AAP has been established to develop and facilitate creative projects in liaison with project managers, architects, designers, councils and artists, for any scale and application.
Axolotl is one of the most respected Australian companies known for innovation in building materials. Its bespoke glass, aged and treated metal coatings, hybrid metal/timber veneers and award-winning concretes are exemplified in architectural features both locally and internationally.
Having maintained a strongly artistic perspective throughout its work, Axolotl has now launched Axolotl Art Projects (AAP), a dedicated consultancy to project manage commissioned artworks.
AAP has been established to develop and facilitate creative projects in liaison with project managers, architects, designers, councils and artists, for any scale and application. It offers services in a range of areas, including concept design, artist selection and fabrication.
A glowing pavilion in Sydney's Chinatown by Lacoste + Stevenson and Frost Design demonstrates the strengthening role of small-scale interventions.
Sydney's first Chinatown emerged in The Rocks during the gold rush era of the 1870s. Beginning as an unofficial gateway for Chinese prospectors travelling to the goldfields, the district slowly crept south, and today's Chinatown was officially established in Haymarket with the opening of Dixon Street Mall in 1980. Sydney's Chinatown has undergone a series of facelifts since its original construction, and Lacoste and Stevenson's Red Lantern kiosk, completed in January 2012, is one of the newest additions to the city's version of the contentious urban archetype. Described by the architects as a "red emblem," the kiosk is a small but high-quality addition that reinforces Chinatown's significant role as a major tourist attraction, fuelled by a legacy of investment by City of Sydney Council and its own diverse community.
Red Lantern is typical of Lacoste and Stevenson's portfolio of sleek projects that boast a bold use of materials and sensitive attention to detail. With the assistance of Frost Design, a new tourist information kiosk was inserted inside an existing pagoda structure to create a "highly sophisticated enclosure" with its compact, joinery-filled interior wrapped in a decorative glass skin. Perched on the edge of Goulburn Street, the lantern is a pop-art-like addition that lifts the atmosphere of the pedestrian mall with its surreal glow. A crisp materiality reinforces its iconographic and symbolic role, literally marking the edge of the Chinatown precinct and flaunting itself to the city beyond.
Despite its delicate appearance, the kiosk, now one year old, was built as a highly robust structure. The facade is created by a series of semicircular light boxes clad in curved glass with a patterned artwork carefully applied to the exterior, balancing the facade's reflectivity with the textured warm grey of the graphite-infused surface. By day the lantern glows a soft red, contrasting with the pattern's silhouette. At night this intensifies, and blazing red light articulates the paper-cut design, with the curved front facade closing to create a 360-degree artwork.
The lantern is a powerful symbol, echoed by the traditional crimson of hanging lanterns dotted around nearby shops and arcades. The original pagoda structure is prominently positioned on a plinth along the steep slope of Goulburn Street, providing useful conditions to enable its reuse as a tourist information point. The kiosk's operable pamphlet-filled facade entices approaching tourists in the pedestrian mall, while the rear naturally blocks prevailing sun and rain, maximizing user comfort while projecting its decorative face to the city and passing traffic. The compact design has seamlessly integrated multiple requirements, maximizing joinery space, incorporating amenities and even enabling wheelchair access.
The facade artwork was created by Australian artist Pamela Mei-Leng See, who is of Chinese descent and practises a contemporary form of paper cutting. Stevenson describes her involvement as "lifting the bar" in the project, allowing the design team to move beyond mere shape-making in the creation of a unique artwork that incorporates important cultural motifs and a handmade quality. The artwork is characteristic of the artist's style, which is delicate but has striking graphic qualities, incorporates a bold use of colour and depicts natural motifs including a crane, flowers and fish.
By incorporating these significant cultural references the artist adds depth and authenticity to the design, where the hand-cut artwork was digitized and translated into a printed graphic to wrap the facade. Carefully positioned LED lighting gives a highly consistent surface illumination, enabling the kiosk to mimic the form of traditional Chinese lanterns, whose glowing red surfaces were typically decorated with elaborate custom designs.
In order to achieve its material richness and formal precision, the project was tested with 1:1 prototyping and a high level of investment by its team of consultants. By achieving such a high quality of finishes the project exemplifies the potential impact of urban interventions at a human scale, here closely linked to the scale of Dixon Street with its narrow branching laneways and the dark intimacy of its enclosed pedestrian street.
Red Lantern has significant implications as an addition to this complex urban space laced with diverse cultural connotations. It reinforces Chinatown's tourist-oriented role, while being an artwork in its own right that embodies Chinese artistic traditions, presented in a contemporary aesthetic and realized through modern building technologies. The pagoda is transformed from a sterile cultural cliché to a modern expression of Chinese heritage. In this way, the skilful adaptation of an outdated pagoda demonstrates the potential for small-scale interventions to strengthen and even redefine the role of Chinatown in the city.


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A $15 minimum wage is coming on January 1st 2019. 66% of Ontario's want a $15 minimum wage and we are ready and organized to defend the rights that we won, and push for more.
Join us between 11:30 am and 12:30 pm at the Newmarket Farmers' Market to collect signatures on our $15 & Fairness petition to remind our elected representatives that we expect them to be decent work champions!
The Farmers' Market is located at the Newmarket Riverwalk Commons: the corner of Doug Duncan Drive and Timothy Street. We will meet at the southwest corner.
Text Pam at 416-578-3472 if you need more info on the day. Hope to see you there!


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'Undue pressure' on public to donate to Oxfam | Badger Trust's political neutrality questioned
Plus: Sector condemns 'flawed' True and Fair Foundation report | Turley withdraws charities bill amendment | Workplace Giving UK closes | Stephen Dunmore moves to Fundraising Regulator
The Fundraising Standards Board has called for the Institute of Fundraising to amend its code of practice so that fundraisers can no longer ask for a donation more than twice during a telephone call after ruling that the fundraising agency Listen placed "undue pressure" on the public to donate when working on behalf of Oxfam.
The Charity Commission is monitoring the Badger Trust to ensure that its trustees "protect their charity from the perception of party political bias or a lack of independence," a case report from the commission said yesterday.
The voluntary sector has strongly criticised a report from the True and Fair Foundation that claims that one in five charities spend less than half of their income on charitable activities.
The shadow minister for civil society has withdrawn an amendment to the charities bill that would have given charities the right to appeal against official warnings from the Charity Commission.
The payroll giving agency Workplace Giving UK has gone into administration, making it the sixth company within the Fundraising Initiatives Group to cease trading this year.
Stephen Dunmore, former chief executive of the Big Lottery Fund, has been appointed interim chief executive of the new Fundraising Regulator.

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The soils of the designation are brown, brown-lime and lime and generally have a large capacity for water and medium permeability. This permits the vineyards to subsist under lengthy drought conditions, making the most of the available water. These are soils with very little organic matter – its structure doesn't allow the propagation of phylloxera. The soil has a high pH and low salinity and an ungrafted and sand-ungrafted texture that gives it good aeration. The vineyards are located on an area between 400 and 800 metres above sea level.
The character of the wines from Jumilla making them stand out among products from other areas is due to what is known as "terruño", a magical combination of grape variety, composition of soil, the orientation and pruning of vines and the climate.
The climate of the area is continental, influenced by its proximity to the Mediterranean on the east side and La Mancha plateau on the west side. It is a sunny and dry climate, with some 3,000 hours of sun a year and scant rains – some 300 litres per square metre a year; these rains are very irregular and occasionally can become torrential downpours. The average annual temperature is 16º, with cold winters that reach temperatures below zero and hot summer of temperatures exceeding 40º. The frost period usually takes place between the months of November and March.


