NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- It doesn’t matter if you’re a young family with plans to grow, or an older person with a desire to age in place, New Rochelle has a spot for you, according to a recent report by The New York Times .
According to the Times article, many folks who set out from Manhattan or Brooklyn for less urban shores are finding that the small city with a hometown feel – noted for its diverse population and varied housing stock – is a good fit.
Situated on the shores of the Long Island Sound, New Rochelle possesses suburban beauty in the form of parks and nature preserves as well as a healthy arts and culture scene, t he Times real estate report said.
For seniors, and others who no longer want to maintain rambling private homes, there are many apartments, The New York Times story said.
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Coldbay Adventures is based in the town of Coldbay Alaska on Private land, 3 miles from the World Famous Izembek Wildlife refuge & Izembek State Game refuge.
Our Hunting Areas Izembek/Coldbay Area Maps
Cold Bay Adventures trips start and finish on our property in Coldbay, our trucks, boats and decoys and equipment are yours to use anywhere you want to. The Town of Coldbay offers road access for non guided hunters on all state and federal lands including Izembek Refuge, Izembek State lagoon, Coldbay, Kinzarof lagoon and Russel creek as all residents and Nonresidents are allowed to Access and utilize all lands surrounding Coldbay accessible by rental boat or rental truck excluding Private or Native controlled land.
These hunting areas includes all uplands and wetlands on Izembek Federal Wildlife refuge along with all submerged tideland and open water controlled by the State of Alaska Izembek Game Refuge. Here is a map of the 2 areas it can be a little confusing although in general all the federal uplands above high tide are federally controlled, Where the State controls most of the water portions and submerged tidelands to the high tide mark.
Izembek wildlife Refuge Map
Izembek Lagoon is truly a Duck and goose hunters heaven and considered the #1 Alaskan hunt destination for diehard Waterfowl hunters.
So in short whatever kind of adventure you want we can help you with it. From layout boat hunts in open water to field sets for Canada’s. Or a trophy Emperor Goose or Harlequin we have it all in place and are ready to show our guest’s a great time. The entire staff will take good care of you in Coldbay and you are assured of a once in a lifetime adventure .
Waterfowl Perfection all in one Place. No other federal or state permits are required for Nonguided activities as its open to the public.
Any guided activities or Commercial transportation across the refuge requires a Permit. Coldbay Adventures does not Transport-or offers any commercial services inside The federal refuge as do not hold that permit.

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This section contains designs and development work from “Beware of the Guard”, my 2011 graduate film.
For my short film I wanted to create a conflict between two characters, inspired by the classic Hanna Barbera and Warner brothers shorts . I was also interested in using a fantasy medieval setting for my film, giving it that old fable feel.
This is a short trailer I made for my film that is found on the DvD, it proved successful during the degree show, allowing viewers to quickly get a taste of what the film is about.
As part of my hand for college in we had to show the development process of the film, so “The art of Beware of the Guard” book was made.
The following images and pages are taken from the book.
This is the poster used during its showing at the degree show.

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Priorities set out ahead of Prime Minister's Anti-Corruption Summit
6 May 2016
As Anti-Corruption Summit approaches, International Development Committee warns the UK must put its own house in order
The Committee is conducting an inquiry into how DFID and the wider UK Government, tackles corruption overseas.
Given the response to the inquiry and increased interest from the public following the release of the Panama Papers, a further evidence session is planned. The inquiry was launched in February 2016 and held an evidence session in March.
As world leaders join key figures from business and civil society in London for the Prime Minister's Anti-Corruption Summit next week, Stephen Twigg MP, Chair of the IDC, has written to the Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening MP, to draw her attention to some of the key issues raised by witnesses.
Read the full text of the letter: Tackling corruption overseas letter, 26 April 2016

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We will have some exciting news at the informational meeting on K12 Inc. that is scheduled for Sunday, March 17th from 2-5 p.m. at the Geneva First Congregational Church (321 Hamilton St.) in Geneva, IL!
In addition to hearing from Tennessee State Representative, Gloria Johnson about how k12 Inc. has hurt students and taxpayers in her home state of Tennessee, we will have a charter school expert by the name of Sharon Teefey to share knowledge on Illinois’ Charter Commission.
Teefey will be reporting that State Rep. Chapa LaVia (IL 83rd District) intends to initiate an amendment to address virtual charter schools. According to an e-mail from Rep. Chapa Lavia, she intends to file the following amendment in the house when they return to session.
(l) From April 1, 2013 through April 1, 2016 there shall be a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools with virtual schooling components which includes but is not limited to full-time online virtual schools and virtual blended schools. For the purposes of this subsection (l) virtual blended schools means a virtual school with in-person components.
This moratorium will give Illinois parents and lawmakers more time to study K12 Inc. and their questionable track record of performance.
An amendment is progress, and it shows that organizing works and we need to keep doing more of it!
If you want to support the fight against K12 Inc. and want to see this fight continue, please consider supporting NIJwJ financially.


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As an asset-based lender, United Finance specializes in a wide range of commercial loans and services to businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada with one goal in mind — to satisfy our customers’ financial needs with our creative financial solutions.
United Finance also participates in syndicated loan transactions in many different industries and provides consumer loans to the automotive industry, assisting customers with both fixed and variable rate loans and consumer leasing options for new and pre-owned vehicles.
We have a record of success when it comes to large-scale transactions and using our expertise to help clients grow, and we would love for you to be next.
Financing affords you the option of getting new equipment now and paying for it in small, manageable payments. You can start earning money with your new equipment before your first payment is even due.
Section 179 of the IRS Tax Code allows your business to deduct the full purchase price for the equipment you finance. Most businesses get to deduct 100% of the total equipment costs. Consult your tax professional.
United Leasing & Finance offers monthly payments that range from 12 to 60 months and ensure the best fit for your business. We also offer variable payments upon request that can be matched to seasonal cash flow variations.
Keep potential lines of credit open for financial emergencies and use our financing to help build your business credentials with any bank.

