Potential homebuyers look at property models in Dongguan, Guangdong province.(Photo by An Dong/For China Daily)
China will continue policies to stabilize housing and land prices and market expectations, said Wang Menghui, minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Tuesday.
In a so-called "minister's passage" interview at the annual meetings of China's national legislature and top political advisory body, Wang emphasized that houses are for living – not for speculation.
"Local authorities need to improve market mechanisms, and apply appropriate policies and regulations in accordance with their own situations, to stabilize market expectation, the price of land and housing, and prevent sudden price increases or slumps," said Wang.
He said that the property market has seen a slow-down in the trade volume of houses, gradually stabilizing house prices, and increasingly rational market expectations.
He said the ministry will encourage the rental market and maintain consistency in housing policies and regulations.


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Dietmar Hamann tells Jurgen Klopp: This is what Liverpool must learn to do in title race
Dietmar Hamann says Liverpool must learn to etch out victories when not playing well to triumph in title race
Dietmar Hamann says Liverpool need to learn how to etch out Premier League victories when Jurgen Klopp’s men aren’t playing well.
The Merseyside outfit were 1-0 winners against Everton in the derby on Monday night after Sadio Mane scored a winner in the fourth minute of added time at Goodison Park.
Liverpool hoisted themselves up to second place and six points behind current leaders Chelsea thanks to their close-fought win against the Toffees earlier this week.
Klopp’s side have only lost two games in the Premier League this term following defeats by Bournemouth and Burnley on the road.
However, former Liverpool midfielder Hamann was encouraged by the Merseyside outfit’s performance against Everton despite struggling to get to grips with the Toffees in the first half.
The retired Germany international explained what Liverpool must start to do more often if Klopp’s side are to triumph in the title race.
“Three points in the Merseyside derby is always important – but to snatch it in stoppage time will give the club a huge morale boost. Liverpool have to win these tight games and Sadio Mane’s goal could be a defining moment come May,” Hamann wrote in his Paddy Power blog.
“They’ve dropped points against Bournemouth and West Ham, and if they want to stay in contention those are the games they need to be winning. Jurgen Klopp’s side need to learn how to win even when they’re not firing on all cylinders.”
Liverpool finished in eighth place under Klopp last season after the German took over the reins back in October 2015.

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Low ethanol consumption induces enhancement of insulin sensitivity in liver of normal rats
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Moderate amounts of alcohol intake have been reported to have a protective effect on the cardiovascular system and this may involve enhanced insulin sensitivity. We established an animal model of increased insulin sensitivity by low ethanol consumption and here we investigated metabolic parameters and molecular mechanisms potentially involved in this phenomenon. For that, Wistar rats have received drinking water either without (control) or with 3% ethanol for four weeks. The effect of ethanol intake on insulin sensitivity was analyzed by insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR), intravenous insulin tolerance test (IVITT) and lipid profile. The role of liver was investigated by the analysis of insulin signaling pathway, GLUT2 gene expression and tissue glycogen content. Rats consuming 3% ethanol showed lower values of HOMA-IR and plasma free fatty acids (FFA) levels and higher hepatic glycogen content and glucose disappearance constant during the IVITT. Neither the phosphorylation of insulin receptor (IR) and insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1), nor its association with phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3-kinase), was affected by ethanol. However, ethanol consumption enhanced liver IRS-2 and protein kinase B (Akt) phosphorylation (3 times, P < 0.05), which can be involved in the 2-fold increased (P < 0.05) hepatic glycogen content. The GLUT2 protein content was unchanged. Our findings point out that liver plays a role in enhanced insulin sensitivity induced by low ethanol consumption. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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President Donald Trump donated part of his 2018 wage to the Small Business Administration (SBA), according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. They are given full energy in the determination making process and may grant SBA loans with out consulting the SBA first. By the Korean War the Congress created but another agency specializing in small business, the Small Protection Plants Administration.
To streamline authorities support for minor enterprise President Eisenhower proposed the group of the Small Business Administration and it was developed by Congress in July 1953.” The constitution also stipulated that SBA would ensure minor businesses a “truthful proportion” of government contracts and gross sales of surplus property.
Ladies are tapping into businesses that expresses their ardour and in what personally interests them. For the reason that the SBA doesn’t hand out loans itself, it uses its relationship with these outdoors lenders and intermediaries to ensure … Read More


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My husband, Jay, saw the light dancing on this new print reproduction of my watercolor,
“Harvest Haul” and captured it.
Hi there! I’m so glad you are joining me on my artistic journey. I have always had a creative streak. From being a contemporary Christian artist in the 1980’s (as Robyn Pope), to currently working with my son, Stefan Liner at our entertainment company, Liner House. I have a full life.
This website is dedicated to my fine art pursuits in watercolor and mixed media.
Below is a quick glimpse at what I’m working on these days.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Photos And User Guide At FCC
When Sony Ericsson announced the Xperia Ray, it placed a name on a smartphone that we had been following for the previous several weeks, the ST18a Urushi. That was only a few weeks ago, and the Xperia Ray has already completed its FCC certification, showing off some pictures and a manual in the process.
Unlike the usual collection of FCC documents we see, for the Xperia Ray Sony Ericsson took it pretty easy with its requests to keep certain information confidential; we won’t see any schematics or circuit diagrams, but this is practically a cavalcade compared to the likes of what we’d get with a Motorola publication.
Besides the pics and instructional material, there’s of course the requisite technical data, here showing compatibility with AT&T’s WCDMA bands, as expected (the Ray also supports 800MHz and 2100MHz, with the FCC did not evaluate). We’ve heard the smartphone may be released in the UK on August 15, but estimates for a US launch aren’t any more specific than Q3 2011. The Ray has a 1GHz CPU, a 3.3-inch display with Sony’s Bravia tech, and an eight-megapixel Exmor rear camera.


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Anyone who complains that music is stupid nowadays is completely correct, but pop music has always been pretty stupid, and that's kind of the point of it? To be fun and sorta dumb? That said, here's my (extremely factual) argument for why early pop/rock music in the 1950s and 60s was actually even dumber than the dumb pop music of today:
The Twist, The Mashed Potato, The Swim, The Frug, The Waterbug, The Blablooie -- I made up those last two, but the point is, every friggin' week in the 50s and 60s, music was attempting to invent a goofy new dance craze with a specific set of corresponding moves.
Also, the song itself was always declaring that the hot new dance was "sweeping the nation." How the hell could you possibly know that, song? The dance is literally being invented BY your song. You can't also sing about how popular it is AS it's coming into existence.
Nowadays, even when a song is dumb as hell, at least you can dance to it without following a strict set of bullet points. We still get the occasional 'Gangnam Style', but anyone actually doing the dances in public usually gets more ridiculed than admired. This is progress.
Who made the rule that every deep-voiced guy in 50s/60s pop music has to sing like a friggin' Frankenstein Monster? There's always a main guy singing all nice and normally about his darlin', then some weird-ass bass dude just suddenly cuts in with his big doofy mouth singing like, "YOU'RE A GIRL!" "YOU'VE GOT ARMS!" like the band is letting their Of Mice and Men manchild friend wander around the studio to keep him from unwittingly snapping peoples' necks.
Why did bass dudes get such a raw deal? Surely some of them had good regular voices? Why were they required to sing like a recently-tricked Looney Tunes sidekick?
Like, 60% of early rock songs are about rock and roll. Or they at least include a verse explaining what rock n' roll is. I like to imagine this was because super-uptight 1950s dads (who were all wearing skinny ties with thick glasses and smoking in NASA control rooms) were BAFFLED when they heard guitars and had to be reassured by an in-song disclaimer explaining what was happening on their radios.
Something along the lines of, "We got a new sound and it's really hot! It's swingin' and a-jumpin' and we call it rock! Now we're rockin' and a rollin', in this rock n' roll sonnnnngggg! OOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!" Then a list of footnotes where listeners could do further research on the genre.
NOTE: This phenomenon was repeated in the early days of rap, when every song had to re-explain what rap was. "What you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat!" (Cut to: People just PANICKING left and right, yelling "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?? IS THIS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE TESTS???)
Ever been listening to some nice oldie and they're talking about two young people locking eyes and falling in love by the jukebox, then the chorus is like, "Oh yeah, she's my sweet little twelve year ollllddddddd! OWWWWWW!!!!" and you instantly feel skeevy for just hearing it? I realize people got married a lot younger back then (because of religion and constant Soviet nuclear paranoia), and the record-buyers were young, but it's weird to hear grown-men rock stars singing thirsty lovin' songs from the point of view of like, horny pubescent children.
Also, Chuck Berry has a song called "Sweet Little Sixteen" and was once arrested for transporting an undeage girl across the border for 'immoral purposes'. Maybe play it safe and just stop mentioning very specific ages in songs?
50s/60s songs, why are you constantly telling the DJ what to do? "Heyyy Mister DJ Man, burn all those dumbass records and dig THESE rhythm and bluuuessss!!!!" Hey singing dude, I know YOU enjoy the rock music that you yourself are making, but that's not really a salient enough argument to convince a radio DJ to change the station's entire format in the middle of a song.
Maybe the station you're ripping on just IS a classical station? Maybe the DJ is a classical music MFA who's devoted his entire life to record collecting and pours his heart and soul into every broadcast? And they've done tons of market research and there isn't enough room to compete with the city's other giant Top-40 stations? Maybe consider THAT for a second before you rockingly shit on his ultimate passion?
Songs now do still frequently reference the DJ, but usually it's just a simple request to "turn it up," not an angry rockin' plea to abruptly change their record-selecting approach. Plus even if your thesis statement is accurate, rock guys, the DJ isn't playing your song to begin with, so they aren't hearing the argument you're making. You're just appealing to people who are already rock fans. Basically, you're being Twitter.
This is more of a "The 1950s" problem in general, but there's something intellectually dishonest about horny-ass teenagers gathering in malt shops and dance halls and car repair shops in the hopes of copping some feels up on Lover's Lane (this exact sentence is all anyone did in the 50s) to the soundtrack of a rock singer pretending to be a nice young man who's over the moon to hold hands with a nice gal, and MAYBE get a smooch, if the song is exceptionally progressive. But other than that, anything remotely sexual is buried in stuff that's not even innuendo like "looking at the moon together" and shit.
Some might argue that pop music's current explicitness is actually a negative (and when the lyrics are stuff that no actual decent human would say like "you the hottest ho in this place" then yeah, that's shitty), but at the very least, songs are generally honest about us all wanting to fuck each other all the time. That's what music's always* been about, we're just finally allowed to be honest about it.
* Yes, always. Since the beginning of time. Handel's "Messiah"? Mozart's "Requiem"? Both secretly about fucking. You name it.
Something like 80% of the rock songs from the 50s (precise scientific estimate) devote between 1 and 3 entire verses to describe the car they're driving, or aspiring to drive, or that their dad's recently confiscated from them. Granted, the rise of pop music in the 50s and 60s was strongly tied to connecting with young people over car radios, but it's still a little weird when rock singers just launch into mid-song descriptions of a Chevy engine's fuel injection capabilities (to say nothing of how hard it is to rhyme words with "capabilities").
Songs nowadaways know we don't have time to get bogged down in automotive details when we're bustin' loose on the ol' D-floor. The only thing we have the patience to hear described in uncomfortable detail is giant butts. The way Aristotle INTENDED when he invented music.
Just kidding, this is actually by far the best part of every 50s song and should be brought back into music IMMEDIATELY.