At Marvin Windows and Doors, we have Careers – Built around you.® We are a world-class designer and manufacturer of wood windows and doors that relies on our years of experience, advanced technology, and the entrepreneurial spirit of our employees to continually grow our business.
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Leadership isn't just a skill for managers. Demonstrating leadership is important for employees at every level of an organization. There are opportunities to lead every day, whether you hold a formal leadership position or not. In this course, leadership and personal development experts Lisa Earle McLeod and Elizabeth McLeod outline how individual contributors or subject matter experts (SMEs) can exhibit leadership by influencing, inspiring, mentoring, and motivating others. They also help you overcome unique challenges such as how to communicate when you think your boss or team is headed in the wrong direction.
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Microaggressions don't necessarily reflect bad intent but can still be very damaging. Therefore, it is important to proactively identify and address microaggressions within your department and your institution before they become a problem. Properly spotting and removing these challenging statements and actions can improve your campus climate while reducing absenteeism, turnover, and employee complaints.
This online training focuses on how you can proactively identify and remove microaggressions from your institution. In our first session, we will work toward understanding different types of microaggressions that are common in higher education and understanding what fuels these behaviors. During our second session, you will be introduced to a framework for removing implicit bias and microaggressions from your environment.
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IASbaba PIB Weekly : Press Information Bureau – 12th Nov to 18th Nov, 2018
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IASbaba PIB Weekly: Press Information Bureau – 12th to 18th November, 2018
Maternity Leave Incentive Scheme
(Topic: Mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.)
Purpose of this Act:
To regulate the employment of women in certain establishments for certain period before and after child birth
To provide maternity benefit and certain other benefits
Act amended through the: Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 which, inter alia, has increased the paid maternity leave to women employees from 12 weeks to 26 weeks.
The Ministry of Labour & Employment is working on an incentive scheme wherein 7 weeks' wages would be reimbursed to employers who employ women workers with wage ceiling upto Rs. 15000/- and provide the maternity benefit of 26 weeks paid leave, subject to certain conditions.
It is estimated that approximately an amount of Rs. 400 crores would be the financial implication for Government of India, Ministry of Labour & Employment for implementing the proposed incentive scheme.
Major Impact: The proposed Scheme, if approved and implemented, shall ensure the women in this country an equal access to employment and other approved benefits along with adequate safety and secure environment. Also, the women shall continue to bear the major share of household work as well as child care. The work places will be more and more responsive to the family needs of the working women.
NITI Aayog Constitutes Himalayan State Regional Council
(Topic: Governance, Organisations; Federalism; Government policies and issues arising out of their design and implementation)
Purpose: To ensure sustainable development of the Indian Himalayan region
The Council has been constituted to review and implement identified action points based on the Reports of five Working Groups, which were established along thematic areas to prepare a roadmap for action. Recognizing the uniqueness of the Himalayas and the challenges for sustainable development, Five Working Groups were constituted by NITI Aayog in 2017. These Working Groups were tasked with preparing a roadmap for action across five thematic areas namely,
Inventory and Revival of Springs in Himalayas for Water Security,
Sustainable Tourism in Indian Himalayan Region,
Shifting Cultivation: Towards Transformation Approach,
Strengthening Skill & Entrepreneurship (E&S) Landscape in Himalayas, and
Data/Information for Informed Decision Making.
Nodal agency for the Sustainable development in the Himalayan Region: The Himalayan States Regional Council will be the which consists of the twelve States namely Jammu &Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, two districts of Assam namely Dima Hasao and KarbiAnglong and Darjeeling and Kalimpong in West Bengal.
Action points include: river basin development and regional cooperation, spring mapping and revival across Himalayas in phased manner for water security; develop, implement and monitor tourism sector standards as well as bring policy coherence, strengthen skill & entrepreneurship with focus on identified priority sectors, among other action points.
Launch of Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP) and Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT)
(Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation + Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources)
Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP) is a three weeks Flagship leadership development training programme (2 weeks domestic and one week foreign training) for second level academic functionaries in public funded higher education institutions.
The main objective is to prepare second tier academic heads who are potentially likely to assume leadership roles in the future.
The programme would provide senior faculty, with high academic credentials, the required leadership and managerial skills including skills of problem-solving, handling stress, team building work, conflict management, developing communication skills, understanding and coping with the complexity and challenges of governance in HEIs, financial & general administration.
The implementation of LEAP Programme will be through 15 NIRF top ranked Indian Institutions. The foreign Universities identified for the training are also within the top 100 in the world global rankings.
LEAP will fulfill the critical need to combine academic and administrative leadership which will make higher education institutions perform their roles of developing better students who will be future torch bearers.
Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT), a major and unique initiative of online professional development of 15 lakh higher education faculty using the MOOCs platform SWAYAM. For implementing ARPIT, 75 discipline-specific institutions have been identified and notified as National Resource Centres (NRCs) in the first phase, which are tasked to prepare online training material with focus on latest developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends, pedagogical improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum.
Must solve:
Combining the qualities of a good teacher and an effective leader is still more daunting task but not an impossible task. Do you agree? Comment.
A leader must talk for all generations, present and future; only then institutional growth can be achieved. Discuss.
Agreements Signed with India
India and Morocco sign Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters: The Agreement will strengthen bilateral cooperation with Morocco and enhance effectiveness and provide a broad legal framework for prevention, investigation and prosecution of crimes; as well as in tracing, restraint and confiscation of funds meant to finance terrorist acts.
Morocco & India agree to assist in Legal & Commercial Matters: The agreement will enhance co-operation in the service of summons, judicial documents, letters of request and the execution of judgments decrees and arbitral awards.
Service of summons and other judicial documents or processes;
Taking of evidence in civil matters;
Production, identification or examination of documents, recordings;
The execution of a Letter of Request for taking of evidence in civil matters;
Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards.
Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Sign $105 Million Loan to Support Hydropower Transmission in Himachal Pradesh:
The program is aimed at developing and expanding the transmission network to evacuate clean and renewable power generated from the State's hydropower sources to load centers within and outside the State.
It also supports the institutional capacity development of the state transmission utility, Himachal Pradesh Power Transmission Corporation Limited (HPPTCL), as the executing agency for this project.
ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. Established in 1966, it is owned by 67 members—48 from the region.
Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) sign $300 Million Loan to support India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL) in India: The Project will enhance availability of long-term finance for PPP projects, improve operational capacity of IIFCL, and expand the portfolio of infrastructure financing instruments available to IIFCL. The Project supports the renewed effort of the Government of India in accelerating infrastructure growth through increased Private Sector investment. The Project is relevant and responsive to the constraints to bank based infrastructure financing, fiscal space creation, and repercussions on GDP growth.
Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (Adb) Sign $ 169 Million Loan to Provide Water and Sanitation Services in Tamil Nadu: The State has faced recurring droughts and erratic monsoons in the recent past resulting in severe water scarcity and urban flooding. With ADB's support the State will be able to address these complex urban challenges through innovative and climate-resilient investment and deeper institutional support.
Though Tamil Nadu is the most urbanized of India's large States, urban service levels remain low, with less than half of households served by piped water, only 42% of households are covered by a sewerage network, with 43% of sewage disposed directly into waterways untreated.
The program will develop climate-resilient sewerage collection and treatment and drainage systems in 10 cities, and install the country's first solar-powered sewage treatment plant. Introduction of smart water management systems will help reduce non-revenue water and strengthen operational efficiency.
Around 4 million people will benefit from piped water and sewerage connections and improved drainage.
The program will boost institutional capacity, public awareness, and urban governance as part of a comprehensive approach for developing livable cities.
Prelims oriented News:
World Toilet Day: 19th November
Rural Jharkhand: Declared ODF
Severe Cyclonic storm which created havoc over Southwest Bay of Bengal: 'GAJA'
Bhoomi Rashi Portal: The portal allows for totally digital and paper-less processing of land acquisition cases, and has resulted in transparent, quick, corruption-free and error-free handling of land acquisition cases. It has also made the possible real-time tracking of activities and generation of reports relating to land acquisition.
SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region): 'SAGAR' is in consonance with India's 'Act East' policy and the nation's diplomatic, economic and military outreach in the region.
Samudra Shakti: Between Indian Navy – Indonesian Navy Bilateral Exercise; The aim of the exercise is to strengthen bilateral relations, expand maritime co-operation, enhance interoperability and exchange best practices.
Two important projects under Swadesh Darshan Scheme of Ministry of Tourism inaugurated: Development of North East Circuits:
Bhalukpong- Bomdila – Tawang Project
Nafra- Seppa- Pappu, Pasa, Pakke Valleys- Sangdupota- New Sagalee- Ziro- Yomcha Project
7th RCEP Inter-Sessional Ministerial Meeting in Singapore
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a mega regional free trade agreement being negotiated amongst 16 countries, comprising 10 ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) plus six ASEAN FTA partners, namely Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.
Both in STRACAP and SPS negotiations, India managed to obtain balanced outcomes in the application of the Dispute Settlement Mechanism. India showed flexibility on the principle of 'consensus' in the Institutional Provisions Chapter which helped in its successful conclusion during the meeting.
Global Digital Content Market (GDCM) 2018
India has been chosen as a host nation for the conference by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) due to the strong creative industry in the country in films, music and media.
Focus for this year's conference: Asia Pacific region
Aim of GDCM 2018: To give industry stakeholders a platform to come together and discuss new avenues in the films, music, gaming and creative industry along with points of challenge that is presented due to the changing creative landscape because of the disruption brought about by digital technologies.
Successful launch of GSLV MK III-D2 carrying GSAT-29 satellite
India's GSAT-29 communication satellite was successfully launched by the second developmental flight of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MarkIII (GSLV MkIII-D2)
GSLV Mk III is a three-stage heavy lift launch vehicle developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Two massive boosters with solid propellant constitute the first stage, the core with liquid propellant form the second stage and the cryogenic engine completes the final stage.
GSAT-29 is a multiband, multi-beam communication satellite, intended to serve as test bed for several new and critical technologies. Its Ku-band and Ka-band payloads are configured to cater to the communication requirements of users including those from remote areas especially from Jammu & Kashmir and North-Eastern regions of India.
RERA is bringing positive transformative changes in the industry
33,750 Projects & 26,018 Agents have been registered under RERA so far
Maharashtra leads with 18,392 Projects & 17,188 Agents Registrations
3rd Regional Workshop on "RERA-a new era of transparency & accountability in Real Estate
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Chhath Pooja
An ancient Hindu Vedic festival historically native to the Indian subcontinent, more specifically, the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh as well as the Madhesh region of Nepal.
The Chhath Puja is dedicated to the Sun and his Sister [Chhathi maiya (goddess)] in order to thank them for bestowing the bounties of life on earth and to request the granting of certain wishes.
Chhath does not involve any idol worship + not a gender-specific festival.
This is the only festival which signifies both the rising and setting sun
Hon'ble President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind
On Biotechnology, S&T
Life sciences today offer a frontier that is still largely unexplored. It is worth noting that while textbooks of the foundations of physics change little from year to year, textbooks of biology and medicine are a work in progress even at fundamental levels. The sciences of genetics, of evolution and of human development have yielded enormous knowledge in recent years, but we are only at the beginnings of a new age of exploration.
Today, through science and technology, humans wield unimaginable power over the future of our planet. We therefore have a responsibility like never before. And scientists, particularly bio-scientists, are our soldiers and generals in the battle to safeguard our planet, our species and our future. To my mind, there are four frontlines in this battle.
The first is the environment. Our air, water and soil must be cleaned. While we do so, we must mitigate the consequences on human and livestock health. An enhanced thrust on studying human and animal health in real environments and finding solutions to problems such as asthma, respiratory disorders and cancers is needed.
The second frontline is that of lifestyle diseases. Diabetes, hypertension and cardiac diseases are on the rise. In the quarter-century since 1990, the number of Indians living with diabetes grew from 26 million to 65 million. In the same period, the incidence of all cancers increased by almost 30 per cent. Diet and lifestyle are key factors, as also maternal, foetal and neonatal health. Both prevention and treatment are vital.
The third frontline is infectious disease. While we take on known infectious diseases, lesser-known ones threaten to expand. Here too we must study the disease in the context of its environment and all its hosts. For example, how does Nipah virus reside in bats? How may its infection spread? How do we test candidate vaccines for humans? These are global challenges. Disease, like science, knows no boundaries. Pandemic influenza viruses don't need passports and visas to spread. On the other hand, the shrinking of animal habitats is creating room for zoonotic diseases and diseases that jump species.
The final frontline is diseases of the brain. Factors that include urban stress and a significant elderly population have left India facing a mental health epidemic. Preventive measures, relevant to our genetics and our lifestyle, are in the realm of theory, waiting to be discovered. We must discover these if our people are to age well, with full mental capacities. If this is not researched by us in our population, ailments such as dementia will be a major problem – and solutions from elsewhere will not fit here.
Vice President of India, Shri. M. Venkaiah Naidu
On Multilateralism
Multilateralism has emerged as the most effective modality for decision-making and conflict resolution
India has always believed in the principle of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' which means the World is one family- collective endeavor for collective benefit. We need united efforts of the world to deal with global development priorities such as eradication of poverty, providing education, health care, employment and gender parity
Thousands of brave Indian soldiers had sacrificed their lives 100 years ago fighting for the cause of righteousness and in the interest of peace, human liberty and freedom
At International Conference 'Asian Patent Attorneys Association'
"Knowledge is a treasure that cannot be stolen, neither can it be confiscated by the State, nor can it be divided among siblings. It is not burdensome to carry. It increases when we share it with others sharing. Knowledge is a treasure that is better than other riches."
Innovation is for the betterment of mankind and India is encouraging the spirit of innovation among the educated enterprising youth.
Intellectual Property Rights hold special importance in the knowledge economy. The new regime of intellectual Property Rights bring a paradigm shift in social exchanges and cultural ethos in communities especially at a time when the world had moved away from viewing knowledge as a mere community asset started treating it as intellectual property.
Emphasis on tangible hard assets is being shifted to intangible soft assets and intellectual properties. India fully recognizes that an effective and robust intellectual property protection regime is essential to attract technology, investment, incentivise innovation and creation of IP assets
As the communities' transit to new phase of Intellectual Property based economy, no conversation on intellectual property rights can be complete without considering the balance of the rights and obligations of IP holders and define what constitutes a genuine, path-breaking intellectual property?
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– En route back to Mexico City, we will stop at San Miguel del Milagro church with a chance to gather water from its miraculous healing well. We will also make a stop at Santa Maria Tonantzintla church.
– This afternoon, we will travel to Tepotzotlan where we will have lunch at a local restaurant and visit the spectacular San Francisco Javier church.
– En route back to Mexico City, we will make a stop in Cuautitlan to visit the birthplace of St. Juan Diego.
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Represented Guernsey-based GoldenPeaks Capital Real Estate, an investment and management company, in its acquisition of the luxury SLS South Beach Hotel, a 141-room beachfront hotel with three restaurants, including The Bazaar by José Andrés, Katsuya by Starck, The Terrace, Bar Centro, and Hyde Beach Club located in Miami Beach, Florida.
Represented real estate investment firm in connection with the acquisition of multifamily properties throughout the U.S. with an aggregate value of over $900,000,000.
Represented Argentine investor in $175,000,000 capitalization of The Gencom Group, one of the largest owners of Ritz-Carlton flagged hotels, and undertaking all property diligence and renegotiation with senior and mezzanine lenders (including Lehman Brothers) for several Ritz-Carlton hotels in Florida and around the U.S. The Firm was awarded "Dealmaker of the Year" by the Daily Business Review for its work on this transaction.
Represented Marriott International Capital Corporation in connection with $123,000,000 permanent financing for the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Key Biscayne (Miami), Florida.
Represented Pensam Capital, a Miami-Based real estate investment firm, in a $73,000,000 acquisition of six multifamily properties located in central and north Florida, South Carolina and Iowa totaling 1,570 apartments.
Represented lender in connection with its participation in a $50,000,000 loan for construction of a hotel and parking garage in West Palm Beach, Florida adjacent to the existing Palm Beach County Convention Center.
Represented real estate investment firm in connection with the acquisition of multifamily properties throughout the U.S. with an aggregate value of over $700,000,000.
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Representation of owner of Class A Office Building in the Brickell Avenue market in connection with commercial leases.
Representation of foreign bank in connection with corporate headquarters in Coral Gables, Florida.


