Char Dham is one of the best pilgrimage tours in Uttarakhand. It is a holy pilgrimage tour in Uttarakhand composed of four places: Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath. Char Dham Yatra is the most visited Yatra in India, it is a world renowned Hindu pilgrimage tour visited by millions of pilgrimage tourists in India.
These four Dhams are a landmark site for Hindus. These four Dhams are the most holy way to attain salvation.
Our representative will pick you from the Haridwar Railway station or Dehradun Airport to Aalia resort, a luxurious 5 star hotel located on the banks of the sacred river Ganga at Haridwar. After relaxation and refreshment in the luxury ambience of the resort we are heading to Har-ki-pauri for the Holy Aarti darshan in the evening 4.30. After Aarti the pilgrims come back to resort for the Welcome Dinner and detailed briefing of Char Dham Yatra. Overnight stay at Aalia Resort.
Arrival- Relaxation and Refreshment at Resort.
Early in the morning at 7 AM Havan and Poojan on the bank of the river Ganga at Hotel for the blessings of Char Dham Yatra. The sacred Dham yatra will begin by 8.45 AM from at the helipad at the resort, flying to Kharsali Helipad (Yamunotri temple). Travelling from Kharsali Helipad to temple by riding on the back of a pony or by Palki. It is a 7 kilometers ride towards temple. After darshan the pilgrims come back to Kharsali for sightseeing and overnight stay.
7 AM Havan and Poojan.
10 AM Kharsali Helipad to Yamunotri temple riding on the back of a pony or by Palki Sightseeing and overnight stay at Kharsali.
After breakfast at 8.30 AM the group is flying from Kharsali to Harsil helipad. From Harsil we go by car to Gangotri temple. The distance is around 20 kilometers. VIP darshan will be provided. Priest (pandit) is available for special poojan . Harsil is a beautiful valley of dense forest and green mountains. On the way there are many beautiful spots where you can enjoy the beauty of the nature and take photos to make your journey memorable forever. You will be blessed by the evening Aarti Darshan at Gangotri. Dinner and overnight stay at Gangotri.
8.30AM flying from Kharsali to Harsil helipad.
9.30 AM Harsil to Gangotri temple by car.
8 AM Gangotri to Harsil helipad.
9 AM Harsil helipad to Guptkashi.
12.15 PM Guptkashi to Kedarnath.
Afternoon coming back to Guptkashi Sightseeing and overnight stay at Guptkashi.
Day 4 – Visit Badrinath At 8 AM the group is going to Sampooranayatra helipad. Then we proceed to Badrinath from Sampooranayatra helipad at Guptkashi. On arrival at Badrinath helipad the group will transfer to hotel. After darshan the group is going to Mana Village, the last border of India with China for sightseeing. At the evening we attend Swarna Aarti at Badrinath Temple. Dinner and overnight stay at Badrinath.
Program Summary: 8 AM Going to helipad. 8.30 AM S helipad to Badrinath helipad.
Afternoon Sightseeing at Mana Village Evening Swarna Aarti at Badrinath Temple.
Early morning at 4 AM temple darshan with Vishnu sehastranam path (optional). Sharp 8.45 AM soon after the breakfast we are flying back to Haridwar. While we are heading back, we can see the beautiful over view of the region. Especially the picturesque view of the confluences is an eye-candy for nature lovers. We are flying between the beautiful valleys of thick forest. We fly over the 5 confluences like Vishu Prayag, Nanda Prayag, Karna Prayag, Rudra Prayag and Dev Prayag. On arrival at Haridwar, we proceed towards Maa Chandi Devi Temple. Soon after that we are visiting Rishikesh. We cover Laxman Jhulla , Ram Jhulla (hanging bridge over river Ganges) sightseeing, temples and shopping. Evening we are coming back to Aaliya resort for dinner and overnight stay. Evening Aarti at Haridwar (Optional). The next day everyone checks out resort before 12.15 PM. Drop off to Haridwar Railway station.
4 AM Badrinath Temple Darshan.
6.45 AM Bedrinath to Haridwar.
Tour Cost: 1,95,000/- Thousand Per Person.
Initial Booking Amount Rs. 10,000/- (Non- Refundable).


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It takes courage to engage in intermediation when the market is tight and large brokerage corporates are already established there. This courage is evidently inherent in Geneviève Gbokede, affectionately nicknamed the iron lady.
It is first as an official of the ministry of finance that G. Gbokede acquires the skill of insurance. Upon her recruitment in 1983, she joined the insurance control department where she stayed for three years before being assigned to the only insurance company available at that time, the Société Nationale d'Assurance et de Réassurance (SONAR).
After serving in various technical departments she was appointed head of the fire department. She completed her Bachelor degree in Law in 1989 and then sensed the need to scale up her professional skills.
She decided to join in 1990 the international insurance institute of Yaoundé (IIA) where she obtained her post-graduate degree in insurance in 1992.
She began her first experience in the brokerage with Gras Savoye which was established in Benin in 1994. In 1998, she left the French broker to join NSIA which obviously entrusted her with the management of the brokerage department.
In 2006, G. Gbokede felt armed enough to stand on her own feet, hence the establishment of the Société Africaine d'Etude et de Courtage en Assurances (SAECO Assurances Benin).
Since then, in addition to her brokerage activity, she has been regularly consulted to provide advice to companies, conduct feasibility studies, undertake training sessions, and assist in risk management.
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Cavenagh Gardens, a freehold residential development along Cavenagh Road in District 9, has been launched for en bloc sale with a reserve price of $480 million, revealed marketing agent JLL.
With a land area of 128,255 sq ft, the development comprises three blocks of 172 apartments. The site is zoned residential under the 2014 Master Plan with a gross plot ratio of 2.1.
It is close to a few shopping malls including The Centrepoint and Plaza Singapura as well as the Somerset and Dhoby Ghaut MRT stations. Nearby schools include St. Margaret's Primary School and Anglo-Chinese School (Junior).
JLL noted that the site could be redeveloped to contain 400 apartment units averaging 740 sq ft each. And since it is located within the central area, URA's revised planning guideline on the minimum average unit sizes will not apply.
The reserve price reflects a land rate of $1,695 psf per plot ratio (psf ppr), including an estimated state land premium of $18.4 million.
Last year, the Singapore Land Authority granted in-principle approval to amalgamate about 11,800 sq ft of state land with the subject site.
Including the 10 percent bonus gross floor area (GFA), the price would translate to $1,541 psf ppr. No development charge is payable, even for the additional 10 percent bonus GFA.
The tender for Cavenagh Gardens closes on 31 January.


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Onshore employment intermediaries legislation: HMRC's best kept secret?
Have you considered whether your client would be classed by HMRC as an employment intermediary?
HMRC's view is that there has been a significant rise in the use of intermediaries within the labour market, which they perceive is leading to a reduction in HMRC receipts of employment taxes, coupled with the loss of legal employment rights for workers due to the creation of 'false' self-employment.
a person or business who supplies workers to work for an end client or another employment intermediary, and the client then pays the person or business or someone connected to the person or business for the worker's services. The end client is who the worker does the work for.
£1000 third and later offences.
Do they use off-payroll workers to fulfil customer contracts?
Is the worker's service in the UK (or is the worker resident in the UK if the service is provided overseas)?
Do they pay these workers without deducting PAYE/NIC?
If the answer to these questions is yes, then HMRC may deem your client to be an intermediary and as such they will need to submit online reports to HMRC.
The legislation requires the intermediary to supply information to HMRC by way of quarterly online reports, though HMRC will accept reports on a more frequent basis if this suits the intermediary's operation.
Care is needed once it is established that a business falls within the definition as quarterly reporting is required. Even where no workers have been supplied during a particular period, the business must still file a 'nil report' by the deadline date.
It is important to understand that this legislation applies not only to those businesses typically seen as obvious intermediaries such as umbrella companies and agencies, but has a much broader application and can potentially encompass many more, perhaps unsuspecting, businesses.
This legislation creates a further burden for businesses, and provides HMRC with yet more in-year data and information regarding off-payroll (self-employed) workers. What has surprised us in the two years since this legislation was enacted, is that there appears to have been little compliance activity undertaken in this area by HMRC.
Based on conversations that we have had with agents and HMRC, it seems clear that this lack of activity on HMRC's part will not continue for very much longer. As 2016/17 is the first year that HMRC will charge the intermediary penalties, we believe that there will be an increase in activity in this area in the coming months. As such, businesses will need to be aware of their obligations, ideally before HMRC comes calling.
For further information or assistance in determining whether your clients are affected by the onshore intermediaries legislation, please contact Nigel Nordone and Jacqueline Mann in our tax investigations team on 0345 223 2727.


