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Moderator: Good day from the U.S. Department of State’s Asia Pacific Media Hub in Manila. I am the Hub Director, Zia Syed, and I want to thank you all for joining this briefing.
Today we are pleased to be joined from Alameda, California by U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Michael F. McAllister, who is the Commander of the Pacific Area and Commander of the Coast Guard Defense Force West. We will begin today’s call with opening remarks from the vice admiral. We will try to get to as many questions as we can during the time that we have, which is approximately 30-35 minutes. Finally, as a reminder, today’s call is on the record. And with that, I will turn it over to Admiral McAllister.
VADM McAllister: All right. Well, good morning or good evening, depending on your location. And thank you, Zia, for setting up this call. I really do appreciate the opportunity to be here today, and I look forward to responding to your questions regarding U.S. Coast Guard operations in the Western Pacific.
So, it was two months ago that I had the privilege of assuming the duties of the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area. And in that role, I am responsible for all Coast Guard operations in the Pacific, from the North Pole to the South Pole, and from the West Coast of North and South America to the Indian Ocean.
As an opening, I wanted to share with you some of my priorities for Coast Guard operations in the Pacific Region; discuss maybe a little bit more, in a little bit greater detail, how the Coast Guard Cutter Munro’s current deployment fits into those priorities; and provide you an update on Coast Guard operations in Oceania, since many of you participated in a Hub Call with our commandant, Admiral Schultz, in July. And so, I’ll give you a little bit of an update there.
So, let me start with Coast Guard missions and priorities. And I’ll start off by saying the United States is certainly a Pacific nation. The U.S. Coast Guard has more than 150 years of service in the Pacific region. We’re very proud of that. We’ve been protecting U.S. sovereign interests in the region, particularly including our territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands and American Samoa, which really accounts for millions of square miles of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. And we provide direct support to the COFA States of Palau, FSM, Republic of Marshall Islands.
But more broadly, we view this as an extremely important region. Half the world’s commerce and half the world’s population are in the Indo-Pacific; and as leaders in maritime safety and security, we believe we have a role to play. And our chief role is to try to contribute to regional stability and security. So, we build and leverage partnerships to enhance the capability and capacity of partner nations to carry out missions that contribute to the common good, things like search-and-rescue, marine environmental protection, enforcing fisheries laws and treaties, addressing human smuggling, counterdrug, counterterrorism, disaster response, and others. And particularly in these mission areas, it’s important to promote rules-based order, by which I mean adherence to international rules and norms.
So, you may ask: Why the Coast Guard? And we believe we have some unique Coast Guard attributes that allow us to do this type of work effectively. First, we are a military service of the United States. We can integrate seamlessly into defense operations alongside the U.S. Navy and other U.S. military services, and we are fully interoperable with U.S. allies. But we also have law enforcement and regulatory roles which align well with both navies and coast guards in the Pacific region, and our missions match the needs of Indo-Pacific nations. And perhaps most importantly, we believe that we are able to model the behaviors that we and our partners want to see in the region.
Let me talk a little bit about the Coast Guard Cutter Munro deployment, and there have been a few press releases on the subject, one in May and one in July. She is currently deployed under the Commander of the 7th Fleet. She is engaging in professional exchanges and capacity-building with partner nations, as two recent examples, both of which I believe we issued press releases for. We did some joint patrols, a search-and-rescue exercise, and small boat operations with the Japan Coast Guard, and just recently with the Philippine Coast Guard and the Philippine fisheries agency we did a joint patrol, we did exercises in our ability to enforce Exclusive Economic Zones and so forth.
Now, while the Munro is deployed, she conducts operations as directed by the 7th Fleet. And so she’s part of that integrated naval force that we articulate in our U.S. tri-service strategy. She is ready for crisis or conflict, but I would offer she is not a duplication or replication of United States Navy capability. We do unique engagements with navies, coast guards, and maritime security agents throughout the region.
Also, I offered to provide an update since the Commandant’s announcement in late July which established Coast Guard Forces Micronesia. And he was there to commission three new fast response cutters, and in our minds, that demonstrates enduring commitment to and presence in the region. When added to three FRCs and other new cutters in Honolulu as well, this expanded our presence in Oceania significantly.
Since that time, we launched our most recent wave of what we call Operation Blue Pacific. And this is a multi-mission, multi-location effort in coordination with key partners amongst Pacific Island nations, to include things such as using various Coast Guard cutters we detect, deter, suppress IUUF, which is illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing; we carry that out oftentimes through shiprider agreements; we counter transnational shipment of illegal narcotics. We conduct port security assessments; and we provide what we call maritime domain awareness through long-range aircraft sorties. And we do that in support of Pacific Island nations that are especially [vulnerable] to the challenges of climate change. And some lack capacity or capability to police their own sovereign waters and which makes them so vulnerable, particularly to illegal fishing.
And I’ll give you just one example from this current operation which demonstrates our partnerships. The Australians have a very good patrol boat program, working with numerous Pacific Island nations, and those patrol boats from time to time need to come out of service for heavy maintenance. On this current patrol, as an example, and I won’t say exactly where, but we have offered to bring shipriders aboard and patrol sovereign waters of another nation while their patrol boat was out of service for maintenance. To me, this is how good partners work together for security.
We have 11 different memorandums of agreement throughout Oceania to facilitate this type of cooperation and suppress illicit maritime activity and ultimately strengthen maritime security.
So, just to close out my introduction, and then I look forward to your questions, amongst our highest priority goals, we want to be the partner of choice for coast guards around the world, but particularly in this important region. And based on how much the Coast Guard is in demand, my personal assessment is that we are on the right track. We emphasize human-to-human interaction, we apply people to problem sets, and we build enduring relationships, and we do that in pursuit of bi- and multi-lateral agreements that build critical partnerships for the common good.
So let me stop there and invite some questions from those participating here.
Moderator: Thank you very much. We will now begin the question-and-answer portion of today’s call. Our first question will go to Christopher Woody from Business Insider. Christopher, please go ahead.
Question: Hi, Admiral. Thanks for your time today. Christopher Woody with Business Insider in Washington, D.C. I wanted to follow up on what you said about not duplicating Navy capabilities. Can you elaborate on what it is Coast Guard personnel and assets in the Western Pacific can do that the Navy can’t do or isn’t able to do, and talk about how those capabilities align with what partner nations are looking for?
VADM McAllister: I’d be happy to. So, Coast Guard forces provide expertise not only in military skills but in other skills such as search-and-rescue, law enforcement, fisheries enforcement, marine environmental response, humanitarian assistance, disaster response. And frankly, those are different missions than the U.S. Navy or the military services here in the United States deal with.
The U.S. Coast Guard is often the model for other coast guards to follow. A lot of regional naval forces look like our Coast Guard, meaning they do not only do defense activities, but they do civil law enforcement activities. And if you’ve ever seen pictures of various coast guard and maritime security agency vessels in the area, they all have that familiar stripe which is very similar to the Coast Guard stripe that you’ll find on any Coast Guard cutter around the world.
And so, at the end of the day, we try to model a type of behavior that keeps commerce open, peacefully resolves disputes, protects valuable resources, and counters illicit activities that impact all. We are complementary to U.S. Navy defense-oriented capability, not redundant.
Moderator: Thank you. Next if we could go to Mar-Vic Kagurangan from Pacific Island Times in Guam. Mar-Vic, please, go ahead.
Question: Okay, thank you. I would like to ask a question about the Federated States of Micronesia. Earlier this year, the Micronesian president offered to accommodate China’s commerce in Asia Pacific, basically to make FSM a trans-shipment hub in the region. And President Panuelo was proposing a partnership with Beijing for China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Given that China is a major element that the U.S. is worried about, does this looming partnership raise any concern with you?
VADM McAllister: I would offer that we attempt to be the security partner of choice for nations in the Pacific region. We do that by upholding a rules-based order and following international norms. I understand that Pacific Island nations have choices that they need to make. At the end of the day, we remain open for partnerships. And when you’re talking about things like search-and-rescue and illegal fisheries or trying to counter illegal fisheries, those are missions that have a common good no matter what choices you make in terms of your economic activities or alignments. And we’re willing to continue to press those important partnerships forward to advance maritime safety and security even in those conditions.
Moderator: Thank you. Next, if we could please go to Lawrence Chung from South China Morning Post [in Taiwan]. Lawrence, if you’re there, please, go ahead.
Question: Morning, thank you. My question will be: Some news reports said that the coast guard of Taiwan and United States had a joint exercise last Monday, east of Taiwan. Could you confirm this? And if not, will the two sides hold joint exercise in the future given that they have signed agreement for cooperation?
Also, some Japanese congressmen have suggested that the coast guards from Japan, the United State, and Taiwan can cooperate and hold joint drills together. Would that be possible? Thank you.
