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THE RURAL AND COASTAL LANDSCAPE
Dolmens and menhirs
"Pariti" and "pajare"
The "masserie"
The coastal towers
The coastal tower in the Salento
Crossing the sunny roads of the Salento you can see a lot of dolmens and menhirs near the inhabited centres or in the country, hidden by the macchia mediterranea. The two words derive from the Breton, "dol"= table, "men"= stone, and "hir"= long: the dolmen is a composed structure of a series of rocks lying vertically on the ground and there is another stone on them; the menhir is a square monolith, some meters tall also fixed into the ground. Generally the opening of a dolmen and the widest faces of the menhir look at East-West, so they might have had an astronomic meaning and been closely connected to the cult of the God Sun. In some cases (Stonehenge or Carnac in France), the astronomic reference is clear since these monuments point out the direction of the rising of the Sun in the solstices and in the equinoxes, the positions of the moon in the different months of the year and, according to some researchers, even the eclipses of Sun. For most researchers these special buildings had a religious value and were connected to the cult of the dead, or to human sacrifices. In Europe this phenomenon spread out between 4500 and 1800 B.C. during the Bronze Age, especially in Sardinia and in Apulia, where there are around 150 megalithic monuments (north of Bari, Taranto and Lecce). These constructions can be seen above all between Lecce and Otranto, Giurdignano and Minervino of Lecce. In many cases the Catholic Church has tried to oppose to the left pagan cults linked to the menhirs and dolmens, putting a cross on these stones.
One of the main characteristics of the Salento is the presence of long dry stone small walls that bound the fields. The constructive techniques are the same of those of the past: two rows of stones constituted the base; other smaller stones were put into the central band. The height could be different and it was connected to the function of the wall, defined "parite" at Leuca: in fact, these small walls not only marked the borders of the fields, but they were often built to protect the trees from the wind and, in the coastal places, from the saltiness. The Apulien rural landscape has got another characteristic element: the "trulli", called by the populations of the Salento "pajare." They are generally dry-stone buildings conical-pyramidal shaped made with the same stone used for the small walls mentioned above. The constructive technique was not very dissimilar, except for the dimensions of the base, that could reach three meters of thickness, and the use of small quantity of earth to fill the central air space and cement the whole structure better. The thickness and the care with which they were built transformed the "pajare into authentic shelters above all in the summer time, when the temperatures are very high. These special buildings were never used as permanent residences. Only in particular periods of the year, usually when the harvests were abundant, the farmers lived in the "pajare" for some time; the time left they were a deposit for the tools. Unfortunately the job of the "paritaro" , that is who builds the "pajare" has disappeared : due to the increasing mechanization of the country, the small characteristic walls are now abandoned and many of them have been replaced by common bricks whose maintenance is easier. In the last few years there has been an inversion of tendency but it is still very difficult to find some skilled manpower.
A Masseria is a typical building of the Salento: it was usually built in the open country and was inhabitated by the "massaro" , that is the man who managed the lands belonging to the owner of the masseria (just a few hundreds of hectares). It could be made of simple rooms or of articulated structures that looked like those of the urban architecture, so in some cases they can be defined monuments of the country civilization of the Salento. The farms represented the only form of rural permanent installation. Due to the physical characteristics of the territory, the elevated fragmentation of the land ownership, the frequent raids of pirates and gangs of brigands, the country residences were concentrated in small centres, and the farmers used to go everyday from their residences to the country. This is the reason for which in the masseria there were only the massaro, his family and those who had to prepare and sell the milk. Quite the type of economic activity influenced the plant of the masseria: in Lecce and in Brindisi, where the main activity was the production of oil , you can still find a lot of subterranean oil-presses called by the people of Salento "trappeti," while in the area around Nardò and Taranto where the sheep-breeding was widespread inside there were big enclosures. In the most southern part of the peninsula, finally, above all between Ugento and Leuca, the farm did not have a particularly complex structure since people were poorer. One of the most characteristic aspects of the masserie near the coast is their strengthened appearance that often makes them similar to the towers of defence. Indeed the were fortified because of the frequent piratical raids that uninterruptedly went on from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth one. The Turks attacked Gallipoli in 1430 and in 1524. In 1480 they razed to the ground conquered Otranto killing 800 inhabitants; in 1537 Castro, Marittima and Tricase were destroyed; in 1543 Presicce was besieged to. The population were always frightened and the fear was so strong that still today it is possible almost to perceive it in some dialect expressions ("mamma, gli Turchi" that means "Oh my God! The Turks"). So above all in the sixteenth century, the fear that these raids could lead to an abandonment of the country villages, induced the nobles to invest at their own expenses in the defence of their lands since the Angevin, Aragon and Norman defensive systems was not efficient. The typical structure is that of the tower made of two or three floors, with masonries that in some cases are three meters large. The upper floors were isolated through a ladder lowered from the trap doors in the floor ( in the simpler structures), or with suggestive staircases in external masonry whose final floor was represented by a drawbridge (in the more complex buildings). There were some trap doors from which the besieged they could throw stones or boiling oil and they were connected with doors or windows. Sometimes there were some underground passages that allowed the besieged to run away from the masseria and hide in the surrounding country. In case of alarm, the fortified masserie constituted the link of conjunction among the towns and the coastal towers. These constructions, even if they are not as complex and rich as other similar buildings present in other regions of Italy, prove how much the dominant classes (religious and secular) of the epoch were rich. In fact, at the beginning the masserie were built almost exclusively for agricultural and defensive uses, but later they became the summer residences of the most well-to-do classes. For this reason they were decorated with many architectural elements as the Giudice Giorgio Masseria in the territory of Nardò, that looks like a castle. In the Salento there are about two hundred fortified masserie and they can be seen above all near Lecce, Nardò and Leuca. The dovecote towers were frequently associated to the masserie. Externally they had much in common with the coastal towers: the "palombari" represented a substantial part of the income of the owner, but they were above all what we call today "status symbol", since it gave a great social prestige, particularly for the use of the pigeons during the shooting. Frederic II loved this activity a lot and many nobles got fond of it. This type of towers were protected by a some laws and nothing could be dome without the authorization of its owner. In the sixteenth century the Earl of Palmariggi, because of his several debts, was forced to abandon his farm, and as he did not want to give someone else his tower he made it demolish. In the XVI century the construction of towers increased a lot above all for the good economic situation of that period, so the noblemen decided to invest a lot of money for . Many testimonies in this sense could draw it from the registrations that are on the entries of the towers, like that of the tower of the Celsorizzo Farm in the territory of Acquarica del Capo of the Head, dated 1550. The dovecote towers have got usually a circular or square plant and can be seen above all near the "Neretina" zone and in the hinterland of Lecce, Otranto and Leuca. They have loopholes and a superior battlement that, however, is substantially conceived as a roost for the pigeons. These special buildings are marked by the presence of some niches, big enough to let the pigeons stay there. It was easy to arrive at these niches thanks to a helical staircase that was made of a stone different from that of the wall. The external walls were always painted white in order to attire the pigeons and there were some drinking through for them as well. The care with which they were built was closely connected to the big economic value : a dovecote tower could house one thousand couples of pigeons that reproduced four or five times a year, and therefore they constituted a conspicuous reserve of fresh meat. Besides the guano of the pigeons was rich of nitrogenous elements so it could be used as a fertilizer. Now there are eighty dovecote towers more or less and they were abandoned some years ago, but they are still a great evidence of our past.
From the XIV century the raids and the attacks of the Turkish pirates and of those of the African coasts along the coasts of the Salento increased and a lot of people had to leave their houses and took refuge in the hinterland. In the XII century the first system of coastal defense was built: the towers could easily be seen and they communicated the danger of an invasion with the smoke during the day and the fire during the night. when the alarm ceased the towers were completely abandoned until the arrival of the Turks. The viceroy Don Pedro Toledo made a lot of new towers build in order to protect the coasts from the continous attacks of the ennemies: nonetheless because of the threat of an imminent invasion the sovereign could not pay the workers, and what is more the quality of the materials was not good; that is why after only thirty years the coastal towers were already damaged or collapsed. But the construction of the new defensive system caused the increase of the fiscal pressure and the discontent of the subjects, above all of those people who, living in the hinterland, did not fear the Turks. Two different types of towers were built: the Cavallare Towers (for the alarm) and those for the defense; the first were so called because there were some men riding a horse, the "cavallari," that used to patrol the villages of the Salento. They went from tower to tower and they played the English horns or they fired off a shot to announce the incumbent danger. They went to the hinterland as well, to the small inhabited centres, and informed the farmers of the danger and told them to take a refuge near the towers or in the woods. The "cavallari" were elected openly by the local administration and the governor of the territory in which the tower had been built; their assignment lasted three years and were divided into "ordinary" and "extraordinary": at the top of the hierarchy there was the "sopracavallaro" (the leader) that did not take part in the alarm operations. The salaries varied from four dukedoms per month (to the ordinary "cavallari"), to six a year (to the "sopracavallaro"). Their job was more fatiguing prevalently from the spring to the summer, when the threat of raids increased because that was the most favorable period for the navigation. As in the other months of the year the vigilance could decrease, the cavallari had to pay a fine for each "inefficiency". The low salary often led them even to betray their own people and form an alliance with the pirates. The technique of construction of the tower was very similar to that used for the pajare: the structure was built without scaffolding or framework, only predisposing some earth and stones corresponding to the volume of the available room. Then the farmers built a circular or square wall and the dome; after that they built another wall that was filled with stones. The ground floor was completely closed, there was only a trap door from the upper floor. This room was sometimes a jail, but often it was used as a store where to preserve the cereals or as cistern of water. The terrace was the zone of sighting: there were a small room where probably the torriero took refuge during a storm or a fighting and wide trap doors from where the torrieri threw the stones or the boiling oil. You could enter a tower only through an inside wooden ladder. The external staircases as that of Porto Cesareo, were built some years after when the pirates had stopped to attack the Salento. The most ancient towers built in the sixteenth century are cone-shaped and can be seen above all to south of Otranto, while the towers built later were square-shaped and they are especially near the Neretina area. They were usually twelve meters tall, ten-twelve meters long outside and five meters. The circular towers were erected at the end of the XVI century, as the Tower of the Dead Omo of Leuca or that of Salignano.
The coastal towers in the Salento
Departing [adriatica] from the coast, they from the boundary with the province of Brindisi meet:
Commune of Lecce
· Specchiolla Tower, three meters above the sea level
· Rinalda Tower, one meter above the sea level
· Chianca Tower, two meters above the sea level
· Venneri Tower, three meters above the sea level
· St. Cataldo Tower, five meters above the sea level
Commune of Vernole
· Specchia Ruggeri Tower, five meters above the sea level
Commune of Melendugno
· St. Foca Tower, five meters above the sea level
· Roca Vecchia Tower, four meters above the sea level
· Dell'Orso Tower, sixteen meters above the sea level
· Sant'Andrea Tower, situated eleven meters above the sea level
Commune of Otranto
· Fiumicelli Tower, five meters above the sea level
· Santo Stefano Tower, fifteen meters above the sea level
· Del Serpe Tower, thirty meters above the sea level
· Dell'Orto Tower, thirty-four meters above the sea level
· Palascia Tower, situated to eighty-two meters above the sea level
· Sant'Emiliano Tower, fifty meters above the sea level
· Porto Badisco Tower, fifteen meters above the sea level
Commune of Santa Cesarea
· Minervino Tower, sixty-six meters above the sea level
· Specchia La Guardia Tower, one hundred and fifteen meters above the sea level
· Miggiano Tower, fourteen meters above the sea level
Commune of Diso
· Diso Tower
· Capo Lupo Tower, Head Wolf, one hundred and five meters above the sea level
Commune of Andrano
· Andrano Tower, seventeen meters above the sea level
Commune of Tricase
· Sasso Tower, one hundred sixteen meters above the sea level
· Porto Tower of Tricase
· Plane Tower, fifteen meters above the sea level
Commune of Tiggiano
· Naspre Tower, one hundred and twenty-nine meters above the sea level
Commune of Corsano
· Torre Specchia Tower, one hundred twenty-seven meters above the sea level
· Ricco Tower, sixty-two meters above the sea level
Commune of Gagliano del Capo
· Porto Novaglie Tower, eight meters above the sea level
· Montelungo Tower, eighty meters above the sea level
· Santa Maria di Leuca Nuova Torre, situated sixty meters above the sea level
Going from Santa Maria of Leuca to the Jonica Coast you can see:
Commune of Castrignano del Capo
· Degli Uomini Morti Tower (or of the Omo Morto), eleven meters above the sea level
· Marchiello Tower, twelve meters above the sea level
Commune of Patù
· San Gregorio Tower, twenty-four meters above the sea level
Commune of Morciano di Leuca
· Vado Tower, two meters above the sea level
Commune of Salve
· Pali Tower
Commune of Ugento
· Mozza Tower or Fiumicelli, two meters above the sea level
· St. Giovanni Tower, one meter above the sea level
Commune of Alliste
· Sinfono Tower, sixteen meters above the sea level
Commune of Racale
· Suda Tower, ten meters above the sea level
Commune of Gallipoli
· Pizzo Tower eight meters above the sea level
· St. Giovanni la Pedata Tower, four meters above the sea level
· Sabea Tower, six meters above the sea level
Commune of Galatone
· D'Alto LidoTower, seventy-one meters above the sea level
Commune of Nardò
· Fiume Tower, four meters above the sea level
· Santa Caterina Tower, thirty-two meters above the sea level
· Santa Maria dell' Alto Tower, forty-nine meters above the sea level
· Uluzzo Tower or Crustano, thirty-two meters above the sea level
· Inserraglio Tower or Critò, three meters above the sea level
· Sant'Isidoro Tower, three meters above the sea level
· Squillace Tower, two meters above the sea level
· Lapillo Tower, two meters above the sea level
· Castiglione Tower, three meters above the sea level
Commune of Porto Cesareo
· Porto Cesario Tower, two meters above the sea level


