How Much Federal and State Lawmakers Earn in Nigeria.
It is no longer news that legislators in Nigeria are the highest paid in the world. The salary and allowances of one lawmaker in Nigeria amounts to millions of naira despite the fact that the elected officials are doing little for the average citizens.
No wonder the recent call for the review of the current salaries and allowances of the nations' public office holders has received approval of many members of the public who have complained that Nigerian law makers are getting too much.
Here is the summary of how much the lawmakers make in the country.
The Senate President has a total Annual Basic Salary of N2, 484, 242.50 and Annual Allowance of N6, 210, 606. 25 , making a total Annual salary of N8, 694, 848.75 which brings the monthly salary to about N724, 570.75.
In addition, he collects 250 per cent of his Annual Salary as Constituency Allowance.
However, his vehicles and their maintenance are provided by the federal government.
Similarly, his domestic staff, entertainment, utilities, security responsibility, Legislative Aids, House Maintenance an, as well as a Special Adviser and a Personal Assistant are provided by the federal government.
Similarly Robe (clothing) and newspapers are provided for the Senate President.
The Senate Majority Leader receives a salary of N12, 968, 960. The Minority leader receives a total annual salary of N12, 908, 168. The Whip receives N12, 867 . The same applies to Committee Chairmen. Incidentally in the last administration almost all senators were chairmen of various committees.
The allowances received by the members of the upper legislative chamber is far more than their salaries indicate.
For instance, each senator receives 75 per cent of the annual salary as allowance for a vehicle and its maintenance. They collect another 75 per cent of their salaries for domestic staff; 30 per cent for entertainment; 30 per cent for utilities; 25 per cent for robe (clothing); and 250 per cent as Constituency Allowance.
Others include, another allowance unspecified which stands at 53 per cent; newspapers 15 per cent; Personal Assistance, 24 per cent; and House maintenance 5 per cent.
In addition, the Leader receives 10 per cent for Responsibility; Minority Leader 7; while the Whip and Committee chairmen receive 5 per cent for the same purpose.
Ordinary senators receive a basic salary of 2,026,400.00; annual allowance of N10,739,920.00 , bring it to a total of N 12,766,320.00.
Other non-regular allowances include 300 per cent gratuity for the Senate President; and estacode of $1, 00 per night for foreign trips, as well as, a N37,000 per night duty tour allowance.
All the senators who finished their terms are therefore entitled to 300 per cent of the annual salaries as gratuity.
The Deputy senate President gets N32,000 per night as Duty Tour Allowance.
Senators receive $1,000 as estacode and a duty tour allowance of N23,000 per night.
At the House of Representatives, the Speaker receives a total annual salary of N 4,334,942.50.
Just like the Senate President, the federal government provides his vehicles and their maintenance . His domestic staff, entertainment, utilities, security responsibility, Legislative Aids, House Maintenance an, as well as a Special Adviser and a Personal Assistant are provided by the federal government.
He receives 75 per cent of his salary as constituency allowance.
The Deputy speaker whose annual salary stands at 4,002,309.94 enjoys similar benefits as the speaker.
The Majority Leader of the House, the Minority Leader, the Chief Whip and Chairmen of Committees receive annual salaries of N 6, 352,680.00. In addition, they receive 50 per cent of their salaries as Vehicle and Maintenance allowance; another 50 per cent for domestic staff; 10 per cent for utilities and another 10 per cent for House maintenance.
In addition, they collect 75 per cent for constituency allowance, 25 per cent for personal Assistant. Other members enjoy similar allowances.
At the House of representatives, the speaker receives $790 estacode per night and N32,000 per night for domestic trips.
The Deputy Speaker receives $750 and N30,000 for estacode and Duty Tour, respectively. Members receive $550 and N21 ,000 for estacode and domestic trips , respectively.
Speakers of the State Houses of Assembly enjoy all the benefits as their federal counterpart where virtually all they need are provided with public funds. However, their annual salaries stand at N 2,049,843.75 and a Constituency Allowance of N25 per cent of their Annual Salaries.
Deputy Speaker receives N 1,807,478.13 and 25 per cent of same as constituency allowance.
Members at the House of Assemblies receive annual salaries of N 2,473,866.25.
