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Retiring in Spain can be a dream come true if you manage your expectations right. ‘Do I have enough money in my savings account?’ ‘Is there a culture fit?’ These are just a few of the questions you’ve to ask yourself.
So before you make your move we’ll walk you through:
Once you’re familiar with the above, you can start arranging your move!
But first things first;
Retiring in Spain is surely a good idea if you’re looking for a place with a warm climate, extraverted cultures, relaxed lifestyle and low prices.
Here are the main reasons why you should retire in Spain:
Of course, retiring to Spain isn’t for everyone. It’s a common mistake to be blinded by the pictures of sunny beaches and forget to research whether the culture and lifestyle of Spain fit you personally.
Some of the pitfalls of retiring in Spain are:
Convinced that Spain is the place for you to retire? The good news is that anyone who meets certain criteria can choose to retire in Spain.
European citizens are free to live and work anywhere in the EU and can easily retire in Spain. As a non-EU citizen, you’ll need to get the appropriate visa, have the right resident permit, and meet the minimum requirements to retire in Spain.
Yes, you can retire in Spain after Brexit. In fact, more than 168,000 Brits received their pension in Spain in 2020! However, British citizens who wish to move to Spain need to follow the same process as any other non-EU citizen.
Yes. Retirement in Spain for US citizens looks the same as for other non-EU nationals, including Brits.
The requirements to retire in Spain are simple and easy to follow. Here’re the requirements you’ll need to meet:
Thanks to relatively affordable cost of living in Spain and high quality of living, retiring in Spain won’t break the bank.
You can retire comfortably in Spain at about €20,000 – €25,000 a year.
But keep in mind that if you’re from a non-EU country, you need to make at least €27,793 of passive income a year to get a Spanish retirement visa and move to Spain.
The Spain non-lucrative visa (also known as a Residence Visa or visado residencia) is the most popular visa among non-EU citizens who wish to retire in Spain. Because you’re not allowed to work with this type of visa, the main requirement for obtaining the non-lucrative visa in Spain's having sufficient financial means to support yourself and your family without undertaking any type of professional activity.
In 2023, you’re required to have a passive income of at least €2,400 per month (400% IPREM) or €28,800 annually.”
And for each dependent you’d like to bring along, you need to earn an additional sum of €7,200 (100% IPREM) annually.
Income such as pensions, dividends, savings, or other income-generating investments counts as a passive income.
Another popular option for retiring in Spain is the Golden visa. This visa is aimed at high net worth individuals who wish to make an investment of:
You must maintain that investment and meet the same financial requirements as for the non-lucrative visa until you get a permanent residence permit__.
Spanish Golden visa's a pretty straightforward way of getting a residence permit for you and your family, with all the benefits including access to the Spanish job market and hence public healthcare.
Another advantage of Golden visas is the very fast application process. This type of visa gets preferential treatment and you receive your residence permit by fast track.
Finally, if you plan to spend less than 183 days in Spain, you’ll benefit from not taxing your worldwide income. However, if your goal is to obtain Spanish citizenship, you should live in Spain full time.
Now that you know the main requirements for both types of Spanish retirement visas, let’s compare the two:
|Spain Golden Visa
|around 3 months
|around 20 days
|Passive income requirement
|at least €28,800/ year
|at least €28,800/ year
|at least €500,000
|Access to healthcare?
|can request public healthcare
|Stay requirements per year
|at least 183 days
|Tax residency required?
|Apply from Spain?
With both types of visas, you get a temporary residence permit for 1 year. Once that period comes to an end, you can renew your permit for another 2 years and then for another 2 years.
When you’ve lived in Spain uninterruptedly for 5 years, you can request a permanent residence permit. That means you no longer have to meet the requirements for your visa.
After living for 5 years with a permanent residency, you can request Spanish citizenship through naturalisation.
The current retirement age in Spain is 66 years and 2 months.”
If you want to earn a Spanish pension as a non-EU citizen, you’ll need to have contributed to Spain’s social security for at least 15 years.
To access your foreign pension, make sure that before moving to Spain, you contact your pension provider about transferring your pension to Spain. That’s possible for all the EU/EFTA citizens, British and US nationals, as well as residents of non-EU countries that have a pension treaty with Spain.
Your pension in Spain will be taxed as general income at a progressive rate between 8%-40%.”
If you can’t transfer your pension to Spain, you’ll have to rely on a private pension, occupational pension, or personal savings. It’s best to seek professional advice as there might be some tax implications to consider.
When choosing a Spanish city to retire in, you should consider the lifestyle you’d like to have. Do you enjoy going to museums and visiting concerts? Or would you rather spend your day on the beach and take trips to the nearby mountains? Maybe a combination of both?
Let’s see what the most popular places to retire in Spain offer!
Retiring in Valencia's surely a good option if you’re looking for comfort, an urban feel and proximity to the beach.
Transport links in Málaga are very efficient, the winters are some of the warmest in Europe and the cost of living is surprisingly low. That said, we highly recommend retiring in Málaga if you’re looking for a quieter place popular among other expat pensioners.
Retiring in Javea you’ll have many fellow expats to mingle with, a great marina for afternoon walks and plenty of things to do. But prepare for the high costs of real estate and having to own a car to get to the nearby cities.
Retiring in Madrid means having access to a well-developed public transportation system and plenty of cultural events. On the downside, Madrid has no shores, the winters can get pretty cold, and it’s more expensive than most of the other Spanish cities.
However, retiring in Barcelona might be hectic if you live close to the centre. You’d also need to get some basics of the Catalan language to be able to read the signs and information boards. And finally, the prices in Barcelona are on the higher side compared to the rest of Spain.
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The winners were John Piper and Darryll Murphy on 25 points.
Close behind on 24 points were Nev Thurtell, Lorraine Bales and John Crowe.
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The estate of a now-deceased dementia patient has filed a lawsuit over allegations that humiliating photos and videos of residents at a Chenoa retirement community were shared on social media.
The lawsuit seeks at least $100,000 in damages against Meadows Mennonite Home over a March incident in which the photos and videos were shared. An ex-boyfriend of a Meadows employee shared photos and videos of residents on the toilet, bathing, in bed, and in wheelchairs, the lawsuit alleges. The images showed “partial nudity and other embarrassing private occasions,” the lawsuit states.
Meadows failed to protect residents—including those in its dementia care unit—from such abuse, in part by failing to set policies prohibiting employees from using personal devices while on the job, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed Oct. 19 in McLean County court.
The plaintiffs are administrators for the estate of a now-deceased former resident at Meadows. The Meadows employee and her ex-boyfriend are only identified in the lawsuit as John and Jane Doe.
The lawsuit appears to reference Michael S. Scurlock, 47, of Lexington and Samantha J. Brown, 29, who were indicted in mid-August on one charge each of nonconsensual dissemination of a sexual image, Class 4 felony, court records show. Police located Brown, but Scurlock is still being sought by authorities.
Brown worked at Meadows, the 159-bed skilled, intermediate, and shelter care facility in Chenoa.
The facility faces a $25,000 fine from the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) related to the incident. Meadows was cited “for failure to protect six residents from a staff member who mentally abused and humiliated the residents by taking unauthorized pictures and video, which included partial nudity, and posting them on social media,” according to an IDPH statement.
In an interview in July, a Meadows company official disputed the allegation that the facility failed to notify state officials about the photos. At the time, the company official also said a staff member took the photos but someone else posted them to social media.
The facility has requested a hearing in the IDPH case. A facility can request an administrative hearing to contest cited violations. The case has been continued and the next status conference is Dec. 7.
A message left with Meadows on Friday was not immediately returned. In a statement in July when the IDPH citation was made public, Meadows said its “safety precautions and policies are designed to ensure the well-being of our residents and their families.”
“We work hard to create communities of excellence and when unusual events occur, we want to understand how and why they occurred while looking for ways to prevent it in the future,” it said.
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Reuters reports that this week Amazon denied a report saying that the e-commerce giant was interested in accepting Bitcoin as a payment method, and planned to implement the process by the end of the year.
The initial report came from London’s City A.M. newspaper which cited an “anonymous insider” with knowledge of Amazon’s future plans. The report drove the price of Bitcoin up as much as 14.5 percent before it eventually settled at a gain of around 6 percent.