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4.33/5 rDev -1.8%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.5 | $$
This is one of the stops that I looked forward to the most. Being able to combine two of my favorite loves, beer and bbq together in one place is quite special.
For a place to have food this good and all the beer available that they do should be a sin. The food was hearty and absolutely delicious. Whenever you can have a Shorts Huma Lupa IPA with your pulled pork sandwich, life has to be good. If I had a place like this locally, I would be there at least once a week with no problem what so ever. The beer list is enough to bring you there alone. Then when you couple the incredible food with it this place is a no brainer. Detroit has something very special with this place and to say that I'm jealous would be an understatement.
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vibe: 3.75 | quality: 4 | service: 3.5 | selection: 4.25 | food: 3.25 | $$$
Wednesday night around 6:30, a group of four of us roll up, and it's an hour wait for a table. I'm not surprised. We find some room over by the bar, and study the chalk board of draft selections. Wow, really nice selection. A great variety, and more taps than I had expected.
All four of us got something different, and we all got to try something we hadn't had before on the trip. A nice mix of Belgian Imports, American Craft and alot of Michigan craft.
Even just as a beer destination in the Detroit area, Slow's is worth the stop.
The food wasn't anything special. This evening the chicken was very moist, the brisket was a touch dry, the ribs (short ribs) were mediocre and uncut (which makes it difficult for the customer to consume, no steak knife, and the butter knife wasn't eating through the meat either), and the pulled pork was the best thing on the plate. The sides were rather blan...but the corn bread was very good.
As being highly regarded as some of the best BBQ in the Midwest, I was pretty disappointed. It's a cool place, don't get me wrong, but there is better BBQ in Michigan.
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Slows Bar B Q in Detroit, MI
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Apple is working to bring health, prosperity, and advanced technology to customers around the world. Since the dawn of humanity, health has always remained the priority. Because without rigorous health, no human being can survive the difficulties of life. So, Apple introduced Apple Health on almost all Apple devices. It provides the most sophisticated devices. Apple has stunning features to immerse the users in virtual reality.
However, Apple Health remained a peripheral topic in a pile of other topics. Despite having access through the iPhone and Apple Watch, most customers are not fully aware of the Apple Health features. Indeed, overwhelming information can be troublesome for most users. So, in this rich blog, we will delve deep into Apple Health and tell you how you can use it more efficiently.
How to use Apple Health?
Apple Health is fairly easy to use. You need to set up the profile first. Apple Health will need the basic information such as your name, sex, and date of birth. You don’t need to worry if you mistakenly put some wrong information.
To change and edit the information, you can tap on the Apple ID photo. It will help you to change the information and add a new one. After going through the profile, the Health App would need the health details. In this step, you need to fill in the information such as skin type, blood type, and medications.
If you are using the wheelchair, then mark the yes tick. Here, the iPhone and Apple Watch will count the pushes instead of steps. Apple Health gathers a huge amount of information about your health. This enables the AI and sophisticated technology to better equip the users with more health and rigorous sharpness. Moreover, the Apple Health profile requires more information about your Medical ID.
Medical ID includes age, name, medications, emergency contacts, weight, height, and medical history. Medical authorities can use this much data in case of a grave emergency. You can share this data during emergencies with the medical institutes.
More so, you can become an organ donor from your Apple Health profile. This huge amount of medical history and constant observation of changes in health can help to address the impending diseases.
Integrate Apple Health with compatible apps
The human body is a universe. This is the fundamental reason there are infinite possibilities for tracking down health. There are countless apps out there in the App Store and finding the compatible app with your Apple Health and need is crucial.
So, you can add many apps such as Cycle, Tracking, Fitness, Siri, Clock, Sleep, and many more. You can also integrate third-party apps into Apple Health. To find the most needed app, follow the procedure elaborated below.
- Open the Health app and go into the Browse tab
- Select a category such as heart
- From the subcategory, select Heart Rate
- Scroll down and select the recommended apps for that category. Download this app.
- To allow the apps to read and write in the Apple Health, go back into the privacy settings.
Analyze health data from Apple Health
Apple Health is rigorous in listing down all the statistical details of your health. Every second, it captures data about your body, heartbeat, blood pressure, and average stamina. On the home screen, you can see a summary of your health stats.
More so, you can prefer certain features which will appear on top. The health information is huge and going into the details of each section is not possible. However, let’s see the highlights to have an idea about the health data from Apple Health.
It is a famous feature Health app. In this section of health information, you will see the activity rings. These rings show how many calories you have burned, the hours you have exercised, and the steps you have taken in a single day.
Humans’ bodies go through a lot of change every minute. Knowing all the changes is usually a pain in the neck. However, Apple Health in your iPhone and Apple Watch can help you to know the immediate changes in your body. Knowing the changes in your health, you can seek life-saving medical help and expert advice from healthcare professionals.
The search tool in Apple Health is a tremendously important feature. Using this feature, you can search and look into the details of your health, such as heartbeat, respiratory, vitals, mindfulness, and nutrition.
Tapping on each category would take into depth insights and statistical figures. Moreover, Apple Health recommends third-party apps and specifically tailored articles to give you more nuanced advice to maintain rigorous health.
One may think that why does Apple need to collect such an amount of health information? It is true that Apple can use this health information for many purposes. The most important aim to use this health care information is to use it in research studies. Apple recently has introduced a feature to conduct research using. Apple has used the Cycle Tracking App for women’s health.
Apple Health is a prominent feature of the iPhone and Apple Watch. You can track your health records and address the changes immediately, taking no risk. You can also share your data with your doctor or health care institute. Sometimes users can’t decipher all the discrete details of health information.
However, sharing information with the doctors can help you to better understand the nuances. This feature is private and you can stop sharing whenever you want. Apple health can revolutionize the health care systems around the world. To take the most out of your Apple Health, try to use distinct features and see what they are showing about your health.

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Gal Gadot shows off her moves and bartending skills in her recent Instagram upload where she can be seen dancing while whipping up some drinks in broad daylight.
Gal Gadot, who is known for her humorous, peculiar, and attractive presence on social media, recently uploaded a video of herself preparing drinks in her residence. Her Instagram profile displays a plethora of images featuring the actress giggling, making bizarre expressions, and appearing stunningly beautiful. She manages to outshine us mere mortals even while wearing a simple white top and tight jeans with her hair neatly tied back.
Gal Gadot, known for her role as Wonder Woman, recently shared a video on her social media with the caption, “it’s always five o’clock somewhere”. In the video, she can be seen mixing drinks in a sexy way that would make a perfect fit for a Coyote Ugly remake. It’s hard to deny that when the bartender is one of the most gorgeous women in the world and shaking the drink by moving her hips, the quality of the drink probably doesn’t matter at that point. Her relaxed demeanor and the laughter in the background suggest that this is a common occurrence in her household.
Gal Gadot, known for her iconic portrayal of Wonder Woman, has recently appeared in Kenneth Branagh’s film “Death on the Nile” as Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle and in the Netflix original movie “Red Notice” alongside Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson. Despite the role she plays, whether it be in the aforementioned movies or in her previous appearances as Wonder Woman in “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice”, “Justice League”, and two solo films, it is certain that Gal Gadot always looks stunning on screen. Her performance as Wonder Woman was highly regarded by fans, who hailed it as the best part of “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice”. In doing so, she brought the character back to life almost four decades after Lynda Carter’s portrayal of the Amazon warrior on television.
Gal Gadot will not be starring in a third solo movie for Wonder Woman, and instead, she will be appearing in Shazam: Fury of the Gods as DC’s best female hero. It is uncertain whether her appearance will be a quick cameo or an extended part of the movie, as new DCU head honcho James Gunn is keeping details under wraps. Not much is known about the upcoming DC Extended Universe move slate following Gunn’s promotion to co-CEO of the division, and most of the DCEU films are currently uncertain. However, it can be confirmed that Gal Gadot will be back as Wonder Woman at some point, in some capacity. Despite the uncertainty, Gal Gadot’s performance will remain definitive for comic book fans. She also has non-superhero projects lined up, such as portraying the Evil Queen in Disney’s live-action Snow White remake and Cleopatra in a forthcoming film. Whenever she returns to the big screen, all eyes will be on her.


