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XI Sqn Update
Royal Success in The United Arab Emirates
XI Sqn deployed to India during October and November 2011; on the way home they were asked to complete another Detachment in UAE called Exercise AIR KHANJAR, with Typhoons flying alongside UAE M2000s and F16s.The Exercise saw XI Sqn deploy six Typhoons supported by two E3D Sentry aircraft from RAF Waddington to Al Dhafra Air Force Base in the UAE under 906 Expeditionary Air Wing (EAW), commanded by Wing Commander Jez Attridge.
The Royal State visit to Abu Dhabi by the Queen and Prince Phillip coincided with AIR KHANJAR, which enabled 906 EAW to become involved with a Royal Flypast. XI Sqn launched a 4-ship with an 8 Sqn Sentry as part of a 22 ship UAE-led flypast; it proved to be a great success, arriving on time and on target. Not only did XI Sqn deploy with its own pilots, but it was resolutely bolstered by 3(F) Sqn and 6 Sqn. This brought a breadth of experience to the team not only for flying along side UAEs pilots, but also with the mission planning and overall co-ordination and it was good for inter Sqn banter! It proved that the Wing continues to have strong interoperability amongst the Front Line Squadrons.
The engineering support, coupled with the dry conditions, allowed the Typhoon and Sentry to make every mission and achieve 110% of planned sorties. This is testament to the hard work of the engineers who endured some incredibly demanding conditions on the pan. Not only did the Typhoon make use of this opportunity to build on the bilateral relationship with the UAE, but also to work with HMS Cumberland, which was operating in the Persian Gulf. This enabled 906 EAW to exercise protecting and attacking the ship.
The UAE had other advantages apart from the fantastic flying and serviceability rates. It also provided the opportunity to explore what was on its doorstep. The EAW was given the opportunity to sample some of the local culture in Abu Dhabi and utilize some of the great sports and social facilities on offer. The Detachment culminated in a quiet, sober black-tie dinner in the Aloft Hotel. The Sqn were away for nearly 3 months in India and the UAE and returned in mid December to a hectic social calendar including the Exchange Drinks, Pilots Lunch and Sqn Christmas party all within 3 days; the social Esprit de Corps has continued well into 2011. January started off with an epic Dads Dining-In Night in College Hall Officers' Mess at RAFC Cranwell, which was an excellent opportunity to show our fathers a traditional Dining-In, in historic surroundings. The Sqn Execs took a break from flying for a Golf Day, which saw the SEngO earn the camel for the most bunkers and the beaver for losing the most balls in a couple of small puddles alongside the course, whilst the XO 'schwacked' the main window in the clubhouse from a bunker on the 18th; he is still paying for a new window!
We say goodbye to a few Sqn members with Rich Tuer leaving XI to try his hand at Flight Commander duties on all the other Typhoon Sqns. The 'saviour of the Reds' Pablo goes up to 6 Sqn on promotion when he returns from the Falkland Islands. Sqn Ldr Des Smith departs OOA to Afghanistan with his laugh being used for PysOps on the bad guys; he is replaced by Sqn Ldr Bob Jones who arrives from the morale centric base at Linton. We also say hello to Sarah Waghorn our new 'JEngO'. Welcome all and Rich, Pabs and Des thank you for all your hard work.


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Home » Hackley Move Puts More Pressure On Health Costs
Hackley Move Puts More Pressure On Health Costs
More Pressure Than Being Sued
Poverty pressure puts children's development on hold
It's troubling to see <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />HackleyHospital lending itself to the development of a $8 million "comprehensive ambulatory medical facility" in Muskegon's southern suburbs. The project entails constructing a twin-story 60,000-square-foot building that the hospital will lease for a broad range of outpatient testing. It is minutes from the planned NorthOttawaCommunityHospital development, and Hackley believes the move will make it more competitive. Health care and competition rarely work together and serve to drive costs up.
The structure will lie in a 30-acre "medical park" in Norton Shores just southwest of the Lakes Mall. The park will have space for "complementary buildings," presumably doctors' offices, pharmacies and other health-care firms.
Hackley's announcement says the medical park ties to its strategic plan to "offer greater access for our patients." It adds that the site is "in the hub of a growing population in southern MuskegonCounty. Many of our physicians already serve patients from this region and this is a tremendous opportunity for physicians to get closer to their patients." That's hooey.
HackleyHospital lies in southern MuskegonCounty. What's more, the Hackley Campus — with its three-story physicians' office building — has dual outpatient testing facilities plus a retail pharmacy and a separate retail medical implements store.
Finally, we're not talking Doctors Without Borders here.
The "region" that the medical park would serve "for physicians to get closer to their patients" is not underserved. In fact, Norton Shores and its cheek-by-jowl Ottawa County municipalities — Fruitport and Spring Lake Townships and Ferrysburg — are where most of the area's physicians, med techs and hospital administrators reside, nestled among many of their own patients.
Hackley's claim about getting physicians closer to their patients is doubly phony. Patients go to doctors, not vice versa. Too, doctors direct patients where to get testing.
To be sure, some doctors may pay the premium to leave Hackley's office building and build offices at
Farr Road
Harvey Street
. The move may save them six miles in their daily commute. For some patients, driving to the medical park may be more convenient — by a matter of five minutes — though they'll find Lakes Mall traffic far heavier than anything near HackleyHospital
Take away all the announcement's fluff and it's clear that Hackley simply stamped its footprint near the Ottawa-MuskegonCounty line to preempt NorthOttawaCountyHospital from doing the same.
It is a strategic business decision, all right, but has nothing to do with giving doctors access to patients. If these hospitals were freely competing businesses, we'd have no comment. The price of duplication in this case has no punitive financial consequences as it would for any other type of business. The consumer pays the price.
The medical facility will cost far more than $8 million when the prices of duplicated real estate, furnishings and state-of-the-art equipment are included. And at the end of the day, inelastic demand forces patients to pay those costs in the form of higher deductibles, higher co-pays, higher shares of higher employer insurance premiums, and consequently lower salaries and wages.
Hackley's decision is exactly the mindset that keeps health-care costs rising out of control.

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Burgeis (, ) is the largest frazione of the comune of Mals, Italy, and sits at an altitude of 1216m in Vinschgau in South Tyrol beneath the mountain Watles (2557) on the upper reaches of the Adige. The name goes all the way back to a Roman founding, as a fort on the "Via Claudia Augusta", which runs through the village.  This fort later gave the name of the Edelfreien von Burgus-Wanga, whose arms the village bears today.

Burgeis has 828 inhabitants  (March 2007) .  It lies 2.5 Kilometer from Mals.

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities
Burgeis is twinned with:
 Lohr am Main, Germany
 Beilngries, Bayern, Germany
 Weingarten, Germany

History
The oldest account mentioning Burgeis is the Chronicle of the Benedictine Father, Goswin, who lived between 1320 and 1395 or so.  This gives a wide reaching sketch of the place, of the history of Marienberg and of Obervischgau in the high Middle Ages.  So we know more about Burgeis in the 12th century than many other, more important places.

Marienberg Abbey
Above Burgeis lies Europe's highest Benedictine abbey Marienberg (at 1340 m). Its impressive Baroque church and the Romanesque crypt (1160) belong to the most beautiful ?school of art? in Vinschgau. The Frescos in the crypt date from between 1175 and 1180.  They were partly discovered in  1887 and in 1980 completely freed.  Burgeis is the birthplace of the famous Baroque painter Johann Evangelist Holzer.

St. Stefan
The close of the Abbey contains a small church St. Stefan, which dates back to the early days of Christianity in the 5th century, according to archaeological dig, although it got its current form in the 9th and 10th centuries.

Economy
There are many Hotels, Pensions and Guesthouses (Gasthöfe) in and around Burgeis, which today form the basis of a flourishing tourism industry, especially in the winter.

Neighboring Places
St. Valentin auf der Haide, Mals, Schlinig, Schleis, Planeil, Plawenn

Literature
Hubert Walder / Helmut Stampfer: Romanische Wandmalerei im Vinschgau, 2002,
Alfred Reichling: Orgellandschaft Südtirol, Bozen 1982, S. 11f., 60-63.

External links

Tourismusverein
Burgeis auf der Seite der Gemeinde Mals

Frazioni of South Tyrol

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Community band invites new members
The Auburn Community Band performs at Festival Plaza at 7 p.m. Wednesdays during the summer. The band is seeking new members.
AUBURN – This month marks the Auburn Community Band's annual open-membership period. All musicians who wish to take part in the band's summer outdoor concert season have until the end of January to join the group and start participating in their weekly rehearsals.
Due to some recent changes in the group, the band has an immediate need for alto saxophone, French horn, bass clarinet and tuba players. The organization also hopes to grow its flute, clarinet, trumpet and baritone sections. In addition, there is a need for percussionists who can read music.
The 50-member band meets from 7 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday at the High Street Congregational Church, located between High and Pleasant Streets. Musicians must have their own instrument and music stand and be able to commit to the weekly schedule of rehearsals and concerts.
From June through mid-September, the community band presents outdoor concerts at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. The 75-minute performances take place at Festival Plaza in downtown Auburn, weather permitting.
Before joining, many of the group's volunteer musicians had last played their instruments some 20 to 40 years ago.
Because of that, according to band director Milt Simon, "people are often nervous when they first join our group, but most regain their musical skills within a short period of time." Simon added that the opportunity to perform weekly in front of audiences averaging in size from 400 to 500 people is appealing to most musicians.
The new season marks the Auburn Community Band's 26th year under Simon's direction. The organization is jointly sponsored by the Auburn Parks and Recreation Department, HRH Northern New England and the Gleason Radio Group.
Interested musicians are asked to call Brian Hodges, band president, at 375-6312 before attending their first rehearsal. For more information, visit the band's Web site at www.auburncommunityband.org.