City A.M. claimed that Amazon’s recent job advertisement for a cryptocurrency and blockchain lead was evidence of the company’s plans to accept cryptocurrency as payment. The listing called for someone who can “leverage domain expertise in blockchain, distributed ledger, central bank digital currencies and cryptocurrency,” and added that it wants to “develop the case for the capabilities which should be developed, drive overall vision and product strategy, and gain leadership buy-in and investment for new capabilities.”
The anonymous insider told City A.M. “This isn’t just going through the motions to set up cryptocurrency payment solutions at some point in the future – this is a full-on, well-discussed, integral part of the future mechanism of how Amazon will work. It begins with Bitcoin – this is the key first stage of this crypto project, and the directive is coming from the very top… Jeff Bezos himself.”
An Amazon spokesperson has since commented on the claims, stating: “Notwithstanding our interest in the space, the speculation that has ensued around our specific plans for cryptocurrencies is not true. We remain focused on exploring what this could look like for customers shopping on Amazon.”
To be fair, the idea isn’t too far-fetched given that other major companies have discussed accepting Bitcoin in recent months. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently stated that his electric car manufacturer is likely to start accepting Bitcoin for vehicle purchases again; this represents a complete reversal of his previous statement that Tesla would no longer accept Bitcoin as a payment method due to the environmental impact of Bitcoin mining.
Read more at Reuters here.
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Motorsports games announced that they had entered a “Relationship [exclusive] long term “with IndyCar to develop a game and official electronic sports events under the banner of this license.
Its IndyCar-related Motorsport Games-licensed launch game is scheduled to launch in 2023 on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, although according to the announcement, its next esports events could “start early this year.”
No further details have been confirmed at this time.
“Motorsport Games and IndyCar are pleased to be able to provide fans with a long-awaited gaming experience,” said Motorsport Games CEO Dmitry Kozko in a statement issued with the partnership announcement. “After decades of chasing international fame, we couldn’t think of a league more deserving of a video game license. IndyCar shares our desire to bring authentic experiences back to motorsport fans. “
Although IndyCar cars appear in many modern racing games (Forza Motorsport, Project CARS, and iRacing, for example), the last IndyCar standalone game was IndyCar Series 2005 (developed by Codemasters) released for PS2, Xbox, and PC in 2004. .
Recently, Motorsport Games confirmed that it will release its first game for a new NASCAR dedicated series this year, while the Heat license is discontinued. NASCAR 21 will run on Unreal Engine and the Studio 397 “rFactor 2” physics engine. Motorsport Games is also working on a game based on the British Touring Car Championship.
Florian Marques is a freelance writer at IGN France.
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I'm having a bit of trouble. I have a project that was setup using 2 linked files. 1 for the building and 1 for the site. I'd decided to merge them into a single central file and I'v merged the site into my building model.
What I've found is that the topography fill no longer extends more than 3m below the project base point. The cut line does just not the fill and I have a site whioch is sloping so I need that fill to extend down to the survey point.
Is there a setting or property I can change that adjusts this?
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Good morning from TD Garden, where the Bruins will take on the Sabres tonight. The Bruins enter tonight with a four-game winning streak. Buffalo is coming off a 5-1 home win over Ottawa last night. Jhonas Enroth was in goal for the Sabres.
The Bruins will be without Andrew Ference (lower body) tonight. Steven Kampfer will dress in Ference’s place. For now, we’ll assume Zach Hamill will play for the second straight game.
Puck drop: 7 p.m.
TV/radio info: NESN (Jack Edwards, Andy Brickley, Naoko Funayama), 98.5 The Sports Hub (Dave Goucher, Bob Beers)
Records: Sabres 10-5-0, Bruins 7-7-0
Projected Bruins lineup:
Milan Lucic-David Krejci-Nathan Horton
Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-Tyler Seguin
Jordan Caron-Chris Kelly-Zach Hamill
Benoit Pouliot-Gregory Campbell-Shawn Thornton
Zdeno Chara-Johnny Boychuk
Dennis Seidenberg-Joe Corvo
Steven Kampfer-Adam McQuaid
Healthy scratches: none
Storylines: Milan Lucic and Tyler Seguin will bring five-game scoring streaks into tonight. They both have six goals and two assists during the stretch… Daniel Paille is doubtful for tonight. Paille is participating in the morning skate… Ghislain Hebert and Marc Joannette will be the referees. Derek Nansen and Mark Shewchyk will be the linesmen.


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Women and girls are into fashion and beauty by birth and during their lives have all found their favorite shops, make-up and accessories and have most of the time also developed certain strategies in finding good deals on their new acquirements. Although online shopping has become more and more popular since it is so much more convenient and easier to pay by paypal than going to an actual shop, not every method of trying to get good deals is connected to ordering online.
Here are the top three hints on saving money when buying beauty and fashion products:
Wait for sales
Waiting for summer- or winter sales is a great way to make some real bargains. Often it is possible to get clothes, accessories and the latest make-up collection for dirt cheap since the shop operators need to clear their shelves for the upcoming season. So if you aren’t in a hurry to get your hands on the latest trends but can rather wait for some weeks, be patient and save lots of money!
Purchasing various things on the internet has recently become something of a trend. And there are reasons to explain this phenomenon. Firstly, it is often a good deal cheaper than in stores. Furthermore, if you spend a certain amount of money, your shipping will often be free. Secondly, it is extremely convenient: Since you don’t have to leave your house. You don’t even have to get up, but just click on the items you want. You don’t even have to worry about security aspects because most online stores have established secure payment facilities.
Make use of vouchers
Vouchers are another great way to save some money: One can often find them in newspapers, magazines or on various websites. They give you certain discounts either on specific products or on the whole range of products. These discounts usually range between 10-30%, and some even offer savings according to the rule “The more you buy the more you get”. The most popular offer is “Buy two, get three”.
Follow some of those hints and be surprised how much you can save when you take your time and shop in a clever way.


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IRVINE – One team with Orange County players shouted “West Coast! Best Coast!” after its all-star game victory.
Another squad with county players captured the highest division in arguably the toughest tournament in the nation.
Orange County softball was indeed well-represented in the two spotlight games hosted by Premier Girls Fastpitch at Deanna Manning Stadium on Saturday.
Former Orange Lutheran center fielder Ciara Briggs went 2 for 3 and scored the first run of the pivotal third inning to help the West defeat the East 6-3 in the fourth PGF High School All-American Game.
— Dan Albano (@ocvarsityguy) July 28, 2019
Earlier on Saturday, the Temecula-based Athletics-Mercado squad, featuring Beckman senior utility player Madi Simon among other county players, edged Georgia Impact 1-0 in the 18-and-under final in Premier Division of the 10th annual PGF national championships.
“If you make it that game, you have to be considered the two top teams in the country,” PGF president Dan Hay said of the 18-and-under final. “You had to beat every strong organization in the United States to get there. There’s no doubt (who’s the best).”
The West all-stars started former Huntington Beach star Jadelyn Allchin in left fielder and batted her leadoff.
Briggs batted second and played center fielder.
— Dan Albano (@ocvarsityguy) July 27, 2019
After Allchin drew a one-out walk in the third, Briggs followed with a single to right and later scored the first run of the game on a two-out bases-loaded walk.
The West scored four more times with two outs to open a 5-0 lead and added another run in the seventh. The East scored three times in the fifth on a two-out error.
“It was amazing,” the LSU-bound Briggs said of the all-star game. “Being able to come out with the top players on the West Coast, getting to know each other and play together, it was really fun before college.”
Briggs, The Register’s reigning offensive player of the year, also singled down the field field line in the fourth inning.
She almost went 3 for 3 but her sinking liner to right in the first inning was snagged just before hitting the grass by Oklahoma-bound Rylie Boone.
West third baseman Jazmine Hill from Gahr was selected the game’s first MVP. The Arizona State-bound Hill had a single and double and played sparkling defense.
Orange Lutheran pitcher/infielder Miranda Stoddard didn’t play in the all-star game because of a sprained thumb from the Colorado tournament but enjoyed a memorable day.
She and ex-Edison ace Jenna Bloom (Arkansas) were also on the Athletics-Mercado team with Simon. Stoddard served as a pinch-runner for the team, which went 10-0 in the tournament.
“It’s still an honor,” the Kentucky-bound Stoddard said of the all-star game. “I scored a few runs (for Athletics-Mercado). Not going to lie.”
Allchin decided to play the all-star game as she continues to prep for the under-19 World Cup next month here with the U.S. junior national team.
“I was really excited to play one more time back over here,” the Washington-bound Allchin said. “This was something … to stay in the grove of things.”
