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NEWS RELEASE · 26th March 2012
GOVERNMENT TO ELIMINATE HABITAT PROTECTION PROVISIONS
Otto E. Langer BSc (Zool) MSc
To date the Harper government has shown little regard for the protection of the environment and over the past few years has supervised the almost total elimination of enforcement of the habitat protection and the pollution provisions of the Canada Fisheries Act (Sections 35 and 36 respectively). During the Cohen Inquiry in 2011 data was presented to show that pollution and habitat violation investigations have been greatly reduced and convictions of violations in BC and indeed throughout Canada is now almost non-existent.
The Fisheries Act of Canada was put in place in 1868 and is one of the oldest and most tested pieces of environmental legislation in the world. In 1975 many people worked hard to get a proper section added to the Act to protect fish habitat in Canada. Section 35 (habitat protection) was passed by Parliament in 1976 and has been extensively used across Canada over the past 36 years. In B.C., the Federal and BC governments largely quit enforcing the pollution and habitat sections of the Act in favor of allowing industry to self govern their own environmental project's 'needs' and monitor their own self compliance.
This has proven to be a disaster wherever it has been attempted elsewhere in the World.
I have just been leaked a confidential copy of proposed changes to the habitat provisions of the Fisheries Act as directed by the political levels within the Harper Government. The government is totally re-writing the habitat protection provisions of Section 35(1) so as to remove habitat protection out of the Fisheries Act.
This is a serious situation and will put Canada back to where we were in the pre 1976 period where Canada had no laws to protect fish habitat and no way to monitor the great industrial expansion that occurred in Canada with the consequential loss of major fish habitat all across Canada.
Fish habitat includes the lakes, rivers and oceans and their water flows, life processes, the banks and the riparian vegetation along a water way, marshes, gravel beds and the diversity of habitat that allow a rich and diverse population of life to live in our waterways that supports a large economic, cultural and recreational fishery.
Also this habitat produces healthy and robust populations of fish that are essential to the feeding and maintaining the health of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems e.g. the bears, eagles, otters, grebes, herons, etc.
Section 35(1) of the Fisheries Act now states:
35(1) No person shall carry on any work or undertaking that results in the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat.
(2) No person contravenes subsection (1) by causing the alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat by an means or under any conditions authorized by the Minister or under the regulations made by the Governor in Counsel under this Act
The proposed new subsection 35(1) of the Fisheries Act is as follows:
35(1) No person shall carry on any work, undertaking or activity, other than fishing, that results in an adverse effect on a fish of economic, cultural or ecological value.
(2) No person contravenes subsection (1) if
(a) the adverse effect is authorized by the Minister and is produced in accordance with the conditions established by the Minister;
(b) the adverse effect is authorized by a person prescribed by the regulations and is produced in accordance with the conditions prescribed by the regulations;
(c) the work, undertaking or activity is carried on in accordance with the conditions set out in the regulations or with any other authorization issued under this Act;
(d) the work, undertaking or activity is carried on in, on, over, under, through or across any Canadian fisheries waters, and
(i) the work, undertaking or activity falls within a class of works, undertakings or activities, or the Canadian fisheries waters fall within a class of Canadian fisheries waters, established by regulation, and
(ii) the work, undertaking or activity is carried on in accordance with the conditions prescribed by the regulations.
The existing effective and essential piece of legislation is to be changed to apparently just protect fish - something that the Act already does. The lack of mention of 'habitat' in the proposed draft law and the number of subjective and ambiguous words inserted into this major amendment will make any enforcement of this new law very difficult. For instance what is a fish of economic, cultural or ecological value? If is has no economic value, can it now be needlessly destroyed?
This newly drafted provision is not intended to protect fish habitat in any manner whatsoever. To support the habitat provisions in the Act, in 1986 DFO developed the National Habitat Policy with it's central theme of 'no net loss' and it was once heralded as one of Canada's first policies promoting sustainable development. Will that now also be withdrawn?
Also the above drafted section is enabling the making of regulations and, as with CEAA, the government may pass many regulations that restrict the intent of that section of the Act. That is double jeopardy. First the Canadian government amends the legislation to eliminate the protection of fish habitat and then it may undermine that new questionable fish protection legislation by allowing the passing of regulations that will create loopholes in what is left in the Act.
DFO used to hand out pencils and pens with the slogan embossed on their sides – No Habitat – No Fish. The Prime Minster and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans must realize that the Government has not replaced nature and has not changed the ecological and natural laws that create habitat and maintain ecological functioning in our essential life supporting aquatic ecosystems.
They cannot replace living forms of life and their habitats and when it's gone, it's gone. Why at this key time in our history of ongoing industrial development pressures on our rivers, lakes and oceans, do we turn away from responsible aquatic habitat protection responsibilities? Where is the ethic and moral responsibility for our children and future generations and those that cannot be heard or cannot vote – our fish and wildlife resources?
This proposed move by the Harper government is a travesty for our fishery resources and the health of the entire ecosystem and it ignores the needs of our future generations. It is little less than another attack on the biological systems that allow life to exist on this planet. To make matters worse, the political level has decided to not consult with DFO staff or the public on these proposed changes.
The Harper government will attempt to sneak this neutering of the Fisheries Act through Parliament within the next two weeks by tacking it on to the end of the up coming Budget Omnibus Bill.
This is disgraceful and the movers of this legislative change are urged to reconsider their planned reckless and irresponsible actions. All sport fish groups, fishermen, First Nations, ENGOs and the public must say enough is enough and oppose what Mr. Harper is planning to do.
Biography of Otto E. Langer BSc (Zool) MSc Fishery Biologist and Aquatic Ecologist
Worked for DFO and DOE for 32 years in habitat and water quality protection issues. Helped organize BC Assoc. of Prof. Biologists and was President of the group. Qualified as an expert witness on over 100 pollution and habitat destruction cases in Canada from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. Published and directed many studies relating to the protection status of BC habitats. Author of the red, yellow and green habitat color zoning system that is used to protect the Fraser River Estuary. Promoted the inclusion of habitat protection provisions into the Fisheries Act in 1975.
Awarded the BC Government Silver Metal for urban stream riparian protection in 2000; BCWF BC Conservationist of the Year 2009; BC Best Regional Book Prize 2005 - Stain Upon the Sea - a book dedicated to exposing the salmon farm industry in BC. Awarded the CWF Roland Michener Canadian Conservationist of the Year Award for 2010. Left government in 2001 and joined the David Suzuki Foundation (2001 to 2005) and formed their Marine Conservation Program. Have been retired for past 7 years and do volunteer work for many conservation causes including VAPOR (no jet fuel tankers in the Fraser River) , Fraser River Gravel Stewardship Committee (Chilliwack), oil and oil sands issues, London UK based MSC (2001-2010), BC Marine Conservation Caucus and had legal standing at the Cohen Inquiry on declining Fraser River sockeye stocks.
Figure outlining enforcement activity of DFO Fishery Officers investigating habitat and pollution violations under the Fisheries Act in BC in the 2002 to 2010 period. Also noted s a summary of all convictions obtained in BC in 1998 and 2008 by the BC Ministry of Environment, Environment Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. In 2008 only 2 convictions under the provisions of the Fisheries Act were attained in all of Canada. In addition to the federal government turning off habitat and pollution enforcement programs under the Fisheries Act, this has also been the case for the BC Government. Data from Cohen Commission Exhibits.