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Karen Poteat assists Ava Trivette in the long jump during track and field practice. Photo by Lee Sanderlin.
Lee Sanderlin
It's a warm, sunny afternoon at Kidd Brewer Stadium and the athletes are all training with a singular goal in mind. This is the scene at Track and Field practice for Watauga County Special Olympics. With the spring games scheduled for April 28 at Watauga High School, the athletes are in the midst of preparing for their chance to shine.
Keron Poteat, special olympics coordinator at Watauga County Parks and Recreation, has worked with the Special Olympics in the High Country for over 20 years, and is a fixture at the various practices these athletes have in preparation for the Spring Games.
"We have about 50 athletes that train year round, but for our Spring Games, we have about 125-150 people that come out and participate in the local event," Poteat said.
For track and field, there seems to be an event for everyone as the athletes are able to compete in a variety of events ranging from various length walks or runs, a softball distance toss, a long jump and a mini-javelin toss.
Practice begins with all the athletes gathered in a circle in order to do group stretches to prepare for their training. There's no shortage of smiles or laughter throughout the roughly 10 minute stretch routine, each Olympian grinning as they get ready to start practicing the walking and running races.
Keron Poteat instructs the Olympians in properly doing the walking and running races. Photo by Lee Sanderlin.
Donna Miller, who competes in the walking events as well as the softball distance toss, is a Special Olympics veteran, who, according to her, has won plenty of medals to go along with her experience.
"I've been doing them [Olympics] a long time. I've won a lot of medals," Miller said. "My favorite is the walking and practices are fun."
Miller isn't your typical Olympian either. Along with the training she does, she's also married and has recently finished paying off her home from Habitat for Humanity that she and her husband occupy together.
"He [her husband] works at ASU," Miller said. "We finished paying [the house] off and we are going to do our bathroom next!"
For Poteat, it's the athletes, like Miller, who make her job as rewarding and worthwhile as it is. She said there is no doubt that her work with Special Olympics has affected her life in a positive way.
"It's amazing, when I started my job 20 plus years ago, [Special Olympics] was the one thing I hadn't done within the scope of working with special populations," Poteat said. "From the moment I walked in there was a smile and a hug, it's been the passion for my job. Somebody asked me if I could do any job what would it be? and I said, 'You know what, I'm doing it.'"
Poteat isn't alone in her job, as she relies heavily on volunteer work in order for the practices and the Spring Games to happen every year.
"ASU is wonderful, the students come out in full force to volunteer," Poteat said. "We always have a lot of volunteers come out from ASU for the Spring Games, nearly 100."
Senior sociology major Breezy Arduini and senior English literary studies major Katherine Wilson have worked as volunteers for the Special Olympics in Watauga County since September 2015.
"We did basketball in the fall, but now we're on to track and field," Wilson said. "All the athletes are great to work with."
Both Arduini and Wilson enjoy their time volunteering, viewing it as an extremely rewarding experience. The two were basketball coaches in the fall, even taking a part in the action during unified events which combines Special Olympians and non-disabled individuals onto one team for events.
"We had a [Boone Police] verses athlete game and that was a lot of fun," Wilson said.
Fun seems to be universal among both volunteers and Olympians as there was no lack of laughter, encouragement and positivity throughout the afternoon.
For Arduini, her only struggle with volunteering has been learning how to work with athletes with different levels of functioning.
"Everyone is at a different level developmentally," Arduini said.
Poteat, Arduini, and Wilson encourage everyone to come out and volunteer when they can. The groups practice track and field every Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at Kidd Brewer Stadium.
Other sports offered include cycling, aquatics, volleyball and bowling. Additional details about practices and how to volunteer can be found online at: http://sonc.net/local-programs/watauga-county/.
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Природничий університет у Вроцлаві () — природничий заклад вищої освіти у польському Вроцлаві, заснований у 1951 році.

Згідно Постанови Ради Міністрів від 17 листопада 1951 року сільськогосподарський факультет Вроцлавської політехніки виокремлено в незалежну вищу сільськогосподарську школу з 4 факультетами: сільськогосподарський, ветеринарний, водної та зоотехнічна рекультивації, яка з 1972 року функціонувала як сільськогосподарський університет згідно Постанови Ради Міністрів від 28 вересня 1972 року, а з 2006 року — згідно Закону від 23 листопада як Природничий університет у Вроцлаві.

Заклад є міждисциплінарним університетом з переважанням природничих факультетів.Нині має 5 факультетів та міжфакультетські, загальноуніверситетські, а також спільні підрозділи.

Факультети

Факультет біології і тваринництва
 Інститут біології
 Інститут тваринництва
 Кафедра генетики
 Кафедра екологічної гігієни та догляду за тваринами
 Відділ досліджень харчування та кормів для тварин
 Кафедра експериментальної біології
 Управління факультету Служби проектів ЄС
 Природознавчий музей

Факультет біотехнології та харчових наук

 Кафедра біотехнології та мікробіології харчових продуктів
 Кафедра хімії
 Кафедра технології фруктових, овочевих та зернових
 Кафедра сільськогосподарських технологій та зберігання
 Кафедра технології тваринництва та управління якістю
 Відділ харчування людини

Факультет екологічної інженерії та геодезії

 Інститут ландшафтної архітектури
 Інститут будівництва
 Інститут геодезії та геоінформатики
 Інститут екологічної інженерії
 Інститут розвитку та охорони навколишнього середовища
 Кафедра просторового управління
 Кафедра математики

Факультет ветеринарної медицини

 Кафедра біоструктури та фізіології тварин
 Кафедра біохімії, фармакології та токсикології
 Кафедра імунології, патофізіології та ветеринарної профілактики
 Кафедра патології
 Кафедра внутрішньої медицини з клінікою коней, собак та котів
 Кафедра епізоотіології клініки для птахів та екзотичних тварин
 Кафедра репродукції та клініки сільськогосподарських тварин
 Кафедра та клініка хірургії
 Кафедра гігієни
 Центр експериментальної діагностики та інноваційних біомедичних технологій
 Віварій факультету

Факультет природничих наук та технологій
 Інститут агроекології та рослинництва
 Інститут економічних та соціальних наук
 Інститут ґрунтознавства та охорони навколишнього середовища
 Інститут сільськогосподарського машинобудування
 Кафедра ботаніки та екології рослин
 Кафедра фізики та біофізики
 Кафедра генетики, селекції рослин та насінництва
 Кафедра захисту рослин
 Кафедра садівництва
 Кафедра живлення рослин.

Ректори
 1951-1954: проф. Станіслав Толпа
 1954-1955: проф. Альфред Сензе
 1955-1959: проф. Александр Тиховський
 1959-1965: проф. Альфред Сензе
 1965-1969: проф. Тадеуш Гарбулінський
 1969-1981: проф. Ришард Бадура
 1981-1981: проф. Юзеф Дєжис
 1982-1984: проф. Генрик Балбєж
 1984-1986: проф. Броніслав Яблонський
 1986-1990: проф. Єжи Ющак
 1990-1996: проф. Єжи Ковальський
 1996-2002: проф. Тадеуш Шульц
 2002-2008: проф. Міхал Мазуркевич
 2008-2016: проф. Роман Колач
 з 2016: проф. Тадеуш Тжішка.