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Pakistan welcomes UN report on Kashmir, cautions rights body against comparisons with PaK
Pakistan has welcomed the new United Nations report on the situation in Kashmir, which for the second consecutive year called for setting up of a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) for investigating human rights abuses being perpetrated by government forces in the valley.
On Monday the United Nations in a report said that neither India nor Pakistan have taken any concrete steps to address the the numerous concerns raised in an earlier report by the rights body.
The UN human rights report on the situation in Kashmir and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir from May 2018 to April 2019, said the number of civilian casualties reported over the 12-month period may be the highest in over a decade.
Pakistan while welcoming the report cautioned the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) against comparing the situation in Kashmir with Pakistan administered Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
"We again welcome the OHCHR's recommendation for the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to investigate the gross and systematic human rights violations in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir," the Foreign office of Pakistan said in its reaction to the OHCHR report, whose launch coincided with the third death anniversary of Burhan Wani.
This second OHCHR report specifically notes the sharp aggravation in the situation after the Feb 14 attack on Indian paramilitary forces in Pulwama that had led to a military stand-off between Pakistan and India. It said that post-Pulwama situation continues to impact the rights of the Kashmiris, including the right to life.
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10 Islamic State militants killed in Iraq


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import atlantis.engine.Application;
import atlantis.engine.GameApplication;
import atlantis.framework.GameTime;

public class PlatformerGame extends GameApplication {
	public PlatformerGame() {
		super(800, 520, "Atlantis :: Platformer 2D sample");
		this.content.setRootDirectory("Content/Platformer/");
	}

	public void initialize() {
		super.initialize();
		GameState gameState = new GameState("game", 3);
		this.stateManager.add(gameState, true, false);
	}

	public void update(GameTime gameTime) {
		super.update(gameTime);
		if (Application.keyboard.escape()) {
			this.exit();
		}
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		PlatformerGame game = new PlatformerGame();
		game.run();
	}
}

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Great Falls straddles the Missouri River and is known as the "Electric City" because of its numerous dams and power plants. Great Falls is a community with grand traditions, rich history and superb recreational and cultural amenities for the entire family. When you visit, take a moment and remember to reflect on the fact that you're walking in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark, the Blackfeet Indians, the buffalo and the grizzly bear.


Farrar is a suburb of Northern Territory, Northern Territory and is about 16 kms east of NT's capital city of Darwin. In the 2011 Australian census the population of Farrar was 1,406 when there were 695 Females and 711 Males living there. The median age for people living in Farrar was 29. Want to know more about Farrar?
Bakewell is 2 kms south.
Delissaville is 3 kms south.
Gunn is 1 km south.
Hayes Creek is 2 kms west.
Holtze is 3 kms north-northwest.
Rosebery is 3 kms south.
Rosebery Heights is 3 kms south.
Farrars Creek (QLD) 4481 is 1814 kms southeast.


WHITE OAK — It's not every Sunday that you hear an electric guitar and driving rock-and-roll percussion during the processional at Mass.
But then again, not every liturgy is held for the annual Diocese of Charleston's Youth Conference. This year's event, which ran from March 10-12, had the theme "Now is the Time!" based on the Scripture passage: "Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation" (2 Cor. 6:2).
The conference attracted more than 625 youth and adults from parishes around the state, and treated them to a weekend that included inspirational speakers, comedy acts, group projects, sports and time for spiritual reflection and prayer. All the activities stressed the importance of seeking God's love and guidance right now, instead of postponing that search for the future or a time of crisis.
Everyone gathered in the main auditorium at White Oak on Sunday morning, standing and singing enthusiastically along with contemporary hymns that were played by the official "house band" Wannabe Stephen, a quartet of musicians from around the diocese. Bishop Robert J. Baker and Msgr. Joseph Roth celebrated the Mass.
During his homily, Bishop Baker talked about how appropriate the conference's theme was to the season of Lent because it is a time for Catholics to focus on Jesus' sacrifice and his real presence during the Mass.
Bishop Baker also reminded the young people of the importance of stewardship, of giving time, talent and treasure to others.
Before the Mass, the young people also heard from guest speaker Lisa Millitello, a Columbia resident and member of St. Joseph Church who regularly travels to youth events, talking about difficulties she has faced in her life and how realizing God's love for her helped her to overcome them.
She reminded the young people to carry the message of "Now is the Time" home with them from White Oak.
The Mass was a moving and exuberant conclusion to a weekend that had provided the youth with a chance to meet new people, discuss their faith with others and spend time in spiritual reflection.
On Saturday, conference participants had the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation face-to-face from priests who sat at various places on the rolling green lawn around the White Oak Conference Center.
There was also free time that day when the youths could participate in a variety of team sports.
Caitlin Connelly, 16, of St. Paul the Apostle Church in Spartanburg, was especially happy with her experience because she had been able to attend the three-day event at the last minute.


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Q: Bézout ring with non-trivial Picard group? [I asked this on stackexchange here a few weeks ago to no response]
A ring is called Bézout when its finitely generated ideals are principal.

Q: Is there a nice example of a Bézout ring $R$ with $\operatorname{Pic}(R) \not= 0$ and an explicit description of a (non-free) rank $1$ projective over $R$?

Below are some thoughts and motivation:
Until recently I had assumed (and thought I had a proof in mind) that any Bézout ring would have trivial Picard group.  But then I came across the paper Finitely Generated Modules over Bézout Rings of Wiegand and Wiegand, in which Theorem 2.1 implies that any Hermite ring $R$ which is not an elementary divisor ring contains an element $d$ such that $R/(d)$ has nontrivial Picard group.
Since I've been carrying around this apparent misconception about Picard groups of Bézout rings for quite a while, I'd love to have an explicit example to sink my teeth into.
Part of my problem seems to be that some common additional properties of Bézout rings do ensure trivial Picard group.  For example, if the Bézout ring is an elementary divisor ring or if it has compact minimal prime spectrum (with respect to the Zariski topology).
Most of the still-viable candidate Bézout rings I know occur as rings of continuous real-valued functions on the remainder of certain Stone-Čech compactifications, and I find it hard to work with such rings under construction.  For example, if we take $X$ to be the union of the positive x-axis in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and the positive half of the $\sin$ curve, and take $R = C(\beta X \setminus X)$ (the ring of associated real-valued continuous functions), then $R$ is Hermite but not an elementary divisor ring (cf example 4.11 here), so the above-cited Theorem 2.1 implies that $R/(d)$ would provide me an example for some $d \in R$. Yet I have no idea how to locate such an element $d$ or, having done that, what this projective module would look like.

A: This is only a partial answer, but it's too long to fit in the comments.
For any (commutative) ring $R$, there is a canonical inclusion $\text{Cl}(R) \longrightarrow \text{Pic}(R)$, where $\text{Cl}(R)$ is the ideal class group of $R$, that is, the group of all invertible fractional ideals of $R$ modulo its subgroup of principal regular fractional ideals of $R$.
If $R$ is an integral domain or a Noetherian ring, or more generally if $R$ is a ring with few zerodivisors, then the canonical inclusion $\text{Cl}(R) \longrightarrow \text{Pic}(R)$ is an isomorphism.
Also, if $R$ is a regularly Bezout ring, that is, if every finitely generated regular ideal of $R$ is principal, then clearly the ideal class group $\text{Cl}(R)$ of all invertible ideals of $R$ modulo principal ideals of $R$ is trivial.  In fact, a regularly Bezout ring is equivalently a Prufer ring with trivial ideal class group.  Prufer rings (with or without zerodivisors) are a well-studied class of rings.  The proper invariant to study Prufer rings is the ideal class group rather than the Picard group.
It follows from the comments above any regularly Bezout (or Bezout) ring with nontrivial Picard group cannot be a ring with few zerodivisors (and therefore cannot be Noetherian or a domain).  So, to find an example, you might start by looking at the construction of such rings in the literature.  It seems like one should be able to make many examples that are Bezout, but then finding one with nontrivial Picard group could be hard.
Marot rings are a generalization of rings with few zerodivisors, and there are also many constructions of rings that are not Marot in the literature.

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For more than 17 years, Enmac has been manufacturing fiberglass composites with a high degree of technology and quality, using continuous filaments, pultrusion and lamination processes. Enmac supplies several segments, including energy transmission and distribution.
The company is located in the city of Arúja, Spain, in a 21,000 m² facility with modern infrastructure ready to serve its customers with quality and promptness.
A high-degree project requires a certified company that represents more safety and reliability. Enmac is the right company to work with, since it is ISO 9001 certified and also features products with Type Approval certified BV, DNV and ABS.
The idea of the project: to provide a higher bending resistance to crossbars and structural profiles.
Technical benefits: to meet customer standards and requirements.
The objectives of the project: to provide greater stiffness to the profiles and reduce bending strength and weight.
More important details: NCF glass provided reinforcement in the pultruded results in positions that optimized the design and facilitated the expected results.
Materials: 20% reduction in bending using SAERTEX materials.
Process: utilization of SAERTEX NCF on the production process optimized the production due to the continuous flow of pultrusion and the flexibility and stability of the fabric.
Benefits: time reduction and stability.
More important details: more possibilities in the development of projects with high mechanical performance demands.
In addition to the excellent service and technical support, SAERTEX offers us quality products, a key element for our growth process and maintenance to the complete satisfaction of our customers.
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Large Living Room with vaulted ceiling and fireplace, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, spacious kitchen. Set back on the grounds of the beautiful Mountain View Inn, with open deck. Walk to all village amenities and the Historic Norfolk Library. Hike the numerous trails of Haystack Mountain and Dennis Hill Park. Beautifully furnished or rent unfurnished.


