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A Villager initiative to protect birds in his village.
Jharsuguda : A 47-year-old man of Amnapali village takes initiative to protect birds in his village. He has been feeding and protecting the birds especially pigeons in his house and his neighbourhood by installing bamboo baskets.
Meet, Balram Pandey's extraordinary work has made him a popular among the local village. He is a resident of Amnapali village, under Kolabira Block under Jharsuguda District.
"I use to live in my father's house earlier, when I saw two pigeons came to my house and I had fed them with rice grains. The very next day, they again came and I thought to do something for them. I had purchased a bamboo basket from the market for them and kept them. Slowly the numbers of pigeons started growing.
After, that I made my house, I purposefully made a two-storied house. In the ground floor I and my wife lives and the first floor is open for the pigeons., I have kept opened the window of the first floor for the pigeons to come and stay. I don't even paint the first floor.
Presently the count of pigeons has gone to 5,000. For accommodating I had to spend Rs. 12,000 on the Bamboo basket for them. I started feeding them 1.5 Kg rice grains which I eat the same rice grains are been feed them. Now I give around 5 K.g. of rice grains in a day. I have also asked every villager to follow the same, for which I have distributed a few bamboo baskets to the villagers. Additionally, for the benefit of birds, I have also constructed a water tank for them to take a bath and drink water. Personally, I think that all should consider the life of animal same as a human being and not treat them as an animal. By this initiative, even crows which were not found in my village slowly started coming along with sparrows too.
I have dedicated my life for serving birds as I believe because of their blessing only I am able to sustain my livelihood and would also request everyone not to kill any animals and consider all the animals like our friend and not kill any animal." said Balram Pandey.
"In the present situation, slowly the birds are getting extinct due to various reasons but due to the step taken by Mr Pandey, to revive this to bring back them and create a healthy environment in the village. Everyone should come forward and follow him." said Sukant Sahu, resident Kolabira
"It's a noble step by the Balramji, his dedication towards the animals especially the birds is very appreciable. He has shown the way each individual should feel towards any animal or birds and not kill them. Everyone should learn from him." Said Bhuwan Kishore Tiwari, a resident of Jharsuguda
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Posted by David Stone on Jun 24th, 2017
A promise made prior to Christmas is now becoming a summer time nightmare for some.
Last December, Donald Trump, the then President-elect told scores of workers at a manufacturing plant operated by Carrier that he worked out a new deal so their jobs would be saved.
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However, it has not worked out the way he promised. Carrier is laying off as many as 600 union workers as their jobs are heading south of the border.
The jobs will be going to Monterrey, Mexico announced the local union's president Robert James.
Workers that talked to the media said they were betrayed, since Trump has told them last December during his visit that more than 1,100 jobs were saved.
Trump also told the workers that the number of jobs would increase as Carrier would expand the plant, so 1,100 would be a minimum number of jobs.
Lashing out at companies that moved jobs of American abroad was a big part of the Trump presidential campaign, and saving jobs at Carrier was touted as the bargaining prowess Trump possessed.
Trump told workers in December that they would have a very good Christmas. However, the truth was 400 of the 1,100 jobs that were mentioned by Trump were white-collar and were never in jeopardy of being lost.
Only 700 of the union jobs ended up being saved while 600 others were cut, and Carrier is not suffering anything. The company received an incentive package of $7 million by the state of Indiana to maintain its plant open even with a smaller workforce.
The union president said that what is happening now is what Trump said would not happen when he visited in December.
James added that a large number of people voted for Trump as they had an understanding he would help save their employment.
One worker, who voted for Trump, and is amongst those whose jobs were cut, said he liked the jobs very much and was hoping that he would one day retire from the same job, but it will not happen now.
On Friday, at the White House, Sean Spicer the press secretary said the cuts in jobs had been long planned and the announcement was not anything new.
The first group of job cuts will take place in July with the second group during December, just three days prior to Christmas, announced the union.
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Title: Monday Morning Quarterback / Week 7 Preview
Publication: Frairs Football.com
With all due respect to Chaminade, St. Anthony's faces one last real challenger this regular season. People have been looking for excuses to downgrade the Friars ever since a hard-to-imagine loss to Mount St. Michael in Week 3.
Yes, the Friars stumbled badly in the Bronx. But it was one bad day. One quarter, really. St. Anthony's picked itself off the field and went back to work. The Friars have gotten better week-by-week. Another regular season title is within reach and the Friars should go into the postseason with confidence and momentum.
That will hold true if — and only if — the Friars can get past St. Joseph by the Sea on Friday. This is a team that's given the Friars fits before. It's a team that MSG broadcaster Mike Quick has lauded as a darkhorse from Day 1. It's a team that's explosive on offense. And it's a team — like St. Anthony's — that suffered an embarrassing loss earlier in the season (to Staten Island rival Farrell).
Now that's something every Friars football player can relate to. So put aside the bravado. Tone down the trash talk. You are playing a team very much like yourselves. Go out there and simply hit someone. This is the night the Friars find out who they are.
St. Joseph by the Sea at St. Anthony's
WHERE: South Huntington
RECORDS: St. Anthony's (5-1); St. Joseph by the Sea (5-1)
THE SCOOP: THIS GAME HAS BEEN POSTPONED 24 HOURS BECAUSE OF WEATHER. Staten Island upstart St. Joseph by the Sea beat Iona Prep 34-27 on Sunday. But it was anything but easy. The Vikings needed an interception in overtime to put the game away. Iona Prep actually led 27-14 in the third quarter. But St. Joseph rallied to score the game's final 20 points. Pat Brennan rushed for 173 yards and three touchdowns on 33 carries and has a CHSFL-best 954 yards and 10 scores. So the challenge for the Friars is a simple one: Stop Brennan. The defensive front did a good job holding Holy Trinity's running game and Anthony Brunetti to check. The Friars will need a repeat performance. This marks just the third meeting between the schools, all since 2005. The previous two games were high-scoring affairs. So don't expect any different here. Much of the pressure on offense will fall on Friars quarterback James Brady. What's new? He needs to shake off his worst passing performance of the season and get everyone involved.
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ST. ANTHONY'S 36, ST. JOE SEA 35
These teams combined to score 91 points in a 2005 thriller, so this Week 4 match-up spelled trouble. And trouble is what St. Anthony's got when quarterback James Brady went down with a hamstring injury in the second quarter. The Friars trailed 35-29 late in the game when backup Anthony Gagliano put together the winning drive. He completed a 40-yard pass to Lou Loria to move into Vikings territory. Keith Shannon, who rushed for 112 yards on 22 carries, capped the heroic march with a 1-yard scoring plunge in the final minute and Mike Barbour added the decisive extra point.


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Wang Mingsheng (xinès: 王鳴盛) (1722 - 1797) acadèmic,escriptor, historiador, filòleg i filòsof durant el regnat de l'emperador Qianlong de la Dinastia Qing.

Biografia
Wang Mingsheng 王鳴盛 ,nom de cortesia Fengxie 鳳 喈 o Wang Litang 王 禮堂 o Wang Xizhuang 王 西 莊. Va néixer a Jiading, provincia de Jiangsu (Xina). El seu avi Wang Hun va ser "juren" i el seu pare  Wang Erda va ser acadèmic i professor. Va estudiar a l'Academia Ziyang a Suzhou i de molt jove Wang va destacar com a alumne brillant.

