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Fearing austerity, Lebanese protest ahead of budget
Tuesday, 16 April 2019 14:56 GMT
* State budget for 2019 seen as critical reform test
* Public sector wage bill in focus, power reform plan approved
* PM Hariri cites Greek crisis, but says government won't allow this
BEIRUT, April 16 (Reuters) - The Lebanese government has yet to disclose its budget for 2019 but protesters are already in the streets fearing the "difficult and painful" reforms it is expected to announce as it tries to get spending in control and rein in public debt.
Retired army officers blocked several highways with burning tyres on Tuesday, a preemptive warning to the government against any cuts to their pensions that might be part of its effort to reduce one of the world's heaviest public debt burdens.
Though small, the protests offered a glimpse of the political minefield facing the government.
The budget is seen as a critical test of its will to enact long-stalled reforms that economists say are more pressing than ever for an economy that has suffered years of low growth. State finances are strained by a bloated public sector, high debt servicing costs and hefty subsidises spent on the power sector.
"We went out today to tell them that our pensions are a red line," said Khaled Ammar, one of a number of retired officers blocking the highway south of Beirut.
The budget has yet to be finalised but speculation it will include cuts to the massive public wage bill has grown since Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil hinted at such steps on Saturday.
"There are those who should be making people aware today that if a temporary reduction doesn't happen, then there will be no salaries for anyone," he wrote on Twitter, adding that "if we must start with the ministers and MPs, so be it".
Protesters said tackling corruption should be the priority.
"If the economic condition of the country has reached this difficult level ... we are not responsible for it, the politicians are," said Ammar, a father of three who served in the military for three decades.
BLOATED PUBLIC SECTOR
Lebanese leaders have been warning of economic crisis for some time. In a February policy statement, the new government committed itself to launching fast and effective reforms that could be "difficult and painful" to avoid a worsening of economic, financial and social conditions.
Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said last week he was concerned about a Greek-style crisis in Lebanon while saying that government measures would prevent "economic problems".
At a Paris conference last year, Lebanon promised to cut its budget deficit by 1 percent of gross domestic product a year over five years. Economists are now looking for a bigger cut because last year's deficit was bigger than expected at between 10-1/2 to 11 percent of GDP instead of a projected 8.2 percent.
Serious reforms would help Lebanon unlock some $11 billion in financing pledged in Paris.
The government last week approved a plan to overhaul the power sector - a major drain on state finances for years. Critics say the government must deliver this time, pointing to previous such plans that were never implemented.
The public sector wage bill is the state's biggest outgoing, followed by servicing the public debt equal to around 150 percent of GDP. The wage bill went up in 2017 after increases were agreed ahead of a parliamentary election.
Nassib Ghobril, chief economist at Lebanon's Byblos Bank, hopes to see the deficit brought down by 2 percent of GDP and says reforms should include shutting down the many obsolete government agencies.
"They have to freeze hiring, freeze future salary increases, and increases in benefits, and they have to cut the number of public sector employees and restructure the way companies restructure when they are in financial difficulties," he said.
"The public sector has recruited 31,000 people over the last four years - more than the entire financial sector." (Reporting by Tom Perry, Amina Ismail, Laila Bassam Editing by Frances Kerry)
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Siriné Ckene Doucouré (* 8. April 2002 in Nogent-sur-Marne) ist ein französisch-malischer Fußballspieler. Der Mittelstürmer steht seit 2022 beim FC Lorient unter Vertrag.

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Doucouré begann seine Karriere bei LB Châteauroux. 2019 kam er hier erstmals für die zweite Mannschaft zum Einsatz. Sein Debüt für die A-Mannschaft feierte er im September 2020 im Rahmen eines Ligue-2-Einsatzes gegen den FC Valenciennes. Im weiteren Verlauf der Saison bekam der Franzose immer wieder Spielzeit, sodass er am Ende bei zwölf Partien in der zweiten Liga stand. Die nächste Saison verlief für ihn zunächst ähnlich, bevor er an den letzten Spieltagen sieben Mal in Folge in der Startelf stand. Zu Beginn der nächsten Spielzeit wurde er erneut drei Mal eingesetzt, ehe er Châteauroux im September 2022 verließ und sich dem Erstligisten FC Lorient anschloss. Dort kam er zunächst sporadisch zu Kurzeinsätzen in der Ligue 1.

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WTAJ Originals: Barn fire brings symbol of hope
Daily Originals
by: Darby Sparks
EVERETT, Pa. (WTAJ) — A massive fire burned a two story barn to the ground in the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 11.
Zimmerman's Country Furniture and More used the barn for storage of valuable furniture items and custom decor.
However, a symbol of hope that stuck out through the flames is helping the business keep going.
WTAJ's Darby Sparks spoke with the owner about the symbol and remaining positive through difficult circumstances.
More Daily Originals Stories
WTAJ Originals: Local Artist using antiques to build Robots
by Devin Jackson / Jul 12, 2019
STATE COLLEGE, PA. (WTAJ) -- Every year the Central Pennsylvania Festival brings in thousands of people and hundreds of artists across the United States. People from Georgia to New York, Texas to Indiana.
But there are local artists here as well. And this particular artist has a unique style and eye for art. Dan Baxter of State College makes robots.
WTAJ Originals: 92-Year-Old Potter Continues Pottery Business at People's Choice Festival
BOALSBURG, CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) -- Mary Ellen Yearick, a 92-year-old woman who lives in Smoking Dam, is still running her pottery business.
Mary Ellen has been making pottery since 1948. It began as a way to make extra money, but with success came with a want to start her own pottery business. And Yearick Pottery was created.
WTAJ Originals: Emphasis on kids' health at Philipsburg Heritage Days
PHILIPSBURG, CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) -- An organization serving many counties in the Central PA region is providing fun ways to promote the theme of Philipsburg Heritage Days: health.
CenClear is an organization that works to provide kids and their families with the necessary food, services and information to ensure kids in the local community grow into healthy adults.
Our Live Schedule
• The Clay Way - 9:30 p.m.
• Science with Shields - 10:30 a.m.
• Mike's Mysteries - 2:00 p.m.
• That's Cool with Joe Murgo - 2:00 p.m.
*Schedule subject to change based on breaking news/scheduling.

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Q: how to have a dropdown on top of a view when open? In react native i'm using "react-native-dropdown-picker" library to make a dropdown, the problem is that when i open the picker it stays under the next view, so i decided to use zindex and i managed to place the picker on top of the next view, the problem is that i can't click on any of the options, when i click any of the dropdown's options, the touch is recognized on the view under the picker.
The following code is the code for the toolbar component where the dropdown is stored.
<View style={styles.toolbar}>
            <View style={{flexDirection:'row',alignItems:'center',justifyContent:'space-between',width:'100%'}}>
                <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={() => {props.toggleDrawer()}} >
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                        defaultValue={condominium}
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                        style={styles.formBoxes}
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                        dropDownStyle={styles.formBoxes}
                        onChangeItem={item=>{condominiumInputHandler(item.value)}}
                />
        </View>

And this code shows where the toolbar is used and the view thats under it:
<NavigationContainer>
          <View style={{...styles.default,...styles.marginTopPhone}}>
            <ToolbarLogged toggleDrawer={()=>{navigation.toggleDrawer()}}
                idLang={(stringLang==strings_pt)?1:2} lang={stringLang}/>
            <DrawerCustom.Navigator drawerContent={props => <DrawerContent langFile={stringLang} lang={(stringLang==strings_pt)? 1 : 0}  {...{...props}}/>}>
                <DrawerCustom.Screen name='Dashboard' component={makeLayout} initialParams={{ name: stringLang.dashboard}}/>
                <DrawerCustom.Screen name='Condominium' component={makeLayout} initialParams={{ name: stringLang.condominium}}/>
                <DrawerCustom.Screen name='Profile' component={makeLayout} initialParams={{ name: stringLang.profile}}/>
                <DrawerCustom.Screen name='Signout' component={Signout} />
            </DrawerCustom.Navigator>
          </View>
        </NavigationContainer>

The makeLayout function, makes the current layout depending on the name param thats given, and as u can see if i dont use zindex on the superior view of the toolbar, the dropdown gets loaded under the screen given by the makelayout function, and if i use zindex then i cant select any of the options on the dropdown.