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Trump Just One More Fuck Up Away From Losing Support Of Ohio Man
This article originally appeared in the Antwerp Oyster.
LEBANON, OHIO — Warehouse Manager Lester Wagner (53) has just about had it up to here with the man he voted for in the 2016 Election. A loyal Trump supporter since the day he declared his candidacy for the highest office, Wagner now believes if he sees the President do "one more dumb as shit thing", he may just be forced to no longer support the man. "Fuck yeah I voted for him. He and I, well, we both remember when America was great and understand where it went wrong," Wagner said as he loaded supplies into shipping crate destined for Cincinnati. "But he's been all over the place, man. I'm not there quite yet, but I'm just about fed up. I swear to Jesus himself, if Trump does one more thing to harm the reputation of this country or what not, I may just be forced to say that I can no longer support him."
Wagner said he's aware that over the past two years the president has openly mocked LGBT people, people with disabilities, women, black people, immigrants from nearly everywhere, Jews, Muslims, Mexico, North Korea, John McCain, television political pundits, the media overall, late night sketch comedy shows and even his own White House staff, but that the President would have to do something really crazy for him to say enough is enough. "Yeah, I know all that. Fuck, quite frankly, all that shit was pretty cool. What I mean is if he does something really dumb, you know? Like, just stupid as hell. I'll knows it when I sees it."
Max Rosenblum is a comedian and writer based out of Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter @mrmaxrose.
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Protesters Demand Future Monuments Be Constructed Out Of Softer Materials To Avoid Injuries When Kicked
WASHINGTON D.C. – An online petition calling for constructing all future statues and monuments in the U.S. out of a more malleable material has gone viral after it garnered half a million signatures in four days. In a statement made on Change.org, the petition's organizers Zarhia Pewter and Joni Keef expressed the urgent need for local municipalities to build statues out of material that "when kicked or punched to bits" won't actually injure its self-righteous assailants. "I was actually in Durham [North Carolina — Ed.] at the time and witnessed how those people bravely ganged up on the statue honoring the Confederate soldiers who cowardly perished for their backward beliefs like way back and stuff. It totally broke my heart to see some of them in need of treatment for broken toes, feet and the odd ukulele," said Pewter.
While Pewter and Keef acknowledged the variety of potential complications that could arise from having essentially 'softer' statues, such as a higher likelihood of falling over naturally or being subject to extreme weather, both campaigners maintain local councils should still prioritize the wellbeing of their iconoclastic citizens. "It's crucial that if we discover at a later point that our nation's statues and monuments are racist, bigoted or just embarrassingly outdated in any way, brave activists on the front line should be able to kick the shit out of public property, while comfortably sipping their lattes or mochaccinos and not worrying about any nasty bruises," Keef added. "It's precisely that freedom to be a total, self-centered, wishy-washy PC jackass that our forefathers died fighting for." Supportive messages for the petition have poured in over the past few days, as well as suggestions for how future monuments could be built including plush, bean bag beans and hair weaves.
Max Rosenblum is a comedian and writer based out of Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @mrmaxrose.
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Condominium Developers in Texas Can Protect Themselves from Future Lawsuits Through the Use of Declarations
Betty Richmond
Baker Donelson
A Texas court recently affirmed the dismissal of construction defect claims by a residential condominium unit owners' association because it lacked standing to assert claims against the developer, general contractor, and subcontractors of a new high-rise project in Houston. The case involved a high-rise, multi-residential, and retail development with alleged construction defects in the windows and resulting damage from water intrusion into some of its approximately 400 condominium units. The owners' association brought suit against the project developers, the general contractor, and the window subcontractor, alleging negligence, negligent misrepresentation, breach of implied warranty, breach of fiduciary duty, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act arising from the alleged defects.
The defendants won dismissal by arguing that Section 82.102(a)(4) of the Texas Property Code did not confer standing on the owners' association to bring its claims because the statute expressly excepts any actions prohibited by a condominium's declaration. For this development, the condominium declaration prohibited the owners' association from bringing claims based on alleged defects in the condominium units or common elements. The defendants also asserted that the owners' association lacked common law standing because it did not own, and had no interest in, the units or common areas, and thus suffered no injury from the alleged construction defects.
After having its case dismissed, the owners' association argued on appeal that it had statutory standing, common law standing, and associational standing to bring its claims. The court of appeals disagreed and affirmed the dismissal. The association's statutory standing arguments were rejected because the claims, either brought on behalf of the owners or on the owners' association's own behalf, were all based on alleged construction defects of the condominium window units, which were expressly barred by the declaration. Further, the court rejected the owners' association's common law standing claim because all of the allegedly defective windows were within the condominium units and not part of the common elements falling within the owners' association's maintenance and repair obligations. In addition, the court rejected the owners' association's associational standing claim because the relief sought required proof of each member's individual money damages.
This decision is pertinent to developers and contractors of residential condominiums who wish to provide themselves with enhanced protection from lawsuits over construction defects. It will be interesting to watch whether the decision stands and whether other courts decide to follow.
The case is Mosaic Residential N. Condo. Association. Inc. v. 5925 Almeda N. Tower LP, No. 01-16-00414-CV, 2018 WL 5070728 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Oct. 18, 2018).
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Bangkok has numerous rooftop bars mostly situated in hotels. Drinks can be expensive. Expect to pay between 200-400 baht for a small beer. Happy hours are the exception rather than the rule. Most rooftop bars don't serve food apart from a complimentary light snack such as peanuts or popcorn with your drink although most have attached alfresco restaurants on floors underneath the bar.
Some bars can be crowded around the sunset hours, particularly Sirocco, Moon Bar, Octave, and Red Sky. It's advisable to either arrive early or try to reserve a table at these venues. Bangkok sunset hours are between 18.00-19.00. A sun-downer at a Bangkok rooftop bar should be a must do during your stay in Bangkok. Read on for the best places.
Escape is a beach style bar, club & bistro on the roof of the EmQuartier shopping mall. The bar is accessed from the malls 5th floor Helix Zone garden via the glass Vertigo bridge. The bar features four distinct zones each with its own personal bar. The Ellipse, a central oval-shaped bar with seating at and around the bar on sofa benches, The Sail is a bamboo-clad casual dining area with high stools, circular tables, and communal benches, The Tent, an air-conditioned tented zone, dimly lit with comfortable cosy seating, and The Terrace, a more private zone with comfortable sofas and a trio of thatched-roof cabanas overlooking the city below. The décor draws its inspiration from Bali, Mexico, and Marrakech.
The music is tropical house, Jazz, Funk, and Soul. There are DJ'S and live accompanying performances from solo instrumentalists playing saxophone, violin or percussion. The DJ's start at 17.30 with the live music after 20.00. There are weekly shows from International DJ's.
The bar serves cocktails, wine, champagne and a large selection of beers as well as soft drinks. There is a tapas menu, sharing boards and a full restaurant menu available in all zones. Tapas from 190 baht, mains from 390 baht, share boards at 990 baht, steaks from 1350 baht, seafood platters at 3500 baht and a selection of desserts from 180 baht. A service charge of 10% and VAT at 7% is added to the bill.
Check the menu: http://www.escape-bangkok.com/Reservations can be made online at the website or by phone at 022586513. Reservations are essential on weekends.
Address: 5th Floor, Helix Zone, EmQuartier, 651/1 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok.
Getting There: BTS Phrom Phong Station (exit 1).
The Moon Bar & Vertigo Restaurant are located on the 61st-floor rooftop of the Banyan Tree Hotel on South Sathorn Road near Silom. There are stunning 360-degree views of the surrounding Bangkok cityscape making it a great place to watch the sunset. The best time to arrive is 30 minutes before sunset so you can take in daylight, sunset and the glittering nighttime panorama of the city. The rooftop houses both the Moon Bar where you can sip a beer or cocktail served with a small tapas dish and the Vertigo Restaurant where you can dine under the stars.
Arrive early if you want a table at the bar as it is usually crowded by sunset with only standing room at the bar or make a reservation if you want a table at the restaurant. You must request a table at the edge if you want to dine at a table with an unobstructed view. Neither the bar or restaurant are cheap. At the Moon Bar a small beer will cost you 400 baht, and a cocktail 600 baht. A meal for 2 with drinks at Vertigo will cost from 6000-12000 baht. Tax & service (17%) are added to the bill. There is a dress code so be sure to dress smartly. The crowd is mostly tourists. Service is efficient, friendly and polite and photography is permitted.
Location: Banyan Tree Hotel, South Sathorn Road. Bangkok.
Dress Code: Smart Casual (no flip-flops, shorts, singlets, athletic gear, backpacks).
Opening Hours: Moon Bar 17.00-01.00, Vertigo Restaurant 18.00-10.30.
BTS Sala Daeng (exit 4). Turn right into Soi Sala Daeng, continue to Sathorn Road, Cross the pedestrian bridge turn left and the Banyan Tree is 100m on your right.
MRT Si Lom (exit 2). Turn left into Soi Sala Daeng, continue to Sathorn Road, Cross the pedestrian bridge turn left and the Banyan Tree is 100m on your right.
The Sky Bar is located on the 63rd floor of the Lebua Hotel on Silom Road. It is the highest open-air bar in the world but it's the main claim to fame is its appearance in the film Hangover 2. The film inspired the bar's hangovertini cocktail (a blend of green tea liquor, apple juice, Martini Rosso & rosemary honey). There are great views of the Chao Phraya river and the surrounding city. There is also an adjoining rooftop restaurant Sirocco.
The Sky Bar is very popular and it sometimes feels more like a tourist attraction than a bar. If you want to avoid the crowds get there early as the small bar area soon fills up. Drinks are expensive at 500 baht for a small beer and 700-1000 baht for cocktails. Tax & service (17%) are added to the bill. There is a very strict dress code requiring long trousers, long-sleeved shirts, and proper shoes and is strictly enforced. Photography is permitted only in certain areas. Children over 7 years old are welcome if accompanied by an adult though they must observe the same dress code as adults.
Sirocco Restaurant offers a Mediterranean inspired menu and is an amazingly romantic dinner location, but at a price. Expect to pay 13000-20000 for a meal for two with drinks. That could be almost as much as the cost of your flight to Bangkok. If you want to dine you will need to make a reservation which can be done online.
Location: 63rd-floor Lebua Hotel, State Tower, Silom Road, Bangkok.
Dress Code: Smart Casual (no flip-flops, shorts, singlets, athletic/sports gear, sleeveless clothing, backpacks).
BTS Saphan Taksin (exit 3). Turn left onto Charoen Krung Road. Turn right into Silom Road and Lebua is on your right.
BTS Sala Daeng (exit 4). Take a taxi down Silom Road.
MRT Si Lom (exit 2). Take a taxi down Silom Road.
The 360 bar occupies a stunning riverside location on the 32nd floor of the Millennium Hilton Hotel with great views along the Chao Phraya river below with its constant traffic of boats. Opposite is the Chinatown district with Wat Traimit, River City, and the Sheraton Hotel. Further up river you can glimpse Wat Arun, Wat Saket, The Grand Palace, Wat Prayoon, Memorial Bridge and Asiatique all visible in the distance and lit up at night.