VADM McAllister: Well, the United States Coast Guard works very closely with allies and partners throughout the Pacific to strengthen coast guard-to-coast guard communication, enhanced interoperability in missions like emergency response, combatting criminal activity at sea. And so, this memorandum of understanding that we have on coast guard cooperation between the U.S. and Taiwan establishes a mechanism to achieve those goals. But as it concerns specific, ongoing U.S. operations with Taiwan, I don’t have any specific details to provide at this time.
With regard to your question on a potential kind of trilateral relationship between Japan, Taiwan, and the United States, as I stated before, we’re interested in growing our relationships and partnerships, particularly towards a common good. I think that’s a question best geared for ministries of state, departments of state, to lay the groundwork for enhanced trilateral relationships, and then we in the Coast Guard are happy to carry those out.
Moderator: Next, then, if we could go to Brad Lendon from CNN in Hong Kong.
Question: Good morning, Admiral. My question pertains to recent Chinese actions to put new reporting requirements on ships going through what China claims is territorial waters. How does the U.S. Coast Guard look at this?
And along with that, what sort of cooperation do you have with the Chinese Coast Guard in any interactions that may come up?
VADM McAllister: So, let me start with the new reporting requirements. As you all know, the South China Sea is really a maritime superhighway, and coast guard-to-coast guard cooperation really is critical in that region for building good maritime governance. And as I had mentioned in my opening, we’re definitely seeing increased interest in partnering with the United States Coast Guard on maritime safety and security capacity development.
I would offer the new reporting requirements for ships on innocent passage to the South China Sea, certainly based on the reporting, seems to run directly counter to international agreements and norms. If our reading is correct, these are very concerning, and that’s because they begin to build foundations for instability and potential conflicts if those are enforced.
And so, what does the Coast Guard do about that? As I alluded to earlier, we work with partners across the region. In fact, I would submit that we’re in the region really in part to support key partners that are growing increasingly concerned over China’s aggressive and sometimes coercive actions, and our partners’ concerns with their lack of capability or capacity to adequately respond to those actions.
With respect to your question on cooperation with China, we do cooperate with China on areas of mutual interest between the U.S. and China; not a whole lot of cooperative activity in the South China Sea in particular; however, we do continue to cooperate in the North Pacific, specifically as it relates to high seas fishing, the enforcement of various treaties and conventions that both the U.S. and China are signatories to. And we have enjoyed that relationship for a number of decades now, and it has been successful. We have largely eliminated the use of high seas drift nets, as an example, on the high seas, which had a very significant impact on a lot of migratory fish species.
And so, we remain willing to continue to cooperate and communicate where our interests align. But where our missions or interests don’t align, we’re going to make note of those positions and provide what we think is a better model of behavior.
Moderator: Thank you. We will need to wrap up the call soon, but if you would like to try to ask a question, you can jump in the queue. Next, if we could go to Dzirhan Mahadzir from USNI News in Malaysia. Dzirhan, please go ahead.
Question: Yes, thank you, Admiral. Recently, the Cutter Munro had an exercise with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Please tell us a little about the context of the relationship between the U.S. Coast Guard and the JMSDF. Thank you.
VADM McAllister: Yes. Well, we’ve had a number of engagements with both the Japan Coast Guard and the Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the most recent engagement was one of, I would say, cooperative patrolling coincident to other operations. So, we find that the Japanese are amongst our most valued partnerships, and that’s both from a maritime perspective through the Maritime Defense Force and from missions that align really well with the Coast Guard to the Japan Coast Guard. And in fact, I mentioned the North Pacific Guard, which is kind of a high seas fisheries enforcement. We get great support from the Japanese in that operation as well, both on the high seas and for logistics capability. And so, we just find that Japan is a very mature, very responsible, desired partner across all of our mission sets.
Moderator: Thank you. If we could next go to Raissa Robles from South China Morning Post. Raissa [in Manila], if you’re there, please, go ahead.
Question: Yes, good morning, Vice Admiral. I’d like to ask you what was the aim of the recent exercises with the Philippine Coast Guard, and was there a message intended to convey by holding it near Scarborough Shoal? And recently, a Chinese vessel had fired flares after a Philippine vessel had asked it to state its reasons for being inside the Philippine EEZ. What is the meaning of firing flares in response to another ship’s radio challenge? Thank you.
VADM McAllister: So, I think I missed an important part of your question. Could I ask you to repeat your questions for me?
Question: Okay. What was the aim of the recent exercises with the Philippine Coast Guard, and was there a message intended to convey by holding it near Scarborough Shoal? And recently, a Chinese vessel had fired flares after a Philippine vessel had asked it to state its reasons for being inside the Philippine EEZ. In terms of behavior of ships at sea, what is the meaning of firing flares in response to another ship’s radio challenge?
VADM McAllister: Okay, so two great questions. Let me start with the recent exercises both of the Philippines Coast Guard and with the fisheries agency, and I’ll focus mostly on the coast guard. That’s one of our key partners. And the Philippine Coast Guard is growing, or at least has designs to grow rapidly. I believe they’re at about 15,000 people right now and have plans to grow to greater than 30,000 members. The recent exercises included search-and-rescue, fisheries enforcement, and what we call maritime domain awareness, which is just being able to identify activities going on in your sovereign waters, with the idea that you would be able to respond to any threats.
One thing that we are working with the Philippines on in particular is giving them the capacity and the capability to spend more time beyond their littorals, and by that I mean further from shore. And so, I’m not going to say that activity near the Scarborough Shoals was necessarily intended to send a message; but when you think about the Philippines’ claim for their waters, that opportunity to get them out further from shore, do maritime awareness, and – when appropriate – enforce laws and treaties within their Exclusive Economic Zone, it simply requires that we get them further from shore.
Now, with respect to your question on flares, I’m not familiar with the details of the particular incident that you describe. But flares are an international distress signal – again, as part of that international norms – and so they could have been used to signal a distress. But again, without further details on that incident, I can’t really speculate as to the intent of the parties involved there.
Moderator: Thank you, Admiral. Looks like we only have time for about one more question. If we could please go ahead and go to Alden Monzon from Kyodo News. Alden, please, go ahead.
Question: Admiral, yes, good morning, sir. I just want to ask how is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting your partnerships and lineup of activities with your Asian partners? And what are the challenges you are facing, and how are you addressing this?
VADM McAllister: So, the second part of your question, was that related to COVID challenges as well?
Question: Yes, sir.
VADM McAllister: Well, as is the case with all of our international partnerships really around the world, COVID has definitely limited our ability to do the type of face-to-face, human-to-human engagements that we find, and I believe our partners find, so valuable. We’ve used, as much as possible, virtual engagements like this one and to try to bridge the gap. But time will tell as to whether we’ve been effective in doing that. I would say there’s certainly – from my perspective as a regional commander, I’m looking forward to when travel restrictions begin to be eased and I can go and look people eye-to-eye and kind of re-form those critical partnerships.
It has also been difficult from the perspective of putting ships to sea and keeping them to sea. Getting a crew ready for sea – including quarantines, vaccinations, and other measures to ensure that they’re protected – has been difficult. And then staying at sea for months at a time in order to carry out our missions has taken a toll on our crews. And so, we’re hopeful that our partnerships allow us to emerge from COVID as quick as possible and so that we can kind of restore those person-to-person engagements that we, and our partners, desire most.
Moderator: Thank you very much. That’s just about all the time we have. But Vice Admiral McAllister, do you have any closing remarks for us?
VADM McAllister: Let me say thank you again, Zia, for putting this together, and I have just a couple of concluding notes.
In my mind, being a partner of choice means committing the needed or requested time, energy, presence, and resources, and I believe that’s what the Coast Guard is doing and certainly will continue to do throughout the Indo-Pacific while I am here.
We have an enduring role in the Indo-Pacific region going back over 150 years, but I would say our commitment today is stronger than ever.
And hopefully as I’ve portrayed to you here, partnerships are really key to us to upholding that rules-based international order and effective maritime governance that I referred to a number of times. And in those partnerships, the U.S. Coast Guard is the partner that shows up.
So, thanks for the opportunity to speak about the U.S. Coast Guard’s operations and, ideally, our value in the Western Pacific, and I look forward to future opportunities to engage with you through this great forum to share information.
Moderator: Thank you very much. That concludes today’s call. I would like to thank once again U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Michael McAllister, and I would also like to thank all of you for your participation in the briefing, and I apologize if we were not able to get to your question today. Please stay on the line for information regarding access to an audio recording of the call. Also, please be aware that a transcript of the call will be posted to our social media platforms and sent out to all of you within a day. If you have any questions about today’s call, you may contact the Asia Pacific Media Hub at firstname.lastname@example.org. Thank you.


