"Don't try to convince us we should worship someone we can't see!" the messengers were told. "Go back to your temple and prostrate yourselves, or you might find yourselves prostrate here in Israel for reasons you don't like!"
But not all the Israelites laughed at or ridiculed the messengers. Many of Manasseh, Ephraim, Asher, Issachar and Zebulun welcomed the news from Judah. Most of these, among many others, managed to get to Jerusalem before the appointed time. The city swarmed with people eager to observe the Passover.
The king of Judah was elated at the way the Passover turned out. It proved to be the greatest in attendance, as well as the most joyous, since the time of Solomon! There was only one temporarily adverse note. A few of the people, even including some priests, had failed to properly prepare themselves, ceremonially and mentally, for a fitting observation of the Passover.
When Hezekiah discerned this, he asked God to pardon the careless ones. Because he was obedient to God, his prayer was answered, and for a week there was joyous worship in the Days of Unleavened Bread, a time that God's Church still observes by praising the Creator in word and music, but not through meat sacrifices on altars.
After leaving the temple, all the people didn't return to their homes immediately. Most of the men traveled throughout Judah, seeking idols and idol-worshipping places as they had done in Jerusalem. Zealously they smashed the images, cut down sacred groves and tore apart the altars. Those few who still favored these objects offered no resistance, not wishing to be recognized as idolaters.
Also, in the times of the kings who followed God, the people supplied the needs of the Levites and the temple by paying tithes. Hezekiah reminded the people of this tithe. The response was more than enough. During the months that followed, there was such a surplus of animals, grain, wine, oil, honey and valuables that places had to be prepared to store or keep them.
This change for the better didn't mean that there would be no trouble in the nation from then on. Judah was still under the burden of paying regular tribute to Assyria because of the heavy commitment made by King Ahaz. Besides, the Philistines were a constant threat from the west.
Encouraged by this triumph over one ancient enemy nation, Hezekiah continued to build up his army. About twelve years after he had become king, he at last felt that his fighting force was strong enough to repel invasion by the most formidable army of that time — that of Assyria.
A few months after Hezekiah's message was sent to Sennacherib, a startling report was speedily carried into Jerusalem.
"It would be foolish to pursue them," one of Hezekiah's officers Observed. "Perhaps they're going to invade Egypt. If they plan a full-scale attack against Judah, why would they travel so far beyond Jerusalem?"
"That's what I want to know," Hezekiah said. "Send scouts and lookouts to find out all they can and report as soon as possible."
When the scouts sent messengers back to Jerusalem, it was with the discouraging news that the Assyrians had thoroughly plundered the towns in their path, and had made captives of the citizens. They had halted at the walled city of Lachish on the main highway to Egypt. They were besieging Lachish, which could indicate that Lachish was as far west as they planned to go.
The king of Judah was troubled. It was evident to him that this invasion was the result of his refusal to pay tribute to Sennacherib. A showdown at Jerusalem obviously wasn't very far away. Hezekiah called an immediate meeting of his advisors to determine what should be done next for the defense of the capital.
They decided that the most effective thing they could do, in the probable event the Assyrians came to Jerusalem, was to cut off the water supply by plugging up wells and springs outside the city. This was done after rural residents had stored much water in hidden places, although this measure was certain to bring hardship to farmers and stockmen. A crew of many workers even managed to divert and cover the stream called Kidron, so that it wouldn't be recognizable or easily accessible.
Hezekiah was troubled by this fearful mood of his subjects. Now that so many of them had turned back to God, he had hoped that their faith in God would be stronger. But at the same time he realized that it was difficult to be calm with multiple thousands of enemy soldiers not many miles away. He tried to encourage them by going to the main gates of the city, where he could contact the largest crowds and speak directly to them.
"Don't be dismayed by what you have heard of the Assyrians," he told the people, who gathered in large numbers to hear him. "The army of the invaders is truly a powerful one. But our power can be even greater if we trust in God to strengthen us. Remain obedient to Him, and there will be no reason to be afraid."
Later, alone in his quarters, the king paced the floor. It wasn't that his faith in God's protection had suddenly vanished. It was that he was wondering how much more hardship and loss of life God would allow in Judah before rescuing the nation from the Assyrians.
"Perhaps I have been too stubborn," Hezekiah thought. "Perhaps my refusal to pay tribute will cost the lives of many of my people."
The king of Judah thereupon made a decision that changed matters somewhat, though not necessarily for the better. Messengers shortly afterward delivered a message to the Assyrians at Lachish. (II Kings 18:14.) It was for Sennacherib. Hezekiah trusted that it would be forwarded to the Assyrian emperor, wherever he was.
"It is obvious that my decision not to pay tribute to you has caused you great offense, for which I am regretful and ask your pardon. My nation does not want to indulge in war. Advise me what you require of Judah for the departure of your entire army without warfare. Whatever you ask will be paid."
"Deliver to me three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. Then I will take my army back to Assyria in peace."
Hezekiah was stunned by this demand, which today would be equal to several millions of our dollars. Nevertheless, the king of Judah had promised to pay it, and he was determined to do so in spite of a difficult situation. That situation was that he didn't have the required amount of gold and silver. His personal finances and palace treasures couldn't meet such a demand. Taxing the people, even locally, would require too much time. Besides, such a measure wouldn't be good for the morale of his subjects, to whom he had recently spoken concerning faith in God for their protection.
At first Hezekiah tried to calm himself with the thought that the Assyrians were simply going to pass by the capital of Judah on their way to their home country. Perhaps Sennacherib was going to stop and thank him for the gold and silver. This wishful thinking came to an end when he saw the first columns of the tremendous army come over a rise and soon spread out around the city.
"I am Tartan, King Sennacherib's treasurer and general!" one of the richly uniformed men loudly shouted. "My king has sent us to give a message to your king! Send him out on the wall to hear it!"
"Sennacherib's general has a message from his king for you, sire," an excited servant quickly informed Hezekiah.
"I know," Hezekiah nodded. "I heard his raucous voice and his insolent tone. I don't intend to jump at his command. If the king of Assyria must use representatives, so shall I."
A little later three of Hezekiah's men of top rank appeared on the wall. They were Eliakim, Shebna and Joah. These were the steward of the royal household, the king's chief secretary and his official recorder and keeper of the archives. After they were introduced, another of the three Assyrian officers waved for attention.
Standing by a window where he could hear every spiteful word, the king of Judah suddenly felt very ill when he learned that he had made the tribute payment in vain. The treacherous Sennacherib's promise to leave Judah without more war was merely a ruse to bring reproach on Hezekiah before the mighty Assyrian army moved to strike at Jerusalem!