El seu germà Wang Mingshao va ser un important acadèmic, pintor i calígraf.

Va estudiar per passar els diferents graus dels exàmens imperials xinesos. El 1747 va aprovar l'examen provincial "juren", però no va aprobar l'examen "gongshi" a nivell metropolità. Més tard el 1754 va obtenir el títol de "jinshi" i va ocupar diferents càrrecs acadèmics (lector, examinador provincial, gran acadèmic i membre de l'Acadèmia Hanlin) i polítics (Viceministre de Ritus, Ministre de la Cort Imperial), fins que amb 36 anys va deixar la vida pública i va començar a estudiar els clàssics confucians.

Wang Mingsheng va ser deixeble de Hui Dong 惠棟 (1697-1758) i, per tant, també un erudit molt interessat en el període Han 漢 (206 aC-220 CE) i de la interpretació dels clàssics confucians, els anomenats Hanxue 漢學 "estudis Han".

Obres destacades
Wang MIngshen conjuntament amb  Qian Daxin, Wang Chang, Cao Renhu, Zhao Wenzhe ,Wu Tailai i Huang Wenlian va formar part del grup que sota la direcció de Shen Diqian van fer la compilació "Wuzhong qizi shixuan".

Les principals aportacions acadèmiques de Wang van ser "Shiji shi shangjue 十七史商傕 " (Estudi crític de les disset històries dinàstiques) Shangshu hou'an 尚属 候案 i Yishu bian.

Wang Mingsheng també ha escrit els llibres, Shangshu houbian 尚書 後 辨, Zhouli junfu shuo 周禮 軍 賦 說 i Eshupian 蛾 術 篇. i Jiang zuo shi zi shi chao : er shi juan.

Amb els historiadors Qian Daxin i Zhao Yi se'l considera un dels autors que ha format part del grups d'autors que han conreat l'estil literàri anomenat "biji" (traduït com quaderns de notes).

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Poetes xinesos
Historiadors xinesos
Filòsofs xinesos
Persones de Jiangsu

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YouTube without the lip synching dudes
Sling Media wants to make it easy to post live TV to the Web. Will it fly? Only if the company gets networks on its side, says Fortune's Stephanie Mehta.
By Stephanie Mehta, Fortune senior writer
February 5 2007: 6:17 AM EST
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- "If you've been disrupted, it means your business model is broken."
Jason Hirschhorn, the effusive former MTV executive now running Sling Media's newly formed entertainment group, is explaining why his former colleagues in the traditional media world need to embrace so-called "place shifting" technologies purveyed by his new associates at Sling. (Sling created the Slingbox, a nifty gadget that enables you to transmit live television from your home to a personal computer or cell phone so that you can watch your favorite hometown programming anywhere in the world.)
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And don't expect Hirschhorn, who once started a company called Mischief New Media, to sugarcoat his pitch to the likes of CBS's Les Moonves or NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker: Like it or not, he contends, people are going to watch television programming on their computers, cell phones and other devices. Broadcasters and studios need to figure out a way to turn that behavior into a moneymaker. In other words, disrupt your own model before someone else disrupts it for you.
In some ways, he's preaching to a fairly receptive choir. CBS and NBC already place video clips (mostly promotional) on YouTube. ABC, meanwhile, makes entire episodes of some of its programs available on its own Web site, ABC.com.
Viacom tells YouTube to yank videos
But Hirschhorn, 35, is asking these companies and others to go even further. He's launching a new service called Clip+Sling that enables consumers to easily clip portions of any television show and publish them to the Web. (Think YouTube, but without the user-generated clips of dudes lip synching to the Backstreet Boys.) And he's looking for buy-in from the broadcasters.
Hirschhorn is promising TV executives an opportunity to sell advertising when clips are posted on the yet-to-be-launched Sling site. (Sling currently is signing up testers for its beta trials.) Instead of just selling television airtime, a network could also offer marketers a chance to sponsor clips.
Hirschhorn's argument to potential partners is simple: People are going to post portions of your shows to the Web anyway. "Why not monetize what was piracy?" he says, throwing up his hands. "What was once a negative can be a positive."
But Hirschhorn is asking the TV world to take a big leap of faith. He needs media companies essentially to provide air cover for a technology that poses some interesting intellectual property and legal issues. In meetings, Hirschhorn says, he acknowledges those concerns up front: "Your business development people, your lawyers, they're all going to want do a number on me," he tells media honchos. "And they'll be right."
Among the potential worries: How to compensate the artists creating the content that gets clipped, and how to handle content that a network airs, but doesn't own.
Hirschhorn isn't going to be able to strike deals with every single independent television content producer - certainly not before the Clip+Sling functionality becomes available later this year - or every television writer seeking remuneration for a skit that's clipped. And so Hirschhorn is asking the networks to help smooth things over with content producers, to, as he puts it, "go to those constituencies en masse and say, 'We'd like you to not go ballistic until we prove there's a model here.'"
"We're cognizant of people's rights," Hirschhorn adds. "Just give us a beat to figure this out."
TV is dying? Long live TV!
As Hirschhorn talks, one can't help but feel like Clip+Sling is a fun technology in search of a business model. (I'm guessing the engineers at Sling weren't thinking about "monetizing what was piracy" when they dreamt up the service.) That's not necessarily a bad thing. The Google (Charts) founders didn't set out to transform the advertising industry -- they just wanted to build a great search engine.
And his eat-before-you-get-eaten seems to be resonating with media companies. CBS (Charts) (which used to be part of Viacom (Charts), Hirschhorn's former employer) announced last month at the big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it will participate in the Clip+Sling beta trial.
"CBS is interested in how new media solutions can help build communities around content," Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, said in announcing the trial. "As we move forward into an increasingly digital and interactive future, that capability will sometimes come from unexpected places, products and services that in the past might have been seen as disruptors, instead of enablers."
Sounds sort of like a sophisticated way of saying, that if you're being disrupted, your business model is broken.
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Q: Excel VBA - Extract numeric value in string I have multiple tables of data in which, in one column, I have information about the value of various contracts. For each contract, the information contained in each cell of that column is presented as follows:
"The value of the contract is $XX,XXX.XX."
Sometimes, there will be additional text after the dollar value, as follows:
"The value of the contract is $XX,XXX.XX. There is an option to modify the duration of the contract"
I need to program a sub that allows me to extract the dollar value within that string of text and only keep that information (and none of the text coming before and after).
The difficulty I'm facing here is that everything is subject to change. The dollar value is never the same and the text before or after it also changes.
So far I've been able to successfully keep everything after the $ sign, using the SPLIT function and $ as delimiter. However, I keep having problems removing whatever text may follow the dollar value.
Any idea on how I could proceed?
Thank you for your help!

