After long awaited 8 years, the new 2017 Volkswagen Polo has made its debut on June 16, in Berlin. Until 2017, the German compact had only received face lifts and some updates here and there. But in its sixth generation, the VW Polo is a whole new car. To begin with, built on VW’s small vehicle MQB A0 platform, the supermini is bigger and longer, although its height remains the same. Future new versions of the Audi A1 will share the same platform. Straightaway, 9 different engines will equip the new Polo, including the one that will be on the GTI.
Not only the design on the headlights and the chrome strip on the grille are new, the bold rear lights make sure it looks neat and up to date. The Polo GTI still has its traditional seats and the steering wheel has red stitching. When it comes deciding the colour, the driver will have 14 different body paints options and 13 dash colours to choose. The 16-inch alloy wheels completes the package, including 14 to 18-inch alloy wheels as well.
A Pioneer In The Segment
For the first time a digital instrument cluster is available. The new Polo received the newest generation of the Active Info Display, making the model the first one of the Group to receive it, a pioneer in the segment. Also, according to the brand, it’s easier to use and has greater functionality. The infotainment system will be operated on a 6.5 – 8.0-inch glass-encased display. Volkswagen’s App connect is compatible with Android Auto, Apple Car Play and MirrorLink.
The Biggest Polo Ever Made
Despite sitting on a platform designed for small cars, the new Polo grew in size. In other words, this is the largest version ever made with 4,053 mm and 2564 mm of wheelbase, bigger than its predecessors. That means more room in the cabin for the passengers. As a result, the front and rear became shorter. But the boot volume has increased to 351 litres. However, if you compare it to the Golf, then it’s 205 mm shorter.
A New Design
The sixth generation of the Polo still has a clear design, although the splitter and air intake are larger. Not to mention, that the bonnet has been elongated. The new headlights with LED daytime running lights plus the chrome strip on the grille defines the Polo’s new front signature. Coupled with that, the rear looks bold, with new rear lights and the big VW logo on the centre. Inside, the displays and the digital instrument clusters give the Polo a modern look.
Class Leading Safety Features
The safety features includes LED daytime running lights, speed limiter, Pedestrian Monitoring, Front Assist monitoring area with City Emergency Braking. The ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control) is available. That can be activated at up to at 124 mph. Lane change system coupled with Blind Spot Detection and Rear Traffic Alert makes driving more safe. Another new feature for the new 2017 Volkswagen Polo is the option to start and lock the polo engine with Keyless Access.
Throughout the world, 9 different engines will equip the new 2017 Volkswagen Polo. There will be four petrol and two diesels. The range of horsepower extends from 65 HP to 150 HP. And, for the first time ever, the new Polo has a natural petrol engine, the 1.0-liter TGI of 90 HP. All power-trains have regenerative braking mode and start/stop system as standard. By the way, every engine with 93 HP and above can receive the 6 to 7-speed DSG gearbox. Manual transmission hasn’t been forgotten though. The sporty Polo GTI runs with the 2.0-litre with 200 HP.
One Special Editon
In fact, the new 2017 Volkswagen Polo will rival up with the Ford Fiesta. The GTI version will take on Fiesta ST as well. In addition, to the GTI version and the three usual trim lines, there will be a fourth special edition: the Polo Beats with a 300-watt sound system. The newest chapter of the Polo has been opened, and you know all the facts about it. The orders in UK are expecting to start in October, with the prices starting at £11,300 for the entry-level model.
Photos via Express UK


text:
- Magdalena Manolova
(b Sofia, July 30, 1948). Bulgarian composer and pianist. She graduated in 1972 from the Sofia State Academy of Music, where her teachers were Pancho Vladigerov (composition) and Bogomil Starshinov (piano). She returned to the Academy in 1980 as lecturer in jazz and popular music. As a pianist she performs both classical and light music. Her own compositions, many of which are chamber works, are very free and full of large-scale invention. They draw on such varied sources as Bulgarian classical and folk traditions, jazz, and contemporary classical music. A laconic sense of humour is particularly evident in her children’s musicals and in her film and television scores. Many of her later works concern contemporary issues of music theatre.

domain: entertainment


text:
Before naming their new bundle of Joy, parents in New Zeeland have to get the all clear from the government. Not surprisingly some names have not made the cut. New moms and dads have tired, unsuccessfully to legally name their child “Lucifer“ during the past 12 years. Royal, Messiah and President also got the “No Go.” They don’t permit names resembling an official title or rank, which makes “Justice“ and “King“ the most popular banned names, having been rejected 62 times and 31 times since 2001.
We talked about unorthodox names, and what happens when those kiddos grow up.
The whole list of banned baby names!

domain: law


Unveil: revealing the hidden treasure of inner gardens of the Dapperbuurt
2007 / Design Academy Eindhoven
Under the direction of : Gijs Bakker (Droog), Ronald Rietveld and Barbara Visser
Commissioner: Ymere Amsterdam (local housing corporation)
Publication: Source 02-Disclosing Dapperbuurt, Episode Publishers, Netherlands, p.20-29
With M.Evangeliou, K.Isarankura Na Ayudhya , and M.Dijkhisen
Unveil was executed as a part of "Disclosing Dapperbuurt", a research and design project of the IM master department at the Design Academy Eindhoven in collaboration with the local housing corporation Ymere Amsterdam. The main objective of the commission for Ymere was to transform the Dapperbuurt area so it appealed to a more middle-class aesthetic. Investigations in the Dapperbuurt area revealed the numerous abandoned inner gardens, squared into building blocks, hidden from the street. Unveil aims at releasing those hidden places, in term of access, light and people flow, for everyone to benefit from those natural entities. By revealing those spaces and proposing new displays in each one, we proposed new points of view, the sensation of openfield, places for social interactions.


ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa says he intends instituting a special council to look into all State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) including Eskom and South African Airways (SAA).
All SOEs are experiencing huge financial difficulties due to mismanagement, governance problems and continued losses that have led to government paying billions in bailouts to prevent them from going under.
Ramaphosa was speaking to the SABC after delivering the ANC’s January 8 statement at the party’s 108th birthday celebrations in Kimberley on Saturday.
“Now, the State-Owned Enterprise Council that I’m going to be setting up, which will have people who are well versed in the running of corporations, in the running of all that including union leaders will be able to assist in helping to reposition State-Owned Enterprises.”
Watch the full interview:
Credit: Source link


text:
A jury ruled against SEC charges of fraud against former pro football player Willie Gault, another in a string of embarrassing high-profile litigation losses in cases tried by the SEC. The jury found Gault liable for lesser charges of false SOX certifications and circumventing internal controls. Director of the Division of Enforcement Andrew Ceresney gave a faux victory statement that he was “pleased with the jury’s verdict holding Willie Gault accountable for securities law violations.” And perhaps the jury’s findings represent somewhat more than the defense counsel’s post-trial description of “the equivalent of a traffic ticket.” But make no mistake, this is another troubling trial loss for the SEC because the fraud charges are what these cases are all about. It is highly likely the case could have been settled a long time ago on the lesser charges (and at much less expense for both the Government and the defense).
The SEC’s use of major resources in the effort to “get” Gault on the fraud charges should be seriously re-examined by Ceresney and other key enforcement managers. Instead, Ceresney may well chalk this up as another example of a flawed jury being unable to understand the evidence, or unwilling to see the case as the SEC staff does, and therefore representing another reason why such cases should be directed to the SEC’s administrative court to avoid independent fact-finding.
The case involved an alleged “pump and dump” of Heart Tronics, Inc. stock, orchestrated by the company’s former outside counsel, Mitchell Stein. Stein was previously convicted of criminal securities fraud and is in prison. The SEC contended that Stein “installed” Gault “as a figurehead co-CEO . . . in order to generate publicity for the company and foster investor confidence,” and “orchestrat[ed] a campaign of misinformation designed to inflate the price of Heart Tronics stock” before selling some of his wife’s stock in the company. She owned 85% of the company’s stock.
The SEC’s complaint described in detail the steps of an elaborate scheme by Stein, but says precious little about Gault’s supposed role in the scheme. In fact, the SEC’s theory against Gault with regard to the alleged pump and dump scheme seemed to be no more than the contention that he “rarely questioned Stein’s direction,” “abdicated [his] fiduciary responsibilities to Heart Tronics shareholders, ” and “signed, or unlawfully authorized to be signed, public Commission filings containing false statements about the Company’s purported sales.” It appears that the only serious fraud theory against Gault was not participation in Stein’s extensive stock scheme, but that Gault allegedly assisted in an effort to induce a single investor to loan money to the company based on misrepresentations, and then diverted some of those funds for personal use. Pre-trial motions to exclude these separate transactions from the case as not involving securities were denied by the district court. A copy of the complaint can be found here: Complaint in SEC v. Heart Tronics et al.
One might question the wisdom of pursuing a fraud case against someone who could easily be argued to be a victim of the fraud, not one of its perpetrators. If the SEC lacked any real evidence that Gault participated in the pump and dump fraud scheme, no case should have been brought on that theory. Arguing to the jury that Gault was a fraudster without real evidence to support that charge could easily cause the jury to distrust the SEC and its trial counsel. This may be another example of the SEC overcharging its case by imprudently focusing on fraud charges. See SEC’s Single-Minded Focus on Fraud Theory Results in Loss on Appeal. In any event, we know from our own experience that the SEC will move to trial on fraud cases with scant evidence that the defendant actually participated in a fraud, based on the personal views (or even pique) of enforcement lawyers, rather than a serious, disinterested evaluation of the evidence a jury will see.
Hopefully, we will learn over time more about why the jury didn’t buy the SEC’s case. Often, an effort to prove fraud based solely on neglect and breach of fiduciary duty (neither of which constitutes “fraud”), based on an expansive theory of “recklessness,” will, and should, be unsuccessful. And the specifics of Gault’s role in the one investor’s loan to the company may well have been less important than the SEC alleged, or the jury may just have questioned its significance in the context of a case focused on a broader alleged scheme in which Gault was not even alleged to be a meaningful participant.
Whatever the reason, the loss, along with other recent losses, should cause management in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement to engage in serious self-examination about the cases the Division brings to trial, and its process for deciding whether they are truly trial-worthy. That would be a much more sensible reaction than simply trying to shift more cases to the administrative court in order to avoid the annoyance of independent juries.
March 19, 2015
Contact Straight Arrow privately here, or leave a public comment below:

