Agustinas Convent – The community of Discalced Agustinians was formed in Xabia by sister Ana Maria Gallart in 1663.
San Bartolome Church – The church is one of the best examples of Late Valencian Gothic architecture. The primitive style of the first church was started in the 14th century.
Javea Town Hall – The Town Hall building dates from the 14th century when it was 2 stories high. It was restored in the 18th century and an additional floor was added in the 20th century.
Javea Windmills / Els Molins – Javea has 12 windmills, 11 of them running in a line west to east on the hill top, La Plana, at a height of 190 metres above sea level. The other one the Moli de Safranera is at a lower level only 60 feet above sea level. All were built between the 14th and 18th century for grinding grain.
The main beach of Javea is Playa de Arenal, a fine sandy beach with a good range of facilities. The beach is backed by a wide promenade which is lined with shops, bars and restaurants, and is also the location for a lively craft market which is held on warm summer evenings.
Javea holds its weekly market on Thursdays and this is a popular place to stock up on fresh locally grown produce.
Javeas Fishmarket supplies many of the areas restaurants and fishmongers and also sells to the public in a little shop just outside the main auction house on the quay side. As the boats unload their catches they are are sold at auction to the various restaurant owners and fishmongers. A selection of the catch is also sold at the shop on the side of the auction house. It opens around 6:00 pm most evenings.
Some fish are line caught but you will also find other specialities here such as octopus (pulpa), squid and big red Denia prawns (gamba de Dénia) which are reputed to be the best in the world!


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Home News & Analysis Hudson Realty adds transactions pro
Hudson Realty adds transactions pro
The New York-based real estate fund manager has hired industry veteran Joseph Morningstar to focus on sourcing special situation investment opportunities.
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Hudson Realty Capital, which has $1.7 billion in assets under management, has added Joseph Morningstar as managing director. In his new role, he will focus on identifying special situations, such as recapitalisations and note sales, where "there might be a hole in the capital stack and there might be an opportunity for Hudson to come in and fill that hole with debt or equity," he told PERE.
"We're seeing many, many more of these restructurings and recapitalisations because of how the capital markets have responded to various economic crises," Morningstar said. "That's really where a lot of the opportunity is."
Beyond special situations, Morningstar also will work to establish a real estate advisory services platform to expand the traditional real estate investment banking services that currently are offered to current and new clients.
"The opportunity to join Hudson, whose founders I have known for more than 20 years and worked with in the past, and jump to the equity side of the house was irresistible," said Morningstar in a note to friends and family.
Morningstar has more than 30 years of real estate investment banking experience as an advisor and transaction agent, executing real estate and note sales, financings, recapitalisations and advisory assignments throughout the US. Before joining Hudson Realty, he served for 10 years as a partner at commercial real estate broker HFF and was responsible for more than $8 billion in transactions for office, residential, retail, hotel, land and large-scale development projects in the US.
Prior to that, Morningstar worked at Rockwood Realty Associates, which he co-founded in 1991 and where he provided advisory and transactional services on more than $4 billion in real estate and real estate-related corporate transactions.

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On 24 July 2018, ABS Benchmarks Administration Co Pte Ltd ("ABS Co") and the Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee ("SFEMC") (jointly, "ABS-SFEMC") issued a media release announcing that they have finalised the proposals to enhance the Singapore Interbank Offered Rates ("SIBOR"). This follows the ABS-SEFMC public consultation on proposals to enhance SIBOR which ran from 4 December 2017 to 5 February 2018. ABS-SFEMC have also released their Response to the feedback received from the public consultation.
One of the key proposals is to calculate SIBOR using the following waterfall methodology: (i) transactions in the underlying wholesale funding markets, (ii) transactions in related markets, and (iii) expert judgement. The inclusion of other wholesale funding transactions reflects the structural shifts in banks' funding sources. This waterfall methodology will also provide greater clarity and facilitate consistency across panel banks that submit input for the calculation of SIBOR.
ABS-SFEMC expect the new SIBOR methodology to be implemented around end-2019 / early-2020, following a period of transitional testing. There will be no change to the current SIBOR methodology in the meantime.
The finalised proposals have taken into account the global guidance on interest rate benchmark reforms.
Level 1 (highest priority) - Transactions in the underlying market: Most respondents supported ABS-SFEMC's proposal for Level 1 inputs to comprise a panel bank's unsecured interbank and other wholesale funding transactions. To facilitate consistency of approaches across panel banks, a working group has been established by ABS Co to enhance the current ABS Co Code of Conduct for panel banks, which sets out industry best practices for benchmark submissions. ABS Co will consult panel banks on its revised Code of Conduct in the second half of 2018. As most panel banks may need to put in place system enhancements to support the SIBOR waterfall methodology, ABS-SFEMC will provide a 12-month period to allow banks sufficient lead-time to put in place the necessary system enhancements. To reduce operational complexity, ABS-SFEMC agree with respondents' suggestion to set the minimum eligible transaction size at S$10 million for all types of transactions.
Level 2 - Transactions in related markets: There was broad support among respondents for panel banks to use the movement in related transaction-based benchmarks to adjust its previous day's rate submission, as such related market movements provide a useful reference when there is a lack of Level 1 transactions. The analysis of recent transaction data affirms respondents' feedback that Level 2 adjustments based on a panel bank's own transactions in related markets would have been sporadic. Taking this into account and to simplify the methodology, ABS-SFEMC will not proceed with the proposal for panel banks to reference own transactions in related markets. Level 2 inputs will hence only entail panel banks' referencing of movements in related market transaction-based benchmarks to adjust their previous days' submissions. Taking into account feedback received, the maximum number of consecutive business days that Level 2 inputs can be used will be aligned across all SIBOR benchmark tenors to 10 business days.
Level 3 (lowest priority) - Expert judgement: There was broad support for the proposed list of inputs which expert judgment can be based on, and the proposed approach of allowing panel banks the flexibility to determine their own approach towards the exercise of expert judgement. While Level 2 already allows submitters to reference the FX swap market, ABS-SFEMC agree with the inclusion of FX swaps as a possible input to base expert judgement under Level 3. Nevertheless, panel banks should not mechanically submit rates observed in related markets, and should not mechanically extend the Level 2 submission approach to Level 3.
There was broad support for the proposal to discontinue the 12-month SIBOR, given low market usage and a lack of underlying transactions to support the production of this benchmark. One respondent highlighted that the discontinuation of the 12-month SIBOR could trigger a re-assessment of the Total Debt Servicing Ratio ("TDSR") for retail clients with property loans referencing the 12-month SIBOR. The respondent asked if a request could be put to MAS to consider a waiver in such cases, of the TDSR re-assessment. Following the feedback received, ABS-SFEMC have brought the TDSR re-assessment issue to MAS' attention.


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A Woman There Was é um filme mudo de drama romântico norte-americano de 1919, dirigido por J. Gordon Edwards e estrelado por Theda Bara. O filme é baseado na história "Creation's Tears", de George James Hopkins (sob o nome de "Neje Hopkins").

Sinopse
Zara, a filha de um chefe tribal dos mares do Sul, apaixona-se com um missionário e é morta depois de ajudá-lo a escapar.

Elenco
Theda Bara como Princesa Zara
William B. Davidson como Rev. Winthrop Stark
Robert Elliott
Claude Payton
John Ardizoni - Majah

Status de preservação
O filme atualmente é considerado perdido.

Produção
A Woman There foi filmado em Miami, Flórida.