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Being a student, it's kind of hard to balance diabetes and fun. As much as the two have to go together no matter what, it is fairly easy to put fun before diabetes. The easiest way to prove this is that I check my sugar less when I am going out with friends than I do if I am just out and about by myself. I instantly morph into a non-diabetic like my friends.
Although, it is easy to forget - you have to do, what you have to do. So, here is a little manual to make that balance a little easier!
1. Pre drink: This is the time to load up on some of the snacks and take a little less insulin, because it's going to be hard to find food at the bar. Check your sugar at least twice, once before the pre drink and then just as you're about to jump in the cab. Personally, I don't mind if my sugar is a little on the high side as I am heading to the bar, because I know I will be dancing!
2. At the bar: There is going to be lots of people and it's going to be hard/annoying to check your blood sugar. Sometimes, I check mine at the bar, but not always. I go a lot by 'feeling' - if I feel low, I will try and find something (hardly ever happens) and if I feel high I might take a couple units of insulin.
3. After the bar: This is when you come storming into your apartment looking for some food. You haven't had snacks until the pre drink and now it's time to have a little snack. This is a good time to get back into the swing of diabetes and check your sugar before heading to bed. Have a couple snacks and get settled into your bed - but I can't guarantee you won't wake up in the middle of the night with a low blood sugar!
And that's that! It is pretty simple, but if you know your body well, you shouldn't have to fret if you haven't checked your sugar at the bar because let's face it sometimes fun gets in the way. As long as your friends around you know that you're the diabetic in the room, chances are they won't let you down.


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In this field, ORAD has leading customers from the industrial sector and the municipal sector, such as HP, Ormat, Intel, Galil Wineries, Mekorot, BIG centers, etc., in the industrial sector. In the rural sector, the kibbutzim Zikim, Nachshonim, Gadot, Tze'elim, Rosh Hanikra, etc. In the municipal sector – the municipalities of Jerusalem, Rishon Lezion, Yavne, Kiryat Motzkin, Holon, Hadera, etc.
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A Ti-5Cu alloy produced by selective laser melting exhibits a nonuniform Ti2Cu phase structure, which contains a small amount of α′ phase in melt pool boundaries thereby resulting in reduced corrosion resistance. The heat-treatment process proposed in this work eliminates the deleterious effect of α′ phase and the Ti2Cu phase is refined using different cooling rates, which improves the corrosion resistance. The electrochemical results indicate that the heat-treated Ti-5Cu samples have similar corrosion behavior to pure CP-Ti. A slower cooling rate produces a larger spacing between the Ti2Cu phases in the microstructure of the sample, resulting in higher corrosion resistance. The corrosion behavior of SLM-produced Ti-5Cu and heat-treated counterparts with different microstructure are detailed discussed.


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La villa di Spoiano si trova su un poggio tra Tavarnelle Val di Pesa e Barberino Val d'Elsa. La proprietà è di origini rinascimentali e fu citata nel 1689 dal visitatore apostolico che compiva la visita pastorale a San Jacopo a Magliano.

Architettura
La villa di Spoiano è costituita da un grande fabbricato composto da due ali disposte attorno ad un cortile aperto verso sud, sulla vallata dell'Elsa. Il complesso è frutto dell'ampliamento di alcune preesistenze e appare generato dalla unione di due costruzioni gemelle. Le due torri sono asimmetriche e differiscono per le aperture. La torre con bifora serviva da torre di avvistamento e ancora oggi possiede un marciapiede che permette di camminare lungo ¾ del perimetro, la torre con trifora invece serviva come colombaia. All'interno della villa vari trompe-l'oeil decoravano le sale al primo piano. I pochi camini e la presenza di sale da bagno non riscaldate inducono a ritenere che la villa fosse inizialmente adibita a residenza di villeggiatura estiva.

Oratorio
Annesso alla villa si trova un oratorio dalla pianta ottagonale intitolato alla Santissima Trinità, all'interno è possibile trovare le quattordici stazioni della via crucis. La cappella fu costruita inizi Ottocento e nella cripta sottostante sono custodite le spoglie di alcuni membri della famiglia De Nobili (in particolare di Uberto de Nobili cavaliere e membro dell'Accademia dei Georgofili, morto improvvisamente nel 1821), Chiostri e Wäspi.

Storia
Nel XVII e XVIII secolo la villa era abitata dalla famiglia De Nobili.
Nel 1837 passò in mano a Luigi Basilio Chiostri, primo medico della corte di Vienna. Quando questo morì a causa di una grave malattia la proprietà fu ereditata dal giovanissimo nipote Giovanni Chiostri, figlio ventenne del fratello Francesco.
Giovanni abbandonò gli studi per sposare la nobile Emilia Bazzanti e nel 1850 acquistò la fattoria di Vegi.
Giovanni e Emilia ebbero nove figli e alla loro morte i possedimenti vennero spartiti, la fattoria di Vegi fu data ai figli Ettore e Silvio mentre Spoiano fu ereditata da Alfonso e successivamente al nipote Giovanni, detto Gianni. Gianni s'indebitò e fu espropriato dei propri beni.
La villa di Spoiano venne messa all'asta nel 1934 ed acquistata dalla famiglia Tinti Puccioni. Durante la seconda guerra mondiale la villa fu occupata dal Generale Kesselring e i suoi soldati. Le truppe alleate bombardarono la villa e la torre di avvistamento fu gravemente danneggiata.

Dal 1985 la fattoria è di proprietà della famiglia Wäspi dedita alla produzione biologica di vino, olio e salumi.

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Ville di Tavarnelle in Val di Pesa
Ville di Barberino Val d'Elsa

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Master's program Theory and Design of Buildings and Structures focuses on developing graduates' skills of design, calculation and construction of civil and industrial buildings, the choice of optimal building materials, products and structures. Having completed the program, graduates are prepared to solve problems in such professionally-oriented areas as innovative activity, survey work and preliminary estimation.
Graduates' professional work facilities are industrial and civil buildings; hydraulic engineering works and environmental constructions; building materials, products and structures.
Graduates are able to carry out surveys to assess natural and technogenic objects, to determine initial data for designing, justifying calculations, monitoring of objects; to do patent research, to prepare design tasks. They know methods for designing and monitoring of buildings and constructions, their structural components applying methods of justifying calculations and using universal and special software systems and automated design systems. Graduates can develop conceptual, technical and working projects of facilities which are subjected to heavy loads and stress and can be used in extreme climatic conditions. They know modern methods for diagnostics and monitoring of building constructions including experimental methods for determining the stress-strain state of structures; they can assess durability and safety of building structures, bases and foundations.