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Q: Using \ character in textarea This might be an stupid question for many of you, but I'm hitting a wall with the stupidest thing.
I'm displaying code in a textarea field, but the code includes the character \, so it disappears in the code shown.
This is the exact line:
'return x.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",")'+

And this is what is displayed:
return x.toString().replace(/B(?=(d{3})+(?!d))/g, ",")

I know the solution is easy, but I can't find it

A: That is because the \ character is an escape character within strings in JavaScript.  If you want the character itself to show, you need to escape it with another one:  \\
So your code would need to be:
'return x.toString().replace(/\\B(?=(\\d{3})+(?!\\d))/g, ",")'+

A: To display a literal \ you could just convert it to it's HTML entity values using a table like this
For backslash you would want to type \
If the code snippets you want to print are stored in a DB and fetched via PHP you could always run a htmlentities() on them before echo:ing them to your frontend to ensure characters like backslash are displayed properly.

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Frank Silvera
Highest Rated: 93% Hombre (1967)
Lowest Rated: 40% The Stalking Moon (1968)
Jamaican-born Frank Silvera attended Northeastern Law School before inaugurating his acting career. One of the few black actors of the 1950s who was able to avoid being typecast by the color of his skin, Silvera played a wide variety of ethnic types, from Latin to Middle Eastern to Oriental. He made his film bow in 1952's Viva Zapata, and shortly thereafter was prominently cast in two of Stanley Kubrick's seminal films, Fear and Desire (1953) and Killer's Kiss (1955). Silvera was founder of The Theatre of Being, which was devoted to helping young African-American actors get started in show business; he also directed several stage plays in New York and Los Angeles. Frank Silvera was electrocuted in his home at the age of 56, while trying to repair an electrical appliance. At the time of his death, he was a regular on the TV series The High Chapparal.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Killer's Kiss
Fear and Desire
No Score Yet Valdez Is Coming
No Score Yet Che!
Goatheard
No Score Yet Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Lobero
No Score Yet Up Tight!
40% The Stalking Moon
89% The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Nicholas Sorello
93% Hombre
Mexican Bandit
No Score Yet The Appaloosa
43% The Greatest Story Ever Told
40% Toys in the Attic
70% Mutiny on the Bounty
Minarii
No Score Yet The Mountain Road
Gen. Kwan
No Score Yet Heller in Pink Tights
No Score Yet Crime and Punishment, U.S.A.
No Score Yet Death Tide
82% Killer's Kiss
Vincent Rapallo
71% Fear and Desire
No Score Yet White Mane
61% Viva Zapata!
No Score Yet The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
60% The Cimarron Kid
Stacey Marshall
No Score Yet The Fighter
Paulino
No Score Yet The High Chaparral
Don Sebastian Don Sebastian Montoya
No Score Yet Marcus Welby, M.D.
No Score Yet The Wild Wild West
No Score Yet Gunsmoke
No Score Yet Rawhide
No Score Yet The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
No Score Yet Bonanza
Mateo El Jefe
82% The Twilight Zone
Dr. Koslenko
No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Jonathan Hyett
Quotes from Frank Silvera's Characters
Major: One more year! That's all I ask.
Sam Varner: That's all you asked last year.
Sam Varner: That's all I'll ask next year!
Mexican Bandit: hey, Hombre, you give me quite a stomach ache. I haven't had a stomach ache like dat since I was a little boy
Mexican Bandit: Hey, Hombre, you give me quite a stomach ache. I haven't had a stomach ache like dat since I was a little boy.
Mexican Bandit: Hey, Hombre, you give me quite a stomach ache. I haven't had a belly ache like this since I was a little boy.
Mexican Bandit: can I at least know his name?
Mexican Bandit: I would at least like to know his name.


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In the wake of the news that twin girls were born in China with DNA altered by CRISPR, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences are planning an international commission to discuss the most controversial use of the technology: germline editing. This application involves altering the DNA of an embryo, sperm, or egg in such a way as to make it heritable by that individual's children.
Experts say criteria for germline editing need to address how thoroughly to scrutinize a genome for both intended and unintended edits. The criteria in the 2017 report on this topic were not clear and stated that germline editing can be performed only in the "absence of reasonable alternatives" to address a "serious disease," and if safety is paramount.
He Jiankui, PhD, the scientist who altered the DNA of human embryos to make them resistant to HIV, claimed he met all those criteria. However, according to Chinese state media, Dr. Jiankui was found by Chinese authorities to have "seriously violated" state regulations. Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen cancelled his contract, and he could face criminal charges for forging ethics documents and using unsafe and ineffective gene-editing methods.
Sources: STAT News, January 24, 2019; The New York Times, January 23, 2019.