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Great description and useful photos. The only point I might reword is the comment about Nopah Point being "unnamed on the map"--there's a benchmark "Nopah" on the 7.5'. I'm still not quite sure how these benchmarks tie in to place names, but they seem to pop up a lot in the desert. I can't remember ever seeing anything like this in the Sierra, though...
Hmm, I can't remember. I wish I knew more about how these benchmarks acquire a name, and why some of them (e.g. Towne Peak/Point) don't later become official USGS peak names.
The benchmark on the DPS highpoint (1949.9 m on the latest USGS map) has no name; I just checked my photos. I believe that benchmark just indicates a triangulation point. The PID for this benchmark seems to be FT1458, but that datasheet is not complete, which leads me to suspect that there was never a full elevation determination. The 1946T point to the north, labeled as "Nopah Peak" on the USGS map, has no benchmark*; the most recent map shows a spot check elevation, which may have been measured only by aerial photography, as this is a provisional map. An older DPS report suggests that "Nopah Peak" is lower, and the DPS register was moved to the present location some time ago.
Often names of PIDs are generated in a casual way, and may reflect just a range name, or even the area from which the survey began (e.g., Mummy Mt benchmark is labeled "deer"). The USGS database lists a "Nopah Peak" and gives coords.
Are you coming to freeze fest.
Great page, interesting mountain.
I enjoyed this hike, though the SE route was long. The views of Charleston from the eastern ridge are impressive, as both peaks are so high above the intervening valley.

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One of the highlights of the local music calendar, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival Free Concert, will host the iconic Brand New Heavies.
The concert will also feature a host of local talent including Jimmy Dludlu, Cape Town pop star Jimmy Nevis, the St Joseph’s Maritz School band as well as the winner of the popular local Open Mic Jazz Vocal competition Candice Thornton.
The event will take place on Green Market Square on Wednesday April 3 and if the success of the previous 14 concerts is anything to go by, music fans best get there early to book a place close to the stage.
One of the most successful acid-jazz/UK funk groups of all time, the Brand New Heavies have been wowing crowds for over 20 years and show no signs of stopping.
Our own Jimmy Dludlu is a self-taught guitarist and singer, known internationally for his original African Jazz and fusion music.
Nevis needs no introduction to local audiences. The Athlone born singer, songwriter and producer stormed the charts and his second hit single ‘Heartboxing’ is being distributed in the USA.
Thornton is one of the newest talents to emerge from the city, but her command of jazz, blues, R&B and gospel ensures she will hold her own against the big name artists she will share the stage with.
The future musical stars of the St Joseph’s Marist College Jazz band rounds off the fantastic bill. Their repertoire ranges from traditional jazz standards to more contemporary pieces, showcasing the versatility of the musicians in the group.
Festival director and CEO of espAfrika Rashid Lombard says the Free Community Concert is a gift to the people of Cape Town.
“It is now a well-established Cape Town tradition over the festival period. It is a special evening packed with live music and is an exceptional gig for those who are unable to make it to the main show.”
“The free concert has been running as long as the Cape Town International Jazz festival itself and is truly a night for the Cape Town community,” adds Lombard.
Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille says the event, which has grown to include workshops, master classes and focus schools, touches people across the city in different ways.
“It is heart-warming to know that many children from in and around Cape Town are exposed to music, musical instruments and rhythms in an entirely new way,” she says.
“The City and this festival have a long track record together- the event attracts visitors to our city while its communities actively participate in the festival.”
The concerts will start at 5pm and ends at around 11pm and the public is warned to expect road closures around the Green Market Square area before and during the event.


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And just like that, the AW22 New York Fashion Week arrived. I can not be more excited about it! The shows are amazing, and the streets are full of gorgeous street style. Because it’s Spark Le Monde, I would like to highlight our family members, let me emphasize the Proenza Schouler show and our soon coming brand Helmut Lang’s AW22 collections.
In the previous days a very interesting podcast came out with the designers of Proenza and Business Of Fashion. (You have to listen to this on Spotify!!!) They walked me through their whole history and they amazed me even more. And now this show… Let me show you my favourite details and moments of it.
I was so happy to see this lilac dress. Because it means that my favourite shade is gonna stay a trend colour in the next season as well. The double bag trend is huge! The thing you should know about me, is that I wear two bags every day. Thanks for making it fancy! My favourite detail is that corset on that brown coat. And those perfectly tailored blazers and black & white dresses. I'm in total awe!
Inspired by the fashion weeks and street style, I will come back soon with a trend alert! Stay tuned and until than, occasionally also check on our newbies.