Simon, a Duke commit, served a pinch-hitter in the final. Athletics-Mercado won 1-0 behind a one-hitter with 14 strikeouts by Allison Royalty.
“It was crazy,” Simon said of the final. “Just mind-blowing. The whole team came together.”
Simon, Stoddard and Bloom were first-year players with Athletics-Mercado, joining after playing for Explosion.
Simon had two hits and stolen base in the semifinals against the Tampa Mustangs.


Community of Women Bike Riders Part 2
Rielle Moises and Stacey Fantom March 1, 2021
This two-part series is a range of interviews with female motorbike riders of various ages, various levels of experience and from three states in Australia: New South Wales, South Austrlia and Queensland.
It explores the rise in popularity of female only support groups on Facebook as well as real-life groups. Groups designed to support, encourage, educate and mentor female riders of varying levels of experience.
These interviews explore the differences between female and male riders and the benefits of finding the right group for the individual.
These interviews also highlights the increasing rate of mature-aged women learning to ride. Unlike the familiar term ‘mid-life crisis’ women have a different outlook on why so many have waited until they are older.


A Comprehensive Guide to Obtaining a Construction Permit in Siaya County
Understanding Siaya County Building Plan Regulations
Siaya County is one of the counties in the former Nyanza Province in the Western part of Kenya. It is bordered by Busia County to the north, Kakamega County and Vihiga County to the northeast, and Kisumu County to the southeast. It shares a water border with Homa Bay County which is located south of Siaya County.
Siaya County has regulations in place to ensure that buildings are designed and constructed safely and in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.
In this article, we will provide an overview of Siaya County building plan regulations, as well as the process for obtaining building plan approvals, the associated fees, and common mistakes to avoid.
Overview of Siaya County Building Plan Regulations
The Siaya County government has established building plan regulations that govern the construction and design of buildings within the county. These regulations cover issues such as building standards, construction materials, and environmental impact.
The purpose of these regulations is to ensure that all buildings within the county are safe, structurally sound, and comply with relevant laws and regulations.
Compliance with these regulations is required in order to obtain building plan approvals, which are necessary before any construction work can begin.
Building Plan Approval Process Overview
The building plan approval process in Siaya County involves several steps, including site analysis and surveying, designing the building plan, submitting the application, plan review and approval, inspections, and the issuance of permits.
Types of Building Plan Approvals
There are several types of building plan approvals available in Siaya County, including residential, commercial, and industrial building plan approvals.
Requirements for Building Plan Approvals
To obtain building plan approvals in Siaya County, the applicant must provide detailed information about the proposed building, including survey maps, architectural and structural drawings, land rates clearance, and other relevant details.
How to Submit a Building Plan Application?
To submit a building plan application in Siaya County, applicants must complete and submit the necessary forms, along with all required documentation and fees, to the relevant county department.
Steps In Building Plan Approvals in Siaya County
The following are the steps to follow when applying for building plan approvals in Siaya County:
Step 1: Site Analysis and Surveying
The first step before seeking a building plan approval in Siaya County is to conduct a site feasibility study and surveying. This involves evaluating the suitability of the site for construction, determining the size and shape of the site, and identifying any potential obstacles or challenges that may need to be addressed.
This can be done by the developer together with the architect.
Step 2: Designing the Building Plan
Once the site surveying is complete, the next step is to design the building plan. This involves creating architectural and structural drawings, as well as specifying the types of materials and construction methods that will be used.
Step 3: Submitting the Building Plan Application
Once the building plans have been developed, the next step is to submit the building plan application to the County Department of Lands, Physical Planning, and Urban Development.
The application must be accompanied by all required documentation, including detailed building plans, payment of applicable fees, and any other required documentation.
Some of the required documents include:
- A completed building permit application form
- Survey map that shows the location and size of the building
- Certified Architectural drawings that include detailed plans, elevations, and sections of the building
- Certified Structural drawings & calculations for the building
- Proof of ownership or lease of the land on which the building will be constructed
- Evidence of payment of relevant fees
- Land rates clearance
Step 4: Plan Review and Approval
Once the building plan application has been submitted, the county will review the application and either approve or reject it. This process can take several weeks or months, depending on the complexity of the project and the workload of the county department.
For commercial projects, NCA registration is required.
Step 5: Project Registration with the National Construction Authority of Kenya(NCA)
Project registration with the National Construction Authority (NCA) is a requirement for all contractors undertaking construction projects in Kenya.
The process of registering a project with the NCA is relatively straightforward and involves a few steps.
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to register a project with the NCA in Kenya:
Register with the NCA
Once you have obtained an approved drawing from the county, you can proceed to register your project with the NCA.
To do this, you will need to submit an application form online and provide relevant documents, such as the project drawings, bill of quantities, and a site plan.
Local developers/owners registering a project must ensure that their contractors and sub-contractors are registered by NCA and have a valid practicing license for the current financial year.
The contractor classification/grades set by NCA regulations allow contractors to register in one or more categories according to their experience and qualifications. Once all requirements are met, a Certificate of Registration is issued on registration as a contractor in Kenya.
Developers can register their projects through the NCA project registration portal or visit the nearest NCA regional or liaison office for assistance.
It should also be noted that project registration is currently free of charge.
NCA Project Registration Requirements
The following are the requirements:
- The contractor and sub-contractor must be registered by NCA and must have a valid practicing license for the current financial year.
- The project consultants (for example the engineer (s), architect, and quantity surveyor) must be duly registered with their respective professional regulatory bodies, such as the Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK) and the Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors (BORAQS). They must have valid practicing licenses
- Approved architectural and structural drawings.
- Physical planning forms (county approval permits/ letters/PPA2)
- Other statutory and regulatory approvals such as NEMA, EPRA, WRA, and KCAA licenses where applicable.
- Bill of quantities summary page duly signed and stamped by the quantity surveyor.
- Copy of developer’s Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) PIN.
- Signed contract/tender form or signed agreement by the developer with the contractor.
- Supervision Commitment Letters by consultants and/or agreements/contracts by developers with consultants.
How National Construction Authority (NCA) Project Registration Is Done Online Portal
To register a project with the National Construction Authority (NCA) in Kenya, developer can follow these steps:
- Visit the NCA website at https://nca.go.ke/ and download the Project Registration Form.
- Fill out the form with the relevant information about your project, including the type of project, location, estimated cost, and project duration.
- Attach the necessary documents, including architectural and engineering drawings, environmental impact assessment reports, and other relevant certificates and approvals.
- Pay the prescribed fees (if any) for project registration through the provided payment channels, such as M-PESA, bank deposits, or online payment systems. Note that project registration is currently (2023) free of charge.
- Submit the completed registration form and supporting documents online or to the nearest NCA regional office.
After submitting your application, NCA officials will review your project and either approve or reject it based on their evaluation of its compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
If your project is approved, you will be issued with an NCA registration certificate, which you will need to present to other relevant authorities to obtain necessary permits and approvals for construction.
In short, after submitting your application, the NCA will review your documents and conduct an inspection of the project site.
If your application is approved, you will receive a letter of approval, which will allow you to proceed with the construction project.
Display Your NCA Project Registration Number
Once your project is registered with the NCA, you will need to display your project registration number at the project site.
This certificate number serves as proof that the project is registered with the NCA and that the contractor is authorized to undertake the construction work.
It is important to ensure that your project is registered with the NCA before starting construction work, as failure to do so can result in fines and other legal consequences.
Step 6: Construction and Completion
The final step in the building plan approval process is the construction and completion of the building. This involves following the approved plans and completing the construction work to the satisfaction of the county department.
Most often, relevant county departments do conduct routine inspections to ensure that that the construction work is being carried out in compliance with the approved plans, and issuing permits that allow the construction work to proceed.
If the building passes the final inspection, the applicant will be issued with a certificate of occupancy, allowing them to occupy the building.
Siaya County Building Plan Approval Rates and Fees
Siaya County charges building plan approval fees based on the size and complexity of the project. Applicants can get building plan approval fee estimates from the county offices.
How much is the approval fees: The rates for building plan approval in Siaya County vary depending on the estimated cost of construction. Generally, the fee is 1% of the estimated cost of construction.
FAQs about Siaya County Building Plan Approval Process.
What is the Siaya County building plan approval process?
The Siaya County building plan approval process involves several steps. These include site analysis and surveying, designing the building plan, submitting the building plan application, plan review and approval, inspections and issuance of permits, and construction and completion.
What types of building plan approvals are there in Siaya County?
