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As vaccination rates rise nationwide, commercial real estate is likely to post gains across all sectors, fueled by pent-up demand and a high level of consumer savings, said leading economists on Wednesday. The predictions were presented as part of the National Association of REALTORS®' "Real Estate Forecast Summit: Commercial Update" webinar.
The U.S. economy will continue to improve in 2021, said Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist, and that improvement is likely to drive gains across most commercial real estate markets.
Despite job losses and lower GDP in 2020, Yun said personal income was actually up by 10.7% in the second quarter of 2020 and 4.3% in the fourth quarter, thanks to federal stimulus measures, which included direct payments and unemployment compensation. The higher income, he explained, combined with reduced activity due to the pandemic resulted in an elevated savings rate. This build-up in savings could result in a strong economic resurgence once the COVID-19 vaccine distribution becomes widespread and consumers are freer to pursue pre-pandemic levels of activity. "Once we reach herd immunity, all these savings could be unleashed," said Yun. "It could be as soon as the second half of this year."
Yun noted that the multifamily sector could also be a beneficiary of increased spending later in the year as renters return to the market. He added that the shortage of affordable housing and the pandemic-related trend of additional family members joining households may act as further spurs. "Jobs are being created, and people may be tired of being cooped up with family," he said. "Some may rent simply because they are being choked out of the home-buying market by rising prices."
Yun predicted GDP growth of 4% and job gains of 3 million for 2021.
Calvin Schnure, Nareit's senior vice president of research and economic analysis, said that the trajectory of CRE recovery in 2021 will be different from previous recoveries after economic downturns and that the recovery is likely to be much faster. "The way we got here matters," he said, noting that unlike the Great Recession, the economy and CRE turned down in 2020 due to an external shock rather than internal weaknesses, such as overheated or over-leveraged markets. "CRE fundamentals were pretty good in 2020," he said. "Supply and demand was reasonably balanced in most sectors."
Schnure also stated that there were differences in the way the work-from-home phenomenon affected office and multifamily vacancies and rents. So-called "gateway cities," such as San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Boston, experienced an increase in vacancy rates and steeper declines in rents in both office and multifamily, while vacancies actually declined and rents grew for both sectors in some smaller cities. The changes for both types of cities, he noted, could be transitory. "Work from home is having a real effect, but I'm not sure if this is permanent. Some signs suggest this may be temporary."
Improvement in the retail sector is anticipated, said Brandon Hardin, NAR's research economist, as the vaccine becomes more available in the second half of 2021. Retail and foodservice sales were already in recovery as of January 2021, he stated, exceeding April 2020 by $155.4 billion for a total of $568.2 billion. "Retail should attract new customers and retain current ones," said Hardin, though he did note that the retail rebound does ultimately depend on how comfortable consumers feel going into stores. He also stated that adaptive reuse in the retail sector will create opportunities.
E-commerce showed strong growth throughout 2020, Hardin said, totaling $791.7 billion in sales, an increase of 32.4% over 2019. He predicted that e-commerce sales will continue to increase, though the pace may be slower than it was in 2020.
Industrial has also emerged as a bright spot in commercial, Hardin said, partly driven by the need to support e-commerce. Warehousing and storage jobs in February 2021 posted year-over-year increases of 72,400 jobs, he said, and industrial posted positive rent growth in the fourth quarter of 2020, as well as occupancy gains for 80% of markets in 2020. Hardin's outlook for industrial was optimistic: "Strong demand will continue."
Gay Cororaton, NAR's senior economist and director of housing and commercial research, noted that land, industrial, and multifamily were all bright spots, posting year-over-year increases in sales prices in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4%, 2%, and 1% respectively). In addition, she predicted that office-using jobs could be back to pre-pandemic levels by the second quarter of 2022. However, she noted that the work-from-home trend could continue to impact the office occupancy rate. "Even if jobs return," she said, "I think we will continue to see an uptrend in vacancy rates."
Cororaton predicted positive trends in occupancy rates for multifamily, industrial, and retail—and for retail, she included brick-and-mortar stores in that optimistic prognosis. "Experiential shopping will continue," she said. "Brick-and-mortar retail won't go away. People aren't going to shop only online."
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import rospkg
import yaml

from auto_number import AutoNumber

class SoundMapEnum(AutoNumber):
    ARMED = ()
    AUTO = ()
    AUTONOMOUS_MODE = ()
    BATTERY_LOW = ()
    CHANGING_MODE = ()
    DISARMED = ()
    GUIDED = ()
    HOLD = ()
    INITIALIZING = ()
    LEARN = ()
    LEARNING = ()
    LINUX_SHUTDOWN = ()
    LOITER = ()
    MANUAL_MODE = ()
    MANUAL = ()
    PAUSE_MODE = ()
    RETURN_TO_LAUNCH = ()
    ROS_IS_STARTING = ()
    ROS_IS_STOPPING = ()
    SD_DRIVE = ()
    SD_NAVIGATION = ()
    SD_POWER = ()
    SEE_CONE = ()
    SELF_DIAGNOSTIC = ()
    STABILIZE = ()
    STEERING = ()
    SYSTEM_ERROR = ()
    SYSTEM_OK = ()
    TAZER = ()
    TOUCH_CONE = ()

    def __init__(self):
        self.file_name = None

    @classmethod
    def tostring(cls, val):
        """From string"""
        for k, v in vars(cls).iteritems():
            if v == val:
                return k

    @classmethod
    def fromstring(self, a_string):
        """From string"""
        return getattr(self, a_string.upper(), None)

    @classmethod
    def set_file_name(self, a_string):
        """Set file name"""
        self.file_name = a_string

    @classmethod
    def get_file_name(self):
        """Get file name"""
        return self.file_name

# Read sound name/file association file
  # Get an instance of RosPack with the default search paths
rospack = rospkg.RosPack()
  # Get the file path for rospy_tutorials
path = rospack.get_path('robo_magellan') + "/scripts/soundmapfiles.yaml"
print path
stream = open(path, "r")
sound_name_file_assoc = yaml.load_all(stream)
  # Associate enumerated key (token) with value (file name)
for doc in sound_name_file_assoc:
    if doc is None:
        break
    for k, v in doc.items():
        try:
            # Find the enum corresponding to the key
            SoundMapEnum.__getattr__(k).file_name = v
        except:
            print 'No enum named: '+k
        #print k, "->", v
        #pass
    #print "\n"

#print list(SoundMapEnum)
#print(SoundMapEnum.ARMED.file_name)
#print(SoundMapEnum.ARMED)
#print(SoundMapEnum.AUTO.file_name)
#print(SoundMapEnum.AUTO)
#print SoundMapEnum

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Hippo Campus
Get an inside look at the recording and performance process of Hippo Campus ahead of the release of their first full length album. Recorded at the legendary Pachyderm studios, Hippo Campus's debut album Landmark showcases the bands constantly evolving sound. This segment also includes a live performance by the band at the place where they met in high school, the Landmark Center in St. Paul.
Get an inside look at the recording and performance process of Hippo Campus ahead of the release of their first full length album. Recorded at the legendary Pachyderm studios, Hippo Campus's debut album Landmark showcases the bands constantly evolving sound. This segment also includes a live performance by the band at the place where they met in high school, the Landmark Center in St. Paul. Special Thanks Landmark Center Pachyderm Recording Studio BJ Burton
An inside look at Hippos Campus's process ahead of their first full length album.

