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There are many reasons more institutional investors and corporations implement an OCIO mandate, says a study from Cerulli Associates. Institutions frequently cite a lack of internal resources or a greater interest in sharing fiduciary responsibilities. Another reason is the need for faster decision-making and implementation of investment decisions in increasingly complex and fast-moving capital markets.
Cerulli explores demand for OCIO services. In the most recent issue of The Cerulli Edge research report, the analytics firm predicts much of the long-term growth in the OCIO market will come from non-pension clients with less than $500 million in assets.
“A broader array of institutions with significant pools of assets will increasingly call upon asset managers to take on greater responsibilities, implement more complex strategies, and better align their interests with that of the institution in a more objectives-based approach,” explains Alexi Maravel, associate director at Cerulli. “Asset managers need to consider their level of preparedness to address asset owners besides defined benefit plans.”
Cerulli asserts that managers of all sizes need to evaluate their resources and determine their niche to be well positioned for growth in the OCIO market. The firm expects more interest from clients looking to find risk management, asset management, investment selection and trust services from one provider: an OCIO.
The report finds OCIO assets are hovering around $1 trillion worldwide. While OCIO use is growing, the business is still relatively small compared with institutional consultant hiring activity across other types of mandates. There were 22 OCIO mandates awarded during the first 11 months of 2013, totaling $39.9 billion, compared with 13 mandates totaling $10.3 billion during the same period in 2012. Consultants and dedicated OCIO providers received the majority of those assets, the report shows.
Other key findings in the report include the following:
- Cerulli contends that customized OCIO service offerings benefit asset managers that have mandates as part of an outsourced relationship. The odds of retaining assets remains higher under a customized arrangement should the institution terminate its OCIO agreement.
- Consultants polled expect the most significant growth for total portfolio support from nonprofit (71%), health care (43%), Taft-Hartley (46%), and corporate defined benefit (43%) clients. More business is also expected from private defined benefit plans (21%), defined contribution plans (15%), and insurance general accounts (14%).
- The challenge for investment consultants offering discretionary OCIO services will be moving beyond providing investment advice and making recommendations to actually executing decisions with a proven track record of success.
The report also predicts that during the coming years, the institutional outsourcing trend will continue to evolve and steadily expand. This situation presents opportunities for OCIO providers to gain market share, especially those advisers that can differentiate themselves by establishing a niche to support a particular client need.
More on how to obtain Cerulli’s most recent report, along with its table of contents, is available here.

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Expert authors summarize state and local government revenue sources from real estate taxes, personal property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, license fees, and special assessments. Text examines state and local government expenditures, including budgetary requirements, collective bargaining, employee salaries, spending limits, and school finance requirements. State and local government debt financing and capital expenditures are also discussed.


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H.P. Lovecraft (a new discovery...just At The Mountains of Madness to go...)
Plan For Chaos by John Wyndham. Weird. Gumshoe noir-meets-Boys From Brazil-meets-Nazi UFOs.
H.P. Lovecraft is breathtaking - strange how most people I meet have never heard of him. I read and re-read his books since I was like 14... anyway, glad to see I'm not the only one!

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Make with us a Script in Normandy and discover this fascinating region, full of natural and historical beauties besides a good table.
With 600 kilometers of coastline, in Normandia reserves a universe of traditions just a few kilometers from Paris.
As sights invite the contact with nature and to walk in the local forests, parks and gardens.
The best known of them is undoubtedly Giverny's, immortalized by the impressionist painter Claude Monet.
The land occupied by Gauls and Viking absorbed the legends and customs of these peoples in their culture and we note this in Rouen.
O Mont Saint-Michel, with its more than a thousand years of architecture, is a medieval walled village inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Marked by wars and invasions, Normandy has already integrated the Anglo-Norman kingdom for more than two centuries during the Middle Ages.
It was the scene of a turning point for Allied forces to free Europe from the German invasion during the summer of 1944.
Several cemeteries and monuments, such as the Caen Memorial, tell the story of the Day D and the Battle of Normandy.
Thanks to their cheeses, cider and calvados, a type of apple based cachaça.
The region is in western France and in Script in Normandy of two days, we can discover:
- the incredible cliffs of Etretat
- Rouen, the city where Joan of Arc was condemned and executed and which also houses a beautiful Cathedral
- to know "in loco" crucial places for the victory of the allies in the second world war the landing beaches
- the charm of Honfleur and its port
- the charm of the seaside resorts of the early 20th century in cities like Deauville
- cities of faith like Lisieux where St. Tereza of Lisieux lived and died.
- we will sleep in Mont Saint Michel away from the flow of tourists
We Have a Lot of Flexibility on the Road Map and We include other cities in the region through consultation.

