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Assessing the Basel II Internal Ratings-Based Approach: Empirical Evidence from Australia. Tarca, Rutkowski arxiv.org/abs/1412.0064 #q-fin
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About the photo :
This is the vege plot I passed by in upper part of Valencia .
Here's a little description of Valencia :
"Valencia is a ... municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. It is located 9.4 kilometre west of Dumaguete...."
"Valencia was originally named Ermita, which means "a secluded place", due to its being a refuge from marauding Muslim pirates. In 1856 it was renamed to Nueva Valencia by Spanish colonizers, in honor of its parish priest Fr. Matias Villamayor from Valencia, Spain.
In 1920 it was renamed Luzuriaga in behalf of Don Carlos Luzuriaga, a delegate from Negros island to the Philippine Legislature who promised town officials he would work hard to help improve the town. The town was renamed Valencia in 1948, by virtue of Republic Act No. 252. "
Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia,_Negros_Oriental
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I love gardening ,and find Valencia area good for this sort of interests . It's easy to grow patchoi or Petchay, brocolli ,cabbages , brussel sprouts, cauliflower ,carrots and many types of veges and flowers here . The temp is a little cooler from lowland .
If only peace would stretch another hundred years ,yet with the current crisis looming :population explosion the inevitable food shortage ,animals dying for some unknown reasons ,Our population has gone past the 7 billion mark ,you see the middleast conflict escalating /world terrorism , upheaval ,social moral decay ,spritual confusion and deception , the rise of occult teachings and growing tolerance towards darkness ; evil perceive as good ,abortions in millions -- can you ever think of a bright safe future ahead. Perhaps I'm only pessimistic ,but I like to look at real trends / knock on effects and what we see everywhere are tell tale signs of what's in store for the future ... the future doesn't look bright .
Thinking of retirement - I have to be honest , right now my gut feelings seem strongly on a negative line .
Before I'll reach The point of retirement big global changes could happen and this isn't for the better , 20 yrs seem too long .Big changes could happen anytime soon ,the markers are right at the door ,you can see them in God's manual ,the Bible. .I strongly feel there's no retirement for me here . I wish not to say this in the open ,because I knew many of you are kind and polite and not to say the word "crazy" to me projecting doom and gloom - if you know that feeling. I'm in a battle of denial sometimes .But I find ihard to deny it and shut myself to silence .If you hate doomsday topics ,please avoid reading my posts . You can look at the photo but don't read it :) It does't contribute any good if you feel depressed .I will understand ,no offense . But I do encourage you to be aware of the possibilities .Update yourself ,not just the mainstream news but from the alternative sources ,as many events happening that were not reported or has only very little coverage. Regardless of these doon and gloom events,I am not depressed .I am not sad , I am not scared ,because the true peace of God is keeping me assured. It's so hard to explain it. The truth is I'm awestruck ! I'm part of the generation to see these things and the wonders of God to be seen in these last days as we know it .
As a christian , there's no place of depression in ones life ,that's true for me . If you you are away from faith ,then then can be so scary ! I always trust God for everything . My husband is hopeful thinking to retire someday- living in the Philippines .Most of us have dreams ,it nice to dream on . I don't want to spoil his hopes this time and the future .But I always try my best to make him aware of what is to come . However big the scale is , even when I am gone ( in case I might go ahead of him )he should be prepared and never loose hope ,to trust in Jesus in everything ,even to the last breathe .We bought adjacent plots here in 2004 and 2005, so we could be closely living near the city of Dumaguete, thinking of a future someday after retirement .However ,this seem blurry to me . I always hope I'm wrong with my projections . But I also think we should be prepared mentally and also our emotions as we are seeing the future unfold . It's likely a different kind of scary movie .
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Just for correction , am not ill , but you never know of life . I always think what the next day is ,will I still be here nxt day ,nxt week ,nxt month ?
I have seen people go - which gave me some perspective how precious life is , as life is like a bubble . I'm trying my best to have my day less complicated and relaxed as I can make it ,just in case it's my last day.