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Get New Mexican Boots And Become A Cynosure!
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There are a lot of different cowboy boots available nowadays. new Mexican boots are a popular style that is currently available. While they are a stylish choice in modern days, they are an older shoe that has its roots starting in the 1800s. MensUSA is one company where we provide an amazing collection of all kinds of boost in various colors, sizes and material.
They were worn by cowboys in the 19th Century in Mexico territories and since then these pairs of shoes have become a rough and tough style statement which suits every kind of man. The kind of new Mexican boots they wore in the beginning were flat-heeled and short in their length. They were later replaced with one with higher heels that worked better for cowboys who were constantly on a horse. The style and cutting of Mexican boots has experienced a lot of change since several years. this has given birth to various kinds of new Mexican boots.
New Mexican boots which are cowboy styled are not usually made out of leather material. They normally use exotic animal skins for the material. These skins include alligator, lizard, and armadillo. There is no shortage of animal skins that can be used for these styles of boots.
New Mexican boots can be designed with either flat-heels or high-heels. They also can be tall or short, according to the taste of our customers. Mexican boots come in a variety of widths as well. Anyone can take advantage of cowboy boots. Men, women, and children can all enjoy the fun style of Mexican boots. Mexican styled boots are a popular choice for children since they come in so many different varieties, and fun colors and designs. MensUSA provides an unbelievably amazing collection for New Mexican boots in completely affordable prices.
Mexican cowboy boots that are shorter will normally have flat toe caps. An alternative to flat toe caps are silver pointed toes. Taller Mexican boots usually have pointed toes with high heels. Mexican cowboy boots can be stitched with elaborate designed. Delicate details are handcrafted in the Mexican boots. The boots are often designed with themes in mind, such as horse themes or floral themes. Each kind of New Mexican boots are meant for a specific kind of wearer. You will have to try the various cuts and designs to check which suits you the best.
New Mexican boots don't need the use of laces. Mexican styled boots are a little more expensive than the usual leather boots. The reason is because of the unique design and the particular animal skin that we use for the making of it. But when you are shopping at MensUSA, you do not have to worry about the price at all. We price our goods at reasonable rates which are affordable by customers from all walks of life. Along with that, there are many discount schemes that we provide for our customers, this way you are bound to have all pros and no cons when you shop New Mexican boots from our collection at mensusa store.


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Signing completed, shipping begun...
Today, after three intense days of signing well over 1,000 books, I finally completed that monumental task. Contrary to expectations, my signing hand is in good shape despite the strain its been under, thanks for asking.
Parallel with the signing, the capable staff of CPI (the printers who produced the book) in Melksham, UK have been busy packing and shipping the books. Shipping actually started Tuesday and Wednesday with orders outside Europe, then went on to Europe yesterday and today, when shipping also started for UK orders, which will complete tomorrow. Not each and every book will be shipped in this geographical order, because of special requirements for some orders, but generally speaking this means that the "time gap" between delivery of orders in the UK and orders in Europe and outside Europe will be a little less wide.
The fact that the book now exists as a physical artefact still feels a little unreal to me, so it will be a while before it sinks in properly. Until then, I hope it will feel real enough for you when receive it - and, of course, that you will enjoy it.
The book is still available for ordering here: abbathecompleterecordingsessions.com
ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions: it now exists as a physical object
I have to admit it does feel a little unreal, but these pics (see below) just came in from CPI, who prints the revised and expanded edition of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions in the UK. The images show the pages being bound and assembled, and then final product - the actual book!
Writing a book is such intense work so the fact that it will eventually end up as a physical object always remains abstract for me until I see it with my own eyes, not least for a book project that has taken as long as this one has.
Well, next week will be spent signing and preparing the shipping of all pre-ordered books on location in the UK, which is going to be an interesting experience. The books will then start shipping towards the end of the week, on Friday 31 March.
Although the deadline for ordering a signed copy of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions has passed, you can still order the book, and if you're quick about it I may be able to have it shipped together with the other pre-ordered books.
Order your copy here: abbathecompleterecordingsessions.com
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More than two years in the making, the revised and expanded edition of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions will soon be published, as all pre-ordered copies are expected to ship 31 March. It's been quite a journey, that's for sure. Except for a handful of days off here and there, I've been working seven days a week for two years, so I'm looking forward to a little time off in April. At the moment I'm busy preparing everything for the signing and shipping of the books next week.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's joined me on this adventure, my first self-published book. The enthusiasm, kindness, generosity and support that I've experienced as I've worked on the book have been quite extraordinary, far surpassing any of my expectations. It's truly heartwarming to see that people are capable of such gestures of kindness and unselfishness in this ghastly world. So to everyone who's ordered the book, and/or helped out with information, supplied cuttings (some have even donated items from their collections), or just cheered me on: thank you so much! My heartfelt thanks also go the owners and members of various ABBA Facebook groups who have shown a lot of patience with my many posts about the book. The opportunity to remind fans about the project regularly has been a great help in making ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions a reality.
In other news, the ebook version of the book will be delivered on 6 April if all goes to plan. More details will follow.
If you haven't done so yet, you can still order the book at abbathecompleterecordingsessions.com
And last but not least: Thank you again!
New excerpt from ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions
A new, exclusive excerpt from the revised and expanded edition of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions has just been published by ABBAtalk. It's about the recording of the Super Trouper album's 'On And On And On', and serves as an example of the kind of insight you can expect from the book. Read the excerpt here.
A few days ago, icethesite.com also published an excerpt from ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions, about Björn and Benny's songwriting methods, available here.
Last but not least: Wednesday 15 March is is your last chance to order an author-signed copy of the book. In other words: order now! For orders placed after 15 March, the books won't be signed.
Pre-order your copy here: abbathecompleterecordingsessions.com
Behind the scenes where ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions was written
Here's a video put together by Chris Williams of ABBAtalk, which takes you behind the scenes in my office where I keep all my ABBA cuttings (or rather photocopies of cuttings) and Word documents chock-full of ABBA info. This is where the revised and expanded edition of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions came to life.
Want an author-signed copy of the book? Then pre-order no later than 15 March (Wednesday this week): abbathecompleterecordingsessions.com
Four days to go until ABBA recording sessions book pre-ordering ends
Pre-ordering for author-signed copies of the revised and expanded edition of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions will end 15 March. After that I won't be signing any more copies of this book. So if you'd like to have your copy signed with a personal dedication, now is the time to place your order. You can do so here: abbathecompleterecordingsessions.com
In other news, I was interviewed about the book on Australian radio earlier this week. In case you missed it, you can listen here.
Fab Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus news site, icethesite.com, also published an excerpt from the book this week, an extract from the essay about the songwriting methods employed by the Andersson/Ulvaeus team. You can read it here.
And here's that pre-ordering link again: abbathecompleterecordingsessions.com
ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions: pre-ordering ends soon
Just a friendly reminder about the revised and expanded edition of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions, which will be ready from the printers on 31 March 2017:
• Pre-ordering ends 15 March, so that's the deadline if you want a signed copy (only a week to go). After that date I won't be signing any copies of this book (except at the launch event in London on 8 April).
• The book is not going to be available at a cheaper price after publication.
ABBA - The Complete Recording sessions tells the story of how ABBA's music was written and recorded. This expanded and revised edition has been rewritten from the ground up and offers many hitherto unknown facts, stories and insights from the group's musical career.
ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions: it's got essays and features
Apart from all the facts and stories about ABBA's songs, the revised and expanded edition of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions also contains a number of essays and features about various related subjects. For instance, as mentioned in a previous blog, there are five lengthy essays that will trace the making of an ABBA song from Björn and Benny writing the tune, over Agnetha and Frida recording the vocals, and then up to the mixing.
But there are also a number of mini-features on the recording studios most frequently used by ABBA; on the most important of the electronic keyboards Benny played; and, of course, on the session musicians who played on the majority of the recordings. For instance, there is a 4,000 word essay about ABBA's very own Polar Music Studio, the story of which is quite a bit more convoluted and intriguing than I was previously aware. Until Polar Studio's Lennart Östlund publishes his own book, my essay will probably be the most detailed account you will read about how this studio came to be and what happened to it.
Lots to learn and enjoy across the 448 pages of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions, in other words!
Want an author-signed copy? Then pre-order before 15 March: abbathecompleterecordingsessions.com