So we all know the stories. Spielberg was a wunderkind. He snuck onto the Universal lot as an 8 year-old with nothing more than a turtleneck, viewfinder and a suitcase full of candy bars and was immediately hired to design the Creature From the Black Lagoon and do re-writes on Magnificent Obsession. But the truth is that even The Beard started somewhere and anyone who's seen his episodes of Night Gallery knows that start was inauspicious at best.
So while now we can look back on Duel (1971) as a no-brainer, the 20th century's preeminent film entertainer being handed a story full of car chases, the reality that this movie exists at all, let alone this good, is actually absolutely insane. So what happened? How did Spielberg pull it out? And how did he almost never end up collaborating with John Williams? On the latest episode of Tracks of the Damned, the horror film commentary podcast, Patrick answers all this and asks the question: Where did all the country bumpkins go in Steven Spielberg movies?
He also interviews Steven Awalt, author of Steven Spielberg and Duel: The Making of a Film Career, and takes an even deeper dive into that dimension where Spielberg and horror merge. Plow ahead!


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FCS Notes: Eagles have standouts at skill positions
• Eastern Washington became the second team in Big Sky history to have a 4,000-yard passer, a 1,000-yard rusher and two 1,000-yard receivers. RB Quincy Forte surpassed 1,000 yards in the quarterfinal win against Jacksonville State, while WR Ashton Clark surpassed 1,000 receiving yards. Entering Saturday's semifinal, QB Vernon Adams has 4,600 passing yards. Forte has 1,131 rushing yards. Freshman Cooper Kupp has 1,567 receiving yards and Clark has 1,104. Weber State's 1991 team was the first to accomplish the feat.
• Third-seeded Eastern Washington is making its third semifinal appearance in the past four years, and is looking for the program's second trip to the national championship game. Eastern Washington brings a 10-game winning streak into Saturday's showdown against Towson. The Eagles are 7-0 at home this season, and 24-3 all time on their red turf.
FCS SEMIFINALS
• New Hamphire at North Dakota State, 8 p.m. ET Friday (ESPN2)
• Towson at Eastern Washington, 2 p.m. ET Saturday (ESPNU)
• New Hampshire has won six consecutive games and nine of its past 10 as it makes its first trip to the semifinals. Sean Goldrich set career highs of 21 carries, 99 rushing yards, three rushing TDs and 24 completions at Southeastern Louisiana. WR Justin Mello and RB Nico Steriti each surpassed 1,000 yards for the season in Saturday's win.
• Towson holds an 8-0 road record in 2013 and enters its first semifinal on an 11-game road win streak. Terrance West rushed for five TDs and an FCS playoff record 354 yards in the win against Eastern Illinois. West finished third in the Walter Payton Award voting.
• CAA Football has been represented in the FCS title game seven times during the past decade, while a CAA Football program has won the national title four times in the past 10 years and twice in the past five seasons.
• The MVFC is 53-34 in the playoffs during the past 16-plus years (since 1997). That includes four national championships in those seasons, and a 14-4 record in the past two-plus seasons.
• Last year, for the second consecutive year, North Dakota State represented Missouri Valley Football in the FCS title game. It marked the sixth appearance all time for an MVFC member.
• Counting this season, an MVFC conference member has reached the FCS playoff semifinals 14 times in the past 18 years and 17 times overall. The conference is 6-10 in previous semifinals
• The MVFC is a combined 17-7 in this decade (2010-present) in the playoffs -- better than any other conference.
• Five leagues (CAA Football, Big Sky, MVFC, Southland and Southern) have dominated the playoffs (153 of 167 total wins from those five leagues -- 91.6 percent) the past 10 seasons. This year, though, is different as seven of the 20 wins have been from leagues other than those five, with the Ohio Valley accounting for four victories, the Big South for two -- both by Coastal Carolina -- and the Patriot, one.
• Four leagues (MVFC, CAA, Southern, Big Sky) own every FCS championship since 1995. The last team to earn an FCS championship who was not a member of those leagues was Youngstown State (1994) -- then an independent (a member of the MVFC since 1997).
No. 5 Eastern Washington vs. No. 16 Jacksonville State: Preview, how to watch FCS clash
The big game in FCS this week is a rare cross-country battle between the No. 5 Eastern Washington Eagles and the No. 16 Jacksonville State Gamecocks.
2019 NFL rosters: FCS players in the league
Here are all 157 FCS football players who are on NFL 53-man rosters for the 2019 season.
FCS football rankings: North Dakota State is No. 1 in 2019 preseason Coaches Poll
The 2019 FCS coaches' preseason top 25 poll was released with seven-time national champion North Dakota State claiming the No. 1 spot. Here are the key takeaways from the first poll of the year.
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The team who put together the 1963 winner Zulu once again joined forces for a slightly different story of man's struggle to survive in Africa when a private plane carrying a handful of passengers goes down in a deserted area of the Kalahari. It's not just the elements that will prove to be dangerous to their livelihood. Mogul Joseph E. Levine, director Cy Endfield and actor/producer Stanley Baker lead the way in this tightly knit thriller that sees Baker playing a slightly lesser role than one might expect.
In a great opening shot from Endfield a passenger plane lands enroute to Johannesburg. With the next leg of the journey delayed, the travelers are put up in a local hotel which allows introductions to our cast of characters. Baker seems to be a happy go lucky drinker, Susannah York an enticing blonde, Theodore Bikel a heavy set Doctor and Harry Andrews an aging man of German descent. Securing a private plane to carry on the journey with Nigel Davenport piloting, the quartet agree to finance the flight and as they're leaving a fifth man joins in, Stuart Whitman who appears to be a big game hunter with the rifles to show for it.
On the journey the plane will encounter far too many locusts for me to keep count but with both engines clogged and the windshield covered in god knows what, the plane goes down leaving Davenport's co-pilot dead and Baker's leg badly injured. With the plane bursting into flames it's a harrowing scene as each star player evacuates with Whitman and his survival tactics the last to exit as he makes a play for the rifles just as the plane erupts into a fireball of an explosion.
With little water and nothing but dunes in sight, the walk begins with Baker being helped along.
The group actually find a habitable cliff side with water and fruits to eat but it's the internal struggles in a Lord of The Flies type of setting that will slowly become their undoing. It's Davenport who sets out in search of help and his plight will come and go in our story while the main thrust of the plot takes place at the cliff side caves where the remaining cast members attempt to get along.
Water and food isn't the problem. It's four men and a female with Stuart Whitman beginning to mirror the baboons that scurry around the rocky ridge laying claim to their territory. He wants to be the ruler of their new domain and claim the female for himself. Not only that but he sees most everything as a competitor in staying alive. Both the baboons and his fellow man. It's quickly turning into a survival of the fittest contest and the shirtless Whitman running amok with a rifle in his hand seems up to the task.
Considering actors Bikel and Andrews aren't exactly up to the challenge, it's more than obvious that it's going to be Whitman vs. Baker at the finish line. The Prize? York perhaps but definitely to go on living.
Well filmed including some great shots of Davenport in the dunes, this is a stirring adventure at times with a strong performance by Whitman as the protagonist. Funny thing is if I had a chance to talk to Stanley Baker about the film I'd point out that I like it very much and thought Whitman was great in it. Then I'd promptly ask him how come he didn't play the role himself? It seems like a tailor made role for Baker yet he winds up taking on a role that for the first 40 minutes barely sees him score any screen time and the vast majority of what he does get is as a somewhat meek character. According to the IMDB, Whitman and Baker actually swapped roles and for a look at some of the actors who nearly appeared in the production, have a look at the trivia here from IMDB.
I'm reminded of a couple films while watching this one. Flight of the Phoenix which was released the following year with an all star cast facing death in the desert and interestingly enough, Planet of the Apes for a few reasons. When the group sets out across the desert leaving the burned up plane behind, the sun scorching them and the music eerily echoing the score of the Apes film when Heston and his two fellow astronauts set out in search of life on their new home. To be sure I wasn't imagining this, I called in number one son Ethan and played the sixty second clip and asked him what it may remind him of. Without any prodding from me, he said the Apes. There's even a comment made about "baboons with guns" in reference to their newfound mates in the cliff side caves. In reality, that planet was still three years in the future for movie goers.
Just in case I haven't mentioned it previously on some other "take" over the past three plus years, I'd like to tip my hat towards the great Harry Andrews. A credit to most any production he was ever involved in and most certainly is here with a fine performance as an elderly, wise man who can see the demons circling the survivors.
I first saw this film ages ago and while I don't think I really knew who Stanley Baker was at the time, it stayed with me and when Olive Films put it out on DVD a few years ago I secured a copy to add to the shelf here at home and enjoy it once again. Now if I could just secure a copy of this awesome one sheet for the vault here at home.
Great film about surviving the elements. It's interesting how they essentially revert to cavemen type behaviour and all try and get the woman as their own. Good performances throughout.
Agreed which is why I liked Harry Andrews so much in this one, he could see it coming and of course he's right as Whitman descends into madness.
A worthy addition to the pile.