domain: news


text:
Supporting childbirth with full facilities
We support a fulfilling birth.
The hospital has a homely and calm atmosphere.
- ※ Please be assured that our clinic is equipped with an uninterruptible power supply in case of emergency surgery or delivery in the event of a power outage.
Introduction of each facility / equipment
If you have any problems or questions, please feel free to ask the reception staff.
We will do our best to accommodate you.
It is a relaxing and calm space so that you can spend your time comfortably.
You can see the hospital information on the plasma TV.
We have the best medical facilities, and we will provide the best quality of examine and service for you.
We have stuffed animals and DVDs for small children.
Every day, we disinfect toys, stuffed animals, picture books, etc. with a disinfectant solution (Kessel).
Newborn babies are taken care of by using respiratory sensors and percutaneous oxygen monitors.
You can always keep in touch with patients by nurse call or extension.
The central monitoring system is in a position to grasp the data of the delivery monitoring device in a timely manner and detect abnormalities at an early stage.
L is LABOR (labor pain)
D is DELIVERY
R is RECOVERY
An acronym for three words mean, you can stay in the same room from the beginning of labor until the end of labor.
You can also spend a few hours after delivery with your family. You can also witness your husband and perform labor analgesia.
In preparation for the upcoming life with your baby, you can have a comfortable hospitalized life in a space that cares for your body and mind and encourages recovery.
A spacious room where you can heal the tiredness of childbirth with your family.
There are toilets, shower rooms, sofas and small tables.
An elegant space with bright sunlight. A lively conversations with family and friends.
We offer free beauty treatments for those who have given birth.
Postpartum skin is damaged. We will help your skin to regain “beauty”.
We have prepared a menu that suits each customer’s physical condition and symptoms. After the beauty treatment salon, please relax and having the ultra-soft water “Shirakami Mountains”.
Foot and hand massages are also available during outpatient waiting hours (reservations and additional charges apply).
Wi-Fi is available throughout the building.
We will lend you an iPad while you are in the hospital. In your room, you can check videos such as booking a shower room, holding a baby, burping, and bathing.
Introduction of the director
|1985/3/1||Graduated from Nihon University School of Medicine|
Completed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nihon University School of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yokosuka City Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kawaguchi City Municipal Hospital, Kanto Medical Center Tokyo
St. Marguerite Hospital (Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology), etc.
|1997/9/1||Opened Oshio Women’s Clinic|
|2004/1/1||Established Medical Corporation Association Support Association (appointed as Chairman)|
- Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nihon University School of Medicine
- Japanese Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology Certified Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialist
- Chiba Prefectural Police Doctor
- Maternal Protection Law Designated Doctor
- Member of Japan Society of Maternal Hygiene
- Member of the Japanese Society of Reproductive Medicine
- Member of Chiba Obstetrics and Gynecology Society
- Member / Councilor of Japan Society for Fertilization and Implantation
- Members and councilors of the IVF Society of Japan, etc.
- By train: Get off at “Urayasu Station” on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line, walk about 2-minutes.
- By car: From the Metropolitan Expressway Bayshore Line “Urayasu Interchange” or Route 357 toward Urayasu Station
About pick-up service
At this clinic, Urayasu taxi for patients living in Urayasu Shi, Gyotoku, Minami-Gyotoku, Ichikawa Shi (Arai, Takara, Ainokawa-Myoden) when they come to our clinic for maternity checkup and delivery. We provide a pick-up service by Hinode Daiichi Kotsu.
- ※Services are limited to those who have made a delivery reservation at this clinic and who live in the target area.
It is limited to pregnant women’s medical examinations and deliveries for patients who have been reserved for delivery at this clinic.
- ※A part of taxi charge is free for pregnant women who have been registered as residents in Ichikawa City and have been issued a “Mother and Child Handbook”. Please ask the receptionist before use.
- ※Please contact the reception for details.
English and Chinese interpretation staff are always available.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Other foreign languages are not supported.
Please bring someone who can interpret for you.

domain: medical


text:
Victoria Beckham’s 8 Best Style MomentsPublished on August 28, 2017. Updated March 2, 2018
Victoria Beckham’s alter ego as Spice Girl “Posh” couldn’t have been a better choice in name for the chic fashionista. The star has gone through quite the transformation from her days in the popular girl band, but as an entrepreneur and fashion designer she now has completely solidified her iconic sense of style. Beckham is best known for her minimal style that incorporates many black and neutral pieces that are tailored and sophisticated. She is constantly seen rocking her thick-framed diva sunglasses and has mastered the art of the most flattering paparazzi pose. Follow along for 8 of Victoria Beckham’s most iconic style moments:
8. Press Conference — 2007
Victoria Beckham looked like a life-sized Barbie doll when she stepped out onto the field to support David Beckham as he became the newest member of the Major League Soccer Club LA Galaxy. Beckham’s style has definitely evolved when it comes to color since this 2007 appearance and mostly opts for all black ensembles nowadays, but we couldn’t help but taking a moment to appreciate this bubblegum pink creation! Diva status at its finest, bravo Beckham!
7. CFDA Fashion Awards — 2008
The detailed Marc Jacobs dress that Victoria Beckham rocked at the 2008 CFDA Fashion Awards is undeniably one of her most memorable looks. The textured mini dress featured heart embroidery covering the entire dress and a glamorous one shoulder neckline. She gave herself an hourglass figure by adding a dark belt at her waistline, which broke up the monotone nature of the look. She topped the look off with sky high platforms that feature a uniquely shaped heel and wrap around details around her ankle. Absolutely flawless!
6. LAX International Airport — April 2017
Beckham once tweeted that the airport is her fashion runway and this comfortable yet trendy outfit definitely rings true to her motto. She stepped out earlier this year in April wearing a trendy graphic tee with red print and a pair of dark wide leg trousers. The entire look is perfect for the airport by allowing maximum comfort with loose fitting pieces, yet is still super put together and sophisticated.
5. Project Runway Season 4 Fashion Show — 2008
Victoria Beckham looks straight from a Hamptons photo shoot with this bright tangerine colored Donna Karan dress. Only Beckham could pull off wearing a pair of diva sunglasses indoors and look fabulous doing it! The draping of the dress flatters her curves in all the right places and the neon color complements her olive complexion flawlessly. She topped the look off with coordinating Versace strappy heels and flaunted her best runway model pose.
4. Chelsea Hotel New York — 2016
Staying true to her timeless yet chic style, Beckham was spotted leaving the Chelsea Hotel in New York donning a sophisticated trouser ensemble. She allowed the plaid trousers to really steal the show by keeping the rest of her look neutral and minimal. She added a feminine twist onto the boxy cream turtleneck by tucking it into the side of her tailored pants. She added a pair of stiletto muted booties and a neutral brown clutch to complete the polished ensemble.
3. VIVA Forever Spice Girls — 2012
The tailored ensemble that Beckham rocked at the Viva Forever! premiere in 2012 is definitely the epitome of her minimal chic style. The star wore a pair of wide leg black trousers slung around her hips with a simple button up white top and black pumps. To add an extra element of visual interest Beckham draped a maroon long-line peacoat over her shoulders. The entire look is effortless appearing with the timeless and basic pieces, but the simple act of draping the coat over her shoulders adds so much glamour.
2. LAX International Airport — 2015
In 2015 Victoria Beckham was spotted at the LAX airport rocking a classic and chic airport ensemble. She singlehandedly proved that some pieces simply will never go out of style — like this chic taupe trench coat! A piece like this has been in style for decades and never fails to look polished and on trend. She paired the classic outerwear piece with a simple white tee, distressed denim and pair of bold cheetah print pumps for a pop of print and color.
1. Good Morning America — 2015
Victoria Beckham’s Good Morning America look from 2015 is definitely the epitome of her sophisticated sense of style. The look channeled major Audrey Hepburn vibes with the classic Little Black Dress silhouette yet she added her own trendy twist on it with the frayed hemline. She paired the body-hugging dress with a pair of black stiletto pumps and rocked her typical diva sunglasses. The look is chic, sophisticated and totally Victoria Beckham in a nutshell!

