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Coquimbo es la cuna de la vitivinicultura nacional y una de las seis regiones vitícolas de Chile oficialmente identificadas como tales según lo dispuesto por el Decreto de Agricultura n.º 464 de 14 de diciembre de 1994, que establece la zonificación vitícola del país y fija las normas para su utilización como denominaciones de origen. Los vinos chilenos con ésta denominación de origen deben ser elaborados al menos con un 75% de uvas procedentes de la región.

Subregiones
La región vitícola de Coquimbo está situada en la región administrativa de Coquimbo y comprende tres subregiones vitícolas: el Valle del Elqui, el Valle del Limarí y el Valle del Choapa, cuyos límites se extienden a las provincias homónimas de Elqui, Limarí y Choapa, las que a su vez comprenden áreas vinícolas menores.

Viticultura
De acuerdo al Catastro Frutícola Nacional 2015 y al Catastro Vitícola Nacional del año 2014, la Región de Coquimbo cuenta con 19.872,37 ha de viñedos. Aquellos destinados a la producción de uva de mesa ocupan una extensión de 8.721,6 ha, significa que aproximadamente el 44% de la superficie de viñas en la región están destinadas a la producción de fruta de exportación, mientras que 11.150,77 ha declaradas, es decir, el 66% están destinados a la producción de vinos, mostos y piscos.

Pisqueras
En Coquimbo, hay 7.767,2 ha que están destinadas a la producción de pisco chileno, esto representa el 69% de la superficie total vitícola.
Las variedades de uva cultivada en Coquimbo para la producción pisquera son 12 de acuerdo al Catastro Vitícola Nacional: Huasquina, Moscatel amarilla, Misión (país), San Francisco, Torontel, Moscatel blanca, Moscatel negra,  Moscatel de Frontignan,  Moscatel de Alejandría, Moscatel de Austria,  Mocatel rosada (pastilla) y Pedro Jiménez, esta última con la mayor superficie en la región con 3.351,44  ha

Viníferas blancas
Por su parte, las variedades de uva viníferas blancas cuentan con una superficie cultivada de 1.642,55 ha, 15% de la superficie vitícola.
Las variedades blancas que se cultivan actualmente en Coquimbo son 11, a saber:  Gewürztraminer, Moscatel de Austria, Moscatel de Alejandría, Mocatel rosada (pastilla),  Pinot gris, Riesling, Torontel, Viognier, Pedro Jiménez, Sauvignon Blanc con un total de 345,95 ha y Chardonnay con 761,84  ha de cultivo en la región.

Viníferas tintas
Finalmente, los cultivos de variedades viníferas tintas poseen una superficie de 1.741,02 ha, es decir, el 16% de la superficie vitícola en toda la región de Coquimbo.
Las variedades tintas son 17 variedades distintas: Carignan, Carménère, Malbec, Garnacha, Lacrimae Christi, Merlot, Tempranillo, Monastrell, Misión (país), Petit Verdot, Petit Syrah, Pinot Noir, Sangiovese, Tintoreras, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon con 329,87 ha y  Syrah una superficie de 605,02 ha.

Vinicultura

Variedades viníferas
En la Región de Coquimbo se declaró para el año 2015 una producción de 3.632.570 litros de producción vinífera. La que corresponde a un 3.1% de la producción nacional.

Lo anterior se distribuye en 604.378 de vinos blancos y 258596 de vinos tintos producidos con variedades viníferas.

Los mostos corresponden a la a mayor parte de la producción de esta región, siendo el mosto tinto 1.716.696 litros y el mosto blanco 1.049.600 producidos con variedades viníferas.

Finalmente, la chicha producida fue de 3.300 litros producidos con variedades viníferas, siendo la zona más septentrional que produce chicha de calidad.

Variedades de mesa
La Región de Coquimbo declaró una producción de 3.191.929 litros de mosto blanco y 1 litro de mosto tinto sobre la base de uva de mesa el año 2015. Esta región concentra el 53,4% de la producción de mostos blancos sobre la base de variedades de mesa.

Variedades pisqueras
La Región de Coquimbo registra una producción de 183.252.866 litros, correspondientes a 118.539.147 litros sobre la base de vinos y 64.713.719 sobre la base de mostos para la producción de pisco chileno.

Véase también
 Anexo:Regiones vitivinícolas de Chile
 Vino chileno

Referencias

Coquimbo
Región de Coquimbo


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Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth, née le , est une femme politique française guyanaise, sénatrice depuis 2020.

Elle est maire de Cayenne de 2010 à 2020.

Biographie
Fille de Stéphan Phinéra-Horth, président du conseil général de la Guyane de 1994 à 1998, Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth est orthophoniste.

Elle intègre le Parti socialiste guyanais (PSG) en 1988, dont elle est trésorière pendant deux ans. Elle est élue conseillère municipale de Cayenne en 1995, réélue en 2001 et 2008. Elle est sixième adjointe au maire Jean-Claude Lafontaine de 1995 à 2008 puis première adjointe de son successeur Rodolphe Alexandre, qui obtient  voix aux élections municipales de , avec le soutien de l'UMP. Quand ce dernier accède à la présidence du conseil régional, elle est élue pour lui succéder comme maire le .

Soutenue par le PSG et Walwari, elle quitte en 2014 le camp du mouvement « Guyane 73 » de Rodolphe Alexandre. Le , elle remporte les élections municipales dès le premier tour avec  voix, soit 69,75 %. Elle est officiellement investie par le conseil municipal le  suivant.

Le , elle fonde Nouvelle force de Guyane (NFG), parti actif principalement sur Cayenne. Depuis, pour ses campagnes elle aime utiliser le rose, elle met sa photo dans des cœurs, c'est d'ailleurs les couleurs de son parti, faisant penser ainsi à un thème de poupée Barbie.

À la tête d'une liste d'union NFG-Walwari-PSG-Guyane Écologie, elle remporte de nouveau les élections municipales de 2020 avec 60,46 % des voix.

Elle devient la première femme sénatrice de Guyane le 27 septembre 2020. Elle rejoint alors le groupe RDPI, groupe de la majorité présidentielle.

En , elle annonce qu'elle ne se fera pas vacciner contre la Covid-19 dans l'émission Politik Hebdo.

Principales initiatives
Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth se veut à la pointe du combat pour les femmes, la Guyane étant l'un des départements français où les violences faites aux femmes sont les plus fortes. Elle a notamment pu faire une proposition de loi pour renforcer l'accès des femmes aux responsabilités dans la fonction publique.

Elle a également participé à la commission sénatoriale pour déterminer l'importance des Outre-mer dans la stratégie maritime française.

