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Updated: 11 December 2013 Created: 11 December 2013
Turkey started flirting with the European Union (EU) as early as in 1963, when it became an associate member of the European Economic Community (EEC). In 1987, Turkey applied for the full membership of the EU and in 2005 formal EU - Turkey negotiations commenced.
Since Turkey's official application to full membership in 1963, the route to commencement of formal negotiations and thereafter deliberations and discussions through the EU chapters leading up to full membership have been a rocky one, full of stops and starts. In the initial years of Turkey's application for membership, throughout the 90's and most part of the first decade of the new millennium, public opinion in Turkey was a positive one.
Real estate investors expected steep property price increases as positive steps were taken during EU negotiations and the contrary happened when things did not go smoothly. Foreign investors, who benefited from their property investments in the Eastern European countries prior to leading up to their EU accession naturally poised the question - would Turkish property market follow a similar pattern, how can we benefit from Turkey's expected accession to the EU?
How do the EU negotiations impact property prices in Turkey?
There have been many stops and starts to EU negotiations since Turkey's application for full membership in 1987. Some EU members fiercely oppose Turkey's admission as a full member, whereas some seem to support it (see David Cameron of UK showing support). Most Turks now tend to be immune to news about EU negotiations. They have lost faith in the process. A recent opinion poll in Turkey indicates that almost 50% of Turks are indifferent about EU membership and some are of the opinion that Turkey is better off without. Therefore, there is no apparent momentum that would infer movement on property prices as seen in Eastern European countries leading up to full EU membership when property prices rose up due to forthcoming EU membership.
The same can be said about the way foreign investors view Turkey. We have seen a steady increase in foreign investors acquiring residential and commercial real estate in Turkey since 2007. This has certainly fuelled property prices in Turkey, especially in larger cities such as Istanbul. The trend corresponds with economic slow-down in the EU zone and the US post 2008 credit crunch. It could therefore be argued that property prices and foreign direct investment in Turkey has been increasing despite EU and for the fact that Turkey is being seen as a safe haven for investment as a result of being out of the Euro zone.
In conclusion, what draws investors to Turkey and pushes up the prices is not linked at all to EU negotiations but to Turkey's economic expansion and stable growth. It could be argued that Turkey's appeal as a viable investment destination has now outgrown the expectations of EU membership.
What has been the effect of the more authoritarian measures of the Erdogan government been on investment ?
This is a paradox in itself. On the home front some segments of Turkish society are unhappy about the apparent authoritarian ways of Erdogan government as evidenced by the recent Gezi Park demonstrations. However, the Erdogan government is exceptionally pro foreign direct investment. The rate of privatisation has never been as high as under the Erdogan government.
It is the Erdogan government again that opened the way to foreign nationals being able to purchase real estate in Turkey. That was not the case earlier. And in May 2012, the same government abolished the reciprocity law allowing Middle Eastern nationals and ex-Soviet nationals to buy real estate in Turkey; they could not do so before.
There are many incentives given to foreign investors to acquire land and commercial real estate in Turkey. Therefore, although the Erdogan government's authoritarian measures may have deterred some individual 'lifestyle' buyers, on the whole the government's initiatives have had a direct positive impact on the level of foreign direct investment and real estate acquisitions by institutional foreign investors. These more than outweigh the individual cases which may have been put off.
Who is investing in Turkey, where and why?
There is a mixed bunch of foreign investor profiles for Turkey.
If we analyse these under two main segments as 'lifestyle buyers' and 'investors' then the following trend emerges: Lifestyle buyers are generally European buyers. British, German, Scandinavian and Russians lead the charts. Lifestyle buyers tend to acquire holiday homes and permanent homes on the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts of Turkey, most popular areas being Antalya, Fethiye, Bodrum and similar seaside resorts.
Buyers are motivated by still affordable prices, lower cost of living, 300 days of sunshine and proximity to home as well as of course an easier pace of life. Investors tend to have a broader catch; we see investors from the US, Russia, Middle East, Europe - individual and institutional investors; there is significant investment from Middle Eastern countries particularly from Kuwait, U.A.E, Saudi Arabia.
These investors tend to favour larger cities such as Istanbul and Bursa. Investment levels vary from a number of residential buy to lets to larger investments in shopping malls, hotels and development projects. They are motivated by Turkey's economic expansion and easy investment framework, where investors can put money in and out of Turkey without restrictions - almost an investment haven profile.
Being outside the Euro zone seems to help since banking regulations are not as stringent in terms of reporting of investors' affairs. There are certainly tax advantages. Turkey being a hub between East and West also encourages investors. Energy pipelines passing through Turkey, proximity to Europe yet being outside, extremely strong relations with some of the oil and energy rich countries along its borders are all contributory factors for Turkey's emergence as a major investment hub.
Does Turkey's relationship with the EU matter?
Turkey's relations with the EU matter less and less these days. Compared to say 15 years ago, when EU really mattered for Turks and there was a serious desire to join the EU, nowadays the average Turk is almost indifferent. With economic trouble in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, most Turks breathe a sigh of relief that Turkey is not part of the EU.
On the other hand, Turkey's business volume, which was very much EU indexed up until 5-6 years ago, is also shifting now. Volume of trade with non-EU countries, including the Middle East, Russia, China and US is on the increase. There is a movement toward a more balanced and less single-source dependent business model in Turkey.
The EU zone is still Turkey's number one import/export partner, however, with reducing share of business. On the other hand, Turkey now has a significant cultural and social impact on the Middle East and former Soviet countries, including some energy rich ones such as Azerbaijan. Turkish soap operas and pop charts are the most rated programs in these countries, in other words Turkey has become and exporter of 'culture' to these countries, including neighbouring Greece. Turkey is increasing its sphere of influence in all directions.