Students in preschool through high school have the opportunity to participate in an organized reading program each June and July. Each year features a different theme. Students read for chances to win prizes of their choice. The more time they read, the more chances they earn.
A story hour for families of preschoolers is held each August. Stories, crafts and activities are held for children ages 3, 4, and 5. Siblings of other ages are welcome to attend with the preschooler and their parent or care giver. In addition a lap sit story time for children under the age of 3 is held in the spring. Books, fingerplays, music and dance engage children and their caregivers.
Adults looking to become familiar with basic computer use can attend these free classes. Each class is a stand alone session covering mouse use, using programs, word processing, Internet searching and e-mail. Classes are held over 4 or 5 weeks. Classes are usually held in the fall with additional classes scheduled as needed.
Local and nationally known authors come and speak on various subjects and sign their books. Poets, historians and fiction writers have all come to share their love of writing with members of the community. Each year the library hosts special speakers and local historians to share their knowledge of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Village of Pepin during the Laura Ingalls Wilder Days celebration.
Beginning January 2016 the library will host a book club which is open to anyone wishing to attend. The discussions will be held on the second Thursday of each month. Check flyers for information on titles and time of meetings.
The library encourages families of toddlers and preschoolers to sign up for the 1KBBK program. Families will receive a folder to help track the books read to the child when they sign up. Once the child has reach various reading goals they will be given a book bag or book to keep forever. This is an ongoing program open to children under the age of 5.


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Business Planning for businesses Local Development Plan What is the LDP?
The Local Development Plan (LDP) identifies where new developments such as housing, employment, community facilities, and roads, will go. It provides a framework for local decision-making and brings together both development and conservation interests to ensure that any changes in the use of land are coherent and provides maximum benefits to the community.
The current Local Development Plan (LDP) was adopted on the 23 November 2010. The LDP sets out the council's land use policies and proposals to control development in the county borough up to 2021, and provides the basis by which planning applications will be determined consistently and appropriately. The plan gives a clear indication of where development will be encouraged and where it will be resisted. Visit the Adopted LDP section for details.


In Mexico, social capital is used to get resources. People who do not have access to formal markets use their networks to acquire public and financing services, social insurance and social benefits. To test this, social capital indicators were built using the resources supplied by people as a proportion of their income. This measure is theoretically related to a sympathy coefficient that represents the degree to which a person joins another´s welfare in its utility function, leading him to share resources with others. Synthetic panels with population cohorts were elaborated to follow population throughout the time. To correct a spurious regression problem, the cointegration-panel method was used. As a result, variables that reflect failures in financial, health and social insurance markets are associated to bonding and bridging social capital indicators. Thus, adjustments in these markets could be explained by social capital variables additionally to market prices mechanisms.
social capital; market failures; equilibrium; relationships; networks.
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Crystal employs strategy and implements operations for organizations working on building regenerative systems. She has worked in variety of sectors, including public, private, and development sectors, driving strategy decisions for startups, non-profits and C-suite. Her experience in sustainability consists of resource recovery, energy management, and clean technology. She was also the Associate Producer for Charles Ferguson's new film, Time to Choose, on climate solutions. She worked extensively with Ferguson on the renewable energy sector in both China and the U.S. Her passion is to inspire and empower individuals to create a regenerative world together. This is why she is also building a digital platform to help community leaders collaborate to bring solution to life effectively with the NorCal Community Resilience Network. She believes that every single individual today is well-equipped to create a world they want to see.


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package com.azure.resourcemanager.billing.fluent.models;

import com.azure.core.annotation.Fluent;
import com.azure.core.management.ProxyResource;
import com.azure.core.util.logging.ClientLogger;
import com.azure.resourcemanager.billing.models.InvoiceSectionState;
import com.azure.resourcemanager.billing.models.TargetCloud;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import java.util.Map;