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LONDON—”Battlefield 3,” “Need for Speed Rivals” and “Medal of Honor: Warfighter” are favorites of gamers, but the small British technology firm behind the lighting effects in those best-selling titles is probably not as well known.
Friday, Cambridge, England-based chip-design giant ARM Holdings PLC added to its growing mobile-graphics expertise by snapping up Angle PLC’s Geomerics—also based in the tech-centered southern England city—for £6.2 million ($10.1 million). Geomerics said it has been a partner of ARM for more than two years and now will be a subsidiary. Terms weren’t disclosed.
ARM’s deal, while small in size, is a key strategic move. It is the third acquisition made under Chief Executive Simon Segars, who started his role in July, and marks ARM’s first foray into computer gaming. Investors approved, sending ARM shares up nearly 5% in afternoon London trading.
Only 2% of U.K. households buy digital movies online, but 48% are buying DVDs and Blu-ray discs, according to Twentieth Century Fox. That spells opportunity to Keith Feldman, president of international home entertainment at the U.S. film-studio group.
“It is an incredibly healthy marketplace,” said Mr. Feldman, in an interview at Twentieth Century Fox’s London office. “The U.K. has the highest penetration of owning movies in the world. Consumers in the U.K. are already buying digital music and digital books. Digital movies is the next thing.”
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox Inc., which comprises media and entertainment properties such as the Fox network and 20th Century Fox. The assets were split from the old News Corp. earlier this year. The new News Corp owns primarily publishing assets, including Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
On Thursday, Fox said it is starting a promotional push for its Digital HD movie-download platform in the U.K. The service is available online in 148 countries, but Britain is the second major market targeted with a promotional effort, after the U.S. in September 2012.
Digital HD lets consumers buy the company’s movies in 1080p high definition up to three weeks before they come out on Blu-ray or DVD. Movie fans buy the films from mainstream digital retailers, such as Apple Inc.’s iTunes, Google Play and Tesco PLC’s blinkbox, then download or stream them on any HD device, such as a tablet, connected TV, smartphone or laptop. The Digital HD movies are automatically stored in the cloud for viewing anytime.
The British Broadcasting Corp. is set to add a commercial download platform and a personalized digital music service amid a revamp of its online digital platforms.
The U.K.’s national broadcaster Tuesday said U.K. users will be able to buy a selection of BBC programs as downloads through a commercial, online platform called BBC Store. The BBC gave no details on the subscription model and cost.
It is also launching a music service called Playlister “in the coming days” that will allow users to tag and save lists of tracks they have heard on music and television shows. These can then be exported and played in full on digital music platforms such as Spotify, YouTube and Deezer, through smartphones, tablets and Internet-connected televisions. Users will also get hand-picked recommendations from DJs and hosts.
The BBC also plans changes to its popular online catch-up and live streaming service for video and audio, iPlayer. Dubbed “next generation” by the BBC and launching in the first half of 2014, the revamped iPlayer will have a standard 30-day catch-up window for content, compared with seven days currently, subject to approval by the corporation’s governing body.
Here is a line you can use at your next public speaking engagement. “I have been in tech so long I remember when water was free and you paid for music.”
At The Wall Street Journal’s recent Tech Cafe event, held close by “Silicon Roundabout,” the heart of the U.K. capital’s tech scene, key members of the music industry—ranging from Nick Mason, drummer of the global super-band Pink Floyd, through French streaming music-service Deezer, the site for fans of live music, Songkick.com Ltd and record label Sony Music Entertainment U.K. Ltd—discussed the future of the music business.
There is nothing technology commentators like doing more than killing things off. Theater, radio, movies, TV, even the Web itself, at some point someone has prematurely read their death rites. The record labels are just the latest who can reply with a Mark Twain-like response.
Hard-core gamers stayed up until midnight, and many are planning on “pulling a sickie” today, to indulge in the latest installment in the hugely successful Grand Theft Auto video game franchise.
“Grand Theft Auto V,” which is reported to have cost at least £170 million ($270 million) to build and promote and was five years in the making, is expected to easily clear more than $1 billion in a year, given a retail price of around $60 and expectations that the game will sell more than its predecessor, “Grand Theft Auto IV,” which sold 25 million.
The last big best-selling game, Activision’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,” took $775 million in revenue in the first five days of retail in November 2011.
When friends of Jordan Casey’s parents lost their jobs in Waterford, a city that has been one of the worst hit by unemployment in Ireland, the then 12-year-old self-taught programmer decided he could do something to help.
“Lots and lots of businesses are closing down,” said Mr. Casey, now 13. “Usually when you were in a big city in Ireland, you’d always see people in the city in the night, but it’s just really really lonely and quiet.”
“People are losing their jobs and I wanted to help them.”
Still at school Mr. Casey turned to the only thing he knew. He decided to try and make a difference by building a company out of his knack for designing computer games.
The founders of gaming powerhouse Rovio Entertainment Oy used money raised in an investment round in 2011 to sell shares, it has emerged Friday.
CEO Mikael Hed revealed that he and fellow founders sold “part of their share of the company” in an interview with Finnish paper Talouselämä, published Friday in English. The $42 million round came from Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures amongst others.
At the time it wasn’t clear where the cash from the series A round had gone, with news site Arctic Startup spotting that it hadn’t showed up in the company’s yearly accounts. Mr. Hed clarified what happened:
Europe’s enterprise-app market is poised for explosive growth and could be valued at more than $4 billion by 2018, according to a report.
The research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research shows the European enterprise cloud app market is set to generate £2.7 billion ($4.2 billion) in revenue, an increase of 206% by 2018.
The CEBR report predicts Germany will have the largest enterprise cloud app market, which the research organization predicts will be valued at £1.1 billion, compared with £904 million in the U.K. and £587 million in France. The demand for enterprise cloud apps is expected to attract 159% more cloud developers in Europe over the next five years.
According to the report, the paucity of the French market was due to French consumers being less used to downloading and paying for mobile apps than Britons and Germans. This has an impact on employees’ attitudes toward paying for, downloading and using apps for work.
Royalties paid to U.K. musicians by online music services rose by a third in the last year, British industry group PRS for Music said Thursday.
For the first time, U.K. artists received more money from online royalties than they did from radio play or from pubs and clubs playing their music. Following an average annual revenue increase of 27% from online over the past five years, it’s a sign that the Internet can bring more money as traditional revenue streams decline.
Royalties paid to U.K. artists from online services such as Spotify, iTunes and Google Play were £51.7 million ($78.2 million) in 2012, up a third, 32%, from £39.1 million in 2011. Radio broadcasts brought in £47 million.
Digital music sales are set to overtake physical product sales in the U.K. in 2013, a year behind the U.S., according to a report by industry analysts.
However the industry was literally decimated in 2012, with music sales falling 10%. CD sales fell by 21% to £540 million ($818 million), only partially offset by a 6% growth in digital sales to £454 million, ($688 million) according to the Enders Analysis report published Tuesday.
Furthermore, the report predicts that music revenue in the U.K. will have fallen by more than £1 billion ($1.5 billion) in the decade from 2005.
Tech Europe covers Europe’s technology leaders, their companies, and the people and industries that support them — and their ideas. The blog is edited by Ben Rooney, with contributions from The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.