In addition, they receive 20 per cent for vehicles; 25 per cent for domestic staff, 10 per cent for utilities; 25 per cent each for robe, constituency , Personal Assistant and 5 per cent for newspapers.


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Rewind and Repeat
April 16, 2012 Timbers Match DispatchDavid Beckham, Jack Jewsbury, John Spencer, Kris Boyd, LA Galaxy, Steve Purdy, SubsKevin
Like one of those cheap Direct-to-Video sequels you'd see on the shelves of your local Blockbuster (younger readers: Blockbuster was like Netflix only it was an actual store that only periodically stocked movies you wanted to see) where they essentially simply remade the original movie, the Timbers played another LA-based team, threw away a lead around half time and ended up losing a match in the last ten minutes. I had to double check the schedules afterwards to make sure that next week wouldn't see the Timbers playing in space or with Jar-Jar Binks up front.
I held off writing this blog for a day – in fact, I wasn't sure I'd write one at all – because I don't want to be the guy who is constantly beating up the team. I can't wait to write a "Where did it all go right?" post, and I do firmly believe that someone is due to be on the end of an absolute spanking from the Timbers. It just wasn't this week.
But, I'll start today by looking at what I thought were positives from the match against Beckham FC.
Steve Purdy came in for Lovel Palmer and did reasonably well without setting the match on fire. Palmer, who likely spent most the week checking for Ryan Smith in his closet before trying to get to sleep, shouldered much of the blame for the defeat to Chivas last week, found himself relegated to the bench with Purdy in at right back. I doubt Purdy is the man to taker over the role and make it his own long term, but he seems a better option, in a defensive sense at least, than Palmer at this point.
A full-back signing rarely attracts the column inches or sets fans hearts aflutter in the way that a new striker or creative player does, but it simply has to be a priority for the front office, and the trialists being brought over, seemingly in bulk, in this week seem to indicate that the management are taking it seriously, at last. There is a tendency when talking about "great" full-back to lionise their attacking abilities over their defensive, but getting someone in who can take care of the defensive work is critical as all too often it's this week that is exposed by opponents.
Hanyer Mosquera put in a solid performance at the back, with an impressive 8 interceptions in crucial areas – more than both Brunner and Baptiste combined last week. This ability to read play and step out to snuff out attacks is vital if the timbers are to turn their reactive defence into a proactive one. More on this point later…
Though Beckham's screamer will undoubtedly win Goal of the Week, for my money the Timbers goal was better.
The team play, movement and one touch passing that carves open the LA defence gets ever more delightful every time you see it, and Boyd's assured finish shows what you get when you give him the ball at his feet.
And it was good to finally see Boyd getting some decent supply at last. The Scot could even have had a hat-trick with another chance saved, and one incorrectly ruled out for offside. All these came with delivery into feet. I've been beating my head against the wall as the Timbers continued to resort to "get-it-wide-cross-it-in" tactics over and over again despite Boyd's obvious strength lying in his feet, not his head.
It can only bode well that perhaps the penny has dropped that if you feed Boyd the ball to feet, he'll score.
On the flip side, well, I'll keep it brief.
Jack Jewsbury came in for a bit of stick from me, and others, last week after a poor showing in an attacking midfield role. Against LA he was better, back in his more accustomed position in defensive midfield, but only in that he was largely anonymous rather than downright poor.
But hey, at least he wasn't played as an attacking midfielder, right? It was amusing to see some criticise me for a line in last weeks piece about Jewsbury not being an attacking midfielder, as they felt it was some kind of personal attack on Jack. It wasn't. I don't doubt he's a great presence in the dressing room, and no doubt a nice guy but saying Jewsbury is not an attacking mid is no more a personal slight on him than pointing out Boyd isn't a goalkeeper. It's just a fact. Jack has, in the words of Liam Neeson, a "very particular set of skills" and those skills are firmly in the defensive sphere.
