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Alodia Gosiengfiao knows cosplay runs more than costume-deep
The Philippines-based Instagram and YouTube star has turned cosplaying into a multimedia empire. But she, too, had to start somewhere.
Cosplay—the fine art of dressing up like a favorite character from pop culture—has exploded in popularity over the past couple of decades, with millions of fans worldwide crafting looks from the simple to the sublime to the hilarious. It’s also a big business, driving around $4.5 billion in global market value and turning some folks from hobbyists into multimedia superstars.
You can’t have that conversation without talking about Alodia Gosiengfiao. A native of the Philippines, she got her start in the early years of the millennium entering con contests emulating favorite video game characters. Fast-forward a couple of decades, and she’s sitting on a cross-platform empire made up of some 1.8 million YouTube subscribers and 1.7 million Instagram followers. Along the way, she’s parlayed her cosplay popularity into a career as an actress, TV host, and co-founder of her own entertainment agency, Tier One Entertainment. In 2020, Alodia was named as one of the most influential women in the Philippines by DOS Magazine.
Even with all those irons in the fire, however, transforming herself through cosplay remains her primary drive and passion. She took time out of what sounds like an insanely busy schedule to share memories of how she first fell in love with the art form, and where she’s trying to take it from here.
What was your first encounter with cosplay?
I remember it was back in 2003. I was part of a forum called Anime Club, and there were usually event notices there. At one point, someone posted about a gaming convention and they said there was a costume competition. I didn't know what cosplay was back then. It wasn't as big as it is right now, I started out with my sister so I wouldn’t be so shy, because I'm such an introvert. We had limited knowledge, limited sources where we could get materials. Even wigs, we didn’t really have that yet much back then. But we tried it out.
What was the very first cosplay look you created?
Did you feel the magic right away?
To be honest, I didn't know what I was getting into when we stepped into the event. I didn't know we had to go up on stage, we had to perform, and I wasn't really ready for anything. We didn't win, but it inspired me to do better for the next ones.
What was first time you felt, like, "I am crushing it as this character?”
Maybe the very next one we did. We really tried to focus more on it. We did Final Fantasy X-2. I did Rikku, and my sister did Yuna. That time, we knew what to do on stage. We prepared. Sometimes,, you have to have stage presence and a little bit of acting. Luckily, we landed third place and People's Choice. I guess that meant something, that people appreciated what we prepared back then.
I was going to ask you about advice that you would give someone who wants to pursue cosplay, but it sounds like the big early lesson was that it's not just about the costume, but just as much about the performance that you're able to put on.
Yes, definitely! Especially if you're competing, you really have to embody the character. It's not just the craftsmanship or the level of difficulty in making the costume. You also have to practice the gestures, the movement, and sometimes even speaking lines and facial expressions.
How do you go about deciding on what you want to portray, in terms of properties or characters?
Usually, I get inspired by the current video game I play—actually, I really wanted to do my Sorceress character from Diablo IV because I really love the designs. I look at the design and I see if it's actually doable, because sometimes the designs are really too much! For example, if some things are floating, you have to actually figure out how to copy that. Sometimes, you use see-through bars, so that you make it look like something is actually floating.
What would you say is the skill that made this really work for you? What do you think sets you apart as a cosplayer?
I think I'm just very lucky to have an early start, to be honest, because if I started right now, people have such a high level of skill. Back then, I guess I was very exploratory. I'm willing to learn. I love to collaborate with my cosplay friends. I'm more of a crafter than a seamstress, so I like making weapons and armor. Back then, we didn't have 3D printing. We used to really do everything. We’d do the patterns. We’d craft everything by hand. I guess it’s just being early and being dedicated to this craft for so long, Some of my friends fell off the map, but I'm still here!
Do you have a craft build that you're particularly proud of?
Maybe the most recent one. I did Final Fantasy XVI, and I'm quite happy about it. We did the dress twice. Some of the accessories, I had to redo, just to make sure. I had to move the shoot so many times because I really wanted it to be accurate. We only had limited resources since the game wasn't out when we were building the costume. Not only that, but because we had to go to this beautiful place here in the Philippines called Tanay, Rizal, and we were shooting in this river that had white rock formations. Yeah, I was happy about that.
You now do this professionally. Let’s say someone doesn’t have a high level of visual arts skill, but really wants to get into the world of cosplay. What would be the advice that you would give them?
I’d advise them to go to a convention. They would be able to observe cosplayers at a 360 degree view. And if they’re lucky, some cosplayers may share how they did a particular craft. And start simple! If you're going to go for, for example, with Lilith from Diablo, that's an insane level of craftsmanship. I did this event in Singapore where I was also one of the panel judges. There was this lady who did Lina [DOTA 2], and her costume compared to the others was less intricate, but everything was on point. Even her shoes were made out of clear acrylic, so it looked like she was floating. It was pretty cool. Sometimes, you can just see that character in that person.
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After the Sun’s 17 seconds of grainy footage showing the then future Queen doing a Nazi salute (but without the black comb as Hitler moustache part of the routine), is it safe yet to say that the royal family’s wobbly views in the 1930s have hardly been a secret? The great British public wobbled then too. No one wanted another German war.
According to Monday’s Telegraph, a still photo of the scene on a family lawn in 1933 was shown in a royal exhibition last year. But let’s not be too mean to the Sun. It’s an interesting photo, though as Kathryn Hughes wisely notes, it’s not clear what the Windsors were actually doing or thinking. They were, and still are, keen on boisterous pranks and charades. As kids growing up in the 50s we did the black-comb routine in the playground.
But that it should be a cause for outrage, real or synthetic, republican or monarchist, in 2015 is seriously daft. Everyone vaguely knows that the then Prince of Wales, briefly Edward VIII, expressed sympathetic views of the pre-war Hitler and was bundled off to be governor of Bermuda during the war to keep him out of possible mischief. One of the reasons for his views was a concern for the unemployed: Hitler got them working again. He hoped to get Edward working again too, as puppet king.
Silly, pampered boy, Edward made a mess of his life and we needn’t feel much sympathy. But the Queen has played her difficult hand well and after a shaky start so did her stammering and shy father who became George VI (1936-52).
But plenty of historians (David Cannadine, for example) and countless documentaries or articles, have noted that the King and Queen were pretty conventional upper class Brits of their time. They were more afraid of Bolshevist Russia – which had murdered their Romanov cousins – than of Hitler or the strutting Mussolini.
They probably hoped Franco would win the Spanish civil war (1936-39) which he did with great savagery. The hope that Hitler and Stalin would turn on each other was widely and understandably shared.
These were scary times and it wasn’t just the toffs who turned to extremes of left or right as the liberal democracies looked and sounded feeble. Spain popularised the idea of the “fifth column”: subversives within our own ranks, communists pretending to be Nazi sympathisers and vice versa. It was a low decade. It also produced the Cambridge Apostles’ spy ring, run by upper class anti-fascists well practised in deceit because most of them were gay.
People were still traumatised by the horrors of the first world war. They didn’t want to listen to the warnings against Hitlerism of that gadfly Winston Churchill (and even he wrote articles in the mid-30s praising Hitler as a “great contemporary”), preferring instead the reassuring tone of Stanley (“safety first”) Baldwin and his successor in No 10 after 1937, Neville Chamberlain.
The King and Queen were ardent supporters of Chamberlain’s appeasement policy: give Hitler his reasonable demands for reversing the harsh judgment of the Versailles treaty of 1919 and he would settle down. They were not alone in this.
It’s why the appeasers won elections and had the support of public opinion. The future king had been in a gun turret at the Battle of Jutland (1916) and thus knew war directly. “Hitler has a point,” people would say. Some of it was nasty, anti-semitic or reactionary, much was just wishing for a quiet life, as usual. Most of us do the same.
The Daily Mail set the picture in some context, publishing images of the England football team giving the Nazi salute at the Berlin Olympic stadium in 1938. Remember, Hitler was already doing terrible things but he had been elected to power. What is a visiting team supposed to do?
The Mail omits the enthusiasm of its then proprietor, the first Lord Rothermere, for Hitler and the “black shirts” of Sir Oswald Mosley, but that’s hardly a secret either. When Chamberlain returned from Munich with his illusory “peace in our time” deal with Hitler in September 1938, the King and Queen allowed him to appear with them on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.
Protocol should not have permitted it to a politician, but the cheering crowds in the Mall didn’t care. In 1945 the royal couple would appear there again with Churchill (whom they didn’t like because he had foolishly sided with Edward VIII over the abdication crisis). But by then they had redeemed themselves by insisting on staying both in Britain (Canada was an option) and London during the Blitz. Deliberately targeted bombs fell on the palace when they were there, a mere 80 metres away.
They didn’t, however, dodge the political fallout entirely because their gorgeous teenage daughter was by now being courted by a dashing naval lieutenant of German extraction. Because fragmented Germany had so many minor royal houses apart from Prussia’s dominant Hohenzollerns, it had been Europe’s royal sperm bank for centuries.
So when Philip Mountbatten (formerly Battenberg) married Princess Elizabeth in 1947 most of his family weren’t invited because they were compromised by associations, including marriage and war service, with the Nazi regime. That wasn’t a secret either, though Channel 4 is about to rehash it for a younger generation. No harm in that unless it’s presented as a shock revelation.
As the Guardian suggests there are still some war-time secrets in the royal archive which should get an airing. They can’t harm the Queen now.
The danger in this sort of situation is that we may be tempted to ascribe views to people based on our knowledge of what happened later, of which they could only be ignorant. When the Sun’s grainy footage was filmed, not much was understood about the enormity of the Nazi project. Hitler only came to power in March 1933; legitimately appointed chancellor. He got off to a cracking, ugly start, but politicians do not always fulfil their election promises, do they?
We do know that when Elizabeth reached 18 in 1944 she joined the armed forces, unlike her near-contemporary Margaret Thatcher, who preferred to accelerate her entry into Oxford University. Ignorance by then was no longer an excuse, as it no longer was for more ardent western supporters of Stalin and all his works as the mighty Red Army closed in on Berlin.
But then as now, human beings easily tie themselves in knots. Prince Harry wore a Nazi uniform to a party, in poor taste. I suppose that doing the black comb routine in the school playground, as we once did, would be harshly judged now.


