On Friday, Mayor Gavin Newsom held the first in what’s said to be a series of neighborhood open door sessions in the Mission and Tenderloin police stations. Disgruntled citizens and heartwarming adolescents used this “last resort” to get a meeting with the Mayor and complain about things they haven’t seen progress on, addressing issues from drugs in the Tenderloin and parking in the North Beach.
If you want an appointment yourself, though, you’re going to have to pay extremely close attention to the news. The opportunity to meet with the Mayor was announced on Chronicle and Examiner websites on Thursday at 9:00am, and, according to Mayoral spokesperson Brian Purchia, all 25 slots were filled by 9:20 by callers to the Department of Neighborhood Services.
Presumably, those who got the print story earlier that morning had advanced warning and huddled near their phones with eyes on the clock?
Purchia also said that meetings were announced in the Examiner and Chronicle on Wednesday, February 17, while those publications actually have their stories dated on Thursday the 18th, so it remains unclear how close the announcement will actually be made to future meetings, or if some people received more advance notice than others for last Friday’s meetings.
Since the Mayor’s office said Friday’s session was first in as series, we of course asked for a schedule of upcoming meetings. However, there was neither a schedule nor list of locations for future meetings to be had.
“If people call neighborhood services now to meet with the Mayor for an open door session they will be asked to call back when the next meetings are announced,” Purchia said.
According to Purchia, Friday’s lucky 25 people met the Mayor in 15-minute increments until 6pm. “The people that did not have a chance to meet with the Mayor were given the opportunity to meet with staff,” Purchia explained.
We’ve asked Purchia to keep us appraised on future meetings, and will make sure you know about them when we do.
Until then, you can get your Mayoral fix via the cyberspaces during an “online budget town hall” this Wednesday from 7-9pm viewable here. Questions can be posted ahead of time in the comment box on the UStream page linked to above, or by emailing email@example.com. Let us know if your question gets answered!


In this paper, a stochastic multifactor model is proposed for modeling of the daily spot market electricity prices. Stochastic part of the model is composed of three jump processes and a Brownian motion where two of the jump processes are assumed to be mean reverting with different mean reversion rates. The multistep algorithm proposed for model estimation utilizes an iterative threshold function (constructed on GARCH(1,1) volatility estimates) in separation of the jumps. The factor model is applied to Turkish day ahead electricity market. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed multifactor model, estimation results are also compared to the results acquired by application of mean reverting jump diffusion model of Cartea and Figueroa (2005) and Markov regime switching model of Janczura and Weron (2010) to the same data set. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


text: Rail service is primarily freight service because it is slow (to avoid hitting too many people and other critters) but very cheap. If with a million square miles of flat, low population land to build relatively cheap high speed freight line on why are the plans for high speed rail designed for expensive densely populated corridors? What ever happened to creep, crawl, walk and then run? Once freight service is mastered on the cheap then the network can be extended and passenger service added. I think we are going about this the wrong way around what do you say?

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One thing that is an absolute premium in the urban landscape, and in most homes across the globe, is space. We all want to find that additional nook of space in our own home. But every time we find ways to maximize space, our needs seem to outgrow the available room.
But that won’t stop us from sharing inspiration on how they can try to create a more efficient home where every inch has been maximized. Today, we move towards the laundry room and explore the many ways in which you can add a small laundry room to your home with ease.
A space-savvy and stylish small laundry room does not demand too much in terms of square footage. The washer and dryer units can sit next to one another while all the other features in the room depend on your specific needs. A smart laundry room is one that makes your daily life easy and does not turn laundry day into a taxing affair. This is a look at 20 best small laundry rooms around –
Finding a Niche in Your Home
You need not always find an exclusive room for the laundry. The best way to create additional room for the laundry in the kitchen, hallway, or any other place is by putting it in a small niche that would have been otherwise neglected.
Many of these corners are generally left unused or you tend to find an indoor plant or large floor vase gracing this spot. But you can add functionality to this little nook by using custom units that hold both the washer and the dryer. Everything else in these tight little spots is an extra that you can eke out by maximizing vertical space.
Color and Contrast
The theory behind color palettes in most tiny rooms and spaces is to keep them down to a bare minimum. And most often this is a theory that makes plenty of sense. But this does not mean you should completely stay away from color in the small laundry room. Bright pops of color in here can be brought in by the washer and dryer units themselves.
Think beyond white and gray and pops of dark blue coupled with white can create a cool blend of modern and beach styles. Dark greens, bright reds, and pretty pinks all have a place in the tiny laundry. As long as you do not put them all in together at the same time!
Combine Form with Functionality
Once you have sorted the ergonomics of your small laundry space, it is time to turn focus towards aesthetics and look beyond just color. Wallpaper in small spaces is a trend that is catching on across the globe and you can dip into this and give the laundry niche identity of its own. An accent wall with color and textural contrast goes a long way in giving the laundry area identity of its own.
Laundry bags on wheels, drying racks, sleek wooden shelves for all your laundry and additional storage baskets will help put the final touches on a gorgeous space. It’s sure to serve you well for years to come.

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The New Orleans Saints head home in Week 8 to face the Chicago Bears after defeating the Green Bay Packers last week at Lambeau Field.
Who Dat Dish Podcast Co-Hosts Dayton Brown and Tyler Raymond focused Episode 19 on analyzing the New Orleans Saints Week 7 win against the Green Bay Packers, and previewing the exciting match up against the Chicago Bears. Here is the weekly rundown of how the podcast went Monday night.
Let’s start off first as always where you can find the podcast link. Click here to be brought to the amazing episode!
More from Who Dat Dish
- Are the Saints playoff contenders or pretenders in 2022?
- 3 takeaways from Saints unofficial depth chart ahead of preseason opener
- Saints 2022 Training Camp: Top 5 takeaways from Day 13
- 3 things to know about new Saints QB K.J. Costello
- Kirk Merritt could be a difficult player for the Saints to cut
After introductions Tyler and Dayton went over the “Articles of the Week” segment. “Articles of the Week” is a weekly segment giving credit to our podcast hosts who contribute to FanSided’s WhoDatDish.com. Shoutouts are also given to other writers as well! Here are the articles that were mentioned in Episode 19.
Saints right guard Larry Warford out ‘several weeks’ by: Roy Anderson
Some issues need cleaning up after Saints win in Green Bay by: Dayton Brown
Topic #1: After “Articles of the Week”, Dayton and Tyler discussed what exciting events took place at Lambeau Field. The two highlighted the top performers of the game. Mark Ingram’s phenomenal day of rushing for over 100 yards and a touchdown and Ted Ginn Jr.’s amazing performance. It was all covered here. The hosts not only mentioned some important statistics regarding the game, but who deserves recognition, and who needs to improve.
Topic #2: The second topic discussed the intriguing match up between the New Orleans Saints at home in Week 8 against the ferocious Chicago Bears led by the team’s dominant defense, and running game. The hosts revealed who they think will be key match ups if New Orleans wants to pull out a win, Bears players to look out for such as RB Jordan Howard, and former Saints DL Akiem Hicks. At the very end of the segment everyone gave their predictions as how they think the game will turn out.
Where to find us
For the latest news regarding Who Dat Dish, the Who Dat Dish Podcast, and everything else regarding The New Orleans Saints, make sure to follow us on Twitter!
The Official Who Dat Dish Twitter Account: @TheWDDPodcast
Who Dat Dish Podcast Co-Host Dayton Brown: @Dayton_Brown_
Who Dat Dish Podcast Co-Host Tyler Raymond: @RaymondTylerM
For those who didn’t know the Who Dat Dish Podcast is now on iTunes! Search “Who Dat Dish Podcast” to stay updated when the latest episode comes out.
Who Dat Dish Podcast Co-Host Tyler Raymond was featured on Larry Dyer’s Chicago Bears Review podcast. He previewed the Saints / Bears game. The link can be found here to listen.