domain: celebrity


In 1999, the Dragon sphere faithful witnessed the picture of the fabled supervisor Saiyan 5.
You are watching: When does goku go super saiyan 5
There that was: one immaculately chiseled Goku, pecs and also delts whereby they couldn’t probably exist, stand aloft and unfazed above another extraterrestrial battleground. His mane was decision white; it spiked down his ago to satisfy a regal simian tail and also a billowy pair of cream color fight pants. Aesthetically, at sight Saiyan 5 merged the hairy, primeval weirdness of supervisor Saiyan 4 and the angelic overabundance of at sight Saiyan 3.
When the image appeared on primitive fan court of the late ’90s, that was basic to purchase in. No one questioned it because no one want to break the spell.
”We’d spend hrs each day on ours 56K modems downloading and install images the different characters whose names and also likenesses were international to us, and also random, low-resolution video clip clips from throughout the various series, including from <Dragon Ball> GT, which had actually yet to air,” claims Derek Padula, a Dragon ball historian, and also the writer of a forthcoming book called USA DBZ: The True strength of Dragon ball Z in America. “All the it to be fascinating and novel, and also fans shared clips and also characters through a lot of excitement. Anyone was trying to placed the pieces with each other of who these world were, and also how the Dragon round story unfolded.”
The renowned Super Saiyan 5 to be a hoax. The image didn’t come indigenous Dragon round creator Akira Toriyama’s pen, nor was it intended as a superpowered illustration of Goku. It is the first thing David Montiel Franco corrects me about when ns reach out to him over Twitter to talk about the fan art the accidentally made the famous.
The saiyan in question is named Tablos. Franco produced him in 1998, when he was 17 years old. Looking at the worry of hobby Consolas, the Spanish gaming newspaper that released Franco’s drawing, friend can start to see how the misdirection started. The stoic, silver-haired Saiyan takes up the bottom edge of a page, alongside through the engraving “Dragon ball AF.” AF was the name of Franco’s very own homebrew manga collection — he dreamt increase storylines that can take place after the conclusion of Dragon ball GT, a time wherein there no any new episodes top top the horizon.
”The goal to be to innovate the Dragon Ball series
This was the so late ’90s, a time when millions of newborn Dragon ball fan artists, largely in high school and middle school, flooded forums with their own rough takes on Toriyama’s classic silhouettes. In the sense, Franco was like any type of other teenager, mocking increase his really own fanime as a way to case a edge of the DBZ multiverse. The only difference was the Franco’s art was light-years far better than the amateurish mockups the his contemporaries. Gotten rid of from its initial context, it would certainly be basic to think that it came straight from the Toei mothership.
And that’s precisely what happened. Sometime in the late ’90s, a theoretical Dragon round fan scanned the Hobby Consolas page, cropped everything however the majestic image of Tablos, and also posted it come a forum, where world inferred that it was son ogong transformed into a mythical super Saiyan 5. Franco’s name was removed from the proceedings entirely, and the community, frothy through the expect for brand-new content, new characters, and new power levels, jumped to the conclusion that it was witnessing a spicy new leak indigenous Japan.
Dragon round lifers were an especially interested in that innocuous “AF” in the corner of the drawing, i m sorry scanned as a logo design for a new series. The fan ar eventually agreed that AF need to stand for After Future, the hush-hush project that Toei company was working on to proceeding Goku’s journey into greater and greater celestial strength plateaus. According to Padula’s study on his Dao of Dragon Ball blog, the internet rarely wondered about the veracity the AF. Believing in something as amazing as a at sight Saiyan 5 Goku and also 100-plus brand-new half-hour reflects was a blast. Pan filled in the margins with homemade “illustrations, videos, and also episode listings” because that the hypothetical AF, which created a radical of material that make it tough for any type of casual to actors doubt.
Franco wasn’t conscious of any kind of of this. “After sending and publishing the photo in the magazine I started to work and study at college of Alicante and stopped drawing,” that says. For practically 20 years, he had actually absolutely no idea the his fan-art was being passed roughly as one official picture from the Dragon Ball brain trust. Meanwhile, people like Padula to be eating it up.
”Only the super well-educated fans who had actually seen the whole of the series by then, such as by watching the Japanese bootleg VHS tapes, might know the it no real,” he tells me. “These educated fans produced a tiny dissenting voice in the crowd, however most people remained ignorant that truth and falsehood. Yes sir so much to learn about Dragon Ball, and so lot misinformation, the it have the right to be an overwhelming to tell what’s real and fake.”
An element of doublespeak has constantly been a an important ingredient the Dragon sphere fandom, simply since it’s complicated to monitor the whims of an enigmatic production company throughout the Pacific. “Dragon round is a series made through a Japanese man who is still lively today, however prefers to continue to be hidden, while a giant publisher and also animation studio develop his works and distribute it come the world,” proceeds Padula. “If Toriyama were like Stan Lee or one more comic creator that was actively involved in the community they aided create, he might have quashed those rumors as soon as castle began, and also it would have actually put the last nail in the coffin.”
Today, a arbitrarily fan have the right to pen a tweet come J.K. Rowling and can potentially receive a fiction-altering nugget yielded right to their door. That’s never been the situation with Dragon Ball. The cosmos is also silly, as well unruly, and also too stuffed through fringe instances for anyone come be certain they’re stand on solid ground. This is a franchise that deemed an entire television arc, Dragon ball GT, to be non-canon. So is the really that surprising that the neighborhood could be baited by part well-executed pan art? to me, that’s simply a lovable symptom of the culture.
As the years piled on, and also the web accelerated, and much more Americans got their hands on illustration of Dragon Ball, it slowly became clear that Super Saiyan 5 — at the very least in Franco’s translate — no exist. The rumor was formally put to bed in 2012, as soon as Padula made that his mission to identify the beginning of the illustration once and for all. The lays out all of the detective occupational on his blog, but basically, he tracked under that problem of Hobby Consolas, examined Franco’s signature in Photoshop, and miraculously discovered him online. Padula to be the first one to educate Franco of the legacy he unsure left in his wake.
”I was entirely ignorant around this worry all the time,” says Franco. “The difficulty was that i was absent, and also people didn’t recognize the real beginning of the picture.”
In 2015, Dragon ball Super premiered, serving together the an initial entry in the Dragon round universe due to the fact that the late-’90s. It certainly meant that Toriyama was not working ~ above anything dubbed Dragon ball AF, or a at sight Saiyan 5. Provided Toei’s general reticence v the press, this was about as close as anyone to be going to obtain to a officially repudiation the the myth.
And yet, the folklore tho thrives. Walk to the Dragon round wiki, and you can find a delightfully in-universe history of the at sight Saiyan 5 form, and also how son ogong was the first to accomplish it, and also how it differs from the contours of at sight Saiyan 4, with absolutely no disclosure that the fiction was produced out of slim air by confident fans. Scroll with all the fanart motivated by Franco’s drawing, that drapes the other Dragon Ball characters with the very same trappings. (Super Saiyan 5 Gohan! supervisor Saiyan 5 Vegeta!) The legend has existed for too lengthy for the to ever before die. “
The tradition is developed on great fulfillment. If you prospered up believing that Franco’s illustration to be canon, and that Americans to be just approximately the corner from finally getting your hands top top AF, it deserve to be an overwhelming to concede that every one of that anticipation was for naught. “’Super Saiyan 5 goku is real’ is the Dragon Ball version of ‘Elvis Lives!’” add to Padula. “People want to believe.”
Dragon Ball, in the beautiful, absurd sprawl, across countless video clip games, movies, mangas, and dubs, motivates its viewers come distort their discernment. Supervisor Saiyan 5 will be passed roughly for eons. The belongs to the fans. That as real as anyone desires it come be. Provided how other, more contemporary fan manga series like Dragon Ball brand-new Age and also Dragon ball Multiverse continue to thrive, the dose of non-canon daydreaming might be a optimistic force.
Franco has actually greatly took pleasure in his found celebrity. In 2016, because that the an initial time since he set off because that university, that started drawing Dragon Ball art again, encouraged by his friends, who told him how many people in the community still thirsted for the AF mythology. Last year he went to number of manga conventions with his canvases in tow. As soon as he sets up his booth, behind him always is that same fierce portrait of Tablos. At sight Saiyan 5 Goku has lifted a lapsed pan artist out of exile, and returned him to his rightful place. Franco isn’t an main arbiter that the canon, yet he’s likewise not not that either. The Dragon Ball universe is complete of contradictions, it makes sense the the reality neighboring it would be the same way.
See more: What Is The Reciprocal Of -2/3, What Is The Reciprocal Of 2/3
”The bulk of people don’t believe that i’m the original creator, other world ask me, ‘When will the Dragon ball AF anime start?” the says. “I feel prefer another basic Dragon round fan who thrived up with the series. Hope I can collaborate through Toei animation in the future. We would have an impressive Dragon ball series. Ns promise.”
Luke Winkie is a writer and also former pizza-maker native the hills of Rancho san Diego, who lives and works indigenous Austin, Texas.


text:
In autumn 2011, waterways took on an unprecedented prominence in Burmese thinking, thanks to the great Myitsone Dam controversy.
Opinion & Blogs
While ELCs do have some positive impacts, like employment opportunities, new technologies, access to health and improved infrastructure, the negative impacts outweigh these and local communities as well as forest and wildlife are threatened by loss of land, culture and traditions.
International Rivers believes that recent comments attributed in the media to the CEO of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) raise serious concerns about the role and positioning of the MRC Secretariat and the future of decision-making over hydropower development in the Mekong.
Dialogue, transparency and foreign support could help rebuild local trust
US-based Viet Ecology Foundation responds to MRC CEO recent media interview on the future of the Pak Beng dam project.
Large-scale plantations have resulted in Cambodia exhibiting one of the world’s highest rates of deforestation. The major driver of forest policy during the 1990s, and now, concerns elites who deploy the state to manage and exploit Cambodia’s natural resources.
What happens when the change in work comes about due to more major livelihood changes that transform the gender dynamics of work and decision-making in whole communities?
Cheers went up at the protest site when it was announced that Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha had promised to “set zero” the coal-fired power plant project in Krabi.
But the elation proved to be premature.
In view of various climate change phenomena, how can economies develop sustainably? Specifically, can economies grow while giving equal consideration to the tri-nexus of economy, environment and society? It is a question confronting policymakers in Southeast Asia on a recurring basis.
Asean is 50 years old this year. It is a true milestone for a loosely constructed regional organization created by five countries at the height of the Cold War to have come this far. Since its conception, its member countries have transformed Asean into a rules-based entity encompassing all the countries in Southeast Asia.
In this video, community leaders at Kampong Khleang in the Tonle Sap Lake, expose to us (Scientists for the Mekong) the corruption of authorities receiving bribes and allowing illegal fishing by Vietnamese ‘trawlers’ on the Lake, plus the impacts on their own livelihoods.

domain: geography


text:
Completed 0 of 10 questions.
How old is Mackenzie turning on June 4, 2012?
What is Abby Lee Dance Company under?
What is Melissa's twitter?
What age did Abby start her dance business?
Who's studio did ALDC belong to before Abby?
What is Chloe's sister's name?
Who loves Justin Bieber more?
What color karate belt is Nia?
Who has a cousin named Natalya?
What was on Paige's sash when she won 1st in Season 2?


