What's going on in the big wide world of real estate? Let's jump right in!
Led by mutual fund operator Wellington Management Co. along with venture capital firms Institutional Venture Partners and Thrive Capital, real estate startup Compass Inc. has raised about $75 million in new financing, which values the company at a whopping $1 billion.
Compass, which is based in New York, plans to increase transparency in real estate transactions and to make them more convenient via online services. It currently has 24 offices within the U.S. and plans to open more.
The company aims to use its new funds to ramp up its technology for analyzing real estate markets. It has passed $100 million in revenue so far this year and plans to triple its 2015 revenue by 2016's end. Compass makes money by taking a percentage of proceeds when people buy, sell, and rent properties on the site. It sees about $7 billion in transactions run through the site annually.
Inequality amongst real estate markets is only widening, according to a recent report by Trulia, as reported by CNN Money. Per the study, the country's most expensive markets have appreciated much more dramatically and much more quickly — at an average of two times as fast — than the least expensive areas in the past 30 years.
The average home price in the nation's most expensive markets was $127,058 in 1986 — 144% higher than the average price of $52,022 in the least expensive markets.
The average home price in the nation's most expensive markets is now $493,504 in 2016 — almost 320% higher than the average price of $117,827 in the least expensive markets.
The main factors that drove the discrepancy are thought to be income growth and housing supply.
The past three years have seen an uptick in Chinese investors pouring money into high profile U.S. real estate ventures. Seeking to diversify outside of their country, these investors are continuing to fund commercial property at an unprecedented rate.
Chinese investment increased 19% year over year in the first half of 2016 to $5 billion, and they have committed $12.9 billion including under contract deals this year — which nearly matches the total of $14 billion invested in all of 2015. For reference, back in 2014, Chinese investors poured in just $3.4 billion.
"The vast majority are looking for development opportunities," said Stephen Collins, who oversees a global capital markets group at real-estate investment-services company JLL. Many of these opportunities include high-profile, often flashy developments in U.S. hotspots like New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. They believe they can make more money building new rather than putting funds into existing buildings.
What will the rest of the year bring? Experts don't see this trend slowing down any time soon — more likely, foreign investment is predicted to ramp up in 2017.
What do you think about the above stories? Any real estate news you'd like to discuss that's not listed here?
RE: Greater appreciation in the largest/ most dynamic cities vs. other areas- I read an article recently that argued that the U.S. has been moving, and will continue to move, towards a model of "megacities" surrounded by essentially empty hinterlands. We know small towns have been emptying out since the second half of the 20th century; it is likely that the same thing will also happen to smaller cities this century.
Think about it- the large cities have the financial and human capital to support innovation- they are the most economically viable areas of the present and future. That's where job creation happens and supporting (service) sectors thrive. These also happen to be where there is a strong emphasis on living wages, which translates to a strong consumer economy.
If I could afford to, I would definitely invest in So. California, Seattle, and similar hubs.
It seems the ageing population seeking a better climate is also plays a factor here if I look at these cities which also supports the idea that this disparity will continue for a while.
The Chinese are trying to get their money out of China. I'm seeing it they are buying everything they can in my area with cash.
I think the policy of the communist party lately is driving it. Those with money are scared of losing it.
A great book with very interesting reading by Richard Florida is an entire book about these changes happening around the world. Who's Your City.
Really a "should read" for folks interested in population demographics, trends, values…and ultimately investing.
That doesn't surprise me. Them coasts are getting ridiculous!
Portland, really? Would never have guessed that when I lived there a few years back.
It should make you want to look long and hard at your next market. Many have been taught to not bank on appreciation but the gains from it alone should be taken into account, searched for and chosen over markets that have a less likeliness to earn those big gains. Here's to coastal cities!
Great article, especially the content about the foreign investors that have put in a significant amount capital between the end of 2014 and 2016. I am curious to see what 2017 looks like for the overall foreign investor investing in the U.S.
@THIMOTY, Oregon's economy is among the strongest in the US. From 2001 to 2014, Oregon's economy grew by 57%, which was nearly two and a half times the national rate.


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Chantry Chapel set to re-open within weeks
Holly Gittins
Published: 13:30 Friday 29 June 2018
With scaffolding down and work almost complete, the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin is due to reopen within the week.
Essential repairs, including fixing the roof, adding pigeon spikes, replacing uneven floor tiles and repairs to the buildings facade, have so far cost more than £26,000.
The bridge chapel has remained open for services while the restoration has taken place over the last six weeks, but has been forced to cancel its monthly tours.
Wakefield Cathedral is responsible for services held at the chapel, but all maintenance of the building is the responsibility of the Friends of Wakefield Chantry Chapel.
The Friends each pay an annual subscription fee of £10, but most of the money for the restoration was raised through fundraising and open days.
David Royston, chair of the Friends, said: "We are grateful to all our Friends for all the fundraising activities and the donations we receive from the many visitors to our beautiful Chapel.
"This chapel really is unique and the best example of a bridge chapel in this country and without this support, it would be lost to our future generations."
St Mary's is one of only three bridge chapels in the country which is still in use, and is believed to be the oldest in existence. It is estimated that the chapel was originally constructed between 1342 and 1356, before falling into disrepair after the dissolution of chantries under Henry VIII in 1545.
The chantry was restored to its current state and reopened in 1848 and many of the damaged sections were replaced. The original stonework can still be seen at the base of the chantry.
The acting Dean of Wakefield Cathedral, Canon Tony Macpherson, said: "Wakefield's Chantry Chapel is a real gem and part of our city's rich heritage, and our social history.
"We are hugely grateful to the Friends for all their hard work in maintaining and restoring this beautiful building."
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NFL Suspends Adrian Peterson Without Pay for Remainder of Season.
The NFLPA released the following statement in response to the NFL's decision to suspend Peterson for the remainder of the season.
The decision by the NFL to suspend Adrian Peterson is another example of the credibility gap that exists between the agreements they make and the actions they take. Since Adrian's legal matter was adjudicated, the NFL has ignored their obligations and attempted to impose a new and arbitrary disciplinary proceeding.
The facts are that Adrian has asked for a meeting with Roger Goodell, the discipline imposed is inconsistent and an NFL executive told Adrian that his time on the Commissioner's list would be considered as time served.
The NFLPA will appeal this suspension and will demand that a neutral arbitrator oversee the appeal.
We call on the NFL Management Council to show our players and our sponsors leadership by committing to collective bargaining so a fair personal conduct policy can be implemented as quickly as possible.