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How will your ethics and compliance program be different a year from today? The New Year is right around the corner, and with it, a new set of training goals and launches. It's a time to be honest with ourselves, and I want to be honest with you. Here's the truth.
Building an ethics and compliance program for a global, multi-lingual and multi-risk workforce is not easy. Changing behaviors around risk for thousands of unique people is a process built on repetition and reinforcement, not a quick-fix, checked box, or completion rate.
Creating a culture where employees engage with ethics and compliance learning content is not easy. We're swimming upstream against years of preconceived (and sometimes earned) opinions that the content isn't actually a helpful or valuable way to spend ones time, while new risks present themselves constantly.
Demonstrating program effectiveness and value with relevant data and analytics is not easy. We need to improve not just what we actually capture and measure so we have more data, but also the quality of the data itself. As part of that, we need to also improve the relevance of the experiences we deliver to each learner and why they're important to their jobs. We need to overcome a disconnect between our intention and execution.
Just because something isn't easy doesn't mean it isn't possible. In fact, the hardest problems to solve often require the best ideas and most thoughtful solutions. If we don't acknowledge the challenges associated with accomplishing our goals, then we're destined to continue down the path we're on today instead of working even harder to overcome the barriers in our way. In doing so, we fail to adapt to a business landscape that won't stop and wait for us to catch up.
At the heart of any effective compliance program is a learning methodology and modern technology. A learning methodology, the logic and strategy behind how your program is built, addresses how we process, remember, and operationalize information today. Modern technology, the tools used to bring that program to life, is designed to deliver that content in alignment with a defined strategy, in an environment that can capture and measure the real data, analytics, and behavior we need to understand. In 2018, we've built EthicsAnywhere - a combination of learning methodology and modern technology, so you can take a learner-centric approach to E&C. By doing so, you'll be able to remove traditional barriers of consumption to create engaging and measurably effective experiences.
The intentions of ethics and compliance professionals are to help employees do the right thing and behave ethically so their culture can prosper and their organization can manage risk. Those good intentions are challenged by various pressures, like regulations that fundamentally change the way an organization does business, to ambitious individual goals and targets that can pressure a learner to 'win' at the expense of integrity and legality. When handled poorly, pressure creates coal. When handled well, pressure creates diamonds.
When executing on these intentions today, the E&C community often focuses on completing a series of tasks defined by regulatory bodies. When measuring the results of our efforts, the illusive concept of 'program effectiveness' is done through the lens of regulatory expectations. Often times, this neglects to consider if the actual learning experiences built for employees are effective in relation to what those intentions were.
From my perspective, the focus has remained on regulators, not learners. Looking ahead to 2019, my resolution as the VP of Learning at SAI Global is to help organizations take a learner-centric approach to their ethics and compliance programs, and in doing so, create a more accurate and honest definition of program effectiveness.
To do that, we'll have to overcome the four disconnects in ethics and compliance programs today: consumption, perception, evolution, and culture. Each of them are magnified by the growing consumerization of compliance; the undeniable fact that employee awareness around ethics and compliance issues has taken leaps forward, and so has the way technology influences how they comprehend and retain information. However, the driving forces behind the creation of E&C programs in organizations are still largely the same.
1. The disconnect in consumption exists because how your organization delivers learning content to employees today is significantly different from how your employees engage with content and information in their lives whenever they aren't doing work.
Research we conducted in 2017 showed us that 93% of organizations do not deliver learning content on smartphones and 81% do not use adaptive learning to personalize experiences for each employee.
Research conducted by WordStream tells us that everyone in your organization, not just Millennials, spend more time browsing the internet and watching videos on their phones than their computers or laptops, and everywhere they visit is personalized specifically to them. Yet the majority of E&C programs today are delivering standardized, non-personalized or customized training to people that can only be engaged with at their desk on their computer.
2. The disconnect in perception exists because of the difference between what regulators and employees think of your E&C program. While two hours of 'click and continue' online Code of Conduct training could deem your program satisfactory from a regulator's perspective, it could also disengage that employee and negatively shape their perception of ethics and compliance in your organization.
3. The disconnect in evolution exists because technology innovations and content trends move significantly faster than changes in laws and regulations, and the former is something your employee experience more directly than the latter. If you train employees on bribery and corruption in 2017, 2018, and 2019, the ways that you can deliver that information and they can consume it will change more significantly than any regulation or principle around the information itself over those 24 months.
4. The final disconnect is focused on culture, because what people learn does not correlate with how they behave. Just because you trained someone once to be competent about a risk topic doesn't mean they'll act differently or confidently when presented with that risk in real life.
If you're interested in adapting to the growing consumerization of compliance and taking a learner-centric approach that addresses some of these disconnects, there's no better time to start than the present. These changes won't happen overnight. As an ethics and compliance professional, you're well aware that meaningful change can take time. So let me help you take the first step and serve as a guide on the beginning of your journey to true, data-driven, authentic program effectiveness.
In September 2018, I joined Tom Fox, the Compliance Evangelist, and Paul Johns, the CMO of SAI Global, for a conversation about these topics and the evolving E&C landscape on his podcast. You can listen to this five-episode series, called The Evolving Role of Risk, Compliance, and Ethics in Brand and Reputation, on iTunes, or with the YouTube clips embedded throughout this blog post.


Answer: Atompunk is a subgenre of Cyberpunk, and takes place between the period of 1945-1965 (known as the atomic age of man). It generally deals with the advancement of the Atomic Age, modernism, jet age, communism, and space age. Generally writers will concentrate on expanding the themes listed and include the rise of the US military and the industrial powers.
The settings are usually Populuxe (a mixture of popular and luxury) and Raygun gothic (a mixture of Art Deco, Googie, and Streamline Moderne). Signs with exaggerated lines reaching beyond the logo with few rounding shapes in letters. Think of the great depression and how outlandish advertising started in order to gain access to the masses.
The stories generally centre on the discovery of science only dreamed about at that time, like flying cars (still waiting for mine), automated homes, 3 day work weeks, and everything technology was supposed to supply the human race.


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Gisele Bundchen On Meditation For Parents: "Give To Yourself"
Gisele Bundchen has spoken-up about the importance of meditation for parents.
39-year old Brazilian model, activist, author, actress and businesswoman Gisele Bundchen says that it is important for parents to give back to themselves by practicing meditation.
You'd think that it would be easy being the millionaire wife of NFL player Tom Brady. As celebrities it is obviously far more easy to be a parent than it is for the rest of us, what with nannies helping out and having all the money in the world to be able to afford anything at all your kids may need. Yes, we are told that "The struggle is real." But let's actually get real for a sec. If someone like Gisele Bundchen finds meditation helpful as a parent, other parents who do not live the A-list lifestyle will find meditation even more beneficial.
Despite the A-List lifestyle, Gisele Bundchen still occasionally feels the struggle of being a parent. 'As a mother, you're always giving,' she told the Daily Mail. The model says that it is important for parents to have a way to give back to themselves. 'It's important to give something to yourself," she told the Daily Mail, "so you can give from a place of being full, instead of giving from a place of being depleted, which isn't healthy for you or for the family."
The 39-year old Brazilian beauty and long-time meditation practitioner advises parents to practice meditation. The actress says that her daily 20-minute meditation practice has helped her to maintain her inner calm while still being a parent.
On Saturday, she advised fans on Instagram to start practicing meditation. And she uploaded a photo of herself in full Zen mode.
This is far from the first time that Gisele Bundchen has spoken about meditation. In March she spoke to Vogue about how meditation has helped her overcome anxiety and stop bad habits like smoking.
Scientific Benefits of Meditation for Parents
Gisele Bundchen advocated meditation for parents. But other than celebrity endorsements, you might wonder whether meditation helps parents, and if there is any scientific research on the subject.
Growing research shows that meditation can help parents. One study conducted by William R. Marchand of the George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Utah showed that meditation helps make us more resilient in body, mind, and spirit, which is essential for parenting, as Gisele Bundchen pointed out.
But how can you find time to meditate as a parent?
It can be difficult for parents to find time to meditate amongst all the craziness. But as Bundchen pointed out, it is important to "give something to yourself so you can give from a place of being full, instead of giving from a place of being depleted."
Thankfully, you do not necessarily need to spend twenty minutes sitting watching our breath, which can be hard if your kids are always wanting your attention. Instead, mothers and fathers can look for ways to practice mindfulness around the house. I've written a guide to be the best mindfulness activities, which you can use to boost both your own mindfulness and your kids' mindfulness too.
More Advice On Meditation For Parents
Meditate with your kids:
What do you do if you can't get away from the kids for 20 minutes to meditate? Simple. Get the kids to meditate with you. Put some relaxing music on and ask your kids to focus on the music and to notice all the sounds. Make it a little game that the kids can have fun doing. This will keep them occupied while you yourself meditate.
Mindful chores:
Things like doing the dishes, ironing, and cleaning the house, can be done as a mindful practice. For instance, let's say you're doing the dishes. Focus on the feeling of the water on your hands. Be mindful of your movements as you clean those dirty dishes. Notice the sound of the water. This will bring you back into the present moment.
Recite mantras with the kids:
One fun meditation for parents and kids is to recite mantras together. You can sit in a circle and meditate on the mantra "Om". Ask your kids to focus on the sound of the mantra. Recite it 108 times. My guide to teaching mantras to kids will help you to get started.
As Gisele Bundchen said, it is important for parents to find ways to relax amongst the hustle and bustle of daily living. Meditation is one of the best ways to do that.
Are you a parent? And if so, do you find that meditation helps you? Leave a comment and remember to subscribe.
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If your sample is precious, it is possible to recover it from the upper and lower measurement pedestals by extraction with a pipette. Hence, do not give your log on information to someone else. All the same, please clean the surfaces with de-ionised water after your last measurement. Executive Officer, Sydney Medical School. Often the problem is incomplete resuspension of your sample. Alternatively, "buff" the surfaces by rubbing each with a dry laboratory wipe times in order to "re-condition" the surfaces. The files can be opened by the integrated Data Viewer software program or spreadsheet programs such as MS Excel.
This means that the use of the machine can be monitored and, if something goes wrong with the machine, the last user can be identified. The files can be opened by the integrated Data Viewer software program or spreadsheet programs n as MS Excel. Tips and additional information Sample size is not critical to measurements, however, it is essential that the liquid column is formed between the upper and lower measurement pedestals.
Only touch the sample arm itself. Often the problem is incomplete resuspension of your sample. Wiping the sample from the upper and lower pedestals with a soft laboratory wipe following each measurement is sufficient to prevent sample carryover and avoid residue buildup.
Plan ahead, book time slots and stick to them.
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Charles "Chuck" Metcalf (* 8. Januar 1931; † 11. Januar 2012) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Bassist und Komponist.