I have an accident in the past that could have cost my life and don't have any idea it could happen to me .I could have died on the spot . It changed my attitude and perspectives since that . I count everyday as blessing , another day might be different . Not the least to say ,I like to leave the day with a clean heart and conscience with God . I'm not perfect .I do make mistakes though how much I tried not to .But one thing, I don't stay / waddle with the same mistakes over and over again. I always pursue spiritual cleanliness through Christ ,and there is no room of guilt and self condemnation ,a room for secret sin to dwell in me . The love and salvation through Christs is a redeeming grace takes it all , we have to give our burdens to Jesus by simply repenting ,letting it all go and let Jesus' love and peace change our hearts to purity .Without the saving grace of Jesus ,we can't do nothing ,we are still same ol' filthy rags even though how good we think we are .
Loudon Park National Cemetery was originally established as a plot within the Loudon Park Cemetery. It was one of the 14 original National Cemeteries established under the National Cemetery Act on July 17, 1862. Most of the original interments were from area veteran hospitals. During the American Civil War, Fort McHenry was a prisoner of war camp, and the prisoners who died while incarcerated there were interred at Loudon Park National Cemetery.
Land acquisitions in 1874, 1875, 1882, 1883 and lastly in 1903, brought the cemetery to its current size.
Loudon Park National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996
The Maryland Sons Monument, a three-foot-tall terra cotta frieze with a bas relief sculpture. Dedicated in 1885.
Rigby Monument, a marble monument erected in 1891 dedicated to Captain James H. Rigby and the 1st Maryland Light Artillery.
The Unknown Dead Monument, a marble sculpture, dedicated in 1895.
The Maryland Naval Monument, dedicated in 1896.
The Confederate Monument, erected in 1912, marking the burial place of Confederate prisoners of war.
Medal of Honor recipients
Private Henry G. Costin, for action during World War I
Private James T. Jennings, for action during the American Civil War
First Sergeant Henry Newman, for action in Arizona Territory during the Indian Wars
First Sergeant Wilhelm O. Philipsen, for action in the Colorado Territory during the Indian Wars
Sergeant William Taylor, two-time recipient for action during the Civil War
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This is part of my project on the culture of Prestbury a village on the outskirts of Cheltenham, UK.
Shot on Kodak Portra 400 120
Mamiya M645 1000S 80mm Sekkor
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This is actually my final CEGEP project in Java. Built with Lego Mindstorms, hacked firmware with Java VM. The plotter was actually controlled using a Windows-based program with the mouse ! Very cool project. Took about 2 days to build and program.
Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
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Charlotte, staring at freedom...
Looks good against a black background... 'Plotting her escape...' On Black
This is part of my project on the culture of Prestbury a village on the outskirts of Cheltenham, UK.
Shot on Kodak Portra 400 120
Mamiya M645 1000S 80mm Sekkor
Part of www.flickr.com/photos/danwye_photography/sets/72157630731...
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MOUNT LAGUNA, Calif. (March 17, 2009) Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/s) candidate Seaman Jared Hougtalen plots coordinates to his next checkpoint during an individual basic land navigation exercise. Basic land navigation teaches candidates how to read a map, plot coordinates and navigate over various types of terrains. This training is taught during the third phase of the six-month BUD/s training. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Dominique M. Lasco/Released)
Even in winter, the east wind gusting, I like to be on the plot, thinking about the ground and what it will grow.
The plot in summer flic.kr/p/L5X9xY
Empty plots like the one in this shot are somewhat abundant in the 'old town', right at the centre of Valencia. This is the other face of the city, hidden in the official propaganda brochures, a face, however, the startled tourist takes no time at all to discover.
(Incidentally, the graffiti artwork is splendid; best seen large)
It once dawned on me (a few years back) that the only way to keep the mind going more or less fine in this particular place I happen to live is not to take the place seriously. The only way to get along and not to lose one's marbles is to realize and to firmly believe that nothing ever happening here matters. How could one otherwise avoid going mental in a place where people drive as if playing a video game, cars are raucous, four-wheeled loudspeakers (and a few are periodically burned every weekend just for the fun of it), traffic-lights are useless, colourful street ornaments (some people flippantly claim there's a hidden code associated with the colours though its meaning remains utterly unknown), zebra-crossings are parking places (a property also shared by bike trails and wheelchair ramps formerly designed to ease the handicapped daily struggle around the city), lifts are smoking rooms, litter bins are largely neglected (and the few days they receive attention, which accurately match traditional festivities, it is to be either detached from the locations they hang on - traffic-lights, walls or lamp-posts; as part of their ornamental accessories, so to speak - burned, or both), youngsters are more and more aggressive each day - and at increasingly earlier ages - smoking pot is the number one activity among teenagers to the point that its massive use seems to them absolutely essential to make the world go round, football matches (everything football in fact) are TV screen savers, good manners and education are utopias, noise is our everyday's companion (and taken for granted), rubbish carpets the pavement, local television is disgusting - to say the least (reality shows and sensationalist journalism devoted to air all sort of pathetic gossip columns play the role of educational programs whose aim is to enhance dormant feelings such as self-confidence, solidarity or freedom while achieving in the process a non-negligible standardization of the language skills and cultural level), politicians don't often measure up, and the identity of the native language seems condemned to be a recurrent issue forever and ever, to give but a few examples?