Thirteen days till Christmas and we have a special treat coming up for you.
But in the meantime, this week we have an exciting mixture of content from documentaries to Christmas films for you to view. Enjoy!
Strictly The Real Full Monty – Monday 13th-Tuesday 14th December 9pm | ITV
The show in which Ashley Banjo and a team of brave celebrities bare all to highlight the importance of checking your body for cancer makes its return. This Christmas Ashley has even bigger ambitions for the performance, a supersized dance spectacular with an old school twist.
The Beaker Girls – Monday 13th December | CBBC and BBC iPlayer
As a storm blows in, there are some surprise re-appearances in Cooksea and an
unexpected festive arrival as Jess and Tracy rediscover the meaning of family at
Between The Covers – Wednesday, 15th December 7pm | BBC Two
In the final episode of the series, Sara is joined by singer Fleur East and others,
sharing their favourite books, as well as reviewing this week’s book club choices: the new book pick, Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo.
Selling Tampa – Wednesday 15th December | Netflix
Set in Florida’s Suncoast, Selling Tampa follows Allure Realty, an all-Black, all-female real estate firm owned by military vet Sharelle Rosado that has its eyes set on dominating the Tampa market. These ladies are equally as fun as they are
fiercely ambitious, with all of them vying to be on top of the lavish world of luxury waterfront real estate. Sharelle has big plans for her brokerage and won’t let anyone or anything get in the way of making her dreams a reality.
Body Cam – Wednesday 15th December | Netflix
While investigating the bizarre murder of a fellow officer, veteran Renee Lomito
(Mary J. Blige) discovers a mysterious figure in their body cam footage. Haunted by visions of the event, she suspects something supernatural is targeting the cops in her unit.
Sparkle – Wednesday 15th December | Netflix
In the 1960s, three sisters form a girl group and soon become local sensations with major label interest, but fame becomes a challenge as the close-knit family begins to fall apart. Starring Carmen Ejogo.
A Naija Christmas – Thursday 16th December | Netflix
A mother’s Christmas wish – and the grand prize that comes with it – sets off a fierce competition between her sons.
I Literally Just Told You -Thursday 16th December 10pm | Channel 4
To win a cash prize of up to £25,000, four contestants must answer questions that have been written live as the show is being filmed, by a team including The Sky at Night’s Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
Swan Song – Friday 17th December | Apple TV+
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice. Starring Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris
The Witcher: S2 – Friday 17th December | Netflix
Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. Starring Adjoa Andoh and Cassie Clare.
Waves – Friday 17th December | Netflix
Traces the journey of a suburban family – led by a well-intentioned but domineering father – as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
American Utopia – Saturday 18th December 6pm | Sky Arts
Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely 2019
Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.
Last Train to Christmas – Saturday 18th December | Sky Cinema
Tony Towers is about to take the trip of a lifetime. It’s 1985 and he’s a successful
nightclub manager, a local celebrity and engaged to a much younger woman, Sue
(Nathalie Emmanuel). Things are going great. But when he embarks upon the 3:17 to Nottingham for a Christmas family reunion, things get a little strange.
Mo’Better Blues – Saturday 18th December 10:40pm | Sky Arts
Directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes and
Giancarlo Esposito, the film follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam as a series of bad decisions results in jeopardising both his relationships and his playing career.
The Girl Before – Sunday 19th December 9pm | BBC One
Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) gets the chance to move into a beautiful, ultra-minimalist house designed by enigmatic architect Edward Monkford (David Oyelowo). There’s just one catch: the occupants must abide by his list of exacting rules.


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By Tara Bozick, Victoria Advocate, Texas Aug. 6--A nuclear plant wouldn't come to town without the assurance of a water supply, Exelon Nuclear staffers said. But that didn't stop residents from asking who would pay in the event of a worst-case scenario drought.
By Rubi Reyes, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 29--Substitute teacher Roxanne Torres is getting a little help in her quest to become a teacher.
By David Tewes, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 29--Victoria County could be involved in a power struggle by the end of the year. But officials said it's a struggle that will only benefit the taxpayers by cutting the county's cost for electricity to power county buildings.
By David Tewes, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 29--There was no fanfare Monday when the commissioners court approved plans to seek bids to replace water and sewer lines at Victoria's airport. But County Judge Don Pozzi said it was a step in preparing for growth at the Victoria Regional Airport.
By David Tewes, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 25--Victoria's air traffic controllers are ready to take on the dual role of guiding aircraft near the airport while keeping an eye on the weather.
By Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 22--With an update due at 4 p.m. by the National Weather Service but in advance of the Tropical Storm Dolly Gov. Rick Perry has issued a disaster declaration for 14 South Texas counties according to a news release.
By Tara Bozick, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 22--REFUGIO --The 3,400-acre ranch never received this much attention.
By David Tewes, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 15--A three-county effort to get grant money to study damaging and prolonged flooding on the Guadalupe River drew support Monday. "I believe this fresh look into this will be refreshing," said community activist Kenneth Schustereit.
By Jim Bishop, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 13--Ah, how skillful grows the hand that obeyeth love's command! ...And he who followeth love's behest far excelleth all the rest. I have to go back a long way to recall the first time I met Dr. Michael DeBakey.
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Innovative proposal from one of the reference study services. Fedea proposes that taxes on banks and energy companies be extended to all companies with extraordinary benefits. "The tax should be applied in general, to all companies in all sectors, regardless of their size," defends the agency in a report published this Monday and signed by professors López Laborda y Salas. In other words, why a tax on extraordinary profits only for Santander and Iberdrola and not for Telefónica or Mercadona, to name a few large companies.
If the objective of the taxes is "to tax, at least temporarily, the extraordinary business profits, it does not seem justified to limit the subjection to the tax to certain companies in certain economic sectors," says the Fedea text. The professors' note adds that this proposal would extend "distributive equity" and, in addition, "the risk that this tax could be declared unconstitutional as discriminatory" would be eliminated.
Fedea defends this proposal as a “starting point for a structural reform of corporate tax, as already contemplated in the White Paper on tax reform, a document that the Treasury keeps in a drawer. The Foundation for Applied Economics Studies cites the unconsolidated annual accounts of corporate tax in 2019, before the pandemic, to put the margins of companies on the table. That year the positive accounting result was 288,500 million and the own funds amounted to 2.2 trillion. Consequently, if the tax wants to collect 3,500 million a year and if a rate were applied to all companies, it would be 1.6%.
Fedea highlights in its document that it observes a "distortion in the efficient allocation of resources", since the tax base of the projected taxes is not the extraordinary profits of the companies, but sales (in the energy tax) or ordinary margins (in the financial).
To solve this problem, which could lead to lawsuits in court, the professors who authored the report propose that the tax base of the taxes coincide with the extraordinary profits of the companies, including a deduction for the opportunity cost of equity. This would ensure that taxes are not distorting and that they are not going to be passed on to customers, being supported by the shareholders of the affected companies, they point out.