The evening will be the usual totally informal celebration of the Chalk Stream, with the usual breaks for food and drink, alongside several slide shows.
**STOP PRESS** Dr Tony Hayter Author of : "FM Halford and the Dry Fly Revolution" and "G.E.M. Skues The man of the nymph" Will again be attending the Chalk Stream Club gathering, to present us with a slide show and book signing for those who already have these books or would love to purchase one.
Then a selection of your Fishing / River work etc slide shows.
We did this in December last year and it was a really great evening.
News on meetings coming over this winter.Could you please avoid parking in the pub car park, use the village hall car park, in front of the pub or please park at our house (The Dairy House, map at the bottom of this link) just a short walk from the village.


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The Beckett Sequence: Rays-Sox Gamer V
Josh Beckett is going to have a monster game. How do I know this?
Well, I'll tell you. To start the season, Beckett gave up five runs in less than five innings. Then he gave up three runs in less than seven, then three runs in eight, then two runs in seven. That's good for game scores of 40-56-62-75. Fibonacci or Nibofacci or Pinocchio or whatever his name was (math was not our strong suit in school) would be proud.
That's an average game score increase of about 12 points. So Beckett's game score today will be 87. I figure a complete game, three hits, one run, one walk, 11 strikeouts. That should do it.
He should get the win, but considering he'll be facing James Shields, let's hope it's not a 1-0 loss. Here's your game thread for all this evening's action. Comment away!
by Paul SF on May 3, 2008 in Sox Gamers/Postmortems
Nice to see our offense show up last night. I was at Citizens Bank Park watching an extremely good Phillies/Giants game and when the out of town scoreboared showed the Sox score goign from 1 to 6, I freaked out a bit.
Dionysus May 3, 2008, 1:01 pm
"The Beckett Sequence"
Movie guy voice: In a world with no rules stands a man made by others to be a killing machine. Tormented by loss of memory, life, love. "I can tell you the license plate numbers of all six cars outside. I can tell you that our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up at the counter weighs two hundred fifteen pounds and knows how to handle himself. I know the best place to look for a gun is the cab of the gray truck outside, and at this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. Now why would I know that? How can I know that and not know who I am"
Jason Bourne/Josh Beckett. JB.. coincidence? I think not.
Okay, maybe too much fun last night for gerbil on Dos de Mayo. I will go now.
attackgerbil May 3, 2008, 1:05 pm
HAHAHA, nice AG.
Atheose May 3, 2008, 3:37 pm
Shouldn't it be more like:
"I can tell you the on base percentages of all nine guys in the lineup. I can tell you that our bat boy is left handed and that the guy in the on deck circle weighs 215# and knows how to handle a bat. I know that the best place to locate this changeup is on the outside lower corner of the plate, and that if it gets hit I have 0.2 seconds to stab it on my left before it gets by me. Now why would I know that? How can I know that and not know WHO I AM?"
… someone needs to make this a movie. Beckett with amnesia, has to find his way back to the Marlins farm system… summer blockbuster, y/y?
Jackie (SF) May 3, 2008, 5:02 pm
by which I mean, ag, you are hilarious/brilliant. :D
6 pitch 1-2-3 first for Josh including striking out Crawford on an absolutely gorgeous curve ball.
Three hits and a run and not outs already. Runners on secodn and third. Papi is back.
Manny gets another chance and gets a clean single! Two runs, isntead of one!
32 pitches, 4 hits, a walk, and 3 runs given up- by Sheilds through the first. Wonderful.
Mow 'em down Josh
josh has been hit hard. missing spots up and over the plate. i can't be mad at him…..cause we're hitting. shields is not the shields of a week ago.
sf rod May 3, 2008, 7:52 pm
Josh back to Awesome in the third. After Youk makes a blunder (first ptich pop out), JD singles
Come on Cap'n!
Lugo delivers! Shock! Awe!
Paul was brilliant. I just grabbed on his coattails.
If I had half of AG's wit, I'd be the funniest person I know… except for AG, of course.
Meanwhile, the Sox are breaking out of their funk in a big way. They've scored in every inning but the fifth, and they're threatening again in the seventh…
Paul SF May 3, 2008, 9:38 pm
Brandon Moss had an emergency appendectomy. Ugh.
Atheose May 4, 2008, 12:35 pm
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A previous article showed how to enumerate WIC (Windows Imaging Component) codecs, that are available in system.
Now, let's use the codecs list in order to make File Open and File Save As dialogs which are dealing with WIC-compliant image files, i.e. having "File of type" filter list according to available WIC codecs (see the images, below).
CWICFileDialog is derived from CFileDialog MFC class. It basically overrides CFileDialog::DoModal and constructs the file types filter.
// Constructs MFC-style filter (using '|' as separator.
// translate MFC-style filter into WinAPI-style filter (using '\0' as separator).
For implementation details, download the demo project attached here.
The demo project is just a simple dialog-based MFC application that uses CWICFileDialog. It does nothing else but only shows the file dialogs.
Of course, in practice, you can use CWICFileDialog class in more complex applications like image file viewers, image file converters, and so on.
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In the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, MF Brands Group and Lacoste have announced that it would maintain 100 percent of the salary of all its employees worldwide during the months of March and April 2020.
CEO, Thierry Guibert said in an official statement, "We know how deeply the spread of the Coronavirus is impacting our lives and how much it is a factor of uncertainty for everyone. In order to play our role as best we can in these uncertain times and to be true to our values of solidarity and teamwork, we have chosen to maintain the salaries of all Lacoste employees throughout the world at 100 percent of their fixed salary for both months of March and April 2020. This decision also applies to MF Brands Group's other entities (Aigle, The Kooples, Gant, Tecnifibre)."
Guibert further expressed that this choice is self-evident because Lacoste's priority has always been - and always will be - to do the right thing for employees which is to support all the teams during crisis in the same way throughout all the countries where the brand operates. Through this action, Lacoste upholds its values of team spirit, courage and tenacity that has been the driving force of the company since the beginning.
Lacoste mobilizes to manufacture protective masks
Faced with the risk of a shortage of protective masks linked to the spread of the coronavirus, Lacoste has reopened some of its French factories which have been closed since March 17 to produce washable and reusable fabric masks. On Monday, March 23, the French sportswear label opened part of the factory in Troyes, in order to begin manufacturing protective masks.
These masks will be made of fabric from the company's stock. Even if they are not surgical masks, Lacoste hopes to make a modest contribution to the collective effort made since the beginning of the pandemic.
Photos: courtesy of Lacoste


With the advances of information communication technologies, it is critical to improve the efficiency and accuracy of modern data processing techniques. The past decade has witnessed the tremendous technical advances in Sensor Networks, Internet/Web of Things, Cloud Computing, Mobile/Embedded Computing, Spatial/Temporal Data Processing, and Big Data, and these technologies have provided new opportunities and solutions to data processing techniques. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. This thematic series presents emerging issues and new approaches in the research of Big Data.


Industrial settings, such as factories, play an important role in the economy, both nationally and globally. They create a mass amount of jobs and produce much needed products and services for consumers. Factories have also been notorious in the past for being dangerous places to work. However, like any other place of work, there are now strict regulations in place to keep workers safe. National Testing highlight 5 health and safety tips to help minimise the risk of injury and establish a happy workplace for you and your employees.
HSE statistics state 18% of fatal injuries and 12% of non-fatal injuries occur due to contact with some form of machinery. Therefore it is critical that all machinery should be regularly maintenanced, even if there are no signs of damage. In doing this, an employer can always be assured machinery is fit for purpose and less likely to cause an accident.
Any machinery defects should be reported immediately and clearly marked 'out of use' until repaired. Likewise, repairs should be carried out by a qualified professional so machinery will operate to its safest standards. Employees can also contribute to maintaining safe equipment by cleaning them regularly to avoid build of unwanted debris that may clog machines. Employers should supply appropriate forms of personal protective equipment (PPE) for all staff which may include items such as hard hats, protective foot/hand wear, goggles and respiratory masks, to provide extra safety measures.
It's all well and good ensuring machinery is safe to use, but that becomes obsolete if employees are not trained on how to correctly operate them. All new starters should have an informative, rigorous induction and be trained on each piece of machinery they will be using. In addition, any known risks should be clearly marked with hazard signs and highlighted to all staff.
It may be good practise to introduce a 'buddy system' so new employees are given extra individualised support when they begin to use heavy machinery. Training should not only be emphasised for new starters, but also for current workers. It is common to have yearly 'refresher' courses for existing staff to restore knowledge, safety and confidence in operating the machinery. Similarly, you may see the benefits of having instruction manuals readily available for staff to refresh themselves when needed.
Slips, trips and falls account for many injuries in all workplaces. In manufacturing settings, HSE report 22% of work-related injuries are due to this so it would seem appropriate to try and minimise these risks.
A more evident approach is to train employees to manage any spills by cleaning them up as soon as possible and to display wet floor signs when appropriate. Likewise, keeping all work areas and walkways tidy, and placing machinery away in correct storage facilities when not in use, will minimise the risk of trips and falls.
Employers should also follow British slip test standards, introduced by the HSE, which provide guidelines of the most suitable flooring to minimise slips in your workplace. Contracting an external agency to carry out pendulum slip tests under dry and contaminated conditions on your flooring surface is the most popular option for employers, as it is a highly accurate and reliable test method. Look out for those slip testing companies that are UKAS accredited for complete peace of mind.
All employers are under a legal obligation to ensure fire safety is maintained in any work environment. Most choose to delegate these responsibilities to an appropriate member of staff such as a risk assessor. Specifically in a factory, there are likely to be copious amounts of packaging, products, machinery and electrical equipment that could be potential fire hazards so it is important regular risk assessments are completed and documented on each.
There should also be a clear evacuation route, highlighted by the appropriate signage. As already mentioned, it is important pathways are always kept free from obstructions to minimise falls, which is particularly important during a fire evacuation to ensure a quick and safe exit. Employees can be made familiar with evacuation plans by fire drills being carried out, at least once a year. During fire drills, the risk assessor can identify any malfunctions such as the alarm system not working or emergency lighting and doors failing. In the event of a fire, there should be various fire extinguishers available for employees, however staff should be fully trained on when to use these and when to evacuate.
Employers should always have their employee's best interests at heart to maintain a safe and happy working environment. 24% of non-fatal industrial injuries, as documented by the HSE, are attributed to lifting and handling. You may decide to introduce mechanical handling systems to combat this risk to workers, but remember to include training of how to operate this equipment too.
Within a factory setting, appropriate ventilation systems should be implemented to reduce risk of respiratory disease or illness, and keep your workers safe from any airborne contaminants produced. Due to the intense nature of this work, it may be beneficial for workers to be able to access multiple breaks during the day. This will keep them alert and well rested, and therefore less likely to cause an accident. If accidents do occur, employers should always encourage their employees to report them and any injuries as a result. It's generally standard practice to provide an official accident book to record any incidents, so risk assessments can be completed following an injury and future risks are kept to a minimal.
If employers and their employees are dedicated to following strict regulations within a factory setting, including some of the useful tips in this article, there should be a recognisable decline in work -related accidents and injuries, making the working environment safe and enjoyable for everyone.
If you are in charge of the health and safety for a factory premises and are in need of advice on risk assessments, pendulum slip testing or even road safety, call our dedicated team at National Testing today. We pride ourselves on providing only the best slip testing services to our customers nationwide and have years of experience risk assessing factory environments.


