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The lead article in the real estate section of The New York Times this weekend attempts to make the case that real estate has gone from Topic No. 1 to Topic Non Grata in the last six months. “Nobody wants to talk about it," The Times quotes one hedge fund manager as saying. We're not so sure that's the case. People may be acting more discreetly when they bring it up, but, in our experience, it's still just as much on everyone's minds as before, although now, instead of being obsesses with how much the value of their house has gone up, it's all about how far the value has fallen. Have you noticed a decrease in the amount people are talking about real estate or just a different tone?
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Berkshire Hathaway( NYSE: BRK-B)( NYSE: BRK-A) Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett is probably among the best-known financiers in the world. The so-called Oracle of Omaha held court this weekend as investors gathered to the company’s yearly investor meeting in Nebraska, among the biggest occasions of its kind.
In advance of the Saturday event, Buffett turned heads late recently when he revealed in an interview that Berkshire Hathaway had actually purchased Amazon.com( NASDAQ: AMZN) shares for the first time, saying, “One of the fellows in the office that manages money … bought some Amazon, so it will appear” in regulative filings later this month.
This statement led to the inescapable questions on Saturday about whether Berkshire was deserting its value-investing roots with its purchase of Amazon.
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How does Amazon fit into worth investing?
As he suggested, Buffett didn’t initiate the purchase. It originated from one of his top lieutenants, Todd Combs or Ted Weschler, who manage independent portfolios with Buffett’s blessing. When inquired about the departure from Berkshire’s value-investing foundation, Buffett dismissed the idea. “The individuals deciding on Amazon are definitely [as] much value investors as I was when I was browsing for all these things selling listed below working capital years earlier,” Buffett said. “That has actually not altered.”
He went on to compare the buying decision to buying any “low-cost” stock. “The considerations equal when you purchase Amazon versus … state, a bank stock that looks inexpensive against book value or incomes of some sort,” he stated.
He pointed out that a host of monetary metrics go through review prior to Berkshire invests in any company, including sales, margin, and concrete assets, as well as the company’s cash and financial obligation positions.
” All those things enter into making a calculation regarding whether they ought to buy A versus B versus C, and they are absolutely following the principle,” Buffett said of his lieutenants. He also pointed out that he didn’t need to look over the shoulders of his cash supervisors. “I don’t second-guess them,” he said.
This isn’t the very first time Buffett has actually answered questions about Amazon. Back in 2017, when inquired about why he hadn’t comprehended Amazon’s potential, Buffett said it was “stupidity.” Here’s more of what he had to state at the time:
I was impressed by Jeff Bezos early. I never ever believed he ‘d pull off what he did, on the scale of what’s happened. It’s changed your behavior, everybody’s behaviors. The impressive thing is he’s done it in [e-commerce and cloud computing] at the very same time that actually do not have that much connection.
Better late than never ever?
Both Buffett and Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger have confessed to failing on some of the world’s most successful tech companies, a location the Oracle of Omaha has long stated ran out his location of competence.
Munger on Saturday stated he didn’t feel he lost out on Amazon, noting that it would have been tough to predict that Bezos would be a “wonder employee.” He did state, however, that he felt ridiculous for not seeing the huge potential of search huge Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet( NASDAQ: GOOGL)( NASDAQ: GOOG)
” We messed up,” he said.
Munger pointed out that both he and Buffett saw the outcomes that the superior seo produced for Berkshire-owned Geico, and instead of taking the plunge, “we simply sat there drawing our thumbs,” he admitted. “We repent.”
A rose by any other name
While Buffett didn’t come right out and call Amazon a “value stock,” the intention was clear. Among Buffett’s leading money managers ran the numbers and, based on his analysis, figured out that Amazon was affordable compared to the criteria being used to determine the stock.
Buffett likewise mentioned that investing itself is inherently a value-focused activity due to the fact that investors are “putting out loan now to get more later on.”
I guess that makes Amazon a value stock after all.
Danny Vena owns shares of Alphabet (A shares) and Amazon. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Alphabet (A shares), Alphabet (C shares), Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway (B shares). The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Que faire en un lieu à moins que l'on y songe？
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Oil paintings in 360 degrees, presenting the Chau- vet cave, the Ivry castle and Notre-Dame de Paris. All the three places with historical stories in the past have now become the famous tourist sites.
Reproductions of places are omnipresent in con- temporary culture. Nevertheless, how do people reproduce a place in our time? A literary narration or a pictorial reproduction helps us to form an individual imagination of one place. The imagination of images is the most credible description. A place is the collective imagination of a crowd on a certain physical space.
Fortunately, the literature about the place gives me an imagination before I put my feets there. Nowa- days, concept of the place is primarily composed by graphic reproductions. That’s why the 3D modeling counts significantly. The photogrammetry is a science of making measurements from different photographs. For example, with diverse photo- graphs of Notre Dame de Paris, taken and uploaded online by Chinese tourists, I was able to obtain a 3D modeling of this famous cathedral. Regarding the Chauvet cave, we have directly a virtual system which allows people to wander around in 360 degrees.
3D became the material of my reproduction. Due to the imperfection of the technique, bugs appear. The original image is distorted and crushed by the digital data. Part of the painter’s work is trying to redefine the edges and the boundaries between the void and the presence caused by machines. That’s where his own value comes.