Is Turkey now looking east, west (EU) or inward?
In order to answer whether Turkey is looking east, west or inwards, it is important to understand the mosaic of Turkey. Turkey is a very colourful mix of identities, cultures and social structures. It can easily be identify itself with southern Europe, with countries like Greece, Italy, Spain, yet at the same time it can identify itself with the Middle East. Furthermore, a Turk can easily converse with an Azeri or an Uzbek in their mother tongue. In other words, to try to place Turkey with the east or the west (the EU zone) would be a simplification of what Turkey is. Turkey, culturally, socially, racially is a bit of everything, it is like a 'continent' rather than a more homogeneous 'country'.
To sum up the query whether EU negotiations have an impact on Turkey real estate market, Turkey is not looking west, or east, definitely not inwards, Turkey is looking at all directions because that is in fact the essence of Turkey. As its sphere of influence grows in all directions together with its prosperity, the EU becomes less and less significant. Savvy real estate investors are more than aware of this. They know just too well not to compare say Bulgaria or Romania to Turkey.
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Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (DTAG), which until recently had been the target of bids by both Hertz and Avis Budget, reported strong third quarter results, in part because it wasn't burdened by merger expenses and in part because of improved rental revenue. The company posted a 2.4 percent increase in vehicle rental revenue and a 4.1 percent increase in rental days.
DTAG's net income for the 2011 third quarter was $66.6 million compared to net income of $45.8 million for the third quarter of 2010. The company also forecast fourth-quarter rental revenue growth of between 1 and 2 percent.
"We are pleased that the company is reporting the highest quarterly profit in its history," said Scott Thompson, DTAG's president and chief executive officer. "We remain keenly focused on profitable revenue growth, productivity initiatives, cost control and disciplined fleet management." The company said it continues to benefit from a favorable used vehicle market and its low-cost operating structure.
DTAG revenue rose to $451.7 million from $443.5 million. For the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2011, net income was $125.6 million, compared to net income of $118.7 million, for the same period in 2010. Last week Hertz Global Holdings Inc withdrew its tender offer for Dollar Thrifty shares, but said it was still interested in buying its smaller rival if antitrust regulators clear the deal. Avis had abandoned its bid in September, citing marketing conditions. The two rental car companies had been trying to buy Avis for months as part of the continuing consolidation of the car rental industry.


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The Earliest Gospel
by Frederick C. Grant
Frederick C. Grant was Edwin Robinson Professor Emeritus of Biblical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and President of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanstaon Ill. He was a member of the Revision Committee for the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
Published by Abingdon Press, New York and Nashville, 1943. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
(ENTIRE BOOK) In this important work, Dr. Grant provides a dozen vivid chapters on Mark, the earliest gospel — how it came to be, and what its main teaching are.
What essentially is the gospel? It is Jesus' proclamation of the Kingdom of God and the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church. But this all requires understanding and interpretation.
Chapter 1: The Oral Gospel
The gospel was first of all an oral gospel and was essentially an eschatological proclamation about the nature of the end of the world, spoken in Aramaic and later written in Greek.
Chapter 2: The Origin of the Gospel of Mark
What Mark put together was a narrative of the mighty works and death of Jesus — a book largely devoted to explaining why Jesus had died — and he had to write it in haste in the midst of danger, not for Jews, but for Gentile converts.
Chapter 3: The Evangelic Tradition
There was no such thing as a gospel in Mark's day. He was only writing a little book about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, gathering up the current information about his life and death, endeavoring to prove that he had already been the Messiah or "Son of Man" while he lived on earth, and explaining why he had died on the cross. Jesus' teaching is taken for granted, but it is not quoted extensively nor expounded by Mark.
Chapter 4: The Apostolic Preaching
Mark is not writing history or biography, not even giving an account of Jesus' teaching. He is writing an apology, an explanation of the death of the Messiah. It was not circulated among the littérateurs, but privately among the oppressed, despised, and persecuted handful of Christians . Only later was it carried to other Christian communities.
Chapter 5: Was Mark Written in Aramaic?
The Gospel arose in a Semitic milieu. Jesus spoke in Aramaic; his Bible was the Hebrew scriptures. The evidence seems to fall somewhat short of demonstrating the existence — or even the probability — of an Aramaic Gospel. Nevertheless, other possibilities raised are by no means without value or significance.
Chapter 6: Jerusalem or Galilee?
Where did the earliest resurrection appearances take place, in Galilee or in Jerusalem? We cannot find the answer. We do not even know where the appearance to Peter took place.
Chapter 7: The Theology of Mark
Mark takes for granted the apostolic faith; for he writes as a Christian, a believer, not as an outsider or critic — not even as an historian or biographer. Hence his "theology," so far as he has a theology, is not his own, but merely the theological interpretation — as far as it had gone in his day — of the tradition as held by the contemporary church.
Chapter 8: Mark's Passion Narrative
The inference seems to be that the Marcan passion narrative was already in fairly stable form when Mark wrote, and that it continued to be told and retold in practically this form — possibly at the Christian services of worship and quite apart from the written Gospels, indeed before The Gospels were compiled
Chapter 9: Was Mark a Pauline Gospel?
Paul's Judaism was not of the orthodox Palestinian type, which later became normative. Early Gentile Christianity, both before Paul and also outside the area of his influence, was far more substantial than the Book of Acts and the surviving Pauline letters have led many to assume.
Chapter 10: Was Mark Anti-Semitic?
It's difficult to determine if Mark was anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish. Relations between Jews and Christians in the East remained friendly for at least five centuries. The whole of the teaching of Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, and likewise that of Paul and of the rest of the New Testament, presupposes a background of intense, informed, earnest, and consecrated Judaism.