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Biographie sur le site de la ville de Cayenne

Femme politique française
Naissance en juin 1957
Maire de Cayenne
Sénateur de la Guyane
Sénateur de la Cinquième République française
Étudiant de l'université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
Opposant à la vaccination

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Seventh Forum: Monday, 29.11.2010
Topic: "A Correspondent`s Journey from
AIG to China"
Please join us for a lively debate/discussion to cover
Business & Finance in China and America.
Speaker: Mr. Thomas Easton
Asia Business Editor - The Economist
Hong Kong Bureau Chief at The Economist Group
Past: Mr. Easton joined The Economist in 2000 from Forbes Magazine, where he had been a senior editor.
He was initially based in New York, first as a senior correspondent, then as the New York Bureau Chief.
His current assignment is his second in Asia, have previously been the Tokyo Bureau Chief of
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In 2006 he was named financial journalist of the year
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Im cooking a comp that does not provide electrical hook-ups, im planning on running three Tragers (1 pro 34 and 2 lil tex), anyone have some advice as to what i will need to run these grills?
Figure 450W for startup and 200W for running.
Depending on how you want to power these you can unplug the hotrod and start the fire with gelled alcohol.
I have used a car battery and inverter before.
If you use a generator use an inverter generator.
Papa Tom wrote: Figure 450W for startup and 200W for running.
I want to run them just like if i was at my house. So would It be best to run each grill off its own battery and inventer? I know i could hook up a generator but i would like to keep the noise down.
Inverter generators tend to be very quiet.
I don't know the efficiency of the inverters so figure the amp hour total you would need in battery power.
Watts =E x I (volts times current) so 450 Watts = 37.5 amps, 200 watts = 16.7 amps @ 12V.
Startup is usually 4 minutes and run time depends on what you are cooking.
Be sure to include the loss of the inverter.
Add it all up and you can determine the amp hours of battery required and determine how many or size of batteries needed.
To run 3 cookers I would lean toward a generator.
2000 watt inverter generator be sufficient for all three?
Oh yeah really if you stared the cookers one at a time 1000 W would suffice.
I've shopped though and 2000W makes more sense for the price difference.
I bought a cheap 1000W inverter generator from Sam's when I ran pellet grills and it worked fine. I only ran two but I had an induction hot plate I ran on low also. Black Max is the brand.
if worse comes to worse, can you just pump wood splits into that thing?
I run my fec100 off an inverter. Sometimes power at comps is iffy at best. On year cooking in San Antonio livestock show cookoff, the provided power got switched from 110 to 220. It blew boards an a few pellet poopers and fried some rv power converters. You sound like you need a portable power station. Get a 60q cube icechest. It's the one with wheels. Get a couple 75ah sla batteries. Always use sealed batteries. Mount in your icechest along with power inverter. If you want to get fancy, mount plugs on the outside of the icechest. You can mount a battery charger inside too. You can even add ventilation and cooling fans. I used to make ice chest radios and it's pretty much the same thing.
Im going to play it safe and just go with a generator, the event does not provide power.


