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The Rise of Housing Public-Private Partnerships in Africa
6th December 2018 Olivia Caldwell (Affordable Housing Institute) CAHF
As Sub-Saharan Africa urbanizes at rates the continent has never experienced before, normal private sector delivery of quality affordable housing is not keeping up. As a result, as many as 200 million Africans live in slums or inadequate housing, and the number is rising fast. African cities are estimated to add over 40 000 people every day, and they will live where they can.
Markets "work" in that these newcomers do find places to sleep and live, and for which they pay periodic rent, but the market's solution to scarcity and cost is to sacrifice quality. For the urban poor, that means living in informal settlements with self-built or informally built dwellings. These houses typically lack proper infrastructure (mainly water, sanitation, and to some degree electricity) and tenants have no prospect of tenure security, much less of obtaining formal land title.
In many respects, the situation is out of control. Affordable Housing Institute (AHI) reports that in most Sub-Saharan African countries, on average no more than 2-5 percent of all households can afford the cheapest formally built house. As African cities continue to grow, land becomes more scarce, with titled land going at a premium. Available land is subject to land-use economics that favor more profitable assets such as hotels, commercial centers, and luxury housing. Affordable housing, or houses for the workers that make a city function, are often considered last, if at all. What little new supply can be created by the purely private market is nearly always targeted at the highest-end customers (including expatriate workers and companies who use the housing as their interim offices) and infrequently reaches the middle class, much less the impacted poor.
Governments quite rightly see this as intolerable situation which must be urgently addressed, and where government must take the lead. Therefore governments often think in terms of big direct production: design small but decent formal flats, identify suitable land, announce large-scale developments with ambitious targets, and expect flats to appear. In Ethiopia, the government launched a truly remarkable program that has delivered 300 000 high-rise flats, most in metropolitan Addis Ababa, at low prices. Those flats have been delivered but the program is out of cash, the waiting lists are rising, and the flats sold have been subleased to the middle and upper classes. The program functions more effectively as a poverty reduction initiative than as a "housing" program. Other countries' large announced developments exist mainly on paper and press releases as government struggle to allocate sufficient resources to support their implementation.
Instead of direct government production, some countries are turning to public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the housing sector, with the intention of combining government's macro resources (land, reliable title, and potential aggregated effective demand) with the private sectors' technical and financial resources. For instance, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, and Senegal are all moving forward with large scale programs in coordination with the private sector. Kenya recently announced the ambitious plan to deliver 500 000 affordable housing units over the next five years in a to-be-implemented public-private partnership.
The first step in a PPP is government delivery of land. Quality serviced land must be made available at a concessionary price on condition that it be developed for affordable housing of a stipulated type and price point (under USD 25 000 in Cote d'Ivoire and USD 40 000 in Cameroon) to add to the stock of affordable formally-built housing. Furthermore, governments can use these programs to shape the urban landscape by creating greater density. In Rwanda, the government is urging its urban residents to adopt vertical living, has established strict zoning city-wide in Kigali, and is providing zoning exemptions for targeted housing projects.
Development companies are always on the lookout for opportunities to access large-scale serviced land in markets with high demand, and in Sub-Saharan Africa the governmental notices have attracted significant interest from major regional and global developers from China, Morocco, South Africa, and Turkey, to name but a few. They are drawn to the opportunities by what seems a natural fit, because each party has things the other needs:
Governments can offer well-located, serviced land at scale, and can facilitate necessary approvals. But governments are often slow to make binding decisions, slow or uncoordinated in execution, lack financing capacity, and are risk-averse.
Developers are nimble, sophisticated in both construction and development finance, speedy in execution, and risk tolerant (at least of risks they understand and believe they can control). But they often lack understanding of local markets, are new to the political and policy challenges, and sometimes under-appreciative of the differences in cultural norms and expectations of quality housing.
The housing public-private partnership structure enables the parties to combine their individual strengths and mitigate their individual weaknesses, while also allocating certain types of risk to the party best able to assess, bear, and mitigate each one. For instance, in housing developments the greatest risk is often aggregated offtake: the ability to sell all the completed homes to suitable buyers, reliably and quickly. Knowing this, lenders that may offer development or construction finance want guarantees not just that the homes will be built, on time and on budget, but also that someone will buy them all. So if a government chooses as its housing PPP partner a general contractor that is not ready to assume the offtake risk, or financially too weak to be bankable, the PPP will never actually go forward, even if the agreements are signed with much fanfare.
This is the case in Cote d'Ivoire, where despite promising 60 000 homes, only 10 percent of them have been built. For the others, development or construction is stalled due to the lack of financial capacity of developers. Other countries such as Benin, Togo, and Cameroon also lag behind stated goals. Though these programs have some components that are essential to PPPs, they often lack structure around roles and specific responsibilities of each party. If developers are to be held accountable for bringing financing, building homes, and selling them, governments must likewise be contractually accountable for delivering the land, clearing any clouds on the title, completing the trunk infrastructure, and giving the regulatory and construction approvals to break ground.
Housing PPPs must be true partnerships; which means they require trust, transparency, and competency to be successful. PPPs need well-designed contracts, international calls for solicitations from professional developers, established responsibilities, and good communication between all parties. The structure of the partnership should be detailed, but flexible, and incorporate the following elements:
Shared responsibilities: Responsibilities between the public and private sectors need to be shared and bracketed over time. Partnerships need to go beyond the delivery of land to the private sector to complete the development but involve continuous efforts by both parties to ensure the success of the project.
Shared control: Since responsibilities are shared, control must also be common to both parties and decisions (or decision making capacity) should be taken together.
Shared economics: Both parties should have a stake in the project. The government needs to buy-in and receive part of the profits in return for its contributions.
Governments can only deliver large-scale housing PPPs if mutual commitments are ensured. Well-designed housing PPPs can leverage public sector land and private financial sector resources, catalyzing markets and stimulating growth. Though governments have met with mixed success in engaging with the private sector, these models need refinement, incorporating best practices over time. If every sector of society can work together to achieve these goals, then countries in Africa may be able to deliver the housing that people desperately need.