Ligações externas

Filmes dirigidos por J. Gordon Edwards
Filmes da 20th Century Studios
Filmes dos Estados Unidos de 1919
Filmes de drama romântico dos Estados Unidos
Filmes mudos
Filmes em preto e branco
Curtas-metragens dos Estados Unidos
Filmes gravados em Miami
Filmes perdidos

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The Willow Glen 5k needs help THIS WEEKEND distributing our posters to the businesses on Lincoln.
We have the street divided into 6 chunks, so you will only be responsible for one set.
Ideally, all posters will be handed out and hung by Sunday night.
Poster bundles will be available at drop off and pick up tomorrow by the stage.
Take the kids for a very short walk and help publicize the Willow Glen 5k!!


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Dana Ariel (b.1983 Jerusalem, Israel) studied BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, (2005-9); MFA at Slade School of Fine Art, London (2011-13) and is currently a Ph.D student at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Selected group exhibitions include: Transition, PS Mirabel, Manchester (2016); New Arrivals, 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London (2015); Cast, PS Mirabel, Manchester (2015); Duet, UCL Art Museum, London (2013). Solo exhibitions include: Encountering perforated ground, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton Photo Fringe (upcoming - October 2016); Broken Ground, neo: gallery 22, Bolton (2014). Recent prizes include: Print Prize, Intaglio Printmaking Award (2014); Prankerd-Jones Memorial Prize in Fine Art (2013); UCL Art Museum Prize (2013). She lives and works in London.
Hainich Forest is a series of colour photo etchings depicting the remaining tank paths of a former military training ground in Germany. The forest was first occupied and destroyed by the Wehrmacht, later by Soviet military forces, and today it is a declared nature reserve. Photographed in different seasons between 2010-16, the images are etched in CMYK on four copper plates and printed on top of each other.
Mount X is a series of wood prints created from various printing techniques originating from a black and white negative. The colour is created through the printing process and traces the changing order of plates, registration marks, and the mechanical and manual gestures.
Blurring a border begins with first light imagines the repetitive routine of a soldier performing his daily duty to blur the border in print. It begins with a black and white image of debris washed by the flood and transforms through various printing techniques. From digital to analogue gestures, all traces appear on the 25 unique prints, as colour becomes an element of tracing.
You can see Dana Ariel's work at Gallery North
Get all the latest news about events, exhibitions, activities and prints.
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Q: Creating multiple-page reports in Access (new page for each group) I'm looking to create a report which is specifically designed to be over multiple pages, based on one condition. The condition is that when the grouped item (call it invoice) changes, it starts a new page, instead of putting all the data on as little pages as possible.
At the moment it runs like this,
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I want to insert a page break between the invoice numbers, but can't figure how to do it, is it possible?

A: In the Group Header for "Invoice" on your report you can set the Force New Page property to Before Section to start each invoice on a new page. For details, see
Print each group of your Access report on a separate page

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Hi everyone , I'm Enzo a new community member. I've a problem that I can not solve.
I have a node that send me a number es 3 , 5 ,7 etc for me that numbers are second, i have a second node takes in input these second and active a light for a time (second ) in input . My problems is: for example time are 10 second and start a timer for 10 second , after 3 second of a start the node receive a second inpunt with 5 second the new final time is 12 second . You as you would program it ?
If you know that you can receive 2 or 3 values or similar you can make something like a cascade, the first value receive will write the first value for the first delay timer and once is over reset a global variable, if during this time a new message is received then signal will be redirected to other line that blocks the out of the first one and write the value on the second delay timer, once timer is over will send the message and reset the sequence.
Something like this is easy to achieve however is a bit twisted to realize.
I think some day I wrote some post with one similar example I will try to find it out and give you the link as this could be one idea.
copy the flow and check it how it works to understand better.
CHeckout Mytimeout by Cherry - it is great and will do exactly what you want with very little effort.


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Rhizopulvinaria maritima är en insektsart som beskrevs av Canard 1967. Rhizopulvinaria maritima ingår i släktet Rhizopulvinaria och familjen skålsköldlöss. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Every time there is lag there is a LPB close by.
Multi-player programming focus on the following things.
Use some form of network protocol to send data between peers.
Keep a shared world synchronized from the perspective of each player.
Make it possible for the peers to request services from each other with remote procedure call.
It should send as little data as possible to keep it all in sync.
It needs to be handle normal latency and latency spikes.
Who has authority over what object in the world.
Make your game resistant to exploitation.
Build up any infrastructure the game needs.
Building the social experience of the game.
How to make a multi-player game – part 1 - 2012 - Part 1 and Part 2.


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Cunard Partners with Rocky Mountaineer to Add Alaska by Rail
Cruise News – Feb. 27, 2018
After recently announcing its return to Alaska in 2019, for the first time in over two decades, Cunard Line has announced a partnership with Rocky Mountaineer to offer add-on tours for extended experiences in Alaska.
The Rocky Mountaineer railroad traverses historic routes with majestic views of mountains and abundant wildlife. Since 1990, Rocky Mountaineer has welcomed more than 2 million passengers. The experience aboard the all-dome fleet offers opulent, historic storytelling, top-notch cuisine, and a first-hand look at the vast and untouched wild beauty that lies in the Pacific Northwest.
"As we return to Alaska for the first time in 20 years, we are excited to partner with the Rocky Mountaineer, ensuring our passengers enjoy the remarkable scenery and Alaskan wildlife in the utmost of luxury both by land and by sea," said Josh Leibowitz, senior vice president, Cunard North America
Rocky Mountaineer tours are offered pre-and post-voyages, and include three or five nights' accommodation and two full days aboard the train. The expedition travels through spectacular scenery with glacier- and snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rockies, through winding river canyons, mountain passes, and remarkable tunnels. Highlights include the Continental Divide, Kicking Horse Canyon, Spiral Tunnels, and the rushing waters of Hell's Gate in the Fraser Canyon.
To kick off Cunard's 2019 Alaska program, Queen Elizabeth will sail from Tokyo (Yokohama) to Vancouver with a 27-night voyage on May 5, 2019. Once in Alaska, the ship will offer four 10-night roundtrip Vancouver sailings, departing May 21, 31, June 10 and 20, 2019.
Itineraries feature cruising through the scenic waterways of the Inside Passage as well as full days in several of the region's highlight ports to discover the history and culture of the area. Guests will experience the gold rush spirit of Skagway and Juneau, the native tribes of Ketchikan, and the Russian charm of Sitka. The itinerary also includes the Tracy Arm Fjord or Endicott Arm, Icy Strait Point, Hubbard Glacier, and Victoria.
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Jessica Murrietta and her husband Angel – of Burien Tattoo – want our Readers to know that this year they will be serving as an official drop-off site for Toys for Tots.
"We are also taking the price that people paid for the donation and taking the dollar amount off of any tattoo as an incentive to donate and also a contribution to raise donations," Jessica said.
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Langevin es un cráter situado en la cara oculta de la Luna, al este de la llanura amurallada del cráter Campbell, y al oeste del cráter Chandler.

Se trata de un cráter muy dañado, que ha sido erosionado por múltiples impactos superpuestos. Aparte de la depresión que Langevin crea en la superficie, apenas se distingue del terreno circundante. El borde exterior y sus características interiores originales han perdido gran parte de su definición debido a este desgaste. Numerosos pequeños cráteres se encuentran en el brocal, incluyendo un grupo de impactos en el suroeste y un cráter en el borde noreste. El interior está marcado por muchos pequeños cráteres.

Cráteres satélite
Por convención estos elementos son identificados en los mapas lunares poniendo la letra en el lado del punto medio del cráter que está más cercano a Langevin.