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This year Constable Marshall continues to conduct litter enforcement patrols. The recent floods that affected many residents of Robert and Bedico washed large amounts of litter out of wooded areas and into the drainage ditches and estuaries. In addition, several construction companies and contractors have placed signage throughout the 8th Ward in hopes of gaining business from homeowners of flood damaged homes. Constable Marshall has been active in removing the illegal signage and issuing the appropriate violations. Constable Marshall has issued over thirty litter violations this year.
While attempting to locate these businesses Constable Marshall identified a contractor, "Complete Mold Solutions" "Complete Sheetrock solutions" who is not listed in the LA Secretary of State's business database or listed as licensed with the LA state Board of Contractors. Constable Marshall, along with the LA State Board of Contractors Investigations Division was able to serve the owner of the company with the appropriate litter violations and a notice to appear before the LA Contractors Board for a previous complaint.
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I would see what offer your getting revoked on. It is up to you what you want to do. If it is a survey maybe you were speeding through and not giving thorough answers to questions and taking your time. If it was me I would check into it and see that I can correct it so it doesn't happen again. If the revoked payment is making you fall below the 25 dollar minimum for cashout then I would worry. If not be happy.
man you are lucky,i need some refs too man smh lol.
If the email only said it was revoked and gave no reason I would submit a support ticket about it and have it looked into. You never know, mistakes can happen. If nothing else hopefully it will give you an answer that will prevent it from happening to you in the future and you can return and post the reason so all of us can learn from it. Thanks.
Could it have been a trial offer that you may have canceled??
well I am new and have not got this far but I plan to stick with this so I will one day be in the same sitution!!
Why would it give you revoke for?
I never heard them revoke on a offer, and I hope I don't. Wonder what that was about. I would look into it.
Have not been on FC too long but first i've heard of an offer being revoked. I hope it's an extremely rare occurrence.
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Just got this wonderful email a few minutes ago. What the hell!
What fresh hell. It could be a mistake. I hope you get the revoked credited back to you.
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The pine-scented Troodos Mountains and turtle-nesting beaches of the Akamas Peninsula reveal Cyprus's western fringes to be a wild, timeless antidote to the island's sunkissed resorts.
From monasteries to winding hiking trails, discover the most scenic corners of Aphrodite's homeland.
Photograph by Jamie Lafferty
By Jamie Lafferty
Published 22 Dec 2021, 06:05 GMT, Updated 5 Jan 2022, 12:16 GMT
The shift down to second gear does little to help. My rental car is in high distress, its asthmatic engine wheezing and wailing as we climb another Cypriot mountain. While I feel adequately compensated by the scenery — by the waterfalls and forests — my ageing Toyota sounds like it's suffering what will be long-lasting trauma. Upsetting as this is to hear, I offer no apologies as we continue skywards, the temperature dropping as our altitude increases.
While tourism has altered its fringes, the interior of Cyprus suggests something else, a time before cruise ships and resort holidays. The ancient Greeks held that Cyprus was so beautiful, it was a playground of their gods and the birthplace of the fairest, Aphrodite, the goddess of love. And while there's very little chance I'll be bumping into any deities on my trip, I'm making a point of seeking out the island's most timeless swathes on a drive through the Troodos Mountains and the sprawling Paphos Forest in the west of the country.
To look out the car window up here is to see life from another era, decades ago, perhaps, or maybe even centuries, but in any case, not 2021. By the roadside, a stooped woman with knees older than the hills climbs slowly towards the next village. Waiting for her, a man with a huge tympanic belly strokes his equally prodigious moustache. Cats and dogs snooze in the sun, resting ahead of renewing their eternal war in the cool evening. Behind them, buildings look as though they've emerged from the mountains rather than been constructed.
Signs warn of 'slippery roads', which makes them sound deceitful in the same way as ice is often accused of being treacherous. These slips, if they happen at all, are most likely in winter when — as improbable as it seems — this island just 62 miles west of Syria gets significant snowfall. So significant that there are ski lifts and runs on the slopes of Olympos, Cyprus's highest mountain at 6,404ft. These ski runs don't start quite at the summit, however, as the very peak is reserved for military use: a reminder that the nation remains divided.
Costas, a 52-year-old cherry farmer, working the land in Cyprus's lesser-visited interior.
With no snow and keeping a cautious distance from the fenced off compound, I instead find the beginning of the Artemis Nature Trail, a four-hour hike named after the goddess of the wilderness that offers a satisfying route around Olympos's peak. Above, benevolent clouds seem to have snagged on the summit, offering a sort of parasol; around me, a loose pine forest cloaks the mountainside, countless fallen cones lying at the feet of the trees, a billion pristine needles beside them.
I mostly have the trail to myself, which means I can appreciate the lichen hugging the tree trunks, and spend what witnesses would likely describe as an embarrassing amount of time trying to photograph the local wildlife (mostly birds and butterflies). Defeated, I rest on a bench looking across Cyprus towards its contested north.
Read more: Discover the bejewelled splendour of the Troodos Mountains
Turkey invaded the island in 1974, following years of unrest and resulting in the loss of around 10,000 lives. Today Nicosia, invisible through the haze, is the world's last divided capital city. Prior to the conflict, in the early 1950s the great British writer Lawrence Durrell chose a village in the now-seized territory to make his home, a bold decision that he detailed in his seminal, often hilarious novel, Bitter Lemons of Cyprus. Pulling out my old, well-thumbed copy, I flick through the pages to find his descriptions of the scenic mountains around me. I'm soon shaking my head.
'The Troodos range was an unlovely jumble of crags and heavyweight rock, unarticulated and sprawling, hanging along the fringes of the Mesaoria like a backcloth,' he wrote with little generosity, if enviable flair. 'Once the green abode of gods and goddesses, the Troodos is now extravagantly bald in many places, its great shoulders and arms thrusting out of the painfully afforested area like limbs in a suit too small for them.'
I decide to admire the countryside and push on, ignoring Durrell's outdated slanders against this remarkable landscape. With the whole island to choose from, I wonder if perhaps he found it easier to insult this region rather than consider he'd chosen to live in the wrong one himself.
More than 60 years separate our time in Cyprus and so much has changed that it's perhaps futile to compare our experiences, but as I reach the end of the path and find my car the only one parked at the trailhead, I realise that we have at least one thing in common. Durrell was born in 1912 and would have been a boy during the Spanish flu outbreak, so must have known something of the monumental devastation caused by pandemics. I wonder what he would have remembered about it. I wonder how he was able to move on.
The village of Moutoullas, nestled in the Troodos Mountains.
Photograph by Getty Images
Climbing into the car and thinking about this, I switch off the air-conditioning and roll down the windows, allowing Olympos's warm, pine-scented breeze to drift in. In a year where I've found myself mistrusting the very air I breathe, these alpine conditions feel something like a miracle, so I savour a couple of extra lungfuls before heading back down the mountain.
Dinner and the devout
I let the car enjoy meandering downhill, stopping only to buy a bag of dried cherries from a farmer at the roadside. Nothing is too far away as the phoenix flies in the Troodos, but there's rarely a chance to take a direct route, either. Tunnels are uncommon and roads tend to loop extravagantly around valleys like lines on a topographical map. As with village life, there seems no point in even attempting to rush; consequently, the driving is delightful, and scheduling must be flexible.
There are dozens of scenic mountain settlements in the island's interior — even Durrell couldn't help admiring them. 'Such beauties as it had were in its hidden villages,' he wrote of this region, 'tucked into pockets and valleys among the foothills, some rich in apples and vines, some higher up smothered in bracken and pine.
In recent years , small towns such as Kalopanagiotis have been developed and improved by the arrival of boutique hotels — new life has been breathed into old buildings that were crumbling into oblivion. Elsewhere, in Kakopetria, Cypriots like to escape the crushing heat of the coast and spend the evenings in the town square, drinking Keo beer on plastic chairs before shambling home to murder some karaoke late into the night.
I push on to the rose-scented village of Agros, where I pull up a chair outside Pezema Tavern and ask the waiter for some recommendations. He says he'll bring me what he'd have. Not eating indigenous halloumi in Cyprus is proving to be something of an impossibility, so I'm a little relieved when I'm instead presented with a hearty salad and some village sausage. "Nothing here comes from outside this valley," says my new friend with the proud smile of a parent, before dropping off a glass of table wine. Is it too sweet? Right now, it hardly seems to matter. I fill my cheeks and eat slowly as the sun gently sinks behind the mountains. Around me, gangs of villainous cats skulk in the dark, drifting through petrified alleys like wraiths, while in the night sky an eyelash of a new moon does little to illuminate the valley below.
Located in the mountainous region of Marathasa Valley, Kykkos Monastery is the wealthiest and most lavishly decorated on the island.
Byzantine churches and monasteries dot the Cypriot interior like seeds on a strawberry, with many recognised by UNESCO and protected by locals. They're often sites of pilgrimage for the devout and the curious, both of whom find the journey easier if they don't suffer from motion sickness. Outside Kykkos Monastery, I watch dozens of tourists stumble out of their vehicles, gasping for air, many seemingly having found religion on the way here.
A site of worship since before Richard the Lionheart conquered Cyprus in the 12th century, today Kykkos is perhaps the finest and grandest religious institution anywhere on the island. As much a fortress as a church, it lies under a monolithic white cross that seems to challenge the rest of Cyprus to question its magnificence.
Many of its current buildings were constructed as late as the 18th century following a fire that devastated the originals. Nonetheless, even for this committed atheist, Kykkos today is an impressive place, polished but not sanitary, ostentatious but not obnoxious. Monks with knitted eyebrows and hurricane-proof beards look as though they could have been here for centuries, right up until they reach into their black robes to check their mobile phones.
While there are plenty of tourists with cameras, there's no shortage of serious pilgrims, too. Inside the oldest, most ornate and sacred part of the complex, photography is banned, which seems right considering just how rapt many of the clergy become.
Read more: A road trip through the Mani, a literary Greek landscape suspended in time
Through a fog of incense, below the gold leaf and the polished brass, under chandeliers and gilded candle holders, a family of five cowers in front of an Orthodox priest as he covers them in a scarf, muttering incantations on top of this divine shield. Nearby, others offer prayers and pleas, chants and oaths. As a couple make the sign of the cross with the perfect synchronicity of well-marshalled troops, I can't think when I last saw European Christians so pious.
Their fervour is only momentarily broken when a girl, perhaps around eight years old, accidentally knocks one of the candelabras, sending a holy candle crashing to the ground where it fractures like an old femur. When she gazes up at her father, tears instantly filling her big eyes, I silently offer a little prayer on her behalf.
The Akamas Peninsula National Park's Blue Lagoon, a famous beauty spot framed by rocky formations.
A wild coast
For the first 10 minutes of the drive to Lara Beach, I believe that reports of the road's notoriety have been greatly exaggerated. Then, for the next half an hour, my faithful and much abused Toyota must traverse an unsealed, pot-holed route that violently reminds me to trust local advice in the future. While four wheel drive vehicles and quad bikes zip past, I nervously bump down the road, making painstakingly slow progress towards the famous beach, flanked by the rolling Mediterranean and dusty scrubland.
Lara Beach is in the southern reaches of what's now called the Akamas Peninsula National Park, perhaps the last untamed part of the island. The designation only came about in the last five years, but the extra protection national park status affords should go some way to help prevent significant human encroachment.
"I've had the Akamas in my heart since I first started touring here with people back in 1996," says Paphos naturalist Andreas Tsokkalides. "It's got fascinating geology, the virgin beaches, the mythology and history, plus the arrival of the turtles every summer, but for me, what makes it special is the amazing flora. There's a plethora of wildflowers, including many different types of wild orchids, and for a few weeks only, there are two areas where you can spot the endangered Cyprus tulip."
The Akamas is home to 35 of the 142 endemic Cypriot plant species and was left undeveloped for years, thanks in part to the occupying British conducting military exercises in the region. It seems strange to consider conservation through annihilation, but had they been asked, the rare flora and fauna in the region would likely have accepted the odd mortar going off or squaddie trampling over them for a better chance at long-term survival.
The isolation of Lara Beach means that it's also one of Europe's largest nesting sites for endangered green and hawksbill turtles. While their nests are clearly marked by volunteers and surrounded by signs too large to ignore, the creatures' future is perilous enough that local conservation groups gather turtle eggs in June and July and transport them to a hatchery in order to give the babies a better chance of at least making it to the ocean. Conservation pioneers Andreas Demetropoulos and Myroula Hadjichristophorou have spent almost 40 years trying to protect the reptiles from the ill-effects of tourism, first through work at the government's Department of Fisheries, now through their own Turtle Conservation Project.
The golden sands of Lara Beach in the Akamas region, home to a turtle conservation project.
"The beaches of the Mediterranean are under so much pressure from tourism and everything that goes with it," says Andreas of his motivation. "With this kind of project, thankfully, we're able to try to save the species, and save the valuable coastal zone at the same time."
When I arrive an hour before sunset, these interventions seem very prudent — despite the harrowing condition of the road and the lack of even basic facilities, Lara's raw, distant beauty has attracted dozens of visitors to its pristine shores. While I observe them from the back of the beach, I keep an eye out for Mediterranean monk seals in the surf. They're severely endangered, with only around 700 thought to remain globally, but just north from here, in almost inaccessible caves away from prying eyes, a handful of survivors endure.
The following morning, I plan to head deeper into the peninsula, the westernmost part of Cyprus, but having learned hard lessons on the riotous road to Lara, I decide to leave the Toyota behind and instead follow Andreas's advice. "The Aphrodite Nature Trail is by far the best route for seeing many of the wildflowers, and even though it's quite steep, you'll be rewarded with some of the greatest views of Cyprus," he'd told me, before adding that he wouldn't recommend it in the middle of July, when I was visiting.
The story goes that Aphrodite was born on Cyprus's south coast, but that she travelled up here to bathe with nymphs in a cave at what's now the start of a trail named in her honour. Rising from the dusty road, the craggy stone path may be brutally exposed to the sun, but it's not long before it offers yawning views down the brilliant coast.
Perhaps it's my bad timing, perhaps it's the lingering effects of the pandemic, but over the three hours I walk the astonishing Aphrodite Nature Trail, I find myself alone; just me and a few indignant lizards and itinerant goats listening to the hum of cicadas and the distant hush of the sea.
Under the boughs of an old carob tree, I find a weathered bench and gratefully get out of the sun for a rest. In the Troodos, the air carried the fragrance of toasting pine; here it's wild oregano and ancient juniper. Retrieving my copy of Durrell's book from my backpack, I'm disappointed to find that he made no mention of this part of the island, though that's perhaps testament to just how distant the Akamas Peninsula has always felt, even to Cypriot residents.
Instead, my eye lands on another passage in his story, one with which I can heartily agree. Loading my bag back onto my shoulders and looking up the steep hill ahead of me, I repeat it out loud: "Nothing must be done in a hurry, for that would be hostile to the spirit of this place."
A painted lady butterfly pauses among lavender flowers.
Getting there & around
British Airways, EasyJet, Ryanair, and TUI all offer direct flights to Paphos from destinations around the UK including Bristol, Birmingham, Heathrow, Manchester and Stansted.
Average flight time: 4h30.
While there's basic public transport throughout the island's interior, to properly explore the Troodos Mountains and the Akamas Peninsula, hire a four wheel drive vehicle. When to go Summers in Cyprus can get very hot, with temperatures exceeding 40C, and while the mountains can offer some respite, it's best to visit in spring or autumn. Winters, meanwhile, can be surprisingly cold, with enough snow falling on the Troodos Mountains to offer a short ski season between January and April.
Casale Panayiotis Traditional Village Hotel & Spa, Kalopanayiotis. From £125.
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A new edition of Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons of Cyprus was released by Faber & Faber in July 2021.
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Vlachova Lhota (deutsch Lhota Wlachowa, früher Wlachowalhotta) ist eine Gemeinde in Tschechien. Sie liegt vier Kilometer westlich von Valašské Klobouky und gehört zum Okres Zlín.