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The Sparkling Beauty of Pewter in Royal Selangor
Posted by shloke 11 December 2009
Clockwise: Different processes of pewter production - Hammering, Casting & Soldering. Pictures taken with my Nikon D60.
Five days ago (6th December 2009), I invited my best friend to visit Royal Selangor. She has just returned from UK. At first, she was reluctant to follow me. But she finally agreed after some coaxing from me. She was looking forward to purchase the BEST pewter products in Kuala Lumpur (KL).
We were the earliest visitors to arrive. We LOVE the Royal Selangor building! It's an awesome building with stunning urban design and fabulous green garden. The creative layout and forms used in the exterior was similarly reflected in the interior spaces. Upon entering the reception area, we saw abstract art pieces made entirely with Pewter. In addition, the walls are creatively decorated with the workers' handprints. These handprints were pressed and molded into colorful metal plates. Amazing art works made entirely of pewter!
Clockwise: A creative display of green glow Carlsberg bottles with tin caps, Artisans' handprints molded into pewter plates and pewter motifs at Hall of Finishes. Pictures taken with my Nikon D60.
We were excited and looking forward to see more pewter goodies. An official guide from Royal Selangor followed us during the entire visit. At first, I felt awkward and uncomfortable having a 'stranger' tailing us. I'm not a VIP and we do not need that special attention...LOL! Luckily, he was a friendly, helpful and informative guide.
We spent almost two hours exploring the four galleries in Royal Selangor:
Comyn Archive (It comprises of 35,000 patterns, moulds and drawings).
Heritage Zone (Tin dredge buckets, Yong Koon's trademark, collections of tin money & pewter museum)
Experiential Zone (The amazing Hall of Finishes, chamber of chimes, giant weighing scale & science of pewter)
Contemporary Zone (Twin towers made entirely from pewter & wall handprints )
Both of us were impressed with the pewter exhibits. Along the way, we stumbled upon a medium-sized replica of Petronas Twin Towers. It is created with 7 062 pewter tankards. This replica is as beautiful as the original building in KLCC. I was stunned by how every detail was exactly the same - including the skybridge!
Clockwise: The thousands of pewter tankards that made-up the replica of KLCC, a pure 1 kg pewter block, a beautiful pewter souvenir to commemorate the launching of National Science Centre. Pictures taken with my Nikon D60.
This is an excellent place for Malaysians and tourists to appreciate the beauty of Malaysia pewter. As a Malaysian, I'm proud of Royal Selangor achievements, which were made possible as a result of Mr. Yong Koon's effort (founder of Royal Selangor) and the overall in-kind hard work contributed by the artisans and workers.
Royal Selangor is the world's largest pewter company. Our pewter is acclaimed internationally for its exquisite craftsmanship, artistry and attention to detail. In recognition of its quality, Royal Selangor received a royal warrant from His Royal Highness, the Sultan of Selangor, who conferred the manufacturer, the title of 'Royal Pewter'.
At the end of the tour, visitors were invited to see the making of pewter products - up close and personal. The factory tour shows you 'live' the different pewter production processes - casting, filing, polishing, soldering, hammering and engraving. We saw a worker pouring hot silver liquid into a mold. This lady is a PRO! She was fast and consistence. My eyes were fixed at the pot of boiling silver liquid. Scary! Look like molten lava to me! Check this out:
YouTube video courtesy of calvin4787
After that, we saw another lady worker hammering a pewter mug to create beautiful motifs. She allowed us to try the hammering process. The gal and I had a great time knocking the mug. We behaved like little kids. I guess there is a child in every grown-up :) If you like to learn more about the processing of pewter products, you can enroll in the School of Hard Knocks. This workshop costs RM50 per person and is open to groups of 5-50. Remember to place your booking in advance.
Later, we took some pictures of the gigantic tankard. According to Royal Selangor, this monumental feat was born of the desire that Royal Selangor should celebrate its centenary year in 1985 in dramatic fashion. It is 1.987 metres tall, weighs 1, 557 kg (3432 lbs) and has a capacity of 2, 796 litres. It is the world's largest and listed in the Malaysian book of records and the Guinnes World Book of Records (1987). It has travelled around the world to places such as Canada, Australia, Singapore and China.
Clockwise: The world's largest pewter tankard, urban design and a beautiful flower at Royal Selangor Garden. Pictures taken with my Nikon D60.
Overall we LOVE our Royal Selangor experience. My girl friend bought herself RM500 worth of pewter products. A trip to Royal Selangor would not be complete without getting some souvenirs. I recommend this place to all the people who know's what is good pewter and top quality craftsmanship.
5 Things I Learned From Royal Selangor Pewter:
1) The Making of Gigantic Pewter Tankard
Six of Royal Selangor's most skilled craftsmen were assigned to create this super tankard. They took three months and worked over 2 000 hours to complete the job - from preparation of the moulds to the final polishing of the tankard.
The process was similar to making a normal size tankard, although on a very much larger scale. Typically, the handle was cast separately and later soldered on, except that this 181 kg (400lbs) handle took three days just to be soldered on and a further 7 days for it to be polished to attain the right shine.
2) Yong Koon, The Founder
Founded in 1885 by Yong Koon, his little shop called Ngeok Foh (Jade Peace), handcrafted pewter objects mainly for ceremonial use - such as joss sticks holders, incense burners and candlestands for altars of Chinese homes and temples. It later expanded to items that were sought by the British colonials in Malaya (like tankards, ashtrays and tea services)
Business prospered in pre-war Malaya and when his son Yong Peng Kai took over, he mechanised many of the handcrafting processes to speed up production times. The brand was then known as Selangor Pewter.
3) Tin Money
Tin was so valuable in the old days; it was used as a form of currency. Apart from these coins, tin currency also came in animal forms such as cockerel, elephant and turtle.
Early Malay coinage usually took the form of conventional discs with a central hole. These were produced following the Chinese custom of moulding 'coin-trees' known locally as 'pohon pitis'. The coins would be broken off from their branches and used as currency. The earliest known pewter coin of this type belonged to the reign of Raja Muhammad in 1793.
4) The Science of Pewter
A silvery white metal with a low melting point of 231.9 degrees centigrade, tin is malleable and ductile. It is also non-toxic and corrosion resistant, hence its use in coating other metals.
A quick glance at the Periodic Table shows you that its atomic symbols are Sn (Stannum being Latin for tin), Cu (Cuprum for Copper) and Sb (Stibium for Antimony), which combine to form pewter.
Pewter used to contain lead as it was the most economical way to strengthen tin. Royal Selangor's pewter is entirely free of lead and is therefore absolutely safe to eat and drink from.
5) Yong Koon's Touchmark
Pewter is one of the oldest tin alloys used by man. Due to its wide usage, guilds were set up to maintain professional levels of craftsmanship and discipline. Touchmarking was the outcome. Each master pewterer registered his particular touchmark with his guild and applied his registered mark (or hallmark) to his work and was thus responsible for the level of quality. It also was a form of consumer protection, confirming the quality of the piece.
Yong Koon's touchmark "Yu He Zu Xi" are a combination of the Mandarin characters for "jade peace" and "pure tin".
Note: Details about '5 Things I Learned From Royal Selangor Pewter' are adapted from Royal Selangor Visitor Centre
Royal Selangor Pewter - Contact Details & Opening Hours:
The visitors centre opens from 9.00am - 5.00pm, daily.
School of Hard Knocks:
Group activity available is School of Hard Knocks to create a pewter dish from a flat plate, using traditional tools (under an hour) . Maximum group size of 50 persons, minimum of 5. Advance bookings required. RM50.00 per person.
Royal Selangor International Sdn Bhd,
4 Jalan Usahawan 6, Setapak Jaya,
Email - info@royalselangor.com
Website - visitorcentre.royalselangor.com
Royal Selangor Pewter - Getting There:
By Light Rapid Transit
Take the PUTRA LRT, alight at Wangsa Maju station and hop into a taxi to take you to the Visitor Centre.
Free parking, Ample parking space for car, and up to 15 parking bays for coach buses.
Royal Selangor Pewter - Google Maps:
Royal Selangor Pewter - Things To Do/See:
The world's largest pewter tankard
Buy (Exclusive pewter gifts & tableware)
Royal Selangor Pewter - Read More/Useful Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewter (Wikipedia Article)
http://visitorcentre.royalselangor.com/vc/ (Official Portal of Royal Selangor Visitor Centre)
http://blog.tourism.gov.my/royal-selangor-pewter/ (Blog from Tourism Malaysia)
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yeah.... royal selangor... used to passed by there when i was going for dinner at sri rampai or desa setapak (studying form 6 + 7 in tarc, and stayed at sri pelangi, jalan genting-kelang) wish royal selngor would be as famous as austrian's swarovski all over the world in the future that every visitor to kl would go there for souvenirs, just like what i did when i was in innbrucks, austria, i spent euro 100 just for the bracelets and necklaces for my sisters and mother =)
p/s : the GIS lesson is boring so i am here secretly browse your blog while pretending listening to the prof löl
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Just curious, what is this voting for?
Posted on December 11, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Have you been to Royal Selangor? You'll love the urban-like exterior and creative interior.
Well, our Royal Selangor has a long history. Its quite famous among Japanese and British.
Wah! Only € 100 for both bracelet and necklace? That's is CHEAP!!!
My goodness, you are sneaking in class :)
Oooh....public votes contribute 30% of the overall marks :) So, I need more votes to garner higher average.
Posted on December 31, 2009 at 1:25 AM
You went here as well, nice. My last visit there was back in 2004.. wow, been so long.
Posted on December 31, 2009 at 10:56 AM
WOW! That was 5 years ago :)
This place is AWESOME! You should revisit Royal Selangor. More display and added gallery. The latest addtion is Comyn Archive - with over 35,000 patterns, moulds and drawings.
Yan Kah Luke Says:
Wow...... Seem like Crafting Pewter is a hard job to do....
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Dr Smith suffers a loss of memory after a headknock. While in a state of amnesia, he is summoned to a cave by an unknown force. He goes into a trance. Smith, Will and the robot walk back to the Jupiter 2 but everything has changed. The Robinson's spacecraft is now covered in cobwebs and abandoned. Spooky organ music plays in the background. The robot announces this version of the Jupiter 2 is a 'simulation'.
The trio eventually locate the real Jupiter 2. John announces a deadline for lift-off from the planet. Meanwhile Smith wanders back to the cave and comes more under the sway of the alien mysterious force. He imagines himself as the leader of an ancient alien civilization.
John and Don go to the cave packing lazers in an effort to rescue and retrieve Dr Smith. They find him in a deep trance and are unable to convince him to come back with them. Will then attempts to break Dr Smith free of his pledged allegiance to the alien race known as Dranconians.
Overcome by a sudden surge of human emotion and longing for his old human life back, Smith breaks free of the trance and returns to the real Jupiter 2 just in time for it's scheduled lift-off.
The average cost to make an episode of LOST IN SPACE (1965 -1968) was $159 497. (The median price of a new home bought in the United States during these years was $22 900). THE CAVE OF THE WIZARDS came in at almost exactly $10 000 less than that average episode budget due to the fact filming wrapped in five days not the usual six.