Siaya County offers different types of building plan approvals, depending on the size, type, and complexity of the building. These include minor developments, major developments, and specialized developments.
What are the requirements for building plan approvals in Siaya County?
To obtain building plan approvals in Saiya County, you must meet several requirements. These include submitting a site analysis and survey report, architectural and structural drawings, soil investigation report, and proof of ownership or leasehold of the land.
How do I submit a building plan application in Siaya County?
To submit a building plan application in Siaya County, you need to prepare and submit the required documents to the Siaya County Department of Physical Planning and Urban Development.
How are building plan approval rates calculated in Siaya County?
Building plan approval rates in Siaya County are calculated based on the type and size of the building, as well as the complexity of the development. The rates are also influenced by the cost of building materials and labor at the time of construction.
How do I pay for building plan approval fees in Siaya County?
To pay for building plan approval fees in Siaya County, you can use several payment methods, such as bank transfers, mobile money, or direct cash payments to the Siaya County Department of Physical Planning and Urban Development.
What are the penalty fees for late payment of building plan approval fees in Siaya County?
Siaya County charges penalty fees for late payment of building plan approval fees. The penalty fees are calculated based on a percentage of the outstanding fees, and they accrue daily until the fees are paid in full.
What are some common mistakes to avoid when applying for building plan approvals in Siaya County?
Some common mistakes to avoid when applying for building plan approvals in Siaya County include failing to obtain the necessary approvals and permits, not following the approved building plan, and not hiring qualified professionals to oversee the construction process.
By familiarizing yourself with the Siaya County building plan approval process and rates, you can better prepare for the construction of your building and ensure a smooth and successful project.


The Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna, conducted by Willy Büchler, will be in Romania for the eighth year in a row for a series performances across the country. They will be accompanied by the ballet company Willy Büchler, made up of Romina Kołodziej and Vladimir Snizek.
Established in 1978 by conductor Peter Guth, the most significant Strauss specialist of our days, the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna welcomed to its ranks exceptional musicians. The orchestra became known to the Romanian public after performing at the Enescu Festival.
Since 2000, the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna delivers the annual New Year Concert in the Grand Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus. The concert scheduled for January 1st 2017 will be conducted by Willy Büchler also.
The authentic Vienese show will bring local audiences a premiere this year: the ballet company, set to recreate a different story for each musical piece performed. The coregraphy is signed by famous ballerina Raffaela Pegani, an artist whose career developed alongside the Strauss Festival Orchestra Vienna. She studied at the Vienna State Opera and is a first-balerina of the Slovac National Theater in Bratislava.
The concerts will take place on the following dates: December 13th in Bacau, December 14 in Constanta, December 16 in Bucharest and December 19 in Cluj-Napoca.
Tickets for the Bucharest show, which takes place at Sala Palatului, are priced RON 150 to RON 200 and can be purchased at eventim.ro.
The event is part of the national cultural program Art against Drugs 2016, a project of the International Center for Human Rights CIADO and the Cutural Association for Theater, Music and Film Dracula. The aim of the project is to inform the public about the risks associated with drug consumption.
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October 23, 2014
The Loop: Ottawareposted from The New Verse News
by Stefanie Bennett
The situation is not customary - Still, allow just one
Soulful note into
Of an abbreviated
And the atypical
The half-life of disaster
The world's media-driven nerves quickly move from shock to vague foreboding and 'disaster capitalism' surges on
What is the half-life of disaster in today's global media? At most two weeks. The suffering on the ground continues, and will continue for decades. World attention quickly shifts elsewhere. The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami were soon displaced from media attention by a next unforeseen shock: upheaval in Libya. This progression is familiar by now. Hurricane in Louisiana, tsunami in the Indian Ocean, flooding in Germany, flooding in Pakistan, fires in Greece, earthquake in Haiti. Terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid, London, Moscow.
Natural disaster and terrorism define the poles of disaster. In between stretches a continuum of disaster, a plenum of frightful events of infinite variety, at every scale, coming one after the other in an endless series. The media plays its role of affective conversion with a regularity that is as predictable as each event in the series, taken separately, is shockingly unforeseen. First the affective strike of the event is instantaneously transmitted, cutting a shocked-and-awed hole of horror into the fabric of the everyday. The ability to make sense of events is suspended in a momentary hiatus of humanly unbearable, unspeakable horror. Then comes the zoom-in to the human detail. Stories get human traction. The horror is alloyed, its impact archived. Another event has been affectively conveyed with irruptive, interruptive force, only to subside into the background of everyday life. What remains is a continuous, low-level fear. This fear doesn't stand out clearly as an emotion. It is more like a habitual posture, an almost bodily bracing for the next unforeseen blow, a tensing infusing every move and every moment with a vague foreboding. This trace-form anticipation – this post-shock pre-posturing – becomes the very medium of everyday life. The environment of life is increasingly lived as a diffuse and foreboding "threat environment". It is almost a relief when the next hit comes. It is only another bout of disaster that will enable the narrative balm to calm again the collective nerves of a humanity permanently on low-level boil.
1933 - 2014
Irina MaximovaTwenty-first Century Russian Poetry
Translated by Maria Khotimsky
One can also define the past through photographs:
Photographs capture the moments of hope.
People are walking hand in hand,
we think they are - a couple
or that they are - happy.
On some photographs
things exist that have never happened,
and that which will never be
looks like the past.
These unfortunate photographs
can be hidden from future wives.
Because we are all - alive,
and we are all - people,
and no one is here to protect us.
Unseen by each other.
* * *
Edited by Larissa Shmailo
b. October 23, 1898
Phrenomenology: Zahavi, Dennett and the End of Being
R. Scott Bakker
The structure that phenomenology best explains. For anyone who has spent long rainy afternoons pouring through the phenomenological canon, alternately amused and amazed by this or that interpretation of lived life, the notion that phenomenology is ‘mere bunk’ can only sound like ignorance. If the structures revealed by the phenomenological attitude aren’t ontological, then what else could they be?
This is what I propose to show: a radically different way of conceiving the ‘structures’ that motivate phenomenology. I happen to be the global eliminativist that Zahavi mistakenly accuses Dennett of being, and I also happen to have a fairly intimate understanding of the phenomenological attitude. I came by my eliminativism in the course of discovering an entirely new way to describe the structures revealed by the phenomenological attitude. The Transcendental Interpretation is no longer the only game in town.
Bay of Fundy
Occupy Precarity [pdf]
Sanford F. Schram
Judith Butler has theorized “precarity” as a fundamental condition of life and applied it to Occupy Wall Street. In this essay, I underscore the political significance Butler attaches to precarity in uniting diverse individuals experiencing the subjectivation associated with what Michel Foucault calls “neoliberal governmentality,” where people come to be identified as failing to successfully rely on their human capital in a market-centered society. I argue that precarity is not just a philosophical abstraction but an actually existing discursive practice operant in movement politics in recent years and serving as what Michael Shapiro calls an “action framework” constitutive of the people being represented by Occupy. I suggest that Occupy’s representation of precarity enacted via street theater performs a politics of spectacle consistent with the role of protest movements in the broader political process. We can see this once we integrate Butler’s work with the insights of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward.
October 21, 2014
The Gay Science
R. B. Kitaj
d. October 21, 2007
Richard Marshall interviews Ofra Magidor
Ofra Magidor knows her days are not numbered but ochre underneath and that she’s the philosopher working out whether that is really true or not. She’s always thinking about category mistakes and about their two camps, about their relevance for linguistics and computer science, about what makes them odd, about why the idea that they’re syntactically ill-formed is wrong but more promising than some might think, about why they’re not meaningless, about why Wittgenstein is wrong on this, about the role of presuppositions, about pragmatism and semantics, about dynamic semantic theories, about truth-value gaps, about exciting projects in analytic philosophy and why women and non-whites are unrepresented in philosophy. Go sleep that pipe…
An absence of presence
Wisdom has it that we should try to live in the present. But what happens when the present is all we have, with no right to forget the past or to seek a better future? Such is the predicament of a modern world overwhelmed by choice and distraction, where living with real presence is hard work. Literary theorist Hans Gumbrecht explains the wrench of an ever-expanding present.
"Take this from this, if this be otherwise": an essay on literary minutiae.
How is it that a word so attuned to our presence in a single moment has led us to such a comedy of absence? Is there a way to return to the shock of our thisness in the world, after we’ve moved through the humbling uncertainties of these notable thises? After all, each this—digitized, arrayed, and quantified, as if in a gallery of pronominal butterflies—tells us very little about its life, even though it’s animated every time we eye it.
