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Sir Paul McCartney is reportedly making music with Kanye West, as they head into the studio together.
The former Beatles singer and the outspoken rapper are said to have already recorded a number of tracks, that could be featured on a new album, reported New York Post's Page Six.
One song, tentatively titled P*** On My Grave, has already sparked some buzz, with Kanye's wife Kim Kardashian overheard telling friends she was a little surprised that the pair chose such a provocative name.
Kanye has spoken of his admiration for the Beatles in the past, while Paul has also said he would be interested in collaborating with a rapper such as Kanye or Jay Z.
The Beatles star even tweeted he had bought a copy of Yeezus and considered recruiting the Grammy-winning rapper for his song Appreciate.
Speculation over the rumoured pairing was sparked after Kanye was spotted in the crowds at Paul's gig at LA's Dodger Stadium last week.
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Originally incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1890, it adopted the name of the township in which it is situated. The name is a historical reminder of the role played in 19th-century British politics by George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquis of Buckingham (1753-1813).
Buckingham, Qué, Town, pop 11 668 (2001c), 11 678 (1996c), 10 548 (1991c), area 15.11 km2, inc 1979, is located 40 km east of HULL. The town was for a short period (1975-80) amalgamated with its neighbours Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, L'Ange-Gardien, Buckingham-Sud-Est, Buckingham-Ouest, Angers, Masson and the township of Buckingham. Buckingham is dominated by the Rivière du Lièvre, which runs through the town, and the Lower Laurentians.
Originally incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1890, it adopted the name of the township in which it is situated. The name is a historical reminder of the role played in 19th-century British politics by George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquis of Buckingham (1753-1813). Buckinghams's first industries were lumber and the mining of mica and feldspar.
Today the forestry sector still dominates - James MacLaren Industries in nearby Masson-Angers is a long-standing employer - but 2 chemical producers provide some diversification. Buckingham is also the regional service centre for the Lower Lièvre District. Although the mother tongue of the population is predominantly French (85%), close to 50% of its inhabitants are considered bilingual.
The town has its own particular lifestyle; its inhabitants are able to draw on the advantages of the urbanized Ottawa-Hull core while benefiting from the small-town atmosphere that is so characteristic of Buckingham. The town boasts the Centre culturel Bernard Lonergan and a rich architectural heritage: Saint-Grégoire-de-Nazianze Roman Catholic, St Stephen Anglican and St Andrews Presbyterian churches as well as the remarkable MacLaren-Kenny House (1890).