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Mr. Peter Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby, NDP): Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to also present a petition on the Green New Deal, on behalf of dozens of residents of the Toronto, Burlington and Waterdown, Ontario, areas.
These petitioners add their names to the thousands of petitions and signatures that are pouring in from across the length and breadth of our country, calling on the Parliament of Canada to adopt Motion M-1, the Green New Deal, and for the Government of Canada to put in place a rigorous and comprehensive plan to combat the climate emergency.
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They also call upon the government and for Parliament to act, through M-1, to address the climate emergency, make sure that we are tackling at the same time, through the Green New Deal, increasing socio-economic and racial inequalities and ensuring workers are transitioned to a clean energy economy. Thank you Mr. Speaker.
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This article is tailor-made for those party lovers who would like to try and make a yummy effort towards a perfect party cuisine!
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Life Is a Puzzle, Are You Forcing Your Pieces?
What is the Difference Between Being Cured and Healed?
How do you love your foster child's parents well even when you feel like they aren't trying?
When I am struggling with my feelings about someone's behavior, I often remind myself that all behavior makes sense in its context. Just because I don't understand why someone is behaving a certain way doesn't mean that there isn't a reason.
The very reason that your foster child is in your care is because her parents don't have it all together and weren't able to take care of her or protect her. These kinds of issues don't change overnight. Women who lack the mama bear instinct to care for their kids above all other things, often come from very difficult life experiences that don't allow them to create a healthy bond with their children. It's not that they don't want to, they just lack the tools and have some faulty wiring in their bonding system.
Be careful not to compare their behavior to what you would do under the circumstance because that bar is just set way too high. Lower your expectations and recognize that they are on a very different journey with a very different set of tools. Thank God that your foster child has you right now in her life.
Being caught up in the legal system is emotionally and psychologically draining. Many parents give up because they don't feel they can meet the demands of the court, on top of dealing with everything else that is not functioning well in their life.
You are not required to love your foster child's parents in a familial or relational sense, but it may be helpful to view this relationship as one of mentoring—even if from afar. Every interaction that they witness between you and their child is a chance for them to see how it should be done. They may have some jealousy and anger about your relationship because it's hard to watch someone else take care of your child. They may also see you as an extension of the system, but I promise they are watching you. The best way to love them is to love their child well.
And finally, you have to deal with your feelings. It's tough being the parent who's picking up the pieces of a broken child's heart. It's difficult to deal with your anger at them because of the pain they are causing their own child, now your child too. Talk about it, write about it, get your feelings out, but don't expect them to be anyone but who they are.
Thank you for your contribution to our world. It takes a huge heart to love someone else's child like your own and an even bigger heart to love their parents!
You've got this. It just takes a little grit and grace!
Read what some of our writers have to say about difficult relationships, parenting children from hard places, and walking through life changes: Do These 2 Things and Your Child Will Thank You, How to Talk to a Child About Family Problems, Choosing Hard Things Is Never Easy, but Always Worth It, Reality: Behind the Scenes of the Happy Adoption Photo, Want to Help Foster Kids? How to Become an Advocate, and Establishing Healthy Boundaries in the Grit and Grace Life.
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Q: All IP addresses that accessed my VPS via ssh/http(s) I want to see that specific log file which contains all the IP's from all countries that accessed my HTTP(S) applications and SSH? I tried googling it but couldn't find any appropriate answer, I am not new to Ubuntu OS but to these core parts of OS, I am not well informed and I want these log files so I can analyze the traffic and maybe some intruders.
I have this example like, Google's Analytics Tool; one can see from which country the traffic is coming from.
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Are you among some of the older adults who have gained weight over the years? Feel like it's time to create change and shed those unwanted pounds? I'm sure you wonder, "what happened"? Basically, "life," has gotten in the way. It's easy to fall into the habit of putting off exercise and eating right. However, it's never too late to create positive and meaningful change. The key is to do it safely. Remember, you're older and as frustrating as it is, your body's needs are different now. Small, incremental changes add up to bigger and more meaningful change over time if consistent with your efforts. Practice makes better and better might add more quality years to your life.
Why Lose Weight Now? Is it worth it?
It may help to know just how much better it can make you feel.
1. Exercising and eating right gives you more energy, no matter your age.
2. Increased strength and flexibility give you the ability to continue doing the things you enjoy longer.
3. Regular exercise is great for your brain, too!
Exercise boosts brain function in general and can help prevent memory loss. Older adults are also more likely to suffer from depression than the rest of the population, and exercise is an excellent way to fight it. Experiencing loss and isolation is more common as you get older, and this is a risk factor for depression, but exercising is a healthy way to meet new people and rebuild your support system. The link between exercise and depression is also physiological. According to CNN, people who are depressed have lower levels of two key neurotransmitters in the brain, but exercise raises these levels to fight off depression.
Alexandra safely lost over-all body weight but, more importantly, she lost a lot more body fat while adding lean muscle.
Consult your physician before starting a new weight-loss program to be sure that you will be meeting your body's nutritional needs. Find out about any possible medication interactions, too, especially if you use weight-loss supplements or other diet foods that are highly processed.
older people face are muscle and bone loss, so your diet should include plenty of lean protein, calcium, and vitamin D to help strengthen bones and build muscle. For many older adults, swapping meals high in carbs for meals high in protein and vegetables is an ideal healthy diet. Practicing portion control is another healthy way to cut back on calories without losing the nutrition you need.
as part of a balanced diet and exercise plan, too. According to Prevention, it's normal to experience thirst desensitization as we age, which means you may not feel thirsty even though you still need to stay hydrated. Water is necessary for digestion and metabolism, so find ways to remind yourself to drink plenty.
When you start a new exercise routine, it's important to stay within your limits so you don't get injured. If you have achy joints or any old injuries, be mindful of those and choose exercises that won't stress them. Swimming and cycling are two low- impact exercises that are easy on your joints and bones. Walking is one of the best all-around exercises you can do, and it's easy to start at a pace and distance that works for you. Keep in mind that stretching is just as important as aerobic and strength exercises because it increases flexibility and gives you a greater range of motion.
for weight loss, too, so don't limit your routine to cardio. In addition to helping you lose weight, resistance training is also good for your bones and muscles, so it's a win-win. In fact, strength training as an older adult results in far greater benefits than when you were younger. The impact of strengthening muscles, ligaments, and tendons could possibly prevent falls, as well as bone fractures/breaks. Start small and then increase weight gradually as the amount you're doing becomes too easy.
Your weight-loss results may happen a little slower than they do for those who are younger, so don't get discouraged. Find ways to make exercising bring joy to your life. Group classes are a great way to do that while adding an important social component. Once you get into a routine of eating right and exercising, your increased energy and better health will help keep you going.


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Q: How to insert records more than 15000 at one go in custom list In one of my projects my requirement is to insert/add more than 15000 records/entries at one og in a custom list.
After searching some of the blogs i found some useful information about adding bulk entries in custom list.I tried to add by the batch files, i called processbatchdata method for bulk entries.
Referred link : http://www.arboundy.com/code/sharepoint/bulk-add-new-items-to-a-sharepoint-list-using-processbatchdata/
However i ended up with the performance issue,its taking more than 2 minutes for adding 5000 entries.
Can anyone help me on this issue.
Many Thanks.

A: If you are complaining about 2 minutes being slow for 5k items, presumably this isn't a one time import - you may consider looking at Business Connectivity Services to connect directly to your external data source.