The bar consists of a river facing outdoor seated terrace and an indoor air-conditioned lounge. A stairway leads up from the lounge to a distinctive round glass enclosed cupola lounge with a 360-degree panoramic view of the surrounding area. There is comfortable seating all around the edge of the cupola and live Jazz music after 21.00. The sun sets at the back of the hotel.
Prices are average for an upmarket hotel with beers starting at 250 baht, cocktails from 360 baht and wine at 500 baht a glass. Tax and service (17%) are added to your bill. A snack menu is also available as well as a light buffet. Service is efficient and friendly.
The dress code is smart casual officially meaning no shorts, singlets or flip flops but this is sometimes overlooked. There is a free shuttle boat from the hotel boat pier at Sathorn Pier next to Saphan Taksin BTS. There is a second hotel shuttle boat that runs between the hotel and Asiatique.
Location: 32nd floor, Millennium Hilton Hotel, 123 Charoennakorn Road, Bangkok.
Red Sky is a rooftop bar and restaurant on the 56th floor of the Centara Grand Hotel attached to Central World Mall in the downtown Ratchaprasong shopping district. There is a 360-degree panoramic view of the surrounding city. Its outstanding feature is a large glowing arch which constantly rotates color between pink, red, purple, yellow, green and blue.
The bar is spread over three floors with an indoor air-conditioned dining room and outdoor dining area, a 360 degree round open air seated bar and an exclusive al fresco Cru Champagne bar on the top floor which you must have a reservation to access with the menu devoted to champagne by the bottle and champagne cocktails only and featuring live Jazz music.
The lower level is for dining only with indoor and outdoor sections as well as another indoor bar. The menu is European cuisine. Main courses range from 500 baht up to 5000 baht. A meal for two here with wine will set you back around 10000 baht.
The middle floor has drink service only with free snacks. Drinks are usual rooftop bar prices with beers from 320 baht, Spirits from 320 baht, Cocktails from 430 baht, Mocktails from 260 baht and soft drinks from 180 baht. Service and VAT (17%) are added to all bills. There is a daily happy hour from 16.00-18.00 where all drinks are buy one get one free. Giant cocktails have their own happy hour from 18.00-20.00. There is a live DJ from 20.00.
Service is efficient and friendly with staff who speak good English. The dress code is smart casual – no shorts, singlets or flip-flops.
The entrance to Red Sky is from the lobby of the Centara Grand Hotel though there are connecting lifts in the car park via the 4th floor of Central World.
Location: 56th floor, Centara Grand Hotel, Central World Mall, Bangkok.
Getting There: BTS Siam (exit 5) or Chit Lom (exit 6) stations, then take the elevated walkway to Central World.
Octave is a rooftop lounge and bar on floors 45-49 of the Marriott Sukhumvit. The bar has 360-degree panoramic views of the city. The rooftop is alfresco while the floors below have indoor air-conditioned dining spaces, a private room and an outdoor terrace with a retractable cover. There are DJ's on the rooftop and outdoor terrace.
The menu in the restaurant is new age fusion style tapas with the emphasis on Asian cuisine. There are seafood and sushi bars as well as a snack menu and a hot dog stand. Bar snacks are served with a drink on the roof. Dishes cost from 170 baht to 990 baht. Hot dogs are 100 baht.
Drinks are the usual rooftop prices with beers from 250 baht, Cocktails from 330 baht, Spirits from 350 baht, Mocktails from 250 baht, Soft drinks from 110 baht and Champagne from 7500 baht a bottle. Service & tax (17%) are added to all bills. There is a happy hour between 17.00-19.00 with a 50% discount on signature cocktails.
The dress code is smart casual – no shorts, singlets or flip-flops. You must be at least 20 years old to enter Octave. You may be asked for ID. The Marriott is a short walk from BTS Thon Lo station.
Location: 45-49th floors, Marriott Sukhumvit Hotel, Sukhumvit Soi 57, Bangkok.
Getting There: BTS Thong Lo Station (exit 3). Cross the intersection and the Marriott is on your left at the entrance to Soi 57.
Long Table is a chic bar-restaurant on the 25th floor of the Column Tower a short walk from the Asoke intersection on Sukhumvit road. It is famous for its 25m long table which seats 70 people and runs the length of the restaurant. The interior design is modern and stylish with comfortable sofa style seating in booths and around the long table. The lighting is minimal red and orange with candlelit tables adding a romantic touch. There is an outside terrace with tables arranged around an underwater lit swimming pool, though the pool is not for the use of restaurant customers. The outside terrace has great views of the sunset and the surrounding city.
There is a daily buy one get one happy hour between 17.00-19.00 with a free snack included making it a good venue for sunset drinks. The restaurant serves up quality International-Thai fusion food at reasonable prices running from 100-250 baht for appetizers and salads and 350 baht upwards for mains. Drinks start at 200 baht for a small beer and from 300 baht for cocktails. Tax and service (17%) are added to all bills.
The dim lighting makes it hard to read the menu, though the service staff has torches for your use. The crowd are a mixture of locals, expats, and tourists and strictly enforces a smart casual dress code. Long Table is a short walk from the BTS & MRT stations at the Asoke/Sukhumvit intersection and is easily located due to its huge neon sign on the outside of the Column Tower.
Location: Floor 25, The Column Tower, Sukhumvit Road Soi 16, Bangkok.
Dress Code: Smart Casual (no flip-flops, shorts, singlets, athletic gear).
Getting There: BTS Asoke (exit 4), MRT Sukhumvit (exit 2).
Brewski is a rooftop bar specializing in craft beer. It's located on the 30th floor of the Radisson Blu hotel on Sukhumvit Road near Soi 27. There are 12 beers on tap which rotate regularly, 11 of which can be described as a craft beer. One tap is reserved for a cheaper ordinary domestic brew. There are also over 100 bottled craft beers and ciders. Prices range from 180 baht a pint for the domestic brew up to 350 baht a pint for the craft beers. There is also a food menu from 120 baht for snacks up to 490 baht for a burger and fries.
There is comfortable sofa seating as well as high tables and balcony high stools with great views of the surrounding city. Service is efficient and friendly. There is a DJ from Thursday to Sunday playing house and EDM. The dress code is smart casual – no shorts, singlets or flip-flops. You must be at least 20 years old to drink at Brewski. ID may be asked for. Brewski is a short walk from BTS Asoke and MRT Sukhumvit stations.
Location: 30th floor, Radisson Blu Hotel, 489 Sukhumvit Road (Soi 27), Bangkok.
Opening Hours: 17.00-01.00 Sunday-Thursday, 15.00-01.00 Friday-Saturday.
Getting There: BTS Asoke station (exit 6). Cross the intersection and walk up Sukhumvit Road. The Radisson is on your left.
MRT Sukhumvit station (exit 2). Take a left and walk up Sukhumvit Road. The Radisson is on your left.
Above 11 is a chic rooftop bar and restaurant on the 33rd floor of the Fraser Suites Hotel. The bar overlooks busy Sukhumvit Soi 11 with stunning views of the Bangkok skyline. The bar has a relaxing garden style ambiance with trees, potted plants, and even some grassy areas. The seating features comfy sofas, balcony side tables and stools seating at the bar. There is also an upstairs balcony with more seating, it's own bar and DJ.
The restaurant serves quality authentic Peruvian Japanese cuisine. Prices range from 300 baht to 1100 baht with the average main costing 400-500 baht. There are also platters from 1200 baht to 1900 baht.
Drinks are reasonably priced for a rooftop bar with beers from 190 baht, spirits from 230 baht, cocktails from 320 baht, mocktails from 200 baht, soft drinks from 100 baht, wine from 310 a glass and from 1600 baht for a bottle. The bar has an interesting signature cocktail menu. All bills are subject to service and tax (17%).
Above 11 has a modern rotating music menu with nightly DJ's spinning disco, house, funk, hip-hop, soul, techno, salsa, and jazz from 21.30 to 02.00. There is also live music from 18.00 and regular live jazz performances. Wednesday is salsa night while Thursday is Jazz night.
Above 11 is one of the nicest rooftop bars in Bangkok. The mood is informal, prices are reasonable, service is efficient and friendly. It's popular but never too busy, unlike some other bars. There is a dress code of no singlets, flip-flops, backpacks or sports attire. Access to the bar is via an elevator at the back of the hotel.
Location: 33-34 floor, Fraser Suites, Sukhumvit Road Soi 11, Bangkok.
Getting There: BTS Nana Station (exit 3). Turn left into Soi 11. Fraser Suites is a 10 minute walk on your right or take a taxi or motorbike.
Vanilla Sky is a rooftop bar on the 36th floor of the Compass Sky View hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 24, a few minutes walk from Phrom Phong BTS and Emporium shopping mall. The bar has a 360-degree panoramic view of the Bangkok skyline and a great view of the adjoining Benjasiri park. The seating is arranged with comfortable sofas in the middle and high tables along the edge. There is a DJ after 21.00.
The drinks are standard rooftop prices with beers from 240 baht, cocktails from 320 baht, spirits from 340 baht, mocktails from 250 baht and soft drinks from 130 baht. There is no food menu but light snacks come with a drink.
On the 35th floor is the Vanilla Night Club and on the 32nd floor is the Mojjo Lounge, a Cuban style bar and restaurant with an outdoor terrace serving Cuban inspired cocktails and Cuban platters and snacks. There is live music on Saturdays.
Vanilla Sky is usually not too crowded and is a good place for a quiet relaxing drink while admiring the view of the skyline and chilling out to the DJ. Service is efficient and friendly.
Location: 36th floor, Compass Sky View Hotel, 12 Sukhumvit Road Soi 24, Bangkok.
Getting There: BTS Phrom Phong Station (exit 2).
Wanderlust isn't a bar with stunning rooftop views from a high floor but rather a smallish non-pretentious, relaxing 5th-floor urban neighborhood bar atop a Japanese restaurant and hostel in the Thonglor district. There are no skyline views but rather views of the local neighborhood. The bar has a garden theme with faux grass and wooden tables and chairs. It's mainly a hangout for locals and expats.
Unlike the more swanky rooftop bars prices are cheap with beers starting at 99 baht, spirits from 169 baht, wine from 150 baht, cocktails from 220 baht and soft drinks from 35 baht. There is a happy hour every day between 18.00-20.00 with 50% off your second drink and draft Singha beer at 100 baht a pint. There is a small fusion food menu with both Thai and western food with prices from 160-300 baht.
There is live acoustic music most evenings and live sport on the TV. The bar tends to get busier later at night when it can be difficult to find a table. The bar can be difficult to find. It's accessible through a side alley on Thonglor Soi 13 above Nagiya Japanese restaurant. Take the stairs or the small lift.
Location: 5th floor, Nagiya Restaurant, Soi Akkraphat, Thonglor Soi 13, Bangkok.
Getting There: BTS Thong Lo station (exit 3). Turn left into Sukhumvit 55 (Thonglor) and walk for about 15 minutes turning left into Soi 13. Wanderlust is in an alley on the left. Alternatively, take a taxi or motorbike from the BTS.
Jham Jun is a small rooftop bar on the 5th floor of the Jam Hostel on Phra Sumen Road in Banglamphu. Access is by elevator from the 1st floor. The bar has good views overlooking Phra Sumen Fort and the riverside Santi Chai Prakan Park.
The bar is spread over two levels with the lower level containing the bar, balcony table, and chair seating and a raised area with low tables and cushioned seating. The upper level is dark and quieter with cushion seated low tables lit by kerosene lamps.
The menu is Thai fusion with food and beers both starting at 100 baht. There is live acoustic music from 21.00 and live football is shown on a large screen. The clientele is mostly young Thais and a few travelers in a relaxed atmosphere away from the tourist crowd.
Location: 9 Phra Sumen Road, Banglamphu, Bangkok.
At-mosphere is a rooftop cafe bar just around the corner from Khaosan Road. It's on the top floor of the building housing the Secret Service Hostel on Soi Tani. The view is average for a rooftop bar but you get a good view of Wat Bowonniwet Vihara before it gets dark and Wat Saket is visible in the distance.
The bar serves a good selection of food and drink though prices are slightly above average for Khaosan Road. Beers start at 100 baht for a small Singha and bottled craft beer is available. Foodwise, the mains are 200-300 baht. There is live acoustic music from 21.00. The crowd is a mixture of local Thais and travelers. The bar has a nice ambiance and is a good place for a sundowner.
Location: 113/1 Soi Tani, Banglamphu, Bangkok. (Above Secret Service Bed & Breakfast).
Getting There: A short walk from the Swenson's end of Rambuttri Road.