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Home ABOUT ME News Update China Law Firm News: Mallesons takes out five at IFLR Asia Awards 2009
China Law Firm News: Mallesons takes out five at IFLR Asia Awards 2009
Mallesons Stephen Jaques has been named National Law Firm of the Year for Australia and Regional Law Firm of the Year at the International Financial Law Review's (IFLR's) Asia Awards 2009. The firm has also won three Deal of the Year Awards for Structured Finance and Securitisation, M&A and Restructuring.
Mallesons has received the National Law Firm of the Year award every year since 2003 and the Regional Law Firm of the Year award five times since 2004.
The IFLR Asia Awards recognise the best performing law firm in each of the Asian jurisdictions that IFLR covers, with a particular focus on cross border capital markets, finance and mergers and acquisitions work. Firms are rewarded for innovation, quality and commitment to the development of legal services in the Asia-Pacific region.
When deciding the winners, IFLR takes into consideration client recommendations and the innovation and legal complexity of deals.
Mallesons' Chief Executive Partner Robert Milliner said: "It is a great honour for Mallesons to be recognised as the leading firm in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. The IFLR Asia Awards are highly regarded by the legal sector and financial community.
"Our win reflects our continued commitment to legal excellence and the highest level of client service. During these tougher times, Mallesons' focus remains on deepening our relationships with clients, strengthening our expertise and delivering exceptional results," Mr Milliner said.
"The firm has acted as trusted adviser on some of the most complex and significant financial transactions of the year and we are very pleased to have our hard work and continued dedication being recognised by IFLR."
Mallesons has received more client voted awards during 2008-09 than any other firm in Australia and is included in the Practical Lawyer Company (PLC) Global 50 Law Firms 2009.
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Brain Game: Forty-Fives
As a youngster, I bought more music on cassette than any other format. (A brilliant decision in retrospect, considering that it's probably the least-collectible recording format ever offered.) But I did own a handful of music albums (most won from contests on local radio stations) and a few singles, as well. Speaking of those 45s:
How many grooves are on a
standard 7" diameter 45RPM record
whose A-side is 4:20 long and
whose B-side is 3:45 long?
Here is the ANSWER.
TWO; one on each side.
Neither the length of a record nor its playing speed has any effect on the number of grooves. With rare exception, vinyl records have one groove per side.


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July 10, 2015 / 11:14 PM / 5 years ago
Former Vatican ambassador goes on trial in child abuse case
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, will go on trial on Saturday accused of child sex offences in a case seen as a test of Pope Francis's drive to clean up the church.
It will be the first trial held under rules drawn up by the Argentinian pontiff in an effort to make the clergy accountable for their actions around the world and show that the Vatican is sensitive to widespread anger over repeated abuse scandals.
The 66-year-old former Polish archbishop was "apostolic nuncio", or Vatican ambassador, in Santo Domingo for five years
and was recalled to Rome in 2013 after local media accused him of paying boys to perform sexual acts.
The pope ordered a criminal investigation and he was arrested last September and detained in the Vatican — the first arrest in the tiny city state related to pedophilia charges.
After his arrest, Vatican inspectors found child pornographic material on his computer.
Wesolowski has already been defrocked by a Vatican tribunal, a rare occurrence and a sign of how seriously the church has taken the accusations against him.
He faces up to eight years in jail if found guilty of abusing a minor and two years for possession of child pornography. Such a sentence would almost certainly be served in Italy rather than the Vatican. Officials have also suggested he could be extradited to the Dominican Republic or Poland.
Looking to restore the credibility of the Roman Catholic Church following a wave of sexual scandals around the world, Francis ruled in 2013 that the Vatican's criminal code could be applied to its employees wherever they lived.
In June, he also approved the creation of an unprecedented Vatican tribunal to judge bishops accused of covering up or failing to prevent sexual abuse of minors.
While groups representing victims of priestly abuse have welcomed the Wesolowski trial, they have said much more needs to be done to clean up the Church and root out wrongdoers.
One group, BishopAccountability.org, says 79 bishops have been accused publicly of sexual wrongdoing, and only four have been defrocked.
The pope will not be in the Vatican when Wesolowski's trial opens. He is visiting three South American countries and has taken much of the Vatican media pack with him.
"It's very important that they do this right and I'm pretty sure that the date was chosen so that there wasn't a big media circus surrounding day one of the trial," said Robert Mickens, editor-in-chief of the Catholic magazine "Global Pulse".
A Vatican official said Saturday's hearing was expected to be taken up by procedural matters, adding that the trial was likely to continue for several months.
Additional reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by Alison Williams


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Q: NMAP continuous ping I need to implement a code which is able to send ping packets each second toward a certain amount of destinations. The problem is that I'd like to ping as much destinations as possible inside 1 second window. For this reason I was thinking if there was a way to impose cycling into nmap [I mean something like -cycle nmap parameter] so that sockets would be opened only once and closed at the end of loop ping, saving way more time than using a "watch nmap" approach!

A: Part of the Nmap project is the Nping tool. It is designed to do exactly what you want, and is very configurable. Here's an example run:
$ sudo nping --rate 4 --icmp 192.168.1.4/30

Starting Nping 0.6.26SVN ( http://nmap.org/nping ) at 2013-02-08 11:53 CST
SENT (0.0192s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.5 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (0.2692s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.6 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (0.5193s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.7 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (0.7695s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.4 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (1.0196s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.5 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (1.2701s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.5 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
RCVD (1.2707s) ICMP 192.168.1.5 > 192.168.1.142 Echo reply (type=0/code=0) ttl=64 id=34160 iplen=28
SENT (1.5206s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.7 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (1.7708s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.4 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (2.0209s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.5 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (2.2712s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.5 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
RCVD (2.2717s) ICMP 192.168.1.5 > 192.168.1.142 Echo reply (type=0/code=0) ttl=64 id=34161 iplen=28
SENT (2.5216s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.7 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (2.7717s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.4 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (3.0219s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.5 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
SENT (3.2724s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.5 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
RCVD (3.2730s) ICMP 192.168.1.5 > 192.168.1.142 Echo reply (type=0/code=0) ttl=64 id=34162 iplen=28
SENT (3.5230s) ICMP 192.168.1.142 > 192.168.1.7 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=64 id=53659 iplen=28
^C
Statistics for host 192.168.1.4:
 |  Probes Sent: 4 | Rcvd: 0 | Lost: 4  (100.00%)
 |_ Max rtt: N/A | Min rtt: N/A | Avg rtt: N/A
Statistics for host 192.168.1.5:
 |  Probes Sent: 4 | Rcvd: 3 | Lost: 1  (25.00%)
 |_ Max rtt: 0.391ms | Min rtt: 0.263ms | Avg rtt: 0.332ms
Statistics for host 192.168.1.6:
 |  Probes Sent: 4 | Rcvd: 0 | Lost: 4  (100.00%)
 |_ Max rtt: N/A | Min rtt: N/A | Avg rtt: N/A
Statistics for host 192.168.1.7:
 |  Probes Sent: 3 | Rcvd: 0 | Lost: 3  (100.00%)
 |_ Max rtt: N/A | Min rtt: N/A | Avg rtt: N/A
Raw packets sent: 15 (420B) | Rcvd: 3 (138B) | Lost: 12 (80.00%)
Tx time: 3.57078s | Tx bytes/s: 117.62 | Tx pkts/s: 4.20
Rx time: 3.57078s | Rx bytes/s: 38.65 | Rx pkts/s: 0.84
Nping done: 4 IP addresses pinged in 3.59 seconds

A: You could spawn multiple parallel nmap processes in the command line via:
nmap [options for destination 0] > output0 &

Spawn many such nmap requests for each destination while keeping a running index of the outputX files (output0, output1, etc).. When all your requests are complete, you can examine the contents of each output file