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Biden May Be Banned From Receiving Communion in Church for Supporting Abortion Rights
The Catholic church is revisiting its policy regarding the eligibility of pro-abortion rights politicians.
Marie Solis
Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)
President Joe Biden may be one of many politicians to soon be snubbed in church for his views on abortion.
According to NPR, Catholic bishops are in the process of revisiting their policy on who is eligible to receive communion, with special consideration to Catholic lawmakers and elected officials who support abortion rights.
Biden specifically came up several times during the bishops' discussion, which took place during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last week. It was not so much a discussion as it was a "contentious debate," NPR reports, with one bishop calling Biden and his relationship to the Catholic church an "unprecedented situation in the country."
"We've never had a situation like this where the executive is a Catholic president opposed to the teaching of the church," said the bishop, Liam Cary of the Diocese of Baker in Oregon.
Another bishop put it more pointedly: "This is a Catholic president that's doing the most aggressive thing we've ever seen in terms of this attack on life when it's most innocent," said Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, leader of the bishops' "pro-life" committee.
Others, however, worried about creating divisions within the church and cutting off lines of communication with Catholic politicians who support abortion rights.
This dispute has been ongoing since at least 2004, when John Kerry ran for president, but was largely dormant until Biden's 2020 bid for office. It would be pretty extreme to ban lawmakers from participating in an aspect of their religion that is so central to its practice; then again, it is also pretty extreme to oppose abortion, a common healthcare procedure.
The small irony here is that while Biden may be a supporter of abortion rights, it's a position he rarely if ever embraces wholeheartedly. So far Biden has, for example, rolled back the global gag rule, moved to repeal Trump's Title X rule, and excluded the harmful Hyde amendment from his latest budget proposal. But to my best knowledge, his administration has yet to even utter the word "abortion," instead choosing to skirt the issue with carefully worded press releases and oblique comments. Perhaps this is why!
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Marta is originally from Rome, where she studied for her BA in Political Science and International Relations. She then moved to London, and later to Wales, where she graduated with a Masters in International Journalism from Cardiff University. Marta has also lived in Brussels, working for the European Parliament's research service. She is passionate about writing, travel, photography, surf and badminton.


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The Guttmacher Institute documents the need for, access to and use of contraceptives, as well as the impacts of that use, including the health, economic and social benefits of fulfilling the unmet need for contraception. The Institute's research and advocacy work addresses the need to support investment in the development of new methods and in high-quality, affordable family planning services that provide access to a full range of methods, comprehensive and accurate information, and effective counseling.
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US Navy Budget Request Funds Carrier GW
By: Christopher P. Cavas February 2, 2015
WASHINGTON — The US Navy's 2016 budget request is just slightly higher than planned for a year ago, in line with overall Pentagon plans to ask for funding at levels above Budget Control Act restrictions.
In Monday's request to Congress, the Navy Department is asking for baseline funding of $161 billion, up from last year's projected $159.5 billion. Another $7 billion requested under supplemental funding brings the total 2016 Navy and Marine Corps budget request to $168 billion.
Future years' funding projections for 2017-2019 also have been raised about $1.5 billion per year.
Complete coverage of the fiscal 2016 budget request.
Totals for most individual Navy accounts are higher than last year. Procurement funding shows an overall jump of $6 billion, up to $44.4 billion from last year's requested $38.4 billion.
Three billion comes from new aircraft buys — in particular the restoration of 29 Sikorsky MH-60R helicopters deleted from last year's request as part of a now-canceled plan to permanently decommission the aircraft carrier George Washington. Funding to complete the carrier's mid-life reactor refueling overhaul accounts for much of the $2.2 billion increase in shipbuilding, which rises to $16.6 billion from $14.4 billion a year ago.
Overall, procurement is 28 percent of the budget request, a jump from 25 percent last year.
Operations and maintenance funding rises $3.6 billion to $50.4 billion, comprising 31 percent of the request versus 32 percent in 2015.
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Military personnel spending rises $1 billion to $46 billion, 29 percent of the request. Last year's personnel spending took up 31 percent of overall Navy spending. Navy personnel strength shows a jump of 4,900 people, largely due to restoration of the carrier and its associated air wing, plus crews for several cruisers the Navy is keeping in service. Small increases come from the planned introduction of two new helicopter maritime strike squadrons — HSM-79 in 2016 and HSM-76 in 2017 — for the additional MH-60R helos.
The number of civilians directly employed by the Navy shows a significant reduction, dropping more than 14,000 people to 200,959 employees from last year's total of 215,014.
Research and development funding jumps $1.6 billion to $17.9 billion, largely due to $1.3 billion in cyber spending.
The Navy is asking for nine new ships in 2016 — all eight ships projected a year ago plus the balance of funding for a 12th San Antonio-class ship, LPD 28, that Congress added and partially funded in 2015. The shipbuilding request is filled out with two Virginia-class submarines, two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, three littoral combat ships, and the first T-AO(X) fleet oiler. A new LHA(R) assault ship continues to be programmed for 2017.
Aircraft buys reflect the additional MH-60R helicopters and the restoration of MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters for littoral combat ships, soon to be called frigates. A year ago, the Navy decided to end Fire Scout procurement in 2015, but two aircraft per year have been added to this year's request. Procurement of RQ-21A Black Jack unmanned aerial vehicles has also been increased, with seven vehicles in 2016 — compared with none a year ago — although last year's plan to buy four MQ-4C Triton large maritime reconnaissance UAVs is reduced to three aircraft.
As usual, the Navy tweaks its buys of the F-35 joint strike fighter. Buys of the F-35B short-takeoff vertical landing version for the Marine Corps continue as planned, with nine aircraft in 2016, while requests for the F-35C carrier variant rise to four aircraft in 2016 — up from two a year ago — but are reduced by two aircraft per year in 2017 and 2018.
In line with last year's budget-driven reductions in weapons buys, the Navy again is slashing some munitions procurement. Buys of Standard SM-6 surface-to-air missiles drop from 125 to 113; Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles drop from 89 to 30; and upgrades for Mark 54 lightweight torpedoes are cut from 216 to 140.
On the plus side, 100 Tactical Tomahawk cruise missiles have been added to 2016, up from zero last year, and 24 new, yet-to-be-identified surface-to-surface missile for littoral combat ships now appear in 2017. Buys of air-to-air weapons show increases — AIM-9X Sidewinders jump from 215 to 273, and AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles rise from 138 to 167, but buys of the Joint Standoff Weapon-C were zeroed out from last year's planned 200 units.
Most significant research and development accounts also show increases, including the F-35 (up $120 million), CH-53K helicopter (up $59 million) and the new presidential helicopter program (up $119 million). Spending for the new air missile defense radar is up $97 million; the SSBN(X) Ohio Replacement Program ballistic missile submarine is up $1.21 billion; Virginia-class submarines rise $78 million; CVN 78 aircraft carrier up $61 million; and another $110 million is added for LCS research and development.
Unmanned aviation fares poorly in R&D as spending on the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike program drops $265 million to $138 million, and MQ-4C drops $271 million to $229 million. R&D for a new amphibious combat vehicle for the Marine Corps jumps $115 million to $219 million.
Spending on military construction accounts, reduced severely last year as the Navy sought budget cuts, shows major gains in 2016 with $987 million requested for the Navy, up $321 million from a year ago, and $719 million for the Marine Corps — a jump of nearly $405 million from 2015.
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A versatile passe-partout, the SAMOA armchair stands out for the sinuous lines of the seat and back. Seat and back are made in flexible cold shaped polyurethane, covered in leather, synthetic leather, or pony skin, while the frame is available in either painted or chrome-plated steel. In leather, a woven option is possible.


Picking an outfit is easy but getting the right cut for your features is a task and you wouldn't want to fall flat on your face. Office or party, an outing or a date you really put in efforts to look special, elegant and classy. However, the choices always need to be right either for a date or denim- the most casually worn outfit by men. Denim is your go-to choice when you don't really have the mood to dress up. A simple pair of denim with a proper shirt or t-shirt can do wonders for your physique. Let's take the time to demystify the secret to dressing with simplicity and style of tailored jeans.
The idea of shopping being foreign to all the Men out there and what's more sulking is denim shopping with size, fit, style, cuts everything to wonder about and get confused and are left with a resultant outcome as zero with ample of efforts. Today, here we shall unveil the secret of denim style to make you go classy and elegant in those simple jeans wherever you may please.
Why men should you get your jeans tailored ? and not buy ready made sizes?
Men's denim wears too give a rich set of options to pick from for styles and fit. Anything that goes wrong here can put you in a soup and hence concision in style is the key to dressing well. Just as the women's denim has slim, skin and straight fit so do the Men's wear. Additionally, men also enjoy the options of relaxed, regular and loose fit jeans to suit plump body types. Let's see what each type of cut offers you and get exactly what you've been struggling to locate.
They definitely work the best for Men with a slim build. Lean shoulders with a waist of same equal width. Slim- fit jeans serve the best for your slender shape as it has a tapered waist. Not too clingy and tight but hugs your body well flaunting your slim body shape. Best chosen for occasions you are free to dress up at.
These are a sharp pair of denim that hugs your body tightly to get the exact curves revealed. It is super tight from the waist and tapers to the ankle and fits close to the body. For all those men who like to look sleek and sharp and have slim thighs and legs, Skin-fit is for you.
They are opted by all as they are straight through hip, thigh, knee, and ankle. Usually suit your long working hours when paired with a shirt, polo shirts or t-shirts that fit your body perfectly from the shoulders to the waistline.
These are a pair of jeans that all men who like high-waist usually love for their comfort. It is roomy from the waist to the knee and the legs. Embracing the body it makes easy to move around and wear it all day long. Have wider thighs and legs, works perfectly for men with an athletic build and husky men.
The desire to wear boots can be fulfilled with these pair of jeans but do not have a flare at the ankle. They are close to the thigh and then slightly flare or open up till the ankle.
Having said all this, it is also essential that you try the jeans you buy and ensure that it fits perfectly without the need for a belt at the waist and doesn't look baggy nor should it stretch. If it pulls the inseams then you really need a change. However, it should hug you properly all through your body to get you the perfect cool and elegant look at work, parties or wherever you are.