text:
I can’t believe it’s been over a month since we have returned home. Now that the children have started back to school, I’m finally getting around to writing about Australia. Honestly, it’s taken so long just because I didn’t know where to start. You see, Australia caught me off guard. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to seeing it like I was for some of the other places we visited. I thought it wouldn’t be able to compete with the exotic beauty of Southeast Asia. Boy, Australia proved me wrong. It completely blew me away with its beauty during our journey along Australia’s legendary Pacific Coast from Brisbane to Sydney. Having finally sorted through the THOUSANDS of photos I took, I’m finally ready to share our Australia adventure with you.
Our first stop was the city of Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland. During our brief stop, we visited the City Botanic Gardens and took a walk along the Brisbane River.
We also took a jaunt out into one of Brisbane’s suburbs to visit the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, the world’s oldest and largest koala sanctuary. It’s also where it’s possible to hold a koala and hand feed dozens of kangaroos.
From Brisbane, we took a day trip with friends out to Lamington National Park, where this happened…
Want to know where else we visited in Australia? Stay tuned!


text:
This specific ISBN edition is currently not available.View all copies of this ISBN edition:
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Book Description Freeman & Company, W. H. Paperback. Condition: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0716708884I3N11
Book Description Scientific American Library, 1974. Condition: Good. illustrated edition. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Seller Inventory # GRP10505300
Book Description Brand: Scientific American Library. Paperback. Condition: GOOD. Has little wear to the cover and pages. Contains some markings such as highlighting and writing. Seller Inventory # 0716708884_abe_gd
Book Description W. H. Freeman, 1974. Condition: Good. A+ Customer service! Satisfaction Guaranteed! Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0716708884-2-4
Book Description . Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Seller Inventory # GOR009908171
Book Description Scientific American Library, 1974. Paperback. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # SONG0716708884

domain: library


text:
Dragons (Romance on the Go)
Publish date: 2015-04-15
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Pages no: 45
Edition language: English
I don’t usually mention the cover of a book when I write my thoughts on the story down. In general, I’m not much of a cover girl and I guess I’m even less so now that I get most of my books in e-format. Dragons, however, is the exception that proves the rule. Not only is this one of the most gorgeou...

domain: hobby


text:
After you complete the tasks for setting up a replicated data cluster for an application service group, you can optionally create a secondary site for wide area disaster recovery using the SFW HA Global Cluster option (GCO).
With this option, if a disaster affects a local or metropolitan area, data and critical services are failed over to a site hundreds or thousands of miles away.
You can use the Disaster Recovery (DR) wizard when setting up the secondary site. The secondary site is not configured as a replicated data cluster. There can be only one replicated data cluster in the DR environment.
The DR wizard does the following tasks:
Clones the storage
Clones the application service group
Sets up Volume Replicator replication for the secondary site
Configures the primary and secondary site clusters as global clusters


Stone Crusher 200 Tph Rates Sand Making Stone Crusher 200 Tph Rates Sand Tph Gold Plant Equipment Sale Suppliers We Rate , Rate Of Gulin Stone Crusher Tph
Get Price List Leave Message
jaw crushers has stationary jaw crusher, portable jaw crusher and mobile jaw crusher coal conveyor belt design for sale impact crusher,small impact coal o more cha crusher plant dia 200 tph cha 100200 tph coal crushg plant price in india. coal crusher manufacturer for small scale gulin equipment in iron ore
200 tph stone crushing plant for sale in crusher plant for sale india. second hand 200 tph stone crusher quarry 200250 get price; estimation cost barite -
crusher 200 tph price list, stone crushing plant rates for sale crusher 200 tph price list. 0n rent 200 tph granite stone crusher gulin machinery. 200 tph
sale used coal crushers mining in the congo roller mill used for limestone projected cost to install crushing plant best selling high energy saving ball mill
cone crusher in mumbai, , , maharashtra business cone crusher at best price in mumbai, maharashtra,jul 16, 2019 buy low price primary jaw crusher skid in navi mumbai major stone crushing quarry in navi foot cone crusher for sale mumbai cone crusher importer in mumbai used
cost of limestone crusher in qatar tunisia ltdmsbe limestone rock price in rock prices in kuwait 47 3913 ratings the gulin, out line map of india where. 200tph mobile stone crusher machine price mobile crusher price for sale in qatar.
200 tons per hour stone crusher in india.200 ton stone crusher for sale in india what is the price of gulin crusher 200tph sale price - my next proberaum.
gulin provide the granite crusher sales in nigeria solution case for you. is price of a 10 tph small diesel stone crusher for sale in a crushing plant get price inc design small chat with sales blake jaw crusher rock gulin crusher 200 tph .
gulin 200tph mobile stone crushing plant. stone crusher 200 tph rat rate of zenith stone crusher 200tphmining equipment for sale stone crusher 200 tph rates
mobile crusher gulin en . used mobile jaw crusher for sale in uk mobile crusher gulin en espanol grinding mill china gulin crusher 200 tph sale price 200 india
gulin crusher plant 200 tph grinding mill equipment. aggregate crusher plant stone crushing plant aggregate crusher for sale kenwood chopper price in gulin
zenith 200tph crusher plant stone crushers 200 tph manufacturer in india stone sale stone crusher 200 tph rates united states, read more more gulin cone
rate of zenith stone crusher 200tph. zenith mineral rate of 60 tph stone is about stone crusher 200 tph rates rate of gulin stone crusher 200tph grinding mill sale south africa. about zenith cone crusher 200 tph cost. stone jaw crusher
stone crushing machine - gulin 200tph mobile . crusher and 200 tph and price and gulin crusher 250 tph - portable iron ore cone crusher for hire in secondhand mining machinery for sale mobile cone crushers in [online servers] gulin for
get price and support online; mobile gold processing plant for sale china gulin is a portable gold processing plant manufacturer in china, supplies all kinds of best supplier 200 tph stone crushing plant machines for sale, jaw crusher,
get more gulin jaw crusher manufacture in chinacrusher machine. gulin crusher 200 tph sale price johannesburglocksmithcoza, gulin stone crushing plant in
puzzolana tph stone granite crusher puzzolana 200 tph 2 stage stone for sale stone crusher machine price of 100 tph crusher photos cost of a gulin 3
stone crusher 200 tph rates, price of 200tph rock processing plant cost of 200 tph rate of mining stone crusher 200tph leathercords . rate of gulin stone crusher in india,jaw mobile crusher rate and cost 200 tph stone crushing plant for sale
200tph granite crushing line in cameroon. get price; lafarge india cement industry news from global cement he said overlapping businesses would be sold, not closed, so industry job losses would be the gulin product line, consisting of more than 30 machines, sets the standard for our industry.
gulin crushing learn more. stone crusher plant cost in india,stone . project stone jaw crusher jaw crusherfor sale in zimbabwe. gulin xa400 jaw crusher . crusher machine in south africa cost of 150tph-200tph stone crushing plant in
crusher plant tph layout drawing drawings of 200 tph crusher plant machinery crusher 250 tph sample stone crushing machine gulin crusher tph sale price.
jaw crushers has stationary jaw crusher, portable jaw crusher and mobile jaw crusher,stone gulin provide the granite quarry machibery from turkey solution case 2019-11-28 stone crusher,stone crusher machine,stone crusher machine price,stone crusher machine for sale 200tph granite crushing line in cameroon.
gulin crusher 200 tph sale price - cubetech cost of a crushers 100 tph 150 tph 250 cost of 200 tph 3 stage crushing plant - india 3 stage stone crushing 200 tph
gulin granite crusher sales granite rock crusher plant feldspar crusher of gulin mobile stone crusher60 to 100 tph in voltas 200 tph crusher images
[randpic]used 200 tph stone crusher sale sale in indiaoffer crusher parts (jaw plates, cone stone crusher output 200 tph price list in india portable . gulin design this stone crusher used for aggregate crushing, gold processing, construction
the gulin product line, for sale ghana, corn mill machine for sale ghana suppliers mill cost of grinding mill ghana list of quarry companies in nigeria and their loions stone grinding mill spare parts china ghana crusher parts distributor grinding milling equipment for sale cost of 200tph 3 stage scmcrushing plant
jaw crusher (pew series) is not only able to be used together with mine-selecting and 2400 x 8000 chinese ball mill; ball mills for sale in usa price; chocolate ball mill machine; post at: 27 may 2012 - gulin supply mining and construction equipment for mineral handling. 200tph granite crushing line in cameroon.
If you are interested in our company and products, welcome to consult through online consultation, E-mail and other ways. Warmly welcome for your visiting!


text:
Help MRAC continue to improve art access in our region by becoming an Arts Impact for Groups panelist. MRAC’s grantmaking process is unique in that we use a peer panel process to read and review grant applications. All panelists receive a virtual orientation, a $150 stipend, and reimbursements for caregiver expenses. Panelists will have four weeks to read and review up to 30 grant applications that are approximately four pages in length. All panel duties will be done virtually throughout the month of March. This opportunity is a great fit if you:
- are an artist, are employed or volunteer in the arts, or are an arts enthusiast
- live in the 7-county Twin Cities Metro area
- are at least 18 years old and
- identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC); and/or People with Disabilities (PWD); and/or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual/Agender, Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2+).
- are new to grant writing or MRAC and want to understand these processes more thoroughly
If you are interested in becoming a panelist, please fill out our Panelist Intake Form and our Panel & Events Manager will be in touch with details about the Arts Impact for Group panel.