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I visited the Lake District twice in 2008. The first week, in the summer consisted of me opening the door every morning to be greeted by a solid wall of rain. The second started the same way. But finally after 3 days of solid rain the skies cleared. The rain had washed all the dust from the atmosphere creating vibrant colours and an amazing clarity. Looking at the resulting shot I think it was worth the wait for it.
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Aziz Qureshi, former Uttar Pradesh Governor and Congress veteran passed away in a Bhopal hospital on Friday following an extended illness, as confirmed by a family member. Qureshi, aged 83, is survived by his nephew Sufian Ali, who cared for him. PTI reported Ali stating, “He was unwell for some time and breathed his last at a private hospital in Bhopal around 11 am.” Qureshi previously held the governorship of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Mizoram.
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On November 1, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin was asked to comment on the decreasing number of U.S. companies with regional hubs in Hong Kong and whether Hong Kong’s sweeping National Security Law is causing reputational harm.
Census and Statistics Department data released on October 28 showed that 254 U.S. companies had regional headquarters in Hong Kong as of June – a 10% drop from 2020 and the lowest number since 2003, when 242 U.S. companies were there.
Wang said a January survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong showed “that in January 2021, a much larger proportion of companies are optimistic about the business environment in Hong Kong compared to August 2020.”
“Since the implementation of the Law on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong SAR, U.S. and other foreign investors have enjoyed a safer, more stable and predictable business environment,” he said.
Trouble is, Wang misrepresented the survey, and the claim of a better business climate is false.
In fact, multiple American Chamber of Commerce surveys, including the one cited by Wang, showed that U.S. businesses are cautious about the risks in Hong Kong. The surveys also make clear that the National Security Law has been the driving force behind such caution.
In the chamber’s 2021 Business Outlook Survey, conducted at the start of the year, 40% of its 181 respondents said they expected the business environment “to remain unstable or worsen,” while a third of the respondents said Hong Kong had “become less competitive as an international business hub.”
Although pessimism about the business environment decreased in January compared to the chamber's August 2020 survey, it still remained high.
In that 2020 poll, which followed the new security law’s rollout, “75% reported feeling pessimistic about Hong Kong’s business prospects in general.” In the January 2021 poll, more than 61% of the respondents said they thought Hong Kong’s business environment was unstable and had worsened in the preceding 12 months.
“Many pointed out the protests, the National Security Law (NSL) and COVID disruptions as their main concerns,” the survey summarized. “Some say the way the NSL was implemented and the ambiguity of its provisions have caused significant uncertainties. Though protests have stopped, the NSL has destabilized HK’s legal framework, according to some companies.”
In a more recent chamber survey, conducted May 5-9 with 325 business members responding, 42% of the respondents said they were considering or planning to move away from Hong Kong, with “the most widely shared concern” being “discomfort due to the National Security Law.”
Beijing imposed the sweeping legislation in June 2020 and has since reduced the city’s overall freedoms and quashed free speech and independent news media.
The national security law criminalizes “secession,” “subversion,” “terrorism” and “collusion with foreign forces,” with punishment up to life imprisonment. Amnesty International said in July 2020 that the offenses were “dangerously vague and broad,” adding that “virtually anything could be deemed a threat to ‘national security’ under its provisions, and it can apply to anyone on the planet.”
Aside from targeting pro-democracy activists, politicians and lawyers in Hong Kong, the law poses a direct threat to foreign firms, legal experts say.
First, the law has broad extraterritorial reach. Under Articles 37 and 38, permanent and nonpermanent residents of Hong Kong and companies can be prosecuted for documents, work or activities outside Hong Kong deemed to “endanger” China’s national security.
“This could include receiving information about meetings if they fall within a key industry, purchasing documents that later become classified as state secrets, or hosting a website or server outside Hong Kong that contains content that violates the HK NSL,” wrote Dennis Kwok, former legislative councilor of Hong Kong, and Elizabeth Donkervoort, program director for East Asia at the American Bar Association, in July.
“Similarly, given the breadth of industries subject to national security concerns by the PRC [People’s Republic of China], disputed intellectual property claims over a piece of technology could amount to national security or state secrets,” their report stated.
Thomas Kellogg, executive director of Georgetown Center for Asian Law, co-wrote in Foreign Policy in July that Article 43 of the law is a key concern for private companies. That provision gives national security authorities in Hong Kong sweeping powers “to engage in search, seizure, freezing of assets, and online censorship of those accused of violating the law.”
As investigations and prosecutions in the name of national security intensify, the Hong Kong government could ask companies to turn over information about customers, to censor their online speech, or to freeze their bank accounts.
Moreover, rules for prosecuting Article 43 expanded the national security authorities’ investigative powers and slashed due process and privacy protections for the accused.
Article 43 has been put to use.
In January, Hong Kong police cited Article 43 to force the city’s major telecom provider, Hong Kong Broadband Network, to block access to HKChronicles, an anti-government website.
In May, Hong Kong police cited Article 43 to order an Israeli software company, Wix, which operated outside of Hong Kong, to disable a pro-democracy website linked to Nathan Law, a Hong Kong pro-democracy dissident and former legislator.
The company initially complied despite Law’s objections. Law, who took refuge in the UK, was told that the company was acting on police orders and could be prosecuted. The company eventually restored the website and apologized after Law shared the company’s response on Twitter.
Kellogg cautioned that the reputational cost would be significant for any company to assist Hong Kong government’s crackdown on rights.
On July 16, the U.S. departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security jointly warned U.S. businesses in Hong Kong of the “potential reputational, regulatory, financial, and … legal risks associated with their Hong Kong operations.”
The advisory warned U.S. businesses in Hong Kong that they are subject to the security law, under which foreign nationals, including one U.S. citizen, have been arrested.

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Filipino pop singer-songwriter Johanna Dadap recently released her single, “The World’s Gone Up In Smoke,” a song imploring foresight and wisdom.
Talking about her music, Dadap shares, “When people see my work, I hope they experience what I feel about my art when I make it. I hope they feel how passionate I am to inspire them.”
Only 19 years old, Dadap received her first guitar early on, followed by teaching herself to play an array of instruments, including piano, Cajon, and ukulele, while probing into music production in her bedroom.
She specializes in music production and songwriting focused on acoustic pop. Her artistic expression is a mix of modern and folk music. Johanna also makes EDM and Hip Hop songs (unreleased). Her biggest inspirations are Jon Bellion, Imagine Dragons, Ed Sheeran, Blanks, and Charlie Puth.
Along with making music, Dadap connects with the art community by making cover songs that she uploads on her YouTube channel and by sharing her original tracks on different music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, etc.
“The World’s Gone Up In Smoke” features Johanna Dadap on lead vocals, backing vocals, and acoustic guitar, and Paul ‘Taffy’ White on electric guitar, bass, keyboards, and backing vocals.
Opening on a low-slung, elegant piano topped by luminous colors, “The World’s Gone Up In Smoke” flows into a creamy indie-pop melody. Dadap’s luscious alto vocals imbue the lyrics with passionate emotion. It’s a nuanced voice, rife with cashmere phrasing and velvety textures.
“All the words in all the songs they seem to fall on deafened ears / No one hears / No one hears a word till / The world’s gone up in smoke / And mother nature’s broke / But she’s too young to die.”
Beautifully wrought and balanced, with “The World’s Gone Up In Smoke,” Johanna Dadap conveys an important message on alluring music.


Fighting Fake News with Psychology. The Pro-Truth Pledge
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Forthcoming
42 Pages Posted: 14 Mar 2018
Date Written: March 12, 2018
Some recent psychology research has shown why people engage in deceptive behavior, and how we can prevent them from doing so. Given the alarming amount of fake news in the US public sphere, a group of psychologists has sought to combine the available research in a proposed intervention, the Pro-Truth Pledge, to help address this problem. The pledge asks signees to commit to 12 behaviors that research in psychology shows correlate with an orientation toward truthfulness. Early results show both that private citizens and public figures are willing to take the pledge, and survey, interview, and observational evidence shows the effectiveness of the pledge on reducing sharing misinformation on social media.
Keywords: deception, post-truth politics, post-truth, pro-social behavior, fake news, alternative facts, social media, false news, elections, truth, facts, Facebook, Twitter, digital media
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The story of Dracula begins when Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, travels from London to Transylvania to visit his client: Count Dracula, who lives in a tenebrous castle. When the misdeeds of Count Dracula, a fearsome vampire, are discovered, a group bands together to pursue and kill him. / La hist..
Everything is in the vineyard of the books but, among all, stand out the endless, those who never finish saying what they have to say. It's about the classics, those texts that seem new and unexpected every time you read them. The Juvenile Classics collection puts at your disposal adaptations of som..
The art of war is a book about tactics and military strategies, written by Sun Tzu, a famous Chinese military strategist. It's one of the older books that have been written about the topic. It was the first known attempt on lessons of war.
El arte de la guerra es un libro sobre tácticas y estr..
María and Federico are happy to celebrate Christmas in the company of their parents and their godfather Cristian. Next to the Christmas tree, the little girl finds a strange little man: the Nutcracker, who will become a great hero by defeating the king of mice; that's how Maria's love and respect is..
This wonderful story takes you to two worlds at once: a real one (Christmas Eve, the House of the Minister of Health) and another fantasy (the country of jams, the jam or the Alfajor). Delve into the pages of Swan Lake and accompany Odette in her joys and sorrows. / Este maravilloso cuento te lleva..
María and Federico are happy to celebrate Christmas in the company of their parents and their godfather Cristian. Next to the Christmas tree, the little girl finds a strange little man: the Nutcracker, who will become a great hero by defeating the king of mice; This is how María's love and respect i..
The diary of Anne Frank is a faithful testimony of the Nazi occupation in Europe and anti-Semitism. Ana, only 13 years old, has to face the horror of the war and the persecutions of the Gestapo. She and her family have to hide and live in the attic of a house close to two years in prison, hoping tha..
Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that c..
In The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde we will enter into a story that begins with an enigmatic case that, at first, rather than unraveling the mystery submerges the protagonist in many more uncertainties. As the story progresses, we understand that each of the behaviors of the characters, o..
The monsters, in their implicit deformity, embody human frailty, anomalies of the flesh and the spirit, but above all of the body. Unlike ghosts, monsters belong to the material world, they are tangible and more than different: unique. We are all Dr. Jekyll, but also, and at Same time, we are Mr. Hy..
The Otis family acquired the mansion despite the warning that it was inhabited by The Ghost of Canterville, which for centuries had sown terror and death among its inhabitants. How will the little Otis twins face an old and tired ghost? How will Mrs. Otis clean the stained bloodstains on the floor? ..