Véase también
 Anexo:Cráteres de la Luna
 Selenografía

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Referencia UAI del CRÁTER
LPI Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
Mapa LROC
The-moon.wikispaces.com: Langevin


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I haven't been in a while but I am going this year! The only programming I'm doing is a panel discussing the vids. Obvs. Definitely excited to see you there!
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Use the form below to contact tour Beach and Heritage directly.
The beach and heritage holiday tour in Sri Lanka gives you a unique experience visiting ancient sites while enjoying the sea, sun and sand of the serene beaches of Sri Lanka. The tour covers Colombo, Kandy, the Sigiriya, the Golden Temple of Dambulla. This tour give you maximum value for your vacation with a sites tour which ends with a beach holiday.
Transfer to Colombo, the business capital of Sri Lanka. In the evening do a city tour covering Independence Square, business district, galleries, temples. Enjoy the evening sunset in beach front Galle Face Green.
Visit Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage en route to Kandy. One of its kind in the world, won't get a better chance elsewhere to see a large no of elephants at a place and very close to you.
Kandy is the last capital of the Kings before British took control of the entire country in 1815. The sacred city is a UNESCO Heritage Site, home to the sacred tooth relic "Sri Dalada Maligawa". Visit the temple and thereafter watch the cultural show in the evening. Do a city tour, drive around the lake, visit bazar, handicraft and gem lapidaries.
Dambulla rock temple, a UNESCO Site. It is the most impressive of Sri Lanka's cave temples. The temple complex consists of five caves with painted walls and ceilings.
The Sigiriya rock fortress is a UNESCO Heritage Site, the palace of 5th century King Kasyapa. The lion shaped rock situated in a fortified area surrounding a water ring, trench and a rampart. And famous for the world-renowned frescoes of the Sigiriya " Maidens of the Clouds".
Check in to the beach resort, you don't need an invitation to soak yourself in the sun, take a dip in the sea or relax in the beach. If you are a watersport enthusiast there's many activities to do, boat ride, jet skiing or surfing.
After breakfast according to your departure time you will be transferred to the airport for your onward journey.