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The Ontario government is investing $7.75-million to create a permanent emergency shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness in Windsor.
The social services relief funding announced Wednesday will be used to convert a former hotel into 42 permanent emergency shelter units.
Each unit will also have a private washroom.
The permanent emergency shelter is expected to be completed by the end of 2021.
"Our government's Social Services Relief Fund is designed to provide immediate housing and homelessness program relief in communities across Ontario," said Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. "By investing $7.75 million in Windsor, we continue to support innovative housing projects to give those in need a safe place to call home and help them get back on their feet."
The city has been working on this project since early this year and announced in March plans to create the shelter.
An official announcement on the future of the shelter could happen sometime in October.


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It’ll be the final game for the Development Blues tomorrow. (PHOTO CREDIT: Sue Walson)
The Northern Blues Development team will play their last game tomorrow.
With Williamstown’s win over Coburg on Saturday, it means the Blues are officially out of finals contention.
Tomorrow morning’s clash against Box Hill from 11am will be the final game for the Development Blues, after the decision earlier in the year that the League will not go ahead in 2018.
Coached by Ian Aitken, Northern will be desperate to go off on the right note with a win over the finals-bound Hawks.
The Development side has been a successful system for the Blues in previous years and in 2017, with 20 players starting out in the reserves/Development leagues before progressing onto the senior side.
There was better news for the VFL side, with Port Melbourne defeating Collingwood by five points in a thriller. A win tomorrow against the third-placed Hawks would place the Blues inside the top eight.

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Ways to use old windows. I have ooodles of them at our farm, stacked in old outbuildings. Been thinking there HAD to be a way to reuse them along these lines..... LOVE THIS! Doors, Old Window Frames, Green Houses, Idea, Recycled Window, Old Windows, Backyard, Shutters, Old Window Greenhouses
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top of my list for this spring is getting my Green House built - I have collected all the recycled windows I need - now to get it put together!


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Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 is coming for the UK with her beat clown face and ruthless sense of humor that can scare even the devil away.
— Bianca Del Rio (@TheBiancaDelRio) July 25, 2016
It’s the first time ever for Bianca Del Rio’s show to come to the UK.
Starting from 3 February 2017, the show that’s based on her sold-out world comedy tour, ‘Rolodex of Hate’ will run for more than two weeks starting in London and ending in Belfast.
A total of 11 dates and locations are available for fans to choose from.
General sale is opened right now, with ‘Meet and Greet’ available.
Watch her announcement here:
Not today Satan, but yes to Bianca!
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How to bet on football: Sportsbet tells you all you need to know ahead of the international break!
Football is without doubt the biggest and most popular sport in the world, so betting on it is the main focus for the majority of sportsbooks.
Domestic games from the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga and Serie A can offer as many as 200 markets at a time, so choosing the right ones can be tricky.
Usually all bets count for normal time only, unless stated otherwise. The most popular bets are Match Result, Double Chance, Draw No Bet, Both Teams to Score, Asian Handicaps and Over/Under bets.
Here, Sportsbet.io gives you an insight into these markets!
This is the most common and easiest way to understand football betting. To win, you simply have to predict the game’s full time result.
Example: It’s Sunderland against Arsenal on Saturday. You can either back the Black Cats to win at 7.25, Arsenal to come out on top at 1.40 or the draw at 4.95.
You can choose from three selections (Home/Draw; Away/Draw; Home/Away), but the outcome probability is way bigger. Meaning, the odds are significantly lowered.
Example: Champions Leicester City travel to in-form Tottenham on Saturday. The Double Chance bets are as follows: Tottenham or Draw 1.15; Leicester City or Draw 2.00 and Tottenham or Leicester 1.22.
Draw No Bet
Draw No Bet simply eliminates the draw from the available selections. If the game in question ends in a draw, your stake will be refunded.
Example: Crystal Palace entertain Liverpool at Selhurst Park and the Draw No Bet odds are Palace 3.45 and Liverpool 1.30. If the game ends in a draw, the bookmaker will refund your stake.
Both Teams To Score
Very simple. If you choose Both Teams To Score — YES — and they both score, then you win! Or if you plump for Both Teams To Score — NO — and either one or neither scores… you win!
Example: Manchester City travel to West Brom on Saturday. Both Teams To Score, YES, is 2.00… while NO is 1.75.
The main advantage of AH is that the draw result is eliminated. In the standard bet, the possibilities of each outcome is 33%.
Asian handicap betting offers the underdog of the game with an early lead before the kick off. You have two options. Betting on home or away.
Example: Manchester United host Burnley and you want to bet on the home side with Asian Handicap -2 at 2.05.
- 1. United win by more than two goals. The selection wins and we get full payout for our stake.
- 2. United win by exactly two goals. We are refunded our stake.
- 3. United win by one, it ends in a draw or Burnley win. Our bet losses.
Goals, of course, are attracting most attention among the Over/Under bets. Usually 2.5 is used as a condition to define a low-scoring and high-scoring game. A great thing about similar bets is that it doesn’t matter which team is attacking, you always root for a goal.
Example: Middlesbrough take on Bournemouth on Saturday, with many predicting goals, goals, goals. Over 2.5 is 2.25, so if three goals or more are scored at the Riverside, then the bet wins.

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On getting the inquiry report of CBCID pertaining to Banda incident today morning, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms. Mayawati ji ordered the immediate release of the victim girl, because the allegations put on the girl were not found true in CBCID inquiry report. She has directed the officers to take stringent action against the guilty policemen and hold CBCID inquiry into this case also.
Besides, she has also directed the Principal Secretary Home to provide proper security to the victim girl.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister said that her Government always followed the rule of law and nobody would be
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One of the expansion plans for any business is reducing the cost of supply and diversifying products on offer. According to data from the Kenya Bureau of Statistics, an article in the Business Daily notes that Kenya imported goods worth Ksh171b from China in May 2018. If you wish to import goods from China to Kenya as part of your expansion strategy, there are several ways to find a supplier.
- Find a supplier online
- Visit China and scout for a good supplier
- Attend a trade fair in Kenya/China
Search for suppliers online
Have you heard about Alibaba, Aliexpress, and Dhgate, among others? These websites can help you import a variety of products. The main setback when dealing with online suppliers is fraud. Telling genuine sellers apart is difficult despite the number of security checks imposed on such trading platforms.
If it is your first time importing from China to Kenya, buy in small quantities as you get accustomed to shipping terms, and research cheap shipping from China to Kenya. An item might appear cheap but attract high shipping costs. To learn more about shipping terms, check this list of shipping companies from China to Kenya. Features to check to include:
- Transit time (duration it takes to ship your order)
- Departure and destination of the cargo (does the company ship to Kenya?)
- Cargo type
- Order tracking
- MOQ (minimum order quantity indicated in pieces per item)
- Payment method
If you are bothered about shipping, customs, and clearing, here is an article to guide you on taxes and other regulations when shipping from China to Kenya.
I found a great post on the Mombasa Women Business group on Facebook about importing goods from China to Kenya. The Admin detailed how she gets her supplies from China: the requirements and the process of finding a supplier. Among the factors highlighted in the post, you need a capital of not less than KSh200,000. Plan to spend at least a week in China, and to lower costs, book a hotel in Shanghai or another city where you hope to get suppliers. In addition, get an English-speaking guide.
Attend a Trade Fair
Check the listing of trade fairs at the KICC in Nairobi for Chinese trade fairs and events. Also, you can travel to China for trade fairs, such as the China Canton Fair. Local tour operators organize such weeklong trade safaris. For example, Bonfire Adventure charges about $1820 for an 8-day package to attend the China Canton Fair. This event takes place in phases. There is a week for electronics and electrical appliances, a phase for home décor and consumer goods, and a week for textiles, shoes, bags, and office supplies. Find out more about the next China Canton Fair.
Cheap Products to Import from China to Kenya
Going by the price per item indicated on popular online e-commerce platforms, cheap items include watches, phone covers, makeup brushes, and acrylic nails. Some of these products cost less than a Dollar and are often available on free shipping terms.
Hot Products to Import from China to Kenya
What you import depends on what you want to sell and its demand. If you do not know what you should import, look around you. What do customers order from you? What do entrepreneurs need that you can import and sell to them?
For instance, when the plastic bag ban came into effect, there was a huge demand for alternatives, but the market had limited supply. People who cashed in on this demand were the ones who had ordered shipments months in advance. Once the non-woven bags flooded the market, the price fell.
The demand can be seasonal, such as the demand for school bags at the start of every year. On the other hand, it is sustainable over a long period, such as the demand for makeup brushes, women’s clothes, handbags, etc. These items will always sell. Therefore, import to meet seasonal demand only if you can get your shipment while the demand is still high.
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By Sandy Driscoll
The beautifully appointed dining room
5955 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Lunch: Friday – 12 noon – 2:30 pm
Dinner: Monday-Friday 6pm-10pm
Saturday – 5:30pm – 10pm
Sunday – 5:30pm – 9pm
Ever since Providence opened in 2005, it has received accolades as one of the top restaurants in the country from
everyone including Gourmet and Esquire magazines, the James Beard Foundation, Gayot, and Michelin (two stars). Chef
Michael Cimarusti and co-owner Donato Poto (who is always there to greet you!) make dining here an unforgettable culinary experience.
Having eaten at Providence several times, to me, there is no finer restaurant in Los Angeles. On all levels……food, service,
ambiance……it is superb. It’s comfortably elegant, service is spot on, and the food (they specialize in fresh fish) is unsurpassed
in its category, similar to Le Bernardin in NYC.
They frequently have special tasting menus, and the chefs table, which is in a very private, quiet and lovely room all its own seats 4-6. It has an unfettered view of the gleaming kitchen and all of its beautiful orchestration. For those of us who love to cook, and love to watch good cooks in action, there is no finer treat than to enjoy the chef’s multi-course tasting menu at this table.
My most recent meal, pictured below, was a Friday lunch. Fortunately, they were featuring Australian Black Winter Truffles,
shaved over a choice of Risotto, Pasta alla Chitarra, Soft Scrambled Eggs or Raviolo alluovo. After the delicious complimentary
Amuse assortment, I started with the Bigeye Tuna Tartare, stunning in its gorgeous presentation. The truffle-topped and perfectly cooked risotto was memorably delicious (just looking at the photos makes me want to order it again!) and was one of those dishes where you hoped it would never end……just one more bite, please!
Confident that I will always have a perfect dining experience, I can’t wait to return!
Complimentary Amuse – Beautiful and delicious assortment of tastes (including frozen Mojito-Screwdriver Baja Shrimp cooked sous-vide with piquant chile, Carrot Soup with foam)
Bigeye Tuna Tartare, exquisitely plated!
Presenting the Australian Black Winter Truffles
Risotto awaiting the truffles!
Shaving the Black Truffle over the Risotto
Complimentary Dessert Bites