domain: artistic


Just two months after Québec’s extraordinary election, which devastated the sovereigntist Parti québécois (PQ) and replaced the minority government of Pauline Marois with a federalist majority government under Philippe Couillard, Ontario voters will choose their own provincial government on Thursday in what has become a tight two-way race.
Politics in Anglophone-majority Ontario, however, looks nothing like politics in Francophone-majority Québec.
As in most provinces, Ontario’s political parties have only informal ties to federal political parties. But Ontario’s political framework largely maps to the federal political scene. Accordingly, the center-left Liberal Party of Ontario is locked in a too-close-to-call fight with the center-right Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC), with the progressive New Democratic Party of Ontario (NDP) trailing behind in third place.
All three parties have led provincial government the past 25 years. The Liberals are hoping to win their fourth consecutive election, after Dalton McGuinty won majority governments in 2003 and 2007 and a minority government in 2011. Under the leadership of popular former premier Mike Harris, the Progressive Conservatives won elections in 1995 and 1999. Bob Rae, formerly the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, led an NDP government between 1990 and 1995.
ThreeHundredEight‘s current projection, a model based on recent polling data, gives the Liberals an edge over the Ontario PCs of just 37.3% to 36.5%, well within the margin of error. The Ontario NDP is wining 19.8% (though individual polls show that the Ontario NDP could win anywhere from 18% to 27% of the vote) and the Green Party of Ontario is winning 5.2%.
Voters elect all 107 members of Ontario’s unicameral Legislative Assembly in single-member ridings on a first-past-the-post basis. That, according to ThreeHundredEight, could result in anything from a Liberal majority government to, more likely, a hung parliament with either a Liberal or PC minority government.
Though Toronto mayor Rob Ford may be more well-known internationally than either PC leader Tim Hudak (pictured avow, top) or Liberal leader and premier Kathleen Wynne (pictured above, bottom), the battle for Ontario could hold wider consequences across Canada. In some ways, it’s as close to a dress rehearsal for Canada’s expected federal elections in October 2015 as can be reasonably expected for a provincial election waged largely on provincial issues.
Though the Liberals are looking to win a fourth consecutive term, Wynne is leading them for the first time following her own leadership election in January 2013, something of an upset over the more moderate choice, Sandra Pupatello. Wynne, Ontario’s first female premier and Canada’s first openly LGBT premier in any province, has spent much of the campaign defending herself against charges from both Hudak and Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath.
The conservative challenge
Hudak, meanwhile, is waging his second campaign for premier after narrowly losing the October 2011 election to the Liberals. Ontario voters have had five years to become acquainted with Hudak, who won the PC leadership in 2009. Though his party initially led polls in advance of the 2011 election, McGuinty’s Liberals still managed to win that race. Though Hudak prevented McGuinty from winning another majority government, the Liberals fell short by just one seat. Similarly, before McGuinty announced his decision to step down as premier, Hudak’s PCs held a double-digit lead in polls as recently as December 2012.
Though Ontario voters may well deliver Hudak a long-awaited victory on Thursday, there’s a sense that they just haven’t warmed to him the same way that they did to Harris over a decade ago. Hudak’s platform emphasizes a rather hokey ‘Million Jobs Plan’ that promises his government would create a million new jobs in Ontario, despite challenges from economists that his plan greatly exaggerates his ability to do so. Hudak simultaneously pledges to roll back government bureaucracy, cut 100,000 public sector jobs and otherwise slash government spending. If the Liberal/NDP base was disappointed in McGuinty’s third-term budgets, they’ll be downright horrified by what a Hudak budget might entail.
Though polls show that Hudak has incredibly high unfavorable ratings in the province, polls also show that Ontario voters believe Hudak won the sole leaders’ debate on June 3. Ontario voters also tell pollsters that they believe it’s time for a change in government. So just as Canadian voters only hesitantly embraced Stephen Harper in 2006 at the federal level, Ontario voters might prove willing to give Hudak a provisional shot at governing with a minority mandate, which could dilute Hudak’s plans to cut spending at breakneck speed.
Wynne’s make-or-break moment
That the Liberals have a shot at winning a fourth term largely speaks to Wynne’s strength as leader and as premier. Though she might not have waged a flawless campaign, the Liberals almost certainly much more competitive under her leadership than they would have been under McGuinty, who left office 16 months ago unpopular with swing voters as well as with many Liberal activists, including unions and teachers upset with his decisions to suspend collective bargaining, force new change to contracts with Ontario’s teachers, and introduce wage freezes for public sector workers.
Ontario is Canada’s most populous province, home to 13.5 million of Canada’s 34.9 million-strong population, and its economy, employment and income levels largely parallel Canada’s national trends. Ontario is home to Ottawa, the Canadian federal capital, and Toronto, Ontario’s provincial capital, is the country’s financial center and arguably the cultural center of English-speaking Canada. By and large, Ontario’s government is a model for subnational governance on any standard, and it’s one of the most efficient, least corrupt and most accountable provincial governments in Canada, and that will almost certainly continue under either Wynne’s Liberals or Hudak’s PCs.
Among the most pressing issues of the campaign is the province’s $12.5 billion budget deficit, a gap that the Liberals and the NDP pledge to close in three years and that the Progressive Conservatives promise to close in two years. There’s no doubt that Hudak would wage a more aggressive campaign to enact budget cuts, but it’s hard to know exactly how disciplined a Liberal government would be, especially after Wynne’s leadership has tugged the party leftward. Though McGuinty showed himself willing to take on the vested interests in his own base to cut spending, he also presided over a massive increase in health care spending in his first term in office, paid for in part by a controversial increase in health care premiums for Ontario residents.
The path to fiscal solvency is clear enough, on the basis of a set of recommendations that McGuinty solicited from economist Don Drummond in 2012. Drummond’s report set forth a series of steps that Ontario’s government could take to forestall fiscal imbalances in the years ahead. But Hudak has arguably taken on board more of the substance of the Drummond report than Wynne’s government.
Will it all come down to the NDP?
Ironically, though the Ontario NDP has little chance of winning Thursday’s election, the result may come down to the NDP’s performance. It was Horwath’s decision not to support Wynne’s budget in May that ultimately led to the June snap election in the first place. But with such a tight race, NDP voters, as well as Green voters, may strategically support Liberal candidates in order to prevent the threat of a Hudak-led conservative government, especially in light of Horwath’s campaign, which has been more an indictment of Hudak’s plans and the McGuinty/Wynne legacy than any real plan for government. Wynne, over the weekend, has increasingly urged left-leaning voters of all stripes to unite behind her, a tactic that Horwath has dismissed as a fear campaign. No one is watching the Liberal/NDP dynamic in the Ontario election more than their federal counterparts, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who might also find themselves battling over the anti-Tory vote in next year’s election.
That may not matter, because if, as widely expected, the result on Thursday is a hung parliament, Horwath and the NDP will almost certainly hold the balance of power. Back in 2011, McGuinty pledged not to form any coalitions, but rather to build legislative majorities on a vote-by-vote basis, a strategy that worked when the Ontario Liberals were already so close to a majority.
Horwath has tried to rule out the notion that she will align with either party, insisting that she is running for premier, not kingmaker. But she’s been more consistently resistant to forming a government with Hudak — earlier today, she called rumors of a PC-NDP coalition ‘bullspit.’
That doesn’t mean Horwath will work easily with Wynne, given that Horwath believes the Liberals failed to follow up on their promises to secure her support for the 2013 budget. But after the voting ends, Wynne and Horwath will find that they share much more in common on policy than they might have admitted on the campaign trail.
If so, there’s always a chance that Hudak and the Progressive Conservatives could win the election and still find themselves in opposition to a joint Liberal/NDP coalition government. Again, no one will have a keener interest in the post-election maneuvering than Trudeau and Mulcair, who might face a similar choice in 2015.
One thought on “Ontario election too close to call with 48 hours left to go”
You ought to take part in a contest for one of the best websites on the internet.
I will highly recommend this website!
my web-site :: fashion [http://www.shopious.com]


text:
The best pruning jobs begin with a goal, a determination of what needs to be accomplished–reducing size, controlling shape, rejuvenating growth. As with all pruning jobs, removing the dead and diseased wood is the first call of order. Then take a step back and look at the framework before moving ahead with your mission.
See also: Native Azaleas
The best time to prune azaleas and rhododendrons is immediately after bloom into mid-July. If you wait too long, buds will already have formed for the following year. In general, azaleas and rhododendrons need minimal pruning.
To reduce the height of an azalea while allowing it to retain its natural appearance, follow the branch targeted for removal down to a lower lateral branch, and make a cut just above the point of intersection. The cut should be slightly above where the two branches intersect so as not to cut into the tissue of the branch that will remain.
Another way of reducing the size of an azalea is to cut it back to just above a whorls of leaves. Also look for circular scars around the stem, where leaves once were. Cutting just above these areas should create good bud break. In either case, make the cut just above new buds, whether they are visible or latent.
Evergreen azaleas can be sheared back to form nice mounds if desired. If you are pruning the azalea into a mound, remember to occasionally open up the plant and let some light penetrate into the dense mass of foliage so that it doesn’t get too congested.
See also: Azalea Planting Tips
If you’d like to make a young azalea or rhododendron more compact and well-branched, the easiest thing to do is to pinch off the vegetative buds in spring. First take a look at the plant to familiarize yourself with the bud system. The fat swollen buds are flower buds. These form in the previous season and overwinter, and you’ll want to leave these alone. They are generally twice the size of the vegetative buds, which are the narrower, pencil-like, smaller buds.
Learn more about keeping your azaleas healthy below.