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- Style Fine art, fine food, fine wine
- Setting Boho St James fishing village
In the breezy seaside village of St James, quietly refined Rodwell House is the ideal place to stay if you want to escape Cape Town's tourist bustle. Lovingly restored to its parquet-floored, marble-columned, clipped-lawn glory, this poised 1930s mansion houses an elegant boutique hotel, an impressive collection of 20th-century art, a huge wine cellar and two passionate hosts, who will do their utmost to give you ‘whatever you want’.
Need to know
- Rooms Eight: seven suites and one double room.
- Rates Double rooms from $168.10 (ZAR1,737), excluding tax at 14 per cent.
- More details Rates include breakfast.
- Facilities Gardens, courtyard, gym, library, wine cellar, boules pitch. In rooms: plasma-screen TV/DVD player, complimentary WiFi, tea/coffee and minibar, underfloor heating in bathrooms.
- Poolside The beautiful pool is fed by a mountain spring, and there are chaises longues to stretch out on; you can also walk down to the tidal pools below the gardens for an invigorating saltwater swim.
- Check–out 11am. Check-in, 2pm, but flexible subject to availability. Guests arriving early or leaving late can use the day shower and the gym.
Children Well-behaved children welcome; it’s not ideal for toddlers. Under 12s stay in their parents’ room for R500 per night. Babysitting can be arranged with 24 hours’ notice and costs R100 per hour.
- Also Personal training, private yoga, beauty treatments and a variety of sports activities can be arranged. The property is non-smoking and has a silent-mobile policy.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms Most rooms have balconies or terraces, as well as oversized beds, twin sinks, freestanding baths big enough for two and walk-in showers; prices reflect room size, but none are really small. Our top picks include the Rodwell Suite for its sea-view balcony and antique leather recliners, or Kalk Bay for its open-plan bathroom, entered through an arched wooden door – both are romantic; and smaller, quieter Mountain, which is very pretty and sunlit in the afternoon. The Proprietors is the executive suite, set in the gardens with an internal courtyard.
- Packing tips Bathrobes, slippers and luxury toiletries are already taken care of. Make a note of friends’ favourite wines; Rodwell House has an amazing cellar and can ship what you buy.
- Also The kitchen can prepare you a fabulous picnic for two to take down to the beach (or just to the pool if you’re feeling lazy). A hire car’s not a bad idea – you’re about 40 minutes from the centre of Cape Town.
Food and drink at Rodwell House
- Hotel restaurant Graham Isaacson uses whatever’s freshest from the sea or kitchen garden that day for his Med-style dishes. You'll mostly eat outside, but the dining room, Electric Orange, is a pumpkin-coloured, teak-floored corker hung with stunning canvases.
- Dress code Whatever you feel like (which may well be foppish Keith Floyd casuals or an arty smock-top ensemble).
- Top table Sit at the communal terrace table near the barbecue, and owners Robin and Joanne may join you to share their passion for food, wine and art. Private tables can also be set up in the light and airy lounge.
- Last orders Pretty flexible; you’ll be asked whether you’re eating at the house in the morning. When the barman leaves, you’ll be trusted to help yourself – and Joanne has been known to rustle up midnight snacks.
- Room service You can order special wines or champagnes to be brought to your room if you don’t find what you fancy in your minibar; light bites are available 9am–10pm.
- Hotel bar The Art Bar is an architect’s pet project in contemporary concrete, with soft leather couches and iPod docks. Beyond is the pièce de résistance: a 15,000-bottle cellar and tasting room. Pull up a bright green chair and let Robin wow you with wines.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More details

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At the black market where forex is traded unofficially, the Naira remained stable against the dollar to close at N463/$1.
The naira remained stable against the dollar at the I&E window, closing at N385.75/$1.
Nigeria’s inflation rate has risen to 13.71% as prices jump in almost every sector.
The Federal government has approved the reopening of orientation camps for the National Youth Service Corps NYSC on November 10. The NYSC camps were shut in...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that the National Assembly will make provision for compensation for families of those killed...
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presented a budget of ₦13 trillion to the joint arm of the National Assembly for approval for the 2021 fiscal...
High crypto trade charges happen on the grounds that the Ethereum blockchain is an important however restricted asset. Trades and their clients go after this significant...
It is important that we reflect on how we got here to enable us to work TOGETHER to get to where we aspire to be.
Gold futures prices settled at $1.866.30/ounce, showing a loss of 0.56% at the last trading session of the week.
On the 22nd of September 2020, 176 new confirmed cases were recorded in Nigeria.
NECO has put examination activities on hold due to the curfew and closure of schools by some state governments.
Ripple is considering moving its headquarters overseas due to the complexity in U.S regulations.
To truly diversify from oil and create proper value, agriculture must give birth to an industry.
The market breadth index was positive with 20 gainers against 10 losers.

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New polling revealed the economy has become more important to voters in the run-up to the midterm elections and Republicans are the party of choice to fix it. In a USA Today/Suffolk University generic party-preference poll, voters preferred Republicans 49%-45%.
That is a change from polling 100 days before the election in July when Democrats had a 44%-40% advantage over Republicans. The numbers are being driven by the ever increasing importance of the economy coupled with polling on abortion remaining about the same since the Dobbs decision.
According to the survey, American voters have a very pessimistic view of the economy. More than half, 53%, think we are in a recession, 18% think the economy is stagnate and 10% think it’s in recovery. In addition, a majority of Americans are changing habits like eating out less often and canceling or postponing vacations.
Meanwhile, abortion’s influence on voters has stayed relatively steady. In July, 15% of voters said it was their most important issue. Now, 18% of voters say the same. The number of voters saying the economy and inflation are the most important issues has increased six percentage points since that time.
While the economy is having a big impact when looking at the electorate with a wide angle, abortion is creating a significant difference in preference for independent men and women. Independent women favor Democrats over Republicans 51% to 40%, while independent men favor the Republicans over Democrats 57% to 35%. The polling indicates abortion is a big contributor to that gap.
“Had Roe v. Wade not been overturned, independent women may have voted for the GOP congressional candidate along with their male counterparts on strictly the issue of inflation and a wobbly economy,” Suffolk University Political Research Center Director David Paleologos said in the poll’s release. “Connecting the data points, independent women are venting their anger toward the Supreme Court by breaking with men and voting for the Democrat, despite the economy and other issues.”


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INTRODUCTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
The wrist is the area from the distal radius and ulna to the carpometacarpal joints. Wrist injuries are common, accounting for 2.5% of ED visits annually, and up to 25% of all sports injuries include the hand or wrist.1-3 Clinical diagnosis is often difficult, and even subtle injuries may lead to significant impairment if not properly diagnosed and treated. Management options vary from conservative to surgical, so an understanding of the functional anatomy, mechanisms of injury, and clinical evaluation is needed for proper diagnosis and treatment.
The wrist is a complex unit with articulations among the eight carpal bones and the distal radius and ulna that allows for flexion, extension, and radial/ulnar deviation.4,5 Not only does it consist of the carpal bones, radius, and ulna, but it also contains distal radioulnar joint, triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC), and thumb radial and ulnar collateral ligaments. The wrist has dual blood supply, although most carpal bones do not. The radial nerve provides dorsal sensation and wrist/finger extension, the median nerve volar sensation to the first three digits and wrist/finger flexion, and the ulnar nerve sensation to the palm and last two digits and hypothenar and fourth/fifth digit lumbrical movement.4,5
The distal radius is the only forearm bone that articulates directly with the carpal bones (scaphoid and lunate). The distal radius has three articular surfaces: radiocarpal, distal radioulnar, and the triangular fibrocartilage complex. The radiocarpal surface is concave and tilted in two planes. It has an ulnar inclination, or tilt, of 15 to 25 degrees in the frontal plane, and a volar tilt of 10 to 15 degrees in the sagittal plane (Figure 269-1).4,5 The ulna is separated from the carpal bones by the triangular fibrocartilage complex, the main stabilizer of the distal radioulnar joint, on its distal end. The triangular fibrocartilage complex forms a smooth, continuous, ulnarly directed extension of the distal radial surface, and supports the lunate and triquetrum on the distal ulna. The distal radius has a concave sigmoid notch at its ulnar aspect that articulates with the curvature of the ulnar head, which permits wrist rotation during pronation/supination of the forearm.6 The distal radioulnar joint is also supported by dorsal and volar radioulnar ligaments that merge with the triangular fibrocartilage complex.7
Wrist. Normal posteroanterior (PA) view. 1. The carpal bones are arranged in two rows forming three smooth arcs (Gilula lines). 2. The carpal bones are separated by a uniform 1- to 2-mm space. 3. The scaphoid (S) is elongated. 4. The radius has an ulnar inclination of 13 to 30 degrees. 5. The radial styloid projects 8 to 18 mm. 6. Half the lunate articulates with the radius, with equal length over the ulna (neutral ulnar variance). C = ...