EyeballNYC has created a new ID package for New York Central, the Metro Channel's new late night show that provides New Yorkers with a daily fix of New York entertainment, gossip, lifestyle and culture. The 100+ element ID package reflects EyeballNYC's distinctive use of rapid-fire still photographs and edgy, flat graphic animation to simulate a typical New Yorker's blurred morning commute. When asked for one, EyeballNYC produced five show opens, with original music, as well as numerous ID elements, bumpers, lower thirds, credit beds and re-opens.
Visual effects studio Rhinoceros Effects has recently finished a new spot for health insurance group Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield and agency Gotham Inc. Titled Beacon, the spot combines photo-realistic CG with live-action camera moves. The Beacon butterflies that star in the spot required deep work in CG, but shooting the live materials was also very important, said director Harry Dorrington. We shot the room using very slow moves, as well as capturing light sources and background textures.
Santa Monica, Californias R!OT provided design and visual effects services for the new Eve video, WHO'S THAT GIRL? The video, which is the first from Eve's just released CD SCORPION, places the hip-hop diva, along with an enormous Bengal tiger, into an eerie ice kingdom and several other virtual environments. "In order to achieve perfect integration, most of the compositing needed to be done by hand, with each frame treated as an individual work of art," said compositor Klaus Hansen. Hansen produced a digital matte painting to extend the apartment set.
MacGuff Ligne Paris transformed Kraft's Jello gelatin and pudding products into a fantasy of pastoral landscapes for a new series of Foote Cone Belding spots. The ad agency chose MacGuff Ligne, thanks in part to its collaborative history with director Jean Pierre Roux and his renowned spot for Evian featuring a baby ballet of synchronized swimming infants. "MacGuff was uniquely suited to make that magic happen due to our flexibility, says executive producer Nico Trout.
Santa Monica, Californias Computer Cafe provided 3D animation and visual effects services for a new spot for Bayer Home Health. Conceived by Chicago agency Euro RSCG Tatham, the 30-second spot promotes Bayer Home Health Total Termite Control system. The spot opens on a man lying in a magnetic resonance imaging system. The machine's scanning bar performs a pass and reveals an interior view of the man's chest. The scene then shifts to the man's home and dissolves to a MRI-like view in which the insides of the home's skeletal structure are plainly in view.
Londons production house HRA has completed the latest commercial for Cereal Partners Shreddies, featuring Mr. Hungry. HRA director Andrew Painter teamed with Ian Sharp, director at Talkback Productions, to produce a matchless combination of live-action and animation. The live-action component was inspired by the well-known musical version of OLIVER, perfectly captured to create an atmospheric world inhabited by larger than life characters, both human and animated.
Manchester, UKs 422 Ltd. used Cambridge Animation Systems' Inkworks software to achieve a traditional cel look in 3D for two recent projects. Mr. T is a 30-second commercial produced by Equinox Film & TV Productions and directed by Gary Cowan for the Accident Group, a compensation claims company. Mr. T was first modeled in Maya and prepared for animation using the software's set-driven keys and animation features. Once the pace of the animation was determined, Inkworks was used on the outlines and scenes were painted with the Maya renderer to achieve a cel look.
Los Angeles Click 3X provided design, 3D animation, visual effects and integration services for BRAVE NEW WORLD, a new series of television commercials for EMC networked data storage systems. The campaign was conceived by Boston agency Arnold Worldwide and directed by Morton Jankel Zander's Marcus Nispel. Each of the three 60-second commercials uses a vision of an apocalyptic future world as a metaphor for businesses searching for reinforcement in a world being bombarded by information.
New Yorks Curious Pictures has created CHEESE CHANNEL, a 30-second spot for Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and Chicagos Foote, Cone and Belding ad agency. Switching between several classic daytime TV vignettes, the comic spot blends stock footage and a variety of mixed media techniques, including live-action, stop-motion animation and computer/cel animation. Were proud of the cheese-surfing Kraft Mac and Cheese spot, said Jim Shirreff, art director, Foote, Cone and Belding. The universe of television is condensed to a world of macaroni and cheese.
Venice, Californias Blur Studio's broadcast design division recently created a show open for ROBOTICA, The Learning Channel's new 1-hour robot competition series airing on Wednesday nights. Creative director Tim Brown came up with the piece's innovative design, centering on a chrome-plated, flying robot that mounts an aggressive assault on the television screen. Blur Studio concept artist Feng Shu designed the robot character and 3D artist Juan Granja modeled and animated it. Blur Studio also handled the production of the open, composed entirely of photo-real 3D computer animation.
New Yorks Curious Pictures has completed TOONZ CAUGHT ON TAPE!, a set of promotional spots for Nickelodeon. The mixed media pieces are a series of interstitial vignettes that feature some of Nickelodeons characters. We created a spoof of reality-based television shows, showing famous toonz captured in hidden-camera situations, said Steve Oakes, Curious Pictures director. The result is a commercial that shows the dark underbelly of Nickelodeons off-screen toon lifestyle.
yU + co has designed and produced a television advertising campaign for Turner Network Television in support of TNT and CNN/SI coverage of WUSA, the women's professional soccer league. Directed by yU + co creative director Garson Yu, the campaign launches with a 60-second television spot in which soccer stars Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Julie Foudy and Brianna Scurry morph into animated superheroes.
New York digital effects studio Charlex has finished work on a new 60-second ID spot for Nickelodeon, which began airing April 21, 2001. Featuring a kinetic montage of Nick shows turbocharged with special effects and set to a zany classical score mixed with house beats and sound effects, the Because We Can themed spot showcases the networks entire range of programming in a mix of live-action, animation and effects.
London-based animation studio Loose Moose has recently completed work on a 30-second stop-motion spot for Oscar Mayer Lunchables. Titled Make Your Own Fun, the commercial combines stop-motion animation and CGI to portray a young boy, Dillon, and his dog, Bumpy, who unintentionally wreak havoc in their quest to invent things. The spot used puppets and sets made by Artem Models and Effects. Loose Moose used Maya to create the high-speed look of the hall corridor. Other effects done by Loose Moose included hundreds of thousands of CGI sprinkles that get jet-fanned onto a brownie.
Animation and visual effects house Celluloid Studios has recently completed a series of 30-second Bubble Boys spots for Budweiser. The four commercials, The Agent, Agent Phil, Holdouts and Negotiator, are the latest in an ongoing series of Budweiser commercials done by the company, and continue the narrative of two mechanical, tabletop hockey players, Murph and La Rue. The humorous ads again focus on their pursuit of being as famous as hockey legend Wayne Gretzky.
Creative design boutique EyeballNYC has teamed with Showtime Networks recently launched ShoNext digital cable channel to produce the 12-episode TV/Web series DISC JOCKEY, an innovative, mixed-media exploration of emerging American DJs. Each two-minute segment combines a documentary-style DJ interview with an animated superhero sequence. Music downloads, DJ tour schedules and other material are available on the Website. "Showtime was very clear in its creative direction," said EyeballNYC director Alex Moulton, who is also a DJ.
Digital studio Spontaneous Combustion has created the title design and end logo animation for a pool of 30-second spots, with 15-second lifts, for T.J. MAXXs Maxximum Stories campaign, which rolled out nationwide on March 18, 2001. The ads, tagged You should go, show women talking about why they love T.J. MAXX. According to design director Dana Yee, "Because the tag is You should go, we wanted to parlay a sense of motion with the typography.
Creating what is arguably both the biggest project and greatest success in its eight years of operation, New York's The Diecks Group recently delivered a complete redesign of Discovery Kids Network, a three-hour block of programming aired on weekends on the Discovery Channel. Creative director Brian Diecks and The Diecks Group team were the exclusive creators of 122 on-air design elements, including block opens, next-ons, bumpers, interstitials and promo elements. The project required extensive live-action, 3D animation, effects compositing and 2D graphics.
San Franciscos Wild Brain, Inc. has announced their work on the animated open, close and lifts for Cartoon Network's new weekly series, THE CHUCK JONES SHOW, which premiered on the cable network this past April 8, 2001. In the 30-second open, Wile E. Coyote zooms around on an Acme rocket, interacting with old Chuck Jones characters such as the Road Runner, Michigan J. Frog, Duck Dodgers, Marvin the Martian and Bugs Bunny. The characters eventually fall onto a stage and surround an animated, framed picture of Chuck Jones. As Wile E.
Colorado animation studio Celluloid has just completed work on two public service announcements for Earth Share, a federation of America's leading non-profit environmental and conservation organizations. Working with advertising agency Foote, Cone and Belding, director James Wahlberg and live-action production company Visitor, Celluloid, led by executive producer Jan Johnson and director Paniagiotis Rappas, provided the animation on both sixty-second spots. The first, titled "This Is," is based on a series of 30 paintings by designer Alan Brewer.
Creative boutique EyeballNYC has completed work on a 15-second spot for allergy medication Zyrtek, sponsor of SESAME STREET, which broadcasts on PBS. Combining 3D green text animation and live-action, the company used everyday sounds to spell out Zyrtek (pronounced zur-tek) phonetically. A tent zipper, an electric mixer and a lawn mower together create the first syllable of the product name, while a skipping record, a game of checkers and a stick against a picket fence creates the second. An accompanying monochrome image and green 3D text animation reinforces each sound.
Computer graphics house Island Fever Productions has completed two new commercials for Orkin's "fake-out" campaign. In this year's campaign, which like last years shows a pesky cockroach interrupting the viewing of two fake commercials, Island Fever Productions created the animation of the cockroach, all the additional animation and the final compositing for both commercials. The first faux commercial is for "Timmy Townsend P.I." in which Gary Coleman stars as a bumbling private eye. Island Fever created the CG logo treatment of flying streaking letters.
New York animation studio Black Logic has completed two 30 second commercials for Coldwell Banker. The first spot, titled "Concierge," shows a disembodied head of a beleaguered home buyer orbited by a series of objects representing the many headaches of the house hunting process. Directed by Black Logic's Michel Suissa, the spot uses colorful, high-energy graphics, propelled by a peppy musical score, to highlight an exclusive Coldwell Banker online service that assists people in managing the details involved in buying and selling residential real-estate.
Uli Meyer Animation has just delivered the second in a series of computer animated commercials featuring Okto the Octopus for Kellogg's Variety Packs. In the new 30-second spot, titled "Find The Variety," Okto and Okto's friends, Sandra the Swordfish, The Crab and The Starfish make return appearances, while an electric eel debuts as an improvised aerial for the radio that provides the soundtrack for the commercial. In the spot, Okto plays the "shell game" in the galley of an underwater shipwreck, trying to find his favorite cereal among the eight varieties in the Kellogg's Variety Pack.
Creative firm ViewPoint Studios announced the completion of The Ultimate Gamer promotional spots for the upcoming Discovery Science Channel videogame information television series THE ELECTRIC PLAYGROUND. Using a combination of CGI, live-action and visual effects compositing, ViewPoint created the Ultimate Gamer with a jet pack, VR helmet, rocket skates, gamer attitude, humor and dynamic visuals in order to convey THE ELECTRIC PLAYGROUND as the place for video game enthusiasts to get needed secret skills and codes to conquer the electronic world.