Chapter 11: Mark and the Social Gospel
Was Jesus' teaching "social?" Yes and no! It was not in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God. The rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes this for granted.
Chapter 12: Epilogue
What is the meaning of this earliest Gospel for our time? It set forth the message of salvation to men and women who lived in a world not unlike our own. Indeed the "world," that is, human society, has not changed very much in nineteen centuries, and the message of salvation is as greatly needed now as then, or ever.
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Before moving to Bozeman in 2020, Megan worked in the Napa Valley winemaking industry for 12 years. She currently works for a growing technology company in Bozeman. In 2020, Megan and her family relocated to Bozeman to be closer to her husband's business and family. Prior to moving, their twins had attended a Montessori school and the family found Middle Creek to be a warm and welcoming community in Bozeman. Her twins are now in the Elementary program and look forward to many more years at Middle Creek Montessori.
Megan joined the MCM Board in 2022 and is excited to contribute to such a passionate and inclusive community of educators and families. Her family enjoys hiking, skiing, biking and going on adventures with their Bernese Mountain Dog, Merlin.


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Recovering America's Wildlife Act Introduced in Congress
Did you know that fully one-third of wildlife and fish species in the U.S. face "increased risk of extinction"? While the number of species listed as "endangered" or "threatened" by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has steadily grown, funding has not kept pace to adequately protect all species on the list or ensure their numbers are high enough to remain viable. Protecting species before they need to be listed is a more efficient strategy, according to many experts.
The Recovering America's Wildlife Act aims to do just that. The House bill, introduced by Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and then-Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), passed 231-190 in June. Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) have introduced a version in the Senate, where it has 16 Republican co-sponsors.
The bill would provide nearly $1.4 billion annually to protect vulnerable wildlife and aid their recovery. This includes species classified as endangered or threatened, as well as those that are at varying degrees of risk. Resources would be directed toward states, territories and tribal nations to enact localized, jurisdiction-specific plans. This would fund and empower bodies that understand local contexts and have the trust of their communities. And help avoid the cumbersome processes that come with federal intervention.


"Law" and "technology" rarely appear in the same sentence outside of antitrust cases, but Canadian business firm McMillan LLP is aiming to change that.
Last week the Toronto-headquartered organization, which employs some 300 lawyers and 600 additional staff in six locations across the country and in Hong Kong, announced that it would be collaborating with IBM Corp. to develop new analytics software designed to improve both the value and quality of client services, in addition to giving McMillan's own human resources practices a boost.
McMillan executive committee member Tim Murphy believes the legal field can benefit from applied analytics.
By analyzing past cases – which, depending on the subject, can frequently number in the hundreds – McMillan could identify not only routine components it can assign to associates, thereby streamlining costs, but the individual elements it incorporates into its prices, Murphy says.
Human resources-wise, predictive analytics can be used to better recognize staffing requirements, he says.
"For example, if you look over 200 business transactions and the average is 30 per cent partner time and 70 per cent associate time, and then one project has 50 per cent partner time, analytics can help us figure out if it's a particularly complicated project, or if we're not putting in the right resources on it," Murphy says.
"Our intention is to use analytics to drive those learnings systematically across as many areas of our business as we can," he says.
McMillan has hired in-house data scientists and IT staff to lead the project, which is being powered by IBM's comprehensive predictive analytics system, SPSS, and running on IBM Cloud.
IBM was a logical partner for three reasons, Murphy says: the company offers some of the best cloud-based predictive analytics software in the industry; McMillan's IT director had connections there and was able to facilitate discussions between IBM and the firm; and IBM's data scientists were as curious to learn how analytics could be applied to law as McMillan executives were.
"They were willing to collaborate with us in learning about a new sector, for them and for us, and were quite helpful in the process," Murphy says.
Eventually, the plan is to deliver a platform that offers standardized metrics for a range of legal services, rather than forcing McMillan to rely on individual practitioners' experiences. The result will be more accurate prices for clients and allow McMillan to hire staff based on demand.
However, the project is still in its early stages, so Murphy admits the firm has not seen a dramatic benefit yet.


You're sitting at home, watching some awful* action movie in which our handsome Hollywood hero sits down at a computer, faced with a terminal-esque window and has to ENTER PASSWORD in order to be rewarded with the exalted, famed and fabled "ACCESS GRANTED." Brilliant, right? Oscar material, right here. Well, something I notice so very often in these screens is that the animator just keyframes the y-position and calls it a day, whereas in any console I've seen, the text always jumps up in little steps of equal height– so I sought to recreate that for the film I was working on at the time.
*This doesn't apply in this case, of course. Because I love my work and stand by all of it. Hear that, future employers?
This will be applied to the Position property and will only modify the y-position from some existing keyframes. So– get your animation all sorted, then apply this expression to chunkify it.
lineHeight = 13.5; // This must be changed by hand!
yOffset = 0; //   This must be changed by hand!
The fun line of logic processes the line height with respect to the current Y Position (henceforth affectionately known to friends and relatives as yPos), then assigns the new value to a variable called newY. As in, the new yPos. Pretty spiffy, no?
Then we plug that back into the output array with the original xPos, add in the offset, and we're good to go!
So– apply the code to the Position property, and you go from having silky smooth text scrolling (on the top, clearly) to a more realistic line-drop animation worth of any summer blockbuster around. Have a better way to do this? Let me know! Came up with this in a few minutes in a time of need, so I'm sure this can be done more efficiently.


Extremely high demand makes this one tough to obtain, Especially with the absence of 1804 coinage and the 4 on the 5/4 overtates being rather bold. There are two MS65's out there that have recently appeared for the big bucks, with the Newman coin outdueling the Eliasberg/Pogue coin.