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Automotive service technicians and mechanics, typically known as service technicians or service techs, examine, preserve, and restore cars and lightweight vans. Most EV homeowners probably don’t even know where the motors are in their cars, or what number of there are, or what they look like. There’s no mention of a 2017 standard-vary Model 3. That appears to clinch the concept we cannot see any of those vehicles until 2018. Be taught on late mannequin vehicles donated by automotive producers. As a graduate of this Affiliate of Applied Science Degree program, you’ll enter the trade with the confidence of obtaining a career degree after receiving personal steerage from Ohio Technical College instructors who are all trade-skilled professionals.
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20 Games Like Family Feud: Decades()
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Scene It? Box Office Smash brings movie and trivia fans together for a game that provides hours of laughter as you challenge your friends and family to see whose movie knowledge reigns supreme reliving some of your favorite moments from the silver screen. Continuing the franchise's social and engaging trivia experience on the Xbox 360, Scene It? Box Office Smash features all-new questions, more high-definition (HD) movie clips and several new puzzle types, giving you a trivia game overflowing with images as well as audio and video clips from hundreds of films you know and love.
This collection includes five same-room multiplayer party games.
A trivia game YOU DON’T KNOW JACK 2015 (1-4 players).
A bluffing game Fibbage XL (2-8 players), with over 50% more questions added to the original hit game Fibbage.
A drawing game Drawful (3-8 players).
Word Spud (2-8 players).
Lie Swatter (1-100 players).
Players play using their phones, tablets, or computers as controllers.
Follow in the footsteps of one of the biggest internet stars, PewDiePie, by creating your very own pocket Tuber in PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator! Will you become the biggest, baddest Tuber ever in no time and kick PewDiePie out of his own throne?
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The first major update to RailWorks was RailWorks 2: Train Simulator, released on Steam on 18 October 2010 under the name RailWorks 2. Retail versions were released later that year. The new version contained a range of new features and enhancements, including enhanced menus, the new RS Cab Control driver interface and new RS Career System scenarios. Players could now earn Steam Achievements for completing scenarios, as well as compete and compare scores online via Steam Leaderboards. It also featured level crossing animations, among other improvements. RailWorks 2 featured the same routes and content as the original game, and only one new route: TestTraK, based on the Test and validation centre, Wegberg-Wildenrath, a German testing facility that is used to test the performance and driving characteristics of the trains. Contents in retail versions could vary in different countries to include local routes and locomotives. Owners of the original RailWorks received a free upgrade to the RailWorks 2 core technology via Steam platform.
Find out if you are Smarter Than A 5th Grader! Face Jeff Foxworthy's jokes as you try to answer more than 5,000 Game Time questions. Become a whiz kid in over 25 categories. Play like the show or try your hand in brand new Game Time modes including Three & Out and Schoolroom Showdown. Try your hand at Extra Credit mini games to boost your GPA. And if you think you're the smartest in the room, play against your friends and family in four-player challenges.
The charming community-building franchise returns for with Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The Nintendo 3DS entry into this popular franchise introduces a number of options new to Animal Crossing, including the ability to become the head of the village and boost its development, a way to install certain items in the village to make its characteristics more personalized for each player, and the ability to view homes of other players who are tagged through StreetPass connections.
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Basement is a strategy game, where you play as a desperate scientist who chose the wrong path in his life. That path seemed easy, but turned into a deadly one. You have no choice but to build the most effective enterprise and stay alive in a cruel world of illegal business.
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
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Robots cook, clean, service, and rule organize the world with precision and speed. Human occupations are now memories of the past; long gone are the blue collar jobs that ran the old world. Humans raised in our perfect automated society must not forget their useless ancient ancestors and history.
This is why JobBot was born. JobBot created Job Simulator to teach humans what it is 'to job'. All praise to JobBot, for he is the keeper of human history.
VR launch title for HTC Vive, Oculus Touch, and PlayStation VR. A tongue-in-cheek virtual reality experience for motion controlled VR platforms. In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.
The threequel to the party game phenomenon features the deadly quiz show Trivia Murder Party, the say-anything sequel Quiplash 2, the surprising survey game Guesspionage, the t-shirt slugfest Tee K.O., and the sneaky trickster game Fakin’ It.
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Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a vehicle simulation game developed and published by SCS Software for Microsoft Windows and Linux and was initially released as open development on October 19, 2012. The game is a direct sequel to the 2008 game Euro Truck Simulator and it is second video game in Euro Truck Simulator series. Set in Europe, the player can drive one of a choice of articulated trucks across a depiction of Europe, picking up cargo from various locations and delivering it. As the game progresses, it is possible for the player to buy more vehicles, depots, and hire drivers to work for them. Despite the name, players can also choose to deliver cargo in the USA.
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As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as RIOT – Civil Unrest places you in some of the world’s most fractious disputes.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 is a sports video game developed by PES Productions and published by Konami for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The game is the 16th installment in the Pro Evolution Soccer series.
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Railworks 3 is a train simulation game developed by RailSimulator.com. It is a successor to RailWorks and was released on 23 September 2011.
Railworks 3 was released on Steam on 23 September 2011. Owners of the original RailWorks were automatically upgraded by the Steam platform. There are two versions of the game, Train Simulator 2012 and Train Simulator 2012 Deluxe Edition, which included the Horseshoe Curve expansion pack for free, but can be purchased on Steam as separate downloadable content.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 is a football simulation game. It is the fifteenth edition of the Pro Evolution Soccer series. The game features improved artificial intelligence, dynamic match weather, larger set of player animations, new night time lightning and a revamped Master League.