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Abhayagiriya
Abhayagiri monastic complex is a World Heritage Site. Abhayagiriya is the tallest brick edifice of the ancient world with its original height being 350 feet. Abhayagiri Monastery was built by Kin (...)
Adam's Peak
The 2,243 m (7,359 ft) Adam's Peak is also known as Sri Pada, which means Sacred Footprint - referring to the rock formation at the summit. While Buddhists believe it to be an imprint of the Buddha' (...)
Alahana Pirivena
This is a monastic complex that is said to have been established by King Parakaramabahu. It is believed to have extended over an area of eighty hectares, The Lankathilaka image house with its coloss (...)
Aluviharaya Cave Temple
Located a short distance from Matale town, Aluwihara signifies the greatest single event since the Buddha's (Parinibbana) . It was here that the Tripitake (Scriptures) were committed to writing in t (...)
Colombo National Museum
This magnificent museum housed in a large white colonial period building with an imposing façade was opened in 1877. Exhibits include various sculptures from all over the island royal costumes and or (...)
Dalada Maligaya Complex
The Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha which is an object of great veneration by Buddhists is housed at the Dalada Maligawa, Kandy in Sri Lanka. It is believed by Buddhists that the blessings of th (...)
Dambulla Cave Temple
Visitors can reach the Rock Temple through four entrances; 2 entrances from Kandy road (A-9), other from Kurunegala -Dambulla road (A-6) and the fourth from the Valagamba Pirivena. All these route (...)
Fort Frederick
During the Dutch period it was a military fortress. It was built by the Portuguese 1623AD. This port was captured by the Dutch in 1639, and later in 1795 was captured by the British. The Koneshwaram (...)
Gal Viharaya
The Galvihra of 'Rock Monastery' said to have been built by Parakramabahu(i) contains three large image of the Buddha hewn out of granite, These include the images of the seated Buddha, standing B (...)
Isurumuniya
Isurumuniya is among the most beautiful works of art in Anuradhapura. It was founded by King Devanam Piyatissa in the 3rd century BC. The famous sculpture here is known as "The Isurumuniya Lovers". (...)
Jethawanaramaya
Jetavanaramaya,one of the most important Buddhist monasteries in Anuradhapura, was established by King Mahasen around the 3rd century A.D. The site is particularly important in view of its colossal (...)
Katharagama Dewalaya
According to legendary history, Ruhunu Ktaragama Maha Devalaya was built by King Dutugemunu around 160 years B.C. This is a Hindu and Buddhist temple complex shrine dedicated to Lord Katirkaman also k (...)
Kirivehera
According to the legend, Lord Buddha on his third and last visit to Sri Lanka, was believed to have met King Mahasena who ruled the Kataragama area in 580 BC, listened to the Buddha discourse and a (...)
This stupa is believed to have been erected by Parkramabahu(i) on behalf of his consort Queen Subadra. The name Kirivehera literally means milk stupa and probably took its name from the many layers (...)
Koneshwaram Kovil
Hindu temple inside Fort Frederick. Visitors and Hindu devotees visit the Kovil throughout the year. This is also known as the temple of a thousand pillars. It is recorded that when the Portuguese bui (...)
Lowamahapaya
It is situated between Ruvanveliseya and Sri Maha Bodhiya. In ancient times the building included the refectory and the uposathagara. There was also a Seemamalakaya where monks assembled on poya (...)
Mirisawetiya Sthupaya
King Dutugamunu (161-137 BC) after defeating King Elara, built the Mirisavetiya Stupa. It is said that he remembered that he partook of a chilly curry without offering it to the sangha. In expiation (...)
Nalanda Gedige
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Palace of King Parakramabahu
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Parakrama Samudraya
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Rankoth Vehera
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Rathnaprasadaya
The monastic residence complex of Abhayagiriya (Uttara Maha Chethiya) also known as Pirivena, Pradada or Arama consists of principle residential units with small associates residential units at the (...)
Ravana Ella Cave
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Royal Audience Hall
This palace, said to have belonged to King Nissanka Malla (12th Century), is situated in the Dipuyyana or island park, a promontory jutting out into the Thopawewa. The audience hall contains pillar (...)
Royal Palace Complex
King Vijayabahu I, built the 1st Palace in the Citadel. During the rebellion staged by the Velaikkar soldiers when the King was away, the palace was torched, At this site you can see the ruins of th (...)
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Samadhi Buddha
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Sathmahal Prasada
This is a 32 feet high stupa of unusual stepped pyramidal form. This structure built in the 12th century is said to resemble the type of stupa found in countries like Cambodia.
Sigiriya Handcraft Village
You can visit the Sigiriya Handcraft Village, which was established under the Ministry of Rural Economic Development, and there are stalls of villagers who are engaged in woodcraft, brass work, clay (...)
Sigiriya Museum
The Sigiriya museum was built with the assistance extended by the Japanese government. The architecture of the building is an ambitious modern expression of an ancient building concept. This new mu (...)
Siri Dalada Procession
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Sri Muthumariamman Thevasthanam Hindu Temple
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The Belt & Road Initiative In Mexico & Central America
Oct 23, 2020 Posted by Silk Road Briefing
Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis
China's Belt & Road Initiative has been making significant inroads in the Caribbean and Latin America, and in this article we take a look at the impact on Mexico and Central America. Mexico in fact has not signed a MoU with China concerning the Belt & Road, yet its regional impact upon Central America is huge. To date, just three Central American countries have joined the Belt & Road Initiative, being El Salvador, Costa Rica & Panama.
China has however signed off Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) with Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico. Bilateral Investment Treaties are a low end agreement that essentially codify the mechanisms for investing into each others countries and protect the rights of each others nationals in doing so. They do cater for some tax reductions, but only in a broad sense. They are however a platform for the later negotiation of more substantial Double Tax Agreements (DTA) which are more product specific and cater for a wider range of goods and services, as well as containing mechanisms for reducing profits tax by use of withholding taxes. To date, neither Mexico nor any of the Central American countries has signed off such an agreement, although Mexico does have a DTA with Hong Kong, which came into effect in April 2014 and deals mainly within the aviation services field.
The position of Mexico and Central America in being Belt & Road light is in direct contrast to what has been happening just across the Caribbean, where numerous island nations have signed up to China's Belt & Road MoU.
China's Belt & Road In The Caribbean here
The close proximity of the United States is partially what is keeping China's profile low, where US influence runs deep. Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all at present recognize Taiwan rather than China, a diplomatic issue that China is surely continuing to pressure to change and the United States will unofficially push to maintain.
Mexico, despite President Trumps promises to "build a wall" has already effectively created one in renegotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the United States that limits the scope of trade deals Mexico can conclude with other parties. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaces the previous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) although it is still to be ratified. Should USMCA come into effect, Mexico will be limited in its ability to make separate agreements with China as this has been built into the USMCA deal. Washington does not want Mexico to be a source of cheap imported Chinese products.
That leaves the Central American nations in something of a bind – USMCA is probably about to happen, meaning trade with Mexico will be directly affected. This is because rules of origin and minimum wage level regulations have been raised to US$16 per hour in USCMA, leaving the Central American nations out of the loop and unable to provide labor legally to Mexican production. The USMCA effectively cuts Central America away from being able to service the North American market by imposing a minimum wage that is unachievable for Central American low skilled workers. The wall to keep people out, at least in trade terms, has been placed on Mexico's borders with Central America, not on the border with the United States.
Minimum Wages In Central America
Amount (US$, hour)
Belize 1.65
Costa Rica 2.31
El Salvador 0.52
Guatemala 1.52
Honduras 0.91
Nicaragua 0.53
Panama 1.00
China will be aware of this, however probably won't make any moves until the USMCA agreement is ratified by the respective governments Parliaments. As and when they do – and it almost certain that discussions are already underway – the Central American nations will be looking to China to assist. That will mean a mass of diplomatic defections from Taiwan to Beijing, and the Chinese will not be looking to rush that issue for the sake of antagonizing Washington or causing too much upset in Taipei. Yet the USMCA deal looks certain to push them into Beijing's arms.
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This timeframe goes hand-in-hand with a little noted anniversary – the 25 year concession that Hong Kong based Hutchison Whampoa secured to operate the Panama Canal comes to an end in 2024. With the Chinese having already purchased the major European port of Piraeus – and made significant investments in doubling its capacity – similar overtures are sure to be taking place with the Panamanian government concerning the Canal operations.
That already looks like being a done deal – China Landbridge, a privately owned company based in the northern Chinese port of Rizhao, bought Panama's largest port, at Margarita Island, to the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal in May 2016. Named the Panama Colón Container Port (PCCP) the project has cost over US$1.1 billion and will capitalize on the doubling of the capacity of the canal, which can now handle the New Panamax container ships that can transport up to 14,500 teu (twenty-foot equivalent units).
Costa Rica and Panama meanwhile, which do recognize China, can understandably point to some significant investments the Chinese have been making. Apart from the Colon Container Port, in Costa Rica, China is financing the building of a new airport in Orotina, expanding the road route to Puerto Caldera, building the San José-San Ramón highway, and are discussing the setting up a Free Trade Development Zone for Chinese companies to manufacture goods for the region, and this is understood to include cars and solar panels amongst other products. However, relations between the two countries in terms of getting some of this infrastructure build have been patchy.
Panama meanwhile can also point to some significant Chinese investment. Chinese investment in Panama grew 10-fold in 2016, with total investment reaching $1.27 billion last year, more than ten times the $140 million invested in 2015, according to The American Enterprise Institute. On the real estate side, China Construction America (CCA), a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering, sees Panama as having unique appeal, hence its decision to develop Panama's biggest ever residential project in Vista Alegre, the so-called "City of Hope". Valued at US$137-million and boasting 2,250 units, CCA has definite plans to market City of Hope to Chinese buyers. The prospects look good too, Chinese buyers accounted for 20% of all transactions for Punta Pacifica Realty in 2017. There are specific reasons for this: Panama puts no restrictions on foreigner's real estate investments, and that greatly appeals to Chinese investors who highly value the possibility to buy and own titled land that can be passed down to future generations to come. This is a huge attraction for Chinese buyers because mainland Chinese are not allowed to take full ownership of their property in China due to the Chinese government's rulings that all land is state-owned.
Clearly, changes are afoot. While Mexico does itself have a Free Trade Agreement with Central America, it also values the USMCA deal as the more significant which in dollar and trade volume terms it certainly is. But what it also does, although this is a consequence rather than deliberate, is to draw a distinct trade line at the southern borders of North America with Guatemala and Belize. From the northwestern border near Tijuana-San Diego down to the southwestern border with Guatemala is around 3220 kilometers. The distance between the northeastern Matamoros-Brownsville border and the southeastern border with Belize is 1232 kilometers. Beyond that is Central America. It is almost certainly only a matter of time when Chinese diplomatic efforts and the impact of the USMCA deal will start to see Central American states align with Beijing and sign off Double Tax Treaties and Belt & Road MoU agreements with China.
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Chris Devonshire-Ellis says:
Update: US President Trump has just announced, out of the blue, a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports into the United States until the flood of illegal immigrants from Central America into the US stops. Tariffs will continue to rise until "Illegal Immigration stops".
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/30/trump-mexico-tariffs-migration
However, the USMCA deal that the US has signed with Mexico is part of the problem in insisting that the minimum wage in Mexico is US$16 on imported goods to the US. Central American workers have no hope of realizing wages like that so are attempting to get into the States before the USMCA deal is ratified. This is going to be a huge mess, and its not even a problem of Mexico's making, its a US trade policy issue.


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Home » Miscellaneous, People & Places, Politics » Mayor Wagner Wants Pier One Bar Moved
After the ceremony, Mayor Bernard Wagner fielded questions from the media and one of the topics was the location of Pier One Bar. The infamous establishment received negative reviews after an all-out brawl broke out weeks before someone was shot and killed there. The primary concern is that the bar is located at B.T.L. Park, which is supposed to be a family-oriented public space. Pier One Bar, however, is a business where alcohol is sold, loud music is played and where questionable personalities have been known to socialize at. According to Mayor Wagner, attorneys have been consulted with respect to the status of the bar at B.T.L. Park; but if left to him, he would have the bar removed and replaced with a child-friendly business.
Bernard Wagner, Belize City Mayor
"We have other means of putting in pressure on the Pier One facility so we are looking at all those areas."
"What are some of those measures?"
"Well, the trade license is up for review and the liquor license. So we do have areas where we can exert pressure but we await word from out attorney."
"Ultimately would you like see it removed?"
"I would certainly like to see that facility moved. My vision for that area is a facility where the kids can go there. It's a popcorn, pizza, ice cream type facility where the kids can enjoy our water front and blend it better with the park."


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Prairie du Sac is a village in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,420 at the 2020 census. The village is surrounded by the Town of Prairie du Sac, the Wisconsin River, and the village of Sauk City; together, Prairie du Sac and Sauk City are referred to as Sauk Prairie.