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Alan Menken & Lin-Manuel Miranda Team Up for 'The Little Mermaid' Live Action Film Adaptation
Posted: August 16, 2016 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
Tags: Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Little Mermaid
Deadline is reporting that Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda will be teaming up to write the music for a live action feature adaptation of The Little Mermaid. The movie version is also said to feature songs from Disney's classic animated movie, for which Menken won two Academy Awards for Best Original Song (with Howard Ashman) and Best Original Score. Marc Platt (Into the Woods, Wanted, Legally Blonde, Bridge of Spies) who is also on board of Disney's upcoming Mary Poppins Returns will be producing the project. No director and cast members have been announced yet.
Menken whose latest project, Sausage Party, is currently playing in theaters nationwide, also has Disney's live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast coming up. Miranda who is best known for the stage musical Hamilton is also working on the music for Disney's upcoming animated movie Moana.


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Barton County 2018 unofficial election results
Democrat Kelly defeats Kobach in governor's race
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Updated: Nov. 7, 2018, 7:47 a.m.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat Laura Kelly won the Kansas governor's race Tuesday, prevailing over Republican Kris Kobach after promising to slam the door on conservative budget and tax-cutting policies that were followed by persistent budget problems.
Kelly, a veteran state senator from Topeka, defeated Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, even though Kobach is President Donald Trump's closest ally in a state that Trump won handily in 2016. Independent candidate and Kansas City-area businessman Greg Orman trailed far behind.
The Democratic governor-elect made former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his ill-fated 2012-13 experiment in slashing state income taxes — not Trump — a key issue in her red state. Budget woes made Kansas a cautionary example of how not to do trickle-down economics, and Kelly was visible in the successful and bipartisan effort in 2017 that reversed most of the cuts.
Kelly's message resonated with even Republican voters such as Kimberli Evans, a 43-year-old federal employee from Topeka, who voted for the Democratic nominee. She said fair funding for public schools is one of her big concerns.
"I believe that the Brownback experiment did not work and needs to be reversed," Evans said after casting her ballot.
Kobach had criticized the $600 million-a-year income tax increase and campaigned on shrinking government so that the state could resume cutting taxes.
Kobach brought some celebrity to the race, having built a national profile as an advocate of tough immigration policies and strict voter identification laws. He has advised Trump and served as vice chairman of Trump's since-disbanded commission on voter fraud.
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Wes Scantlin of Puddle Of Mudd performing at the Download Festival in Castle Donington, England on June 10th, 2011.
Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin was arrested last week at the Denver airport after embracing his inner child riding a baggage carousel, Colorado's 9News reports.
Amazingly, riding a baggage carousel isn't the weirdest thing Scantlin has gotten in trouble for. The frontman's rap sheet is riddled with arrests for public intoxication and cocaine possession, but amidst the run-of-the-mill rock star fodder, he's also owed $60,000 in back taxes, taken a buzz saw to a neighbor's porch and gotten so drunk and disorderly on an airplane, it was forced to make an emergency landing. Topping it all off, Scantlin earned himself a lifetime ban from Graceland in 2007 after cannonballing into one of Elvis Presley's off-limits pools.


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With a fabric weight of 208 gsm there are 100 pads per bale, making these medium weight universal pads highly versatile. The pads are made from a single layer of meltblown polypropylene which are sonically bonded together. The sonic bonding points make the pad less prone to stray fibers becoming detached. This gives the pad an even structure and contributes to the good absorbency rate. The grey color also assists to hide any absorbed liquids.
An economical choice for everyday maintenance situations of absorbing both water and oil based fluids. This is an excellent go-to-product for lighter duty indoor MRO tasks. It is best used indoors but can still assist in outdoor applications.


Spray a large casserole dish with non-stick cooking spray. Layer casserole dish with broccoli then chicken pieces. In separate bowl mix soup, mayo and milk. Pour over broccoli and chicken. Top with shredded cheese and sprinkle lightly with breadcrumbs. Bake for 35-40 minutes.


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well both are the same paypal is widely used and their services are better than others..
Well the very best protection from hackers are anti-hacking programs..
Thats nice to hear.?? And what site is this.??
hahaha! Thats a very nice game, and its cute. :) yahoo games.
Do you do the job you love?
I use windows Vista SP2 , i like it cause the interface is smooth and elegant..and its faster to operate.
5 Best Pc games according to you .?
Well, i haven't had these problems on my paypal..
True!! They must have trained on that.. haha.? A human lie detector..
How to sue a scam website?
thanks a lot for this one.. Now i have something to fight against these frauds..
Some banks are really getting unreliable these days.. Someone should come up with an online money insurance system..
Like spyware.?? I think this is possible, but i guess i cant easily get info from you if you had a strong anti-spyware software..
Well, this could probably not be true.. I really don't know, i think this wouldnt be a very big case.. Why put a lot of impotance to this one.?
i Don't have one.. Well you can always look for guide from Google..
i hope to share one of my ideas with you soon.! :) brainstorm.?
What.? 3 months.? Thats quite long.. Why did it take so long like that..


Schwartz & Wade Books, 9780375858864, 40pp.
Animal lovers, young scientists, and budding photographers will all adore this knockout nonfiction picture book.
Steve Grubman s first job as a photographer was in advertising. He began photographing animals years later when he was working on a Samsonite luggage campaign. The creative team wanted a photograph of an elephant standing on a piece of luggage, so Steve found an African elephant, got it into his studio, and took its picture. Since then he has photographed animals large and small for major corporations, including Paramount Pictures, Allstate, Sony, and Dell. You can visit him at grubman.com.
Jill Davis is the author of"The First Rule of Little Brothers "and works as a children s book editor. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons."