There have been numerous reports of the GTX 970 suffering from a memory allocation issue limiting it to 3.5GB instead of the full 4GB. We've done our own testing and analysis of this issue here at Wccftech.com in a previous piece. And in this article we aim to explain the issue in totality, why it occurs, what it means and how it affects users.
This whole debacle started when GTX 970 users began reporting an issue with memory allocation on their cards. The issue specifically was around the GTX 970 not being able to address all of the 4GB of on-board GDDR5 memory that Nvidia has equipped its cards with. GTX 970 users continuously reported maximum memory usage hitting a wall at 3.5GB. Shortly afterwards we went ahead and tested out the GTX 970 to try and see where this issue is stemming from. What we had discovered was quite interesting and goes hand in hand with Nvidia's latest response to this issue. But before we discuss our findings let's see what Nvidia has to say first.
Nvidia Responds to GTX 970 Memory Allocation Issue
In a recent statement to PCPer.com Nvidia admitted the existence of a memory allocation behavior that led so many GTX 970 users to worry. The company also offered a brief explanation of the phenomenon and why it occurs.
"The GeForce GTX 970 is equipped with 4GB of dedicated graphics memory. However the 970 has a different configuration of SMs than the 980, and fewer crossbar resources to the memory system. To optimally manage memory traffic in this configuration, we segment graphics memory into a 3.5GB section and a 0.5GB section. The GPU has higher priority access to the 3.5GB section. When a game needs less than 3.5GB of video memory per draw command then it will only access the first partition, and 3rd party applications that measure memory usage will report 3.5GB of memory in use on GTX 970, but may report more for GTX 980 if there is more memory used by other commands. When a game requires more than 3.5GB of memory then we use both segments.
We understand there have been some questions about how the GTX 970 will perform when it accesses the 0.5GB memory segment. The best way to test that is to look at game performance. Compare a GTX 980 to a 970 on a game that uses less than 3.5GB. Then turn up the settings so the game needs more than 3.5GB and compare 980 and 970 performance again.
Here’s an example of some performance data:
|GTX 980||GTX 970|
|Shadow of Mordor|
|<3.5GB setting = 2688x1512 Very High||72 FPS||60 FPS|
|>3.5GB setting = 3456x1944||55 FPS (-24%)||45 FPS (-25%)|
|<3.5GB setting = 3840x2160 2xMSAA||36 FPS||30 FPS|
|>3.5GB setting = 3840x2160 135% res||19 FPS (-47%)||15 FPS (-50%)|
|Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare|
|<3.5GB setting = 3840x2160 FSMAA T2x, Supersampling off||82 FPS||71 FPS|
|>3.5GB setting = 3840x2160 FSMAA T2x, Supersampling on||48 FPS (-41%)||40 FPS (-44%)|
On GTX 980, Shadows of Mordor drops about 24% on GTX 980 and 25% on GTX 970, a 1% difference. On Battlefield 4, the drop is 47% on GTX 980 and 50% on GTX 970, a 3% difference. On CoD: AW, the drop is 41% on GTX 980 and 44% on GTX 970, a 3% difference. As you can see, there is very little change in the performance of the GTX 970 relative to GTX 980 on these games when it is using the 0.5GB segment."
Nvidia's statement explains our own findings earlier. In our analysis we discovered that the GTX 970 can actually address and use all available 4GB of VRAM and not just 3.5GB. However the performance penalty for using that last 0.5GB of VRAM is still interesting. As Nvidia explains it and as we had suspected earlier, the issue is essentially due to the fact that the GTX 970 is based on a cut-down GM204-200 GPU die instead of the full GM204 chip like its bigger brother the GTX 980.
The GM204-200 GPU has three SMM units disabled, for a total of 13/16 SMMs. This in turn disables some components of the memory sub-system. This leaves the chip with less resources to manage the same amount of memory as the GTX 980. Which is why Nvidia resorted to the dual segment (3.5GB-0.5GB) memory arrangement. This in turn insures that the larger 3.5GB segment doesn't suffer any performance penalty.
Nvidia doesn't provide data to compare how a 970 would perform had it not exhibited this memory behavior. So I went ahead and calculated how the performance of the GTX 970 would've been affected had this memory allocation phenomenon was absent. I've done this by applying the performance scaling ratio of the GTX 980 ,which doesn't exhibit this behavior, to the GTX 970.
|Wccftech||GTX 970 Performance in %||GTX 970 Performance Without Memory Allocation Issue in %|
|Shadow of Mordor||100%||102%|
|Call of Duty Advanced Warfare||100%||104%|
Simply put the GTX 970 is only able to fully utilize 3.5GB out of the 4GB of available VRAM optimally. While the card can still access all 4GB of VRAM, the last 0.5GB of memory is not accessed or managed as efficiently as the rest of the available memory. Which leads to the reported performance degradation when an application needs to access more than 3.5GB. In the examples Nvidia provided to the press the performance penalty is in the mid single digit percentages. However we don't fully know yet if in other usage scenarios the memory issue will prove to be more detrimental. As there's evidence that it has a more perceptual impact on frame time consistency rather than FPS which can be perceived as the stuttering or choppiness reported by Nvidia users on the GeForce forums.
Most users should not face this issue except on higher resolutions such as 4K or in the case of multi-monitor gaming. In which case we would actually recommend buying a graphics card with more memory anyway. AMD already has 8GB R9 290X cards in the market which were introduced three months ago. Earlier rumors indicated that Nvidia was also launching 8GB variants of the GM204 based 900 series cards in November of last year but that unfortunately did not happen. Samsung SDRAM schedules indicate that Nvidia could launch 8GB variants of their 900 series cards this quarter.
Although with rumors looming of a GM200 launch taking place in two months time and AMD's HBM equipped Fiji XT coming soon after. I'd suspect that users would want to see how well products based on these new GPUs perform in the market and then make a decision.


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North Pattaya covers the area from the Dolphin Roundabout to Sukhumvit Road and it is set right close to Wong Amat Beach. This is the most peaceful beach when compared to the other beaches of Pattaya; therefore the majority of the 4-5 star hotels chose this precinct for their location. The bus terminal at North Pattaya Road will take around 2 hours bus trip to reach Akamai, Mochit 2 or the Southern Bus Terminal in Bangkok. Driving a private car is by taking Bangkok-Chonburi Motorway, then continue along Sukhumvit Road until you arrive Km. 44 Marker, there you will find the route to North Pattaya. Many family-friendly tourist sites are found within a short ride from this area and one of them is Mini Siam which contains miniature world of the major attractions of Thailand and Europe. The freshly opened, photogenic museum is Art in Paradise Pattaya, which is frequently visited by young travelers. People who love Thai Boxing should go to Fairtex Sports Club & Hotel for Muay Thai and combat sport training in state-of-the-art training center.
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PANDORA Intertwining Radiance with Purple & Clear CZ Charm
DetailsThis striking sterling silver charm is comprised of a glittering purple stone encased in shimmering silver strands. It is ideal for introducing rich color and exquisite details to your bracelet.
- PANDORA Release Date
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Rob Apatoff, a former executive with Allstate Corp. and Rand McNally & Co., will start Monday as president of FTD Group.
Apatoff, 50, served on FTD's corporate board for four years prior to United Online's purchase of the floral delivery business in May. United, which owns social networking site Classmates.com and customer loyalty site My Points.com, acquired Downers Grove-based FTD for $456 million. The deal closed in August.
United Online CEO Mark Goldston, already FTD chairman, will become FTD's chief executive also on Monday.
"I was already friendly with Mark when he bought the company," Apatoff said. "I knew he'd make the investment necessary in the company to take it to the next level."
FTD is undergoing a face-lift, a process that will accelerate, he said. "Branding, marketing, packaging, our Web site will all be changed before the holidays. We've already been working on this."
Apatoff declined to provide details.
FTD, an early Web adopter, started an online retailing service in 1994. As it did with its original flower-by-wire service, FTD forwards online orders to a network of independent florists who fill and deliver the orders.
FTD draws about 60 percent of its U.S. revenue from its consumer business. The remaining 40 percent comes from services and products that it provides to a network of about 20,000 florists.
CEO Michael Soenen will remain with FTD through the end of the year in an advisory capacity, Apatoff said.
"We'll be working together, it will be a very orderly transition," he said. "We are friends and will remain so."

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The Food & Gift Fair weekend will be accompanied by the sounds of many fabulous bands:
The World’s largest contemporary choir, The Rock Choir will be bringing its upbeat songs, sung in their unique style. If you love to sing, you will love Rock Choir!
The Claire Jones Trio will be delivering some sensational Jazz. Claire is accompanied by Della Thompson (Double Bass) & Terry Hutchins (Guitar).
Ben & Will, a Guitar Duo, will be playing familiar songs in a style fusing flamenco, pop & classical.
Others performing over the weekend include Dolly & the Clothes Pegs, Band of Hope, Brassbound, Small Hours Magic, Women of Note & the Abingdon School Band.