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At Patriot Dog, we are dedicated to providing exceptional pet services, pet groomers, and dog parks for all dog owners. Our focus is on ensuring that your furry friends receive the best care, while also promoting their well-being and safety. Whether you are looking for professional training for personal protection dogs or simply want to enhance your pet's obedience skills, we have you covered!
The Importance of Training Personal Protection Dogs
Training personal protection dogs is essential for both the safety of the dog and its owner. These highly skilled dogs play a crucial role in protecting individuals, families, and properties. With proper training, they can quickly identify potential threats, react intelligently in challenging situations, and provide a sense of security.
Professional and Experienced Trainers
At Patriot Dog, we pride ourselves on having a team of professional and experienced trainers who specialize in training personal protection dogs. Our trainers have extensive knowledge and understand the unique needs of different breeds and individual dogs. They use positive reinforcement techniques to ensure that your dog receives the best training without compromising their well-being.
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Our comprehensive training programs are tailored to suit the specific needs and goals of each dog and owner. We understand that every dog comes with its unique temperament, strengths, and areas for improvement. Our trainers will assess your dog's abilities and design a training plan that focuses on obedience, socialization, and advanced protection techniques.
Building a Strong Foundation
The foundation of training personal protection dogs lies in establishing a strong bond between the dog and its handler. Our trainers emphasize building trust, respect, and clear communication between the dog and owner. Through positive reinforcement and reward-based training methods, we create a positive learning environment that motivates the dog to excel.
Benefits of Training Personal Protection Dogs
Investing in training personal protection dogs can bring various benefits, not just for safety reasons but also for the overall well-being of your pet. Here are some of the advantages:
Enhanced Safety and Security
A well-trained personal protection dog can act as a deterrent against potential threats. Their presence alone can discourage unwanted individuals from approaching your premises. Additionally, they can alert you to any suspicious activity and take appropriate action to protect you and your family.
Improved Obedience and Control
Through comprehensive training, personal protection dogs develop a strong understanding of obedience commands. This leads to improved control both on and off-leash, making them well-behaved companions in public spaces, such as parks or outdoor events.
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At Patriot Dog, we are committed to providing the highest level of care, training, and services to fulfill the needs of pet owners. Our team is passionate about dogs and shares a common goal of creating a harmonious and safe environment for both pets and their owners.
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Colleagues say mayor's leave not enough, call for his immediate resignation
Rob Ford has admitted to struggling with alcohol “for some time” and is taking a leave of absence.
After revealing in November he had smoked crack while drunk, Ford has repeatedly denied having a substance abuse problem and has ignored calls from both friends and allies to step aside.
But on Wednesday more sensational reports about his disturbing behaviour surfaced, and the mayor is claiming he has decided to seek help. In a statement he said he had been struggling with alcohol “for some time.”
The text of the statement, which did not include an apology, is below:
“Tonight I want to take some time to speak from my heart to the people of Toronto. It’s not easy to be vulnerable and this is one of the most difficult times in my life. I have a problem with alcohol and the choices I have made while under the influence. I have struggled with this for some time.
Today, after taking some time to think about my own well-being, how to best serve the people of Toronto and what is in the best interests of my family, I have decided to take a leave from campaigning and from my duties as mayor to seek immediate help.
I have tried to deal with these issues by myself over the past year. I know that I need professional help and I am now 100% committed to getting myself right.
I love the people of Toronto. I love being your mayor and I hope you will continue to stand by me.
With the support of my family, friends, professionals and the people of Toronto, I will conquer this.
Please keep me and my family in your prayers during these difficult days ahead.
I just want to say to the people of Toronto that I thank you for your ongoing support and encouragement. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it.”
Ford’s decision to take a leave came as news broke of yet another video showing the mayor smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine, and a separate audio recording of the mayor making crude sexual remarks, some of them about mayoral rival Karen Stintz, while apparently intoxicated.
According to the Globe and Mail, the video was taken early Saturday morning at Rob Ford’s sister’s house, while the Toronto Sun reported that the audio was taken at an Etobicoke bar on Monday night.
When reached by NOW Stintz declined to comment but issued a statement through a spokesperson demanding an apology from Ford.
“That a sitting mayor would make such shocking and bigoted remarks is disgusting,” the statement from spokesperson Karl Bauldauf. “Karen will address these comments directly in the coming days. Tonight, the people who support Karen Stintz are rallying behind her. In addition to seeking help, we hope for a full apology from Rob Ford, not only to Karen, but to all in this great city who expect more from their mayor.”
Many of Ford’s colleagues did not accept his decision to take a leave, and renewed calls for his resignation continue to pour in Wednesday night.
Here is what the mayor’s council colleagues and fellow candidates are saying:
“Like Torontonians across the city, I am deeply disappointed by these revelations of Mayor Ford’s behaviour. For the good of the city, I call on Mayor Ford to resign.” – John Tory, mayoral candidate
“I believe it’s appropriate and long over due for the Mayor to take a leave of absence to mind his health. However, he should go one step further and simply resign. Mayor Ford might partially rehabilitate his health with intentional efforts but thirty days is not going to cure a grown man’s racism, misogyny, homophobia and chronic tendencies to break the law.” – Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam
“Rob Ford is not just a bad mayor. He is also a disgrace. Toronto can’t wait until October 27th. It is time for Rob Ford to resign, immediately.” – mayoral candidate David Soknacki
“I’m happy that he’s going to seek professional help now but this only confirms that Council was absolutely right to strip him of most of his powers last November. He’s been essentially irrelevant on Council for months. His mayoralty is over.” – Councillor Peter Milczyn
“[Ford] has absolutely no moral authority to be a member of council, never mind the mayor of our city… If he actually cared about anybody other than himself, if he really cared about Toronto he would resign.” – Councillor Josh Matlow
“I’m urging him to resign now. But do I though he should have resigned a year ago. Now it’s like talking to a wall. If he had any dignity he would have… done it on his own.” – Councillor Joe Mihevc