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The future stars of basketball will take centre stage this weekend when the 2015 Under 18 Australian Junior Championships and Kevin Coombs Cup for Wheelchair Basketball get underway, in Ballarat, Victoria.
The Jayco Opals will convene in Gosford, north of Sydney later this month in preparation for a European Tour that will see the team play Serbia, Italy and World Championship silver medallists, Spain.
The countdown is on to the next event of 3X3 Nationals with Wollongong hosting street ball at its best April 11-12 at Crown Street Mall.
Basketball Australia CEO, Anthony Moore, is confident that strategies and procedures put in place following the Australian Sports Commission review of the Women’s National Basketball League, will usher in a dynamic and sustainable future for the sport domestically.
Nine Wattle Valley WNBL stars have taken the World Championship by storm, helping the Jayco Opals to a bronze medal, and coach Brendan Joyce thinks they’ll be “on a real high” when the new season tips off.
FIBA carried out an extensive anti-doping program in the lead-up and during its main events in 2014, with the results confirming that all players who participated are clean and reinforcing the fact that basketball is a low-risk doping sport.
The Jayco Australian Opals have won the Bronze Medal at the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women, dominating the host nation Turkey 74-44 in Istanbul, Turkey this morning.


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Speaking at the Rangasthalam Vijayotsavam event last night, director Sukumar personally thanked his assistants who toiled hard for the movie. The star director revealed that his long-time associate and Kumari 21F’s director Palnati Surya Pratap had sacrificed several offers to work on Rangasthalam.
Sukumar said that Surya Pratap was quite impressed with Rangasthalam’s script and decided to work on Rangasthalam even though he was offered to direct a few movies. “He sacrificed his own career for me. “I wish him all the very best for his future ventures,” said Sukumar.
Surya Pratap’s next movie will star his Kumari 21F’s hero Raj Tarun. Ravi Teja’s Nela Ticket producer Ram Talluri will bankroll the project soon under SRT Entertainments.
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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Prose Works. 1892.IV. Pieces in Early Youth
9. Little Jane
A second, third and fourth time were the glasses fill’d; and the effect thereof began to be perceiv’d in a still higher degree of noise and loquacity among the revellers. One of the serving-men came in at this moment, and whisper’d the barkeeper, who went out, and in a moment return’d again.
“a person,” he said, “wish’d to speak with Mr. Michael. He waited on the walk in front.”
The individual whose name was mention’d, made his excuse to the others, telling them he would be back in a moment, and left the room. As the shut the door behind him, and stepp’d into the open air, he saw one of his brothers—his elder by eight or ten years—pacing to and fro with rapid and uneven steps. As the man turn’d in his walk, and the glare of the street lamp fell upon his face, the youth, half-benumb’d as his senses were, was somewhat startled at its paleness and evident perturbation.
“Come with me!” said the elder brother, hurriedly, “the illness of our little Jane is worse, and I have been sent for you.”
“Poh!” answered the young drunkard, very composedly, “is that all? I shall be home by-and-by,” and he turn’d back again.
“But, brother, she is worse than ever before. Perhaps when you arrive she may be dead.”
The tipsy one paus’d in his retreat, perhaps alarm’d at the utterance of that dread word, which seldom fails to shoot a chill to the hearts of mortals. But he soon calm’d himself and waving his hand to the other:
“Why, see,” said he, “a score of times at least, have I been call’d away to the last sickness of our good little sister; and each time it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse or physician. Three years has the girl been able to live very heartily under her disease; and I’ll be bound she’ll stay on the earth three years longer.”
And as he concluded this wicked and most brutal reply, the speaker open’d the door and went into the bar-room. But in his intoxication, during the hour that follow’d, Mike was far from being at ease. At the end of the hour, the words, “perhaps when you arrive she may be dead,” were not effaced from his hearing yet, and he started for home. The elder brother had wended his way back in sorrow.
Let me go before the younger one, awhile, to a room in that home. A little girl lay there dying. She had been ill a long time; so it was no sudden thing for her parents, and her brethren and sisters, to be called for the witness of the death agony. The girl was not what might be called beautiful. And yet, there is a solemn kind of loveliness that always surrounds a sick child. The sympathy for the weak and helpless sufferer, perhaps, increases it in our own ideas. The ashiness and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eyeballs—what man can look upon the sight, and not feel his heart awed within him? Children, I have sometimes fancied too, increased in beauty as their illness deepens.
Besides the nearest relatives of little Jane, standing round her bedside, was the family doctor. He had just laid her wrist down upon the coverlet, and the look he gave the mother, was a look in which there was no hope.
“My child!” she cried, in uncontrollable agony, “O! my child!”
And the father, and the sons and daughters, were bowed down in grief, and thick tears rippled between the fingers held before their eyes.
Then there was silence awhile. During the hour just by-gone, Jane had, in her childish way, bestow’d a little gift upon each of her kindred, as a remembrancer when she should be dead and buried in the grave. And there was one of these simple tokens which had not reach’d its destination. She held it in her hand now. It was a very small much-thumbed book—a religious story for infants, given her by her mother when she had first learn’d to read.
While they were all keeping this solemn stillness—broken only by the suppress’d sobs of those who stood and watch’d for the passing away of the girl’s soul—a confusion of some one entering rudely, and speaking in a turbulent voice, was heard in an adjoining apartment. Again the voice roughly sounded out; it was the voice of the drunkard Mike, and the father bade one of his sons go and quiet the intruder.
“If nought else will do,” said he sternly, “put him forth by strength. We want to tipsy brawlers here, to disturb such a scene as this.”