Gumasa Beach, located in the coastal town of Glan in Sarangani province, is a popular beach destination in this southern part of Mindanao. Accessible by land from General Santos City, Gumasa Beach is an ideal day trip destination for tourists visiting the Tuna Capital of the Philippines. The 60km provincial road offers a scenic two-hour drive through coconut plantations with a view of the Sarangani Bay at the background.
The beach is facing the Celebes Sea and is lined with a couple of small private resorts. During our visit, we chose Isla Jardin del Mar because of the positive reviews we read about the resort's facilities and the unmatched hospitality of the resort's staff.
We opted for a day visit only since we had appointments in General Santos City that evening. From Glan town proper, we flagged down a tricycle for a round trip transfer to Isla Jardin del Mar. The tricycle ride took around 15 minutes only.
After paying an entrance fee of P50.00 per person, we had access to the resorts 700 meters of white sand beach. We didn't encounter any hassles at all. The staff was also very welcoming. The resort had a number of guests that day, mostly teachers attending a DepEd conference held at the resort, so we had the beach virtually to ourselves during our visit. The enjoyed swimming in its clean and cool turquoise waters.
The sand quality is definitely not the whitest and finest we've ever seen, but the sand at Isla Jardin del Mar is much better than many beaches we have visited in the Philippines. The area was generally clean with some patches scattered with rocks. The southern end of the beach has boulders of rocks with a concrete pathway constructed for the guests to enjoy a scenic view of Sarangani Bay.
We ended our short visit to Gumasa Beach with a sumptuous lunch at the resort's restaurant. We ordered this very affordable pinakbet made with the freshest vegetables. We will surely revisit Gumasa Beach on our next trip to General Santos, and we would perhaps stay for a night or two at Isla Jardin del Mar.
Several airlines serve daily flights from key cities in the Philippines to General Santos City (Gensan), the gateway to Sarangani province. From General Santos City, take a van at KCC Mall transport terminal bound for Glan (P85.00). The 1.5 hr drive will take you to E. Alegado Transport Station in Glan. From there, you can take a single motorcycle (habal-habal) or a tricycle (P60.00-P100.00 per way). For day visits, we recommend that you flag down a habal-habal or tricycle for a round-trip transfer. The driver will either wait for you or will pick you up at an agreed time.
For your trip back to Gensan, make sure to be at the van terminal in Glan by 4:00pm to make it to the last trip. You might want to make a quick stop at the Sarangani Provincial Capitol located at Alabel town (right before you reach General Santos City). Just tell the van driver to drop you off at the capitol. There are multicabs at the back of the capitol bound for Gensan.


This 3 bed Bungalow + 2 bed self-contained Annex (total of c 2,000 ft2), is residing on c. 0.3 acres mature and nicely landscape grounds with a large workshop, 2 glass houses, several vegetable plots and many fruit trees, An elevated balcony/deck area is boosting stunning Sea, Island and Mountain views. 2 large Solar panels are installed for heating the water.
Within walking distance to the beautiful beaches of Carnivan and Baginbun and the popular seaside village of Fethard-On-Sea with many amenities, this property would certainly make a perfect holiday retreat! The renowned Hook Peninsula with its beautiful coastline is within a c 10 minute drive. The Town of New Ross is within a 20 minute drive, Waterford City just 20 minutes via the Passage East Car Ferry.
Greeting Porch	-	3ft 6in x 3ft 6in laminate flooring and PVC door with glass.
Entrance Hallway- 12ft 6in x 4ft 2in laminate flooring and solid wood entrance door with glass.
Living Room	-	15ft 3in x 10ft 8in solid Oak flooring, cast iron fireplace with wood surround and built-in corner unit.
Kitchen/Dning	- 13ft 8in x 12ft 8in tile flooring, painted wood panel ceiling with recessed lighting, solid Oakkitchen, laminate counter tops, tile splash back, stainless sink, gas hob, eye-level electric oven, fridge/freezer,door to dining room, back door access.
Dining Room	-	12ft 8in x 9ft 6in solid Oak flooring, cast iron fireplace with wood surround and back boiler, recessed lighting, built-in cabinet and hot press.
Bathroom	-	7ft x 6ft tile flooring, fully tiled walls, enclosed shower, WC and WHB.
Bedroom 1	- 15ft 2in x 10ft 8in laminate flooring.
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PFRE blog reader Terry Iverson, in Redmond, OR, recently wrote the following post on his ActiveRain blog. We are reposting it here because it got such a positive response from Realtors on ActiveRain.
Think of it as buying a lottery ticket. It is a small risk to pay for professional photos, but the payoff could be in the thousands for this listing and many more to come as a result of smart marketing and your image as a marketeer.
I've moved my business to Central Oregon and in talking to agents I'm finding that "snapping photos" instead of hiring a professional photographer seems to be the norm. Being hired to sell a home is purely a marketing event and requires good marketing strategies to sell quickly and at the best price. If you can, set aside the fact that I am a photographer and allow me to put my business consultant hat on, which is a role that I had before starting my photographer business.
Potential buyers have a better expectation and feel for the home before even visiting.
The listing agent is viewed as a marketer who presents his/her listings in the best way possible.
Great photos often generate multiple showings and multiple offers resulting in a higher sales price.
The Realtor becomes a hero to their seller often resulting in referrals to friends and family, more listings and a higher annual income for the Realtor.
In future listing interviews you are able to use those photos to impress the homeowner that you will present their home in the best way possible. We are an image driven society and people are drawn to a great photo. $100-$150 spent to hire a professional photographer now turns into thousands of dollars of commission back to you now and later.
Securing more listings means more happy sellers, more potential referrals and another factor to brag about during future interviews. Simply put, the more listings you get, your image of success is stronger which generates more listings and money in your bank account.
You won't have to spend the time taking and later preparing the photos for MLS. It will be magically done for you.
It will save you the cost of hiring a professional photographer.
You have the pleasure of processing the photos instead of making more potential listing calls.
The bottom line is that taking your own photos will save you the cost of the photo shoot but in many cases will cost you thousands of dollars in lower commissions due to selling at a lower price, taking longer to sell and do nothing for your image as an agent who understands good marketing.


The most accurate vision of all is 20/20 hindsight - something that we perhaps forget when watching documentaries shot in the heat of the moment. Vitaly Mansky would surely agree, as he returns to footage he recorded in the late Nineties in this scathing assessment of Vladimir Putin's Russian premiership. Back then, as a national TV documentarian, he was given what now seems unthinkable access to Putin, as the current president is filmed 'backstage' at the Kremlin and in a series of one-and-ones as he rose to power in the wake of Boris Yeltsin's resignation on New Year's Eve 1999 - a watershed moment that begins the film.
Mansky, who is understandably living in self-imposed exile in Latvia these days, makes sure we view this as a very personal document by including footage of himself and his family from the period. "We'll think we had lived in Utopia," his wife says in a portent - matched by sinister scoring from Karlis Auzans - of what is to come. Moving into the political sphere, Mansky presents footage of Putin, along with film of Yeltsin in his post-premier moment.
Taken at face value, Putin appears to be self-deprecating but as Mansky notes in his increasingly acidic narration, this was merely a mask behind which the Machiavellian gears were working at full tilt, the presidential candidate's "non-electioneering" insistence deliberately cultivated to the point where it, of course, became extreme electioneering. As the film progresses we come to see, from the point of our current knowledge, the master manipulator at work, even if, as with a staged and stilted reunion with a teacher, emotion rarely seems to cross his mind or face.
As with Mansky's previous documentary on the totalitarian regime in North Korea, Under The Sun, portions of this are not the bits that were specifically intended for the camera, but the more unguarded moments at either side. This is particularly effective when considering the increasingly estranged Yeltsin, left with his phone calls unreturned and just the trace of a head shake as he describes Putin's decision to reinstate the old national anthem as "reddish".
Most chilling perhaps is a scene showing Putin's backroom staff celebrating their boss's initial election win, with Mansky offering a potted history and roll call outlining the less than auspicious fates of many. There is a lot going on in this documentary and though it may be tricky for audiences less familiar with Russian politics to keep up with who's who, Mansky's bigger picture about the manipulation of a nation is crystal clear. It is also a reminder that for all the jokes about Putin, he is no idiot and knows exactly how to cultivate populist ideas such as "nostalgia" - as evidenced by the anthem - to fuel his own ends. Manksy also highlights the way that things that seemed innocuous at the time, such as a TV news story in the back of some footage, have taken on greater significance with age. This last element also allows the filmmaker room to scrutinise his own role, and by extension, that of other everyday Russians, in building Putin's empire.
Towards the end of the film - which won the documentary Crystal Globe at Karlovy Film Festival - Putin tells Mansky: "The day will come when I'll be able to return to normal life". Knowing what we know now, you can easily imagine the president's unspoken addendum being, "But not if I can help it".