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Film Review: Blood Of The Beast (2003)
The Black Saint 11/28/2010	Film Reviews
In the year 2012 the third world war ended, killing over 3 billion people. Ninety eight of the surviving male population is rendered impotent because of the chemical weapons that were used during the war. To repopulate the Earth scientists mastered the art of cloning human beings. All is well until the first batch (strand) of clones reach their 18th birthday. At that point they become hungry for human flesh. Who will survive the attack of the bloodthirsty clones?
It has finally arrived my acolytes! It's finally here! The first film that gets 0 Shrouds from The Black Saint! A dubious achievement perhaps but an achievement nevertheless. You all know that your favorite Saint always finds something to tout in even the worst of the worst but this film is just beyond the pale in terms of it's badness. And what makes it even more terrible is that it's director is apparently trying to make a "Message" movie here. He fails miserably.
But what's the name of this stinkeroo? It's called "Blood Of The Beast" and it is one strange, f*cked up movie people. Director Georg Koszulinski (who also plays Jesse) seems to think that he is making some kind of statement on something. On what I couldn't tell you quite honestly. I took me 2 1/2 days to watch a 70 min. movie because I just couldn't keep my eyes open long enough to watch this moronic dreck for more than 15 minutes at a time before I fell asleep. The film opens with stock footage of what appears to be WW II & some title cards superimposed over the footage explaining that there was a third world war that killed 3 Billion people. In addition to the massive loss of life, 98 % of the remaining male population has been rendered sterile due to the chemical weapons used during the war. So science stepped in & perfected human cloning. all is well until 18 years late when the first clones (or "strands" as they refer to themselves) turn 18 & begin to devolve into flesh hungry zombies.
So let's get right to the point, What's wrong with this movie? Let's start with the opening credits, or lack thereof so to speak. The film opens with some really grainy tock footage of what looks like WW 2, which is fine except the film ostensibly takes place in the year 2030 & the year that the supposed war was fought was 2012. I would think that there was some stock footage laying around from a more timely war. You know maybe some jets, a couple of tanks rolling over rubble..sh*t like that. But noooo, what we get is dated footage of a war with soldiers wearing some really old uniforms & some mortars being fired off into the distance. It's over this footage that our story is introduced to us through the use of title cards. Cut to a classroom in the year 2030 (although it's never really stated what year the film takes place in, it has to be 2030 because of what we were told earlier).
Now if I'm in school & It's the year 2030 I'm expecting some George Jetson sh*t in my classroom. You know some holographic teachers, computers all over the place & some really funky clothes as well you know? Well Georg doesn't think so! What we get is a room barren of any markings that it's a classroom at all & some ordinary school tables & chairs. If I'm even alive in the year 2030 I would like to think that the school system is going to be a little more advanced than this. One of our students is feeling ill & while relaying his condition to a fellow classmate he suddenly starts bleeding through the nose & collapses. When someone tries to help him..he bites them on the arm. It turns out that he was one of the first strand of clones made 18 years ago. Slowly, very slowly, we find out that all of the first strand of clones are devolving into primal beings who want nothing more than to kill all who stand before them & maybe chew on their flesh a bit as well.
The film tries to follow 3 groups of people & their struggles against the first stranders. Three people who are hiking in the woods, three who are in an apartment & three who are holed up in what seems to be a disaster shelter. That's nine people that we don't give a flying f*ck about. It's pretty hard to have a film where there is no one to care about even in the slightest way but here it is. I felt no emotional connecting to these people at all & I don't see how anybody could. They're just faces in a (very small) crowd who constantly do the wrong things. The 3 in the apartment seem to know of the three that are hiking & decide to go find them even though they know they don't have much gas in their car & the three in the woods seem to know where the shelter is & are trying to get there…I think. And the three in the shelter seem to know about the others outside but just end up bickering with each other while the world is ending all around them. and what's the deal with the cows? Every so often we get shots of cows grazing in a meadow, close up's of the cows faces, etc..etc. Why is this? I haven't got the slightest f*cking idea…
The whole film smacks of a "message" movie. What that message is I don't know. What I do know is that just because you got some cameras & some fake blood lying around, it doesn't mean you can make a f*cking movie. Fuck, I've got cameras & fake blood at my disposal & a bunch of friends to act like zombies but that don't mean I'm gonna make a movie (just yet). To make matters worse, one of the characters in the shelter is a bible thumping moron who is constantly yelling about "God's will" while waving his bible to & fro. In the interim, the other six characters are making the wrong decisions even after having been attacked by these first stranders.
It gets better though. Director Koszulinski decided to get all experimental with his approach to filming this dreck so the film stock seems to be changing constantly & sometimes the film seems to be coming off of the spool or melting under the heat of the projector bulb. It fades in & out on occasion & every once in a while he throws in some more stock footage from WW 2 to superimpose over the proceedings to tell us….what? What the f*ck is this f*cking movie about? But wait..it gets even better! Koszulinski decided to film the last 7-10 minutes of the film silently. The actors mouth their dialogue but he uses title cards to tell us what they're saying! WhywhywhywhyWHY? It's so f*cking stupid it defies description. Of course he gives himself the final shot of the film as he stares morosely into the camera as he's overcome by the zombies. What an important statement that is! It's all accompanied by music composed by Koszulinski as well (he is a man of many dubious talents apparently). The music sounds like Philip Glass on a really bad day & did nothing but add to the headache I was suffering through watching this debacle. The editing is awful as well. There seems to be a cut every 5 seconds or so, sometimes a strobe effect is added to confuse whatever fool (me) is watching. And towards the end he seems to be filming with night vision goggles on while looking through a paper towel tube. The film is an absolute atrocity & I'm sure my editor must hate me now for assigning this movie to me. How have I offended thee O grand editor of mine? Please tell me what I've done wrong so that I might correct my mistake & not have to sit through something like this again….please?
Now here's the best part of all (always save the best for last I say), this craptacular mess has actually won a couple of awards! It won Best Director at the Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival which leads me to believe that I've got to visit Rhode Island very soon to pick up some of whatever they're smoking up there. It's gotta be some powerful sh*t!! It also won the "Promise" award at the Dahlonega International Film Festival. I can see the director winning this award if it meant he promises not to make another movie but I'll be damned if he hasn't made 8 more of em'! Mostly documentaries but he's still out here somewhere with a camera….waiting.
I think I can say that this is a film with absolutely NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. There is little to no blood, little to no talent in front of the camera & little to no talent behind it either. If a filmmaker wants to make a statement about something then he should just go about his business & not try to hide his statement in an ersatz zombie film. I've seen a lot of micro budgeted movies & the filmmakers usually seem to know that they have to make the best of their resources & don't try to shoot for the moon. They just try to make an entertaining movie. But these clowns wanted to make something important. All they did was give me a headache & you'll get one too I guarantee. ZERO SHROUDS from the Saint for this celluloid abortion born from the mind of a guy who really has a high opinion of himself I think. Oh well…at least they like him in Rhode Island (What are they smoking there)?
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Money Laundering Conspirators Sentenced to Prison
CAMDEN, N.J. – A McKinney, Texas, man was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for conspiring to launder $200,000, which he believed was derived from the sale of narcotics, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
John Eckerd, 55, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Renee Marie Bumb to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to launder money. Judge Bumb imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court.
Eckerd's conspirator, Anthony Romano, 53, of Springfield, New Jersey, was sentenced by Judge Bumb on Sept. 26, 2019, to 54 months in prison for his role in conspiring to launder over $590,000 in United States currency.
Between September 2017 and December 2017, Romano engaged in 10 separate money laundering transactions with an undercover agent. The agent and Romano met at various locations in Atlantic County, New Jersey, to discuss ways to conceal the origin of the money and to exchange the cash. Romano received bags of cash ranging in amounts of $10,000 to $60,000. The undercover agent represented to both Romano and Eckerd that the cash was derived from selling drugs on behalf of a South American drug cartel.
In exchange for the cash, Romano provided the agent with various business checks, less a fee that Romano charged for performing the illegal transaction. Several business checks were from shell companies that Romano formed in order to conceal and disguise the nature of the transaction.
Twenty days after Romano's initial meeting with the undercover agent, Romano spoke to the agent about laundering larger sums of cash through an associate – Eckerd – in Texas. At the time, Eckerd was allegedly building a high-end underground residential bunker development outside of Dallas. The development project was marketed as a five-star doomsday escape for the wealthy with DEFCON 1 preparedness and allegedly capable of withstanding catastrophic events ranging from viral epidemics to nuclear war. Through this development project, it was represented to the undercover agent that Eckerd could launder larger amounts of cash without risking the scrutiny of law enforcement.
By January 2018, Romano and Eckerd were prepared to escalate the monetary amounts involved in the laundering activity. The first transaction of 2018 involving Romano, Eckerd and the undercover agent served as a test case to show the supposed members of the South American drug cartel that Romano and Eckerd could expeditiously launder larger sums of cash. In January 2018, the undercover agent handed Romano $100,000 in cash at a location in New Jersey. Instead of receiving a business check in return, the undercover agent agreed to receive the money, less the standard fee, in the form of a wire transaction originating from Eckerd.
The following month, the undercover agent met with Romano and Eckerd in Texas to engage in a second test case. The day after driving out to the site of the development project, the undercover agent turned over a backpack containing $100,000 in cash to Romano and Eckerd. In exchange, Eckerd handed the undercover agent a check, less their standard fee for laundering the alleged narcotics proceeds.
In addition to pleading guilty to the conspiracy to launder money charge, Romano also admitted his participation in planning a robbery of The Pawn Shop in Union, New Jersey on April 19, 2014. Romano acknowledged knowing that his conspirators in that case had access to a firearm when they committed the robbery.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Bumb sentenced Eckerd and Romano each to three years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Gregory W. Ehrie in Newark, and detectives from the Union County Prosecutor's Office, under the direction of Acting Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo, with the investigation leading to the sentencings.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary E. Toscano, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas S. Kearney of the U.S Attorney's Office Criminal Division in Newark.
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Such a thoughtful gesture to take the time to address Terry's many friends and followers here, Gary, thank you so much for that. I was heartsick to hear of his bladder cancer diagnosis and reluctant to tell him that I lost my mother to the same disease. She lost her battle decades ago, and I was so hoping that the prognosis would be better for Terry.
He was the picture of dignity, courage and grace, taught us all so many lessons. I was proud to know him. Stay strong and know you have so much support here. Wishing you peace.
Gary, I believe when you are ready, you should blog on here, I am sure it will give Terry a smile, he would love to know that we, the WordPress community would continue to share our ups and downs with you and give you all the love and hugs you could stand!! LOL I miss Terry's words, I can only imagine your sorrow. You are the best husband, friend and companion anyone could ask for. The love you both shared shined through his post and especially in that beautiful smile. Thank you for the heartfelt post. I will continue to dance under the moon, and will always think of Terry as I do, no doubt he his sliding up and down the moon beams laughing loudly and smiling upon all of us.
Sending you nothing but love Gary, hugs and as I often told Terry, a soft kiss on the cheek as well.
I have been reading this blog, but I never thought this day would come. Rest in Peace Terry. May God be with you.
Thank you for sharing your life, for caring and being a special friend. You were one of my very first friends in this community and will be missed dearly.
A very nice gesture on your part to write this post. Heartfelt condolences. His positive outlook showed in his posts even while he was enduring so much pain. Rest in peace Terry.
Gary, so sorry for your loss. Terry was so courageous! I remember when I first started reading his blog, he was scared to reveal himself totally to us. then, he showed us his face, then told us about you.
I'm right down the road from McDill, in Lakeland.
I'm so glad he had you by his side.
Such a beautiful tribute. Sending condolences and love your way. We will miss Terry.
So very sorry to read this sad, sad news of the loss of your beloved Terry.
There is a star shining down brightly tonight, and another Angel in heaven.
Thank you so much, Gary, for sharing this wonderful post of Terry's last days and moments with us and especially his precious "Good Bye" video. You have been a mountain of strength throughout everything, and I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I feel a connection with you through Terry, so I do hope that one day you can carry the torch. We'll be here to welcome you.
Take care of yourself now; this is your time to rest and recoup. Blessings.
Oh Gary, my heart's breaking, I didn't know about Terry's passing till I read your most recent post and I couldn't believe it so had to look back and found this.
I'm so incredibly sorry to hear of his passing, I have nothing but admiration for how brave he was and for the grave with which he handled his illness.
His live for you was evident and I am so glad that I came across his blog and was witness to the amazing person he was.
I am so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you and wishes you comfort and peace. Lynda.
This is a beautiful post, and all I can do is wish you my condolences.
I am behind by over a week so am just "hearing" the news of Terry's passing. I want to leave my condolences to you, Gary – and my admiration for what I'm sure has been a roller-coaster of an experience for some time now.
Thank you for taking time in your own grief to let Terry's "WordPress" friends know what was going on. So glad to read elsewhere that you came through Irma safely – no doubt with a bit of pull from your guardian angel – the one with a bit T on his celestial sweatshirt and a big smile on his pain-free face. And now, it is time for those of us left behind to grieve the loss of an amazing spirit – whose courage inspired many of us.