Let’s make a simple archway using polygon modeling and the Bridge Tool.
Polygon cubes – two of them.
We start out by setting the Main Menu Selector in the upper left of the Maya interface to Polygons. (This step is not shown.) Next, we create a polygon cube.
Duplicating the cube.
Since we just created an object, we are already in object mode, but in case we’re not, we right click and using the Marking Menu, put us in Object mode.
With the cube selected, we select Edit > Duplicate. Now we have two identical cubes.
Positioning our two cubes.
Now, we use the four way view to separate our two cubes using the Move tool. We don’t need to put them into any particular locations to create our archway. But it’s always a good idea to position objects in a deliberate fashion, so that later when we are putting more objects into our scene, we don’t need to move objects arbitrarily in 3-space to get the scene configured the way we want it. In this case, we’re keeping our two cubes equidistant from the z-axis and at an identical distance from the x axis.
Setting up the Bridge Tool.
As it turns out, the Bridge Tool that we will use only works on pieces of a single object. So, while still in Object mode, we shift-select the two cubes and select Mesh > Combine.
(If we need to, we go into object mode, as shown.)
Increasing the height of the side pillars of the arch.
We have already placed our cubes so that they are at the same height in the x-z plane; this will make it easier to ensure that our arch will not be lopsided. We don’t want our archway to begin its sweep close to the ground, so while we still have the two cubes (which are now part of a single object) selected, we use the Scale tool to make them both taller. We note that the two cubes still have the same height, so our archway will not be lopsided.
The Bridge Tool: making the archway.
Now, we right click and go into Face mode, because this is what the Bridge Tool is going to act on – two faces.


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Before there was a world, before there were planets, before there was light, before there was the matter, there was Jesus. Coequal, coeternal, and coexistent with the Father and the Holy Spirit, Jesus was with God—and He was God. John 1:1–2 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was at the beginning with God.”
Therefore, Jesus is admired and sought after by believers. And the image of Jesus appears in many artistic creations. Saint statues are also a very popular option. This is because the statue of Jesus can be like a Jesus standing in front of people and become a carrier for people to pray and worship. This can provide people with a haven of inner peace.
Jesus Statue Hot Designs
We have the most comprehensive collection of Jesus statue designs. All Jesus statues are made from high-grade raw materials and are of one of the highest quality. Exquisite craftsmanship and very realistic statues could give you a good visual effect. We often work with churches and would provide statues of quality that many believers are stunned by. At the same time, we are factory direct sales, so at YouFine, you would get the most cost-effective Jesus sculpture.
There Are Also Some Bronze Jesus Statues that Are Popular with People
We often cooperate with some churches and participate in the construction of many church projects. The detail and quality of our Jesus sculptures are what makes every one of our clients very satisfied. After receiving the sculpture, our clients would send us photos to tell us how satisfied they are with the Jesus sculpture.
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Marble Jesus Statue
1. The artist who is responsible for carving the marble Jesus statue is a Catholic, and he would carve it purely by hand, which can ensure that every detail is exquisite and conforms to the characteristics of Jesus. Our artists have decades of experience carving Catholic saint statues.
2. A-grade natural marble as raw material can make the sculpture more vivid and the details can be well displayed. And there is also extremely high quality, not only can be installed indoors but also can be installed outdoors.
3. Abundant marble Jesus is available in stock for you to choose from, the price is good and you can receive it quickly.
Bronze Jesus Statue:
1. The clay models of the Jesus statue are rich in various styles. Choosing a design with a model can reduce the model fee.
2. Bronze is used as raw material, and a small number of other elements are added to make the hardness and fluidity of bronze suitable for sculpture production and could ensure the quality of the sculpture.
3. Lost wax method for casting, we have all the details you want, improve the process, our silica sol technology ensures that our sculptures would not produce white spots.
4. Patina the Color. The way of chemical coloring would make the color of our bronze Jesus statue not only natural but also not fade, and the sculpture would become more and more charming with time.


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To make things easier for the foreign customers, you can use the reservation system online. Here is the link for our website page.http://tw.openrice.com/info/event/partner-tripodking/index.html
To make things easier for the foreign customers, you can use the reservation system online, send private message to our fan page, or join our line to make the reservation.
Our parking discount is based on the total amount each table spent. When you spent 1000 dollars, you can get free parking for one hour, 2000 dollars for two hours, and so on. If you park over than one vehicles, the free parking hour still depends on the total amount you spent. Therefore, it would be the total free parking hours divided by the total vehicles you parked in the parking lot.
We don’t have any cooperation with the parking lot for Taipei Kuangfu store and Taipei Changan store. However, there’re many small pay parking lots in the lanes nearby, such as Do Do Home and Taiwan parking……etc.
The location of Do Do Home is at No. 81-1, Lane 11, Guangfu North Road, Songshan District, Taipei city, Taiwan 105.
Or the Taiwan co.’s location is at B1-B2 No. 108, Section 5, Nanjing East Road, Songshan District, Taipei City, 105.
Some small parking lots are located in the lanes
· The parking lots under Jianguo North Rd bridge. They don’t charge on Sundays. Feel free to use it.
· We don’t have any corporation with the parking lot in Taoyuan Nanping store. Feel free to use the pay for parking on the intersection of Nanping road and the Xinbu 6th street.
· We have corporation with the parking lot in ZhubeiKuangmingstore, the parking lot is located at No. 107, Xianzheng 2nd Road, Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, 302
We all have corporation with the parking lot in every store in Taichung.
· The attached parking in Taichung Hankuo store
Beitun parking: No. 3, Section 2, Hebei Road, BeitunDistrict(turn right on Yongxing Street for another 150m), it opens until 10 p.m.
Hankuo parking location: turn right on the lane next to Hankuo store, the parking lot is opened 24/7.
· The attached parking in Taichung Jincheng store
Dudufang Parking: No. 6, Jingcheng Road, Xitun District, Taichung City, 407
Inan Parking: No. 573, Section 2, Taiwan Boulevard, West District, Taichung City, 403 (open 24/7, parking floor is on B4-B5)
Farglory life Parking: No. 633, Section 2, Taiwan Boulevard, Xitun District, Taichung City, 407(open 24/7, the entrance is on the right side of the Farglory Life building)
Dongxing Parking: No. 332, Section 3, Dongxing Road, Xitun District, Taichung City, 407(open 24/7, the entrance is on the Dongxing Road)
The attached parking in Taichung Kungyistore.
Dudufang Parking: No. 51, Section 2, Gongyi Road, Nantun District, Taichung City, 408(The entrance is at Dajin Street, please pick up your car before 11 p.m.)
· Dasheng Parking: No. 199, Dasheng Street, Nantun District, Taichung City, 408(pick up your car before 12 a.m.)
Gongyi Parking: No. 131, Section 2, Gongyi Road, Nantun District, Taichung City, 408(The entrance is at Daying Street, opened 24/7)
We have our own parking lot in Kaohsiung Qihsienstore and Kaohsiung Fukoustore. Feel free to use it.
※We provide more detailed parking information in our website page, feel free to take a look at it. Here’s the link below.http://www.tripodking.com.tw/html/store/index.aspx?kind=1


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Federal agents have seized nearly $1 million from three bank accounts of a Long Island doctor indicted in a prescription painkillers investigation.
An attorney tells Newsday that Dr. Eric Jacobson has done nothing illegal and plans to contest Wednesday’s seizure.
Jacobson was one of the doctors who prescribed medication to David Laffer. He is serving life in prison after killing four people during a pharmacy robbery for prescription painkillers in Medford, on Long Island, last year.
Prosecutors allege in court papers that Jacobson made the seized money by illegally dispensing painkiller prescriptions.
More breaking news
- Consumer watchdog proposes ban on some arbitration clauses
- Change is in the works for Humana ACA exchange participation
- 6 LI nonprofits share $27,500 in prizes
- Hanover income doubles, forms holding company
- First of LI issuing $35M in shares
- Aeropostale, one-time mall king, seeks bankruptcy protection
- April job gains at small businesses and franchises
- US trade deficit in March smallest in 16 months
- Q&A with Scott Jackson
- Two LIers charged with stock fraud

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Easy love is not real love. Easy love is above the surface of anything real. It’s too perfect to be authentic. It’s just plain lazy.
She will know when to say “I love you”.
A one-sided love is a storm that will only end in loss and broken parts.
So, please. For your own sake, don’t be naive. Don’t play along. Don’t respond and don’t dream of him anymore. He isn’t worth your time.
It’s time to start living, my friends. You’ll get yourself together one of these days. Just have some fun once in a while! You only have today to start living the life you want and it’s about time to start that, don’t you think so?
The right person will love you in an entirely different way than your past lovers. You see, it’s not going to be picture perfect. It’s not going to be all butterflies and roses. But, that is what is going to make it so right.
Sometimes, memories of him come back in bright flashbacks and soft whispers. I guess my heart will always know the truth. It knows it will never forget, no matter how many times my mind tries to convince me otherwise.
I have come to realize that some of the world’s greatest love stories can end in tragedy. And that’s how it ended for us.
So, the next time you swoon at another “bad boy”, realize that despite his looks, he may not be a good person. I’m not suggesting to judge a book by it’s cover, I just think it would be wise to get to know someone before you faint when they wink at you.
Little boy, she has more heart than you will ever have. She is more beautiful than you will ever be. And she is her own damn sun, moon, star, and sky.