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If you're a die-hard skier looking for deep snow, fun terrain, and lift-side camping, this Pacific Northwest road trip is for you. If you can, I highly recommend spending multiple days at each resort, and maybe even add a detour to the coast to really cap off an epic adventure.
This route will take you to deep snow, stunning views, great terrain, and a cold beer at the end of the day. Every stop brings you to a different resort that has its own charm—but most importantly, each one allows overnight camping in designated lots for a small cost.
This gem is no secret among avid skiers, but it's definitely hidden deep in the Northern Cascades. The remote location makes the crowd-to-epic skiing ratio very tolerable. Expert skiers will have a blast on Mt. Baker's technical, steep terrain—but the area also sports plenty of blues and greens for beginners.
Once you've skied out all the snow in bounds, grab your skins and access the backcountry. When conditions are safe, you can continue the powder feast in the endless trees and big bowls surrounding the resort. As an added bonus, you can ski right to your camper at the end of the day and enjoy the parking lots festivities. Or head into the small town of Glacier for a delicious meal at Chair 9, a local grub spot where you can swap stories with locals and rest your tired legs.
Our next stop takes you to a Washington classic—Stevens Pass. The drive alone is stunning and you'll be frothing at the mouth when you see the jagged peaks of the Cascades dot the skyline. Like Baker, Stevens has a variety of terrain for all skill levels, and they even offer night skiing for those not ready to call it a day when happy hour hits. Stevens also allows overnight camping, which can be reserved through their online registration system.
Whether it's to spend the night or to grab a cup of coffee in the morning, make sure you hit the Bavarian-inspired town of Leavenworth. Breweries and bratwursts are aplenty and it's a great spot to kick back and pretend you're deep in the heart of the Alps.
Alpental is my favorite stop on this trip. This challenging, no-frills resort will test even the best skiers with its technical terrain, big cliffs, and die-hard locals who have no problem snaking your turns if you're moving too slow. The reward is some of the best skiing in Washington with an old-school feel. At the end of the day, head back to your camper at the famous Lot 4, where locals and fellow vagabonds will be crowded around small fires, swapping stories. You can even catch a run or two during night skiing. Most likely you'll find yourself at the local watering hole, the Backcountry Bar, where you'll probably be the only tourist and can dry out your powder-soaked outerwear.
If expert terrain isn't savvy with everyone, head across I-90 to Summit at Snoqualmie, where beginner and intermediate terrain is endless.
Crystal Mountain is probably the fanciest resort on this list. It breaks up the monotony of tight trees and pillow skiing with its wide open faces and powder-filled bowls. The views of Rainier are the best in the country, so kick back with a yummy lunch at the summit and catch a glimpse of Washington's highest peak. Ski your shaky legs back to the base where your warm camper awaits, thanks to the plug-ins provided by the resort.
Grab some dinner at the funky Snorting Elk Cellar Bar where the historic, ski-inspired decor will have your eyes dancing along the walls—while locals talk you into doing a round on their famous shot-ski.
Time to hit the road and head into Oregon. Stop at pFriem Family Brewery in Hood River for lunch and enjoy a healthy, hearty menu. Then weave your way into Mt. Hood, where this stunning volcano dominates the skyline.
Timberline and Mt. Hood Meadows both offer a variety of terrain and caters especially well to beginner and intermediate skiers. Experts might be a bit bored so if you need a challenge, head across the highway to Skibowl to get your black diamond fill. Thanks to Mt. Hood Meadows' generous night skiing hours, you can get your fix even after the sun goes down.
Last but not least, it's time to cap off this road trip with Mt. Bachelor. Just outside the cute town of Bend, Oregon, Bachelor sports a healthy mix of intermediate terrain, great views, and—of course—a parking lot ready for you to camp in. Head up to the summit to see if you can spot views of the various volcanoes dotting the horizon. Ski down to the West Village Lodge for a drink on their sun filled deck or head into Bend for a night on the town.
At 18, Kalen Thorien moved to Alta, Utah to pursue skiing. With only two years under her belt, the idea of becoming professional never crossed her mind. But passion drives ability and within a few seasons Kalen broke in to the ski industry and became a sponsored athlete. She didn't stop there. Her love for the outdoors evolved her into an explorer, pursuing adventure in all forms from backpacking to canyoneering, packrafting, and more. She signed with Salomon in 2015 as a four-season athlete and since then has shaped her life one journey after the other.
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We've been hearing a lot about the 22 million people who will lose coverage under the Better Care Reconciliation Act, and how much more insurance will cost on the individual market. But what if you have coverage through work? Turns out you're not immune to the effects of the bill. There's plenty of bad news to go around.
By the way, categorizing this stuff as bad news is not a partisan statement. Only 17 percent of Americans like the bill, including less than half of Republicans. Also against it: the American Medical Association, the American Association of Retired Persons, the American Hospital Association, the American Cancer Association's action network, the American Association of Medical Colleges, the Catholic Health Association, and to be honest I'm getting tired of typing "Association" and I think you get the point.
If you paid attention when you signed up for your health insurance, you probably noticed that there's an out-of-pocket maximum: no matter how much your care costs, you won't have to pay more than, say, $12,000 this year. Even if you get cancer. Even if you have a premature baby who spends weeks in the NICU and needs multiple surgeries.
But before the Affordable Care Act, insurance policies used to have the opposite: a cap on how much the insurer would pay. If you rack up more than, say, $200,000 in medical costs, your insurer could say that's it, we're not paying any more.
There were also lifetime limits. That preemie could burn through a lifetime's medical costs before she even came home from the hospital. The ACA ("Obamacare") outlawed those annual and lifetime limits, and 105 million people stopped worrying that they might get cancer and then hit a lifetime cap while they're in the middle of chemo. The senate bill would repeal the law against these limits.
Under the ACA, 80 percent of your premium dollars had to go to providing care, not to administrative tasks and executives' salaries. That provision, called the medical loss ratio, helped to keep premiums down. The BCRA repeals it: insurers can now spend as much of your money as they like on themselves, not on you.
Employer-provided insurance only works as long as you can actually get it. If you lose your job, you may be able to stay insured through COBRA, but the premiums tend to be high because your employer is no longer helping you pay for it.
If you end up being without insurance for 63 days or more, and then you want to buy individual insurance (what you may be used to calling an "Obamacare plan"), you'll be barred from coverage for six months. This provision in the health care bill is supposed to scare people into maintaining insurance coverage, since the bill would repeal the tax penalty for being uninsured.
Providers that take a lot of Medicaid patients, including children's hospitals, will suffer from the bill's massive cuts to Medicaid. Dipesh Navsaria, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, points out that Medicaid pays for a lot of sick children's care, so children's hospitals may lose enough business that they'll have to close or roll back the services they offer. That affects everyone: children's hospitals have a valuable role in training new doctors and developing new procedures.
If you get checkups at Planned Parenthood, the bill is trying to kill that too. There's a provision not to reimburse providers through Medicaid or other government payments when patients go to a very specific category of clinic. Planned Parenthood is the only one that fits the definition. Planned Parenthood serves a lot of low income folks on Medicaid, and also provides government-funded birth control. So if this provision goes through, those people's health and Planned Parenthood's existence are in danger. Your regular clinic may have to close its doors. Fun fact: there are 100+ counties where Planned Parenthood is the only clinic of its kind.
Nobody wants sick people to go without care. Ask even a steel-hearted Republican senator what should happen when somebody hits their lifetime limit halfway through chemo, and they'll say that their church and community should maybe pitch in to help. That's you. Instead of having care guaranteed by their insurer and the government, people with huge medical bills will have to beg for money so they can keep getting care. It's unlikely anyone can really pay for hundreds of thousands, much less millions of dollars in medical care by sharing a GoFundMe on Facebook, but what other choice do your friends have? Get your wallet ready.