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Quentin Halys vs Bjorn Fratangelo – 26/06/2019 Preview
ATP Tournaments, Tennis June 24, 2019 by	admin
Quentin Halys
There are not a single favorite for this match as both players have different strengths but are both playing on a similar level. Based on what we've seen by both players this season it's more likely that Fratangelo will reach the final stage of qualification due to his more reliable play style and better consistency.
The second round of qualification at the biggest tournament on grass, Wimbledon. There we have 2 of the better players at this qualification facing off against each other. To have more insights on this ATP Quentin Halys vs Bjorn Fratangelo match please check out the preview below.
Quentin is 160th ranked 22 years old from France. He's good a good serve and great all-around game. His main weakness is his inconsistency as he might win one set by a huge margin but give away the second one just like the same. He is still a young player and that's might be one of the reasons for it but he definitely has the potential to climb into Top100 in this season. He's mostly playing on clay and hard grounds but his best results are on hard as he's won over 60% of matches on this ground. Halys hasn't got a good and long history on grass as this will be an only 14th match played on this ground and we've got to see if he's good something to surprise us with.
135th ranked 25-year-old American is one of the favorites to reach the main draw of Wimbledon. Fratangelo hasn't played a lot this season so far due to his personal reasons and some injuries as well. Differently, from Halys, Bjorn doesn't have such dominant serving ability and relies on other abilities such as playing aggressive and attacking rallies. He's not that capable of holding his own serve but is definitely better at breaking opponents than Halys is. Fratangelo is also more experienced on the grass where he's played 33 matches and won 19 of them. American had no problems in the first round of qualification where he defeated Vatutin in straight sets.
Quentin Halys vs Bjorn Fratangelo H2H
Fratangelo leads the h2h by 2 wins to 1.
Article image is taken from https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2016/05/24/french-open-bjorn-fratangelo-slow-rise/84878390/


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Uber has made taxi drivers more hardworking
Such private transport services are shaking up the taxi business and giving consumers a quantum leap in convenience and service
Ignatius Low
Head of Media Solutions, Integrated Marketing
ST ILLUSTRATION: ADAM LEE
Oct 18, 2015, 5:00 am SGT
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I was late to the Uber party.
Having heard about the infamous private car service, I, of course, downloaded the app on my phone to ensure that I was "with it". I even registered my credit card details, but I didn't use the service for ages.
About four months ago, however, I tried Uber for the first time. I rarely take cabs because I drive, but that morning, I needed to get from the car workshop in Leng Kee Road where I had sent the car in for servicing, to the office in Toa Payoh.
I had to go to Google to figure out the confusingly named car categories. Eventually I booked an UberX car, the most basic tier of service. The app told me it was a Toyota Wish, a mid-sized MPV, and the driver had a decent rating of 4.5 stars out of 5.
When the silver car arrived, I noticed it was unmarked except for a small discreet Uber sticker. It felt like getting into a friend's car. After all, in which commercial taxi would you find rows of extra racing dials installed on the dashboard and the sloping pillar near the driver?
It was obvious the driver took pride in both his car and his driving. He didn't talk much but when he did, it was to discuss the best route to take and it was clear that he was an expert driver who had driven far and wide in Singapore.
When I arrived at my destination, he announced what the fare would be and stopped the car, expecting me to get out. Like the proverbial mountain tortoise, I asked:
"Er, that's it?"
"Yes," he said patiently. "You will receive an e-mail and the amount will be deducted from your credit card. That's all, good day."
Slightly stunned at the stark simplicity of it all, I alighted. But I was so impressed I couldn't stop talking about it for days.
Last week, I tried Uber again, going from the office to the workshop. This time, the driver who picked me up was a very young man who wore black plastic hipster glasses and had his trousers cuffed uber-high on the ankle. It was quite obvious from his age that the Toyota he ushered me into was a rental.
He had two mobile phones attached to the dashboard of the car. One of them rang and beeped incessantly, and each time it did, I could see how unsure he was about whether to take the call. Each time he fiddled with the device, my heart skipped a beat because he took his eyes off the highway.
The other phone was showing the route he should take on something that looked like Google Maps. But despite the fact that it was clearly marked out, he asked me to confirm which way he should be going at every single turn and fork in the road.
In a way, the two Uber trips exemplify the two opposing arguments in a fierce policy debate about the entry of such private car services into the taxi market here.
Traditional taxi operators and taxi drivers are unhappy because a lack of regulation allows what seems to be an infinite supply of competitors into the market.
They are not wrong. "Drive Uber" has apparently become one of the hottest buzzwords in the part-time or freelance space. You don't need a lot of specialised skills or experience and work hours are extremely flexible.
"No office, no boss" says the Uber recruitment ad.
If you ask around enough, you'll probably find someone you know who is doing it. I have a friend who is trained as a chef who is currently "driving Uber" with a private car he rented for $70 a day.
Not surprisingly, those who use the app regularly tell me the number of Uber cars available at any point in time has shot up in recent months. Meanwhile, a recent Straits Times exclusive shows hundreds of traditional taxi cabs sitting in a yard in Sungei Kadut, driverless and unloved.
The economist in me tells me there is some serious misallocation of resources going on. If rental cars are being used as "taxis" instead of licensed taxi cabs, what happens when there is a big demand for rental cars, like during Chinese New Year or Hari Raya?
And the armchair policymaker in me says this is largely the result of an uneven playing field. Without the need for proper licensing and training, it is so much easier to "drive Uber" than to drive a traditional taxi.
Cab drivers are right to be alarmed. Hipsters who require passengers to confirm GPS directions are eating their lunch.
In some countries, services such as Uber have already been banned to protect the traditional taxi industry.
In others where they have not, cab drivers are taking the law into their own hands. Recent reports have emerged of traditional cab drivers stopping Uber cars in Kuala Lumpur, driving terrified passengers out and beating up the Uber drivers. Uber drivers are responding by driving like madmen through the streets.
All this must surely factor in the new review the Government has announced of private car services in Singapore, to be chaired by Senior Minister of State for Transport Ng Chee Meng. But he would do well to listen to more than just the economist or the armchair policymaker. He needs to listen to consumers.
And the consumer in me says that services such as Uber and GrabTaxi have been nothing less than a godsend in a country that cannot seem to solve its taxi woes.
How so? Well, for starters, it is now much easier to get a cab at any time of the day. If supply is really short (like on a rainy Monday morning) and you desperately need to get to a meeting, you at least have the option of hiring a premium UberXL car. It will cost a bomb, but you will get there.
Then there is the quantum leap in convenience and customer service that services like Uber have brought. No more do people have to worry about whether they have the "small notes" to pay the taxi driver and how black his face might be when he finds he has to deal with (horrors!) a $50 note or a credit card at the end of the journey.
A new Uber-like service for pets was recently launched, promising stress-free rides for pet owners who are taking their furries to the vet or the groomer. Any pet owner can tell you how difficult it is to find a traditional taxi that will take pets. One friend told me that the only way is to book a cab, but each time he tells the operator that the taxi needs to take pets, the message never gets through and a taxi will invariably arrive that refuses to do so.
Finally, I'm hearing plenty of anecdotal evidence that Singapore's traditional taxi drivers are finally becoming more hardworking and service-oriented.
To be sure, there are still drivers like the elderly uncle I often see chatting at a nearby coffee shop during morning rush hour while his Comfort cab sits in the driveway of his landed terrace house.
But increasingly, I'm seeing traditional taxi drivers with as many as four or five phones on their dashboards corresponding to the various taxi booking apps that have sprouted in Singapore. I'm not sure if their taxi operators allow them to do this, but these must surely be the most dilligent cab drivers on the roads, ever willing to pick up a booking from any source.
On the street, people are also reporting that cab drivers have become less choosy about passengers and less strategic about when they appear (for example, only after midnight but never close to it).
After all, nothing motivates like extra competition.
The taxi lobby has always been a powerful influence in politics and it does have many good points to make in the Uber debate.
Mr Ng and his review team will have to be extra skilful in their deliberations, to ensure a fair and progressive outcome for all.
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on October 18, 2015, with the headline 'Uber driving cabbies crazy'. Print Edition | Subscribe