To the memory of
David Richmond GAGE
- MEMBER OF –
MAORI FOOTBALL TEAM 1888-89
& N.Z. REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALLER
BORN 11TH JANUARY 1868,
DIED 12TH OCTOBER 1916.
ERECTED BY PONEKE F.C.
AND FRIENDS
And his daughter
Erina Haumihi TARRANT
[Nell]
1900 – 2.2.1987
And her son
David Charles Saywell TARRANT
1.8.1920 – 6.5.1981
Block CH ENG Plot 307 A
He was the third official New Zealand Captain in 1896 [see timeline link below]
Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 850, 20 October 1916, Page 19
David Richmond Gage: A Rugby Football Champion.
THE passing of D. I. Gage last week removes from this scene of care and trouble one of the finest players who ever donned a Rugby football jersey.
There have been many Rugby Champions in New Zealand —equal to rank- with the best the world has produced —-but not a solitary one can be placed on a higher pedestal than this half-caste Maori. He was born at Kihikihi, in the South Auckland district 48 years ago. His father being Captain Gage, who fought on the pakeha side in the Maori wars, and was an assessor of the Native Land Court when the war was over. "Davy's" , mother is a Maori woman, and a good, mother at that. The old captain himself only died a few months ago, well past the allotted three score and ten.
His Schooldays
Davy Gage was a scholar at the St. Stephen's School for Maori boys in Parnell, Auckland, a place that has produced many fine athletes at one time or another. Gaining a scholarship that entitled him to attend Te Aute College, in Hawke's Bay, the subject of this sketch was educated at this famous Maori educational institution at the same time as the late T. R. Ellison. T. G. Pou, Hiroa, Taaku, Friday Tomoana. and James were being taught the higher branches of knowledge, and incidentally laying the foundation for the greatness they attained in the Rugby world.
A Good Story
… that has been retailed to me is worth telling just here. When Mr. Thornton was principal of Te Aute College he
made it a hard and fast rule that the scholars in speaking of and to one another should not abridge their Christian names in any way. This by way of preamble.
The late Tom Ellison arrived in Wellington and joined the Poneke Club in 1885 and one day the following year a fellow player noticed him hurrying down Willis-street towards the wharf. Through communication by rail between Wellington and Napier was not an accomplished fact those days, and the only way to get from the Hawke's Bay town to the Empire City was by boat.
"Where are you going to in such a hurry, Tom?" was the way the old Poneke forward tried to stop Ellison.
"I'm going to meet David."
"Who's David?"
"David Gage." The Poneke boys did not have to ask who David was once he got into a red and black jersey, but it was remarkable that both these, half-caste Maoris for many years spoke of and addressed each other as Thomas and David. It is also a tradition in the Poneke Club that they had a supreme faith in each other's abilities. If the opposition got into their stride, Ellison was wont to remark. "It's all right. David is there to stop them." and with Thomas in the forwards Davy was perfectly satisfied that it would not be long before the tables were turned.
As a Wellington Player
…Davy Gage soon made his mark, and in iris first year as a member of the Poneke Club he gained his cap as a Wellington representative player. From 1887 to 1901 he played in the black and gold jersey on twenty-nine occasions as follows ; - v. Hawke's Bav. 1887-91-92.
v., Wairarapa, 1887 (twice). 1889-92- 96
v. Canterbury. 1887-91-92-96
v. Manawatu, 1887-92.
v. Otago. 1887-91-96.
v. England. 1888.
v. Auckland,. 1889-94-1901.
v. Queensland, 1896.
v. South Canterbury, 1894.
v. Poverty Bay, 1894.
v. Taranaki 1894-1901.
v. New South Wales, 1894-96.
v. Wanganui. 1896.