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     * Get the state property: Identifies the state of an invoice section.
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The Salish Sea, showing the Strait of Georgia near centre, the Strait of Juan de Fuca below, Puget Sound at the lower right, Johnstone Strait at the extreme upper left, and the Pacific Ocean at lower left. Sediment from the Fraser River is visible as a greenish plume in the Strait of Georgia.
The Salish Sea (/ˈseɪlɪʃ/ SAY-lish) is the intricate network of coastal waterways that includes the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Washington. Its major bodies of water are the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound. It reaches from Desolation Sound at the north end of the Strait of Georgia to Oakland Bay at the head of Hammersley Inlet at the south end of Puget Sound. The inland waterways of the Salish Sea are partially separated from the open Pacific Ocean by Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula, and are thus partially shielded from Pacific Ocean storms. Major port cities on the Salish Sea include Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham, Port Angeles and Victoria. Much of the coast is part of a megalopolis stretching from West Vancouver, British Columbia to Olympia, Washington.
The Salish Sea includes the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Strait of Georgia, Puget Sound, and all their connecting channels and adjoining waters, such as Haro Strait, Rosario Strait, Bellingham Bay, Hood Canal, and the waters around and between the San Juan Islands in the U.S. state of Washington and the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada. The western boundary is the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, defined as a line between Cape Flattery and Carmanah Point. The southern boundary is the southern end of Puget Sound. The northern boundary reaches just beyond the northern end of the Strait of Georgia to include waters that experience the floodstream or tidal surge from the south: Discovery Passage south of Seymour Narrows, Sutil Channel south of Penn Islands, Lewis Channel (between Cortes and West Redonda Island), Waddington Channel (between West Redonda and East Redonda Island), and Pendrell Sound, Desolation Sound, and the southern portion of Homfray Channel (between East Redonda Island and the mainland). These boundaries were based on the 2002 "Georgia Basin–Puget Sound Ecosystem Indicators Report". The total extent of the Salish Sea is about 18,000 square kilometres (6,900 sq mi).
The first known use of the term Salish Sea was in 1988, when marine biologist Bert Webber from Bellingham, Washington, created the name for the combined waters in the region with the intention to complement the names Georgia Strait, Puget Sound, and Strait of Juan de Fuca, not replace them. The adoption of the term, he said, would raise consciousness about taking care of the region's waters and ecosystems. Webber's efforts are credited with the official recognition of the term in Canada and the U.S.
The Coast Salish are the indigenous peoples who live in southwest British Columbia and northwest Washington along the Salish Sea and share a common linguistic and cultural origin. The Coast Salish are seen as one of the main cultural and linguistic branches of a larger group known as Salishan or Salish. Five divisions of the Salish language family are recognized, with Coast Salish and Interior Salish being the primary two. The Salish family consists of 23 separate languages. European and American explorers first encountered Salishan people along the Pacific Northwest coast in the late 18th century. The first detailed information was obtained by the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. The term "Salish" was originally applied only to the Interior Salish Flathead tribe living in the region of Flathead Lake, Montana. By the mid-20th century, it had been extended to cover all people speaking a similar language. The Flathead Nation continues to refer to their language and culture as Salish. A variant name for Flathead Lake is "Selish Lake". The name Salish Sea was coined only in the late 20th century. No overarching title exists for this area or even a commonly shared name for any of the waterbodies in any of the Coast Salish languages.
The waterways of the Salish Sea were important trade routes for the Coast Salish, and they remain a source of food and other resources for the indigenous peoples. The basin includes territory of not only Coast Salish peoples, but also the Northern Wakashan Kwakwaka'wakw and Southern Wakashan peoples (the Nuu-chah-nulth, Makah, and Ditidaht) and, formerly, that of the Chimakum (a Chimakuan people related to the Quileute who no longer exist as recognizable group, having been wiped out by the Suquamish and others in the 19th century).
In March 2008, the Chemainus First Nation proposed renaming the strait the "Salish Sea," an idea that reportedly met with approval by B.C.'s Aboriginal Relations Minister Mike de Jong, who pledged to put it before the B.C. cabinet for discussion. Making the name "Salish Sea" official required a formal application to the Geographical Names Board of Canada. A parallel American movement promoting the name had a different definition, combining of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound as well as the Strait of Georgia and related waters under the name Salish Sea.
In August 2009, the British Columbia Geographical Names Office approved a resolution recommending that the Geographical Names Board of Canada adopt the name Salish Sea contingent on approval by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The name was endorsed by the Washington State Board on Geographic Names in late October, 2009. It was approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names on November 12, 2009, and by the British Columbia Geographical Names Office in February 2010. The French name Mer de Salish is also official in Canada.
Opponents to the Salish Sea designation assert that it is really a series of interconnected straits, sounds and inlets. Others oppose it for historical reasons and question the validity of the term "Salish". Despite these objections, the geographic boards of both Canada and the United States have officially recognized the name since the year 2010.
The region encompassing these waterways is or was also known variously as the Georgia–Puget or Puget–Georgia Basin, or in the singular as the Georgia Depression, the Georgia Basin or Puget Sound et al. The Canadian half of the region was originally named in 1792 by George Vancouver, and often remains referred to as the Gulf of Georgia, a term which encompasses the Strait of Georgia and all other waters peripheral to it, as well as to the communities lining its shores or on its islands. Like the term "Puget Sound," the terms "Georgia Strait" and "Gulf of Georgia" refer to the general region as well as the body of water.
Scientists have identified 253 fish species observed in marine or brackish waters of the Salish Sea ecosystem. These 253 species, encompassing one myxinid, two petromyzontids, 18 chondrichthyans, two chondrosteans, and 230 teleosts, are contained within 78 families and 31 orders.
↑ pdf document Stefan Freelan (Washington State University) 2009: "The Salish Sea (& surrounding basin"): "Rather than being a replacement for any of the existing names, the designation Salish Sea is an overlay, which includes and unites the established and familiar names of the various water and land bodies".
↑ Oxford English Dictionary. Salish. Second Edition 1989 (online). Retrieved 2009-11-23.
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Concerns raised over proposed National Care Service
LGBT charity hits out at Tory ministers "interference" in Gender Reform Bill
9 January 2023 by Niall Christie
The draft bill includes powers to transfer justice services, including some social work, to new boards.
Plans to bring various justice services under the remit of the proposed National Care Service (NCS) are "reckless" and not "grounded in evidence", an MSP has said.
The Scottish Government's draft NCS bill, published in June, will give Scottish Ministers the power to transfer functions such as justice social work and youth justice to new care boards.
This sweeping move will effectively dissolve the legal responsibilities of local authorities and enable these boards to directly commission services.
The transfer of these powers will lead to worse outcomes for service users, Labour's Katy Clark warned.
Speaking after the Criminal Justice Committee agreed to take evidence on the issue, Scottish Labour spokesperson for Community Safety, the West Scotland MSP said: "Social work is not the same as social care. There is no evidence base for incorporating justice social work into the national care service.
"This work is essential for delivering community interventions that reduce the imposition of custodial sentences, a stated aim of the Scottish Government. Divorcing these services from councils is not grounded in evidence, has not been called for by the sector and was not recommended in Derek Feeley's independent review.
"This will simply undermine local long-term community justice strategies and lead to worse outcomes for those who rely on these services. Putting justice social work jobs out tender will not solve the recruitment crisis in the sector – or improve public protection.
"Community justice services are specialist and you cannot simply resolve them by recklessly tacking them onto a new health and care-dominated body."
She added: "The Scottish Government's proposals are not for a care service in the mould of the NHS.
"Instead, they set out a catch-all quango that erodes local accountability, centralises decision making and incorporates all manner of services including aspects of criminal justice. The Scottish Government needs to go back to the drawing board."
Consultation launched on Freedom of Information reform
National Care Service must see care homes removed from private companies