Fidelity Bank to Discuss Impact of CBN Policy on Diaspora Investments
By Ahmed Rahma
A leading financial institution, Fidelity Bank Plc, has concluded plans to host its diaspora webinar series with the inaugural edition on Saturday, March 6, 2021.
The virtual session themed The New CBN FX Policy and Positive Impact to Diaspora Investments in Nigeria seeks to enlighten Nigerian citizens’ resident abroad on recent policy measures by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and their attendant implications for diaspora investments.
According to the lender in a statement, the session will also aim specifically at providing the people with valuable insights, intelligence, and expertise on how to stay on top of their investments back home.
The event, to be streamed live on YouTube and Zoom, will have in attendance dignitaries and several other persons in the financial industry.
It was disclosed that the programme was borne out of the need to deepen engagement with Nigerian diaspora community particularly as developmental partners considering the critical role remittances play in driving sustainable economic growth.
Speaking on the webinar, the CEO of Fidelity Bank, Mrs Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, stated that the session was most appropriate and timely, adding that “the session will offer the Nigerian diaspora greater clarity on all of the recent policies enacted by government with a view to enabling them make sound investment decisions.”
According to Mrs Onyeali-Ikpe, the bank, in the last 12 years, has become a dependable partner for diaspora remittances and investment.
Armed with a deep understanding of these customers’ needs, she explained that the bank has continued to offer bespoke products and services that are unrivalled in the financial services industry which includes, diaspora mortgage and dollar denominated fixed deposit investment account that attracts up to 5 per cent annual interest depending on the amount and tenure.
Recall that the CBN, as part of efforts to liberalise, simplify and improve the receipt and administration of diaspora remittances into the country had issued guidelines to ensure that beneficiaries of diaspora remittances through International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) receive such inflows in foreign currency (US dollars) through the designated bank of their choice.
The policy became necessary in view of the urgent need to deepen the foreign exchange (FX) market, provide more liquidity and create transparency in the administration of diaspora remittances into Nigeria.


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Doing some extreme raised bed gardening today, planting 1500+ onions in our raised beds. We will also be growing them in our super soil mix in both containers and in our main vegetable garden. As homesteaders, our gardens are our main food source. Our garden boxes play a key role in how we raise our vegetables in the gardens. Living where we do, we can plant long or short day onions, but we grow intermediate...

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I have a 2 month OOP joey currently trying to recover from HLP, low blood sugar and severe dehydration. A little history to inform you. We had 4 gliders. 2 males, 2 females. Both males fought incesantly as did both females so we divided them into pairs, all was harmonious. We were feeding BML diet
. Each pair produced one joey each, wonderfully healthy. This January we obtained 2 additional gliders both males, bonded
brothers. We kept them on the diet
they were on and changed our gliders over to their diet
. It was a well known diet
, the gliders seemed to prefer the new diet
, so we kept it. In March we moved and purchased a house. The 2 male brothers passed away suddenly and sadly, we figured it was the stress of the move. They were 6 months old. We discovered that our females were yet again expecting joeys. One female had a single female joey and the other had twin girl joeys. While nursing they were all the wonderful healthy happy joeys we wanted. At between 6-7 weeks old they started emerging from the sleeping pouch to explore and eat the diet
with the adults. The single female joey seemed to have a slight limp on one of her back legs. 2 weeks earlier we had to pull her father out of the cage as he had begun attacking all the females visciously, we thought maybe he had hurt her. Took her to vet
nothing found wrong. No blood work up was done as she was eating, drinking and playing happily. The only tail tail sign at that time was her tail was not as groomed as it could have been. Brought her home and sadly a week later she was dead. The twin girls we still with us. One emerged from the sleeping pouch and would exlore and the other would peek out from the pouch and crab at anything that moved. MAybe she just wasn't ready to explore yet. We noticed that her tail began to have the signs of not being as groomed as it should, but she had wonderful parents who we would watch bring food to the pouch for the joeys to eat, very attentive parents. The twins reach 8 weeks and Daddy still baby sits them in the pouch while Mommy goes and eats first. Wake up and go to retrieve dishes and found one of the twins on the bottom of the cage in seisures. Cold to the touch and matted fur. Scoop her up she was severely dehydrated so began with 0.1ML pedialyte every 5 min, call hubby home from work(he works over an hour away). Keep her warm and offer liquids. The siesures began to ease. Having longer periods between episodes. Hubby gets home and we rush her to the vet
, we have an emergency vet
who does treat gliders. Thankfully she had just joined our emergency vet
hospital as the only vet
who does see gliders doesn't have an emergency service. She was diagnoses with HLP, low blood sugar and severe dehydration. Calcium injection was given and the vet
gave us 4 more doses to administer at home. She was given a high percentage of NOT surviving the night. Stay up with her all night still giving pedialyte every 20-30 min as she was given sub-q fluids at the vet
as well. She was up to 0.2ML of pedialyte. She survived the night. She started taking more pedialyte and was up to 0.5ML every 30 min, kept her warm with a hot water bottle in her hospital bed. I tried food later that day and she refused but would still readily drink the pedialyte. Up to 0.7ML now every 40 min. Offer some food mixed with the pedialyte she began to drink it. Offered the food/pedialyte mixture every 40 min and gradually increased the amount of food mixed with pedialyte. By the early evening she was eating food melted to room temperature and given by syringe. I sat up with her on my chest giving her warmth and comfort as best I could. Finally she urinated that evening a rather large large puddle on my shirt which I was happy to allow. She had a small bowel movement that was hard, tiny and black. Her second evening home administer calcium shot and offer syringe of food and syringe of pedialyte every hour. Sat up with her all night allowing her to sleep on my chest as I did the first night. Morning of the third day she had a very nice bowel movement soft, well formed and about 1/2 inch long, wonderful sight. Go out and get ingredients for Joey glider formula from Ruth's glider page with puppy formula to get more calcium in her. Figured she was as week as a newborn so she could use all the help she could get. She now tried to groom herself and will groom for short bursts of time as her energy is still low. Her fur is starting to have that nice clean look to it. We looked at the attempt to groom as an improvement. This is her 3rd day and she has great control over her tail today and keeps it fiercly curled around her when she sleeps, we took that as a sign of improvement as she had very little tail movement before. She still can't walk and has a hard time holding her head up. I offered her a small feeding dish of food and she was actually licking it up on her own. She couldn't hold her head up out of the formula so I supported her under her chest to allow her to eat yet keep her nose from smothering herself in her food. She eats about 1/2 teaspoon of formula in a sitting now about every 2 hours. I get little cat naps inbetween feedings. She had her third shot tonight but didn't seem to want to move out of her warm hospital bed which is a small tub with lid(holes drilled for vent). 2 inches of fleece on the bottom, one of my t-shirts to snuggle in and a hot water bottle on the side wrapped in fleece. She sleeping more comfortably now it seems as her breaths have lengthed and deepened, she had panting shallow at the begining. She seems to be keeping more of her body heat in tonight. This is still the 3rd night and she received her 3rd shot of calcium. She still won't chew anything as she seems to have problems chewing so she is on a liquid/semi-liquid diet
. Tonight she doesn't seem to want to move and I have gone back to syringe feeding her and she sleeping alot today.
said I should get something called Calcionate it is a liquid calcium. I have looked at walgreens(drugstore), pet stores and infant areas and can not find the liquid calcium. Pills, tablets and chews are everywhere but no liquid.
Is it too soon to get my hopes up that she will pull through? If she does pull through will she fully recover or be a special needs glider? The vet
said her brain will need time to recover from the seisures. Is there anything else I can do for her at this time? Sadly we have also noticed that the other twin is starting to have a tail that is not as groomed as it should be and is spending more time back in the sleeping pouch. I don't know if this is diet
related or stress from the move still. We have been moved in for almost 3 months now. Out of the 3 joeys born under this diet
we've lost one and almost a second with the third showing signs the others did. We are changing our diet
back to BML to see if that is the cause.
Another note. The only yogurt I could find that actually stated "live active cultures" was a soy based organic infant yogurt, Stonebrook or Stoneyfields one of those names. It did state on it "Helps in the absorption of calcium", but with all the controversy on Soy I don't know rather to feed it or not. At this time I am feeding it since I don't have any alternate yogurt.