Each year, there are over 300 million visits to swimming venues. In the United States, there is no federal regulatory authority responsible for disinfected aquatic facilities (e.g. swimming pools, water parks, etc.); all pool codes are developed, reviewed, and approved by state and/or local public health officials. As a result, there are no uniform, national standards governing the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of swimming pools and other treated aquatic facilities. Thus, the code requirements for preventing and responding to recreational water illnesses (RWIs) can vary significantly among local and state agencies.
To address these issues, CDC, through an initial grant from the National Swimming Pool Foundation, is working with public health and industry representatives across the United States to prevent drowning, injuries, and the spread of recreational water illnesses at public swimming pools and spas by building a Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC). The MAHC will serve as a model and guide for local and state agencies needing to update or implement swimming pool and spa code, rules, regulations, guidance, law, or standards governing the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of swimming pools, spas, hot tubs, and other treated or disinfected aquatic facilities.
Decreased efficacy of chlorine disinfection – over the past 30 years we have seen the emergence of chlorine-tolerant Cryptosporidium as the leading cause of GI illness outbreaks (58 outbreaks for 2007-2008, affecting >12,100 persons).
Deficits in pool operation – analysis of 120,000 pool inspections showed 1 of 8 pools were closed immediately for critical health and safety violations.
Continued drowning of swimmers – an average of 3,880 persons drowned each year during 2005–2009; death rates were highest among children less than 5 years old.
Prevent injuries, pathogen transmission, outbreaks, and associated costs.
Reduce pool code violations and closures related to imminent health and safety hazards.
Drive code standardization, uniformity, and adoption of minimum standards nationally as occurred with the FDA Model Food Code.
Expand public health impact by integrating into the international building and plumbing code creation and updating process.
Facilitate adoption of a systems-based, risk reduction approach to pool design and operation.
Promote incorporation of science-based practices into pool programs to provide uniform inspection forms and inspector training, improve data collection, and expand surveillance.
Expedite data-driven decision making and resource allocation.
Collect data to support utility and effectiveness of pool programs to prevent program elimination.
Decrease resources expended in creating and updating pool codes.
Thank you for helping get the word out about MAHC. It's important that training and knowledge is put into place with regard to swimming pools to prevent tragedy before it occurs. Many health codes are not backed by science and the MAHC is a great resource for anyone in public health.


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Challenge yourself – the bravest conquerors of Kilimanjaro.
Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and one of the 7 highest peaks of the world, challenging the climbers with an altitude of 5895 meters (19341 ft). Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is increasingly becoming a dream for many enthusiasts of outdoor activities. Kilimanjaro climbing is an incredible experience and technically is not considered very difficult. Because of the proximity to the equator there are all types of high altitude zones on the mountain, which the climbers pass one after another. Thus, during the elevation you can see all the main climate zones of the Earth in barely a few hours. On the four Kilimanjaro routes – Lemosho, Northern Circuit, Rongai and Machame routes - almost anyone can climb without special training.
There is no officially confirmed data on tourists who conquered Kilimanjaro but nearly 60,000 climbers try to do it every year. 30 000-45 000 people reach the top every year excluding the conductors. The success rates are increasing every year due to rising awareness of the need for high-altitude acclimatization. The first thing any beginner climber needs to understand is that the shorter the time on the mountain the lower the chances of success at the top. With a five-day route only 27% of the climbers reach the peak.
There is no documented data on the number of deaths in the process of conquesting the highest peak in Africa. KINAPA does not disclose this information in order to avoid scaring off tourists, however, every year about 7 people die on the routes because of insufficient altitude acclimatization.
Among the conquerors of Kilimanjaro, there are real daredevils, record-holders of the Guinness Book of Records who defy not only grief but themselves first of all.
The oldest woman to climb Kilimanjaro is Angela Vorobyova, a Russian-born from Ulan-Ude (86 years old). She set a new Guinness record becoming the oldest woman to conquer the volcano Kilimanjaro. The expedition reached the summit on October 29, 2015. According to the Russian woman, while traveling you will not only discover the world but also yourself, get to realize what you are capable of and what you are worth in this life.
The oldest man to climb Kilimanjaro was Dr Fred Distelhorst, an 88-year-old retired orthodontist. Dr. Distelhorst chose the Rongai route and appeared to be quite insightful. The Rongai route takes rise at the northeastern slope of the mountain, close to the border with neighboring Kenya. The team of climbers left high camp at 11:38 PM on July 19, 2017, and successfully finished their conquest at 9:33 AM on July 20, 2017. The entire hike took six days.
On January 21, 2008 a 7-year-old braveheart named Keats Boyd from LA was lucky to become the youngest person on Earth to conquer Africa's highest peak.
The youngest woman to reach the summit was Roxy Getter from Florida, U.S. She stepped on the peak in July 2017 being barely 8 years old. Roxy and her brother, as well as her entire family embraced this breathtaking adventure quite spontaneously, while enjoying their vacation in Tanzania.
On February 9, 2015 Valery Rozov - a famous Russian BASE jumper performed the first jump in history from the highest mountain in Africa - the volcano Kilimanjaro. Valery Rozov spent slightly more than 1 minute in freefall overcoming a distance of more than 3 kilometers along the horizon during his jump. From the jump point to the landing the altitude difference was more than 1500 meters.
Stephan Siegrist from Switzerland was the first climber in history to perform a successful highlining in the summit area of Africa's highest mountain, setting a new world record on June 20, 2015. Reaching the summit Stephan confessed that even though he had good altitude acclimatization and perfect preparation it was difficult for him to keep his balance at such height.
"Conquerors of Kilimanjaro" or a women's football team of 30 volunteers from different nationalities fulfilled their dream and set a new world record - a football match at the highest point of the African continent on June 29, 2017. The fearless footballers, the youngest of whom was 18 and the oldest 66, not only reached the summit but also played a match in extreme conditions on the field strewn with volcanic ash. The 90 minute match was conducted according to all the rules of professional football.
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Miss Prissy (born Marquisa Gardner) is an American dancer known for the krumping style. She has been called The Queen of Krump.

She was one of the dancers featured in the 2005 film Rize, a documentary about krump dancing. In 2012 she choreographed The Underground, a performance by 12 dancers to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the beginnings of krump, at the University of Southern California's Bovard Auditorium.  Other film appearances include Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007).

Miss Prissy trained in classical ballet from the age of four, and was a cheerleader at school. She began to be called "Miss Prissy" because school-mates in "The Valley" were surprised that a girl from her "South Central" background was a ballet dancer and "so girly".  She teaches krumping at a dance school in North Hollywood.

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I spent my early childhood in Yemen. Living in Sa'dah. I moved to there when I was four and stayed until I was six. My brother was born there. Then the gulf war broke out and I was evacuated to Cyprus. I lived in a hotel for six months with my mother and brother. A bank was blown up two blocks from our hotel. Ironically it was less safe in Cyprus than it was in Yemen. You can't go to Yemen anymore. Mainly because of the civil war. My father told me, a couple years ago, that all of my childhood friends who still lived there are dead. I would like to go back to 1990 and be in Yemen again. Pre terrorism. Pre civil war. Pre gulf war. Yemen is a beautiful country and the earliest parts of my life that I can remember take place there..