History
Prairie du Sac was so named because it was in the large Wisconsin River Valley where the Sauk Indians had a large settlement. Although the name of the village dates from the early days of French fur traders, Prairie du Sac was established as a village by D.B. Crocker in 1840, largely as a Yankee-English village, in contrast to its neighbor, Sauk City, which was settled largely by Germans.

The hydroelectric Prairie du Sac Dam was completed just north of the village in 1914, creating Lake Wisconsin.

Geography
Prairie du Sac is located at  (43.289833, -89.728524).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which,  of it is land and  is water.

Airport
Prairie du Sac is serviced by the Sauk–Prairie Airport (91C).

Demographics

2020 census
As of the census of 2020, the population was 4,420. The population density was . There were 1,885 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 91.4% White, 0.6% Asian, 0.6% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.8% from other races, and 5.4% from two or more races. Ethnically, the population was 5.2% Hispanic or Latino of any race.

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 3,972 people, 1,649 households, and 1,075 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 1,733 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 94.3% White, 0.6% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 2.7% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.8% of the population.

There were 1,649 households, of which 35.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.6% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.9% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.8% were non-families. 28.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.96.

The median age in the village was 36.2 years. 25.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 29.5% were from 25 to 44; 24.5% were from 45 to 64; and 13% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 48.4% male and 51.6% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,231 people, 1,290 households, and 869 families living in the village. The population density was 2,450.9 people per square mile (945.1/km2). There were 1,332 housing units at an average density of 1,010.4 per square mile (389.6/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 98.14% White, 0.12% Black or African American, 0.22% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 0.46% from other races, and 0.74% from two or more races. 2.04% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 1,290 households, out of which 34.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.8% were married couples living together, 8.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.6% were non-families. 25.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.04.

In the village, the population was spread out, with 27.8% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 32.1% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.3 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $44,472, and the median income for a family was $55,234. Males had a median income of $35,020 versus $28,882 for females. The per capita income for the village was $23,068. About 4.7% of families and 7.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.3% of those under age 18 and 3.9% of those age 65 or over.

Sauk Prairie
Sauk City is adjacent to Prairie du Sac, directly to the south. Both communities are located on the west bank of the Wisconsin River. They share a municipal boundary, as well as schools, a police department and a hospital, but have separate fire departments and libraries. Efforts have been made to join the two villages into a single entity, Sauk Prairie, but these have failed, due to differences in taxation.

Economy
The corporate headquarters of Culver's Franchising Systems, Inc. is located in Prairie du Sac. The first Culver's restaurant opened in the adjacent village of Sauk City on July 18, 1984. The corporate headquarters of Badgerland Financial and Mueller Sports Medicine are also in Prairie du Sac. Milwaukee Valve has a factory there as well.

Notable residents
 Paul Gruber, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers Offensive Tackle; Ring of Honor recipient
 Peter A. Hemmy, Wisconsin State Representative
 George DeGraw Moore, Wisconsin State Senator and New Jersey jurist
 J. B. Ragatz, Wisconsin State Representative
 Scott Schutt, former Cincinnati Bengals player

Images

See also
 Badger Army Ammunition Plant
 Sauk Prairie High School

References

External links

 Village of Prairie du Sac
 Sauk Prairie Chamber of Commerce
 Sauk Prairie Area Historical Society
 Sauk Prairie website

Villages in Sauk County, Wisconsin
Villages in Wisconsin


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Dutch Media Shows Masked Man With Palestinian Flag Smashing Jewish Restaurant Windows
Jack Montgomery
Video from Amsterdam showing a man breaking the windows of a Jewish restaurant and forcing his way inside has been aired by Dutch media.
Footage aired by AT5 shows the man, who has his head wrapped in a shemagh or similar Middle Eastern style headdress and carries a Palestinian flag, smashing the windows of a Jewish restaurant with a club. He then kicks his way through the front door of the restaurant to pull down an Israeli flag.
The attack in the district of Amstelveenseweg, which ended with the man being tackled to the ground by law enforcement officers on the street, was likely motivated by U.S. President Donald Trump's official recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel, which has prompted a declaration of three "days of rage".
Man aangehouden na vernieling ruit restaurant Amstelveenseweg. Nader onderzoek wordt gedaan. #Amsterdam
— Politie Amsterdam eo (@Politie_Adam) December 7, 2017
Witnesses told AT5 the attacker shouted "Palestine" and "Allahu Akbar" — but the defiant owner insisted he would still open tonight, provided his windows could be boarded up in time for service.
"If we manage to close the windows today, even if it is provisional, we will serve our guests tonight. We just continue as otherwise," he declared.
The son of the restaurant owner said they had been attacked before, but never with such violence.
"There is more frequent spitting. But never something like this. Everyone is terrified about it and that it happened one hour before opening time," he said.
The Organization of Jewish Communities in The Netherlands condemned the attack as "an act of revenge, meant to instil fear, and is no less than an act of terror."
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How about a two-door convertible Tesla Model S P100D?
While not available as manufactured by Tesla, and not outwardly offered yet by any previous conversion company that we're aware off, we have here the preliminary stage of what could be something truly awesome: a Tesla Model S two-door convertible roadster. To top it off, perhaps Tesla will take notice and offer a production Model S P100D two-door and/or drop-top roadster in the future.
We can only imagine that the type of people that are financially capable of purchasing a car like the Tesla Model P100D might consider a convertible to be something that has big time purchase appeal. The fact of the matter is that those splurging on a $100k electric car likely owned a European luxury sports sedan in the past (or still have one in their driveway). Many German luxury cars come with the option of a convertible top, and two-door roadsters are surely a sought-after offering in that space.
Tesla hasn't really so much as mentioned this as an option since the early days, when its first product — the original Tesla Roadster — arrived. Well, since then, plenty of aftermarket and conversion companies have come up with crazy plans for vehicles like a Tesla convertible or Tesla wagon (shooting brake). However, this is the first we've heard about a two-door convertible roadster that might actually become available at some point. Being that the upcoming Tesla Roadster 3.0 is far enough off, this seems like a novel concept.
Italian coach builder Ares has decided the time has come to show off its new concept. Ares is well-known in the space for its incredible transformations, including the Ferrari GTC4Lusso, which was adapted into a tribute to the earlier 412. Ares will cut the top of the Model S, remove the rear doors, extend the front doors, and create something that's never been seen before. How will it impact the performance specs of the Model S? Does it really matter?
Leave us your opinions and insight in the comments section below.
*The lead image is of a previous Tesla Model S convertible render since we don't have access to Ares' official photos aside from its Facebook share.
38 Comments on "Tesla Model S Rendered As 2-Door Roadster: Should Tesla Make It?"
Would just be confusing with the upcoming Roadster 2.
Nonsense. There's no comparison. This would take us back to the days of true 4-seater, spacious, graceful, truly fast convertibles…just like the old Jaguar slogan … Grace, Spec, Pace. It would be like.no.other.
Agree, but it's grace, space, and pace!
I doubt if that will happen, mainly because I doubt if they will reuse the S/X platform. For the next few cars, it's the 3 platform that will be used. After that, they may increase the frame size for something new.
But I'd really suspect that asking for a convertible 3 is a lot closer to what you could get.
Maybe it's a 3 whose glass panels just retract into the trunk.
How about the side fender camera's?
I can't wait for the Model S coupe. It would be sweet.
No. The Model S is far too long to make an appealing coupe. The Model 3 should be used for the base; its dimensions are far more accommodating to a 2-door vehicle.
Clearly you've never been in a spacious convertible.
No, he's right. It ain't 1954 anymore. No sense in a huge, very heavy boat (which would also handle badly), esp. for a 2-seater or 2+2 (can't tell from the pic which it is).
A competitor to the Mazda Miata would be another headline grabber.
Good idea! Look at the Bentley Continental!
Looks great. I'd love to see what a Model 3 roadster would look like.
No….it's too big. Do it with the Model 3.
Give it Testarossa door slats.
Tesla won't make a car that isn't safe for the passengers, so you can put your pens down if you think this is more than art/fantasy.
How is a convertible not safe for passengers?
This design doesn't even have a roll bar! That was bad enough for a small 2-seater like the original Tesla Roadster. Turning a larger, heavier Model S into a convertible without a roll bar would be just begging for Tesla's exemplary record for accident survivability to take a nose dive.
I want to see the Model X rendered into a Minivan.
Or a Model X modeled into a sub-compact or a semi?
It's already a minivan. Just a very expensive, and not very practical one.
With completely pointless falcon wing door that is only there to massage Elon's ego.
Lost much money on shorting Tesla lately, dude?
Model S is too big for this. They should use a Model 3.
Or make the Tesla Model S a 4 seat convertible comfort cruiser.
Oh yes! This is the Tesla I would buy.
I want to see a Model 3 coupe…unless that's the Roadster.
But thinking of the next gen Model S, which has to offer the 100D as the base pack, with a 150D and P150D battery pack with over 500 miles of range.
Tesla should do it!. Either themselves or license another coach-builder to help them build these specialty ones. Of course pricing about $20K more or around that figure depending on options.
In fact, since they erected the Tent to do Model 3 lines, make a few Tents for such specialty models would be great. An alternative is making the production line multi-model capable like how BMW manages theirs.
Small sheds in the U.K. should be able to fix this up for you.
Please don't. Convertibles are the posers of poser cars, worse in every respect than whatever they are based on. And lord knows Tesla attracts enough posers as it is.