Now, I still think he should be benched as he's not offering enough for me to justify being one of the 11 – we're not good enough to carry passengers in crucial areas – but it does raise the question of who takes over. The options to slot in aren't great. Marcelin doesn't seem like a guy to be relied on game-in-game-out. If only we had a player like, for example, Adam Moffat to slot in there…
As for the goals conceded, well… For the 1st, if Brunner doesn't slip, I don't think we lose a goal. It was a desperate scurry to cover for Brunner as Keane marched into the box and allowed Donovan to ghost in unnoticed like the teenage me at a house party. It was hugely unfortunate, and coming when it did right before half time, it was a massive sucker punch that fired LA up and deflated the Timbers.
On the 2nd, Nagbe was hustled off the ball by the hungrier Juninho, whose shot through a ruck of players left Perkins unsighted till the last moment. At least, I hope he was unsighted because the other option is that Perkins went down slower than the oldest hooker in town, and a keeper who has lost that vital reflexive spring is a very worrying prospect – ask Blackburn fans about Paul Robinson.
Now, the 3rd… That annoyed me. And not just became Captain Brylcreem scored it. It was reactive defending at it's worst.
My first thought on seeing the goal was "Where the hell were Palmer (on for Jewsbury) and Chara?". There's no way anyone should be getting that kind of space in that area of the pitch, right where they should be. Repeat viewings show that Chara was attracted across to the ball down the Timbers right side, while Palmer had dropped in to cover Mosquera who'd come rushing out of defence to close down play.
If Chabala closes Beckham down, letting Brunner cover for him – that is why, I'm assuming, Brunner took up a position so deep – then Beckham's shot is either blocked off, or he's forced to pass wide. Beckham sure as hell isn't going to dribble round anyone. Even in his prime, he wasn't that kind of player.
Whether fault lies with Chabala for backing off – thinking he was covering his man – or Brunner for not giving Chabala a shout is a subjective decision. It was, though, poor decision making in defence and it's not the first time that defenders have made catastrophically poor choices.
It was still a great strike from Beckham, though. Take nothing away from that. He just should never have had the chance to shoot in the first place, is my point.
So, here we were again, more goals lost in the last ten minutes. The collapse was the 9th point Timbers had thrown away from a winning position this year and it gave the team an aggregate score of 7-25 in the last twenty minutes of matches since joining MLS.
The late game collapse has become a club tradition. Trying to drill down to the reasons for it would keep a team of experts busy for the rest of the season. Is the issue mental, physical or tactical?
I have a suspicion is a combination of all three. The collapse has become almost a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point, and the insistence of playing a relentlessly direct, get-it-down-the-wings tactic unsurprisingly leads to tiring, especially in the flanks, which opens up space in defence. And Spencer has made some strange changes at times
John Spencer has made three changes in 30 of the Timbers 40 MLS matches so far, with 2 being made in the other 10. The last two subs tend to come late in the match (averaging around the 73 and 79 minute mark respectively) and these are often the time when a manager will make that "last throw of the dice" to change a match in their favour, or look to consolidate an advantage.
The Timbers record before the last two subs are made is 14 wins, 13 draws, 13 losses, or a Loss Rate of 32.5%. After the changes the Loss Rate climbs to 40% after the 2nd sub, and 50% after all three are made.
Though 14 goals have been scored after the Timbers use their 3rd sub (4 in favour, 10 against), only 4 times has the match result been affected – most have been consolations, or another goal for the team in front. On only 1 occasion, the Timbers situation improved (the 1-1 draw with RSL that rounded off the 2011 season), the other 3 have seen it worsen, going from Win to draw in the 3-3 match with New York, and the Draw to Loss in the last two matches.
It's worrying that the Timbers seem unable to turn around matches in our favour. It seems that the longer a match goes on, the more likely it is to get away from us.
It's hard to ascertain whether it's Spencer making the wrong changes, or an indication of how thin the squad is that we lack players who can come in to a match and make a positive difference.
There may be a second part to this post later in the week, where I play at being fantasy manager of the Timbers and set out my reasoning for why I think a 4-3-1-2/4-3-3 is the way forward for the team, as this post is already way too long as it is. There may not though, because, really what's the point? I'm just a fan, so what do I know?
Next week will see Timbers face the early pacesetters, Sporting Kansas City. Getting a result against the unbeaten side will be a difficult and daunting prospect, and few will expect Portland to get anything from the match, but it would be just like this team to spark into life and grab the three points.