The New Zealand Native Team
…organised by Mr. T. Eyton and the late J. A. Warbrick, left for England early in the 1888 season, and Davy Gage was
one of the team. He was originally chosen as reserve full-back to the late W. Warbrick, but before the tour finished he had played in every position among the backs, and was generally voted the best all-round back in the team. That is what George Williams, a member of the team, and now in charge of the Police District of Seddon, in the Marlborough Province, says of D. R. Gage, in his book of the "Tour of the Native Team": —
"D. Gage (11st 21b)— 'Pony' was one of the best plums (gage) in our football basket. As full, three-quarter, or halfback he seemed equally at home, and invariably played a first-class game. His record of 68 matches played in out of 74 in Great Britain shows the great service he rendered, and no other member of the team can equal him in this respect.
E. McCausland, the well-known Auckland centre three-quarter of the eighties, who acted as secretary of the Native Team on this tour, declared, on his return to New Zealand, that he was -the best all-round player in the combination .
It is just twenty-eight years since this team of Maoris and native-born New Zealanders started out on their famous tour, a tour that will stand as a monument to the stamina of the members composing the party. The 1905 "All Blacks" made New Zealand famous by the quality of the Rugby they played but it is agreed that when they met Wales in the only match in which they were defeated they were showing signs of staleness. Comparisons are odious, it is true, but the full programme of the "All Blacks' consisted of thirty-three matches, while the Native Team's record was : —
Matches played 108
Matches won – 80
Matches lost 23
Matches drawn 5
The above were played, between July, 1888, and August, 1889 out of which period about four months were spent in travelling, so that the average all through was about three matches a week. In Great Britain alone, from October 3rd, 1888, to March 27, 1889, 74 matches were played.
The Grim Reaper.
Death has been busy in the ranks of the native players since the completion of their tour. Of the original twenty-six the following have passed away : —
J A. Warbrick, captain and organiser, whose death was the result of a premature explosion of the Waimangu Geyser many years ago: he was acting as guide to a party, and heroically lost his life in endeavouring to get into safety those he was in charge of; William Warbrick, who died in Australia after a long innings at the game both in New South Wales and Queensland after leaving New Zealand: Arthur Warbrick who met his death as the result of a boating accident on one of the rivers of the East Coast; D. R, Gage. C. Madigan Taare (C. Goldsmith), H. Lee, T R. Ellison, W. Anderson. D. Stewart T. Rene, R. Maynard. A. Webster, and Karauria.
Of the Others,
Alfred Warbrick is the tourist guide at Rotorua; W. T. Wynyard is Wellington district agent of the Agricultural Department; H J. Wynyard is in the service of the Gear Company at Petone; G. Wynyard is an employee of the Sydney Harbour Trust; E McCausland was, the last I heard of him, the manager of a bank in a country district of New South Wales; P. Keogh is in the Dunedin Mental Hospital; W. Elliott is in the Railway Workshops at Newmarket Auckland; Ihimaira (Smiler) went back to the Pah in Hawke's Bay as soon as he from the jaunt round the world and has been lost to sport and almost to memory ever since; George A. Williams invariably drops in to have a chat about old times when on annual leave or official duties calls him to Wellington from his police duties over Marlborough way; W. Nehua is in Whangarei; and R. Taiaroa is in Dunedin.
After this Digression, which may or may not have been warranted, but which I hope has proved interesting. I will get back to the history of Davy Gage as a Rugby footballer. He was a member of the. New Zealand team, that toured to Australia in 1893 under the captaincy of the late T. R. Ellison, and with Mr G. F. C. Campbell as manager. In 1894 he was a member of the North Island team that played against the New South Wales representatives that toured New Zealand that year. Davy Gage then went to Auckland for a while, and the next year returned to Wellington as an Auckland representative, taking part in that memorable match in 1890 on the Newtown Park.
Mr. G. H. Dixon, the present Chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, was the then-secretary of the Auckland Rugby Union, and was manager of the visitors. He had under his charge some of the finest players who ever donned a jersey, but the Wellington side was also a strong one, and the Aucklanders had to submit to a 9 to 5 points defeat. Some day the occasion may arise to tell the history of that game and the players that took part in it, but this is not a suitable time, although I feel inclined to let my pen run riot.