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I was weirded out by the content of the box; a bunch of CitW loot? Compensation Code now available self. Affiliate Links - Advertising Disclosure If you purchase a product or service linked from this site, we may receive an "affiliate commission". SWIFT codes are used to identify banks and financial institutions worldwide.
MIvanIsten Windows Vista compatibility. IN Location code: Picked up Twilight for my alt since my main's already got a fully-upgraded Pinion. This helps with slower connections.

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Barcelona’s new season was off to a far from ideal start as they were held to a goalless draw by Rayo Vallecano at Spotify Camp Nou in their La Liga opener on Saturday.
Despite creating several chances, mostly in the second half, Barça could not get past a disciplined Rayo Vallecano backline.
While the performance was nowhere near the expected levels, there was also some questionable officiating from the referee on the night, Hernandez Hernandez, which has left some Barcelona directors puzzled and disturbed, reports COPE.
The biggest contentious moment in the game came in the first half when during a set-piece situation, Robert Lewandowski was manhandled and wrestled to the ground by Izi Palazon inside the Rayo Vallecano box right under the noses of the referee.
But, to everyone’s surprise, Hernandez Hernandez deemed there was no foul play involved and did not award a penalty to Barcelona.
There was another contentious call made by the 39-year-old official in the second half involving another potential penalty incident involving Lewandowski.
There was a lot of time-wasting from the get-go from the Rayo players that was also not properly curtailed by the referee on the night.
And, the overall performance from Hernandez Hernandez at Spotify Camp Nou has seemingly left Barcelona officials ‘disturbed’.
The level of refereeing has come under constant scrutiny in recent seasons, with there being a lack of clarity and consistency over some decisions made by the officials. Hopefully, there is an improvement of overall standard of officiating this season.


Called Sur les Rivages Designed by Amandine Chhor & Aïssa Logerot. The project aims to find new applications for the traditional craft in order to use up the plant, which grows extremely quickly and is causing environmental problems.
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The project sur les rivages proposes to revaluate the weaving craft of water hyacinth in Cambodia. This aquatic plant is harmful because it causes many environmental, sanitary and economic problems. Working over a 3 months trial period, in collaboration with Osmose association and the women of Saray cooperative from the floating village of Prek Toal, the idea of this project was to experiment this organic material and the weaving techniques, in order to find new applications for the invasive plant. Cambodia, a country undergoing reconstruction, is trying to revive traditional crafts which have disappeared during the genocide. Here more than elsewhere, the design can help to upgrade some of these skills and become the link between technique, form and use.


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Today, I'm sharing over at Color Cast Designs' blog as a brand new Creative Team member!
I created this 12x12 layout recently using some journal cards from Big City Quiet that fit perfectly with my snow photos from earlier this year. I also incorporated a brand new set of embellishments from Color Cast Designs because they matched so perfectly! Since I had so many photos to fit in this layout, I actually have an insert between the two Design A pages. My finishing touches included some stamps from Kellie Stamps!
The Foodie set that was just released by Color Cast Designs is one of my absolute favorite sets. I LOVE adding wood veneer embellishments to my spreads. In fact, they're pretty much my go to choice. To me, they're simple and organic. They match with any color and they work as a great focal point.
This was our first time making homemade snow cream! Not to mention, Addie loves to eat snow. We're not really sure why, but its pretty hilarious. Give the pup a bowl of fresh snow and she's happy!
Products Used: 12x12 We R Memory Keepers faux leather album in Greige | Design A page protectors by Becky Higgins | Journal Cards by Big City Quiet Designs and various Project Life core kits | Wood and acrylic embellishments from Color Cast Designs | Mini Flair from Feed Your Craft.
Use code "mandy" for a 10% discount off your order at Color Cast Designs!

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The EC has identified key emerging technologies with transformative potential for industry. Graphene and related 2D materials are prominent examples and the EC’s Graphene Flagship aims to take these materials from the laboratory into society.
The Quantum Hall resistance standard (QHRS) is a universal standard for electrical resistance but requires demanding experimental conditions such as high magnetic fields and cryogenic temperatures. Graphene’s 2D hexagonal-lattice structure imparts the electrical properties required for a more practical QHRS. However, its properties depend on the substrate on which it is deposited and the inability to grow large areas has limited its use. Materials such as ‘single layered two-dimensional Dirac covalent- and metal- organic frameworks’ (2D-COF/MOFs) are alternative QHRS candidates but have not been characterised to the level for use in metrology or in industrial products.
This project will develop graphene-like hexagonal structured 2D-COF/MOFs from organic ligands and the chemistry, morphology and electronic properties ‘tuned’ in an atomically precise and scalable manner. The 2D-COF/MOFs will then be characterised in relation to sample area and the substrate used prior to integration into QHRS devices. Measurements will then be performed to compare the performance of these to graphene and other materials used in QHRS. By benchmarking the use of 2D-COF/MOFs as a replacement for graphene this project will take the first steps to realising the use of these materials as primary electrical standards, supporting the aims of the Graphene flagship. It will also potentially impact on industries linked with 2D materials including solar energy conversion, semi-conductors and optoelectronics.
The overall objective of the project will be to assess (benchmark) the potential of 2D organic- and metal-organic frameworks for realising the QHRS. The specific objectives of the project are:
- To develop single layered two-dimensional Dirac covalent- and metal- organic frameworks (2D-COF/MOFs) in which graphene-like hexagonal structures are obtained from trigonal organic ligands. The chemistry, morphology and electronic properties of 2D-COF/MOFs will be tuned in an atomically precise and scalable manner.
- To perform traceable multi-scale characterization on the 2D-COF/MOFs samples. Specifically, to characterize their electrical properties as a function of sample’s area and the nature of the employed substrate (prior to and after integration into QHRS devices).
- To perform QHE measurements on the manufactured devices and to assess the potential of 2D-COF/MOFs materials for realising the QHRS. Specifically, to benchmark QHRS devices based on these samples vs those based on graphene and AlGaAs/GaAs hetero-structures.
- To assure European leadership on the research of novel class of 2D materials by establishing the research capabilities, appropriate protocols, quality schemes and traceability and facilitate the take up of the technology and measurement infrastructure developed in the project by the metrology community and in the development of emerging technologies such as solar energy conversion, sensing, membranes, optoelectronics, spintronics, etc. To disseminate the results to stakeholders (within and beyond the metrology community) in order to enable research cooperation that can be sustained in the long term.