A: The easiest way to do this is with a regular expression:
'Requires a reference to Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions X.X
Public Function ExtractNumber(inValue As String) As Double
    With New RegExp
        .Pattern = "(\d{1,3},?)+(\.\d{2})?"
        .Global = True
        If .Test(inValue) Then
            ExtractNumber = CDbl(.Execute(inValue)(0))
        End If
    End With
End Function

Sample usage:
Sub Example()
    Debug.Print ExtractNumber("The value of the contract is $12,345.67. More text.")
End Sub

A: The VBA function val() has the nice property that it isn't bothered by text which comes after the number. So something like the following is possible:
Function ExtractAmount(data As String) As Variant
    Dim s As String
    s = Split(data, "$")(1) 'part after first dollar sign
    s = Replace(s, ",", "") 'throw away any commas
    ExtractAmount = CCur(Val(s))
End Function

For example,

A: Just in case its easier - you might not actually need a sub. A formula such as this:
=VALUE(LEFT(MID(B3,FIND("$",B3)+1,LEN(B3)),FIND(".",B3)-FIND("$",B3)+2))
works for this example:

A: Provided there are no numbers within the string other than the dollar value, this will work:
Code
Sub testingsub()

Dim str As String
Dim x, p1, p2 As Integer

str = "The value of the contract is $00,000.00. There is an option to modify the duration of the contract"
p1 = InStr(str, "$")

For x = Len(str) To 1 Step -1
    If IsNumeric(Mid(str, x, 1)) Then
        p2 = x + 1
        Exit For
    End If
Next x

Debug.Print Mid(str, p1, p2 - p1)

End Sub

Result

$00,000.00

A: if you don't bother last period
Function GetMoney(txt As String) As String
    GetMoney = "$" & Split(Split(txt, "$")(1), " ")(0)
End Function

else
Function GetMoney(txt As String) As String
    GetMoney = "$" & Split(Split(txt, "$")(1), " ")(0)
    GetMoney = Left(GetMoney, Len(GetMoney) - 1)
End Function

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EXCITES galloper Scream Machine's earnings ticked over the half million mark after the horse brought up back-to-back wins at Rosehill on Saturday.
The 5YO gelding has been in a purple patch of form this preparation notably his unlucky effort in the Doomben 10,000 when beaten less than 2-lens which preceded his consecutive wins back home in Sydney.
Scream Machine was sent out a warm $2.40 favourite in the ATC Natski Handicap (1500m) on the strength of his impressive victory at the same venue two weeks prior.
Jockey Tye Angland was responsible for a faultless ride, preserving the horse until unleashing his now trademark finishing burst to gain the upper hand late to beat off stakeswinners Bagman and Single.
"He's been going great. But there was a little bit of a query in the small field because he has a record of over doing it in the run," Angland said.
"I just rode him patient and rode him like the best horse in the race.
"He still sprinted well, but what suits him best is what happened last start.
Scream Machine weekend effort saw him bring win number 7 from 37 starts with earnings of $504,225.
"(The owner) has had a really good ride with the horse and hopefully it continues," trainer Jason Coyle said.


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Sovereign Spaces, Caring for Country, and the Homeless Position of Aboriginal Peoples
Irene Watson
South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (1): 27-51.
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Irene Watson; Sovereign Spaces, Caring for Country, and the Homeless Position of Aboriginal Peoples. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 2009; 108 (1): 27–51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2008-021
The laws of first peoples are connected to our traditional lands. The colonial project dispossesses us of land, but our laws are often still carried with us. These Aboriginal laws become like us, the native peoples, disconnected from country. So how is it possible for first peoples and our laws to survive this disconnection? And what is it we survive as? We are engulfed, inside a state that maintains its claim to sovereignty over Aboriginal lands and lives. This essay will explore the continuing connections to country from a place inside the "sovereign" space of the state, a space that guarantees no power to determine law-full Aboriginal obligations to country. Is it that all we have is a claim to law and homelands, a claim that may or may not be recognized by the colonial state? How can we keep the vision of Aboriginal relationships to country alive in a space where the universal, the global, views this relationship as an antiquated concept?
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English Language Scheme
Farming and Microcredit
Literacy for Women (WELL)
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Water Access and Sanitation
Family beginnings...
Donovan (seated on far right), Prue and Tom with locals outside Bahemuka House
KICS was founded by Donovan Chamberlayne, his mother Prue and her husband Tom Wengraf in memory of Donovan's father, Professor Matarare Bahemuka, who was shot dead in Kampala in April 1988 during a robbery. He had been brought up in Bushenyi, in South-West Uganda, before training as a doctor at Guy's Hospital in London.
Soon after he and Prue met in London she began a teaching job in Zambia, so for a while they conducted a long-distance relationship. By the late 1960s he and Prue were together in London, and Donovan was born in 1971. Professor Bahemuka completed a DPhil and then trained as a neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology in Queen Square, London.
He then worked in Kenya and Saudi Arabia, though his ambition had been to open a neurology department in Kampala. But these were difficult times in Uganda, under and following the leadership of Idi Amin.
As well as practising medicine and doing research, Bahemuka (as he was always known in the area and to friends and family) owned a farm in Kanaama and was trying to develop it: he took Donovan to visit the area only three months before he was murdered.
Soon after his death three relatives and two neighbours were shot dead by soldiers in Kanaama. Bahemuka was buried in the garden of his house there.
In 2007 Donovan, Prue and Tom decided to go to Kanaama to arrange a headstone for Bahemuka and his mother. They were given a tremendous reception by the local residents, who set up awnings, provided food and were eager to meet them. It was Tom who first suggested developing this remarkable experience into a project to help volunteers to visit and get to know the area, staying in the family farmhouse, now known as Bahemuka House. Prue says that in the beginning they thought of themselves as a travel company. People from some fifty different local organisations came to discuss how they could use volunteers. As the family and visitors deepened links in the local community, they saw much poverty, especially among women struggling to improve their livelihoods. Generally, women do not hold land title so they have limited access to credit to develop farming and businesses. But with the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, women are often the sole providers for their families.
Volunteers raised money for community projects, and Prue, Donovan and Tom registered KICS as a charity in the UK in 2009. They were keen not to set up a dependency between KICS and local people, and for activities to focus on building capacity through training and business support. First they raised money to make credit affordable for women. This fund is now called Kanaama Interactive Microcredit (KIMC). Training aims to improve farming techniques and building fuel-efficient stoves preserves resources and improves health. KICS is researching better water storage, both for health and farming.
The programme of mainly young people coming from Europe to volunteer has gradually been wound down. We now focus on enabling local people to better their lives. In 2011 a link group, KICS Uganda, was set up in Uganda. It is a registered community-based organisation with an active board. Collaboration with Mbarara University of Science and Technology and St Francis Counsellor Training Institute, also in Mbarara, has been of outstanding value to trustees, staff and local communities.
In 2013 local people and international volunteers set up a welfare and education programme for orphaned and vulnerable children which has become known as RONCO or Rweibaare Orphans and Needy Children Organisation, after a local group which oversees the programme. This supports children whose households struggle to feed and educate them. The children have often been left in the care of older relatives.
In our work providing microcredit, KICS often meets women who cannot read and lack the confidence to take out loans. With grant funding in 2015, we started Women's Empowerment Through Literacy Learning, or WELL. This harnesses the resources, knowledge and skills of the local community in circles of between 20 and 30 women to build literacy.
Our most recent programme, the English Language Scheme, was established in 2016. English is essential for children to progress to secondary school, and this Saturday scheme boosts their reading, writing and speaking. The children enjoy the interactive teaching methods and teachers are also learning new skills.
KICS is especially grateful to the individuals and organisations who have supported us in so many ways since 2009. Charitable trusts providing funding include: Coles-Medlock Foundation, Angela Gallagher Charitable Trust, Cotton Trust, Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust, Expat Foundation, Feminist Review Trust, Hilden Charitable Fund, Network for Social Change, Noel Buxton Trust and Peter Alan Dickson Foundation. Organisations and companies which have generously supported us include: St James Piccadilly, DFID Global Community Links, Daventry Methodist Church and Usborne Publishing.
Our objectives, vision and mission
KICS' charitable objectives are defined in its 2009 constitution as:
The advancement of education and training
The relief of poverty, sickness and distress
The promotion of good health
We aim to contribute to community development by providing finance and human resources, by sponsoring research, and by acting as an umbrella or resource body.
KICS' vision, Kashare sub-county without poverty, its people in good health and with universal education.
KICS' mission An integrated multi-sectoral development programme focusing on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable through capacity building, education and welfare.
Click here to download our 2020 Annual Report.
© Kanaama Interactive Community Support 2021 Registered Charity Number (UK): 1132288