Metcalfs Eltern waren Musiklehrer; er lernte zunächst Violine und Piano, bevor er mit 15 Jahren zum Kontrabass wechselte. In Seattle, wo er bei seinem Vater lebte, studierte er am College der University of Washington und spielte in der dortigen Jazzszene u. a. mit Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Buddy Catlett und Ray Charles. In den 1950er Jahren arbeitete er im Hauptberuf als Architekt und war nur an den Wochenenden als Musiker aktiv, bevor er in den 1960er Jahren Vollzeitmusiker wurde. Es folgten Tourneen mit Anita O'Day oder Joe Venuti. 1970 wirkte er bei Sessions von Stu Goldberg und Gavin Walker mit; es entstanden erste Aufnahmen im Trio des Pianisten Berry Overton.

1972 zog er nach San Francisco; dort wirkte er bei Mark Murphys Album Stolen Moments mit. Ab 1979 lebte er in New York, wo er u. a. mit Sonny Simmons spielte; 1980 ging er mit Dexter Gordon auf Tour. Nach seiner Rückkehr nach Seattle spielte er mit Ernestine Anderson und Bert Wilson; danach lebte er bis 1985 in den Niederlanden. Nach seiner Rückkehr arbeitete er erneut mit Bert Wilson; es folgten Tourneen mit Jim Pepper, Frank Morgan und seinem eigenen Quartett. 1989 legte er sein Debütalbum Elsie Street (Bopware) mit Eigenkompositionen vor, u. a. mit dem Trompeter Jay Thomas und mit George Cables am Piano. 1991 folgte die Oktett-Aufnahme Help Is Coming. Mitte der 1990er Jahre kehrte er in die San Francisco Bay Area zurück; 2004 nahm er das Album Thinking of You (Lyrichromatic Records) auf. 2010 arbeitete er noch mit Richie Cole, bevor er sich als aktiver Musiker zurückzog. Als Musikpädagoge war er im Jazzprogramm am Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, an der Western Washington University in Bellingham und am Cornish College in Seattle tätig.

Er war mit der Jazzmusikerin Joni Metcalf (1931–2022) verheiratet.

Diskographische Hinweise
Doug Hammond & David Durrah: Reflections in the Sea Of Nurnen (1975)
Bert Wilson and Rebirth: Rebirth Loves Monk (1986)
Bert Wilson: Live at the Zoo (Nine Winds, 1988)

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Q: how to let the iterator work to generate a pdf in a RML template by using z3c.rml views.py
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response,render
from test.models import Order,Product
import preppy
from z3c.rml import rml2pdf

testToGeneratePDF(request):
    testList = ['123456','23456','456789']

    #fetch the data about testList
    orderLists = Order.objects.filter(order_id__in=(testList))

    for value in orderLists:
        #process orderList data and append a List element to each value
        value.productList = Product.objects.filter(product_id = value.product_id)

    # Load the rml template into the preprocessor ...
    template = preppy.getModule(settings.BASE_DIR + '/PDFKit/A4.prep')

    BASE_DIR = settings.BASE_DIR
    # ... and do the preprocessing.
    rmlText = template.get(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d"), BASE_DIR, orderLists)

    # Then generate the *.pdf output ...
    pdf = rml2pdf.parseString(rmlText)
    # Finally return response to browser
    response = HttpResponse(content_type='application/pdf')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'filename; filename="orders.pdf"'
    response.write(pdf.read())
    return response

Now, My question is that how to loop the data of productList in the template.
Preppy doesn't process the syntax in RML template as follow:
{{for row in orderLists}}
    {{ for value in row.data }}
    {{endfor}}
{{endfor}}

how to solve the iterator's problem?
Thanks a lot for everyone


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https://independent-magazine.org/1999/11/01/film-festivals-on2com/
Film Festivals: On2.com
November 1, 1999 | By Eugene Hernandez
"We are basically creating an environment where a user can build their own television show," explains On2.com's Joel Roodman. A former executive at Miramax who also headed Gotham Entertainment, Roodman states, "Everybody believes that broadband is the future; [our] sole focus is on the broadband consumer."
On2.com is starting with content about movies, including film trailers and shows that highlight films and filmmakers. "We'll be taking existing content and wrapping original content around it," says Roodman. Plans include offering outtakes from documentaries and a heavy festival focus, where they will follow participants and build shows related to the event.
"The challenge is to make sure that broadband is in as many homes as possible," says Roodman. "It is a great opportunity for video- rich content."
Expected launch:
Plug-ins required:
None required with On2.com's free proprietary codec software
Audience: Not launched at press time.
Contact: 375 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013; (212) 941-2400; fax: 941-3853; info@on2.com
Tagged: Film Festivals
Regions: New York
About Eugene Hernandez:
Eugene Hernandez is co-founder & editor in chief of indieWIRE [www.indiewire.com]


In 2015, I moved from the tiny New Brunswick town of Sackville to the sprawling city of Toronto, Ontario.
That was also when I started medical school. Immersed in basements with sallow cadavers and impossibly-long PDFs on physiology, I soon realized I was in for an experience which could not be further removed from my undergraduate years spent in the art studio. So, what does a (former) visual artist do when completely out of her depth? Naturally, she doodles!
Posted in Student Humanities Blog. Tags: art, comics, Corinne Boudreau, graphic medicine, humour, medical education, medical school, medical training on June 7, 2018 by CMAJ.
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Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (* 26. ledna 1981 Barquisimeto, Venezuela) je venezuelský dirigent a houslista. Je považován za "symbolickou postavu jedinečného nadšení pro klasickou hudbu ve své zemi".

Mládí
Dudamel se narodil ve venezuelském městě Barquisimeto v hudební rodině. Jeho otec je hráčem na trombon a matka učitelkou zpěvu. S hudebním vzděláním začal velmi brzy v rámci státem podporovaného programmu Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles de Venezuela (zkráceně El Sistema). Tato akce působí po celé zemi a má za účel podporu hudební výchovy dětí a mládeže bez rozdílu sociální příslušnosti. Ve věku deseti let začal Dudamel studovat hru na housle, později i kompozici.

Dirigentská dráha
Když Dudamel ve věku 12 let poprvé zástupně řídil mládežnický orchestr svého rodného města, byl jeho dirigentský talent rychle objeven, načež začal se soustavným hudebním studiem. Již jako osmnáctiletý, v roce 1999, byl jmenován šéfdirigentem Symfonického orchestru venezuelské mládeže Simóna Bolívara (Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar) v  hlavním městě Caracasu, nazvaného podle latinskoamerického revolucionáře a venezuelského státníka Simóna Bolívara.

Dne 16. dubna 2007 dirigoval slavnostní koncert ve Vatikánu při příležitosti 80. narozenin papeže Benedikta XVI. Vedl přitom německý Rozhlasový symfonický orchestr Stuttgart (Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart). Na programu byla především Novosvětská symfonie Antonína Dvořáka, dále také díla, která složili Giovanni Gabrieli a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

V letech 2007 až 2012 působil Dudamel jako šéfdirigent švédského orchestru Göteborger Symphoniker. Poté byl jmenován čestným dirigentem tohoto orchestru. V roce 2008 řídil poprvé významný německý symfonický orchestr, Berlínské filharmoniky, při jejich koncertu na Lesní scéně (Waldbühne) v Berlíně.

Od sezóny 2009/2010 převzal místo dirigenta v Los Angeles u jednoho z nejdůležitějších symfonických orchestrů Spojených států, Los Angeles Philharmonic. Za prvních pět let jeho působení v Los Angeles (do roku 2014) provedl orchestr 60 původních děl různých skladatelů, z nichž on sám dirigoval 20 premiér. Zasloužil se také o rozvoj mládežnického orchestru v Los Angeles (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), který do roku 2014 přijal do svých řad 600 dětí a mladých lidí z kulturně opomíjených čtvrtí města a okolí. Jeho smlouva jako šéfdirigenta Los Angeles Philharmonic byla postupně prodlužována, v současnosti má platnost do konce sezóny 2025/26.

V roce 2012 dirigoval letní koncert Vídeňských filharmoniků v parku Zámku Schönbrunn ve Vídni. V únoru a prosinci 2013 koncertoval znovu s Berlínskými filharmoniky a v roce 2014 zastoupil jejich šéfdirigenta Simona Rattleho v Redefinu. Dne 8. března 2013 řídil Symfonický orchestr venezuelské mládeže při státním pohřbu prezidenta Huga Cháveze.

Dne 1. ledna 2017 se stal vůbec nejmladším dirigentem, který kdy řídil Vídeňské filharmoniky při příležitosti jejich Novoročního koncertu ve Zlatém sále budovy Hudebního spolku (Wiener Musikverein). Koncert byl přenášen do 90 zemí světa (v Česku byl vysílán na ČT2) a sledovalo ho více než 50 milionů lidí.

Soukromý život

V roce 2006 uzavřel Dudamel v Caracasu sňatek s venezuelskou baletkou a novinářkou Eloísou Maturén. Církevní obřad se konal v kapli Katolické univerzity Andrés Bello na caracaském předměstí Montalbán. V roce 2011 se manželům narodil v Los Angeles syn Martín Dudamel Maturén, který má americké státní občanství. V roce 2015 však následoval jejich rozvod. Dudamelovou partnerkou se poté stala španělská filmová herečka María Valverde, která byla společně s jeho rodiči přítomna při novoročním koncertu Vídeňských filharmoniků dne 1. ledna 2017.