Variety Attribution: Obverse- Star 8 very close to upper right serif of Y. Date is 8 1/2 mm. from 1 to crossbar of 4, the 1 touching curl, and set high. 180 are larger than the slender 5. Stand, point and crossbar of 4 shown clearly. Narrow milling.
O-101: Reverse-4 1/2 berries in branch, 13 arrows. End of leaf points to center of base of I. Eagle's beak attached to uper side of point. Second S in STATES shows two recuttings lower right.
O-101a: heavy break at top of RI and to edge between IC, plus 1 or 2 fine cracks.


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The xenoestrogen bisphenol A induces growth, differentiation, and c-fos gene expression in the female reproductive tract
Rosemary Steinmetz, Natasha A. Mitchner, Andrea Grant, Donald L. Allen, Robert Bigsby, Nira Ben-Jonathan
The xenoestrogen bisphenol A (BPA) has been shown to mimic estrogen both in vivo and in vitro. BPA stimulates PRL secretion and the expression of a PRL regulating factor from the posterior pituitary in the estrogen-sensitive Fischer 344 rat (F344), but not in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. The goal of the present studies was to examine the in vivo actions of BPA on the reproductive tract. The specific objectives were 1) to characterize the short term effects of BPA on cell proliferation and c-fos expression in the uterus and vagina, and 2) to compare the effects of prolonged exposure to low doses of BPA on the reproductive tract of F344 and SD rats. Treatment with single high doses of BPA induced cell proliferation in the uterus and vagina of ovariectomized F344 rats, as determined by bromodeoxyuridine immunostaining. This proliferation was dose dependent (from 37.5-150 mg/kg) and followed a time course similar to that of estradiol (E2). Quantitative RT-PCR revealed that both BPA and E2 increased c-fos messenger RNA levels in the uterus 14- to 16-fold within 2 h, which returned to basal levels after 6 h. In the vagina, BPA-induced c-fos expression remained elevated for up to 6 h, compared with the transient increase caused by E2. Treatment of F344 rats for 3 days with continuous release capsules that supplied a much lower dose of BPA (~0.3 mg/kg · day) resulted in hypertrophy, hyperplasia, and mucus secretion in the uterus and hyperplasia and cornification of the vaginal epithelium. The reproductive tract of SD rats did not respond to this treatment paradigm with BPA. These studies demonstrate that 1) the molecular and morphological alterations induced by BPA in the uterus and vagina are nearly identical to those induced by estradiol; 2) the vagina appears to be especially sensitive to the estrogenic actions of BPA; 3) the reproductive tract of the inbred F344 rat appears more sensitive to BPA than that of the outbred SD rat; and 4) continuous exposure to microgram levels of BPA is sufficient for exerting estrogenic actions.
https://doi.org/10.1210/en.139.6.2741
fos Genes
Inbred F344 Rats
Hyperplasia
Bromodeoxyuridine
Steinmetz, R., Mitchner, N. A., Grant, A., Allen, D. L., Bigsby, R., & Ben-Jonathan, N. (1998). The xenoestrogen bisphenol A induces growth, differentiation, and c-fos gene expression in the female reproductive tract. Endocrinology, 139(6), 2741-2747. https://doi.org/10.1210/en.139.6.2741
The xenoestrogen bisphenol A induces growth, differentiation, and c-fos gene expression in the female reproductive tract. / Steinmetz, Rosemary; Mitchner, Natasha A.; Grant, Andrea; Allen, Donald L.; Bigsby, Robert; Ben-Jonathan, Nira.
In: Endocrinology, Vol. 139, No. 6, 1998, p. 2741-2747.
Steinmetz, R, Mitchner, NA, Grant, A, Allen, DL, Bigsby, R & Ben-Jonathan, N 1998, 'The xenoestrogen bisphenol A induces growth, differentiation, and c-fos gene expression in the female reproductive tract', Endocrinology, vol. 139, no. 6, pp. 2741-2747. https://doi.org/10.1210/en.139.6.2741
Steinmetz R, Mitchner NA, Grant A, Allen DL, Bigsby R, Ben-Jonathan N. The xenoestrogen bisphenol A induces growth, differentiation, and c-fos gene expression in the female reproductive tract. Endocrinology. 1998;139(6):2741-2747. https://doi.org/10.1210/en.139.6.2741
Steinmetz, Rosemary ; Mitchner, Natasha A. ; Grant, Andrea ; Allen, Donald L. ; Bigsby, Robert ; Ben-Jonathan, Nira. / The xenoestrogen bisphenol A induces growth, differentiation, and c-fos gene expression in the female reproductive tract. In: Endocrinology. 1998 ; Vol. 139, No. 6. pp. 2741-2747.
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 Hedwig Dransfeld (1871–1925), deutsche katholische Frauenrechtlerin und Politikerin (Zentrum)
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Trusting the process, and Paul Hebert
Barnstable Town Council President Paul Hebert went out of his way to say a few things prior opening last Thursday's council hearing to public comment.
Hebert asked for a moment of silence in memory of Sheila Aylmer Gobeil of Hyannis, who passed away on Jan. 20, and offered the council's condolences to her husband of 54 years, Len Gobeil.
Then, Hebert recognized Don Cox, president, CEO and founder of the Massachusetts Military Support Foundation, for providing veterans, active military and their families with emergency aid, food assistance, and scholarships during times of critical need.
"It is with the greatest respect and gratitude...that I present this to you, Don," Hebert said. "I am a veteran of the Vietnam era. We're now celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ending of the war."
Cox said his organization, working closely with Donna Baldwin and Steven Xiarhos, provided 600 holiday meals to veterans and their families last month and gave out 400 coats to veterans in need, from Plymouth to Provincetown.