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Knit box for a stole knitted in only a few hours
A bridal scarf knitted with big needles for easy self-knitting. Knit yourself! This is also something for knitters with little knitting experience.
If you are to preoccupied with your wedding preparations, you may be able to hand over this beautiful knitting project to your mother, sister or aunt.
Knitting instructions as a colored booklet
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With only 3 balls of wool you can knit your own stole in only two evenings :-)
Please select "my color" from the color selection box in comments, enter your desired color from the color chart.
- 78% mohair 13% polyamide 9% new wool
- Barrel length: 50g = 140m
- Needle size: 5-5.5
- Mesh test: 16M / 20R
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- Size uni 150g 3 balls


The musicians and the music
BAK is the current musical adventure of Australian composers Beau Djekic and Kit Dyson. BAK was born with the aim to bring their varied cultural and global musical influences to life in a project of scale and ambition. Freed from the need to confirm to a traditional rock band format they set about sourcing musicians from around the globe who could help manifest the vision of Baklandia.
Drummer-keyboardist Kit says of his group’s genesis, “It’s really more about what wasn’t there, as opposed to what is there. There was a hole, really, as far as entertainment and music goes. A lot of groups are playing their songs on stage, pretty much standing still, wearing jeans. The image is a little bit boring to us. We wanted to do something bigger, musically and visually, that we felt was missing in the music world and in the entertainment world.”
Kit and his creative partner, guitarist/bassist Beau, have conceived their work as a project that pushes the boundaries of music and its presentation. Beau explains, “The German composer Richard Wagner came up with the idea of a complete entertainment. He was one of the first people to do things on a large scale, like having compositions playing while having people walking through the audience in costume carrying candles. That sort of idea was the nebulous beginning of something that inspired us.
“We were two guys, passionate about music, growing up in Australia,” he continues. “We were drawn to music in our early teens. Growing up I listened to AC/DC and Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and Judas Priest. I also listened to classical music, Bach and Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky and I listened to hip-hop, ranging from the Beastie Boys to old-school gangsta rap, Busta Rhymes.”
“I was pretty much the same,” says Kit. “I grew up in the classical world somewhat, when I was very young, learning the classical instruments and all that sort of thing. As I grew up I discovered rock music and jazz music. We also have an interest in all different cultures.Sydney is such a multicultural society with people from all over the world. There are so many many ethnic neighborhoods with restaurants to go to where you meet the people and get exposed to their respective cultures.”
Both musicians were pointed on the path that led them to the unique music they make today when they took up esoteric foreign instruments in their youth. For Beau, whose first instrument was the guitar, the baglama, or saz – a Turkish stringed instrument not unlike the lute – served to inspire a fresh musical direction.
Beau recalls, “I had a friend who had one lying around the house. He’d bought it second-hand at a garage sale. He didn’t know what to do with it, and I found out what it was and how to play it. I found a Turkish teacher in the west of Sydney and studied for about a year. Once I got to the point of learning classical Turkish pieces, I got enough of an understanding of the instrument to teach myself how to get better at it in a way that would help me facilitate my own music.”
Kit says, “I grew up as a pianist, and I became a drummer in my teens. I didn’t just like South American percussion, like most drummers tend to go into. I got more into the North African and Turkish percussion. I play the doumbek, which is a hand drum from Northern Africa, and the riq, which is essentially a tambourine. I also play a Persian instrument called the tombak, an ancient Persian drum.”
The merging of two divergent types of instrumentation – Western/electric and Eastern/acoustic – led to the creation of a musical style that has come to be known by BaK fans as “Ethno-Prog.” Beau and Kit compose and produce the music in their Sydney home base, employing a host of other musicians to formulate their massive, orchestral sound.
“We’ll record sort of a skeleton,” Beau says. “We’ll already have all of the parts written, or least conceived. It’s a layering process. There are amazing, amazing musicians that we’ve had the opportunity to work with, including members of the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Opera and lots of local ethnic musicians. Generally, through the process of recording, we’ll have up to 30 people come through the legendary Albert Studios where we record.
Kit continues. “Essentially what Beau and I do is write all this stuff in our cave in the mountains, and then we start putting together an arrangement and getting people to come in and play. Essentially the vision is of something very, very big – lots and lots of instruments to express how we view the world and how we view Baklandia.”
To date, BaK’s music has materialized on three recording projects – Flower (2014), Painter (2012) and Sculpture (2010).
The debut Sculpture features 10 tracks as monumental as the imposing Egyptian desert sculptures that inspired them. The nearly eight-minute “Can’t Understand” melds string-laden melodies grounded in Eastern modalities (reminiscent at times of the Beatles’ pathfinding “Within You Without You”) to a full-blown metal explosion. “Not Just Your World” conjures the progressive rock complexity of such acts as Yes and King Crimson, cloaked in world music rhythms. And the suite-like, nine-minute “Our Time” builds from a delicate acoustic introduction to a thunderous “Kashmir”-like processional.
The four-track sophomore release Painter proved to be an even deeper exploration of BaK’s unique world-rock sound, drawing from roots that sweep from North Africa through the Middle East and into India. Running nearly seven minutes, “Creation” fuses subdued strings and a rising muezzin-like vocal line into a bold fusion of Eastern spirituality and surging Western hard rock. The explosive nine-minute “What Have We Done” melds lush, raga-like world music with roaring orchestral thrash for a unique Ravi Shankar-meets-Metallica effect.
The hyper-ambitious Flower marks BaK’s deepest incursion into world themes, and is highlighted by the almost 15-minute, two-part “Life and Perception,” a symphonic swell of elegantly arranged strings, swirling keyboards, and a slamming hard rock movement graced with chants and a classically-derived chorale.
In keeping with BaK's multi-media conception, the group has produced videos for Sculpture’s “Not Just Your World” and all four tracks from the Flower EP. The clips have won acclaim at the Indie Film Festival, the Intendance Film Festival, and the Action On Film International Film Festival.
BaK envisions an ambitious series of live touring performances that would present their work in the context of full-blown rock theater/concert.
“In a practical sense,” Beau says, “what we want to do is take shows from, say, the late ‘80s – everything from Michael Jackson to Pink Floyd, visually stimulating over-the-top stage shows – as our example. The final objective would be to have a symphonic choir and an orchestra (with Violins/cellos/horns/woodwind/brass and percussion) on stage. You’d also have rock musicians – guitar, bass, drums, keyboards - and then have an Ethnic music ensemble. It would be aligned with a specific BaK visuals based on the Baklandia Universe for each tour. It would be a large over-the-top spectacular, basically, along the lines of a musical or something like that – a visual entertainment as well as music – a Rock Symphony.
“We want to bring back some of that awe you had when you were a kid and you would watch, perhaps, an action film, and say, ‘Oh, my God, that thing is bigger than life!’”


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Prudence lives in the village of Akonkoma in the Eastern Region of Ghana with her family. They own one of the most outstanding farms in the area, thanks in large part to her diligence in cultivating their moringa trees from tiny seedlings to mature trees through the past few months.
Mid-November to the end of March is “Harmattan” season in Ghana. The weather turns dry and unpleasant: cold at night, and hot throughout the day as the wind blows red sand and dust from the Sahara down toward the south. That pesky red sand sneaks its way into just about everything around the house and farm. Harmattan is one of the hardest seasons for farmers in West Africa, as many have to rely on the income made during the rainy season to get by, and water becomes scarce.
Few crops can cope with the unfriendly weather. Moringa is one of them: flowers blossom just when the rains stop, and long, seed-bearing pods slowly develop in the dry months until the sun ripens them for the harvest in late April.
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It will all be worth it come April when the moringa harvest will start to roll in, providing farmers like Prudence with much needed income at the tail end of the dry season.