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BACKGROUND: Optimal foraging theory predicts that animals will tend to maximize foraging success by optimizing search strategies. However, how organisms detect sparsely distributed food resources remains an open question. When targets are sparse and unpredictably distributed, a Lévy strategy should maximize foraging success. By contrast, when resources are abundant and regularly distributed, simple Brownian random movement should be sufficient. Although very different groups of organisms exhibit Lévy motion, the shift from a Lévy to a Brownian search strategy has been suggested to depend on internal and external factors such as sex, prey density, or environmental context. However, animal response at the individual level has received little attention. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We used GPS satellite-telemetry data of Egyptian vultures Neophron percnopterus to examine movement patterns at the individual level during consecutive years, with particular interest in the variations in foraging search patterns during the different periods of the annual cycle (i.e. breeding vs. non-breeding). Our results show that vultures followed a Brownian search strategy in their wintering sojourn in Africa, whereas they exhibited a more complex foraging search pattern at breeding grounds in Europe, including Lévy motion. Interestingly, our results showed that individuals shifted between search strategies within the same period of the annual cycle in successive years. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Results could be primarily explained by the different environmental conditions in which foraging activities occur. However, the high degree of behavioural flexibility exhibited during the breeding period in contrast to the non-breeding period is challenging, suggesting that not only environmental conditions explain individuals' behaviour but also individuals' cognitive abilities (e.g., memory effects) could play an important role. Our results support the growing awareness about the role of behavioural flexibility at the individual level, adding new empirical evidence about how animals in general, and particularly scavengers, solve the problem of efficiently finding food resources.
Feeding stations are commonly used to sustain conservation programs of scavengers but their impact on behaviour is still debated. They increase the temporal and spatial predictability of food resources while scavengers have supposedly evolved to search for unpredictable resources. In the Grands Causses (France), a reintroduced population of Griffon vultures Gyps fulvus can find carcasses at three types of sites: 1. “light feeding stations”, where farmers can drop carcasses at their farm (spatially predictable), 2. “heavy feeding stations”, where carcasses from nearby farms are concentrated (spatially and temporally predictable) and 3. open grasslands, where resources are randomly distributed (unpredictable). The impact of feeding stations on vulture’s foraging behaviour was investigated using 28 GPS-tracked vultures. The average home range size was maximal in spring (1272±752 km(2)) and minimal in winter (473±237 km(2)) and was highly variable among individuals. Analyses of home range characteristics and feeding habitat selection via compositional analysis showed that feeding stations were always preferred compared to the rest of the habitat where vultures can find unpredictable resources. Feeding stations were particularly used when resources were scarce (summer) or when flight conditions were poor (winter), limiting long-ranging movements. However, when flight conditions were optimal, home ranges also encompassed large areas of grassland where vultures could find unpredictable resources, suggesting that vultures did not lose their natural ability to forage on unpredictable resources, even when feeding stations were available. However during seasons when food abundance and flight conditions were not limited, vultures seemed to favour light over heavy feeding stations, probably because of the reduced intraspecific competition and a pattern closer to the natural dispersion of resources in the landscape. Light feeding stations are interesting tools for managing food resources, but don’t prevent vultures to feed at other places with possibly high risk of intoxication (poison).
Most seabirds are very noisy at their breeding colonies, when aggregated in high densities. Calls are used for individual recognition and also emitted during agonistic interactions. When at sea, many seabirds aggregate over patchily distributed resources and may benefit from foraging in groups. Because these aggregations are so common, it raises the question of whether seabirds use acoustic communication when foraging at sea? We deployed video-cameras with built in microphones on 36 Cape gannets (Morus capensis) during the breeding season of 2010-2011 at Bird Island (Algoa Bay, South Africa) to study their foraging behaviour and vocal activity at sea. Group formation was derived from the camera footage. During ~42 h, calls were recorded on 72 occasions from 16 birds. Vocalization exclusively took place in the presence of conspecifics, and mostly in feeding aggregations (81% of the vocalizations). From the observation of the behaviours of birds associated with the emission of calls, we suggest that the calls were emitted to avoid collisions between birds. Our observations show that at least some seabirds use acoustic communication when foraging at sea. These findings open up new perspectives for research on seabirds foraging ecology and their interactions at sea.
Insect pollinators such as bumblebees play a vital role in many ecosystems, so it is important to understand their foraging movements on a landscape scale. We used harmonic radar to record the natural foraging behaviour of Bombus terrestris audax workers over their entire foraging career. Every flight ever made outside the nest by four foragers was recorded. Our data reveal where the bees flew and how their behaviour changed with experience, at an unprecedented level of detail. We identified how each bee’s flights fit into two categories-which we named exploration and exploitation flights-examining the differences between the two types of flight and how their occurrence changed over the course of the bees' foraging careers. Exploitation of learned resources takes place during efficient, straight trips, usually to a single foraging location, and is seldom combined with exploration of other areas. Exploration of the landscape typically occurs in the first few flights made by each bee, but our data show that further exploration flights can be made throughout the bee’s foraging career. Bees showed striking levels of variation in how they explored their environment, their fidelity to particular patches, ratio of exploration to exploitation, duration and frequency of their foraging bouts. One bee developed a straight route to a forage patch within four flights and followed this route exclusively for six days before abandoning it entirely for a closer location; this second location had not been visited since her first exploratory flight nine days prior. Another bee made only rare exploitation flights and continued to explore widely throughout its life; two other bees showed more frequent switches between exploration and exploitation. Our data shed light on the way bumblebees balance exploration of the environment with exploitation of resources and reveal extreme levels of variation between individuals.
Social relationships are fundamental to animals living in complex societies [1-3]. The extent to which individuals base their decisions around their key social relationships, and the consequences this has on their behavior and broader population level processes, remains unknown. Using a novel experiment that controlled where individual wild birds (great tits, Parus major) could access food, we restricted mated pairs from being allowed to forage at the same locations. This introduced a conflict for pair members between maintaining social relationships and accessing resources. We show that individuals reduce their own access to food in order to sustain their relationships and that individual foraging activity was strongly influenced by their key social counterparts. By affecting where individuals go, social relationships determined which conspecifics they encountered and consequently shaped their other social associations. Hence, while resource distribution can determine individuals' spatial and social environment [4-8], we illustrate how key social relationships themselves can govern broader social structure. Finally, social relationships also influenced the development of social foraging strategies. In response to forgoing access to resources, maintaining pair bonds led individuals to develop a flexible “scrounging” strategy, particularly by scrounging from their pair mate. This suggests that behavioral plasticity can develop to ameliorate conflicts between social relationships and other demands. Together, these results illustrate the importance of considering social relationships for explaining behavioral variation due to their significant impact on individual behavior and demonstrate the consequences of key relationships for wider processes.
Many dynamical networks, such as the ones that produce the collective behavior of social insects, operate without any central control, instead arising from local interactions among individuals. A well-studied example is the formation of recruitment trails in ant colonies, but many ant species do not use pheromone trails. We present a model of the regulation of foraging by harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) colonies. This species forages for scattered seeds that one ant can retrieve on its own, so there is no need for spatial information such as pheromone trails that lead ants to specific locations. Previous work shows that colony foraging activity, the rate at which ants go out to search individually for seeds, is regulated in response to current food availability throughout the colony’s foraging area. Ants use the rate of brief antennal contacts inside the nest between foragers returning with food and outgoing foragers available to leave the nest on the next foraging trip. Here we present a feedback-based algorithm that captures the main features of data from field experiments in which the rate of returning foragers was manipulated. The algorithm draws on our finding that the distribution of intervals between successive ants returning to the nest is a Poisson process. We fitted the parameter that estimates the effect of each returning forager on the rate at which outgoing foragers leave the nest. We found that correlations between observed rates of returning foragers and simulated rates of outgoing foragers, using our model, were similar to those in the data. Our simple stochastic model shows how the regulation of ant colony foraging can operate without spatial information, describing a process at the level of individual ants that predicts the overall foraging activity of the colony.
Since 1994, more than €41 billion has been spent in the European Union on agri-environment schemes (AESs), which aim to mitigate the effects of anthropomorphic landscape changes via financial incentives for land managers to encourage environmentally friendly practices [1-6]. Surprisingly, given the substantial price tag and mandatory EU member participation , there is either a lack of  or mixed [1, 2, 7] evidence-based support for the schemes. One novel source of data to evaluate AESs may be provided by an organism that itself may benefit from them. Honeybees (Apis mellifera), important pollinators for crops and wildflowers [8, 9], are declining in parts of the world from many factors, including loss of available forage from agricultural intensification [10-13]. We analyzed landscape-level honeybee foraging ecology patterns over two years by decoding 5,484 waggle dances from bees located in the center of a mixed, urban-rural 94 km(2) area, including lands under government-funded AESs. The waggle dance, a unique behavior performed by successful foragers, communicates to nestmates the most profitable foraging locations [14-16]. After correcting for distance, dances demonstrate that honeybees possess a significant preference for rural land managed under UK Higher Level AESs and a significant preference against rural land under UK Organic Entry Level AESs. Additionally, the two most visited areas contained a National and Local Nature Reserve, respectively. Our study demonstrates that honeybees, with their great foraging range and sensitive response to forage quality, can be used as bioindicators to monitor large areas and provide information relevant to better environmental management. VIDEO ABSTRACT:
Even as demand for their services increases, honey bees (Apis mellifera) and other pollinating insects continue to decline in Europe and North America. Honey bees face many challenges, including an issue generally affecting wildlife: landscape changes have reduced flower-rich areas. One way to help is therefore to supplement with flowers, but when would this be most beneficial? We use the waggle dance, a unique behaviour in which a successful forager communicates to nestmates the location of visited flowers, to make a 2-year survey of food availability. We “eavesdropped” on 5097 dances to track seasonal changes in foraging, as indicated by the distance to which the bees as economic foragers will recruit, over a representative rural-urban landscape. In year 3, we determined nectar sugar concentration. We found that mean foraging distance/area significantly increase from springs (493 m, 0.8 km2) to summers (2156 m, 15.2 km2), even though nectar is not better quality, before decreasing in autumns (1275 m, 5.1 km2). As bees will not forage at long distances unnecessarily, this suggests summer is the most challenging season, with bees utilizing an area 22 and 6 times greater than spring or autumn. Our study demonstrates that dancing bees as indicators can provide information relevant to helping them, and, in particular, can show the months when additional forage would be most valuable.
Identifying characteristics of foraging activity is fundamental to understanding an animals' lifestyle and foraging ecology. Despite its importance, monitoring the foraging activities of marine animals is difficult because direct observation is rarely possible. In this study, we use an animal-borne imaging system and three-dimensional data logger simultaneously to observe the foraging behaviour of large juvenile and adult sized loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in their natural environment. Video recordings showed that the turtles foraged on gelatinous prey while swimming in mid-water (i.e., defined as epipelagic water column deeper than 1 m in this study). By linking video and 3D data, we found that mid-water foraging events share the common feature of a marked deceleration phase associated with the capture and handling of the sluggish prey. Analysis of high-resolution 3D movements during mid-water foraging events, including presumptive events extracted from 3D data using deceleration in swim speed as a proxy for foraging (detection rate = 0.67), showed that turtles swam straight toward prey in 171 events (i.e., turning point absent) but made a single turn toward the prey an average of 5.7±6.0 m before reaching the prey in 229 events (i.e., turning point present). Foraging events with a turning point tended to occur during the daytime, suggesting that turtles primarily used visual cues to locate prey. In addition, an incident of a turtle encountering a plastic bag while swimming in mid-water was recorded. The fact that the turtle’s movements while approaching the plastic bag were analogous to those of a true foraging event, having a turning point and deceleration phase, also support the use of vision in mid-water foraging. Our study shows that integrated video and high-resolution 3D data analysis provides unique opportunities to understand foraging behaviours in the context of the sensory ecology involved in prey location.

