaks from the engine and whatever else the car needed and the Scamp became the uncle’s car.
Now I had the ’62 Valiant and needed to do something with it, so I built up a used 225 Slant-6 engine, installed it, and had the car painted yellow; it became Brenda’s driver. It looked more or less like this one:
Sometime in May of ’76, the dealership went into receivership; all the employees were locked out. After some negotiations, we mechanics were permitted to enter the shop and remove our personal toolboxes. Then it was off to the unemployment office to start that process. There were no Chrysler dealer jobs open, so I just reported in every two weeks to collect my unemployment check. Brenda suggested I take some time and go visit my parents, who were now living in Whiting, New Jersey. I thought that was very generous of her to suggest (as it turned out, she had motives other than generosity).
So on 16 June 1976, I left Brenda at our mobile home in Port Hueneme, drove to the unemployment office in Oxnard, reported in, got my bi-weekly unemployment check, and headed for New Jersey. I arrived on the 19th, having traveled 2,741 miles in two days 22½ hours, refuelling the car eight times, for a total of 157.3 gallons of gas. That was good for 17.4 mpg in that same old ’63 Belvedere wagon with the ’70 318.
I visited with the folks and friends in my old home town, River Edge, and then on Friday 25 June I headed back to California. On my last two fill-ups at Bingo gas stations, I bought a combined 49.5 gallons of their fuel. I arrived home in the late afternoon on the 29th, so I’d be able to go on time to the unemployment office in Oxnard the next day to check in again. But also on the 29th, the day I got home, Brenda announced she was leaving me on June 3rd, to go live with a guy she’d met at the beach. She planned to marry him, as he had custody of his young son from a previous marriage and she needed to be a mother to someone’s child.


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Bacterial canker is a disease of the stems and leaves of Prunus , especially plums and cherries, but also apricots, peaches and ornamental Prunus species. If canker infects the central trunk of your tree it's probably time to say goodbye to your plum or cherry tree unfortunately. Many thanks! Lesions form on the trunk or primary branches of cherry trees and may bleed a gummy residue. Hello, we have a mature cherry tree that has Bacterial Canker and is oozing amber liquid and also has some shot hole fungus (but not too badly). It causes sunken patches of dead bark and small holes in leaves, called ‘shothole’. (Photo credit: OrchardPeople.com). If the infection is on a side branch you could try to remove the side branch, which might or might not protect the tree from further infection. Dig it up and burn to avoid infecting nearby plants and trees. Finally, I think that you need to think about what will happen to the fruit of the tree if you leave it in. If the infection is on the main trunk and the tree has been dying back for a number of years I would remove it and start with another tree in a better location in relation to the new patio. We are renovating the backyard where the tree stands to install a patio and our designer wants us to decide whether to remove the tree. In these cases, seek the advice of an arborist. Bacterial canker, which is also called gummosis, is caused by the pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. There was little that could be done to save this tree, as the disease had spread throughout it. Hello, we have a mature cherry tree that has Bacterial Canker and is oozing amber liquid and also has some shot hole fungus (but not too badly). What is Bacterial Canker in Cherry Trees? Once cherry trees become 8-10 years old they become more resistant to bacterial canker, however, there is another disease, caused by a fungus called Cytospora canker that causes the same symptoms and attacks older trees. If we remove it, we'll have more patio space but we like it and it provides nice shade. Bacterial Canker on cherry tree. If you control cherry fruit fly with pesticides, do you want the pesticides to drift onto your patio, furniture and BBQ? Asked July 24, 2014, 12:28 PM EDT. Replacement varieties which have some resistance to bacterial canker include Warwickshire Drooper and Marjorie's Seedling. Bacterial canker is a disease that affects cherry, plum, and other related fruit trees. Lacking the answer to those questions it is difficult to know how to advise you. Cankers will often appear as a swelling surrounding a sunken lesion on the bark of trunks and branches. If you find yourself removing multiple cankers from a single tree or cankers from numerous trees, it would be wise to have your trees and landscape inspected by a professional. • When a canker is located on the trunk of a tree, do not attempt to remove it. If you don't spray the fruit what will happen to the infested cherries? A cherry tree with bacterial canker on its trunk. Our question is whether it will survive the renovation as we understand it has shallow roots and what its chances of longevity are given the canker. If you remove a branch or two, is the tree still balanced?Most trees can survive 20% of their roots being cut. Will they just drop on the lawn or the patio and are you okay with that? Little can be done for either disease, except pruning out the infected plant part. The term " canker" is used to describe a killed area or blister on the bark, a branch or the trunk of an infected tree.The Morton Arboretum describes it as a canker that is "usually oval to elongate, but can vary in size and shape." Are you able to advise on its lifespan and recommend how we should move forward on this? We are renovating the backyard where the tree stands to install a patio and our designer wants us to decide whether to remove the tree. There are a number of questions that would help me to help you that I don't have answers too such as how old is the tree, how deep will you be digging and how close to the construction is the tree, how sick is the tree and where is the infection located on the tree? Ask an Expert is made up of groups and individual experts. The majority of feeder roots in a cherry tree will be located near the surface, just under any lawn, but structural roots will be deeper and cutting these roots can not only damage the tree but could cause the tree to become unstable during a storm.
