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Reproductive Biology of Cobia, Rachycentron canadum, from Coastal Waters of the Southern United States
Reproductive biology of the cobia, Rachycentron canadum, is described from four coastal areas in the southern United States. Samples were obtained from recreational fishermen between December 1995 and November 1997 from the southeastern United States
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15 The cobia, Rachycentron canadum (Goode, 1884), is a large coastal pelagic fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters with the exception of the eastern Pacific (Shaffer and Nakamura, 1989). The cobia is a highly prized recrea-tion al species and record size fish have been caught in coastal waters off the southern United States, as well as off Western Australia, Nigeria, and Kenya (International Game Fish Association, 1998). Most specimens captured in the southern United States are landed by recreational anglers along the south-eastern U.S. coast and in the Gulf of Mexico; however, some are caught inci-dentally by U.S. commercial fisheries, particularly in Florida waters (Shaffer and Nakamura, 1989).Cobia are specifically targeted by a growing number of anglers in the southern United States, as evidenced by the increase in fishing tournaments for cobia. Information on age, growth, and seasonal movement is being collect-ed through tagging programs in Virgin- Reproductive biology of cobia, Rachycentron canadum , from coastal waters of the southern United States Nancy J. Brown-PetersonRobin M. Overstreet Jeffrey M. Lotz Department of Coastal SciencesInstitute of Marine SciencesThe University of Southern Mississippi703 East Beach Drive Ocean Springs, Mississippi 39564 E-mail address (for N. J. Brown-Peterson): Nancy.Brown-peterson@usm.edu James S. Franks Center for Fisheries Research and Development Institute of Marine SciencesThe University of Southern Mississippi703 East Beach Drive Ocean Springs, Mississippi 39564 Karen M. Burns Center for Fisheries Enhancement Mote Marine Laboratory1600 Thompson ParkwaySarasota, Flordia 34236 Manuscript accepted 22 August 2000.Fish. Bull. 99:15–28 (2001). Abstract— Reproductive biology of the cobia, Rachycentron canadum , is de-scribed from four coastal areas in the southern United States. Samples were obtained from recreational fishermen between December 1995 and Novem-ber 1997 from the southeastern United States (Morehead City, NC, to Cape Canaveral, FL), the eastern Gulf of Mexico (Ft. Myers to Crystal River, FL), the north-central Gulf of Mexico (Destin, FL, to Chandeleur Islands, LA) and the western Gulf of Mexico (Port Aransas, TX). Histological evidence of spawning occurred from April through September in all areas. Some female cobia (17–32%) throughout the Gulf of Mexico had spent or regressed ovaries by July. Gonadosomatic index peaked between May and July throughout the region. Ovaries of females from all areas contained both postovulatory follicles (POF) and oocytes in final oocyte matu-ration (FOM) during all months of the reproductive season. Batch fecundity was calculated by using three different methods: oocytes >700 µm were fixed in 1) Gilson's fixative or 2) 10% neutral buffered formalin (NBF), and 3) oocytes undergoing FOM were sectioned for histological examination. Mean batch fecundity ranged from 377,000 ±64,500 to 1,980,500 ±1,598,500 eggs; there was no significant difference among meth-ods. Batch fecundity calculated with the NBF method showed a positive relationship with fork length ( P =0.021, r 2 =0.132) and ovary-free body weight (OFBW; P =0.016, r 2 =0.143). Relative batch fecundity was not significantly different among months during the spawning season and averaged 53.1 ±9.4 eggs/g OFBW for the NBF method and 29.1 ±4.8 eggs/g OFBW for the FOM method. Although spawning fre-quencies were not significantly differ-ent among areas ( P =0.07), cobia from the southeastern United States and north-central Gulf of Mexico were esti-mated to spawn once every 5 days, whereas cobia from the western Gulf of Mexico were estimated to spawn once every 9 to 12 days. ia, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana (International Game Fish Association, 1998), and the age and growth of cobia from the north-central Gulf of Mexico was recently described by Franks et al. (1999). Limited information on the reproductive biology of cobia from the southern United States includes de-scriptions of the eggs, larvae, and ju-veniles from Chesapeake Bay (Joseph et al., 1964), North Carolina (Hassler and Rainville, 1975), and the northern Gulf of Mexico (Ditty and Shaw, 1992). Summer spawning of cobia has been re-ported from Chesapeake Bay (Richards, 1967), North Carolina (Smith, 1995), the northern Gulf of Mexico (Dawson, 1971; Burns et al. 1 ), Louisiana (Thomp- 1 Burns, K. M., C. Neidig, J. Lotz, and R. Overstreet. 1998. Cobia ( Rachycen-tron canadum ) stock assessment study in the Gulf of Mexico and in the South Atlan-tic. Final Rep., MARFIN Coop. Agree-ment NA57FF0294 to NMFS (NOAA), 108 p. Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Thomp-son Parkway, Sarasota, FL 34236. 16 Fishery Bulletin 99(1) 2 Thompson, B. A., C. A. Wilson, J. H. Render, M. Beasley, and C. Cauthron. 1992. Age, growth and reproductive biology of greater amberjack and cobia from Louisiana waters. Final Rep., MARFIN Coop. Agreement NA90AA-H-MF722 to NMFS (NOAA), 77 p. Coastal Fisheries Institute, LSU Center for Coastal, Energy and Environmental Resources, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. 3 Finucane, J. H., L. A. Collins and L. E. Barger. 1978.Ichthyoplankton/mackerel eggs and larvae. Environmental stud-ies of the south Texas outer continental shelf, 1977. Final rep. to Bur. Land Manage. Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Galveston, TX 77550. son et al. 2 ) and Texas (Finucane et al. 3 ). Biesiot et al. (1994) described the biochemical changes in developing ovaries of cobia from the north-ern Gulf of Mexico and reported that spawning occurred during spring and summer. The most comprehensive information on cobia reproduc-tion to date provides a detailed description of the gonadal maturation and spawning season for cobia from the north-central Gulf of Mexico (Lotz et al., 1996) and furnishes evidence that cobia are multiple, or batch spawners. Lotz et al. (1996) estimated batch fecundity on the ba-sis of the largest mode of oocytes, but they did not estimate spawning frequency.Our study was undertaken to document more thoroughly the reproductive biology of cobia from the southern region of the United States. Specifically, we describe and compare the spawning seasons and gonadal develop-ment from four coastal areas: the southeast-ern United States, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the north-central Gulf of Mexico, and the west-ern Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, batch fecun-dity and spawning frequency are estimated for cobia from the region. The results are dis-cussed in light of the migratory nature of cobia Figure 1 Areas sampled for cobia within the southern United States. SEUS = south-eastern United States; EGOM = eastern Gulf of Mexico; NCGOM = northcen-tral Gulf of Mexico; WGOM = western Gulf of Mexico. central Gulf of Mexico during February and March 1999. Sampling teams were present at major cobia fishing tour-naments throughout the study area; most samples from the SEUS and the NCGOM came from fishing tourna-ments. The majority of the cobia sampled from the EGOM were captured by nontournament recreational anglers. All fish from Texas were obtained from one charter boat cap-tain during regular fishing trips. Anglers were interviewed to determine the location of capture of each fish. Fork length (FL, cm) and total weight (TW, g) were recorded at the dock and gonads were excised and placed on ice for transport to the laboratory. In the laboratory, gonads were weighed to the nearest 0.1 g (gonadal weight [GW]) and the gonadosomatic index (GSI) was calculated by using the formula GSI = [ GW /( TW – GW ) × 100].Fish weights were unavailable from the WGOM; hence GSIs were not calculated for this region. Sections were removed from both left and right gonads and preserved in 10% neutral buffered formalin (NBF) for histological analysis. Cobia have been shown previously to have homo-geneous oocyte development within the ovary (Lotz et al., 1996); thus, multiple sections of the same ovary were not removed for analysis. For fecundity analysis, two por-tions (approximately 5 g each) of the ovary were removed, weighed to the nearest 0.1 g, and preserved in Gilson's fix-ative (GF) and 10% NBF, respectively. Histological analysis Tissues were placed into individually labeled cassettes and rinsed with running tap water overnight prior to de -throughout coastal waters of the southern United States. Materials and methods Sample collection Cobia were sampled from the coastal waters of four gen-eral regions in the southern United States (Fig. 1). The regions were defined as the southeastern United States (SEUS; Morehead City, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida), the eastern Gulf of Mexico (EGOM; Ft. Myers to Crystal River, Florida), the north-central Gulf of Mexico (NCGOM; Destin, Florida to the Chandeleur Islands, Loui-siana), and the western Gulf of Mexico (WGOM; Port Aran-sas area, Texas). In our study, coastal waters are defined as those extending over the continental shelf for 20 km in the Atlantic Ocean and for 80 km in the Gulf of Mexico.We sampled cobia opportunistically from the recreation-al and charter boat fisheries from December 1995 to De-cember 1997. Additional samples were taken in the north- 17Brown-Peterson et al.: Reproductive biology of Rachycentron canadum hydration and embedment in paraffin, following standard histological techniques. The paraffin blocks were sectioned at 4 µm by using a rotary microtome. Duplicate slides were prepared for each tissue, resulting in a total of four slides for each cobia specimen (two from each gonad). The slides were stained with Gill's I hematoxylin and eosin phloxine (Polyscientific Corporation) following standard histological procedures. Three separate views from each side of the gonad of each fish were examined to determine maturity stages. Ovarian maturity classes were based on those previously described for cobia by Lotz et al. (1996). The entire ovar-ian section was examined for the presence of postovulato-ry follicles (POF) and oocytes undergoing final oocyte mat-uration (FOM). POF stages were classified following the methods of Hunter et al. (1986), although age estimates for POF stages in cobia are unverified. FOM stages were classified following Brown-Peterson et al. (1988). Follow-ing inspection of the entire ovarian section, three areas were arbitrarily selected from each slide for quantification of oocytes. Oocytes in all stages of development (including atretic oocytes) and POFs were counted at 100 × and the percentage of each oocyte stage in the field of view was es-timated. Oocyte atresia stages were classified by following the methods of Hunter and Macewicz (1985a). The entire testicular section from each cobia was exam-ined to determine the maturity classification for male fish. Three arbitrarily selected portions of each section were ex-amined at 100 × and 400 × to classify all stages of spermato-genesis observed. Testicular maturity stages were based on those described for cobia by Lotz et al. (1996). Partic-ular attention was given to the presence and amount of spermatogenesis in the testis. Estimates of batch fecundity Batch fecundity was estimated from the counts of oocytes in samples of ovarian tissue. Oocyte counts were obtained after teasing oocytes from tissues fixed in either GF or NBF for three to four months or from histological evalua-tion of tissue sections. The volumetric method was used to estimate fecundity for tissues fixed in GF or NBF (Bage-nal and Braum, 1971). All oocytes freed from each GF or NBF sample were placed in 50 mL of water, stirred to homogeneity, and ten 1-mL samples were removed, combined, and the total volume brought to 50–70 mL with water. The diluted sample was stirred to homoge-neity and 1-mL subsamples were removed, counted and replaced three to six times for each ovarian sample. All oocytes >700 µm from each subsample were counted and measured by using a stereo dissecting microscope and a computerized image analysis system. Oocytes of this size were used because Lotz et al. (1996) previously showed that cobia have a distinct mode of large oocytes prior to spawning. Typically, 25–100 oocytes were measured and counted in each subsample.Estimates of batch fecundity based