Vyznamenání
  velkokříž Řádu Francisca de Mirandy – Venezuela, 2007 – udělil prezident Hugo Chávez

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Venezuelští hudebníci
Dirigenti Novoročního koncertu Vídeňských filharmoniků
Dirigenti
Nositelé Řádu Francisca de Mirandy
Narození v roce 1981
Narození 26. ledna
Narození v Barquisimetu
Žijící lidé
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With a new commitment of DKK 68.5 million to education projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America the Hempel Foundation takes a significant step towards our strategic ambition to empower children to learn in the most effective and sustainable way.
So far our work has reached approximately 100,000 children. We have gained valuable experience in helping some of the world's most vulnerable children get quality basic education. And now we are starting four new strategic partnerships that will lead us in the second wave of our strategic work on education.
The partnerships will help us provide better education for children while letting us extract useful knowledge on how to achieve the biggest impact when it comes to educating children where education is most needed.
Thereby helping us maintain and enhance our focus on breaking down the barriers for children – particularly girls – in rural areas to obtain quality primary education.
The partnerships include new projects with Save the Children in Bangladesh, Oxfam IBIS in Bolivia and Guatemala, UNICEF in Rwanda and South Africa and strengthen existing projects with SOS Children's Villages in Ethiopia, Somaliland and Tanzania. All of the four organisations have been trusted collaborators to the Hempel Foundation and we look forward to reinforcing our joint commitment to providing education opportunities for children in need.
We will pay increasing attention to develop new and more efficient solutions with opportunity for scale and replication both within and outside the national contexts of the specific projects.
We will ensure a strong focus on impact across all projects and evaluate performance to gain a better understanding of successes and failures in the projects we support.
We will share lessons learned to add value to the global education agenda and to motivate and inspire others to break down the barriers for children to attain their right to education.
Together with UNICEF the Hempel Foundation will work in Rwanda and South Africa to increase access to and quality of primary school education for vulnerable children, particularly girls, living in rural areas.
The partnership will develop and pilot solutions that can increase learning outcomes and re-entry of out of school children while also reducing drop-out.
The partnership with UNICEF builds on existing cooperation on improving education for children in northern Vietnam, which started in 2015, and has resulted in improved education opportunities for more than 1,600 children aged 3 to 15 years so far.
Together with Save the Children the Hempel Foundation will improve learning outcomes and increase the percentage share of girls in Bangladesh that complete a primary education and transition to a secondary education. Through strengthening learning opportunities for girls, the ambition is to reduce child marriages in the targeted areas.
The partnership represents an expansion of current collaboration on projects in China, Indonesia and Uganda and builds on a shared commitment to providing vulnerable children with learning opportunities that enable them to create sustainable lives for themselves and their future families.
Together with Oxfam IBIS the Hempel Foundation will work to bring down barriers preventing indigenous girls in rural areas of Bolivia and Guatemala from attaining a quality education. A particular focus will be on reducing gender-based violence and strengthening girls participation and achievement in education with the aim of increasing the number of girls transitioning from primary to Junior High School.
The partnership represents an expansion of current collaboration in Ghana as well as experiences from previous collaboration in Bolivia, Guatemala, Mozambique and Sierra Leone. The Hempel Foundation has been working with IBIS since 2011 with the shared ambition of providing vulnerable children with learning opportunities that enable them to create sustainable lives for themselves and their future families.
This partnership continues and strengthens existing collaboration between SOS Children's Villages and the Hempel Foundation, which currently consists of projects in Ethiopia, Somaliland and Tanzania. The partnership will add additional resources to the current project in Tanzania and enable a regional approach to documentation and learning of the existing projects.
The additional resources to the project in Tanzania will allow for a project extension and adding of a care component which is currently included in the Somaliland and Ethiopia projects. This will bring the three projects on the same track in terms of duration and components.


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Safa investigating allegations of match manipulation in Women's League
The South African Football Association (Safa) has started investigating allegations of match manipulation in the national women's league.
In a statement, Safa say they have noted complaints on social media, which say coaches and players in the Provincial Women's League made allegations of biased refereeing in one of the qualification matches.
Banyana Banyana player Noko Matlou was one of the people who took to Twitter to express their unhappiness about how a certain referee handled their match.
READ: Player slams 'corrupt' Safa referees
In her tweet, Matlou labelled Safa referees, working in Limpopo as "useless and corrupt".
"Safa has also received complaints from the aggrieved parties and has instituted a thorough investigation into the matter and will work speedily to get to the bottom of the issue in time for the National Championships.
"This matter will be dealt with in accordance with the Safa Statutes and Regulations without any favour or prejudice to any of the parties involved," read a statement on the Safa website.


The Boeing 767-300 is a mid- to long-range wide-body twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was Boeing's first wide-body twinjet and its first airliner with a two-crew glass cockpit. Air Do, previously known as Hokkaido International Airlines, is a regional airline operating scheduled service between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaidō in cooperation with All Nippon Airways.
This model has a wingspan of 12cm and is 14cm long.


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Funding Analysis: States Too Quick to Use Higher Ed as 'Budgetary Release Valve'
State and local resources are the primary source of funding for public higher education, yet those funds have steadily diminished in recent years.
If you think the federal government has bailed out colleges and universities with its massive amounts of relief funding, you'd be wrong. Add up state and local allocations of about $108 billion in fiscal year 2020, generated through taxes, lottery receipts, mineral and resource extraction revenue and state-funded endowments, and you'd get a more accurate idea about the primary sources of funding for public higher education, as laid out in a new analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.
According to "State Higher Education Finance" (SHEF), which primarily examines state and local investments for higher ed, states contributed a total of $97 billion in funding for fiscal year 2020; local governments in 31 states provided another $12 billion. Over the same period, the federal government's stimulus funding, $428 million, made up just 0.4 percent of the total support.
As the report noted, "While federal stimulus and relief funds are helpful, they are not a replacement for long-term state investments as stimulus funds are time limited and often restricted in their use."
Over the past 25 years, the proportion of general funds from any source allocated to post-secondary education has steadily declined, from 13 percent in 1995 to 9 percent in 2020. The difference in most cases is being made up by increases in student tuition, making for a "substantial shift of responsibility" for financing public higher ed toward net tuition revenue, particularly in the four-year sector. In 1980 (the earliest available data), the student share was 21 percent. By 2020, the average share was 44 percent. However, that varied by institutional type. At two-year institutions, the average student share in 2020 was less than a quarter (24 percent). At four-year institutions, the average student share was over half (53 percent).
The report asserted that the downward slide in public funding was expected to continue, noting that public institutions could face "a more precarious financial situation than at any other time in recent history." A big part of the problem is that even after eight years of increases in state support for colleges and universities, states are still recovering from prior recessionary cuts in state funding, and higher ed provides for an easy target to make up budget shortfalls. Nationally, the study found, inflation-adjusted education appropriations per full-time equivalent (FTE) student remain 6 percent and 15 percent below 2008 and 2001 levels.
State and local governments provided an average of $8,636 per FTE student to public institutions. However, due to the pandemic, the sector will most probably experience several years of cuts to state funding, the report asserted, "and early estimates of 2021 funding show a decline in most states."
Two-year colleges received $4,969 per FTE in state general operating appropriations, compared to $7,352 at four-year schools. Four-year institutions also received $1,697 per FTE in research and medical appropriations.
Local appropriations, the primary support for two-year institutions, partially made up for the gap in state funding. In 2020, two-year institutions received $2,727 per FTE in local support.
As the association warned, "Continuing to use higher education as a budgetary release valve as state economies recover from the pandemic recession may undermine student affordability and harm public institutions' ability to provide quality educational opportunities."
"These findings paint a concerning picture as the impacts of the 2020 recession continue to affect higher education," the report stated. "With declining revenue from both states and students and after a year of increased costs due to the pandemic, state support is crucial for the continued success of our public institutions."
The full report and related resources are openly available on the association's website.
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At about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23, 2014, a patron was leaving a pub in southeastern Wisconsin. Intending to pull straight out of his parking stall, he accidentally put his vehicle into reverse and accelerated, backing into the building and caving in the wall. Meanwhile, inside the pub, an employee was serving drinks from behind the bar, which is near a cooking area with a broaster. Suddenly, scalding hot grease erupted from the broaster, splashing everything nearby. The vehicle had hit the wall that contained the cooking equipment, causing serious injuries to the pub employee and significant damage to the building.
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Apple Care buying outside U.S.
Discussion in 'Buying Tips and Advice' started by crimsonidol, Nov 16, 2009.
I had bought my mbp this September via a friend who was at Work&Travel this summer. She brought it to me.I was reading the threads over here and I decided 1 year warranty is not enough so I want to buy an Apple Care.
However it is not sold here. I was looking at the apple.com and according to what I understand to activate the Apple Care I should enter the code in the box.
Is there any problem if I buy a Apple care and ship it to a friend in U.S. and later he tells me the code and I register to the Apple Care. I ask it because there is no Apple care Product in here Turkey and I cannot register with an address here. should I register with an U.S adress?
Since a mbp is a portable my apple care will be worldwide and I can get help anytime I need here?
I tried to search but I could not find that topics. any ideas about this??
just buy it on ebay. they'll email you the code. and you'll save money.
so it won't be a problem an adress that I do not use right? I have the transaction e-mail and original transaction even if it has my friend's name on it.