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The Executive Vice President of Information Technology will be responsible for managing, overseeing, and developing the agency’s computer network systems and telecommunications systems. This individual is responsible for long-range planning for the Agency’s computer network system and communications acquisitions and enhancements, and for developing new technical solutions that are responsive to the Agency’s objectives. This individual will manage all IT projects.
Specific duties will include, but not necessarily be limited to:
- Manage, oversee, and develop the Agency’s computer network systems, voice, and data communications networks; identify and evaluate technology needs and provide technical solutions and cost-effective approaches for daily administrative and Agency operations.
- Oversee and coordinate long-term planning and production strategies for workstation turnover, database development, software upgrades, and other technologies that are the responsibilities of the IT Department.
- Review, recommend, and approve the acquisition and distribution of all computer hardware, software, telecommunications systems and devices, and other IT systems or services utilized by Agency departments.
- Direct and participate in the configuration, repair, maintenance, internal and external security, backup and recovery, and updates of the Agency’s Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), and telecommunications infrastructure.
- Write, recommend, and implement policies and procedures pertaining to computer usage to ensure maximum efficiency and security.
- Provide direct technical assistance and troubleshooting as needed on the Agency’s servers to ensure maximum efficiency on the system.
- Prepare and monitor IT budget to optimize the return of investments for IT resources and computer systems; verify that resources allocated to IT meet Agency plans for competitive positioning and growth.
- Establish measurements and monitor IT performance within IT and business support groups.
- Develop and maintain a business disaster recovery plan for business and IT functional units; ensure security for information and the data center.
- Develop computer and telecommunications equipment specifications to ensure they meet Agency goals and objectives and do not adversely affect existing technical strategic plans.
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Twenty-two people are suspected of contracting polio in Syria, the World Health Organization says. If confirmed, this would be the first outbreak of the virus in Syria in 14 years.
According to Reuters, the people -- mostly children under age 2 -- in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zor have developed acute flaccid paralysis, which WHO spokesman Oliver Rosenbaur describes as a symptom of polio. WHO officials are already treating the case as polio.
"There is a cluster of 22 acute flaccid paralysis cases that is being investigated in that area," Rosenbauer told Reuters. "Everybody is treating this as an outbreak [of polio] and is in outbreak response mode."
The United Nations health agency has performed initial tests on two of the 22 cases, which have both tested positive for polio. WHO is awaiting confirmation from a laboratory in Tunis, but Rosenbaur says it is “very, very likely” that the test will confirm the polio outbreak.
The disease, which cripples its victims, has not been seen in Syria since 1999. Currently, there is no cure for polio. It must instead by treated by immunization before a patient is infected. Typically, polio vaccines are applied in three doses.
WHO suspects that the 22 patients have either never been vaccinated for polio or instead only received one of the three required immunization doses. Their infection leaves some 100,000 children under 5 at risk of polio in the war-torn Dier al-Zor province.