on histological eval-uation were obtained by counting the number of oocytes undergoing FOM in six fields under a compound micro-scope at 100 × magnification. The area of a single field of view was determined to be 0.0249 cm 2 by using a stage micrometer. The number of oocytes in final maturation ob-served in a field of view was converted to the number per mL by the formula N × 0.0249 3/2 = N × 0.003939.FOMs were counted as 1 if ≥ 50% of the oocyte was in the field of view and were uncounted if <50% of the oocyte was in the field of view. The total number of FOMs in a fish was then determined by multiplying the estimated number per mL by the total volume of the ovaries. In all cases, fecundity was expressed as both batch fecundity (mean number of eggs/batch) and relative fecundity (number of eggs/gram of ovary-free body weight).Ovarian volume was determined by volumetric displace-ment. The observed relationship between ovarian weight and ovarian volume was determined and that relationship was used to estimate ovarian volumes of fish for which di-rect volume measurements were unavailable. The analy-sis was restricted to fish with ovarian weights >500g. Estimates of spawning frequency Two methods based on histological observations were used to estimate spawning frequency of cobia: 1) the percentage of females in the late developing ovarian class with 0- to 24-h POF in the ovary and 2) the percentage of females in the late developing ovarian class undergoing FOM. Only fish in the late developing ovarian class were included in these analyses, because this is the only class in which cobia have the potential to spawn. For both methods, esti-mates of spawning frequency were determined according to the procedure of Hunter and Macewicz (1985b). The per-centage of fish in the late developing maturity stage with ovaries containing either FOMs or POFs was calculated for each month in each region. This value represents the percentage of the fish in the population that are about to spawn (FOMs) or have just spawned (POFs). Spawning frequency (the number of days between spawnings) was determined by dividing 100 (representing the total popu-lation of fish) by the percentage of fish with FOMs or POFs in the ovaries. Statistical analysis Student's t -test was used to test for differences in GSI values between years. Batch fecundity data were tested for normality and homogeneity of variance. Simple linear regression was used to test the relationship between batch fecundity as the dependent variable and FL or ovary-free body weight as the independent variable. One way analy-sis of variance was determined for relative batch fecundity. A Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare fecundity estimates for the various methods used to determine fecundity. A chi-square test was used to test for differences in spawning frequency among areas. All statistics were computed by using SPSS-PC version 7.5 (SPSS, Inc., 1997) or Systat 8.0 (SPSS, Inc., 1998). Results were considered significant if P < 0.05. 18 Fishery Bulletin 99(1) Results Fish collections A total of 530 cobia (147 males, 383 females) from the southern United States were collected for histo-logical analysis. The months and numbers of sam-ples collected varied by region, but in all regions fish were collected primarily during the reproduc-tive season (Table 1). Specimens ranged from 35.5 to 138.5 cm FL for females and 36.5 to 127.0 cm FL for males. Weights ranged from 0.64 to 34.93 kg for females and 0.91 to 40.82 kg for males. Accurate estimates of the size and age at sexual ma-turity of cobia from the southern United States could not be determined in this study. Small, immature spec-imens were rare in recreational catches owing to a minimum retention size of 84 cm FL for cobia in state territorial waters and the EEZ. We collected only six sexually immature specimens (all females from the EGOM) during this study. The smallest reproductively active female encountered was 70 cm FL. Spawning season and gonadal development Cobia have a protracted spawning season (April through September) throughout the southern United States as determined from GSI values and histo-logical assessments. There was no significant differ-ence ( P >0.05) in GSI values between corresponding months in 1996 and 1997 for either males or females in any region, with the exception of males in Septem-ber from the NCGOM ( P =0.049). Therefore, monthly data for 1996 and 1997 by region were combined (Fig. 2). GSI values for both sexes in SEUS increased sharply from April to May (Fig. 2A), indicating the onset of the reproductive season. GSI values for both sexes of cobia from EGOM began to increase in March, peaked in July, and declined and leveled off thereafter (Fig. 2B). GSI values for females from NCGOM increased in March, peaked in May, and Table 1 Numbers of cobia examined histologically from each sampling area. Males Females Area n Months of capture n Months of captureSoutheastern United States (SEUS) 33 February–May 60 February–June Eastern Gulf of Mexico (EGOM) 43 February–December 60 March–DecemberNorth-central Gulf of Mexico (NCGOM) 48 March–October 204 February–SeptemberWestern Gulf of Mexico (WGOM) 23 May–August 59 May–AugustTotals 147 383 the SEUS and the NCGOM regions but were lower in the EGOM. However, mean GSI values of females were higher in both May and June for cobia from the SEUS than during any month from the Gulf of Mexico (Fig. 2). Figure 2 Monthly (1996 and 1997 combined) gonadosomatic index (GSI) values for cobia from the southern United States. Values rep-resent mean ±1SE. (solid triangles=female, solid squares=male) ( A ) Southeastern United States. ( B ) Eastern Gulf of Mexico. ( C ) North-central Gulf of Mexico. then declined through September (Fig. 2C). In contrast, GSI values of males from NCGOM steadily increased through July, then fell precipitously in August (Fig. 2C). GSI values for males reached similar mean maxima in CBA 19Brown-Peterson et al.: Reproductive biology of Rachycentron canadum Histological analysis showed that all males from all ar-eas were ripe during all months. Spermatogenic activity varied over the reproductive season, but males captured during February–May exhibited active spermatogenesis throughout the testis. No spermatogenesis occurred dur-ing August and September, but the testis contained sper-matozoa. Males from EGOM during October through De-cember had spermatozoa in the testis, although 50% or more of the males in November and December had the tes-tis classified as spent. Table 2 Percentage of cobia in each ovarian maturity class for SEUS (Morehead City, NC, to Cape Canaveral, FL). Monthly data from 1996 and 1997 were combined. Percentage atresia was calculated for each development stage for ovaries with alpha- or beta-stage atresia only. Month of capture February March April May JuneClass ( n =3) ( n =31) ( n =10) ( n =10) ( n =6)Early developing 66 41.9 20 0 0% atresia 100 92 0 — —Mid-developing 34 16 10 0 0% atresia 100 80 100 — —Late developing 0 41.9 70 100 100% atresia — 85 66 60 0Spent 0 0 0 0 0% atresia — — — — —Regressed 0 3.2 0 0 0% atresia — 0 — — — Table 3 Percentage of cobia in each ovarian maturity class for EGOM (Crystal River to Ft. Meyers, FL). Monthly data from 1996 and 1997 combined. Percentage atresia was calculated for each development stage for ovaries with alpha- or beta-stage atresia only. Month of capture March April May June July August September October November DecemberClass ( n =2) ( n =7) ( n =3) ( n =2) ( n =6) ( n =6) ( n =3) ( n =11) ( n =13) ( n =7)Immature 100 0 0 50 0 16 0 18 7 0Early developing 0 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0% atresia — 50 — — — — — — — —Mid-developing 0 14 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0% atresia — 0 50 — — — — — — —Late developing 0 57 33 50 83 67 33 0 0 0% atresia — 50 0 0 0 50 0 — — —Spent 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 18 8 14% atresia — — — — 0 — — 100 100 100Regressed 0 0 0 0 0 17 66 64 85 86% atresia — — — — — 100 100 86 45 83 Histological examination of ovaries revealed all classes of maturity, from early developing through regressed. Dif-ferences in monthly ovarian maturity between correspond-ing months in 1996 and 1997 were minimal; thus, month-ly data were combined (Tables 2–5). A majority of ovaries from female cobia were in the late developing class by March in the NCGOM (Table 4) and by April in SEUS (Table 2) and EGOM (Table 3). Data from the WGOM (Ta-ble 5) were limited to only a portion of the reproductive season. Ovarian recrudescence began in February in the
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David Millar is making headlines again, this time by running for president of the professional cyclists' association the CPA, (Cyclistes Professionnels Associés) - a position it transpires he doesn't stand a hope of winning, thanks to some astonishing voting skullduggery.
By the time you read this, Millar will probably already have lost out to Gianni Bugno (the election takes place at the World Championships in Innsbruck on Thursday September 27) thanks to a block voting ruse that will ensure the sitting president remains. You can read about the whole farce in detail here.
Millar should not be cowed by this episode, given the great strides he has made for democracy this year already. We're talking about Chpt3, of course. In short, Millar has done a Yeezy and launched his most democratic range yet.
Chpt3's latest collection, Girona, is affordable, and available. You can get the jersey and bib shorts for only a little over the price of one of the original jerseys. It has therefore made the ultra-luxury Castelli spin-off within reach of the most frugal riders.
Millar set up the Chpt3 clothing brand in partnership with Castelli in 2016 after retiring from pro racing, and it remains one of a multitude of plates he has managed to keep spinning ever since.
Designs are predictably stylish, with the first collection, now known as Origin, featuring a jersey that owed more to Saville Row than it did cycling. An Origin jersey will still set you back £200, and presumably in recognition of the limited appeal of this price point, subsequent collections have been tiered down.
The Chpt3 Girona collection is named after the Spanish city Millar now calls home. Designs incorporate nods to the architecture - the red accents peppered around reference the famous red Eiffel bridge, constructed where four rivers meet and designed by the man who went on to design the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The 'Climbing Ivy' colourway we received is influenced by the shadows as they hit the red lattice ironwork of the bridge.
Other style points of the Chpt3 Girona collection reflect not only the cool ambience of the city itself, which since Millar arrived has become home to a legion of pro cyclists, but also hours spent riding around in R&D mode, tinkering bits here and there.
The result is a kit that stands apart from similarly priced competitors and which you might well expect to pay a lot more for. The fabric is the same as that used in the Castelli Maglia Rosa, and sleeves of the jersey have a wide, raw-edge finish to eliminate pinching. But as with all Chpt3 kit it is the details that set it off, such as the titanium grey lightweight YKK zip and the woven label on the pocket.
Bibs are also of a high standard, featuring stealth tonal branding, raw cut hems and in a first for Chpt3, finished in black. You'll notice two things when you put them on - the Castelli Kiss pad on your arse and the muffin top the bibs create with your belly. This is a common observation among Castelli bib wearers, and one that has given rise to the term 'Castelli belly'. You'll need to be a particularly slender individual to avoid this and it can give rise to a level of discomfort that cancels out the extreme plushness of the pads. I have also already managed to put my finger through the mesh on the bib straps, although this could be put down to sheer heavy handedness.
These are small observations and something that you'll probably find it in you to forgive when you take the overall package into account. Because the Chpt3 Girona collection should be considered a triumph. It has democratised a previously exclusive brand without sacrificing style or quality, and for that we should be very thankful to Mr Millar.
Summary: Millar's inimitable style is now available at a price that should be agreeable to most, with a fit and quality that you would expect to pay a lot more for. Chpt3 Girona fabrics are light, and the jersey is on the right side of fitted, but those bibs might have you gasping for air a bit, even if you'll feel you could ride 1,000km in one go on the pads.