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I Love A Success Story - Leslie and Deborah
My cross-dressing husband became my wife
and we're still in love!
By Rebecca Wright
Leslie and Deborah
Last year, boxing promoter Frank Maloney, 61, shocked the world of sport when he declared he was having a sex change to live as a woman, Kellie. And it's rumored that former Olympic athlete and Keeping Up With The Kardashians star Bruce Jenner plans to undergo gender reassignment surgery. These decisions can't have been easy for their families and friends to accept.
One woman who knows just how they might be feeling is social worker Leslie Hilburn Fabian.
After her husband David spent many years suppressing the desire to dress as a woman, he is now Leslie's wife, Deborah.
These days, as well as still enjoying the hobbies they shared together, like bike riding, Leslie can be found shopping with Deborah, or swapping advice on hair styles. They'll also flick through Deborah's favourite clothes catalogue, searching for another turquoise or purple dress – the colours she adores and feels happy in now she's a woman.
Leslie first met David, an orthopedic surgeon, in 1987 through mutual friends. She was attending a discussion at a fellow social worker's house about different lifestyles, and David was giving a talk about cross dressing – while dressed as a woman himself.
Leslie wasn't put off by his outfit. She remembers, "I was immediately attracted to him. He was over 6ft tall with amazing aquamarine eyes. And even though he wore woman's clothes, he didn't behave in an artificially feminine way and he had a deep voice. His openness and honesty about his situation were attractive to me."
The couple married in 1991 and in an attempt to live with David's cross-dressing, they agreed he would have the odd weekend or night as Deborah.
'I am happy almost all the time now. Much of the time I don't even think about what I'm wearing. I am just me. This is surprising to me, because I always used to be very aware of anyone looking at me. My life hasn't changed a lot, except that I now do everything as Deborah, female, as opposed to David, male.
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So Sexy Shoulder Skimming Top
Can You Wear Shorts and High Heels?
Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Banning Treatmen...
A Gender Game For Gifted Guys - Androfeminine
Rhonda's Political Week In Review 7-25-2021
Grab A Girlfriend and Go Shopping
From Shame to Self-love - Crystal Rasmussen
Musical Interlude - Signs
I Love A success Story - Dana International
Jeans with Heels Follow-up - Hello You Look...
Lip Shape and Size - Fillers
Put On...
How Do I Wear Heels With Jeans?
Dressing a Male as a Female
Mj Rodriguez Makes History
Decoding Genderless Fashion, The Future of the Ind...
Musical Interlude - My Girl Bill
It Takes...
Androgynous Lingerie?
A Best Known Jewish Tale Is A Transgender Tale
Eonism
Rhonda's Political Week In Review 7-4-2021
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Friend's Friday - Connie and The Hair Salon
Boys Can Be Princesses Too