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Economics of good and evil
woensdag, 21 november, 2012 - 19:30 to woensdag, 21 november, 2012 - 21:30
Building D
Promotion Hall
Tomas Sedlacek
Tomas Sedlacek is the Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at ČSOB, a former member of the National Economic Council of the Czech Republic and an economic advisor to former President Václav Havel. The Yale Economic Review described him as one of the promising "five hot minds in economics."
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'Stewardship of Finance' is sponsored by six major insurance companies and will focus on research as well as on education. Behind its foundation lies the believe that the current financial crisis has shown that a moral reflection is most certainly necessary.
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All lectures and panel discussions wil be filmed and put online.
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The chairman of this chair is Professor Koen Byttebier of the Faculty of Law and Criminology.
Professor dr. Régine Feltkamp and Tom Wera will be in charge of coordinating with the partners and faculties involved. The project will also benefit from an active contribution by ULB.
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Most Promising Actresses Of The Month – June 2017 Edition
Vote now for who you think should be the Most Promising Actress Of The Month for June 2017! If you feel that you or someone you know deserves to be a featured as one of the Most Promising Actresses Of The Month then let our talent coordinator know by emailing lex@starcentralmag.com and we'll get back to you as soon as we can! Please keep it in mind that any person who leaves negative, unpleasant and unnecessarily rude or derogatory comments will be removed and banned from this site permanently. This is not a page where you can post your rants – we will ONLY approve comments that are constructive to the nominees. Let's just keep this voting poll fair and fun!
1. Eleanore Knox (Australia)
Born and bred in Tasmania, Eleanore Knox began her career on the stage, with some twenty theatre roles to her name; including Abigail in The Crucible, Joan in Joan of Arc, Yvette in 'Allo 'Allo (in which she was mentored by one of the original BBC cast), and Lady Macbeth, for which she won the NUTS Best Actress Award. Since graduating from International Screen Academy at the end of August last year, Eleanore has appeared as a freelance actress in 21 short films (16 of which were leading roles), a cinematic retelling of Plato's The Republic for AIME, two commercials, three webseries appearances, four music videos – including one for Triple J Unearthed – and became the face of Your Financial Rights' current national advertising campaign. Behind the camera, Eleanore was the assistant director on Father by the Son, Veov Drive, Crossroads, The Shepherd & the Orb webseries, and Excelsia College's untitled film project. Eleanore was a production assistant on the upcoming feature film Harmony, and is currently working as Felix Williamson's assistant producer on six exciting new projects, whilst also co-producing her own mini-series and freelancing as a model. Eleanore is currently rehearsing for her next theatrical performance (produced by a Logie Award winner), will be flying home to her native Tasmania to shoot two new projects, and was recently cast in her first feature film to be shot later this year.
2. Chelsea Ingram (Australia)
Chelsea Ingram is an independent film actress who bases herself between New York and Sydney. She is an ensemble member of the New York theatre company Primitive Grace. She has appeared in numerous indie feature and short films, while also performing on and off broadway. Chelsea is an emerging writer with her first play Keep Calling debuting in the Sydney Fringe Festival Australia this past year, she plans to take the production to NYC off broadway. She is currently working on her short film Labyrinth, which she wrote and will act as the leading role. She is also a graduate of The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute NYC.
3. Stephanie Kutty (Australia)
Stephanie Kutty is 26 years old. She was born in the Fiji Islands and moved to Australia when she was 11. Stephanie actually never did drama when she was growing up, she didn't think there was such a thing since they only had one TV channel in Fiji called "Fiji One". But when she flew to Australia to visit family throughout the years, she was frequently seen glued to the TV. She didn't realise being on Disney channel could be a real job. In her final year of studying a Bachelor of Biomedical Science at the University of Sunshine Coast, she stumbled upon an audition for a scholarship to New York Film Academy in Los Angeles on StarNow. Stephanie figured; if "they" saw something in her, an island girl who had no idea what a monologue was…then maybe this could be the path for her. And wouldn't you know it! Stephanie had received a Partial Talent-Based Scholarship to study an 8 Week Intensive Acting for Film Course in Los Angeles, where the school was on the backlot of Universal Studios and the rest is history! With a resume now filled with continued study including the 2 Year Advanced Diploma in Acting for Film at the New York Film Academy (Gold Coast Campus), numerous workshops, Local and International Feature Films, Short Films, Theatre Productions, and two current Commercials; "QLD Health Emergencies" and "Flight Centre's Best in Everywhere", Stephanie has returned back to LA for the 3rd time to continue the dream of becoming a successful, working Actress.
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the next day i met possum in south carolina for breakfast at perkins. it is amazing how comfortable i feel with people i have never met in person before, having only established on-line friendships, but possum and i were yakking like the old friends that we were, chowing down and surfing the fastest wifi i had ever seen. it was so good to finally meet up, possum!
now the trip gets a little fuzzy here. i drove straight through the day and evening. it turned out that by altering my trip south to I-10, i would be able to meet up with phoenix near baton rouge. i know i passed through atlanta that night.....the skyline of the city was breathtaking. what i can't remember is if i made baton rouge that night, or if i had a stop in between. either way, i finally met up with phoenix at the tiger truck stop, where i had my first cajun food. it was good, except the part where he told me that the crayfish etoufe had frogs in it! ewwww. our visit was, as always, too short!
i hate cages of any sort, but a zoo would be a blessing for tony, with more room to move and other animals around. i hope they lose their bid to keep the tiger in grosse tete.
the "islands" in truck stops are mutt's oasis. we always park with the sliding door next to one, so we can look out at something besides asphalt. this one was in mississippi, and one of the prettier ones i've seen.
i was going to wait for the spring. i really was. but i got cabin fever, and a small windfall that enabled me to pay off a bunch of medical bills, and it was suddenly a possibility to go again. fellow vandwellers sweet mike and my "numees" (that's sister in algonquin) heidi were anxious for me to join them. when ron told me the temps in texas, that clinched it. the pacific coast via san antonio would cure what ailed me.
so here i was on saturday morning with two days preparation left to do, and about 4 hours to do it. my kayak was covered in snow, it was 2 degrees out, and a storm front was headed our way. i started cramming stuff into the van like a crazy woman........oh, wait! i was!
the rear doors of the van were frozen shut. i had to get them open to get at the cam straps to secure the kayak to the roof rack. i had to run the heaters full blast in the van for a half hour to get the doors open. the cam straps weren't there. my brother showed up and asked if i could wrap some christmas presents for him. ah, keith. he even missed russian christmas this year. ya gotta love him. they were the weirdest shaped presents i have ever wrapped, including some antlers. i am not kidding. they kept poking through the tissue paper. i swore alot.
i finally found the cam straps. got the kayak on the roof. stuffed the rest of my gear and the dog in the back of the van, grabbed my passport, and we were off. i was frazzled, and half-sick with anxiety. what a crappy way to start a trip. but i had an appointment down the road. i just didn't know it yet.
i heard her coming before i saw her. she was sobbing, her breaths a mix of terror and exertion. i had pulled off the interstate around 8pm to let mutt go pee in some bushes behind a mcdonalds. she was barefoot, running in a crouch, with a trash bag of belongings and a purse in her arms. clothing spilled out as she ran, and i remember thinking that whatever was after her would track her by the garments, like giant bread crumbs, strewn along the pavement from the little motel down the hill.
"whatever" turned out to be her boyfriend, and he was going to kill her. please, did i have a cell phone? i could hardly understand her through her moaning and crying, but she wanted me to call her brother, and crouched down in the bushes next to us. when i got her brother on the line, he knew immediately what was wrong, and said he was on his way. the urgency in his voice was apparent. i was really scared at this point.
her name was sharon, or shannon, i couldn't tell through the sobs. her terror was palpable, and she kept saying "he's going to kill me" and "i'm so sorry", until she said" he's going to kill us" and i suddenly realized that i could end up like the victim in one of those news stories, gunned down in a domestic dispute, just an innocent bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time.
i begged her to get in the van, but she refused, saying he would see her in the light, "just get down" she begged. i pushed Mutt into the van and shut the door, then got down next to her. it was almost like i was outside my body, looking at myself calmly crouched in the bushes behind a mcdonalds with a woman who believed she had just minutes to live. i was terrified inside, but i remember leaning up to her and saying in a conversational tone "my name is katie, and that was my dog Mutt. he's a nice dog". it sounded idiotic as i said it, and she showed no signs of hearing me, so lost was she in her terror. as i talked to her, i hit speed dial on my phone. i wanted to let someone know where i was, if i died here in the bushes in some town along the interstate. i got ron's voicemail, and continued my conversation with her while speaking into the phone, asking her the name of the town we were in, and did he have a weapon? i was pretty fixated on knowing how we were about to die, but she never did answer me, just continued sobbing and patting her purse and the trashbag, in front of her on the ground, with the flat of her palm in an odd, repetitive movement. i was struck by the way she did this, over and over, as if to reassure herself that they were real and hadn't disappeared. twice she reached out towards me as if to touch me in the same way, but pulled back without making contact. i wished she would touch me, because i would have liked affirmation of my existence, somehow.
minutes later, her brother and his friends pulled up, and as they pulled her from the bushes, he clapped me on the back and said "thanks, lady". as they led her to the car, she stopped and reached out her hand and touched my arm, with her palm, much as she had touched her bags on the ground a few minutes before. "thank-you, katie" she said, and then was in the car and gone.
i felt for a moment like the velveteen rabbit, when he became real. there was so much love and gratitude in that touch, and i was deeply moved by knowing that after all, she had heard me there in those bushes, offering her all that i had. no real sanctuary, no salvation.... just my presence, no matter what comes. a friend had taught me recently that all we really need to do in life is show up. that was all i could do for her, and that was enough.
i shook for a long time, heading on down the road that night. i thought alot about the velveteen rabbit....how in the story, he becomes real only after he was shabby and tattered from the wear and tear of life with The Boy, after practically having the stuffing loved out of him. i felt really real that night.