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Thousands of migrants remain in Ceuta as Morocco blocks deportations
What a debacle in Spain.
Thousands of illegals remain in Ceuta as Morocco is now blocking deportations.
Ylva from Sweden and this EU Commission are a danger to Europe. One cannot rely on foreign leaders to secure Europe's borders.
This is not a long-term solution, as one has witnessed with Turkey and Morocco, but a reckless and lame cop-out for not having the fortitude or will to defend the borders themselves.
– Morocco now blocking deportations, except to those who want to return.
As a result, there are between 700 and 1,000 Moroccans in Ceuta who are yet to be identified, as well as around 1,000 so-called "unaccompanied minors" who are living in emergency shelters organized by the local government.
– For days now, the Rabat government has been blocking the deportation of its citizens, who crossed into the North African exclave between May 17 and 19 unhindered by Moroccan security forces. After the mass arrivals, Morocco initially helped with the deportations and those who 'voluntarily wanted to leave'.
But since the middle of last week, it has become increasingly difficult to deport the recent arrivals, according to Spanish police forces. While Morocco continues to allow its citizens to freely return to the country, most of those who wanted to leave have already done so.
Bottom line: The EU and its 'values' are poison for Europe. There is no doubt that the theology of Brussels has exacerbated this crisis and pushed it to another level.
All these EU handcuffs and bogus migration reform schemes are meant to prolong the crisis until Europe is eventually overwhelmed into submission.
The EU will never end this vicious cycle of mass migration…first and foremost because it does not want to.
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Slovenia urges compromise to appoint EU delegated prosecutors
Poland defies EU court ruling to close major lignite mine
Morocco's action in migrant crisis was 'unacceptable', Spanish PM says
Lithuania interior minister accuses Belarus of letting illegals from Iraq cross into Lithuania.