Geographie
Vlachova Lhota befindet sich am Südabfall der Vizovická vrchovina. Das Dorf liegt linksseitig über den Tälern des Tichovský potok und der Vlára auf dem Hügel Kobylinec. Nordöstlich erheben sich der Kobylinec (473 m) und die Hrušové (498 m), im Südosten die Skalice (444 m) und Vincúch (456 m), südlich der Záluží (432 m), im Südwesten der Hradisko (474 m) und Hrbov (441 m) sowie im Nordwesten die Výmoly (480 m) und Díly (500 m).

Nachbarorte sind Pod Polem, Vysoké Pole und Drnovice im Norden, Tichov, Díly, Veliké und Smolina im Nordosten, Mirošov im Osten, Valašské Klobouky und Lipina im Südosten, Křekov und Vlachovice im Süden, U Raků und Haluzice im Südwesten, Slopné im Westen sowie Loučka, Újezd und Vrchy im Nordwesten.

Geschichte
Die erste schriftliche Erwähnung des zur Herrschaft Vlachovice gehörigen Dorfes erfolgte im Jahre 1412 als Rankova Lhota. Besitzer der Güter waren bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts die Vladiken Vlachovský von Vlachovice. Um 1548 erfolgte ein Gütertausch zwischen Jiřík Vlachovský von Vlachovice und Wenzel d. J. Podstatzky von Prusinowitz, der Vlachovice erhielt. Lhotka Vlachovska wurde in diesem Zuge an die Herrschaft Brumov veräußert. 1671 wurde das Dorf als Lhota Wlachowska bezeichnet. Seit der 1731 erfolgten Teilung der Herrschaft Brumov gehörte das Dorf zur Anderen Herrschaft (Brumov II) in Haluzice und damit bis 1796 den Grafen von Waldorf, die bereits seit 1709 einen 18-%-Anteil an der Herrschaft hielten. Aus dem Jahre 1751 ist der Ortsname Lhota Wachowa überliefert. Das älteste Ortssiegel stammt aus dem Jahre 1771 und trägt die Inschrift PECZET WLACHOWSKEY LHOTTKI; es zeigt einen Bienenstock mit Bienen sowie an den Seiten zwei Blumensträuße. Im Jahre 1796 erwarb Franz Kajetan Graf Chorinsky die Herrschaft Brumov II. 1846 wurde der Ort als Lhota Wlachowa bezeichnet. Pfarrort ist seit eh und jeh Vlachovice. Bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts blieb das Dorf der Herrschaft Brumov II untertänig.

Nach der Aufhebung der Patrimonialherrschaften bildete Lhota Wlachowa ab 1850 eine Gemeinde in der Bezirkshauptmannschaft Uherský Brod und dem Gerichtsbezirk Valašské Klobouky. Der heutige Ortsname Vlachova Lhota ist seit 1872 gebräuchlich. Im Jahre 1896 verkauften die Grafen Chorinsky die Güter von Brumov II an Anton Dreher, der bereits Brumov I besaß. Nach dem Tode des Dreher-Enkels und Universalerben Oskar fielen die Brumover Güter 1926 seiner Mutter Edeltruda zu, die sie bis zur Enteignung 1945 besaß. Seit 1949 war Vlachova Lhota dem Okres Valašské Klobouky zugeordnet und kam Ende 1960 nach dessen Aufhebung zum Okres Gottwaldov. 1980 wurde Vlachova Lhota nach Valašské Klobouky eingemeindet. Seit 1993 bildet Vlachova Lhota wieder eine eigene Gemeinde. Die Gemeinde führt ein Wappen und Banner, es zeigt neben den bereits auf dem Siegel von 1771 nachweisbaren Symbolen noch zwei silberne Wolfsangeln auf dem Wappen der Grafen von Waldorf.

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Air Incheon will soon add a second PEMCO-converted 737-400F to its fleet.
Today, PEMCO World Air Services (PEMCO) announced it had reached an agreement with South Korea-based Air Incheon to convert a 737-400 (25857) into freighter configuration.
As cross-border trade expands in the region, Air Incheon has found itself once again looking for more capacity. Last October, Air Incheon secured long-term leasing agreements for three 737-800 freighter-conversions from Spectre Air Capital. Spectre had earlier said it expected Bedek Aviation Group to complete conversion of its first 737-800BDSF during 3Q17. It is unclear if this redelivery target remains on schedule. PEMCO meanwhile, has said it will redeliver Air Incheon's most recent freighter conversion around the same time, in 3Q17. This will be Air Incheon's second PEMCO-converted 737-400F, and the third 737-400F to join the carrier's fleet.
The Korean all-cargo airline which focuses on transporting perishables, machinery and dangerous goods within Korea, Japan, China, Russia and Mongolia on its narrowbody freighter fleet has seen an uptick in demand in recent months. Last month, Air Incheon inked an ACMI agreement with China Postal Airlines to provide 5x weekly service between Seoul (ICN) and Shijiazhuang Zhengding (SJW) in Hebei province. Capacity on the flights will be managed by China Postal Airlines and its local affiliate, Hebei Post Express Logistics Company. The flights are expected to support mail, pharma, and electronics exports, alongside imports from South Korea.
If volumes moving between the Seoul and Shijiazhuang are sufficient to justify 5x-weekly flights to Seoul, we would not be surprised to see China Postal Airlines and Air Incheon expand the ACMI agreement to include other destinations in China.
Those interested in learning more about narrowbody conversions and the market for express air freight in Asia should join us in Shanghai 25-26 April for Cargo Facts Asia. Executives from leading conversion houses will discuss the future of narrowbody freighter conversions in detail. To learn more, or to register, visit www.cargofactsasia.com.