See how Bringg helps Boxit fully streamline its flex home delivery operations – allowing them to scale efficiently and provide customers with a fully branded experience.
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– Take a look- Sharon and Dan are waiting for the hiking boots they purchased online. Right now their boots are at the Boxit warehouse – where, thanks to Bringg, the package is automatically assigned to a designated pickup location and to a Boxit driver, who is notified of the delivery during his or her shift.
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Electricity demand peaked at record 510MW
Unconnected power cuts caused by problems to distribution system, Enemalta says
by Kurt Sansone
Electricity demand peaked at 510MW
A three-day heatwave that started on Monday saw electricity demand peak at a record 510MW on Tuesday, Enemalta said.
The demand was 5% higher than the highest level ever recorded by the utility company, which was 488MW in August 2017.
Enemalta said that electricity demand was 15% higher than that registered during the same period during the past two years.
The company said power cuts experienced in various locations over the past three days were a result of the above average temperatures.
"These localised interruptions were not related to each other," the company said, adding that in 80% of the cases, supply was restored after 10 minutes.
Enemalta said the interruptions were not caused by problems to the electricity generation system but a result of the distribution system.
"While Enemalta apologises for any inconvenience caused, the company will continue investing in its distribution system to further improve the quality of service offered to its clients," the company said.
Lights out? If you are experiencing difficulties in electricity supply contact Enemalta on its freephone number 8007 2224.
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I've recently bought a new Logitech K360 keyboard for my HP Z600 workstation. I also had a Logitech M325 mouse, both of which came with Unifying USB receivers. I could plug both receivers in, and both devices would work great.
However, I heard good things about these little receivers and wanted to free up a USB port, and thought I'd connect both devices to the same receiver. Apparently you can connect up to 6 devices to one receiver and store any spare ones inside the mouse or keyboard. Being an all-efficient belt-and-braces kinda guy, I tried my luck.
It all worked fine on my Windows 10 machine, until I wanted to use the mouse (not the keyboard) with my Mac. I know, it's exotic, and perhaps I should have just bought another mouse. But there's only so much space on my desk, and I really don't need more clutter in front of me for just an occasional switch.
I regretted pairing both devices to the same receiver and wished I hadn't done that, for this very eventuality. So now I had to figure out how to UN-pair both devices again and put them back to how things used to be (before I started messing with them).
The good news was that when I used the original mouse receiver on my Mac, with my Windows PC switched off, everything worked just fine. It was as if nothing had ever happened. I was happy, modelling things in Blender (which is a little cumbersome with a Mac trackpad, or perhaps I'm just not used to it anymore). And even when I switched on my Windows PC, the mouse was still working on the Mac.
The trouble was the keyboard was no longer detected on the Windows machine.
So I plugged the mouse USB receiver into the Windows machine too, and now NOTHING was working anymore – neither in Windows nor on Mac. It was as if I had two dead devices on my desk. The light on the mouse still came on, but the light on the keyboard (usually comes on when you press CAPS LOCK) was also dead. I couldn't access the Windows machine anymore either – so how was I going to start the Logitech software to repair this mess?
Lucky for me, I had setup a VNC connection to my Z600, so I just logged in from my Mac and at least got control of Windows that way. Always good to have that in place! I launched the Logitech software and followed the instructions… but none of the two USB receivers were detected. What a bummer!
Now each device is paired to its own receiver again. I can now unplug the mouse receiver and use it in my Mac, and when I'm done I can plug it back into the Windows machine and use the mouse there. They keyboard is at all times unaffected and can also be unplugged – for use with another computer. Awesome!
It's a good idea to mark the receivers so that you know which one is which: in my case, I bought the mouse before Logitech had the big bad Logo Redesign idea, so both my mouse and its receiver have the old Logitech logo, and the keyboard and its receiver have the new logo. With this setup, the devices behave more like "wired" devices. Comes in handy if you administer multiple machines in your office.
Check or try new batteries. Make sure that the batteries are within the manufacturers date.
Re-seat to another USB port. Bypass the use of KVM switch boxes, port replicators, docking stations, and USB hubs if any. Prefer using USB 2.0 rather than USB 3.0 ports.
3. Go to Advance click the name of the device>(device).
5. Your device will completely lost connection after unpaired.
6. Then close the unifying system.
8. Check if the device if it's working properly.
Please try using the device with a different computer; this will verify if it is a hardware problem (instead of a system/software specific issue).
Compare the behavior in that PC to how the device works.
Hope this helps anyone who encounters similar issues.
The ONLY KVM technology can work with Logitech Unifying receiver is "DDM" class KVM switches. DDM (Dynamic Device Mapping). It had been proofed that current DDM version can match up to 6 Logitech USB Unifying devices with one single wireless dongle plug in to the share DDM port of the DDM KVM switches.
When wnat to make sure 100% Unifying devices sharing experience, looking for DDM KVM switch. Again, this is truth since 2009 when DDM technology had been patented and delivered. Until now, it is still the only solution with Unifying Devices sharing.


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Portable Solar Generator Burbank – The United States of America (the U.S.A. or the USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a rustic primarily located in North America. It consists of fifty states, a federal district, five main unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and some minor possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square kilometers), it's the world's third- or fourth-largest country by complete area. With a population of more than 331 million people, it's the third most populous nation on the earth. The nationwide capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous metropolis is New York City.
Burbank is the most populous metropolis in the US state of California. With an estimated 2019 population of 102,511 distributed over about 17.4 sq mi (45.1 km2), Burbank City can be essentially the most densely populated major city within the United States. Located at 34.19°N 118.32°W, with population density almost 6,003/sq mi (2,318/km2) folks in its metropolitan statistical area and its change ?0.80% statistical.
The US electricity system is commonly described because the world's largest machine. It can also be extremely numerous, reflecting the policy preferences, needs, and available natural assets of every state.
The U.S. electric grid is so previous and outdated it couldn't deal with the inflow of wind power and other intermittent renewable assets. Integrating such sources requires adapting a system that is finely tuned to steadiness the amount of electrical energy getting used with the quantity of electrical energy being generated with fickle winds.
But there is an much more urgent downside, in line with this article within the New York Times: the grid isn't sufficiently big. The wind tends to blow strongest in places, such as North and South Dakota, which can be far from the place individuals reside and use electrical energy. And nobody wants to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars it might take to place in a new transmission line (not to mention the authorized headache of getting all these rights of manner). Read more here.
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It is that one gadget that can put you one step ahead of emergencies when there's a power scarcity. You can charge your telephone and obtain news out of your radio or TV, power fridges and freezers, run fans and lights, and so forth.
During emergencies, Solar Generator can be the largest lifesaver. It can help you communicate to make guarantee your family or pals are protected and secure. Back in 2017 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico extraordinarily onerous. Over 3,000 individuals died and the power was out for 11 months. Almost a whole yr!
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I promise to do my best: To do my duty to God, To serve the King and help other people, and To keep the Guide Law.
I promise to do my best: To do my duty to God, To serve the King and help other people, and To keep the Blue Jay Law.
A Blue Jay thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day.
Guiding in Swaziland started in 1924, but it was only in 1950 after a visit from the World Chief Guide that it really began to spread throughout the country. In 1961 the Association was registered as a Branch Association of the Guide Association (UK). The Ranger section was organised in 1963, and a Cadet company was formed five years later in one of the two training colleges in Swaziland.
The Wayfarers, an organisation for African girls working on similar lines to the Guide Association, was also active in Swaziland and soon joined the Guides to form one Movement for all girls in Swaziland. In 1968 girls under ten became known as Blue Jays and the following year the Guide Association (UK) signed a deed of transfer making the Swaziland Girl Guides Association self-governing in all areas.