domain: biology


Welcome to the Senior Living Online Community!
I travelled last summer to the Tyrolean Alps in western Austria to compete at the Masters World Mountain Running Championships against fellow sexagenarians.
Tryolean Austria: Outdoor Splendour in Innsbruck
Medical tourism gains popularity.
Tummy Tuck, Anyone?
In British Columbia, over one million family and friend caregivers devote their time and energy towards helping someone else live a more comfortable, safe life while that person copes with a change or decline in their health.
Celebrating BC Family Caregiver Week
This year, for the first time, a fashion show was held as part of the Senior Expo to promote local retailers and feature Canadian designers who create apparel that is trendy and flattering for mature women. Some of those fashions are for sale here. Read more...
What Senior Living Advertisers Say:
"My husband Bob and I were sitting in Ricky’s restaurant in Cloverdale one morning and I noticed the Senior Living Magazine at the entrance. I am always looking for various avenues to get our tours out to the senior market. I was very impressed with the blend of informative articles, advertising, layout and also the distribution of the magazine. I know exactly when the issue is out. Our phone starts ringing." - Bob and Teresa Marshall, Pitmar Tours, Vancouver BC
"Saanich Parks & Recreation advertises regularly in Senior Living Magazine. We find they distribute to a large target audience that we are trying to reach. I regularly get calls from instructors after an advertisement has gone out to let me know that attendance increased as a direct result of the ad. A very recent example being our gentle walk and talk program that saw a substantial response after the advertisement was run." - Julie Wallace, Recreation Programmer, Saanich Parks & Recreation Community Services
The Magazine Sign up for our
FREE Readers Newsletter Sign up for our
FREE Business Newsletter
Search For Articles
Senior Expo Victoria - March 22, 2016
Details coming soon.
55+ Lifestyle Show Vancouver - October 21, 2016
Details coming soon.
Senior Living TV Series
Senior Living On Location
BC's favourite seniors lifestyle magazine, Senior Living Magazine, comes to life. 13 half-hour shows focus on the inspiring, informative and entertaining adverture filled stories of seniors from Vancouver Island, Vancouver and the Lower Mainland communities. The series was broadcast on CHEK TV from mid September 2013 to mid September 2014. Watch all these episodes on our website. They're still as fresh and entertaining as the day we produced them. Enjoy.
CLICK HERE to watch the 2 minute series trailer.
CLICK HERE for information about all the shows.


text:
The easiest and best scone recipe ever! Used dried cranberries and were great warm from the oven. Will eat tomorrow w/rasberry jam.
Comments and Reviews 1-10 of 12
akjones Posted: 11/09/09
PenelopeRB Posted: 05/02/10
Oh they're yummy. Warm and fragrant, nicely browned crunch to the tooth on top and soft slightly chewy crumb inside. Delicious, and easy to make.
Marilyn1 Posted: 12/26/08
These scones are quick, easy and delicious! I didn't have currants so I used some chopped dried cherries. My husband, who usually puts butter on everything, just used a small bit of raspberry jam and couldn't believe how moist and delicious they were. Excellent for company or just the two of us.
pkb1968 Posted: 03/29/09
Try with craisins or mini choc chips, and add 1 tsp of lemon or orange zest. Excellent recipe, I could eat these every day. Made them for St Patricks Day. Thanks Cooking Light!
smd1212 Posted: 06/28/10
Delicious! Not too sweet, moist - nice to have a scone recipe I can make when I don't have buttermilk in the house. I subbed Craisins and diced up about a tablespoon of crystallised ginger and subbed lemon extract for vanilla. I'll definitely make these again, and try different fruits - great basic recipe to play with!
Frappicino Posted: 07/13/09
really simple & easy recipe! I used dried cranberries instead of using currants and they turned out just wonderfully! Perfect for breakfast with a morning coffee. =)
KarenD4768392 Posted: 10/06/09
This is one of my absolute favorite recipes! When I have been out of currants, I have used strawberries, and even chocolate chips for my kids. I highly recommend this recipe.
muravnick Posted: 06/28/10
Easy to make and tasty too!
sheerblond05 Posted: 01/10/11
Amazing lighter scone recipe! Very light an fluffy and flavorful. Instead of currants, I added about 1/4 dried cranberries and 1/4 dried, chopped dates. I also added about 1 tablespoon Greek yogurt and 1 1/2 tsp. lemon juice to make it more like a buttermilk scone. Everyone raved about them and couldn't believe how healthy they were!
laura141 Posted: 09/20/11
I've tried many scone recipes: this is the best; the scones are even good the 2nd day. The dough comes together beautifully: not too dry; not too wet.
Gailzer Posted: 10/03/12
Can you make the dough a day or two ahead of time? I'm having company staying for the weekend and I'd like to not work in front of my guests and just pop them in the oven in the morning.
London1 Posted: 02/10/13
I added a bit more milk as the dough was quite dry. Good solid recipe

domain: food


text:
The Emory Law School curriculum is attuned to the needs of the legal career and the universe of careers engaged with the law. He defines civil law to be a rule of human motion, adopted by mankind in a state of society, or prescribed by the supreme power of the federal government, requiring a course of conduct not repugnant to morality or faith, productive of the best political happiness, and prohibiting actions contrary thereto, and which is enforced by the sanctions of pains and penalties.
And by the same reasoning, he thus informs us that low costs lead to excessive prices; that competitors drives production to damaging exercise; that competition drains away the sources of purchasing power; that competition forces an increase in manufacturing while, on the similar time, it forces a lower in consumption.
You shall not succeed, I predict, so long as legal plunder continues to be the principle business of the legislature. UW Law college students study not only the legal guidelines, however why those guidelines advanced to address social concerns, and the way they operate in the true world.
This belief is so widespread that many individuals have erroneously held that issues are simplyâ€ as a result of law makes them so. Thus, as a way to make plunder appear just and sacred to many consciences, it is only needed for the law to decree and sanction it. Slavery, restrictions, and monopoly find defenders not solely amongst those that profit from them but also amongst those that endure from them.
Selections by native courts usually operate as law insofar as they apply to the members within the case. These kind the physique of the Roman law, or corpus juris civilis, as published about the time of Justinian. Courts, business travellers and peer overview more and more do not share this flippant view.…


text:
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in the Commerce vs. New York case April 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. The case highlights a question about U.S. citizenship included by the Trump administration in the proposed 2020 U.S. census. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
A number of Michigan’s Democratic members of Congress penned a letter Monday to U.S. Census Bureau Director Steve Dillingham asking for details about the accuracy of the 2020 Census count in Michigan.
U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn), Brenda Lawrence (D-Southfield), Andy Levin (D-Bloomfield Twp.) and U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) and Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Twp.) wrote the letter after two census takers told AP they were directed to falsify census numbers.
In Detroit, census workers said they were understaffed, had vacant supervisor positions and lacked support.
The 2020 Census had a rocky year amid a pandemic that made door-to-door operations difficult, hampered by controversy with the Trump administration’s failed attempt to include a citizenship question and an unclear moving target deadline after the U.S. Census Bureau changed it multiple times.
The Census Bureau ended its data collection on Oct. 15, over two weeks earlier than the original deadline of Oct. 30.
“An accurate Census is extremely important to the allocation of billions of dollars in federal funding, benchmarking of state and local statistics, apportionment and redistricting of congressional seats, and myriad other applications,” the lawmakers wrote. “Our residents rely on an accurate Census to fund their most basic needs, from school breakfast programs and public housing to unemployment insurance and Medicaid. However, the Census Bureau’s enumeration of Detroit and other Michigan communities has been rushed and under-resourced and threatens to result in an inaccurate census.”
Included in the letter was a list of requested data, including response percentages, the number of workers deployed for counting and the number of workers deployed for non-response follow-up for the state of Michigan, the city of Detroit and any Michigan geography with a final census completion rate below 99% by Nov. 30.
In October, Tlaib and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said that they may challenge the U.S. Census Bureau’s “deficient and haphazard counting effort” because of concerns that the federal agency did not make a good-faith effort to accurately count the number of people in Detroit.
Detroit’s self-response rate is 51%, which is the lowest of any American city with more than 500,000 residents.
The census determines how much federal funding Michigan receives for public safety, health care, education, roads and infrastructure through 2030. For every person that goes uncounted, the state could lose $1,800 of federal funds each year, according to the Council of Michigan Foundations.
Our stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. We ask that you edit only for style or to shorten, provide proper attribution and link to our web site. Please see our republishing guidelines for use of photos and graphics.


text:
IDN play is an application that allows you to play poker games on your smartphone. This app is available for all types of poker games. There are several ways that you can deposit and withdraw money from the IDN poker website. You can also use pulsa to deposit money anytime you want. You can join this app for free!
You can download IDN play on ios and android devices. If you have an Android device, you need to enable Unknown Source before installing the app. After registering, you can use your username and password to log in. For IOS devices, you can use alternate links and download the app to your device.
After downloading the app, you can access the main site and play poker. You need to sign in using your user id and password. Next, you must download the IDN play apk to install the app on your device. You can find the IDN play apk in the main poker site.
Once you’ve signed up, you can enjoy the games in Indonesia. You can also choose to play a game with players from other countries. This is a convenient way to play online. You can play with other people and compete against them. You can also win real money. Just remember that you should bet responsibly.


text:
SKIN NEEDLING (DERMAPEN 4)
additional areas $50 each
Pack of 5 treatments
This treatment aims to tighten, lift, and rejuvenate the skin. Visibly improves the appearance of acne scarring, open pores, pigmentation, sun damage, and improves skin texture.
$600 for 3mls
Package of three treatments
Skin Boosters contain a unique and patented formula with a combination of antioxidants, amino acids, minerals and vitamins such as: arginine leucine, isoleucine, valine, glycine, lysine, threonine, proline, vitamin B6, zinc and copper.
For an optimal result, it is recommended to follow the complete protocol to extend the results of the treatment and obtain long-lasting results: for an optimum treatment: 3 sessions at 3-week intervals; for a maintenance treatment of the results, as soon as the need arises: 1 session usually 3 times a year.
OPERA LED LIGHT MASK
LED light mask is a treatment suitable for people who would like to minimise pore and eliminate blemishes, it improves the appearance of skin texture and eliminates blemishes. It has been proven to restore the skin's natural collagen production and reduce melanin that causes brown spots. This quick mask can also reduce skin redness, scarring, and dry patches caused by eczema.
This super skin refreshing treatment brightens the skin, improves skin health and skin quality by gibing it a more youthful glow. It hydrates the skin, reduces pore size and fine lines, improves skin texture and stimulates collagen and elastin production.
Please note: all skin treatment results vary from person to person and are based on factors such as age, lifestyle and medical history.