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Here's the South Wales Police's latest cop cars
I don't think you're going to be able to run anywhere from them now...
When it comes to catching wrongdoers, the South Wales Police are starting to take things very seriously. Well, you'd think that at least from the cars that they're currently evaluating as police vehicles. They've gone to Ford's Special Vehicles Preparation team in Essex to get a Focus ST Estate and a Ranger Raptor fully kitted out for police use! As you'd expect, the police conversion includes the customary blues and twos and the instantly recognisable British police livery. For now, though, the liveries are generic - if they were actually delivered to the South Wales Police, they would be given the bilingual English/Welsh livery that all Welsh police cars are given.
From the factory, the Focus ST is avaliable with either petrol or diesel power. You'd think given the usual car choices of the police these days that they'd want to go for the diesel variant. That's where you'd be wrong - South Wales Police are evaluating the 276 hp 2.3 Ecoboost petrol that'll spring from 0-60 in a very respectable 5.7 seconds and go up to a top speed of 155 mph. It's very good in the corners too, being fitted from the factory with an electronically controlled limited-slip differential. As a nimble pursuit vehicle for the streets of South Wales, I can't think of many other cars that would be as well suited to the task! The little bit of extra space in the back you get from the estate version could come in handy too - when you're in the business of protecting and serving the general public, I don't think there's such a thing as having a car that has too much space to pack things in!
The real beast of the duo though is the police-spec Ranger Raptor. Right out from the factory it looks like it could be incredibly well-suited to an off-road pursuit role. Those 2 and a half inch thick Fox dampers are no joke, being perfectly suited to take the incredible stresses and strains from barrelling across rough fields and down heavily rutted farm tracks at speed. The Ranger Raptor's reinforced frame should be able to bear the brunt of that too. Being a resident of South Wales myself, I know for a fact that a lot of that part of Britain is very rural and even quite isolated at times. Knowing this, I'm not surprised at all that the South Wales Police are potentially taking a chance on a vehicle that can access even the most remote areas of places like the Brecon Beacons with ease and go where even their AWD SUVs would struggle to manage.


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- Travel insurance covers incidents that may be suffered throughout a trip, from its cancellation to the loss of luggage and many more coverages.
- You can take out a policy for a specific trip, for a long-term trip and even for several that will take place in a year.
During trips, whether on vacation or for work, the risks multiply . The user may lose the flight, luggage, become ill or even be forced to cancel the flight or the hotel. Making the reservation of the accommodation or the transport without a Travel insurance that covers it may result in the loss of the amount paid if it is finally necessary to cancel it or if the airport is not reached at the precise time, for example. In addition, when the destination is outside the borders of the country itself, vacations can multiply their cost if while there the traveler becomes ill and requires health care, extend the days of stay due to the impossibility of traveling or even return to their country with character. of urgency.
To cover all these circumstances, and many others, insurance companies offer citizens the possibility of contracting specific policies that guarantee their safety and well-being when they are abroad. Travel insurance is not compulsory, but it is recommended because it covers the risks surrounding stays outside the home.
Travel insurance is an insurance product that allows the user to make protected and carefree trips in order to enjoy it . They offer coverage throughout the world so that travel does not prevent the user from enjoying the best assistance and protection.
Its guarantees are adapted both to its duration and to the chosen destination or the purpose of the trip . It can include a wide variety of benefits, including the possibility of canceling or interrupting the trip, receiving emergency medical assistance or not having to face the medical expenses that may be needed throughout the stay. Thus, this insurance covers the previous risks but also the unforeseen events that may occur while enjoying it.
Take out insurance to enjoy the trip
Traveling always carries risks, and more if you do it abroad. Some credit and debit cards offer insurance coverage that can be applied to them and even some Health insurances have coverage abroad. In addition, public transport has Mandatory Travel Insurance, but hiring a specific policy extends user protection .
These policies are usually contracted for the determined duration of the trip, but there is the possibility of subscribing them for longer depending on the needs of the user and even opting for annual coverage. The guarantees are decided by the insured in order to select the ones that best suit him and adapt to his specific case and choose the best Travel insurance for him .
Information about the trip
Travel insurance offers many possibilities. For example, specific protection can be obtained depending on the duration of the trip or the reason for it. In addition, depending on the number of people who are going to do it, companies offer the possibility of covering several travelers or groups of more than 10 people in the same policy.
Reason for displacement
The reason for the trip is one of the points that insurers use to make categories among their Travel insurance and thus be able to adapt the coverage to the specific case. Thus, depending on whether it is a vacation, a cruise, a study trip, a business trip, or a ski getaway , the insurance can include from the reimbursement of the ski pass, the ski classes and the costs of piste relief. , up to the replacement of employees in the case of companies. Within each of the reasons for the trip it is possible to make the insurance from the duration of the trip.
Depending on how long it will last, insurers offer different products. When they are a few days or a few weeks the common Travel insurance is contracted . But when what is desired is a single insurance for several trips, it is possible to subscribe to an annual coverage that protects the insured from the incidents that may occur in all those carried out during that year , as long as each of them has a duration of less than 3 months. You can also take out Travel insurance for a long stay abroad, which can be up to one year. The difference between them is found in the coverage period, and therefore in the price, but also in some of the guarantees they include, although these depend directly on the insurer.
What does Travel insurance cover?
Within the Travel insurance there are several types of guarantees , those that refer to health care and those related to its cancellation. Normally, the application of all coverages is adjusted to a limit agreed between the parties at the signing of the policy.
Travel assistance coverage
The most common coverage in Travel insurance are those related to assisting the insured during the same. From help for medical problems to theft of your personal belongings.
One of the main guarantees of this type of insurance is medical assistance. This provides coverage in the event that the insured falls ill or suffers an accident during his stay, whether inside or outside his country of residence. In addition to guaranteeing medical, pharmacological, hospitalization and surgical expenses until the journey can be continued, health care goes further and can offer:
- Displacement and accommodation of a companion of the insured in case he is hospitalized.
- Extension of stay as a consequence of illness or accident.
- Sending medications to the place where the insured is located.
- Transfer or repatriation of the insured and his companion.
- Transfer or repatriation in case of death .
- Early return .
- Management and coordination of healthcare services .
- Translation service .
- Substitution of the insured for repatriation in the case of business trips .
In addition to these it is possible to find others such as the payment of expenses for loss of documentation or classes in the case of a study trip, for example.
Along with healthcare, the loss or theft of luggage is the most contracted coverage. This guarantee gives the insured a monetary compensation in the event that the luggage or personal effects are lost, stolen or damaged during transport, and also in the event that their delivery is delayed when they have been checked in. The insurer advises the user to file the complaint and collaborates in the location efforts in addition to being in charge of sending it to the place of travel or the residence of the insured.
In the event that the objects were not stolen or damaged during the journey by public transport, some insurers also guarantee compensation when the theft occurs inside a hotel room or vehicle .
Some insurers offer delay coverage so that when travel is delayed for reasons beyond the insured’s control, the latter can receive compensation for the purchase of essential objects, the costs of accommodation and maintenance, and reimbursement of the costs of using other means of transport.
On the other hand, Travel insurance may include accident guarantees to cover the insured in the event of permanent disability or their relatives in the event of death.
Another coverage is that of Civil Liability and Legal Defense outside Spain. With it, the insured can receive legal advice by telephone and have the expenses of legal defense as well as the advance of the judicial bond covered.
Cancellation of travel and insurance
Another coverage that can be of great use within the Travel insurance is the cancellation of the trip or cancellation. With it, the company allows the insured to cancel their vacations at no cost, but as long as the cause is included within the general conditions of the policy they have signed. Among the medical reasons why a trip can be canceled without cost are: illness, accidents or death of the insured or some of their relatives; citations for serious surgical intervention; transplants.
But they also usually include labor causes within the guarantee, such as the incorporation to a new job, the dismissal or the call for oppositions. Also when the insured is summoned to an electoral table or to a judicial procedure, when they are going to give him up for adoption a child or if the one who cancels the trip is his companion and they are part of the same insurance.
These insurances, like many of Health, usually do not take charge of the attention or incidents happened as a consequence of a pre-existing disease unless it has a vital emergency character . Neither by pathological states produced by the ingestion of alcohol or other substances. Outside the coverage there are also claims caused by the insured himself, such as loss of luggage by himself or theft, cancellation by non-urgent surgical procedures or epidemics.
In addition, in the event that the transport company or service provider covers the problem of the trip, such as the cancellation of a cruise or a flight, or the cost of accommodation due to delay, the Travel insurance does not cover it. However, on some occasions it financially compensates to compensate the difference between the amount delivered by the service company and the actual expenses incurred.
To enjoy a trip with complete peace of mind it is advisable to take out Travel insurance , and it can be done at any time, taking into account that any event that occurred before the policy was signed will not be covered. However, it is necessary to know that depending on the type of trip and the policy that you want to subscribe, some insurers establish that the hiring must be done during the 7 days following the purchase of the trip. In the case of exceeding this maximum term, a grace period may be imposed on the application of coverage, which means that during those days the user does not have the contracted guarantees, which will take effect after the period of deficiency or when the start date of the policy arrives.
When you travel you have to do it safely , but if you also take out Travel insurance that covers the possible incidents you may suffer during the holidays, you will be more protected and you will be able to enjoy peace of mind. Keep in mind the coverage and exceptions of each policy and rest assured, it is not a complicated process. If you enter the Travel insurance search engine of Rastreator.com you can compare the coverage and prices of the main insurers and choose one that suits you.