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Authentic old and antique maps of the United States of America for sale. Our rare U.S. map inventory features original antique Thirteen Colonies maps, Revolutionary War maps, old Civil War maps, and many other American historical subjects. We have antique map categories for all states and many important cities. Vintage pictorial maps of the United States of America are also for sale.
Karte der Verinigten Staaten von Nord America . ....
Johann Walch
Karte der Verinigten Staaten von Nord America . . .
Augsburg / 1817
7.5 x 9 inches
Mississippi Territory !
Rare early state of Walch's map of the United States, showing a number of early and transitional territorial configurations. This map vividly illustrates the fluid nature of American territorial boundaries between the Louisiana Purchase and the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819.
The map pre-dates the establishment of Mississippi Territory, with a massive Georgia extending to the Mississippi River.
Curiously Florida is also shown extending to New Orleans.
The map shows a massive Indiana Territory, pre-dating the delineation of Illinois or Michigan Territories.
Louisiana is shown, as is the former Neu Orleans territory, which briefly existed during the Spanish and French control of the region. Massive Missury Territory.
Excellent detail including forts, Indian Tribes, and other interesting details.
Johann Walch Biography
Johann, or Johannes, Walch (1757-1816) was a painter and engraver. He was well-known for painting miniature portraits, having trained in Geneva, Venice, and Rome. Walch published several atlases and sheet maps. As with his atlases, many of Walch's maps were reprinted after his death.
Antique Maps / United States / United States
Antique Maps / United States / South / South
Der Nordliche Theil des Vereignigten Staaten Von Nord America . . . 1817. revid: 1824
Rare early map of a portion of the Midwest and regions to the East, from Lake Michigan to Kentucky and Virginia to Maine.
A New Map of North America, agreeable to the most approved Maps and Charts.
Decorative map of North America with a large title cartouche.
[Mormonen-Stat Deseret] Post-Kanal-und Eisenbahnkarte der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Nach Smith, Tanner, Mitchell und der Berichten des General-Postamts bearberitet vom Traugott Bromme in Stahl gestochenv. J.A. Buhler . . . 1850
The Only Printed Map To Name "The Mormon State of Deseret."
'T Amerikaans Gewest van Florida Door Ferdinand De Soto . . .
Fascinating map of the Southeastern part of the future United States, based largely upon Sanson's map of Florida from 1657.
Seat of War in the West-Indies, or the Islands of America in the North Sea; Together with the adjacent Dominions; Explaining what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland &c. As also the severall tracts made by the Gallions and flota from place to place . . .
Striking old color example of this rare separately issued map of the Theater of War during the War of Jenkins Ear, published in London circa 1702, by Robert Morden & Herman Moll.
A New Map of the United States of America By J.H. Young . . . 1857
Antique Map of United States with early Western Territorial Borders


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Nokia Windows Tablets
Nokia Lumia 625, with 4.7 inch screen, gets certified in China
Jul 23, 2013, 4:08 AM
The Nokia Lumia 625 has been certified in China
It was back in May when we first told you about the Nokia Lumia 625 and its 4.7 inch screen, which would have made it the largest screened Windows Phone model. Originally, we expected the device to be part of Nokia's May 14th event, but, alas, it was not to be. On Wednesday, word came out of China that the Nokia Lumia 625 had been certified in China, with the 512MB of RAM we told you was on the phone two months ago. That should give multi-taskers more fits than a talented tailor.
While the rest of the phone's specs weren't disclosed, we can go back to the May story and tell you to expect a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 processor under the hood along with a 2000mAh battery and LTE connectivity. The Nokia Lumia 625 will also have the GDR2 update pre-installed. That means the phone will come with Data Sense to monitor data usage, FM radio functionality and more.
The Nokia Lumia 625 is expected to launch sometime in the next few weeks in various countries. The phone is said to be priced in the $300 to $350 USD range.
source: winp.cn (translated) via WMPoweruser
Nokia Lumia 625 specs
OS Windows Phone 8
Display 4.7 inches 800 x 480 pixels
Camera 5 MP (Single camera) 0.3 MP VGA front
Hardware Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus 0.5GB RAM


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Léon Despontin  (Namur, 6 de julio de 1888-Mozet, 7 de agosto de 1972) fue un ciclista belga, profesional entre 1914 y 1928. Como en otros ciclistas de su periodo la Primera Guerra Mundial provocó una interrupción en su trayectoria. Destacan tres buenas participaciones en el Tour de Francia, en que finalizó en séptima posición en las ediciones de 1921, 1922 y 1923.

Palmarés
1910
 1º en Baulers
 1º en Bois-de-Villers
1911
 1º en Wartet
 1º en Marche-las-Damas
1912
 1º enNeufchâteau
1913
 1º en el Circuito Provincial de Lieja
1923
 1º en el GP de otoño a Saint-Servais

Resultados al Tour de Francia
 1921. 7º de la clasificación general
 1922. 7º de la clasificación general
 1923. 7º de la clasificación general
 1924. Abandona (4ª etapa)
 1925. 16º de la clasificación general
 1927. 28º de la clasificación general

Enlaces externos
 Palmarés y biografía de Léon Despontin a memoire-du-cyclisme.eu ((en francés))