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Spinning Chandelier
Rodney Graham's public art installation, a monumental 14 by 21-foot crystal chandelier transforms the vast cathedral-like space underneath the Granville Street Bridge. Spinning Chandelier will activate at 12pm, 4pm and 9pm local time each day, illuminating, descending and spinning for four minutes, before ascending, back to its starting point. A major public art installation for Vancouver, Spinning Chandelier forms an urban landmark and civic moment, turning a dark under-bridge into a focus of public celebration.
Vancouver-based Graham is an internationally acclaimed artist. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography, performance, music and film and he is widely known for his ongoing series of photographs depicting inverted trees.
Over his career, Graham has been included in the world's most prestigious exhibitions including Documenta IX and the 1997 Venice Biennale, where he represented Canada with his seminal film work Vexation Island. Graham has had major retrospectives in the past year at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany, and his work is in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In 2011 Graham was the recipient of the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and in 2016 he was named an officer of the Order of Canada.


Adults 18+ are invited to Book Your Summer with the Austin Public Library. Party at PRIDE Prom, solve an Escape Room, laugh along with Master Pancake, relax to symphonic melodies, delve into writing with author Mark Pryor, celebrate Harry Potter's 21st. You can even mic-test your own podcast and get a professional headshot before finishing the summer with a passionate dance. Check our event calendar for details.
In addition to all that fun, you can also write the title of your favorite 2018 summer read on the bottom tab of your program schedule. Pick up an Adult Summer Reading Program Schedule at your closest Austin Public Library location starting June 2018. Turn it in between June 1 – August 31 for a prize while supplies last.
The Adult Summer Reading Program, Book Your Summer, is about coming together to create, learn and celebrate our Austin community at the Library. Book Your Summer and all Library programs are free and open to the public. For more information call 512-974-7400, Ask a Librarian or visit www.austinsummerreading.org.


SCASA has rescheduled the State Cup for the weekend of the 19th of April. Since the CJ's Team won the Fall 2007 7v7 League they will be representing Myrtle Beach in Charleston.
So, in order to allow them to go, I have decided to reschedule the matches for that weekend so that they won't have to miss their match.


Since Lynn has been with us since 1990, she has really been part of the heart of PCG since the beginning. Even though she recently relocated to sunny Arizona, Lynn still participates in patient care at our office from time to time and we're glad to have her.
Lynn's many talents include assisting the doctors, massage therapy, and CranioSacral Therapy. She is the proud mother of her son Sean, a University of Oregon graduate. Although she enjoys nurturing and taking care of many other people, her grandson Avery is at the front of the line and not likely to be displaced. In her free time she enjoys athletic activities like golf and river rafting as well as spending time with her family.


The RenderingHints class contains rendering hints that can be used by the Graphics2D class, and classes that implement BufferedImageOp and Raster.
Defines the base type of all keys used to control various aspects of the rendering and imaging pipelines.
Font fractional metrics hint key.
Stroke normalization control hint key.
Alpha interpolation hint value -- ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_DEFAULT.
Alpha interpolation hint value -- ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_QUALITY.
Alpha interpolation hint value -- ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_SPEED.
Antialiasing hint values -- rendering is done with the platform default antialiasing mode.
Antialiasing hint values -- rendering is done without antialiasing.
Antialiasing hint values -- rendering is done with antialiasing.
Color rendering hint value -- COLOR_RENDER_DEFAULT.
Color rendering hint value -- COLOR_RENDER_QUALITY.
Color rendering hint value -- COLOR_RENDER_SPEED.
Dithering hint values -- use the platform default for dithering.
Dithering hint values -- do not dither when rendering.
Dithering hint values -- dither when rendering, if needed.
Font fractional metrics hint values -- use the platform default for fractional metrics.
Font fractional metrics hint values -- fractional metrics disabled.
Font fractional metrics hint values -- fractional metrics enabled.
Interpolation hint value -- INTERPOLATION_BICUBIC.
Interpolation hint value -- INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR.
Interpolation hint value -- INTERPOLATION_NEAREST_NEIGHBOR.
Rendering hint values -- The platform default rendering algorithms are chosen.
Rendering hint values -- Appropriate rendering algorithms are chosen with a preference for output quality.
Rendering hint values -- Appropriate rendering algorithms are chosen with a preference for output speed.
Stroke normalization control hint value -- STROKE_DEFAULT.
Stroke normalization control hint value -- STROKE_NORMALIZE.
Stroke normalization control hint value -- STROKE_PURE.
Text antialiasing hint value -- text rendering is done using the platform default text antialiasing mode.
Text antialiasing hint value -- text rendering is done without antialiasing.
Text antialiasing hint value -- text rendering is done with antialiasing.
Constructs a new object with keys and values initialized from the specified Map object (which may be null).
Constructs a new object with the specified key/value pair.
Clears this RenderingHints object of all key/value pairs.
Creates a clone of this RenderingHints object that has the same contents as this RenderingHints object.
Returns true if this RenderingHints contains a mapping for the specified key.
Returns true if this RenderingHints maps one or more keys to the specified value.
Compares the specified Object with this RenderingHints for equality.
Returns the value to which the specified key is mapped.
Returns the hash code value for this RenderingHints.
Returns true if this RenderingHints contains no key-value mappings.
Maps the specified key to the specified value in this RenderingHints object.
Copies all of the mappings from the specified Map to this RenderingHints.
Removes the key and its corresponding value from this RenderingHints object.
Returns the number of key-value mappings in this RenderingHints.
Returns a rather long string representation of the hashmap which contains the mappings of keys to values for this RenderingHints object.
Returns a Collection view of the values contained in this RenderinHints.
ClassCastException - key is not of type RenderingHints.Key.
Maps the specified key to the specified value in this RenderingHints object. Neither the key nor the value can be null. The value can be retrieved by calling the get method with a key that is equal to the original key.
IllegalArgumentException - value is not appropriate for the specified key.
Adds all of the keys and corresponding values from the specified RenderingHints object to this RenderingHints object. Keys that are present in this RenderingHints object, but not in the specified RenderingHints object are not affected.
Removes the key and its corresponding value from this RenderingHints object. This method does nothing if the key is not in this RenderingHints object.
Copies all of the mappings from the specified Map to this RenderingHints. These mappings replace any mappings that this RenderingHints had for any of the keys currently in the specified Map.
ClassCastException - class of a key or value in the specified Map prevents it from being stored in this RenderingHints.
IllegalArgumentException - some aspect of a key or value in the specified Map prevents it from being stored in this RenderingHints.
Returns a Set view of the Keys contained in this RenderingHints. The Set is backed by the RenderingHints, so changes to the RenderingHints are reflected in the Set, and vice-versa. If the RenderingHints is modified while an iteration over the Set is in progress, the results of the iteration are undefined. The Set supports element removal, which removes the corresponding mapping from the RenderingHints, via the Iterator.remove, Set.remove, removeAll retainAll, and clear operations. It does not support the add or addAll operations.
Returns a Collection view of the values contained in this RenderinHints. The Collection is backed by the RenderingHints, so changes to the RenderingHints are reflected in the Collection, and vice-versa. If the RenderingHints is modified while an iteration over the Collection is in progress, the results of the iteration are undefined. The Collection supports element removal, which removes the corresponding mapping from the RenderingHints, via the Iterator.remove, Collection.remove, removeAll, retainAll and clear operations. It does not support the add or addAll operations.
Returns a Set view of the mappings contained in this RenderingHints. Each element in the returned Set is a Map.Entry. The Set is backed by the RenderingHints, so changes to the RenderingHints are reflected in the Set, and vice-versa. If the RenderingHints is modified while while an iteration over the Set is in progress, the results of the iteration are undefined.
Returns the hash code value for this RenderingHints. The hash code of a RenderingHints is defined to be the sum of the hashCodes of each Entry in the RenderingHints object's entrySet view. This ensures that t1.equals(t2) implies that t1.hashCode()==t2.hashCode() for any two Map objects t1 and t2, as required by the general contract of Object.hashCode.