The Confederate veterans' monument in Tampa will be moved after all; Wednesday, after overwhelming public outcry for removing the statue, Hillsborough County Commissioners voted 4 to 2 to move it.
It's a dramatic reversal of their vote from four weeks ago.
More than 110 members of the public signed up to speak during what turned into several hours of comment. Gail Jessie, from Lakeland, was one of the few to support keeping the memorial to Confederate soldiers in its current location in front of a courthouse annex building.
"As a descendant of immigrants, war veterans, and politicians, I'm appalled that our American history is now considered something to be erased. Why has it become an acceptable practice for our country's past history to be used as a weapon to bully people? And make no mistake, it is a weapon of bullying.
The vast majority of public speakers supported moving the monument. That includes Darcie Fontaine, an assistant professor of history at the University of South Florida.
"Voting to move the confederate monument today will not be an act of erasing the past, as many of those who oppose the move claim. In fact, as we've heard today, it's very existence was an attempt to do that very thing. The confederate monument was not built as a war memorial in the immediate aftermath of the civil war as a typical memorial to fallen soldiers, like those we might see next to it for WWI or WWII. War memorials for veterans in wars such as these, typically served to unite communities or the nation in collective grief, even in divisive wars such as the Vietnam War.
"But, this was not the case with the confederate monument, as we know. The point of building these memorials, such as they were constructed in 1911 in the midst of the period known as 'Jim Crow,' like most of the confederate memorials across the south, was to contribute to the effort to rewrite the narrative of the Civil War and the role of the confederacy and the new narrative known as "The Lost Cause", and specifically to remove the history of slavery from this narrative. Those who supported that narrative then and now either refuse to acknowledge or conveniently overlook the enormous amount of primary source evidence from documents, such as state declarations of secessions to the writings of the leaders of confederacy that undermine their claims. However, if there's one thing that historians agree on–and those things are very few and far between–it's that slavery was the primary cause of the Civil War. This history cannot be erased.
The very first person to speak was Hillsborough County Clerk of Courts, Pat Frank.
"I'm here to talk to you today to talk about the burden of history. I moved to Florida in the 1930s. It was a very different place. I vividly remember signs outside of hotels in south Florida: "No Jews", "No dogs", 'No Blacks' – they used a different word then.
"I moved to Tampa in the early 1960s, when the schools were segregated. The black schools had hand-me-down books and the buildings were deplorable. But, all schools were underfunded. It was in the county courthouse, that I stood with thousands of Hillsborough teachers in 1968, as they demanded better funding for school children. It was in that courthouse 4-years later, that as a school-board member, I voted to integrate our public schools. And it was in that courthouse, as a State House and Senate member that I heard from constituents during public hearings.
"Now, that building is often called the 'Historic County Courthouse', but, it's not a museum. It includes traffic court–the 'people's court' for many–and the official records department where marriage licenses are issued and weddings performed, deeds are recorded and hearings held on property tax assessments. And yet today–and during all that history–a monument to the confederacy has stood outside; a reminder of the ignoble cause of slavery.
Commissioner Sandra Murman switched her vote from last month and today joined Les Miller, Al Higgenbotham and Pat Kemp to support removal of the monument. Stacy White and Ken Hagan voted again to keep the monument in place in front of a courthouse annex. Victor Crist was absent but indicated he also would have switched his vote.
Commissioner Al Higginbotham says he got threats because of his vote to move the monument and will forward one to law enforcement.
It's likely to move to the Brandon Family Cemetery, possibly with the help of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A lawyer named Tom Scarritt volunteered to start a $200,000 GoFundMe campaign to raise the funds to move the statue.


At 3:40 p.m, refinery operators detect a leak of aerosol hydrocarbons (HC: diesel, hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide) in the diesel desulphurization unit causing a release of hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide at the top of the unit .
The operator in charge of conducting the unit triggers the automatic shutting of the unit and the water walls of the furnace. The leak is located at the outlet of the desulfurization reactor, in the cooling towers. The plant firefighters team was alerted at 15:45 , then a warning containment for the 1500 employees of the platform (petrochemical units and refinery) is issued at 15:47. The company triggers the emergency plan at 3:50 p.m. and the firefighters team installs a water curtain around the unit. Public emergency services dispatch a firefifhter officer at the plant PC. Containment is raised 50 minutes later for the platform employees and 2h later for the unit and neighboring units employees , the emergency plan is then cancelled. The unit is depresurized by sending the diesel content to the torch, then is degazeifed with nitrogen. No casualties are registered but residents' complaints concerning odors are recorded in the late afternoon in the nearby town located downwind of the refinery, their claims are confirmed between 16 am and 17 pm by air quality sensors located in this town. The company suffered production losses worth several million Euros due to the slowdown of the units of the platform, the closure of the desulfurization unit for several days and the non-desulfurized diesel producted which is more difficult to sell. The cloud of HC was released at a 10m height due to the fan of the cooling tower at the origin of the leak and quickly dispersed into the air, fixed hydrocarbon gas detectors in the units or mobile ones belonging to the employees and emergency staff never triggered. The company issues a press release.
The investigation shows that the leak came from a boring on a beam of ordinary carbon steel pipes on 1 of the 4 air coolers units, following corrosion related to the presence of ammonium disulphide produced by the combination of H2S issued by the desulfurization porcesse and the nitrogen issued from the denitrification process in the reactor. An injection of water upstream is assured at all times to dissolve the substance and avoid deposits, but a retrofit of the unit 5 years ago had increased the rate of denitrification in the reactor. Corrosion was aggravated by the erosion derived from the excess of penetration of the weld beads on an elbow of the tube, thereby creating a turbulent flow erosion after the elbow. An examination of the radiographic controls made three months before by the plant inspection service (SIR) shows a residual thickness of 1.5 mm on the tube which remained undetected by the radiography operator and next by the employee of this service, given the difficulties to detect it with the radiiographic device. The normal procedure involves replacing the tube when reaching a residual thickness <2mm. The uniform nature of the loss of thickness in this part of the tube is more difficult to detect than a ponctual loss of thickness on the radiographic films. Incidents of boring related corrosion / erosion had already occurred on some of the 92 tubes and 368 elbows belonging to the 2 oldest cooling towers (30 years old), with change of 41 tubes after a similar incident 5 years ago , 5 elbows changed following a checkup 2 years ago and 75 elbows changed after incident 3 months ago, but without any consequences on the environment. The company restarts the unit on a reduced mode with the 2 most recent cooling towers (15 years old) to avoid the complete paralyzation of the atmospheric distillation unit, the 2 oldest are replaced the next year with a special attention given to the nature of the metal and the design of tubes and elbows.