Or, at least we can hope…
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13 thoughts on "Rewind and Repeat"
earlgrey_hot says:
Brilliant again. I was thinking after the Beckham goal, how could it be possible there was so much space in that part of the field? And then I thought, I really hope there's an analysis on sliderulepass so I can get my head around this.
Kevin Alexander says:
I couldn't believe it when I saw it. It wasn't like we were on the attack trying to get an equaliser and got caught on the break. I think Mosquera went charging out when he didn't strictly have to – but it just seems to be his style that'll he'll go and try and win the ball – forcing Palmer back to cover and the space just opened up for Beckham. Chabala should've close him down. Brunner tried at least, but he had double the ground to cover as Chabala. You don't let anyone, let alone David Beckham, have that much space right in front of goal.
Grant Garner says:
Thinking back to that goal Moffat scored against us last season, there seems to be a pattern since then, of a bunch of random distance shots going in, where opposing midfielders sneak into space and have an opportunity. Is it a matter of leaving that space in the middle since we see to be focused on getting our work to the outside? Or is possible the vision of Perkins and his height may have something to do with it? It happened twice with LA, and once with RSL. I can't recall all the shots last season, but it felt to me like after Moffat, every team might have this on their mind; Perkins is shaky if you strike well from distance, so give it a go…
I actually thought Perkins could've done better on the first 2 LA goals – but gave him benefit of the doubt re: sighting. I can't recall the Moffat goal off the top of my head, I'd have to go back and check it out. There's just been a couple of times last season and this where I thought he wasn't getting down to low shots as quickly as you'd expect from a top keeper.
The amount of space given to late runners is worrying. It speaks to a lack of concentration and awareness on our part. This tends to happen later in matches, so it could be a fatigue issue.
I mean, in the example of Beckham's goal, there was no reason for 4 Timbers players to be out there by the sideline. Perhaps it's the desire to win the ball back quickly and try and get an equaliser, maybe it's anxiety, but whatever it was it left us exposed in the centre where most damage is done.
Wee Jon says:
A few seconds before Beckham's goal, I thought I saw Chara holding his legs, looking gassed. The dude ran his ass off on Saturday, and completed something like 89% of his passes. We really could have used some fresh legs in defensive midfield at that point. I'm not saying Chara should have been taken out, but just that he could have used some help at the top of the D. Can't understand why Palmer got put in for Jewsbury.
FDChief says:
Good stuff, again, as usual.
My only addition would be that on the first LA goal there was more of the usual "Timbers backline" stuff going on; first, Steve Purdy is caught upfield so Brunner has to race over to cover. Then the slip, which didn't help, but the man was at a dead run anyway, so whether he would have been able to mark Keane's cross out it's hard to say. And then, as you noted, Donovan tiptoes in like the old lady sneaking into bed with the gardener completely unmarked; I have no idea who his marker even was, at that point, but whoever it was was off doing something else important at that point…
So woulda coulda shoulda…but I think you may be on to something when you observe how thin we are. I got to thinking about that when you talked about benching Cap't Jack, and it occurred to me – who the heck could be replace him with? Marcelin just doesn't seem capable of going both directions for the full 90, and beyond that..?
The Oregonian had a quiet little article at the end of last season that pointed out how the Timbers really are the poor relation to much of the MLS; as much as Paulson is ridiculously wealthy compared to, say, me, he's not really up there with the people who bankroll Seattle, or the LAG, or NYRB. So the question for me is – can Merrit and Gavin run the Portland equivalent of "moneyball"? Because, if not, the portents are kinda ugly…
The salary cap and single entity structure of MLS means that shouldn't be a problem in the near-term. If it is then Merritt can eventually bring in new investors. He's smart and he wants to win, so I'm not worried about the team being able to develop or sign good players. Some of the best clubs in Europe are from mid-size provincial cities and only recently have they been purchased by billionaire owners.
I think where MP has to be careful is if he wants to run the club "like a business". He can't throw money down the drain. However, a soccer club or any professional sports team is not your usual business. Professional sports teams usually don't make a profit and you can make the argument they shouldn't if they want to win. Any attempts to run a club "like a business" usually produces mediocre results and eventually the casual fans will migrate elsewhere, which is bad for business. I think MP gets that.