"We've been able to make an impact and touch a lot of lives here on the Cape for veterans who are in need," Cox said. "It's a shame to say it, but we do have a lot of people (for whom) it's a struggle at the end of every month to make ends meet...and they were the ones who raised their right hand and served us. Our motto is, 'Serving those who served us and making their family our family."
Next, Hebert appealed to residents in the audience and watching on Ch. 18 to stay "on the level" — particularly since, by his estimate, only about 1 percent of town voters ever comes to speak at public comment or belongs to any of the town's 43 committees, commissions or boards.
"We're all citizens here...citizens of the same community. If we look at it that way, then we're all in this together," Hebert said. "We're not against one another; we're trying to understand what's best for our community. That's the oath that we all took...that we will make decisions based on what's best for the community."
What precipitated that?The two major issues facing Barnstable today: implementing the first phase of the Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan and regulating short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods throughout the seven villages.
"Recently in public comment, I think there's sometimes misunderstandings," Hebert said. "If you have a concern, then we should talk about it." But he added that confrontation in a public forum becomes unproductive. Case in point: recent heated discussions over a proposed sewer pumping station at 310 Main St., Centerville.
"It's easy to call the shots after the fact," Hebert said, "but the task of our staff is to look to the future...at what's going to work for us as a community. We're making the best decisions we can based on the information that management gives us. If we fail to allow ourselves even to make a mistake, then we're not going to make progress."
In addition, Hebert cited a "misrepresentation" that the Cape & Islands Realtors Association is pushing for a decision on regulating short-term rentals in Barnstable by the end of March.
"There's only one person who pushed that, and that was myself, as president of the town council," Hebert said. "I said we have to get to a point that we have an actual document to work on. The sooner we get it in front of the council – and, I think by March is a very reasonable time – then we can, together – the citizens, and this council, and the staff – come up with a presentation and a document to make it all happen.
"It's a very, very open process," he added. "No decisions have been made. Key to all of this is to remain doing what is legal. What other communities are doing successfully, that's what we want to imitate, and to protect all of our citizens and all of our neighborhoods. That's where we're at."
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Lancaster hospice opens new cafe
You can now enjoy a cup of tea and a slice of cake when you pay a visit to a Lancaster hospice.
Tuesday, 12th September 2017, 12:08 pm
Updated Wednesday, 27th September 2017, 11:45 am
Robert Webb JP DL, High Sheriff of Lancashire, centre, Sue McGraw to the right of Robert and Catherine Butterworth, head of fundraising, to the left, with volunteers at The Courtyard Cafe opening inside St John's Hospice, Lancaster. Picture by Andy Cruxton.
The Courtyard Cafe at St John's Hospice has opened to the public and is run by scores of volunteers.
All profits from the cafe will go directly back into the hospice and its opening has been praised as a welcome boost.
"I know there was quite a long gestation period for this to take place and as ever it is the volunteers who make it happen," said Robert Webb JP DL, High Sheriff of Lancashire, speaking at the official opening on Monday.
"It has been a great effort and it has come to fruition to produce a really splendid facility here."
The café, at the hospice on Slyne Road, will serve freshly prepared hot and cold food, teas, coffees and homemade cakes.
The café, which seats up to 60 people inside and an additional 20 outside in the courtyard, has been in the planning for a long time.
"Our little hospice has been central to our community for 30 years and we want The Courtyard to be a place for them to come and meet friends, have a coffee and some cake, enjoy some delicious food and help support the hospice," said Sue McGraw, St John's Hospice chief executive. "Every penny we make will go straight back towards helping local people and their loved ones."
A chef has been appointed and a vegetable garden at St John's will be providing much of the fruit and vegetables being served.
The cafe is open seven days a week from 10am-3pm.
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Whisky bottler Compass Box is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a new, limited edition blended Scotch called "This is not a luxury whisky".
This is not a luxury whisky is said to "challenge people's perceptions" about the luxury whisky sector.
Inspired by Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's 1929 concept piece, The Treachery of Images, the new whisky is said to "challenge people's perceptions about what represents a 'luxury' whisky – or, put another way, a whisky worth paying a lot of money for," said Compass Box founder and whisky maker, John Glaser.
Four "parcels" of whisky were used to create This is not a luxury whisky. 19-year-old Glen Ord was blended with two 40-year-old grain distilled at Girvan and Strathclyde, and 30-year-old Caol Ila malt.
"As whisky makers, when we say 'luxury' what we're talking about is the liquid, the flavour, the experience of enjoying the whisky," Glaser continued. "Late last year we came across a parcel of astoundingly good casks of malt whisky from the Glen Ord distillery: sherry butts, distilled almost twenty years ago. We fell in love with them immediately, secured every cask available in the parcel, then set to work blending them with other whiskies to help us create something even more compelling.
Magritte's image of a pipe, the inspiration behind the release, features the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" – or "This is not a pipe". The work is often interpreted as saying that the painting itself is not a pipe; it is an image that doesn't have the same qualities or functionality as the actual object.
"Similar to what Magritte did with his painting of a pipe that claimed it was not a pipe, we wanted to see what would happen if we put a rare, old, expensive liquid in an explicitly 'non-luxury' container," continued Glaser.
This is not a luxury whisky is bottled at 53.1% abv, its natural cask strength. 4,992 bottles will be available across Europe from 15 October at £150 SRP and in the US from 12 November at $225 SRP.
Earlier this year it was announced that Bacardi had acquired a minority stake in Compass Box.