For what moved the sick girl uneasily on her pillow, and raised her neck, and motion’d to her mother? She would that Mike should be brought to her side. And it was enjoin’d on him whom the father had bade to eject the noisy one, that he should tell Mike his sister’s request, and beg him to come to her.
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According to the American bank Goldman Sachs, Nigeria and Egypt will join the top 10 of the most powerful economies in the world by 2075.
Are Nigeria and Egypt the future locomotives of Africa? This is in any case the opinion of the bank Goldman Sachs. The American organization estimates, in its report “The Path to 2075”, that, in the medium or even long term, the two African states could become powerful economies. According to Goldman Sachs forecasts, by 2050, Nigeria and Egypt will join the top 15 of the world's greatest powers. A quarter of a century later, they would rank 5th and 7th respectively in the rankings. Today, none of the African countries has managed to break into the top 15.
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Wizz Air is to begin a new service between Italy and the Czech Republic with flights from Prague to Venice/Treviso from 20 September and operated three times a week. The new services will take the routes served from Ruzyne Airport to 15 in total.
Wizz Air launched in the Czech Republic in February this year and has been continuously adding routes and increasing frequencies on the existing ones. As announced previously, the airline will base two new Airbus A320s in the Czech capital.
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This is undoubtedly one of the news of the year: J ony Ive leaves Apple to open an independent company of which Cupertino’s company will be a client. The former head of design at Apple has wanted to be more prominent and independent by setting up his own company, although he will continue to participate in Apple’s projects, which is quite a relief because we already suffered from his temporary absence from the company with quite unfortunate designs.
No doubt Jony Ive has played a crucial role in Cupertino’s company, as he has been working in it for 30 years which is soon to be said. He has been the thinking head of numerous product designs and is of course considered to be one of the people responsible for the success of the company in recent years.
Tim Cook wanted to make some statements regarding this march through a press release that is published on the official website of Apple. The specific words were the following:
Jony is a singular figure in the world of design and his role in the Apple renaissance cannot be overstated, from the innovative 1998 iMac to the iPhone and the unprecedented ambition of Apple Park, where he has recently been putting so much of his energy and care. Apple will continue to benefit from Jony’s talent by working directly with him on exclusive projects, and through the continued work of the brilliant and passionate design team he has built. After so many years of working closely together, I am happy that our relationship continues to evolve and look forward to working with Jony in the future.
We have no knowledge of why Ive has made this drastic decision to leave the company. Perhaps her need to open her mind was one of the reasons as she has certainly been quite well looked after within the company or at least that is what has been tried to convey.
His work or has been recognized with countless awards and with the praise of customers of the products as we all remember the design of iMac 1998 or some iPhone that undoubtedly have gone down in history for being beautiful.
As we said, the relationship has not ended badly because although Jony Ive is going to set up an independent company, will continue to work closely with Apple on their projects so we can breathe easy that we will not see real nonsense in the line of design as his hand will still be present. Besides with Apple, Jony Ive hopes to work in many other projects of different nature opening his horizons beyond Apple, something we certainly understand.
In addition to Tim Cook’s words, in the press release announcing his departure Jony Ive also published some words that are as follows:
After almost 30 years and countless projects, I’m very proud of the hard work we’ve done to create a design, process and culture team at Apple that is unparalleled. It is stronger, more vibrant and more talented today than at any time in Apple’s history. The team will certainly thrive under the excellent leadership of Evans, Alan and Jeff, who have been among my closest collaborators. I have the utmost confidence in my fellow designers at Apple, who remain my closest friends, and I look forward to working with them for many years to come.
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In October, Brothers & Craft teamed up with GQ for the magazine’s How-To series spotlighting Nashville. Clay visited us at the Peter Nappi Studio to talk about where we’re from, where we’re going, and what “ti voglio bene” is all about.
One of our favorite things about living in Nashville is gathering friends and family in the shop to listen to Mickey, Bucky, Dave, Marco, and Jim. How many towns are there where guys from the bands of Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Robert Plant, and Paul Simon play the local boot store? Could we be luckier? Could their music make us happier? Could we love them more? Nope.
The musical roots of the south run deep. Many say Clarksdale, Mississippi is the very birthplace of the Blues. Home of famed bluesman McKinley Morganfield (a/k/a Muddy Waters), Clarksdale’s the place to go to learn everything there is to know about the earthy, vital, powerful sound that influenced Chuck Berry and Keith Richards. The same sound still beats today from Juke Joints that pepper the streets in this sleepy town. Come for a day or two and leave inspired. Stay at the Shack-up Inn for the full experience.
Visit the Delta Blues Museum for a full history behind legends like Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson and the tortured Robert Johnson. Eat some of the best BBQ you can imagine at Abe’s or Hick’s. And of course, let the music move you at Ground Zero Blues (Morgan Freeman’s), Red’s Lounge or Shack-up Inn’s Juke Joint Chapel. And if you want more, discover the whole Mississippi Blues Trail that runs from the border of Louisiana and winds its way to Memphis, Tennessee.
We are so excited to be hosting the release of Paul Burch’s new LP – Words of Love: Songs of Buddy Holly here at the studio tonight from 5-7pm! As a little teaser we asked Paul to share with us some of his favorite songs and musical influences. Here’s a taste…