This gorgeous Christmas gift set for Children features enchanting Sheffield themed storybook and creative colouring book with 36 colouring pencils, and a delicious pack of 10 strawberry flavoured candy canes.
Santa Is Coming To Sheffield by Steve Smallman - Have you been good? Are you ready to go to sleep? Then Santa is coming to town! It's Christmas Eve. Santa's packed up all the presents and set the Santa-nav to Sheffield. So what could possibly go wrong? A beautifully illustrated book to help bring the magical story of Father Christmas to life, and the perfect way to entertain the little ones as their excitement grows in the days leading up to Christmas.
Santa Is Coming To Sheffield Colouring Book by Katherine Sully - With 16 festive scenes to colour including Santa's grotto & Christmas stockings, and a jolly Santa story to enjoy, this wonderful activity book will help little ones make the most of their creativity in the days leading up to Christmas. Also includes a fantastic set of 36 colouring pencils in a range of bright colours, all stored in a stylish metal tin.


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Young, Sera L. Craving Earth: Understanding Pica, the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
This book is a data-rich study of instances of pica – or, in the Young's words, "the craving and subsequent consumption of non-food items." Young is a nutrition scientist and anthropologist, and her study focuses mainly on contemporary demographics practicing pica, but she frequently brings in literary and historical examples to illustrate the cultural contexts of pica. (There is also an appendix of pica scenes in literature, which gives the literary food scholars among us an additional reason to pick up the book.) This is definitely a scientific book, but Young is very clear that the act of eating (anything, but particularly non-food substance) cannot be fully understood as an isolated act of nutrition-seeking. Eating is embedded in social networks (both local, like friendships, and wide, like region), in systems of belief about what food is and what kinds of food are good or bad to eat, in personal experience as well as biological imperative.
The other part of "understanding," of course, means asking the question "why." Several chapters address previously floated hypotheses about pica – some scientific, some so-called "common sense," and several contradictory. For each hypothesis, Young tests out several predictions that could be made if the hypothesis were true. For example, a relatively benign belief about some forms of pica (particularly earth and chalk) is that people do it to obtain nutrients they otherwise lack. If so, Young argues, we'd be able to observe the following: pica would be associated with micronutrient deficiency; pica would disappear when the deficiency disappears; the pica substance might be proven to supply a missing nutrient to a body. In this particular case, none of these predictions turned out to be true enough of the time to validate the hypothesis.
That is of many of the hypotheses suggested by Young and other sources: only a few are definitively true or false, and most are sometimes true or require further testing. This may sound inconclusive, but actually it's perfect: it's far more useful to have a complex and detailed landscape with room for uncertainty than it would be to promote false or flimsy conclusions. This, in fact, does increase the understanding of pica – or at least, it increase my understanding. I admire the methodology: imagine if we applied the same rigor and consideration to other eating and body studies, such as that overdetermined issue of "obesity." The reportage would be less pathologizing and corrective, more compassionate and descriptive. Craving Earth, then, is a great model as well as a fascinating and informative read.
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IR contact lenses are for reading back marked cards. With the help of IR contact lenses, you could see those marks on the back clearly. And then they can know poker points or poker suits directly. Most poker players like choosing the best one, because it is more comfortable and soft when you wear it in side your eyes. These IR contact lenses are different size and colors. For example, 4mm IR contact lenses, 5mm IR contact lenses, 6mm IR contact lenses, blue-eyes contact lenses, green-eyes IR contact lenses and Brown-eyes IR contact lenses.


You'll know all about our castles, museums and other well-known attractions by now. But aside from all those, there are a plethora of hidden gems lurking throughout the region, each with their own story and ability to make any trip to Wales a memorable one.
It's been compared to the Angel of the North, and it's easy to see why.
Towering above the village of Six Bells, in the heart of the Valleys, the Guardian stands as a monument to the mining industry that once dominated this landscape.
It stands on the site of the former Six Bells Colliery, not that you'll know it, given how you are now surrounded by meadows and wildlife. The inscriptions on the base of the statue commemorates the lives lost at the 1960 Six Bells disaster.
Nearby, Ty Ebbw Fach houses a small exhibition on the statue as well as a café, making it an ideal places for a refreshment stop.
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Q: Select Record Conditional Random #MySQL I have two tables, one for still images and one with this property, both are linked so that a property can have no pictures. Would you like to "select" where I can select all properties and just a random picture of this property. How to do this?
Exemplifying best, I pick a random image from the image table for each record in the table that has motionless pictures. Want to select this randomly. What I could do was to select all images for each record of the bank property. I just want each record imovel a respective random image.
The sql is below:
select distinct

    imovel.nome as 'NOME',
    imovel.valor as 'VALOR',
    imovel.quarto as 'QUARTO',
    imovel.suite as 'SUITE',

    cidade.nome as 'CIDADE',
    bairro.nome as 'BAIRRO',
    (select distinct nome from tabimagem img where img.cdimovel = imagem.cdimovel order by rand() limit 1) as 'IMAGEM'

from tabimovel imovel

    inner join tabcidade cidade on imovel.cdcidade = cidade.codigo
    inner join tabbairro bairro on imovel.cdBairro = bairro.codigo
    inner join tabimagem imagem on imagem.cdImovel = imovel.codigo

order by rand()

A: In SQL server add TOP 1 after SELECT, and order as ORDER BY NEWID().
In MySQL, order should be ORDER BY RAND(), followed by LIMIT 1.
That should work.