Ciclistas de Bélgica

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Article Series - .NET Core - 2nd Series
In this series, we explore some of the benefits .NET Core and how it can help traditional .NET developers and all technologists who need to bring robust, performant and economical solutions to market
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Transcrypt: Anatomy of a Python to JavaScript Compiler
On the web front end, web development is one size fits all: JavaScript. The Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler is a relatively new open source project, aiming at executing Python 3.6 at JavaScript speed, with comparable file sizes. In this article, Jacques de Hooge talks about the requirements in building a transpiler and how Transcrypt is built to meet those demands.
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Improve Your Node.js App Throughput One Micro-optimization at a Time
To improve the performance of a Node.js application that involves IO, you need to understand how your CPU cycles are spent and what is preventing higher degrees of parallelism in your application. In this article, Jorge Bay shares his insights on areas that cause throughput degradation and tips on how to boost performance.
Jorge Bay
What the JIT!? Anatomy of the OpenJDK HotSpot VM
If you've ever wondered what happens when your bytecode executes, join former Oracle G1GC performance-lead Monica Beckwith in her guided tour of just-in-time (JIT) compilation and runtime optimizations in OpenJDK HotSpot VM.
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Java Bytecode: Bending the Rules
Throwing checked exceptions without declaration, changing final fields; these kinds of antics would never be tolerated by the Java language. But using Java bytecode these can be done readily. Few developers ever work with Java bytecode directly, but bytecode format is not difficult to understand. In this article Rafael Winterhalter takes us on a tour of Java bytecode & some of its capabilities
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The OpenJDK Revised Java Memory Model
The existing Java Memory Model covers a lot in terms of Java language semantic guarantees. In this article we will delve into a few of those semantics, and attempt to communicate the motivation for an update to the existing Java Memory Model
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JSIL: Challenges Met Compiling CIL into JavaScript
This article introduces JSIL, a .NET to JavaScript compiler, and contains details on the difficulties encountered while compiling CIL code into cross-browsers JavaScript.
Abel Avram
C++/CX Performance Pitfalls
Writing applications in C++/CX is not like writing normal C++ applications. The interoperability between pure C++ code and the Windows Runtime (WinRT) can be surprisingly expensive. In this article based on Sridhar Madhugiri's video, C++/CX Best Practices, we look at some of the ways to avoid performance problems in Windows 8 development.
Learning Modern C++: An Interview with Barbara Moo
C++ was originally introduced in the 1980s, when coinciding with the rise of object orientated programming, it became one of the primary languages for software development. In the years since C++'s entry, both scripted languages and managed languages have risen in popularity. InfoQ speaks with Barbara Moo, coauthor of C++ Primer Fifth Edition, about C++11 and modern C++ development.
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The Essence of Google Dart: Building Applications, Snapshots, Isolates
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Joe Duffy on the Future of Concurrency and Parallelism
Joe Duffy, author of Concurrent Programming on Windows, talks about the future of concurrency and parallelism. This interview covers his thoughts on the language designs, libraries, and patterns that are becoming increasing important in modern programming.
Book on Leveraging Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler with Rebecca Parsons
In their new book Martin Fowler and Rebecca J. Parsons address the topic of Domain-Specific Languages. "Domain-Specific Languages" does not only address the concepts behind DSLs, but also tries to explain the subject in a pragmatic manner using examples in Java, C# and other languages.The book contains different patterns that reveal best practices in designing DSLs.
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[amazon_image id="0545477115″ link="true" target="_blank" size="medium" class="alignleft" ]The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle[/amazon_image]I realize that [amazon_link id="0545477115″ target="_blank" ]The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle[/amazon_link] has been around for a while, and it's been on my list, but I didn't actually read it until my daughter chose it for one of her summer reading books. She said she had read and excerpt of it in school and thought it sounded good.
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is the story of thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, who has been away at school in England and is returning home to Providence, Rhode Island aboard the Seahawk. Through a confluence of events, she winds up being the ship's only passenger, a fact which makes her very uncomfortable. Both the cook, Zachariah, an older sailor from Africa, and Captain Jaggery, the ship's master, try to befriend Charlotte, but she doesn't know who to trust. When the crew rises up against Captain Jaggery's cruelty, Charlotte is even more confused about her place and winds up getting herself into a heap of trouble.
I have to admit it starts slow. I really wondered if Charlotte was going to become likeable and get some sense. She eventually does become likeable, but I think sense is a hopeless case. Once the book gets going, it's pretty good. I think Avi was attempting to create a 19th century cadence through the first-person narration of Charlotte, but some of the sentences were awkwardly constructed, and I had to read them a couple of times to get them sorted out right. There is quite a lot of naval terminology, but the book has a helpful diagram of a ship and a glossary in the appendix. My daughter gave it two thumbs up. I'm glad she liked it. We read it together, and it was really nice to hear her say she didn't want to stop at just two chapters once we reached the end of the book. This from a girl who says she doesn't like reading. So that has to count for something.
If my daughter hadn't chosen it for summer reading, I might not have gone past the slow start, but I did like it more once the action started, and towards the end, it was a regular page turner. Avi's characterization brings all the players to life, and he has a true knack for setting, though I think he over-describes a bit. I don't need to see "everything." Then again, he is writing for children and may feel he needs to describe a bit more. I don't know.
It's a solid YA story, and I'm very glad my daughter liked it.
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One on the top 5 environmental concerns of 2019 is, sad to say, quite active on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
Conservationists with the Ancient Forest Alliance are dismayed that new logging has commenced on Edinburgh Mountain, an old-growth "hotspot" of high conservation value near Port Renfrew in Pacheedaht territory on western Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
A 15.6 cutblock, featuring old-growth forest with monumental red cedars and Douglas-firs, is being logged by Teal Jones Group and adds to the over 75 hectares of old-growth forest the company has logged on Edinburgh Mountain since 2016.
"The Ancient Forest Alliance is highly concerned about the future of this magnificent area, which includes almost 1,500 hectares of intact old-growth forest," stated AFA Campaigner and Photographer TJ Watt. "Edinburgh Mountain is one of the largest contiguous tracts of unprotected ancient rainforest on southern Vancouver Island south of Barkley Sound and, without legislated protection, this spectacular forest is being whittled away, clearcut by clearcut."Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) campaigners visited the cutblock over the weekend and found scores of giant trees cut down, including two-meter (seven-foot) wide cedars and an extremely rare, two-meter-wide, old-growth Douglas-fir, which had previously been photographed by AFA campaigner TJ Watt while still standing.
The Edinburgh Mountain Ancient Forest, as it's known by conservationists, is the location of Big Lonely Doug, Canada's second largest Douglas-fir tree, which stands alone in a clearcut at the base of the mountain, and is important habitat for endangered northern goshawks and marbled murrelets. It also contains one of the finest and most endangered lowland, valley-bottom, old-growth forests left on Vancouver Island: the spectacular Eden Grove.
60 percent of Edinburgh Mountain is available for logging, with the remaining 40 percent in tenuous forest reserves such as Old Growth Management Areas, whose boundaries can be adjusted to allow logging companies access to commercially valuable forests as they run out of timber elsewhere. The government contends that the removal of such protections requires the protection of other, similar forests, but often it results in the protection of lower quality stands with smaller trees than the original stand.
Just 50 meters away from the active cutblock stands a Douglas-fir tree that is the 6th widest Douglas-fir tree on record, according to the BC Big Tree Registry, and the 7th widest when including the Alberni Giant in the Nahmint Valley. While the near record-sized tree is located within a Wildlife Habitat Area, it remains vulnerable to future logging, as the designation legally allows clearcut logging in almost 75% of the reserve. In fact, in 2010 and 2012, some of the largest trees in Canada were logged within this Wildlife Habitat Area.
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ENKO Running Shoes – A New Revolution in Running?
The ENKO running shoes feature an exclusive mechanical cushioning system made of a patented "double sole", with more than 50 different parts. These shoes use springs matching the runner's bodyweight. Thanks to this radical sole, the ENKO running shoe cushions impacts far differently than any other shoe in the world. The ENKO running shoes are the only ones in the world to match runners' bodyweight.
The ENKO running shoe is a 100% French innovation. It has been designed and developed by Christian Freschi, a mechanical engineer and a running enthusiast. This shoe is the result of 12 years of R&D and tests. It is made in France, in Castelnaudary (near Toulouse), and sold by the start-up company founded and managed by Christian Freschi and his wife Jacqueline Freschi.