Ongoing conflict resolution in Colombia brings an opportunity for economic development of impoverished communities and a conservation threat of deforestation in newly accessible rural areas. Ecotourism is often proposed as a "win–win" solution for developing countries to meet both economic and conservation needs. With the highest number of bird species of any country, including 443 rare species highly valued by bird-watchers, Colombia has a unique opportunity to develop a lucrative and conservation-friendly bird-watching tourism industry in postconflict areas. Through geospatial analysis of conflict zones, bird distributions, protected areas, forest cover, and bird-watching activity, we identify areas of Colombia with unrealized bird-watching potential that are ripe for the development of synergistic conservation-ecotourism projects. An investment in ecotourism infrastructure and training by the Colombian government may be a conservation-friendly alternative to natural resource extraction that could alleviate poverty without degrading natural capital in postconflict Colombia.


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Chicago Thunder Front Office Hires
August 13, 2002 - United States Professional Volleyball League (USPV) - Chicago Thunder News Release
OAKBROOK TERRACE, ILL., AUGUST 12, 2002_ The Chicago Thunder, a member of the United States Professional Volleyball league (USPV), today promoted Nicole Gonzalez to the post of account executive.
In her role as account executive, Gonzalez will be responsible for selling group and season ticket packages and will also focus on marketing and match-day operations.
In 2001, Gonzalez was the Thunder team manager, where she acted as a liaison between the athletes and the front office and also handled the team's practice and road trip logistics.
Prior to joining the Thunder, Gonzalez worked for San Angelo Pro Hockey, Inc. where she was involved in a variety of different marketing and promotion activities. Gonzalez also worked with the Schaumburg (Ill.) Flyers minor league baseball team.
Gonzalez played volleyball collegiately for four years at Southeast Missouri State University where she was graduated in 1998 with a degree in Social Work. Gonzalez earned a Master's Degree in Administration from SEMSU in 2001. Gonzalez was a four-year Ohio Valley Conference Scholar Athlete at SEMSU.
In other Thunder front office moves, Mike Miazga, the USPV's media relations director, will, in addition to his league publicity duties, officially assume the Thunder media relations post. Miazga was the Thunder's interim media relations director for the 2002 season.
Prior to joining the USPV, Miazga, who will begin his third season as the league's media relations director, enjoyed a 10-year career as a sportswriter in the Chicago area, most recently with the Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Ill.), the third largest daily paper in Illinois.
The USPV, the premier women's professional volleyball league, recently announced it will expand to eight teams in 2003 with the addition of expansion teams in Columbus, Ohio, Dallas, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
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Final Destination (ExpDl Top 100)
"What's your favorite scary movie? Well, it depends on how you want to define scary movie. My favorite horror franchise is a toss up between Final Destination and Scream. If we're sticking to the slasher subgenre, it's Scream. I love how it's a sorta parody of the genre, while still being a part of the genre itself. But in the end, I had to go with Final Destination.
As a franchise, I feel tht it did stay pretty strong throughout. Yes, it had a few questionable entries, but it didn't decline as steadily or steeply as Scream. The first FD is brilliant. It's the right combo of campy and scary. It's dark and twisted, but a lil tongue-in-cheek and entertainly over the top. The second film continued that grave and austere vibe. The third and fourth did go a bit downhill, too much on the camp and too ridiculous, even for its predecessors. But then the fifth one, just when all hope had been lost, was incredible. It hit the balance even better. Was just as dark as the first two, but just as fun as the last two. That was all well and good, but the twist at the end. Whoa. Beyond perfection. Did not see it coming, and it was a great way to tie everything in. That restored my faith, and that's why Final Destination (mostly the first one, but as a representation of all of them) is on my list.
Two things that really stick out to me about these films. One is that the death scenes are really creative. In the early movies they're incredibly creepy and suspenseful. By the later ones, they're more ridiculous, but that's the charm. Half of the fun in watching is seeing how they're gonna die, and the build up gets milked like crazy. However, what really strikes me most about these movies is that the concept scares the \m/ outta me.
I don't typically get scared with horror movies, usually because I can see a way out. Slasher movie? Um, run from the guy with the knife, and not to the upstairs bathroom. Shark in the water? Stay outta the water. Supernatural being haunting your house? Right. But here, you're running from death itself. When it's your turn, there is no escape. Even if you're lucky enough to get skipped, it comes back around. Sometimes our victims think they've found a loophole, but by the end (or the next movie) they're still wiped out.
The first time I ever saw this movie, it was about two weeks before getting on a plane to fly aross the country for a class trip. I obsessively checked the latch on my tray table to make sure it didn't break off. To this day, I still check it as soon as I sit down. God only knows what I'd do if it ever broke on me. On that same trip, after being edgy about the plane ride, the toilet in one of our hotel rooms overflowed. The water appeared to chase us around the bathroom.
I love the original cast so much too. Devon Sawa had been one of my biggest crushes in junior high,a nd this was one of the first times I saw him all growed up. I still adore the boy. He's why I started watching Nikita. This was also during the Dawson's Creek heyday, so it was a big deal seeing Kerr Smith. Roswell was also just starting up, so Brendan Fehr had a small role. You also got Seann William Scott before he was too typecast as Stiffler. And look, a pre-Heroes, pre-blonde Ali Larter!
Say what you will about these films being too silly or cheesey. That's what I love about them."
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A pair of Fashion Designer Olcay Gulsen's designs were featured on NBC 4's New York Live on Tuesday for the "His and Her Holiday Style" segment with stylist George Brescia.
Featured in the segment was the SuperTrash Juliet Jacket in black worn by Broadway star Kate Baldwin, and the SuperTrash Josephine Jacket in velvet red, worn by model Allison, both available at www.SuperTrash.com and at the SuperTrash store location at 29 Prince Street in New York City.
Brescia said of the Josephine jacket in the segment, "It's Rock N' Roll, It's so gorgeous," adding that it's "like the baroque" trend that is popular this season among designers.
Olcay Gulsen is the savy powerhouse behind the SuperTrash brand. The Dutch entrepreneur started the brand at the young age of 21, and over the past decade has transcended the brand into an international success.
For more information on SuperTrash and Olcay Gulsen, visit them on the web at www.SuperTrash.com and at their NYC shop at 29 Prince Street in the SOHO neighborhood.
Check out this feature on ESARSI in the February 2013 issue of British Vogue.
ESARSI designers Stacey & Rosalie Cooper show off their upcoming collection at Nolcha Fashion Week in New York City.


Treatment of many of the issues and dilemmas facing Muslims and the Ummah in general in the current times.
Advice from the Imaams of the Salafi Da'wah and the Students of Knowledge concerning emigration from the lands of the Kuffar to the Muslim lands.
The words,statements and advice of the Imaams of the Sunnah to the Ummah concerning its trials, afflictions and contemporary problems at the hands of the Unbelievers.
General matters of interest that relate to current issues, trends, and affairs that relate to the Muslims.