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Nevada Margin Tax Initiative Voted Down in Landslide
Scott Drenkard
One of the initiatives we were watching most yesterday was the vote on implementing a "margin tax" in Nevada, which was an attempt to raise revenue for public schools. Today, the news is that the initiative was voted down in a landslide, 78.8 to 21.2 percent with 95 percent of precincts reporting as of post time.
If you've been following our blog, you've seen the two posts my colleague Liz Malm wrote this week that pointed out that 1) only five states have gross receipts-style taxes because they are so economically damaging, and 2) that policymakers in Texas are very displeased with their margin tax, and it's not worth copying.
But there are other interesting elements going on with this initiative too. For example, the Nevada AFL-CIO was the group that filed the initiative, but later passed a resolution to officially oppose the measure. In their official statement, they said it would "cost many of our members their jobs and raise the cost of living on Nevadans on a fixed income and on citizens that are still struggling to make ends meet after years of a terrible recession." Going up to the election, the Nevada State Education Association (the teacher's union) was, from my reading, the only group supporting the measure.
Another interesting feature of this ballot question was how far off the polling numbers were from the actual results. Here's a sampling of polls from Ballotpedia leading up to the vote:
Public Opinion Strategies,
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Harstad Strategic Research,
Survey USA,
9/29/2014 – 10/01/2014
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We heard some rumblings before the vote that voters were misinformed by the branding by proponents of the measure as the "Education Initiative," and did not know that the question would create a new tax. I don't know exactly why things flipped so dramatically from the opinion polls, but my guess is that sizeable ad campaigns were continually reminding voters that Measure 3 was in fact a tax measure.
Regardless, this is good news, both for Nevada and the rest of the country. We sometimes hear a faulty line of reasoning from states that a) Texas is great, b) Texas has a margin tax, so c) margin taxes are great. Texas' fiscal structure has many great features, but the margin tax isn't one of them. And if you don't believe me, just ask any of the sponsors of the ninety bills filed last year in the Texas legislature to amend or repeal the margin tax.
More on Nevada.
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Location. 42° 28.369′ N, 73° 53.923′ W. Marker is in Coeymans Hollow, New York, in Albany County. Marker is on New York State Route 143, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Coeymans Hollow NY 12046, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Paper Mills (approx. 1.3 miles away); Wiltsie Farm (approx. 4½ miles away); Early Doctor (approx. 5.2 miles away); Coeymans (approx. 5½ miles away); Catskill Mountains (approx. 5.7 miles away); Albany County (approx. 6½ miles away); Slingerland House 1762 (approx. 6.8 miles away); Hamlet of Selkirk (approx. 6.8 miles away).
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Tuesday , Feb , 22 , 2005 C.Y. Ellis Tweet
McCants out for Heels' game with N.C. State
Chapel Hill, NC (Sports Network) – North Carolina star forward Rashad McCants
will miss Tuesday's contest between the second-ranked Tar Heels and in-state
rival North Carolina State because of an intestinal disorder.
McCants, the ACC's leading scorer in 2003-04, has been bothered by the ailment
for more than a week and played just 19 minutes in Saturday's 88-56 victory
over Clemson.
The 6-4 junior stands second among Tar Heel players with a 15.8 points per
game average and has made a team-best 50 three pointers this season. McCants
currently ranks third in the ACC with a 49.1 percent field goal percentage.
It is not known whether McCants will be in uniform when North Carolina travels
to Maryland on Sunday.
"It's a tough break for Rashad, but his teammates know they have to raise the
level of their games in his absence," said Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams.
"Of course it's a difficult time of year to lose a key player, but it's part
of the game and we have to keep playing."
McCants earned first-team All-ACC and third-team All-America laurels as a
sophomore after averaging 20 points, 4.6 rebounds and shooting 40.8 percent
from three-point range.
The Tar Heels currently sit atop the ACC standings with a 10-2 record and
carry a 22-3 overall mark into Tuesday's battle with the Wolfpack.
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The following are original oil paintings with hand-painted shutters as frames.
The paintings are inspired from photographs Sissi takes. Sissi creates her original paintings with premium artist materials. The artist also paints the frame and shutters.
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Please contact Auspire – The Australia Day Council WA at coty@auspire.org.au to register your interest in the program – The Citizen of the Year Awards Program is only available as a benefit of becoming a Gold Member of Auspire – The Australia Day Council WA.
Registered participating councils receive access to a marketing toolkit to promote the program within your community, your logo on this website, a set of gold medallions to engrave, a set of gold foiled personalised certificates and this fully-automated nominations website to capture the information about all your community heroes.
The program is being promoted across the state to create awareness and drive nominations via our media partners Channel 7, The West Australian, Community Newspaper Group and 6PR.
The Community Citizen of the Year Awards program has been delivered in partnership with Local Government organisations since 2003. The program has evolved into one of the key activities and draw-cards for Local Governments to acknowledge people within their community for outstanding engagement and enhancement of community wellbeing.
The Patron of Australia Day WA is His Excellency, the Governor of Western Australia who is a signatory of the program certificates – a huge honour and very special acknowledgement for those community members who are nominated and recognised by their local council in each of the categories.
Each recipient will receive a gold foiled certificate, signed by His Excellency, together with a 'Community Citizen of the Year' medal. You will receive these in plenty of time to personalise them by engraving recipients' names, and your council, on the reverse if you wish to do so. You will receive one medal for each category and additional medals can be purchased, at a small cost, where required (i.e if your Group/Event recipients require more than one medal).
Auspire – The Australia Day Council WA has introduced significantly improved elements to the Australia Day WA Community Citizen of the Year Awards program including this dedicated website to help capture and administer all those nominations of great people participating and contributing in their local communities.
Step 1 – Register for the awards program. Make sure you provide us with contact details for your awards program coordinator so that we can keep them informed with every stage of the process.
Step 2 – Once you are registered, send us your logo to feature on this website.
Step 3 – When a nomination is submitted for your council your coordinator will receive an automated notification and be able to download the nomination to circulate electronically with your selection committee. If your council has not registered to participate we will advise the nominator accordingly.
When you register please send us your Council logo (a good quality jpeg please) and we'll include it on the Citizen of the Year website.
We're also delighted to confirm that Channel 7 Perth, 6PR, The West Australian and the Community Newspaper Group have engaged as our media partners for this program. You'll see advertisements on TV, hear them on radio and see them in your community newspapers driving people to the website to nominate. We'll also run Google and Facebook campaigns as additional promotion.
You'll also be able to promote your council's involvement at a local level. Once registered, you'll receive access to call for nominations banners and other artwork to use on your website, social media platforms, electronic newsletters and emails. There is no need for a costly mail out process like in previous years – though printed nomination forms will be available to download and print from the website if required.
Call for nominations is underway – what happens next?
Your nominated contact person will automatically receive your council's nominations by email as they are submitted. You're then able to consider your nominees after the 31 October 2018 closing date and make your selections.
You've made your selections – what now?
Provide us with your selected recipients in each category by Friday, 7 December 2018. Please triple-check the spelling of their names or their preferred name and provide them to us by email at coty@auspire.org.au We can then produce the certificates and mail them to you together with your medals.
Also, let us know why they were chosen with a few key points of how your community has benefited from their contribution. We'd also appreciate a few good quality photographs of your presentation ceremony so that we can share the stories and help recognise your community champions in our publicity campaign during and post your event. We'll provide their stories and photos to our media partners and to our Awards Patron – His Excellency, the Governor of Western Australia.
(let us know if you will be presenting on an alternative date so that we can inform our media partners not to publish recipients' names beforehand).
Who to contact to register your participation.
Contact coty@auspire.org.au and we can email you a registration form or call 0499 111 944 during office hours.