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Vetements SS17Photography Virginie Khateeb
Behind Vetements' rule-breaking take on couture
The collective teams up with 18-plus brands for its SS17 collection – here we explore what this entailed and what it signifies
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Yesterday, tourists walking past the Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin entrance of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris might have been mistaken for thinking that there was a mega discount sale going on inside. For a throng of the fashion crowd, clutching a pedestrian store directory pamphlet (the invitation for the show) were jostling and shoving each other to get inside. This was a far cry from the usual well-mannered and relaxed pace of haute couture. Then again, this was Vetements seemingly disrupting haute couture week, as they happened to be a guest of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture this season, having shunted their show from October to July to allow for a longer period of sales.
The term 'haute couture' in this instance is a bit of a red herring. Of course, there were never going to be Vetements hoodies with 1,850 hours spent on feather and bead embroidery. Or an atelier of Vetements petite mains labouring over hand-stitched tailleur and draped flou dresses. Instead, Gurum and Demna Gvasalia twisted our collective idea of 'savoir-faire', loosely translated as 'know-how'. No slow hands working on intricate garments here, as Gvasalia took advantage of the know-how of established brands that they had grown up with and utilised their expertise to fit the vision of Vetements. "We know and relate to these brands, and they have this know-how of doing these products in the best way," explained Gvasalia after the show. "Last season, I met somebody from Alpha Industries and she saw our bomber jackets from previous seasons and she said, 'Well you have at least 35 mistakes in the design.' That's because they really know how to make them right."
Before the show, word had already spread that Vetements were embarking on a marathon of stellar brand collaborations. Levi's, Reebok, Dr. Martens, Hanes and Manolo Blahnik are just a handful of the eighteen co-branded collabs that debuted in the show. They're all tied by the fact that they have a world famous signature product speciality, ready to be recontextualised by a fashion success story that sometimes beggars belief. "It was a new way of thinking about what couture could be," said Gvasalia. "It's not about 35 hours spent on embroidery, but it may be working with someone who is the best at doing say, shirts."
And how did Vetements unite all of these household brands? By placing them all under the decorative dome of one of the world's most famous department stores. Guests sat in Galeries Lafayettes' womenswear floor in sections named after their concession proximity – Pucci, Fendi, Marc Jacobs – but these big names weren't the protagonists. Gvasalia had a shopping mall fashion show in mind. "I love shopping malls," he said. "Real shopping malls are the most inspiring places for fashion designers. I'm talking about real shopping malls where there is no fashion."
Fashion did, of course, come into it. In fact, the word "fashion" was intoned in a breathy voice on a soundtrack that could well have backed a cheesy Clothes Show Live programme in the 90s. But that's where the ironic snigger ended. Vetements' now infamous DHL t-shirt might have been a stylistic in-joke, but they meant business when oversized boxy tailoring made by Brioni was paired with waist high wader boots by Manolo Blahnik. Or when hefty Carhartt aprons and hardy Levi's corduroy jumpsuits stomped about with Lucchese cowboy boots all the way from Texas. Reebok's shellsuit jackets came shrunken and tightly hooded over the head. The oversized off-the-shoulder jackets that set the tone at Gvasalia's debut for Balenciaga took flight here with a little help from Canada Goose. Those previously 'imperfect' bomber jackets now had Alpha Industries to engineer them with sloped shoulders and elongated sleeves. The collab hit of the show was undoubtedly Juicy Couture's tracksuits, reimagined as a form-fitting velour gloved body and high-waisted trousers emblazoned with "Juicy" in diamante on the arms and lower back. It's the most contentious of fashion throwbacks and yet one you imagine creating an unexpected comeback for the brand, once favoured by Paris Hilton.
"It's not about 35 hours spent on embroidery, but it may be working with someone who is the best at doing say, shirts" – Demna Gvasalia
And that's the clever thing about Vetements' partnerships. It isn't just that they are getting the production knowledge of these long-established 'heritage' brands, but that many of the chosen labels are being dusted down and given a new lease of high fashion-sanctioned legitimacy. Gvasalia wasn't afraid of pushing these brands to rip up their own rulebooks and go outside of their comfort zone and consequently they'll gain a new legion of customers. "We destroy a lot of clothes to make new clothes," was how Gvasalia summed up the collaboration process.
In a similar vein to Gosha Rubchinskiy's collaborative efforts with Fila and Kappa in his SS17 collection, this was Gvasalia setting his sights on finding the best people in the business to eke out the best product he can to feed to a hungry audience. Which is why when asked whether he enjoys the lengthy dissection of the intentions and meanings behind Vetements, he simply says: "We just keep trying to dress people. For, me it's really about what we put on, and what we express." Whenever these 'Vetements x …' products start to filter onto the shopfloor (they will be hitting us in different waves), excitement will abound. The fashion industry may have been oversaturated with commonplace collaborations, but Vetements have just turned that 'x' into something to anticipate and covet again.
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Rachel is a wordsmith extraordinaire! Somehow she conjures up articles for a newsletter or a communication to staff, almost from thin air. She is great to work with and I'm always happy to take her along with me to client meetings where she represents both herself and my company exceptionally well. Can't recommend her highly enough!


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September 11th Foretold
by Susan M. Watkins
Since September 11, each of us has had to find a way to reconnect with the world in something like the old routines and philosophies that comprised our individual perspectives before those profoundly shocking events took place. Any sort of belief that our reality might originate from within has not provided an especially comfortable cushion. In fact, such ideas are often unsettling and not infrequently maddening, since they inevitably lead to questions about unconscious knowledge and intent. As in: What inner focus led each of us—every one of us in this reality, wherever we might live and however immediately or not we were involved—to experience this literal explosion of tragedy and social upheaval that seemed to come upon us all without warning? What collective purpose does this represent?
Over time I've begun to form my own thoughts about such questions, and within that framework, what is particularly interesting to me is the apparent fact that, however horrific and appalling all this has been, the one thing it was not was "unknown."