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Juliet Dunlop (born 21 February 1972) is a Scottish freelance broadcast journalist. She previously appeared as a presenter for BBC News and STV News. She left the BBC in 2011. She took time out of her role in news reporting to embark on a journey as an English teacher in Inveralmond Community High School, Livingston. This was very short lived, and Dunlop returned to the news career. She currently works as a correspondent for ITV's breakfast programme Good Morning Britain.

Career
Before joining the BBC News channel in 2008, Dunlop fronted the interactive news headlines for the BBC's red button news service. She also presented daytime news updates on BBC One.

Dunlop joined STV in April 2011 as the main anchor for its new Edinburgh-based edition of the regional news programme STV News at Six, which launched a month later. She also presents the weekday late bulletin for the East sub-region. Prior to the launch of the Edinburgh service, Dunlop co-anchored the station's overnight coverage of the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 2011, alongside Bernard Ponsonby. She left STV during the spring of 2013.

In June 2013, Dunlop joined The Scotsman as a columnist. She has also stood in for the Radio Scotland programme, Call Kaye.

She also was an English teacher at Inveralmond Community High School in term 2015/16 for about six months. She then left to go back to the news.

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My great grandparents emigrated in from Southern Germany to the lower West side in the 1870s. At that time the area was predominantly German. Both my great grandmother and great grandfather were comparably old in age at the time they were married - both being around 40 years of age. They were married in Saint Alphonsus church they leased the tiny storefront and building which still exists in its original form, at 412 West Broadway about 2 blocks away. The second floor has been removed by the jewelry store currently occupying the space. Anyway, they opened up a German restaurant there simply called 'The Restaurant' and they lived upstairs at that location with various other family members. A 'restaurant' appears in the New York City business directories published during that time period at that location but around that time the neighborhood was going Italian.
Although St. Alphonsus, the founder of the Redemptorist religious order, was Southern Italian, the largest part of the Redemptorist order were German speaking. At the time St. Alphonsus was organized formally around 1866 – the Bishop of New York authorized the establishment of St. Alphonsus as a 'German' church where sermons and confessions could be heard and taken in German. Later on, authorization was given to conduct services in Italian. In fact, the German Priests still stationed at saint Alphonsus in the early 1900's were actually complaining to the congregation that the Italian congregants cultural practice of kissing the feet of religious statues or the Stations of the Cross, or kissing their fingers and using them to touch the bottom of a statues were actually wearing the paint and the wood on the statues off. It is also of note that St. Alphonsus was considered the second most important Catholic Church in New York, second only to Saint Patrick's Cathedral in importance. To the immediate left of the Church as is visible in the photographs on your website - was the Saint Alphonsus grammar school. To the right of the building they also had 'St. Alphonsus Hall' which was used for union and labor activity through the Great Depression. On Thompson Street, there was a convent. At 328 West Broadway they ran St. Alphonsus Commercial High School for boys and girls.
Anyway, In 1906 my great grandparents had their 1st child who three years later chased a ball of some kind into West Broadway right in front of their restaurant onto trolley tracks under the elevated subway. He was run over and killed by a trolley in front his parents. It made the front page of The New York Times because my Great Grandmother's screaming over her son's body whose head was stuck under a wheel caused a riot of about 1000 people, primarily Italian, who were going to lynch the trolley driver. The riot attracted police from around the corner described as the 'Italian Squad' who intervened. They locked the motorman in the trolley and awaited reinforcements and were lucky to get him to the station house and save his life. He was charged with manslaughter, I am unsure what happened to him but am trying to find out. The child was buried out of saint Alphonsus Church in Old Calvary cemetery in Queens.
After this incident, my family converted their restaurant into a boarding house and lodged 6 men, mostly emigrants from Germany and Switzerland, as per the census documents I have seen. Their 2nd son, my Grandfather, was born when his mother was around 44 years of age. His birth in 1911 was considered to be a miracle. Because he was considered to be a miracle, my great-grandparents slated him for the priesthood and after he completed 6 years of school at Saint Alphonsus and was sent for 7th grade and on to a seminary school in a place called 'North East' Pennsylvania. Which at that time, if you can imagine, being on the shores of Lake Erie, was quite a desolate fortress. My great grandmother then took a job in the original Waldorf Astoria (where the Empire State Building now stands) as a Bavarian meat chef. At that time, the haute cuisine was game meats and rustic hunter style dishes. My great grandfather took a part time job as the bartender in the gentlemen's grill at the world famous Luchow's Restaurant over by Union Square. My grandfather ended up leaving seminal and ended up working for Catholic Charities' immigration assistance bureau. He actually met the actual singing 'Von Trappe family of 'Sound of Music' fame when they came through Castle Gardens in lower Manhattan on their way up to Vermont.
My grandfather ended up moving to Flushing, Queens where I also grew up in the 1970's and 1980's. I grew up hearing about his childhood and then 50 year career riding the New York Central Railroad around the country for various Catholic immigration grounds. I never heard a bad word about his old neighborhood except that it was 'rough'. There were many colorful characters in the neighborhood - for example one of the teachers at Saint Alphonsus grammar school was the 'Red Baron's' brother - the Red Baron being the Baron Manfred von Richthofen – of World War One. There were children in that school at the age of 9 who were smoking pipes. Most of their fathers worked on the docks and at manual labor. They played stickball and baseball exclusively.
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Q: Reusing table definition in table-valued functions and views I have several user defined table-valued functions and one view which has the same columns in returned table. How can I reuse return table definition?

A: In SQL Server 2008, you can use a User-Defined Table Type.
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Gold climbs as palladium bolts to record
Gold rose overnight on concerns that a US House vote on Hong Kong could hamper trade negotiations between the country and China and as investors awaited a key Brexit summit but bullion's gains were overshadowed by deficit-hit palladium as it again set a record.
Spot gold rose 0.5 per cent to $US1,488.84 per ounce.
US gold futures settled up 0.7 per cent to $US1,494.
In a move that soured ties between the United States and China on Tuesday, the US House of Representatives passed four pieces of legislation taking a hard line on authorities in Beijing, three related to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, drawing opposition from the Chinese government.
"A lot of people think this (US legislation on Hong Kong) is going to hinder the negotiations with the tariffs (between US and China), so again, when the tariffs are questionable, people run to gold," said Michael Matousek, head trader at US Global Investors.
Analysts are also wary of the outcome of the Brexit summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday that will determine whether Britain is headed for a deal to leave the European Union on the due date, a no-deal exit or a delay.
Also helping gold, US equity markets moved lower as traders' worries about the legislation targeting Hong Kong offset positive earnings.
Investors also await the US Federal Reserve meeting at the end of the month for clarity on further interest rate cuts.
Indicative of sentiment, holdings of the world's largest gold-backed ETF, SPDR Gold Shares, fell on Tuesday to 919.66 tonnes, but held close to their highest level in nearly three years.
Elsewhere, palladium rose 1.9 per cent to $US1,766.16 an ounce after hitting a record high of $US1,779.23 earlier.
"The story with palladium is one of a continued supply/demand imbalance. We've had a global supply shortfall of palladium since 2012 and it doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon," said Gregory Leo, chief investment officer and head of Global Wealth Management at New York-based IDB Bank.
The metal, used in vehicle exhaust systems to reduce harmful emissions, has climbed about 40 per cent so far this year on a sustained supply crunch.
However, US Global Investors' Matousek said palladium's recent jump has been more technical than anything else.
"Same as gold, if anything is rallying the way it is, the trend looks great and people want to own it, bringing more momentum players into the trade. The driver behind is about 75 per cent technical and 25 per cent fundamental," Matousek said.
Silver was steady at $US17.38 per ounce while platinum fell 0.3 per cent to $US886.12.
Oil rises on hopes OPEC will extend cuts
Copper dips on US-China trade concerns