The frightening truth about child..
It is Child Protection Week and the message to the public is children do not make up stories about abuse and they must be listened to.
Frighteningly 94% of perpetrators are in positions of trust with children.
Child Protection Week ambassador Kay McGrath and ACT For Kids CEO Dr Neil Carrington joined Mark in the studio telling him that even when a child comes forward only 28% of adults will take any action.


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Today we had dived into the world of the super sharks! First, we practiced our animal sign language and then we learnt about the different parts of a shark's body. Some sharks lay eggs, called 'mermaid's purses' and after having a look at some from our artefact box we set off to our Eddystone exhibit to see if we could find any shark eggs in the tank. We managed to find lots of Small Spotted Catshark and Bull Huss eggs hanging on the walls of the tank, next time you are in the Aquarium see how many you can find!
After learning about local sharks, we went to the cave in our Great Barrier Reef exhibit to meet an exciting new friend- a life sized Polar Bear made out of recycled plastics! When we got back to the café we made our very own sharks out of toilet rolls and upcycled paper scraps, we all did a jawesome job of putting all the fins in the right places! A fintastic time was had by all!
Sharks have been around for 400 million years, this makes them older than the dinosaurs and even older than trees.
We can find sharks in every ocean in the world and there are over 400 species that we know of! The largest shark is the whale shark (12m, twice as tall as a giraffe) and the smallest is the dwarf lantern shark (hand sized).
Sharks have different shaped teeth depending on what food they like to eat!
If they eat slippery things like fish or squid they have thin, spikey teeth like our sand tiger sharks! Some sharks like to eat crunchy things so they have flat teeth, like our zebra sharks! Great White sharks like to eat meaty things so they need big sharp teeth like steak knives.
Next Week: We are learning all about the delightful dolphin! There have been lots spotted in Plymouth Sound recently, why don't you head to the seashore and have a look?