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FOR canvassing a reduction in the number of lawmakers in the National Assembly, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, provoked the ire of the House of Representatives yesterday.
The House also directed two of its standing committees to jointly investigate allegations of corrupt practices, abuse of office and breach of code of conduct against the Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godsday Orubebe.
The lawmakers decried the failure of the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to issue a directive for the cash backing of the N300 billion which she announced a month ago had been released to Ministries, Departments and agencies (MDAs).
Besides, the House of Representatives’ Committee on Pensions Thursday threatened to issue an arrest warrant on Okonjo-Iweala, for her failure to honour invitations to meetings to discuss issues relating to the takeover of police pensions.
The lawmakers described Sanusi’s policies and suggestions as ‘hypocritical and unrealistic’ adding that Sanusi “is an economist with bias in political turbulence.”
At a retreat on capital market held in Warri, Delta State last Monday, Sanusi also suggested a 50 per cent reduction in the Federal Government’s work force.
But at a press conference at the National Assembly, Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Victor Ogene, said Sanusi enjoyed controversies and never practised what he preached.
According to him, the recommendation for the sacking of 50 per cent of the civil servants and reduction in the number of National Assembly members is in conflict with what Sanusi has done at the CBN.
Ogene said that Sanusi employed over 1,000 workers, pointing out that this raised CBN workers’ strength to 6,015 from a former workers’ strength of 5,023.
“Sanusi should have healed himself first, what he preaches in the public is inconsistent with what he does at CBN. He is an economist with bias in political turbulence,” Ogene stated.
Focusing specifically on claims by the CBN governor that the country does not need 109 senators and 360 House of Representatives members because they drain the national purse, the House Deputy Spokesman said that Sanusi was merely diverting the public’s attention from the real issue posing a threat to the economy.
Ogene stated that the CBN’s yearly budget doubled the budget of the whole National Assembly in 2011.
He stated: “Where the National Assembly budget is N150 billion, CBN spent N300 billion last year.”
Ogene said that it was regrettable that Sanusi would be campaigning for a job reduction when the nation was lamenting that millions of its youths were unemployed.
The House of Representatives’ direction to two of its standing committees to jointly investigate allegations of corrupt practices, abuse of office and breach of code of conduct against Orubebe was sequel to the adoption of a motion sponsored to the House by Kehinde Oluwasegun (Ogun State).
When asked to defend his motion, Oluwasegun alleged that some of the misdeeds of Orubebe included:
• the Hon. Minister has paid for so many phantom projects;
• the Hon. Minister is presently resident in a house at Mabushi District Abuja built and handed over to him by SETRACO, a construction company that doubles as his crony.
“I would end this debate by urging members of this august assembly to roundly support this motion mandating our committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes to investigate these very weighty allegations and make appropriate recommendations within 21 days.”
But the Deputy Speaker of the House, Emeka Ihedioha, who presided over yesterday’s session prevented debate on the matter and said that any debate on it would amount to pre-judgment.
Details of the allegations as contained in the motion read in parts: “The Hon. Minister’s failure to declare the said house in his assets declaration with Code of Conduct Bureau, a case of perjury if established.
“The Hon. Minister’s financial escapades and liaisons in Dubai and other corruption shelters overseas.”
Oluwasegun noted: “These weighty allegations were at first peremptorily rubbished and dismissed by the Hon. Minister as handiwork of his detractors and some mischief makers who were out for extortion. Since then, he has unfortunately laboured hard in the media to bury these revelations.
“But any time he comes up with his purported facts, they have been further proven to be mere tissues of lies by superior disclosure of more facts by the anti-corruption outfits.
“For instance, he posited that he was a sitting tenant at his Mabushi multi-billion naira home but searches from the Abuja Geographic and Information Services prove beyond reasonable doubt that the property is not only his but it is in his name.
“This single irrefutable fact establishes beyond reasonable doubt that the Hon. Minister refused to declare the said house in his assets declaration form which he made on oath.
“What is baffling Mr. Speaker is not allegation of corruption against the Hon. Minister but the fact that neither EFCC nor ICPC has deemed it fit to wade in.
“When it affected our members even on trumped up charges, we shielded none. It would amount to a great travesty if we do not do justice or ensure that justice is done in this matter. We cannot allow anti-corruption outfits to take our place as the legitimate voice of our over oppressed people.”
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Pensions observed that due to the takeover of the police pension, former Inspectors-General of Police Sunday Adewusi, Sunday Ehindero, DIG Akeredolu and several other police pensioners were yet to be paid.
The chairman of the committee, Ibrahim Bawa Kamba, who read the decision of the committee noted that “it is obvious that the minister was not ready to appear before the committee to explain why her ministry took over the police pension office without regard to the Pension Reform Act and oversight responsibility of the committee.
“We have been inviting the minister of finance over the problems of police pension. She has been holding the police pension and several police pensioners have died due to non- attendance despite the fact that the National Assembly appropriated money in the 2012 fiscal year.”
Kamba continued: “Following her refusal, the committee is going to issue a warrant of arrest on the minister if she fails to attend the next meeting. We are going to give her the last opportunity. What she is doing is bad.
“She has no right to neglect the call to appear before the committee; we are not happy about this development, many former IGs have not been paid, Sunday Ehindero and Sunday Adewusi and DIG Akeredolu have not been listed due to the takeover by the minister.
“We want to make it clear to Nigerians; we hate playing with people’s lives. We have received some petitions from the police that many police pensioners are not paid. We were bombarded with a series of complaints. Severally we have been writing to hear from the minister but she refused to heed our calls.”
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Three months to go: The search for the ultimate AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023™ Superfan starts now!
Kuala Lumpur: The three-month countdown to the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023™ has begun and to celebrate the thrilling road to the highly anticipated showpiece scheduled to kick off on 12 January 2024, the AFC has launched its latest initiative, the Superfan contest, to reward the ultimate AFC Asian Cup™ fan with exclusive prizes and experiences.
The contest is open to all football fans across the Continent and beyond. Participants can now submit their entries on www.the-afc.com/superfan or the AFC LIVE app to join the contest. Entrants can sign up on the website and app to submit their contest entry, which must consist of a one-minute video explaining why they are the ultimate AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023™ Superfan. Submissions will close on 26 October 2023.
Greatest AFC Asian Cup teams - Saudi Arabia (1980s-90s)
Kuala Lumpur: Over the past few decades, the AFC Asian Cup™ has witnessed some amazing teams with the Saudi Arabia side of the 1980s-90s the focus of our latest article.
When Japan defeated China PR to be crowned continental champions in 2004, that was the first AFC Asian Cup final not to feature Saudi Arabia for 24 years. This incredible stat is perhaps the best testament to how dominant the Green Falcons had been in the last part of the 20th century.
AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023™: Tickets for grandest ever showpiece on sale now! Prices start as low as QAR 25
Kuala Lumpur: Tickets for the most eagerly anticipated Continental celebration of Asian football – the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023™ – are now available online for purchase. Following the historic group stage performance by Asian teams at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, the focus of passionate fans across the globe will return to Qatar from 12 January to 10 February, 2024.
Spectators can book seats for any of the 51 matches that will take place in Qatar, which includes the opening and final matches at Lusail Stadium – an 88,000-seat venue that hosted the final match of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.