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Saturday, December 17, 2011
I have been trying to leave MRR for nearly a year now, we have had some great applications and interviews, but no one has worked out yet in terms of replacing me. This job is intense and we need the right person to do it, someone who can handle the workload, who has energy and passion, who has a vision for the magazine in terms of producing the content, who is not a middle of the road indifferent slouch when it comes to declaring where they stand, and what they stand for. You must be consumed by music, by punk rock and hardcore, or garage, crust, KBD and most importantly be open minded and willing to work with a wide range of people who may have different ideas of what punk is or isn’t. The magazine is for the punks by the punks, for those who care about the culture and meaning of DIY punk, not just trends and message board boredom. If you think you can handle running the day to day operations of this magazine, which include everything from accounting to interview layouts, and you will be trained on how things work, not just expected to understand everything instantly, if you can handle dealing with all different kinds of people, from landlords to drunk radio show DJs get in touch! We are looking for motivated people with ideas and you must be a legal US citizen with nothing that would mean you couldn’t be on legal paperwork… so in short if you are an organized and inspired person who is ready for a new challenge and wants to live for free alongside over 40,000 green-taped records at the MRR compound email firstname.lastname@example.org for an application ok?!
Writing this in my mother’s home, in a deconstructed teenage bedroom with a suitcase full of junk in front of me and a Captain Beefheart picture disc to my left is a strange feeling. When I lived here, in Brentford, under the shadow of some brutalist 1960s towerblocks, council estate youth center existence it seemed there was never anything to do. Well, I formed bands with my friends when I was thirteen, skateboarded and wrote many zines and pen pal letters, but I felt alone and marooned in a part of London where people called me a goth, even though I mostly wore 1960s mod dresses, because I just didn’t fit in with the kids I grew up around. I was considered a nerd and a freak, and punk was a lifeline to a community of similarly maladjusted nerds in various cities and towns and villages around the world. Those were different times. When we landed at the airport at the beginning of October, the first things we did was go straight to a show, in Hackney at this cool art space / show space / café called Power Lunches. We saw Weird Menace, Satellites of Love, and Roseanne Barr, unfortunately Woolf had to cancel due to a health problem, but I have heard amazing things about them. All girl London HC punk who are I think recording an LP this winter?! All of the people in the bands mentioned are in other bands, from La La Vasquez to Shitty Limits, that was one of the coolest things about being here right now, so many insanely good bands and so many of the same people doing them all… A totally different era! We were lucky as there were about five or six shows in ten days, which would have blown the mind of the teenage me. Seriously, I used to go see anything even the most bro’d out HC mosh or visiting weedy Midwestern sweater emo just to go to a show, and to have so many cool local bands playing shows was killer… London is on fire right now, no matter what people may have said to me to downplay the exciting nature of their scene. The Lowest Form cancelled their show, which was a huge bummer too, their 7” rules and I was really excited to see them play. We also planned out a trip to Berlin and Paris when Shitty Limits played their epic last show, true bad timing, we had planned it so we would make the Lowest Form and Woolf shows, both of whom cancelled. Fuckin’ punks!
However, we were in London at the same time as Mexico City’s own Inservibles so went to see them frantically, I think we went to all but two of their UK shows! One was at a squat very close to Islington, meaning that there was a large amount of time dedicated to quoting from the Islington Squatter documentary. The squat was insane, it was an abandoned office building from the ’70s that had a garden on the roof and huge art pieces through out, and a dank room full of crusties and smoke in which the show happened. We missed most of the bands, as shows actually run on time in Europe it would seem, punks gotta catch the last train home etc etc, so we missed the Wankys and Holland’s Nekromantiker (who were in the last issue of MRR courtesy of Mr Tony Gunnarsson), but Inservibles were insane. Totally blown out punk rock depravity, encapsulating the alienation of living in a city locked down by the drug war, if you have a chance to see them play ever you would be a chump to miss it. I remembered the 7”s having a sort of blown out garage sound to the mostly punk attack, but live that was not apparent at all, at any rate, whatever my hazy brain clouded memories of this band’s recorded output are I am really excited to get back to San Francisco and listen to the new LP which you should get (on Shogun/La Vida Es Un Mus). We also got to hang out with Héctor of Otan fame, who was roadying for Inservibles and filled me in on the endless adventure that is punk rock in Barcelona and Madrid right now… Next year I will be there to witness it I hope!
The Means to an End fest was happening at the long-running punk social club and venue, the 1 in 12 in Bradford, and the line up included Shitty Limits, Inservibles, and Glam so we got a car together of punkers, including Ralph and Bryony, Collette and me and the elusive and mysterious SPK fan Hubbs, and headed up the M1 to the north of England. I learned to drive in California, on huge wide suburban streets in the town my grandparents lived in, and have never driven in London and thus also cannot drive stick. The car we rented was an automatic, and Ralph who was the designated driver had never driven one of those; it was funny seeing someone as flummoxed by an automatic as I would have been by a stick shift. I hadn’t been at the 1 in 12 since I was a teenager, I can’t remember what year it was, I used to go to most of the fests and saw everyone from Acme to the Month of Birthdays there. Ah, the ’90s! It was rad being back, the space seemed way smaller, but just as cool as I remembered. Seeing a venue that was created to serve the punk community out of specific radical principles, one that still exists on the same terms was really inspiring. The food was a good and cheap as I remembered, as was the cider, though this time there were more Swedish crusties checking their facebooks on the communal computers… and I was definitely straightedge last time I was there.
As for the bands witnessed… We missed some as the epic drive meant we were hungry for Bradford curry brutality, which included a naan bread that was about the size of a human torso. Endless Grinning Skulls played, and blew me away. True veterans of the scene; I think ex members of Heresy and fuck, the singer is 51 and more hardcore and has more presence than a million MySpace crashercrusters combined. I guess they usually have a noisy almost Jap-core attack, but this show made me think of the power/impact of seeing Talk is Poison play. No joke. They were great live, I didn’t really know what to expect plus I think this was the first UK show we were at where people actually danced?! Shitty Limits played their last Northern show, and were fucking incredible. I love their last 12”, and seeing them play in SF ruled, but I guess seeing any band in an all ages space when everyone knows this is probably the last time they are gonna see them live is another matter entirely. So much energy and snot, like a teenager taking speed for the first time, it was impossible to keep still so no one did. Glam from Barcelona were also incendiary, their 7” is a constant on my turntable so having the chance to see them destroy it live was the best… Total destruccion… Paco said that the last slot at a fest here is the worst as everyone leaves to catch the last train back to Leeds, so the crowd seemed sorta thinned out when Inservibles played, but they managed to keep the frenzy going… All in all an incredible show. We were staying at our friend Charlotte’s house in Sheffield, land of brutalist architecture, “Being Boiled” and a sick mod café with an all northern soul jukebox. You can stay at the 1 in 12 after fests, which I definitely did in my youth, but I was psyched to have the chance to hang out with Charlotte who is a crazy girl band music nerd like myself, and does an awesome girl skate zine called Skate or Cry... I think she is sold out of it, but check out her blog for more info on the past and present of Sheffield punk! gnarlotte.wordpress.com
The next stop on our epic journey was Paris, where we were met at the train station by a contingent of French punks, including Alex Ratcharge, Julien and Gael, who hustled us off to the longest running squatted venue in Paris where we got to see Bastard Noise. All you could hear was the drums and vocals, which made for an interesting aural experience. But it was really cool being in the space, seeing something happen in one of the storied Euro-squats that are the backbone of the DIY scene here. Also: why do bands who write brutal songs about environmental destruction do records with corporate car companies? Hmmm! Alex and Julien put together this amazing newspaper for punks who can read French called Freak Out! which you should check out. freakoutzine.tumblr.com covering everything from Pink Reason to Crimen De Estado, with lot of other writing mostly about music of the mutant punk rock persuasion, it reminded me of a less art fueled Nuts! in that it is a local newspaper for the punks that assumes the punks are interesting and consumed by weird notions and obsessions…
I know I personally find tour diaries and travel journals pretty dull, so I will leave you there, sorry if I put you to sleep!
1: The Means to an End Fest tied with the Big Takeover show at the squat!
2: Going record shopping with Paco in various London locations, also hitting the flea markets of Berlin with similar intentions. So sick! So many things crossed off the want list. Also Paris punker hang outs!
3: Hanging out with Bryony and Alex Ratcharge and hopefully Tony Gunnarsson; the Euro MRR columnist contingent rules and are as much fun in person as they are in written form!
4: Watching tons of documentaries my mum taped off the BBC about reggae in London in the ’70s and ’80s, also the classic movie Babylon. About racism, oppression, police brutality, Brixton existences and good times in London in the early ’80s. Although it’s about reggae sound system clashes, it reminds me a bit of Quadrophenia in that it’s a classic early ’80s youth culture movie, it’s as evocative. And it’s criminal that it’s not more known.
5: Going to see Cover Girl (new Trash Kit related band, Rachel Aggs=so dreamy) tonight, and going to Brighton tomorrow! We are the mod raucous.
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2020 RESOLUTIONS: Challenge Yourself!
You’ve written your resolutions, you’ve completed your vision board and you’re ready to smash your goals. Now it’s time to challenge yourself!
By challenging yourself, you learn more about who you are, you grow, and you find your hidden potential.
The goal shouldn’t be to make resolutions that are practical and achievable without much effort. Though practicality is reasonable, we must challenge ourselves to set the bar higher as we strive to go further.
Every time you step out of your comfort zone, take on a new challenge, and work to overcome it, you empower yourself!
Here are other benefits of challenging yourself:
• You debunk the concept of “impossibilities”
• You gain valuable life skills
• You build self confidence
• You find new opportunities
• You benefit from new experiences
If you really want true change to come, you must be honest. Getting real about where you are and the steps you need to take will help you bring about change but also push you beyond your limits.
Still seem difficult?