The access road to the popular Walker Valley geode locality is now gated. This has been done primarily to keep the "kegger" parties off the DNR land. Since the Washington State Mineral Council has a valid mineral lease for the geode locality, the site is still accessible for rockhounding activities.
To access the collecting area, simply park off the side of the road so as not to block traffic and walk around the gate. Be sure that have a valid Discover Pass prominently displayed or you may be ticketed.
If you are not a member of a local club, please join one. Many rock and mineral clubs have field trips to other interesting collecting sites.
If the gate is locked, park off the side of the road, so not to block traffic, and walk around the gate. The collecting are is less than 250 feet from the gate. Be sure to have a Discover Pass for each vehicle or you might get ticketed as the quarry is on state property.
Be sure to fill out the Walker Valley Questionaire about conditions during your field trip.
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Rijk is een voormalig dorp in de gemeente Haarlemmermeer, provincie Noord-Holland. Het dorp lag in het noordoosten van de gemeente, op het kruispunt van de Aalsmeerderweg en de Vijfhuizerweg. Sinds 1960 ligt op die locatie de Kaagbaan van Schiphol, nabij de C-pier.

Het dorp was genoemd naar een eerder dorp Rijk of Rietwijk (ten zuidwesten van het dorp Sloten), dat in de 17e eeuw door de golven van het Haarlemmermeer werd verzwolgen. In 1959 moest het tweede dorp Rijk wijken voor de bouw van het huidige Schiphol-Centrum. De inwoners verhuisden grotendeels naar Rijsenhout.

In het begin van de 21e eeuw leeft de naam nog voort in het bedrijvengebied Schiphol-Rijk en de straatnaam Rijkerstreek op Schiphol.

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WATTON first team have finally put a disappointing winter season behind them when they followed up the previous week's win against Cromer with another impressive home performance against Barnham Broom 2.
Ian Thompson, Steve Rudd and Jonathan Pearson were all comfortable 3-0 straight-game winners.
First-string Simon Howling dropped a game but came through 3-1.
Overall, it was a 16-1 victory with Watton heading the Division One A table.
Watton II were not so successful entertaining Broadland 1. Dev Mahatme shared the first two games 9-5, 5-9. Thereafter, Dev took control, taking the next two 9-6, 9-5 to win 3-1.
Bobby Hunt just lost the first 10-8 but fought back to take the next two 9-3, 9-6. Fatigue set in with Bobby losing the next two 9-0, 9-5 to go down 3-2.
Kevin Blake maintained his 100 per cent record with a steady 7-9, 9-7, 9-6, 9-0, 3-1 win.
First-string Paul Goodchild was below his best against a fired-up opponent who took full advantage with Paul losing 9-7, 9-2, 9-7 in straight games.
Both teams are in action again next week.


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Cylindrecamptus lineatus är en skalbaggsart som först beskrevs av Aurivillius 1914.  Cylindrecamptus lineatus ingår i släktet Cylindrecamptus och familjen långhorningar.

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I'm not ready to let winter go.
But winter is my time to read. Stretching out on the recliner with a cup of coffee, the cat on my lap, and a good book – a great way to spend a cold winter's day!
Among the top books from my winter reading was "The Third Plate – field notes on the future of food" by Dan Barber. This optimistic book looks at where our food system should be going and is going, from a chef's perspective. Another good one is "In Search of the Perfect Loaf – a home baker's odyssey" by Samuel Fromartz. The author goes on a worldwide quest to learn about baking the best bread. Along with a lot of books, I enjoy reading magazines, and internet articles. Not surprisingly, many are about farming.
Now with spring approaching, the time for relaxing & reading is coming to an end. It's time to take what I learned from my reading and apply it to our own farming practises. That's exciting & challenging! We have lots of plans, lots of new ideas, and lots of optimism for this upcoming season!
I'm ready for spring … but a bit more winter weather would be okay too – I've still got a few more books to read!
… and digging in the pile of wood chips.
We are confident she will be a great dog – eventually!
Introducing Sage, the newest member of the team here at Thiessen Farms.
Sage came to the farm a couple of weeks ago and quickly stole our hearts! Technically she belongs to Amy which means Amy has all work & expense & time & trouble … of training her and ensuring that she grows up to become a useful member of the farm.
The rest of us get to simply enjoy her!
Sage's mother is a Bernese Mountain dog and the father is unknown. Her paws indicate that she will likely be a good size dog. Sage appears to be quite intelligent and has easily learned basic commands. But being a puppy, she also obeys selectively and at her whim. She is loads of fun!
Good pictures are limited as Sage does not prefer to stay still.
She is excited to make friends with the cats. Oliver has reluctantly accepted her & mostly ignores her, but the 2 Flynns want nothing to do with her.
Sage loves the security of her porch. Here she sits and watches the farmyard and all that's happening.
Sage looks forward to meeting everyone when our CSA program begins later in spring!


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Ericsson enters ICT collaboration partnership with SK Holdings C&C
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Extensive MoU signed to establish global collaborative ICT ecosystem
Ericsson and SK Holdings C&C to collaborate on the development of industry-leading Internet of Things platforms for globally specialized services
Agreement also covers emerging ICT services and convergence security solutions
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and SK Holdings C&C, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a global collaborative ICT ecosystem.
The agreement was signed on August 12, 2015 by Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, Ericsson, and Park Jung-Ho, CEO, SK Holdings C&C, and initially covers Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, emerging ICT services and convergence security solutions.
Park Jung-ho, CEO, SK Holdings C&C, says: "Drawing from our strength in ICT services and solutions, we will enhance ICT competitiveness and strengthen our presence in global markets by forging partnerships with leading global companies in the areas of IoT, cloud networks and Big Data. We will create a strong collaborative ecosystem with global ICT and solution companies for our global target markets and target industries."
Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, Ericsson, says: "Our IoT platform has opened up great opportunities for businesses across industries. We look forward to working together with SK Holdings C&C to build a strong ICT ecosystem to realize and capture the benefits of the Networked Society."
Under the terms of the MoU, Ericsson and SK Holdings C&C will jointly develop specialized IoT platforms for industry sectors including health care and transportation. These efforts will leverage Ericsson's global experience in delivering industry-leading solutions such as Volvo Cars' Connected Vehicle Cloud and connected container-tracking systems for shipping company Maersk Line.
In addition, the two companies will explore opportunities relating to emerging ICT services such as global disaster recovery and IoT authentication in the Asia Pacific area. A joint task force will be formed to develop business strategies that build on Ericsson's industry-leading network capabilities. Currently, 40 percent of global mobile traffic is carried by Ericsson networks.
The MoU also covers collaboration in the field of convergence security solutions, which are increasingly critical components in industry-grade IoT ecosystems. Ericsson will combine its network security technology with the data security capabilities of SK Holdings C&C's Infosec unit and pursue broad cooperation in areas including convergence security services for global customers.
SK Holdings C&C is a South Korean total IT services provider that was established in 1991. The company offers IT services such as consulting, outsourcing, systems integration, and system maintenance and repair to sectors including finance, communications and media, energy, chemicals, logistics and services, and the public sector. SK Holdings C&C is the holding company of the SK Group, South Korea's third largest conglomerate with over USD 140 billion in revenues in 2012.
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The 1997 World League of American Football season was the fifth campaign of the WLAF professional American football league, and the third under its six-team Europe-only format. World Bowl '97 was won by the Barcelona Dragons, whose quarterback was Jon Kitna, then on the roster of the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL.