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Pine Plains Veterinary Hospital
What's new at our Hospital
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Douglas W Hart, DVM
Dr. Douglas W. Hart is a general Practitioner who has been with Pine Plains Veterinary Asscoiates since June of 1967, and a partner in the hospital since 1970. He is originally from White Plains, New York. "Working on a small dairy farm during high school and summer vacations introduced me to working closely with animals", he said , and was inspired to become a veterinarian.
"I was fortunate enough to experience both rural and suburban environments while I was young". Riding horses in western North Dakota and working with dairy cattle in upstate New York" were two of his earlier experiences. "As younger children, my brothers and I were always surrounded by cats and dogs in the neighborhood.
For his understudies, Dr Hart attended Cornell University where he majored in biochemistry. After receiving early admission to veterinary school, he enrolled in Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 1967. During summer breaks, Dr. Hart worked in small and mixed animal practices.
He is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, American Association of Bovine Practitioners, the American Animal Hospital Association and is a member and past president of the Hudson Valley Veterinary Medical Society. He is a certified consultant for the New York State Cattle Health Assurance Program, a member and past president of the Dutchess County Agriculture Society and the Eastern New York Holstein Club, and a member of the New York Holstein Association and Holstein Association USA.
Today, Dr. Hart's area of special professional interest is cattle reproduction.
Dr. Hart has a very simple and straightforward philosophy about why he is a veterinarian. "I enjoy being useful to people and the animal's they care for", he said.
Dr. Hart and his wife, Rae, a retired school teacher, have seven grown children and 17 grandchildren. Dr. Hart's interests include skiing, golf, swimming, and showing cattle at the county fair.
Caroline Helm-VanKleeck, DVM
Dr Caroline-Helm Van Kleeck is a general practitioner who has been a member of the Pine Plains Veterinary Associates medical staff since 2007.
Dr. Helm-Van Kleeck grew up in Gallatin, New York, on a farm with cows, horse, chickens, pigs, sheep, goats cats and dogs. This early experience with animals, as well as the support and influence of her parents, helped her develop a deep compassion and love of animals. Now that she is a veterinarian, she says that she enjoys "helping animals as well as people and the community".
Dr. Helm-Van Kleeck earned her undergraduate degree in Biology/Biochemistry from the university of Wisconsin in 1984. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with numerous science and biology awards.
She was admitted to the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, and then transferred to Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and completed her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine at Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1988.
A member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, New York State Veterinary Medical Association and the American Animal Hospital Association, Dr Helm-Van Kleeck holds certification in advanced orthopedics. She has a special interest in orthopedics and general surgery.
Dr. Helm-Van Kleeck and her husband Peter have 4 children.
Outside of the hospital Dr. Helm-Van Kleeck's interests inculde gardening, biking, fishing, and maintaining historic farms.
Michael Troy Verra, D.V.M.;M.S.;D.A.B.V.P.
Michael Troy Verra is a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practioners; certified in canine and feline practice. He has practiced with Pine Plains Veterinary Associates since 1/1/2010.
Dr. Verra says that his earliest veterinary influence was his collie; Verra's Golden Dutchess. He also grew up with a number of pets; which helped instill in him a compassion for animals and a desire to care for them.
Dr. Verra attended Rutgers University for his undergraduate studies. He was named George H. Cook honor scholar and received a bacholor of science in Preveterinary Medicine in 1980. He then went on to The University of Georgia where he earned a master of science in Veterinary Cardiopulmonary Physiology and pharmacology. After finishing his degree;
Dr. Verra continued at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine and received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 1986.
His areas of special professional interest include Echocardiography; Ultrasonography; Endoscopy; Bronchoscopy; Rhinoscopy; Colonoscopy; Cystoscopy; Otoscopy; Electrocardiology; and Ultrasound guided biopsy procedures. He is a member of The American Veterinary Medical Association; New York State Veterinary Medical Society; Capital District Veterinary Medical Society; and The American Board of Veterinary Practitioners.
Dr. Verra and his wife Deanie Crane Verra; R.N.;M.S.;C.N.O.R.; enjoy spending time together. They share their home with a Collie named Dutchess; an African Gray named Bilbo; a Conure named Paulie; an Amazon Parrot named Lolita; and a fresh water aquarium.
Away from the hospital Michael's and Deanie's interests include water skiing, air chairing, knee boarding, double tubing, snow skiing, snowmobiling, kayaking, all terrain vehicle riding, bicycling, and chipping. He adds that " My Lord and my family are my motivation for all that I do."
Dr. Holly Kalba, DVM
Dr. Kalba joined our team in September 2018. She did her undergraduate studies at Northland College in Ashland Wisconsin where she met her husband. Dr Kalba completed her Veterinary studies at Cornell University and received her degree in 1994. She had an internship at Oradell Animal Hospital from 1994-1995. She is credited with AAHA, AAFP, Pallatire and is Hospice care certified, she is trained in fear free and is canine rehabilitation trained.
Dr. Kalba is originally from Tully, NY , She moved to The Hudson Valley in 1990 and has practiced here since 1995.
Holly has 2 teenage children who were active in scouting for years and she was an active volunteer for both girls scouts and boy scouts when her kids were younger. She has since then pursued advanced training in canine rehabilitation.
Holly's has special interest in internal medicine, critical care & abdominal ultrasonography from newborns to geriatric care.
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QAMISHLI – Clashes broke out between members of the Assyrian armed forces of Sutoro in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, activists reported on Friday.
Rifts erupted between two units of the Sutoro forces in Qamishli city over power. The disputes turned violent when a unit responsible for protecting the city of Derik (al-Malikiyah) arrived in Qamishli and opened fire at fellow Sutoro forces there.
At least four members of the Sutoro were injured during the clashes.
A spokesman for the Assyrian Sutoro forces told ARA News that the rifts have been caused by lack of coordination between the central leadership in Qamishli and the local units in the neighboring areas.
"Members of the Derik unit protested the growing power of Qamishli members of the Sutoro. All decisions are being issued in Qamishli without delegating other local units," said the source, who preferred to stay anonymous.
Political activist Raman Khallow told ARA News in Qamishli that the unprecedented internal conflict in the ranks of the Assyrian forces "indicates institutional weakness".
"The decision-making process is monopolized by the Sutoro's power center in Qamishli, while hundreds of members in other areas are obliged to follow the orders," he said.
The Assyrian forces of Sutoro include more than 1000 fighters. The group is responsible for the protection of Christian districts and villages in the Kurdish region northeast Syria.
Since its establishment in 2013, the Sutoro declared its allegiance to the PYD-linked Auto-Administration and is operating in cooperation with the Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG).