During the first week of February every year, the World Interfaith Harmony Week is observed by people of faith around the world.
World Interfaith Harmony Week was first proposed at the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2010 by H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan, and was proclaimed by the General Assembly in resolution A/RES/65/5 adopted unanimously on 20 October 2010.
The aim of the week is to promote harmony and tolerance between all people of the world, regardless of their faith or religion. Interfaith Harmony Week aims to be inclusive of all people, including those of differing faith as well as those of no faith. It seeks to do this by promoting the common basis of all faiths and religions, "Love of God and Love of the Neighbor, or Love of the Good and Love of the Neighbor".
If this is your first WIHW then all we ask is that you gather with fellow lovers of harmony nearby and plan just one simple event. Don't worry about making a big splash this year; a simple breakfast or bazaar is a great first step. You'll have an entire year to make the next one a huge event.
The World Interfaith Harmony Week website provides a number of helpful suggestions for interfaith events that could be held during the Week, and guidelines on how to organise this in your area. You can find out how to participate in this year's Interfaith Harmony Week here.


The threatened closure of HMV (which has gone into administration) saddens me mainly because thousands of staff in its shops in Britain and Ireland face joining the dole queue, along with workers from Blockbuster video and Jessops cameras which are also in Administration. Good to see that workers at two HMV branches in Limerick have occupied the shops demanding they are paid for work they've already done and that they get redundancy payments.
Unless somebody buys the shops and reopens them, that will be the end of music shops in most UK town centres. I believe that would also hasten the end of the CD format - why make products if there are no shops to sell them? (apart from a small number of specialist shops on the one hand and supermarkets selling a narrow range on the other). Of course people can order CDs online, but increasingly they are more likely to just download or stream the music.
In the pre-internet age record shops were portals to whole musical worlds, and beyond them to alternative sexual, literary, fashion and political sub cultures. Arguably this function began to decline once CDs replaced vinyl, if only because CD boxes conveyed so little information to the browsing music fan compared with a 12 record sleeve. Of course the internet finished it off, demystifying all those hidden scenes by giving instant access to their 'secrets' from the home computer and later from the mobile phone.
Analysts have criticised various HMV business decisions and blamed tax dodging at HMV's big competitor Amazon for the fall of the record shop chain. But these are marginal factors compared to the bigger trend - the fall in the value of recorded music.
As both Marx and the classical economists (particularly Ricardo) discovered, the economic value of a commodity is ulitmately a function of the amount a labour embodied in it. In the pre-digitial music industry, a huge amount of labour was involved in bridging the gap between the recording of music and the consumer - workers in record pressing plants (and in the plants feeding them with raw materials), in transport distributing records and CDs, and in shops like HMV.
The amount of labour embodied in CDs and DVDs sold in shops hasn't changed, but as Marx also showed it's not the amount of labour in an individual product that determines its value but the amount of 'socially necessary labour' - ie the average amount of labour time in a society necessary to produce that thing. If the 'thing' in this case is the consumer having access to the piece of music when they want it, then the socially necessary labour involved in its manufacture and distribution is virtually zero with internet downloading. As price broadly follows value, old style retailers of material music cannot really compete. And with the magnitude of value circulating in the music industry reduced there is obviously less scope for 'surplus value', the element accrued by capital as profit. Hence businesses like HMV becoming less profitable and ultimately unviable from a capitalist point of view.
Does that mean that record shops are completely finished? Not necessarily. For most consumers the 'use value' of a song is simply a matter of being able to listen to it at will - the delivery mechanism (digital, CD or vinyl) is irrelevant. For a minority though the use value of a physical record or CD goes beyond this. It might be a matter of a perceived difference in the sound quality compared with digital music, it might be an aesthetic appreciation of the packaging. It might be to satisfy (or never quite satisfy) the fetishistic desire of the obsessive collector, or to signify some kind of imagined 'cool' (hey look at my hipster cassette collection). There's enough there to hopefully keep open some specialist shops like Rough Trade which retain some of that aura of the portal. But in the present form of society, probably not enough value to cover the costs of a presence in the average high street or shopping mall.
Right on time comes the British Record Shop Archive: 'The record shop was once the centre of every music lover's universe, from the beginnings of the vinyl 12 inch in the 1940's through to the digital music developments of the 1990's, millions of us browsed, socialised and bought music in our local record shop or high street department stores. Record shops were an integral part of the social fabric in local areas. They launched pop stars, record labels, and were focal points for emerging music genres. The aim of this site is to record the history of the record shop in an accessible archive, to hold intrinsic details that could get lost in the mix, and to celebrate the role that the record shop played'.
Leon Parker is trying to raise funds at Kickstarter to mount an exhibition on the history of Dobell's Jazz and Folk Record Shop (21 Tower Street, London WC2): 'Until 1989, when Dobells finally became another victim of rent rises and redevelopment, Dobells had been a Mecca to music lovers for more than four decades. Dobells was one of the first record shops outside the US to stock Jazz, Blues, Folk, World, Latin and African music. It was also a meeting point for a remarkable network of different people — musicians, both the famous and the forgotten, anarchists, Tory politicians, doctors, dancers, dockers, writers galore, union leaders, eminent academics, film stars, journalists. school kids still in uniform and bankers (not to mention some distinctly dodgy Soho characters) — all rubbing shoulders drawn by a passion for music into a cramped, smoke-filled and frequently alcohol-fueled record shop in Soho.
Dobells was the first port of call for visiting American musicians. Many would come to Dobell's from Heathrow and buy records before they found a hotel room! BB King loved Dobell's while once Janis Joplin dropped in with a bottle of Southern Comfort. You could find Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Red Allen or half the Ellington band shopping and gossiping. It acted as a fertile learning ground for the youngsters who went on to lead such legendary British bands as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Cream and from Belfast Taste. The listening booths were research libraries to a whole generation and on Friday afternoons wage envelopes were torn open for rare Blue Notes, Riversides, Topics Folkways and Blue Horizons. And Dobells is where Bob Dylan spent a lot of his time during the long winter of 1962 when he lived and performed in London. Dylan even recorded in Dobell's basement as Blind Boy Grunt'.


Yep Olive came too. But it was so much fun!
So we know we wanna get married somewhere cool. First place we checked out was the Oakland Museum in Oakland. It was amazing. The architecture, landscape and view. We fell in love..
Sangria, Candy & Friends oh my!


In an effort to consolidate their services in the town of Plainfield and offer a more comprehensive, coordinated and personal approach to patient care, Day Kimball Healthcare built a new 27,500 square foot medical office building adjacent to their existing Dow Road facility. This new two-story building provides a complete Walk-In Center and Adult Primary Care on the first floor. A beautiful new Women's Center occupies the entire second floor with a comfortable locker room and fully integrated diagnostic capability. Other services provided within this facility include Occupational Health services for business, blood draw, and diagnostic imaging. The building design included the use of high quality, durable materials in a contemporary composition to project an up-to-date image of stability and quality.


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If you need to have records released, we are required by law to have you complete a written release, which allows us to transfer your records. A release is specific to one transfer of information to one location. A separate release must be signed each time you request a record transfer. A separate release must be signed for each family member requesting a transfer of records. Each release must be signed by the patient, except in the case of a minor child, or if there is a power of attorney on record for another adult.
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Aim: In this study, a guiding algorithm aiming to increase patient satisfaction related with nontechnical dimension of services at not gain-aimed secondary health care-services in developing countries like Turkey is searched. Methods: The scale was applied to measure non-technical dimension of service satisfaction from services provided by a secondary health-care unit. Factor analysis was performed to form groups of unrelated items by gathering related items in the scale and to rank factors affecting satisfaction by their importance. Results: We suggest an eight-staged algorithm in studies aiming to increase patient satisfaction. General contents of matters that have to be dealed up in an order are: Matters that have to be dealed up include mostly outpatient clinic and clinic conditions in first stage (most important matters), time in second stage, again time related with laboratory, radiology services and bureaucratic procedures in third stage, cafeteria-services in fourth stage, finding competent in order to get information, visiting patients and quality of foods in the clinic in fifth stage, behaviours of staff in sixth stage, results of radiological and laboratory services in seventh stage and toilets and security of the hospital in the last stage. Conclusion: We present an algorithm to system managers of not gain-aimed secondary health care services in Turkey that will be useful in their studies aiming to increase patient satisfaction related with non-technical dimension of services. If conditions different from community features and present health care systems exist, there will be changes in importance sequence of components affecting patient satisfaction.