A: Is this a frequent step or just a one time task?
If it's frequent, I recommend NOT doing this in SharePoint! Sorry, I don't have a good answer. I would revisit the requirements and look at farming this high amount of data into another SQL database and use BCS to connect and manage the data.
I strongly oppose high amounts of data in SP, especially if this is a frequent task... Check out BCS


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As Muratov Accepts Nobel, Legacy of His Russian Predecessors Recedes
MOSCOW — Dmitri A. Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, perhaps Russia's bravest independent newspaper, will become the third Russian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo. He accepts the honor as the legacy of his two prize-winning predecessors, Andrei D. Sakharov and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, is under greater threat than at any time since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The two previous laureates won the prize before the Soviet collapse: Mr. Sakharov, the dissident physicist whom the committee called "a spokesman for the conscience of mankind," received the prize in 1975 for his struggle for human rights.
Mr. Gorbachev won in 1990, in the U.S.S.R.'s last days, as its final president. The Nobel committee cited the "greater openness he has brought about in Soviet society."
In a gesture that links their accomplishments over the span of three decades, Mr. Gorbachev contributed some of his Nobel money to help establish Novaya Gazeta, which Mr. Muratov has overseen for more than 25 years and whose work won him the Nobel.
But in contemporary Russia, human rights, openness and freedom of expression have been deteriorating for years, activists and opposition figures say. A more intensive crackdown began in January, when protests in support of Russia's most famous political prisoner, Aleksei A. Navalny, were brutally suppressed.
"The situation is extremely difficult," Mr. Muratov said on Sunday night in Moscow at a reception hosted by the Norwegian Embassy. "It is toxic."
Mr. Muratov, 60, shares this year's prize with Maria Ressa, a Philippine journalist who founded Rappler, a website known for its investigations into President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal five-year drug war. Her work has also exposed the role social media giants played in the rise of populist leaders like Mr. Duterte and former President Donald J. Trump.
Ms. Ressa was convicted of cyber libel in 2020, making it difficult for her to leave the country. She said Thursday at a news conference that she needed to get four courts to approve her travel to attend the ceremony in Oslo.
The Nobel committee cited the pair's "courageous fight for freedom of expression." They were the first journalists to win the Nobel Peace Prize since 1935, when it was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky, a German who was then detained in a concentration camp by the Nazis. Ms. Ressa has said she believes the Nobel committee's focus on journalists this year signaled that, once again, "we are on the brink of the rise of fascism."
Mr. Muratov lamented on Sunday that "Propaganda has convinced the majority of the Russian people that democracy is harmful and that it leads to collapse.''
He accepted the award as some 100,000 Russian troops were massing on the country's border with Ukraine, raising anxieties about a potential invasion. At a news conference on Thursday in Oslo, Mr. Muratov warned that authoritarianism is inextricably linked to war.
"Disbelief in democracy means that the countries that have abandoned it will get a dictator," he said. "And where there is a dictatorship, there is a war. If we refuse democracy, we agree to war."
It was a message similar to the one contained in Mr. Sakharov's Nobel address in 1975. It was delivered by his wife, the activist Yelena Bonner, because he was barred from leaving the Soviet Union to deliver it in person.
Mr. Sakharov is considered the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. Realizing the destructive power of nuclear weapons and concerned about the ethical implications of his work, he later became an advocate for nuclear disarmament and human rights.
In 1970, after he had been banned from nuclear research for his calls to de-escalate the arms race with the U.S., he co-founded the Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union. He was subject to frequent scrutiny from Soviet intelligence, the KGB, and sent into internal exile in 1980 after he condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
He returned to Moscow after receiving a welcoming phone call from Mr. Gorbachev in December 1986. Mr. Gorbachev had initiated a period of glasnost, or openness, and perestroika, a reconstruction of the political and economic system of the Soviet Union.
The reforms gave Russians their first opportunity in history to have free elections, free speech and an independent news media. Mr. Gorbachev also engaged with the West, signing important arms treaties with presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Around that time, in the heady era of new beginnings and hectic experiments with democracy, Mr. Sakharov became involved with a group of activists who were collecting testimonies about the Stalin-era system of labor camps known as the Gulag, whose brutalities had been hidden until the late Soviet period.
The group called itself Memorial, and at Mr. Sakharov's funeral, on December 18, 1989, Mr. Gorbachev agreed to allow the organization to register as a legal entity, according to one of its founders, Lev Ponomarev.
Today, Memorial is labeled a "foreign agent," a derogatory distinction given by the Justice Ministry. More concerning, it faces closure, accused by prosecutors of "justifying terrorist activities" because of its support for political prisoners.
Court proceedings against the organization will continue next week.
The Sakharov Center, a non-governmental organization established in 1990 to preserve the dissident's memory, has been listed as a "foreign agent," since December 2014, making it all but impossible for it to partner with schools on education programming.
The center has been marking the centenary of Sakharov, who was born in 1921. Regional museums and libraries approached the foundation hoping to organize exhibitions about Sakharov, said Sergei Lukashevsky, the organization's director.
"When they found out that we are a foreign agent organization, they withdrew," he said.
The foreign agent label "suggests that Sakharov's ideas are not those of our famous compatriot but those of an 'agent' who had acted in the interests of foreign states and possibly against Russia's interests," the dissident's granddaughter, Marina Sakharova-Liberman, said in an interview. "This insinuation is absurd."
Mr. Ponomarev said that in many ways, the current political climate in Russia is similar to that of the period in which Mr. Sakharov was being persecuted, though in some ways, he said, it was worse; he cited the killing and poisoning of opposition politicians, and the targeting of journalists.
Aleksandr Baunov, editor in chief of the Carnegie Moscow Center's website, said the Kremlin's crackdown this year shows it is afraid of the power of an individual or of free expression — just as it was during the Soviet period.
"There was a huge Soviet Union, it was strong— with weapons and factories," he said. "And there were dissidents — small, but honest, and with foreign support. And they won. Yes, the state is strong, and Memorial is weak. But the Soviet Union also seemed strong, and the academic, Sakharov, was weak. And who won in the end? Sakharov."
Novaya Gazeta is one of the few independent media outlets that has not yet been named a "foreign agent,'' and to date Mr. Muratov seems to have found a way to be a vocal government critic without pushing the boundaries too far. However, nothing is guaranteed in Mr. Putin's Russia. The president said shortly after the award was announced that the Nobel would not be a "shield'' that protects Mr. Muratov.
Weeks later the paper, and Mr. Muratov personally, were fined a total of 132,000 rubles ($1,800) for failing to mention that two groups they wrote about affiliated with Mr. Navalny had been listed as "foreign agents."
The crackdown, said Mr. Ponomarev, who is personally acquainted with all three Russian Peace Prize laureates, was driven by the same "inertia of repression" that was present in the Soviet period.
"They are accelerating their downfall, and they cannot stop it," he said.
Alina Lobzina contributed reporting.
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Professor David Grayson, CBE
Contact Professor David Grayson, CBE
Email: david.grayson@cranfield.ac.uk
Twitter: @DavidGrayson_
David is Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility. From 2007-2017, he was director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility and Professor of Corporate Responsibility.
He joined Cranfield in April 2007, after a thirty year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development. This included founding Project North East which has now worked in nearly 60 countries around the world; being the founding CEO of the Prince's Youth Business Trust and serving as a managing-director of Business in the Community.
David has an Honorary Doctorate of Law from London South Bank University and was a visiting Senior Fellow at the CSR Initiative of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (2005-10).
He has served on various charity and public sector boards over the past 30 years. These have included the boards of the National Co-operative Development Agency, The Prince of Wales' Innovation Trust and the Strategic Rail Authority.