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Now That's What I Call Music 4 – Hello, is it twee you're looking for?
Whilst NOW 3 may have given us the wonderful NOW! balls logo, it also gave us another, less welcome taste of 80s design: wacky, wavy neon lines. So 80s, so Max Headroom, so The Roxy, so 'bank advert trying to ensnare teenagers paper round money when they should be spending it on compilations of top chart hits'. That rather ghastly theme continues on the cover design of NOW 4, and no doubt onto the bed linen of many teenagers who bought the thing. NOW 4 adopts a slightly less obvious, but more vomit inducing, green background, over its predecessors' standard black background. Sadly, vomit-inducing is the order of the day for 1984's NOW! swansong, released just in time for the Christmas, last minute panic present buying market.
From Boy George's local chicken shop promotional outfit on the cover and the first stirrings of Arthur Baker's utterly dreadful "Special Dance Mix" of Paul 'Macca' McCartney's No More Lovely Nights, you get the distinct feeling this is not going to be a particularly comfortable ride. And to make matters worse, the only number one on offer here is Lionel Ritchie's plasticine head singing the turgid Hello. Incidentally, Lionel, no, it most certainly not you that we were looking for.
Most of the good stuff on show here are songs that are usually remembered for their 80s kitsch value, rather than an inherent 'greatness'. A good example of this is displayed early on side one with the appearances of Together in Electric Dreams and Never Ending Story, two theme songs from mildly successful films (even if Electric Dreams is now long forgotten, that whole boy-meets-computer rom-com sub-genre never did catch on). To be fair, Electric Dreams is a much better song than Limahl's last hit, and deserves more credit. Both Phil Oakley and Giorgio Morodor are too talented to be dismissed, it's just unfortunate that so much of their art is based around 80s synthesisers, an area which doesn't travel well.
Staying with the synthesisers, Oakey's former cohorts Heaven 17 (born from an early incarnation of Human League) also appear with the now forgotten Sunset Now. The Thompson Twins make their ubiquitous appearance with Doctor, Doctor, a song released a whopping ten months before NOW 4, and before the band's track that had appeared on NOW 3. The Twins current release, Sister of Mercy, appears to have been snagged by the incoming Hits Album, so NOW! must have figured an old Thompson Twins track was better than none at all (tellingly, a glimpse of the video appears in the TV advert, but the song doesn't).
This raises the question of what impact The Hits Album was going to have on NOW!, particularly this edition. I'll cover Hits in more detail in another post, but in short the creation of the rival series would see the end of NOW! being able to feature artists from the CBS and WEA labels, two of the biggest labels in the world, and home to such legends as Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Wham and soon George Michael. It seems almost a massive two fingers to Hits that Jacko appears here, his only NOW! showing, with a track recorded over a decade earlier. Part of a series of 'lost tracks' found in a dusty vault at his old label, Motown, some bright spark decided to dust them off, remix them to sound more 80s and release the album in the wake of the phenomenal success of Jacko's Thriller album. The album did OK, but hardly matched its big brother, probably as the public started to smell a rat that this wasn't an official release. The single Farewell My Summer Love is a lyrically suspect tale of meeting a girl who's on summer holiday and maybe meeting her again next year when school is through, or some such nonsense. Compared to Thriller or Billie Jean, this is pretty ropey stuff, but somehow scraped into the top 10. NOW! were obviously not going to turn down the opportunity to have the world's biggest artist appear, no matter how crap the material, as it was the only chance they were going to get.
Still, despite losing a couple of their more reliable fillers, NOW! still had a couple of aces up its sleeve: EMI still had Duran Duran, the biggest band in the world, who were two singles away from splitting up, and Virgin had the unstoppable Culture Club, here showcasing the song that Boy George described as a 'stupid' and that probably killed his career. Oops. Despite reaching number 2, The War Song would be Culture Club's last big hit until their late 90s reunion. (And to add insult to injury, it was kept off the top by Stevie Wonder's I Just Called To Say I Love You and seems to have been the inspiration for the ITV Schools music which would appear later in the decade.)
Speaking of stupid songs, there's a fair few on show here: there's Elton John's deeply annoying Passengers, the Eurythmics over-produced, and near unlistenable mess Sexcrime (1984) and Julian Lennon's irritating Too late for Goodbyes, yet another example of the trend for horrible white boy reggae pop fusion which blighted the charts for far too long during the decade. Culture Club and maybe (maybe!) The Police were the only acts who ever managed to pull it off successfully.
At least side three looks like it might rock things up a bit. Queen appear for the third album in succession, and are backed up by The Quo, Big Country and the first appearance from a little Irish band who were pulling up trees in America, U2. It would not be their last. Yes, it might all be a bit stonewashed jeans and white t-shirt (or leather vest in U2's case) but the guitar-fest is a bit of respite from the endless bleeps and bloops of the first two sides. It's short-lived.
"Without you I'm nothing", said the Now albums of the 80s
Fergal Sharkey's silly Listen to Your Father bridges the gap between axe-wielding and a return to the 808s, with OMD's ludicrous Tesla Girls. But before the album disappears into the vacuum of nothingness that is Nik Kershaw's dreary Human Racing there is a treat, supplied by the lovely Kim Wilde. Not a massive hit, The Second Time is a bit of a corker, and not a little bit rude. Or rather, suggestive. It's pretty bloody obvious what Ms Wilde is singing about, and most blokes at the time would find it hard to resist a line like "Look in the mirrors and see the heat of something new, Why don't we do it, just do it once again". Oh my. I think it's better than Kids in America.
The first track on Side Four is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, Ray Parker Jr's Ghostbusters not only appears here, but was also on The Hits Album. Arista, the label concerned (and also home to The Thompson Twins), were not tied to any of the major's responsible for the compilation albums, so were technically free to license their tracks to whomever they saw fit. The fact that Ghostbusters appears on both would suggest a desire from both camps to have one of the biggest hits of the year on their records (though surprisingly, it never made number one, stuck for three weeks behind that immovable object that was the bloody Stevie Wonder song. The second notable fact is that the track is incorrectly credited. The title is listed as Ghostbusters (Searchin' For the Spirit). Oh, thinks I, maybe that is in fact the full title of the track. Bracketed suffixes are often left off song titles for space, or simply because they are pretentious toss and are best forgotten. In this case however neither is true; Searchin' for the Spirit is in fact the subtitle given to an extended version of the track which featured on an alternative single release (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWMEncznDvI). But not here. This is your common or garden single and radio version, identical, bar fading out a few seconds later, to the version on The Hits Album. Was this a deliberate attempt to deceive purchasers into thinking the version on NOW 4 was a different one to that on The Hits Album? Was the incorrect version used on the album, and the extended version was meant to be included? Or was it just a mix up over the title? We will probably never know. And you probably don't really care.