"The main concern right now is to quickly launch an immunization response," Rosenbauer said.
Rosenbauer says that the WHO is currently unaware where the virus originated, though he speculates that it may have been carried by a foreign combatant coming to fight in the Syrian Civil War.
"The first step is virological verification that it is the polio virus," Rosenbauer says. "The next step is that every isolated virus gets looked at genetically to see where is the parent. Hopefully that will provide some clarity on where it would have come from.”
Over the past 25 years, polio cases have dropped dramatically wordwide, from 350,000 cases in 1988 to just 223 cases in 2012. This year, there have been 296 confirmed cases of polio, not including the unconfirmed Syrian patients.


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By James Walsh
September 23, 2011
On July 7, 2011, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration issued a startling report entitled “Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in the United States Were Paid $4.2 Billion in Refundable Credits.”
No wonder the nation’s finances are in turmoil.
According to the Treasury report, foreign nationals not authorized to work in the United States and ineligible for a Social Security Number (SSN) are nevertheless receiving government help from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS currently issues undocumented aliens an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to facilitate their filing of tax returns.
Many illegal workers are paid in cash “under the table” and thus file no tax forms at all; but a number of undocumented workers, according to the Treasury report, are receiving public benefits contrary to federal and state laws.
For example, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) allow payment of federal funds as tax benefits to undocumented aliens. Add to these the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and the result is tax refunds that provide incentives for foreign nationals to enter, reside, and work in the United States without authorization and in violation of current U.S. immigration law.
The CTC, ACTC, and EITC have come under review because of the significant volume of Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) returns filing for these credits using fraudulent data, such as names and SSNs.
The Treasury report notes that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) temporarily increased ACTC eligibility by changing the income threshold for calculating the credits in 2009 and 2010. The result was that in 2010, undocumented alien (ITIN) filers were able to claim higher tax refunds that totaled $4.2 billion. They represent an increase from $924 million in 2005.
It is clear that unauthorized aliens are filing ITIN tax returns with fraudulent data. The Treasury report found that “One common type of fraudulent refund involves taxpayers fabricating a Wage and Tax Statement (Form W-2) that shows excess withholding and results in a tax refund.”
Street-smart illegal immigrants are wise to the federal government’s incompetence.
Making matters worse, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Accounts Management Taxpayers Assurance Program (AMTAP) has failed to take steps to notify U.S. taxpayers when it is obvious that their SSNs and names have been compromised.
The Treasury Report found “sufficient evidence” that the IRS took no steps to notify legitimate taxpayers that their SSNs, and sometimes their names, were used by undocumented aliens filing tax returns on regular or ITIN tax returns.
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) benefit also is being fraudulently used by illegal aliens.


WASHINGTON -- Despite some bullish markets, 'Olliemania' is showing signs of becoming 'Olliefadia.'
A book on Lt. Col. Oliver North's testimony to Congress was on The New York Times 'Bestseller List' Sunday, bringing smiles to quickie publisher Pocket Books.
Yet other entrepeneurs, like T-shirt peddlers along the boardwalk in Ocean City, Md., are grim-faced and believe their big splash with the charismatic Marine is fading.
'A couple of weeks ago, on a good day, we'd sell six or seven dozen Ollie North T-shirts. Now, maybe we sell six a day,' said Adele Tebele, manager of Zack's Boutique.
America embraced North during his six July days before Congress, seeing him as a John Wayne of guy, willing to do whatever it takes to free American hostages and to get aid to Nicaraguan rebels.
This attraction, which human behavior experts attributed to North's boyish good looks and ability to portray heroic qualities, spawned defense funds, fan clubs and Ollie North 'hero sandwhiches' and haircuts.
Yet some experts predicted that North, the self-described 'fall guy' in the administration's Iran-Contra scandal, was a flash in the national celebrity pan.
They said he was more of a 'hero' on the lines of actor Clint Eastwood and singer Bruce Springsteen than President John Kennedy or civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
At Fred Helmintoller's barber shop in Roanoke, Va., men are still talking about North, but the number of boys getting Ollie-style close-cropped cuts is shrinking.