This dwells in the ephemeral; it passes. When not pinned down, it announces freedom from meaning and interpretation; it “designates, but keeps silent,” as Roland Barthes has written. So try as we might to classify that freedom, we are left without words. But is the presentist philosophy announced by every this ill equipped to fathom the very world that allows one to access and organize these instances? When we make this speak, from the depths of its massive archive, what is the terrible sound? Is it everything that literature seeks to avoid, or everything it seeks to say?
Mystery of the Street
The Alchemy of the World:
Rimbaud and Revolutionary Artifice
Brian Kim Stefans
(....)Journal of Poetics Research
While Rexroth’s misgivings — written in the heat of the Beat moment in 1957 — offer a valuable demystification of the life and work of the poet, Brecht’s earlier assessment provides rich ground for a consideration of Rimbaud’s work in relation to political thought. This essay compares Rimbaud’s conception of the ‘alchemy of the word’ with Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s idea of the ‘image-complex’ as she describes it in her 1978 study Poetic Artifice. Forrest-Thomson’s book provides a critical language for much of what is only implied in Rimbaud’s poem, in that it describes in semi-technical language the space of ‘non-meaning’ in a poem in which the worlds inside and outside a poem meet, while at the same time maintaining these dichotomies of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ — here and there — necessary for a theory of literary ‘alchemy.’ The work of American ‘language’ poets Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews is central to this argument, since their work is most singularly and directly concerned with the role the poet plays as arbiter of cultural values — whether as creator, destroyer, animator or aggravator.
OWS People's Library and Jorge Luis Borges
Radical Politics, Heterotopic Spaces, and the Practice of Hope
The permanency that participants seemed to be working toward that fall signaled an optimism that understandably shifted after the November raid. Jaime Taylor and Zachary Loeb, two original OWS librarians, write that while the library had a steady stream of foot traffic and contributions before and after the raid, after November 15 visitors typically "came with lamentations over the loss of the library proper rather than with book donations." Stephen Boyer, another OWS librarian and the OWS Poetry Anthology editor, later said, "we were all heartbroken mid-November, when the NYPD came and squashed the park." The fast rise and fall of the original People's Library installation was disheartening and signaled in many ways a loss of hope--not only for those directly involved, but also for like-minded and sympathetic readers across the U.S.
Despite this abrupt and negative end, the emergence of the People's Library is much too meaningful to file away as a short-lived footnote within the OWS narrative. It is a complex, uncanny space, and a turn toward the similarly uncanny fiction of Jorge Luis Borges may help us to better understand its significance. Borges's work can be read as a metaphorical precursor to the People's Library. Metaphor, as Borges tells us, is the tool with which writers have traditionally "disordered the rigid universe," a disordering that the People's Library also seems to work toward. Borges's stories and the People's Library both embody a particular convergence of variables, and the spaces that emerge force important questions about distributions of power and coping mechanisms in the face of external, uncontrollable, political currents. A deeper understanding of the connection between Borges and the People's Library may even affect the structure of hope with which we face politics in the 21st century.
1933 - 2014
Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b. Oct. 21, 1772
... Sea, hill, and wood,
With all the numberless goings-on of life,
Inaudible as dreams! the thin blue flame
Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not;
Only that film, which fluttered on the grate,
Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.
Methinks its motion in this hush of nature
Gives it dim sympathies with me who live,
Making it a companionable form,
Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit
By its own moods interprets, every where
Echo or mirror seeking of itself,
And makes a toy of Thought.
October 20, 2014
Old timber yard
1878 - 1953
Robert Walser: The Walk
from On Walking On
Forr Walser, a walk usually began by putting on a hat. Among a room of ghosts.
To the quiet end, if one could walk a lost. For Walser, to walk was to unfold
an origami bird as a door unfolds a world. If there was a child there, the sun spun,
and off he walked on that.
He knew that a planet, too, wanders, open, in a field of asters. And watched
the terror vanish, falling with the trees into darkness. You walk the dark to recall
a specific point in an argument in which you saw something delicate
fall apart. In fact, to pieces. Walser leaned down to pick something up from the
dusty road, and the dust, one by one, Walser thought the form of a road beautiful
in itself, citing that its joy exists outside of time, or rather beside it, so Walser
walked along the side of the road singing under his breath to the grass.
He thought a walk could be a masterpiece, which is a matter
of arrangement—the elements carefully chosen, a small hand,
another stand of trees, out of the corner of his eye, he saw
someone smiling. A walk brings things out, wraps them up
in glorious scents, holds them out at arms’ length and keeps
them there, just out of reach, perfecting the scene.
The shadowed hills: the Flinders Ranges_______________________
Variations on the Right to Remain Silent
Silence is as important as words in the practice and study of translation. This may sound like a cliché. (I think it is a cliché. Perhaps we can come back to cliché.) There are two kinds of silence that trouble a translator: physical silence and metaphysical silence. Physical silence happens when you are looking at, say, a poem of Sappho’s inscribed on a papyrus from two thousand years ago that has been torn in half. Half the poem is empty space. A translator can signify or even rectify this lack of text in various ways—with blankness or brackets or textual conjecture—and she is justified in doing so because Sappho did not intend that part of the poem to fall silent. Metaphysical silence happens inside words themselves. And its intentions are harder to define. Every translator knows the point where one language cannot be translated into another. Take the word cliché. Cliché is a French borrowing, past participle of the verb clicher, a term from printing meaning “to make a stereotype from a relief printing surface.” It has been assumed into English unchanged, partly because using French words makes English-speakers feel more intelligent and partly because the word has imitative origins (it is supposed to mimic the sound of the printer’s die striking the metal) that make it untranslatable. English has different sounds. English falls silent. This kind of linguistic decision is simply a measure of foreignness, an acknowledgment of the fact that languages are not sciences of one another, you cannot match them item for item. But now what if, within this silence, you discover a deeper one—a word that does not intend to be translatable.
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October 17, 2014
Seascape Yellow Sky Brittany
b. October 17, 1860
The Meaning Of The Sea
1904 - 1941
translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale
to understand it once and for all
one must live life as in reverse
and to take walks in the forest
while tearing out your hair whole
and when you get to know the fire
of the light bulb or of the oven
say to it why are you shining
you the fire are candle’s master
what’s your meaning is it nothing
where’s the kettle where the cabinet
the demons whirl around like flies
circling above a piece of pie
and these spirits flash their eyes
hands and legs and horns and smiles
around the trees juicy beasts howl
the light bulbs twisting in their sleep
the silent children blow their horns
old women cry atop the evergreens
and the universal deity
stands in the celestial cemetery
and the ideal horse saunters
until finally the forest enters
Translation's homeopathic gesture
The body responds, but cannot ever forget or avoid its cellular infarction, movement or life below conscious choice. Its response is different to different texts, and to the same text at different intervals. The text always demands something of the body seated in front of it; it urges something from that body.
As translator, I respond to the urge of the text, its urgency. This involves my mind, which, like any mind, is acculturated, constructed by the culture in which it lives. Tripwire. In the words of Giorgio Agamben, the process is one of subjectivization and of desubjectivization at the same time. It is a process that cannot be fully controlled by society, however, because it passes through a human body.
The homeopathic gesture that propels translation comes from the interior heat of a set of cells. Outside of any theory of translation, these cells function. They renew the fibres of their DNA. Proteins. In the moment of translation, there is no theory possible. Only this relation of light and cell which has a homeopathic influence on the language that results.
From Thomas Bernhard’s novel Wittgenstein’s Nephew
I do not care for walks either, and have been a reluctant walker all my life. I have always disliked walking, but I am prepared to go for walks with friends, and this makes them think I am a keen walker, for there is an amazing theatricality about the way I walk. I am certainly not a keen walker, nor am I a nature lover or a nature expert. But when I am with friends I walk in such a way as to convince them I am a keen walker, a nature lover, and a nature expert. I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me. I live in the country only because the doctors have told me that I must live in the country if I want to survive—for no other reason. In fact I love everything except nature, which I find sinister; I have become familiar with the malignity and implacability of nature through the way it has dealt with my own body and soul, and being unable to contemplate the beauties of nature without at the same time contemplating its malignity and implacability, I fear it and avoid it whenever I can. The truth is that I am a city dweller who can at best tolerate nature. It is only with reluctance that I live in the country, which on the whole I find hostile.