Season
The Amsterdam Admirals moved their home games to the new Amsterdam ArenA.

During the regular season the 7–3 Rhein Fire finished ahead of the 5–5 Barcelona Dragons in the standings. Barcelona, however, had had a 4–1 start to qualify for the World Bowl as midseason leaders, also gaining the right to host the World Bowl. In the second half of the season, with little to play for, Barcelona went 1–4. This was instrumental in a rule change for the following season, namely that the end-of-season league leader and runner-up would contest the World Bowl, not the midseason leader.

In week 1 Frankfurt travelled to London and lost 14–7, suffering what Frankfurt's coach Ernie Stautner called "the worst game I've seen offensively in all the years I've been in football".
In week 4 the Dragons beat London, who suffered the "most spectacular collapse in World League history" according to Nick Halling, in giving away a 23-point lead.

The Fire, with a 10–7 win in London on June 15, 1997, secured first place in the league as the only team with a winning record.

World Bowl '97

Barcelona beat Rhein Fire 38–24 at the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc in Barcelona, Spain on Sunday, June 22, 1997. World Bowl '97 was the fifth championship game of the World League of American Football. 31,100 fans were in attendance as the Dragons won their first and only World Bowl title in franchise history. Jon Kitna was given MVP honors after completing 23 of 31 attempts for 401 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.

League renaming
For 1998 the World League of American Football was rebranded "NFL Europe".

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Regina Spektor at The Balboa Theater
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Regina Spektor took Balboa Theatre through the best moments of her discography with a solo set on Monday, October 23rd.
"Have you ever been sick?" said Spektor after she took her place behind her grand piano. "I'm really fucking sick."
She then launched into her set, which featured some of the most popular songs from her discography. There were the experimental anti-folk songs from the beginning of her career, "Musicbox" and "That Time," the more accessible indie-pop tunes like "Fidelity," and new songs like "Grand Hotel" from last year's release, Remember Us To Life.
Despite many breaks to blow her nose, sip her tea, and cough, Spektor didn't sound sick during her performance. Her voice was clear and hit every note. She was energetic enough to relay the emotion in her music by belting and making clear distinctions between loud and soft dynamics. Usually when you're suffering from a cold you aren't the chattiest person; Spektor, however, engaged with the crowd between every song, usually talking about how she was sick. She credited adrenaline as helping her get through the night, stating "adrenaline is a wonderful thing."
Three instruments were used – four if you count the chair and drumstick used for percussion during "Poor Little Rich Boy." She played the majority of her show on a grand piano but also took our her turquoise hollow body guitar for a few tracks. Some songs were played on a keyboard stage left, but she finished the performance back at the grand. It's clear that Spektor is a classically trained pianist (she studied at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College) when listening to her masterfully play complicated accompaniments. It wasn't obvious how advanced her guitar picking skills are after watching her play the simple parts to "Bobbing for Apples" and "That Time" – she's more of a magnificent pianist and singer over everything else.
The only mishaps happened when trying to play "Sailor Song" and "Eet." Several moments into "Sailor Song" Spektor stopped. "I can't remember how to play it…" She stared at her piano for a few seconds then decided to move on to "Eet." Funnily enough, the lyrics begin as "It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song." Spektor again messed up but recuperated and finished the song.
Spektor stepped back out to play two songs for an encore: "On the Radio" and "Samson." During "Samson," you could hear many in the audience quietly singing along to the chorus. It was a touching moment to end the show on.
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In October 2012, the Walt Disney Company paid more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilms, the film and production company responsible for Howard the Duck. But Disney, despite its history and success with duck characters, wasn't after Howard; in buying Lucasfilms, it also bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise. Soon after the purchase, Disney announced a new Star Wars film was in the works and would be released in 2015, nearly four decades after the first movie hit big screens around the world and changed popular culture forever.
The continued relevance of Star Wars owes much to the passion of its fans. For millions of people around the world, the films are more than diversions—they are a way of life. Through costumed role-playing, incessant quoting, Yoda-like grammatical inversions, and scholarly debates about the Force, fans keep the films alive in a variety of ways, and in so doing, add to the saga's cultural relevance. The first book to address the films holistically and from a variety of cultural perspectives, Fan Phenomena: Star Wars explores numerous aspects of Star Wars fandom, from its characters to its philosophy. As one contributor notes, "the saga that George Lucas created affects our lives almost daily, whether we ourselves are fans of the saga or not." Anyone who is struggling to forget Jar Jar Binks can certainly agree to that.
Academically informed but written for a general audience, this book will appeal to every fan and critic of the films. That is, all of us.
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"It certainly piqued my interest in new areas and raised my awareness of subjects I hadn't considered or knew nothing about."
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"While we are all busy being Star Wars fans there's something very enticing in reading about how the fandom works, and that's what this book brings. . . . Definitely worth the time for any fan of fandom or Star Wars to read."
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Mika Elovaara
Star Wars as a Character-Oriented Franchise
Jason Scott
Fashion from a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Jonathan Derosa
Fans, Fics & Films… "Thank the Maker(s)!"
Marc Joly-Corcoran and Sarah Ludlow
Immersive and Interactive Adaptations and Extensions of Star Wars
From Bikinis to Blasters: The Role of Gender in the Star Wars Community
Erika Travis
Jediism as Religion? The Force as Old/New Religious Philosophy
Zachary Ingle
Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: The Singular Emergent Language of the Star Wars Universe
Kris Jacobs
Star Wars Generations – A Saga for the Ages, for All Ages
Brendan Cook
The Marketing of The Force: Fans, Media and the Economics of Star Wars
Neil Matthiessen
The Influence of The Force
Jason Davis and Larry Pakowski
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The Guardian reports that at a conference this week the flooding minister Richard Benyon has announced that the government will not renew the Statement of Principles that ensures that cover is renewed in the most at risk area (1 in 75 or more) if flood defences are planned within 5 years. The quid pro qou with the last government was of course significant investment in flood defences – so this is just a cover for cuts. The Minister has stated that it did not cover most households, but this is disingenuous as it was only ever intended to guarantee insurance to those who would otherwise have greatest difficulty in obtaining it.
The insurance industry believes the government has now reneged on its part of the deal and consequently it does not want to continue with the agreement, a situation that leaves thousands of households at risk of becoming uninsured by next summer.
Benyon said households should instead be encouraged to invest in their own flood defences, including the installation of air brick covers, non-return valves and seals for cat flaps.
The answer surely is to provide a national insurance scheme for natural hazards, funded by a levy on all property insurance, as in the States, France and the Netherlands.
"An excellent Christmas boosted our sales performance at the end of a tough year for high streets. For the five week Christmas and New Year trading period ending 7 January 2012, total sales grew by 10.8 per cent and like-for-like sales by 5.1 per cent.
"For our financial year as a whole (52 weeks ending 31 December 2011) total sales grew by 5.8 per cent and like-for-like sales by 1.4 per cent.
"During the year we opened a record 98 new shops and delivered a net increase of 84, after 14 closures, to give us a total of 1,571 shops at 31 December 2011. We also completed 170 shop refurbishments. Our continued expansion created some 800 new jobs, lifting our total employee numbers above 20,000 for the first time.
"We anticipate that the tough trading environment will continue during 2012, with consumers' disposable incomes remaining under pressure. We will therefore continue to focus on maximising our customer appeal through product innovation and strong promotional activity, building on Greggs' already excellent reputation for value.
Though to my mind if Greggs want to crack it nationally they should purchase the Percy Ingle chain – whose bakes are far superior.
A London Commercial Property Bubble?
Investment volumes for 2011 grew 10pc on the previous year to £10.9bn as landmark buildings such as Tower 42 were acquired by foreign investors. A rush of deals worth £1.75bn were completed in the City in the final quarter of the year – despite the eurozone crisis worsening – as a wave of assets were put up for sale by Western institutions.
Property agent Cushman & Wakefield said £6.3bn of deals were transacted in the City, compared with £4.7bn in 2010. Asian investors, including sovereign wealth funds, accounted for 30pc of all deals.
Despite the increase in investment there are concerns that a bubble is developing in the City and West End that could be burst by a downturn in the global economy this year.
Rental yields on prime properties in the City are 5pc, and in places such as Bond Street in the West End they are just 3pc.
According to Knight Frank, demand from businesses to occupy office space in central London tumbled sharply last year because of the economic uncertainty. It said office take-up fell 27pc to 11m sq ft.
Few businesses in central London, particularly in the vital financial services sector, are expanding.
Developers such as Land Securities have started skyscraper projects to target companies whose leases expire at their existing office buildings. However, companies have been unwilling to commit to pre-lets at developments because of the economic environment.Clive Bull, head of central London investment at Cushman, said 2012 will be "tough" but that international investors will still target deals in London.
Land Securities has lodged its plans for a major mixed-use redevelopment of around 30 acres of the giant Kodak site in Harrow, Middlesex.
..outline plans to build a mix of 985 homes along with industrial units, shops, community facilities and cafes as part of a 10-year development of the site at Harrow View.
The 60-acre site has been home to Kodak for more than 120 years and is currently used for the production of photographic paper. Kodak is carrying out a phased consolidation onto a smaller site freeing up land for development in partnership with LandSecs.
The first two phases to be developed would be a 10-acre site that has already been cleared in the south-eastern corner and the 20 adjacent acres occupied by a vacant sports centre, car park and playing fields.
A health centre, a community centre, a care home, offices, a parade of shops and a supermarket along with student housing and a leisure facility will be developed on the 10-acre site.
Mary Portas's review of town centres will be unveiled on Tuesday morning.
The government had been due to announce the results in October, and then November.
This morning, the high street was hit by the collapse of Barratts and Priceless Shoes, with a number of other retailers teetering on the edge.
Chris Goddard, GVA's head of planning development and regeneration, said the retail property industry has been waiting with "baited breath" for the findings of Portas's independent review.
"Her report is likely to be far-reaching, and address a wide set of measures that impact on high streets and town centres, from town centre management to parking, as well as business rates and ownership structures," he added.
Goddard said the review is likely to touch on planning, and reaffirm support for a town centre first approach.
Former billionaire Sean Quinn today declared himself bankrupt at Belfast's High Court.
It took the County Fermanagh figure, once Ireland's richest man, 30 years to amass a billion pound fortune in glass, cement, hotels, insurance and a multitude of other business interests after starting out extracting gravel on the family farm in Derrylin in 1973 — and just 15 minutes to go bust this morning.
A court declaration signalled a drastic change in fortune for a renowned figure who was the island's wealthiest businessman up until just three years ago.
When you borrow £2.8 bn to from Anglo Irish Bank and them use the money to become the largest shareholder of that bank and buy a string of properties around the world you are asking for trouble, especially when that bank collapses under the weight of property debts has to be nationalised render the shares much less than the value of the loan.