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We've had the same Christmas decorations for years, and while I love the nostalgia invoked by ornaments we've had since the first Christmas G and I spent together, I try each year to add something homemade, to keep things from feeling stale. When Leslie returned from her Thanksgiving break in Nevada with bags full of beautiful pinecones, it felt like the perfect opportunity to turn them into unique holiday decorations. Our Christmas tree has a lot of pink and metallic elements, so we decided to paint them in a similar scheme for less-traditional, but still festive trimmings (I've never been a huge fan of the green and red combo). We placed ours on the mantelpiece next to our tree, but they would look just as beautiful in an over-sized bowl on the kitchen counter, or on the dining table as a centerpiece. Here's how we made them:
8 large pine cones
4 cans of spray paint in colors of your choosing (we did light pink, darker pink, white, and metallic gold)
Standard computer paper
Before starting, we picked out our colors—white, light pink, raspberry-pink, and gold—then mapped out our plan for each of the eight pinecones to make sure we had a good variety of different colors on top and bottom. For the pinecones we planned to paint light pink, we began by setting down newspaper outside, then spray-painting the entire cone white to act as a primer. While we allowed them to dry, we started painting and prepping the rest of the cones.
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As we became pinecone-painting pros, we felt confident enough to just use the piece of paper and ditch the zipper bags. Once each pinecone was fully painted, we allowed them to dry for an hour before removing the piece of paper, then did minimal touchup on a few spots. We couldn't be happier with the final product, which looked sleek and darling on the mantel—see for yourself below.

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This idea of positive thinking is really interesting to me, especially as a therapist.
As mentioned in some of my previous blogs,e.g. positivity, trying to assist a client who is automatically inclined to use their cognition negatively, is no easy feat, however, there is something that intrigues and interests me about their processes.
Ok, let us assess your cognition/processes with am incident that occurred to me and probably copious amounts of you.
On Tuesday I went to the local cashpoint at Tesco's, (other supermarkets are available) to withdraw some money. As I approached the screen, I noticed a message saying "transaction void, please press cancel".
I carried out the screens request and was directed to a normal screen, however, at that moment I thought to myself, "maybe I shouldn't put my card in". So instead of listening to my inner voice, I ignored it and I put my card in the machine. As I followed the directions typed upon the screen, I got to the stage where I could hear my cash being counted....JOY!
I waited for my card to arrive, shortly after my cash would follow.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.
....Right, I'm sure it's not normal to wait for your card for 30 seconds.
There you go...no card, no money. As my demeanour began to turn sour, I walked into Tesco's and spoke politely to the manager, who informed me there was nothing he could do and that I needed to contact my bank...
Ok it's clear at this point....
How do you think, you would be feeling at this stage?
I retreat to the sanctuary of my home, poised, frustrated, victimised by a cashpoint machine and itching to call the bank, knowing full well what will happen next. My dear old card needs to be cancelled; a new one needs to be issued along with a pin number and of course, I will need to physically enter a bank to retrieve money...(Breathe)...oh the inconvenience of it all.
How would you be feeling now?
As I speak to the operative, Claire, on the phone, I begin to laugh and tell her that I'm old enough to remember the days when you actually had to go into the bank to get money... (ok, stop trying to figure out my age....and concentrate on the blog). At this juncture, I'm feeling a little less agitated and accept that for up to 7-10 days I'm going to be without a cash card and will definitely have to step foot into a bank to retrieve money. Yeah.... it's inconvenient, but worse things have happened at sea. At his stage I've accepted my lot and remind myself to listen to my instincts more often.
How would you be feeling at this stage?
The range of emotions I experienced were of, denial, frustration, anger, inconvenienced, thoughtful, accepting and positive.
By employing some positive thought, I was able to turn a frustrating situation into one less so and all in the space of 30 minutes. Furthermore, my positive disposistion was further improved when a friend insisted I sample some of her rum collection. I thought it rude to refuse, thanks Geri! DOUBLE JOY!!
As a therapist I have worked with numerous clients that would dwell on an incident similar to this for a long time. Procrastinating, negating, blaming, victimising, employing a cycle of destructive cognitions....the list is endless. The power of positive thinking is invaluable and can definitely assist in defusing certain situations.
SW11 Counsellinghas assisted many clients towards looking and thinking about things more positively. For more information about the services offered by SW11 Counselling, or to read otherblogs
, please visit the website at: www.sw11counselling.co.uk.Many thanks.
Your comments are welcome.
How do you express yourself?
Are you one of those types who are comfortable:
- expressing how they feel?
- asking for what they want?
- engaging in dialogue with novel people....?
- using a loud speaker, whilst driving to tell someone you like their hair...?
Yes... Number 4 happened to me two weeks ago.
Whilst I waited to cross the road at a set of traffic lights, a white van passed me and an individual announced through a loudspeaker (...yes I did say a loudspeaker) "NICE HAIR!".
The other pedestrians, now privy to this broadcast, smiled in my direction. I wasn't embarrassed, more amazed because the event was just so random, so unexpected. On the other hand, maybe it's more common than I think and I've just lived a sheltered life.....?
Me thinks NOT!
Anyway, I love my hair and agreed with the announcers observation, however, as I processed this episode further, I smiled.......you know, one of those internal smiles. I smiled at the wacky, random, uninhibited act of this individual. I smiled at their confidence, their individuality, their spontaneity. The therapist part of me smiled; it made me think about some of the clients I have worked with, who felt unable to express their selves freely.... solution? Easy! ......Issue them all with loudspeakers.
Hope you enjoyed this blog.
As always your comments are very welcome.
Fairly recently, I decided that it would be great to send positive messages out to family and peers via a social network. I had no ulterior motive, I just wanted to share the positivity I had within..........outwardly.
Nothing too heavy, just little things like:
- "Top of the morning to ya."
- "Just gazed out my window and was greeted with a clear sky. I can see Jupiter, right next to the moon. It's great to be alive innit? Nite peeps!"
- "Had a great day yesterday!! Here's hoping for more of the same. Enjoy!"
Responses to my goodwill and happy to be alive messages were interesting. I got several messages from my brother calling me a "loser!"
and a couple of messages from others saying "what drugs are you on?"
Fun and jokes aside... the majority of the comments I read were positive and wished me well, however, I did note that a small minority had a tinge of negativity, usually attributed to feeling over-worked or over-tired.
My thought processes are usually positive, hopeful and optimistic. I'm fortunate to be able to generate 'positive automatic thoughts.' Although I have always been a positive person, it must also be recognised that I'm no Mother Theresa and I do my best to maintain my positive environment. Put really simply, I tend not to sweat the small stuff because:
- firstly, it gives you frown lines and
- secondly, holding onto good stuff generally feels much nicer.
At other times I may utilise certain tools or reserves, such as:
- Remembering special moments,
- Watching a clear night sky, decorated with stars, planets and of course,the moon. (Any opportunity to talk about the moon and I will seize it!...hehehehe.)
- Listening to great music.
- Doing things that make me laugh.
Individuals whose thoughts patterns are full of worry, angst, doubt and/or anxiety are likely to have a stream of 'negative automatic thoughts'. Many aspects of their inner dialogue is fuelled by negativity, never allowing any space for positive processes to be filtered through and housed.
When you stop and listen to that inner dialogue that you have within, what do you hear? What kind of noises are being played? Is it a sweet symphony or a medley of mayhem?
Listening to ourselves is extremely important, it helps us to learn and to grow. Talking therapies such as Psychotherapy and Counselling gives an individual experiencing a medley of mayhem, a safe space to be candid about theirthoughts and feelings. At SW11 Counselling, the client and the therapist work together to explore destructive thoughts. The aim is to work towards assisting the client in finding and housing their own sweet symphony.
Thank you for reading my blog. Your comments are valuable and always welcome.
It's August 2012 and this month the night Sky has some great things on show. I'm pretty excited because I love watching the sky at night. Sometimes living in the city makes it difficult to see things clearly. However, there are some occasions where the sky at night is so clear, free from congestion and clouds. During those moments you get the chance to see a myriad of stars decorating the sky.. simply beautiful!...Mmmm,Bliss!
My favourite, FAvourite, FAVOURITE though is......the MOON! For some reason it fascinates me, makes me reflect on how amazing it can be to exist; to connect; to feel. This month we see something that doesn't happen that often.......
Wait for it............
Instead of one full moon, we get TWO! I know... Can you feel my excitement?......I can feel yours!
For those of you into Astronomy, two moons in one month is known as a Blue Moon and only occurs every 2 - 3 years, hence the phrase "Once in a Blue Moon." (doesn't happen often.)
The last time there was a blue moon was in March 2010. We expect the next blue moons on the 2nd and 31st August 2012.
The idea of the blue moon not only got me EXCITED (night sky watcher mode); it also got me thinking (ok..... back into therapist mode);
thinking about our existence on this planet we call earth.
I overheard a conversation where an individual felt they were 'plodding through life'. Plodding through life is a reality for many and after a while it can become tiring, isolating and disheartening. I want you to try and think back to the last blue moon in March 2010; What were your goals or issues back then? Two years have past and we are now in 2012 with another blue moon beckoning. What are your goals or issues now? What is it like comparing , reflecting and analysing the self you were two years ago to the self you are today?
There will be another blue moon in September of this year, however, after that we won't expect another until July 2015.
I wonder what kind of person we will be in 3 years time, whether we are able to press on, or will we just be plodding on?
"It's true some things happen once in a blue moon
we don't have to wait for the next blue moon to make things happen."
Taken from Antoinette Prince (in therapist mode).
Thank you for reading and your thoughts are always welcome.
This month I "thought" it would be interesting to look at certain attributes that are linked to our feelings. One attribute in particular that interests me is the idea of thinking or thought.
Thoughts and feelings are closely connected because the thoughts we have can definitely trigger our feelings and emotions. Equally important however, is how our feelings can be the catalyst for many thoughts...albeit adaptive or maladaptive ones.
Please believe me when I say that I am not an ogre, however, I love to watch my clients cringe when I ask them "How they are feeling?" or "What are they thinking about?" More often than not, those that cringe are those that find it difficult to access their emotions and thoughts. What really pleases me though, is watching the change in a client who once found it difficult to express themselves. As they continue to work on themselves they find it easier and more comfortable to describe, assess and monitor their thoughts.
As a therapist I am aware that clients come to me with their experiences and entangled within those experiences are a vast array of feelings and thoughts. The work within the therapy is about being able to explore these thoughts, to entangle them; make sense of them. This of course is not easy, but essential for ones development and existence.
At SW11 Counselling it is important to me to assess how a client is feeling; acknowledge their thinking patterns. Of course I am a huge advocate for talking therapies and strongly believe that Psychotherapy and Counselling are excellent tools in getting an individual to understand their inner world.
Right.............that's enough from me, now I turn the tables toward YOU!
I have a few thought provoking questions below that I want you to try and answer. I understand that answering these questions may be more difficult for some than others. Have a go anyway....it'll be interesting to see where your thoughts and feelings take you to.
As per usual your THOUGHTS and comments are always welcome.
What makes you smile?
What makes you frown?
When are we self-improved enough to accept ourselves?
What impact are you wanting to leave on the world?
What does it mean to you to allow another person to fully love you?
What in life, is beautiful to you?
Where do you find inspiration?
What is your quirkiest habit and how long have you had it?
Give your 5 favorite songs. Why do you like each one?
What is your saddest memory?
What is your happiest memory?
Can you describe your life with a six word sentence?