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Power Pencil Solo exhibition at Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto. Text by Luiggi Meneghelli
Remembering Cuba
In Cuba the myths fades in the reality, dream in poverty and violence in sensuality. The Spanish philosopher Maria Zambrano once wrote: Cuba "is an island, which lightly lays on the water": it is surrounded more by light than sea. In a drawing by Diango Hernández, it even appears as a mounting floating on the paper-ocean and watching towards the astral space. This almost seems to resemble the unusual religious mixture which blends the Spanish rooted Catholicism with syncretistic cults of Afro Cuban origins.
But in Cuba this happens; everything mixes together and everything influences everything. The Cuban soul is Creole-ized, both on a essential, vital, historical and cultural level. Alex Fleites and Padura Fuentes in their unforgettable "Cuba's Paths" write:" Watching a popular dance with a likely Nordic blond girl or listening to a symphonic concert where a black plays one of the first violins, taking part in a Catholic mass or the drums parade of the "santerìa", watching a baseball match at the corner of a suburb or in Havana's bid stadium, doing shopping at the market or gaining something thanks to the black stock exchange….are all interchangeable actions."
Diango Hernández himself, recollecting his Cuban years, sees the Havana centre as an "unbelievable blend of races, smells, styles, sounds and fears. At every corner – he goes on – there was a policeman bus also a lot of junk which was going to be collected only at midday.
All this to say that Cuba is first of all its people and there are as many Cubas as its inhabitants. It is an attempt of appropriation, of collective invention, superstition, where the language itself is product of the imagination, in which the Castilian root is enriched with terms from African tongues, English and French. But above all is the cult of the body that gives a magic note to the Cuban way of being: the gestures, the walking with a rhythm similar to the dance, the touching while speaking, without which the conversation appears cut off. Also Diango Hernández recollects with pleasure his strolling among the people to catch behaviors, moods and opinions to transfer then on his drawing papers.
And in his going around, he also meets that incredible architecture, glorified by the visionary writer Alejo Carpentier:" an emporium of columns" where "the style of the things without style" rules. A baroque considered as a mass and a continuous mixture of Moresque and colonial classicism, art nouveau and art déco. Cuba is at the same time a "European and Caraibic, cosmopolitan and isolated, cheerful and melancholic, dynamic and hopeless" country.
Maybe Hernández takes right from here his way of drawing, where objects disappear and reappear, go and come. Maybe his inconstant mark grows from the wavy, instable and widespread lines of the cathedrals and castles, producing a space where every reality begins when you don't understand any longer what you are doing. (Matisse)
But Hernández cannot either forget he "had to keep his works hidden" and had to draw almost in the dark. This is to say that he fights against a government that used to consider illegal every idea and act not in line with its ideology.
He knows by all means that most Cubans is not against the system, but agrees that fighting to change it will only lead to jail and disgracefulness. And again, he knows how the population of the island is proud of its values, its culture but above all of the real miracle of having coped with the US embargo, etc.
Notwithstanding, he cannot avoid to see the excesses of Castro's regime, the fact that the Lìder Maximo confuses war with economy, society with life. In this context, he uses the drawing as means of expression and chance to meditation. Even so, he never came to make accusation or fight openly against it.
His drawing remains essential, fragile, and secret. "Mine are subversive works, but in a subtle way" says the artist. They are little stones thrown into a pond, of which you can see just the first circles; you need to keep you eyes open to be able to see it…
Despite all this, when Hernández leaves Cuba, the police stops him at the airport and …the luggage containing more than five thousands drawings ("My treasure, my diary of years"). They ask him to rub all the writing, in many cases just drafted or linked to the image. "Beauty, above all, is a means of seduction but also a provoker idea" goes on Hernández. And the rubbings become open wounds …traces of a system, side signals of a mistake.
Twelve light poles found in Primiero Valley: old poles looking like relics of a devastated and wiped out past. They still have their insulators and their electrical wires, but they are all twisted, as if they were worn remains, waste or mere spoils. Diango Hernández scatters them around the gallery with apparent careless, careful not to make them look like historical evidences, precious ruins, or wreck to keep with special attention. On the contrary he performs on them a careful action of counterfeit, to say it better, a literal alteration of vision and senses by transforming them into huge master builder pencils with their tips painted in black.
It is evident that we are facing a sort of metamorphose. It is a question which we address to the object (though finished, dead), to the instability of classifications, to the roles exchange. Yet, it is a matter of transformation in progress, of a progressive change. The light poles have not lost their identifiably, only they put their existence at the disposal of another existence, of another hypothetical functionality. Only children imagination can picture a twofold reality, a fantastical one. For a child a box can be a train, a couple of bricks can be a house, a broom can be a horse or an airplane. Through the symbolic game he can transform reality into appearance and vice-versa. And Diango Hernández himself said once "I am looking for a fire exit from this world…The real power is the possibility to build your own universe".
Thus, the installation "Power Pencil" can not be assimilated to Duchamp's act of putting an object outside its context, to superimpose it with new thoughts and new names, where the object is still identical to itself, within the fundamental law of identity. Neither it can be put in relation with the "as if" aesthetic by Magritte, a true hunter of dead relations and apparently casual encounters. He wanted to underline the deception of the images and the short-circuit of buildings surrounding that all representations hold within themselves. That of Duchamp and Magritte was a conceptual discourse. That of Hernández is once again a political one. The former two wanted to produce linguistic investigations; the latter wanted to sound out the power strategies.
Power: "It is what is beyond our existence, which can give life both to peace and economy as to mistakes and failures in the same way. It changes our way of being by its choices. Being more and more dependent on the sources of energy, it plays a passive role, forced to follow that technical progress, which it can not either control or lead, but only guarantees". So says Diango Hernández, underling the importance of alternative energies, able to obviate a development (but also its immediate obsolescence) invading without notice the context of an unprepared society. Pencil: "The pencil at the power" or "The power of pencil". It is the utopian fire exit, an impossible bet on freedom. It is the symbol of the art that can put down barriers, impositions, ideologies. The possibility of tracing a line, drawing, scribbling makes the artist the creator of his owns life, more and more social and less and less private. Again the artist says: "The light poles cut of and transformed into pencils are public acts, subversive actions, aren't they?" They represent the overthrow of a surpassed system, the creation of new forms, and the birth of new worlds. In the same way my drawings on the wall, where only the pencil stroke leaps into the foreground, seem to express the same idea: they are scanned and enlarged from normal size, so that the sign can gain a more physical dimension and become matter, almost a project plan, a house plan (even when it is reduced to ruins). As Thomas Eliot said: "From these ruins I will build my cathedrals".
Talking about drawing
Diango Hernández seems to live in drawing and through drawing. He is like a player obsessed by the combinations of matches, hunted at night by the ghosts of the chessboard or the cards spread over the card mat. Persecuted by images of strategies and by solutions that are more visionary than realistic, his action is always "a insane action devouring itself, nourishing itself, accelerating, self exasperated, hurrying towards the enjoyment and the possession of all we want to see". Valery said so about Degas's drawing. Yet, Hernández has not intention whatsoever to create a form (not even a way to see the form) by catching the figure of a dancer in her overflowing acrobatics. His urge of tracing lines comes from the need of creating another universe, a different figure of the world. Those images escape an immediate understanding. Often, they seem to be involved, incomplete, overwhelmed by their same expressive drive, almost abandoned to the freedom and lightness of the first idea, the flash of inspiration.
L. M. -There is something clandestine in these drawings, or else, something potential, hypothetical. Something whose signs we follow, loosing track of them all the time. Yet, those that look like shortenings and visual savings do not reveal a lack of the image, but rather a phase of concealment and secrecy. Your use of water, to give an example, to alter the ink colour stroke and transform it into something different (stains, flaws and shadows) is an act of crossing out and rebirth. The stroke becomes one and numerous, always the same and at the same time different. Was that a way to cherish the mystery of the creative process, the fable of creation or was it, at the beginning at least, a strategy to escape the watches, the repressions of a more and more suspicious and mistrustful regime like the Cuban one?
D. H.- To be honest, I have never expressed a contentious position, but I have rather been a witness of the system. In my drawings one could find the representations of my view point over the crisis. Before the fall of the Revolution (which came together with that of the Soviet system in 1989), Cubans had learned to speak in a low voice, so that nobody that would not live in the island would hear them. They had invented a popular jargon made of broken sentences and absurd gestures. After the fall, we started thinking again. The first indications of freedom were the freedom of thought, and then came the freedom of word and finally that of opinion. Every day life was an adventure again, though carried out through ruins, misery and illusions. In those years we became aware that the Revolution had been a failure. In those same years, I started (together with my mates from the "Gabinete Ordo Amoris") to collect all those weird objects made by people, full of a grieving beauty. We wanted to build a kind of museum of the crisis and show things nobody would have ever shown. Few years of that bleak high spirit and the power system was back to the most absolute centralism, to the elimination of the smallest space of autonomy. My studio room is in a small apartment on the Calle Esapada in Havana. It is a dark and almost suffocating space that used to be a house for prostitutes. There – in that bunker like refuge, protecting me by any censure – I gave life to my never ending drawing activity, which wanted to be a triumph of the imagination over propaganda, a manipulation of what was manipulating us. The expression of "the desire to see the realities hidden beyond the realities" as the great writer Alejo Carpenter would say.