'It's trailed off some,' said Helmintoller. 'During the hearings, he had been doing a half dozen (Ollie cuts) a day. Now, it more like just three or four.'
In recent weeks, two home videos have come out with highlights of North's congressional testimony, complete with his admission that he had earlier lied to Congress and his vow to tell all now -- 'the good, the bad and the ugly.'
Jaffer Ali, vice president of sales for MPI Home Video of Oak Forrest, Ill., makers of one of the videos, 'Oliver North: Memo to History,' said:
'We're getting mixed returns from the stores,' he said. 'We're doing very well in Washington, New York and Los Angeles.'
Yet, said Ali, 'We're not doing well in other places, like Chicago or Georgia. We're not doing well at all in Michigan.'
A nationwide poll by CBS News and The New York Times, conducted July 9, during North's testimony, found that that 64 percent of those responding consider the Marine a 'real patriot.'
A survey by ABC News, conducted July 11, found that only 19 percent of its respondents viewed North as a 'hero.' Instead, 64 percent said they thought of him as a 'victim.' Just 8 percent called him a 'villain.'
Soon after North was sworn in on Capitol Hill, enterprising photographers put up a life-size cardboard likeness outside the White House. Tourists are charged $5 to have their pictures taken beside it.
Bridge Reinhardt of Luminary Figures, which has snapped photos of tourists with a cardboard likeness of President Reagan since 1984, said, 'There's been no slack in demand for Ollie. But tourists pick Reagan 3 to 1.'
Frank Enten of Bethesda, Md., who has been peddling buttons of political candidates and celebrities since the 1960s, has sold thousands of North, many emblazoned with such words as 'Ollie 1, Congress 0.'
'Other than the pope, he has done better than any button I've seen for one person,' said Enten. 'He's almost like a Charles Lindbergh.'
Enten said he does not foresee a decline in demand for North buttons until at the first of next year. He predicted, however, that the demand would soar if North is indicted in the Iran-Contra affair.
'I hope he doesn't get indicted. But if he does, button sales would take off. People would be banging on the doors for buttons,' said Enten.
The veteran button man is prepared. His newest button reads: 'Mr. President, Please Pardon Ollie.'


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The most positive news to emerge so far from studies of the catastrophic decline of vulture populations in South Asia has been reported in a new paper in Bird Conservation International (Galligan et al. Bird Conservation International doi:10.1017/S0959270919000169). Populations of White-rumped, Indian and Slender-billed Vultures declined rapidly across the whole on the Indian subcontinent, beginning in the mid-1990s. All three species declined at the same time and were soon red-listed as Critically Endangered. The largest decline was for the White-rumped Vulture, whose population fell by an average of half in each of at least ten successive years, until populations had declined to one-thousandth of their former levels! Several lines of evidence indicate that the use in livestock of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac was the sole or principal cause of the decline. Vultures die from kidney failure within a few days of eating flesh from a cow or water buffalo given the drug to reduce pain or swelling
Veterinary use of diclofenac was banned in India, Pakistan and Nepal in 2006, but the extent to which the regulations have been implemented varied substantially. In India, the occurrence of the drug in carcasses of dead cattle available to vultures as food has fallen markedly, but the most recent surveys show that some dead cattle still contain the lethal drug and some veterinary pharmacies still sell it. Probably as a result of this incomplete action, the decline of vulture populations in India has slowed or stopped, but there has not been a marked recovery. However, this new study of populations of White-rumped and Slender-billed Vultures in Nepal, tells a different and more hopeful story.
In Nepal, the diclofenac ban was followed by gradual but very effective implementation of a Vulture Safe Zone (VSZ) programme to advocate vulture conservation, raise awareness about the threat to vultures from veterinary diclofenac, and provide vultures with NSAID-free food at vulture restaurants. This programme encouraged the veterinary use in livestock of a vulture-safe alternative drug (meloxicam). Surveys of the drugs available in veterinary pharmacies show that diclofenac became very rare on their shelves, being largely replaced by meloxicam. Long-term monitoring of vulture populations in Nepal before and after this programme showed a rapid decline of the White-rumped Vulture population from 2002 up to about 2013, but this gave way to a rapid and continuing recovery since around 2013. More limited data for the still rarer Slender-billed Vulture show a similar pattern, with the change in trend from negative to positive beginning in about 2012.