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Do We Need a Law to Target Workplace Bullying? [POLL]
In schools we have an anti bullying bill of rights to protect children from bullies that torment them.
Now some state legislators are pondering a bill that would target workplace bullying.
According to the Workplace Bullying Institute, 35 percent of the nation's workforce has reported being a victim of bullying.
A recent survey revealed that more than half of the nation's employers have anti-bullying policies in place. New Jersey and other states are pursuing legislation that would make workplace bullying illegal and give victims the right to sue for physical and emotional harm.
The legislation has garnered mixed reactions from around the state.
Studies have shown that abusive work environments can have negative effects on employees, including stress, loss of sleep, anxiety, depression and hypertension.
It’s not unusual to deal with uncooperative or overaggressive coworkers. While there are laws on the books protecting workers in a “hostile work environment”, the laws state that you’d have to be a member of a “protected class” in order to sue.
I would imagine that were you a person of any stripe, and not just a protected class, that suing would be an option should you experience bullying at the workplace.
And while some may view alerting one's superior to harassment and bullying behavior as "babyish", what other recourse do you have besides sucking it up or seeking other employment?
If so, do you feel we need a law protecting workers from bullies in the workplace?

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(Bloomberg) — Livspace, a home interiors and renovation platform that counts Swedish retailer Ikea among its investors, raised $90 million in a round led by Kharis Capital and Venturi Partners to fuel its expansion in Asia.
The Series D financing included backing from new investors EDBI of Singapore and FFP, the Peugeot family’s investment company. The financing, composed of $85 million of equity and $5 million of debt, was joined by existing backers Ingka Investments, which controls Ikea, TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Ratan Tata’s UC-RNT Fund and Bessemer Ventures.
Founded in 2014, Livspace connects customers with designers and vendors to help them furnish homes in Singapore and nine metropolitan areas across India. With the new capital, the company is thinking of expanding into more Indian cities as well as Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia for the first time, according to Chief Executive Officer Anuj Srivastava.
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This is where we publish our boat related stories and articles, which range from world circumnavigation to rescue missions, humour and much, much more. So make yourself a coffee and settle yourself down to a good read.
Boatshed HQ team members are on location at the race Village in Les Sables-d'Olonne for the start of the Golden Globe Race on Sunday.
Boatshed are proud to be sponsors of the GGR and have sold several boats to race competitors
SCARBOROUGH TO AMBLE - 102 miles
Brighton Marina Yacht Club Members Visit Marlow Rope Factory at Hailsham
Part 5 of Kevin Gilroy's intrepid solo UK circumnavigation
Golden Globe Race boats depart Falmouth after Parade of Sail bound for Les Sables-d'Olonne
A whole heap of BMYC members came together last night to welcome Malcolm, Karen, Ryan and their crew as the new club hosts.
The catalogue for the July Boatbid Auction is now live and can be viewed HERE. If you would like to place a bid in the auction then read our Buyers Guide and FAQ's for more information.
A TRIP TO THE LIGHT HOUSE - by Boatshed Brighton's intrepid broker, Dan King
Part 4 of Kevin's Adventure...
The 4th installment of Kevin Gilroy's intrepid adventure:
Boatshed Brighton took to the slippery and venerable Hanse 370e, known locally as "Bla Bheine" for the 2018 Dieppe Dash.
Imagine this: 10 mainsails, 20 foresails, including spinnakers - laid out for your inspection.
Oceans of Hope Challenge to give people the same life affirming experience he gained when sailing with the organisation Sailing Sclerosis, on board a yacht, appropriately named ‘Oceans of Hope’, across the Pacific Ocean and English Channel....
The July BoatBid auction will run from the 13th to the 17th July 2018 .
In the third part of Kevin Gilroy's intrepid circumnavigation, we find out about his first adventures at sea...
In part 2 of Kevin's story, we learn more about his boat and equipment - some very useful tips and information here!
The last racing day for the Antigua Classic Regatta had lighter winds with intervals of squally blustery conditions and heavy down pours. With a mixture of weather conditions throughout the race made interesting results for the last day.
Skippers breifing for the single handed race was held at the Antigua Yacht Club. Basic rules include no autopilots to be used, all boats will have observers who will be situated on each boat to help in case of emergency.
Thinking of a cross channel cruise? The Dieppe Dash is a perfect way to visit the French coastline, sailing in company.

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HPI Racing Wheel Washer (Silver) (4)
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This is a set of four replacement HPI Wheel Washers, and are intended for use with the HPI Cup Racer family of vehicles. These Wheel Washers are lightweight aluminum with serrated faces to keep the wheel screws firmly in place. Each package contains 4 wheel washers and 16 screws (4 different lengths).
This product was added to our catalog on September 9, 2009.


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Employee Documents Portal
Also available in the system, you'll find access to a bank of information like:
Ready to go?
*Note: Your pay statement may be available prior to the actual pay date. Pay statement reflects actual pay date when funds are deposited. Pay dates have not changed.
Need More Information?
Employee Portal Access Step-by-step Instructions
If you need a high res version for your department, request it here: firstname.lastname@example.org or 273-3407
Employee Portal Access Video Tutorials
click play and the arrows on the right side to make the video full size
Message from the City Manager
Set up your account
Print your pay statements and more
Printing problems? Try these tips.
Always, always, always SIGN OUT of the system before leaving your computer station. It will sign you out eventually, but someone else may come by before the system signs you out. They will have access to your information if you do not sign out.
DON'T SAVE ON COMPUTER!
Do not save anything to your local computer drive or on the network. This is sensitive information and saving it to these locations could put your information at risk.
Anticipated Questions and Tips for Using the System.
Can someone else print my statements for me?
No. This is sensitive information. Each employee needs to access their own account. Administrative assistants and department trainers can show you how to navigate through the process, but you are responsible for getting online to retrieve your documents.
I'm having trouble with setting up my account
Do I have to change my password? Or can I just leave the social security number as my password?
No. The requirements for the password after initial login include a "symbol" (something like @ or % or ! or >). These symbols don't appear in the social security number, so the system will not let you move forward without changing the password.
You can leave the social security number as your security question.
I keep getting pop-up screens about security and "trusted sites"
This is a default of internet explorer. Explorer does not know that we are only using this site inside the secure City network. It's fine to click ok through these pop-ups. There is no risk using the site through the City's network.
What if I forget my password?
Just click the link that says "I forgot my password" and reset the password using your social security number.
I can see my pay statement, and it's only Wednesday! Wahoo!
Careful! Even though the statement is ready on Wednesday before payday, your funds are not in your account until payday. Money is in your account as of the date on the pay statement (not before.)
I'm having trouble printing.
Is this saving the City money?
In addition to the labor costs associated with printing individual statements bi-weekly and annual year-end forms, there are some substantial savings in other areas. The type of paper stock (perforated, heat sealed, thermodynamic paper) and ink (specialty ink with security features) is expensive. This eliminates the expense of those products as well as the maintenance, repair and replacement costs of the printers and equipment associated with printing.


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December 7, 2012 |
Terence K. Heaney, 71, of Gulph Mills, a lawyer and certified public accountant, died of complications from esophageal cancer Sunday, Dec. 2, at Neighborhood Hospice in West Chester. Mr. Heaney was a partner with the law firm of Heaney, Kilcoyne, Bleczinski & Kelm in King of Prussia. As an authority on tax law, he lectured at conferences and universities and participated in tax seminars around the country. He was also a guest on the subject of taxes on TV and radio programs and was often interviewed by Inquirer reporters.
November 9, 2012 |
Though he was sacked an astounding 29 times in 10 games as the 1976 Eagles starting quarterback, there were other reasons Mike Boryla never felt entirely comfortable in pro football. The sport's one-dimensional demands confined the curious Stanford graduate, whose restless mind and varied interests were, then as now, football anomalies. "I never really considered myself a football player," Boryla said earlier this week from his Colorado home. "I considered myself a student, an intellectual.
September 22, 2012 |
A U.S. Senate committee memo said Microsoft Corp. used aggressive international tax maneuvers to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes over the last three years. The committee memo, released for a hearing Thursday in Washington, said Microsoft used transactions with subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, Ireland, Singapore, and Bermuda to save at least $6.5 billion in taxes. The committee also disclosed that Hewlett-Packard Co. used a series of short-term internal loans that allowed the company to tap its offshore cash for domestic operations without paying taxes, according to the memo.
August 16, 2012
Voting against now the priority I no longer need look at President Obama's record. My difficulties with his softness, his failure to carry out some of his campaign promises, and his poor foreign policy have all faded away. The Republicans have inspired me to work hard against them ("The Ryan platform: Bold, but risky," Wednesday). With Paul Ryan and his philosophy on the Republican ticket, voting against is now more the determiner than voting for. Harold Rosenthal, Philadelphia Does VP choice make a difference?
March 26, 2012 |
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of President Obama's health-care overhaul is likely to shake the presidential race in early summer. But the winners in court won't necessarily be the winners in the political arena. No doubt, a decision to throw out the entire law would be a defeat for Obama. His judgment and leadership, even his reputation as a former constitutional-law professor, would be called into question. But it would not spell certain doom for his reelection.
March 12, 2012 |
NEW YORK - A few weeks ago, President Obama released a proposal to lower the federal corporate tax rate - a move that on its face would seem to be good news for small businesses. But the president's pitch isn't getting rave reviews. Advocates for small business say the plan would benefit a relatively low number of small companies and leave many business owners with higher tax bills. The proposal, released Feb. 22, calls for the top corporate tax rate to fall from its current 35 percent to 28 percent.
January 16, 2012 |
YOU MIGHT expect a lawyer who specialized in such subjects as business, real estate and tax law, estate planning and the like to be a pretty straight-laced guy. Not Bill Copperthwaite. He had that kind of dry sense of humor that sneaks up on you. "You'd be out to dinner three hours later and you'd remember something he said and start laughing," said his son, Bill III. "You'd say, 'That was really funny.' " William H. Copperthwaite Jr., a hardworking lawyer who put in long hours on the job and who had such a phenomenal memory that he knew everybody's birthday, graduation dates and anniversaries, died of a heart attack Tuesday.
December 20, 2011 |
Payroll processors watched Congress' debate over extending a payroll-tax cut with frustration, and they were warning companies about the difficulty of implementing a temporary provision passed by the Senate. Payroll companies can react quickly to a yearlong extension for the first paycheck of 2012 or adjust the second paycheck to correct problems, said Pete Isberg, president of the National Payroll Reporting Consortium, an industry group. Payroll providers still do not like a second consecutive year of December tax-law changes or the Senate-backed two-month extension of the tax cut that could create unprecedented complications.
October 25, 2011 |
IT'S BEEN A long time coming, but a City Council committee yesterday approved two measures that would drastically alter the city's business-tax structure, and Mayor Nutter is on board. Council's Committee on Finance approved a bill introduced by Council members Bill Green and Maria Quinones-Sanchez that would exempt the first $100,000 in business receipts from both gross-receipts and the net-income portions of the tax for all businesses, protecting smaller city-based businesses and startups.