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans blocked a Senate bill Wednesday aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women, an election-year ritual that Democrats hope will help spur women to back them in this fall's congressional elections.
GOP lawmakers said the measure could hinder employers from granting raises, or permitting flexible hours in exchange for lower pay, for fear of costly lawsuits. For Democrats, the bill was the latest stressing income-fairness they are pushing this campaign season, a procession that includes proposals to extend jobless benefits, boost the minimum wage and help students and families afford college loans.
"When I hear all these phony reasons, some are mean and some are meaningless, I do get emotional," Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., the bill's sponsor, said of arguments against the legislation. "I get angry. I get outraged. I get volcanic."
Republicans concentrated on the economic damage they said the gender equity bill would inflict, consistent with their campaign focus on an economy that is still recovering from a severe recession. They were backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups.
"At a time when the Obama economy is already hurting women so much, this legislation would double down on job loss -- all while lining the pockets of trial lawyers," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "In other words, it's just another Democrat idea that threatens to hurt the very people it claims to help."
Democrats pushed the same legislation the past two election years, 2012 and 2010, only to see Senate Republicans scuttle the measures.
Mikulski's bill is aimed at tightening the 1963 law that made it illegal to pay women less than men for comparable jobs because of their gender.
It would shrink the loopholes employers can cite to justify such discrepancies and prevent them from punishing workers who share salary information. It would also make class-action suits about paycheck unfairness easier and allow workers to seek punitive and compensatory damages.
Wednesday's vote was 53-44 for debating the legislation -- seven fewer than Democrats needed to keep the bill moving forward. Every voting Republican was against continuing work on the measure.
Democrats have promised to force Republicans to vote again on the issue before November.
"This won't be the last time they have to go home to their constituents and explain that they don't think this is a worthy issue," said Sen. Patty Murray, of Washington, a member of the Democratic leadership.


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There were certain criteria that Airbnb created in order to determine the top Host for each state. The criteria were:
- Hosts had to to have achieve 100% 5-star ratings in Cleanliness, Check-in and Communication categories
- A minimum of 100 reviews
- If there were more than one Host who met the criteria, the tiebraker was whomever had the greatest number of reviews.
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Sports often serves as a unifying distraction from tragedy, a characteristic that was exemplified Saturday in a highly engaging Golden Coast Conference semifinal match between No. 3 seeded Long Beach State and No. 2 seeded Pepperdine, a campus still shrouded in smoke from the Woolsey Fire. Long Beach won the contest 5-4 in front of a loud and energetic crowd at Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.
“They’ve been through a lot this week and I think it’s hard for anybody to try to play water polo or any sport with that stuff going on,” head Coach Gavin Arroyo said.
Both goalies made several great saves throughout the first quarter, which ended in a scoreless tie.
“We had a lot of really good preparation especially on the defense and I think the fact that it was a low scoring game shows that,” sophomore goalie Marwan Darwish said.
As the noise from both benches increased in a tie game, senior defender Keegan Wicken found himself in the high-center and thought about a long range shot. He pump faked, then fired under the right arm of the keeper to give the 49ers a 2-1 lead 2 minutes from halftime.
“I think they were phenomenal, they were really engaged and in a good place,” Arroyo said. “They did everything they could and they willed it to happen today.”
Great goaltending on both sides continued throughout the game as neither team was able to block or prevent shots consistently, but Darwish and Pepperdine keeper John Claude Marco limited the score to 2-1 at the half.
“We did what we needed to do, we communicated with each other; everybody was in their zone,” Darwish said.
The third quarter reversed that trend and brought three consecutive scoring possessions. Pepperdine scored on the third of these to bring the game to a 3-3 tie.
“I think that was just all nerves on both sides,” Arroyo said.
Although Long Beach was able to prevent Pepperdine from taking the lead, the consistent ability of the blue and orange to hang around slowly shifted momentum in its favor. Entering the fourth quarter tied became a dangerous prospect for Long Beach.
With just 30 seconds left in the third, the 49ers worked down low and crossed the ball to the middle. A quick one-timer from freshman center Theodoros Pateros gave the 49ers a crucial 5-4 lead after three quarters.
“I think we just had to get into the game, make our mistakes and then move past that,” Arroyo said.
Darwish was instrumental in keeping the game at 5-4 throughout the entirety of the fourth quarter. With three minutes left to play he made a sensational cross-body right arm save on a changeup.
“He was on fire,” Arroyo said.
Long Beach went into chew-clock mode after that save, but a turnover and an exclusion gave Pepperdine a powerplay with 30 seconds left. With two seconds remaining, the 49ers were finally able to block a shot, sealing the upset victory.
“I thought ‘there is no way this ball is going in’ and I’m sure my teammates felt the same way,” Darwish said. “It was very intense with very high emotions at that moment and I think we did a good job stopping it.”
Long Beach will play in the 1 p.m. conference championship match Sunday against No. 1 seeded Pacific at Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. The winner receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship Tournament.

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TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - Some of our own neighbors here in Toledo will spend the holiday outside and possibly without food.
But thanks to a handful of volunteers and the organization food for thought, they can expect a handmade meal Saturday, hand delivered just like they've done for the past 560 weeks.
While some spend the last weekday before Christmas baking, shopping or running errands others spent it serving our community.
"We feel like Christmas is about serving other people, helping other people so that's why we decided to come as a family," said Ying Ng, who brought her family and friends to volunteer together.
"Because we get to help people," said Isabella Irwin, 9, who volunteered with her 6-year-old sister Lilliana and their aunt.
Together close to 30 volunteers made 250 packed lunches that Food for Thought will hand out in Downtown Toledo on Saturday.
"PB&J for us is much more than just a simple bagged lunch,"said Jill Bunge, executive director of Food for Thought. "It's really about using food as a vehicle to build relationships, have a conversation with people who might not have that opportunity all the time."
Volunteers spread peanut butter and jelly for sandwiches, and then added a salty and sweet treat. Some volunteers have really mastered the ratio of PB to J. We asked them what the secret was.
"I put peanut butter on the whole piece of bread," explained Daniel Carter, a long-time volunteer.
For 10 years, Food for Thought has been providing meals to those who aren't sure where their next meal will come from.
Rain or shine, cold or hot, Christmas or not they go out and serve.
This week marks 560 consecutive weeks.
Dedicated volunteers say it makes a big difference, not only to those they serve, but those who choose to serve too.
"We get a joy out of doing this each week," said Dennis Porter, a long-time volunteer. "Just to see it on Saturday morning where you pass out a lunch and somebody and they say thank you and God bless you it's just a joy that we get from it. It keeps us coming back."
In just an hour volunteers spread joy and cheer this season by making a simple meal to share and they encourage you to come out next time.
"Well it's pretty fun," said Casey Ng, who served along her family and friends.
If you want to help next time organizers say they pack lunches every Friday night from 6 to 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church (316 Adams St. in Downtown Toledo).