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(Keynote speech of Senator MAR Roxas during the 61st Anniversary of the Liberal Party, Club Filipino, San Juan last January 29, 2007. Ituloy AngSulong MAR Roxas!!!)
Friends, fellow Liberals, Mga kababayan:
Sixty-one years ago today, the Liberal Party was founded as an instrument for renewal, leadership, and hope. Back then, as the Second World War ended, our people rolled up their sleeves for the hard work of establishing our freedom and rebuilding our nation.
Today, so much has changed in the world. We define peace in terms of progress, war in terms of terror, and wealth in terms of knowledge.
Thankfully, some things remain the same: Ka Jovy's moral courage, sharp memory and witty ripostes, Bobby Tanada's nationalist fervor, Raul Daza's attention to detail in both governance and sartorial matters; Frank Drilon's strong sense of righteousness and justice and Butch Abad's principles and his putting himself on the line for them .
Sixty-one years ago, the country emerged from the horrors of a second world war, physically broken – broken roads, railroads, and ports; buildings and cities little more than rubble; Filipinos malnourished, infirm, beaten, and tortured.
Yet although physically broken, our countrymen were strong in spirit, powerful in terms of dedication, brave in the face of adversity. They believed they could make a difference and they did.
The way forward for them was to conquer their fear, grit their teeth, put shoulder to the grindstone and do the necessary hard work of rebuilding our nation. Together, they went on to build our country to become the strongest economy of Asia.
That was then.
Today our country is broken; our people feel helpless and are in despair.
Two months ago, the SWS reported a new record high of 19% or an estimated 3.3 million households experiencing involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months; while more than half (52%) of the Filipino families rated themselves as poor in general, and another 2 out of every 5 (40%) rated themselves as poor in terms of food.
Today, the Philippines is divided into the haves, the have-nots, and the will never-haves: a nation in conflict politically, but also gutted from within – literally, as our kababayans, by the thousands, everyday, pick another country in which to work and live and earn.
Today, we hear hosannas to improvements in the financial markets but these remain only in the financial sector and are still awaited by the poor. Though the peso continues to strengthen, income levels have not gone up and cost of living has not come down.
Sixty-one years ago, hope resided in the people and within our borders.
Today, hope lies in making their way across the seas, beyond our borders, including a few destinations more risky and chaotic than ours.
Broken Politics
Sadly, the expected source of redemption for all democracies, the political system, our governance, is also broken.
According to the most recent surveys, 3 out 5 of our people believe their political leaders to be "dishonest". The same survey says that they give their trust most to a boxer, Manny Pacquiao, to a billiard player, Efren "Bata" Reyes, and to someone who spends his time looking out after the palengke.
At no time in our recent history has the Supreme Court been asked not once, but several times to intervene and protect the people from their government. The method by which every liberal democracy renews itself is likewise broken. Increasingly, the people no longer see elections as their instrument, their tool for reform, renewal, and deliverance. For so many it has become a
cynical exercise, an instrument to protect the status quo and further entrench it.
In contrast, sixty years ago, even the poorest of the poor saw elections and political and civic participation as part of the solution to the practical problems of daily life.
Today, most people see elections and political participation as a way of perpetuating instead of solving their problems.
Our countrymen stopped seeing politics and politicians in a flattering light some time ago; they believe that whoever wins, they, the people, still end up losing.
Increasingly, Filipinos see politicians as:
Unreliable, Unrepentant, Irresponsible, Expensive, Irrelevant, and thus – Unnecessary, for them to attain their goals in life.
At bakit naman hindi sasama ang loob ng ating mga kababayan sa mga politico?
Noong nakaraang mga buwan ay mariing tinulak ng administrasyon at ang mga kaalyado nito ang isang panukala na nagsasabi ng:
Masama ang lagay ng buhay, nais naming kayong tulungan (mukhang ok naman ito)
Heto ang mga pagbabago na sa palagay namin ay magdudulot ng mas magandang buhay para sa lahat:
Ipagpaliban na ang halalan sa Mayo
Tanggalin na ang term limits namin
Alisin ang kapangyarihan ng Korte Suprema sa pagreview ng pagdeklara ng Martial Law at sa paglalabis ng pamahalaan, at
Hindi na kayo ang pipili ng lider ng bansa dahil kami na lang ang mamimili mula sa aming mga kasama
Pag pumayag kayo, tiyak na gaganda ang buhay at kinabukasan ninyo.
[Indeed, how can we expect our people to feel differently about politicians when just a few months ago, the government and its political allies put the following proposition before the people:
They said, your life is lousy, we want to help you.
Let's make some changes to improve your life (so far so good).
Until we hear the changes they had in mind:
I won't have to run for office as scheduled this May;
I won't have limits as to how long I can stay in my job;
The Supreme Court will no longer get to review actions on declaring martial
law and abuse of executive authority, and;
You no longer get to choose the leader of the country because we will pick
the leader from among ourselves…
If you approve these changes, your life and future will be better.]
It is too sad to cry over, too bizarre to laugh over and too pathetic to take seriously.
But, that's the way it was and, as they recently declared, they will try again.
Our Party Unspared
Unfortunately, even our party has not escaped the collateral effects of this brokenness.
Today, our party is distracted and divided. Such distractions and divisions are a product of outside interference. They say join us or we'll break you. Our members had to choose between supporting the president, right or wrong, or our freedom to decide based on the issues at hand.
This cannot be. Ours is a proud tradition and a deep belief that we are a party answerable to our collective conscience. That we make decisions based on values and vision, not on personalities and power plays. The LP has always supported that which is right and opposed that which is wrong.
Ninoy Aquino, Evelio Javier, Gerry Roxas and so many others did not meekly say, "Yes, Mr. President", during the dark days of martial law. Jovy Salonga, Bobby Tanada, Vic Ziga did not meekly say, "Yes, Madame President", when they voted against the bases treaty. Frank Drilon, Kiko Pangilinan, Pong Biazon, Noynoy Aquino, Butch and Dina Abad, Erin Tanada, Neric Acosta and so many of our congressional party mates did not simply say, "Yes, Ma'am", when policies such as Calibrated Pre-emptive Response, EO 464, Proclamation 1017, and a self serving Cha-cha were foisted upon us.
But, we are not a party that simply says NO, that opposes for the sake of opposing, that questions simply to obstruct.
In the same manner, when the program or initiative, regardless of the source, favors the people's interests then the Liberal Party is there to champion it.
It was the LP congressmen that led the way to restoring fiscal strength with their advocacy for changes in the vat law, for reform in the customs and revenue agencies thru attrition and for improvement in the sin taxes.
We contributed to the debates on the budget bill, the bio-fuels law, the juvenile justice law, and other important measures that have benefited our people.
LP local officials like Magsaysay Awardee Mayors Jesse Robredo and Tony del Rosario as well as Governors Niel Tupas, Raul Daza and Vic Bermejo continue to give the country best practices in local governance.
Our party has always been issue-based and proud of it. It is what differentiates us from those who believe that only might is right, or that only he who has the gold rules.
It is our badge of honor to be independent and responsible. It is what makes us proud to be Liberals.
And so we ask: where do we go from here?
In a little over 3 months we will be facing our people to once again ask them to vote for us, to give us their mandate.
So far, and sadly so, the news and commentary on the upcoming elections has been all about politicians joining and/or leaving one camp or another. It's similar to the reportage found in the entertainment press or in the basketball leagues – reports and speculations about personages leaving kapuso to go to kapamilya or vice versa or of star athletes leaving one ball club to join the other.
No one has spoken to the people about their needs. No party has taken the step of presenting their ideas.
What do we present to the people as our Program?
How do we get our people to set aside their cynicism, re-engage in civic life and come on-board our platform?
I believe our way forward is not to make the political debate be about us, the politicians. The only debate that truly matters is on how to improve the quality of life of our people.
I believe our way forward is to make ourselves relevant to our people and show them that we are their instrument for attaining their goals for themselves, their families and our country.
I believe our way forward is to lead this debate, and make this campaign a battle of ideas, and not just personalities.
I believe our way forward is to present, run on, and make our mark based on the 2 pillars that prop up our country today: our people themselves and the sacrifice they made on the EVAT.
The first pillar of our program is anchored on the value we hold dearest (and which is actually as well the reality in our country) that our people are our greatest strength; that our way forward is to enable our people to express their highest and best potentials here in our land; that our economic deliverance rests on our ability to unleash our peoples energies; and so therefore that the most responsible Program of government is the one that nurtures, develops, promotes and protects our people.
The second pillar of our Program is founded on the one government action that has exacted the most sacrifice from our people but whose benefit remains elusive to the very people it has burdened. In 2005, we asked our people to pay more taxes thru the EVAT. By various estimates this amounts to some P80 B pesos annually (the equivalent of some P1000 from every person, man, woman and child here in our country.)
This great sacrifice from our people has led to the buoyancy recently seen in the financial markets. The stock market is up, the peso is stronger, and headline interest rates have come down. Those with financial assets certainly have benefited from this strength in the financial markets.
Nevertheless, to date, the benefits for Juan de la Cruz remain vague and hazy. The president says, well it has benefited the people, they just don't know it yet; her economic managers say, well it will take time, eventually it will get to them, a trickle down; the politicians say, well the people will benefit from increased government spending.
I say, this was an extraordinary sacrifice we asked for and so the people who sacrificed deserve to know that these billions in additional revenues taken from their shrinking pockets shall be treated in an extraordinary way; it must not disappear into the black hole that is the General Fund, it must not be part of the usual "a little bit here and a little bit there" apportionment equation. It certainly must not be part of political horse-trading (or pork) and most definitely, it must not be part of the usual consumption type campaign spending for the coming elections.
Contributing EVAT is our people's sariling sikap version of the Marshall Plan (which was instrumental in rehabilitating Europe at the end of WW2).
Similarly, we should view and use the EVAT fund as our people's own Official Development Assistance to the nation.
Based on these 2 pillars, therefore, I say, let all EVAT revenues be set aside and conferred a status reflecting what it really is – an internal rehabilitation fund, a self generated reconstruction fund from which we build up from where we are today. It should be used for investment type activities and not for consumption type undertakings.
Ordinary course of collections revenues can go to the ordinary course of government expenses.
But the monies collected from the expanded VAT must go over and above what would regularly have been spent in priority areas. This is in order to jump start, to pole vault, to electroshock important sectors of our country like education, health and infrastructure towards modernity and world-class standards.
We must bestow upon these monies a special status and separate it from regular sources of government revenues. We can then put forward complete, comprehensive plans to fully solve specific problems that hold our people and our country back.
a Competitive Educational System – The way forward is for us to build the classrooms, make the chairs and tables, buy the books, acquire the computers, train the teachers and do all necessary so we can provide the best education that we can. Lets not do this tingi style as in the present. Let's completely fund and fix all grade one and 1st year HS
problems this year and go onto grade 2 and 2nd year HS next year, and thereafter progressively go on until we've completely solved our problems in education.
a Fast and Fair Judicial System – the way forward is to build and equip the salas and hire the needed number of public attorneys, fiscals and judges to ensure that justice is accessible to all and that poverty will not stand in the way of fair justice.