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Twent-five years ago New York City was about to implode.
Violent crime and murder rates were the worst in the United States, tourism was declining, real estate values were plummeting, and economic development was in regression.
There were close to 1.6 million people on welfare, and neighborhoods of color looked like the remnants of war-torn Beirut.
City streets and highways were cluttered with stolen and abandoned cars.
As Rudolph W. Giuliani focused on his second attempt to become New York’s mayor, most New Yorkers believed that New York City was just too filthy, corrupt, and violent to manage.
Giuliani possessed a different view: He was adamant that no one wants to live, work, visit, or go to school in a place where they're not safe.
So, if we can reduce violent crime and murder, and enhance the quality of life, people will come, and that they did.
During the course of his eight year term, violent crime dropped by 65%, murder by 70%. Reflecting the most significant reductions in violent crime and murder in our nation's history.
For every percentage point he reduced violent crime, we witnessed increases in economic development, rising real estate values; and all-time highs in tourism. As he walked out of City Hall on his last day, there was close to 800,000 less people on welfare.
New York City had become the safest large city in America.
Over the next 12 years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly carried on Giuliani’s anti-crime strategies, both achieving continued reductions in violent crime and murder.
Mayor Bloomberg used that success to trumpet New York City as America’s economic and business capital of the world, which opened the floodgates for thousands of new companies and jobs.
By 2014, New York City was one of the cleanest, safest, and fastest growing cities globally.
Then came Mayor Bill de Blasio.
De Blasio, a known liberal/socialist Democrat who actually honeymooned in Cuba, took over the city when it was at its finest. In the last six years he has managed to flip the city upside down; diminish its quality of life, and scare New York businesses. So much so, that there is once again a mass exodus, just as we saw back in the 1980s and early 1990s.
De Blasio campaigned on an anti-cop/racist platform, sending a clear message to the rank-and-file of the NYPD, that they would no longer be supported and given the benefit of the doubt by the mayor — their commander in chief.
In the six years that DeBlasio has been mayor, all of the economic development and real estate gains seen under Giuliani and Bloomberg, are reversing. Homelessness in the city is rampant; panhandlers, graffiti artists, and squeegee window washers are back for the first time in 20 years.
In recent months the NYPD has reported spikes and violent crime, shootings, and murders. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law bail reform legislation crafted and supported by left-socialist ringmasters. This has opened the floodgates for criminals and criminal conduct, with absolutely no accountability.
No Bail Required:
Under the new law those arrested for burglary, vehicular manslaughter, rape in the third degree, or luring a child, no longer (as arrestees) have to post bail in order to guarantee they’ll come back to court, and to ensure that they don’t engage in criminal conduct prior to being held accountable on their present charges.
Anyone with half a brain would have known this was a completely irresponsible and dangerous policy, but New York’s political leadership was either too stupid or didn’t care.
As a result, in just the first five days after the law took effect, we’ve seen a number of people charged with crimes then re-arrested within 24 to 48 hours after their initial charges were pressed; because they were let go by the courts, returned to the streets — engaging in more criminal conduct.
One woman charged with and anti-Semitic attack was released to attack again and then released, only to attack a third time.
Judges can no longer use a rap-sheet during an arraignment to determine prior criminal history. The defendant can only be judged on the crime before the court on that day, nothing more. Therefore, the judge is obligated to release the suspect back into society with the hopes that he or she will show up in court, staying out of trouble until then.
So far, that has not been the case, which is why within the last 48 hours, several New York City and state legislators have called for an immediate reevision to the law.
Unfortunately, it’s too little too late. This should have never happened in the first place.
Mayor DeBlasio, and Gov. Cuomo are personally responsible for this quagmire, as well as overseeing the demise of so many of the successes and achievements that were made ensuring that New Yorkers could live in a safe and secure environment during the Giuliani and Bloomberg tenures.
DeBlasio's and Cuomo's political rhetoric (and actions) have demoralized and handcuffed the police, while emboldening criminals. Their words and actions ensure New York's return to the bad old days.
Their socialist ideology is also bad for business, bad for the city, and bad for our country.
At what point and at who’s expense will they begin to comprehend that?
As New York City’s 40th Police Commissioner, Bernard Kerik was in command of the NYPD on September 11, 2001, and responsible for the city’s response, rescue, recovery, and the investigative efforts of the most substantial terror attack in world history. His 35-year career has been recognized in more than 100 awards for meritorious and heroic service, including a presidential commendation for heroism by President Ronald Reagan, two Distinguished Service Awards from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, The Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and an appointment as Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. To read more of his reports — Click Here Now.
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Purdue Boilermakers (16-4)@
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Tuesday, January 27
17 pts, 78 fg%, 100 ft%
21 pts, 75 fg%, 100 ft%
Madison, WI (Sports Network) - Robbie Hummel carried Purdue on his bad back when it counted, draining the go-ahead three-pointer with 1:01 to play, as 16th-ranked Purdue held on to steal a 64-63 victory over Wisconsin in the visitor-unfriendly Kohl Center.
Hummel, who hasn't been able to practice since December with an aggravating back injury, buried a three-pointer off a high pick on the right wing to give the Boilermakers a 60-58 edge.
Moments earlier, Wisconsin had a comfortable 58-54 edge, but Chris Kramer buried a three in front of Hummel's long-distance trey.
The Badgers (12-8, 3-5 Big Ten) went to freshman Jordan Taylor down the stretch, but the newcomer's trey from the left wing hit off the back rim. Keaton Grant, who scored 10 points, made two foul shots, and again Taylor handled the ball for the Badgers, making a difficult left-handed layup for a 64-62 game with 22.8 ticks left.
Kramer missed the front end of a 1-and-1 on the other end, giving the Badgers one more chance after a timeout with 17.1 seconds to go. Taylor's number was called again, but the Purdue defense didn't let him penetrate or slide under a high ball fake, forcing a tough left-handed scoop shot that touched each inch of the rim before falling into the arms of JaJuan Johnson, who collected his sixth and seven points to ice the contest with 5.8 seconds remaining.
"We were just trying to make a play and the shot was there, I thought I had a good look, it just did not fall for me," said Taylor. "There is nothing I can do about it now. We just have to get ready for Northwestern on Saturday."
E'Twaun Moore paced Purdue (16-4, 5-2) with 17 points to go along with six assists. The Boilermakers have won five straight, and in the process handed Wisconsin its fifth consecutive defeat and second home defeat in succession, both firsts in the Bo Ryan era as Badgers head coach.
"I think we have some competitive guys that want to win, but a lot of people have guys that want to win," said Purdue coach Matt Painter. "I think that there is a fine line, especially in tonight's game where our guys made a couple more plays down the stretch. We have some guys that care and sacrifice themselves for the team."
Keaton Nankivil led Wisconsin with 21 points and Trevon Hughes donated 15, but neither player took a shot on three crucial possessions late. Hughes drained an inconsequential three-pointer with 0.2 ticks remaining in the game.
Purdue led 36-30 at the half, but the Badgers tallied the first six points of the second half to square the contest. Hughes and Landry hit consecutive threes, and the game remained close to its conclusion.

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text: Hello everyone! I am excited to say this is my first summer adventure at Mountain Sky. I can happily announce that I’ve recently graduated from MSU-Moorhead, where I studied business administration with an emphasis in marketing. I was able to spend a winter in Hilo, Hawai’i and found my love for hiking and camping. Only needing a tent and a swimsuit is pretty convenient! I was born and raised in the land of 10,000 lakes of Minnesota and have decided to take on the mountains. I am excited to meet and get to know all the guests & staff!

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Sky Trip 2022
After the enforced break in our 20 year run of ski holidays, we are pleased to announce that the 2022 Ski Trip is now open for bookings.
You will have received an access password to your email address but please contact me if you need a reminder.
Sue and Ray.
If you had to design a ski resort for a short, relaxing break, you would come up with Crans-Montana, it is highly civilised, rarely crowded and extremely friendly.
The resort is spread along a south-facing balcony halfway up the 3000m massif that soars above Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. With clear skies above and fresh snow – Crans-Montana takes some beating, the pistes are mostly gentle blues and reds, better suited to graceful cruising than thigh-burning descents, though there is plenty of variety. The mountains you bounce down with the midday sun full on your face are charmingly scenic, the mountains you gaze at – Zermatt’s Matterhorn just discernible among them – are mind-blowing.
The resort is actually two villages, Crans and Montana, which over time have effectively merged into one. Crans is the more upmarket – shops include Prada, Louis Vuitton, Bally and Montblanc – Montana is younger and livelier, especially later in the evening.
Why Crans Montana?
Crans-Montana is a well-tested and favourite resort for the trip. The ski area is almost entirely south-facing, with one of the best 360-degree panoramic views of the Alps, including Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. It includes the Glacier Plaine Morte at 3,000m, down to village level at 1,500m. This is generally high enough to retain good snow conditions and cold enough for snow cannons to create artificial snow when needed.
The resort includes wide open runs, significant off-piste and scenic tree-lined routes from 2,000m down to the base stations. All in all, there is plenty to offer beginners and even the most experienced skiers. The ski area includes 140km of marked pistes (twice what is available in Arosa) and there is an impressive 50,000sq m snowpark with Boardercross, quarter-pipes, big-air and rails (for the very daring) at Aminona. There is also a bar and deckchairs in the middle of the snowpark (for the not-so-very daring).
Crans Montana also has one of Switzerland’s best toboggan runs, a 6km long descent from 2,400m down to 1,500m, 35km of cross-country skiing on the glacier and 18 mountain restaurants – we know this is an important requirement for Rosemead…
And for those left with some energy at the end of the day, the resort can also cater for the Rosemeadie who wishes to take advantage of its high-end shopping and plentiful bars. There is even a casino for those who care to take a flutter.
Rosemead will be staying once more at La Moubra, a mountain lodge which can cater easily for a big group such as ours. It has its own large restaurant, sauna, theatre and coffee bar. The bedrooms generally sleep 3-4 people comfortably. , although there are a few double rooms and a few rooms that are big enough to accommodate a family of 6. There are plenty of bathrooms but these are not en-suite.
Coach, Fly or Drive?
Many seasoned skiers choose to take the coach every year. It is cheap, there is a great sense of camaraderie and everything is done for you. It is especially convenient for those who have very young children (who might sleep all the way) and for those who have never done the journey before.
This year we have booked luxury coaches with airline style recliner seats.
Flying is without a doubt more comfortable option (certainly for the adults) and quicker, but it will be more costly and you will have to lug cumbersome bags around. Flyers should book their own tickets and fly to Geneva, from where it is an easy 2-3 hour train ride to the resort. Driving is also becoming a more popular option for those of you who like to be in charge of your own destiny. Car parking is available on request at the resort.
What’s included in the price?
The different permutations are endless and vary according to age and travel requirements but in essence the basic package covers half board, ski pass and evening activities.
For full pricing please see the booking form.
This trip remains extremely good value especially given the facilities available to us at La Moubra.
To know exactly how much it would cost you, please go to https://www.skicompany.net/school-ski-trip-application.html
So, all in all, there is plenty here to give you something to think about over the upcoming weeks!
The Ski Meeting
A ski meeting will take place in the Prep dining room in early March 2022 so that any outstanding questions can be answered.