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1. I’m a really sad person and there are times when all I want to do is drink a bottle of vodka and cry. Hold me tight and tell me everything’s gonna be alright. Don’t let me destroy me.
2. I want you by my side. I probably won’t tell you though. But if you want me to show it, be brave.
3. You will see that I’m a mess. Being with you helps me put the puzzle pieces back together. So be prepared that some days I will be crying and sobbing and I’ll need you to hold me.
4. I will love you and love you and love you.
5. Coffee is my life saver. I’m not myself until I’ve had a cup.
6. I keep a lot of things to myself. So if you see that I don’t sleep enough or that I’m really silent ask me if I’m okay. I’m probably not.
7. I’m sorry but I miss you quite terribly.
8. Watching shitty TV shows or chatting with you is enough to make my day.
9. I will love you and love you and love you.
10. Your smile is my favorite drug.


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It’s cooler and wetter in northeast Limpopo than it has been for a while after rain this weekend but the Tzaneen Dam in the Letaba River is nevertheless lower than last week, a discomforting 12.7% full. The Middle Letaba Dam stands at about 6% (and hasn’t been close to capacity in a long time).
The Tzaneen Dam is an irrigation dam very important to fruit producers. Last summer already citrus producers in Letsitele were concerned and this year the situation doesn’t look much better. In November last year the Tzaneen Local Municipality announced water restrictions and farmers in the Letaba Irrigation Scheme are restricted to half their water allocation.
Tzaneen Dam (Photo: Department of Water & Sanitation)
Construction work halted after demolition of spillway
On top of low summer rainfall, raising the Tzaneen Dam’s wall has been dragging on for some years and the dam’s capacity has been lowered to 65%.
“We’ve been expecting trouble for a while now,” a farmer tells FreshPlaza. “Rain in the water catchment area is lower than it should be to make a difference to the dam levels and farmers have too little water reserves to take them into winter. We’re on the edge.”
Water security jeopardised by 65% dam capacity
The ongoing construction work – estimated to last at least another 18 to 20 months - means that downstream farmers, for instance citrus farmers in Letsitele, lose 35% of their water buffer to carry them through the winter and early spring, when temperatures can reach 40°C and over but the rain hasn't started.
Due to the time frame of the project, they could be subject to this reduced buffer capacity, on top of the current 50% water restrictions, for another two seasons yet.
Recently the Department of Water Affairs announced it would resume construction work this month, with their own construction team, but at the time of writing it didn’t look to have resumed.
Citrus orchard in Letsitele
Letaba Water Users’ Association lauded for proactive measures
Citrus producers in the Letsitele area receive water from the Tzaneen Dam via the Great Letaba river and canal systems, managed by the Letaba Water Users' Association, whose self-regulating system of water restrictions whenever the Tzaneen Dam ceases to overflow (which now, unfortunately, happens much sooner than before) has been held up as a model of good water governance to other water-stressed areas in South Africa like the Western Cape.
The larger Tzaneen and Magoebaskloof areas, major avocado, mango, banana and macadamia production regions as well as important water catchments, have always had exceptionally moist and misty climates with an average of 900 to 1,200mm of annual rainfall (and more in parts of Magoebaskloof). Longtime Tzaneen residents tell of clothes and shoes growing mouldy during summer.
This year, the first part of summer has delivered only 200 to 300mm around Tzaneen.
“I am convinced we will get between 600 and 900mm of rain this summer,” declares an avocado farmer from Tzaneen. “That’s a below average rainfall year and it spells trouble for the farmers in Letsitele who are downstream from us and dependent on runoff from our side.”
Avocado orchard in Tzaneen
Higher springtime temperatures strain water resources
While it is widely acknowledged that South Africa is currently in a dry El Niño cycle, which is part of a longterm climate pattern of wet and dry fluctuations, one thing that has changed, producers say, are maximum springtime temperatures.
“The last few years we easily get 40°C in early spring, from about September to November, before it’s started raining, and it has an enormous impact on flowering, fruit set and water usage. Evapotranspiration is immensely high during these periods, placing tremendous pressure on water resources and primary water users in our area,” notes an avocado farmer.
Banana plantation in Tzaneen
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David W. Niven spent his life amassing a vast record collection, all dedicated to the sounds of Early Jazz. As a kid during the 1920s, he started buying jazz records with money earned from his paper route. By World War II, Niven, now a college student, had thousands of LPs. “All the big names of jazz, along with lesser legends, were included,” Niven later said, and “I found myself with a first class treasure of early jazz music.” Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, and much, much more.
For the sake of his children, Niven started transferring his record collection to cassette tapes during the 1980s and prefacing them with audio commentaries that offer background information on each recording. Now, years after his death (1991), his collection of “Early Jazz Legends” has made its way to the web, thanks to archivist Kevin J. Powers. If you head over to Archive.org, you can stream/download digitized versions of 650 cassette tapes, featuring over 1,000 hours of early jazz music. There’s also scans of liner cards for each recording.
According to the archivist, this extraordinary collection “represents the very finest American music of the twentieth century, and because Mr. Niven took the time and care to record these commentaries, he has produced a library that is accessible to everyone from jazz aficionados to jazz novices.”
You can hear tracks above featuring the music of Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.
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North Delta’s Ethan Samson has signed an entry-level contract with the Philadelphia Flyers.
The 19-year-old defenceman, who plays for the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hocker Leauge, was selected by the Flyers in the sixth round (174th overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft.
“I am very honoured and excited to have signed my first NHL contract with the @NHLFlyers,” Samson posted on Twitter. “I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given with @Pgcougars, for the support of my family and friends, and for my past coaches. Thank you to all of you who helped me on this journey.”
Samson has had a solid start to his fourth WHL season, registering 27 points (10 goals and 17 assists), eight power-play goals, 39 penalty minutes and 95 shots through 29 games, and recording his second career multi-goal game against the Vancouver Giants at the Langley Events Centre on Oct. 21.
The six-foot-three, 183-pound right-shot defenceman recorded a season-high four-game point streak (one goal and four assists) Sept. 30-Oct. 12, 16 of his 29 points this season have come on the power play, and he owns a season-high seven multi-point games.
Samson is fifth on the team in both goals and assists and has the third most power-play goals. Among Cougar blueliners, he’s tied with Hudson Thornton for most goals, and ranks second in both points and assists (Thornton has 41 points and 31 assists).
I am very honoured and excited to have signed my first NHL contract with the @NHLFlyers I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given with @Pgcougars, for the support of my family and friends, and for my past coaches. Thank you to all of you who helped me on this journey. pic.twitter.com/V8NHniTqmc— Ethan Samson (@EthanSamson77) January 2, 2023
Among all WHL defencemen, Samson ranks fifth in goals and is tied for second for most power-play goals with Landon Kosior of Prince Albert Raiders.
Since joining the Cougars for the 2019-2020 season, Samson has 89 points (28 goals and 61 assists), 17 power-play goals, eight game-winning goals, 121 penalty minutes and 451 shots through 180 games.
He collected a career-high 12 multi-point games during the 2021-22 season and made four playoff appearances with the Cougars during the 2022 WHL Playoffs.
Samson was drafted by the Cougars in the third round (65th overall) in the 2018 WHL Prospects Draft and signed on with the team in March of 2019.
He played his first WHL game on Sept. 20, 2019 against the Vancouver Giants, and scored his first WHL goal 15 days later on Oct. 5, 2019 against the Kelowna Rockets.
Prior to being drafted by the Cougars, Samson was the highest scoring defenceman in the Delta Hockey Academy’s Elite 15 program, tallying seven goals and 17 assists for a total of 24 points in 33 regular season games. During the Canadian Sport School Hockey League play-offs, Samson scored two goals and had two assists, helping his team make it to the semifinals.
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I fully agree with "There is a way, but 'just say no' is not it" (Editorial, September 15).
The "war on drugs" was declared over 50 years ago, nothing has changed. In fact more people are using illicit drugs today. The cost must be close to $20 billion. Large numbers of people in prison, more costs. Seizure rates, the same as in the 1980s, about 10 per cent. Thousands of people have died needlessly. Thousands of families destroyed, for what? So politicians, can pretend that voters will except their failure, as long as politicians, keep feeding voters with lies.
It's a relentless, nonsensical obsession, with failure, a failure of monumental proportions. I find it almost impossible to believe that after all these years of failure and the many state and federal inquiries, all recommending treating drug dependence as a health problem. Governments continue to waste billions of taxpayers money. Nothing has changed.
I call it, Australia's largest policy failure is "the war on drugs". It is clearly a shameful embarrassment to this country. Other countries have achieved great success in drug law reform. Evidence is there to see. All this evidence is ignored by our politicians. They have to protect their "just say no" failure.
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Getting off gas
In 1995, we applied for a connection to the reticulated gas supply, mainly so our home heating and cooktop would be cheaper to operate, more effective and produce fewer emissions than our previous electric heating devices. We closed our gas account 23 years later for the same reasons. Electric appliances are now cheaper to operate, more efficient and effective and the ACT's electricity supply is cleaner.
Similarly, our two plug-in cars are cheaper to run, nicer to drive and cleaner to operate than their predecessors. Neither cost over $25K bought used or ex-demo. In criticising the ACT government's emission reduction plans for the next 25 years, Mr Coe appears to suggest that inaction on climate change is an option. Not if we care about our children.
Peter Campbell, Cook
Inclusivity should be flagged
I agree with several letter writers that the current Australian flag is unacceptable. My reasoning is that the existence of the Union Jack, without corresponding symbols representing Indigenous heritage, is a perpetual insult to Indigenous Australians. Reconciliation is impossible until this insult ends. The current practice of flying three separate flags was well intentioned, but is divisive and indicates that Indigenous people are not Australians.
A national competition should be held to determine a replacement flag. After shortlisting by several committees, and an opinion poll or plebiscite on the shortlisted entries, a decision should be made by Parliament. Preferably an initial shortlisting could be made by Australia Day 2020 and a final decision by National Reconciliation Week (May- June) 2020.
My suggested solution to the current unacceptability is a compromise of ideas recently published.
I propose that the Union Jack be replaced by four smaller flags (e.g. the Aboriginal flag, the Torres Strait Islander flag, the Union Jack, and a symbol representing the heritage of all Australians) along the left side of the flag. The order would represent the timing of the four major migrations.
I would retain the generally popular Southern Cross, and make it the most conspicuous element of the flag by increasing the size of the stars. The colours of the stars and background of the cross should match Australia's national colours which need to be decided. For simplicity the Federation Star could be deleted.
R. Salmond Melba
The bright side?
There is one good thing about petrol price-gouging. It encourages motorists to buy hybrid or electric cars.
Hugh Smith, Deakin
Get dogs on board
I was delighted to read the ACT's Climate Change Minister, Shane Rattenbury, wants to "Copenhagenise" Canberra's transport system. I trust this means that, like the Danes, we will be allowed to take small dogs in carriers or boxes on public transport and larger dogs will be allowed to travel on a child's ticket. If Mr Rattenbury really wants to get us out of our cars, he should allow dogs on public transport. At the moment I need a car just so I can take my dog to the vet or kennels.
Felicity Chivas, Ainslie
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About 25 CHCA members met with the board at Melton's App & Tap, Wednesday, May 30. After the current board reported on the year's activities and issues, they were voted back into office for another year with no objections. We also heard from Dave Butler about upcoming Mason Mill Park improvements and from Valerie Boss about upcoming Melton Park improvements. Finally, district 6 commissioner Kathie Gannon gave us an overview of county wide issues. More details forthcoming.