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The Avengers may have been Marvel Studio's most successful film yet, but apparently the original script of the film was so bad that director Joss Whedon had to trash it.
According to a Business Insider report, The Avengers: Age of Ultron director came on board only after Marvel agreed to make the film with the script he believed in instead of using the draft written by Zak Penn that Disney had.
As per the report, Whedon was brought into the project at a later date, as recounted in Joss Whedon: The Biography by Amy Pascale, which comes out on August 1.
It was during an initial interview with Kevin Feige, president of production at Marvel Studios, that he shared his brutally honest opinion about Penn's script.
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"There was a script," Whedon acknowledged in an interview with GQ. "There just wasn't a script I was going to film a word of," he said.
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"[The script] was funny and still tongue-in-cheek and really got the tone, the Tony Stark tone of the Marvel universe, and still furthered and explored each one of those characters and those relationships. I found out later from other people involved that had the same reaction-like, oh, wow. Oh, wow. Everybody gets to play. Everybody gets to play, and it's going to be better than anything we reasonably hoped for."


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Sarlahi: The Mahalakshmi Sugar Mill has closed down its operations for this season without paying cane dues to the farmers. The mill is located in Godaita town in the Southern part of Sarlahi.
Birendra Kumar Srivastav, administrative manager of the mill said that the mill closed operations after crushing 890,000 quintals of sugarcane. The mill had begun operations on December 20.
The farmers have stated that they have not received cane dues from the mill except for the cane dues for the first five days.
We are sorting out the issues and will soon clear the cane dues of the farmers, said Srivastav.
Devendra Yadav, Godaita Municipality Mayor said that the farmers will launch an agitation for their cane dues if the mill fails to clear their dues.
The factory has bought sugarcane from India and it has money to buy sugarcane from India but not to clear farmers’ dues, he said.


RESIDENTS whose lands were affected by the city-owned mini-hydroelectric plants in Tadiangan and Nangalisan villages will soon receive their compensation from the Baguio City Government.
Mayor Mauricio Domogan met with the claimants on May 12 and asked the residents to straighten out and finalize the list of qualified beneficiaries to facilitate the release of the long delayed payment.
The group headed by Florida De Vera promised to finish the list in two weeks.
Compensation was based on the compromise agreement approved by the court in 2010.
As per computation of the city accountant Antonio Tabin, the amount totaled P2.7 million from 2007 to October 2012 when the city operations ceased.
The amount has long been set aside by the City Government but the release was put on hold since there was the need to comply with a provision in the agreement for the lot owners.
The owners have to first settle the case filed by the City Government for the disruption of the water supply to the facilities by securing a waiver of claims for damages from the City Council.
It took years for the City Government to convince the Commission on Audit to allow the City Council to issue the waiver of claims and early this year, the City Council approved a resolution relinquishing the city’s claims for damages amounting to P2.09 million.
As per the agreement, the city will compensate the landowners by way of rentals amounting to three percent of the net surplus from the operation of the mini-hydro plants subject to conditions that the rentals will be retroactive to year 2007 when the city assumed management of the plant and that the rentals will be subject to increase after three years. (PR)


A traffic ticket issued in New York City can be paid in any Traffic Violations Bureau, or TVB, office. The bureau is affiliated with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, and it is tasked to settle noncriminal traffic violations in Rochester, Buffalo and New York City.
Paying for a traffic ticket indicates a guilty plea and generally does not require a court appearance. Aside from directly paying at a TVB office in New York City, a person can also pay through the mail, via the telephone, online or in a traffic court. To pay for a traffic violation, the ticket number and client identification number are usually required.