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Uzbekistan: Opposition Figure Appeals For Democratization Aid
July 01, 2005 07:39 GMT
Uzbek dissident Muhammad Solih at a 30 June RFE/RL briefing A leading Uzbek opposition figure, Muhammad Solih, is urging the United States and the European Union to expand their support for democracy activists in Uzbekistan. Solih says the events in Andijon in May demonstrate that democratization is the only way to ensure a peaceful transition in power from the regime of President Islam Karimov. But a U.S. State Department official says Washington does not want to be seen as an agent for revolutionary change in the region and is working with all parties to bring about gradual reforms.
Washington, 1 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Muhammad Solih is seeking to use his visit to Washington to build broad-based support for embattled democracy activists in his country.
Solih, the exiled leader of the Erk party, told a briefing at RFE/RL on 30 June that the violent events in Andijon last month underscore the erosion in patience of the Uzbek people toward the government.
Hundreds of mostly unarmed people are believed to have been killed after an uprising triggered by a trial of businessmen in Andijon. Solih said he hoped those events will move the West closer to embracing the democracy movement in Uzbekistan as the only path toward a stable transition of power.
"We do not ask for a lot from the West," Solih said. "We want the West to aid the legalization of political parties in Uzbekistan. We would like the West to aid the leaders of the opposition to function in Uzbekistan, to ensure the conduct of fair elections in Uzbekistan and the participation of the opposition in those elections and to ensure the existence of a free press. This in and of itself is enough to ensure the peaceful removal of this anti-democratic regime."
Solih announced that some key Uzbek opposition leaders have united and formed a new group -- the United Uzbek Democratic Coalition -- to press their cause. Solih was named their head.
Solih, who will be in the United States for several weeks, has held meetings with influential members of Congress such as Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Republican, Florida) of the House of Representatives' International Relations Committee. He has also met representatives of key nongovernmental organizations that receive funding from the United States, such as the National Democracy Institute, the International Republican Institute, and IFES, a Washington-based election-assistance organization.
He was also due to meet with officials of the Bush administration's National Security Council.
The State Department's deputy assistant secretary for Europe, Eurasia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus is Matthew Bryza. He told RFE/RL on 30 June that the United States remains intent on guiding democratic reforms in Uzbekistan. But he made clear that Washington is not planning to focus its interests on opposition activists despite concerns over the actions of the Karimov government.
Bryza said Solih's visit to Washington was coincidental and did not reflect new ties with the Uzbek opposition.
"We work across the board with all Uzbek people -- with the government, with the political opposition, with people in the middle. We want to work with the entire society, as we do in the neighboring broader Middle East," Bryza said. "And that's an enduring interest of ours, so we haven't grown any more active in our engagement with all Uzbekistan society. Maybe the world is paying more attention to our engagement now."
The Bush administration has repeatedly called for an independent international inquiry into the events in Andijon. It has also talked of possible diplomatic measures, including action at the United Nations, but has not made any specific threats.
Solih said in testimony on 29 June before the U.S. Helsinki Commission, a human rights monitoring agency, that Karimov's departure would not result in a takeover of power by fundamentalist Muslims -- an argument Karimov himself has made.
"We will not bring the people out into the streets until we are sure that the Andijon events will not be repeated."
Solih later added that his movement is dedicated to peaceful change and will not condone acts by violent extremist organizations. And he told the RFE/RL briefing on 29 June that he has made contacts with Uzbeks linked to government security agencies to try to ensure that any future demonstrations are not met with violence.
"We will not bring the people out into the streets until we are sure that the Andijon events will not be repeated," Solih said.
Meanwhile, a co-chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, Congressman Christopher Smith (Republican, New Jersey), says he is introducing this week the Central Asia Democracy and Human Rights Act. It will aim to set conditions for all non-humanitarian U.S. assistance, both economic and military, to individual governments in the region.
Such assistance would be conditioned on whether each government is making "substantial, sustained and demonstrable progress" toward democratization and full respect of human rights.
(RFE/RL's Uzbek Service Director Adolat Najimova contributed to this report.)
Is Uzbekistan Headed For Regime Change?
For RFE/RL's full coverage of the recent violence in Uzbekistan, see "Unrest In Uzbekistan"


The risk of dementia is increased in 50-year-olds with blood pressure ≥130 mm Hg, which is below the current threshold for hypertension, according to a study published online June 13 in the European Heart Journal.
WEDNESDAY, June 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of dementia is increased in 50-year-olds with blood pressure ≥130 mm Hg, which is below the current threshold for hypertension, according to a study published online June 13 in the European Heart Journal.
"Systolic blood pressure ≥130 mm Hg at age 50, below the conventional ≥140 mm Hg threshold used to define hypertension, is associated with increased risk of dementia; in these persons this excess risk is independent of cardiovascular disease," the authors write.


After working in the women's health field as a physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology for thirty years, I felt instead of discussing health with one person at a time, copywriting gives me the opportunity to inform the public at large of health issues- things they should do and those they should avoid.
I have recently launched my latest book "Power to the Patient:The Medical Strategist" on Amazon.com which has become a best seller.
Currently, in addition to writing copy for several large medical information sites, I am a professional speaker.


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Gaskets & Plates
Beijing Huamao Center Office of HVAC Development Project
Hofmann (HFM) has built an energy efficient HVAC system for the Beijing Huamao Center.
Beijing Huamao Center is located in the CBD core, which is composed of three super 5A intelligent offices, two international luxury hotels, international apartments, commercial buildings and the central square. CBD has become a high-end, stylish, modern international Level business circle. Beijing Huamao Center emergence has made CBD prosperous area eastward, established a new commercial landmark of CBD.
This ultra-large international business office building is one of Hofmann (HFM)'s high-rise building applications. In this project, Hofmann (HFM) with years of experience in high-rise building heat transfer field has built an energy efficient HVAC system for the Beijing Huamao Center.
Beijing Huamao Center Office (Phase I), (Phase II) Development Project
Project scale:
Beijing Huamao Center starts from the west of West Dawang Road, east to the East Fourth Ring Road, south to Tonghui River, north to Chaoyang Road. The total construction area is nearly 100 million square meters, includes 300,000 square meters of super 5A intelligent office, 160,000 square meters of super five star hotel, 250,000 square meters of Huamao Mall, and 250,000 square meters of international apartments.
In which the total construction area of T1-T3 office building is about 30 million, three buildings are more than 100 meters, which belong to ultra-high office building.
With the rise of large-scale high-rise buildings, how to solve the high-rise building HVAC system design and construction problems are more important, especially water pressure of air-conditioning equipment is significant.
In order to save energy without reducing economic efficiency and environmental comfort, the use of plate heat exchanger shows its unique energy saving and environmental protection effect.
To solve the overpressure problem of the air conditioning water system in the ultra-high-rise building such as the China World Trade Center office building, there are three methods (refrigeration)
First, for the "one pump in the end" underground cooling station system, to improve pressure capacity of all air-conditioning equipment, components, piping in this region, and correspondingly increase 15% -20% equipment investment;
Second, set up a cooling station between high-low partitions or at the top of a high-rise building. However, large refrigeration units are constrained by factors such as space, land occupation, transportation, installation, structural loads and equipment vibration. The modular refrigeration units with convenient transportation and installation, small footprint are expensive. The cost per thousand kcal is more than 10,000 Yuan investment. So this program is not ideal.
Third: put plate heat exchanger in the middle of the equipment layer of the super-high-rise building, making the low-zone equipment pressure not exceed 1.0MPa, that is, low-level 7-12 ℃ chilled water is changed into 8.5 ~ 13.5 ℃ secondary chilled water through the plate heat exchanger. It not only reduces the early equipment investment and design difficulties, but also greatly reduces energy consumption in the late operation.
Therefore, Hofmann (HFM) in accordance with the third energy-efficient heat transfer method makes the heat transfer program and efficient heat exchanger unit for the China World Trade Center office, whose one-stop solution for the heating and cooling requirement for high-rise building air conditioning system.
Project meaning:
Hofmann (HFM) has been committed to provide high-quality heat transfer solutions and heat transfer equipment. In the high-rise building applications, Hofmann (HFM) hopes to build "high ground" in the heat transfer field.
For heating, cooling and other different demand conditions, Hofmann (HFM) with many years application experience and technical support provides satisfied heat transfer schemes for each super high-rise building. While ensuring the comfortable temperature of the building air conditioning system, reducing the consumption and saving more economic investment for customers are important.
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Contributions made in number of journals/magazines/newspapers and addressed conferences and seminars nationally and internationally.
In the past Director of ICAI Research Foundation. Piloted and guided many research projects.
program / seminar etc organized by many agencies.
Also was member of a number of committees constituted by GOI,ICAI,Trade and Industry Associations, and international professional bodies like IFAC,CAPA and SAFA.These include National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards ,National Foundation of Corporate Governance ,and Appellete Tribunal for CA,CS,CMA,professions set up by GOI ,and Auditing and Assurance Standards Board of ICAI and Secretarty General of SAFA an apex body of SAARC.
ICAI Research Foundation and consulting business in a FInancial Institution.
Member of advisory board of a couple of management institute and on governing body of IP University.
Currently member of ICSI Vision and Implementation committee..Earlier member of executive body of ICSI at chapter and regional level-which responsibility of providing oral coaching.