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Illustrated throughout with the 'everlasting pattern' of Celtic art taken from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Celtic Benediction is truly a book to open the eyes of our hearts in order that we may see God afresh in all things.
|Title: Celtic Benediction: Prayers for Morning and Evening|
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Number of Pages: 96
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Publication Date: 2000
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Each day Celtic Benediction invites readers to meditate on a different aspect of the creation story from Genesis. On Sunday the theme is light. In the morning, the prayers and readings lead us to seek the light of the life of God in all his creatures. At night, we meditate on the light that no darkness can overcome as we bring the world and its needs to God. And so on through each day of the week: water, the fruitful earth, the animal world, humanity, playful rest, and all that God has made draw us into intimate prayer. Related Scripture readings are also given for each day of the year, making this a book to use constantly.
Illustrated throughout with colored panels from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Celtic Benediction offers contemporary Christians a unique devotional experience to treasure for a lifetime.
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But "Celtic Benediction," a guide to morning and night prayer, is such a terrific choice, as well, that you may want to buy both to immerse yourself in this neo-Celtic style of meditation that is sweeping around the world.
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"Celtic Benediction is a wonderful miniature prayer book that honors and evokes the spiritual traditions of the Celts. . . J. Philip Newell has captured the spirit of Celtic prayer in this lovely, powerful book. . . Illustrations of Celtic art from the Lindisfarne Gospels, a 1,300-year-old collection of manuscripts from England, decorate the cover and inside pages. Creatures of earth, sea, and sky are intertwined in flowing vines and intricate knotwork, complementing the remarkable beauty of the words they surround. . . Celtic Benediction makes Celtic spirituality accessible in a profoundly moving yet fully functional way."
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From Missy Ryan and Warren Strobel, Reuters: The United States is seeking to accelerate fragile talks with the Taliban so it can announce serious peace negotiations at a NATO summit in May, officials say, in what would be a welcome bright spot in Western efforts to end the war in Afghanistan.
The Obama administration is hoping it can declare a start to authentic political negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban at the May 20-21 summit in Chicago, after a year of initial, uncertain contacts with militant representatives.
It would be a needed victory for the White House and its NATO partners in Afghanistan as they struggle to contain a resilient insurgency and train a local army while at the same time moving to bring their troops home over the next three years.
But even meeting the goal of setting political talks in motion, let alone completing them, will not be easy.
U.S. diplomats must execute a series of good-faith measures, including moving Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay military prison; convincing militants to drop their opposition to talks with an Afghan government they deem illegitimate; and navigating political opposition at home months before a November election that President Barack Obama hopes will give him a second term.
The administration had tried to pull those elements together before a global summit in Bonn, Germany in December.
A senior U.S. official, while not disputing that some in the Obama administration want the peace talks announced by the Chicago summit, cautioned that Afghan reconciliation is not formally on the agenda.
NATO leaders will focus on how and when to shift the military mission in Afghanistan to an advise-and-train effort, giving Afghan security forces the lead in combat missions. . . .
Several news organizations reported over the weekend that the Pentagon was moving to shift its Afghan focus to special operations. While most Western combat troops are due to leave by the end of 2014, the United States hopes to keep a small force focused on counterterrorism and training there beyond then.
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What is The Lottery in the story The Lottery?
What is The Lottery in the story The Lottery?
The lottery represents any action, behavior, or idea that is passed down from one generation to the next that’s accepted and followed unquestioningly, no matter how illogical, bizarre, or cruel. The lottery has been taking place in the village for as long as anyone can remember.
What is the main message of The Lottery?
The main themes in “The Lottery” are the vulnerability of the individual, the importance of questioning tradition, and the relationship between civilization and violence.
What is the main point in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson?
The main point in “The Lottery” concerns the nature of tradition and how it affects generations of people. Since the titular Lottery has always been practiced, the townsfolk seem to consider it just a part of life, and expected instead of rationally considered.
What is the analysis of The Lottery?
The titular lottery in the short story represents blind adherence to tradition. The townspeople do not know when or why it started, but they continue to practice it out of fear. For them, the lottery is a cornerstone of their society. To give it up would irrevocably change their culture.
Why did they throw stones at Tessie?
For the final drawing, one slip is placed in the box for each member of the household: Bill, Tessie, and their three children. Each of the five draws a slip, and Tessie gets the marked one. The townspeople gather stones and begin throwing them at her as she screams about the injustice that comes with the lottery.
Why was the lottery banned?
It is almost certain that South Africa banned this story because they felt it to be an anti-apartheid story. If this was banned because it was an attack on brutal and unquestioned traditions, like apartheid, it is difficult to consider this banning as anything but a positive endorsement of the meaning of the story.
What is the moral lesson of the lottery ticket?
The main theme of the story “The Lottery Ticket” by Anton Chekhov is that money can corrupt the soul. The prospect of a huge lottery win makes Ivan and Masha look at each other with hatred and suspicion, each one believing that the other will be negatively changed by their sudden windfall.
Why was Tessie killed in the lottery?
Tessie is stoned to death because she’s the “winner” of the lottery. The townspeople seem to believe that unless they sacrifice one of their own, crops will fail. It’s an old tradition, and very few think to question it at all.
What was the original reason for holding the lottery?
The original purpose of the lottery seem to have been some twisted sort of rain dance ritual. As Old Man Warner explains, the old saying used to exclaim, “Lottery in June, corn by heavy soon”.
What does he say will happen without a lottery?
In Old Man Warner’s eyes, doing away with the lottery would be akin to going back to primitive times. He believes that society would fail without the lottery. His belief, likely shared by many in their community, indicates how people could be willing to accept such a violent tradition.
What is the irony in the lottery?
The title of the story itself is ironic because the idea of a lottery usually involves a reward for the winner whereas, in this case, the “winner” of the lottery is stoned to death instead. The irony continues in the opening description as the narrator paints a cheery picture of a bright and beautiful summer day.
Who threw stones at Tessie?
Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands. A stone hit her [Tessie] on the side of the head. Old Man Warner was saying, “Come on, come on, everyone” . . . and then they were upon her. A savage mob mentality takes over as the crowd releases its aggressions on Tessie.
What is the plot summary of the lottery?
Plot summary. The story describes a mythical Babylon in which all activities are dictated by an all-encompassing lottery, a metaphor for the role of chance in one’s life. Initially, the lottery was run as a lottery would be, with tickets purchased and the winner receiving a monetary reward.
What is the summary of the lottery?
The story describes a fictional small town in contemporary America which observes an annual rite known as “the lottery”. The purpose of the lottery is to choose a human sacrificial victim to be stoned to death to ensure the community’s continued well being.
What is the story the lottery about?
The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson one the spring of 1948, details a society that is detached from its basic humanity instincts. In the short story, men in the society are painted as having lost their regard for human life, in a quest to further their needs.
What is the tone of the story the lottery?
The Lottery. In the short story “The Lottery,” the author’s tone is distant and ironic. The instant tone in this story is the way that the write says about the character because I can feel a space between the author and the characters.