MariaDB Corporation at its annual user and developer conference MariaDB OpenWorks, announced MariaDB Enterprise Server to support customers with mission-critical applications by delivering a database engineered for greater reliability and stability. MariaDB Enterprise Server adds new features such as more powerful and fine-grained auditing, faster, highly reliable backups for large databases and end-to-end encryption for all data at rest in MariaDB clusters. The MariaDB Enterprise Server undergoes rigorous quality assurance and testing for improved reliability and stability, and is pre-configured to meet the requirements of secure production environments.
MariaDB Enterprise Server is fully open source and will be the default version for customers using MariaDB Platform on-prem or in the cloud. MariaDB Corporation is continuing to develop and release MariaDB Community Server and collaborating with the community to drive innovation, while MariaDB Enterprise Server focuses on meeting the reliability, stability and operational needs of enterprise customers.
High-End Features and Tools: MariaDB Enterprise Server includes features not available in the MariaDB Community Server that solve specific enterprise requirements. Key features are carefully backported to earlier supported versions so customers on older releases can access critical new enterprise functionality faster. New features in development include improved audit plugin, enhanced MariaDB Backup and full data-at-rest encryption of MariaDB Cluster.
Security, Performance and Scalability for Production Out of the Box: Unlike Community Server, MariaDB Enterprise Server is configured for secure, high-performance production environments out of the box.
Increased Quality Assurance: While the entire community gets access to cutting-edge and in-development features, enterprise customers get a hardened version of MariaDB restricted to production-grade, fully supported features.
Stability at Scale: MariaDB Enterprise Server undergoes thorough quality assurance to test performance at scale for production workloads. Priority is given to fixing defects identified in MariaDB Enterprise Server to ensure increased stability for our customers.
Release Integrity: MariaDB Enterprise Server is distributed securely with a clearly established chain of custody from MariaDB all the way to customers to ensure binaries cannot be tempered with.