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The tour starts from the heliport in the Port of Motril towards Malaga to fly over this beautiful stretch of coastline, You will fly over Playa Granada Beach, with its golf course, and Villa Astrida, the holiday mansion of King Baldwin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium.From there you head to Salobrena, a beautiful whitewashed village with a medieval structure built around the wall and the Moorish castle, which crowns the village. The tour is continuing along the coast passing Almunecar, the tourist capital of the area, the Punta de la Mona with its beautiful marina, Playa del Muerto and its incredible mansions. Of course you will notice the unusually transparent waters, rock islets and a wonderful views of the bay of La Herradura.
Note: before the flight, you will be weighed in order to balance the helicopter and you will receive an initial briefing.
R-44 Clipper II helicopter
The heliport in Motril is the second private heliport authorized by AESA in Andalusia. It is located in a privileged environment, surrounded by mountains to the north (Sierra Nevada and Sierra de Lujar) and the Mediterranean Sea to the South. In fact, it is located by the water, so that take offs and landings are always done over the sea, enjoying spectacular views of the snowy peaks of Sierra Nevada, what makes it unique.


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JOLIET – Joliet City Council members, including two former opponents, said Monday they likely would support a renewed lease with the banquet operator at Union Station.
The council will vote at a later date on a proposed 10-year lease with Bussean Custom Caterers, which has operated out of the former train station since 2001.
The proposal got a favorable review from council members at their workshop meeting.
Councilman Jim McFarland, who said previously that the lease should be opened up for other proposals, said he now favors working out another agreement with Bussean.
“The only caveat that I would have is looking at a five-year lease rather than a 10-year lease,” McFarland said.
McFarland said he could support the lease after a market analysis done for the city by a private real estate broker. The analysis determined that a monthly lease of $9,651 “is more than fair to both parties,” City Manager Jim Hock said. Bussean has proposed paying $10,000 a month.
McFarland was alone in calling for the lease to be reduced to five years, although other council members said they could support a re-opener in the agreement allowing both parties to review the rent after five years.
An attorney for the banquet business said owner Jeffrey Bussean needs a 10-year lease to recoup investments planned for Union Station.
“He intends to invest at least a quarter-million dollars into the property, and those are investments that would stay with the property,” attorney George Schoenbeck told the council.
Hock said the lease, when completed, would be presented to a council committee before being brought back to the full council for a vote.
On May 28, a combined council committee voted 3-2 to open up the lease to proposals from other banquet operators. At that meeting, Mayor Bob O’Dekirk said the lease should be brought to the full council as soon as possible and suggested a vote there would be different.
Councilman Larry Hug also voted at the committee meeting to seek other bidders, but said then that he could be persuaded otherwise if a market analysis showed $10,000 a month was a good rate for the city. Hug said Monday that he could support a renewal of Bussean’s lease.
Salvation Army store
The council meets again Tuesday for its regular meeting when it will consider a special use permit for a Salvation Army store.
The Salvation Army wants to move into the Century Tile store, which is still in business at 1395 S. Larkin Ave. The 22,000-square-foot building was built in 1984 for Frank’s Nursery & Crafts, which later went out of business.
Hock noted Monday that Salvation Army formerly had a store in downtown Joliet, but the store was displaced in the early 1990s by the construction of Harrah’s Casino and a parking deck.


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For those who wish to know more, to find out more, about local history there are other places you can go . . . because we’re not the only ‘game in town’ as they say.
For instance there are museums in Grand Forks, Greenwood and Midway. The one in Grand Forks is the Boundary Museum and it has a website. The Greenwood museum has a Facebook page. As we become aware of the web presence of them we will link you to them.
The Boundary Museum also manages the city archives space in the bottom of city hall. You could go visit them on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays from 10AM to 3PM but if you don’t want to go down into the bowels of city hall to see what they are about because they have a facebook page. www.facebook.com/gfcityhall/
For those of you interested in the Mines of the area Frank Schlichting has been exploring them and recording videos of his exploits. You can view these on his youtube page here: http://bit.ly/BCMINES
Are you on Facebook?
You might want to check out the Boundary Heritage, History and Genealogy group or the Boundary Community and Museum Archives, Greenwood Museum & Visitor Centre and Lost Kootenays pages.
We will add more links as time and information pass our way.


Yes, there is such a thing as a free lunch!
On Friday, September 24, a respectable mix of general public and journalists came to the lobby of Cinemaxx Dammtor for Hamburger Delikatessen, the first in a series of lunchtime open discussions. Catered by Borchers of Eppendorf, those attending had a choice of fish or meatballs served up on a tiny salad plate with a glass of mineral water or champagne to wash it down. Seated in between two ladies very much my senior, I wondered why they perched on the bar stools of the front table. Neither knew who would be speaking but both knew about the free meal. I located press materials for them both, but these were quickly pushed aside after the announcement that lunch was served. At least the lady to my right was polite enough to actually listen to the animated discussion between actor Moritz Bleibtreu and director Fatih Akin (Gegen die Wand) about making films in Hamburg and why funding should be increased, not cut. Ayse Polat, the director of En Garde also spoke. The lady to my left bolted after lunch, still chewing.
Two days later, on September 26, Eva Hubert, head of the Hamburg Filmförderung, introduced Hark Böhm, our guest for lunch. Böhm is a Hamburg film director who founded the Hamburg Film School 12 years ago. This school just joined forces with the Hamburg Media School in the former Finkenau hospital building. The media and film schools promote different subjects, but Böhm sees advantages to this merger of art and business, as well as savings by sharing the rent. He was adamant that the city uphold its usual generous support of new films through the Filmförderung. “There is no sense teaching kids, if they can’t make a film, if their hard work is for nothing.”
There was a big crowd on September 28, since German actor Til Schweiger was on the agenda. He just recently moved from the U.S.A. with his American wife and four children to reside in Hamburg-Niendorf. Schweiger was a no-show, having decamped to the Baltic Sea. However, we were not disappointed to see actor Peter Lohmeyer, who just appeared in a cameo role in Süperseks and was a huge success in Das Wunder von Bern. Marketing German films was the topic and mashed potato and egg plus a drink was our free lunch. Lohmeyer blamed the press for making light of film news, burying them in the middle of the publications. His dream is to appear on the cover of a major magazine. And why don’t book stores sell DVDs? The press said that a film which opens in one or two cinemas with no accompanying celebrities in town is not news.
The technicians now have a year to repair their microphones in order to provide at least three that work well all the time, something that was lacking throughout these five days of snacking and talking (schnacken). In spite of technical problems, this was still a great, relaxed way in which to bring people together with film industry players for casual discussion, no matter what motivated people to come – food or famous people.


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These fun and lightweight pentagon earrings are created by hand sewing 140 glass bugle together with nylon thread. Individual colors come with either gold-filled or sterling silver ear wires as shown in photos. 2"L, .75"W.