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Following our successful sold out screening at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Sader Ridge
will be playing again in Seattle at the Crypticon horror convention. The film will be playing in a double feature with Motivational Growth
, a hilarious and bizarre film that features Jeffrey Combs as the voice of some mold that gives a suicidal man life advice. Growth has won 6 awards from film festivals from Paris to Boston. The double feature will start at 10 PM on Saturday, May 25th. The convention goes all weekend and features appearances by Diane Franklin, Joe Bob Briggs, Elvira, Tom Savini, Fred Williamson, Adrienne King, John Carl Buechler and Amy Steel.

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Mulberry syrup (Sharab el Toot) is one of Lebanon’s most traditional drinks. It is an exotic, revitalizing, wholesome drink that is sweet yet tangy and is rich with antioxidants.
Product without any additives.
Jouzourna will always seek to be the pioneer in offering healthy organic food conforming to the international standards.
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Student testing has become a major topic of debate. This week, the New York State United Teachers released a statement criticizing the increase in testing but failed to take responsibility for the excessive testing.
In a New York Daily News opinion piece, education advocacy leaders Tim Daly and Joe Williams argue that teacher unions have contributed to the excessive student testing through the execution of the local bargaining agreement. The agreement allows tests not required by the state to be implemented in local districts.
Furthermore, Daly and Williams urges teacher unions to remove the agreement:
But if the union is sincere about reining in truly excessive testing and building truly useful evaluation systems, the easiest fix is to tackle this problem where it first arose: at the local bargaining table. There’s nothing stopping the state teachers union from taking action to fix this issue tomorrow.


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The Austrian Ministry of Defence has ordered six Tracker mini unmanned air systems. This contract was won by Survey Copter, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cassidian SAS, responsible for the development and manufacturing of miniature aircraft and helicopter UAVs, in cooperation with the Kapsch Group, a Vienna headquartered international road telematics, information technology and telecommunications company.
The Tracker can be deployed for missions including detection, reconnaissance, identification, classification, tracking, over-the-hill targeting, target or axis designation, special force and anti-terrorism action, littoral/border control, force protection, convoy support, dismounted warfighter missions and Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT). Following a pre-programmed and reconfigurable plan in the course of the mission, the Tracker flies entirely automatically, which enables the operators to devote themselves to their reconnaissance assignment
"We are very proud to have been selected to introduce mini unmanned air systems with the Austrian forces, a further mark of Cassidian and Survey Copter European's credibility and leadership in this particularly fast-growing sector" said Jean-Marc Masenelli, Managing Director of Survey Copter.
Composed of an aircraft and a ground station, the short-range mini-UAS Tracker is a hand-launched system, carried as a backpack. The ground station, consisting of two PCs and control units with joysticks, is coupled to a data link antenna tracking the aircraft in real-time.
Increasing the situational awareness and reconnaissance capabilities, the Tracker features an advanced ergonomic man-machine interface (MMI), automatic and safe procedures, and low-noise electric engines and is optimised to provide stealthy intelligence gathering capabilities for military, security and civil authorities.
After evaluation of the mini-UAS operation in accordance with the Austrian Armed Forces capability development plan, a further procurement of mini-UAS is intended between 2016 and 2017.