The timing of the change in fortunes roughly coincided with the time when the Vulture Safe Zone programme became fully effective at a near-national level. It seems highly likely that this community-based advocacy and awareness-raising programme, and possibly also provisioning of safe food, has made an important contribution to vulture conservation by augmenting the effects of changes in the regulation of toxic veterinary drugs.
Ishana Thapa, Bird Conservation Nepal’s CEO said “This news of recovery makes all our work over the years with local communities worthwhile, and shows how, once people and vets understand the threat that diclofenac poses, they are willing to use the safe alternatives like meloxicam.
Professor Rhys Green, a co-author of the paper and SAVE Chairman, points out “The Vulture Safe Zone advocacy programme was pioneered by conservationists in Nepal and reflects great credit on them. Also important has been monitoring by regular road transect surveys of the vultures and undercover surveys of drugs on offer in veterinary pharmacies. This monitoring has now been used to measure the programme’s effectiveness. The results show that, by combining government regulation with education, advocacy and monitoring, we can help these species to turn the corner from decline to recovery. This should provide great encouragement to those pursuing efforts of this kind in other countries across South Asia where toxic NSAIDs are recognised as the main factor suppressing vulture populations”.
More details on the results can be found on the Bird Conservation Nepal website, and the paper is available on request from email@example.com


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rose to a 13-1/2-year high against a basket of currencies on Thursday as the bond market resumed its sell-off on growing certainty of a U.S. interest rate increase in December and signs of solid U.S. economic growth.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress a rise in rates was likely "relatively soon" and saw no evidence of an acceleration in inflation or interest rates next year.
Yellen's rate-hike view dovetailed with U.S. data showing housing starts reached a nine-year peak in October and weekly jobless claims fell to a 43-year low.
These factors reinforced the notion that the Fed will likely raise rates for the first time in a year at its Dec. 13-14 policy meeting, analysts said.
"The dollar is benefiting from Fed expectations and the economy, which appear to be on the same page," said Joe Manimbo, senior market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions in Washington.
Earlier Thursday, the dollar slipped as traders speculated whether Yellen would raise caution about the dollar's spike and a surge in U.S. bond yields after Republican Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election.
The greenback has risen at a breakneck pace after Trump's surprise win on Nov. 8 unleashed inflation bets based on tax cuts and federal spending he promised during his campaign.
The dollar index <.DXY>, which measures the greenback against six major currencies, was up 0.5 percent at 100.94 after hitting a 13-1/2-year high at 100.96. Since Nov. 8, it has gained 3.1 percent.
A renewed selloff in U.S. Treasuries due to the encouraging data and rekindled appetite for stocks and risky assets recharged the dollar's recent strength.
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The yen took a knock overnight when the Bank of Japan conducted its first special operation to curb rising yields on Japanese government bonds. It was priced to attract no bids, but knocked Japanese yields deeper into negative territory.
The dollar was up 0.8 percent at 109.94 yen
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The TVS Star City Plus commuter is designed using the single cradle tubular frame which offers a dynamic styling. The high comfort well padded seat offers a perfect upright riding position. The prominent LED tail lamp cluster gives the commuter a distinctive look. The bike also features a chrome finished handlebar, decent mirrors, nice palm grips, stainless steel exhaust and blackened out wheels. Overall, Star City+ is a stylish bike with muscular looks. TVS Star City Plus bike features a sculpted dialog-analogue instrument console which includes a digital speedometer, digital dual tripmeters and a digital fuel gauge. The panel bears indicator for low fuel. It also features a econometer which glows in green for economy and in red for power.