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The French club are unlikely to spend up to the salary cap but chief executive Garcia is confident they can succeed
Toulouse Olympique are unlikely to spend up to the salary cap but chief executive Cedric Garcia is confident the French club can survive in Super League in 2022.
Garcia is pushing ahead with plans for next season after Sylvain Houles’ team secured promotion to the top flight thanks to a 34-12 win over Featherstone in the Million Pound Game in Toulouse on Sunday night.
It is the culmination of a dream that began in 2003 when Toulouse lost out, along with Villeneuve, to the Catalans Dragons as the Rugby Football League’s preferred French option.
Garcia says the club have ambitions to match the achievement of the Dragons, who played in their first Grand Final on Saturday night, but are initially setting modest targets, the first of which is to avoid the fate of Leigh who were relegated after their first season in Super League.
“We’re not saying we’re aiming for the play-offs,” Garcia told the PA news agency. “We’re aware of the size of the challenge, it’s a big step up from the Championship but we’re up for it.
“We’ve been growing off the field and building the squad for quite a long time now and, if we had to play a Super League match next week, we could do it. We’re not too far off.”
With two-thirds of the full-time squad already under contract for 2022, Houles believes he needs to add only “three or four” new players to add depth and Garcia insists the club will spend their money wisely.
“I don’t think we will spent to the cap in our first season,” said Garcia, who has been involved with the club for the last 15 years.
“We need a little bit more depth but we feel we also need continuity so we are not going to change the squad because we trust in our players and I think we can definitely survive in Super League with the players we have.”
Garcia confirmed that Australian Jy Hitchcox played his last match for the club on Sunday and will be leaving alongside fellow winger Bastien Ader and prop Remi Casty, who has retired.
Hitchcox, who played in Super League with Castleford, is being forced out due to the more stringent overseas quota rules that apply in Super League.
“We told Jy quite early that it would be difficult to retain him and he has been fantastic,” Garcia said. “He was on a mission to bring the club to Super League and he gave his maximum right to the end.”
Garcia says the prospect of playing in France’s fourth-largest city will be a powerful aid to future recruitment and he is confident the club can attract regular five-figure crowds to the Stadium Ernest Wallon they share with their rugby union neighbours.
After drawing a crowd of 6,871 for their play-off semi-final against Batley, Toulouse were even more encouraged by the turn-out of 9,235 at short notice for the visit of Featherstone.
“We need to aim for at least what we got yesterday, “Garcia said. “There were about 200 Featherstone fans at short notice and in Super League we could be talking about thousands of away fans.
“With more exposure I am sure we can increase our own fan base and we’ll be able to fill Stade Ernest Wallon for the derby, which is 18,000, or 19,000.”
Garcia fears the Dragons’ Stade Gilbert Brutus, with its 12,000-capacity, may not be big enough for the derby and says his club may consider switching future games to the city’s football stadium which can hold 33,150.
They promise to be halcyon days for a club that went 18 months without a home game due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Toulouse also had to find around 500,000 euros to fund charter flights to matches in England for which Garcia says they are indebted to big businesses.
“Fortunately our strength is our sponsors,” he said. “We have a huge business network and before Covid we generated 1.6 to 1.7 million euros in sponsorship.
“We continued to organise many events in the absence of matches but I have to say I’m glad the season is over because it would have been difficult to afford any more charter planes.”
As part of the participation agreement for their time in the Championship, Toulouse were forced to fund the travel costs of away teams and negotiations are under way for the arrangements in Super League.
Garcia says the club are also looking into the conditions attached to playing in the Challenge Cup before deciding whether or not to re-enter the competition in 2022.


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The city of Mendoza was strategically designed in terms of its land planning and urban distribution. It is that the buildings and the cement that compose it (without being a metropolis) had to add some green component. And this was not only for a chromatic or ornamental theme, but the 5 squares that are located in the center of the city make a substantial contribution to the renewal of oxygen Mendoza .
Before describing these green spaces, there is a topic to highlight. We said the squares are strategically located. This is because, If you look from above, or with Google Maps, we can see that Plaza Independencia, the largest of the 5, is located in the center. While the other four are located one on each “vertex” of a huge imaginary square. For clarity, access here.
In fact, the squares constitute the ladder planned by Balloffet for the city new post to the earthquake of 1861.
Its perimeter is made up of streets Gutierrez, Peru, Necochea and 25 de Mayo . This name was imposed on him in 1863, in gratitude for the medical aid provided by the neighbouring country to the victims of the earthquake which ravaged Mendoza in 1861. On the south side, towards Gutiérrez street, a monument work by Chilean sculptor Lorenzo Domínguez, which symbolizes friendship and brotherhood between Argentina and Chile , represented by the two liberators , Saint Martin and O'Higgins, whose right hands are attached on the knob of a sword. The central fountain was placed at level and was redecorated with Venetian motifs with the colors of Chile, the floors were also leveled to make the square accessible to all visitors.
It is surrounded by the streets Montevideo, San Lorenzo, May 25 and Peru. The square itself is a monument to the Italian community that greatly influenced life in the province of Cuyo de Mendoza . It has monuments, such as the statue of Romulus and Remo, breastfed by the Roman wolf. This sculpture was designed by Luis Perlotti and represents the history of the founding of Rome. The central fountain of the square is decorated with Italian-style quarry stone. The benches located next to the fountain are the ideal place to read a good book or just sit down and enjoy the scenery.
San Martin Square
Surrounding the streets Av. España, Necochea, 9 de Julio and Gutierrez. The statue of General San Martín is the work of the sculptor José García replica of the original, by José Luis Daumas, which is located in the homonymous square of the Federal Capital. This shows the figure of San Martín, riding on a horse, with his index finger pointing to the west, the place where the crossing was made. It is made of cast bronze. In the square there is also a monolith erected in 2011 in tribute to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo which was carried out by prisoners of the San Felipe prison. The current appearance, of 2018, the barrier-free sample architectural as the levels of sidewalks were unified with perimeter streets, burying pre-existing air installations.
The streets Montevideo, Spain, San Lorenzo and July 9 give rise to this green space. Its monument was made of travertine marble from San Juan. It stands out a figure of a woman symbolizing Spain, great and powerful, and woman youngest represents Argentina , symbol of strength and energy. This year, the entire square was remodeled, maintaining the facade and the classic colonial look.
It is the largest of the 5 squares in the city . Actually, it's 4 apples in a big apple. Your Delimiting streets are Patricias Mendocinas, Rivadavia, Chile and Espejo . In its early years, the Plaza — which they called a park — was demarcated by a balustrade and had in the center an artificial lake, which was its greatest attraction. To avoid fatal accidents, in 1886 the lake was replaced by an ornamental fountain, which was retired in 1927, when the foundation stone of the new Palace of Government .
In the mid-90s the Plaza was communicated with Avenida San Martín through Paseo Sarmiento, the refurbishment of the Municipal Museum of Modern Art and was refurbished Julio Quintanilla theater . On May 5, 1995, after new refurbishment works, the Plaza was inaugurated, a project of the Arq. Nilda González, suitable to the requirements of use without modifying the identity character acquired more than 50 years ago.
Argentino, mendocino. Licenciado en Comunicación Social y Locutor. Emisor de mensajes, en cualquiera de sus formas. Poseedor de uno de los grandes privilegios de la vida: trabajar de lo que me apasiona. Lo que me gusta del mensaje escrito es el arte de la imaginación que genera en el lector. Te invito a mis aventuras.