Mid Michigan College Physical Therapist Assistant students recently hosted their annual pediatric lab event.
PTA students spent three weeks reviewing the normal growth, development, pathologies and appropriate treatment interventions for pediatric patients in preparation for the event. In October, seven children participated in various activities with the second year PTA students.
This event facilitated the practical application of pediatric physical therapy skills. Students were able to observe normal growth and development milestones with the children who participated and implement the practical application of exercises, stretches, and mobility activities under the supervision of PTA Program instructors.
"With every patient, modifications are necessary, but especially with this age group, you are constantly making modifications and adjustments. This is a great interactive activity for the students as they continue to develop their patient care skills," noted Amanda Wismer, dIrector of the PTA Program at Mid.


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Our trip was a navigation noodle, jointly sponsored by the DPS, HPS and LTC. We checked off three LTC enrollees who did very well. Three others were relative beginners who made great progress and four had already passed the leader requirements and wanted practice which they got.
We parked in the parking area named in the HPS peak guide. It is at 51151550. WE did nav exercises there and then left for the back country at 0900. We made camp at the easterly Cactus Spring which was flowing at perhaps 1 1/min of clear water from a sizeable pool. This spring is not shown on the topo; it is. about 150 m SE of the one that is shown. We then climbed Sheep in two groups with the students taking turns leading along two assigned routes which they were asked to follow quite closely. We returned to camp just before dark.


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Central Office Instruction
Instruction No. 5
Date of Effect: On receipt
AMENDMENTS TO THE DSH ACT 1918
The purpose of this instruction is to explain the amendments made by the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment Act 1989 (the VALA Act) and the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1989 (the DSH Amending Act), to the following sections of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 (the DSH Act):
A. sub-section 4(1) Interpretation - definition of "Australian soldier" (to include Peacekeeping Forces in Namibia)
B. sub-section 4(1) Interpretation - definitions of "further advance", "initial advance"
C. section 19 Certificate of entitlement not to be issued in certain other cases
D. section 50B(5)(a) and (b) Annual report.
A. Sub-section 4(1) - Interpretation - "Australian soldier"
The VALA Act amends the definition of "Australian soldier" in section 4 of the DSH Act to include in new paragraph (ga) any person who, as a member of the Australian Defence Force, renders service as a member of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group, Namibia (UNTAG), in the area described in the new item 9 of Schedule 2 of the Veterans' Entitlements Act (VEA), during the period specified in the item.
The area in which service as a member of UNTAG must have been rendered for the purpose of DSH and VEA entitlements is the area comprising the United Nations Mandated Territory of Namibia and the area of land extending 400 kilometres outwards from the borders of Namibia into the adjoining countries of Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa (including Walvis Bay). The service in that area must have been rendered on or after 18 February 1989.
The effect of the amendment of the definition of "Australian soldier" is to define as an "Australian soldier" any person who satisfies the requirements of the new paragraph (ga). Any such person is entitled to assistance under the DSH Act on the same basis as any other person who satisfies the definition of "Australian soldier".
The date of effect of this amendment is 18 February 1989.
B. Sub-section 4(1) - Interpretation - "further advance", "initial advance"
Sub-section 4(1) of the Act is amended to clarify the definitions of "further advance" and "initial advance".
The new definitions clarify the effect of any previous assistance under the Act on the status of a person again applying for assistance and make clear the position of an applicant for assistance who is or was the personal representative (executor or administrator) of a deceased assisted person.
The two definitions as previously drafted would seem to have allowed the possibility of a person who received a loan from the Defence Service Homes Corporation, and discharged the loan before the vesting of mortgages with Westpac, to apply for and receive an initial advance of $25,000. This is contrary to the intention of the Act which is that, generally, such persons should be able to re-borrow as a further advance only the balance of the previous loan which was outstanding immediately before it was discharged. This intention is restored by the new definitions which make it clear that a subsidised advance to a person not previously assisted is an initial advance while an advance to a previously assisted person is a further advance.
The previous definitions also had the effect of conferring the status of "purchaser" or "borrower" on the personal representative (executor or administrator) of the deceased estate of a purchaser or borrower, respectively. This meant that a personal representative applying for the first time for DSH assistance in his or her own right nevertheless would have to have been treated as having received previous assistance. On this interpretation, such an applicant would not have been able to receive an initial advance. The new definitions make it clear that an eligible person is able to utilise his or her entitlement to assistance under the Act without being affected by any present or past status that person may have or have had as the personal representative in the estate of a deceased eligible purchaser or borrower.
The date of effect of these amendments is 19 December 1988.
C. Section 19 - Certificate of entitlement not to be issued in certain other cases
Section 19 has been amended to clearly identify the categories of persons for whom Ministerial approval of second assistance is required.
Under the previous provisions it was arguable that the Act did not require that Ministerial approval be obtained for the re-use of the balance of a DSH loan to purchase a new home where the loan in question had been discharged before the vesting in Westpac. The Act also seemed to require any person who has received Ministerial approval for the re-use of the balance of a DSH loan to seek such approval again for any subsequent use of any remaining balance of the loan. Neither of these possible interpretations was intended.
Section 19 now provides clearly that the Minister's approval of the issue of a certificate in relation to a further advance is required in any case where the applicant:
is or was at any time a purchaser or borrower as defined in section 4 of the Act (as in force before, on or after 19 December 1988), otherwise than merely by being the personal representative of one; or
converted a contract of sale into a Corporation advance under the old sub-section 19(6) or into an initial advance under the new section 37; and
has not received a Corporation advance after 9 December 1987 for a term of 25 years or less or an initial advance or a further advance.
This means that any person who was assisted on or before 9 December 1987 (and in some cases of grants of non-portable 32 year loans and contract of sale conversions, after that date) and has not subsequently received section 19 approval of further assistance, must obtain such approval before a further advance can be authorised. It also means that any person who is assisted after 9 December 1987 (excluding grants of 32 year loans and contract of sale conversions) is exempt from the requirement to obtain section 19 approval of any further advance.
The date of effect of the amendment of section 19 is 19 December 1988.
D. Section 50B.paragraphs (5) (a) and (5) (b) - Annual Report
Section 50B is amended by omitting from paragraphs (5)(a) and (5)(b) the word "financial".
The amendments ensure that the provisions are consistent with similar provisions contained in other Commonwealth legislation - principally sub-section 63(1) of the Audit Act 1901. This will enable the Auditor-General to be satisfied that financial statements included in annual reports submitted under the Act are based on proper "accounts and records" not just "accounts and financial records".
The attached amendments to the General Orders cover the following matters:
the extension of eligibility for assistance under the Act to members of the Australian Defence Force who serve in Namibia;
the changes concerning Ministerial approval of second assistance made to section 19 of the Act by the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1989; and
rationalisation of the terms used in the General Orders relating to further advances.
The terms used in the General Orders in relation to further advances and their meanings are as follows:
further advance - as defined in section 4 of the Act;
section 19 further advance - a further advance approved by the Minister or his delegate under section 19 of the Act;
second assistance - a section 19 further advance to a person who has previously received only initial assistance;
third or subsequent assistance - a section 19 further advance to a person who has previously received second or subsequent assistance;
unrestricted further advance - a further advance to a person seeking to re-borrow the balance of a portable advance (i.e. where Ministerial approval under section 19 is not required).
Replacement pages for unofficial loose-leaf copies of the legislation and General Orders Replacement Page Issue No. 3 are attached.
R. J. Bernau
for GENERAL MANAGER
URL: http://clik.dva.gov.au/health-policy-library/defence-service-homes-dsh/national-office-instructions/1989/51989-vala-1989-amendments-dsha-1918