title. Hanna Nuttman Park Capital Campaign
city. Decatur, IN
The City of Decatur, IN, approached us looking to create the image, message and overall feel of the Hanna Nuttman Park Capital Campaign. They knew it would be essential to have the campaign centered around content that would inspire residents to support this project. When we sat down as a team we believed the best way to reach the residents of Decatur would be through social media channels. We put our primary focus on social, knowing we could target a majority of residents. To begin, we created a new logo and tagline for the park that would instantly allow residents to know what the park was primarily used for. Next, we re-developed the proposed park rendering to make it match the image we were sculpting for the campaign and placed it on postcards and information boards that are displayed across the city of Decatur. In addition, we designed banners to be hung downtown above 2nd street and smaller banners to be hung on the fences at the current ballparks. After completing the printed materials, we transitioned our focus online and developed a marketing website and social pages. Understanding Hanna Nuttman Park has had a long history with Decatur residents we revolved the entire message of the campaign to reflect all the great memories that have been made at the park throughout the years. We compiled hours of home video footage, newspaper clippings and family photos which we then used for Facebook/Instagram ad campaigns and in a series of video campaigns we created (see main video below). The campaign goal is to raise $1 million by the end of 2018. If you would like to make a donation, please visit hannanuttmanpark.com.


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Anything Goes Contest - Cursed Desires Review
Created by Vonwert
grave-groping > funeral > phone call > money > mansion > PIRATES.
Vonwert definately makes some of the most unique and deep games on RPG Maker. Cursed Desires continues that great tradition.
Originality: 20 points out of a possible 20
NOBODY other than Vonwert makes this type of game. Serious mystery games filled with creative puzzles. Not many games focus on pirate history, either.
Design: 20 out of a possible 20
Cursed Desires is without a doubt the best looking game ever made with RPG Maker. The attention to detail is staggering. Not looking vacant or cluttered, the environments look natural and real. We all know how limited the software is when it comes to graphics, but Vonwert made the best of what was there, and added in what wasnt there himself with a lot of custom sprites. Part of the fun of the game is just looking around, exploring everything. That normally gets pretty boring in other RPG maker games.
Writing: 17 out of a possible 20
There are quite a few spelling errors, but they dont really get in the way that much. the characters are well written, and the game has some very well done descriptive dialogue. You also learn quite a bit about pirates courtesy of some journal entries early on in the game, and I applaud the amount of research that alone must have taken to properly implement into the game.
Gameplay: 19 out of a possible 20
Most of the gameplay comes from solving a large variety of puzzles. some are extremely simple, some will take quite a while to figure out. luckily, they're never overly complicated, and you're able to figure out the solution just by experimenting, rather than screaming "WHAT DOES THIS DAMN GAME WANT ME TO DO?" like a lot of other "puzzle" games (RPGM or otherwise) make me do. They're also a bunch of fun. And they don't seem out of place in the game world at all! big bonus!
Overall Presentation: 19 out of 20
I love this game. The only problem with it is the spelling errors. if you can overlook those (as well you should!) you'll have a lot of fun with this game.
Final Score: 95
The best looking game ever made with RPG Maker, tons of fun, and a genuinely interesting story... the future looks very bright for this game.

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Sylvia Plath, who died by suicide at age 30, may be intrinsically linked with death, but, for much of her short life, she was in love with the world. She wrung sensorial pleasures to the last drop: sex, sunbathing, silk against the skin, the announcing shout of creamy red lipstick, applied and reapplied. “Red was your colour,” wrote her husband, Ted Hughes, in a poem, recalling the “dipped, deep crimson” of her lips. If Plath had a visual signature, it was the thick red lipstick that appears in almost all her published photos: the precocious Massachusetts teenager, the Smith undergrad, the poet in London holding her children a year before she died. In The Bell Jar, her autobiographical novel about her summer as a magazine guest editor in early 1950s New York, Plath references lipstick five times.
Her own favourite shade was Cherries in the Snow, Revlon’s enduring pinky red. This fact comes by way of Elizabeth Winder, author of Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953, who discovered Plath’s preferred hue after interviewing Plath’s fellow guest editors. The colour, says Winder, is significant: “The red isn’t bold in a vampy way,” she says. “It’s red in a way that feels ripe and alive.”
Plath’s vitality is concentrated in the vigour and precision of her poetry, but in life, many found her to be too much: “Too bold, too tall, too American,” says Winder, who notes that many of Hughes’s British literary friends dismissed Plath as fundamentally unserious. Plath grew up ambitious and intellectually rapacious in the 1950s, a complicated era for women, who, called to serve during the war, were then sidelined to the suburbs and encouraged to be consumers of everything from electric ovens called “wife savers” to pinky red lipstick that borrowed the language of emancipation for its marketing copy: “Does any man really understand you?”
In that web of conflicting signals, discerning freedom of choice becomes sticky. Red lipstick is, as makeup historian Sara Long describes it, an “emblem of power,” but it’s also a symbol of sexualized femininity packaged for the male gaze. Can there ever be pure self-expression without entering a maze of signifiers and stereotypes, most of them negative? In other words, was Sylvia Plath wearing her lipstick or was her lipstick wearing her?
Like many women, she worried about being both too ordinary and too strange
This power dichotomy was Plath’s primary subject. Like many women, she worried about being both too ordinary and too strange. In a 1954 letter to her mother, she wrote, “I know that underneath the blazing jaunts in yellow convertibles to exquisite restaurants I am really regrettably unoriginal, conventional and puritanical,” before describing herself as a “clock-regulated, responsible, salad-eating, water-drinking, bed-going, economical, practical girl.”
In her work, Plath assumed a bolder character. Her blazing originality as a poet found its fullest expression in the Ariel poems, which she wrote soon before her final fatal surrender to depression. Any hint of convention is snuffed out in favour of incandescent language that depicts a woman burning with rage and genius. The colour red appears throughout Ariel, to describe “wrinkly and clear red” poppies (“little bloody skirts!”), the “pretty red heart” bit in two by the early death of her father in “Daddy,” and, most famously, in the final image of an avenging spirit in “Lady Lazarus”:
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air
Few would deny the power that women have claimed in the 60 years since Plath’s death. But the pandemic has rocked that foundation: Women have left the workforce in record numbers; domestic violence rates have surged. The luckiest among us has often felt under siege, powerless. In this context, lipstick could seem like the ultimate symbol of frivolity. If we wore it over the past year, it was often reduced to a blurred stain on the inside of a mask, a Rorschach test of hope versus futility. And yet, as we emerge into some version of the future, there is something defiantly alive about a slick of ripe red. Like Plath’s Lady Lazarus, we are reborn. Plath’s poetry offers an illuminating way to consider the experience of women: externally salad-eating and water-drinking; internally, aflame. What face will we choose to show?
One of the most important books published in the 20th century, Ariel seethes with rage. What truly sets it apart is the voice—by turns cold, cajoling, boastful, self-deprecating—and over which Plath exhibits complete control. Reading it will make you feel alive. This is where you’ll find Sylvia Plath’s best-known poems, including “Daddy,” “Lady Lazarus,” “Tulips,” and, a personal favourite, “Morning Song.”
Launched in 1953, Cherries in the Snow remains Revlon’s most iconic shade and a bestseller (according to the brand, one tube sells every four minutes). The original campaign featured model Dorian Leigh and a selection of evocative questions, including, “Who knows the secret, siren side of you, that’s as female as a silken cat?”
First read The Bell Jar, then read this fascinating history of Sylvia Plath’s time as a guest editor in New York. Author Elizabeth Winder has great appreciation for Plath as both a poet and a woman alive in her particular world, and her insights are sensitive and revealing.
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County Assessor Certifies and Delivers the 2023-2024 County Assessment Roll
(Martinez, CA) – The “2023-2024 Assessor’s Close of Roll Affidavit” was signed by Gus S. Kramer, Assessor, and subscribed and sworn to the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office, on June 30. The 2023-2024 Assessment Roll has been delivered to the County Auditor, as required by law.
The increase to the local tax base for 2023-2024 is over $14.96 billion. This represents a 5.94% increase in assessed value and brings the total net local assessment roll to more than $266.67 billion. The 2023-2024 assessment roll is the highest to date in Contra Costa County’s history.
Cities with the largest increases in assessed value include Oakley, Antioch, and Lafayette with increases ranging up to 8.49%. San Pablo, San Ramon, and Hercules saw the lowest assessed value increases ranging from 4.30% down to 3.86%. The assessment roll now consists of 379,442 parcels, an increase of 1,202 over the previous year.
The Assessor’s annual letter to the Assessment Roll Reports can be found at: https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/79697/2023-2024-BOS-Close-of-Assessment-Roll-Letter-and-Reports-to-the-CCC-Board-of-Supervisors?bidId=