Point well taken, Paul. If the end result is something ugly on the pitch all that "moneyball" will go for naught.
Still, this gets to me when I read moans about trading away Kenny Cooper and how well he's doing at NYRB. Could it have something to do with the difference between playing alongside Jorge Perlaza and playing alongside Thierry Henry? I'm sure Merrit would love to buy him some Henry, but unless and until he – as you mention – brings in some other investors the money for that level of DP isn't here.
So we come back to the issue of Jewsbury and how it points up the issue of choices the Timbers are making. Some organizations have the luxury to make poor choices – they can afford a passenger or two. We can't. We shouldn't anyway (as I type this I note that we just signed another Colombian forward. Gavin is going to be featured on one of those "hoarders" shows where we get taken into the boot room to find towering stacks of old magazines, plates of mummified food, and a dozen idle forwards witting around…) but in our case we are on a very thin margin, and every player that can't contribute on the pitch is not just a nil but an active negative.
I'm still optimistic; the season, and the team, is still young.
The notion of an ashamed Gavin Wilkinson on Hoarders revealing his stash of hoarded Colombian footballers has had me chuckling away for most of the afternoon.
"I got one, and found I couldn't stop. I can't send them home, they mean so much to me. Look at their cheeky little faces."
I have this mental picture of Merrit going to his office coat closet and turning on the light and there's Eduardo Sanchez-Herrera, the latest signing from Bogota, crouching amid the galoshes and umbrella munching an empanada.
"GAVIIIINNNN!!!!!"
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Another great analysis, although you must get tired of the same thing all the time. To my mind, the Beckham goal was irrelevant; pretty yes, but the game was already over at that point.
I fear our great weakness is not defense, but offense. Not offensive talent (my gosh, look at Boyd's wrongly disallowed effort!), but fundamental team desire to outscore 'em. We seem to be happy to score one goal, maybe a second if it falls in our lap, almost as if Spencer wants to win every game 1-0. And all the players, excepting Boyd, seem to want a GOTW. So their shot is in the tenth row, or they pass instead.
Kevin, have we taken any shots on frame (or crosses) from outside the 18 that were on the ground? I cannot remember one. Shots like Juninho's score goals – either directly, or on rebounds, deflections, etc. Chara alone has passed up 4-5 clear chances for one.
If our true objective were to score three goals in every 45 minutes, we'd be much scarier. Instead, we retreat to our own end and try to hold them off. And we've all seen how well that works. I have no problem with a 1-0 Timbers win. Except I don't think we will see one in 2012.
And continuing in the vein of offense first, I'd love to buy you a beer and discuss the possible merits of a 3-4-3…

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Texas Open Sunday in San Antonio.
The pair were knotted from 7 to 11 after Reed bogeyed the former, and Hoffman took the lead back with a birdie at No. 11.
Each man had one birdie over the next six holes and Reed put the pressure of a playoff on by sinking his own putt at No. 18.
It's the fourth win on the PGA Tour for Hoffman, and his first since the OHL Classic in 2014. It's the third time in four victories that he has won by a single stroke.


The great outdoors has always been an integral part of my life. Growing up in Canada I regularly went camping, hiking, and was steered by my parents outside during free time, regardless of season or weather. Being outdoors was just what I did. Years later, living in the concrete jungle that is Bangkok, Thailand, I continue to gravitate towards natural spaces, even though opportunities aren't necessarily obvious or easy. Cycling along the city's canals, running in slums, and enjoying a city park has always been a draw, especially at sundown. I didn't equate it to much more than a predilection for being active, but it turns out there may be much more primal reasons and powerful benefits for engaging nature.
While strolling seemingly endless beaches at Hua Hin, Thailand during an introspective period, I found myself hearing the rolling waves, birds, wind in the trees and nature's orchestra extremely clearly. Each walk left me feeling fulfilled, recharged and very creative. I wondered why, did some research, and stumbled upon Richard Louv's intriguing book The Nature Principle. In it he references 'Vitamin N', which stands for 'Vitamin Nature', and hypothesizes that humans require a regular dose of it to fully utilize and hone our senses and instincts. While technology is changing and reshaping our lives at an unprecedented pace, Louv cautions we have not yet addressed how human capacities are enhanced through the power of nature.