Side Four then sort of drifts away. Jump remains a fun, feel-good song, we get the first of many appearances for the slap bass of Level 42, Rockwell's attempt to be both Ray Parker Jr and Michael Jackson at the same time on Somebody's Watching Me, and Malcolm McClaren's Madam Butterfly is a great musical experiment (of a kind which would become ubiquitous in the charts towards the end of the century) once he stops wittering on over the first minute. The final track by Eugene Wilde is a now forgotten piece of fluff of the "ooh baby, let's go have sex" variety, the inspiration here being Sexual Healing, but looking forward to people like R Kelly and Keith Sweat. Take away the 80s production and this could have been released at anytime in the past 30 years.
It's a disappointingly bland finish to an album which has an air of going through the motions about it. With Hits already in the shops consumers weighed up the pros and cons, and went with Hits. NOW 4 is the only album in the series not to reach number 1, and it's easy to see why. There's one serious problem with NOW 4, and that's, ironically, a lack of hits. Take away Ghostbusters, Jump and Hello, and this is a very dull, uninspiring collection. Brian Glover does his best in the advert but you suspect even he thinks this is all a bit thin.
Historically, NOW 4 is important for one reason (and without it, it would probably have been forgotten altogether) being the first of the series to be released on CD. It wasn't a conventional CD release however, containing just 15 tracks, and being a mix of tracks from the three albums released in 1984. (The cassette version makes reference to The Best of Now 1984 Compact Disc, but the record makes no reference to the CD at all.) The experiment must have been far from a success as it wasn't attempted again until Now 8, two years later. The CD itself is considered a rare collector's item now. At the time of writing one copy is on eBay for over £300, with 19 bids, and rising…
Now that NOW! wasn't the only game in town, and its compilation crown had been toppled, it seemed a serious re-think was in order, and it be a long nine months before NOW! would return.
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 4
Biggest tracks
Hello – Lionel Ritchie
Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr
Jump – The Pointer Sisters
The Second Time – Kim Wilde (a truly bizarre video in which Ms Wilde battles an exploding hotel room, a multi-coloured Mummy, and some of the worst 80s fashion ever seen in a music video)
Sunset Now – Heaven 17
No More Lonely Nights (Special Dance Mix) – Paul McCartney
Forgotten tracks
Warning Sign – Nick Heyward
Gotta Get You Home Tonight – Eugene Wilde
What's missing
Wild Boys – Duran Duran
(possibly not ready for inclusion, the track was released two weeks before NOW 4, but seems in retrospect to be a massive omission)
Blue Jean – David Bowie
Side One
No More Lonely Nights (Special Dance Mix) Paul McCartney
Together In Electric Dreams Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
Why? Bronski Beat
The Never Ending Story Limahl
Warning Sign Nick Heyward
Missing You John Waite
Farewell My Summer Love Michael Jackson
Hello Lionel Richie
Side Two
The War Song Culture Club
Passengers Elton John
Too Late For Goodbyes Julian Lennon
Shout To The Top The Style Council
Doctor Doctor The Thompson Twins
Sunset Now Heaven 17
Respect Yourself The Kane Gang
Private Dancer (Single Edit) Tina Turner
Side Three
It's A Hard Life Queen
The Wanderer Status Quo
East Of Eden Big Country
Pride (In The Name Of Love) U2
Listen To Your Father Feargal Sharkey
Tesla Girls Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
The Second Time Kim Wilde
Human Racing Nik Kershaw
Side Four
Ghostbusters Ray Parker Jr
If It Happens Again UB40
Jump (For My Love) The Pointer Sister
Hot Water Level 42
Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Eurythmics
Somebody's Watching Me Rockwell
Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo) Malcolm McLaren
Gotta Get You Home Tonight Eugene Wilde
CD Tracklisting
Duran Duran – The Reflex
Ray Parker Jr – Ghostbusters (Searchin for the Spirit)
Culture Club – The War Song
John Waite – Missing You
O.M.D. – Locomotion
UB40 – If It Happens Again
Tina Turner – What's Love Got to Do with It
Bronski Beat – Why?
The Style Council – Shout to the Top!
Phil Colins – Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey – Together in Electric Dreams
Julian Lennon – Too Late for Goodbyes
Status Quo – The Wanderer
Thompson Twins – Doctor! Doctor!
The video version this time around did feature mainly tracks from the accompanying album. Only four tracks were not on NOW 4 (indicated with a *).
Meatloaf's Modern Girl and The Thompson Twins' Sister of Mercy did feature on The Hits Album, further muddying the waters over the various licensing deals that were needed to put these albums together.
Queen – It's a Hard Life
Tina Turner – Private Dancer
Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey – Together in Electric Dreams
Limahl – Never Ending Story
Ray Parker Jnr. – Ghostbusters
Thompson Twins – Sister of Mercy*
Nik Kershaw – Human Racing
Meat Loaf – Modern Girl*
Kim Wilde – The Second Time
Malcolm McLaren – Madam Butterfly
Nick Heyward – Warning Sign
OMD – Tesla Girls
Iron Maiden – Aces High*
Fergal Sharkey – Listen to Your Father
Heaven 17 – Sunset Now
Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours*
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4 Responses to Now That's What I Call Music 4 – Hello, is it twee you're looking for?
eightiespopkid says:
Yeah, everyone knows "The Hits Album" beat this album hands down in terms of chart-hit quality. This is a strange selection of autumn 1984's hits but there is so much to be enjoyed here.
"Together In Electric Dreams" never fails – it's up there as one of the greatest songs ever written.
"Madame Butterfly" is a classic, but was always going to go over peoples' heads on this album – I can't understand why they tacked Eugene bloody Wilde on the end when McLaren's masterpiece would have made such a great finale to the collection.
I'm with you on the Kim Wilde track – it rocks, but the lyrical and visual imagery was too much for her audience, and didn't connect as well as it should have done. Bucks Fizz made a similar "mistake" the year before in terms of alienating their original audience but – like Kim's – the singles were fantastic.This was a comeback of sorts for Kim though as, by and large, she'd had a disastrous 1983.
Limahl redeemed himself with the haunting "Never Ending Story" (great uncredited vocals from Beth Anderson) but this was a one-off and his career was over within 2 years of his first appearance.
What were Paul McCartney, Nick Heyward, Culture Club and Elton John playing at with these just plain weird singles?
Ok, so Macca had a proper, better ballad version of his song, but quite way (a) they chose the "dance" version for this album and (b) why he recorded this version in the first place, are mysteries.
I also loved the Bronski Beat, Style Council, Michael Jackson, Feargal Sharkey and Heaven 17 tracks but otherwise I wasn't overly fussed with "Now 4."
ntwicm says:
Despite not being much of a Macca fan, I've always had a fondness for No More Lonely Nights. But the dance version here is still among the worst tracks I've encountered in the series so far. It is truly bizarre that they chose this version, especially as the recent TV documentary makes a point that he always wanted to be first on the albums. Why then would he want to showcase a remix of one of his precious tracks rather than the original version which is all his? Maybe it was an attempt to widen his audience to younger folks?
Martin Davis says:
I personally don't have any issues with Now 4 although its obvious that it doesn't have a very strong tracklisting compared to other Now albums and The Hits Album.
The "Searchin for the spirit" suffix on Ghostbusters caught me out too. For a long time I thought that was the correct title given to the song.
nlgbbbblth says:
The remix of No More Lonely Nights is there because it's the only version his management would licence at the time. See my interview with Ashley Abram – https://www.classicpopmag.com/2018/07/now-then-now-thats-what-i-call-music/
Now! That's What I Call Music 3 – Can U Pig It?
Now That's What I Call Music 5 – Harold Faltermeyer is 5 foot 11 inches tall