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Blind Contour Homage "Pemberton Valley" Emily Carr
Emily Carr is one of the most widely celebrated and recognizable Canadian painters. Strongly associated with the Group of Seven, many of her works represent the cultural identity of British Columbia—its natural landscapes, its historical development, and its indigenous heritage. But Carr's legacy was not always so certain.
The eighth of nine children, Carr was raised by a domineering British father, who taught her that women ranked well below men, and who developed in his daughter an abhorrence of physical intimacy. Upon her parents' deaths, Carr was left with a strict and controlling sister, who rebuked Carr for her interest in art. Thereafter, Carr rejected traditional expectations, making up her own rules and manners as she forged a new path.
In fact, it is hard to know whether obstinacy and eccentricity helped or hindered her success. During much of her lifetime, public response to Carr wavered between two unfortunate extremes: disregard and dismay. Despite her fine arts education in San Francisco, London, and Paris, Carr's paintings were at first unpalatable to western Canadian audiences, who resisted the revolutionary modernist and post-impressionist trends she'd learned in Europe. And because her physical and mental health frequently suffered (she spent many months in European "sanatoriums"), she gained a reputation for volatility. Her reception was probably not helped by her public behavior: she smoked and swore, walked around with a pet monkey on a chain and a rat in her pocket, and had a hot temper, which was frequently unleashed upon the tenants of her boarding house, "The House of All Sorts." This ignominy, as well as the economic hardships of World War I, meant that Carr struggled to make ends meet. She produced very little art in her middle age, partly because students would rarely study with her, and partly because she had to work so hard as a landlady.
Despite these antagonisms, Carr persisted in pursuing her own passion for western landscapes and indigenous cultural heritage, and this tenacity was ultimately rewarded by broad celebration in her final years. When fame finally materialized, the work she had produced over her lifetime came to light, including the paintings produced as a younger woman during her frequent sojourns to First Nations communities along the west coast, where she painted totem poles in their natural settings. She was determined to document the poles before they disintegrated, and to record the indigenous people she encountered, recognizing the threat to their culture and lives by disease, poverty, and government policies.
In 1927, Carr's work was "discovered" by Marius Barbeau and Eric Brown, who convinced Carr to allow her paintings to be featured in an exhibition on West Coast indigenous art at Canada's National Gallery. Carr's visit to Ontario for this grand entrance into eastern Canada's art scene enabled her meeting with Lawren Harris and other Group of Seven members, who guided Carr's transition from totem pole pieces to landscape paintings of the mountains and forests of the lower mainland and Vancouver Island, which were painted while she travelled through wilderness campsites in her caravan, "The Elephant." In her sixties, she turned to creative writing; her essays and short stories were published in seven highly successful collections before and after her death in 1945. It was only in these final years that Carr earned enough to survive without renting out rooms, breeding dogs, or taking on art students. At last, she was rewarded with the recognition her work merited: in addition to receiving the Governor General's Award for non-fiction, her paintings were bought by Canada's National Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery, and are still exhibited in esteemed galleries around the world.
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Forster, Merna. 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces. Dundern Press, 2004.
Klerks, Cat. Emily Carr: Adventures of a West Coast Artist. Heritage House, 2015.
Shadbolt, Doris. The Art of Emily Carr. Douglas & McIntyre, 1979.
Thom, Ian M. Emily Carr Collected. Douglas & McIntyre, 2013.