Brooke Ellsworth’s Thrown: A Translation
Translation isn’t only the process of converting words or text from one language to another. Translation is transformation. In Thrown: A Translation, poet Brooke Ellsworth explores the myriad ways we convey both classic myths and ourselves. Drawing on the Roman poet Ovid’s tale of Echo and Narcissus, Ellsworth begins to delineate her multivarious take on translation in the first poem of the collection, “In Nova,” the reader’s guide to her chapbook. “Nova,” the feminine of “novus,” is Latin for “new star,” an extant star that shines brightly to declare its apparent newness only to fade out and return to its original form._______________________
Asymptote - October 2014
from The Circle's Spell
Marcelo Morales Cintero
translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra
Writing things is the way to release oppression from the idea of death, of anonymity.
I write because I'm going to die. Sometimes in life I'm inside scenes, I move through dirty hallways, make my way through puddles in streets. Eyes reviewing reality, I don't know how long I'll look at these surfaces. It's too strange for existence.
Photography tenses light. This is the poem too. The great moments are impressions, like Hume's flame. We recall intensity. That's it in the end: life. Moments of tension. The rest a great calm equal to a great nothingness. To a death you forget.
I came to a realization today when I walked into the kitchen. Things acquired the status of symbols, which happens in my life when things enter a poetic state. In those moments I'm a stranger.
For me poetry is only possible as fragment, as tension. Like the flash from a camera, like the photo resolving out of light printed on darkness.
I think about the unbelievable web of presences that precede my own. The infinite connectivity of events and lives making it possible for me to take forward steps. To see a building's dirty walls, an ugly park between two houses. Life has the aura of a miracle. I don't know, won't ever know if it's accidental or not. There's no way to find out. In these cases a yes is worth the same as a no.

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Irish Dance Music
Irish dance music is sonorous sibling of the Irish dance. It is very important part of the Irish festivals & festivities and ceremonies & celebrations. The irish dance music is there where ever there is Irish dance.
There is a wide range of traditional and modern Irish musical instruments that have provided melodious dance music for dancing throughout the centuries. The traditional dance music was mainly the music from bagpipes, the most popular and the traditional dance music instruments of Ireland. However, the modern dance music is the music from bagpipes, accordions, guitars, fiddles, pianos, harps, whistles etc.
Irish dance music is isometric. The traditional as well as modern irish dance music have become an important part of Ireland’s culture. The famous dance music include The Drunken Sailor, Good Night, Take It Easy, St. Patrick's Day, Fisher's Hornpipe, The Wedding, Bonaparte's Retreat, Haste To The Wedding, Early In The Morning, With All My Heart, Garryowen, Welcome Home, Come In From The Rain, Galway Bay, Off To California, The Blarney Pilgrim, The Boys Of Bluehill, Smash The Windows, The Rights Of Man, The Liverpool Hornpipe, The Rocky Road To Dublin, The Merry Blacksmith, Drops Of Brandy, The Spinning Wheel, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Paddy Whack, Lannigan's Ball, Miss McLeod's Reel, Kiss The Bride, The Hunt, Hunting The Hare and The Merry Harriers.
There are numerous artists, who are producing traditional as well as modern irish dance music these days. The traditional dance music is an extensive and precious resource for dancers. The traditional dance music inspires the modern composers to create new music based on the traditional dance music. The traditional dance music plays great role in connecting the modern music composers to the rich Irish cultural traditions, the musical traditions set up by the past masters.
Some of the past masters of irish dance music are Belhavel Trio, Joe Maguire's Pride of Erne Orchestra, Tom Ennis, James Morrison & John Miller, Moate Ceilidh Band, Ballinamore Ceilidhe Band, Aughrim Slopes Ceilidhe Band, Flanagan Brothers, Stephen Moloney & Tommy Whelan, Peter Conlon, Michael Grogan, Rosaleen Quartet, John McGettigan's Three-Leaf Shamrock Orchestra, Killoran & His Pride of Erin Orchestra, Moate Ceilidh Band and Ballinakill (Co. Down) Traditional Dance Players.


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Geneticists are a step closer to understanding how plague evolved into one of the great scourges of human history. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, spreads through the bites of infected fleas. In the flea’s gut, plague bacteria multiply until a mass of bacteria blocks the passage to the flea’s stomach. The starving flea bites a host and feeds frantically, but since it can’t swallow its meal, it ends up regurgitating blood and bacteria back into its prey’s bloodstream, spreading the disease to a new host.
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Margarete Schweikert was born on the 16th of February, 1887 in Karlsruhe, the residency of the former Margrave of Baden. She remained the only child of her parents Luise, née Petry, and Friedrich Schweikert. Both were interested in music, Luise played the piano, Friedrich the violin. They also sang with their only daughter. At the age of 14, Margarete left the lyceum and concentrated on the artistic formation at the Munz‘sche Konservatorium in Karlsruhe, where she studied violin, piano and possibly singing. At the Badisches Konservatorium, the precursor of the Badische Hochschule für Musik (Baden University of Music), she was taught the violin by Heinrich Deecke, first violinist of the Großherzoglich Badische Hofkapelle (Court Orchestra of the Margrave of Baden) and in the theory of music and composition by Max Herold. During her studies, Margarete Schweikert began to perform as a violinist in Karlsruhe. For her concerts, again and again, she wrote new songs and combined them with compositions for the violin. In the winter semester 1912/13, Schweikert continued her studies in Stuttgart privately. Her teachers were the violinist Carl Wendling and the composer Joseph Haas, an alumnus of Max Reger, both were lecturers at the local Königliche Konservatorium (Royal Conservatory).


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I’ve been on vacation for a couple weeks, so imagine my surprise when I turned on The Bachelor last night to find out we’re already down to the final four, aka hometown visits. Last time I checked, Tierra LaCausi was tierra-rizing the house, and now she’s gone and all the remaining girls are telling Sean Lowe that they’re falling in love with him. Time flies when you’re on a reality TV show.
The first hometown date was with AshLee Frazier, in Houston, Texas. AshLee has been pretty clear that she loves Sean, but when her dad asks if he loves her back, he says he’s ‘crazy about her and sees that love is on the horizon’. He keeps saying that he can see a life with her, but he’s also holding his face back from hers when they kiss and saying things like, “You’re the best” instead of romantic stuff, so I think he’s just leading her on. But this is The Bachelor after all, so we all have to pretend like marriage is in the cards. To that end, on every single hometown date, Sean asks the dad (or, in Catherine’s case, the mom) if he has their blessing to propose to their daughter. You know, should things go that way. He’s maintaining that he still doesn’t know who he’s gonna choose. AshLee’s dad gives his blessing, and I actually get great vibes from him. He says it was love at first sight when they first took her on as a 4-year old foster child, and that another man will have to fall in love with her like that. Aw. Good job, dad.
The second date is with Catherine Giudice, in Seattle, Washington. This is the date that feels the most real to me. The two of them go to Pike Place Market and throw fish at each other, and Sean is smiling in a genuine way and using the word ‘love’ really casually in sentences when he talks about her. He loves being around her, loves the way he doesn’t have to be the ‘cool guy’ with her, loves that she’s always smiling and making him laugh, loves that she sees both sides of him. There’s a lot of love. And Catherine actually gets bonus points from me for not saying she’s in love with him. Her exact words are, “I want love with Sean”, which I think is a pretty appropriate thing to say when your boyfriend of like…two months is seriously dating three ohter girls and meeting their families. Speaking of which, like Catherine’s family, too. Her sisters are a little intense, because they can’t believe she’s taking the show seriously, but they’re taking Sean’s questions seriously and answering them honestly, which is nice. They’re not sure that Catherine is quite ready to settle down yet, which makes Sean start to doubt their relationship. In his own words, “I don’t know how to move forward with Catherine.” Plus her mom doesn’t explicitly give her blessing for Sean to propose to Catherine, which I was a fan of as well. This is the first time you’re meeting this guy, give me a break.
The next hometown date is with Lindsay Yenter in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and I’m honestly shocked to see she’s still in the competition. She got out of the limo in a wedding dress, if you’ll recall, but she’s still here and giving Sean butterflies, so whatevs. I guess we have different taste. Her dad is a two-star general, so Lindsay puts Sean through a themed workout before they go meet him and dissuades Sean from calling him ‘General Yenter’. Really buddy? They have normal family interactions, and I’m distracted by how much shorter Lindsay is than Sean and her insistence on continuing to use this weird baby voice. Sean really loves her youthful energy, especially when she says she’s falling in love with him and her dad gives his blessing for the proposal because as a paratrooper, he’s familiar with ‘managing risk and being decisive’ and he knows that she’s really ready for kids and a family. At age twenty-four. Jeepers.