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Mattias Nyberg (SPLC)
(Scania and Royal Institute of Tech., Sweden)
Keynote title: Generating safety cases for large-scale industrial product lines
Keynote abstract: The heavy-vehicle manufacturer Scania has a complex product line consisting of billions of possible product configurations. Faced with the challenge of arguing that each of the configurations is safe, Scania has, in collaboration with KTH, developed a general methodology to build a so called "safety case" for a complex product line. The goal has been to generate it as automatically as possible from existing engineering data. The presentation will explain the methodology and share experiences from the huge effort of trying to implement it in the industrial context of Scania.
Bio: Mattias Nyberg is an adjunct (part-time) professor at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in the department of Mechatronics. His main affiliation is Scania CV AB, a leading global heavy-truck manufacturer. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Linköping University in 1999 specializing in vehicular systems. After dissertation he has worked mainly in industry; first for Daimler in Stuttgart, Germany, and then at Scania with a current focus on functional safety and product line engineering. In parallel with his industrial career, he is very active in academic research. He has supervised six PhD students. He is also an author of more than 100 scientific publications, and has received the SAE Vincent Bendix award.
Julia Rubin (SPLC)
(University of British Columbia, Canada)
Keynote title: Microservice-based Development: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and What We Can Do
Kenote abstract: Whenever you watch Netflix or order from Amazon, you use microservice-based applications. Such applications follow a SOA-inspired architectural principle of building complex systems as a composition of small, loosely coupled components that communicate with each other using language-agnostic APIs. Microservices have recently become popular in industry due to their advantages, such as greater software development agility and improved scalability of deployed applications. Yet, proper adoption of microservices induces numerous technical and organizational changes. This talk will discuss several of these challenges, based on empirical data we gathered from more than 50 industrial practitioners. We will then focus on two of the challenges in more detail: managing variants in microservice-based systems and decomposing monolithic applications into microservices. We will discuss some existing solutions for addressing these challenges and possible future research directions for the SPLC community.
Bio: Julia Rubin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Trustworthy Software. Julia received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, USA. She also spent almost 10 years in industry, working for IBM Research, where she was a research staff member and a research group manager. Julia's research interests are in software engineering, program analysis, software security, and reliability in complex software systems. Her work in these areas won five Distinguished/Best Paper Awards at major conferences, such as ICST'21, ISSTA'18, ASE'15, and SPLC'13, and was runner-up for Facebook's Internet Defense Prize at the USENIX Security Symposium'14. Julia serves on program committees of several flagship conferences in software engineering, such as ICSE, FSE, and ASE. She co-chaired the program committees of SPLC'14, ECMFA'14, FASE'17, CASCON'20, and will co-chair the program committee of ASE in 2022.
Thomas Thüm (SPLC)
(University of Ulm, Germany)
Keynote title: Where Are My Constraints and What Do They Constrain?
Keynote abstract: The adoption of product lines in industrial practice is challenged by feature interactions. In theory, adding a single feature to a product line can double the number of products. In practice, constraints between the features drastically limit the number of useful products. Where do we find those constraints? What do we do with those constraints? And where on earth are all the smart technologies that help our overwhelmed engineers? Since 2007, I am involved in the development of FeatureIDE. In this keynote, I would like to share experiences made with product-line research and its application to industrial practice.
Bio: Thomas Thüm is a professor for the Construction and Analysis of Secure Software Systems at the University of Ulm since January 2020. His research interests range from Software Engineering and Formal Methods to Artificial Intelligence and Security. In particular, his research focuses on variability and evolution of software systems. From 2015 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the TU Braunschweig in Ina Schaefer's institute. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Magdeburg under the supervision of Gunter Saake. His Ph.D. thesis received the Dissertation Award 2015 of the University of Magdeburg and his master's thesis the Software Engineering Award 2011 of the Ernst Denert Foundation. He coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and is known for his contributions to the famous open-source project FeatureIDE. Since 2020, he is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM).


I explained the steps involved in property selection, entering into sale agreement, procedures and documents needed for housing loan etc.
In this article I am explaining the steps involved in registering your property, interior planning and other must do tasks after possession.
Once you(or Bank) made the full payment, you can go ahead with the property registration. The builder will help you to get your property registered in your name. You need to spent a minimum of two hours in the Sub-Registrar office on the day of registration. Two Demand Drafts, one for Stamp Duty and another for the Registration Charges in favor of the Sub-Registrar needs to be prepared. They will take your photograph and thumb impression and will print it on the back of the Sale Deed. If you have taken loan the Sale Deed will go to the Bank, so make sure you collect a xerox copy of the Sale Deed. Also you may take an attested copy(notarized) of the Sale Deed if you need, you will have to pay approximately Rs. 1,000. Or this can be done for Rs.8 per sheet from any notary(visit your nearest BDA complex for details).
Now the flat is in your name, you can do the interiors if the builder is not providing one. Find a good carpenter and get it done. Normally it takes 20 to 30 days and will cost you another 3 to 5 Lakhs. Make sure you make the final payment only after all the works in your apartment is finished. Also keep a record of all the payments done to the Carpenter and get it signed.
Once the interior work is finished, you need to hand over the flat back to the builder for the final finishing work. Before handing over the flat, make sure you cover all your interior work with paper or plastic. Also get the Chimney and Hob work done before the polish work.
Once the builder completes the finishing work in your flat you may ask for a temporary possession certificate which is a legal document from the builder giving permission to move in to your flat. Actual possession certificate will be given by the local government authority like BBMP or BDA after completion of the apartment complex and their inspection.
Finally your dream home is ready for possession! Don't think major work for your home is over, you need make arrangements for shifting, buy furniture, electrical fittings and other kitchen utensils. What you need to do is to check with your friends and neighbors, collect as much information as possible. Short-list vendors ask for quotes and negotiate on the charges (not quality!) and pick one from the list. Before housewarming buy the electrical and bathroom fixings and fix them.
Normally builders provide only switches, plug points and bulb holders. You need to buy Fan, Tube Lights, CFL Lamps, Geysers,Chandlers, Light Shades, Door Bell and other miscellaneous items. What you need to do is, count the number of points in each room provisions given for fans, lights etc, note down in a piece of paper. Once you are sure about the numbers you need to decide on the colour of the fan, Tibe light or CFL, type of lamp shades etc. Once you have all the aboe details visit your nearest electrical showroom and ask for a final quote. Visit few more shops and get the quote for the same brand, then compare and finalize the shop. Some shopkeepers send the electricians for the fitting and normally they charge Rs. 30 to Rs. 50/fitting. Otherwise you will have to arrange your own Electrician, not a big deal.
Normally people forget on the bathroom fittings, they realize this only on the day they moved in! You need to go to a hardware shop and buy towel rings, tray for keeping soap etc, mirrors etc. You can ask your carpenter to fix those along with the curtain rods.
You will get it from the same hardware shop or go to shops exclusive for Curtains. Make sure you have the measurements before visiting the shop, or you can ask them to visit your flat to take the measurement. Curtain rod balls costs 200 to 1200 per pair, go for good quality materials as we will not be changing curtain rods often. You can go for single rod or double rod depends on your choice.
Call 3-4 reputed packers and movers in your city, ask for a quote. If its not falling under your budget, go for local brands(again branded), make sure they does packing and unpacking, not only transportation. For local shifting it may cost you from 1500 to 5000.
Its your dream home, invite your relatives, friends and neighbours for the ceremony, arrange breakfast/lunch there itself(not in restaurants-if you want to make this a memorable occasion in your life). Even if you are going to rent out the house, stay at least that night there with family and be proud of having your own home!
Last but not the least, make arrangements for News Paper, Milk, Landline and Broadband. Keet note of the house keeping, electrical and plumbing service contacts, security, nearest hospital contact numbers.
This is one of the major task after you move in to your flat. Collect the application form, submit it to the Panchayat or BBMP office along with copy of your Sale Deed, Encumbrance Certificate, Previous Tax Paid Receipt and Land Conversion certificate if any.
By default the electricity meter will be in the builder's name, you need to fill a transfer form which can be collected from your BESCOM office and submit it along with your Sale Deed copy.
Cool! Now put some light music and enjoy!!!


International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing – ICCSP' 19 will take place in Melmaruvathur, Tamilnadu, India on 4th, 5th & 6th of April 2019 and will be hosted by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Adhiparasakthi Engineering College in association with IEEE.
The idea of the conference is to bring together the Scientists, Scholars, Engineers, Industrialists, and Students from in and around the world to present the on-going research activities and hence to foster research relations between universities and industries. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas, applications, and experiences, to establish research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.
Experts from India and abroad are expected to participate in this conference. We will be happy to have you as one of the honourable participants at the conference by presenting your research work. We shall be grateful to receive your suggestions towards the conference.