For the first time in human history there are now more people living in cities than rural settings, many of us spend a majority of our days sitting in unnatural positions, staring at computers, living dangerously sedentary lifestyles, with little or no daily connection to the natural world. This radical shift in the human condition must be having an impact on how we think and perform. The Japanese recognized this some time ago and have been combating it with 'Forest Bathing' (Shinrin Yoku in Japanese), a simple concept of getting people into forests to reconnect with the natural environment. To date there are 44 accredited Shinrin Yoku forests in Japan and it's quickly becoming a mainstream activity. Studies in that country have shown that Forest Bathing reduces stress, anger, anxiety, depression, and has other positive impacts on those who take part. There's something to this.
A July 2015 New York Times article, 'How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain', explored how brain waves change when walking outdoors. It also touched on studies that correlate elevated anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses amongst urban dwellers that have little access or exposure to the great outdoors. What was once a fringe concept is gradually gaining traction and starting to attract supporters.
While urbanization and modernization has powerful benefits and is raising millions out of poverty, by doing so we're losing our connection with natural environments at an alarming pace without knowing the full consequences. It seems entirely plausible that by doing so, humans are relinquishing the full use of their senses and instincts due to our changed daily environments. Reconnecting with nature and receiving regular doses of 'Vitamin N' is imperative not only to avoid losing touch with our natural world, but ourselves, and realizing our full capability. Get outside, get reconnected, and start firing on all cylinders.


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Farmer trampled to death by bull
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On scene where a 72 year old man was trampled to death by a bull in the town of Covington
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An upstate New York farmer died Thursday when he was trampled by a bull while working at a farm, police said.
Roy C. Bell was moving cattle at the farm on Simmons Road in Covington, less than an hour south of Rochester, when he was injured by one-year-old bull sometime before noon.
The 72-year-old was discovered unconscious around 11:40 a.m. by a family member who unsuccessfully tried to perform life-saving measures, New York State Police said.
The victim was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
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Permanently Free Fast Travel: Can be unlocked by upgrading your camp.
Train Tickets / Post Office: Train Tickets can be bought at the Post Office for a small fee, but not every other train stations can be reached from each town.
Stagecoaches: Found in most towns, you can call a Stagecoach to drive you to another town. The downside is that these only work when you have no bounty on your head worldwide.
In addition to fast travel, there is automatic horse travel (autopilot) which lets you set a waypoint anywhere and you can hold Touchpad (PS4) / View-Button (Xbox One) to make your horse ride there automatically. To initiate this you must be riding on a road in the direction of the waypoint.
Step 1 (Unlock Camp Upgrades): In Chapter 2, complete Strauss's story mission "Money Lending and other Sins". Strauss wants you to track down debtors who took a loan from your gang. There are 3 of them, you just need to get money from one and put it in the camp's tithing box. This unlocks the ledger next to the tithing box. There you can select camp upgrades!
Step 2 (Unlock Fast Travel): Buy the first two camp upgrades in the lodging category "First Things First" ($220) & "Next in Line" ($325). That's $545 in total. The second upgrade unlocks a fast travel map behind Arthur's tent!
Train Tickets can be bought at any Post Office. The further you want to travel the more they cost (it usually varies between $5-$15). The downside is that not every train station is connected to each other. So you may have to take multiple trains to get where you want to go.
The upside is that it works even when you have a bounty on your head. The train fast travel is instant.
With Stagecoaches you can travel to other towns that have a Stagecoach post. Just like trains they usually vary between $5-$15 per ride. The downside is that you can only use stagecoach fast travel when you have no bounty on your head anywhere in the world. If you do, you must pay off the bounty first (but due to certain story missions you will quickly have a bounty back on your head). This option makes more sense for after the story when you go for 100% completion. During the story it's too costly to pay off your bounty each time you want to fast travel.
The upside is that stagecoaches can reach more places than trains.
Those are all the fast travel options you have in Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2). Try to unlock the free fast travel from your camp as early as possible. This comes in very handy and saves a lot of time. To travel back to camp, use a train to fast travel to the nearest town and then ride back to camp or use the automatic horse travel autopilot. After the story, pay off your bounties and use the stagecoaches for fast travel.