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A. Lange & Söhne just announced that it will unveil four new timepieces at the upcoming Watches & Wonders 2015 event in Hong Kong (30 September - 3 October 2015).
Among them, A. Lange & Söhne will introduce a special edition of the 1815 Chronograph in a precious white-gold case (39.5 mm x 10.8 mm) featuring blue numerals and a pulsometer scale.
The rhodiumed gold hands for the hours and minutes and the blued steel for the chronograph sweep seconds, minute-counter and subsidiary seconds hands reflect the colour combination of the dial.
The movement is the highly appreciated manufacture calibre L951.5 with its typical and shock-resistant balance with eccentric poising weights. Beating at 18,000 vibrations per hours, the movement offers more than 60 hours of power reserve when fully wound.
This is a true beauty. Timepieces like this one will stand the test of time.
A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Chronograph Ref. 414.026. A. Lange & Söhnewill unveil four new timepieces at the upcoming Watches & Wonders 2015 event in Hong Kong (30 September - 3 October 2015). Among them, A. Lange & Söhne will introduce a special edition of the 1815 Chronograph in a precious white-gold case featuring blue numerals and a pulsometer scale. The A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph Ref. 414.026 will be available only in the 16 A. Lange & Söhne boutiques worldwide.


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ACPI, (engelska: Advanced Configuration & Power Interface, "avancerat konfigurerings- och effektgränssnitt") är en standard för hantering av strömbesparande funktioner och konfiguration i PC-datorer. Den bestämmer hur processorer, chipset, anslutna hårdvaruenheter och mjukvara skall samarbeta för att bland annat:
 Förbättra energisnålhet när en komponent inte är i driftläge.
 Förlänga batterilivstiden hos bärbara datorer.
 Göra start och stopp så snabba som möjligt.

Operationerna som behövs för att aktivera olika funktioner körs av operativsystemet, men beskrivs på ett standardiserat sätt i datorns inbyggda programvara ("BIOS"). För att funktionerna skall fungera måste också all hårdvara stöda ACPI-funktionaliteten. Detta är ett problem, då standarden är komplicerad och mycket hårdvara påstår sig följa standarden, men inte helt gör det. Följden är ofta att någon del av datorn inte längre fungerar korrekt efter att maskinen återvänder från strömsparläge.

Standarden utvecklades av Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix och Toshiba, och har gått igenom flera revideringar. Den första versionen publicerades i december 1996. Version 2.0 publicerades 2000, varvid stöd infördes för 64 bitars adresser och datorer med flera centralprocessorer. December 2011 var den senaste versionen 5.0.

ACPI ersätter den tidigare standarden APM ("Advanced Power Management"), där strömsparfunktionerna sköttes direkt av inbyggd programvara.

Externa länkar
 ACPIs hemsida där man kan hämta specifikationen

Datorteknik
Standarder och konventioner

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As we posted the other day from Reuters, two major CPU vulnerabilities were discovered recently that pretty much affects every electronic system with a processor in it. These vulnerabilities are called Meltdown and Spectre.
The unfortunate problem here is that it's actually a hardware and a manufacturing issue. Since it's not practical to replace every CPU in the world in every piece of hardware going back to 1995, bandaging the problem is now the job of operating system companies. Ubuntu Linux is no different.
Canonical engineers have been working on this since we were made aware under the embargoed disclosure (November 2017) and have worked through the Christmas and New Years holidays, testing and integrating an incredibly complex patch set into a broad set of Ubuntu kernels and CPU architectures.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic) will release in April of 2018, and will ship a 4.15 kernel, which includes the KPTI patchset as integrated upstream.
Ubuntu optimized kernels for the Amazon, Google, and Microsoft public clouds are also covered by these updates, as well as the rest of Canonical's Certified Public Clouds including Oracle, OVH, Rackspace, IBM Cloud, Joyent, and Dimension Data.
Another thing to note about this patch, as mentioned in the Inisghts Post, is that these kernel fixes that they will be releasing are not Livepatch-able. Long story short, these updates will require a reboot, so you should expect and plan for some downtime after applying the patches.
Some software vendors are reporting performance related issues to their patches. Kirkland said that Ubuntu does not currently have performance analysis information at this time for the Ubuntu patches.
Are you and your company preparing for the Meltdoan and Spectre vulnerabilities? Let us know about the sorts of things you are looking into, and want to know more about in the comments!
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The management of Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe, Bayelsa State, has acceded to the request of the state police command to stop the payment of salaries of seven of its employees wanted for their alleged involvement in last year's killing of a 37-year-old staff of the institution, Mr. Frank Moses.
Moses, a father of two, was shot dead on November 8, 2013, some distance away from his home at the Agudama suburb of Yenagoa, the state capital, after seeing off his visitor.
The late Moses, an indigene of Okiki in Ogbia Local Government Area, was until his death, the Financial Secretary of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics, SSANIP, of the institution.
The Bayelsa Police Command had, last year, written to the institution requesting that the salaries of the seven persons declared wanted for questioning over the murder be stopped.


The Power of CMS: Can you make a website without coding?
Many people think that coding goes hand in hand with building a website. But, you can build your own your own website without coding.
Whether you are technology savvy or a beginner, you can operate different tools that you are not familiar with. You just need to be creative. With that, your website will still look good with nice working features.
However, if you want to build a website that has good operating features, it is important to identify the perfect environment your website can operate efficiently.
Below are some of the steps you need to follow when making your website without any coding.
A website is a collection of files. Therefore, for you to have a website, you need a domain name that directs you on the site and hosting which serves as a storage for your files.
Some companies will provide you with a free domain name plus the hosting name. On the other hand, some only provide you with the hosting services. So, the best option is to go for those that offer both domain name and hosting.
If you are not conversant with the offer, there is no harm sticking to your website's services. The offered services should be worth your subscriptions plan.
However, sometimes denying such offers puts you at a better position whenever you want a special extension of your top-level domain name other than ".com." This is because many website builders don't offer such extensions because it's way too expensive. You can also check out the best web hosting for developers for more clarification.
Step 2: Do I Want a Free or Paid Service?
Free services come with certain feature limitations. Mostly, a hosting company will host your data and if you don't pay for the hosting services, you are likely to lose your site as well as your data. Perhaps hosting your website with paid services would be ideal.
It will be advantageous if you opt for the paid services because you will get a free custom domain name, full access to website builder, and additional storage.
On the other hand, free services will always rely on subdomains for you to host your website. Thus, your website will be tied longer unless you go an extra mile to pay for a custom domain name.
Here you'll need a little bit of background experience that will help you customize your website. A common example is the WordPress– a basic tool for building a website.
However, WordPress is a basic tool, it's restricted to blogs and static websites because they can be easily altered within a short range of time.
Once you have made a decision on which web service you want for your website, it's easy to construct your site. Maybe uploading some images and additional templates will do.
Finding a good color palette for your website will always attract people to your website. However how simple you make it, people will always get stuck with the logo and the complementary color scheme you choose for your website.
Building your own website now should be the no-brainer. With the basic tips above you should not be worried even without the idea of coding. It's easy.
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This is a four-day culinary arts symposium that includes written and practical examination for Certified Culinary Professional Levels I, II, or III. There is a $199 lab fee. Culinary principles, skills, and methods are emphasized, including knife skills, terminology, principles of meat, and cookery. Without this demonstrated knowledge, cooks cannot advance in their careers or get to the point where they can demonstrate their cooking ability. We need a minimum number of 10 students to come to your venue.