L. M. – Yet, the peculiarity of your drawing lays in its capacity of eschewing everything: it remains, waves and goes adrift between the desire subtly leading your hand and the leave-taking from all desires of possessing and seizing a sense of reality, though hidden. Even when some projects for architectural structures or hydraulic devices pop out of your notebooks, one has the unmistakable feeling to be in front of impossible, useless, incomprehensible and raving machines, "bachelor machines", which are not defined by their functioning dynamic but – on the contrary – by their non sense and breaking process. One just needs to look at the draft of "Il mio parco" (My park), winner of the 2007 Verona Art "Icona" award: an old light pole on which are placed some chairs without legs. At the back a screen with the writing "Aspettare" (Waiting) made of the electric wires coming out of the pole itself. It is the breaking of every kind of logic. The every day object, mutilated of any chances of being used, transfers to the writing the information on its usability (that of waiting, in fact).
D.H. – Carpentier meant exactly that, when talking about seeing the usual as stranger, unknown and remote. He was not referring to the act of looking for what is alien within the exotic, but to the impossibility of seizing it within our familiar space. In his manifesto in fact, "Il real meravilloso", he would say that walking around the streets of a popular quarter of Cuba was sufficient to discover that those poetical, casual, fabulous encounters so long searched by the surrealists can take place in a window-shop. Only, in that same street, one could also experience un unbroken check, a Revolution that had destroyed all sense of history and nation, a dream that had become a nightmare and a present that seemed to become eternal and immutable. I have translated the word present with the word "aspettare" (waiting), containing the idea of desencanto but also that of laziness, sluggishness, fatalism, typical of Latin American people. Still, all my drawings, full of imperfections and mistakes as they can be, want to be a "promise for a future", a potential project, a kind of resistance, like that of Cubans, who from one day to another had to re-invent themselves and rebuild their life.
L.M. – Thus, do you rely on drawing as if it was reality; even more than reality, as something that would transcend it, becoming a source of meditation, research and imagination?
D.H. – Drawing in its abstraction is more fertile than a real thing. It transforms itself every day, it develops, grows, converts itself in a field of undecided forces. Every drawing takes you to the following one, not through the artist's imagination but through the drawing's own imagination. There is always to learn from that congestion of suspended, slander or frayed lines, which replaces it. Somehow, it sets free the creativity that the observer cherishes within himself.
L.M. – Thus, the fragility of the materials (water colours, pencil or ink) does not imply a fragility of expression in your work. Your drawing has lost all characteristics of a transitory image, of a pure meditation on a will-be work of art. It is no longer planning but it is rather investigative and speculative, displaced next to the tensions inherent the reality and the language.
D. H. – Surely my drawing is not a mere support base, a note pad (though it is really a pad or a small diary), or a small piece of paper for scribbling some measures or sums.
I do have a model to achieve. My models are my ideas. Their transfer on the surface is careful, well thought ought. In my last works I have introduced a kind of experimentation on the drawing itself. I start from a form, from an idea. Then I destroy it by the water that same idea. I started developing that kind of intervention for the show "Revolution" (2006) in Basil, by presenting a set of identical drawings, whose unique singularity was that of having been deformed in a different way. To me it is like producing a linguistic swerve, a very strong critical category: that of the disorientation and mistake. By depriving a clear-cut stroke of its rooting, I make it both alien and recognizable. I do not destroy the stroke, I subvert it and make it visually multiple.
L.M. – Do the tools you use influence your discipline and the way you create the image?
D. H – The only thing that matters is that my tool allows me certain speediness, maintaining the dynamical of the idea. I only avoid the use of the classic writing pen as the outcome is too recognizable. It is good for writing, thank to its instantaneous read, while I like to touch the poetic puzzle of the metaphor, the parable and the absurd. I have to confess that I like the blank paper, because it makes me think. When I see it I feel more like a child than an artist. It gives me the impression to be facing the symbol of the artistic making in itself, in both its sense of final and extreme achievement and of insurmountable obstacle: Absence. Perhaps the creative activity is nothing more than controlling and managing the blank.
L.M. – We keep on talking about drawings, chasing their matter, dimensions, meaning. Yet your name is strictly linked to big installation (from the uprooted light poles in "Palabras" at the 2005 Venice Biennale, to the plate roofs transformed into walls in "Cri(is)home" at the 2006 Sidney Biennale or to "We are unfinished drawings" at the 2006 Saint Paul Biennale, and so forth..)
D. H. – Installations are made in the same way than drawings – that is the thing. I do not proceed according to a project. It is all a matter of improvising and verifying how an idea becomes reality. By drawing you can give shape to what is unattainable and inconceivable, to what would never be concrete. Well, I want to do the same with real objects: producing reversals and swerve of meaning able to question the contours of habits and to transform the ordinary profile of things. It is pretty much what I am trying to do in this exhibition called "Power Pencil". I recycle, as if they were lost objects and mere archeological items, twelve light poles with their broken electric wires and I make them into huge paradoxical pencils. You can see very well that it is not about making an inventory of the déjà vu, opening up a collective memory. It is more about recovering from the mines of waste some out of fashion things, a kind of sign from beyond. Even when an object is deprived of its functional characteristics and it is out of its context of use, it can still send signs of its subversive potentialities. W. Benjamin said that we have to be aware of the revolutionary energies inherent to old things. I want to bring to the territory of art the reality, though with unusual and unexpected valences, I want to make the silence of history speak and reverse all its codified charters.
I had done a similar operation with the installation "As a drop I am going out of my home (at the Kunsthalle in Basil 2006): a space made up of everyday objects (televisions, tables or armchairs) crossed by an hydraulic system starting from a tap and finishing in two tanks. It was clear that those objects were broken down and became part of that nonsense pipe system. It was an unstable and paradoxical structure, with reference also to the social and political situation in Cuba, where industries are rare, the hydraulic system is destroyed, sewers and waterworks are dismissed and where the individual has invent some emergency solutions. It is a bit like showing "the power of imagination", the revenge of impossible situations. Yet, every time I had finished a work, I take my pencil and draw it again and again, to understand it better, to investigate all its angles, to receive confirmation of the departing point.
L.M – You often do that with the paper as well. I have got here under my eyes a kind of illogic labyrinth, with no entry or exit apparently, but only a slow and progressive of plans. "You get lost, and it is not because you can not find your way. It is because that place gives you the feeling to be defined by a load of interventions, until it becomes a small autarchic universe, a fortress built by the constant returns on the motive.
D.H. – I often go back on a drawing, especially if I perceive that there is something beyond its first appearance, if I perceive that it could be transformed into a different shape. Sometimes they are only scribbles, fragments. Sometimes I like to leave the drawing as it is, like a draft, a starter, thus demolishing its possible future. Yet, I never follow an identical modality ore gesture. I do not have rules on how I can use my hands. In fact most of my drawings are without title or signature; following the idea that we do not need necessarily to finish things and that we can set the paper free from forced spins.
L.M – Still you often insert some very incisive words, such as "mistake", "ruin", "goodbye". In Twombly for instance you let the writing drag, run or rest lazily at the side of the drawing. Similarly, in other drawings you mix a kind of verbal mishmash: English, Spanish, and Italian. Still some verbal splinters manage to escape and make itself heard not only seen.
D.H – Sure, they are not just observations over the images. They are not preaches, rather they are mental speeches. They are "hypothetical" writings, to say it better, they are denied writings. Denied with the regret of those who know that they are important, who do not know what is beyond, who can not set themselves free from them, and like a drug addict who has experiences the pleasure and can not give it up. They are denied with that love and hate struggle belonging to our deepest thoughts.
L.M – in 2003 you left Cuba. Have you been drawing those painting inspired by the street world, like interpretation of that utopian struggle for survival, after you arrival in Europe?
D. H – In Cuba they had more of a documentary character. They were observations on what I could see and hear. Now my drawings can enjoys a larger autonomy. It is not dependent on the comprehension of a given economical and social context. It can express itself in a different way. Still I can not detach myself from my past. On the contrary, the past has become like a wardrobe from where I can take out memories and experiences to re-analyze or re-elaborate. Like Joseph Beuys after his tragic accident: all his operations and objects come from this trauma.
L.M.-Why didn't you try to get politically involved like other artists did after the failure of the Revolution? You have been saying that the real revolution is art, and that the artist is the true revolutionary. Why not lifting up the heroic and romantic shield of art against those who are destroying Cuba?
D. H – I left because I wanted to know more, learn and do more. I believe our own freedom is more important that any other kind of freedom. Then, I was never interested into political struggle: revolutions do not exist, as they originate from destruction rather than change drive. I will never be away from my homeland. She is in my art, in the draw of memory with which I produce my works.
Perhaps in the end, Diango will repeat the prophetic words of the writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante. "Cuba, that gloom, unhappy and noble island will still be there after the last native and after the last Spanish, and after the last African and the last Russian, and after the last American and the last Cuban. Surrounded to all the wrecks and for ever lashed by the Gulf current: beautiful and verdant, eternal and everlasting". A tragic and mysterious vision is that, like every drawing made by Diango Hernández.
Catalogue: Text published in "Power Pencil". 17 x 10 cm , 150 pages, 100 color illustrations, hardcover, Published and Produced by Paolo Maria Deanesi. Text by Luiggi Meneghelli.
Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery
Power Pencil
©2017 Diango Hernández
Diango Hernández's work is in the collection of Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany | Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany | PAMM, Miami, USA | Artpace, San Antonio, USA | Museum of Fine Art Huston, Huston, USA | Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany | Kunstsammlung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany | INHOTIM, Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy | CAB de Burgos, Burgos, Spain | Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany | Rheingold Collection, Duesseldorf, Germany | Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, (MUSAC), Spain | Collectión Bergé, Madrid, Spain