With consistent use, the battery life for TouchPoints™ original and basic is approximately 3-4 hours depending on the setting that is chosen.
It takes 2-3 hours for batteries to recharge. Batteries are made of rechargeable lithium, and the average battery life is 2-3 years.
Please note: TouchPoints™ need to be charged weekly, regardless of use.


Over the past year, an interdisciplinary team of CSIS scholars, working under the guidance of a Senior Advisory Group of distinguished former officials undertook a comprehensive assessment of Turkey's internal developments and changing relations with its neighbors and the United States. A week before President Obama's trip to Turkey, Dr. Brzezinski and General Scowcroft discussed Turkey's importance to the Unites States and the value of this study. The CSIS scholars outlined their findings and proposals for a new strategic framework for reinvigoration and long-term management of the U.S.-Turkish relationship.
Verifying North Korean Denuclearization: Where Do We Go from Here?


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We will pick you up at your resort/hotel around 7am (It's best to beat the midday sun). Then we will drive out to the trail head and outfit you with a helmet, bike, and set up a route to fit your riding ability.
For the most part we stay off the main roads and take the single-track trails and back-roads. INTERACTIVE ROUTE MAP For the first half of our tour we will be winding our way through rural Dumaguete heading up the mountain at your pace and a slight grade. Many have said this is as much a cultural tour as a physical sightseeing tour.
While peddling ( at your pace) you become a part of the local life as we meander through one lane tracks dodging goats and cows, all the while, the locals are greeting you with "mayong buntag" (Bisaya for, good morning) as they are starting off their day preparing meals, tending to their fields, animals and fetching water.
Eventually we arrive at the higher elevation of Valencia proper (13 kms 250mts in elevation) we'll stop and take a well-deserved break with some local snacks and beverages of your choice. Some like the local hot chocolate with sticky rice, but there are other choices – rolls, coffee, and cold drinks. After our snack, if you choose, you can take some time checking out the beautiful park in Valencia proper, surrounded by acacia trees, with a view of mount Talinas, It's a great place to take some pictures. Once you're ready we will start the second half of our journey.
This is where the real fun begins!
As we start our way down the mountain from Valencia using single tracks, and small back roads you will feel like a kid again ( unless you are a kid) The sights and sounds will be similar to the first half but it's twice the fun whizzing your way down exerting little or no effort! The speed is up to you, but for the first time down it's best to take it easy, enjoy the ride and take it all in.
After about 40 minutes of winding our way down the mountain to the buko (coconut) station where we can drink some well-deserved fresh coconut water, mingle with the locals and take a few pictures. After our break we'll be back on the trails working our way back to the support truck where we can load up and get you back to your comfy accommodations.
Includes: Bike, Helmet, Water, Refreshments and snacks.


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Flanagan appointed chief exec of NSPCC
LEADING children's charity, the NSPCC, has appointed a former chief executive of the owners of stv as its new head.
Andrew Flanagan spent ten years as chief executive of the Scottish Media Group where he also held the post of group finance director.
His previous roles have included senior positions at PA Consulting, IT and Telecoms company, Nynex, professional services firm, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and ITT Europe. He is currently chair of Heritage House, a privately-held publishing investment company.
Says NSPCC chair, Sir Christopher Kelly: "We are delighted Andrew is joining us. He has an impressive business track record and a range of experience covering media, telecoms, finance and IT.
"He has shown significant skill in managing large organisations through periods of change. In today's challenging times I am confident he will continue to build on the NSPCC's proud history of helping vulnerable children."
NSPCC funds the telephone helpline, ChildLine, which in Scotland is run by Children 1st.
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With area of 80sqm, the house has living room – kitchen – 4 bedrooms – 5 bathrooms – laundry room – warehouse – terrace. Full furniture.
1st floor: There is a place for motorbike in front of the house. Living room with TV. A kitchen. 01 bathroom.
2nd floor, 3rd floor: 2 bedrooms with en-suite bathroom.
4th floor: laundry room with stockroom, terrace.
The house is located in quiet, cool and security area. A few minutes walk to the beach, many foreigners living. Many utilities.


Eastern Iowa News reported last week on a new birth injury lawsuit filed by a woman who claims that both she and her newborn son were hurt because of medical malpractice during a C-section delivery.
According to report, the problems stemmed from a traumatic birth that took place in late February of 2008. The mother arrived at a state hospital while in active labor. The labor went on for eight hours before the medical team decided that a surgical C-section birth was necessary. While in the operating room having the procedure performed, the lawsuit claims that the dome of the woman's bladder was cut. Not only that, but her son was born with severe complications. He has a skull deformity, partial skull fracture, and suffered a subdural hemorrhage-a significant brain injury.
The mother eventually field suit explaining that the injuries should have been prevented. Besides her bladder laceration, she also claims to have developed a range of complications including a pelvic abscess, bowel obstruction, and wound separation. T he hospital in this case was affiliated with a state university which itself is run by the public at large. As a result, the lawsuit names the state as defendant, because the state is responsible for the conduct of employees at state-owned facilities.
The family claims that they are seeking recovery for both the mother and child's injuries. The damages they are hoping to have compensated are similar to those recoverable in all birth injury cases. Specifically, the documents filed with the court explains that the family seeks recovery for the child's physical and mental pain, loss of full body, loss of income and loss of earning capacity. In addition, they are seeking recovery for future medical expenses. Similarly, the mother is praying for damages for pain and suffering, medical expenses, and loss of companionship.
The overall effect that these preventable injuries have on the involved families is always hard to encapsulate in financial terms. However, the law has created a system whereby fellow community members can analyze the situation to agree upon financial sums that they deem appropriate considering what happened in each individual case. It is far from perfect, but it is the best process we have to fairly compensate those for losses that cannot be fully fixed.
Preventable injuries caused by errors made during the birthing process can happen in vaginal birth as well as during C-sections. Each Chicago medical malpractice lawyer at our firm has worked with many local families who have suffered injuries similar to those outlined in this case. If you or a loved one has been hurt during pregnancy, please reach out to our attorneys to see how we can help. We understand that many families do not have all of the answers when it comes to understanding how and why their injuries occurred. Part of the work that our attorneys do is helping to ensure a full investigation into your situation is conducted to understand exactly what happened and to determine if it should have been prevented. In other words, there is nothing to lose from at least explaining what happened in your case to learn more.


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La Iglesia de San Fernando Rey está situada en el barrio de García Escámez de la ciudad de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Islas Canarias, España).

Edificio
El templo fue erigido en la segunda mitad del siglo XVII, el año 1679 es documentado. El estilo es un barroco modesto, no muy diferente del renacimiento.

La iglesia tiene la categoría de Bien de Interés Cultural de Canarias (BIC).

Culto
Esta iglesia es la parroquia de los barrios de García Escámez y Somosierra y está dedicada al santo católico San Fernando Rey. Los restos del general Francisco García-Escámez, jefe del Mando Económico de Canarias al principio de los 40, recién finalizada la Guerra Civil están enterrados en esta iglesia.

Durante el mes de mayo se celebran las Fiestas Patronales en Honor de San Fernando Rey, sobre todo el 30 de mayo (día principal) con procesión de la imagen del santo por las calles del barrio.