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1. Bastion Fortuna, built at the end of XVII century after the project of Swedish statesman and military engineer Erik Dahlberg.
2. Bastion Triumph, built after the project of Swedish statesman and military engineer Erik Dahlberg. To the south of the bastion there was a Gate of Peter I built in 1822 after which Peter Square got its name.
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6. Bastion Victoria, built at the end of XVII century after the project of Swedish statesman and military engineer Erik Dahlberg. The most powerful bastion in Narva, the height of the front wall is 16 meters. Demolished during the Northern War in 1704 and renovated after the war.
7. Bastion Pax, built at the second half of 1670ies. First called as Wrangel (also as an Old Bastion). Later the name Pax was fixed, since a bastion designed instead in the project of Erik Dahlberg had that name. Because of the Northern War, the Wrangel Bastion was not reconstructed, only the name changed.
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9. Bastion Christians' Wall, first building stage in 1583-85, reconstructed in the first third of XVII century to so-called New-Italian type bastion. The only older construction stage bastion preserved until today. Renovated in 1970ies.
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11. Location of the King's Wall. Initially there was a southeastern corner tower of medieval town wall. Tower reconstructed in years 1583-85 was called King's Wall. In the first third of XVII century it was rebuilt as a New-Italian type bastion; was left to crumble after erecting a new defense system at the end of XVII century.
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13. Fifth ravelin, built at the first quarter of XVIII century by order of tsar Peter I. Actually based on the project of Swedish statesman and military engineer Erik Dahlberg who designed the Narva bastions. The only ravelin partly preserved up to nowadays.
14. Location of King Gate, built at the end of XVII century after the project of Swedish statesman and military engineer Erik Dahlberg. It is known that the baroque façade of the gate was built from the so-called Märjamaa marble. Renamed Emperor Gate during the rule of Russia after conquering the town of Narva from Swedes in the Northern War.
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One in four young people in Leeds have admitted to being concerned about their alcohol consumption.
Tuesday, 11th December 2018, 10:23 am
A survey commissioned by Leeds City Council, Forward Leeds and NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group found that a quarter of 19-25 year olds are concerned about their drinking habits.
The data was compiled as part of the No Regrets campaign which focuses on making young people aware of how much they are drinking.
The data came from a mixture of online surveys, research groups and street research across Leeds.
A quarter of 18-25 year olds in Leeds are worried about their drinking according to the No Regrets campaign
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Pre-drinking, which is when people begin drinking alcohol before they go out, remains popular among young people.
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Violence as Routine
Transformations of Local-Level Politics and the Disjunction between Centre and Periphery in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Author: Mario Krämer. Series edited by: Trutz von Trotha †, Rainer Geißler.
Series: Siegener Beiträge zur Soziologie Volume 8
1 colour map, 10 b/w photos, 2 graphs, 12 tables, appendix
This book examines local-level politics and violent conflict in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is estimated that about 20,000 people were murdered in the course of violence and more than 500,000 people became refugees since the 1980s. Despite the claims of political leaders that violent action has finally subsided and KwaZulu-Natal is a peaceful place to live nowadays, a substantial number of people were killed in violent conflict after the democratic transition in 1994.
The author proposes two arguments. First, violent conflict in the post-apartheid era is characterised by a disjunction between centre and periphery, that is, violent dynamics on the ground are dissimilar to conflicts between political parties (African National Congress versus Inkatha Freedom Party) on the provincial level. This disjunction is not equivalent to autonomy but rather signifies a changing process of linkage and decentralisation between the national/provincial level on the one hand and the local on the other.
Local dynamics are not merely a mirror image of political processes in the centre: the latter are subject to local interpretation and can be modified according to local interests. Secondly, the disjunction comes along with self-sustaining dynamics of violent conflict: violence creates institutions and power relations which in turn reproduce violent action. Hence, local-level politics in KwaZulu-Natal constitute an emerging form of political power which differs considerably from the democratic scheme it should correspond to after the political transition in 1994. This book draws on a variety of methodological tools: in the course of one year of fieldwork in KwaZulu-Natal approximately 200 interviews were conducted with people affected by and actively participating in violent conflict.
Furthermore, the informal, un- and semistructured interviews were cross-checked with personal observations on the ground and a variety of written sources such as newspaper reports, violence monitoring reports and (secret) police files. Statistics by the eThekwini Municipality, Statistics South Africa, the Independent Electoral Commission and the South African Police Services (SAPS) provided quantitative data on crucial economic, social and political issues.
The Multiplicity of Orders and Practices (ISBN 978-3-89645-850-6)
Tuareg-Aufstand in der Wüste (ISBN 978-3-89645-732-5)
Flucht als Politik (ISBN 978-3-89645-347-1)
Legitimation von Herrschaft und Recht / La légitimation du pouvoir et du droit (ISBN 978-3-927620-83-4)
On Cruelty · Sur la cruauté · Über Grausamkeit (ISBN 978-3-89645-731-8)
The Problem of Violence (ISBN 978-3-89645-891-9)
Mit der "political rivalry thesis" wird das hohe Ausmaß an politischer Gewalt in der Provinz KwaZulu-Natal dadurch erklärt, dass sich die Rivalität zwischen den Eliten des African National Congress (ANC) und der Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) bis in die Lokalpolitik fortsetzt. Der Autor hält diesen weitverbreiteten Erklärungsansatz für unvollständig und bevorzugt zwei alternative Argumente, um die Gewalt am Beispiel der Region Inchanga zu erklären. Dabei stützt er sich neben theoretischen Erkenntnissen der Gewaltforschung auf eigene empirische Untersuchungen aus der Zeit von April 2001 bis Januar 2002. Laut Krämer zeichnet sich seit Ende der Apartheid eine Trennung zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie ab ("disjunction thesis"). Diese Trennung manifestiert sich in zeitlicher sowie inhaltlicher Hinsicht. Zudem hat Gewalt infolge von Racheakten und transformierter Machtbeziehungen, etwa durch Klientelismus sowie Klüngelei, eine Eigendynamik entwickelt und als Routine Eingang in die Lokalpolitik gefunden. In seinem Ausblick bewertet Krämer die Möglichkeit, Gewalt durch lokale Institutionen oder staatliches Durchgreifen eindämmen zu können, tendenziell negativ. Er sieht die Gewalt in dem Wechselspiel von Eskalation und Rückgang als Normalität in der Provinz KwaZulu-Natal verankert.
Eva Range in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 4/2007, pp. 1383
Ein geglücktes Beispiel wie Anthropologie sozialwissenschaftliche Theorie voranbringen kann; […]
Christiane Hentschel in Comparativ, 18/6, 2008, pp. 100-102
It is a widely held misconception that violence in KwaZulu-Natal, one of the centres of bloody fights in the run-up to South Africa's first democratic, majority elections in April 1994, has subsided swiftly after that epochal event. Related to this is another misconception, namely the framing of the carnage in terms of the confrontation between the African National Congress, now the ruling party of the country, on the one hand and the Zulu centred Inkatha Freedom Party on the other. The common view thus is of an ethnic clash couched in party politics. Mario Krämer's social anthropological study of a community in the peri-urban precincts of Durban does not leave much of such commonly held views. In this, he can build on a certain amount of studies on Zulu anthropology as well as on more recent studies about the violence that drew a lot of media attention as long as the transition of South Africa to majority rule still seemed in jeopardy. However, Krämer's detailed, locally focused study, which has been defended as a PhD dissertation at Bonn University, bears out once again the vital importance of paying attention to specific cases, delving into and reconstructing their dynamics. From his interview, archival and local newspaper material and also based on perceptive observation over roughly a year in 2001-2, Krämer can reconstruct different phases of the violence. [...]
Significantly, such violence calls into action today the higher echelons on a provincial level of the parties who claim the allegiance of one or the other side involved. However, as Krämer shows, such interventions are ineffective at best, in particular since the dynamic of violence also feeds on the distance from the power centres and the chances this offers to strongmen to assert themselves and their agendas. Such dynamics as well as the spread of insecurity and above all a pervasive quest for revenge among warring sections have sent violence in In changa into a spiralling process of growing intensity several times. Unsurprisingly, the conclusions Krämer draws on the possibilities of resolving situations such as prevail in Inchanga are anything but optimistic. Rather, he concurs with Peter Waldmann in pointing to the far greater difficulties of creating lasting peace than prolonging war or generalised violence. A reconstruction of violent processes and their insertion into daily life as is presented here, can at least help us better to understand such dynamics.
Reinhart Kößler in Sociologus, 58/2008, pp. 103-105