On Friday, August 25th, the eye of Hurricane Harvey, a strong category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph, made landfall near Rockport, TX. Over the next week, the center of Harvey would sit and spin over Texas, dropping 40-50 inches of rain! This amount of rain resulted in catastrophic and life threatening flooding across southeast Texas, including the Beaumont, TX area.
Beaumont sits about 1 hour and 15 minutes to the east of the Houston Metro. When Harvey's rains hit, the town's 118,000+ people were devastated. While most of the national media's attention was on the Houston Metro, other areas in Texas were also struggling.
In Georgetown, TX, located outside of Austin, citizens started gathering supplies. A call went out for general aviation aircraft and pilots in the area to help take supplies down to Beaumont. The Commemorative Air Forces's Highland Lakes Squadron, with their Douglas C-47 "Bluebonnet Belle", answered that call.
The C-47 has a history of transporting important cargo. During World War II, the platform was used to carry jeeps, troops, or up to 6,000 pounds of other cargo. It was used by every branch of the US military and all of the major allied powers.
When Texas needed it, the C-47 stepped back into service – more than 70 years after the war that made the type famous. The cabin was loaded with diapers, food, and water before the aircraft launched on the hour and a half trip from Georgetown to Beaumont.
The C-47 wasn't the only aircraft that helped with Harvey relief. The B-25 Mitchell "Devil Dog", also a CAF aircraft, transported supplies to impacted areas as well. These including, rather fittingly, 500 pounds of dog food for displaced pets.
Well done by these resilient old airframes and the volunteers that support, maintain, and fly them!