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Areas generated €1,832 million in revenue in fiscal year 2017-2018 and employs 23,000 people in 13 countries.
Paris-based private equity firm PAI Partners has made a binding offer to acquire travel dining concessionaire Areas from Elior Group, with the deal representing an enterprise value of €1,542 million.
Areas is the world's number three player in contract catering and a major force in airport food & beverage. It generated €1,832 million in revenue in fiscal year 2017-2018 and employs 23,000 people in 13 countries. it has operations that span airports, railway stations and motorway service plazas.
Elior Group Chief Executive Officer Philippe Guillemot said: "PAI Partners' project would enable Areas, which is the world's third-leading concession caterer, to accelerate growth. Following the disposal the group would focus entirely on its contract catering and services businesses in order to reinforce its leading positions in Europe, and accelerate its development in the United States and India."
The deal is expected to close this summer. Sale proceeds would be used to reduce Elior Group's leverage ratio to a range between 1.5 and 2.0 times EBITDA. Within this range, Elior said it could give the rescaled group the resources required to pursue expansion, buy back its own shares or distribute dividends to its shareholders.
In November, Elior Group announced that it was carrying out a review of strategic options for its concession catering activities, which are grouped within its Areas subsidiary.
At the time, Elior said that the review, "which could lead to the separation of Areas from the rest of the Group", was intended to accelerate the development of its activities and create value for Elior Group shareholders.
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Aaron Nicely of Stampede String Band Reviews "Let's Begin"
by Steve Boller
I asked a handful of my favorite Indianapolis musicians to review my debut album, "Let's Begin." Here's Aaron Nicely of The Stampede String Band's take. I'm a big fan of their modern bluegrass sound and really appreciate how Aaron took the time to notice the great work of producer Jon Class and the other session musicians!
The truth is, I'd never heard Steve Boller's music. Local music-matchmaker Ben Cannon put him in a thread about reviewing another album, and I started to look him up. I saw a lot of keyboards, a lot of guitars, and the beginnings of what looked like a highly ambitious project. I kept an eye on the work as Steve moved through 24 demo tracks before settling on the dozen that are on his debut album, Let's Begin. Watching those early demo videos, I wasn't quite sure what I was seeing. Pop, certainly, some singer/songwriter, and a whole lot of what else I couldn't be sure.
I've had Let's Begin on repeat for a few weeks now, and here's what I think: this is damn good album. It's not anything I would have gravitated towards in the last five years, but there's so much on here that reminds me of so many musical styles that I love. You can hear anything from barbershop quartet fused with gospel choir to straight up Michael Jackson (and therefore, Toto!), and it's a never ending run through all these vocal layers and horn sections and three hundred twenty seven different sounding keyboards that you'll never run out of surprises here.
Boller's musical pallet here is massive, in part I think due to the production assistance he beams about in the making of promo video going around. Jon Class of Varsity Recording Company in Anderson. An album like this is not an accident. To have so much going on, for it to be so tight, the sound both so wide and deep, takes planning and vision. The two made a fantastic pair, bringing in all the right noise at the right time, and leaving it quite when it needs it. One of my favorite additions Class adds is his own playing. You'll hear him on the organ that weaves in and out of most of the tracks on "Let's Begin", adding depth to an already spacious mix.
The opening a 'Capella track "Capsize" must have more than 50 overlaid voices making the argument that one must "love your self, it's all you have to do." The radio ready "Never A Mistake" takes a pop approach, dropping the pretense in the verses and piling on the power in the unforgettable chorus. Seriously, you'll be annoying your co-workers for weeks with your inadequate falsetto (I don't know if Boller's going falsetto there or not… if not, that's some range, folks) trying to come anywhere near Boller's, singing, "It was never a miiiiiiistaaaaake! Every heartbreak."
The songwriting never lets you down lyrically. It's advice, it's love, it's storytelling, all rolled up in this instantly enjoyable album. If there's any issue one might take, it's that it goes too far (how can that be a bad thing?) reaching to so many styles from the last thirty or forty years of pop music. The stretch from "Capsize" to the Michael Jackson-esque "Take What You Need" is a long one, but swings back as he wraps up the album with the groovy, warbly organ-drenched "Let Myself Begin". At times, it almost felt like a movie soundtrack. I've always loved buying movie soundtracks because you get the song from the band or two you might be in to, and you can get introduced to a dozen more bands you'd never have heard of. On "Let's Begin," you get a dozen bands you've never heard before but you're going to love.
Have a look at the Stampede String Band website and Facebook page.
...And if you're excited about the album, go grab tickets to the album release show, June 30th at The Hi-Fi! VIP tickets are running out:


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Next week we'll be packing our bags and heading to Boston for Hubspot's INBOUND conference. The star-studded affair has become a representation of convergence in sales and marketing, with themes around account-based marketing, inbound social selling and more.
Among the keynote speakers are Pixar founder Ed Catmull, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and wrestler-turned-actor John Cena. But outside of such household names, INBOUND will be chock-full of insightful sessions lined up throughout the four-day gathering.
Here's a look at seven sessions you can't miss if you'll be joining us for this annual gala.
As part of the Partner Day activities to kick off the week's festivities, HubSpot's VP of Marketing will moderate an esteemed panel of experts, including our own Ty Heath, as they weigh in on practices to adopt and mistakes to avoid when it comes to aligning inbound marketing with ABM. This diverse group will offer a range of perspectives based on their own experiences in what promises to be an enlightening conversation.
Deciphering inbound results doesn't need to be a guessing game. Which metrics are most helpful for connecting tactics with outcomes? Lieberman will drill down to the essentials of determining KPIs and using analytics for predictive purposes with your inbound sales and marketing strategies.
In what promises to be a rapid-fire session filled to the brim with practical tips, Roetzer will cover more than two dozen B2B lead gen approaches that can jolt your pipeline. He promises to dig past the standard inbound marketing practices, serving up use cases that take advantages of new tools and tactics like AI, social selling, and interactivity. Before heading in, make sure to familiarize yourself with LinkedIn's Lead Gen Forms.
Outbound at Inbound: You've Tried ABM. Now Make It Work.
Account-based marketing requires a confluent relationship between sales and marketing, which means everyone needs to get on the same page. This will be the focus of Clark's session. He argues that the disconnect between traditional outbound sales activities and new-age inbound marketing strategies is not what it seems. At the end of the day, ABM is all about tailoring your approach to the specific intent and needs of targeted prospects. Learn how to do so in a unified manner.
How does account-based marketing fit in an inbound environment? Shea explores the shift in mindset necessary for professionals steeped in conventional outbound methods to embrace the principles of inbound. With the proper content and persona profiles, businesses can kick their demand generation into high gear and optimize engagement throughout the funnel. This session will simplify the steps.
Uh-oh! This session takes place at the same time as the one we just covered. You'll need to either replicate yourself or (perhaps more plausibly) divide up your team to attend both. You certainly won't want to miss out on this chat from two powerhouse executives who have made account-based approaches work for them, and can prove it with bottom-line results. They'll share stories of how they have helped others to do the same.
For more marketing enlightenment on inbound tactics, account-based marketing, and more, make sure you're subscribed to the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions blog.


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Kinhega Lodge was a hunting and fishing plantation located in northern Leon County, Florida, United States on Lake Iamonia.