Available and affordable Healthcare – the way forward is to fully finance the restructuring of our health delivery system so that primary health care is readily available for our people. Let us revisit and reinvigorate the Generics and IP laws in order to make medicines affordable. Let us align all government procurement of medicines to the intents of the generics law and the Doha declaration on healthcare so we get more for our money.
The proper and programmed application of funds in these 3 areas alone will consume the money over the next 3 years. The point is that by focusing our energies and resources on these specific areas, we would have actually accomplished something rather than the present incrementalist practice where, after having spent the money on anything and everything, we actually
have very little to show for it.
As we go along, and attain our objectives in each of these areas, monies will be freed up for other equally important areas of infrastructure development, environmental protection, and food security.
Jobs, shelter, livelihood, peace and order – the potentials are there to introduce social and economic reforms, meaningful reforms, through these revenues. Unfortunately, the toxic environment of today has made these relief funds subject to partisan politics, thus demeaning further the sacrifices our people have already made and continue to make.
In the process of focusing on these 2 pillars we shall, be providing the third pillar that further fortifies all our efforts – and this is the pillar of Good Governance. Good governance is the principle that enables us to transform this fund into a special people's relief fund for extraordinary purposes in direct response to our people's most urgent needs.
Our good governance advocacy ensures that our people's direct aid to the nation is not wasted on frivolous things, but invested wisely, transparently, and with full accountability for their benefit.
Let this be our advocacy as a party – to recognize that upon our people rests our future, to recognize the sacrifice they made and to apply good governance thereupon, making each peso of sacrifice count by treating it as a special account of the people, for the people, and by the people.
Our redemption as a party, as politicians, as leaders lies in regaining the people's trust. To accomplish this, we must understand and honor the depth of their pain and sacrifice, and the indomitable will that keeps them hoping that the best is yet to come.
Once in a while – not often – a single defining national event provides insight into where we are, who we are, what we believe in, and what we esteem.
In this election, our rivals will try to portray us in terms of political fights, power grabs, and personal rivalries. You and I know that our party is much more than that.
We are in the Liberal Party because we believe that our people are our greatest strength. It is our privilege to serve them, and not their privilege to be served by us.
We believe that the rights of men and women and children are not to be diminished by those in power, but for those in power to strengthen and defend these rights.
We believe that deep within a Filipino are family values that lead to excellence, that given equity of opportunities, the Filipino will rise to the apex of success as they have in so many other parts of the world and so sadly have not been able to do here in our country.
And we believe that, a political life only has meaning when associated by our people with the ability to deliver selfless and honest service.
These are our fountainheads, our keystones; these values are at the bedrock of our reason for being: To lead the country, the LP way – based on issues, not personalities, inspired by hope, and not greed, committed to serve with humility and compassion, integrity and fairness.
Sixty-one years ago, the LP gave the people something to hope for.
Today, it is up to us to show the way forward; to fix what is broken; to be our
people's best hope.
Let us welcome this challenge as our defining moment.
Mabuhay ang Partido Liberal!
Maraming, maraming salamat po!
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Real Name: Andrew Joseph Cohen
Date of Birth: 2nd June 1968
Profession: Talk Show Host, Radio Host, Author, Producer
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Andy Cohen is an Emmy Award-winning radio and television host, author, and producer. He is known for his late-night talk show, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Bravo, an Emmy Award nomination show. He has had many celebrities on the show, including Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, and many others. In addition, he is a radio show host on SiriusXM, hosting Radio Andy (a pop culture channel).
Andy Cohen's Net Worth
Andy's net worth is $50 million, with an annual salary of $10 million. He started making real money when he began working at CBS News and rose to senior producer, which earned him a salary of $110,000 annually. His ambition and exposure on CBS landed him other jobs over the years.
However, Cohen landed an irresistible deal with Bravo in 2004. He changed lanes and went into reality shows and pop culture, which earned him a hefty salary of around $350,000 plus incentives. Andy has taken Bravo to a new level and grew up with them while at it. His assets, such as properties and cars, also add to where he is today.
Andrew Joseph Cohen was born in Clayton, St. Louis, Missouri, on June 2, 1968. Andy was born into a Jewish family of Evelyn and Lou Cohen and a sister, Emily Rosenfield. He graduated from Clayton High School in 1986. Cohen attended Boston University and graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism.
What makes Cohen unique is that he is the first openly gay host of American late-night TV and radio shows. He came out while studying at Boston University. He has had a few relationships over the past years, like with John Hill, famous for starring in Broadway musicals. However, his career and family have taken a giant spotlight in his life. He has managed to keep his love life very private.
Cohen has two children that he had through surrogates. Benjamin Allen Cohen was born on February 4, 2019, and Lucy Eve on April 29, 2022.
Andy wears a shoe size 10.
He is deep into his family and is unmarried at 54 years.
He is a bi-sexual.
Cohen's zodiac sign is Gemini.
He is the first openly gay late-night talk show host.
Andy is an NRA-certified Expert Rifleman.
He worked at CBS for ten years.
His favorite meal is Kraft's Mac & Cheese.
Cohen was once a B-52's go-go dancer.
He is a lifelong die-hard fan of the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Blues.
Cohen knew he wanted to be in the journalism industry since he was a boy, imitating anchors with a hairbrush for a microphone. He began his career at CBS as Erin Moriarty's intern. Over the years, he rose to rank and became a senior producer for the Early Show and CBS This Morning.
He joined Trio network in 2000 as the vice president of programming, which Bravo took over in 2004. Bravo retained him as the executive vice president of programming to revamp the channel into the success that it is today. He started hosting the now famous late-night show Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in the summer of 2009. It's an interactive talk show which hosts big pop culture names such as Oprah Winfrey.
Cohen had done so much in his career that he couldn't keep track. That's when he started journaling, which gave birth to his books. Andy's first book, Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture, was an autobiography memoir released in May 2012 and became a New York Times best seller.
Following the anti-gay laws in America back then, Andy downgraded to co-hosting Miss Universe in Russia. He had previously hosted Miss USA in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Andy also featured in Lady Gaga's music video for the song G.U.Y as Zeus in 2014. In addition, he published his second memoir in 2014, The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year, another New York Times best-seller inspired by The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol.
SiriusXM started a channel organized by Andy known as Radio Andy, featuring shows like Andy Cohen Live. In 2015, close friends Anderson Cooper and Andy decided on a national stage show tour called AC2 Live. This idea came to Anderson Cooper when he interviewed Andy about his released book, TheAndy Cohen Diaries.
Fox revived Love Connection in 2017, a dating game show hosted by Cohen that went on for a second season. He also appeared in Riverdale in 2018, where he played himself as a friend of the Lodge family. In addition, Andy is the executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise and hosts the reunion shows that air at the end of each season.
Andy has been wise in his real estate decisions. In 2003, he purchased a unit in a West Village building on Horatio Street. Then, the Bravo host wanted a family and bought three more units and combined them into a duplex. The place is valued between $6-8 million.
Aside from just apartments, Cohen bought a half-acre oceanfront lot at Hampton's in Amagansett Dunes worth $5.4 million. The lot is reported to be valued at $8 million.
He is also a lover of classic cars. Andy has been spotted with an Audi A8, valued at approximately $87,000. He also owns a vintage Volkswagen Beetle (a collector's car) that differs in price. Finally, Andy's been spotted in a Mini Cooper valued at around $23,000.
Cohen was also an executive producer of the reality cooking show, Top Chef, for which he won an Emmy in 2010. In addition, in conjunction with Cohen, SiriusXM launched Andy Cohen's Kiki Show in 2021, a daily music channel that looks into Cohen's favorite music.
While working at Bravo, Andy has been responsible for unscripted series such as Project Runway, Top Chef, and The Million Matchmaker. He got nominated for an Emmy as the executive producer.
Andy's book, Glitter Every Day: 365 Quotes from Women I Love, is his fourth New York Times best-selling book inspired by impactful women in his life that he loves, from his mother to Oprah Winfrey to Madonna.
Andy Cohen has dedicated some of his wealth to helping numerous charities and causes. Some of the charity foundations he supports are DonorsChoose.org, GLAAD, Communities in Schools, American Foundation for AIDS Research, and Habitat For Humanity.
Cohen, being openly gay, supports causes like LGBTQ Support, Cancer, Creative Arts, Poverty, AIDS&HIV, and At-Risk/Disadvantaged Youths, to mention a few.
Andy is currently nursing his four-month-old daughter, Lucy. He still plans to balance that with his work and nationwide tours. He also announced that the Real Housewives franchise is going international. Bravo has announced that The Real Housewives global franchise is expanding to African countries like Kenya as of this year.
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Andy Cohen net worth is currently $50 million USD.
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Kenya: Herders swap livestock for chilies as drought hits hard (Trust)
admin | August 28, 2017
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It's mid-August and, at this time of year, Richard Longiro and his wife Cherop are usually busy looking for grazing for their livestock. But their three cows died during a drought this spring. They sold their 20 sheep, fearing they would meet the same fate.
Mr. and Mrs. Longiro farm and raise their three children in Kangorio village, in western Kenya's West Pokot County. Mr. Longiro says, "We had two options: either take [our livestock] to the market and sell them at a throwaway price, or keep them, which was risky because they were most likely going to die."
Over the past year, herders in Kenya's Rift Valley have lost thousands of animals to worsening drought and erratic rainfall. More and more herders are switching to growing crops to supplement their income.
Mrs. Longiro and her husband now plant chilies—a crop resistant to drought—on a quarter-acre of their land. They also grow pawpaw, mangoes, and bananas. She explains, "Livestock had become so vulnerable to dry weather that we decided to start a new activity."
Giuseppe De Bac is the project manager in West Pokot County for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO. He says chilies are a safe crop for farmers in droughts as they do not require fertilizers or water once the roots develop.
Mr. De Bac adds, "[Chili] needs water in the early stages of growth, so we encourage farmers to plant on drip-irrigated plots."
FAO supplies water storage tanks and drip irrigation kits to farmers involved in the project. It also helped negotiate a three-year agreement for 200 farmers—many of whom have lost livestock—to sell chilies to an Italian company at a fixed price of 200 Kenyan shillings ($1.90 US) per kilogram. The company, called La Fattoria, has a processing plant in southeast Kenya.
According to Mr. De Bac, a quarter-acre plot can contain 2,500 chili plants. Each plant yields up to 1.5 kilograms of chilies over three years if well-tended. Mr. De Bac adds, "That could get farmers as much as 250,000 shillings ($2,380 US) per year, compared to only 7,500 shillings ($71 US) when the farmers grow maize."
Glenda Andiema is a marketing executive at La Fattoria. She says that if the project succeeds, her company may renew the contract with the farmers at the end of the three-year period.
Ms. Andiema says that extension officers visit the farmers to ensure they follow recommended agricultural practices, because her company may refuse to buy the chilies if they are of insufficient quality or quantity.
Some farmers have already delivered their first crop of chilies to drying centres and will receive their first payment in September.
Pamela Chepkorir is one of the chili farmers. She says, "This is an exciting moment for us, because for the first time we are growing a crop which we know we will sell, to whom, and for how much."
This story is adapted from an article originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation News, titled "Kenya's herders swap livestock for chillies as drought bites." To read the full story, go to: http://news.trust.org/item/20170807000509-wm686