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Perennial Xi'an North HSR International Healthcare and Business City Plot 4
Perennial Xi'an North High Speed Railway ("HSR") International Healthcare and Business City, comprising Plot 4 and Plot 5, is a large-scale mixed-use project measuring over 9.7 million square feet in total gross floor area. The landmark development is strategically sited adjacent and connected to the operational Xi'an North HSR Station, one of the largest HSR integrated transportation hubs in China with inter-city railway, intra-city subway, long and short distance bus terminals and taxi services. The Xi'an North HSR Station is also the largest train station in northwest China, connecting Xi'an to Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
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Plot 4 is expected to comprise retail, SOHO, serviced apartment and hotel components, while Plot 5 is being planned to comprise medical, eldercare, retail and hotel components.
Perennial Xi'an North HSR International Healthcare and Business City Plot 4 and Plot 5 are expected to complete in 2021 and 2024 respectively.
With its iconic design, strategic location and excellent connectivity, the integrated development is positioned as a regional hub to serve the sizeable catchment within Xi'an and beyond.
Property1 Information
Location North of Shangxin Road, South of Railway North Station, Weiyang District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
Description2 Retail Podium: 5 levels
(4 levels above ground
and 1 basement level)
SOHO: 1 29-storey tower
Loft: 1 18-storey tower
Hotel (3, 4 and 5 stars):
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Serviced Apartment:
Car Park: 2 basement levels
Tenure 40 years, expiring
(%) 65.7
(sq ft) Retail: 660,498
SOHO/Loft: 572,938
Hotel: 1,715,987
Serviced Apartment: 410,901
Car Park/Others: 1,045,502
Total: 4,405,827
Status Target Completion 2023
As all designs are undergoing refinement, the information in this table are subject to change.
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With education, we are expected to think on our own, being able to rationally make a proper decision when left alone, rather our mind is allowed to grow empty and wild and eventually consume itself, no wonder many feeds it with negative vices, will you blame them, capital no.
let alone this immediate gratification lazy generation on our feet that we should be careful of, that want things now and fast irrespective of the source/channel or pattern, this technology-driven generation that easily bound with strangers afar but far from the family close by, the loneliness in their lives, cannot be quantified.
our type of education does not allow us to think, experiment things out, it programmed us into a particular way of doing things, to read right and write right,( we speak from our nose to meet up) Good one, one way traffic, one major reason you see many of us always doing the same thing at a time, once a thing is booming people clusters on it, it starts trending, sooner than later we dump it and jump to another one , we recycle a lot because we are intellectually lazy, so glue to our new find love/families, the almighty devices.
our education system and that of the civilized world, what they sold to us or what we bought.
Their's teach them how to conceptualized and encapsulate ours teaches us how to emotionalise, tribalised and emasculate, they understand analysis we understand statistics.
Their school give them guidelines and put them through practicals helping them to think out of the box, why ours give us punchlines, it must be this way, to obey status quo, no room for an experiment, we always see our self-thinking in the box and program us with theories of ethnicity which unconsciously give birth to hatred then we ask where is coming from.
Their lectures are Open-minded professors why ours are stereotype politicians who determine what happened in our schools, caging our brains.
But if we find our self outside of the country, the world celebrates us, our real potentials exhumed, because is in us, we already have it impeded in us.
Someone just opens his month now asking me how?
The commonest thing a Government can make readily free and available for its citizens are FOOD, SHELTER AND EDUCATION, before talking of power.
But an average third world country citizen live all his/her life struggling to feed, pay rent and get good education, the type of the environment you are in, determines the flow of the ideas, most times it even distort the flow of the ideas or what we can produce/give out, good number of the youths live in slums, why their mate in the developed world those that will compete with them already have those things available for them, food, shelter and education is not a problem for them, so is a big challenge for youths in the third world country to explore their brain and impact the world.
one major reason most mother's who don't need to overwork must overwork to meet up with family needs then open up the children and society for immoral activities.
imagine I can't write any longer, like seriously, am really hungry now! have to go struggle to be sure of my daily meal, same as many who are supposed to be concentrating on creating things, rather they are pursuing their daily meals and making sure their languages are not throw out by almighty landlords/landladies, survival first.
Na man wey chop dey sign.
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