And finally, we have Desiree Hartsock, from Newport Beach, California. Here’s where it gets good. First of all there’s this guy who comes in claiming to be her ex-boyfriend and tries to start shit with Sean. They have words and it’s escalating and then…surprise! He’s an actor. Des hired him to return-prank Sean after he convinced her that she broke a million dollar piece of art in that gallery. So…that guy wasn’t really your ex-boyfriend who was still in love with you?That is so shocking, because there was so much latent emotion and depth in his words. What an idiot. Let’s all have a good laugh. Now Sean gets to meet the rest of the family — Des’ mom, dad, and brother, Nate. Oh Nate. You are such an asshole, but you speak so much truth. Both Desiree’s parents are super nice and welcoming to Sean, but Nate tells him that he doesn’t think he’s as in Des as Des is into him. Agreed. He also calls Sean a playboy and says he’s not buying what he’s saying. Double agreed. I mean, the guy is dating four girls at once, that’s just fact. It’s the way the show goes, yeah, but I kind of respect Nate for calling him out. Usually people just go along with it and pretend they’ve just met their new brother-in-law.
And turns out that Nate was exactly right, because Sean eliminates Des at the rose ceremony, after doing his best to convince us that he’s gonna send Catherine home. Yeah right, you’re obsessed with her. Desiree spends the remainder of the episode making lots of crying noises out of her mouth, but no crying water out of her eyes. GIRL. Stop trying to squeeze moisture out of your eyes, you’re gonna hurt yourself.

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Planet for Tomorrow Film Festival screenings continue through 2009 at The Regional Municipality of York Administrative Centre
Environmentally-themed films highlighted at monthly screenings
NEWMARKET …quot; The Planet for Tomorrow films showing at The Regional Municipality of York Administrative Centre continue with an exciting line-up of must-see documentaries and films. Once again, York Region is pleased to offer free admission for all movies.
WHERE: The Regional Municipality of York Administrative Centre
17250 Yonge Street, Town of Newmarket
TIME: 7 p.m.
DATE: Thursday, March 19th; Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home: After reducing, reusing and recycling, how much garbage is actually left over? Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home chronicles one average, urban family either keeping or weighing and recording every scrap of garbage it produces for three months. Whether it is plastic bags or air pollution created by the family vehicles, the family discovers that every action carries a reaction affecting them and the entire planet.
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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will explore what it means to be an independent developer as part of its latest Re:Play event, 'Indie Development: Exploring the Fringe.'
On March 26, a group of expert panelists will assemble to "map the outer fringes of game development, far from the mainstream, and step beyond the known into what might lie beyond."
The ACMI kicked off its Re:Play initiative last July to encourage discussion around matters of convergence, play and gaming culture.
In a press release, the ACMI is already challenging attendees to think about what it means to be an independent game developer.
"Being independent means more than not relying on someone else to pay the bills," the release reads. "It also carries with it a certain aesthetic, a certain outlook and a certain way of exploring the fringes of being creative. Just as the major film studios set up independent divisions, so has the idea of what it means to be an independent game developer initiated the process of being co-opted by the industrial system, turning it into something distinctly softer, safer and perhaps more palatable."
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Hajji Jalil (Persian: حاجي جليل, also Romanized as Ḩājjī Jalīl; also known as Ḩājjīābād-e Jalīl) is a village in Shurab-e Tangazi Rural District, in the Central District of Kuhrang County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 68, in 16 families.
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This was hardly the promising start the White House wanted for one of the most challenging months in President Barack Obama's second term.
After two last-minute, high-profile appeals to rescue his global trade agenda, Obama was knocked off stride Friday, rebuffed by lawmakers from his own party. The defeat in the House seriously damaged his chances of capping his presidency with a groundbreaking economic pact with 11 Pacific rim countries.
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For Obama, it was an ominous first in a June full of trials that could determine his standing for the remaining year-and-a-half of his presidency.
Besides the prospects for an international trade deal, Obama is also awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court that could upend his health care law, and he faces a June 30 deadline to conclude an accord that aims to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Together they symbolize the totality of the president's achievements in domestic, economic and national security policies.
Friday's setback for Obama was the result of a complicated legislative strategy that linked passage of trade negotiating powers for the president with a measure that would provide training and assistance to American workers who lost jobs because of trade. In the end, a narrow majority passed the "fast-track" trade measure that gives the president the right to negotiate deals that Congress can only approve or reject but not change. Then a large majority of Democrats, eager to kill the fast-track powers, joined a majority of Republicans to vote against the assistance package for workers.
At the White House, officials drew attention to the narrow passage of the trade negotiation piece of the bill and noted that the legislation had overcome similar moribund moments in the Senate.
"I'm tempted to walk out here and say that it's deja vu all over again," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
But Obama's struggles Friday raised fresh questions about his ability to hold sway over fellow Democrats. He made a surprise entrance Thursday night at Nationals' Park, the Major League Baseball stadium where lawmakers were playing their annual charity game. Obama arrived with a case of his White House beer for the winners.
Obama then made a rare trip to the Capitol on Friday morning to meet with House Democrats. Asked as he emerged if he had changed any minds, Obama replied, "It's just a question if I changed votes."
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., a critic of the trade legislation, offered a blistering critique: "He's ignored Congress and disrespected Congress for years and then he shows up at the baseball game with homemade beer, and then comes to the caucus and lectures us for 40 minutes about his values and whether or not we're being honest by using legislative tactics to try and stop something which we believe is a horrible mistake for the United States of America and questions our integrity."
DeFazio added, "It wasn't the greatest strategy."
At issue in the health care case before the Supreme Court case is whether Congress authorized federal subsidy payments for health care coverage regardless of where people live, or only for residents of states that created their own insurance marketplaces. Nearly 6.4 million low- and moderate-income Americans could lose coverage if the court rules people enrolled through the federal site aren't eligible for the subsidies.
Obama has taken an aggressive stance ahead of the court's announcement, arguing that the 5-year-old law is well established and that the case against it is so flimsy that the court should not even have considered it.
"This is now part of the fabric of how we care for one another," he said this week.
As for Iran, negotiators from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran face a June 30 deadline as they continued talks in Vienna aimed at curbing Tehran's ability to build a nuclear bomb.
Iran denies any nuclear weapon ambitions and says its nuclear program is meant for power and other peaceful purposes. The talks have been difficult, with Western and Iranian negotiators still disagreeing on key points like inspections.
Obama has already come under criticism from some U.S. allies in the Middle East and members of Congress, who say the administration has conceded too much in the talks.
But the Iran talks provided the White House with an opportunity Friday to suggest that relations with House Democrats aren't as sour as Friday's vote might suggest. Earnest, the White House spokesman, noted that nearly every House Democrat signed a letter last month voicing support for Obama's efforts to complete a deal with Iran.
"I don't think there's anybody who's suggested that that priority is going to be threatened just because we might have a disagreement over this particular issue," he said.
It all points to a potentially turbulent start to Obama's summer.
By the Fourth of July, the president may be basking in the Independence Day spirit, or he may be licking his wounds.
Associated Press writers Erica Werner, Laurie Kellman and Brad Klapper contributed to this report.


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The fake cosmetic surgeon dubbed the ‘Barbie Doctor’ – who is accused of mutilating at least 11 people in botched operations – has been released on house arrest as her trial gets underway.
Olgica Markanovic and her associate, who has been named only as Jasmina T. due to strict local privacy laws, are facing charges including undertaking unauthorised aesthetic procedures without a licence.
Markanovic was arrested on the Serb-Croat border on 1st June after she allegedly carried out operations on at least 11 people, leaving them with a number of different scars and injuries.
This is the second attempt by prosecutors to start the trial after the first one was postponed due to the absence of Jasmina T. due to her pregnancy.
Prosecutors have requested a three-year prison sentence for Markanovic and a one-year prison sentence for her associate.
Markanovic allegedly carried out illegal and unlicensed cosmetic procedures on at least 11 people from May 2020 to March this year.
She allegedly used a ‘plasma pen’ on her patients causing permanent damage to their faces in the form of second- and third-degree burns, according to the news site Telegraf.