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Tugboat fire in Mobile Bay
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) —
Mobile firefighters are working a tugboat fire at the south side of the shipping channel at 12 Mile Island.
Mobile Fire-Rescue released the following report on the fire:
At approximately 2:20 today Mobile Fire Rescue was dispatched to a tug boat fire in the Mobile River.
The Coast Guard called for response to a 95 ft vessel fully involved.
Fire Boat 2 and Marine 11 responded and have been fighting fire since their arrival. The fire is controlled but not fully extinguished. Foam operations have begun as the vessel had approximately 4,000 gals of diesel in the fuel tanks.
As of now the fire is still burning. The crew had escaped. No injuries reported .
The location is stated as the south side of the channel of 12 Mile Island, at the 7.5 river mile marker.


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The actor Harrison Ford is recovering in hospital after his vintage plane crash-landed on a Los Angeles golf course.
The 72-year old reported engine trouble shortly after taking off from Santa Monica airport.
Ford also happens to be a lifetime member of the Shropshire Aero Club in the UK.
The Chief Flying instructor Bob Pooler told BBC News Ford is an "very competent" pilot.
I wonder whether any golfers were pissed at him?


Compass in the shop for ETC
I'm on the way to Michigan from Minnesota last night (~700 miles), and at a routine stop on the expressway for fuel, I get to the light off of the off-ramp, and my dash goes crazy with warning lamps. ETC (Electronic Throttle Control) sensor (the "lightning-bolt"), and the ESP (Electronic Stability Program) lights start flashing at me. The jeep starts bucking, brakes are about at half power, and steering is heavy. I make it to the fuel pump, and shut the car down. Fuel it up, and start it back up - It drives completely normal with no warning lamps. Nothing until I finally make it to my destination exit, and the same thing happens. This time I limp it to the driveway, and park it for the night. This morning took it into the Jeep dealership, and explain the problem. I haven't received a call back from them, but researching this problem, it seems like the Wrangler guys have it the worst with these ETC problems. Some say that their car is in the shop for WEEKS!... and some of the time, it seems as if the service dept never really fixes the problem. I hope that isn't the case with my Compass, but I still wanted to see if anybody has had a similar problem with their Compass/Patriot. I'll keep this thread posted with anything that I hear from the dealership.


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Tiglath Pileser III was known for his military conquests and his expansion of the Assyrian empire, which at its height, encompassed large parts of the ancient Near East. He was also known for his administrative reforms, which helped to streamline the bureaucracy of the Assyrian state and strengthen its central authority.
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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has generously offered to support the Nanovic Institute's upcoming conference, entitled 1989: Reconsidering the Nation and its Alternatives in Central & Eastern Europe. The conference will convene from November 8-10, 2019.
This interdisciplinary conference, held on the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, will bring together preeminent scholars to examine how “nations”, “national identity”, and alternative modes of political mobilization shaped, and have been shaped by, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and European politics in the subsequent thirty years.
"We are ecstatic that the DAAD has extended their support to this conference," said Mark T. Kettler, a postdoctoral research associate at the Nanovic Institute and co-director of the conference. “Their support will advance our larger aim of seriously interrogating themes of contemporary European political identity, at a time when these questions of national belonging and European cohesion are particularly urgent.”
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, created in 1992, is a teaching and research institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs. It serves as an integrated, interdisciplinary home for students and faculty to explore the evolving ideas, cultures, beliefs and institutions that shape Europe today.
Playing a key role in the internationalization of Notre Dame, the institute sponsors the scholarly and professional work of more than 100 undergraduates and graduate students every year and administers an undergraduate minor in European studies.
Photo (top): 40,000 people gathered in front of Plauen's town hall on 30 October 1989, many having traveled from other districts to push for quick solutions to the immediate political problems. Source: Wikimedia.


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There are many well-known quotes in king lear - here we've listed a few of them, in order of appearance in the play production image of (act 1 scene 1) now, gods, stand up for bastards (edmund, act 1 scene 2) how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child (lear, act 1 scene 4) thou shouldst not. King lear summary | plot diagram king lear characters literary conflict student activity for king lear themes, symbols, and motifs student activity for king lear king lear as a tragic hero vocabulary lesson plan for king lear king lear is one of the most complex plays written by william shakespeare, with its many. In shakespeare's play king lear, shakespeare introduces many themes the most important theme shown in king lear is the theme of madness during the course of this play madness is shown in the tragic hero, king lear king lear develops madness right in the beginning of the play but he actually shows it in act 4 in. King lear so that folly became a dominant theme in his tragedy lear's folly - his foolishness in giving away everything to two daughters and banishing the third - is the fool's persistent early refrain this foolishness turns into madness and leads directly to the commentary in act 4 upon 'this great stage of. King lear study guide contains a biography of william shakespeare, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Gillian woods considers how the fool and poor tom, two characters in king lear who stand outside the social order, enhance the play's investigation of madness was a familiar theme in renaissance theatre, though in many other plays characters merely pretend to go mad (think of hamlet) or are. Free essay: madness in king lear: act 4 in shakespeare's play king lear, shakespeare introduces many themes the most important theme shown in king the redemption of king lear it is said that no other playwright illustrates the human condition like william shakespeare furthermore, it is said that no other play. The tragedy of king lear for this updated critical edition of king lear, professor halio has added a new introductory date and sources of shakespeare's king lear the play king lear on stage and screen recent stage, film, and critical interpretations textual analysis, part i quarto and folio.
A summary of act 4, scenes 6–7 in william shakespeare's king lear perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans shakespeare gets around much of the problem by setting king lear in a pagan past despite the fact that the play is full of christian symbols and allusions, its characters. In shakespeare's king lear, poor tom—a figure of madness, poverty, and linguistic play—acts as the personification of the semi-apocalyptic state into which the (134-137) edmund's introduction of the tom o'bedlam character is preceded by his disparagement of astrological superstitions, which he then performs for. King lear (1608) is a play by william shakespeare that is generally regarded as one of his greatest tragedies 1 act i 2 act ii 3 act iii 4 act iv 5 act v 6 quotes about king lear 7 external links king lear quotes analyzed study guide with themes, character analyses, literary devices, multimedia, teaching resources.
Check out shakespeare's king lear video sparknote: quick and easy king lear synopsis, analysis, and discussion of major characters and themes in the play for more king lear resources, go to wwwsparknotescom/shakespeare/lear for a translation of the entire play into modern english, go to no. King lear - theme of blindness, free study guides and book notes including comprehensive chapter analysis, complete summary analysis, author biography information in shakespearean terms, blinds means a whole different thing shakespeare's most dominant theme in his play king lear is that of blindness. Explore the different themes within william shakespeare's tragic play, king lear themes are central to understanding king is another theme prevalent in king lear lear's view of nature is one that holds certain values, such as respect for one's parents and loyalty to one's king, to be important regardless of circumstance.
A thankless child” - king lear, act i sc 4 when a child is born, existence takes on an urgency seldom felt anywhere else from that moment, we live for them be independently played shakespeare has uniquely intertwined the two stories thus adding complexity and interest this double plot also amplifies the theme of. A summary of act 4, scenes 3–5 in william shakespeare's king lear the other characters in the play discuss lear's madness in interesting language, and some of the most memorable turns of phrase in the play come from these descriptions when cordelia assesses lear's condition in act 4, scene 4, she says he is.
Teacher's guide king lear 2007 4 what to expect at the bruns theater (please copy and distribute to each student and chaperone) how do we get there king lear is one of the most complex and all-encompassing plays shakespeare ever wrote among its themes are mortality (issues about life and death), the nature. King lear is a tragedy written by william shakespeare it depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, after he disposes of his kingdom giving bequests to two of his three daughters based on their flattery of him, bringing tragic consequences for all derived from the legend of leir of britain, a mythological.
Discussion themes • background on verse and prose (for shakespeare's plays) our study guides allow you to review and share information with students to diagnosing king lear: renaissance views of madness | by adrian ingham 16 blinded in a savage act by regan and cornwall, and is left to. You're off to a great start with this question on shakespeare's king lear you already have a good idea of which characters to choose i'd go with edgar for this one, as opposed to gloucester, as 1 educator answer king lear where does kent think cordelia will be staying in act 3, scene 1 the unfailingly loyal kent is. This study guide and infographic for william shakespeare's king lear offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text shakespeare took the title from an earlier anonymous play, the true chronicle history of king leir and his three daughters, gonerill, ragan and cordelia,. The role of the fool in william shakespeare's 1606 play 'king lear' is fundamental to the strong narrative voice of the play, showcasing both theme the world of the play is ultimately irrational and filled with madness, especially in the actions of the characters, meaning that the fool with the capability to see this chaotic.
No other non-psychiatrist has been alluded to extensively and appreciatively quoted by psychiatrists as william shakespeare: famous psychiatrists like conolly, maudsley, bucknill and crichton-browne to name a few eminent 19th century men shakespeare's characters like othello and ophelia have lent their names to the. The madness of king lear de agostini in act 2 scene 4, goneril and regan make their father give up his servants and cast him out into stormy weather, bolting the door behind him an important theme that runs throughout king lear is the triumph of compassion and reconciliation in the face of tragedy. King lear, tragedy in five acts by william shakespeare, written in 1605–06 and published in a quarto edition in 1608, evidently based on shakespeare's unrevised working papers for a discussion of this play within the context of shakespeare's entire corpus, see william shakespeare: shakespeare's plays and poems. In his play, king lear, shakespeare introduces many themes the most important theme is that of madness, which is portrayed, during the course of this play, by the tragic hero, king lear though lear shows great egotism at the beginning of the play, he actually begins to show signs of madness in acts 3 and 4 in these.