Just on the outward level of apparent happenstance, there were dozens of stories rising out of September 11 about people who lived or died by making last-minute changes of plans, either consciously (in deciding to take an earlier or later flight, or to go into work later than usual, or not at all) or "un"consciously (as with the fellow who fell asleep on the subway for the first time ever and thus missed his morning stop under the World Trade Center). Disasters like this (and indeed all events), whether small and personal or huge and universal, are always surrounded by these tales (the financier George Vanderbilt canceled his plans at the last minute to sail on the Titanic because his mother had a "bad feeling" about it), and they are fascinating and worthy of record and study in themselves. Inner knowing and response to that knowing is the gel that comprises experience, after all.
Just as intriguing is the kind of precognition that comes in the form of dreams and dream-like correlations. As I discovered some years ago when I did the research for a book about dreams in a small town, such prescience, when it happens, rarely gives a complete picture or an explicit warning. Instead, it tends to provide glimpses of the thing to come, as if tailored to your personal need-to-know factor. Moreover, these "glimpses" seem to keep giving out bits of information after the fact, in something like an awareness/response cool-down mode.
"Inner knowing and response to that knowing is the gel that comprises experience, after all."
I have some examples of pre- and post-cognitive dreams about September 11. My own occurred September 8 or 9, the Friday or Saturday night before. Uncharacteristically, I didn't write it down (since writing makes things more real for me, maybe this was a subliminal defense mechanism). It was in vivid color and perfectly clear, though confused. I was trying to make my way down through piles of fiery rubble to get to the depths of hell to rescue a friend—someone who in fact had died some years ago. Why this friend should be in hell, specifically the last circle of hell as in Dante's Inferno, I didn't know, but it was up to me to find him and lead him out of there. Along the way, through dark-fire mazes of rocks and twisted building girders, I kept meeting other people clambering through the ruins, but nobody would give me any directions or help me in any way. I crawled and stumbled on and on, lower and lower, and the noise and confusion got worse and worse—until I woke up, unsure if I'd found my friend. Had I glimpsed him down there, at the bottom of hell, or not? Had I failed, and left him behind? For several moments, I was disoriented and heartsick.
But as I came awake I also thought of The 13th Warrior, the Antonio Banderas movie I'd seen for the first time the previous evening. It's a retelling of the Beowulf story, and in it, Banderas and his Northmen companions go deep into a cave to root out the leaders of the mysterious invaders that have been terrorizing nearby villages. The underground scenes are vivid, and lit by fire, so as I came to, I figured this must be the source of my dream's storyline.
Not until after the WTC attacks and subsequent events did I connect my dream with the scenes of rescue workers digging through the fiery ruins, and for that matter with the associative element of the Northmen searching out the enemy in his cave, the same words and imagery used by US officials in post-September 11 military response.
It's also interesting that in The 13th Warrior, Banderas's character is an Arab, a heroic figure who helps defeat the adversary and lives to record the tale. But why, I wondered, was this particular friend of mine the object of my dream-search? Other friends had passed away in recent years; why him?
It wasn't until later that week, when I was on the phone with Moment Point Press editor Susan Ray, comparing dream-notes, that the connection came to me. Thunderstruck, I realized that my dead friend's birthday was on September 11! Which seemed like a whopper of a hint of events to come—certainly it's a whopper piece of hindsight—but nothing compared with the dream that Susan related to me:
"Mathew [my husband] and I are sitting at an outdoor cafe in a wharf-like area. It has a military look about it, and it's in a city—lots of concrete. Mathew leaves to do an errand at a government- or insurance-type office and soon the sky over my head is filled with huge, black planes. They're flying very low, very slowly, and I'm filled with dread. But nobody else seems to be paying attention.
"I look to a nearby table and see an older gentleman sitting alone. I know telepathically that he's been through WWII, so I watch to see his reaction to the planes. He whispers, "Oh, Shit," with a tone that matches the dread I'm feeling. So I immediately get up to look for Mathew. And in the near distance, in the direction the planes are flying, I can see and hear explosions. Still, no one seems to be paying attention.
"I spend the rest of the dream frantically searching for Mathew, while all around me people are ignoring what's happening. Everyone has this maddening don't-bother-me-I've-got-work-to-do attitude as I ask them for help. As the dream ends I spot Mathew, back at the table where we started, looking for me.
"That morning—Sunday, September 9—I recounted the dream, in detail, to Mathew. We came to the conclusion that it was a stress dream. But that didn't ring true to me. I wasn't particularly stressed and the dream had had an epic feel to it. Two days later, September 11, Mathew called from work (a corporate office building outside of Boston) and said, "Turn on the TV; you won't believe what's happening."
Note the coincidental elements in Susan's dream and mine of trying to find someone in the midst of a specific kind of chaos, the ultimate nightmare scenario to come out of those scenes of wreckage and horror—at least for those on the ground. James, an email correspondent who lives in England, seems to have picked up on the plight of those in the air. As often happens with precognition, his dream, on the night of September 10, has roots in another, coincidental incident—in his case, a television program he had watched that same evening, a fire fighting documentary on a UK Discovery channel. In much the same way as my watching The 13th Warrior, elements of his UK program merged in a compelling clairvoyant blend of dream and event. "The show featured a giant towering inferno that had happened in Philadelphia some years ago," James wrote. "The outcome of it in some ways was like another version of the WTC disaster. The pictures of the burnt out and collapsed Philadelphia skyscraper were the last thing I saw before I went to sleep.