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Emergency services in Arizona have had to rescue several people after flash flooding tore through a normally quiet creek.
Seventeen hikers were stranded on Sunday in a scenic canyon on the outskirts of Tucson, just over a week after floodwaters killed 10 members of an extended family more than 140 miles to the north.
Unpredictable summer storms can rapidly wash churning torrents into canyons in the US state and trap those looking to take advantage of cooler weather after rain.
In southern Arizona, two hikers were lifted to safety after they spent the night stuck on the side of a cliff in a rocky, narrow canyon, authorities said.
There was no immediate indication that any of the hikers were seriously injured.
Police say people often decide to go hiking once it stops raining, not realising that the water they see in the creek is from much earlier rainfall, not the storm that has just ended.


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‘What’s That Word?’ Fitness Helps Seniors Find It
Can’t recall that word that’s on the tip of your tongue? Exercise might help.
Physical activity is tied to a host of benefits. Now, a small study finds that healthy older people who exercise regularly have fewer problems with word retrieval.
“Tip-of-the-tongue moments are very noticeable. They are irritating and embarrassing,” said lead researcher Katrien Segaert.
These “senior moments” occur more frequently with age, said Segaert, a psychology lecturer at the University of Birmingham in England.
However, it’s wrong to link these lapses with memory loss. Rather, they tend to occur when you know a word but are temporarily unable to produce the sound for it, Segaert said.
“My research demonstrates that fitter older people experience less of these disruptions when they are speaking,” she said.
Dr. Sam Gandy, director of the Mount Sinai Center for Cognitive Health in New York City, is a believer in exercise, too.
“I believe that the [study] results are credible and important,” Gandy said. “Physical exercise is probably the best brain drug we have.”
For the study, Segaert and her colleagues gave a computerized language test to 28 healthy British men and women whose average age was 67 to 70. The researchers also had 27 younger adults, average age 23, take the test.
The test asked for the names of famous people (for example, authors, politicians and actors) based on 20 questions about them. Study participants also were given definitions of 20 little-used words and 20 easy words, and asked to produce the corresponding word.
The researchers used a stationary bicycling test to gauge aerobic fitness. This assessed the ability to use oxygen during exercise.
“We found that the higher the older person’s aerobic fitness level was, the lower their odds of experiencing a tip-of-the-tongue moment,” Segaert said.
“Being fit thus seems to offer some protection against language decline,” she said.
The older group had a significantly larger vocabulary than the younger adults. But even fitter seniors had more lapses in language than their juniors, the findings showed.
Language is a vital skill, Segaert said. And finding the sounds for words is essential when you want to produce language fluently.
“Speaking is something we rely on every day. Communication with others helps us maintain social relationships and independence into old age. Being fit may offer some help with that,” she said.
Gandy said efforts are underway to understand the molecular neurobiology of exercise’s effects on the brain.
Research has shown that physical exercise stimulates production of a brain-derived nerve growth factor capable of staving off brain aging in apes, he added.
“Brain-derived nerve growth factor is most active during development and after injury. But its general role is to nourish brain nerve cells and help them withstand injuries, including exposure to amyloid poisoning in Alzheimer’s,” Gandy said.
The nerve growth factor also protects nerve cells from age-related shrinkage and wasting, he added.
Some or all of these effects may be at play in these current findings, Gandy explained.
So how much exercise is best?
The researchers pointed out that you can measurably increase your fitness level in 6 weeks. And even walking has been shown to have “cognitive,” or mental, benefits.
Generally, moderate exercise is advised for 30 minutes a day most days of the week.
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In Fes, a sleeping place on comfy mattresses piled on top of one another on the (covered) roof veranda of Hotel Cascade, in the medina, costs 40 dirham or 4 euro (February 2011 price, may have gone up and is probably more expensive in the high season).
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Fes - The old quarter of Fes is one of the best preserved medinas in the Arabic world. The ancient leather tanning vats are a popular destination. As you try to enter people will tell you there is an admission fee -- this is NOT true;the vats are a public area, just push past the hustlers.