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NPC joined more than one hundred U.S. ag groups on Tuesday urging Senate leadership to schedule a floor vote on Doug McKalip’s nomination as Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Noting that two weeks have passed since the U.S. Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved his nomination and sent it to the Senate floor, the letter urged an immediate vote.
“We write with strong concern over further delay because we are reminded daily of the need for greater attention and emphasis from the Administration on agricultural export market growth,” the group wrote in the letter. “USDA now forecasts lower agricultural exports for the next fiscal year and again has increased its import projection by another $5 billion, taking a small trade surplus this year and moving into net deficit territory next year.”
“Agricultural trade deficits, once unimaginable, are now reality, underscoring the need to have in place a Senate-confirmed negotiator dedicated to pushing for new agricultural markets and removing barriers to growth in existing ones,” the groups wrote.
McKalip’s nomination is supported by the National Potato Council. “With one out of every five rows of U.S. potatoes destined for foreign markets, the U.S. potato industry needs a veteran policy leader like Doug McKalip at the helm promoting American agricultural interests abroad,” said National Potato Council Vice President of Trade Affairs and grower from Washington state Ted Tschirky. “We urge the Senate to act on his nomination so McKalip can get to work supporting U.S. agricultural exports.”
The full letter is available here.


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The political and economic significance of government procurement is plain. Government contracts are of considerable value and importance, often accounting for 10 to 20 per cent of GDP in any given state. Government spending is often high-profile and has the capacity to shape the future lives of local residents.
Even as the economic climate improves, it is perhaps no surprise that, with austerity the watchword throughout the developed economies, governments seek to demonstrate more effective, better-value purchasing; nor that many suppliers view government contracts as a much-needed revenue stream offering relative certainty that they will be paid.
The biggest single development internationally in the period since the second edition is undoubtedly the adoption of new EU directives and progress towards the required national implementation, Member State by Member State.
The New Directives cover, respectively, mainstream public sector and utilities procurement (replacing the 2004 directives) and concessions, an area previously only partly covered by the EU regime. At the time of writing, only the United Kingdom has implemented the mainstream directive, with the deadline for transposition being 18 April 2016.
Some national authors have reported significant increases in challenges to contract award decisions, and this is certainly the experience in the United Kingdom. While it is clear that there are considerable variations between jurisdictions in the willingness or ability of suppliers to challenge, it seems to us that the increased risk of challenge can help hold awarding authorities to account and is likely to encourage greater compliance with national procurement rules.
It may be that, in jurisdictions where bringing procurement challenges is either difficult or expensive, further measures are needed to amplify this effect.

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As the 80s rolled on sales slowed, and at one point Ford even considered ditching the ‘Stang in favour of a front-wheel drive car based on the Mazda MX-6. However, an outpouring of support from fans convinced the Blue Oval to keep producing its ailing pony. The front-engined Mazda instead became the Ford Probe.
Production of the Mustang was cut though, and there was little development on the car as a whole for the next few years with the introduction of a drive airbag in 1990 the biggest change.
The swansong for the sixth-gen Mustang was the SVT Cobra, something of a mongrel that raided the parts bin from several years’ models but actually turned out rather well. The V8 was tweaked to give 235bhp and the suspension and brakes were upgraded for extra sportiness. It didn’t set the world on fire, but it did mark the end of a remarkable 15-year run for a generation of Mustang that isn’t considered a classic today. A testament to its longevity is that Ford still managed to sell more than 100,000 of them in 1993.
By 1994 though, enough was enough and a new, seventh generation had to arrive. The existing, shared platform remained, but it was strengthened and atop it mounted a body that harked back once again to the original ‘Stangs of the ‘60s in its style. For the first time since the early 1970s, a convertible was designed, rather than being adapted from the coupe, and it showed in the way it drove.
Although the underlying sophistication of the seventh-generation Mustang hadn’t moved on a great deal, it nevertheless performed dynamically far better than its predecessor, despite another drop in maximum horsepower from the top-of-the-range V8.
Sales were steady, but not outstanding. The market was considerably more competitive than it had been before, but the combination of coupes and convertibles, along with special edition models like a new SVT Cobra, meant that Ford felt little need to change things for several years.
In 1996, the 5-litre V8 finally got the heave-ho, replaced by a 4.6 that gave the same power, 215bhp. The same year, a new SVT Cobra dropped that used the new engine, tweaked up to 315bhp by adding an extra overhead cam and more valves, making it the most powerful Mustang in 25 years. Sales continued to stay stable, despite little other changes during the sixth-generation’s life.
Generation eight touched down in 1999, but it was actually little more than a facelift, with new front and rear ends and litte else, save for some engine fettling. The V8 now boasted a more health 260bhp, while in the ’99 Cobra it was touted as making 320bhp. However, many owners were rather perturbed to find that they were getting less than 300bhp when they stuck their new purchases on the dyno. All 1999-2004 Cobras featured independent rear suspension, unique to the Cobras. However, it wasn’t particularly popular, and many owners swapped it out for the old live axle.
A Cobra R model was introduced in 2000, with an iron-blocked 5.4-litre V8 firing out 385bhp, and it sold out straight away. The Mustang was doing brisk business at the turn of the century, with sales topping 200,000 for the first time in more than a decade. The following year, Ford introduced a special Bullitt edition of the Mustang GT, very loosely based on the ’67 car driven by Steve McQueen in the film of the same name. More special editions followed, but by the time the 40th anniversary of the Mustang came around in 2004, Ford already knew that a dramatic reinvention was in the works.
That reinvention came in 2005, when the Fox platform used since 1979 was finally ditched, and much more modern underpinnings adopted. The design was unashamedly retro, with the balance between homage and pastiche trod very well. Based on a concept unveiled in 2003, the ninth generation Mustang finally evoked the spirit of the original, and backed it up with contemporary technology. The 4.6-litre V8 in the GT made 300bhp, and the old four-speed transmissions were ditched in favour of five-speeds. While the live rear axle remained in concept, all the suspension was dramatically improved for better handling and performance. The new Mustang was acclaimed, washing away decades of disappointing ‘Stangs and ushering in a new era.
While the SVT Cobra didn’t make a reappearance, the Shelby name did, with the GT500 appearing in 2007. It got progressively more insane – in the best possible way – and by last year produced a ridiculous 662bhp from its 5.8-litre supercharged V8. Compare that to the outputs seen a decade or two previously.
And now, we have the all-new 2015 model-year ‘Stang – officially, it’s known as the sixth-generation, but as far as we’re concerned, it’s the tenth.. Although the references to the past remain, the new car is more modern and futuristic. Work started on the new car in 2009, with a brief to produce a car deserving of a 50th anniversary with as few restrictions on the team as was possible. Other than the wheelbase, everything on the car is new – it’s no longer hamstrung by what went before in terms of technical development. The major technical news is the rear suspension, which is independent for the first time. Heresy? Well, perhaps to the hardcore Mustang fans, but this car will be sold worldwide, not just in previous Mustang heartlands, so it needed to compete solidly with sophisticated rivals. Beefing up the rear meant the front suspension had to be overhauled too. The result is a world away from Mustangs that have gone before.
The new car will be available in fastback and convertible forms, with hatchback and notchback models considered and then ditched. Engine-wise, the familiar 5-litre V8 returns, and there’s an EcoBoost V6 with more than 300bhp – a figure lauded just a few years previously when it appeared from the V8! For the first time in decades, there will also be a four-cylinder turbocharged engine, again to appeal to foreign markets. But with engine technology considerably more advanced, there are no fears that it will be as shoddy as the blown four-pot of old.
Performance has also been kept in mind, as one would expect from a Mustang. But it’s not just about muscle car performance. The design team benchmarked the likes of the Porsche 911, the BMW M3 and even the mighty Nissan GT-R – competition that would have been unthinkable in previous generations. Only budget has reigned in the ambition of the team – the Mustang still has to live up to its roots of blue-collar performance, so don’t expect the latest, jazziest gizmos. Fans of carbonfibre and ceramic brakes might have to go elsewhere. But Ford boasts that the new ‘Stang will hold its own against cars costing considerably more.
Much has been made of the half-century celebrations of the Porsche 911 as the pinnacle of sporting design. But the Mustang remains an achievable goal for the everyman. It’s not had a smooth ride over its five decades, but going into its sixth, it’s looking stronger, and more dynamic, then ever before. We can’t wait to get our hands on the new one.