"During my dream that night, I had the sensation of flying on a plane (not as a passenger but from an all-angle vantage point) that was certainly on a rocky flight path with emergency lighting on—golden brown diffused light you might get from burning embers." The next day, he switched on his radio just in time to hear an announcer report the first plane hitting the WTC. And, of course, he watched the rest of it unfold on TV—almost as if official news itself were part of an ongoing prescience.
James also said that for days before September 11, he'd been suffused with "a general feeling of gloom and demolition," as he put it, "as I used to get when an IRA bomb or threat was imminent here in London." Reading this email, I remembered a sentence that had been playing over and over in my mind for weeks; I'd thought it was the opening of an oncoming novel (which it might be anyway). "Later," the sentence droned, "it was remembered how clear the sky had been on that last autumn day of the old world." After September 11, various news outlets, including The New Yorker, described that day in almost exactly the same words.
Since then, aftermath dreams and reverberations have been spilling over, not surprisingly. Friends have been emailing me dreams filled with panic and guilt, though hopeful resolution has begun to show through, too. One person saw a portion of herself split off to become a second and separate entity that had supposedly been murdered, yet this self wasn't quite dead and wasn't quite human, either. Another friend, who is ardently opposed to this country's military campaign, dreamed of being put to death in an electric chair that was a mini-nuclear device; the condemned, who were dissidents, had to set off the devices themselves. Yet the moment of death was only a sudden, painless sensation of rapidly floating up to the ceiling, "like we're on our way somewhere," he said. Reassurance from the psyche? Still another friend dreamed of challenging Jesus and Muhammad to show up and fight it out between them. But the challenge was a no-show; thus, no confrontation came about.
Which is, one would most sincerely hope, the most accurate precognition of all.
Susan M. Watkins is a former newspaper reporter, feature writer, and columnist, and has also worked in radio news. She is the author of Conversations with Seth and Speaking of Jane Roberts: Remembering the Author of the Seth Material, published by Moment Point Press, as well as books and fiction in other genres.
©2002, Susan M. Watkins. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the Conscious Creation Journal. (Feel free to duplicate this article for personal use – please include this copyright notice and the URL.) http://www.consciouscreation.com


Origin of name : flerovium (atomic symbol Fl) was named for the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions where element 114 was synthesized. Georgiy N. Flerov (1913-1990) was an eminent physicist who discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium. He was the founder of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research..
Only a very few atoms of flerovium (289114Fl) have ever been made (through a nuclear reaction involving fusing a calcium atom with a plutonium atom) isolation of an observable quantity has never been achieved, and may well never be. The discovery was reported informally in January 1999 following experiments towards the end of December 1998 involving scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) in Russia and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA.


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The Oregon Ducks marketing department had a tall order: sell out important home games and create a high-energy atmosphere for both players and fans.
The Ducks enlisted Umbel to drive ticket sales. They ran data collection campaigns to gain insights about their fans and then used this data to run highly-targeted ticket sales campaigns on Facebook.
To collect data, the Ducks gave fans the opportunity to use social login to enter to win a chance to take the field with the football team.
The Ducks collected thousands of new fan profiles and consistently achieved strong returns on ad spend from their ticket sales campaigns, including 14.3x ROAS for a game against a Pac-12 basketball rival.
The success of the campaigns prompted the school to apply the same model to sell tickets to events like the NCAA Track and Field Championships.
The Ducks found that their fans had unique affinities for specific airlines, resorts, casinos and a local coffee company. They then targeted people with similar affinities.


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Opinion: Like Donald Trump, Alex Jones takes advantage of free publicity
Alex Jones continues to receive about as much press as his friend Donald Trump, with Stephen Colbert impersonating the talk show host on The Late Show, and Trevor Noah attacking him on The Daily Show. Follow the links to view the videos.
Alex Jones makes for good television. That enraged character is so entertaining that Comedy Central has requested the right to use this clip of Jones to open their new show, The President Show, featuring a Donald Trump impersonator as host talking about the day's news. It's an attempt at impersonating the InfoWars model and mocking the Alex Jones character to attract a larger, more moderate audience. (The show had Keith Olbermann from GQ's The Resistance as its first guest.)
The writers and producers of just about every comedy show have been pretty lazy lately, with the lone exception being the writers and producers of Last Week Tonight. With very little effort and originality, the writers and producers of The Late Show, The Daily Show and even Newsweek are taking shots at an easy target from point blank range and making easy money doing so. Not only that, they're only giving Jones free publicity that enhances his "celebrity," because as the cliché goes, "There's no such thing as bad publicity." Clichés exist because there is truth to them.
While our advertising sales representatives at GCN confirm they have not raised the advertising rates for The Alex Jones Show, they certainly aren't having trouble selling those spots, even while Jones is taking time to attend a custody hearing. He's not off to a hot start in proving his attorney's argument that Jones is playing a character on his show, telling the jury on 4/20 that George Soros is to blame for the ever-increasing potency of marijuana.
All that said, Jones's audience is set. The people who tune into The Alex Jones Show will likely always tune into The Alex Jones Show, whether it's on the radio or YouTube. The people who watch Bill O'Reilly will continue consuming whatever it is he does after Fox News, much like Rush Limbaugh. You don't need to understand these people; you only need to understand these people exist and there's no changing them.
Apparently, the only thing that could affect the advertising revenue of The Alex Jones Show is a criminal charge or sexual harassment allegation brought against Alex Jones. That's been the case in sports and entertainment for quite some time. A custody battle isn't going to turn advertisers away in droves like they ran away from The O'Reilly Factor.
There's nothing anyone can do about people who want to be heard and have the resources to accomplish that goal because there's nothing anyone can do about the audience that consumes that garbage. Americans consume everything including garbage; some garbage just smells better.
If you like this, you might like these GCN Live talk radio shows: The Alex Jones Show