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Isa Milman: writer & artist
Afterlight
Afterlight: In search of poetry, history, and home
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Award-winning author pens debut memoir unearthing family's Holocaust history
Afterlight: In Search of Poetry, History, and Home by Isa Milman (Heritage House Publishing, $24.95) is a haunting memoir of war, genocide, displacement, and a daughter's search for the literary works of her mother's murdered twin.
In 2013, still grieving the death of her mother, author Isa Milman embarked on a heart-wrenching journey to unravel a family mystery—the whereabouts of her aunt's long-lost poems, published in Poland in the early 1930s—which evolved into a broader investigation of her family's life before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Afterlight chronicles a lesser-known chapter of the Second World War through the story of two sisters: Sabina, Milman's mother, who survived the war, and Basia, Sabina's twin, who did not.
Photo Credit: Shea Lowry (2021)
"A big part of my decision to write my memoir was knowing that my family's story did not fit the usual Holocaust narrative, and it was important to tell their story," says Milman.
"It's a less familiar story of Jews from the eastern parts of Poland, (now Ukraine and Belarus) who were murdered in what's called 'the Holocaust of Bullets', and those, like my parents, who survived because of deportation by the Soviets to the Siberian gulag, and their questionable status as survivors postwar."
Exploring themes of loss and displacement, regeneration and resilience, Milman discovered how her own story is woven into the immense yet intricate tapestry of the Jewish experience.
"As a refugee and immigrant myself, first to the United States [in 1950] and then to Canada [in 1975], the question of home and where and how you make it has assumed much greater importance to me. It's not just personal history—millions of people around the globe live this currently, and it's a defining issue of our times."
As Milman delved into her family's history, accompanied by her husband, a fourth-generation British Columbian, she travelled to contemporary Poland, Ukraine, and Germany, and tried to reconcile her shifting appreciation of people and place, in a world where antisemitism and other forms of extremism are on the rise once again.
"Writing Afterlight required enormous empathy, as I tried to put myself in my parents' place as they were experiencing their war and its aftermath," explains Milman.
"The most painful was writing the details of the murder of each member of my family—my grandparents, my aunt Basia, and her baby son Mordechai."
Milman has previous published three books of poetry—each of which won a Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry. Afterlight is her debut memoir and first foray into creative nonfiction.
Finalist 2021 National Jewish Book Award | Focus Magazine Review | Virtual Book Launch
"Filled with historical, current, and personal details, Afterlight is an aching, lyrical memoir of Milman's efforts to unpack a life of living with the aftermath of the Holocaust."
—National Jewish Book Award Judges' Remarks
"Written with powerful awareness and historical heft, the memoir Afterlight follows the daughter of Holocaust survivors as she travels to unpack her lifetime of living with the aftermath of a genocide."
—Foreword Reviews
"What a remarkable, deeply moving act of homage Isa Milman has accomplished: a long quest to rescue stories of relatives enduring war-time atrocity from oblivion; a Kaddish performed through personal on-site practice and writing. With candour, humility, and courage, she travels in space and time through this "scarred landscape," calling upon imaginative thought experiments to supplement the spare horrifying facts. Afterlight is a telling reminder that atrocity thrives in the dark and must be unearthed, whatever the anguish, in order to be overcome."
—Don McKay, Governor General's Award-winning poet
"Isa Milman's Afterlight is as close to a living history as one can come. There is a quality of lucid dreaming in this memoir. Told with a poet's exquisite attention to detail, it is a work of exhumation—a bringing to light that which has always been with us."
—Eve Joseph, author of In the Slender Margin
"Afterlight is a powerful journey. By going to Poland, where her Jewish family was torn apart by war, Isa Milman invests her story with potent force. We are taken into the frozen Siberian gulag; we escape Stalingrad just before the Germans arrive. Compelling and poignant, Afterlight is a truly luminous book."
—Anne Simpson, author of Speechless, winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
"In this beautifully written and evocative memoir, Isa Milman takes us with her on a trip back to her ancestral home in what is today Ukraine but was once Poland, as she searches for the writings of her aunt, her mother's twin sister, who was one of the several million victims of the Holocaust. In chapters that alternate between past and present, Milman suggests how the afterlight of historical tragedies can both illuminate and complicate the present."
—Goldie Morgentaler, Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge and award-winning translator
from Yiddish to English of the work of Chava Rosenfarb
"Marrying dogged research with sharp emotional insight, and storytelling both intimate and poetic, Isa Milman reassembles her brutalized family tree. With palpable love, unflinching horror, and unexpected joy, she reclaims and reimagines the almost unutterable memories that her mother held in silence until just before her death. Meanwhile, Milman gives voice to so many children of the European Jewish diaspora, as she moves toward her own peace with the land that bore and then cast out and swallowed her ancestors."
—Naomi K. Lewis, award-winning author of Tiny Lights for Travellers
"In search of a family narrative shattered by war, displacement, and genocide, Isa Milman traverses the past and present in Poland and Ukraine, Israel, and Canada to weave a memoir of profound loss and great love. Time and again, Afterlight pierces through darkness and leads, at last, to acceptance, recovery, and hope."
—Ruth Panofsky, poet and author of Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End Poems
"Isa Milman's Afterlight is an absolutely riveting memoir. From her parents' survival in a Siberian gulag to her own investigation of the scarred landscape of eastern Europe, the author portrays a deeply moving journey across time and space as she searches for traces of history, including her aunt's lost poetry, and explores the meaning of home in the aftermath of the Shoah."
—Helga Thorson, associate professor, University of Victoria, Germanic and Slavic studies
"Isa Milman brings an artist's eye, a love of the music of language, and a ferocious tenacity to her quest for her family's lost ones, for the survivors, for herself. As the still unfathomable atrocities of the Holocaust retreat from living memory, her story glows in the afterlight of history and memory, deeply personal and ultimately profound."
—Diana Wichtel, award-winning author of Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father
"In Afterlight, Isa Milman tells a timely personal narrative of travel and discovery, which is entangled in the twentieth-century calamity of the destruction of Jewish life in eastern Europe. Milman provides a fresh and thoughtful reconsideration of postwar Polish Jewish identity. 'Was I not free,' she wonders, as she seeks out her ancestral story, 'to adjust my own opinions without breaking the codes I'd been brought up with?'"
—Norman Ravvin, author of The Girl Who Stole Everything and
A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory
"Isa Milman's powerful book takes her readers on a voyage of self-discovery through the landscapes of Eastern Europe—and Jewish memory. A story of real people and events, Afterlight reads like a mystery novel that you cannot put down until the very last page. It will have a major impact."
—Serhy Yekelchyk, professor of Slavic Studies and History at the University of Victoria
and the author of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
"Combining the threads of memory, history and imagination with a strong fabric of family stories and research embroidered with recovered maps and artifacts, Isa Milman recreates her Jewish family's tragic fate during the horrific events of wartime Poland. Afterlight is a beautiful, haunting memoir that speaks of both devastating pain and abiding love."
—Lynne Van Luven, professor emerita, Department of Writing, University of Victoria
© 2022 Isa Milman