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Home » Karnataka » Bengaluru » Bengaluru: Justice S Abdul Nazeer ends innings as SC judge
Bengaluru: Justice S Abdul Nazeer ends innings as SC judge
Thursday, January 5th, 2023 at 8:00 AM
Bengaluru: Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud on Wednesday January 4 said Supreme Court judge Justice S. Abdul Nazeer was a judge dedicated to the law and all those affected by it and was a "people's judge".
Justice Nazeer, who was known for keeping the atmosphere light in the courtroom, demitted office after being in the apex court for about 6 years.
In his address at the farewell function organised for Justice Nazeer by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Chief Justice Chandrachud said he was a farmer at heart, and it was a difficult life for him to grow up on his uncle's farms and he had even scavenged for fish which used to wash up on the beach there.
Justice Nazeer was a judge dedicated to the law and all those affected by it and was a "people's judge", he added.
SCBA President Vikas Singh said Justice Nazeer was the only Muslim judge on the bench, which decided the Ayodhya title dispute, and there was an expectation that he would author a separate judgement, "concurring, or not".
"He is a true embodiment of secularism in this country. He not only agreed to give a unanimous verdict without naming who wrote that judgment, but he also agreed with the view of the majority," Singh said that it showed for Justice Nazeer, it was the "nation first, himself as a judge second, and himself as an individual last."
The Chief Justice also said: "Justice Nazeer has been here and has done everything that is expected of a judge." He appreciated Justice Nazeer for rendering services as a collegial colleague on the bench and in the collegium.
Born on January 5, 1958, at Beluvai in Karnataka Dakshina Kannada District, Justice Nazeer enrolled as an advocate on February 18, 1983, after completing his LLB degree from SDM Law College, Mangaluru.
He practiced before the Karnataka High Court and was appointed as its Additional Judge on May 12, 2003. He became a permanent judge on September 24, 2004 and was elevated to the Supreme Court on February 17, 2017.
Justice Nazeer was part of several landmark constitution bench decisions, which included triple talaq, right to privacy, Ayodhya case, and recently on the Centre's 2016 decision on demonetisation, and free speech of lawmakers.
Justice Nazeer said that the situation in the Indian judiciary today is not as grim as it used to be though a wrong impression is conveyed due to misinformation.
"There is always room for improvement. If I say Indian judiciary is immune to gender inequalities, I can't be farther away from reality," he said, emphasising that the representation of women in the judiciary is still very low.
ABDUL NAZEER
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – California faces a critical shortage of affordable housing, and nowhere is that problem more severe than in the Inland Empire. The need for more affordable housing in the region, and possible policy solutions, will be discussed in a seminar presented Wednesday, Feb. 18, by the UC Riverside Center for Sustainable Suburban Development.
"Affordable Housing: A Shortage Crisis," part of the center's on-going Randall Lewis Seminar Series, will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at UCR's College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology, 1084 Columbia Ave. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required as seating is limited. RSVP online or by calling (951) 827-7830.
Drawing from a special report – "America's Emerging Housing Crisis," published by nonprofit affordable housing developer National Community Renaissance – seminar moderator Steve PonTell will frame the issue and present seven policy solutions offered by report authors Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox.
San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford and former Riverside city planning director Ken Gutierrez will respond to reforms proposed by the report to reduce the cost of housing, including: Land regulation reform, impact fees reform and reduction, establishment of special housing districts, re-use of vacant commercial and industrial space, development of government land where appropriate, re-ordering local planning and zoning priorities, and meeting environmental goals by considering the changing nature of work and the new possibilities suggested by technological innovation.
In "America's Emerging Housing Crisis," Kotkin and Cox note that California has the highest poverty rate in the nation (when adjusted for the cost of housing), largely due to housing prices. On a percentage basis, four of California's major metropolitan areas are in the nation's top 10 in households with more than one family sharing a housing unit, they wrote. The top two are Riverside-San Bernardino and Los Angeles.
Steve PonTell is president and chief executive officer of National Community Renaissance (National CORE), one of the nation's largest nonprofit developers of affordable and senior housing. Before joining CORE, PonTell earned national recognition for his work in community development and designing innovative workplace environments. He also served as California director for the Center for the New West, a think tank founded in 1989. He also has served as CEO of the Inland Empire Economic Council, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the Big Bear Chamber of Commerce, and is a former assistant to the city manager for economic development for the City of Big Bear Lake. In 1996, he founded the La Jolla Institute, a California based, non‐profit think‐tank.
Janice Rutherford was elected to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors in 2010. The 2nd District includes the cities of Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, and much of Fontana, and the unincorporated communities of Devore, Lytle Creek, San Antonio Heights, Mt. Baldy, and all of the Rim of the World mountain communities from Cedarpines Park to Green Valley Lake. She previously served on the Fontana City Council for 10 years. She serves on the boards of San Bernardino Associated Governments, San Bernardino County Employees' Retirement Association, Inland Empire Economic Partnership, Local Agency Formation Commission, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Joint Conference Committee and Omnitrans.
Ken Gutierrez worked for the city of Riverside for more than three decades, retiring as the city's planning director in 2011. He lead the preparation of a comprehensive update to the Riverside General Plan 2025, which was recognized in 2008 by the Southern California Association of Governments with a Compass Blueprint Distinguished Leadership Award and by the California Chapter of the American Planning Association with the Award of Merit for Comprehensive Planning. The Planning Department was recognized in 2009 by the CCAPA with the Award of Merit for Distinguished Leadership by a Planning firm or agency. In 2013, he was appointed by the Riverside City Council to fill a vacant seat on the council until the November 2013 election.
Established in 2003, the UCR Center for Sustainable Suburban Development explores the social, economic, political and environmental impacts that population growth and movement has on cities and local communities. The center facilitates interdisciplinary collaborations in the community through its staff and affiliated faculty via research, joint conferences, workshops and public forums held at UCR and in the community. It is affiliated with the UCR School of Public Policy.
The Randall Lewis Seminar Series is an ongoing program of CSSD generously funded by Randall Lewis, executive vice president of Upland-based Lewis Operating Cos. The seminars focus on a wide range of regional sustainability topics such as air and water resources, infrastructure and transportation planning, affordable housing and the fiscal health of cities.


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Korea-Related Podcasts
English-language podcasts about Korea are growing in popularity. Here's a list of podcasts from both amateurs and media professionals that can hold the attention of Korean nationals, expats and anyone interested in Korean culture.
48 Shades of Football
The only English-language podcast about the Korea Soccer league, 48 Shades of Football brands itself as "everyone's favorite Korean Football Podcast" with multiple episodes being released each week that focus on the Korean pro soccer.
Asia News Weekly
The podcast empire of American expat and Korean university professor Steve Miller, Asia News Weekly presents commentary and analysis on the region's biggest stories. Two distinct podcasts exists under the Asia News Weekly umbrella: Asia Now, which carries news, commentary and interviews from Asia, and The Asia Brief, which highlights recent stories from the Asia-Pacific region that you may have missed during the week.
The Cafe Seoul Podcast
Cafe Seoul is a Korean lifestyle podcast created in 2013 by expats who became dissatisfied with "management's death grip on creative control" at English radio stations in Korea. The fourth season is slated to begin in September with Canadian expat Rob "Roboseyo" Ouwehand, Korean-Australian adoptee Blossom Perriard and Korean-American marketing professional Eugene Hwang. New episodes are released every two weeks.
Chance & Dan DO KOREA
Chance & Dan DO KOREA is monthly variety show podcast with bands, standup comedians and news interviews recorded in front of a live audience. Created in 2011 by American radio journalist Chance Dorland and expat comedian/ESL teacher Dan Wiberg, the show also releases weekly "mini update" episodes between live events that focus on issues arising in their daily lives.
The g1 pdcst
The g1 pdcst was created in October of 2014 by expat radio DJ, English teacher and American expat George Prime to discuss insights pertaining to life, culture and current events in South Korea. Its branding as "your voice in Korea" comes across in each episode with stories and interviews on a wide range of topics, but episodes are released less frequently than other podcasts.
The GrooveCast
Hosted by radio journalist Chance Dorland, The GrooveCast provides interviews with writers, newsmakers and members of Korea's English speaking community in conjunction with the magazine Groove Korea. The show addresses a diverse array of topics spanning indie music to human rights and national politics with a fun yet poignant look into Korean issues. Three or more new episodes are released at the beginning of each month.
Korea and the World
Korea and the World is a podcast that interviews academics, professionals and intellectuals on current political, economic and societal issues from the Korean perspective. The podcast is the creation of three international students studying at Seoul National University with a new episode released every week.
The Korea File
The Korea File is a podcast of conversations about music, history and society created by Canadian broadcaster and Jejudo Island English teacher Andre Goulet. Topics are wide ranging but often focus on Jejudo culture and the changing landscape of Korea's number one travel destination with new episodes released every Wednesday.
KoreaFM.net Talk Radio & News Podcast
Korea FM is a new, online radio station that features independent musicians and broadcasters alongside its own original content: The Korean News Update, a daily report of the days most interesting stories released each morning, This Week Korea, an anything goes panel discussion program featuring the opinions of expats and Korean nationals on stories from the last week, and Korea Speaks, a weekly report on current issues featuring man on the street and other interviews.
The Korea Society Podcast
The Korea Society is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding, and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea. Their free podcast features audio from programs on areas of public policy, business, education, intercultural relations and the arts.
The Korea Underground Podcast
Korea Underground Podcast is hosted by three expats living, working, loving, and drinking in Korea. Long episodes featuring in-depth discussions are released roughly every two weeks.
Notebooks on Cities and Culture
World-traveling interviewer Colin Marshall recorded an entire season of his podcast (40 interviews) in South Korea with some of the biggest names in broadcasting, restaurants, the arts and academia. These interviews are a must for any podcast fan interested in Korea.
NKNews.org Podcast
Hosted by veteran American broadcaster Kurt Achin, interviews focus on cultivating a better understanding North Korea and the forces shaping it with one new episode released each month.
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Without a doubt, this is our most exciting whitetail video series so far! In Buck Fever III, there are a total of 39 trophy hunts with rifle, bow, and muzzleloader.
We span the top trophy producing locations in the U.S. with a variety of hunter who take a number of giant whitetail. Learn of the different techniques used to take these great trophies.
You will enjoy a variety of father/son and father/daughter hunts as well as joining in the excitement as a group of all women hunters take to the Michigan woods! Never before has so much hunting action been packed into a deer hunting video series.
Also included is an offer to win a free trophy whitetail hunt in South Texas.


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A child of divorce herself, Victoria B. had very few photographs of her childhood at all, let alone pictures that included both of her parents. After her own divorce, she was determined not to let that happen to her son Bruce.
It hasn't been easy. Both Victoria and her ex-husband Adam have entered new relationships since the divorce — and they no longer live in the same state. Bruce is spending long periods with each parent — with the corresponding long periods alone for the other parent. However, the pair took time during their divorce to think about how best to co-parent their child.
Furthermore, they made extra effort even when times were at their most stressful — just before the divorce was finalized. They agreed on the importance of spending holidays and birthdays together, at least for a few hours. Living so far apart now, that isn't possible anymore, which makes the shared family photograph even more important.
One thing that helps them keep on track is to put their relationships with Bruce first, instead of focusing on the hurt feelings or misunderstandings that crop up in any co-parenting relationship. It's just as important to teach Bruce how to move on with grace as it is to see the parental relationship valued.
An annual, joint family photo may be something you and your ex could do to support your children. Do you have it in you to spend at least some time together on important holidays and birthdays? For example, could you continue with the tradition of spending the night in one house on Christmas Eve and waking up together in the morning to see what Santa has brought?
That kind of cooperation may be challenging, especially once you and your ex are in new relationships. However, sitting down with your ex — as partners — on a regular basis promote communication and help you remember to honor your parental role.
Also, remember that Victoria and Adam kept their intentions clear from the time of the divorce process. The right attorney can help you clarify your own goals and intentions so that your divorce doesn't become a battleground.
Life is short. Do you really want to be in permanent conflict with your ex? Consider Victoria and Adam's idea and see if there's a tradition you could both support. What ideas can you think of?