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Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Go Tenerife: Iglesia de San Fernando Rey

Iglesias de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Bienes de interés cultural de la provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Iglesias de Canarias del siglo XX

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With this new online publication, we'll be able to publish most any article upon editing, meaning more students and chapters get their voices heard, and now in a functional, and polished online format. We'll also be able to continue to update the look and feel of the printed publication to continue to make it look more and more like a professional magazine and keep it up to date with modern styles of design.
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Women Hold Unprecedented Power in Vermont's Statehouse. This Is How They'll Lead.
Vermont's state capitol in winter weather. Shutterstock
By Barbara Rodriguez,
By Barbara Rodriguez ,
Women hold the three top positions in Vermont's legislature. With them they bring an understanding that to focus on economic recovery means to focus on caregiving.
Molly Gray wore a white suit to honor the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage and short heels that wouldn't make her feet hurt later. She was ready to be sworn in as lieutenant governor of Vermont — but was not prepared for the grate in the floor where she was supposed to stand. Instead, her heels sunk in.
"The first thing I thought of was, 'Has it been that long since there has been a woman lieutenant governor presiding over the Senate?'" she told The 19th. "I don't blame anyone … it was just a reflection on the way sometimes our institutions are built."
Gray is part of a new generation of women leading the Vermont legislature this year, holding top positions in the state's House and Senate and serving as majority and minority leaders. Gray, as lieutenant governor, also presides over the Senate, with tie-breaking power.
It's an unusual level of women's legislative leadership, and they're taking the helm as states around the country face a number of overlapping crises: an ongoing pandemic that in many cases has closed schools, businesses and other facets of life, hurting state budgets and setting up hard choices about revenue and spending.
Vermont's leaders have already indicated that issues like bringing relief to unemployed people and small businesses will be priorities. And all three of the new women leaders, in separate interviews with The 19th, also pointed to the burden the pandemic and related closures have placed on women and indicated they see a need to address child care inequities. The scope of any policy proposal is still unclear.
"I am really deeply concerned about the women who have left the workforce in Vermont because of lack of access to child care," said Jill Krowinski, Vermont's new House speaker. "I don't want to lose this opportunity to find a way to help those women as we build a recovery plan in Vermont that leaves no one behind … and I've heard other women policymakers say, 'What is going on there and how can we fix it?'"
Becca Balint, the new Senate president pro tempore — the first woman and out gay person to hold the job — said her priorities this session would include "looking at what support systems were kind of laid bare from the emergency."
"We saw the holes in our child care system. We saw the holes in our broadband network. We saw that there was a lot more food insecurity among Vermonters than we anticipated," she said. "A lot of that stuff ties into the work of the pandemic."
Vermont leaders' focus on caregiving and inequities — which disproportionately impacts women — emphasizes the importance of them gaining legislative leadership positions, said Jean Sinzdak, associate director at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
"Legislative leaders really set the agenda," she said. "They really can steer the direction of the legislature in terms of what policies are even examined."
On the campaign trail, Gray highlighted the need for an "equitable" paid family and medical leave policy in the state. The issue is personal: Her mother had a medical emergency two years ago, according to Gray, that required hospitalization. Gray used vacation and sick days to help take care of her and considered taking unpaid leave from her job as an assistant attorney general.
"We talk about trying to keep families in the state, we talk about trying to draw families here and grow our population and solve our demographic challenges, but we haven't really focused on the very issues that make Vermont a place where families can live," she said.
Vermont's new legislative and statewide leaders are Democrats in a state where the party controls most of the levers of power, though Gov. Phil Scott is a Republican. Scott, a moderate who publicly acknowledged voting for President-elect Joe Biden in November, last January vetoed a comprehensive paid family leave and medical bill over concerns about its price tag, but he's also put federal funding toward helping child care centers stay open.
Gray said she remains committed to expanding caregiving policies, though acknowledged the focus will be on addressing the pandemic. She said if anyone can handle a crisis, it's women.
"Women traditionally are good leaders in crisis," Gray said. "… Women generally have an ability to bring really diverse groups together to get tough things done, and we're in a really tough situation."
While the number of women leading House and Senate chambers around the country has gradually increased over time, only a handful of states have women serving both at the same time.
Data is still being collected on women's legislative leadership in 2021, a year where women are expected to represent just over 30 percent of 7,383 statehouse seats, a record. But the number of women in legislative leadership positions, which vary in title and power by state, lags behind the overall proportion of women in statehouses.
Sinzdak said women legislators are more productive, are more likely to make government transparent, are more likely to help build consensus and are more likely to address wellness issues, including health.
"The idea that you have different faces in those positions of leadership means that there are just going to be different outcomes in some ways, in terms of what policies are addressed and why," she said.
Vermont already had a track record for a large number of women in statehouse leadership. In 2020, it had the highest percentage of women in top legislative positions at 66.7 percent, according to CAWP. It was followed by the statehouses in Oregon at 62.5 percent and both Maryland and Virginia at 50 percent.
But while Gray is the fourth woman elected lieutenant governor, she is the first in nearly 25 years. It's been 30 years since the first and only woman governor in the state left office. Vermont is also the only state that has yet to elect a woman to Congress.
Gray said that's part of why the state's new political leadership is so important.
"I strongly believe if you can't see it, you can't be it," she said. "… it is a special moment. It is a historic moment."
Sinzdak of CAWP said one reason women's representation in legislative leadership has lagged even as more women are elected is seniority — often the positions go to lawmakers who have been serving longer, and often those are men.
"We've got a long way to go," she said. "It's this dual thing, where you're trying really hard to get more women to run and get into the legislature, but when they're in the legislature, you also need to be helping them get positions of leadership."
Krowinski, who before this year served as a majority leader alongside Balint, said there was a time in Vermont politics where it seemed as if the upper echelons of legislative power were limited to just a handful of women at a time. That has changed, including in general representation of Vermont's statehouse: As of 2020, 40 percent of state legislators are women, among the highest percentages in the country.
"What we've been able to do through supporting one another and encouraging one another is to say, 'We don't need to hold that one seat, we need to add seats.' And I think that there's been a culture shift over the years of women really encouraging one another to say, 'You got this. It's time for you to step up,'" Krowinski said.
Other realities will impact women's work in leadership this year. Most Vermont legislators are working remotely because of the pandemic in a year in which legislatures are kicking off a hodgepodge of in-person and virtual sessions. Balint, a former teacher, said her work in education has prepared her for the challenge of running a chamber virtually.
"I'm actually pretty comfortable with that scenario," she said. "I know that some of my colleagues absolutely are not used to coming into a session not being able to anticipate how the arc of our work will go. So I'm just trying to reassure them."
Barbara Rodriguez is a statehouses reporter for The 19th.
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Orpheus playing his lyre before the Prince of Hell, mourning his lost Eurydice, charming even grim Hades. Orpheus, son of OEagrus and the Muse Calliope, had such power in song that with his music he could move trees and rocks and tame wild beasts. When his beloved wife, the nymph Eurydice, died of a serpent's bite, Orpheus followed her into the world of shades and eternal night, and with his song so moved Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, that he was permitted to take Eurydice back with him to the upper Earth, on condition that he not look behind him as she followed in their journey through the realm of the dead.
His love for her was so great, and his longing to gaze upon her face so deep, that he nonetheless turned to her and for that instant glance Eurydice was compelled to return forever to the land of shadow. This earliest of music, this powerful tale of love and loss of love, is the heart of what we mortals ever strive toward, and ever lose, again and again. We find peace only in the silence of Death.


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