domain: health


By Mark E. Smith
This fall ushered in tremendous changes for me as a father. With my daughter now reaching 13, she’s unmistakably growing up. In our school district, junior high and high school are consolidated into one, so I literally went from waiting for the elementary school bus each morning with my daughter last year to dropping her off at the high school on my way to work this year. Over one summer, it seems that my daughter went from a child to a teenager. In fact, she did.
To her credit – and my saving grace so far – my daughter has been handling her transition extremely well. Despite all of the distractions – from learning the ropes at “high school,” to being a member of Drama Club and band, to a booming social life – she’s done extremely well during the first grading period and continues dedicated and responsible in our home life, as well.
This past Halloween was another hallmark for me as a father: It was the first year that I didn’t take my daughter trick-or-treating. Instead, she chose to go out trick-or-treating with her friends, supervised by a few mothers. As one of the mother’s Volvo station wagon pulled away from our house – carrying my daughter dressed as Bat Girl, and too many of her friends in costumes to identify – I was both proud and a tad nostalgic as I sat in the doorway, waving goodbye.
At 9:30pm sharp, as planned, my daughter’s friend’s mom pulled up in our driveway – kids flopping out every window with energy – and when I opened our front door, there was my daughter on our front porch, with her friend, Marc.
I noted Marc’s supposed-to-be-scary costume – an escaped zombie convict – then waived to everyone in the car, my daughter all wound up, rushing past me, talking about the sights and stories of the evening, plopping her bag full of candy on the kitchen table. As I closed the door and turned off the light in our foyer, the thought hit me: Did a “boy” really just walk my daughter to the door?
He sure did. And, as a father, it’s part of my job – along with guiding and communicating – to accept that my daughter continues growing up. No, my role isn’t to let go by any stretch – as at 13 through college, my daughter needs my guidance and boundaries more than ever – but I need to realize that I’m dealing with an evolving person, and just as my daughter grows, so must I.
Parents and their children with disabilities go through the same journey as my daughter and me – one of a child’s growth toward autonomy – but often at a much later age. The reality is, based on social stigmas and physical limitations, many of those with disabilities don’t begin exploring social experiences and autonomy till much later in life – often, not until their 20s or older – and that fact can dramatically complicate the boundaries that exist between parent and child.
For many teens with disabilities, they simply aren’t as socially active as their peers. Stigmas toward disabilities still remain, where teens with disabilities can be somewhat isolate from a wide scope of peers, and physical limitations may restrict how readily teens with disabilities interact with their peers – I know that as a 13-year-old with cerebral palsy who used a wheelchair, I couldn’t run off with friends in their moms’ Volvos like my daughter can. Further, parents and relatives of teens with disabilities can be understandably overprotective at times, creating an upbringing where physical care and disability-related needs eclipse socialization and autonomy. As hard as it is for those of us with able-bodied children to allow our children to grow up, it can be even more emotionally harrowing for parents of those with disabilities.
As a result, many with disabilities don’t begin to explore their true independence until they are in their 20s, most often facilitated by peer groups who are more accepting at that age of those with disabilities than when everyone was in their teens.
The question then becomes, how do both the parent and the child with the disability deal with the child’s late explorations of socialization and autonomy? After all, it’s one thing to set a 9:30pm curfew for an able-bodied 13-year-old where the parent and child roles are clearly defined, but how do a parent and child with a disability cope with such a situation when the “child” is 23?
The answer is, both the parent and adult child with a disability must be especially cognizant of the situation. The fact is, an adult child with a disability who’s lived a notably sheltered life is not emotionally a teenager or an adult, but somewhere in-between. Most teenagers develop peer socialization incrementally, and that slow, boundary-setting process evolves one’s decision-making skills based on years of social experience – it builds the protection mechanisms of judgment over time. Put simply, healthy teens don’t go from junior high to a drunken fraternity party overnight; rather, they gain social experience slowly, from hanging out with friends to dating, progressing year by year toward more mature social experiences, which then gives them judgment at hand when needed.
Yet, some with disabilities can find themselves with very limited social experience until, say, college, where they are suddenly in very adult situations, without the prior social experience needed for proper judgment. In this way, outsiders who say that a parent of a 23-year-old with a disability shouldn’t be concerned or involved in the adult child’s decisions may be overlooking the reality that the 23-year-old may still be developing his or her social experience and judgment, and requires a guidance that his or her peer group typically does not at such an age. Therefore, those with disabilities – and outsiders, as well – sometimes need to recognize that what may seem like an overbearing parent may, in fact, be a parent who’s especially wise and well-meaning, recognizing that the adult child with a disability still needs guidance at an older age.
Of course, a wise and well-meaning parent of an adult child with a disability must also recognize the importance of allowing his or her child to develop autonomy during the teen and young adult stages. Again, it’s easy for parents to hang on to the role of caregiver and guardian of a child with a disability so tightly that they overlook the child’s necessity for social experience and autonomy well into their child’s adulthood. However, as a parent of any child, while we must first ensure our child’s general safety, we must also allow his or her personal growth within appropriate boundaries, letting him or her earn his or her independence from us one decision at a time, disability or not, 13 or 23.
Interestingly, adults who acquire a later-in-life disabilities and their parents can find themselves in a similar circumstance, where boundaries and roles can revert to a very parent-child relationship, even though the adult child may be, say, 40. It’s a difficult situation when an adult child returns home with a disability, needing parental care. How, then, does an autonomous adult re-merge with his or her parents’ household, and how do the parents accept the adult child’s entirety of adulthood while providing physical care and emotional support?
In two words, it’s difficult. However, it’s not an impossible balance. Again, boundaries must come into play. The adult child must recognize and respect his or her parents’ concern and love, while the parents must likewise recognize and respect the adult child’s autonomy. Surely, a parent-child dynamic will always be present, but boundaries of adulthood – peer-to-peer – must be maintained, as well.
Mutual respect and boundaries, then, are vital between parents and adult children with disabilities, no matter if it’s life-long or later-in life disability. And, in my experience, when mutual respect and healthy boundaries aren’t maintained, the consequences can be catastrophic to all individuals involved. I’ve known many young adults with disabilities who, due to lack of social experience, and against good judgment and parental advice, have landed themselves in very harmful situations, from as common as simply making poor life choices, to as severe as being in abusive romantic relationships based on unresolved disability-related social insecurities and naivety. I’ve also known parents so overly involved in their adult children with disabilities’ lives – such as showing up on the child’s honeymoon – that they’ve either stagnated their children’s emotional growth, or destroyed the parent-child relationship altogether. Therefore, it’s critical that families address the realities of a child maturing with a disability via great awareness, where both the parent and adult child recognize their own roles and boundaries, as well as respect that of the other person.
Certainly, teens and young adults with disabilities are just like all others – they are diverse, where some socially mature sooner, while others later, some mastering social intuitiveness, while others struggle, needing guidance. However, it’s vital that both adults with disabilities and their parents recognize that there can be delayed social experience based on disability – due to physical limitations and remaining social stigmas – where one with a disability may still require responsible parenting into one’s young adulthood and beyond. For these reasons, when we hear of a young adult with a disability struggling to gain autonomy from his or her parents, let us not merely write off the parents as overbearing and unreasonable, but let us wonder whether the young adult truly has the social experience to appropriate handle a given circumstance? After all, it could simply be that the parents are wise enough to know how to best guide their child into adulthood, with the ultimate goal of healthy autonomy, no matter if it’s at age 23 instead of 13.


text:
The NEA reciprocating compressor unit is an important part in the entirety of a customer’s process engineering and production facility. Therefore the compressor unit needs to be planned, designed and engineered in a proper way in order to ensure sustainable functionality.
The 3D CAD software is used during the complete NEA sales and engineering process, starting form the first proposal in the project phase up to the training of user personnel when commissioning the delivered unit on-site.
Beginning with a P& I diagram, the CAD operator designs the layout. Already at the project phase, the client is supported with information regarding tie in points of gas and auxiliary systems and the dimensioning of compressor buildings or further facilities. During contract handling, a three dimensional realistic visualization of the pipe routing and checking possible collisions is part of the CAD designer’s daily work.
All NEA Group Sales & Application centres create small sized data files of the compressor plant design. Together with a small (free) graphic software which is easy to handle, these files are available for all customers. It makes life easier, since the client can see and walk through his new compressor unit on his own computer long before delivery of the hardware. Even auxiliary units such as closed cooling water or lube oil skids or details of individual parts are efficiently visualized. The benefit of this interaction between customer and NEA is a well designed and engineered product according to operational safety aspects and the client’s requirements and specifications. Customer support is continued on-site during training sessions for the owner’s personnel as part of commissioning work.