"Las Esquinas" (58"x72", 2007) was inspired by tile patterns that Kris documented in San Miguel de Allende, in the central mountains of Mexico. The butterfly-and-flower border honors Kris's visit to the nearby Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve and the abundant calla lilies blooming throughout the region.
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Making Peace with Snow," our cover image for the Gallery Walk guide this month, is currently showing at American Traders, 257 Marlboro Rd., West Brattleboro, along with work in a variety of mediums by several other members of Brattleboro-West Arts. Stop in from 10 to 5:30 weekdays for a close-up view of this stunning tribute to winter's beauty. See many other examples of Krisís unique work at www.KrisMcDermetRugs.com.
"Traditional braiding and hooking have been an important part of my life for 30 years. I love the combinations that can be created by joining both braiding and hooking in a single floor rug or wall hanging.
"I use 100% wool fabric in time-honored ways: braiding and hooking are skilled arts that have been practiced since the 1800s. I then combine the braided sections and the hooked sections in new and untraditional ways. I aim to strengthen the delicacy of the hooking with the boldness of the braiding, sometimes creating a traditional rectangular piece to be used on the floor, but often making a more freeform shape ideal for hanging on the wall.
"I mix traditional wool and silk dyes to achieve the rich, subtle colors that visually marry together the various elements. I also use the negative spaces between the elements, where the floor or wall might be visible, to help bind the finished piece together.
ìHopscotchî (29îx34î, 2007) was designed for a class on geometrics and was featured on the Spring í09 cover of Rug Hooking magazine.
"My hooked designs are inspired by nature, family stories, and books. Those ideas become patterns that I transfer to a linen backing prior to beginning hooking. The braiding might be at the center, at the border, or in between elements of the finished design."
Kris is an Occupational Therapist with the VNA/H, and her other passions include gardening, baking, music, and being part of the Brattleboro community. She lives with her husband Stewart, dogs, cats, and fish high up Sunset Lake Road. Her sewing room, the center of her creative space, is filled with bolts, rolls, strips, and braids of soft, multicolored wool.
From her own website, Kris adds: "The colors, designs, and textures of the wool complement both mediums [of braiding and hooking]. So much beautiful wool is available, whether woven, dyed, or overdyed, and the possibilities are endless.
"One to two rows of braiding can frame a hooked piece nicely, or switching back and forth between hooking and braiding several times in the same rug -- and even leaving "holes" -- adds interest and texture. The hooking is padded to be the same thickness as the braiding and will last for many years on the floor or wall."