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File #: Res 1833-2021 Version: * Name: LU 894 - Zoning, 824 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn (C 200314 ZMK)
Title: Resolution approving the decision of the City Planning Commission on ULURP No. C 200314 ZMK, a Zoning Map amendment (L.U. No. 894).
Attachments: 1. Res. No. 1833, 2. Calendar of the Zoning Subcommittee Meeting - October 12, 2021, 3. October 21, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-21-21, 5. Calendar of the Zoning Subcommittee Meeting - November 9, 2021, 6. REVISED - Calendar of the Zoning Subcommittee - November 9, 2021, 7. November 23, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 8. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-23-21, 9. City Planning Commission Approval Letter, 10. LOCATING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW MATERIALS FOR CERTAIN LAND USE APPLICATIONS, 11. Committee Report
Resolution approving the decision of the City Planning Commission on ULURP No. C 200314 ZMK, a Zoning Map amendment (L.U. No. 894).
By Council Members Salamanca, Jr. and Moya
WHEREAS, 824 Metropolitan Avenue Owner LLC, filed an application pursuant to Sections 197-c and 201 of the New York City Charter for an amendment of the Zoning Map, Section No. 13b, changing from an R6B District to an R7A District, changing from a C8-2 District to an R7A District, and establishing within the proposed R7A District a C2-4 District, which in conjunction with the related action would facilitate the construction of an eight-story mixed-use building with 36 dwelling units, of which 11 units would be permanently affordable under MIH Options 1 and 2, at 824 Metropolitan Avenue (Block 2916, Lots 14 and 16), in the East Williamsburg section of Community District 1, Brooklyn (ULURP No. C 200314 ZMK) (the "Application");
WHEREAS the City Planning Commission filed with the Council on October 8, 2021 its decision dated October 6, 2021 (the "Decision") on the Application;
WHEREAS, the Application is related to application N 200315 ZRK (L.U. No. 895), a zoning text amendment to designate a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) area;
WHEREAS, the Decision is subject to review and action by the Council pursuant to Section 197-d of the City Charter;
WHEREAS, upon due notice, the Council held a public hearing on the Decision and Application on October 12, 2021;
WHEREAS, the Council has considered the land use and other policy issues relating to the Decision and Application; and
WHEREAS, the Council has considered the relevant environmental issues, including the Conditional Negative Declaration was issued on May 17, 2021. The Negative Declaration (CEQR No. 20DCP110K) included an (E) designation to avoid the potential for significant adverse impacts related to hazardous materials, air quality, and noise (the "E" designation (E-618));
The Council finds that the action described herein will have no significant impact on the environment.
Pursuant to Sections 197-d and 200 of the City Charter and on the basis of the Decision and Application, and based on the environmental determination and consideration described in the report, C 200314 ZMK incorporated by reference herein, and the record before the Council, the Council approves the Decision of the City Planning Commission.
The Zoning Resolution of the City of New York, effective as of December 15, 1961, and as subsequently amended, is further amended by changing the Zoning Map, Section No. 13b:
1. changing from an R6B District to an R7A District property bounded by Metropolitan Avenue, a line perpendicular to the southerly street line of Metropolitan Avenue of distant 215 feet easterly (as measured along the street line) from the point of intersection of the southerly street line of Metropolitan Avenue and the northeasterly street line of Bushwick Avenue, a line midway between Metropolitan Avenue and Devoe Street, and a line 150 feet northeasterly of Bushwick Avenue;
2. changing from a C8-2 District to an R7A District property bounded by Metropolitan Avenue, a line 150 feet northeasterly of Bushwick Avenue, a line midway between Metropolitan Avenue and Devoe Street, and Bushwick Avenue; and
3. establishing within the proposed R7A District a C2-4 District bounded by Metropolitan Avenue, a line 150 feet northeasterly of Bushwick Avenue, a line midway between Metropolitan Avenue and Devoe Street, and Bushwick Avenue;
Borough of Brooklyn, Community District 1, as shown on a diagram (for illustrative purposes only) dated May 17, 2021, and subject to the conditions of CEQR Declaration of E-618, Community District 1 Borough of Brooklyn.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a Resolution passed by The Council of The City of New York on ______________, 2021, on file in this office.


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Tropics Regains Winning Thread
TROPICS rolled back the years when winning at Wolverhampton tonight, his first win in twelve races and two and a half years. The nine-year-old chestnut, went off the 11/4 favourite under stable apprentice, Jack Duern, in a 0-95 handicap over 6f, a trip over which Tropics had previously won seven times. Drawn well in four,… Read more »
Tangramm Back To Winning Ways
TANGRAMM, all-weather Champion in 2015/16 but without a victory this year, recaptured the winning habit when landing his first Class 4 race at Chelmsford last night under a cool ride from Charles Bishop. The 5yo son of Sakhee's Secret was settled at the back and held up for much of the 1m2f contest. Coming wide… Read more »
Cappananty Con Wins Comfortably
CAPPANANTY CON won his third race last night and his best to date when comfortably winning at Chelmsford in a Class 4 handicap over six furlongs under a fine ride by Robert Winston. Low draws are a big advantage in the sprints at the Essex track these days and although the stable runner was drawn okay in… Read more »
Varsovian Notches Eighth Career Win
VARSOVIAN won his eighth race today at Lingfield but his first over seven furlongs. The seven-year-old son of Refuse To Bend is a six furlong specialist having won all of his previous races over the trip, four of them at the Surrey track. However, he was four pounds below his last winning mark, was well… Read more »
Warmer Climes Beckon For Breeze
LIBRISA BREEZE, winner of Ascot's Group One Champions Day Sprint last month could be forsaking his beloved Ascot for warmer, international climes abroad, specifically, either Australia or Dubai. The 5yo son of Mount Nelson was due to go to Hong Kong for next month's Longines Hong Kong Mile but a minor setback has led to… Read more »
Hannah Partridge Fourth At Ascot
HANNAH PARTRIDGE may not have beaten Michael Owen but she was a very fine fourth in the Prince Of Wales' Charity race at Ascot yesterday aboard Soaring Spirits. The pre-race publicity all centred around former England international footballer, Michael Owen's racing debut. While he did finish second, Hannah can be very proud as her horse… Read more »
Lucymai Bolts Up At Chelmsford
LUCYMAI returned to winning ways last night when bolting up at Chelmsford by four and a half lengths under stable apprentice Jack Duern at 8/1. The 4yo daughter of Multiplex was not well drawn (10 of 14) but Jack rousted Lucymai out of the stalls to get a "posi" on the rails and she led after… Read more »
Frankie Dettori Comes To Town!
FRANKIE DETTORI, MBE, three-times champion jockey, who went through the seven-race card on Champions' Day at Ascot in 1996 and who has ridden over 500 Group winners is coming to town on Saturday 18 November. The 46-year-old Italian jockey will be at the Alban Arena in St Albans, Hertfordshire for a Q & A show with… Read more »
Harper Lodge Welcomes First Frankel!
Posted November 6th, 2017
HARPER LODGE FARM has its first Frankel in training after the purchase of Lightening Fast at Tattersalls' Horses In Training Sale last week. Frankel was not only an unbeaten Champion racehorse, winning all 14 starts, including 10 Group 1s, he has also enjoyed a fabulous start to his stallion career. Last year, he was the leading European first season… Read more »
Solario Racing 2yo Grey Settles In Well
Posted November 3rd, 2017
SOLARIO RACING purchased a very exciting unraced 2yo grey colt by Aussie Rules at the Horses In Training Sale at Tattersalls this week and he is settling in well at Harper Lodge Farm. The large grey, named Don't Look Down, which stands at 16:2hh was formerly owned by Mr J L C Pearce, a long-time… Read more »


Villa Sampan is a two-bedroom, lovingly designed holiday home in Seminyak, especially close to Ku De Ta beach club. Infusing everyday Balinese life into its interiors as well as the tropical outdoors, the villa is absolutely stunning in its décor which is a collection of artefacts, bric-a-brac, weathered furniture, and other significant collectibles. The bedrooms are stunning and directly open out to the lagoon-style swimming pool at the villa thus, allowing you to dive right in without a problem!
A beautiful lagoon-style, freeform swimming pool occupied the outdoors at Villa Sampan, and with its you have the pool deck with white, rattan sun chairs to lounge on, if you want to soak up some sun and get that tan going. There is verdant greenery and many plants growing around the pool, making it all the more original, vibrant, and refreshing. You can easily lose yourself as you relax breathing in the fresh air without a care in the world. There are Flintstones-inspired caveman stone benches to relax on with a good book or a drink.
Featuring a sunken living area furnished with an L-shaped sofa with an array of colourful cushions, the living area at Villa Sampan opens out to the swimming pool, so much so that you can even enjoy an eyeful as you're indoors. The ceiling of the living area is alang-alang, a traditional Indonesian structure. Crafted from reclaimed wood, the furniture is weathered and stylishly so, with a fisherman's boat-turned-bar as a central piece in the room. Steps leading from here and there take you to the pool, the bedrooms and even the gardens at the back. The dining area and kitchen are also found in the large living area to make for a communal space for everyone to mingle and have a wonderful time together. The dining table is in face like a picnic bench with similar chairs on either side of the large table. The kitchen is fully-equipped with modern amenities to ensure you can cook if you wish!
Villa Sampan has two bedrooms, each furnished with a canopied, king-sized bed with aquamarine bedding. Each bedroom opens out to the pool and is even adjoined to the living area. There is either a work desk or a lounge chaise in the bedrooms for the ease and comfort of guests so they rest easy. With ample wardrobe space, you can store all your belongings securely. The master bathroom that is partially open-air is fitted with a natural stone bathtub with beautiful inlay and tropical plants abound. The second bathroom is fitted with a tropical rain shower for a true adventure.
Making sure that you are not disturbed out of turn, the villa staff caters to all the needs of the villa and guests alike. Housekeeping, garden and pool maintenance, personal guest assistance and security are looked after with care. The staff can even arrange for a BBQ out in the open, for freshly-grilled food! Massages, transportation, and personal chef are available upon request.
The villa is located at an ideal spot, mere minutes away from Ku De Ta beach club, which is a bustling hub for a lot of tourists. Petitenget beach with Potato Head beach club, another excellent club, is also nearby, where you will also find the ancient Pura Petitenget. Oberoi's eat-street is another popular location as it is home to many restaurants, cares, and high-end shops.