Star City+ is powered by a 109.7cc, 4-stroke, single cylinder, twin valve engine that kicks out a peak power of 8.3 bhp @ 7000 rpm and a peak power of 8.7 Nm @ 5000 rpm. This air-cooled engine is mated to a 4 speed transmission and a wet, multi plate clutch system. The bike is fitted with refined engines that offers an excellent performance. This commuter can accelerate up to 0-60 in just 8 seconds. It has a top speed of 95 kmph. The Star City+ can easily pave through the city traffic. The Star City+ comes equipped with 130 mm drum brakes at the front and 110 mm drum brakes at the rear end in order to make the braking system strong and effective. The suspension duties are handled by telescopic forks at the front while hydraulic shocks, box section swing-arm are placed at the back.
It is a great fun to ride this commuter. It features a wheelbase of 1260 mm which makes it more safer to ride. The high ground clearance of 165 mm protects the under body from damages and makes it suitable for tough and rough roads. The bike feels stable and under control even at higher speeds. TVS Star City+ is available in two variants: one is Star City+ KS and Star City+ ES. The only difference between the two is that one has a kick start while other features an electric start option. TVS Star City Plus is available in three exiting color options: Celebrity Red, Show-stopper Blue and Oscar Black.
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In my blog Vegetables on my terrace garden I posted the picture of a young pumpkin about which I was excited as it fulfilled my challenge to grow pumpkin on the terrace. There is a saying in our language that “A blind man asks God for one eye and He gives two” . (I don’t know if there is a proverb in English with similar meaning.) Same thing happened in my case. I prayed mother nature to give me one pumpkin and she gave me many. While surveying my garden from all sides I found that three fairly big pumpkins were hanging on the outside of the parapet and three more were seen on the terrace floor itself. I was shocked to see the number. The pictures show the pumpkins on my terrace garden. This success was possible because of the idea of raised bed I learnt from GT postings. I am so grateful to this site. The picture of cucumbers raised by the same technique can also be seen. The cucumber vine is crowded with many flowers and soon I hope to get many of them . At the bottom of the bed I had put a six inch layer of coconut husk. Over this I put a six inch layer of soil and put some worms on it. Once in two weeks I add cow manure to the bed. The manure also is mixed with cow urine which is rich in urea and uric acid as well as many important minerals. My results have opened new vistas for terrace or balcony garden. I plan to apply these processes to grow more edibles and flowers on my terrace. Nature is generous if you fulfill certain conditions.
Honey bees doing their job
-- Bagwan-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

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All internationally recruited staff members assigned to United Nations field missions under the administrative authority of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Department of Field Support, Department of Political Affairs, (DPKO/DFS/DPA) and those secretariat staff recognized under a bilateral agreement of association consistent with staff rules and regulations shall be considered members of the UNFSU for the duration of their assignment.
The Executive of the UNFSU shall comprise the President and Vice-Presidents, and shall be referred to hereafter as the “Executive”. The Executive shall serve UNFSU Election for a term of two (2) years, with a possibility of re-election for one additional term of two (2) years.
UNFSU elections are now taking pace and you will be able to see the running teams in the very near future.
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Web Exclusive: Chicago Jazz Ensemble to present The Birth of Jazz as scheduled
In the wake of founder/composer/conductor William Russos death, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble has decided to continue performing, and will present The Birth of Jazz in February and March as scheduled.
The performance will be at 8 p.m., March 7, in Maddox Theater at Rockford College, 5050 E. State St. Tickets are $25 general admission, $20 seniors, and $15 students.
The third and final program of their critically and popularly acclaimed American Heritage Jazz Series will explore the milestones in the evolution of jazz in six concerts throughout the Chicago area. The series is supported by a grant from the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation and Columbia College Chicago, where the orchestra is in residence. The concerts will be performed in the Russo style, in memory of and as a tribute to Russos enormous talents.
The Birth of Jazz concerts focus on the music of three groups at the advent of jazz history: Jelly Roll Mortons Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrongs Hot Fives and Sevens, and Bix Beiderbeckes Wolverines. All three were drawn to Chicago in the early 20s, where the dawn of radio and the recording industry made them and Chicago famous for introducing the world to a new and uniquely American art form. The Birth of Jazz will feature special guest artists Franz Jackson on tenor saxophone, Johnny Frigo on jazz violin, and jazz tap dancer Bril Barrett. The CJE will also reprise several of William Russos works, including Russos 1959 arrangement of Biederbeckes Davenport Blues.
Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have invented jazz, and this may well be true. The New Orleans native, born in 1890, grew up to become a virtuoso pianist and the first important jazz composer. Louis Armstrong is generally thought to be the most influential musician ever to play jazz. Born at the turn of the century in New Orleans, Armstrong was introduced to the cornet at age 14. A few years later, he was breaking new ground in jazz. When Armstrong died in 1971, Dizzy Gillespie said, If it werent for him, there wouldnt be any of us. While Leon Bix Beiderbeckes career only spanned eight years, he was the first great white jazz musician, recognized for his command of the trumpet and unparalleled originality.
To purchase tickets or for information, call (312) 344-6245.


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Single Title Romance
WALK THIS WAY/synopsis
Nora Linnet catches men who cheat--starting with her fiancé. She spies on men from Milwaukee to Chicago, in bars, strip clubs, and pool halls. So she won’t get hit on, she dresses like a man, with helpful advice from her blogging friends on how to talk, walk, and sit.
I’m hoping Nosy Nora is at least a private investigator of some kind. Spying on guys just to spy is creepy.
In P.I. Tony Gallaghers marriage, his wife slept around. (active voice: PI Tony Gallaghers’s wife slept around) The last thing he wants is to hook up with a woman, but his dead partner’s ghost plays matchmaker. So why does the ghost steer him to a woman who mistrusts men as much as he mistrusts women?
ghost? he gets instructions from a ghost?
Someone tries to kill the multi-millionaire industrialist who Tony’s partner was working for when he was killed in a hit-and-run accident. Now the industrialist requires a couple to spy for him on a ten-day Caribbean cruise. He suspects his cousin wants to kill him because he’s in love with his wife.
He’s in love with whose wife? His? the cousin’s. Those pronouns get tricky.
This has now devolved into a smorgasbord of plot elements. There’s too much going on for this to be anything but farce. There’s nothing wrong with farce, but you told me this was a romance.
When an angry client’s boyfriend threatens Nora, she agrees to pretend to be Tony’s lover. (those two clauses have no logical connection) On the yacht, Nora gets cozy with the industrialist’s wife and her longtime friend, who is married to the industrialist’s cousin.
And how exactly do Tony and Nora know each other? By failing to identify Nora above (I think you mean Nora anyway when you say “the ghost steers him toward a woman who mistrusts men) you leave us in the dark about how they know each other.
I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone referred to as an industrialist since ...Ayn Rand? Andrew Carnegie?
Tony is drawn to Nora, but he convinces himself it’s a chemical reaction. Why not take advantage of the enforced intimacy and have a fling? He can tell she wants him too.
So, he’s a hound. And a hypocrite. Nice qualities in a hero.
Rebuffing Tony gets harder for Nora with each nautical mile, but she fights it down, priding herself on thinking with her brain instead of her vagina. Nora grew up with a mother who attracted cheaters like fresh blood attracted sharks. Then Nora’s fiancé cheated too. How can she trust any man? (you already set up her character as untrusting, you don’t need to repeat it)
Tony discovers Nora’s blog and understands why she’s wary of men. He signs in under his partner’s name. They begin a cyber correspondence, sharing pieces of themselves.
The industrialist docks the yacht on an island, renting a villa. Another murder attempt follows--on the cousin. Tony wonders if his partner’s hit-and-run death was connected to the case. He was following the wife at the time. What if she’s the killer? Or her friend?
the wife? whose wife?
At dinner, someone spikes Tony’s drink with the cousin’s Cialis pills. Tony gets a boner he can’t lose. Feeling sympathy and excitement, Nora invites him to her bed. Their lovemaking is hot, steamy, and glorious. Tony tells her he loves her, but Nora can’t let down her defenses.
This is ludicrous.