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After Golden State’s second consecutive NBA Finals blowout of the Cleveland Cavaliers, a 132-113 win, most experts have shortened their predictions in favor of the Warriors winning their second title in three years much sooner. However, ESPN NBA writer Chris Haynes told The Jim Rome Show Monday on CBS Sports Radio that he expects the Cavs to show they have the heart of a champion as the series heads to Cleveland. Haynes says we should not count out the best player in the game just yet.
“I know the way and the fashion that they’ve beaten the Cavaliers over the first two games. I understand it’s not been pretty, but there’s something about going back home and particularly going back home with a LeBron James led team,” Haynes said, who predicted the Warriors to win the series in seven games. “I would just be a little cautious on, and I know a lot of people are changing their predictions now, going to five and some people even saying a sweep. You know role players play better at home. There’s just a dynamic that just changes when you switch the landscape.
“Game 3 is definitely the make or break game for the Cavaliers.”
But if the defending champions were to get swept or even lose in five games, the former Cavs beat writer would then expect major offseason changes in Cleveland.
“I think in years past – say last year’s for say – if the Warriors close out that series and won the Finals 4 games to 1, there’s no doubt in my mind Kevin Love would not have been back. There’s no doubt in my mind and so I think that’s the same case,” Haynes said.
Haynes said when the four-time MVP LeBron James returned to Cleveland in 2014, the organization was in it to win every season he was there.
“LeBron James has made it known, that while he’s in Cleveland, he put the onus on management and ownership to give him a roster that could compete for championships year after year,” Haynes said. “It’s not going to be good enough for LeBron to just make it to the Finals every year, because they will do that. There’s nobody in the East that can contend with them that could mess with them. Nobody. I don’t even care what Boston does unless they get the likes of a Paul George.
“But Bron’s not going to be happy about that, so if the Warriors are to get this series over within four or five, I would expect Cleveland to make some moves. What is that move? I don’t know, because there’s always been talk about Chris Paul and LeBron James teaming up at some point, but I just don’t know if the chemistry fits with them. Obviously they’re smart guys and they probably could make it work and play at some high of a level, but those are two ball-dominant players and will it work with Kyrie Irving as well? There will be some move made.”
Haynes wouldn’t rule out James’ good friend Carmelo Anthony joining him in Cleveland if this series continues to be a blowout either.
“I don’t know if it would work, but I know that they were talking at the trade deadline,” Haynes said about a potential Anthony-to-Cleveland trade. “Those talks definitely could resurface, because it’s at this point, if the Cavaliers feel like hey, all they could do is get to the Eastern Conference Finals, then why not kick the tires on a Carmelo-Kevin Love swap and just see what could happen. Because I guess they feel like with Kevin or with Carmelo, they could advance to the Finals. Now, they don’t know what they can do with Carmelo, I think they have a pretty good idea with Kevin Love.”


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Daughter of Don Ho who is a singer-songwriter and whose song "Perfect Day" was featured on the Legally Blonde soundtrack.
She studied business at Point Loma Nazarene University, but left a semester into her time there.
She sang "How Do I Feel" and "Another Dumb Blonde."
She married Jeremy Clements in 1999.
She starred with Britney Spears in a Nickelodeon TV special.

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China growth to enter 'best' decade, says Fortescue's Andrew Forrest
- From: The Australian
- November 14, 2012
FORTESCUE Metals Group chairman Andrew Forrest has made the bold prediction China's economic performance in the next decade will be "the best that we've seen", as the miner declared iron ore prices should remain above $US120 a tonne for some time.
Mr Forrest, one of the first Australian business leaders to foresee China's increased demand for commodities when he founded Fortescue in 2003, said he believed China would continue to grow at an average rate of 7 to 8 per cent in the years ahead.
China’s economic performance is particularly critical for Fortescue which faced a liquidity crisis in September when the iron ore price fell below $US90 a tonne, forcing the highly-geared miner to retrench 1000 staff and cut spending by $300m this year.
Mr Forrest said despite its recent economic slowdown, China retained massive foreign reserves, a large hard-working population and strong leadership.
"With that passion beating in the hearts of the Chinese people I think you'll see a very strong Chinese economy over the coming decade," Mr Forrest said.
"You have a leadership there which is empathetic, humble and passionate in support of its people. And I feel sure that ... the next ten years will be the best we have seen for china."
Fortescue chief executive Nev Power said the company continued to evaluate offers for its infrastructure assets but declined to confirm rumours it had hired Macquarie Capital to advise on a potential sale as a way of paying down its large debt pile.
Speaking after Fortescue’s annual general meeting in Perth, Mr Power said there had been a very strong level of interest in the rail and port assets, which are housed in a company called The Pilbara Infrastructure, from a number of parties, both local and international.
"We’ll continue to evaluate our options but we’re under no time pressure there and we’ll look at that only on the basis of full and fair market value," he said.
"We have world class assets. The level of interest doesn't surprise us."
Earlier, Fortescue director of developments Peter Meurs said he believed it was "highly unlikley" the company would sell a stake in TPI because it would not want to lose control of the infrastructure which provided it with security of supply.
Mr Power said he believed the present iron ore price of around $US120 a tonne was "sustainable for the foreseeable future", but he warned there would be further volatility in the market.
He said the recent slowdown in the mining sector had taken some pressure off wages growth and short term inflation.
Mr Power reiterated his plan for Fortescue to restart work at its Kings deposit that was shelved as part of the cutbacks in September, with the board due to make a decision by the end of next month.
Such a move would allow Fortescue to return to its original commitment to expand its Pilbara production capacity to 155 million tonnes a year, up from its present plan to expand to 115 million tonnes a year.
Fortescue’s remuneration report attracted a 16 per cent protest vote at today’s AGM, but this was well short of the 25 per cent needed for a “first strike” under executive pay regulation.
JULIA Gillard will fly to Indonesia early next month for talks on boat arrivals.
A SHORTAGE of places in after-school care is forcing working parents to leave their children home alone, Australia's biggest childhood survey has found.
PREMIER Jay Weatherill will vote in favour of the latest attempt to legalise same-sex marriage in South Australia in Parliament.
ADRIAN Bayley will be under the highest level of protection in jail as he faces similar risks to a paedophile or corrupt police officer, sources say.