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Junction Solutions Secures $7.5 Million in New Venture Capital Funding
Junction Solutions, the leading provider of multi-channel retail and food and beverage enterprise software applications based on the Microsoft platform, recently announced that it has secured a $7.5 million investment from lead investor MK Capital, one of the largest software venture capital investors in the Midwest. The funds will be used to expand Junction Solutions' software portfolio and customer support resources for its state-of-the-art 360-degree multi-channel retail and food & beverage processing applications for medium and large enterprises.
"MK Capital only invests in companies with outstanding customer satisfaction, proven industry expertise and a solid technological foundation," says Mark Koulogeorge at MK Capital. "Our extensive diligence revealed that Junction Solutions achieves the highest marks with each of these categories. We look forward to Junction Solutions' accelerated growth with its sound Microsoft Dynamics AX platform and stellar reputation within its chosen industries."
Mark Koulogeorge, Managing General Partner of MK Capital and leader of its software investment practice, will join the Junction Solutions Board of Directors. Chris Sang, the CEO of ClairVista, formerly the CEO of iFulfillment, CFO of specialty retailer Ulta, and a member of the Board of Directors of Retek, also will join the Junction Solutions Board.
In 2003, Junction Solutions began with a unique premise: leverage its capacity to deliver robust, industry specific software solutions—along with outstanding quality services—to transcend stand-alone solutions based on outdated legacy technology. Today, that premise is the company's commitment. Junction Solutions delivers industry-specific solutions built on the broad-spectrum technology offered by Microsoft.
"With MK Capital supporting our software and our commitment with its capital, Junction Solutions is able to continue to pursue the most innovative and widely adopted new technology for customers who want to stay competitive in a constantly changing environment," says Brian Carpizo, CEO at Junction Solutions. "This capital infusion enables us to more rapidly deliver cutting edge enterprise solutions to retailers, food and beverage processors and manufacturers around the world."
Junction Solutions delivers comprehensive enterprise applications that enable companies to achieve profitable growth by streamlining processes, improving operational efficiency and building tighter connections with their customers and suppliers. Our industry-specific features for multi-channel retailers and food & beverage companies, integrated with the Microsoft Dynamics AX flexible and proven ERP application, give customers proven return on investment and lower total cost of ownership. As a Gold Certified Microsoft Business Partner, we combine business process know-how with comprehensive services for a high-value, low-risk implementation.
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Seattle's Sound Theatre Company, founded by regular Bainbridge Performing Arts contributor Teresa Thuman, has taken Outstanding Theatre of the Year honors in the Gregory Awards two of the last three years.
So, having your play tabbed for their 2017 season is no small potatoes. But Bainbridge-based playwright and actor Keiko Green has accomplished that feat. Her original play "Nadeshiko" will lead off Sound Theatre Company's 2017 season, with performances April 13-May 7 at Seattle Center House Theatre.
The world-premiere production of "Nadeshiko" is part of a season Sound Theatre have titled "Amplify! Raising Women's Voices." The three plays in the lineup all are written and will be dire cted by women.
"Nadeshiko," directed by Kaytlin McIntyre, tells the story of "two generations of Asian women who are reclaiming their power from idealized perceptions of beauty."
Green, a New York stage veteran who launched her Puget Sound career with a star turn in BPA's "Private Eyes" in 2012. She has gone on to become one of Seattle's busiest actor, and a charter selection for the core acting company at A Contemporary Theatre, where she recently completed a run of "Dangerous Liaisons."
She also has appeared in recent shows at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company and Seattle Public Theater. Her plays "Bunnies" and "Puny Humans" premiered at Seattle Rep's Annex Theatre, where's she's a member of the Rep's Writers' Group.
Other shows announced for Sound Theatre's upcoming season include "Hoodoo Love," by Katori Hall, July 13-30, and "Goblin Market," by Polly Pen, Peggy Harmon and Christina Roetti, directed by Thuman.
"I have been looking to dedicate 2017 toplays by women for some time," Thuman said in a press release, "and the current events have only affirmed that this was the right direction for our next season."
Information: soundtheatrecompany.org
December 1, 2016 Theater, Updates"Bunnies", "Dangerous Liaisons", "Puny Humans", Kaytlin McIntyre, Keiko Green, South Theatre Company, Teresa Thuman


Prague, 29 October 2014 – Mitas' revolutionary tyre concept PneuTrac received the EIMA Technical Innovation award in Bologna, Italy. The jury awarded Mitas PneuTrac as the best innovation in the Component or Accessory category based on the detailed technical description and practical demonstration of this unique concept. PneuTrac brings together the best of both worlds in traditional pneumatic tyres and rubber tracks. Mitas is intensively testing the PneuTrac concept on an 18″ rim, started dynamic testing on a larger 38″ rim tyre and is planning to test a new size.
Mitas PneuTrac will be one of the most coveted innovations of the EIMA fair in Bologna. Mitas will display PneuTrac mounted on a 38″ rim in the Four-Sides Arch area at the entrance to the Bologna fair.
Prague, 23 February 2015 – The all-new 28″ PneuTrac will be displayed during SIMA fair at Mitas stand E016, Hall 3, mounted on the front axle of the Case IH Maxxum tractor. The rear axle will be fitted with the 38″ rim PneuTrac. Mitas developed 480/65 R28 PneuTrac as the third size of this revolutionary tyre concept while PneuTrac 280/70 R18 and 600/65 R38 are undergoing intensive dynamic tests. PneuTrac received the EIMA Technical Innovation award in Bologna, Italy.
Mitas invites all media representatives to join in a unique photo opportunity at Mitas stand E016, Hall 3 with the PneuTrac concept mounted on a tractor for the first time ever.
PneuTrac brings together the best of both worlds in traditional pneumatic tyres and rubber tracks. Mitas is intensively testing the PneuTrac concept on an 18″ and 38″ rim tyre and started static tests on the new 28″ rim PneuTrac. Thanks to the new 28″ size and with the use of the 38″ rim, Mitas is able to fit front and rear axles of a tractor solely with PneuTrac. This enables Mitas to start field tests in the near future and prove the advantages of this concept.
"PneuTrac has great potential. The new size of Mitas PneuTrac is another significant step in the development of this concept," said Pavel Kott, Mitas' agriculture tyre product manager.
In November 2014, Mitas PneuTrac received the EIMA Technical Innovation award. The jury recognised Mitas PneuTrac as the best innovation in the Component or Accessory category based on the detailed technical description and practical demonstration of this unique concept.
Mitas is developing its PneuTrac concept with its partner, Galileo Wheel Ltd.
Mitas PneuTrac provides better traction efficiency with lower slippage, resulting in lower operational costs, higher crop yields and less damage to soil compared with standard tyres. PneuTrac provides very stable driving at low inflation pressures, ensuring comfort and safety with no need to adjust inflation pressure.
The footprint of Mitas PneuTrac is 53% larger than that of a standard tyre, and it provides higher tractive force. This ensures gentle ground handling with much lower and improved distribution of pressure on the ground with less soil compaction. The lateral stability of Mitas PneuTrac is of a very high level compared with standard tyres: 167% higher, to be precise. PneuTrac is mountable on standard rims.


Polymath: What's in a name?
Tim Dalrymple was ready to cut his first invoice. He had just one problem: our company didn't have a name.
The burgeoning agency that would later become "Polymath Innovations" had just wrapped its first official project but hadn't yet settled on an identity. Our founder, Tim, knew we needed a name that captured elements of curiosity, creativity, and problem solving.
"Michaelangelo's Workshop" was his first idea, inspired by a historical fiction novel about the iconic renaissance artist. Thankfully (very thankfully), that name didn't stick.
Ultimately, we settled on Polymath—meaning, "a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning"—and the name has reflected who we are, how we work, and what we value ever since.
Our name is such a part of who we are, how we work, and what we value.
For starters, the word "polymath" itself is an authentic expression of our own Dear Leader, whose various interests took him from champion gymnast at Stanford, to studying religion and philosophy at Harvard, and ultimately to launching a creative agency in Atlanta. An intellectual adventurer and creative nomad at heart, Tim tends to be drawn to other polymaths who, like himself, have chased curiosity down unique and varied paths.
Since then—that was 2013—Polymath has nearly doubled in size every year. As new talent came into our fold and new partners brought their dreams to the table, the name brandishing our business cards has only become more relevant with time, not less.
Many creative agencies are built on decades of industry traditions, and apply a kind of template to their work. They come to the discussion table equipped with biases and assumptions built into their training.
At Polymath, we seek out people who come from a broad range of fields, where they are taught to see problems from different perspectives and solve them in different ways. We draw people who naturally curious and always learning; people who are eager to break into something unknown and unexpected. We do this because we believe that's where true innovation is found.
Our solutions are born from interdisciplinary collaboration informed by cross-industry insights.
Among our ranks are men and women who have studied at the greatest liberal arts universities in the world, managed accounts for global brands, advised presidential campaigns, produced TV shows and music albums, and served international nonprofits. All of them share a common love for tackling meaningful problems and making an impact through effective communication.
The result is a more robust approach to creativity and strategy. Our solutions are born from interdisciplinary collaboration informed by cross-industry insights. We check and balance each other, avoiding the common pitfalls of groupthink that blind some teams. Our ideas are borrowed from a diverse pool of experiences. This also gives the team an extraordinary degree of flexibility, as talent resources can adapt to different types of problems.
Around the office—speaking figuratively—we refer to team members as "Polymathletes." We wear it as a badge of honor, and push each other to explore new creative outlets and enhance our learning both inside and outside of our formal work. Being a Polymathlete comes with high standards of excellence and service in everything we do.
Sometimes, the name you give something is a self-fulfilling prophecy that helps shape what it becomes. Polymath is a fitting moniker for our rabble of creatives and strategists, equipped to take on any problem. And we are quite proud to own it.