Orijinal: Complete Parts. Duet for Flute and Violin. Scores and Parts. Pacheco, John Manuel.
Tercüme: Komple Parçaları. Flüt ve Keman için Düet. Skorlar ve Parçaları.
Orijinal: Complete Score. Duet for Flute and Violin. Scores and Parts. Pacheco, John Manuel.
Tercüme: Flüt ve Keman için Düet. Skorlar ve Parçaları.
Orijinal: Nos.1-3. 6 Duets for 2 Flutes, Op.75. Scores. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
Tercüme: 2 Flütler, Op.75 6 Duets. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Nos.4-6. 6 Duets for 2 Flutes, Op.75. Scores. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
Orijinal: Complete Score. 12 Flute Duets, GUN 10. Scores. Wendling, Johann Baptist.
Orijinal: Complete score. Duet for 2 Flutes, TWV 40. Transverse Flutes. 107. Scores. Telemann, Georg Philipp.
Tercüme: Komple puan. Enine Flüt. 2 Flüt için Düet, TWV 40. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Complete Score. Duet for 2 Flutes, TWV 40. Viols. 107. Scores. Telemann, Georg Philipp.
Tercüme: 2 Flüt için Düet, TWV 40. Kolza. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Complete Score. Duet for 2 Flutes, TWV 40. Recorders. 107. Scores. Telemann, Georg Philipp.
Tercüme: 2 Flüt için Düet, TWV 40. Kaydediciler. Skorlar.
Tercüme: Enine Flüt. 2 Flüt için Düet, TWV 40. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Complete score. Duet for 2 Flutes, TWV 40. 107. Scores. Telemann, Georg Philipp.
Tercüme: Komple puan. 2 Flüt için Düet, TWV 40. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Book 1. Airs and Duets for 2 Flutes. Scores. Walsh, John.
Tercüme: Kitap 1. 2 Flüt Rüzgârı ve Duets. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Book 4. Airs and Duets for 2 Flutes. Scores. Walsh, John.
Tercüme: Kitap 4. 2 Flüt Rüzgârı ve Duets. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Book 3. Airs and Duets for 2 Flutes. Scores. Walsh, John.
Tercüme: Kitap 3. 2 Flüt Rüzgârı ve Duets. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Book 2. Airs and Duets for 2 Flutes. Scores. Walsh, John.
Tercüme: Kitap 2. 2 Flüt Rüzgârı ve Duets. Skorlar.
Orijinal: Complete Parts. 3 Grand Duets for 2 Flutes, Op.39. Parts. Kuhlau, Friedrich.
Tercüme: Komple Parçaları. 2 Flüt, Op.39 için 3 Grand Duets. Parçalar.
Orijinal: No.1. 3 Grand Duets for 2 Flutes, Op.39. complete. , No.2. 1st and 2nd movements only. Parts. Kuhlau, Friedrich.
Tercüme: 2 Flüt, Op.39 için 3 Grand Duets. tam. No.2. 1. ve 2. hareketleri sadece. Parçalar.


Washington — President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh used a White House press conference Tuesday to dispel doubts about the direction of a fledgling strategic partnership between the US and India. The two leaders emphasized growing bilateral cooperation in economic, security, climate, and development affairs.
In his remarks, Mr. Singh focused on the international challenges requiring cooperation from the two powers, from counterterrorism to climate change. The soft-spoken Singh, prime minister since 2004 and architect of India's free-market economic reforms, said he was "satisfied" with the results of his private conversations with the US president.
That message was no doubt meant for the home audience in India, where criticism of the US – and Singh's close alliance with America – flared after Obama's trip last week to Asia. Obama was seen in India (and by some in Washington, as well) as going too far to accommodate China's interests in South Asia – a region in which India has long insisted on being the dominant player.
Afghanistan is a primary example. The current turmoil in Afghanistan has its origins at least partly in a battle for influence there between India and Pakistan.
At the White House, Singh spoke of the "importance of the international engagement in Afghanistan." India worries that Obama would opt for a small commitment at best to Afghanistan and set in motion a precipitous international withdrawal – an event that would likely result in Pakistan being able to reassert greater authority over Afghanistan.
Moreover, like the US, India fears that failure in Afghanistan would allow terrorist groups now based in Pakistan – including Al Qaeda and the staunchly anti-Indian Lashkar-e-Taiba – more scope and freedom to operate.
"The forces of extremism have to be defeated" in Afghanistan, Singh said.
No doubt mindful that polls show that a majority of Americans now oppose the war, Obama said he is confident that the American people will support his decision once it is explained to them.
Obama is now expected to lay out his decision in a televised address Tuesday night. Reports suggest that Obama will count on the commitment of thousands more allied troops in addition to 30,000-plus additional US troops. A Tuesday announcement would allow Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to explain the US plan to allies at a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels at the end of next week.
Obama in his statement did not mention Pakistan, or the growing US commitment there. But in response to the one Indian journalist allowed a question, Obama said Pakistan "has an important role to play in the region's security," adding that the US has "seen some progress" in Pakistan's approach to violent extremism.
Singh and his wife returned to the White House Tuesday evening for a state dinner, held in a white tent accommodating 320 guests on the South Lawn. The executive mansion's State Dining Room, with a capacity of 140, is not big enough for the bash Obama wanted to throw for the Indian leader). Singer Jennifer Hudson was among the performers.
Singh also announced that he has invited Obama and his family to visit India next year, and Obama said he had accepted the invitation.