No spiritual or philosophical concept, no matter how simple or profound, is of much value unless it is practiced in daily life. The closer a seeker comes to truth, the closer he comes to discovering the tools that bring success in life. Indeed, the "secrets" of outer success are not secrets at all. In sports, business, law, the arts, and sciences the spiritual principles of success, even if appearing fortuitous, are the same. Life as we know it is short, but its lessons transcend a single lifetime. If the eternal nature of existence is not fully understood and incorporated into our lives, we cannot comprehend the larger truth fundamental to higher consciousness.
But what is success? The question has been debated for centuries. Definitions vary, depending on the level of consciousness and what we perceive as our purpose in life. The hedonist proclaims: "You only go around once, so go for all the gusto you can!" The object of life here is obviously limited, even if fleetingly satisfying. A more commonly accepted definition of success is acquisition of wealth, possessions, and power. Interestingly, this definition often has a spiritual dimension, though not immediately apparent.
Frequently, such people engage in philanthropy and community service, which are certainly noble and help to reconcile spirituality with a life devoted primarily to acquisition and power. Worldly achievements, community service, and noble gestures often result in schools, bridges, and highways named after the benefactor. In a material and competitive society, these have become widely accepted as the epitome of success. And they are no small accomplishments. Anyone who has struggled with the challenges of everyday life rightfully admires such accomplishments. Nonetheless, these pursuits are spiritually hollow. Even with the best of intentions, such acts of generosity often result in ill will, contempt, or dependency on the giver.
However, our definition of success can be expanded to encompass more than the experiences of a single lifetime. It can include the entire breadth of existence, in all dimensions of reality/illusion, and our ultimate spiritual purpose in life. Defined in this manner, the more materialistic measures of success are not only shallow, but also counterproductive to spiritual growth. The path to material or socially defined success is fraught with peril for those seeking a higher spiritual purpose in life. Indeed, while the end may justify the means under a materialistic definition of success, to the enlightened person, the means are more important than the end. The person who lives an honest life, honoring truth and living by its call, respecting others and giving to life and those around him, may accomplish more, spiritually, than the most honored figure in history.
What emerges is a definition of life and success in which outward accomplishment, though important, is not the most important measure. The competitive standard of life, defined as winning and acquiring, is only one part of a larger unfolding drama. Recognizing and living both dimensions simultaneously are the keys to the practice of higher consciousness. This is the greatest challenge we face. The two have many parallels and divergences. An unsuccessful job is usually viewed, from a physical life perspective, as a failure, and it can lead to feelings of defeat. But from a spiritual perspective, the measure is how well the individual maintains inner and outer balance and spiritual awareness throughout the experience. The test is whether she focuses on the spiritual lessons offered by the experience or the traditional measures of outward success or failure. This illustration carries into every aspect of our lives. Frustration, disappointment, deadlock, and delay are all around us all of the time. Too often, our focus on outcomes rather than inner processes affects the actual outcome and, more importantly, our spiritual growth. Viewing life from only one perspective destines us to be the effect of life, forever wandering, never finding the levers of control.
The person who understands the spiritual side of life and believes that prayer, visualization, and other inward processes are all that is required has, surprisingly, also missed the mark. So too has the individual who places exclusive emphasis on intellect, work, and outer efforts, for he does not realize that inner processes are equally important. The enlightened person understands that both are necessary, and in appropriate balance, to achieve complete success. Such a person understands that material success is only the means to a greater spiritual end.


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Elephant Tranquilizer Carfentanil Overdoses, Deaths Continue In PA, Elsewhere
Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid indicated for use as a sedative only very large animals, such as elephants. At 100 times more powerful than fentanyl itself (and 10,000 times stronger than morphine) it is probably the most potent and potentially deadly drug on the planet.
Last year, the elephant tranquilizer drug was responsible for a large number of deaths, particularly in Ohio. Like its weaker cousin fentanyl (which is still incredibly potent) it has been increasingly found cut into heroin as a buffer to increase profits.
But users often don't know what's in their heroin or other drugs they are purchasing, and the presence of either fentanyl or carfentanil is akin to playing Russian roulette. An amount of carfentanil equal to a grain of salt can result in very rapid death.
Even incidental skin contact of either drug can be enough to cause an overdose, and those who may be exposed through handlings, such as medical professionals or veterinarians, must wear protective gear to avoid fatal contact. The anti-opioid overdose naloxone can reverse a life-threatening overdose, but in the case of fentanyl and carfentanil, sometimes multiple doses are required.
In January, A York City woman was attacked and seriously injured while overdosing on carfentanil. The woman was the home of friend Trisha George, 30, where she received and snorted what she thought was heroin from her friend's boyfriend, Christopher Waltz, 29.
While she was overdosing, George allegedly struck her multiple times in the head and upper body. The woman required hospitalization and months of follow-up treatment. Official documents do not reveal the reason for the attack.
At the time of this writing, George and Waltz are wanted on felony warrants. George will be charged with aggravated assault, and Waltz will be charged with opioid possession, among other offenses.
Also in York County, a confirmed death by carfentanil occurred in June, but the York County Coroner Pam Gay did not release more information due to the ongoing nature of the investigation.
Also last month, officials in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania announced that the county had experienced its first known overdose deaths from carfentanil.
Toxicology reports discovered the drug in the system of a man, 43, who was found deceased in Lower Merion on June 10. A second man, 65, was from Philadelphia and was taken to Lankenau Hospital for an overdose on June 13 and died later that day.
Then, carfentanil was found in the body of a man from Chester County. The Phoenixville man, 34, died on July 4 in this residence from "acute Carfentanil toxicity," and Damon Alfred Eskridge, 20, of Phoenixville was later charged with selling the elephant tranquilizer drug.
Law enforcement reported that Eskridge was arrested after uncover police officers set up a drug purchase with him using the victim's cell phone. Eskridge is facing up to 20-40 years in prison if convicted.
On March 24, Michael Martinez, 26, and Camillo Sanchez, 30, were discovered deceased at a residence in the El Jebel area. In April, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation tested the pills and found they contained heroin laced with carfentanil.
In July, Florida man Samuel Brunelus, 23, was arrested on manslaughter in association with the deaths of the two men to whom he allegedly provided the drugs. According to the Eagle County Sheriff's Office, Brunelus was arrested and taken into custody in Deerfield on July 11.
Brunelus was linked to the pills that killed the two men after a long investigation conducted by the Eagle County Sheriff's office in collaboration with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
At the time of this writing, Brunelus is being held at the Broward County Detention Facility for two counts of manslaughter and distribution of a Schedule II controlled substance and is awaiting extradition to Colorado.
Last month, New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald announced that there had been at least ten deaths in the state linked to carfentanil and that 18 people had been indicted on charges of possession and sale of the drug.
MacDonald also said that his office was examining 39 cases involving fentanyl, and said that the majority of the cases were in the southern part of New Hampshire and that they believed the drugs were being brought in from other states.
Recently WKTT reported that two EMS personnel in Owingsville, Kentucky, and one infant were sent to the hospital after exposure to heroin laced with carfentanil. First responders were transporting a patient to the hospital when the driver became ill and was forced to pull over.
The driver was given naloxone and taken to the emergency room while a police officer took over the transportation of the patient in the ambulance. Soon after, EMS received a call that an infant from the same residence was also exposed to the elephant tranquilizer drug, likely airborne.
A member of the personnel who transported the infant to the hospital also then fell ill and had to be hospitalized as well. Fortunately, in this case, everyone was expected to experience a full recovery
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