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Candice Lin: A Tribute to Erosion
Poet CAConrad looks at the ways in which the artist addresses the corrosive role of empire in our daily lives
The US poet Erica Kaufman writes: 'Thriving requires more than just survival.' Candice Lin's 2013 exhibition at Galeria Quadrado Azul in Porto, 'The Long-lasting Intimacy of Strangers', honoured that requirement, as has much of her subsequent work. Lin's title is a quote from biologist Lynn Margulis, who proposed symbiosis – the process by which two different life forms aid one another to the advantage of both – as being central to evolution. We have trillions of bacteria in our bodies that we could not live without and they, in turn, need the shelter and food we provide for them. Contrary to the neo-Darwinists, Margulis theorized that evolution is not a war of competitive traits; rather, it sees different species working together and, in fact, the greatest leaps in evolutionary history have been accomplished through interspecies co-operation. Central to Lin's exhibition was Metamorphosis in Space (2013): a giant, human-sized roach lying on a bed, constructed of papier mâché, clay and silver paint. (Silver's metaphysical properties are said to be healing to our psychic and emotional bodies.) The creature lies with its head on a pillow and legs and antenna curled inward. At Galeria Quadrado Azul, the surrounding room was wallpapered with a repeating pattern of purple jellyfish, suggesting, perhaps, that the insect – a clear reference to Gregor Samsa, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's novel The Metamorphosis (1915) – has found respite from 'uneasy dreams' in the purely non-human subconscious of the jellyfish.
My immediate question after seeing the giant insect on the bed was: is it sleeping or dead? Is this an autopsy about to be performed? Or maybe we might see it as a wake, one we are invited to attend. Unlike Samsa's family, do we have the compassion, do we have the empathy not just to tolerate but to love this creature? What is the condition of this giant, silver bug? How about us? How are our own psychic and emotional bodies? Humans used over five billion pounds of pesticides last year and US citizens purchased 18 thousand tonnes of bullets. Both are ammunition for a war on two fronts: one against the planet, one against ourselves. To my mind, Lin's work suggests that all our wars salute our own erosion.
'Candice Lin: A Hard White Body', 2017, exhibition view at Bétonsalon, Paris. Courtesy: the artist, Bétonsalon, Paris, and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; photograph: Aurélien Mole
As top predators, we humans believe in endless choices; we fill supermarket refrigerators with wings, breasts and legs as though it were our divine right to purchase, cook and tear into the flesh of another body with our teeth. Writer-activist Dick Gregory reminds us: 'Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and brutal taking of life.' Our disassociating violence towards other species, as well as the violence we do to one another, owes a great deal to the legacy of self-inflicted wounds. There were 45,000 suicides last year in the US alone; that's roughly 123 people every single day. Many years ago, my secondary school art teacher, in introducing me to what is believed to be Vincent van Gogh's final work, Wheat Field with Crows (1890), said: 'This is the picture he painted just before he killed himself.' He was always emphasizing the need to suffer in order to create, as though any normal life could possibly be lived without suffering. I want to write to him: '"The Long-lasting Intimacy of Strangers" is a truly great work of art by Candice Lin as she continues to create and not kill herself! I think you would also love and respect her art as I do, and how her work on colonialism's ongoing ramifications shows the true violence that lies behind the celebrated glory of discovery.'
In Lin's large installation from 2017, A Hard White Body – first shown at Bétonsalon in Paris and on view this month at Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts – she re-imagines the bedroom of James Baldwin's 1956 novel Giovanni's Room, a harrowing story about the consequences of being queer in a homophobic world. (Much of Lin's work addresses literature and literary history.) In a 1980 interview about the book, Baldwin said that his novel is 'not so much about homosexuality, it is what happens if you are so afraid that you finally cannot love anybody'. For her installation, Lin produced the bed, sheets and even socks at the centre of the novel's narrative in unfired porcelain. She moistened the porcelain with urine and water from the Seine in Paris, a river that hundreds of armies have crossed over a period of many centuries to oppress, enslave and conquer. Lin also wet her sculpture with liquid extracted from the medicinal plants that would have been used by the 18th-century French botanist Jeanne Baret, who was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, but had to do so disguised as a man. In bringing Baldwin and Baret together, she exposes multiple layers of oppression by white culture against people of colour, women and queer bodies. Lin's messy, destructive use of liquids on the white, clay bedroom recalls a brilliant talk given earlier this year by the poet Dawn Lundy Martin at Naropa University in Colorado:
World re-imagining and rebuilding as we return again and again to the repetition of this assault on black, immigrant, queer people and women – this rip in our hearts – is messy and destructive. Art and poetry, I believe, must be messy and destructive, too. We cannot be neat. We cannot stand smiling in front of the roaring crowd.
Candice Lin, System for a Stain, 2016, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist, Gasworks, London, and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; photograph: Andy Keate
Next year is the centenary of the publication of Sherwood Anderson's seminal collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio (1919). Originally, Anderson had wanted the title to be The Book of the Grotesque, but his publisher convinced him to include his theory of the grotesque as an introduction to the book instead. Each story shows how, when we refuse to address and correct false behaviour, we create an interior homunculus which, in turn, fashions exterior grotesque behaviours. Anderson's century-old book makes me think about life in 2018, especially how white culture, to the detriment of the whole world, continues to fail in understanding how whiteness denies the voices and bodies of many, many others. The reasons for Baldwin and Baret sharing space in Lin's installation are elusive at first – until, that is, we meditate on the disintegrating force of the liquid against unfired porcelain. How have our daily lives been shaped by empire? Lin has considered this question very carefully. In her 2017 essay, 'The Body Is a Troubled Thing', she echoes Anderson's theory of the transformative grotesque:
When I moved into Echo Park years ago with a roommate who was a video artist, she wanted the iron bars outside her window to be repaired because she was nervous that the mostly Latino neighbours would see 'two white girls moving in with all this gear'. 'But I'm not white,' I said, 'and your gear is a bunch of old thrift store TVs no one is going to want.' 'Oh, you know what I mean,' she replied. She wanted so much for us to be the same.
'Candice Lin: A Hard White Body, a Soft White Worm', 2018, exhibition view at Portikus, Frankfurt. Courtesy: the artist, Portikus, Frankfurt, and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; photograph: Helena Schlichting
When confronted with the racist prose of Walt Whitman, for example – the most beloved, fuzzy, bearded great grey poet – many white people are prone to immediate excuses. But, as discussed in David S. Reynolds's Walt Whitman's America (1995), in some essays Whitman wrote that newly freed slaves could not be trusted to vote in presidential elections because they had 'as much intellect and calibre (in the mass) as so many baboons'. In Horace Traubel's biography of the poet, With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906), Whitman explained to Traubel his take on Darwin's theory of evolution: 'The nigger, like the Injun, will be eliminated: it is the law of races, history, what-not.' Whitman's belief in the superiority of white bodies and white genes was shared only a handful of decades after his death, when Nazi Germany constructed the death camps in Poland to ensure the elimination of 'inferior' races. His famous poem 'Pioneers! O Pioneers!' (1865) valorized the genocide of Native Americans and the white expansion to California, deeming both necessary for American progress in the way of export and trade.
In her contribution to 2018's 'Made in L.A.' at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, La Charada China (2018), Lin explores the forgotten or censored histories of people of colour and how global trade as we know it came to be through colonization and the enforced relocation of many thousands of people to work as slaves. This remarkable installation includes an earthen floor made of seeds, clay and guano. A series of tubes draws kombucha and insect pigment to stain the floor. There is a human silhouette at its centre, filled with opium poppies, sugar and other plants associated with the Opium Wars of the 19th century. Lin's sculpture highlights how addiction, the demand for natural resources and the suppression of the histories of people of colour are at the heart of international trade routes, ensuring that the US and Europe – through the glow of white soldiers, CEOs, Ronald McDonald and Walt Disney – may continue to dominate the globe.
Candice Lin is an artist based in Los Angeles, USA. In 2018, her work was included in 'Made in L.A.' at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Her solo show, 'A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip', is on view at the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, USA, until 28 October.
Main image: La Charada China, 2018, installation view at 'Made in L.A.', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Courtesy: the artist, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; photograph: Brian Forrest
CAConrad is the author of While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books), which received the 2018 Lambda Award, and eight other books. They teach regularly at Columbia University, New York, USA, and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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In November of last year, a non-league football club made its first appearance at its new home ground. This in itself is nothing truly remarkable. After all, football clubs relocating has been a common enough sight over the last quarter of a century or so. For this particular club, though, the move was a special one, bringing, as it did, to an end twelve years of asset-stripping, internecine arguing and a battle to keep senior football alive in a borough on the periphery of London that had become synonymous with one of the best known names in non-league football. In November 2011, senior football returned to Enfield for the first time since 1999, but the name of the club bringing it back wasn't quite that which more casual observers might have expected.
Enfield FC was originally formed in 1893 as Enfield Spartans, before truncating it's blame seven years later. The club moved into a new stadium – almost enigmatically called The Stadium, but more commonly known by the main road near which it stood, Southbury Road – in 1936. Developments over the years turned it into an archetypal small English ground, covered at both ends, with a large cover on one side and a seated stand in which was located the changing rooms, bar and offices. It was in the 1960s that the club began to make its name, appearing in the FA Amateur Cup final at Wembley four times between 1964 and 1972, winning twice and losing twice. When non-league football began to solidify in the late 1970s, however, the likes of Enfield were left out in the cold. The Alliance Premier League – now the Blue Square Bet Premier – was a league formed between the Southern League and the Northern Premier League, and there was no invitation offered to the largely London and Home Counties based Isthmian League, of which Enfield were members.
Before long, the inclusion of only two divisions below the APL started to look like a misjudgement. The Isthmian League was arguably as strong as the others, but hadn't been included in non-league football's brave new world. Moreover, a lack of London-based clubs – Barnet were the only team from the capital initially invited to join the league – meant that the most densely-populated part of the country had only one representative in non-league football's new jewel in the crown. In 1981, Enfield proved their credentials to play at the highest level of the non-league game by beating Hereford United and Port Vale in the FA Cup on the way to losing a Fourth Round replay against Barnsley by three goals to nil in a match switched to White Hart Lane, having drawn the first match at Oakwell. At the end of the 1980/81 season, Enfield and Dagenham were invited to jump ship from the Isthmian League and join the APL.
In the case of Enfield, the invitation was automatically vindicated. The following season, they finished in second place in the league behind Runcorn and won the FA Trophy at Wembley with a one-nil win against Altrincham. The following year, they lifted the league title and repeated this feat in 1986. Non-league football, however, was changing and its top level would come to leave Enfield behind. With the introduction of automatic promotion and relegation in 1987 came a rebranding of the Alliance Premier League as the GM Vauxhall Conference and a lot of money being spent by clubs that had waited a long time for this opportunity. Enfield won the title in the last year before the introduction of automatic promotion and relegation, but even a further FA Trophy win – a replay win at The Hawthorns against Telford United after a goalless draw at Wembley – could only paper over the cracks. Enfield were relegated back to the Isthmian League in bottom place in the table in 1990.
The years that followed would prove to be difficult for the club. Their return to the Isthmian League saw the club finish in second place three times in their first four years back, before lifting the league trophy in 1995 only to be denied promotion because of concerns over financial irregularities at the club. In 1996, they were pipped to the league title by one goal on goal difference by Hayes. The cups brought a little respite from this disappointment, with Cardiff City, Aldershot and Torquay United being dumped out of the FA Cup and runs to the latter stages of the FA Trophy in 1994 and 1995. The good times, however, were set to come to an end. The club had existed under the patronage of Sir Jules Thorn until his death in 1980 and also under chairman Tom Unwin, but in 1991 the chairmanship of the club had been passed to a London estate agent called Tony Lazarou, who had begun his career a decade and a half earlier working for a local chain of estate agents called Adam Kennedy.
The first link in the chain that would lead to what was to come appeared in 1996, and it came from another sport. Rugby union had recently turned professional after decades of remaining strictly amateur and the according upswing in crowds that came with a significant rebranding of the game meant that some of its senior clubs, who had only very basic facilties, needed to find grounds that could cope with the bigger crowds that came with professionalism. One such club was Saracens RFC, who traditionally played at the Bramley Road ground in nearby Cockfosters. They needed more sophisticated facilities and agreed a ground-share with Enfield. One entire side of the ground was levelled in order to make way for a temporary seated stand, but after just one year Saracens decamped to Watfords Vicarage Road, London the temporary stand came down and Enfield FC was left with a ground which was now struggling to meet ground-grading rules for promotion and a still mounting pile of debt.
By 1999, Southbury Road was gone. Sold to property developers, Enfield played their final home match in the Isthmian League Premier Division against Hendon in the autumn of that year. The club sold its home, however, with no long-term plan in place to return to the borough in place. The club played out a nomadic existence, using six different grounds including St Albans and Ware before, after attempts to get planning permission to redevelop Cheshunt's ground failed, settling on a long-term ground-share at Boreham Wood FC. The combination of a lack of a new ground, the fact that the small amount of money that had been salvaged from the sale of the ground – £750,000 – was now in the hands of Lazarou, who had threatened legal action against the council if they didn't pay it to him and the breakdown of talks that were supposed to pass ownership of the club to the supporters meant that drastic action was now required.
The clubs supporters had set up a trust with the guidance of Supporters Direct at the turn of the century. The trust appeared to have seemed to have managed some sort of progress towards wresting control of it from Lazarou by the start of 2001 when it brokered a deal with Lazarou that would have allowed him to walk away with £600,000 of the £750,000 that still sat in the bank (which was nowhere near enough money to pay for the building of a new ground, of course) in return for relinquishing control of the club to them and clearing its debts. Even though the council maintained that it was only on condition that he found a new ground, however, Lazarou claimed the rights to a retail unit on the old site that he had been promised as part of the ground sale, and the deal collapsed. By the summer of 2001, push had come to shove and the supporters of the club voted on something that would change the face of football in England forever. In June of that year, the trusts membership voted by 263 to 34 to break away and form their own club. In that one moment, Enfield Town Football Club – and the very notion that protesting supporters could take protesting against an incumbent chairman to another level in starting anew – was born.
The new club joined the Essex Senior League and moved to Goldsdown Road, the home of nearby Brimsdown Rovers, but it needed to find a home of its own, and a site at the QE2 Athletics Stadium, barely half a mile from the site of the old Southbury Road ground, was identified as being potentially ideal for it. Enfield FC, meanwhile, struggled along until 2007 before collapsing into liquidation with tax debts reported to be at around £200,000 but, in spite of efforts from Towns trust board to attempt to reconcile with the few that had opted to stay with the old club, a new club called Enfield (1893) was formed. In October 2008, the local council finally agreed to allow work to start on the dilapidated athletics stadium. Progress, however, was glacially slow and Enfield Town had to – somewhat ironically – play a season at Cheshunt before the it was ready. Enfield (1893), meanwhile, ended up as beneficiaries of Town's move themselves. When Enfield Town confirmed their move to the QE2, Brimsdown Rovers merged with Enfield (1893), and this club won the Essex Senior League. There was, however, one final sting in the tail for the old – or new, depending on perspective – club. With Town having taken the fixtures and fittings – which they owned – to the QE2, Goldsdown Road no longer met the minimum requirements for a place in the Isthmian League and the club was denied promotion. In November of 2011, Enfield Town FC moved into The QE2 Stadium with a friendly match against a Tottenham Hotspur XI and ended the season getting promoted via the play-offs to the Premier Division of the Isthmian League.
At the time of the split, Lazarou blamed – as many football club owners are wont to do in such circumstances – the council for its lack of support. A sizeable proportion of the clubs revenue came from a club built into the ground called The Starlight Rooms which was built into one corner of the ground. By the 1990s, however, the notion of what people expected from a nightclub had changed almost beyond recognition and the redevelopment of an industrial site near the ground which included the building of a very large and very modern nightclub just a couple of hundred yards from Southbury Road was considered by some to be a nail in the clubs coffin. Whether the decision to sell the ground with no plans in place for a replacement was a straightforward act of asset stripping or mere incompetence, however, is a question that is difficult to answer beyond doubt at this remove, but there can be little question that at the very least a successive string of ill thought out decisions brought about the demise of this club. Still, though, questions remain. Why did the council back down so quickly when threatened with legal action over the remaining money from the sale of the ground? Why did Lazarou renege on the deal to hand ownership of the club over to the supporters trust when every asset that could be wrung from the club had gone?
The long-term ramifications of his actions are, more than ten years on, obvious. Divisions created between supporters which have never healed and the progress of both clubs after 2001 was hamstrung by having two clubs in the same area in competition with each other. In the summer of 2011, however, the battle may be over. Enfield 1893, now merged with Brimsdown Rovers, continue to play in the Essex Senior League in front of crowds that just about reach into three figures. The spirit and soul of the club, however, moved to the QE2 Stadium with Enfield Town. At the opening match last year were dozens of former players, coaches and managers, reminiscing about those days at Wembley and The Hawthorns. It was a powerful show of the extent to which so many consider the Towners to be the true continuation of the spirit of Enfield FC.
In a broader sense, the vote taken by the membership of the supporters trust in June 2001 had further reaching consequences than anyone may have realised at the time. It would be stretching credulity somewhat to suggest that the subsequent higher profile breakaway clubs formed at Wimbledon, FC United of Manchester or Chester FC – for example – wouldn't or couldn't have happened without the trail blazed by Enfield Town, but the events of the summer of 2001 confirmed that it was possible for supporters to go it alone if unhappy enough with the direction that their club has taken. At that time, supporters of the club were taking a leap into the unknown and, whilst their success on the pitch has been more modest than elsewhere, that their club still exists eleven years on and plays at a ground which provides it with a firm base for the future is perhaps a more significant success than anything that the club could realistically have achieved on the pitch. As such, the story of Tony Lazarou isn't even really the story of Tony Lazarou at all. He is but a mere pock mark on the face of the history of non-league football. It was the decisions that were taken as a result of his actions that ended up being so important in the story of the development of the supporters ownership of football clubs in Britain.
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People should never forget the example of ETFC. Maybe AFCW and FCUM would have started their own clubs, but that's a counterfactual. What we do know for sure is that Enfield inspired some people at Wimbledon to have courage in the idea. They're help was invaluable in a practical sense, given the speed with which they had to start the club in order to be registered and ready for the next season. That same help was shown to FCUM a few years later, and the fan-formed clubs have all been supportive of each other.
Amery Lovins once did a TED talk about how the difference between 0 and 1 is greater than 1 and any other number. When nothing's happened, maybe that's because it can't happen. When it's happened once, then its just a question of making it happen again. It's an issue of replication, not invention. Enfield moved fans from being people who wondered if they could do it and should do it to being people who knew that they could, and that makes all the difference in the world. They're the heroes of the trust movement.
As 1 of the 263 to vote on breaking away from Enfield FC, I have to say that I 'll never forget what a relief it was to actually feel in charge of our own destiny. At the first game we ever played in front of 350, there were many people with huge grins on their faces who couldn't believe what we were doing – much the same as there are now at our new ground the Donkey Dome. No more evil Chairmen to contend with!
Excellent article. I understood that the Alliance Premier league DID invite Isthmian League clubs at the founding, but that the Isthmian clubs' attitude of 'we don't travel beyond the M25' meant that no-one accepted the initial offer. Of course, since then, now that the Isthmian clubs have belatedly decided to join in, the Conference South is basically the old Isthmian League.