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Douglas academy to open in 2018
January 5, 2018 January 5, 2018 / niall@corkgolfnews.com
Progress is being made on the new five hole academy in Douglas, while work has also started on the redesign of the two practice greens in the distance. Picture: Niall O'Shea
2018 promises to be a milestone year for Douglas, the southside club will open a brand new five hole short game facility and work should also conclude on a new practice facility and range. The five hole short game area is currently under construction, all of the earthmoving and shaping has been completed and the greens and tee boxes have been laid out. The team from DAR Construction have finished the first and second stages of work, a substantial amount of ground works took place in stage one including the installation of services, and after that several tonnes of sand were laid on the new greens and approaches to provide top quality playing conditions. The seeding should take place early in the new year and it's hoped the area will be opened for play in the middle of this year. The new facility will be a unique feature for members, offering both practice and game options.
Each of the holes will have a number of features including bunkers, changes in elevation and a range of different distances. The other works will see a redevelopment of existing chipping and pitching greens as well as a substantial upgrade to the large driving range. The range upgrade will include a new USGA specification teeing area, and the profile of the range will change with the addition of several new target greens at varying distances. The design work was carried out by renowned international course architect Jeff Howes, who was also responsible for the 1995 and 2006 development works at Fota Island. Work has also commenced on the reconstruction of the chipping and pitching greens. Designer Howes has completely redesigned the two greens and once the shaping work has been completed in the coming weeks the seeding and growing in will follow.
The development works have had a very positive impact on membership numbers in the club. Douglas opened for new members in September and the applications outnumbered the available open membership places. The club also won the Golf Club of the Year award at the recent Cork Business Awards. Work on the clubhouse is also continuing although this remains at the planning stage. In 2016 the club voted to remodel the existing structure, adding a new pro-shop and teaching area in an innovative design. Although work has not proceeded as quickly as planned, it is expected that work will get underway this year. 2018 Douglas Captain Jim Kingston, Lady Captain Ann Rose and President Kate McCann will be looking forward to the fruition of several years of work by the club. The new range of facilities should help Douglas to compete in team competitions, in 2015 the club win the Munster Junior Cup title and given the current and emerging talent, it safe to say that the new practice areas will be busy once the teams begin practicing. Douglas PGA Professionals Stephen Hayes and Davey Barry are also looking forward to the opening of the new facilities. "The new short game areas will be a huge benefit to members" said Hayes. "It firstly gives members the opportunity to practice any part of their short game in a safe environment. The short game area will also replicate the playing conditions of the course so will be kept at very high standard. It also acts as another facility within the club where members can meet and spend a few hours if they don't have time to play 18 holes. As there will be ample space it means we can work with students whilst other members of the club are free to use the facility at the same time. The five-hole course will also be a great addition and a fun way to develop members short game skills whilst giving the opportunity to hold par 3 competitions."
There are some clouds on the horizon however. Douglas will face a few challenges in 2018, the planned M28 will have an impact on the course if the current proposed route goes ahead. In formal submissions last year the club highlighted that the new route would result in fourth and fifth holes having to be relocated. In addition to that the club also stands to lose 3.5 acres on the southern boundary, that land was purchased by the club two years ago and part of it is set to form a new slip road for the proposed motorway. A large lobby group of residents had led the local interests and over 100 submissions were heard at a recent Bord Pleanala hearing in November, an update from the appeal is due soon.
Early Start for Byrne & O'Keeffe
Byrne and Peter O'Keeffe both have early starts to their 2018 seasons as the Douglas golfers are travelling overseas for competitive golf this month. Sara is currently playing in the Harder Hall Women's Invitational in Florida and that follows the Orlando International Amateur Championship last week. While it is an early start for Sara, she has learned from last year where she had an incredibly busy schedule that saw her travel to Italy, England and Scotland as well as playing a full schedule of Irish events. "I have learned in 2017 that I played too many tournaments and got burnt out towards the end of the season, so in 2018 I need to play in less events to ensure I am energised and perform well in events on the ILGU and R&A circuit. I hope to progress in 2018 as much as I did in 2017." Such is Sara's vision and planning, she's already identified the 17 key events she plans to play in this year.
Peter O'Keeffe is also a busy man, he's working hard on his game as his off season continues. The Irish Amateur Open Champion is putting in the hours at the range and in the gym as he gets up to full speed for an upcoming trip to South Africa. Peter was selected on the eight man Irish team to head to South Africa in early February. The South African Stroke Play Championship at Pecanwood Golf Club from 6th to 9th February and the African Amateur Championship at Glendower Golf Club from 13th to 16th February. O'Keeffe will also have a busy season ahead, the early domestic competitions will include the West of Ireland and the Lee Valley Senior Scratch Cup. In May he'll be hoping to go one better at the Munster Strokeplay in Cork Golf Club where he finished as runner up last year. After that it will be a return to Royal County Down where Peter will aim to retain the title he won at the historic venue last year. That was the win that saw O'Keeffe re-enter the elite amateur ranks.
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DAR Golf, Douglas Golf Club, Jeff Howes, Peter O'Keeffe, Sara Byrne
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The first is sepia tone, you can see an example image to the left. Sepia tone was popular in the 1800's (used to give black and white photos a bit of color), but thanks to modern photoediting technology is making a comeback. The idea for this effect came from a customer suggestion.
I also added two other effects to the component which can lighten or darken an image or photo.
Existing customers get a free upgrade, so just login to your account, and download the latest code.
Hi Bill, no it is not.
Does the cfimage tag now retain IPTC too? If not, how else can the author's name stay attached to their images apart from watermarking? Is there a 3rd party utility that does this?