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June 11, 2008 February 22, 2012 The Yank
Know Your Opponent: Barbados Edition
This Sunday, the U.S. kicks off qualifying for the 2010 World Cup by hosting Barbados at the Cathedral of American Soccer, the HDC. But what do we really know about Barbados? I, for one, don't know anything really.
Barbados is an island nation of the Pacific. It's name is an old Portugese phrase for "Bearded Ones", which I think is pretty awesome. If I was from Barbados, I would definitely let the beard grow so I could look like a ginger Grizzly Adams.
Barbados is considered part of the Lesser Antilles, which are apparently so named due to their geographic position, and not because they suck when compared to the Greater Antilles.
Barbados has a total land area of 166 square miles. For comparison purposes, the City of Los Angeles, where this weekend's game will be played is nearly 470 square miles. So, it's basically like U.S. vs. Hollywood.
Luckily for the U.S. though, they don't have to play Hollywood. I understand some Beckham fellow lives there now, and that dude from Without a Trace is supposed to play some mean defense.
Barbados has a gross domestic product of around $5 billion per year. Taco Bell, meanwhile, only did about half that last year. Take that Taco Bell!
The Right Honorable David Thompson is the PM of Barbados, but luckily it isn't this David Thompson, as he would likely be the small nation's best player.
Sugar is the country's biggest export, but I don't think it's the best. That title has to go to Rihanna, the pop sensation who was born in Barbados in 1988.
Wow, suddently I feel really dirty. And old.
I know what your thinking though, "I thought this was going to be about the Barbadian soccer team."
Tough, Rihanna comes first, then we get to the soccer.
OK, the national team is referred to as Bajan Pride. While we foreigners refer to the people of Barbados as Barbadians, they prefer the shorter term Bajan. It's kind of like how we call ourselves "Americans", but the rest of the world still likes to refer to us as "Imperialist Assholes".
They are currently ranked #117 in the world by FIFA, which is pretty pathetic. Moreover, they have never (and that means ever) qualified for a major tournament. Their best team ever, the 2002 squad, lost 7-0 to the U.S., which is still the country's largest ever defeat.
Methinks revenge could be on someone's mind this Sunday.
I would talk about the players, but you've never heard of them. Well, unless you live in New Hampshire. Romelle Burgess, a 35 year old midfielder who was called up for a recent qualifier against Dominica, plays for the New Hampshire Phantoms of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League.
Barbados escaped from the First Round of qualifying by beating Dominica. Now, they will play the U.S. twice in one week to see who advances to the Third Round. While the U.S. are huge favorites, one can never feel too comfortable.
Here's to hoping the "Bearded Ones" don't give the U.S. a close shave. And here's also to hoping they produce more exports like Rihanna.
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Has your trip ever been saved by a stranger?
As all seasoned travelers know, it's the people just as much as the place that makes a trip exceptional. Whether it's a cabbie divulging the best hole-in-the-wall dim-sum joint in town or, simply, a hotel receptionist who's particularly kind after you arrive four hours later than scheduled because of flight delays, more often than not, locals are the key element that can make a good vacation fantastic.
And sometimes, the people you meet don't just enhance your trip—they make it possible, a point that was proven in a recent news story.
A 24-year-old woman named Catherine Li has spent the last seven months traveling by herself across America—on foot!—with little more than the clothes on her back, a direction guide printed off of Google maps, and a tent. She hauls her belongings in a shopping cart that was given to her by a sympathetic mall security guard at a Sears store in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Already Li has trekked some 3,000 miles on her way to New York City—a real-life Forrest Gump!—but what makes her story really interesting, I think, is how much other people have aided her on her journey. From the concerned cop who checks in on her weekly by phone to the guy who let her crash on his couch and the mall security guard who let her take that shopping cart, countless strangers she met along the way have helped make her dream trip a reality.
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A theatre-maker for over ten years, he has presented work at The New York Summer Play Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Fringe World WA, Sydney Comedy Festival, Artrage, The Great Escape Festival, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney Opera House, Underbelly Arts Festival and The Sydney Writers Festival.
His work spans the spectrum of theatre: cabaret, physical theatre, musicals, character comedy, stand-up, puppetry, improvisation, bouffon and clowning.
A recipient of The Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarship and The Mike Walsh Scholarship, in 2008, he traveled to Paris to study with master clown and theatre guru, Philippe Gaulier. In Paris he studied the art of melodrama, bouffon, mask, Shakespeare, Chekhov, mime, acrobatics and a unique brand of character comedy.
Since 2005, he has worked extensively with Sandra Bates at The Ensemble Theatre in Sydney and with Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image.
Individually and with Holly Austin he has written several hit comedy shows, touring festivals and selling out Sydney seasons as well as creating the comedy web-series Ultimate Fanj, which was part of Fresh Blood for ABCiview. Online, his comedy sketch #NewParents garnered 100,000+ views in 4 days and was featured on Channel 7's Sunrise and The Daily Edition.
In 2006 he was Nominated for Best Newcomer at The Sydney Theatre Critic's Awards for his role in The Ensemble Theatre Production of A View from the Bridge. In 2014, The Sydney Arts Guide awarded him Best Supporting Actor for his role as Hal in The Ensemble Production of Proof. In 2017 his one-man cabaret comedy This Boy's in Love was nominated for Best Cabaret at Adelaide Fringe and Fringe World, WA and awarded a Highly Commended Weekly Award at Adelaide Fringe 2017.
With Holly Austin and Jo Turner, he was recently awarded the Philip Parsons Playwriting Fellowship for Ruby's Wish and will present a new work Under the Same Sky.
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In this report, we will look at the strengths of the three major players in the internet and mobile market, which are Google, Apple and Microsoft and compare their business models. We will provide information of what these companies have done to get to where they are now. Then, report describes why mobile computing is so important to the major players. Next, we are doing comparison between open and closed app technology, standards to the success or failure of mobile computing, as well as how it relates to the mobile platform.
Explanation on which company and business model we think will prevail in this epic struggle will be also given in this report. We will also consider who is the best candidate to dominate the market between the three major players. Lastly, we will look at what this will mean for individual consumers and business and why this will be the case.
Compare the business models and areas of strength of Apple, Google and Microsoft.
Google has many strengths in the internet realm. Their major strength is them being the leaders of the search engines. To help entice manufactures to use this operating system Google offered it to mobile device manufacture for free but was faced with manufacturers trying to patient it. So, Google made a huge move in 2011 to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings to allow them to build their own smartphones and tablets. However, to this date most of Google hardware products that they have sold have previously resulted in failure. But Google biggest strength and threat to the market is their potential to sell phone for free without monthly fees to the customers for the amount of text and calls made. Instead they will make their profits by advertising revenue by the ads placed in the app and search engines (Laudon, Laudon and Brabston, 2015).
Apple strength lay within their app service where they lead the competition with over 700,000 software applications. Apple is also leading the market in mobile manufacturing as well. However, Apple did make one mistake when they tried to develop a map app to replace Google map app, but customers did not take to it and now Apple is still faced with Google stealing valuable information about their customers through the Google map app because Apple cannot get there customers away from Google maps (Laudon, Laudon and Brabston, 2015).
Microsoft is the weaker of the three competing in this race but is known for their operating systems for desktop computers and is trying to bring that into the mobile industry. Microsoft is also in the gaming world with their xbox and xbox controllers, but this only accounts for about 5% of their revenue. Also, Microsoft is trying to establish a cloud for mobile devices, so all the information can be stored in one place and expensive programs can be shared between customers (Laudon, Laudon and Brabston, 2015).
Why is mobile computing so important to these three firms? Evaluate the mobile platform offerings of each firm?
Mobile computing is so important to Microsoft, Apple and Google because leading of dominating this market would mean the difference between surviving or closing up shop because there are billions of dollars on the line for the one that wins this race. This is because more and more customers are going to mobile devices, which is 30% of the internet traffic so far. Therefore, all three companies are looking to improve their scope of the mobile market to try and gain the competitive advantage over the others. In doing so, there has been some alliance made. First, Google has partnered with Apple to develop a superior operating system then what Microsoft is offering to try and push them out of the fold. Also, Google has also partnered with Microsoft to develop app for both of their customers to try to take a little bit of the market that Apple is holding for the app market (Laudon, Laudon and Brabston, 2015).
Apple, Microsoft, and Google all have different items that they bring to the market. Apple main item is there 700,000 app that are available to their users and their ability to build and innovate mobile device. Where, Microsoft has the best operating system for desktops and is trying to develop a new operating system for mobile devices. Then, there is Google who has the best search engine for its customers and if it can get enough of the market it could give away its phones and services for advertising revenue and still make a profit which, could really hurt the other businesses (Laudon, Laudon and Brabston, 2015).
What is the significance of mobile applications, app stores, and closed vs. open app standards to the success or failure of mobile computing?
Mobile applications allow smartphone users to seamlessly access content without having to use a mobile browser. By using an app, it ensures that the content will appear properly and in a way that it is easy to read on small screens. Mobile applications are used for gaming, social media, email, banking, GPS etc. There are currently over 2 million apps available to Apple iOS users in the App Store (Costello, 2018).
Apple is an example of a closed company whereas Google is open. Apple builds their own hardware and only their software can run on their hardware. Similarly, in order to download an application on an Apple iPhone, it must be downloaded from Apple's App Store. This means that if Apple does not approve of an app, it will not be available to iPhone users. On the other hand, Google has made their smartphone software, Android, available to any hardware producer for free and will allow users to download apps from sources outside of Google Play which is their app store (Costello, 2018).
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With Microsoft And Pc's Dominating A Large Majority Of The Computer Market (An Estimated 90%), What Has Allowed Apple/Macintosh To Survive And Expand As A Business?


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Presentacion, anciennement appelée Parubcan, est une municipalité de la province de Camarines Sur, aux Philippines.