He chaired the National Disability Council and the Business Link Accreditation Board; in each case appointed by the Major Government and re-appointed by the Blair administration.
He is currently chairman of the Institute of Business Ethics and chair-designate of the international, pan-disability charity Leonard Cheshire.
He is a former chairman of the charity Carers UK championing the role of 6.5million Britons caring for a loved one; and of one of the UK's larger social enterprises and largest eldercare providers, Housing 21 during which the organisation made corporate history by becoming the first-ever not-for-profit successfully to acquire a publicly quoted group of companies. David received an OBE for services to industry in 1994 and a CBE for services to disability in 1999.
The Guardian has named David as one of ten top global tweeters on sustainable leadership alongside Al Gore, Tim Cook - CEO of Apple, and Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg: @DavidGrayson_
www.DavidGrayson.net
Social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
He speaks, writes and advises regularly on business, society, entrepreneurialism, and future trends for businesses, media and business schools around the world. He has worked with many, leading global businesses including BP, Shell, Microsoft and Diageo. He has worked with international institutions such as the OECD, the European Union, and the World Bank. He is a regular key-note speaker for business conferences internationally.
He is a regular contributor to, columnist and editorial advisory board member for The Ethical Corporation now Reuters Sustainable Business (www.ethicalcorp.com). He sat on the Corporate Responsibility stakeholder advisory groups for innocent, Camelot and Lloyds Banking Group. David is a member of the faculty of The Forward Institute and part of the Circle of Advisers for Business Fights Poverty.
David has a long-term personal interest and involvement in Social Care, Good Later Life, Disability Rights & Inclusion and Carers and Caring. He serves as a member of the advisory board of The Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) at University of Edinburgh, established with the support of Legal & General.
His books include: "Everybody's Business" (2001) and "Corporate Social Opportunity: Seven Steps to make Corporate Social Responsibility work for your business" (2004) - both co-authored with Adrian Hodges; "Corporate Responsibility Coalitions: The Past, Present, and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism" co-authored with Jane Nelson, published by Greenleaf Publishing and Stanford University Press (2013); "Social Intrapreneurism & all that Jazz (2014) co-authored with Melody McLaren and Heiko Spitzeck; and "Take Care: How to be a great employer for working carers." (2017) He has also contributed to several other books including "The Accountable Corporation," (2005), "Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility" (2010) and "Managing Sustainable Business: An Executive Education Case and Textbook" (2018).
His most recent book is "All In: The Future of Business Leadership" co-authored with Chris Coulter of GlobeScan and Mark Lee from SustainAbility.
David continues to teach and mentor at Cranfield, including the Full-time and Executive MBA programmes, the MScs in Corporate Sustainability and in Entrepreneurship, and on open executive programmes.
Grayson & CBE D (2016) The BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster: developing and teaching a business school teaching case as the crisis unfolded, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2016 (61) 107-118.
Grayson D, McLaren M & Spitzeck H (2014) The Jazz Age, Global Focus- European Foundation for Management Development, 8 (3) 18-22.
Grayson D & Kakabadse A (2013) Sustainable business leadership - take it from the top, Ethical Corporation.
Exter N, Grayson, CBE D & Maher R (2013) Facilitating organizational change for embedding sustainability into academia: a case study, Journal of Management Development, 32 (3) 319-332.
Grayson D (2013) Corporate responsibility with Chinese characteristics, Ethical Corporation (Jul/Aug) 38-41.
Grayson D (2013) Fit for purpose: putting sustainability into practice in a business school, Global Focus- European Foundation for Management Development**, 7 (1) 32-35.
Grayson D & Nelson J (2012) Sustainable capitalism and the potential for corporate responsibility coalitions, Ethical Corporation.
Grayson D (2012) Is sustainability at the heart of the Olympics? (32) 12-16.
Grayson & CBE D (2011) An unusual Merger, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2011) 21-22.
Grayson & CBE D (2011) Embedding corporate responsibility and sustainability: Marks and Spencer, Journal of Management Development, 30 (10) 1017-1026.
Grayson D & McLaren M (2011) Engage employees and transform social and economic performance, Ethical Corporation (May) 38-41.
Grayson D (2011) Grey skies thinking: Ageing Society, Ethical Corporation** (Feb) 40-42.
Grayson D (2011) Why companies must build the business case, Ethical Corporation (September) 40-43.
Spitzeck H, Hansen EG & Grayson D (2011) Joint management-stakeholder committees - a new path to stakeholder governance?, Corporate governance: the international journal of business in society, 11 (5) 560-568.
Grayson D (2010) Corporate Responsibility and the Media, Economics, Management, and Financial Markets, 5 (5).
Grayson D (2010) Can CSR help engage employees?, Strategic Hr Review, 9 (3).
Grayson D (2010) Getting Down to Business with the Big Society, Parliamentary Brief (July).
Grayson D (2010) Capitalism that works: future sustainable growth, Ethical Corporation** (Sept) 40-43.
Grayson D (2010) Innovating from Within (29) 16-19.
Horwitz FM & Grayson D (2010) Putting PRME into practice in a business school, Global Focus- European Foundation for Management Development, 4 (2) 26-29.
Rake SM & Grayson D (2009) Overall change dynamics: Embedding corporate responsibility and sustainability - everybody's business, Corporate governance: the international journal of business in society, 9 (4) 395-399.
Grayson David (2008) The CR management black-hole, Management focus (Autumn).
Grayson David & Hodges Adrian (2008) Taking ethical risks to market, Ethical Corporation (Sep) 42-45.
Brown R & Grayson D (2008) Innocent: Values and Value, Journal of Business Ethics Education, 5 (1) 171-192.
Grayson D (2010)
Social Intrapreneurs: an extra force for social innovation
. In: CSI International Research Conference: Intersecting Transformations Business and the Third Sector, Sydney, 1 June 2010.
Amaeshi K & Grayson D (2008) Count me out: The challenges of environmental, social and governance risks in making investment decisions. In: EABIS 2008 Colloquium: Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Cranfield.
Grayson D, Coulter C & Lee M (2018) All In: The Future of Business Leadership. Routledge / Greenleaf.
Grayson & CBE D (2018) Beyond BP: The Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Disaster 2010. In: Managing Sustainable Business: An Executive Education Case and Textbook, Springer, p. 21-34.
Grayson D (2017) Take Care: How to be a great employer for working carers. Emerald Publishing.
Cardarelli T, Grayson D & Dickmann M (2016) Human Resources and Corporate Responsibility. In: International Human Resource Management - Contemporary Human Resource Issues in Europe, Routledge, p. 190-218.
Grayson D, McLaren M & Spitzeck H (2014) Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz. Greenleaf Publishing.
Grayson D & Nelson J (2013) Corporate Responsibility Coalitions: The Past, Present and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism. Greenleaf Publishing.
Grayson D, Exter N (eds), (2012) Cranfield on Corporate Sustainability, UK: Greenleaf Publishing.
Kakabadse A & Grayson D (2012) Embedding the governance of responsibility in the business of the board. In: Cranfield on Corporate Sustainability. Grayson D, Exter N (ed.), Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, p. 64-79.
Grayson D (2012) Overview of embedding corporate sustainability. In: Cranfield on corporate sustainability. Grayson D, Exter N (ed.), UK: Greenleaf Publishing, p. 7-26.
Grayson D (2010) United Kingdom. In: The World Guide to CSR. Visser W, Tolhurst N (ed.), Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, p. 437-444, ed. 1.
Grayson D (2010) Strategy for a Sustainable Future. In: Making Sustainability Sustainable, World Council for Corporate Governance, ed. 29/10/2010.
Grayson D & Brown R (2009) Innocent: Values and Value. In: Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility. Smith C and Lenssen G (ed.), London: Wiley, p. 311-332.
Grayson D (2005) Inspiring smaller firms with the responsible business mindset. In: The Accountable Corporation. Epstein M & Hanson K (ed.), Connecticut: Preager.
Grayson D & Hodges A (2004) Corporate Social Opportunity!: Seven Steps to Make Corporate Social Responsibility Work for Your Business. Greenleaf Publishing.
Grayson D & Hodges A (2002) Everybody's Business - managing risks and opportunities in today's global society. London: DK, ed. 1.
Grayson D (2000) In search of Community plc UK. In: What if: Fifteen versions of change for Britain's inner cities. Hutton W et al (ed.), London: The Short Book Company.
Grayson D (1998) Jobs the need for immediate relief. In: Blueprint 2000: A Conservative policy towards employment in the next century. Harvey R (ed.), London: Macmillan Press.
Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility works to empower managers to lead responsible, sustainably managed organisations