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Nephilim Quest 4 / The Book of the Dead / 180.000 words (now at 41.500 words)
The Death of a Vampire / PUBLISHED ON 28TH AUGUST ON AMAZON
Space Witches 3 / 60.000 words (now at 51.850 words)
The House of the Morning Sun / PUBLISHED ON 25TH AUGUST 2019 ON AMAZON
Bastet Mysteries 50.000 words (now at 25.000 words)
OF LEENA MARIA'S NOVELS
Here are links to the writing journal of each of my books. I'll add these "book bubbles" when the books are published.
You can read an excerpt of each chapter with my thoughts alongside. I hope this will give you an insight on the writing process.
writing journal of nephilim quest 1 shadowhunter
Dana's best friend Kitty dies in a car accident and soon after this a strange shadow appears to hunt Dana.
She has to flee her ordinary life and finds out she it not the ordinary person she thought she was. She is hurled into the world on the Nephilim, the descendants of angels. She learns of shadows, immortals, vampires and time travel.
In ancient Egypt a little girl is being chased by dark forces and has to flee, helped by a woman from the western desert of Egypt.
In ancient Greece a merchant's son is turned into a creature of darkness because of his love for a beautiful girl.
These three timelines intertwine with each other when Dana begins to search for what she was created to find. Something that should stay hidden.


Triumph Scrambler 400X Launched In India, Prices And Specs Revealed
Article by Drivio | 12th Oct 23
Yet another addition to the British automaker’s affordable line-up based on the TR series, the Triumph Scrambler 400X shares similarities with the Speed 400.
- The 398 cc single-cylinder engine generates up to 40 PS of power and 37.5 Nm of torque.
- Triumph Scrambler 400X comes with decent off-roading features, including long-travel suspensions.
- The bike is priced at Rs 2.63 lakh (ex-showroom).
Following the success of Triumph Speed 400, Triumph Motorcycles has rolled out another budget motorcycle in partnership with Bajaj Auto –Triumph Scrambler 400X. Manufactured entirely in India by Bajaj, the Scrambler 400X is priced at Rs. 2.63 lakhs (ex-showroom) and shares a lot of similarities with the Speed 400.
The bike comes in three color options – Matt Khaki Green and Fusion White, Carnival Red and Phantom Black, and Phantom Black and Silver Ice. The Scrambler 400X is pitted against the likes of the KTM 390 Duke, Bajaj Dominar 400, and others.
|Bike||Price (ex-showroom Delhi)|
|Triumph Scrambler 400X||Rs. 2,62,996|
Triumph Scrambler 400X Specification Details
The new TR series-based bike is powered by a 398.15 cc, liquid-cooled, single-cylinder engine that delivers a peak torque of 40 PS, alongside 40 PS of max power. The engine is mated with a 6-speed gearbox with a slip-and-assist clutch, while the ride-by-wire throttle ensures increased fuel efficiency and more precise controls.
|Triumph Scrambler 400X||Specifications|
|Engine||398.15 cc, liquid-cooled, single cylinder, DOHC|
|Max Power||40 PS|
|Peak Torque||37.5 Nm|
|Transmission||6-speed, with slip-and-assist clutch|
Triumph Scrambler 400X Features
It’s the Triumph Scrambler 400X’s off-road-worthy hardware and components that set it apart from the Speed 400. The bike boasts a long-travel suspension setup with 150mm of travel at both ends. Both the front and rear wheels are equipped with dual-purpose block design tyres. Together with the switchable traction control, ABS, adjustable handlebars, and 195mm of ground clearance, these features make the Scrambler 400X a great choice.


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Main topic of the day:
EODE-TV with RT – EODE Zone Russia-Caucasus / 2013 11 25/
The Russian TV channel ‘RT Russian Prime time” – former Russia Today – for a real information on what is really Putin’s Russia.
Politics, Economy, Culture, Arts, Events, News, People:
Far away from the anti-Russian phobia of the Western medias, the real life in the “Second Europe” …
Today main topics:
Ukraine’s oppositon protest their government’s move to curb EU integration – despite claims a trade deal would spell economic disaster for the country’s economy;
Meanwhile, President Putin denies allegations Russia blackmailed Ukraine into giving up its planned EU trade pact, and instead claims it’s Europe that’s been applying the pressure; Officials in Murmansk are told to stop using words and phrases that are associated with bribery;
We get into the weekend mood by heading to our Moscow local for a bar-side review of the week’s events with fellow Moscow expats.
RT / EODE-TV / EODE Press Office


So I can only speak for myself, but again in the day I utilized to be very very good at video clip game titles – you know, the huge stand by itself sport models that you could only find in arcades. Considering that then, I have tried out to preserve up with the house sport consoles, but I should confess to having misplaced my capabilities.
These days I have to confine myself to an occasional operate at Half-Lifestyle just to reassure myself that I nonetheless have it. Which brings up an fascinating position, wouldn’t be be excellent to be a merchandise manger at a movie game firm?
The Online video Recreation Sector
If you are the type of man or woman who is simply amazed by big quantities, then consider this one particular out for dimension. The video clip game Grand Theft Auto IV introduced in more than $300M in a solitary day when it was launched. That was double what the most recent Batman movie brought in the working day that it opened.
The industry and its product professionals do have their problems – things are getting tougher. The value and complexity of establishing game titles are increasing with each and every new release. Oh, and you can think about just how fickle video clip match customers are – one particular undesirable release and your solution line could be completed for.
What Does It Take To Have A Effective Movie Match Solution?
Accomplishment in the movie sport sector depends on a combination of solid threat administration and savvy research and advancement. This portion of the business will never adjust. Even so, the way that video online games are offered and how they are becoming distributed is going through a elementary adjust that is affecting all solution managers.
1 new design for video match makers entails subscription on the web offerings. In this solution supplying, users can download the match code for totally free and then they spend a regular monthly charge to be permitted to link to servers that produce the sport actively playing atmosphere exactly where all subscribers can engage in at the exact same time.
One of the premier online video sport manufactures, Activision Blizzard, already generates a lot more than $1B in income and much more than $500M in revenue from its World of Warcraft subscription enterprise. Plainly this is the wave of the potential.
An additional new concentrate is what gaming authorities are calling the “everyday” marketplace. This is how movie sport merchandise supervisors are making an attempt to grow their prospective buyer foundation – they are making an attempt to create goods that appeal to recreation gamers who never have a lot of time to discover complex guidelines. A single of the far better illustrations of a well-known everyday match is Guitar Hero.
Yet 온라인릴게임 that video match merchandise professionals want to make is to decide which sport console they will develop video games for. For illustration. video games made for the Nintendo DS can be created much more cheaply than those for consoles, manufactures can experiment significantly a lot more cheaply in approaches that they can not do for the PlayStation or the Wii.
The Long term Of Video Recreation Products
The video match enterprise is a tough enterprise to be a solution manger in. Publishers need to sell about a single million copies of a match on the PS3 or Xbox 360 just to crack even. This continuous stress to be effective is creating imaginative new concepts for product administrators.
1 new thought that has only just reciently started out to show up in online video video games is the idea of in-recreation marketing. Sponsered ads can demonstrate up on billboards, on character’s clothing, or even as shopfronts in the setting. Due to the fact so numerous of these game titles are on the internet, adverts can be changed above time – practically nothing is fixed.
An additional way to make income that is just starting to be implemented is that the match is totally free for avid gamers to enjoy, but they need to pay for extra things these kinds of as new equipment for their players. With specified market place sectors, e.g. teenager girls, this can produce wealthy benefits.
Every single item manager yearns for the opportunity to be accountable for a product that is really well-liked and online video game titles certain seem to be to suit that description. Nonetheless, the video sport business is a rough and tumble battlefield that punishes items that drop guiding and insists on continuous innovation.
Even if you are not operating in the movie sport sector, you can nevertheless understand from what they are doing. Moving as considerably of your item support and update procedure on the web to decrease fees and enhance customer conversation is 1 innovation that we can all investigate doing.
If solution mangers can locate methods to function improvements from the video game into how they are handling their merchandise, then they will have have located however another way that great product supervisors make their merchandise(s) fantastically profitable.