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AIS prepares Prodrive for Bathurst
By Prodrive Racing Australia
Prodrive Racing Australia's V8 Supercars drivers visited Australia's elite sport headquarters, the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in the lead up to the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, as the team pushes to take home its third-straight Peter Brock Trophy.
Pepsi Max Crew drivers Chaz Mostert and Mark Winterbottom, as well as The Bottle-O Racing pilot David Reynolds, took part in elite testing including the VO2 Max test and full body composition assessments under the supervision of Senior Sports Physiologist Hamilton Lee.
While the three drivers currently hold the top three championship positions, each one of them believes he can still take race preparations up a notch to continue to compete at the top.
After participating in testing used to measure elite athletes, Lee was impressed by the fitness of the drivers.
"There's definitely been a change since I first experienced the drivers from the sport but they were all a bit old school and they just did things the way it's always been done," said Lee.
"These young guys seem to take their fitness a lot more seriously than 20 years ago."
Current championship leader and former Bathurst champion Winterbottom believes there is still work to be done to further extend their lead over their competitors.
"We can still improve. Even though we've won the race the last two years there are still things we can do to make ourselves better and not just for Bathurst either," Winterbottom said.
"These guys at the AIS are at the top of their game and I personally have learnt a lot through working with them.
"It's been a privilege to be here and I think the results will have an impact on the way I train and prepare for race weekends."
The drivers also consulted with leading sports nutritionist and Head of Sports Nutrition at AIS, Louise Burke, a session that was particularly beneficial for paleo enthusiast Reynolds.
"It was really good to get Louise's insight. I got some information that I'll be taking on board with regards to diet," he said.
"The VO2 test was interesting to be a part of but it was great to be able to measure my performance against other professional athletes like football players. Fitness is something I really concentrate on, so it was really interesting."
Mostert is the defending Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 champion, while Winterbottom won in 2013 and Reynolds came home runner-up in 2012.
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Jones' vow: We will still be winners
Coulthard's Bombshell
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Eggleston Motorsport expands to four cars
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A report on Paul Singer (businessman)
American hedge fund manager, activist investor, philanthropist, and the founder, president and co-CEO of Elliott Management.
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Elliott Investment Management
American investment management firm.
The Elliott Corporation was founded by Paul Singer, who is CEO of the management company, based in New York City.
Pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as short selling, leverage, and derivatives.
Paul Singer of Elliott Management Corporation, an activist hedge fund with more than US$23 billion in assets under management in 2013, and a portfolio worth $8.1 billion as of the first quarter of 2015
Distressed securities
Distressed securities are securities over companies or government entities that are experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or are under bankruptcy.
Paul Singer's Elliott Associates, a New York-based hedge fund, purchased $20.7 million worth of defaulted loans made to Peru for a discounted price of $11.4 million.
Argentine debt restructuring
Process of debt restructuring by Argentina that began on January 14, 2005, and allowed it to resume payment on 76% of the US$82 billion in sovereign bonds that defaulted in 2001 at the depth of the worst economic crisis in the nation's history.
A similar strategy had been successfully pursued previously by vulture funds against Peru and a number of African nations, as well as against corporations in the United States itself, such as Delphi Automotive, which was forced to pay Paul Singer's Elliott Management Corporation a return of over 3,000% on corporate bonds defaulted during the 2008 recession.
American Internet entrepreneur, programmer, and philanthropist who is the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc., as well as the founder and principal executive officer of Block, Inc., a financial payments company.
On February 29, 2020, it was announced that activist hedge fund Elliott Management led by billionaire Paul Singer was looking to oust Dorsey and nominate four directors to Twitter's board, including Elliott's senior portfolio manager Jesse Cohn.
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette, and Dan Lufkin in 1959.
Paul Singer — Founder and CEO of Elliott Management Corporation and The Paul E. Singer Foundation
501(c)(3) non-profit think tank and registered lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C., United States.
Paul Singer: $3,600,000
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Conservative 501(c)(3) non-profit American think tank focused on domestic policy and urban affairs, established in Manhattan in 1977 by Antony Fisher and William J. Casey.
Paul Singer, board of trustees chair
Tim Gill
American computer software programmer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and LGBTQ rights activist.
In 2015, Gill, Paul Singer and Daniel Loeb, helped fund Freedom for All Americans to advocate for non-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in states and local communities across the country.
501(4) conservative organization active in the United States, with an agenda focused on cutting taxes and other economic policy issues.
In 2013, the Club for Growth super PAC's donors included Peter Thiel, an early backer of Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal, who gave $2 million; Virginia James ($1.2 million); John W. Childs ($1.1 million), chairman and founder of the Boston-based private equity firm J.W. Childs Associates; Robert D. Arnott ($750,000), the chairman and chief executive of California-based Research Affiliates; Robert Mercer, the co-chief executive of Renaissance Technologies and part-owner of Cambridge Analytica, gave $600,000; and hedge fund manager Paul Singer gave $100,000.