Arkona wind farm reduces marine environment impact through less corrosion due to new coating technology used on monopile foundations.
The offshore Arkona wind farm project in the German Baltic Sea has received the German Renewables Award presented by the Clusteragentur Erneuerbare Energien, based in Hamburg. The project got the Innovation Product of the Year award for a newly developed method to protect the steel foundations of offshore wind turbines from corrosion.
Ramboll has developed the method for E.ON and Statoil to reduce the environmental impact and lower the construction costs of offshore wind farms. During the 25-year operating life of an offshore wind farm, metal-dissolving corrosion is significantly reduced by the new method, and emissions to the sea are reduced by several hundred tonnes. The method is called TSA (Thermally Sprayed Aluminum) and fully replaces the use of sacrificial anodes applied to the monopiles.
TSA has so far been used primarily as corrosion protection for smaller steel components under water or for larger components above water, such as offshore substations. Arkona is the first project to install all monopiles of an offshore wind farm using this corrosion protection technology.
According to E.ON this sets new standards for the construction and operation of offshore wind power plants.
The Arkona project is located 35 kilometres northeast of the island of Rügen. The wind farm will have a capacity of 385 megawatts (MW) and will be able to supply up to 400,000 households with renewable energy from 2019 onwards. It will install 60 six-megawatt turbines based on monopile foundations designed by Ramboll.


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OLLIE AND THE HEATHEN
6. Captain Marvel (Spoilers)
Ollie and the Heathen voice their differing views of the movie, Captain Marvel. There will be SPOILERS! You have been warned!
An origin story, it goes back into the 90s and creates a nostalgic feel that is still futuristic. Old friends and a forgotten race from the Marvel universe show up. We cover the setting, the femaleness of the lead, memorable scenes, and the twist!
Ollie loves the setting, and the humanity of Captain Marvel. The Heathen wanted a warmer Captian, but appreciated her strength of character.
The tribute to our Stan Lee was very moving (touching).
5. O.A.T.H. Awards Women's History Month 2019
Ollie honors women who have supported her in the past, and present-day positive influences. Awards for Best Teacher, In Memoriam and Best Group of Women in a Supportive Role.


I do not know to what extent they have allowed Bayona to get into the script of Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connelly, the creators responsible for this return to Jurassic world, especially Trevorrow who also directed Jurassic World ... I repeat, I do not know to what extent they allowed Bayona retouch some things on the script, although surely it has not been easy if he has achieved it, but the script is better, without being amazing, and the failures, weaknesses and faults of the film, are almost all due to that very same script that sometimes tends to think that, by the fact of having dinosaurs, the public will accept absolutely everything that appears on the screen without protest. And it is not like that. The resolution of some plot points are not very credible at best, some characters are still unbearable, and logic is not always present in the story... But it improves a lot compared to the previous movie. The plot is more elaborate, the protagonists are more defined and have evolved, the character of the girl is better developed than the children in Jurassic World... And incorporates elements of, for example, horror movies, which in the hands of the director, become key elements to the film.
Elements that appeared for example in the first movie, but that were lost piece by piece in time and with the sequels. But it seems that Bayona is willing to recover them, with a first part of the film with a more adventurous tone and close to The Lost World, which also pays tribute, and a second part of The Lost World, but also, and about everything, from the moments of Jurassic Park terror, the use of shadows, darkness, scares and even a pinch of violence that here appears in a very direct way , and that leads me to wonder how they will have avoided the R rate and achieved the PG13, in addition to avoiding explicit bleeding (because we have some amputation and quite graphic deaths, with a tribute to Jurassic Park included). And in those elements of terror, Bayona moves like a fish in the water, with signs of author but also elements that remind of Frankenstein (even with Doctor Frankenstein included), Little Red Riding Hood (including the encounter with the Big Bad Wolf) or Nosferatu, which gives a cinephile flavor of first category, of real talent.
The film, in addition to having these references to horror films, does not shirk the visual spectacle, especially in its walk around the island, with scenes that are memorable (the aquatic scene, the lava moments, the "farewell on the dock" ... ) and that then lead us to a far more intimate world, if that can happen in the universe of Jurassic Park, with a couple of more than interesting twists. That space where darkness is greater and where those moments arrive that are going to be the most remembered ones of the movie, even though they do not have so many visual effects. They have them, of course, but not so many or so big as in the island. And also throughout the film the director puts a lot of tributes to the Jurassic saga but much less evident than in the previous installment, whether in a shot, in a death, in a scene ... he does not point continuously on the homage, he places it subtly and let the viewer discover if is known or not. It is more effective in that way, because it requires, first of all, the attention of the spectator, it allows it to be like a game in search of Easter eggs that the director has hidden, which are not few.


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Screening | The Dust of This Planet with Neïl Beloufa, Camille Henrot, Will Benedict / David Leonard, Alex Mackin Dolan, and Peter Wächtler, curated by Dora Budor
Fri | 7pm
It would help my shaky nerves if I could dismiss what I now have to think of the air and the sky about and above me.
-H.P Lovecraft, "From Beyond" in The Dreams in The Witch House and Other Weird Stories
Scientists estimate that approximately 90% of the cells in the human body belong to non-human organisms, including bacteria, funghi, and a whole bestiary of other organisms. The idea that human thought is also not completely human and that the world we consider made for us is a hostile environment forms a basis of looking at our planet from an outsider perspective. Surrounded by emerging epidemics, biological catastrophes, tectonic shifts, savage hurricanes and the furtive, always looming threat of extinction, our relationship to the world-meant-for-us has become increasingly complex. The video works in this program use natural and man-made anomalies as a vehicle for fictional narratives, exploring hypothetical scenarios of unease or maybe alternate types of co-existence.
On the occasion of Spring at Swiss Institute, please join us for a screening curated by Dora Budor.
Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
Will Benedict and David Leonard
Toilets not Temples, 2014
HD Video, color, sound, 25' 31"
Commissioned by Bergen Kunsthall
Neïl Beloufa
Kempinski, 2007
DVD, color, sound, 14'
Courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
Camille Henrot
The Strife of Love in a Dream, 2011
Video, 11′ 40″
Production: Maharaja Films; With the support of Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne; Centre national des arts plastiques and the Mairie de Paris – Département de l'Art dans la ville. © ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris
Alex Mackin Dolan
DV, 57" x 4
Untitled (Heat Up the Nickel), 2013
HD Video, 11′ 57″
Courtesy the artist and dépendance, Brussels, and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Neïl Beloufa was born in 1985 in Paris. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; Cooper Union, New York; and Le Fresnoy–Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Tourcoing, France. His work has been shown in contemporary art venues as well as in film festivals. He has had solo exhibitions at the Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (2012); the Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (2012); the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); the New Museum, New York (2011); and White Box, New York (2008), among others, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. His videos have been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (2011); the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2009, 2012); and the London Film Festival (2009, 2010, 2011), and he was awarded grand prizes at the 54th and 57th Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen, Germany. Beloufa has received many other honors, most recently the Audi Talent Award, Paris (2011).
Will Benedict (b. 1978 in Los Angeles, California) is an artist living and working in Paris, France. He most recently had solo exhibitions at Bortolami, New York (2015), Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2014), Balice Hertling, Paris (2014), dépendance, Brussels (2014) and Halle für Kunst, Luneberg (2013). He has curated exhibitions at Vilma Gold, London (2014), Bortolami, New York (2013), Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2013) and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2012). Benedict attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the Staedelschule in Frankfurt.
Camille Henrot lives and works in New York. Her diverse practice moves seamlessly between film, drawing, installation and sculpture. Drawing from her wide-ranging interests and research into disciplines including literature, mythology, cinema, anthropology, evolutionary biology, religion and history, Henrot's work acutely reconsiders the typologies of objects and established systems of knowledge. Henrot has forthcoming exhibitions scheduled at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Fondazione Memmo, Rome. She has had one-person exhibitions at the New Museum, New York; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; New Orleans Museum of Art; and Chisenhale Gallery, London. She has exhibited in group shows at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands; and SculptureCenter, New York. Camille Henrot is the recipient of the 2014 Nam Jun Paik Award. In 2013, she received the Silver Lion at the 55th Venice Biennial for her film titled Grosse Fatigue.
David Leonard was born in Hollywood, CA. Leonard accentuates his career as a "man-on-the-street" journalist with a confounding art practice, using his investigative eye to look closer at technology, current events, and the aesthetic representation of these topics with video, performance and sculpture. His work has been exhibited at Getty Museum (2011),The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2011), What Pipeline in Detroit (2014) and Neue Alte Bruecke in Frankfurt (2015). He holds an MFA in Design Media Arts from UCLA.
Alex Mackin Dolan is an artist and curator living in New York City. His work utilizes a wide range of media and concerns an increasingly complex awareness of objects as influenced by contemporary sources of stress. He co-directs Grand Century and previously co-curated Appendix Project Space.
Peter Wächtler's (b. 1979, Germany) lives in Brussels. Recent solo exhibitions include Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster; Senator!?, dépendance, Brussels (2013); Springtime, Kunstverein Hildesheim (2013); B.A.C.K, Ludlow 38, New York (2013); Salon Of Fear, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2013). In 2016 the artist will have solo presentations in the Renaissance Society, Chicago and Chisenhale Gallery, London, accordingly. His work has been included in group exhibitions such as New Museum, New York (2014); The Liverpool Biennale (2014); Meanwhile…Suddenly and Then, Lyon Biennale (2013); Un-Scene II, Wiels Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brussels (2012); Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2011).
Event title from the book by Eugene Thacker
Photo: Still from Neïl Beloufa, Kempinski, 2007. Courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles.
Dora Budor: Spring is the second exhibition in the ONE FOR ALL series at SI. Building on Swiss Institute's long history of providing a platform for emerging artists, each show will be the artist's first institutional solo exhibition in the United States with a newly commissioned body of work specifically created for the exhibition space. Swiss Institute is grateful for support from the VIA Art Fund, Presenting Sponsor of the ONE FOR ALL series.