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Big Timber er en amerikansk stumfilm fra 1917 af William Desmond Taylor.

Medvirkende
 Kathlyn Williams som Stella Benton.
 Wallace Reid som Jack Fife.
 Joe King som Walter Monahan.
 Alfred Paget som Charlie Benton.
 Helen Bray som Linda Abbey.

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Stumfilm fra USA
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Kurt Wihl
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Albuquerque Plaza, 201 Third Street, N.W., Suite 1200, P.O. Box AA, Albuquerque, NM 87102
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Kurt Wihl practices in the areas of litigation and real estate. He has been a lawyer with Keleher & McLeod, P.A. since he was admitted to the New Mexico bar in 1984. Mr. Wihl has appeared in all district courts in the State of New Mexico, the New Mexico Court of Appeals and the New Mexico Supreme Court as well as New Mexico and Southern California federal courts, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. In addition, he has appeared before numerous state and federal administrative and regulatory agencies.
Tort Claims: Mr. Wihl has prepared and tried numerous common law and statutory tort cases in state and federal court. He has experience in the areas of premises liability, motor vehicle (including over-the-road trucking) accidents, products liability defense, personal injury, construction defects, defense of civil rights claims, commercial torts such as claims for lender liability, breach of trust, fraud and negligent misrepresentation, interference with existing and prospective contractual relations, and ERISA.
Condemnation, Right-of-Way and Real Estate Litigation: Mr. Wihl has significant experience in eminent domain actions both for the condemning authority and for landowners. In addition, he has handled lawsuits involving claims for quiet title, mortgage foreclosure, breach of lease, trespass, boundary determinations, nuisance, easements and right-of-ways of all kinds, restrictive covenants, real estate taxation and zoning through trial and on appeal in both state and federal court.
Commercial Litigation, Complex and Otherwise: Much of Mr. Wihl's practice is complex commercial litigation. For nearly thirty years, he has handled complex suits in state and federal court involving multiple parties, multiple claims, and class actions with amounts in controversy ranging from hundreds of thousands to well over a billion dollars. He has successfully brought and defended class action and derivative lawsuits filed both in New Mexico federal court and in federal court in Southern California. Mr. Wihl has tried complex commercial cases involving contract disputes, claims of breach of fiduciary duty, loan participation agreements, general and limited partnership and joint venture disputes. In addition, he has arbitrated disputes involving employment and shareholder agreements and electric right-of-way agreements.
AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell; honored in 2013 and 2014 by Southwest Super Lawyers in the field of business litigation. Mr. Wihl is listed in the most recent edition of Best Lawyers in America in the categories of: administrative/regulatory law; commercial litigation; litigation - trusts and estates; and personal injury litigation - defendants. Mr. Wihl is listed in Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys.
Areas of Practice (10)
Administrative / Regulatory Law
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P.O. Box AA, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Swarthmore College, B.A., with double majors in History and Philosophy, National Merit Scholar, 1980
University New Mexico School of Law, J.D., cum laude, , received awards for outstanding student in commercial law and civil procedure and admitted to the Order of the Coif, 1984
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals; United States District Court for the District of New Mexico; 1984, New Mexico
State Bar of New MexicoInternational Inns of Court.
Albuquerque Plaza , 201 Third Street, N.W., Suite 1200 , P.O. Box AA
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Statistics ›
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UK National Wellbeing Measures: Northern Ireland Data
The Natural Environment
Domain Overview: The natural environment has a role to play to ensure sustainable supply of natural goods like food, water, minerals, raw materials, and to maintain critical ecosystem services that provide benefits for human welfare.
The 4 measures in the Natural Environment domain are:
Total green house gas emissions (millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent)
Protected areas in the UK (million hectares)
Energy consumed within the UK from renewable sources – No NI Data Available (electricity generation from renewable generation for NI and UK presented below)
Waste from households that is recycled
Latest findings
In 2016, Northern Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions were estimated to be 20.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, (UK overall: 467.9 million tonnes). In Northern Ireland, the longer term trend shows a decrease of 15.9% compared to the base year (the base year is 1990 for carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, and 1995 for the fluorinated gases).
In terms of greenhouse gas emissions per capita, this equates to 11.0 tonnes per capita in Northern Ireland compared with 7.1 tonnes per capita in the UK overall.
In 2018, Northern Ireland's protected areas were estimated to be 0.63 million hectares (UK overall: 27.4 million hectares in 2017), including both on land and at sea. In Northern Ireland the protected areas on land represent 28.4% of the country, whilst 33.7% of Northern Ireland water is designated as protected.
Almost 9 percent of energy consumed within the UK in 2014 was from renewable sources (8.9%). No comparable figure is available for Northern Ireland. However, looking at the percentage of total electricity generation accounted for by renewable generation, in 2016, this was 25.3% in Northern Ireland, compared with 24.5% in the UK as a whole.
In 2016, just over two-fifths of waste from NI households was recycled (43.0%), this is slightly lower than the position in the UK overall (44.6%).
A range of NI environmental statistics is available on the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs website.
Do you want to know more? – Office for National Statistics Wellbeing.
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Personal wellbeing Our relationships Health What we do
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Integrating women into private sector operations has benefits for both business and society as a whole including economic growth, re-investments in child education, and improvements in labor force productivity. Women represent a largely untapped work force and customer base in many parts of the world. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require addressing the constraints preventing women from being actively involved in the private sector.


BRUG, a bread making company in Hawaii, decided to move locations and needed a visual rebranding based on boxes, bags, and packages. They also didn't have usage guidelines for their logo, so we did a rebrand which included brand guidelines.
The minimalistic design with craft material key visuals complements the logo, and the simple and strong visual branding represents the company's commitment to bread.
By using craft material for the packaging and printing, we were able to make their bread look more attractive. At the same time, the minimalistic design eliminated useless design elements and complemented the logo in order to create stronger branding. In addition, we visualized the company's three philosophies/features with icons and the light yellow accent color; we aimed to create an image of a "delicious bakery in Hawaii." We didn't make too many changes to the original logo, and instead created a brand guide that set up usage guidelines for the logo. The package proved itself to be popular, which created a promotional effect for the company.


Calling all Irish ladies of Holyoke and South Hadley!
Entries for the Holyoke Grand Colleen Pageant are now being accepted!
Please join us and participate in this wonderful celebration of our Irish heritage! It is an experience of a lifetime!


Cleary Gottlieb partner Ethan Klingsberg and senior counsel Michael Lazerwitz were cited by BTI Consulting Group as "individuals clients think of — and turn to — first" in the organization's 14th annual "Client Service All-Stars" report, published this month.
The report is based on nearly 320 in-depth, independent interviews with legal decision makers at the world's leading organizations. Mr. Klingsberg was recognized for his mergers and acquisitions experience, and Mr. Lazerwitz was named for his capabilities in white-collar defense, securities enforcement and internal investigations.


BOMA hosted its second Celebration of Excellence at the Westin Hotel, where it recognized 112 new buildings as BOMA BEST® certified and their building managers as stewards of Commercial Real Estate's continued efforts to better our environment. A full list of the newly certified buildings will appear in our next Newsletter. Special thanks to Business Coach and headline speaker Mr. Peter Stewart for his tips on how to make a difference and excel in business.
Also at the Lunch, BOMA recognized its Volunteer of the Year Shawn Carr of Ferguslea Properties. Shawn has served BOMA as a volunteer and Chair of the Education Committee leading many of our current initiatives including the highly successful partnership with Algonquin College. In addition he is a member of the Board of Directors and the Treasurer of BOMA.