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Roy Lichtenstein was born October 27, 1923 in New York. At a young age, Lichtenstein developed an interest in drawing. While attending the Franklin School for Boys, Lichtenstein enrolled in Parsons School of Design and took watercolor classes on Saturdays. He continued to draw throughout high school, making watercolors of the country as well as paintings from live models. In 1940, Lichtenstein graduated from Franklin and began taking painting classes at the Art Students League. Dissatisfied with the classes, Lichtenstein transferred to Ohio State University. Due to the interruption of the war, he was not able to graduate until 1946, after which he began teaching at Ohio State.
By 1951, he had begun to exhibit his work in galleries throughout New York. In 1952, John Heller Gallery, New York, had a solo exhibition of Lichtenstein's work. Lichtenstein continued to show in galleries in New York and Ohio over the next few years. In 1955, the Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, purchased one of Lichtenstein's paintings.
After various teaching posts, Lichtenstein finally moved to Rutgers University where he meets Allan Kaprow, a fellow teacher. Heavily influenced by his presence, Lichtenstein revisited Proto-pop imagery. He began to use cartoon images and commercial printing techniques in 1961, creating a unique aesthetic with the visual vocabulary of popular art. Leo Castelli took notice of his work and began displaying it in 1961, giving him his first solo show just one year later. The entire show was sold out before opening, creating increasing interest and demand and prompting Lichtenstein to resign from Rutgers in 1964, moving to New York full time. Until 1965 he focused largely on reproductions of comic strips, closely copying panels to both critical acclaim and disdain. In the 1970s he became more retrospective, loosening his style and incorporating elements of his previous work into single scenes. Throughout his work he makes use of thick outlines, bright primary colors, and Ben-Day dots to represent his subjects.
Lichtenstein's work is included in numerous museums, such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Banks could pull out of UK if Brexit takes place
Financial service companies could leave the UK if a Brexit becomes a reality, a parliamentary committee has been told.
Representatives from HSBC and Barclays appeared before the Treasury select committee yesterday (6 January) and were quizzed about the positives and negatives of Britain's position in the European Union.
Mark Astaire, vice chairman of Barclay's investment banking division, said: "There is a lot less sunk cost in financial services in terms of remaining in the UK than if you put up a car plant.
"I don't think London will collapse whatever happens, far from it. I think there are lots of other good reasons why London will be successful [if Britain leaves the EU] but there is a clear risk at the margin that people will just get up and go, whereas you cannot move your car plant from Sunderland.
"Within the industry itself if you are one guy who is the wizard at your hedge fund and you have got 10 people who work for you, you can be quite a substantial business but it is pretty easy to move anywhere."
James Chew, group head of regulatory policy at HSBC, said the on-going question of his company's domicile would not be resolved by the result of the referendum.
He said: "The domicile debate is a totally separate one from the EU."
The company ruffled feathers last year when it announced a review of whether it would remain domiciled in the UK.
Committee member Chris Philp asked whether the introduction of the bonus cap - fought by the UK government - was a demonstration of the negative impacts of EU membership.
But Mr Chew said: "There was political sentiment in Europe which said we have got to do something.
"I think you do have to look at it in the round and maybe that [the bonus cap] is something where you see that it didn't go too well .There are a lot of other things that are benefits.
"The UK has enormous influence at the top of the tree on the FSB and the Basel committee."
Mr Astaire said: "There was a political desire to be seen to do something about bonuses and that is in a way understandable.
"If you are trying to employ people in the US as a European bank that is a disadvantage relative to American banks."
He added: "London has continued to thrive within the EU and I think there is a generally held view that we fight our corner pretty well within Brussels."
The cap restricts bonuses to 100 per cent of banker's pay or 200 per cent with shareholder approval.
Both Mr Chew and Mr Astaire said the prospect of leaving the EU would mean their companies would incur large costs adapting to the new environment.
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Isn't it so that no matter what, it always come down to attitude and an open mind.