that morphed with each moment.
Action pursues me only in sleep.
Christine is an actress, writer, director and educator who writes across the genres. Her novel, The Nun's Dragon, is presently out on Amazon. She has had work published throughout the English speaking world. Presently she tours with her two plays written for the outreach Program of the National Park Service at Hopewell Furnace. Her blog can be accessed at christineemmert.wordpress.com.


Things that can roll are easier to move. That's why vehicles have wheels.
This Science quiz is called 'Forces - On The Move' and it has been written by teachers to help you if you are studying the subject at elementary school. Playing educational quizzes is a fun way to learn if you are in the 1st or 2nd grade - aged 6 to 8.
When looking at forces in science at school you have found out about things moving or being in motion. Cars, people, bikes, planes, animals - they all move by using forces. What makes them go? How do they go? What keeps cars in motion? You can make things move. You can kick a ball, throw a ball or hit a ball with a bat. What do you know about how things move?
This family are having fun in the garden. Mom and the children are in the barrow. What helps the barrow to move?
This game is called snooker. The player is going to hit the white ball with the wooden cue. What will happen to the white ball?
The picture shows a steam train. In which direction is the steam train moving?
How many carriages has this train?
Sarah is going to reverse her car. Which way will it move?
Not everything that moves has wheels. This is a bobsleigh. It goes down the track very fast. What helps the bobsleigh to go so fast?
This plane is taking off. Which direction is it moving?
These yachts are moving quickly through the water. What is pushing them along?
Have you ever been on a sailboat?
These children are stood in one place. But they are moving. How do you know they are moving?
You can be moving but not going anywhere!


The Feds shut down massive file-sharing site Megaupload yesterday. Were you a gamer that depended on it? Were you a developer who saw pirated copies of your game distributed on it? Were you one of the people the Feds say Megaupload paid to upload pirated material? Or maybe you were a user who can vouch for it being legit. Drop me a line. I want to hear from you.