Premiering on May 23rd is Too Big To Fail, HBO's new film that will take a look at the recent financial crisis that struck a few years back. In particular, it looks at the relationship between Wall Street and Washington and how a select group of powerful people ultimately decided the fate of the world's economy. Today we have a new teaser trailer for the film and while it's quite short, it does look good. The A-list cast includes Paul Giamatti, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Dan Hedaya, Topher Grace, James Woods and Cynthia Nixon.
There have already been a few films/documentaries dealing with this subject and there are still a few more to be released. That being said, I think it's an important issue and an interesting one. Too Big To Fail looks to take a different approach to the situation as the film is also exploring the political side of it all. I'm looking forward to it and I'll definitely be watching on May 23rd. Will you?


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Inspiring our coastal communities with success stories
BIM, Ireland's fisheries agency, wanted to raise awareness of the €12 million European Union FLAG funding available to Ireland's coastal communities. The key target audience for this campaign is people living in areas that make their livelihood from fishing and local business people who could avail of the funding themselves.
Co-funded under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, FLAG funding is a real life-line to many of Ireland's remote fishing communities. We focussed on 7 coastal projects to tell interesting and heart-warming stories of families, fishermen and businesses that benefited from this welcome investment.
Collaborating with other agencies, we led the video-first campaign which had a huge reach among its focussed target audience with significant online video views across Facebook (over 122,000 views), Twitter (over 147,000 views) and YouTube (over 17,000 views). This has been in addition to PR print and radio coverage right across the country, amplifying the campaign with a cumulative audience reach of over 6 million to date.
Advertising Value Equivalent calculated so far is in excess of €1.5 million.
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Well, well, well, finally the cat may be out of the bag. Nomzamo Mbatha has been dodging relationship status questions for a long time now. It looks like the media darling has finally cracked.
Her latest Instagram post left many wondering. "Single. Educated. Hydrated. Self-Loving. Slaying Dreams," Nomzamo shared. Quite nice when you get the story from the horses' mouth. Telling her own story, her way, power!
Nomzamo and Maps made headlines last year May when it was reported that they had split. Maps was accused of cheating on Nomzamo with Cape Town blogger, Nadia Jaftha. Ever since then, everyone has been watching the two with hawk eyes. Although they don't say much about their love lives, the two are still friends.


Took a walk around the campsite later and saw this home-made caravan.
An artistic view of the 191 steps - counted them last year.
An angler practising his casting.
Another angler watches a seal that has come to the beach's edge.
Went by bus to Arcachon with the intention of having oysters for lunch but it was so hot we couldn't be bothered eating anything.
Ever more meaningful morning ritual.
Some grand buildings in Arcachon.
Even at 16.06 in the shade.
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Today we can announce our most ambitious project to date. Following on from their acclaimed debut album 'Linked Arms' Runaround Kids are wasting no time in bringing you some new music with a series of releases throughout the year.
First up, is the release of a T-shirt and a song in April, the song is called 'You'd Feel The Same'. This will be followed in June with a 12" split with We Are Losers, and a cassette with The Spills later in the year. We'll be compiling these (plus a few others) onto a record at the end of the year.
You can preorder the T-shirt with a CD of the single, plus sign up to get all the records and T-shirts and stuff, at our bandcamp. We'll be throwing in some badges, stickers, scans of lyrics, handwritten stuff from studio sessions from the last couple of years, and anything else we can think of that will fit into an envelope… The T-shirt and single is £8, the bundle (T-shirt, 12" vinyl, tape, compilation CD, God knows how much music…) is just £12.
Hope you like the idea. We're pretty excited.