How can I iterate through nested HTML lists without returning the "youngest" children?
I want to iterate through an HTML nested list that is 3-layers deep.
Meaning, it skips the "youngest" or "deepest" children. As of now, I am iterating through a jQuery object.
QUESTION: Is there a jQuery object I can assign to stepList with that will give me everything EXCEPT the children?
Edit: If not, how can I get achieve my goal?


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Q: Estimate Epsilon in DBSCAN with k-nearest neighbor algorithm Following DBSCAN paper (quote below), I'm trying to develop a simple heuristic to determine the parameter Epsilon with K-nearest neighbors (k-NN) algorithm.

For a given k we define a function k-dist from the database D to the real numbers, mapping each point to the distance from its k-th
nearest neighbor.

This tutorial shows a k-NN implementation in Python: before writing it in C, I noticed that all his elements belonging to the dataset always have n features/values.
So, while all his elements in his dataset are like this:

5.1,3.5,1.4,0.2,Iris-setosa
4.9,3.0,1.4,0.2,Iris-setosa
4.7,3.2,1.3,0.2,Iris-setosa

my current dataset is something like this:

0, 245.2300, 101.0000
0, 13.0000, 10.1000, 23.0000, 14.0000, 32.0000, 21.0000
0, 25.2300

My dataset is stored in a double ** matrix: I'd store the dataset above like this:

[0] [245.2300] [101.0000] [0]       [0]       [0]       [0]
[0] [13.0000]  [10.1000]  [23.0000] [14.0000] [32.0000] [21.0000]
[0] [25.2300]  [0]        [0]       [0]       [0]       [0]

zeroes fill the "missing" values in others points.
In the tutorial the distance between two points is calculated as follows:
def euclideanDistance(instance1, instance2, length):
distance = 0
for x in range(length):
    distance += pow((instance1[x] - instance2[x]), 2)
return math.sqrt(distance)

but both instance1 and instance2 points have 4 features, while my points may have 1, 10 or 1000 features.
Does my representation via matrix filled with zeroes afflict the calculation of euclideanDistance?

A: On such data, Euclidean distance does not make sense.
Consider you have two users. for one you know its longitude and latitude,  for the other only the longitude. There is absolutely no good reason to use 0 as missing latitude!
First solve the problem how to get a good distance on your data? Then attempt any clustering. Right now,  your result is random garbage.


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Jászír bin Oszmán al-Rumajján (arabul: ياسر الرميان) (Szaúd-Arábia, 1970. február 18. –) Szaúd-arábiai üzletember, aki a Public Investment Fundnak (PIF), a Szaúd-Arábiai Királyság nemzeti vagyonalapjának kormányzója, a Newcastle United FC, illetve a Saudi Aramco elnöke. A PIF befektetésein keresztül az Uber Technologies Inc., a SoftBank Group és a Reliance Industries Ltd. igazgatótanácsának is a tagja.

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Jászír bin Oszmán al-Rumajján 1970. február 18-án született, majd 1993-ban fejezte be tanulmányait a King Faisal Egyetemen, al-Hofufban. Később tanult a Harvard Business Schoolban, az Egyesült Államokban.

Public Investment Fund
2015 szeptemberében kinevezték a Public Investment Fund igazgatójának.

2016-ban az PIF befektetett 3.5 milliárd dollárt a Uber Technologies Inc.-be, amelynek részeként az igazgatótanácsának tagja lett.

2016 augusztusában al-Rumajján tagja lett a Saudi Aramco állami olajcég bizottságának, amelynek célja a közelebbi együttműködés volt a PIF és az Aramco között, a szaúdi gazdaság átalakításának részeként. Ezen év októberében a PIF 45 milliárd dollárt fektetett a SoftBank Vision Fundba.

2017 októberében al-Rumajján bejelentette, hogy a PIF új célja lesz, hogy vagyonának összege meghaladja a 400 milliárd dollárt és 2020-ra 20 ezer új munkalehetőséget hozzanak létre.

2018 szeptemberében a PIF bejelentette, hogy be fognak vezetni kölcsönöket a hosszú távú stratégiájukba. A következő hónapban pedig elmondta, hogy 2030-ra a külföldi vagyonukat 10%-ról 50%-ra akarják emelni.

2019 februárjában Abu-Dzabiban bejelentette a PIF új, londoni, New York-i és San Francisco-i irodáinak megnyitását, amellyel 700-ra emelte a munkavállalóinak számát a korábbi 450-ről. Ezek mellett megújuló energiaforrásokba is elkezdtek befektetni.

2021 októberében a PIF bejelentette, hogy megvásárolták a Newcastle United FC-t és, hogy al-Rumajján lesz a klub elnöke.

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WhiskeyPaper publishes short stories, flash fiction, and collections of short-shorts up to 1000 words. Read the complete guidelines here.
WhiskeyPaper: We look to see that the story is well-written and there aren't a lot of typos/spelling errors. This proves to us that the writer cares about their work. Next up would be the heart of the story. Where's the light? Why do we care about these people/this story? And also, we look for something that lifts the piece from the ordinary; we want a flash or spark in there somewhere, something that feels special.
WP: Darkness, hopelessness. Anything racist or sexist or creepy and gross. Also, more than a couple typos. Any sort of carelessness with the text makes it seem like the story doesn't matter much to the writer, so why should it matter to us or the reader?
WP: To us, character is more important than plot. Since we publish short (and sometimes very short) fiction...we're not as concerned with plot as we are with character. If we fall in love with the character(s) we will follow them anywhere.
SQF: What advice can you offer new authors hoping to publish in WhiskeyPaper?
WP: Take your work seriously, be professional but don't be afraid to be funny. We love funny stories. And keep on keeping on! Keep working, submitting. Keep at it and always try to push yourself to be better and better. Look at every word, every sentence. Make it beautiful. Fight for it.
WP: Every reader comes to the story with their own history and perceptions; a writer should be as implicit as the art allows. Don't confuse the reader or try to distract them. Get out of their way. Stand back so they can see the world through your words.
WP: Does every story you accept have to/need to mention whiskey in some way or another? NO. We're called WhiskeyPaper because I thought it sounded pretty. The word 'whiskey' sounds so much like the word 'kisses' to me and I love the word 'kisses.' We don't want people thinking we want stories about whiskey because we don't. We want stories about families and babies and love and romance and relationships and sadness and fights and life. We want stories about people fighting to stay in the light.
Thank you, Loran and Leesa. We all appreciate you taking time from your busy schedule to participate in this project.
Thank you so much! I found this Q&A incredibly inspiring. I could hear a genuine love and respect for writing and reading in every answer. I love what you said about the name Whiskey. Some words are like that, so pleasing to the ear, the mouth, the heart even.
Thanks, Von. Glad you found this inspiring.


I'm a highly experienced and creative wedding photographer based in Cheshire but shooting throughout the UK and Worldwide. From intimate city weddings, rustic country weddings and relaxed beachside weddings in the sun. I love to travel and I love to take photographs.
No two weddings are the same. I'm there to capture all the moments as they happen and they happen a lot! Excited preparations in the morning, the first look at your ceremony, the hugs and kisses with family, creative portraits, your party and all the little goings-on in between.
At the heart of my images are people. Those that you love join you for one of the most amazing days of your lives. The love, excitement and humour deserves to be captured creatively but without interruption.
At my core, I'm a documentary wedding photographer. I shoot wedding day stories and adventures in a natural and creative way.
However, I like to think that I draw the best elements of wedding photography and combine them together to give my couples the best collection of memories that I can. I aim to create a timeless set of images that you will want to show off to family, friends and eventually, your grandkids.
It's fantastic that you have found someone to spend your life with! I share my life with my beautiful wife Anna, my baby boy Arthur and our cockapoo Harper.
What I do isn't a 'Job' it's more of a lifestyle. I get to meet some fantastic couples, their family, their friends and go to an a pretty amazing party every weekend!
As a wedding photographer, I get to experience one of the most significant days in a lot of people's lives so it's something I take seriously!
Most importantly, I promise that you will end up with simply awesome wedding photos taken completely naturally and without fuss.


Remember your old roommate's 2008 Hyundai Accent? The one in that apple/lime green? Bentley does too.
This is the refreshed Bentley Continental GT Speed, the most powerful version of the coupe. It's the W12 engine version gussied up for performance as opposed to luxury, basically.
Bentley's press release does not specifically mention the GT Speed's horsepower, but the last version made 626 hp.
That old Hyundai, while it might share colors with this thing, does not share that kind of power. Or the associated interior. Or the Bentley badge. Try not to confuse them, I know it's easy.


Banksburn Bastle has been described as a probable Bastle.
Listed as a possible stonehouse site by Perriam and Robinson. No mention of possible bastle in PastScape record. Scheduled but possible stonehouse not mentioned in scheduling report. Perriam and Robinson term 'stonehouse' can be used for small but thick-walled houses but not of a strict pele-house form, usually because the ground floor was residential rather than a byre house.
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 12694 (Roman milecastle).
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 311 (Roman milecastle).


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IC 654 ist eine linsenförmige Galaxie vom Hubble-Typ S0-a im Sternbild Becher südlich des Himmelsäquators. Sie ist schätzungsweise 361 Millionen Lichtjahre von der Milchstraße entfernt.

Das Objekt wurde am 21. April 1892 vom französischen Astronomen Stéphane Javelle entdeckt.