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Fixing OSM(RE), Part 2: Green jobs for the coalfields
April 3, 2009 by Ken Ward Jr.
My friend Rick Wilson makes a pitch for green jobs for the coalfields today on his Goat Rope blog:
Many companies and public agencies are making more or less sincere noises about moving in a more sustainable direction. And there are public resources to support this emerging economy in both the stimulus package and President Obama's proposed budget. There is also the possibility of using federal funds for reclaiming abandoned mines to create jobs aimed at mitigating some of the damage.
Of course, Coal Tattoo has made the pitch for increased spending on cleaning up abandoned coal mines across Appalachia before. And part of President Obama's budget plan would help to do that, as I explained in Obama AML plan: Green jobs for the coalfields.
But Obama's AML plan is going to face a lot of attacks from Wyoming lawmakers and others. So far, it hasn't even gotten the support of Appalachian political leaders, like West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin or House Natural Resources Chairman Nick J. Rahall.
So it becomes all the more important that Obama pick a strong leader, someone with real vision for cleaning up the coalfields (and strongly regulating strip mining) to run the U.S. Department of Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
Coal Tattoo has written before (see here and here) about the two candidates who have been most likely mentioned for the OSMRE job: West Virginia University law professor Pat McGinley and Lexington, Ky., lawyer Joe Childers. The most disappointing — insulting, actually — thing that could happen would be for Obama to pick some industry person or a no-name bureaucrat from within the agency to take over the helm of OSMRE.
And that's not just because of mountaintop removal. It's made all the more important by Obama's major proposal to help improve the Abandoned Mine Lands program.
Plus, there's another key aspect of OSMRE's responsibility that could be a key engine for creating green jobs in the coalfields: Proper enforcement of the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act's requirements to either return mined land to its approximate original contour, AOC, or to plan for and develop some sort of factory, commerical site, residential neighborhood, public park or building, or other improvement that leaves something behind to help the area economy.
Failed enforcement in these two areas by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and OSMRE were major parts of the Gazette's 1998 series on mountaintop removal. See here and here.
As I've explained here, Manchin's legislation for post-mining land use issues will do little good on this problem. Tough federal enforcement, oversight and technical assistance from OSMRE is what's needed. Proper enforcement of AOC and post-mining land use rules would mean fewer and smaller mountaintop removal mines, and fewer and smaller valley fills. Combined with more AML spending — which could employ laid-off strip mine workers — this could be a huge economic gain for Appalachia.
But judging from testimony during a congressional hearing last year, the folks who have been running OSMRE for many years haven't made any progress since then at properly enforcement the AOC and post-mining land use requirements.
Rahall grilled acting OSMRE Director Glenda Owens (a longtime Interior Department official) about these issues during a July 2007 hearing held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of SMCRA:
Rahall:
…in 1998 I publicly expressed concern with a report that the majority of mountaintop removal mines in West Virginia were given permits without AOC variances. A great deal of litigation and policy changes have taken place since that time. However, my concern remains. And I touched upon this in my opening remarks. And that is, to what extent are mining operations that are viewed as mountaintop removal technically not categorized as such? They may use a combination of point removal, area mining, and contour cuts. And for all intents and purposes have the character of a mountaintop removal operation, but have not received an AOC variance, and have not submitted a post-mining land use plan that includes those higher uses that would benefit the economies of coalfield communities, the better post-mining uses to which I referred. I would expect your agency has looked into this matter as part of its oversight. Would you care to comment?
Owens:
Mr. Chairman, that is, in fact, correct. OSM is very much aware of the issues associated with mountaintop mining. As you mentioned, there has been litigation on the issue since 1998. We have engaged in rulemaking, and in fact currently we are working cooperatively with state and Federal regulators in the development of guidance on certain issues related to mountaintop
mining, such as AOC, the variances, the post-mining land uses, and return of mined land to useful and productive hardwood forestry. We have also engaged in a national rulemaking on two of the issues associated with mountaintop mining: extreme buffer zone and excess spoiled fuel rule. We have a proposal that is in final review, and it should be published in the near future.Â
Well, I would only respond that it has been a little over 10 years I think since we last had our oversight hearing, where I asked a similar question and got a similar answer.
Well, I wasn't here 10 years ago. But I can tell you that I was in the Solicitor's Office at that time, and I was involved in the litigation on mountaintop mining. I know that it has been a struggle getting through these issues because of the controversies and the confusion that the regulation has wrought, which is why OSM now feels that a national rulemaking on these issues is appropriate.
But does OSM have a definition of AOC, approximate original contour?
We do not have a definition at this point. We are, in fact, working on a definition, looking into whether the definition at this time is appropriate.
Thirty years, and we are still looking for a definition of AOC.
Al Cross, Inst. for Rural Journalism April 3, 2009
Ken, thanks for writing about the elephants that have been in the room for decades: post-mining land use, an AOC definition, and the crucial nexus (or lack thereof) between them. Amid all the lawsuits, these fundamental issues are often forgotten. The new director should be the person driving resolution of them.
Dianne April 3, 2009
It's painful to read that Gov Manchin
and Congressman Rahall haven't yet supported the Obama administration's call for more AML spending, which would create Green Jobs and employment opportunities for former miners.
Isn't that what Manchin's and Rahall's whole defense of mountaintop removal focuses on – jobs?
Why haven't these top MTR proponents promoted this unprecedented opportunity to increase the number of jobs in the coalfields?
Bob Mooney April 4, 2009
The U.S. Army Civil Works Program
http://www.hqda.army.mil/asacw/
Note: Rock Salt was named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary on March 9, 2009
http://www.hqda.army.mil/asacw/Salt%20PDASA%20Bio.doc
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) are remarkable.
http://www.usace.army.mil/Pages/Default.aspx
Michael Grunwald has reported on their misdeeds since 2000.
http://www.michaelgrunwald.com
An Agency of Unchecked Clout
Water Projects Roll Past Economic, Environmental Concerns
By Michael Grunwald
Par for the Corps
A Flood of Bad Projects
The Threatening Storm: Hurricane Katrina — Two Years Later
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1646611_1646683_1648904,00.html
Acting Director Glenda Owens (1/2009 to Present)
http://www.osmre.gov/aboutus/bio/owens.shtm
Ms. Owens was also the acting director from January 22, 2001 to February 11, 2002
http://www.osmre.gov/aboutus/director/formerdir.shtm
(There have been 10 acting directors — those not confirmed by Congress — for nearly 8 out the 31 years of OSMRE's existence.)
"The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977:
A 30th Anniversary Review"'
July 25, 2007 At 10:00:00 AM
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=32&extmode=view&extid=80
(Note: Ms. Ownes testimony is missing.)
Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management
http://www.excellenceintransition.org/prune/prunedetail.cfm?ItemNumber=10587
Wilma A. Lewis, esq.
http://groups.google.com/group/osmre/web/wilma-a-lewis
ids April 5, 2009
It's bad all over . . .
"About 840,000 acres of Illinois land in 73 counties have been undermined for coal and other minerals, according to the state. In 1991, it was estimated that 320,000 Illinois housing units had been built over or near underground mines. . . .Schools, it seems, have been common victims."
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/CB1BC82F9272D1EF8625758A001033BB?OpenDocument
Illinois coal mining
Ken Ward Jr. April 5, 2009
You've got the wrong link for the House SMCRA hearing. You're linking to submitted prepared testimony. I quoted from the Q and A, which is in the transcript.
It's available here:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:37013.pdf
Glenda Owens introduced Earl Bandy, who gave OSMRE's prepared statement. But then Owens answered a number of questions.
Also, please don't just post a long string of links. The comment section is for folks to "comment," not just post a bunch of links. It would be more helpful if you would comment about whatever is on your mind, and then share a link or two. But please keep it to two — or at the most 3 — links per comment, OK?
Thanks, Ken.
Carl May 20, 2009
I am an independent contract in the Commonwealth of Virginia and am in the business of doing AML enhancements, ie re-mining refuse piles. I have had one site that is near the final stages of reclamation which recovered approximately 250,000 clean tons of low sulfur coal. I'm on a second site that is 2 years old and about 75% complete and has recovered another 200,000 clean tons. Now with the market down and Obama dead against coal my days are numbered. Check my blog out at Pioneer-Coal Mining.