From the 1830s through 1866 the land was part of the cotton plantation known as Water Oak Plantation owned by Richard Bradford.

Horseshoe Plantation
In 1901, Clement A. Griscom, a businessman and shipping magnate from Philadelphia whose family gained much wealth after the American Civil War with the American Line and Red Star Line purchased  and plantation house in the horseshoe bend of Lake Iamonia for $5300 from R. E. Lester, the son of Capt. William Lester of Oaklawn Plantation.

From 1902 through 1903 Griscom purchased land from heirs of Burgesstown Plantation, the Whitehead family, and many other owners retaining the name of Horseshoe Plantation. The plantation eventually was more than  in size with over  of woodland drives.

When Clement A. Griscom died on October 19, 1916, Horseshoe Plantation was divided up and part sold. Lloyd C. Griscom received  on the west side naming it Luna Plantation while Frances C. Griscom, a sportswoman, received  of the old plantation to the east and named it Water Oak Plantation. Frances Griscom was the 1900 United States Women's Amateur Golf Champion.

Becoming Kinhega
In 1951 Frances Griscom sold a large part of Water Oak Plantation to J.C. (Bull) Headley, a recent transplanted from Kentuckian. Griscom retained Water Oak with a few hundred acres of land. Headley turned his property into Bull Run Plantation, a luxurious farm which grew in agricultural output. Headley ran several hundred head of cattle and continued with operations as a hunting plantation.

In 1964 Headley sold his hunting lodge and  to Gillis Long, a Congressman from Louisiana and assistant secretary of the Office of Economic Opportunity under President Lyndon Johnson. A group of hunters, golfers, and fishing enthusiasts also got involved and the property became Kinhega Lodge. The lodge was more a water fowl and fishing lodge and supplied members with four man-made lakes, including nearby Lake Monkey Business, a  lake for ducks, plus Lake Iamonia. Though some quail hunting took place, it was not as prevalent as the quail hunting plantations nearby.

In 1963 Kinhega was reorganized and took in members from Texas, Wisconsin, and New York among others. Membership was at 100 with Gillis Long still involved. Another prominent member was Jack Ladd, a vice-president of Holiday Inns of America in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Adjacent plantations:
 Horseshoe Plantation to the east
 Luna Plantation to the west
 Ayavalla Plantation to the south

Kinega would eventually become Kinhega Lodge Estates, Limited. In the early 1970s the property sold again to investors who developed the property into Killearn Lakes Plantation, a development of 4,500 homes.

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As a digital version of the oldest known English language Valentine's Day message goes up on its Web site, James Rogers looks at...
As a digital version of the oldest known English language Valentine's Day message goes up on its Web site, James Rogers looks at what other organisations can learn from the British Library's project to digitise its most important documents
A pioneering project by the British Library to digitally store records could serve as a textbook example of sound data management, analysts believe.
If your company is struggling to handle spiralling volumes of data then spare a thought for the IT staff at the British Library, whose collection of more than 150 million items covers every age and place of written civilisation.
Although in its early stages, the project can be broken down into three main areas:
Building a digital library store to help create a national digital library
Making records more accessible for users.
Undertaking something as ambitious as the British Library's wide-ranging digitisation scheme would make most IT managers shudder but there are common themes that can be applied to other major data-intensive projects.
For example, analysts have highlighted the importance of content management in a project of this scale. Sue Clarke, senior research analyst at Butler Group, explained, "At the back-end you will need a good content management system that will be able to handle digital content such as photos."
Content management systems use a database as a repository for information and the actual choice of database is of paramount importance, said Clarke.
Most content management systems use a relational database although she believes that a system employing an object database could be a better choice. She said, "An object database handles digital content better and there is at least one content management solution on the market that employs an object database for its content, both analogue and digital."
All organisations face the threat of losing data through a technical failure such as a computer crashing but the British Library also has to consider the issue of technological obsolescence. This is where files on old forms of storage are left stranded because the machines that are needed to run them have been ditched. For the British Library, digitisation is key.
Neil Smith, of the British Library's e-strategy and programmes, said, "The library intends to digitise significant and important items in its collection to enhance access to its collections. Digitisation can make resources available at the desktop to our existing users and to non-users or those for whom physical access is difficult."
When in 1477 Margery Brews of Norfolk wrote a Valentine missive to her fiancé John Paston she will have had little idea of the complex 21st century technology that went into saving it for future generations to read on the Internet. Nor indeed, would she have realised that her note would form part of one of the UK's most ambitious archiving projects.
Essentially, this Valentine's message is just the tip of a huge project. A British Library spokesman said, "Digitising collection items such as this is part of the library's ongoing commitment to make its collections more accessible to people, wherever they may be."
Like most public sector bodies, the British Library is under pressure to make as much information available to the public as possible. Last year it announced its New Strategic Directions document which put the Internet firmly at its core and outlined its plan for the next five to seven years. Central to this vision was the desire to make its collections more accessible to people via the Web.
With this in mind, the library is developing a digital library store which forms an integral part of its plan to build a national digital library. Launched in 2000 as part of a 10-year multimillion-pound joint venture with IBM, this store will allow the library to preserve and access electronic materials indefinitely.
The materials to be stored here include existing digital formats such as CD-Roms and items published on the Web, as well as digital copies of analogue objects. The library has already created digitised copies of some of its greatest treasures, such as the Lindisfarne Gospels and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
Of course, storing the data in this type of project is one thing, but organisations also need to consider how they will protect their data while ensuring availability. Clarke said, "If you want to ensure that there is 24x7 availability then you will have to have some disaster recovery facility in place."
Digital images also have a significant knock-on effect on a company's data storage arrangements.
Analyst firm IDC recently highlighted the fact that storage is now a strategic issue, so organisations need to consider their future needs when getting involved in major storage projects. Clarke said, "You have to also consider the scalability of your storage." Digital images can take up a lot of space, she warned.
In practical terms, the digital library store means that electronically created and stored material will survive future technology changes. This is a major issue in the research world. The US has already admitted, for example, that a significant amount of Nasa data on the early space programme was lost when the technology it was stored on became obsolete.
The digital library store is being designed according to the Open Archival Information System reference model, which relies heavily on a description of data known as meta data. This means that digital objects can be moved to new hardware or software platforms as technology develops.
The solution devised by IBM involves constructing and storing preservation meta data for every digital item in the collection. In effect, the meta data preserves access to the object and can provide a range of information on it.
The library spokesman said, "The preservation meta data records any changes made to the original object and thus supports preservation of long-term access, whilst retaining the history of the object in digital form."
Preserving and storing digital materials while still allowing long-term access is an ongoing dilemma for major research libraries around the world. The British Library, for example, is currently working with other organisations, such as the Dutch national library and IBM, to work out the best long-term strategy.
The British Library also hopes to enable users to search remotely for items when the digital library store is fully up and running. The spokesman said, "When the store and supporting systems are fully implemented, users of the British Library will be able to retrieve objects held in the digital store at workstations in the reading rooms or remotely."
Meanwhile organisations in both public and private sectors could pick up some useful data management tips from the British Library's digitisation project so far.
Early digitisation successes
There have already been a number of success stories that have emerged as part of the digitisation scheme. For example, the library has already launched a Web site allowing academics to explore rare copies of the Gutenberg Bible - the oldest surviving printed book in the Western World. Johannes Gutenberg's Bible was printed in Mainz, Germany, in around 1455 and only 48 copies (of which the British Library has two) and a few fragments have survived. Using the Web site, users can magnify images of the Bible's pages, allowing them to examine details not visible on the original printed copies. Another success is the "turning the pages" project, which gives library users electronic access to medieval manuscripts.
Benefits of the digital library store
Add new electronic materials to the digital store, including new formats as they come onstream
Automatically construct meta data from the object itself - effectively saving staff resources
Achieve zero loss of data from the store and provide a secure environment for the library's digital collection items
Enable the migration or emulation of objects in the store in order to preserve long-term access
Exchange meta data with other library IT systems for management information and budgetary purposes.
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