The pair also allegedly used the drug lidocaine chloride as a local anaesthetic and this is said to have endangered the lives of the people they were operating on as it could have caused an allergic reaction that in some cases can result in death.
Markanovic has denied that she engaged in medical procedures without a proper licence.
She defended herself, claiming that the services she was providing to her patients were cosmetic and that she never presented herself as an expert in the field of medicine, according to Telegraf.
She reportedly said that the plasma pen was not a medical instrument but a cosmetic one and that she had a certificate to use the device, adding that any injuries suffered by patients were down to their failure to comply with strict instructions for adequate recovery, such as avoiding tanning beds or exposing their skin to sunlight.
A group of at least 11 men and women filed a complaint in March 2021 against the suspect claiming that they had been disfigured after she treated them at her salon in the Serbian capital Belgrade.
One male victim, name not disclosed, told Croatian media outlet Blic: “When I met her she introduced herself as the ‘President of Aesthetics’.”
He added: “She then introduced herself to my girlfriend as a qualified doctor.”
Another victim, who was also not named, told the Croatian news site Jutarnji that she went to the suspect’s salon to have her nose and eyebrows raised but was instead left with burns all over her face.
She added that for seven days she could barely open her eyes, and for several months simple tasks such as eating and drinking became agonising due to the scars on her face.
Although 11 lawsuits have been filed against the suspect, she is rumoured to have treated over 20 people, all of whom suffered some sort of medical injury.
As the trial now gets underway, the First Basic Court in Belgrade has released Markanovic from custody at a preventive detention centre and allowed to her to return home on conditions.
During her house arrest, Markanovic is not allowed to use the internet, she is banned from visiting other people other than her mother and sister, and only her young son can be in the apartment with her, according to local reports.
Additionally, she can only leave the apartment in the case of necessary emergency medical care.
The court also issued a warning to her that if she violates any of the above measures, the previous detention measure would be reinstated.
The next hearing is scheduled for 17th December when the defendant’s associate Jasmina T. is also expected to appear.

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text: B & B Station Windwacht offers space for four people. Two in the fully converted wind guard station and two in the caravan. You can count on fresh daily produce on your plate. Sandwiches, strawberries, cucumber, tomatoes and herbs from the greenhouse and the vegetable garden. Or pick your lettuce from the mobile kitchen garden that we put in front of you. Oh and do not forget to dive in the chicken coop for a fresh egg.

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I wrote about the first book here.
Pa Salt, living in luxury in Switzerland, adopted the girls from all over the world and named them after the stars in the constellation "Pleiades".
The girls have the last name D'Apliese. Change the letters around and you get "Pleiades". One of the many mysteries about Pa Salt. Apparently his name is also an anagram. Can't figure that one out.
Pa has died and each book begins with this sentence:
"I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my father had died."
Each book focusses on one of the sisters, telling about her relationship with Pa, and the information he left about her heritage.
Alcyone (Ally) finds her ancestors in Norway. Book Two
Asterope (Star) Book Three is being released this week.
Celaeno (CeCe) Next year.
Taygete (Tiggy) The Next year.
Electra The next year. A long wait, but so worthwhile.
Merope- actually there is no Merope- another mystery!
But this last book will reveal all the secrets of this unusual family.
The books are long and filled with fascinating stories, that all intermingle. I am loving this series. It takes me on a wonderful journey. I can wait and anticipate the next book. However, I found this time that I had to look again at the first book to recall the intricacies of the plot. I may have to buy the books, but they are only in hardcover at present. If I wait until the end, they may release a lovely paperback version of the whole series.

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Help wanted: Companies face shortage of skilled labor in construction trades
Derry Township contractor John Inselmini has a crew working on a home construction project in Hempfield. But getting the manpower in place to tackle such jobs has become more challenging as Inselmini and other employers cope with a construction labor force that has been dwindling and aging.
“In our area, there is definitely a shortage of skilled labor,” said Inselmini, whose firm works on residential and light commercial construction and remodeling. “Every year it gets worse.”
Though poor weather affects construction, Inselmini said, “We're busy enough. Seldom do I lay anybody off.”
To supplement his core of about six employees with other needed workers, he said, he advertises online and in publications but is frustrated by the tepid response. “We're lucky to find two or three people that even answer for an interview,” he said.
Inselmini has seen construction costs rise by about 20 percent as he's boosted wages in an effort to attract and keep skilled workers.
“It affects the electricians, plumbers and HVAC guys,” Inselmini said of labor market challenges. “We're all swimming upstream.”
Dave Demilio, a Greensburg-based HVAC provider, concurs. “To find a good employee, you have to steal them off somebody else” by offering better pay, he said. “It's driving the costs up, and that's being passed down to the consumers.”
Inselmini and Demilio agree that there is a dearth of interest among today's high school students in entering construction-related fields — which bodes ill for easing the labor shortage, especially as experienced tradesmen approach retirement.
Recalling a high school recruitment event, Demilio estimated just 3 percent of students inquired about construction-related jobs, with most showing interest in other career options such as auto repair.
Despite the potential for top wages in skilled construction jobs, Inselmini said, “Nobody is really promoting the trades like they used to. In any of those trades, you've got to work hard with your hands and in all kinds of weather.
“I think most of all it's the mentality that has to change in the younger people. They have to be willing to work hard.”
“Everyone wants to sit in front of a computer,” Demilio said of young people preparing to enter the workforce. “A lot don't have mechanical skills.”
At the Eastern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center, enrollment in four construction-related programs in 2016-17 accounted for about 19 percent of the school's roughly 520 students from member districts Greater Latrobe, Derry Area and Ligonier Valley, Director Todd Weimer said.
That enrollment figure has remained consistent in recent years, but “isn't the size it could be,” Weimer said.
He said there is a disconnect between the unfavorable perceptions many students and parents have about the construction trades and the opportunities those lines of work provide for a sustainable living.
“We don't look at them the same way we look at lawyers, doctors and engineers,” Weimer said of the trades. “For that reason, I think kids don't look at those as great job opportunities.”
Latrobe contractor Jim Thomas labors on construction projects alongside five full-time employees and a young part-time worker he added through a co-op program with the Eastern Westmoreland school. He also calls upon subcontractors, including Amish craftsmen from eastern Pennsylvania or Ohio, to complete residential and light commercial projects.
“You can't get enough full-time people, so you end up with more subcontractors to do what's necessary,” he said.
Jack Ramage, executive director of the Master Builders' Association of Western Pennsylvania, said a worker shortage hasn't yet become a widespread problem for large-scale construction projects in the region that draw upon union labor. And, he said, employers and unions are making efforts to prevent that from happening by seeking to recruit young workers to help replace the 41,000 older ones — about 40 percent of the area's construction workforce — who are expected to retire in about seven years.
Inselmini noted 30 used to be the average age of his workers, but now it's 45 in an industry in which workers tend to retire earlier.
“The construction trades do take a toll on your body if you're involved in more physical aspects like brick-laying, iron-working or concrete-finishing,” Ramage said. “You can't do that kind of work well into your 60s.”
“Some of our trades are having a hard time finding enough workers to meet current demand,” Ramage acknowledged. “The pool of workers is shrinking, and everybody is competing for that same pool.”
He suggested that workers may have shifted from constructing buildings to employment in the oil and gas industry.
The number of apprentices accepted into union training programs for the 10-county region has increased over the past two years, said Jeff Nobers, executive director of the Builders Guild of Western Pennsylvania. The nonprofit guild is a joint effort of 16 building trade unions and six contractor associations.
The Operating Engineers Local 66 training program in Salem Township has accepted 113 apprentices and six mechanics this year, roughly double the numbers it would train in an average year, Nobers said.
“Now that work is picking up, most of the individual locals are increasing the size of their (apprentice) classes by at least half,” said Richard Stanizzo, business manager of the seven-county Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council.
“It's a balancing act,” Nobers said. He noted unions “don't want to bring apprentices in unless they know they have jobs to send them to. That has not been an issue for the past couple of years, and we don't see that as being an issue.”
Nobers said $2 billion in construction work is projected in the region next year — not counting initial work on the ethane cracker plant in Beaver County. When work ramps up at that site two years from now, the number of tradespeople employed there is expected to increase from about 900 to 5,000.
“We feel confident we'll be able to staff all that,” Nobers said.
Construction industry officials are trying to get the attention of potential apprentices by reaching out to them with mobile apps, Nobers explained. “Like any industry, we've had to change the way we communicate to people, especially with younger people. We're going where they live, on their smartphones,” he said.