Back in Wellington in 1896, Davy Gage was at the top of his form, playing against Otago, Canterbury, Wairarapa, and Queensland, and also for New Zealand against Queensland in one of the first matches played on the Athletic Park. He drifted to Hawke's Bay after this, and it was not until 1901 that he again figured in Wellington football, playing his last match against Auckland that year. And this ends a cursory summary of the activities as a player of a great half-caste Maori on the fields of Rugby football.
Some Incidents in Davy Gage's Rugby Career.
One could fill a book in the telling of incidents of Davy Gage's playing days. It has been told before that he potted three goals one afternoon for Poneke against a strong Athletic team. As a matter of fact, four goals was his tally on that occasion, but the referee was not in a position to determine the matter. The game was played with two umpires and a referee those days, and unless two of the parties were in agreement a decision could not be given. On this occasion Harry Roberts was one of the umpires, and he was the only one of the three officials, who was able to give a decision, and he unhesitatingly said it was a goal. The referee (the late J. Eman Smith) was too far away to say whether, it was a goal or not, and so also was the other umpire, and, therefore, it could not be awarded. It hardly matters probably at this late stage to discuss it, but the three potted goals do not constitute a record for New Zealand football, as J. Breen (now a Union Company official on the Wellington Wharf) playing for Ponsonby against Grafton in Auckland in the long ago potted three goals from the field. That, by the way, but the point I am striving for is that if that fourth goal of Davy Gage's had been awarded the performance would have been a record one.
In 1894 the Wellington team looked like winning the senior championship, having disposed of Melrose and Athletic in cavalier fashion. It was in that year that Ken Duncan put up a New Zealand record by converting eight tries into goals in the one match, not missing a solitary shot. Dr. Newman - then as now President of the Poneke Club —got into an argument with some of his friends at the Wellington Club, with the result that he appealed to T. R. Ellison, who was standing by through an injury to his knee, which, as a matter of fact, caused that player's retirement long before he was played out.
The Wellington team were playing at Petone, and Ellison went out to watch them. He concluded that Ken and Arthur Duncan at half and five-eighths respectively and Harley in the three-quarter line were the strong men in the Wellington team, and- if they could be scotched the win would come the way of Poneke. The late Archie Merlet —a real fine tackler—was set the task of coping with Arthur Duncan, and the Poneke front-rankers were given instructions to let the Wellington men have the ball every time in the early stages of the game. So effective were the tactics suggested by Ellison that the attack by the opposition was thrown right out of gear.
Davy Gage was the Poneke half-back, and directly the Wellington men were at sixes and sevens he called on his forwards to give him the ball, and in the end the strong Wellington team were beaten by three tries to nothing. One of the tries was a real beauty. Davy made a fine run right up to Strang, a big, strong Wellington three-quarter (14st was his weight). He gathered the nuggety half-caste in all right, but his face was a study when he noticed Galloway, Poneke's three-quarter, streaking for the line with the ball in his possession. He could not understand how and when Gage had made his pass. [1]
His portrait
www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/david-gage
New Zealand Natives’ rugby tour of 1888-9
www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/the-new-zealand-natives-rugb...
Maori rugby timeline
www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/maori-rugby
David married c1899 to Amiria HAKARAIA[2]
They had at least 8 children [Erina above is noted as Nellie]:
Kiti Hemi married Henry Joseph FALLENI c1921
Nellie married Charles James TARRANT c1919
John Porokow/Porokuru married Violet Annie LONGHURST c1927
Tiripa
Te Kura [Kura] married Richard John SMITH c1924
Joseph David
Harry
Alexander Mennie
SOURCES:
[1]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZ...
[2]
NZ Department Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1899/830
A candidate plots points on a map he must find at a night land navigation course during the Expert Field Medical Badge competition in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Sept. 8. Before the EFMB candidates take the actual testing they all must go through the standardization phase. During this portion the service members are taught what they must do at each of the different lanes so they understand what to expect before the actual testing phase. Passing rates for the badge range from 5-25 percent of candidates, making the EFMB a distinctive mark in a Soldier's records. About us: U.S. Army Europe is uniquely positioned to advance American strategic interests across Eurasia and has unparalleled capability to prevent conflict, shape the environment and, if necessary, win decisively. The relationships we build during 1000 theater security cooperation events in more than 40 countries each year lead directly to support for multinational contingency operations around the world, strengthen regional partnerships, and enhance global security. (photo by Sgt. Michael Reinsch, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)
Cadets from 6th Regiment Advanced Camp begin plotting their coordinate points on a map during Day Land Navigation. After plotting their points, Cadets are tasked with finding three out of four points in the field during Cadet Summer Training in Fort Knox, Ky on July 1, 2021. | Photo by Olivia Van Den Heuvel, CST Public Affairs Office
Plotter sketches for a new series. Studio Mode graciously let me use their CNC cutter to do these.