Tony confides his suspicions to the industrialist, who arranges a trap. He announces he’s changing his will when they return home, leaving his money to Save the Children. At an island festival that night, fireworks go off, people surge toward the seashore, and their group is separated. (from what? reality?) Tony tells Nora to stay put and he rushes off. When he finds the two women (what two women??) with the drugged industrialist, the women try to shoot him. (I hope they get him) Nora follows and saves him. The women are lovers and can’t stand having sex with their husbands. Because of the pre-nups, divorce isn’t an option. Murder is.
While Tony is at the police station, Nora Googles him and finds out his dead partner is her e-mail correspondent. Tony deceived her. She packs and boards a cruise ship about to return to Florida, leaving Tony a good-bye e-mail.
Two days later, she reads an e-mail from Tony, who says he’ll be alone and lonely without her. She admits she’s alone and lonely without him too. The person keeping her from happiness isn’t Tony but her own distrust. She replies that she loves him...and trusts him.
Twenty minutes later, Nora’s doorbell rings. Instead of Tony, it’s the cheating husband who threatened her life before she left for the cruise. He aims a gun at her heart. (her least vulnerable spot I bet)
Nora throws her laptop at him (yea I answer the door holding my laptop all the time too) just as Tony tackles him through the open doorway. Tony tells Nora they make a good pair. Why not make it official? As his business partner she can still cross-dress; as his life partner she can be all woman.
is there any device you don’t use? This might work on the page but what you have here is a mess. Nothing makes any kind of logical sense. You throw in blogging, and email and google as plot devices, not to mention ghosts, and cross dressing but they seem thrown in for your convenience rather than rising from the plot naturally. The plot seems to hinge on women, unnamed or identified, who are lesbians, and murderers.
That is the stuff of farce, or noir, not romance.


Community Vision To Create Bright And Happy Future For Greater Bendigo
Greater Bendigo celebrates our diverse community. We are welcoming, sustainable and prosperous. Walking hand-in-hand with the traditional custodians of this land. Building on our rich heritage for a bright and happy future.
This is the new community vision for Greater Bendigo, as crafted by 65 residents selected specially to form a community panel and represent the views of the community.
The vision is supported by five values – transparency, sustainability, inclusion, innovation and equity – that underpin the vision and ensure future Council decision making reflects these values.
This work represents stage 2 of the Imagine Greater Bendigo project, important work and a requirement under the new Local Government Act (2020) for all Councils to consult with their communities in this way to develop a community vision.
Mayor Cr Jennifer Alden said Council was delighted with the future-focused vision statement and looked forward to developing a Council Plan to deliver on it.
“The vision sums up what was important to the panel and how they want to see Greater Bendigo grow and develop into the future. It reflects what it means to be a citizen of Greater Bendigo and what we must aspire to, to ensure a bright and happy future for everyone.
“The panel was selected to form a ‘mini public’ that was representative of our community. It was surprising that many of the values of the group, which ranged in age from 12 to people in their seventies, were quite similar.
“There was a terrific buzz in the room and I hope it was a memorable experience for everyone that put up their hand. We learnt a great deal from the panellists and it was exciting to harness this energy and enthusiasm.”
As part of the panel process, the City also asked the group to prioritise feedback received during stage 1 consultation, which will help Council as it develops its Council Plan, Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, 10-Year Long Term Financial Plan, Asset Plan and other strategic documents.
Areas that were a priority for Council to focus on in the future included walking and cycling, access to green, connected spaces, a youth hub for teens, support for local and existing businesses (including young people to start creative careers), places to learn about Aboriginal culture and heritage, continued greening of Greater Bendigo, sustainability in building and planning, activation of public spaces, continued emphasis on gender equity and inclusion, and prioritise investment in suburban and rural areas.
“Council is committed to considering these priorities in future planning, particularly the development of the Council Plan, which forms part of stage 3 of the Imagine Greater Bendigo project and will be released for community feedback before being considered for adoption at the October Council meeting,” Cr Alden said.
“I would like to congratulate and sincerely thank the residents that participated over the weekend, they have done a wonderful job and presented a vision they can be very proud of and told us what is most important to them in helping to achieve the vision.
“I look forward to Greater Bendigo moving towards a bright and happy future.”


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