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Should I buy these sporting rights?
Q: I have been invited to buy sporting rights over a piece of land. The land is managed with wildlife in mind and would make a good small shoot. My question is, what happens if a future landowners manages the land in such a way that shooting is no longer practical or worthwhile?
A: Sporting rights may be detached from the land to which they apply, and traded separately from the freehold of the land. Naturally detaching the sporting rights in this way devalues the freehold. You have not explained the circumstances in which the sporting rights are being offered to you, but were you to buy them, you would have the right in perpetuity to access the land and shoot over it. Bear in mind, though, that the condition of the land could potentially change in future to your detriment. For example, it could be sold for housing or industrial development. You coud still have the sporting rights but they might effectively be worthless.
You should consider how long the land can be expected to be managed in the way it is currently. If it is not the present landowner who is offering you the rights, try to discuss the matter with him. If the years of shooting that you can expect to enjoy are worth the capital outlay, the purchase is worthy of consideration. But remember, caveat emptor – let the buyer beware.
Should we release information about gun ownership on our shoot?
We have a DIY shoot on private land covering two supportive farms. The shooting rights are owned by another person and he has asked that we provide a risk assessment and the contact details of shoot members. We do not employ anyone and are worried about releasing information about gun ownership albeit to a respected person. Are we legally bound to provide this information?
The landowner or the owner of the sporting rights (if different) may impose any terms he likes in letting the shoot to you, including the requirements you mention. If you don't like the terms you do not have to take the lease. The question of whether by law it is necessary for you to have a written health and safety policy is an entirely different one. The Health & Safety at Work Act makes a written policy compulsory for many shoots and even for those employing a few beaters.
The National Gamekeepers' Organisation can offer advice on shoot risk assessments.
I advise you to approach the subject in a receptive frame of mind and pick out parts that apply to you and your shoot. You should then produce the written documentation that is necessary to comply with the law.


"Stan Lee had the attitude of 'We're in New York City. How can we possibly not have black people in New York City?"' Foster said.
In 10 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films have netted more than $17.6 billion in worldwide grosses. The "Black Panther" movie pulled in more than $200 million in its debut weekend earlier this year. Next year, actress Brie Larson will take flight as "Captain Marvel." An animated movie centred on Miles Morales, a half-black and half-Puerto Rican teen who inherits the Spider-Man suit, will drop next month. And there continues to be interest around Kamala Khan a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, the first Muslim superhero.
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← GOD'S LOVE SOUGHT YOU!
As we draw nearer to Valentine's Day and our thoughts turn toward the ideas of "romance" and "love," I am in the midst a series of five articles spotlighting the amazing love that God has poured out on all those who have placed their trust in Jesus Christ. This is the third article in that series.
So . . . how encouraged are you by knowing that the love of Almighty God wrought you and sought you? Today you will be even more encouraged when you see that God's love also CAUGHT you! That is all based on a single promise that God made to—of all people!—Satan.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.
When God makes a promise, you can take it straight to the bank and cash it. God promised to destroy the one who tempted Adam and Eve to turn away from Him. Here the first Gospel message (theologians call it the protoevangelium) was preached to the serpent: that the seed of the woman, the Savior of the world, would ultimately have victory over Satan by crushing his head. To be sure, the Savior would have His heel bruised, but His victory would not be denied. And that victory would grant you and me access to God's love . . . the love that CAUGHT you!
Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, "Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep." I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
Our Good Shepherd leaves the ninety-nine and goes after the one lost sheep. What a beautiful picture of God's love that CAUGHT us in spite of our wandering. And make no mistake, we are most definitely prone to wander away from the loving care and protection of our Good Shepherd! And yet, just as God went after Adam and Eve to speak words of healing and hope and redemption, the Good Shepherd is not content to lose even one of His flock.
You know God's love CAUGHT you when you find your heart filled with a godly sorrow as you repent over your sin. Our hearts should break when we know we have broken the holy heart of God. The difference between Judas and Peter was not evidenced by whose sin was more terrible; both men betrayed their Lord. One might even suggest that Peter's sin was more grotesque; at least Judas admitted that he knew Jesus! No, the distinction lies in the condition of their hearts after their sin. Judas was filled with a man-centered sorrow, while Peter was filled with a godly sorrow. One led to death . . . the other to life.
Now if being WROUGHT, SOUGHT, and CAUGHT doesn't light the fire of your faith . . . your wood is wet! What a powerful truth to marinate in today . . . to know that no matter where we go and what we do, we are never beyond the loving, forgiving reach of our Redeemer! And once we are His, nothing can separate us from the love of God that CAUGHT us!
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. . . . And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.


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Notre-Dame des Naufragés est une sculpture de Cyprien Godebski située à la pointe du Raz à Plogoff (Finistère).

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L'œuvre

Sculpture en marbre de Carrare de Cyprien Godebski (1835-1909), elle n'est pourtant pas initialement en lien avec l'activité maritime bretonne mais en mémoire du fils de l'artiste mort au Tonkin. Finalement, Godebski se propose à l'évêque de Quimper pour effectuer cette réalisation monumentale qu'il offre à la Bretagne contre le seul remboursement des frais de transport de l'œuvre depuis Carrare. Le groupe, haut de 6 mètres et représentant l'apparition de la Vierge Marie à un marin naufragé, s'élève sur un piédestal de 4,50 m (socle de granit dessiné par le chanoine J.M. Abgrall, architecte). L'œuvre est mise en place le samedi . L'inauguration et la bénédiction ont eu lieu le dimanche . Lors de cette inauguration, Godebski se présente en .

Le pardon

Tous les ans, le dernier dimanche d'août est célébré le pardon de Notre-Dame des Naufragés.

Le cantique breton

À cette occasion est chanté, depuis plusieurs générations, le cantique en breton Intron Varia Beg Ar Raz (Notre Dame de la Pointe du Raz,  dans lequel la sculpture est décrite).

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Sculpture du XXe siècle
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Roberto Pavoni, né le  à Harold Wood (Borough londonien d'Havering), est un nageur britannique, spécialiste du papillon et de quatre nages.

Il participe aux Jeux olympiques de Londres en 2012 sans atteindre la finale du  papillon mais remporte sur  quatre nages la médaille de bronze et celle d'argent sur le  quatre nages lors des Championnats d'Europe 2014 à Berlin.

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Championnats d'Europe

En grand bassin
 Championnats d'Europe 2014 à Berlin (Allemagne) :
 Médaillé d'argent du  quatre nages
 Médaillé de bronze du  quatre nages

En petit bassin
 Championnats d'Europe 2015 à Netanya (Israël) :
 Médaillé d'argent du  quatre nages

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 Fiche British Swimming

Naissance en mars 1991
Naissance à Havering (borough londonien)
Nageur britannique
Nageur de papillon
Nageur de quatre nages
Nageur aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2012