We have several membership levels available, full details of which are in the tabs below. Membership subscriptions run for 12 months and automatically renew each year.
This level of Membership has been introduced for people who either (a) don't own a Spanish Horse yet, or (b) purely want to be a part of the Association and may never own a Spanish Horse but still have a passion for them.
You will receive occasional email newsletters with access to exclusive online features and resources as well as three magazines each year.
This is the main group of Members who own one (or a few) Spanish horses, or part bred Spanish Horses and wish to enjoy all the benefits of Membership.
You will receive occasional email newsletters with access to exclusive online features and resources as well as three magazines each year. Membership entitles you to a reduced Entry Fee for classes at the GB PRE National Championships Show and at other events that we hold throughout the year.
Premium Membership will include full membership benefits in addition to an Insurance Indemnity package, similar to other Society's and Associations.
An Additional 'Joint Member' may be added to either Full or Premium levels at a cost of £15.00. Only one Membership Pack will be sent out, to the main Member. Additional members do not receive an additional magazine or membership pack.
If you are renewing your membership or have been a member in the past, you do not need to rejoin – your membership account has been retained, you just need to log into your account here using your original email address and password (if you have forgotten your password, you can request a new one) and then you can select your new membership level.


fig. S4. Photostability of fluorescent BODIPY 505/515staining on diatom cells within 24 hours.
fig. S10. Comparison of growth performance between the WT and the nitrateinducible eGFP transformants over 24 hours using flat-panel PBRs.
data set S1 (Microsoft Excel format). Shared genes between the WT and the eGFP transformants under high-intensity light condition.
data set S2 (Microsoft Excel format). Genes uniquely present in the eGFP transformants under high-intensity light condition.
data set S3 (Microsoft Excel format). GSEA of up-regulated genes in the eGFP transformants under high-intensity light condition.
data set S4 (Microsoft Excel format). GSEA of down-regulated genes in the eGFP transformants under high-intensity light condition.
data set S5 (Microsoft Excel format). List of DEGs in the WT under high-intensity light condition compared to that under low-intensity light condition.
data set S6 (Microsoft Excel format). Key identified genes involved in photosynthesis.
data set S7 (Microsoft Excel format). List of identified genes in relation to photosynthesis, as shown in fig. S14.
data set S8 (Microsoft Excel format). DEGs involved in stress response in the WT based on high- and low-intensity light conditions.