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Disc Battle Tags, Control and description
A small girl table hockey flash game. The objective is to slide the puck into your opponents goal while defending your own goal. Matches are light-weight and only 3 minutes.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has ordered state universities and colleges (SUCs) and local universities and colleges (LUCs) to discontinue offering the senior high school program beginning next school year as “there was no legal basis to fund it.”
In a CHED memorandum dated December 18, 2023, the commission said that its engagement with the Department of Education on the implementation of senior high school programs in SUCs and LUCs should only be limited to the K to 12 transition period which was only from school year 2016 to 2017 to school year 2020 to 2021.
“Considering the foregoing, SUC presidents/OICs are directed to bring their respective SUC board of regents and board of trustees the discontinuance of senior high school in SUCs because there is no legal basis to fund the same,” the memorandum read.
How many are affected?
Based on DepEd data, some 17,751 grade 11 students are currently enrolled in SUCs and LUCs.
In a Bagong Pilipinas interview on Wednesday, January 3, CHED Chairman Prospero de Vera III said that in the past two years, the commission had been telling public universities to “wind down their senior high [enrollment] because there is no more legal basis for their offering of high school [education].”
“Tapos na ang transition period. Puno na ang state universities and colleges. Kailangan na nilang gamitin ang mga kuwarto at mga teacher. Kaya’t wala ng basehan para mag-offer sila ng senior high school,” he said.
(The transition period is over. State universities and colleges are full. They need to use the classrooms and teachers. That’s why there’s no more basis for them to offer senior high school.)
He noted that SUCs should only offer degree courses. De Vera said that SUCs that have “laboratory schools” can still offer the senior high school program since they have been doing this even prior to K to 12. Laboratory schools are those under SUCs that are being used by those pursuing an education degree.
Meanwhile, there are some 2,030,451 grade 12 students currently enrolled in SUCs and LUCs. De Vera said that universities and colleges “should let them finish the academic year.”
“The Department of Education has already issued a notice, through Private Education Assistance Committee, that beginning SY 2023-2024, there should be no more Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education and Teachers in Private Education beneficiaries from SUCs/LUCs, except those who will be entering Grade 12 in SY 2023-2024 to finish their basic education and that SUCS and LUCs with laboratory school can accept enrolled but will no longer receive vouchers,” the CHED memorandum read.
DepEd spokesperson Michael Poa said that those who might be displaced have two options next school year: enroll in public schools or enroll in private schools and avail of the voucher program.


Lexus Wants to Enter V8 Supercar Racing
Australia’s Lexus boss Sean Hanley says the automaker is currently evaluating joining the V8 Supercar grid for 2017. This is thanks to potentially shifting rules in the race series that would allow two-door cars to race. Luckily, Lexus just happens to have such a car that qualifies: the 2015 RC F.
“I would have shut the door on motorsport a year ago, particularly V8 Supercar racing in terms of a promotion, marketing and brand exercise," Hanley says. "But I think the door is slightly open."
Unfortunately, we shouldn’t expect anything from Lexus on the V8 Supercar series in the next two years. However, Hanley countered himself saying. "But what is equally clear to me, is if there is eligibility that allowed a coupe, we have a coupe that could go into that race and do pretty well."
He confesses the company does have an interest in GT3 and a race like the Bathurst 12 Hour, but no firm plans have been made.
Lexus is technically ready to race in the Bathurst 12 Hour race this coming February, as those regulations would already allow the RC F GT3 to compete. Perhaps the automaker just isn’t ready to make that announcement yet.
Click past the jump to read more about Lexus’ future V-8 supercar.
Why it matters
A Lexus racing team; who would have ever though? A racing division would likely serve the brand well, as the it reaches out to a younger audience. The RC F is a spectacular car, so having it compete in a few race series would likely help its street cred against the stalwarts like BMW, Mercedes, and Audi.
The RC F GT3 is built specifically to meet the standards of the GT3 race series. A lowered and widened stance is accented by a large chin splitter and huge fender flares. A massive rear wing helps with downforce with a full roll cage protecting the driver should things turn upside down.
The RC F GT3 is powered by a similar 5.0-liter V-8 that’s found in the production RC F. This mill is race-tuned and develops a respectable 540 horsepower. Only time will tell if Lexus will enter a race series with the car, but from the looks of things, Lexus is already pretty serious.


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A second set of Disco Folk from this unique Turkish pair – duo working in late 70s Germany, and mixing up their own roots with a range of different electric instrumentation! The odd modes of the sound are wonderfully captured in the unique three-necked guitar on the front cover – and ... LP, Vinyl record album
Field recordings of Western Sahelian guitar music – recorded by Christopher Kirkley from 2009-2011 – and an evocative aural trip to the region, courtesy Sahel Sounds and Mississippi! Like the other great Sahel Sounds release, it's beautifully done – and impeccably well recorded ... LP, Vinyl record album
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Maharashtra becomes the first state in the country to approve Good Governance Regulations
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde approved the first Good Governance Regulations in the country.
An Overview of the News
The purpose of the rules is to enhance accountability, accessibility, dynamism and transparency in state administration.
A separate cell will be set up to address the effects of climate change.
The rules also include expanding the scope of 'Aaple Sarkar Seva Kendra' for end-to-end online services to citizens within the prescribed time limit.
Citizens' complaints will be redressed at a speedy pace.
The chief minister's direction to develop the rules was given in September last year.
The rules were drawn up in consultation with ministerial officials, experts and NGOs.
161 department-wise indices have been prepared to evaluate the performance of good governance.
It is a state located in the western part of India and covers a significant part of the Deccan Plateau.
Chief Minister - Eknath Shinde
Governor - Ramesh Bais
Official Animal - Indian giant squirrel
Official Bird - Yellow-footed Green Pigeon
Official Dance - Lavani
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Split Pea Soup
Split Pea Soup Recipe Card Front
Front of the recipe card for Split Pea Soup.
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Not sure why this says “Jewish” for the recipe… Kosher maybe?
The top section of the Split Pea Soup recipe.
The bottom section of the Split Pea Soup recipe.
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- 2 cups split peas
- 2½ qts. water
- 2 onions, diced
- 1 carrot grated
- 2 stalks celery sliced thin
- 2 sprigs parsley (1 t. dried parsley)
- 2 sprigs dill (1 t. crushed dill weed)
- 3 potatoes, peeled and diced
- 2½ t. salt
- ½ t. pepper (black)
- 1 cup milk
- 1 T butter or margarine
- Wash peas and combine with water, onions, carrot, celery, parsley and dill.
- Cover: bring to boil and cook over low heat 2½ hrs.
- Add potatoes, salt and pepper.
- Cook 15-20 min. - stir in milk and butter, bring to boil.
- Remove and serve
Split Pea Soup