“In the areas far from the front line, investors do not hesitate to come to Ukraine. Over the past four years, the investors have built and put into operation 207 new plants,” President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said on the air of Ukraine TV channel, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
According to the President, almost half a million people are currently working at these 207 plants.
The "lion's share" of the products manufactured at these plants is delivered to the EU, the Head of State added.
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A former Environmental Protection Agency regulator warns that while the Obama administration now has coal in its crosshairs, natural gas is next in line.
David Schnare cites a proposed rule on methane emissions as one of the ways President Obama and the EPA will clamp down on natural gas. The 33-year EPA veteran, who once sued utilities for coal-fired plants that didn’t meet Clean Air Act standards, is director of the Center of Energy and Environmental Stewardship at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy.
According to Schnare, as part of its “Clean Power Plan” rule that would largely put coal-fired power plants out of business, the EPA is contemplating forcing natural gas plants to increase their capacity from 46 percent to 70 percent to reduce carbon emissions by working them harder to replace older generation units that emit more carbon dioxide. This would lead to equipment failures as turbines designed for the lower workload could not endure a heavier one. Their carbon dioxide emissions would also be more regulated “at the very limit” of present technology.
“They’ve already started to pursue methane pollution, which the industry has been trying to control for a very long time, because that’s their product. The cost of running the drilling equipment, the pipelines and the plants themselves are being tightened.”
Testifying before a combined hearing of the public utility committees of the Mississippi House and Senate, Schnare, said the EPA would have “blood on its hands.” The rule will cost consumers nationally more than $360 billion and cost more than 60,000 lives.
Even if the Obama administration doesn’t pursue additional measures, besides the regulations on methane and plant efficiency, natural gas prices will increase as more coal plants are replaced or converted to burn natural gas. This will drive natural gas prices skyward and people will begin to see it on their utility bills no matter where they live.
Let’s take a look at New Englanders who got socked last week by a massive snowstorm, but that doesn’t compare to the financial pain electricity customers in the region are suffering through this winter.
Small business owner John York in Salem, New Hampshire, received his electric bill last Friday and was stunned by the fact his bill nearly quadrupled compared to this time last year, going from $675 for January 2014 to $2,432, even though his company’s energy usage had not changed. While York’s case may be dramatic, others in the region are also feeling the pain.
Electricity and heating costs have spiked in the six states stretching from Connecticut to Maine, even though natural gas prices across the country have remained consistently low. Why? New England doesn’t have enough pipeline capacity to service its energy users. Energy for many New England states used to come from a variety of sources, but coal and oil-fired plants have been shut down in recent years, due to Obama’s war on fossil fuels and new EPA regulations.
“We had a nuclear plant in Vermont, Vermont Yankee, that’s retiring, a coal plant in Massachusetts, Salem Harbor, that’s retiring, and with that, it’s basic economics: Fewer plants, less supply to meet demand, and there’s a price response,” Dan Dolan, president of the New England Power Generators Association, told New England Cable News last fall. As a result of the closures and new regulations, the region went from getting 15% of its energy from natural gas in 2000, to 46% in 2013.
Now with the EPA setting its sights on new regulations for natural gas, New England may wonder how they are going to pay future electric bills.


The 911 Speedster was based on the 911 Turbo Cabriolet, though normally aspirated, the 3.2-litre engine. One of the rarest of the 911 family, the Speedster was built during 1989 only.
With the registry, we help the enthusiasts and owners of the narrow/wide body Speedsters:
and to show the Speedster fans the beauty of all the cars in the registry.
Please help us to complete the registry.


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Gaia Brandt studied Fashion Design with Knitwear at Central Saint Martins College in London and has previously trained as a tailor. Following her graduation she found the brand GAIA in Copenhagen. Alongside her design practice she creates interiors in collaboration with her sister, photographer Kira Brandt.
Contact: +45 6080 4632 email@example.com
The eponymous label has a focus on bespoke knitwear and effeminate tailoring. The GAIA universe also features a passion for interiors and the objects within them. Her love for hidden details fostered by a desire to reinvent silhouettes, textures and fabrics, further shape the philosophy behind GAIA’s designs and interiors.
GAIAs designs and interiors are novel expressions alluding to a determined and unmistakable expressive look. Lavish knits are carefully fused with selected vintage fabrics, subtly influenced by GAIA’s curious exploration of the textural composition of materials, qualities and weaving structures. Juxtaposing hand painted fabrics with frayed hems, gold paper and silk ribbons with tree logs and candles conveys a quirky eye for detail, and a uniquely appealing color palette that emanate from her interior motifs and objects.
GAIA evolves around the crossroads between the old and new, of exposure and luscious detailing, not always submerging on the surface. She reinvents vintage fabrics, resuscitates found objects, and utilizes a skillful craftsmanship and rare inventiveness. Hidden and elegantly cherished, a poetic and mysterious picture of our torrential day-to-day is presented on the premises that inspiration can be found in the faintest items, objects and encounters in the world and its artistic canvas.
Participated in books: Fashion Scandinavia, Thames & Hudson/ Dorothea Gundtoft and Fashion Knitwear, Laurence King Publishing/ Jenny Udale


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So after what feels like an interminable search, the role of Nancy in the latest West End production of "Oliver!" has finally been cast, thanks to BBC-1's "I'd Do Anything". We were quite happy with the final two - Jodie and Jessie - so we weren't too bothered about who would win.
I'm not taking anything away from Jessie as a) she was too young for this part but she will get something out of it; and b) us redheads have to stick together; - but based on our memories of "Oliver!", Nancy was a mature, raw, rough and ready character and IMHO Jodie was so obvious for this role. Despite producer Cameron Mackintosh and "the Lord" Andrew Lloyd-Webber clearly expressing a preference for Jessie prior to the announcement of the final vote, it was Jodie who got the most viewers' votes and won the role of Nancy.
So ALW and CM are apparently none too pleased with the outcome. Well, lads, get over yourselves. The BBC has given you several weeks of free publicity for a show that will inevitably sell tickets regardless of who was chosen as Nancy, or Oliver for that matter. We liked Jessie - a lot - but she is too young for this particular part. If "Any Dream Will Do" taught us anything it was that prime-time Saturday night TV provides an amazing launchpad for theatrical careers and so Jessie will get her day on the big stage, whether as Nancy understudy/replacement or in another (maybe more) illustrious show. In the meantime ...congratulations to Jodie, I'm sure she will do very well. I'm just glad it wasn't Samantha, who left me cold throughout the bits of the series that I watched, and even at the final stages I still wasn't impressed.
Anyway....how good was it seeing Lee Mead and his coat of many colours again tonight???? Lucky old Denise Van Outen!!!