In this sumptuous installation which was organised by Francesco Ratta theatrical baroque pomp is evident. At the end of his charge, lasting two months, each Gonfaloniere had to offer a banquet at his expenses to his colleagues (the Anziani). It was a good occasion for exhibiting grandiosity, riches and celebrating family prestige, even if these heavy expenses were ultimately fatal to personal finances.
This spectacular banquet is documented by a series of eight prints. They portray the decoration of the open gallery with garlands and depict details of some of the interior decorations. The room in the residence once owned by the Vizzani family (nowadays Sanguinetti, Via S. Stefano, 43) has as its centerpiece a spectacular sugar trophy designed by the sculptor Giuseppe Maria Mazza: one-meter-high, wrought after the techniques of the glass masters of Murano by the confectioner Giovan Battista Zacarini. It is a surprisingly rocky mountain made of silver and veiled in green, reflective of the famous Bernini fountain in Piazza Navona, it is surrounded by the allegorical statues of the four rivers. From their urns is an outpouring of delicious food. This space is encompassed by a great table for 66 guests, which because of its round shape priority problems were averted. The room scenography bears the family heraldic symbols. Golden griffins and palm leaves clearly allude to the prosperity of Bologna during the government of Francesco Ratta. Along the green damask covered walls small mirrors are hung, tilted to multiply the original and artistic compositions of bottles and precious plates which are scattered all over. The Hall, painted by Tommaso Laureti (n. 1530 – m. 1602), shows in the middle of the ceiling Victory Presenting Fame with the World Conquered by Alexander the Great and a frieze with Alexander's adventures successively covered by new decorations.
At the end of his charge as a Gonfaloniere (the most significant political position occupied in turns every two months by the Bolognese senators until the age of Napoleon), Francesco Ratta offered the Anziani a memorable banquet. On this occasion, the Hall of his residence was transformed thanks to a baroque ephemera set documented by this series of etchings and a printed description.
Bequest of Giovanni Gozzadini (1902).
Mazza, G. La custodia d'oro goduta nel vigilantissimo Confalonierato dell'illustrissimo signor senatore Francesco Ratta e simboleggiata nel di lui sontuos.mo convito fatto all'ill.mo publico, & ecc.si sig.ri anziani il primo bimestre dell'anno 1693, Bologna, 1693.
Bellettini, P., Campioni, R. and Zanardi, Z. Una città in piazza, Comunicazione e vita quotidiana a Bologna tra Cinque e Seicento, Bologna, 2000, pp. 155-156, fig. 19.
Il magnifico apparato. Pubbliche funzioni, feste e giuochi bolognesi nel Settecento (exhibition catalogue) (ed. S. Camerini), Bologna, 1982, pp. 21-31.
Ottani Cavina, A. "Le feste, gli apparati d'occasione", L'arte del Settecento emiliano. Architettura, scenografia, pittura di paesaggio (exhibition catalogue) (ed. A. M. Matteucci), Bologna, 1980, pp. 209-212, fig. 318-322.
Copyright image: Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio di Bologna.
CV: Graduated and specialized in History of Art at theUniversity of Bologna. Since 1985 she is curator of the Prints and Drawings Department of the Archiginnasio Library.
She has written essays and organized exhibitions about drawings, prints and artistic literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially in Bologna. She has also studied photographic collections, as well as the iconographies of the poets Giacomo Leopardi and Giosuè Carducci. She has given lectures and conferences for several public and private institutions.
Graduated and specialised at the University of Bologna. She is a specialist in Bolognese late Baroque art, namely sculpture. Among other subjects she has been studying nineteenth-century funerary art in the Bologna monumental cemetery, la Certosa.


SACRAMENTO - The California Energy Commission voted today to approve 18 grants totaling almost $3 million to design, develop or test technical feasibility for technologies in the areas of energy storage, energy efficiency, renewables and water.
Designing "solar shrubs" that use thin film photovoltaics in bio-mimicking leaf designs. California State University, Fullerton, will create a prototype using advanced 3D printing to create an easy-to-install and easy-to-move sustainable solar product for homes.
Developing building insulation material with improved performance, fire-resistance, and cost. DTE Materials Incorporated in San Luis Obispo will use natural fiber additives instead of fiberglass. The project will pilot the insulation in two buildings and one home.
Developing and testing a prototype device that can retrofit irrigation canals and non-powered dams to produce electricity. GenH of San Jose will construct a prototype to test systems under real-world conditions.
Demonstrating a filtration system hardware component that can reduce energy consumption for agricultural irrigation systems by 25 to 50 percent. Perigo Welding Works in Strathmore plans to test the system and conduct side-by-side comparisons to an existing filter system at a campus farm at Fresno State.
Building a prototype of a ducted thermal energy battery integrated into a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. Stasis Group, Inc. in Modesto aims to reduce the amount of energy required to heat and cool buildings by eliminating up to 25 percent of the peak load of space conditioning systems.
The other award recipients are: Crossno & Kaye, LLC; Empow Lighting; ETC Sola, LLC; FerroPower Technologies; InPipe Energy; Ocean Motion Technologies; Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.; Pick My Solar; Pronoia, Inc.; SkyCool Systems, Inc.; Smartville Energy, LLC; the University of California, Riverside.
The Energy Commission approved nearly $5 million to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. to demonstrate a standardized, renewable energy microgrid at the Naval Surface Warfare Center – Port Hueneme Division near Oxnard. The data from the project will support commercial deployment of microgrids for military and non-military applications.
The grants come from the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program, which funds clean energy innovations, strategies, and applications that help the state meet its energy and greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
The Energy Commission also approved the City of Del Mar's request to adopt enhanced building energy efficiency standards.
Del Mar's ordinance requires new non-residential construction and non-residential remodels with a construction value of more than $150,000 to adhere to the 2016 CALGreen Tier 1 Standards. The requirement will increase energy efficiency by 5 to 10 percent and save building owners up to $76,000 over a 15-year period. This is the nineteenth local ordinance approved in California that establishes standards that exceed state requirements.


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8 Ways We Send Mixed Messages In Relationships
Quit being passive-aggressive.
By Joanna Schroeder Published: Jul 7, 2015
Seven years into our marriage, my husband and I found ourselves resentful of one another, and we had no idea how we'd gotten there. Neither of us trusted what the other said. It wasn't because of outright lies, but rather because we'd both spent years sending mixed messages.
Our awesome marriage therapist put a quick end to this behavior, telling us to think hard about the ways we were acting the opposite of what we really wanted. We still work on these things, but now that we're aware of them, we see these bad patterns in other couples, too.
1. You want your partner's help around the house, but you complain that they do everything wrong.
If you're asking for help with chores and childcare, you need to let your partner do it their way, not the way you think they should be doing it.
I used to do this with my husband, ask him to help with the kids and then critique the way he took care of them. Truth is, he's a great dad–not just when he does stuff the way I do, but even more so for the ways he does things differently.
2. You want your partner to have friends, but you sulk when he or she spends time away from you.
If you want your love to have real friendships, you need to let him or her actually spend time building bonds with their pals. That means smiling and saying "great!" when he says he wants to spend a day here or there with his bros, or encouraging her to go for a girl's night out, even when you wish you could be together.
3. You want your partner to be fit and healthy, but you resent the time they spend working out.
Fitness doesn't come easy, especially when you're just getting started. You need to set a regular workout schedule, and that can be time-consuming.
If you want your partner to be healthy, you need to be his or her cheerleader when it's time to work out. Even better, take that time to do your own exercising!
4. You demand respect in your relationship, but disrespect your partner.
You want your partner to respect you as a person, and everyone deserves that. But if you're disrespecting him or her, why should they treat you any differently?
Don't undermine your partner's confidence, talk smack about them behind their back, and for heaven's sake, don't verbally or physically abuse them (or anyone!).
5. You want your freedom, but you try to control the person you love.
You don't want him or her checking in on you every five minutes? Don't do it to them. I know so many couples who grow resentful of each other because they just won't let one another alone.
You don't get to complain that he or she doesn't trust you if you're regularly using Find My Phone to GPS-stalk them. If you've got a reason not to trust your partner, hash it out in therapy, don't just act like a creep.
6. You tell your partner you love them the way they are, but you nitpick their looks or personal style.
You don't get to say, "I love you exactly the way you are" and then ask him or her to toss their tee shirts in favor of formalwear.
The deeper issue here is that you think people are judging you for what your partner is wearing, and that's shallow BS. Get over yourself, your partner's look isn't about you.
7. You say you're attracted to your guy or gal, but you never take the lead in showing affection or initiating sex.
In long-term relationships, hot and heavy sexy time comes and goes (pun intended!), and that's okay, but if you're attracted to your partner, you need to show them with physical touch, loving smiles, and affectionate words, even when you're not getting naked together regularly.
So many couples take for granted that their partner knows they think they're hot, but we all need to hear it, see it, and feel it regularly.
8. You say you're all about family… except your partner's.
If you're a family-centered person, then you need to make time for your partner's family too. Even if your father-in-law is needy, your sister-in-law is loud and obnoxious, and your husband's uncles are a bunch of brutes, they're still family.
Unless there's abusive behavior going on, you need to be as inviting to your in-laws as you are to your own flesh and blood.
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on halloween we lurked the courtyard's halloween parade from our office. funny that the tree that i love looking at is totally in the way of seeing anything today.
i'll admit now that i didn't get much on halloween. some of my favorite lurk subjects got that on lock tho.
i knew someone would do it. oh cameron!
skipped over to the convention center for..... the COIN SHOW!
get this. they "don't allow" photos at the coin show. i guess so you don't take a picture of the coins then photoshop some of your own? hum. the water plants were blooming tho. hey!
where are we now. OH! panya bistro! my new favorite place on earth. we had one of every martini they had while everyone else was eating breakfast. i love us.
sunday was kama'aina sunday at iolani palace. that means free, mister. except... you can only go in the basement unless you're there early enough. like, 7am early enough. we went to the basement.
not the best but just letting you know i'm still here. i'll be around the island independant film festival all weekend to check out the LIVE SCORED trailer that c.k. and c.k. and j.p. worked so hard on. i'm excited to see that. some of the films seem interesting too.


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