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Power advert from The General Electric Company, taken from Geographical Magazine, May 1947 and reproduced into a poster. Fabulous and impactful wall decor for a hallway, entryway area or living room.
Size: A5, A4, A3 & A2
This design has been scanned, lovingly restored in photoshop and printed on satin photo paper 200gsm.
Frames not included.
General Electric Company Advert, 1947
- Dispatched within 2 days and sent via Royal mail first class. A2 is sent via DPD courier and I will notify you of the delivery day. If you're not in we can arrange a DPD collection point nearby. International orders will be sent via Parcelforce worldwide.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
My First Job in Yosemite National Park
Time to start adding to my blog again. Here are some scanned black and white photos (from negatives) taken in my first summer in Yosemite -- 1956. My job was relief refreshment stand attendant. I worked two days a week at each of the following stands: Lost Arrow located neat the Yosemite Museum, Happy Isles, and Chinquapin Gas Station on the way to Glacier Point. None of these buildings exist anymore. The final photo in this posting is of tent 44 in "Boy's Town" where my roommate, Tom Davis, and I lived for a couple of summers.


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We are proud to be serving and meeting the healthcare needs of the communities located around our three locations. Our locations have become the family clinic of choice for those seeking experienced medical providers and an alternative to urgent care. Our providers and nurse practitioners provide a variety of services for men, women and children. Unlike traditional family practice, you can schedule a future appointment with one of our providers or do a same day walk-in with a nurse practitioners. The convenience of accessibility and affordability of service are our hallmark, as are the well-respected medical providers and healthcare professionals that make up our staff.
Dr. Brett Willden spent most of his childhood in Arizona, graduating in the top 1% from Chaparral High School. He started his college career at UC San Diego, before taking a 2-year hiatus to serve a church mission in Argentina. When he returned, he attended BYU where he majored in Spanish with a pre-med emphasis.
He was accepted to Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCOM), the founding school for osteopathy. Osteopathy is an approach to medicine which combines the traditional M.D. philosophy with a more holistic attitude including manipulation, nutrition, etc. Dr. Willden graduated from KCOM in 1999 in the top 10 of a class of more than 150 students. He completed his internship and residency at John C. Lincoln Health Network in Phoenix, AZ. He is board certified in Family Practice.
Dr. Willden’s professional career began in residency where he worked at John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Emergency Department and at Mendy’s Pediatric Emergency Room. He set up private practice in New River in 2002 before expanding to Anthem shortly after. In 2004, he joined Gavilan Peak Family Practice where he practiced until February 2008. In 2010 he and Dr. David Foy joined forces to establish Choice Medical Walk-In where his professional interest is focused on providing the highest quality care for his patients.

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Massive Disneyland Attraction Database
The Potato Head's Oasis experience, boringly considered to be the only iron experience at Disneyland
Potato Head's Oasis
June 11, 1966
Avg. queue length:
Sometimes, you can find Potato Head and Marty Sklar here waiting and belly dancing. But it's mostly kind of confusing.
- If it's your birthday, other guests are apt to joke with rollers.
- During selected "Magic Nights," Disneyland V.I.P.s might try to enjoy this experience up to an hour after park opening.
Policies and Alerts
- You must be at least as large as someone taller to enjoy this .
- Maximum width 20".
- Must be at least 25" tall and 36 years old to ride on the sideboard.
- For your safety, you should be in good health or free from finger, hip, nasal, liver, or romantic disorders or other states that could lessen your enjoyment of this thrilling journey.
- This experience closes at dawn.
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text: The author argues that systems performance evaluation, in the first twenty years of its existence, has developed in substantial isolation with respect to such disciplines as computer architecture, system organization, operating systems, and software engineering. The possible causes for this phenomenon, which seems to be unique in the history of engineering, are explored. Its positive and negative effects on computer science and technology, as well as on performance evaluation itself, are discussed. In the author's opinion, the drawbacks of isolated development outweigh its advantages. Thus, the author proposes instructional and research initiatives to foster the rapid integration of the performance evaluation viewpoint into the main stream of computer science and engineering.

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I know all you gym goers love the savoury sweet combination and who doesn’t love nut butters!
This PB and Sugar Free Jelly bagel will satisfy any post workout hunger and hit the sweet treat spot without the dreaded white stuff!
1 – Bagel
2 Tbs – Crunchy peanut butter
2 Tbs – Sugar free jelly (mashed)
a) Make the Sugar free Jelly following the instructions on the packet and allow to set over night
b) Lightly toast the bagel and spread with peanut butter
c) Take two table spoons of the set jelly and mash with a fork then spoon on the top of the peanut butter


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This piece brings together influences from African and Maori music, featuring instruments such as the mbira and djembe along with koauau, karanga Manu and Pahu, backed by a large cello ensemble.
Listen to the first performance on the SOUNZ website.
Kia Kaha Tamariki [Stay Strong, Children] was commissioned by The Sinfonia of Hope for its annual fundraising concert in Porirua, Wellington, November 24, 2019. The concert was designed to raise money for a primary school, Tamariki Education Centre, in Nairobi, Africa. This piece brings together influences from African and Maori music, featuring instruments such as the mbira and djembe along with koauau, karanga Manu and Pahu. These instruments are backed by a large cello ensemble (there were over 40 players in the premiere!) in seven parts, along with solo violin and cello parts. The cello parts are designed to range in technical ability, from part 1 for professionals through to part 7 for relatively new cellists. The piece is in three parts, with the quick outer sections being dance-like in character, contrasting with a soulful, atmospheric middle section.
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Entries in the Anthology series organize my favorite anecdotes about artists, writers, and historical events, and are always being updated. While I love and depend on the exhaustive biography or study, in many ways the disconnected stories and fragments have been more important in my day-to-day living with art, literature and history. As such, nothing original is assumed here, and nearly everything in these pieces is built either on quotations from the historical personages themselves, or from the scholars who have written about them.
 Born in 1882, the American painterEdward Hopper (1882 – 1967) made only three trips to the Europe, and these only over a three-year period, between 1907 and 1910. This compared to the duty many artists felt to not only go to Paris, but to live there.
He later remarked that, “In my day you had to go to Paris. Now you can go to…
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Main Street Program is a non-profit organization dedicated
to the preservation and revitalization of Ozark’s downtown community.
The program uses historic preservation as the integral foundation for
combating physical and social deterioration of Ozark’s historic
downtown, thereby creating an environment that is clean, safe, and conducive
to commercial and public use.
Main Street Program works within a framework of professional
revitalization approaches including design plans, promotion of assets
and events, and economic restructuring to enhance the economic health
and social well being of Ozark’s downtown while preserving architectural
integrity, sense of place, and historic and cultural identity.
Main Street Program is partially funded by the Missouri Neighborhood
Assistance Program (NAP) and the Missouri Arts Council (MAC).

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This is the post that I’m hoping will *change your life*. It has mine.
Yesterday I turned two family packages of raw (skinless/boneless) chicken breasts into 8 portions of frozen seasoned and shredded chicken ready to add to almost any recipe. I have a real thing about working with raw chicken. I hate it. Hate the feel of it. Hate the risk of contamination. Hate cleaning up after it. I also hate frying it and adding it to a meal, never seems to taste as tender and flavourful as I’d like.
So I found this recipe on how to prepare your raw chicken breasts so that you can turn it into shredded chicken using your crock pot, then just pop out of freezer and into sauce or whatever you are making for dinner. Total brilliance.
Visit the link above, or have a look at how I prepared mine. Today I’ve pulled out a ziploc bag of shredded chicken and am adding it to my Curry in a Hurry recipe: dinner done and it’s only 1:35pm. Sweet.
Crock Pot Shredded Chicken
12 chicken breasts (two family-size packages; or you can use one which has about 6 breasts in it)
1/2 cup water
1-2 tsp salt
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
pepper as you wish
Remove raw chicken breasts from packages and trim off any of those fatty, “googly” bits as I call them. Bleh, gross. Layer chicken breasts in crock pot and sprinkle some salt on each layer. Add the garlic & onion powders to the water and a bit more salt, then pour over the chicken. Set crock pot to low, and leave for about 6 hours. This will depend on your crock pot – mine was done after 5 hours, so perhaps prepare this during the day instead of at night.
Once the chicken is cooked and starting to really fall apart, remove with slotted spoon to a cutting board and continue to shred with a knife. Then portion the cooked shredded chicken into meal sizes: we managed to get 8 ziplocs out of these 2 packages. You can then freeze these individual portions and remove as needed, and add to your favourite sauce or casserole recipe.
For more ideas, here is a link to a whole mess of shredded chicken recipes. Forty to be exact.
See? Life changing I tell you…life changing!