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Aksenov () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Verkhnekardailskoye Rural Settlement, Novonikolayevsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 3 as of 2010.

Geography
Aksenov is located in steppe, on the Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain, on the right bank of the Kupava River, 36 km northeast of Novonikolayevsky (the district's administrative centre) by road. Verkhnekardailsky is the nearest rural locality.

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Rural localities in Novonikolayevsky District


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We were asked to design a series of new editions based on Sophocle's "Antigone". These included Brecht's "Antigone", Jean Anouilh's "Antigone" and a new translation of the original tragedy by Sophocles. For the three covers, we chose to use El Lissitzky's ink drawings from "Victory Over the Sun".
An event celebrating the publications, including reading sessions from the books, is part of the 2015 Athens Festival.


Your friend who just had a baby may cook dinner every night from scratch, keep her house clean and still find time watch 'Loose Women', but that doesn't mean that you should be able to manage all these tasks. You have a baby with GOR (infant reflux) and that changes everything.
Let your house and other chores go while you learn how to make your baby comfortable. It's important that you are calm, well rested, and as stress free as possible. Harbouring unrealistic expectations of yourself will not benefit you or your baby.
As with any baby's arrival, it's important that you communicate your feelings and needs, especially with spouses or other children in the house. Although children will pick up on your 'down' days, knowing the reasons behind it for them, makes it far more acceptable in their minds and perhaps may even trigger their own interest in helping out. It's hard when you have other young children to cope with as well as a new baby and reflux. Take every opportunity for help that comes your way and don't be afraid to ask for help.
Mothers in particular are emotionally hardwired to respond to a baby's cry. As such, mothers may be stressed, exhausted, hormonal and not at all themselves. It's easy to feel overwhelmed and frustrated but it's important to communicate those feelings to your immediate family. This is a time of upheaval for the entire household and it's difficult for everyone. Open communication can help prevent future feelings of guilt or resentment.
I lost count of the times people have said "You'll look back on this time and wonder what all the fuss was about". I know I will remember every reflux flare our daughter suffered in the early days and the sinking feeling when you have to change baby for the 5th time before lunch. The crying (me and baby!) All the photos of our daughter in baby grows all day, as the number of outfit changes we had led to buying the simplest clothes, with the least amount of fussy bits!
What's important is that when I needed to talk about how I felt, how frustrated I felt; I made myself communicate with the people around me and I am pretty sure it helped to avoid postnatal depression and keep my overall mindset focused.
Reflux in Babies is physically uncomfortable. The baby craves nurturing even more than other babies do. Hold your baby close to you so they can breathe in your smells. Rocking, swaying and swinging are all very comforting. Stimulation, including laughing and crying, can trigger reflux episodes.
Keep a calm environment that is as soothing as possible. Try using a quiet, comforting voice, even if everything around you is loud and manic with other children running around. Babies often sense emotional discord so if you find yourself feeling overwhelmed or angry, try to find someone to hand the baby to or stop and take a moment, making sure baby is in a safe place for a few minutes. Don't repress your personal feelings though, it's important to discuss them with your partner or family members at an appropriate time.
Right now it is especially important for you to sleep as much as possible, eat well and stay healthy. Be sure to get some gentle form of exercise if you can – even a walk out once of twice a week is beneficial. Perhaps now is not a good time to start that diet, if it means extra food preparation time – keep things simple and look after yourself.


Life with Bethie the Boo: Hello sunshine!!!
Well once again, I didn't have to report for my Jury Duty. I found out I won't have to report tomorrow either, so that's a good thing too! And there is finally SUNSHINE! Not hazy fake through the high clouds sun. Real, live, beautiful sun and beautiful blue skies with only a few white puffy clouds. And it's not blasted hot or anything. If I could bottle today and keep it for the entire summer, I totally would!
This shirt I thrifted from the regular clothes over at Unique Thrift Store last month. It hasn't been nice enough to wear it yet, it's sleeveless, but I decided to throw on a cardi with it today and figured it would work great. I love how blousey it is, I know it'll be a fine shirt this summer even if it isn't a maternity top. And I can't get enough of this color right now - aqua, teal, mint, anything that shade is a total win!
And of course I am loving that I can still squeeze into my favorite Anthro pants - and button them! I'll keep wearing them with a belly band even after I can't button them anymore because they are my favorite pants ever!
Hope you all have wonderful days and that the sun is shining where you are too!
I am loving the sun today! I love your shirt and that cardi matches really well!
Your turquoise top is a great color on you. I love it paired with the colorful cardigan. Enjoy the sunshine today!
Yay for no jury duty! It's pouring rain again here today :( Love the colorful stripes!
We're having some wonderfully refreshing sunlight. Of course, it's while I'm stuck at work... without windows... But we did get our vitamin d during our run this morning, so that's keeping me chipper! As are the colorus in your outfit today!
That cardi looks great with your cute top. Great combo. Thanks for loving my post and my nearly 30 year old clutch. Thank YOU! (hug) You look dang cute prego.
yay!! no jury duty and sunshine! and a cute and colorful sweater!!!
Aw jealous of your weather! Today alone, it was wrong torrential downpour to extremely hot.
Love the long shirt. It will definitely be a great piece to transition. I'm also loving that color this season.
A day of beautiful weather can really make a huge difference, can't it? When Seattle is sunny, the whole city gets happy!