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So Obama has sharpened his message, according to this report by Time's Karen Tumulty, and is now ripping into McCain:
Where he would rarely even mention McCain in the past, Obama now openly mocks him. McCain boasts of putting country first, Obama said, "but I have to say, it's not an example of putting country first when you say George Bush's economic policies have shown 'great progress.'" As for McCain's contention that Obama would be "an economic disaster," he retorted: "Mr. McCain, let me explain to you. The economic disaster is happening right now. Maybe you haven't noticed."
…And he told the crowd that a top McCain economic adviser (a reference to comments by former Senator Phil Gramm) "is calling you whiners...This guy obviously doesn't pump his own gas. He obviously doesn't do his own shopping. He's obviously not paying his own bills."
That's all pretty good, but here's the thing—the fundamental difference between most Republican attacks and most Democratic attacks, and why Republican attacks are more effective:
When Republicans imagine attacks, they think in terms of character; when Democrats imagine attacks, they think in terms of policy and record. Read that again. It's the key to presidential campaigns.
Look at Obama's attacks above. Basically, they're about McCain's policy positions. They're pretty good and effective, and attacks like them might prove to be enough this year, given the state of the economy and world and general lack of enthusiasm for McCain that's afoot. But they don't go right at the guy. The only character attack above is directed at someone who is now a former McCain adviser.
The McCain attacks, by contrast, are almost all aimed at character. Obama's a celebrity, he's like Britney, he's a lightweight, he's a hypocrite and so on. They throw in some policy stuff for good measure – he's gonna raise your taxes, he's to blame for high gas prices. But the gist of the GOP strategy is to turn the other guy into a person that most Americans just wouldn't want to have as president.
It's been this way since the 1970s. Karl Rove did it, but as usual he gets too much credit from the MSM. Lee Atwater did it before him. Atwater and James Baker and George Bush Sr. turned Mike Dukakis into a girly-man (Dukakis helped their case with his infamous tank ride) who defended (black) rapists and was just unfit to command a great country. Roger Ailes and Nixon did it to McGovern.
In essence, ever since the Democratic Party started defending black peoples' and women's and, later, gay people's rights, it's been fairly easy for the other side to kick loose some subconscious cobwebs in middle-Americans' brains and make Democratic men seem like, well, sissies.
Obviously I'm not contending that Democrats should stop defending those people. They certainly should not. But what they should do is answer the Republicans in kind.
For example, we now know that John McCain wears $520 shoes, owns an obscene number of homes (variously placed at seven to 10) and has probably never written a check to a utility company or a home contractor or a dentist in at least 26 years (since he married La Hensley). And Saturday we learned that he thinks someone with a net worth of only $4.9 million is not rich. He can be painted as – and indeed is – out of touch with what regular Americans go through every day.
If he were the Democrat, everyone in America would know the above. The Republicans would have run ads featuring those Ferragamo loafers and aerial photographs of the seven, eight, nine or 10 houses. For good measure, the script of these ads would have cleverly made sure that viewers knew that this emasculated sissy-man didn't earn a penny of the fortune that purchased all this. He married it!
Can't do that to McCain because he's a war hero? Nonsense. It was done to John Kerry. He was a war hero. In fact, Kerry, we can safely assume based on the things I've read, killed more men in a face-to-face way than McCain ever did. That's arguably more manly than even surviving five years' torture. It can be done to anyone.
But the Democrats just don't think this way. No, it's not that they're better human beings. They're afraid to go toe-to-toe with Republicans on these things because they figure (accurately) that Republicans have more experience at this stuff. And they're more concerned about media reaction. Republicans don't care about editorial criticism from the major newspapers – they tough it out until the charges stick. Democrats would start backing off if the Times and the Post wrote editorials taking them to task.
In general: Democrats try to turn the Republican into someone you disagree with on the issues. Republicans try to turn the Democrat into someone you wouldn't want to live on your street or let near your children. Is it any wonder the latter is more effective?


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Recent letters to the editor opposing the upcoming Measure LC parcel tax criticize the feature that allows seniors who vote “yes” for the parcel tax to file exemptions from paying the tax. The argument is that in our democracy you should not be voting for a tax that you will not be paying and further assumes that most seniors will opt out of paying the tax.
A more positive way to consider La Cañada Unified’s offer of an exemption for seniors is that persons over 65 who are living on limited retirement incomes will have the opportunity to continue their support of our outstanding public school system (where their children and perhaps grandchildren likely attended) without adversely affecting their lifestyles. Their “yes” votes will enhance the desirability of our community, increase the values of their homes and protect our school district from disastrous funding cuts over the next seven years.
My wife and I are retired seniors who will not opt out of paying the tax. We have many senior friends who will also pay the parcel tax. We have paid the present parcel tax for five years and supported the La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation as well. It is a great investment! We are proud of our school district, the education it has given to our children and its impressive high standing in the state.
We hope that fellow seniors who share our pride in La Cañada schools and our special community will join us in mailing their ballots with “yes” votes.
Robert H. Craven
La Cañada Flintridge

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In advance: Make hearts and flowers using royal icing. Cover pattern with waxed paper and make 11 tip 4 hearts. Make approximately 360 tip 225 drop flowers and 770 tip 129 drop flowers. Add tip 2 dot centers to all flowers. Make extras to allow for breakage and let dry.
Ice 2-layer cakes smooth (for 18 in. cake, bake four 2 in. high half rounds to make a 4 in. high cake). Prepare cakes for
Stacked Construction To make towers which will be inserted into cakes more stable, attach Plastic Dowel Rods to bottom of towers as follows: For 4 large and 2 medium towers in 18 in. cake, cut dowel rods to height of cake; for 4 small towers and 1 medium tower in hexagon and round cakes, cut dowel rods 1 in. shorter than height of cake. Stand?towers upside down; attach cut dowel rod to base with melted candy. Refrigerate until firm. Attach turret peaks to towers. Assemble cakes. Insert plastic windows on 6 in. and hexagon cakes 1 1/2 in. from base of cake. Insert door and position main roof. Using buttercream icing, pipe tip 4 bead hearts above windows. With tip 3, outline windows and pipe double drop strings. Attach tip 225 flowers with dots of icing; add tip 349 leaves. Insert 1 medium and 2 small towers in 6 in. cake; decorate towers with buttercream. With tip 3, outline windows and pipe double drop strings. Pipe tip 4 bead hearts above
windows. Attach tip 225 flowers to windowsills with dots of icing; add tip 349 leaves. Attach tip 225 drop flowers to battlements and in a cascade from top of turret peaks; add tip 349 leaves. Pipe tip 16 rosette on turret peaks; insert royal icing hearts. Position tip 225 drop flowers around bottom of towers and on top and bottom borders. Insert 2 small towers in hexagon cake; decorate same as towers in 6 in. cake. Attach tip 225 drop flowers around door, main roof and top border of cake. Pipe tip 349 leaves.
Decorate 18 in. cake: Using Cake Dividing Set, divide cake into 12ths. Mark 1 1/2 in. down from marks. Pipe tip 16 zigzag garland between marks. Attach tip 225 and tip 129 drop flowers on garland, pipe tip 349 leaves. Pipe tip 21 shell bottom border. Cover with tip 225 and tip 129 drop flowers, add tip 349 leaves. Pipe tip 16 shell top border. Position 4 large and 2 medium towers on side of cake, at hexagon points. Decorate towers same as 6 in. cake. .
**The top tier is often saved for the first anniversary. The number of servings given does not include the top tier.
The drop string is traditionally used as decoration on the sides of the cake and is the basis of more ornate string work. Called a "drop" string because the line of piped icing is allowed to "drop" or fall, by itself, before reattaching it to your cake. Pipe a row of single strings or multiple strings in rows of two or three.
A Fairytale Romance Cake is rated
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The most time-consuming part was creating all of the flowers. We didn't bake the bottom layer as it was for my daughter's 4th birthday party and we didn't need that much cake, so I underestimated how many flowers I would still use for the rest of it. I ended up having to create more flowers the night before. The great thing is that the flowers can all be made ahead of time, making it easier to create. It was a hit! Looked so impressive, and all the kids (and parents) were amazed! My daughter picked this out of the Wilton yearbook, and she absolutely loved her castle cake for her princess party!
Date published: 2013-03-07
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My Daughter and I made this cake for the first time for my Son's wedding. Not only did he want the castle but he wanted another cake to the side. They wanted the castle over the fountain plus the second cake on pillars. This was our first time making this cake, plus I would have to transport it for approximately 5 to 6 miles to the church. I don't know which I was more nervous about. Now we had been making all types of cakes for over 2-3 years, but not this one. We did the cake just fine following the easy to follow directions. Leaving early driving slow and getting the cake to the Fellowship Hall before the wedding worked just fine. Oh, I forgot to mention they also wanted an airbrushed Celtic design on the second cake. It was on this cake they wanted their cake topper of a crystal carriage with horses placed. We tied the two cakes together by placing the clear stairway between them, a bride and groom was place on the lower plate beside the flowers, painted to match.
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I made this cake for my grandaughter's 4th birthday. I made it white buttercream with lots of tiny pink and purple flowers. It was time consuming to make but not hard. The only problem was transporting it. It I make it again and have to transport it, I will put the bottom towers on when i get to the party. The ride made them shift and they had to be reattached.