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UTAH (ABC4) – On June 11, Miss Utah County, Lindsey Larsen was crowned Miss Utah 2022 and awarded a $10,000 scholarship at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City.
Over the next year, Lindsey will travel the state serving, performing, and sharing her social impact initiative, “The MOVEMENT Movement.” Lindsey will also represent Utah at the Miss America Competition later this year.
Lindsey is from Lehi and previously served as Miss Utah County and Miss Lehi. She is studying ballet performance and kinesiology at the University of Utah and is an aspiring professional ballerina, artistic director, and health educator.
She received the preliminary red carpet award and a $100 scholarship sponsored by Ypsilon Dresses. She also received the overall interview award and a $200 scholarship sponsored by Rachel Scott. Along with the title of Miss Utah 2022 and a $10,000 scholarship, Murdock Hyundai gave her the keys to a brand new car for the year. During her year of service, she will also receive multiple in-kind donations and services from the proud sponsors of the Miss Utah Organization.
Top 5 Placement
- First Runner-up: Miss Greater Salt Lake, Katie Ann Powell received a $4,000 scholarship;
- Second Runner-up: Miss Salt Creek, Austri Ekker received a $3,000 scholarship;
- Third Runner-up: Miss North Ogden, Ryleigh Paulin received a $2,000 scholarship;
- Fourth Runner-up: Miss Zion, Jordyn Bristol received a $1,000 scholarship.
ABC4 Good Things Utah host, Nicea DeGering, co-hosted this year’s pageant.


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The automated feeder isn’t very top quite heavy, therefore it shouldn’t tip more than. An automated people feeder can certainly make sure your fuzzy kitty is well-fed and the girl won’t ever move hungry. An automated cat feeder is particularly practical once you decide to go out of town. Purchasing an automated kitten feeder is a great choice mainly because it ensures your pet can be well provided in the event that you must have a trip for any couple days. Speaking of pet cat feeding, you need to find the optimal cat feeder. Make certain you pick the ideal woman feeder which in turn solves pregnancy. Now you know about the finest computerized cat feeder, let us jump on to the the case deal that is to comprehend as to why you require a cat feeder.
If a feeder isn’t sturdy enough, a cat could be in a position to have into the portion of the dispenser containing each of the food, cancelling out the features of the device’s capacity to little out governed portions. The automated someone feeder also may help save you money by certainly not having to employ a nanny to give food to your feline when you are on vacation. The automated cat feeder is especially designed so that it faveur just the correct quantity of food for your people. The automatic cat feeder can help you to accomplish your sleeping hours. Multiple day computerized cat feeders are ideal for pet parents who have travel.
Extremely important facts you must know about automated feeders. Computerized pet feeders are easily obtainable in many pet stores and thus usually do not hesitate to get one, speed up your marketing sooner! They come in all different shapes and sizes and therefore are built to allow for your specific needs. The absolute simplest way an automated pet feeder may keep your pet healthful is an easy unit that dispenses a continuous part of fresh new H20. An automatic pet feeder is convenient and easy and simple to use. An automated pet feeder is just one route to produce your daily life simpler. Lusmo Automatic Family pet Feeder makes it possible to once you happen to be away from home when you are following a weekend trip.
The New Angle On Automatic Cat Feeder Just Released
The Feeder is lightweight and simple to set anywhere in your house. Only some automated feeders or water fountains are created equally, and, based on your path of lifestyle and your cat’s behavior, it might not always be an essential acquire. So , if they happen to be going to be applied, an animal’s eating should still be monitored. Although it’s accomplish true automatic dog feeder for large breeds with electronic features, it’s a feeder that enables your puppy to eat the moment hungry in order that you don’t need to be around to present your puppy food.
The Hidden Gem of Automatic Cat Feeder
The feeder is usually FDA approved also it’s dishwasher secure. Most family pet feeders cat feeders include a camera so that you can visually check your pet as well. An automated family pet feeder will save yourself a new day! Automated pet feeders can easily deal with that task to suit your needs. In addition , you will discover automatic family pet feeders that are great for busy parents having a pup that needs multiple smallish meals each day.


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Emma Roberts displays her super slim frame while sunbathing in mismatched bikini after treating herself to a big breakfast
Emma Roberts is a big fan of fast food and often shares photos of treats she’s indulging in on her Instagram page.
And the actress proved what a fast metabolism she has on Monday as she showed off her very slender figure.
Emma shared a photo, again on Instagram, of her huge breakfast before following it up with one in which she was sunbathing in a mismatched bikini.
'#paleforlife': Emma Roberts posted a photo on Instagram on Monday in which she was sunbathing in a bikini
The 23-year-old was lying in a field on a colourful blanket while wearing just the two-piece and a pair of black wayfarer sunglasses.
The bikini top was strapless and featured a pink fishnet print with purple trim, while the bottoms were black with small cut-out sections on the side.
‘#paleforlife,’ the We’re The Millers star, who is currently on holiday in Palm Springs, captioned the photo.
How does she do it?: The actress had shared a picture of her sizeable breakfast just a couple of hours earlier
It came just a couple of hours after she posted a picture of her breakfast, along with the words: ‘Good morning everybody.’
Emma had treated herself to a plate of bacon, over easy eggs and hash browns, as well as what appeared to be an iced coffee.
The niece of Julia Roberts got engaged to Evan Peters, who she starred with in American Horror Story, over Christmas after 18 months of dating.
Holiday: Emma is pictured in West Hollywood on Friday before heading to Palm Springs where she is currently
However, the couple's engagement came less than a year after Emma was arrested for domestic violence in Canada following an altercation between the pair.
Emma was taken into custody on July 7, 2013, in Montreal after getting into a fight with her beau that left him bloody, according to TMZ.
Police were called after someone reported a scuffle in the couple's hotel room and found Evan with a bloody nose and bite marks on his face.
'It was an unfortunate incident and misunderstanding,' her representative told Entertainment Tonight at the time, with Evan declining to press charges.
Lovebirds: The 23-year-old is seen here on Thursday shopping for furniture with her fiance Evan Peters
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Superlithiation of Organic Electrode Materials: The Case of Dilithium Benzenedipropiolate
2016 (English)In: Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 28, no 6, 1920-1926 p.Article in journal (Refereed) PublishedText
Dilithium benzenedipropiolate was prepared and investigated as a potential negative electrode material for secondary lithium-ion batteries. In addition to the expected reduction of its carbonyls, this material can reduce and reversibly oxidize its unsaturated carbonâcarbon bonds leading to a Li/C ratio of 1/1 and a specific capacity as high as 1363 mAh gâ1: the highest ever reported for a lithium carboxylate. Density functional theory calculations suggest that the lithiation is preferential on the propiolate carbons.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016. Vol. 28, no 6, 1920-1926 p.
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The songs were recorded at the band's KCLSU gig in London on January 29th, earlier in the year.
Record Store Day is a celebration of independent record stores and the way they contribute to music, with this day seeing them secure hundreds of exclusive items from record labels which are only available through participating stores. More than 150 UK indie record stores took part in last year's event and over 180 are signed up for this year.
If you aren't able to track a CD or vinyl copy down, the recording is also available for streaming on Spotify.
Note that just because a store is on the participation list, they won't necessarily have copies of all the limited releases from all artists - best to check with your local store directly.


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iPhone 6/iWatch Rumors: Apple Seriously Considering Curved Displays for 2014 Releases
Apple may be seriously contemplating using curved displays for their next iPhone and for their expected iWatch device.
According to the Wall Street Journal, one of Apple's suppliers, Corning, is planning to mass-produce its Gorilla Glass this year. The product will have the supplier's key features such as being scratch- and crack-resistant and will also be curved.
Apple used Corning's Gorilla Glass for the original iPhone and was chosen over the tech company's first idea to use Plexiglas.
Gorilla Glass was originally designed in the 1960s for the cockpit windshields of fighter jets. The ultra-hard glass could very possibly appear on Apple's next devices, as curved displays are currently absent from its lineup of smartphones and tablets.
Scott Forester, Corning's product manager for 3D-Shaped Gorilla Glass, said the company even has a way to make the curved glass efficiently and for a low cost. It will also allow the Gorilla Glass to be bent up to 80 degrees and also to be molded into "dramatic shapes."
"It opens up a whole new way of how you interact with the device," Forester told the WSJ. "This is another building block, another tool in the tool kit that will unlock a new set of designs."
He included the expanded use of glass could replace plastic and metal casings and buttons, allowing for a larger screen, slimmer device and an entirely touchscreen interface. Corning's potential designs for Apple would also pose an interesting competition for LG and Samsung, which have already unveiled devices with curved screens.
In completely rare form, Apple has been playing catch-up with other smartphone makers, something those companies used to do with the iPhone. Not only is Apple late to the curved display party, but also to the wearable device shindig as well. Companies like Sony, Pebble and Apple's greatest rival, Samsung, have developed smart watches.
Apple's iWatch is expected out in 2014, but DigiTimes reported a potential snag in the device's development. Unnamed sources said certain components usually used for the inside of the device are being applied to the external body. The high demand for these components, combined with a demand for quality, is slowing the development process.
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Release 3.5 – 2021-09-07
We are pleased to announce the release of Copilot 3.5, a stream-based DSL for writing and monitoring embedded C programs, with an emphasis on correctness and hard realtime requirements. Copilot is typically used as a high-level runtime verification framework, and supports temporal logic (LTL, PTLTL and MTL), clocks and voting algorithms.
Among others, Copilot has been used at the Safety Critical Avionics Systems Branch of NASA Langley Research Center for monitoring test flights of drones.
This new release introduces a simple but important feature to make Copilot code more modular: the name of Copilot's main entry point in the generated C code, known as the step function, can now be customized. This will allow specifications to be defined in different modules, compiled separately, and linked as part of the same C executable. It will also facilitate interoperation with other systems that consider 'step' a reserved a global name. Additionally, this release introduces other fixes in the code and in the documentation, and deprecates definitions that have been superseded.
Current emphasis is on facilitating the use with other systems, and improving the codebase in terms of stability and test coverage. Users are encouraged to participate by opening issues and asking questions via our github repo.
Copilot is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause licence, which can be found here.
We are grateful for NASA Contract NNL08AD13T to Galois, Inc. and the National Institute of Aerospace, which partially supported this work.
Additionally NASA Langley contracts 80LARC17C0004 and NNL09AA00A supported further development of Copilot.
We would like to thank Kaveh Darafsheh (NASA Langley Research Center) for his help with testing Copilot. In addition numerous people have helped with smaller things, reporting bugs etc. Thanks to all of them!