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Sep 30,2020 - 19:34 PM
As the princess of Xi Liang, she was, however, imprisoned in the cold palace. Faced with the dangerous imperial harem and the extermination of her entire family, she never yielded! As for those who take advantage of her, she responded more strongly, whether they were imperial concubines or not!
Chapter 5: Giovanni S Ticket [End]
Sep 30,2019 - 00:40 AM
Giovanni, along with his best friend Campanella, boards a train traversing the Cosmos and sets off for a mysterious new world. Kenji Miyazawa's timeless literary masterpiece illustrated in manga!
Chapter 9: Tears Of Blood
Sep 29,2022 - 04:28 AM
The “Haunted School”, where countless mysterious incidents occur. The new headmistress of the school, Banseiin Nanako, and a demon hunter with four identities, Yasogami Ruru, team up and risk their lives to exterminate demons! An unstoppable horror action manga!!
Chapter 55 [End]
Sep 28,2022 - 03:06 AM
High school student Kusakabe Makoto has to work all day to raise money for the treatment of his younger sister, who suffers from a serious illness. The father is unemployed, the mother ran away, leaving the children, bullying at work … Despite all this, he does not lose hope and continues to live for her sister. But having learned that she did not have long, Makoto falls into despair. Fear of the unknown causes him to take a different look at the value of human life.
Chapter 10: Kanou Haruhiko (Part 3)
Sep 28,2019 - 23:01 PM
A loved one died but you can revive if a certain condition is met. The condition is to kill three people within a time limit of 24 hours. if you were the person grieving, is it possible for you to kill people ?
City Of Dreams (End)
Sep 28,2019 - 11:23 AM
In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human psychology, literally bathing his characters in expansive shadows that paradoxically reveal as much as they obscure. A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn’t have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that sifts through memories of faces and places before settling back on the boy and pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head—discussing past times together, memories they have of each other.
Sep 27,2021 - 07:08 AM
A sequel set after the ending of Gakkou Gurashi! which details the aftermath of the characters.
Vol.10 Chapter 50 : Drops Of Bells (Part 2)
Sep 27,2018 - 12:43 PM
Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze, these strange creatures, called "mushi", came into being. Ginko, a wanderer with a sardonic smile, is a "mushishi" one who has the knowledge and the skill, to help people get rid of their various mushi related problems.
Chapter 9-19 V2
Sep 27,2018 - 12:19 PM
Based on the Garouden manga. A short 2 volume manga about two males whose goals are to become number one in life (and their success). The plot outlines the protagonist, Tanba and a former sumo wrestler turned high school teacher, Kiriu and their head to head combat, from the eyes and views of the main character, Shinichi Kido.
Chapter 80 : I M Inside Mari
Sep 27,2018 - 11:52 AM
The manga follows an "angel-like" beautiful high school girl with a certain secret she has been hiding from everyone, and an idle hikikomori (one who abnormally avoids social contact) young man; the highlight of his day is seeing Mari at the convenience store. The story begins as Mari wakes up in her room, but something feel amiss about the room and even her own body.
Sep 26,2022 - 22:43 PM
This is a love story of a man and a woman who doesn't believe in anyone .The popular psychological betrayal web novel finally gets a manga adaptation!
Vol.3 Chapter 13: Eating Disorders 2
Sep 25,2022 - 12:25 PM
Panic disorder, depression, developmental disorder, PTSD... Japan is said to be a country of hidden mental illnesses, where many patients suffer from mental illnesses without being able to talk to anyone. The suicide rate is one of the worst among developed countries. How has Japan fallen into this kind of situation? Psychiatrist Konosuke Yowai confronts the problems facing Japan's psychiatric care and sheds light on the shadows in people's minds.
Sep 25,2021 - 15:53 PM
[from cotton candy scans]“It’s because Yuu-kun is Marika’s slave!” One day, my childhood friend Marika, whom I haven’t met in 4 years suddenly appeared in front of me and said that. What...?! Was her personality always like that? Actually, hold up. Ever since then, I intentionally put some distances between Marika and I... Yes, after she saw me doing that...A provocative and tantalizing heart-throb! Thus begins the battle for dominance & back-and-forth game of love!
Vol.4 Chapter 15.3: Nekodamashi-Hen Part 3.3
Sep 25,2021 - 00:46 AM
Keiichi Maebara has moved to Hinamizawa Village, a cold village in the mountains. I was fulfilled in the lively and irreplaceable daily life with my friends. Knowing the horrific dismembered murders that occurred in the past and the existence of haunting that has been handed down to the village, suspicions are accelerating due to the unnatural attitude of their friends ... The tragedy is repeated. Is it possible to overcome the fate of fear and suspicion and obtain an "answer"? --The summer of 1983 begins.