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BETA DELTA ZETA CHAPTER
Women interested in the Amicae and young ladies interested in one of the youth groups should contact us for additional information.
Amicae are women of high moral character, prestige, good will and cooperation who, for various reasons, are not members of any Greek-letter organization and have not earned a college degree. The Amicae help Zeta carry out its mission by assisting with various programs within the community.
Archonettes are high school-aged young ladies who demonstrate an interest in the goals and the ideals of scholarship, sisterly love, and community service.
Amicettes are girls 9 to 13 years of age who are willing to strive toward the high ideals of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and who demonstrate potential for leadership in service to the community.
Pearlettes are girls under 9 years old who are mentored by ladies of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. to become outstanding leaders in their community.

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The Indominus rex stomped all over the record books at the weekend as Jurassic World took the box office by storm all around the world. The fourth Jurassic Park movie roared to the top of the chart in each and every one of the 66 countries in which it opened, gobbling up 70% of global market share. Analysts' most optimistic predictions were dramatically exceeded as Colin Trevorrow's all-conquering blockbuster enjoyed the biggest opening of all four Jurassic Park movies.
The greatest record to tumble before those ferocious dinosaurs was the all-time global weekend box office. With a gargantuan $511.8m in the kitty, Jurassic World became the first film in history to take more than $500m over a single weekend. Unsurprisingly, the biggest market was North America, where it raked in $204.6m, putting it just behind Marvel Avengers Assemble in the all-time weekend openers chart. China was the second biggest market with $100.8m. The UK and Ireland ranked third, our undiminished appetite for dino-thrills adding up to a whopping $29.6m (£19m). That makes Jurassic World easily 2015's biggest opener here, ahead of Avengers: Age of Ultron (£18m), Fifty Shades of Grey (£13.5m) and Fast & Furious 7 (£12.7).
Not only has the summer of cinema officially arrived, but those dinosaurs have also set a mighty high target for Spectre and Star Wars: The Force Awakens to beat!
Book tickets to see Jurassic World now!


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Amsterdam headquartered startup accelerator platform Fashion For Good has selected nine startups from the textile sector under its South Asia innovation programme.
Startups in dyeing, textile waste solutions, raw material suppliers, blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and wastewater management among others have been selected in the programme, a statement said.
The startups were selected from a pool of 16 companies. The first batch of the programme, which will run for four months, will begin in June this year.
The selection panel consisted of executives from Indian textile companies Arvind and Welspun and top officials of global firms such as Adidas, C&A Bart de Meirsman and PVH Corp.
“With the launch of our regional programme in South Asia we strengthen our network and position us to better serve local manufacturers, key supply chain actors, brands and innovators. By connecting them to our global network and leading players in the fashion ecosystem, we help the innovators’ solutions and technologies reach scale,” Katrin Ley, managing director of Fashion for Good said.
Fashion For Good works in the apparel sector and creates open-source resources, co-working space and mentors innovative solution enterprises.
It connects supply chain players in the textile sector with startups through its initiatives such as the global accelerator programme and scaling programme. Global players including Laudes Foundation, Chanel, Otto Group, Galeries Lafayette Group are among its corporate partners.
Fashion For Good has earlier launched Good Fashion Fund with a focus on India, Bangladesh and Vietnam. The platform supports manufacturers providing innovative solutions such as fabric recycling and promoting the use of clean energy.
The fund, which has a final target corpus of $60 million, is looking to raise $30 million in its first close by September 2020. It has raised $13 million at its initial close and has already developed a pipeline of potential startups, with an investment range of $1 million and $5 million.
Meet the seven Indian startups from the cohort:
AltMat: Earlier known as Canva Fibre Labs, the initiative uses a mixture of a mechanical, chemical and enzymatic process to produce industrial fit fibre and yarn made of agri-waste such as hemp and banana waste sourced directly from farmers and hemp producers.
Descatuk: The company offers fibre extraction and yarn creation from grass in Uttarakhand to produce a fabric that has a similar look to linen but a lighter touch. Devoid of chemicals and pesticides, the eco-friendly initiative also claims to provide livelihoods to the locals in the hinterland.
Indra: The Mumbai-based startup offers fully automated wastewater management treatment and packaged re-cycling solutions for fabric producing units. The process is capable of a variety of water treatment through novel innovations in electro-coagulation, electro-chemical oxidation, two-phase solids separation, disinfection, distillation and pollutant monitoring hardware.
InfiniChains: The startup provides end-to-end track and trace solution using blockchain, AI and cloud computing to help brands and manufacturers to digitise sustainability practices. Through real-time data, efficiency and storytelling, they bridge the fragmented gaps between the different sustainability systems of farmers, manufacturers and brands.
JSP Enviro: The Chennai-based startup treats common effluents released from textile manufacturing with microbial fuel cells technology. The technology treats effluent water that can be reused, simultaneously producing energy thereby reducing the need for external energy, making it a self-sustaining waste-water treatment.
Sasmira: The Mumbai-based co-operative venture offers cost-effective and waterless dyeing technology which does not use any chemicals. The remains of the dye is collected for reuse and carbon dioxide used in the process is recirculated back into the system.
Textile Genesis: The blockchain focused startup installs traceability system specifically created for the apparel sector that focuses on sustainable fibres such as wood-based fibres, organic cotton and organic wool. Consumers can scan the barcode with their mobile device to see the various steps that were taken to create the product.


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Question No. 14
W : There you are. Have you been waiting long?
M : Yes, for 30 minutes! Where’ve you been?
W : Well, I was waiting on the other side. I didn’t see you so I came around here.
M : I’ve been calling your phone, but I couldn’t get through.
W : Sorry, my battery died. Anyway, I’m here now.
Question No. 15
M : How do you like this traditional fabric I bought in India?
W : It’s beautiful! I love the design. What are you going to do with it?
M : I want to have a skirt made for my wife.
W : Oh, I have a friend who could help you.
M : Really? That sounds great.
Question No. 16
M : Shall we take a break?
W : Good idea.
M : Do you want coffee or tea?
W : What kind of tea do you have?
M : I have green tea and lemon ginger.
W : Lemon ginger sounds good.
M : Well, actually, I think I need some coffee.
W : You know, on second thought, I’ll have the same.
Questions No. 17 to 19
M : Morning. One adult, please.
W : That’ll be 20 dollars for the permanent exhibitions, and―,
M : Ah, what are the permanent ones?
W : One is Greek and Roman Art, and the other is the Age of Dinosaurs.
The two special exhibitions cost extra.
M : What are they?
W : Butterflies of the Amazon and East Asian Pottery.
M : Maybe I’ll go to both of them.
W : Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that the butterfly exhibition is closed today.
M : Too bad. Then, I guess I’ll check out the Greek sculptures first.
W : They’re in the Greek and Roman Art section, but it’s not open yet.
However, you might enjoy the dinosaur exhibition. There’s a lecture in 15 minutes.
M : Good. I’ll do that.
W : You can see the sculptures after the dinosaurs.
The special exhibition on East Asian Pottery is nice, too.
M : OK, I’ll go there before the sculptures. Can I pay by credit card?
W : Sure.
【解答】2019年度 本試験 第3問
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問16 ③ 問17 ③
問18 ① 問19 ③


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The group quickly expanded to include 22 of the girl’s classmates who meet monthly to learn more about local non-profit organizations and how they can help others in the local community.
Each month the Helping Hands Warming Hearts league members learn about a local non-profit organization and do a project to support that group, such as creating table centerpieces, making cards, or baking cookies.
For the month of February, the group selected UNC Lineberger and the N.C. Cancer Hospital as their featured non-profit. During their meeting, the girls learned that there are children – their same age – being treated for cancer only a few blocks from their school, at the N.C. Cancer Hospital.
According to Jennifer Cox, the lead parent for this month’s activity, “It was an eye-opening revelation for these girls to realize that other children their age are very sick and fighting cancer. The girls were genuinely concerned and wanted to do something to brighten the day for those young patients.”
The young league members worked hard to create special Valentines with personalized messages of encouragement for patients undergoing treatment in the Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Clinic at the N.C. Cancer Hospital.
On February 12, Jennifer Cox and her daughter, Mary Scott (age 8), delivered the handmade Valentines and toured the clinic. The other members of her service League look forward to Mary Scott reporting about her visit during their March meeting.
Thank you Jennifer, Mary Scott, and everyone involved with Helping Hands Warming Hearts for thinking of our pediatric patients this Valentine’s Day.