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230-year-old Irish oats brand to make a big splash in the USA (RECIPES)
From oatmeal with Irish mist to baked Camembert and oat cakes, there are plenty of ways to enjoy Flahavan's.
IrishCentral Staff Writers
Flahavan's Irish Oatmeal: From oatmeal with Irish mist to baked Camembert and oat cakes, there's plenty of ways to enjoy Flahavan's. Flahavan's
E. Flahavan & Sons has joined up with Source Atlantique as part of their expansion drive into the United States market. This means that more Americans will soon be enjoying the 230-year-old family-owned company's oats, as a creamy Irish porridge for breakfast or as a healthy option throughout the day (see our recipes below).
Flahavan's mill has been family-owned and operated for seven generations – over 230 years – from its home in Kilmacthomas, beneath the Comeragh mountains of County Waterford.
"Flahavan's is the preferred oatmeal brand in Ireland with a 55% share of that market," noted Joe Reich, from Source Atlantique. "We are looking forward to bringing the healthy and uniquely creamy taste of Irish oatmeal to the increasingly health-focused US consumer."
The winning qualities of Flahavan's oats are the result of a combination of the optimum Irish oat growing conditions and their unique slow milling process of its non-GMO oat grain, all of which is grown within 50 miles of the Flahavan's mill.
Oats naturally low in saturated fat, are a good source of soluble fiber and may help reduce the risk of heart disease. They are also a versatile superfood ingredient that can improve the health and taste profiles of favorite recipes.
Here are two unique recipes created by Irish Chef Neven Maguire on behalf of Flahavan's.
Baked camembert served with glazed steel-cut oatcakes
(Serves 4-6)
For the oatcakes:
- 100g (3½ oz) Flahavan's Organic Porridge Oats,
- 100g (3½ oz) plain flour
- 50g (2oz) lard or butter, diced
- 1 tsp. salt
- 3-4 tbsp. cold water
- 1 tbsp. milk
For the cheese:
- 220g (8oz) Camembert in a wooden box, at room temperature
- 1 small garlic clove, cut into wafer-thin slices
- 1/2 tsp. thyme sprigs
- crab apple jelly
- freshly ground black pepper
You can view a video of the method here.
1. Mix the oats and flour in a bowl. Rub in the lard or butter, then add the salt and enough cold water to form a soft dough.
2. Roll out the dough thinly on a flour-dusted work surface.
3. Cut out circles with a 6cm (2½ in) straight-sided cutter. This should make about 20 in total.
4. Beat together the egg and milk to form a glaze.
5. Place a batch of the oatcakes in a large frying pan at a medium heat.
6. Immediately brush the tops of the oatcakes in the pan with glaze – it will turn to a shiny coating as they cook. Cook for about 20 minutes turning after about 15min.
7. They can also be baked with the tops glazed in the oven for 12-14 minutes at 180˚C (350°F/Gas mark 4).
8. Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool.
1. Preheat the oven to 200˚C (400˚F/Gas mark 6).
2. Remove all the plastic wrapping from the cheese and replace it in the bottom of its wooden box after lining it with parchment paper.
3. Using a small sharp knife make small slashes all over the top of the cheese.
4. Push one of garlic slices into each cut, followed by a thyme sprig and then add a small teaspoon of the crab apple jelly and grind over with black pepper.
5. Bake for 20 minutes until the cheese has slightly melted.
6. Serve with the oatcakes and crab apple jelly.
Quick to cook steel-cut oatmeal with Irish mist, honey and cream
- 3¾ cups (900ml) of milk
- 1 cup (130g) of Flahavan's Irish Quick to Cook Steel Cut Oatmeal
- Drizzle of honey
- 1 tbsp. cream
- 1 tbsp. Irish Mist Liqueur (or any Irish whiskey)
You can watch a video of the method here.
Cooking and serving instructions
1. Place the oats and milk in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
2. Reduce the heat and simmer for 5-7 minutes until cooked.
3. Place in a bowl and drizzle with honey and cream.
4. Top with the Irish Mist Liqueur.
Flahavan's Steel Cut, Quick to Cook Steel Cut and Rolled Oats are currently sold at selected Kings, Albertsons, ShopRite, Wegmans, Shaws, The Fresh Market, Fairway Markets stores and several other retailers and also at mybrands.com and amazon.com.
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In competitions held in 1988 and 1992 artists, and other interested ACT citizens, provided a large range of designs for consideration as the proposed Australian Capital Territory flag. Although there was no general agreement within the community on a particular design, there were some features in common amongst the entries. These elements were incorporated into four design options presented by Members of the Legislative Assembly to the ACT community for its consideration in February/March 1993.
The ACT Electoral Office reported that the most popular choice among ACT citizens who expressed preferences on any of the four options was a design featuring the Southern Cross and a modified form of the City of Canberra Coat of Arms.
The ACT flag has been flown outside the Assembly building since that day.


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The Judicial Inspection (IJ) initiated on Friday a disciplinary action against National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutor-in-chief Laura Codruta Kovesi and DNA deputy chief prosecutor Marius Constantin Iacob, for committing some irregularities.
The action was forwarded to the Section for prosecutors in the discipline area of the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM), which will decide on the accountability of the two magistrates.
"On January 12, 2018, Judicial Inspection exercised the disciplinary action against Mrs. Laura Codruta Kovesi, prosecutor-in-chief of the National Anticorruption Directorate ("DNA") for committing the disciplinary misconduct acts provided by:
– art. 99 letter a) of the Law no. 303/2004 on the statute of the magistrates and prosecutors, republished and amended, namely "manifestations that affect the honor or the professional reliability or the prestige of justice, committed while or outside exerting the job duties" consisting in manifestations likely to affect the honor or the professional reliability of the magistrates who are prosecutors, as well as to the prestige of justice, at a working meeting, circumstances that have been identified in the audio recordings revealed in media on June 18, 2017, according to a press release issued by IJ.
"Concretely, the DNA prosecutor-in-chief voiced herself in the sense of combating the negative effects in respect to the image and credibility of the institution, generated by the Constitutional Court (CCR) decision 68/2018, through the urgent building of some cases with "ministers," with a media impact, voiced her disagreement concerning the legal, final and generally binding nature of the CCR Decision 68/2017, and used improper wording regarding the Constitutional Court and a judge of the Constitutional Court, inducing the idea to the public opinion that one of the criteria for prioritizing the cases is their media impact and the official capacity of the investigated persons," the IJ shows.
The IJ press release also mentions that the DNA chief-prosecutor used a superior and aggressive tone which is inadmissible in relation to the minimal ethic and deontological standards of a magistrate and are likely to cause a feeling of indignation within the public opinion, and a legitimate doubt regarding the principles of the supremacy of the Constitution and laws, as well as of the prosecutors' impartiality.
According to art. 99 letter c) of the Law no. 303/2004 on the statute of the judges and prosecutors, republished and amended, the press release also mentions "the shameful behavior while exerting the job duties towards colleagues, the other staff of the court or the prosecution office in which judicial inspectors, lawyers, experts, witnesses, justice seekers or representatives of other institutions function", consisting in adopting a shameful behavior through an electronic correspondence (e-mail), using words and phrases with an obvious denigrating, insulting and threatening content towards prosecutors, namely "cowards", "gossipers", "criminals", letting them know that "there is already a circle of suspects", with reference to a criminal case, thus violating the reserve requirement and the rules of conduct attached to the profession of magistrate.
Moreover, the press release also mentions, according to the same article 99 letter c) of the Law no 303/2004, the ungrounded breach committed by Laura Codruta Kovesi against the provisions and administrative decisions legally ordered by the head of the court or of the prosecution office, or against other administrative obligations provided by the law or regulations" consisting of knowingly violating the provisions of the art.7 letter b of the Internal Regulations of the National Anticorruption Directorate, approved by the Order of the Justice Minister no.1643/C since May 5, 2015, published in the Official Journal of Romania no.350 since May 21, 2015, related to the attributions of the chief-prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate, which provides that "it aims to distribute the cases, or, as the case may be, it distributes the cases in relation to objective criteria such as the prosecutor's specialization or training, the volume of activity, the complexity and the efficiency of solving the cases, the conflicts of interest or the incompatibilities in exerting the office", by appointing a magistrate who was in an obvious state of incompatibility, as a case prosecutor.
In respect to Marius Constantin Iacob, IJ shows that the action against him regards "the failure to observe the duty to abstain when the judge or prosecutor knows there is one of the causes provided by law for his abstention," consisting of having conducted criminal investigations without formulating the abstention declaration, although he was clearly under the incompatibility situation provided by article 64 paragraph 1 letter f, referring to article 65 paragraph 1 and article 66 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
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Many of us pop a multi-vitamin a day just in case.
Just in case our diets filled with noodles, rice, and other forms of simple carbs with no sight of any veggies or fruits don't give us the nutrients we need to sustain a healthy body.
Just in case it could ward off dangerous ailments like cancer and heart disease.
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There's been multiple studies showing how overdosing on vitamin and mineral supplements is merely a waste of money, or worse, could actually do you harm [1, 2, 3].
The general advice from the scientific community is not to substitute vitamins or mineral pills with drugs, but to get your daily vitamin and mineral requirement from good wholesome food, and not supplements. The best approach, according to science, is to live a healthy lifestyle with healthy varied meals and regular exercise. That's your best defense against illnesses.
However, this isn't a death sentence to vitamin and mineral supplements, as they are essential to those with a vitamin deficiency whose bodies cannot absorb the nutrients they need from their diet alone.
So How Do I Find Out If I Should Take Vitamin Supplements?
There are blood and urine tests you can do to check if you're deficient in certain types of vitamins. However, you can also consult a registered dietitian who will help assess your daily diet to see if you're getting enough vitamins from it, and advise you on the best way to overcome the loopholes in your diet.
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Vitamin and mineral supplements should come as the last option, only if your lifestyle or allergies simply cannot allow you to absorb all the nutrients you need for a healthy body. Your dietitian will teach you when to take these supplements for the best effect and how much of it to take, as it is not advised to overdose, even on vitamin pills .
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Melt a good knob of butter in the pan. Add the eggs, quickly followed by the milk. Stir like crazy. You should be on a high heat. The eggs will begin to scramble. Add a sensation (technical term meaning a small bit!) of Worcestershire sauce. This gives it a bit of zippp.
I was hungry so added some ham. Doing this makes cheap (nasty) ham go further.
Serve on toast with plenty of ketchup.