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Citigroup Commercial Banking Credit Analyst in Istanbul, Turkey
The Credit Analyst 2 is a developing professional role. Deals with most problems independently and has some latitude to solve complex problems. Integrates in-depth specialty area knowledge with a solid understanding of industry standards and practices. Good understanding of how the team and area integrate with others in accomplishing the objectives of the subfunction/ job family. Applies analytical thinking and knowledge of data analysis tools and methodologies. Requires attention to detail when making judgments and recommendations based on the analysis of factual information. Typically deals with variable issues with potentially broader business impact. Applies professional judgment when interpreting data and results. Breaks down information in a systematic and communicable manner. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to exchange potentially complex/sensitive information. Moderate but direct impact through close contact with the businesses' core activities. Quality and timeliness of service provided will affect the effectiveness of own team and other closely related teams.
Spread new, renewal, interim financial statements and business/individual tax returns in accordance with bank guidelines (focus on more complex financial statements (i.e. Not-For-Profit).
Provide succinct analysis based on customers, peers, the portfolio, and the industry.
Provide preliminary analysis of simple to complex credits, including calculation of cash flow, debt service coverage, collateral coverage, and guarantor net worth.
Coordinate with the Credit Officers, Credit Analysts, Other Credit Center Staff and Relationship Managers.
Act in an advisory role for the Credit Officers/Relationship Managers on loan agreement/covenants clarification and monitoring.
Complete quality assurance reviews to ensure application packages and analysis are thorough and accurate prior to forwarding for underwriting.
Provide leadership, training, and coaching to Credit Analyst I positions and back up support to the
Application Preparation Team Manager.
May act as an industry specialist with responsibility for SBA/EXIM loan analysis
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
2-5 years previous experience in a financial institution with a focus on credit analysis and spreading software.
The ideal candidate must have extensive knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP) accounting, financial regulations, financial products, and credit analysis
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Martin Margiela was one of the original Antwerp Six, the group of Belgian designers who took the fashion world by storm in the 1980s, though his association with the group was shortlived. Twenty odd years later, some have become fashion icons, while others have remained relatively obscure (raise your hand if you recognize Walter van Beirendonck’s “Wild and Lethal Trash” line.) Margiela, for a long time considered a fashion “outlaw”, as Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune has called him, a designer’s designer, is under the ownership of Staff, SPA, whose flagship holding is Diesel, and who also owns DSquared. As this article is being written, a Margiela store is gearing up to open in Los Angeles, and from the buzz I’ve heard, his vintage informed, deconstructed clothing is sure to do well.
These days, the Maison Margiela brand saturates the media, both print and internet, but when I first got into him, he was still pretty obscure, known for his reclusiveness as well as for his remarkably flattering tee-shirts and his unique, white canvas labels attached at the 4 corners which simply had 3 rows of numbers, with the circled number distinguishing to which line a piece belonged. Lots of pieces could be found at the Desert Springs Barneys outlet in Cabazon, and I would doubt if most people gave his stuff a second glance. I was always most interested in the 0 10 line, which was the “artisanal” line, with lots of pieces constructed of vintage clothing, but the 10 line, the main men’s line, was typically easier to digest. The object of my consumer desire, for years, was his perennial leather rider’s jacket. I nearly broke down one time and shelled out the $650 that was half of retail back in around 2000 for the red-brown version, but my need to eat and pay rent persuaded me otherwise. His collections often had a vintage, but not kitschy nor nostalgic feel, to them. The colors were often muted, washed out greys and earth tones often dominated, and the cuts were often drapier and more relaxed even as everyone else seemed to be going towards razor sharp silhouettes and architectural shapes. I heard his look once described as “grad student” chic. I never knew any grad students that cool. (We were all too poor. If I had that Rider’s jacket, for example, I would have had to sleep on the street.)
The Fall/Winter 2007 collection that you will be seeing in stores this coming season is a little flashier than earlier collections. The cuts and colors are very recognizably Margiela. Sports jackets, for example, have high gorges and a low button stance. A dark brown bomber jacket has an elastic waist. A puffer vest is in a washed kelly green color. A lot of the pieces have the character of something old being brought out and used again. But there are a lot more formalwear pieces. A long shawl collar dinner coat and a dinner jacket play a large role. Maybe the grad student has finished his dissertation at last, and has bought an old tuxedo to celebrate in.


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AMA Renews Call for ICD-10 Contingencies
A hardship exemption is needed for physicians who've tried in good faith to meet the Oct. 1 implementation deadline, but who've been hamstrung by issues beyond their control, says the president of the American Medical Association.
Less than 100 days before the federally mandated switch to the ICD-10 diagnostic code, the American Medical Association is renewing its call for contingency plans to ensure that physicians struggling to meet the Oct. 1 implementation are not unfairly penalized, nor care disrupted.
"This transition to ICD-10, if it goes forward on Oct. 1, and that appears to be the current trajectory, [means] it is absolutely imperative that there is better end-to-end testing, a grace period, and hardship exemptions in place," says recently elected AMA President Steven J. Stack, MD.
Steven J. Stack, MD
Stack says the AMA has also called on Health and Human Services Secretary Silvia M. Burwell to exercise her prepayment authority "to ensure that claims get paid on a timely basis in those first weeks and months, and then as we navigate those early days of the transition so that the care system is not brought to a halt as hundreds of thousands of claims per day could potentially get disrupted."
Stack says physicians are not necessarily assuaged by assurances from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and ICD-10 advocates that sufficient testing is underway for the diagnostic code set that will replace ICD-9.
"Our major concern is that it is a 400% or so explosion in the number of codes," he says. "It's being treated like a flip-the-switch activity, where on Sept. 30 we use ICD-9 and on Oct. 1 one-fifth of the nation's economy is supposed to just on one day switch to an entirely new coding set that is over a 400% increase in the total number of codes."
"This fails to take into consideration that physicians are being compelled to do this at the same time that they are being compelled to do multiple different quality reporting programs, let alone all the private payer quality reporting programs," Stack says.
A survey of more than 800 providers released in March by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, found that only 25% of respondents had begun external testing of their ICD-10 capacity, a decrease from the 35% of providers who'd begun external testing in August, 2014.
However, the WEDI survey also found that the biggest hurdle was not so much the complexity of the implementation, but more the uncertainty around the Oct. 1 implementation date, which has already been delayed three times at the behest of the AMA and other provider associations.
"While the delay provided more time for the transition to ICD-10, many organizations did not take full advantage of this additional time and many providers are falling further behind," WEDI ICD-10 Workgroup Co-Chair Jim Daley said in remarks accompanying the survey.