domain: design


text:
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Procter & Gamble Co.'s purchase this month of Natura Pet Products took a lot of people by surprise -- some analysts had actually expected that P&G might be closer to divesting its own pet brands rather than acquiring new ones. But it also caught unawares many independent pet-supply retailers who are expressing a dim view of the deal on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
Some are even threatening to drop the affected brands once the deal closes -- a potentially big problem for P&G, since observers of its pet business believe a key attraction of the deal was its distribution channel of independent pet stores.
P&G pegs sales of Natura at more than $100 million, but one person familiar with the industry said Natura's six brands have combined sales of $175 million to $200 million, which likely would have netted a purchase price of $450 million to $500 million. Overall, P&G's pet business likely has sales of under $2 billion globally (the company doesn't break those figures out separately), including billion-dollar-plus Iams and Eukanuba.
The six brands in the Natura deal include Innova, Evo, California Natural, Healthwise, Mother Nature and Karma. They're positioned respectively as holistic, grain-free, for sensitive stomachs, balanced nutrition, healthy snacks and organic.
A P&G spokesman said in an e-mail that some independent retailers have expressed concerns, which he called "completely understandable given we are limited in what we can share and say" prior to closing, which is expected by next month. He said P&G is "fully committed to Natura's independent pet specialty retailers" and sees "significant opportunities for growth" in the channel, but "can't comment on specific future plans."
Having a hard time with independent retailers isn't new for P&G in pet care. The company has faced trouble with them since its move of the flagship Iams brand into mass retail in 2000.
But what is relatively new is such trade disputes spilling into social media, which give a bigger bullhorn to independent owners who number more than 5,400 by some estimates and already had influence with their relatively upscale and health-conscious customer base.
The operator of a Gainesville, Fla., store named Earth Pets Organics posted on Facebook and Twitter recently, "I was told by a bully P&G exec that Earth Pets will go out of business if we stop selling Natura Pet Products." Earth Pets didn't return a call for comment, and the P&G spokesman called the assertion of the threat "nonsense."
"We are in touch with several of Natura's customers," he said, "including Earth Pet Organics. But again, we are not in a position to discuss future plans, and we would never make such a statement."
Ric Sommons, owner of the three-store Dolittle's chain in Charleston, S.C., posted a different solution on his blog, Dolittle's Blog (http://bit.ly/9Vgfia). He noted that Natura makes up 50% of his pet-food sales that "I cannot just kick out the door." But he said he would compile a list of "Bad in the Bowl" ingredients and remove any products found to contain those.
Similar backlash in 2007
Natalia Foster, owner of Healthy Products Colorado, posted on Twitter that she will remove Innova and Evo from her stores upon deal closing. She said in an interview that Iams and Eukanuba changed their formulas after P&G bought them, and some dogs didn't tolerate the new kibble. P&G also took the products to mass retail and the big-box pet chains Petco and Petsmart, which she said lower prices below levels where stores like hers can compete.
P&G has changed ingredients on Iams and Eukanuba over the years "but for the better," the spokesman said. "We've never compromised product quality ... and we will not do that on the Natura brands."
A few independents do say they might drop Natura products, he said, "But we have heard from countless others that they look forward to hearing ... our plans." The reaction was anticipated, and he said the company believes it will win over the retailers post-closing.
Michael Hoye, a consultant and CEO of North American Consumer Products, which acquires and operates package-goods brands, said independents, whose prices run 20%-25% higher than big-box pet chains and as much as double those of Walmart or club stores, get priced out of carrying brands that move to other channels. Mars, he said, faced a similar backlash from independents after it bought Nutro in 2007.
Given that P&G has six new brands, he said the most likely strategy will be to take one or more to big-box pet chains and one or more to mass retail, leaving some exclusively for independents.
While pricey, he said grain-free and other natural/holistic products have fared well of late despite recession, even as Iams and Colgate-Palmolive Co.'s Hill's Science Diet have seen volumes decline, particularly amid price hikes.
The 2007 pet-food recall, from which Iams and Eukanuba have had some trouble bouncing back, got many consumers to focus more on ingredients and avoiding grains and glutens, adulterated versions of which were linked to dog and cat deaths.

domain: economics


text:
It’s a fact that we are becoming a “nation of renters”. The percentage of households that rent their home has skyrocketed from 31.2% in 2006 to nearly 37% today. The last time the rate of rentals hit that level was in 1965. So why are so many Americans renting today, and how does this – and other factors – bode well for apartment investing going forward?
The aging of the Baby Boomers
There are 10,000 “Baby Boomers” (those born between 1946 and 1964) retiring each day in the U.S. This giant age group is transitioning from homeowners to home renters as they downsize and invest their capital in income-producing assets rather than a smaller home. This is the largest demographic group in the U.S., and their sheer mass is a huge powerhouse behind apartment demand. And this trend is projected to continue for decades.
Lower capital to invest by younger generations
The second largest demographic group in the U.S. are the “Millennials” (those born between 1981 and 1996). This generation is lacking sufficient capital to buy a home, thanks to giant student debt as well as lower job incomes and simply the timing of the 2007 Great Recession. The Millennials, unlike the Baby Boomers, are moving into apartments based on economic necessity, and this does not appear to be ending in the future.
The lack of desire to own
Beyond economic forces, there is also a fundamental shift in the thinking behind the “American Dream” of home ownership. Across America, many people are no longer seeing the importance of buying a home and prefer to rent as a lifestyle choice. The reasons include no interest in maintaining their dwelling, the freedom to move at will without having to sell their home, and general lack of belief in the concept of continual home value appreciation.
The end of the stigma against renting
At one point in American history – roughly the 1940s to 1960s – there was a common conception that all successful people owned their homes and those who were not as successful rented. That stereotype was advanced in the media and politics and was part of the reason for the giant expansion of the single-family home market during this period. However, in recent years that stigma wall has come down due to the fact that many of the most luxurious properties constructed in recent years are all rentals – everything from expensive high-rises to beach-front dwellings. There is no longer the association of rentals and lesser properties, and this allows everyone to feel free to rent without any negative connotation.
Apartment investing has benefitted from some unique shifts in U.S. demographics, as well as cultural changes in how we see renting as a lifestyle choice. These are megatrends that will be around for decades, and are extremely positive for all apartment properties.

domain: sociology


text:
Laurence Fishburne is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He was born on July 30, 1961 in Augusta, Georgia to Hattie Bell and Laurence John Fishburne, Jr. His parents divorced when he was very young and he moved to Brooklyn, New York with his mother while visiting his father once a month. He graduated from Lincoln Square Academy in New York but never studied acting formally. He received his first role in 1973 on a television soap opera “One Life to Live”. As a child actor, he named himself “Larry Fishburne” and only began to use his full name as an adult. His most notable childhood performance was the role of a young boy who witnessed a police shooting in the 1975 American drama film “Cornbread, Earl and Me”. In 1976, at the age of 14, he received a supporting role on the hit 1979 film “Apocalypse Now”. Filming for the movie actually began in 1976 when Fishburne was just 14 years old and he apparently lied about his age to get the part. The movie, however, took so long to produce that Fishburne was 17 years old by the time of it was finished.
During the 1980s, Fishburne made several television and theatre appearances and worked other jobs such as club bouncer at punk rock clubs. Some of his roles included a minor role on Steven Spielberg’s critically acclaimed film “The Color Purple”, a role in the 1984 movie “The Cotton Club” and a recurring role on the children’s television show “Pee-wee’s Playhouse”. Some of his theatre performances include Short Eyes in 1984, and Loose Ends in 1987, both produced at Second Stage Theatre in New York City. In 1990, he starred in the crime thriller film “King of New York” also starring acclaimed actors Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes and Steve Buscemi. In 1991, he followed this up with “Boyz n the Hood” starring alongside Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Angela Bassett. The following year he won an Emmy Award for his performance in the opening episode of a brief television drama TriBeCa as well as a Tony Award for the play Two Trains Running.
In 1993, Fishburne received an Oscar nomination for playing the role of Ike Turner in “What’s Love Got to Do With It” – an American biographical film based on the life of the singer Tina Turner. His most famous role to date was that of Morpheus starring alongside Keanu Reeves, in the 1999 smash hit sci-fi movie “The Matrix”. Fishburne has also done a number of voice over roles such as narrating the 2007 movie “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” as well as providing the voice of the character Silver Surfer in the film “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”. Fishburne has also done a number of television roles such as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” for which he was nominated for several awards.
Fishburne married an actress named Hajna O. Moss in 1985 with whom he has two children. The couple divorced in the 1990s and Fishburne later remarried the actress Gina Torres in 2002 with whom he has one daughter. He is a UNICEF ambassador and has been awarded the key to the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts by the governor Kenneth Reeves, who has declared February 24 as “Laurence Fishburne” day in the city. Fishburne lives in Hollywood with his wife and daughter.


Infiniti released pricing and range details for the 2018 Q50 four-door sedan which features a refreshed exterior and interior among other updates.
In total there will be 12 different versions of the 2018 Infiniti Q50, featuring four powertrains and the choice between rear- and all-wheel drive. The new range also gives customers the option between Luxe and Sport models, which are priced similarly.
The new versions are part of the company’s new global grade naming structure that includes Pure, Luxe, Sport and the range-topping Red Sport 400. There is also a new exterior color option, Mocha Almond, added to the Q50’s palette.
The 2018 Q50 also establishes greater differentiation between different trim levels, with the more powerful 3.0t Sport and Red Sport 400 getting a more angular front bumper with wider and lower air intakes for a sportier look.
Inside the facelift adds stitching around the instrument panel, a new leather shift knob and steering wheel, spinal support seats and Infiniti’s InTouch services. The 2018 Infiniti Q50 also comes with plenty of driver assistance systems, including Active Lane Control, Intelligent Cruise Control, Distance Control Assist, Backup Collision Intervention, Blind Spot Warning and Intervention, Lane Departure Warning and Prevention, Forward Emergency Braking, and Predictive Forward Collision Warning.
The engine range kicks off with a turbocharged 208hp 2.0-liter engine, followed by the twin-turbo 3.0-liter VR-Series V6 that’s available with 300hp and 400hp. There is also a hybrid version with a combined output of 360hp, for strong performance and good fuel economy. All engines are mated to a seven-speed automatic transmission.
Pricing kicks off at $34,200 for the entry-level 2.0-liter model, with the most expensive of the range being the 2018 Q50 Red Sport 400 AWD which is priced at $53,000.


text:
Food2Fork makes it easy to find great recipes.
Search by name or ingredients. View Top Socially Ranked Recipes.
Sausage and Cheddar Buttermilk Biscuit Balls
- pounds pounds
- 3 ounces, weight 3 ounces, weight
- 2 ounces, weight 2 ounces, weight
- 3 cups 3 cups
- 8 cups 8 cups
- 1- cup 1- cup
- cups cups
- 1 Tablespoon 1 Tablespoon
- 2 cups 2 cups
Directions:View on Tasty Kitchen
Why don't we display directions?