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Louis-Lucien Klotz (* 11. Januar 1868 in Paris; † 15. Juni 1930 ebenda) war ein französischer Journalist und Politiker.

Klotz war von jüdischer Herkunft mit Wurzeln im Elsass. Zunächst Anwalt in Paris, gründete er 1888 die Zeitschrift La Vie Franco-Russe, um für eine franko-russische Allianz zu werben. 1892 wurde er Chefredakteur des Voltaire und setzte sich gegen die Politik von Jules Ferry ein. 1895 gründete er Le Français quotidien, eine patriotische Zeitschrift, in der Voltaire aufging.

Im Zuge der allgemeinen Wahlen von 1898 wurde Klotz zum Abgeordneten in der Abgeordnetenkammer gewählt und schloss sich den Radikalsozialisten an. Er blieb Abgeordneter bis 1925 und wurde anschließend für drei Jahre Senator. Während seiner Abgeordnetenzeit hatte er mehrere wichtige Ministerposten inne: Er war mehrmals Finanzminister sowie Innenminister. 1918/1919 trat er in seiner Funktion als Finanzminister bei den Verhandlungen über Deutschlands Reparationsverpflichtungen auf unter der Devise "Le Boche paiera!" ().

1929 wurde Klotz wegen Scheckbetrugs zu zwei Jahren Haft verurteilt, starb aber bereits ein Jahr später.

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I think the rocks at Linville Falls, NC qualify for ginormous stones.
In another stream in the NC mountains, I think the stepping stones across the water are ginormous in comparison to the thousands of tiny stones at the bottom of the creek.
Click here for the ginormous photohunt and here for the stones photohunt.
great shot of the gull in the post below.
Oh yeah, love the post and the combination of themes is perfectly executed here.
These are such gorgeous stones. I love the perspective in your first photo - such a beautiful scene!
The pictures are ginormously beautiful!
Great photos. I like the little spots of red in the rocks in the first photo. In the second photo, I like how the tree is laying over the boulders.
Love your gorgeous pictures of Nature.
Definitely ginormous stones! Good use of both themes. Beautiful photos.
Nice looking area. I bet those stones can be slippery.
Beautiful pictures, looks so wild !


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Australian community foundations as community voice: Influencing a more locally responsive and effective allocation of resources
by Emily Fuller
Community foundations inhabit a unique position as the voice of the local community. However, despite their relevance to Australian circumstances, such an approach has as of yet remained largely unpursued. In this paper, Emily Fuller explores the international practices of community foundations, arguing that the community philanthropy model offers opportunities to more effectively impact the allocation of government and private resources. Rather than position asset building and community building as mutually exclusive functions of community foundations, Ms. Fuller demonstrates that being a community builder also builds assets. In order to provide a set of tools and traits for future adaptation to Australian contexts, Ms. Fuller identifies and analyzes five unique roles played by community foundations: starting the hard conversations; keeping a finger on the community pulse; being a champion of local community organisations; being a grantmaking intermediary; and being the first responder. Ultimately, Ms. Fuller concludes, uniting around a common vision and strategy would provide Australian community foundations with a critical first step in realizing their potential, thus capturing the voice of the community, increasing local coordination and accountability, and influencing an improved response to local circumstances.
Australia / Australia
Title: Australian community foundations as community voice: Influencing a more locally responsive and effective allocation of resources
Authors Emily Fuller
Geographical Focus Australia / Australia
Keywords foundations , community , philanthropy
Document type Issue/Policy Brief , Report/Whitepaper
URL: https://www.issuelab.org/resource/australian-community-foundations-as-community-voice-influencing-a-more-locally-responsive-and-effective-allocation-of-resources.html


As one of the major events in Europe for discussing data issues, it made perfect sense for RETHINK big to attend the European Data Forum, which took place from 16-18 November 2015 in Luxembourg. Consortium members Ernestina Menasalvas of Universidad Politécnica Madrid and Stefan Manegold of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica represented the project, presenting a poster in the exhibition and answering questions about the RETHINK big roadmap.
In addition to high-level policy statements on the importance of Big Data to the European economy, the event featured a number of interesting talks by European companies. Among these were Infineon, a business with a dual role as both technology provider and Big Data user, whose representative Stefan Rohringer explored the possibilities opened up by Industry 4.0, the role of Big Data in this area and related challenges, such as security. Thought-provoking applications of Big Data analytics were also shared by Lauren Sager Weinstein of Transport for London, who explained how data from transport cards is analyzed to help provide a seamless travel experience and improved customer service, while Elena Alfaro shared some of BBVA's techniques for generating revenue from data.
Presentations from the event are available for download from the European Data Forum 2015 website.


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