When I was six years old, I wanted to be English. It was 1990. England reached the World Cup semi-finals, everyone fell in love with Paul Gascoigne and it felt completely natural to align yourself with Bobby Robson's valiant but vulnerable team.
I didn't know that Wales, the nation of my birth, had failed to qualify for the tournament, finishing below West Germany, the Netherlands and Finland at the foot of Uefa qualifying Group 4, but following months of careful prompting by my quietly despairing father, I came to realise that England was not my country. When Wales agonisingly missed out on a place at the 1994 World Cup, after a 2-1 loss to Romania in November 1993, I stretched my Wales shirt over my pillow and cried myself to sleep.
To be Welsh and a football fan in the 1990s was to live a life of constant quiet disappointment. Wales seemed trapped in a cycle of wretchedness, forever finding new and inventive ways of being stuffed by just about every team in Europe. They lost 7-1 to the Netherlands, 6-4 to Turkey, 5-0 to Georgia. They played a friendly against Leyton Orient and lost.
They wore strange, lurid away kits made by obscure brands like Lotto and Kappa that looked like they'd been fished out of a JJB Sports bargain bin. Even a player as demonstrably great as Ryan Giggs seemed diminished by association with Wales (when he could be bothered turning up), traipsing across the continent looking permanently sad and confused, a shy computer programmer obliged to go on a Magaluf stag weekend with a rowdy group of men he didn't know.
Football was exciting in the 1990s – the Premier League was taking off, you could watch Serie A on TV and the Champions League was beaming the glamour of Juventus and Real Madrid into our living rooms – but watching Wales felt like a shameful secret, like going home to act out elaborate historical role plays with your parents while your mates were drinking cider and chatting up girls in the park.
It tied in with a general feeling of naffness about Wales in general, reinforced by the fact that wherever you go in the world, so few people know anything about where you're from. You wouldn't arrive in a foreign city and expect to find a Welsh theme pub. We have no bagpipes, no kilts, no Loch Ness Monsters. Many of Wales's cultural indicators only serve to emphasise what a strange little country we are. Our aversion to wearing coats in cold weather. Our enthusiasm for group singing. Our inexplicable attachment to bootcut jeans.
When people do know something about Wales, it's often a Wales that bears little resemblance to the country you grew up in – a Wales where everyone talks like a Gavin & Stacey character and the world stops whenever the Welsh rugby team are playing. Euro 2016 was a chance to show people a different Wales.
My Euro started in the charming city of Bordeaux, on the sunlit banks of the Garonne, where Wales played their opening game against Slovakia on June 11. I was there for work, reporting on the tournament for my employer, Agence France-Presse, but I was partly there as a fan. My dad had managed to find a ticket and took the spare bed in my twin room. He had bought a red Wales T-shirt for the occasion, which was something of a departure. This is a man for whom T-shirts are too scruffy even for bed.
The night before the game, we watched France's opening match against Romania at a café on Place de la Victoire. I'd arranged to meet two groups of friends: one from Neath, one from the Valleys. The Neath cell were Swansea fans, the Valleys contingent Cardiff. They eyed each other suspiciously. There was a time when tensions between Cardiff and Swansea fans made Wales away trips fraught with the potential for flash points. But nothing sloughs away old enmities like the prospect of watching your country play at a major tournament for the first time in 58 years. We ate and drank together.
I'd spent much of the day gazing aghast at images and video footage of the violence between England and Russia fans, local youths and police in Marseille. Surrounded by Wales supporters who had spent most of the day toasting their arrival in the bars and brasseries of Bordeaux, I felt keenly aware of the risk of trouble.
After watching France beat Romania, we moved across the square to another bar, where the Wales party was in full swing. Young Welsh fans, many sporting the red, green and yellow bucket hats that would become their visual trademark, were huddling together and breathlessly running through their repertoire of songs: odes to Joe Allen, hymns to Joe Ledley, thudding chants of, "Hal! Robson! Hal Robson-Kanu!" Passing motorists were obliged to run a gauntlet of outstretched hands and plastic pint pots, the passage of each car prefaced by the "oohs" usually reserved for the run-ups of opposition goalkeepers.
I'd been worried about the potential for violence, but in keeping with the experiences of most fans during the tournament, the atmosphere could not have been more good-natured. French fans celebrating the hosts' victory joined the fray. Welsh fans attempted to sing the Marseillaise. French fans had a stab at the Welsh anthem. Two Slovakia supporters, a little older, a little rounder than their companions on the square unfurled their country's flag, closed their eyes and bellowed their own national hymn into the Bordeaux night. Someone produced a bottle of champagne. Then a second. Then a third.
The game itself, the following evening, seemed unreal. The far-left corner of Bordeaux's elegant new stadium was a sea of vermilion and the rendition of "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" ("Old Land of My Fathers") that preceded kick-off echoed with a resonance that spoke of nearly six decades of yearning. There was a thought, too, for Gary Speed, whose name was chanted during every Wales game.
After 10 minutes, Gareth Bale put Wales in front with a 30-yard free-kick that plunged over the wall before maliciously swerving left, leaving the Slovakia goalkeeper Matúš Kozáčik clutching thin air. A double change tipped the momentum in Slovakia's favour and the substitute Ondrej Duda equalised on the hour. But just as the Wales fans were beginning to reflect that perhaps a draw wasn't such a bad result after all, Aaron Ramsey darted past Martin Škrtel on the edge of the Slovakia box, the ball popped up and Hal Robson-Kanu scuffed it home. In the Wales end, bedlam. The sky glowed red over the Garonne that night. The Wales fans on Place de la Victoire were too stupefied to celebrate.
Part of the thrill of being in France, for Wales's travelling supporters, was the opportunity to establish a brand new fan identity. The Republic of Ireland's Green Army and Scotland's Tartan Army both have well-earned reputations for blending Olympic-level alcohol consumption with winsome conviviality and, although they went 30 years without seeing their own team reach a major tournament, Northern Ireland's Green and White Army are renowned in the United Kingdom at least for the boisterousness of their support. Prior to Euro 2016, Wales's fans had no real reputation to speak of. The Scots, the Irish and the Northern Irish define themselves in opposition to England's "Ten German Bombers" brigade (that small but noisy – and invariably shirtless – minority), and Welsh fans in France fell into line with their Celtic cousins. They would be raucous, they would be songful, but above all they would be friendly.
England were up next, at the boxy Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens. It was not a game most Wales fans had been looking forward to. The background noise, the Battle of Britain headlines, the awful risk of losing against your smug older brother. The knowledge that the Russian thugs who had ambushed England's fans in Marseille might be lurking unseen ahead of their team's game against Slovakia in neighbouring Lille did little to lift the mood.
As it transpired, Wales produced their worst performance of the competition. They took the lead, with another long-range Bale free-kick but, as the players themselves later acknowledged, they did not trust themselves to take the initiative in the game as they had throughout the qualifying campaign. Jamie Vardy equalised before Daniel Sturridge squeezed a 92nd-minute winner between Wayne Hennessey and his near post.
Wales's final Group B game, against Russia in Toulouse, was their only match at the tournament that I didn't attend. I ended up watching it with a group of England fans at a pub in Paris called – in what I took to be a fatal omen – The Cross of St George. They were only showing England's game against Slovakia, so a friend lent me his phone to watch Wales. It was a surreal contrast. While all around me England fans tore their hair out over one of the most frustrating displays in their team's recent history, I watched agog – earphones in, eyes glued to the tiny screen – as Wales turned in what at that stage was perhaps the most accomplished performance they had ever produced.
Slovakia had been awkward adversaries and the England game brought with it a huge amount of baggage, but Russia were the perfect opponents: punch-drunk brawlers who approached the contest thinking they were prize heavyweights. They blundered towards Welsh territory, gaps as wide as the Champs-Élysées between their lines, the ageing centre-backs Sergei Ignashevich and Vasili Berezutski hopelessly exposed, and Wales picked them off with dead-eyed efficiency. Allen's piercing pass released Ramsey to break the deadlock with a cool, dinked finish. Taylor scored his first international goal shortly after and Bale applied the coup de grâce from Ramsey's pass.
Coupled with England's goalless stalemate against Slovakia, Wales went through as group winners, taking up a place in the kinder half of the draw. Already, a path to the final was opening up. Their last 16 opponents were Northern Ireland. "Will Grigg's on Fire" versus "Please Don't Take Me Home". A grimly attritional encounter at Parc des Princes was settled by a 75th-minute own goal from West Brom's Gareth McAuley.
And so to Lille. By this stage, the expectations of just about every Wales fan had been met. Simply qualifying for a big tournament had been the aim for so long that hoping for anything beyond that initially felt a bit greedy, like asking to see the dessert menu as the waiter delivers your starter. In finishing above England in the group (and then seeing them humiliated by Iceland), then beating Northern Ireland and reaching the last eight (matching the achievement of the 1958 World Cup team in the process), Wales had polished off the cheese and biscuits, tipped a couple of glasses of port down their throats and were now contemplating, in the shape of Eden Hazard's Belgium, a magnificently calorific 3am kebab.
As impressive as Wales had been in qualifying and in the tournament to that point, there hovered the fear that the wheels might yet fall off. That Chris Coleman's men might get found out. That they might somehow conspire to Wales it all up. When Radja Nainggolan smote Belgium ahead from 30 yards at a rain-drenched Stade Pierre-Mauroy, those worries swam into sharp focus. Of course Wales would come up short in the end. Of course this absurdly talented group of Belgian footballers would finally show themselves to be equal to the sum of their parts. Of course the natural order would be restored.
Or maybe not. Wales caught their breath, cleared their heads, and then very calmly and very deliberately forced Belgium onto the back foot. With Robson-Kanu occupying both opposition centre-backs and the presence of Allen and Ledley in central midfield freeing Bale and Ramsey to launch raids deep into the Belgian half, Wales seized control of the game and after Thibaut Courtois had repelled a close-range effort from Taylor, Ashley Williams equalised with a thumping header. They were not going to repeat the mistakes of the England game. They were not going to die wondering.
Galvanised at half-time by the introduction of Marouane Fellaini for Yannick Ferreira Carrasco, Belgium made a purposeful start to the second half and went close three times. But Coleman's men weathered the storm and in the 55th minute the greatest moment in Welsh football history arrived.
Spotting Ramsey's inside-out run behind Jason Denayer, Belgium's left-sided centre-back, Bale picked out the Arsenal midfielder with an arcing pass from halfway. Ramsey brought the ball down delicately with his right foot, allowed Toby Alderweireld to come across to him and then dug out a flighted pass towards the penalty spot. The ball was slightly behind Robson-Kanu, obliging him to check his run and gather the ball with his back to goal. He had an opponent either side of him (Fellaini to his left, Thomas Meunier to his right), Denayer tracking across the six-yard box to provide cover and Taylor screaming for the ball on the edge of the box. A lay-off to Taylor seemed the only option, but with one supple twist of his hips, a Cruyff turn had taken Meunier, Fellaini and Denayer out of the game – not one, not two, but three fire engines dashing to the wrong fire. It had the beautiful simplicity of a mathematical equation: three defenders had barred Robson-Kanu's path to goal and now there were none. He planted a shot past Courtois with the inside of his left foot and tore towards the corner flag in celebration.
Belgium should have had a penalty when Williams trod on Nainggolan's foot, but the referee Damir Skomina allowed play to continue. With four minutes remaining Sam Vokes met Chris Gunter's cross with a picture-book centre-forward's header that nestled inside the left-hand post. Wales would play Portugal for a place in the Euro 2016 final.
Football can be a silly and inconsequential thing sometimes, but for small countries who reach major tournaments – Wales, Iceland, Costa Rica, New Zealand – it represents nothing less than an opportunity to tell the world who you are. The Wales fans who had lived through the myriad disappointments of the previous 60 years – Joe Jordan's handball, Paul Bodin's penalty, Bobby Gould – had only one wish, which was to see the team qualify for a major tournament. Just one would have done. But to see them in the semi-finals at a European Championship was wonderful beyond belief and actually to be in France for it, surrounded by hoarse, misty-eyed, incredulous Wales fans – the same members of that embarrassing, secretive club you all used to keep quiet about – felt like the greatest luck in the world.
Prior to the semi-final against Portugal, I stayed briefly in Dinard, the picturesque resort on Brittany's northern coast where the Wales squad spent the tournament in blissful isolation. Welsh flags were abundant, fluttering from flagpoles and dangling from café doorways. It could have been Tenby or Mumbles or Rhos-on-Sea (the weather was certainly crap enough). The atmosphere within the Wales media centre was every bit as relaxed and informal as the players' post-match celebrations with their children. When Bale and Coleman sat down to speak to the media, they did so with broad smiles on their faces.
The journey came to an end in Lyon. After an even first half, Portugal scored twice in three minutes early in the second half and Welsh hopes of reaching the final vanished. It was a meek exit, in a less than full stadium, in front of a crowd that never really got going, but there were mitigating factors – fatigue, primarily, and also the absences through suspension of Ramsey and Ben Davies – and it could have been much worse. Wales had not been thrashed. They had not been eliminated in heart-breaking fashion. They would not experience the cruel, lingering exposure of defeat in a final.
Well before the dust had settled, a consensus hardened. Swansea fans who have seen their team rise from the brink of non-league football to become Premier League perennials and League Cup winners and Cardiff supporters who have experienced the joys of an FA Cup final appearance and promotion to the top flight were unanimous: this was as good as it got. Wales's players and their once derided manager had tested their mettle against Europe's finest and proven themselves to be one of the best teams on the continent, capturing imaginations from Dublin to Dubrovnik along the way. Wales had two players in the team of the tournament and neither of them was Gareth Bale. They had won as many knockout games inside 90 minutes in one week as England had in 20 years. Against all expectation, that forlorn gathering of you and your socially inept mates had become the biggest party in town and all the cool kids were knocking on the door and politely asking if they could come in.
It is difficult to imagine what Wales's fans experienced at Euro 2016 being surpassed. Even if the team reach another major tournament semi-final, it will not be accompanied by the same glorious sense of novelty as what happened in France. The current squad has plenty of life left in it yet and Wales embark upon the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign as Group D's team to beat, but it will be a long time before the stars align again with the same startling exactness as they did this summer. It was an experience 58 years in the making and it was worth every single second of the wait.


A string of four total lunar eclipses will illuminate North American skies starting this month.
In the early hours of April 15, 2014, our pale moon will turn blood orange red. This spectacle will mark the first of four consecutive total lunar eclipses, a series known as a tetrad. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon dips behind Earth's shadow. Most eclipses are partial, meaning only portions of the moon are hidden from the sun. But sometimes the moon, Earth, and sun perfectly align so that the entire moon is shielded from the sun's rays. When this happens, wayward beams of sunlight filter through Earth's atmosphere, coloring the moon a fiery red, resulting in a total eclipse. While a tetrad itself isn't rare, NASA scientists say that its visibility across the entire United States is unique. Watch the video to learn more.
Explore how lunar eclipses work and the different types that occur in this video.
When a full moon drifts into Earth's inner shadow, called the umbra, a total eclipse takes place.
The moon grows red as it creeps into Earth's shadow. Once it passes out of the shadow, it returns to its normal state.
The total eclipse will be visible across North America on April 15, 2014, October 8, 2014, April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015.


Of all the facets of public speaking, introductions are probably the most abused. This is because we fail to determine the objective, the purpose and the desired result.
How seldom do we hear an introduction which is really not much more than a partial biography, uninteresting, without structure, stumbled through, essentially, merely going through the motions?
Before starting a training session there are three questions in the heads of the participants that need to be answered. And until they have all been satisfied there is no point in starting the programme.
1 Why am I here? 2 What am I going to get out of this? 3 Why am I listening to you?