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Railroad project could force businesses, homeowners to move
Published 12:00 am Monday, December 26, 2011
By Karissa Minn
SALISBURY — A proposed railroad improvement project could displace as many as 59 businesses and 28 residences in southern Rowan County.
The N.C. Department of Transportation wants to build 11 miles of second track on the North Carolina Railroad from south of Henderson Grove Church Road in Salisbury to south of 18th Street in Kannapolis.
New bridges also would be constructed to separate automobile and train traffic, and 16 railroad crossings could be closed. The project would start in the spring of 2013 and is designed to improve speed and safety.
According to draft plans from the Department of Transportation, it could involve up to 59 business and 28 residential “relocatees,” but officials say not all of them will have to move.
Most of them have property within the railroad corridor, which roughly follows U.S 29 or Main Street in Salisbury and U.S. 29A, which is known as Main Street in China Grove, Landis and Kannapolis.
Some, like Brothers Tire Sales in Kannapolis, sit just a few yards away from the track. Co-owner Brad Brothers said last week his family’s business at 1216 N. Main St. could be forced to relocate — or even shut down.
“A lot of it’s going to depend on what kind of of money we could get from the railroad,” Brothers said. “I’m sure it’s going to probably cost us… at least three quarters of a million dollars. My grandfather has been here for 53 years, and that would be like starting over.”
Ryan White, project engineer with the Department of Transportation Rail Division, said last week the department not only will pay people for the appraised value of their property, it also will help people transition to a new location.
“It’s not just matter of the department buying property and then sending folks on their way,” White said.
Brothers said his family has property across the street that the business can use. But he was told they might not be compensated for the shop itself, because it falls within the railroad corridor, not one of the road construction areas.
Mark Stout, owner of Stout Heating and Air, 4243 S. Main St., Salisbury, also said he was told North Carolina Railroad isn’t giving compensation.
“They told me it was going to come over on my side some, but that should not interfere with my building,” Stout said.
He said his parking area and septic tank sit in the project’s path.
Scott Saylor, president of the North Carolina Railroad Company, said compensation “depends on the particular property ownership” and the boundaries of the original corridor established in 1850.
He said the Department of Transportation is leading the project and referred questions about right-of-way issues there.
Greer Beatty, a representative of the department, said it wants to “compensate people fairly for their property.”
Stout and Brothers said they first heard about the plans at least a year ago. They were told their businesses might need to move, but detailed maps were not released until recently.
White said the list of impacted properties will shrink when the plans are finalized next spring.
Over the past few years, the Department of Transportation has held multiple public hearings about the project, and the last one took place on Dec. 5.
The department says it has notified property owners who might be impacted. It’s not clear how many got the message, though.
The edge of the Tuscarora Yarns manufacturing facility, located at 406 N. Main St. China Grove, falls within the railroad corridor and looks to be in the construction path.
But company officials didn’t know that until the Post told them last week, said Tuscarora COO David Roberts.
“Any deviation in terms of our real estate is problematic,” Roberts said.
Ervin Johnson, Tuscarora CFO, said construction would likely leave them without enough parking spaces to meet code, and it will be a “major problem” if the project reaches to its buildings.
Department of Transportation officials said they spoke to “someone who’s helping develop the site,” but no one was available Thursday to explain further or comment on Tuscarora’s situation.
In January, the company announced it would move its operations to the former Hanesbrands building at 308 E. Thom Street. It is not clear how far that move has progressed.
The rail project has an estimated price tag of $105.8 million, including $71.2 million for construction and $34.6 million to acquire right-of-way. It would be funded entirely by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, White said.
The Department of Transportation said plans will be finalized by March, when it will begin acquiring right-of-way for the project.
Construction is scheduled to begin one year later, in March of 2013, and finish by September of 2017.
This section of the North Carolina Railroad is part of the busiest rail corridor in the state, according to the Department of Transportation. It currently hosts more than 30 Norfolk Southern Railway freight trains and eight passenger trains per day.
Adding a second track will let passenger trains pass slower freight trains, the department says, and improve service reliability. It also will allow passenger trains to make more daily round trips from Raleigh to Charlotte without getting in the way of freight trains.
A second track used to exist between Salisbury and Kannapolis, but it was removed in the late 1970s. Over time, local residents have begun building next to or within the railroad corridor.
Now, with double tracks on either side,the area acts as a bottleneck for train traffic.
“The trains actually have to stop and wait for another train,” White said. “It’s like a pair of two-way streets connected by a one-way street.”
The project also will realign existing railroad curves to allow higher passenger train speeds and reduce travel times.
White said trains that can run 79 miles per hour must slow down to about 50 miles per hour to navigate certain curves. This disrupts schedules and keeps people from riding the train, he said.
In addition, the transportation department is building new bridges to replace existing street-level railroad crossings. Transportation officials say this will reduce the risk of car and train collisions.
Removing 16 railroad crossings also will reduce train horn noise and traffic congestion, the department says.
This project is part of the Department of Transportation’s Piedmont Improvement Program, a series of improvements to the railroad between Raleigh and Charlotte. According to the department, these will allow long-term implementation of the federally-designated Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor.
Detailed maps of the draft plans are available at www.ncdot.gov/projects/RailReidKannapolis/.
Property owners with questions about relocation can contact Judy Joines, right-of-way coordinator with the N.C. Department of Transportation’s rail division, at jjoines@ncdot. gov or 336- 903-9215.
For general information about the project, call Ryan White at 919-733-7245, extension 266.
The N.C. Department of Transportation plans to:
• Construct 11 miles of second track from south of Henderson Grove Church Road in Salisbury to south of 18th Street in Kannapolis.
• Construct a new bridge over the railroad and U.S. 29 at Peeler Road and Cedar Springs Road to replace the Peach Orchard Road and Peeler Road railroad crossings.
• Upgrade the Webb Road railroad crossing with improved signals, crossing gates, and median barriers to prevent drivers from going around the crossing gates and to improve safety. Close the existing Mount Hope Church Road railroad crossing.
• Upgrade the Church Street (N.C. 152) and Centerview Street railroad crossings in China Grove with new signals, crossing gates, and median barriers to improve safety and prevent drivers from going around the crossing gates.
• Extend Kimball Road east from North Main Street to Chapel Street. Construct a new bridge carrying the railroad tracks over the Kimball Road extension to replace the Thom Street, Eudy Road, and North Central Avenue railroad crossings.
• Improve the Ryder Avenue railroad crossing with new signals, crossing gates, and median barriers to improve safety and to prevent drivers from going around the crossing gates. Improve intersections at Ryder Avenue and Main Street, and Ryder Avenue and Chapel Street. Close the adjacent Mill Street railroad crossing.
• Construct a new road connection from U.S. 29 (Cannon Boulevard) to North Main Street at 24th Street with a new bridge over the railroad to replace the existing railroad crossings at 29th Street, 22nd Street, and 18th Street.


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Today we were asked if our beliefs have been changed or strengthened after the loss of our child. I kind of touched on this the other day. My beliefs weren't really changed. I was brought up in the Church and well grounded by my parents. I have found nothing in my experience that does anything but validate those teachings. At the same time I'm not sure that it strengthened them either. My faith is the most defining part of who I am. It's why I dated a man over the internet and agreed to marry him the third time I was with him in person, and then traveled more than 700 miles from home to begin our life together. It's why we raise our living children the way that we do. It's why we drive more than 2 hours to Church each Sunday.
Now I have asked why alot. Why He didn't intervene? Why she wasn't given a full life like others? He has never given me any more direct answers than what I've already read and known to be true for many years. As long as sin is in this world, death indiscriminately comes to all. It's not a punishment, it's simply a by product of a world with sin - disease, death, hardship. These things affect everyone, the rain falls on the just and the unjust. We all experience good things, and hardship. It has been more than a year, and while I still wish He had intervened and prevented it from happening, I have not been angry with Him at any time for not intervening.

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It looks like Jacob Roloff is ready to start sharing his secrets with the public again! The 20-year-old infamously quit his family’s reality show Little People, Big World because he didn’t enjoy life in the spotlight — and now, in his debut book Verbing, he opens up about those tumultuous years dealing with the aftermath of reality TV.
In his debut book, he says that the decision to film — even though he didn’t want to — left him feeling isolated, and as a result, he felt “angry,” he writes. He continues, “This led to arguments and miscommunications with family, especially my parents, culminating in their decision to experiment having me see a therapist.” Check out the video to see his shocking confession about his rocky relationship with his family.
Today, things to seem to have improved between Jacob and his family. Despite traveling all over the country, he and his girlfriend are frequently seen hanging out with his mother, Amy Roloff, and he already formed quite a bond with his first nephew, Jackson Roloff. For his one-month update, Jackson’s mom Tori Roloff gushed that he “loves his Uncle Jacob” — and Jacob made it clear that the feelings are mutual with his many pictures with Baby J.
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but I have reasonable excuses! (maybe)
I now have three new fish: Sir Kibble and Mr Dove the guppies, and Chinese Buffet the betta!
When we first put him in the tank – his colours have brightened a bit now owo
Mr Dove’s on the left, and Sir Kibble’s on the right. Cuties, eh? Ezzy’s grown a lot, also. She’s at least twice, maybe three times, as big than when we first got her!
Also, Majora’s Mask 3D! It’s radical!!!! Everything’s so so so so pretty and cool! They changed a lot and it was for the better.
And about Project Imagination…I’m thinking about making it its own game?? I don’t know tho I like it a lot but I don’t think it would fit well in the Banjo-Kazooie world/universe/thing
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Seeding and Propagation/Palm Seedlings
Hi Mr. Alonzo
Hope you can help me with my palm seedlings transplant. Last year around December....I decided to do my very first experiment with palm seeds....I order about 100 Washingtonian Robusta seeds and 100 Washingtonian Filifera. I placed them all in one big plastic tote and they have been there even since. When I tried earlier in the year to transplant some, just to test...they all died.....what do you recommend that I should do so do I have a better chance to transplant all those seedlings. I am in San Antoni, Texas by the way....Thank you in advance
Thanx for your question. Some palm seedlings have very fragile root systems in the beginning. If you break the roots, it will kill the seedling. Some of these types are better started in separate pots which are easily emptied as the soil dries, resulting in less disturbance to the roots, or you can direct plant in soil and then wait until the seedling is large enough to dig up and move. I would myself, prefer growing the seedlings out in separate pots. I don't know what kind of space you have to do that. I would dig a large whole that was wide and deep enough to comfortable contain the root system and then gently return soil to the whole and not tamp down on it. Water it as needed. Eventually, soil, settling and rainfall with help firm the soil around the roots. As the seedling gets larger, its root system should be able to accomodate disturnbance by this time. Also, don't expose the newly rooted seedling to direct sunlight unless you have hardened it off. This could be killing it too. Seedlings that have been grown in a sun-free environment, will be very senstive to sunlight and actually burn. The way to combat this is to plant the seedling in a pot and place the pot in an area that is protected from direct sunlight, rainfall, hail, wind, etc. After about 10 days, it will be safe to move the seedling to an area of full sun. I hope this helps.