Couldn't say it any better. I do not have the huge experience, giving LVCs as Uwe has, did some, alright. Sure it is a matter of getting used to it for a trainer (as well). What is a course for? Transforming knowledge from one brain to some others. Therefore an LVC is as good as as an instructor led training. Is a training a incentive as well? Make you feel important, because your boss is sending you around, paying for Hotel? Is it networking after the class with people from other companies? Sharing experiences, perhaps just not only course topics… in this case, an LVC does not at all apply. OK, your CO² footprint is not the same. What I wanted to say is, LVC is a great way to learn, but that doesn't mean that ILT is outdated or old fashioned. Both should have their place in Oracles course formats, as well as TOD (Training on Demand, which is kind of an unlucky abbreviation in german). "Everything is right, even the opposite" is what Tucholsky said.
Martin, thank you for sharing your thoughts here!
I'm with you that classroom training is still a great way of learning and should definitely not be abandoned by Oracle University.
Good point with the CO² footprint! But I admit that I didn't realize the possible incentive nature of being sent on travel, probably because of too much travel. 🙂 May I add that I have much sympathy for people who quote Tucholsky?


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Toy Story 3 Totally Left The Door Open For Fourth Movie
Toy Story 3 might've felt like a natural conclusion to the franchise, but it left the door open wide open for Toy Story 4. The original Toy Story trilogy was released from 1995 through to 2010, and is now generally considered the golden standard for mainstream animated filmmaking. Over the course of three movies, Woody the pull-string cowboy, Buzz Lightyear the action figure, and their fellow toys adjusted to life with new siblings, confronted their own mortality, and even bid farewell to their original owner, Andy, in one of Pixar's more famously poignant and tear-jerking endings.
Of course, it wasn't long before the franchise returned in the form of a theatrical short titled Hawaiian Vacation in 2011, followed by a pair of TV specials (Toy Story of Terror! and Toy Story That Time Forgot) in 2013 and 2014. Pixar further announced its plans for Toy Story 4 in 2014 and initially scheduled it for release in 2017, before later pushing it back to 2018 and finally this year. For the large part, these various Toy Story shorts and specials were standalone adventures that hadn't been directly set up by the third movie. However, in the case of the upcoming film, things are a little different.
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In its early stages of development, Toy Story 4 was described as being a romantic comedy about Woody and Buzz setting out to rescue Bo Peep. The storyline made sense enough; Toy Story 3 revealed that Bo had been separated from the other toys sometime between the second and third movies, but never actually resolved the plot thread. At the same time, some were concerned the story was too thin for a full-length Toy Story movie and made more sense as a short. Pixar's creatives ultimately felt the same way and eventually threw out a good chunk of the original Toy Story 4 script, in favor of a narrative where Woody reuniting with Bo is an important subplot in a larger story about Woody coming to question his very reason for existing and what, exactly, he wants out of life anyway.
The Bo Peep thread wasn't the only part of Toy Story 3 that, in hindsight, paved the way for Toy Story 4 either. After all, the third Toy Story movie didn't actually end with Andy bidding farewell to Woody and the other toys. Rather, immediately after they parted ways, the film's credits featured an epilogue that revealed how things had improved for the toys at Sunnyside Daycare, and offered a glimpse at Woody and his pals' life with their new owner, Bonnie, and her other playthings. There wasn't a whole lot to the credits stinger (it mostly showed Buzz and Jessie dancing to a Spanish-language version of "You've Got a Friend in Me"), but it nevertheless made it clear that saying goodbye to Andy wasn't really the end for the franchise. If anything, it suggested the story could and would continue in some form, including a potential fourth movie.
To be fair, at the time of its release, Toy Story 3 was clearly intended to serve as a finale to the series. That's also why so many fans were concerned when Pixar first made its plans for Toy Story 4 official; it felt less like the studio has a really compelling reason for continuing the Toy Story movies, and more like they were simply cashing in on one of their most beloved IPs. Thankfully, that ended up not being the case. Toy Story 4 has been (essentially) universally praised as a funny, moving, and overall surprisingly necessary continuation in its initial wave of reviews, and currently sports a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes for its efforts. Looking back at Toy Story 3 from the present, it's easier to see now how that film not only left things open for Toy Story 4, but in some ways begged for a fourth movie to give the franchise the ending it truly deserved.
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