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Does having a Wii Remote make hurling Yellow Pikmin at Honeywisps any more fun?
I didn't believe much in buying upgraded or remade ports of last-generation games. Then I bought Pikmin 2.
For those who haven't played a Pikmin game before, the game concept was allegedly inspired by legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto's habit of tending his garden and observing ants. In the game, an interplanetary explorer finds a vaguely earth-like world, though on it he seems to be only 4 cm tall: grasses and flowers tower over him, as do the tree stumps, trashed cardboard boxes, and discarded action figures scattered about the planet.
In this "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" sort of world, the protagonist, a hardworking family man named Olimar, finds he can summon, command, and even grow the ant-like Pikmin. It's up to the player to grow, protect, and lead the multicolored creatures during the day, strategically using their unique abilities and combined numbers (up to 100 can follow Olimar at once) to fight monsters, solve puzzles, dig up treasure, and carry it back home. This can only happen when the sun is up, however; when night falls, any Pikmin left alone will automatically fall prey to nocturnal predators.
A big reason for my skepticism about a Wii version of this eight-year-old GameCube classic is its conversion to control with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. I considered the original Pikmin built to the exact specifications of the GameCube controller, and didn't believe the original control scheme could be improved on at all. I was wrong. Using the Wii Remote pointer not only feels natural, but goes beyond the game's original controls. You can now easily aim to throw Pikmin without being forced to reposition your character, and aim the pointer beyond your throw range to call any Pikmin to you as long as they're on screen, which, with the camera zoomed out all the way, gives you huge reach compared to the GameCube's shorter limitation.
The improved control method brings tangible improvements. Throw in added widescreen support, the ability to zoom the camera out extra far, and some mostly unnoticeable graphical touch-ups, and it's easy to recommend the Wii version of Pikmin 2 not just over the original, but even as a complete replacement.
Of course, this would all count for nothing if the core game itself wasn't anything special. But it is, and the Pikmin gameplay is still as innovative, fun, and challenging as ever. There are numerous enemies to fight, some of which you'll quickly learn to defeat even without the help of the Pikmin, along with many climactic boss fights against much larger, and much more exotic, life forms. You'll have to learn each Pikmin color's strengths (Will you need Blue Pikmin to wade through a puddle, or heavy purple Pikmin to weigh down a switch? Or both?), and even divide up your two spacemen and their Pikmin into teams to solve some of the more complex problems. You can also harvest berries in the game to store up power-ups that either petrify enemies for a short while or boost your Pikmin temporarily.
Pikmin 2 added caves, which you can explore at a more deliberate pace since the time of day does not change as long as you're inside. This slower speed is necessary since the caves often house numerous hazards that need to be navigated and fearsome beasts that require well-planned strategy to down.
You also can't grow new Pikmin when underground, meaning preserving those you bring in, or supplementing your forces through other means, becomes imperative. It's worth noting that these caves do have a high potential for frustration and exhaustion—the only way to secure collected treasure is often to successfully fight your way to the bottom. Many caves have around five sub-floors you'll have to survive, which can be tiring enough, but some have upwards of seven, nine, or even 15. Pikmin 2 automatically saves between floors, but coming back to the game later and being thrown right into a difficult cave sub-floor is psychologically daunting.
Thankfully, you don't have to explore every nook and cranny of the single-player game to feel you've achieved something, but retrieving 100 percent of the game's treasures is a tempting challenge, not only for story reasons, but because if you get that far you're probably hooked on the game's puzzles. There's also plenty of content in the game's challenge mode, which is like a high score speed run mode with 30 specially designed levels. You can even tackle the Challenge Mode in two-player split-screen cooperative mode, which is an absolutely wonderful proposition. Or you can take your second player and do split-screen battle mode, which challenges either side to steal the other player's colored marble, or collect four of the white marbles guarded by monsters between their bases. This versus mode can be surprisingly engaging since players can easily collect and trigger random power-ups to keep each other on their toes.
The game's charm is one of its strongest qualities. Pikmin 2's gorgeous graphics focus not on explosions or technology but on an ant's-eye view of a natural world full of grasses, flowers, vines, and water puddles. The evocative "treasures" you collect, all real-world objects, grow in irony as your intergalactic visitors query their purpose. There's even the heart-warming humming of the Pikmin as they follow you around their world, or their heart-wrenching cries for help when they fall prey to that same world's dangers.
If you've never played a Pikmin game before (you should), this is a good place to start. It was a gem of a game on the GameCube, and the Wii version not only preserves but also subtly improves upon Pikmin 2's sense of action, strategy, and wide-eyed exploration. You'll know what I mean the first time you swarm a hundred Pikmin around a downed Puffy Blowhog.
It's fun to have a hundred Pikmin at your command to break down walls, build bridges, or hunt Bulborbs.
The game's cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes have a good chunk of additional content.
Wii controls give players more accuracy and functionality.
Caves can become long and frustrating, and if you don't collect all the treasures before you leave, you may have to slog through the entire cave again.
The frame rate can stutter sometimes when the camera is zoomed out all the way.
Pixelated PixiesJuly 02, 2012
You're right, it really was tempting to try and go for 100%, but I ultimately found it too frustrating to fight my way through sub-levels that I'd already beat in order to get down to the level where I'd lost all my Pikmin on the first attempt. There would have been one very simple feature that would have vastly improved the cave portions of this game for me, which would have been warp points within the caves. I wouldn't expect a warp point on every sub-level, but perhaps every 5 levels or so would have been helpful without making the game too easy.
Other than that though, I really loved Pikmin 2. I still prefer the first one though. I kind of liked the time-limit and as I've already said, I much prefer the above ground sections of the first game to the underground heavey portions of the second.
NWR_NealNeal Ronaghan, Owner/Reviews EditorJuly 02, 2012
You know you can just leave your Pikmin at the start of each floor and then take Olimar/Louie by their lonesome and tear ass to the entry to the next floor, right? Your Pikmin automatically jump down to the next floor with you.
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What!? Seriously? ...Well, that would certainly make some of those later levels easier. More often than not towards the end of the game, however, I found that the cracks which lead to the next sub-level were hidden behind gates or sometimes covered in rock, so I'd probably need at least a few Pikmin by my side. Still...I kind of feel like an idiot. How the hell did I not work that out?
KaironCarmine Red, Associate EditorJuly 02, 2012
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Don't blame yourself. I can't even find a reference to this in the manual, and this essentially breaks the spirit of the game's unspoken theme of "any pikmin you leave behind are screwed."
I still prefer the first one though. I kind of liked the time-limit and as I've already said, I much prefer the above ground sections of the first game to the underground heavey portions of the second.
Yeah, I'm with you. I think Pikmin 2 is a great game, but I think I've gone on record before with my opinion that I would take Pikmin 1 over Pikmin 2 in a heart beat, and probably for very similar reasons as the ones you state.
MagicCow64July 02, 2012
I liked the expansions of gameplay offered by Pikmin 2, and the baseline mechanics are great (and that final boss fight is a doozy), but I also prefer the first game. Though the strict time limit was probably too harsh, having it completely open-ended in the second game took away some of the grit. Luckily I read an E3 interview where Miyamoto said Pikmin 3 is moving back toward the time resource management of the first game, so I'm hopeful that we're going to get the best of both worlds.
NeoThunderJuly 02, 2012
100% isn't anything compared to all pink flowers in challenge mode to unlock the final video "louie's dark secret"
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Follow the life of your adopted sheep through the seasons while getting a behind-the-scenes look at life on a sustainable, grass-based farm. If you live close by, there will be seasonal visits where you learn abut sheep care and participate in farm activities. If you live too far to visit regularly, no problem--you'll have what we call a Remote Adoption. Your communication will be through mail and email, and you'll be welcome to visit when you can. We have had Adoptive families in 24 different states!
Q. How long is the Adoption Period? What does the program cost?
A. The Adoption Period is 1 year. The program fee is $150 USD, paid at the beginning of your adoption year.
Q. When do I get my wool?
A. Shearing takes place in Jan. If you want it processed (roving or yarn), if takes a couple of months. If you want it raw, we ship it to you right after shearing.
Q. When can I sign up?
A. You can enroll any time, and your adoption period will go for the next 12 months.
Q. What kind of sheep am I adopting?
A. A Coopworth ewe (female) who stays in the flock year after year to produce lambs. These are lovely wool producers.
Q. Do I have to live within driving distance?
A. No. The seasonal visits are a bonus, not a necessity. Our correspondence will make you feel like you're right here on the farm, and we can send your fleece or processed wool by mail.
Q. Can I share my sheep with a friend?
A. Yes, as long as there is one designated contact person with whom we communicate.
Q. What if...what if my sheep dies?
A. Should your sheep suffer an unexpected loss of life, we'll either refund your fee prorated to the nearest month, or offer you a swap should another sheep be available.
Q. How do you organize the seasonal visits?
A. We set aside a block of time and notify our Adoptive Families by email.
Q. What if I want my fleece processed, not raw?
A. The fleece in its raw (straight off the sheep) state and picked up at the farm is included in the Adoption. If you want it as roving, quilt batting, yarn, or felt, we would be happy to coordinate this. You would be responsible for the processing charges which average $150-$200. If you live out of state and want the raw fleece mailed to you, shipping charges apply.
Some people want their bag of wool straight of the sheep (raw).
We can coordinate the processing, if you wish.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE COOPWORTH SHEEP WHO WERE RECENTLY ADOPTED. DIFFERENT SHEEP BECOME AVAILABLE EACH MONTH. SOMETIMES THERE IS A WAITING LIST.
LOOK HOW MANY STATES OUR ADOPTIVE FAMILIES HAVE COME FROM!


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