Many students and their parents wonder how a five hour exam like the SAT can seem equivalent or even measurable to a high school career. Unfair as it may seem a five hour exam like the SAT or ACT is considered equivalent to 3 ½ years of high school grades. Getting your foot in the door for college is only the beginning. The real world statistics for the youth demographic are the most challenging they have ever been.
Why is this and why are these statistics so alarming? Most of the blame, in my opinion, falls to the feet of the school system for operating an archaic system of memorization and regurgitation without very much pertinent context to the real world.
In the real world, for example, no matter what profession one chooses, one needs to know about customers, products, marketing, communication, interviewing techniques, money, time management, goal setting, etc. The primary focus of the high school is on memorizing facts that have little to do with this. Having most high school knowledge is important incase you ever get stopped by Jay Leno! Clearly, the type of information necessary to thrive by the age of 25 needs to be dramatically upgraded.
Nevertheless, the process leading up to the college admission process is a very important one. Most of college students spend many more hours of studying than they do high school students. There is no substitute for solid study skills. The bottom line is this? Colleges and the real world entities and beyond are seeking hard working solid citizens. That is why there are so many challenging hoops to jump through to get there.
The statistics are clear. People who earn a bachelors degree earn about 50k a year to start. Those with a professional degree like lawyer, doctor, engineer, or accountant earn over 95k a year. Compare those numbers to the average high school graduate who earns just under 31k a year. The track is obvious. Better studying habits leads to better grades which leads to better SAT scores, which leads to better college options, which leads to scholarship opportunities, which leads to more jobs and money in the long run.
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Sometimes the best way to cure your headache is to prevent getting one in the first place. Often, but not always, headaches are triggered by certain emotional or mental stress. If you ignore these triggers, you may be allowing a terrible headache to progress. A diary will help you figure out what exactly is setting you off. It's a good idea to keep a record of your daily meals, including times and hunger levels and amount of water or caffeine consumed. Activities performed or any situations you were in that triggered stress should also be recorded. Everyday or night you get a headache record it and after a few weeks or months you may be able to identify your warning signs.
When you miss a meal. A skipped meal can be a big trigger for some. Make sure you start your day off with breakfast and try to avoid added sugars like a bowl of cereal. Make regular meal times and bring some snacks with you where ever you go so that your blood sugar won't drop. Some foods can be a migraine trigger. Generally just eat healthy fresh plant based foods.
When you aren't sleeping. Not only is inadequate sleep a bad thing, but too much sleep can also be a trigger. Health Canada recommends 7 hours of sleep at night, but everyone is different. Some people need 9 hours of sleep and will not feel rested with 7 hours. Try going to bed and waking up at the same times everyday.
When you are not drinking water. Your body is mostly water and as it turns out migraine sufferers are more sensitive to dehydration. How much water should you be drinking? Keep a drink near you at all times and when you take a sip and you feel like its too much then thats probably a good place to stop. In other words you will know.
When You're stressed. More stress makes you more susceptible to headaches. Stress is the number one factor. See why acupuncture is a great natural remedy for migraines.
When you've had too much alcohol. Red wine is a migraine trigger for some while Rye whisky is the drink that does it for others. A common element here is a large amount of alcohol has the ability to dehydrate your body.