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Scalping is a trading style aiming at making profits on small price changes. Sometimes it is also known as a subtype of day trading. It involves multiple trades within a very short period which could range between a few second to a few minutes. As the profit on one trade is quite small, scalper indulges in numerous such trades to build up profits.
Some of the principles on which scalpers work:
• Spreads are bonuses as well as costs – The difference between the bid price and the ask price is known as spread between them. On one side, traders who do not want to queue their order pay the spread which is a cost for them and on the other side, traders who want to wait for execution receive the spreads which is bonus for them
• Lower exposure hence lower risk – As scalpers are exposed to risk for a shorter period, the more this period decreases, the risk associated also decreases
• Smaller moves which are easier to obtain – Only a few number of times does the bigger price changes occur and as smaller moves happen most of the times, capturing those helps in capturing profit
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Fuerteventura is the most easterly of the Canary Islands, and enjoys fantastic dry weather due to being sheltered by Lanzarote in the north.
From the sandy dunes of Corralejo, to the almost deserted beaches of Jandia – Fuerteventura is one of the more beachy islands. Alongside this are a real mix of bars, cafes and restaurants… all competing with each other to provide you with great quality food, drink and entertainment.
The dunes just outside of Corralejo are world famous, and breathtaking to see. Fuerteventura also boasts some of the best fish restaurants in the Canaries, coupled with an ambience unparalleled elsewhere. Entertainment is fairly unintimidating, and it has avoided creating some of the noisy holiday resorts found on other Canary Islands.
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Tricked by a fraudster, Ajay and Anjali are forced to stay in the same flat. They gradually warm up to each other and start getting romantic notions but the arrival of Deepak, Anjali's fiance, puts them in a dilemma.
uses one of the sub genres of the rom-com genre — the triangular love story. Here, Anjali (Priya Anand), a London-born Tamil girl who has come to India, should makeup her mind on whether she wants to marry her fiance Deepak (Rahul) or express her love to Ajay (Shiva), with whom she shares her flat. It is this flat that has brought them together in the first place. Ajay, who comes to Chennai from his village, and Anjali are rented out the same flat by the elusive Narayanan (Santhanam), a small-time swindler. Their relationship begins on a wrong note but circumstances force them to stay together. Not surprisingly, Ajay falls in love with her and seeks the help of Narayanan to bring them together. Even as Anjali warms up to Ajay, the arrival of Deepak only puts her in a dilemma.
The romantic comedy is one genre where you enter the theatre knowing what the outcome is going to be — boy gets girl. It is the journey and the pit stops that the two characters have to take that decide whether the film is an enjoyable one or a dull and predictable one. Vanakkam Chennai belongs somewhere in the middle — it is slick and enjoyable to an extent but also predictable. In fact, most of the time, it is Anirudh's background score that keeps reminding us that this is a romance as well as a comedy. When you see Anjali letting herself into Ajay's flat for the first time, you immediately are aware that there has been a mix-up and the two will fight for their rights to the place. And, the reason why they decide to stay together is not convincing. They go to the police station to argue their case but when the inspector Chandra (a wasted Urvasi), who is also their apartment's president, mistakes them for man and wife, they accept it casually!
But the way in which the two warm up to one another is done well — their tiffs gradually turn playful and friendly, and when Ajay starts getting romantic notions, it doesn't feel abrupt. Even Anjali's awareness of her love for Ajay is conveyed nicely, with an obvious nod to Minnale, another film that had a young man falling in love for a girl who is engaged. However, there is a lot of padding that you have to wade through; a detour to Ajay's hillside village, Narayanan's comedy tracks, and a few colourfully picturised songs, which, though catchy also protract things unnecessarily.
Shiva does his usual pokerfaced act, but, while you laugh with him easily enough, you never take him for a romantic, be it during the emotional scenes or during the songs. Blame it on Tamil Padam and Omaha Zeeya. Priya Anand gives Anjali a touch of suavity, but these two lead actors never really make you root for them. When Deepak makes his entry into the scene, you are not really concerned about the fate of their budding romance. Deepak's character is conveniently underwritten and made into a lightweight. In one scene, he even remarks that it was their parents who had gotten them engaged and it was only after that he fell in love with Anjali. You know at that instant that he will make way for Ajay without posing any challenge.


The City of Amarillo’s Capital Projects and Development Engineering Department (CP&D Engineering) hired Vanir to examine its current processes and procedures and develop a Project Management Procedures Manual that would increase its operational effectiveness.
CP&D Engineering was created in the 2015/2016 fiscal year by combining the engineering functions from the Director of Utilities Department and the Engineering Department. It is made up of professionals in the fields of surveying, drafting, geographic Information systems, project management, construction inspection, engineering, and administration. It provides services for streets, utilities, and drainage improvements funded through the city’s Capital Improvement Program, as well as for private development projects. Vanir’s role included, but was not limited, to:
The final Project Management Procedures Manual addressed all phases of a project from planning through completion. After the Procedures Manual was developed, our team provided training for staff on


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Wenger denies any MVila talks
Manager Arsene Wenger has denied reports that Arsenal are on the verge of completing the signing of Rennes midfielder Yann M'Vila.
Stories in the media this week had suggested M'Vila, 21, was close to agreeing terms on a move to Emirates Stadium in the summer - becoming the club's second big-money signing in as many weeks, after Wenger completed a swoop for Cologne forward Lukas Podolski at the end of April.
Wenger, however, has denied the club is currently in any talks for the defensive midfielder - although he did hint that he will resume negotiations for targets, possibly including M'Vila, at the end of the season.
"It is not true. There is not any interest at the moment," Wenger said. "We have not been in touch with anybody, we have not made any offer to anybody and we are nowhere near to buying anybody at the moment.
"We are focused on our final game of the season."
Arsenal need to win their final game of the season, against West Brom at the weekend, in order to be assured of Champions League football next season - and Wenger is confident the team will achieve that target.
"We have known final days like this before. Games where we've played for championships, or to qualify for the Champions League," he said. "It's a fantastic opportunity for us that we want to take. We are used to coping with that.
"At the end of the day, it's playing football. If we have more of the ball than West Brom, we'll have more chances to win the game. That's what we'll focus on. Just be faithful to the way we want to play football."


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According to Politico, ten Electors are now demanding an intel briefing by the Director of National Intelligence on any investigations they may have into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
Nine Democrats and one Republican Elector have written a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, requiring information about the government’s investigation into possible Trump/Russia ties and they want it before December 19th.
The one Republican Elector is Chris Suprun, a paramedic in Texas.
The 9 Democrats argue that it’s their duty to “investigate, discuss, and deliberate with our colleagues about who they vote for.”
In their letter to Clapper they write,“Trump’s willingness to disregard conclusions made by the intelligence community and his continuing defense of Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin demand close scrutiny and deliberation from the Electoral College.”
The letter also goes on to state, “The Electors require to know from the intelligence community whether there are ongoing investigations into ties between Donald Trump, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference in the election, the scope of those investigations, how far those investigations may have reached, and who was involved in those investigations. We further require a briefing on all investigative findings, as these matters directly impact the core factors in our deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as President of the United States.”
The letter is signed by electors from five states and the District of Columbia. Christine Pelosi, a California elector and Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, is one of them.
The 538 members of the Electoral College will meet in their respective state capitals on Dec. 19 to cast the official vote for president.
Anti-Trump forces are working to convince at least 37 Republican electors to turn on Trump, which would block his immediate election and send the final decision to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
— Michael Brindley (@MBrindley_NHPR) December 12, 2016
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