Notes et références

Municipalité dans la province de Camarines Sur


Citation SESBANIA PUNICEA (Cavanilles) Bentham, in Martius, Fl. Bras. 15(1): 43. 1859.
Basionym: Piscidia punicea Cavanilles 1797.
Type: Cult. at Madrid, Aug 1796, Cavanilles s.n. (holotype: MA?).
Daubentonia punicea Daubentonia punicea (Cavanilles) de Candolle, Prodr. 2: 267. 1825. BASIONYM: Piscidia punicea Cavanilles 1797.
Emerus puniceus Emerus puniceus (Cavanilles) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 181. 1891. BASIONYM: Piscidia punicea Cavanilles 1797.
Piscidia punicea Piscidia punicea Cavanilles, Icon. 4: 8, t. 316. 1797. TYPE: Cult. at Madrid, Aug 1796, Cavanilless.n. (holotype: MA?).
Aeschynomene miniata Aeschynomene miniata Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 28. 1797.
Sesbania tripetii Sesbania tripetii (Poiteau) F. T. Hubbard, in L. H. Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 6: 3157. 1917. BASIONYM: Daubentonia tripetii Poiteau 1840.
USA Florida 20 Apr 1975 D. Copps s.n.
USA Florida Leon Co. 05 Jul 1966 D. Laker s.n.
USA Florida Bradford Co. 12 Dec 1961 Barsanti s.n.
USA Florida Hillsborough Co. 24 Apr 1967 O. K. Lakela s.n.
USA Florida Highlands Co. 19 Sep 1984 K. R. DeLaney s.n.
USA Florida Lake Co. 3 May 1980 R. F. Daubenmire s.n.
USA Florida Hillsborough Co. 04 Apr 1989 T. F. Rochow s.n.
USA North Carolina Carteret Co. 14 Jul 1965 J. H. Ives s.n.
USA Texas Kleberg Co. 10 Aug 1925 C. T. Reed s.n.
USA Florida Sarasota Co. 18 Jul 2009 A. R. Franck 1365 Sheet 1 of 2.
USA Florida Sarasota Co. 18 Jul 2009 A. R. Franck 1365 Sheet 2 of 2.
USA Florida Hernando Co. 22 Jun 1971 D. Burch 4113 CULTIVATED.
USA Florida Polk Co. 11 Jul 1971 D. Burch 4190 CULTIVATED.
USA Florida Hillsborough Co. Jul 1970 D. Burch 3811 CULTIVATED.
USA Florida Pinellas Co. 12 Jul 1971 D. Burch 4145 CULTIVATED.
USA Florida Pinellas Co. s.n. D. Burch 3958 CULTIVATED.
USA Florida Polk Co. 26 Jun 1971 D. Burch 4188 CULTIVATED.
USA Florida Miami-Dade Co. 12 Feb 1969 W. T. Gillis 7563 CULTIVATED; originally from Argentina, but brought from South Africa by Stanley Kiem.
USA Florida Hillsborough Co. 27 Jul 1970 D. Burch 3980 CULTIVATED.
USA California Los Angeles Co. 02 Jun 1960 D. Reidenbach LASCA-446 CULTIVATED. LASCA Ac. Number 50-S-1080; source: Oakhurst Gardens, Arcadia.
USA Florida Lee Co. 04 Mar 1968 W. C. Brumbach 6154 CULTIVATED.
USA Florida Miami-Dade Co. 24 Feb 1968 G. N. Avery 402 CULTIVATED. FG-64-486A, Plot 14; accessioned as Serbania sp., received as seed 10/64; collected by Stanley Kiem, Durban, S Africa; tent. Identified by G. N. Avery, see Bailey, Cyc. Hort. And Menninger.
USA Florida Miami-Dade Co. 08 May 1969 W. T. Gillis 8014 CULTIVATED. FG-64-486; native of Argentina, but introduced to FTG from Africa by Stanley Kiem.
USA Texas Galveston Co. 07 Nov 1974 J. A. Bauml 74-383 CULTIVATED.
USA California Los Angeles Co. 29 Jul 1912 A. Rehder s.n. CULTIVATED.
USA California Los Angeles Co. 27 Aug 1927 E. Walther 387 CULTIVATED.
USA California Los Angeles Co. 30 Aug 1927 E. Walther 463 CULTIVATED.


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Keep on Truckin' ist das dritte Album  der  deutschen Country-Band Truck Stop und wurde 1975 über Telefunken veröffentlicht.

Hintergrund
Das Album wurde 1975 im Studio Maschen (Landkreis Harburg) von Joe Menke (unter anderem Les Humphries Singers) produziert. Toningenieur war Volker Heintzen. Es ist das erste Album auf dem Michael Reinecke als festes Bandmitglied geführt wurde, womit die Band auf sieben Mitglieder anwuchs. Er spielte die Fiddle, Gitarre und Klavier auf dem Album.

Wie der Vorgänger besteht das Album ausschließlich aus englischsprachigen Songs, diesmal aber zur Hälfte aus Eigenkompositionen und zur anderen Hälfte aus Coverversionen, darunter gleich zwei Lieder von Fats Domino.

Das Album wurde bereits 1976 nachgepresst.

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Office of the First Lady
Remarks by the First Lady at the Sandra Day O'Connor Awards Luncheon
Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa
12:04 P.M. MST
MRS. BUSH: Thank you very much, Justice O'Connor, for your very, very kind introduction. I'm honored to receive this award. Can you imagine anything more thrilling than to receive an award named for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor? (Applause.)
Most Americans know Justice O'Connor as the Arizona rancher's daughter who became an accomplished lawyer, a devoted mother, a senior state lawmaker, and a respected judge. President Bush and I are privileged to also know her as a very good friend.
We've always enjoyed our time with Justice O'Connor, from informal outings to social dinners to, most recently, just last week, the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.
I remember one luncheon Sandra Day O'Connor invited me to back in 2001 when I was new in my job as a First Lady. She invited a group of friends to the Supreme Court for a lunch, and she gave us a wonderful tour of the Supreme Court building before lunch. And then when we sat down for lunch, we learned that she had cooked the entire lunch. (Laughter.) What I learned from that visit is that a seat on our nation's highest court is almost as coveted as a seat at Justice O'Connor's kitchen table. (Laughter.) Talk about a superwoman.
I admire Justice O'Connor for her work on behalf of women. From her days as the nation's first female state senate majority leader to her historic appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice O'Connor has opened doors for women who would follow her, and has served as a role model to women and girls across our country, and really around the world.
Her path was never easy. She completed high school at age 16. She graduated magna cum laude from Stanford's undergraduate program. She finished law school there in two years, serving on the Stanford Law Review, and as a member of the school's legal honors society. Justice O'Connor even graduated third in her class of 102 students. She did have some stiff competition: The first in the class that year was Chief Justice William Rehnquist. (Laughter.)
Still, no law firm wanted to hire a woman graduate. And only one firm offered Justice O'Connor a job -- as a legal secretary -- contingent, of course, on her typing ability. (Laughter.) Wisely, Justice O'Connor turned them down. Apparently she had better things in mind.
Since those days in the early '50s, opportunities for women have grown enormously, in part because of Justice O'Connor's pioneering efforts. Today, people and organizations across our country are working to secure equal justice and opportunities for women -- organizations like yours, the Arizona Foundation for Women.
Through your research program, the foundation educates policy makers, community leaders, and all Americans about the challenges facing Arizona's women. Through programs like the Walk to End Domestic Violence, the foundation helps abused women rebuild their lives with safety and dignity. And through initiatives like the foundation's scholarship program, you're helping Arizona girls realize the dream of a college education, and you're preparing our country's next generation of women leaders.
Thank you very much for your dedication to Arizona's women. (Applause.) Thank you for your dedication to Arizona's women. Thanks especially to Caryll Kyl, Victoria Glimcher, and Sarah Suggs Cheek for organizing this beautiful luncheon, which supports the foundation's work.
Congratulations to all of today's honorees, and thank you very, very much for this award. (Applause.)
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