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Biya, money, morality and State-owned enterprises in French Cameroun
Ernest Ela Evina holds the record as the longest serving general manager of a public company in French Cameroun. To be sure, Evina was appointed in 1974 by the late President Ahmadou Ahidjo as general manager of the National Center for Studies and Experimentation in Agricultural Machinery (Ceneema). Mr Ernest Ela Evina was only replaced last Friday by the French Cameroun head of state Paul Biya after 45 years as General Manager. No one knows the current bill of health of CENEEMA.
According to the Paul Biya decree signed last Friday, December 06, 2019, Evina got replaced by Mrs. Mebande Bate née Ekotto
The French Cameroonian law of July 12, 2017 and certain provisions of laws 2017/10 and 2017/11 relating to the status of public enterprises and public establishments limit the duration of a general manager at the head of the company to 9 years (three terms of 3 years). This had nothing to do with the Biya-Evina relationship.
On June 19, 2019, President Biya signed another decree specifying the terms of application of certain provisions of the laws of 2017, on the general status of public establishments and public enterprises as well as the remuneration, allowances and benefits of their leaders.
Last July, Jean-Pierre Kédi, general manager of the Electricity Sector Regulatory Agency (Arsel) announced his intention to step down after 9 years at the head of the public company to remain in compliance with the law. But his announcement was perceived as a thunderbolt in a country where resignation is not in the habits of barons of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate.
Mindful of the numerous cases of Biya loyalists who have gone far beyond their mandates as general managers, it is evidently clear that French Cameroun is a one man show.
The local French Cameroun press recently cited extensively the cases of many other general managers who are still in office. They include:
Camille Mouthe Bidias, CEO of the National Employment Fund (FNE) since 1991, 28 years old
Adolphe Moudiki, General Manager of the National Hydrocarbons Company (SNH) since 1993, 26 years
Yao Aissatou, General Manager of the National Investment Company (SNI) since 2003, 16 years
Marie Claire Nnana has been 12 years at the head of the Cameroon Press and Publishing Society (SOPECam)
Christol Georges Manon has also been 12 years at the head of the Mission for the Development and Management of Industrial Zones (MAGZI).
While Olivier Mekulu Mvondo Akame is the General Manager of the National Social Insurance Fund (CNPS), since 2008, 11 years ago.
It is vital to include in this report that the Board Chairs have served several decades in their respective public companies.
By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai with files
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Junak zadnje strane je drugi studijski album skupine Prizma. Album je bil posnet v studiu Tivoli, v Ljubljani in izdan leta 1983 pri založbi PGP RTB.

Seznam skladb

Zasedba

Prizma
Vladimir Mljač – solo vokal, bobni
Igor Kos – kitara
Danilo Kocjančič – bas kitara, solo vokal
Franci Čelhar – klaviature, spremljevalni vokal

Gostje
Braco Doblekar - saksofon (A5, B4)
Zdenko Cotič - kitara (A1-A3, B1, B2, B4, B5)
Oto Pestner - spremljevalni vokal (A5)

Albumi skupine Prizma
Albumi leta 1983
Albumi, posneti v Studiu Tivoli
Albumi Produkcije gramofonskih plošč Radio televizije Beograd

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Multiple format string vulnerabilities in AFFLIB 2.2.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain command line parameters, which are used in (1) warn and (2) err calls, possibly involving (a) lib/s3.cpp, (b) tools/afconvert.cpp, (c) tools/afcopy.cpp, (d) tools/afinfo.cpp, (e) aimage/imager.cpp, and (f) tools/afxml.cpp. NOTE: this identifier is intended to address the vectors that were not fixed in CVE-2007-2054, but the unfixed vectors were not explicitly listed.
AFFLIB 2.2.8 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters involving (1) certain command line parameters in tools/afconvert.cpp and (2) arguments to the get_parameter function in aimage/ident.cpp. NOTE: it is unknown if the get_parameter vector (2) is ever called.
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in AFFLIB before 2.2.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain command line parameters, which are used in (1) warn and (2) err calls in (a) lib/s3.cpp, (b) tools/afconvert.cpp, (c) tools/afcopy.cpp, (d) tools/afinfo.cpp, (e) aimage/aimage.cpp, (f) aimage/imager.cpp, and (g) tools/afxml.cpp. NOTE: the aimage.cpp vector (e) has since been recalled from the researcher's original advisory, since the code is not called in any version of AFFLIB.
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in AFFLIB before 2.2.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a long LastModified value in an S3 XML response in lib/s3.cpp; (2) a long (a) path or (b) bucket in an S3 URL in lib/vnode_s3.cpp; or (3) a long (c) EFW, (d) AFD, or (c) aimage file path. NOTE: the aimage vector (3c) has since been recalled from the researcher's original advisory, since the code is not called in any version of AFFLIB.


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'Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio' Receives Enthusiastic Standing Ovation at Close of Animation Is Film Festival
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Guillermo del Toro received an enthusiastic standing ovation following the screening of his upcoming stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio on Saturday at the close of the Animation is Film Festival.
In a packed Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, del Toro was on hand for a conversation about the moviemaking with Oscar-winning VFX veteran Phil Tippett (Jurassic Park) following the screening. "It's just a whole different way of creatively thinking, doing something like this," said Tippett. "You get totally lost in the world-building."
Of his approach to Pinocchio, del Toro said he viewed the animators as actors. "I promised, you are going to be the actors, this is what we want. But if the puppet tells you something different, do it. There is no other form of animation where the bond [between animator and character] is so close."
He added that his hope that was "maybe 30 minutes into the movie, people will think 'this is a good actor — not a puppet.'"
Pinocchio was presented as a special event to close the fifth edition of the Animation is Film Festival. During the week, Little Nicolas (Le Petit Nicolas), directed by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre, won the festival's Grand Jury Prize. In the spring, it won the top prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
My Father's Dragon, directed by Oscar nominee Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner) and produced by Ireland's Cartoon Saloon (Wolfwalkers) for a Netflix release, took home the Special Jury Prize. This year's Audience Award went to Aurora's Sunrise directed by Inna Sahakyan, and the Shorts Jury Prize was awarded to Ice Merchants directed by João Gonzalez.
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Jowitt gets chance to fill the Lilley void for Bradford Bulls
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Jowitt set to step up for injured Lilley for Bradford Bulls
By Simon Parker ParkerTandA Chief Sports Writer
Billy Jowitt on the attack in the Bulls' opening friendly against Batley. Picture: Tom Pearson
BILLY Jowitt will be given every chance to stake a claim as Jordan Lilley's replacement when the Bulls kick off the new Championship campaign.
Lilley could miss the first five games after tearing the outside ligament of his knee in training.
It is an immediate blow for John Kear, who spent most of last year having to juggle with a "half-back hoodoo" at Odsal because of injuries.
But the veteran coach is more relaxed about the vice-captain's absence for the first month because he believes that youngster Jowitt is ready to step up.
The 20-year-old partnered close-season recruit Dec Patton in Sunday's opening friendly against Batley and Kear could see a growing maturity in his game.
He said: "Billy is another 12 months down the track and that's why I'm more confident about it. I thought he played well.
"He seemed more relaxed. He wasn't rushing about here, there harum-scarum and trying to do the Hollywood play.
"He was happy just to play his part within the team. That was heartening to me."
With two more warm-up games to come against Hull FC and Leeds, Jowitt is in pole position to get the start in the January 30 curtain-raiser at Dewsbury.
But there are other options still available to Kear.
"We've obviously got the dual registration route to go down as well and the Leeds partnership," he added.
"We can also have a better look at young (trialist Ryan) Forshaw who went out for the last 10 minutes.
"I was going to give him longer but I thought Billy had done so well that you leave him out there.
"It is going to be on his shoulders and obviously we've got to sort out the full-back conundrum as well.
"We don't know what our team is going to be in round one. We've a lot more soul-searching to do in order to come up with the correct thing for the Dewsbury game."
Joe Burton and Lewis Camden were tried at full back against the Bulldogs.
Elliot Hall did not feature after just returning from an overseas holiday that had been booked well before his move to the Bulls.


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Q: swift xcode 8.0 - uiimageview drag inside uiview I have two UIimageview images which are draggable using touchesBegan and touchesMoved however they can be dragged anywhere on the screen without any limitations. I am trying to limit the UIimageview to be only draggable inside the UIimage (certain area).
Any idea what is the best approach?
Thanks

A: Use CGRectContainsPoint to limit the area.
For example:
let point = touch.location(in: self) // or elsewhere
if CGRectContainsPoint(image.frame, point) {
  // could drag
} else {
  // stop dragging
}

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