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Breanna Bachini shouldn't even have been on the court.
But she couldn't resist the chance to play a $50,000 tournament in her hometown.
Playing with a bone spur and plantar fasciitis in her left foot, the 19-year-old wild card from the Sacramento suburb of Roseville fell to veteran Whitney Jones of St. Louis 6-2, 6-3 Tuesday in the first round of the FSP Gold River Women's Challenger at the Gold River Racquet club.
Breanna Bachini, a 19-year-old wild card from Roseville, fell
to veteran Whitney Jones in the first round of the $50,000
FSP Gold River Women's Challenger. Photo by Paul Bauman
Bachini, who finished her freshman year at Syracuse two weeks ago, had never played in the main draw of a professional tournament or in one offering more than $10,000.
Bachini lost her serve twice in each set against the 25-year-old Jones and never earned a break point. Unforced errors, combined with Jones' power and quickness, proved fatal.
Still, the 5-foot-6 Bachini displayed a surprisingly powerful serve, a punishing forehand and a fiery spirit. Literally from the first point, she exhorted herself with cries of "C'mon" after points she won and thigh slaps after those she lost.
Afterward, Bachini was hardly discouraged.
"I played really well considering I didn't have a lot of time to prepare," she said. "I didn't hit for a month before I came home two weeks ago. ... I've been trying to get as physically fit as possible and playing through pain, but this was a huge opportunity.
"I'm disappointed I didn't get the result I wanted, but I'm proud of myself that I did everything I could after all the struggles I've been through the past year."
Bachini chose Syracuse because she thought coach Luke Jensen, known in his playing days as "Dual Hand Luke" because of his ambidextrous feats, could help her reach the pros with his impressive playing background and his gung-ho attitude. In 1993, Jensen won the French Open men's doubles title with his brother, Murphy, and attained a career-high doubles ranking of No. 6 in the world.
Injuries, though, derailed Bachini's freshman season. She pulled a stomach muscle. Overuse, she said, created the spur. And a problem with her orthotics (shoe inserts), which she has worn since she was 14, might have caused the plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the tissue on the bottom of the foot).
"I have to wear orthotics the rest of my life," Bachini explained. "I have no arches. At Syracuse, they gave me new orthotics and mistakenly made them half an inch higher on my left foot. The doctor here thinks that caused the plantar fasciitis.
"It also put stress on the pelvic area that I had strained. As you can imagine, coming home and finding out, I wasn't too thrilled. Orthotics are supposed to prevent plantar fasciitis, not cause it."
Bachini finished her freshman season 4-5 in singles (3-1 at No. 4) and 1-5 in doubles (1-3 at No. 1). But she won four straight singles matches in victories over Cincinnati, No. 55 Boston College, No. 60 Harvard and Temple to help Syracuse crack the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings for the first time in school history at No. 73.
"Beating Boston College and Harvard helped us get on the map," Bachini said. "It was great to be a part of that."
The Orange later beat No. 25 Yale, although Bachini lost at No. 3 singles, for the biggest win in program history to reach a school-record No. 39.
Bachini said she will play no more tournaments this summer in an effort to get healthy for her sophomore season. She does not plan to have surgery.
"When I go back to Syracuse, I'm going to be pounding it hard," Bachini said. "I don't want to have another year like last one that was all about injuries."
In other Gold River Challenger matches:
--Former Sacramento State star Tatsiana Kapshai advanced to the main draw with a 6-3, 6-2 victory in qualifying over seventh-seeded Simone Kalhorn, an ex-Syracuse standout from Colorado Springs, Colo.
Kapshai, a Belarus native who has won the last three Big Sky Conference MVP awards, plays second-seeded Ashley Weinhold of Spicewood, Texas, today in the third match on Court 7. The first one begins at 11 a.m.
--Second-seeded Asia Muhammed of Las Vegas and Yasmin Schnack of Elk Grove in the Sacramento area topped Americans Nadia Echevarria Alam and Elizabeth Ferris 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of doubles.
Rooting for Muhammed and Schnack at courtside was Wayne Bryan, the coach of the Sacramento Capitals in World TeamTennis. In July, Schnack will return for her second season with the Capitals, and Muhammed will make her WTT debut with the team.
See below for Tuesday's full results from the Gold River Challenger and Wednesday's schedule.
French Open in Paris -- You just never know with free-spirited Dmitry Tursunov.
For one thing, clay is the hard-hitting Russian's worst surface. The longtime Sacramento-area resident lost in the first round of singles at the French Open from 2009 through 2011. Yet between 2007 and 2009, he reached the doubles quarterfinals, semifinals and quarterfinals with countryman Igor Kunitsyn.
Tursunov, a Moscow native, came into this year's tournament with an eight-match overall losing streak in singles dating to last October. A right-hander with a two-handed backhand, he had strained a tendon in his left wrist last September. He tried to play through the injury until finally sitting out for three months earlier this year.
So what does the 88th-ranked Tursunov do Tuesday in the first round of the French Open? He dismisses Go Soeda of Japan 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. Granted, the 5-foot-10, 148-pound Soeda wasn't going to blow Tursunov off the court. But Soeda, who won the 2009 Tiburon Challenger, is ranked a career-high No. 58.
Tursunov has a tough assignment in the second round against a seeded Frenchman. No. 29 Julien Benneteau, who reached the semifinals in his San Jose debut in February, advanced with a 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4 victory over Germany's Mischa Zverev, ironically another Moscow native.
Tursunov and Benneteau have split their two meetings (both on hardcourt). That figures, as they are remarkably similar.
Benneteau is 30, Tursunov 29. Both were born in December and turned pro in 2000. Both are 6-foot-1 (Tursunov weighs six pounds more at 180). Like Tursunov, Benneteau is right-handed. Benneteau has earned $4,514,057 in his career, Tursunov $4,132,713. Tursunov reached a career-high No. 20 in the world in 2006. Benneteau hit a peak of No. 26 last month.
The big difference between the players is that Tursunov has won seven career singles titles and Benneteau none.
Meanwhile, Sam Querrey's troubles in the French Open continued. The 24-year-old San Francisco native fell to 1-6 lifetime at Roland Garros with a 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-3 loss to eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia in the first round. Querrey is scheduled to play five matches for the Capitals this season.
In the opening round of women's doubles, 10th-seeded Raquel Kops-Jones, an ex-Cal All-American from Fresno, and Abigail Spears of San Diego dispatched Andreja Klepac of Slovenia and Alicja Rosolska of Poland 6-3, 6-4.
Television coverage of the French Open continues today live from 2 to 7 a.m. PDT on ESPN2 and 7 a.m to 4 p.m. on Tennis Channel, which also will broadcast its daily wrapup show from 4 to 7 p.m.
$50,000 FSP GOLD RIVER WOMEN'S CHALLENGER
At Gold River Racquet Club
Singles qualifying
(Winners advance to main draw)
Tatsiana Kapshai (ex-Sacramento State star), Belarus, def. Simone Kalhorn (7), United States, 6-3, 6-2.
Tori Kinard (2), United States,def. Sierra Ellison, United States, 6-1, 6-0.
Mary Closs, Menlo Park, def. Cindy Nguyen, United States, 6-1, 7-5.
Elizabeth Profit, United States,def. Wendy Qi-Wen Zhang, Canada, 6-1, 6-4.
Main-draw singles
Jessica Pegula (5), United States, def. Elizabeth Ferris, United States, 6-4, 6-0.
Gabriela Paz (8), Venezuela, def. Anne-Liz Jeukeng, United States, 6-3, 6-3.
Elizabeth Lumpkin, United States, def. Kim-Alice Grajdek, Germany, 6-2, 6-1.
Jennifer Elie, United States, def. Chieh-Yu Hsu, United States, 6-0, 6-4.
Whitney Jones, United States, def. Breanna Bachini, Roseville, 6-2, 6-3.
Maria-Fernanda Alves, Brazil, def. Sachie Ishizu, Japan, 6-0, 6-1.
Valeria Solovieva (7), Russia, def. Celine Cattaneo, France, 6-3, 6-0.
Main-draw doubles
Kaitlyn Christian, United States, and Maria Sanchez, Modesto, def. Svetlana Krivencheva, Bulgaria, and Diana Ospina, United States,6-1, 5-7, 10-7 tiebreak.
Asia Muhammed, United States, and Yasmin Schnack (2), Elk Grove, def. Nadia Echeverria Alam, United States,and Elizabeth Ferris, United States, 6-4, 6-4.
Lena Litvak, United States, and Adriana Perez, Venezuela, def. Simone Kalhorn and Lauren Megale, United States, 7-5, 6-2.
Wednesday's schedule
(Beginning at 11 a.m.)
Stadium Court
Elena Bovina (1), Russia, vs. Elizabeth Profit, United States.
Maria Sanchez (4), Modesto, vs. Mary Closs, Menlo Park.
Asia Muhammed, United States, vs. Diana Ospina, United States.
Elena Bovina, Russia, and Gabriela Paz (4), Venezuela, vs. Celine Cattaneo, France, and Nicole Robinson, United States.
(Not before 6:30 p.m.) Yasmin Schnack, Elk Grove, vs. Marie-Eve Pelletier (3), Canada.
Isabella Kling, Orangevale, and Kelly Wilson, Cameron Park, vs. Yawna Allen and Erin Clark, United States.
Tori Kinard, United States, vs. Samantha Crawford, United States.
Lena Litvak, United States, vs. Alexandra Stevenson, United States.
Tatsiana Kapshai (ex-Sacramento State star), Belarus, vs. Ashley Weinhold (2), United States.
Romana Tedjakusuma, Tracy/Indonesia, vs. Adriana Perez (6), Venezuela.
Piia Suomalainen, Finland, Gabrielle Andrews, United States.
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Nordic Games Publishing have today announced that We Dance is due to be released on September 2nd.
Songs span four decades of music ensuring there's something for everyone, and feature tracks such as 'Love Shack' by the B-52s, 'Boys and Girls' by Pixie Lott, 'Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit' by Fedde Le Grande, 'Rhythm is a Dancer' by Snap!, 'Spice Up Your Life' by Spice Girls, 'Hey Ya!' by Outkast and 'Car Wash' by Rose Royce.
We Dance incorporates three different styles of play; using the Wii Remote, the 'Star Mat' dance mat accessory, or a combination of both, and supports up to four players dancing simultaneously as you make your way through Warm-Up sessions, Party Games, Dance TV jukebox mode, Dance School tutorials and performance statistics.