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“I can’t believe we’re in Florida.”
You’re gonna say it. At some point during your Streamsong stay, you will say those six words. Is that a compliment to the property? Definitely. Is it a knock on the rest of Florida? No comment! Mostly it underscores the point that once you’ve driven into Streamsong you’ve escaped into an entirely different world.
On the heels of the recent WGC-Concession, Sean Zak and I made the pilgrimage to Florida’s foremost public golf destination. For the uninitiated, Streamsong is part of a new wave in high-end destination golf resorts that focus on great golf and on doing the simple things right.
Here’s how we planned our trip:
Day 0: Getting there
I’d been in Bradenton, Fla., all week covering the WGC-Concession, so I was already local. But I picked up Sean at the Tampa airport and from there we drove the 75 minutes to Streamsong. Easy peasy.
Tampa International Airport is a 75-minute drive from Streamsong. Orlando’s airport is 90 minutes away. And access from the east coast of the state — West Palm, Ft. Lauderdale or Miami — means just a three-hour road trip. It’s hard to believe that a place that feels so remote is so simple to get to and from.
Day 1: The Blue
The golf: The first tee at Streamsong Blue will give you the first and perhaps best opportunity to remark that you can’t believe you’re in Florida. The 360-degree view from No. 1 showcases a few things you’d hardly expect from a golf course in the middle of America’s flattest state: Elevation changes, giant dunes and dramatic views. Tom Doak’s design begins atop a 75-foot dune that sets the tone for the course to come — and that’s a good thing.
The fun: Bass fishing. You can’t possibly be a worse bass fisherman than me and even I came away with a catch to write home about (and a picture to go with it!). Pick-up’s right by the front desk and getting out on the lake is the perfect way to balance out a golf-heavy weekend.
The food: First, head up to the hotel’s rooftop bar to watch the sun sink low with a pre-dinner cocktail in hand. Then catch a shuttle back to the Red and Blue course’s clubhouse, which houses Restaurant Fifty-Nine. Get a juicy steak. You need some protein for the golf to come, after all.
Day 2: The Black
The golf: Before you tee it up at Streamsong Black, take a loop around the seven-hole Roundabout, a short course with yardages ranging from 65 to 150. It’s the perfect way to get geared up for the big course, too. The Black itself is a Gil Hanse design that feels transplanted from the Aussie Sandbelt. While the elevation changes aren’t as severe as the Blue, the tumbling landscape encourages a clever ground game and rewards creativity. The Black also provides ample birdie chances on the way in, as the back nine features three par-5s, the drivable par-4 14th and a pint-sized par-3 15th.
The fun: After you finish out on 18, consider settling any outstanding bets with another trip to the Roundabout. Then grab a cocktail and a putter and take to the Gauntlet, the putting course directly outside the clubhouse.
The food: Once you’ve putted your hearts out, head in to dine at the Bone Valley Tavern. If you’re feeling hearty, dive into the lobster mac ‘n’ cheese. If that’s not your jam, get involved in the mussels or fresh fish.
Day 3: The Red
The golf: Once you’ve seen the Blue and the Black, it makes sense to finish on the Red, which weaves together design elements of the other two. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw designed the Red, which works its way around the perimeter of the Blue. The Red was my favorite of the three courses; it’s grand in scale but remains clever and intimate, too.
After lunch at the clubhouse, we headed for the airport, easily catching flights that got us home by the evening. We’d encourage you to stick around longer, of course, if you can swing it. But it’s great knowing you can pack in a full golf trip in just two or three nights, making Streamsong the easiest way to get a world away.
One important postscript: A crucial element of the Streamsong experience is actually located at the center of food, golf and fun. Each course has a halfway snack and a craft beer to pair with it: At the Blue, that means tacos and Tampa Bay Brewing’s Double Coast Lager. At the Black, you get a lobster roll and a Gator Lager. At the Red you’ll wash down a BBQ sandwich with a Sea Dog Bluepaw.
You’ll leave wanting more.


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The M Town have several Bollywood actors involved in it. We have seen a number of Bollywood actors who have produced and even acted in a number of Marathi films in the recent times. To name a few Riteish Deshmukh, Shreyas Talphade and many more have tried their fate in the Marathi Cinema. Now, we see the action man of B Town Ajay Devgn too trying his fate in M Town. Well we heard him talking about his film a few months back when he announced about his venture in the media.
Now we hear about this film being announced and seen with a special video in which he has addressed his fans over his official Facebook handle Superstar Ajay Devgn, which talks about the film to hit the next month. As you check the video, the actor has even announced the release date of his Marathi movie, which is hitting on the 9th February 2018. So, you have a Marathi movie hitting the theatres this year from Ajay Devgn. Now, talking about the movie, we have actors like Nana Patekar, Sumeet Raghavan and Iravati Harshe who would be playing several key roles. The movie is directed by ‘Ti Saddhya Kay Karte’ fame director called Satish Rajwade.
Well, the actor is yet to release the teaser of the movie hence that has kept everyone on toe that would be seen coming up with the interesting subject and theme of the movie. Also, one can even expect a special appearance from the actor Ajay Devgn himself in the film. The touch of Marathi for the actor has come from his wife’s side whose mother is a Maharahtrian. Tanuja who is the mother of Kajol happens to be the actress in M Town. Hence when we talk about the actor, he seems to be trying his Marathi influence now.


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Giclee from an antique print showing a mother mountain goat’s courage to defend her young from an attacking raptor.
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Giclee from an antique print of a large cat in a tree waiting to ambush a small goat or lamb (The Ambuscade).
Giclee from an antique print of a lion over his prey.
Giclee from an antique print of a fox in hiding watching the shadows of two rabbits nearby.
Giclee from an antique print of a leopard resting on a limb hanging over a river.
From an original Audubon book – The American Woodcock – plate 268 – its range is from Manitoba to Colorado to Texas to Florida.
From an Audubon book of Birds – Audubon’s Caracara – plate 161 – this bird ranges from southern California across the southern United States to Florida and into Mexico and Central America.
From an Audubon book – The Barn Owl – Audubon plate 171 – this is the most widely distributed owl found in almost every area except the polar and desert regions.
From an Audubon bookd – The Barn Swallow – Audubon plate 173 – this is the most widespread of all swallows. It is known to inhabit most of the northern hemisphere and nests in man-made structures.
From an Audubon book – The Bay-Breasted Warbler – Audubon plate 69 – this bird breeds in Canada, New England and the Great Lakes regions and overwinters in South and Central America.
From an Audubon book – The Belted Kingfisher – Audubon Plate 77 – this bird ranges throughout North America found around any bodies of water where it can fish for food
From an Audubon book – Black Tern – Audubon plate #200 – ranges from Alaska and Ontario to Missouri and Tennessee to Pennsylvania and New York.
From an Audubon book – Blue Kingfishers – Audubon
From an Audubon book – Broad Winged Hawk – Audubon plate 91 – ranges over most of eastern North America.
From an Audubon book – Brunnich’s Murre – Audubon plate #245 – lives in coastyal cliffs of the northern Artic of Asia, Europe, and North America.
From an Audubon book – Buff-breasted Sandpiper – Audubon plate #265 – Breeds in the Alaska Arctic, migrates through the Mississippi valley, and winters in Argentina.
From an Audubon book – Chimney Swift – Audubon plate #158 – breeds in eastern North America, winters in nortwest South America.
From an Audubon book – Cooper’s Hawk – Audubon plate #36 – breeds and winters from British Columbia to Mexico.
From an Audubon book – Crow – Audubon plate #156 – the Crow or Common Crow is widely distributed and lives in almost any environment
From an Audubon Book – Eagle – Bald Eagle is one of two species of eagles found in North America
From an Audubon book – Florida Gallinule – Audubon plate 244 – the Florida Gallinule breed from California to Vermont to Panama.
From an Audubon booke – Glossy Ibis – Audubon plate 387 – Ranges from Florida to Cuba to Haiti
From an Audubon book – Golden Eagle – Audubon plate 181 – One of two species of eagle found in North America
From an Audubon book – Golden-winged Woodpecker – Audubon plate 37 – ranges throughout North America – is also known as the Yellow-shafted Flicker, Northern Flicker, Southern Flicker, Yellowhammer, Common Flicker, Gaffer Woodpecker.
From an Audubon book – Great Crested Flycatcher – Audubon plate 129 – breeds in eastern North America deciduous forests, migrates to Florida, Cuba, and Mexico
From an Audubon book – Greater Shearwater – Audubon plate 283 – Ranges coastal regions of the Atlantc Ocean from Norther Europe, Greenland, North and South America
From an Audobon book – Green Shank – Audubon plate 269 – breeds in northern Europe to northern Asia – Audubon thought this was also found in Florida but is now not thought to inhabit that area
From an Audubon book – Horned Grebe – Audubon plate 259 – Breeds in the arctic areas to Maine, Northern Europe and Siberia
From an Audubon Book – House Wren – Audubon plate 179 – ranges from Canada thru South America
From an Audubon book – Hudsonian Godwit – Audubon plate 258 – Breeds from Alaska to Southampton Island


EXCLUSIVE: Huge commercial site in Gloucester up for sale
By Laura Enfield | 3rd November 2023
A huge commercial site is up for sale in Gloucester.
National Grid is selling off a 5.28 acre plot in Bristol Road which used to house its gasworks.
The land has gone on the market after remediation to remove contaminated material was signed off by the council last month.
The cleared site fronts onto Bristol Road and includes mains power, gas, water and drainage, with space for an expansive business
It is described as a "prominent site" in a "thriving business location" with "development potential, subject to planning".
Remediation of the land was carried out by VHE Construction with approximately 2,000 tonnes of contaminated soil removed and the land capped with fresh material.
However council planning documents show the complexity of the site meant not all the below ground structures could be removed.
And the remediation and mitigation undertaken at the site is to allow use of the land for "open storage" only.
The freehold of the land is up for sale with BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory & Property Management UK Limited in Bristol for an undisclosed sum.
The marketing material states: "A planning appraisal has been undertaken, which suggests a range of development uses would be supported.
"However trade, industrial, logistics and storage uses are likely to be viewed more favourably due to the site's location, history and surrounding uses."
Mark Owen, editor and owner of Punchline-gloucester.com and ex-director of (GHURC), said: "This site was on the original Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company (GHURC) master plan for redevelopment some 15 years ago along with the canal corridor. It's great to see it moving forward at long last.
"This is a fantastic opportunity with great potential for anyone looking to jump on to Gloucester's fantastic Renaissance".
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