The Breathe culture pledge is a commitment that employers can make towards investing in their company culture, regardless of their size, to benefit their people and propel their business forward.
By committing to the Breathe culture pledge, businesses will receive a copy of the workplace culture strategy. The strategy offers ten practical steps that businesses can follow to develop a positive workplace culture.
Company culture we hear you cry, what's that compared to efficiency, finance, innovation, investment, marketing, productivity and skills? And what is company culture anyway?
Your company culture encompasses all of these issues and more. It defines your possibilities and frames your potential.
It's how things get done in your business, it's the feel of the work environment, it's the way people treat each other, its your espoused values and standards, its your implicit attitudes and behaviours.
Our recent Culture Economy report proves that company culture is as important as business strategy when it comes to growth and long-term success.
"We believe that our strong company culture is cultivating an environment of positivity that is propelling our consultancy to even greater success.
We are living proof that building a work environment where people are free to grow and develop is crucial for attracting and keeping talent. Joining Breathe's culture pledge is a public declaration of our ongoing commitment to putting our team at the heart of our business, and we hope it will inspire other businesses to do the same."
"We believe that the Breathe culture pledge embodies what our organisation stands for and will help commit ourselves to improving all of our employees' welfare and wellbeing.
We take our company culture seriously because we believe that people are the most important factors in business. A happy, well motivated workforce will enable any firm to attain more clients, surpass more goals and create a positive working environment that is a place to look forward to, rather than dread."
Joining the company culture pledge might reaffirm how your organisation already approaches culture or it may provide a practical framework to support you on where you'd like to get to.
Any organisation can commit to the pledge, whether you're a start up, multi-national corporation, or a not-for profit.
Now is the time to be bold and proactive.
Company culture is not a fluffy, nice-to-have. It is the invisible maker or breaker of all businesses.


In my last piece, I drew attention to UBS' advice on why housing finance company stocks are a great buy at present. I also pointed out that UBS has indicated its favourite housing finance stocks to be LIC Housing Finance (with a target price of Rs. 550 per share) and IndiaBulls Housing Finance (with a target price of Rs. 575 per share).
Daljeet Kohli has always been a fan of LIC Housing Finance. He spotted its potential very early (March 2012) and has been consistently recommending a buy. Daljeet has been richly rewarded by the stock with a YOY return of 100%.
Daljeet has now issued a report dated 22nd December 2014 in which he has advised a buy on the basis that LIC Housing Finance is a "stable performer" and is quoting at "reasonable valuations". He has foreseen a target price of Rs 485 for the stock, which gives us comfortable upside from the CMP of Rs. 413. This target price is much lower than the price of Rs. 550 foreseen by UBS.
If you are feeling perplexed about what to do, a via media is to tuck into Dewan Housing Finance, which is backed by Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and recommended by Nirmal Bang. The other option is IndiaBulls Housing Finance which is recommended by Motilal Oswal. Both are quoting at low valuations and there ought to be good upside left for patient investors.
If you are prepared to pay for quality, you can consider Repco Home Finance, which comes highly recommended by Basant Maheshwari, Brahmal Vasudevan's Creador Capital, Edelweiss' Vinay Khattar and Shiv Puri of TVF Capital.
When in doubt, skip it.
Sharon experience has taught lots of investors to test Daljeet when the market gets tough to handle as no clear trends emerge. In a market that is headed up everybody can predict and prove their mettle. I also picked mangalam cement at 108 , kec at 64, Hdfc bank at 810. Time to show some real steal now.
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I don't think LIC will move above 500 any sooner. But DHFL and Repco Home do have some upward momentum left.


The Ocean has a New King of Swing.
Reaching a dramatic 50 feet in the air, two of the sea's most fearsome predators make way for an over-the-top swinging tower over you. It's the hammerhead shark—except these are more than ten times the size of the ones you'll find on your next trip swimming across the Pacific Ocean. They're standing on their heads with their tails extended high in the air. But you know a shark always has to keep moving, so grab onto this big fish and hang on for an incredible ride! You and 23 other adventurers will take a seat on these sharks' most famous feature—their broad hammerheads. Then each giant sea creature swings around like a pendulum, swinging you with it until you're completely upside down.
Where else in the world can you ride the head of a giant 40-foot long shark as it whips you around, completely upside down, in loop after mind-blowing loop? This was the very first ride of its kind ever built, and you will be tail-slapped by its ingenious and heart-thumping concept.
The shark pendulum arms swing up… a little bit higher… then even higher… until you're completely vertical! Wave to the people on the other passing shark before the momentum kicks in and you go full loop, tumbling in reverse back down the other side. This cold-blooded fish is just getting warmed up. You're in for seven full 360-degree loops in 90 seconds—meaning before you can even count to ten, you'll be looping again.
You'll feel like the king of the ocean riding one of these enormous fish.
The Hammerhead Shark has become home to millions of man-eating insects who have a particular craving for young flesh.
In this part of California the convoluted surfaces of some of our rides are unfortunately an attractive nesting place for insects. The Hammerhead Shark in particular is a favorite for legions of known, and unknown, species – flying, crawling, and creeping.
No spray can help. No ointment provides relief. Even vaccines are ineffective. Mutations of bulbous spiders, bloodthirsty mosquitoes, insatiable flies, and incredibly malevolent, multi-legged insects of all varieties are on the loose.
Large chunks of flesh are ripped from every exposed area. These insect invaders target open mouths, fly into nostrils, and burrow into ears, sucking the life out of their victims, while devouring internal organs.
This year, great care has been taken to eliminate the pests. Ever stronger insecticides are required but, over time, these sliming, sucking, slurping bugs develop immunity. They thrive and grow larger, more aggressive, and more deadly. Though we can't close this ride, we advise everyone to stay away from it. The main attraction now is from insect to guest.
Warning: This ride is not recommended for anyone allergic to insect bites. We also caution those who are pregnant, as well as anyone else who has fears or concerns about being devoured alive by bugs.


According to an exclusive report on EGR Magazine (link below), a group backed by the Fertitta brothers, Tom Breitling and Tim Poster, "Fertitta Interactive", has purchased online gaming software provider Cyberarts for an "undisclosed sum".
The Fertitta brothers (Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta) are the majority owners of the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and also own roughly 45% of Station Casinos Inc., which was founded by their father back in 1976. Tom Breitling and Tim Poster purchased the Golden Nugget properties together in 2003 for $215 million, and eventually sold the company for $340 million in September of 2005.
Fertitta Interactive, which is the group that was formed by the Fertitta brothers, Breitling and Poster, originally had their sights set on Full Tilt Poker. Fertitta Interactive actually entered into a partnership with Full Tilt Poker mere weeks before "Black Friday" took place on April 15th of this year. The planned partnership was later dissolved after "Black Friday" took place.
"We are firm believers in regulation and think that the time is now for online poker to be legalized, taxed and regulated."
According to their website, Cyberarts "offers online and land-based operators a technically advanced gaming software solution based upon the unique and scalable Foundation universal gaming platform."
"Foundation supports a range of business models and needs. Land-based operators can offer free online play as part of their acquisition and retention strategy; online operators can leverage their free player base with virtual goods sales. Foundation's Facebook, Orkut, Hi5 and other social network integrations add the community features players seek. Rake, subscription, advergaming and virtual good revenue models are also supported."
The pieces are seemingly falling into place for online gambling legislation in the United States. With powerful groups such as Fertitta Interactive and Caesars Entertainment Corp. throwing their hats into the online gambling ring, legislation can not be far behind. Money talks.


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Resilient landscapes for a sustainable future from Mulloon Institute on Vimeo.
Mulloon Institute Mission
"As a global leader in sustainable agriculture and environmental regeneration, we rehydrate and restore landscapes using world class scientific research, education and demonstration. This approach will build climate resilient landscapes that provide food and water security and support healthy ecosystems".
Australia's changing climatic conditions and more regular extreme weather events are impacting the nation's farmers, regional communities and environments. We have seen extended periods of drought and greater frequency of extreme bushfires and flooding, scenarios which are predicted to continue.
These conditions significantly impact our food and water security and our natural environment, which is vital to maintaining biodiversity. Already, the acceleration of soil erosion has exacerbated the effects of climate change, as it leads to more carbon being released into the atmosphere. Sustainable agriculture and land use is key to the long-term health of the environment and to the viability of Australia's agricultural sector.
The Mulloon Institute is helping address these challenges through its ground breaking work to mitigate the impact of drought and other major natural disasters.
Mulloon is a science, education and advocacy organisation with a focus on large scale landscape restoration and rehydration projects. It owns two properties near Bungendore in Southern NSW where much of its research occurs in restoring the natural function of the landscape.
This work includes erosion control and in creek structures to slow the water and spread it across the landscape. In the last few years, the research has expanded across 20 properties and 23,000 hectares as part of the Mulloon Rehydration Initiative.
These projects are delivering substantial agricultural and environmental benefits. For example, there has been a 129% increase in organic matter, increases in pasture biomass production and increases in native bird, animal and aquatic species.
In 2016 the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network, recognised the Mulloon Institute as one of only five demonstrators of sustainable, profitable farming globally.
The Mulloon Institute has a goal of rehydrating and restoring 2.5 million hectares of land and positively impacting the livelihoods of 5,000 farming families. It is already showing the incredible transformation that can take place by restoring the balance of our ecosystems.
TDM is passionate about supporting initiatives that can grow and scale quickly and by doing so, deliver increased benefits to the environment and our communities. The Mulloon Institute's work is reflective of this and we are pleased to support them with their next endeavour, the National Food and Water Sustainability Initiative.
Mulloon Institute Website
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Die Bundesebene (auch Bund genannt) ist in Deutschland die oberste Ebene in der Hierarchie des Staatsmodells des Bundesstaates. In der Politik- und Rechtswissenschaft liegt dem Modell die Idee eines föderativ organisierten politischen Systems der staatlichen Ebene zugrunde: Die einzelnen Bundesländer besitzen zwar eine eigene Landesregierung, Verwaltung und Gerichtsbarkeit, ihre Kompetenzen leiten sich jedoch vom Bund ab, dem die Kompetenz-Kompetenz zugestanden wird. Die deutschen Länder sind mangels Unabhängigkeit nach außen keine (souveränen) Staaten im Sinne des Völkerrechts, sondern mit eigenständiger staatlicher Hoheitsmacht ausgestattete Gliederungseinheiten des Bundesstaates, der Völkerrechtssubjekt ist.

Gesetzgebungsbefugnis
Im kooperativen Föderalismus in Deutschland werden auf Bundesebene vom Deutschen Bundestag die Bundesgesetze in der Regel mit Geltung für das gesamte Bundesgebiet verabschiedet. Die Gesetzgebung beschränkt sich aber auf die Bereiche, in denen dem Bund die Gesetzgebungsbefugnis übertragen wurde. Im Bereich der ausschließlichen Gesetzgebung dürfen die Länder nur dann gesetzgeberisch tätig werden, wenn dies durch den Bund gestattet wird (prinzipielle Allzuständigkeit des Gesamtstaates). Im Bereich der konkurrierenden Gesetzgebung dürfen die Länder soweit tätig werden, wie der Bund dies nicht getan hat. Die auf Bundesebene beschlossenen Normen in den genannten Bereichen stehen in der Normenhierarchie über denen des Landesrechts ( Grundgesetz); Grundrechte, die durch Landesverfassungen über die des Grundgesetzes hinaus gewährt werden, sind davon jedoch ausgenommen. Bei in der Kompetenz des Bundes stehenden Gesetzgebungsbefugnissen wirken die Länder über den Bundesrat an der Bundesgesetzgebung mit.

Verwaltung
Auf Bundesebene steht die Bundesregierung an der Spitze der Verwaltung. Oberste Bundesbehörden sind neben den Ministerien das Bundespräsidialamt, der Bundesrechnungshof und einige weitere Einrichtungen. Verwaltung von Bundestag und Bundesrat sind oberste Bundesbehörde, soweit sie behördlich tätig sind. Die Bundesverwaltung ist oft nur mit einem einstufigen Unterbau versehen. In der Regel sind direkt Bundesoberbehörden eingerichtet, die für das ganze Bundesgebiet zuständig sind. Bundesmittel- und Bundesunterbehörden dürfen nur in den Fällen, in denen dies vom Gesetz vorgesehen ist, eingerichtet werden.

Zulässige Bereiche, in denen Mittel- und Unterbehörden eingerichtet sind, sind der Auswärtige Dienst, die Bundesfinanzverwaltung, die Bundeswasserstraßenverwaltung, die Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes, die Bundespolizei und der Bundesverfassungsschutz ( GG), die Wehrverwaltung ( GG) und die Luftverkehrsverwaltung ( GG). Im letztgenannten Bereich gibt es jedoch keine Mittel- und Unterbehörden. Viele Aufgaben des Bundes in der Verwaltung werden auch durch Anstalten und Körperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts wahrgenommen.

Eine Vermischung von Bundes- und Landesbehörden ist nicht zulässig. So hat das Bundesverwaltungsgericht die Praxis, die Seeämter von den Ländern und das Bundesoberseeamt vom Bund zu betreiben, als unzulässig angesehen, da Widersprüche gegen Verwaltungsakte der Länder durch eine Bundesbehörde entschieden wurden. Die Seeämter mussten im Oktober 1986 daraufhin vom Bund als eigene Einrichtung errichtet werden. Eine ähnliche Konstellation bei der Errichtung der sog. "Job-Center" durch die nicht ausreichende Festlegung der sachlichen Zuständigkeit wurde vom Bundesverfassungsgericht als verfassungswidrig verworfen.

Mit Stand vom 30. Juni 2019 besitzt der Bund als Dienstherr 185.170 Beamte und Richter sowie 170.575 Berufs- und Zeitsoldaten. Zudem ist der Bund Arbeitgeber für 146.160 Arbeitnehmer (Tarifbeschäftigte), die über ein privatrechtliches Arbeitsverhältnis verfügen.

Gerichtsbarkeit

Der Bund verfügt u. a. über fünf Oberste Bundesgerichte, die an der Spitze ihrer jeweiligen Fachgerichtsbarkeit stehen,  Abs. 1 GG. Dies sind für Straf- und Zivilsachen der Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe, das Bundesverwaltungsgericht in Leipzig, der für Steuern und Zölle zuständige Bundesfinanzhof in München, das Bundesarbeitsgericht in Erfurt und für das Gebiet der Sozialgerichtsbarkeit das Bundessozialgericht in Kassel. Das Bundespatentgericht in München nimmt eine Sonderstellung ein, als es ein auf den gewerblichen Rechtsschutz spezialisiertes Gericht im Rang eines Oberlandesgerichts bei bundesweiter örtlicher Zuständigkeit ist.

Verfassungsorgane des Bundes
Die fünf ständigen Verfassungsorgane sind:
 der Deutsche Bundestag (Art. 38–48 GG)
 der Bundesrat (Art. 50–53 GG)
 der Bundespräsident (Art. 54–61 GG)
 die Bundesregierung (Art. 62–69 GG)
 das Bundesverfassungsgericht (Art. 92–94, 99, 100 GG)

Die beiden nichtständigen, d. h. nur anlassbezogen zusammentretenden Verfassungsorgane sind:
 der Gemeinsame Ausschuss (Art. 53a GG)
 die Bundesversammlung (Art. 54 GG)

Weblinks
 Dienstleistungen des Bundes

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Anmerkungen

Föderalismus in Deutschland
Politik (Deutschland)
Verwaltungsgliederung Deutschlands


Melton Council is offering people the opportunity to have their dogs microchipped for free on Thursday (April 28).
The event will take place in the Market Place between 10am and 2pm.
Victoria Clarke, Melton Council's environmental; protection and safety manager, said: "There has been a recent change in legislation making it now compulsory for all dogs in England to be microchipped.
"You can expect to pay between £10 and £30 for this service at a vet's but the council is offering the opportunity to have your dog or dogs chipped for free.
The free dog microchipping event is being held by the council in association with the Dogs Trust - the UK's largest dog welfare charity - and College Garth Kennels.