These particular ones are a revisit of the Ornament pieces I did for Darkness Descends. They're not intended for final production since I already have a good format for that series.
The Roland DXY-990 plotter with an "op-art" plot. The program that generated the plot is in C, and is based on a version in BASIC that was published in Personal Computer World in the early 1980s.
Headstone at the grave of John T. Scalish (foreground) at the Scalish family plot in Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
Scalish was born in Cleveland in 1912 and raised in the Italian American enclave that centered around the intersection of E. 110th Street and Kinsman Avenue. He was involved with the mob as a teenager, and at the age of 18 held up his first bank. Convicted in 1934 of the robbery of a bottling plant, he served only a few months in prison. Ohio Governor George White commuted his sentence only minutes before White's term of office ended. (The rumor is that White was bribed to do it.)
Scalish was close friends with Maishe (Milton) Rockman, a local Jewish mobster. Rockman married Scalish's sister, and Scalish married Rockman's sister. Angelo Lonardo, whose father Joseph "Big Joe" Lonardo was made mob boss in 1920 and was murdered in 1927, married Scalish's other sister.
Scalish worked his way up from small-time heists to become a clerk in casinos owned by the Cleveland mob. In time, he became a lieutenant to Alfred "The Owl" Polizzi. When Cleveland mob boss Frank "Ciccio" Milano fled the United States for Mexico, Polizzi took over. Scalish found himself the underboss of the Cleveland crime family. Polizzi was arrested in 1944, avoided conviction, and retired from the Mafia in 1945. With a fortune of about $100 million, he moved to Florida, investing in and construction companies.
Scalish became the new boss. His were the "golden years" for the Cleveland mob, which built an empire of casinos, pinball machines, and loan sharking. The Cleveland mob was so wealthy, it co-funded the construction of Las Vegas casinos, which provided a steady stream of income. Although the state banned gambling in the 1950s, Scalish got into the vending machine business with Rockman and muscled out the competition. He was a decisive leader, and dispensed punishment and rewards with equal swiftness. He allowed subordinates to engage in their own criminal activities and make money, which earned him loyalty.
Scalish moved from Cleveland to Gates Mills Boulevard in Pepper Pike. Many of the Cleveland mob's top leadership followed him, turning Gates Mills Boulevard between SOM Center and Brainard roads a kind of "embassy row" for organized crime. Scalish lived quietly and conservatively, and was little known outside the underworld. In 1957, he attended the "Apalachin Conference" with 50 other Mafia leaders at a farmhouse near Apalachin, New York. The police busted the conference, making Scalish a nationally known figure. The McClellan Committee subpoenaed him to testify before Congress, and he invoked the Fifth Amendment 35 times.
During the 1960s, several top- and mid-level Mafia leaders in Cleveland died or retired. Many of the up-and-coming low-level "made men" were killed. Not wishing to attract attention after the McClellan investigation, Scalish let the "middle management" of the Cleveland crime family atrophy and grow smaller.
Scalish had been in increasingly ill health since the late 1940s. Bladder cancer forced him to undergo a colostomy. He suffered from high blood pressure and high cholesterol, two diseases which had no treatments until the late 1960s. By 1975, he not only had advanced heart disease but was also suffering from cancer. Scalish underwent heart bypass surgery at the Cleveland Clinic on May 26, 1976. He died a few hours later in the recovery room.
Scalish had refused to name a successor. Capo James T. Licavoli emerged as the new boss. Licavoli not only didn't want the job, he was a weak leader. Irish mob boss Danny Greene attempted to take over the Cleveland crime family, and a mob war broke out. Greene was finally assassinated by a car bomb on October 6, 1977. FBI informant Jimmy Fratianno eventually ratted out Licavoli, and he was convicted of various racketerring charges in 1982. Licavoli died in prison in 1985. The mob war broke the back of the Cleveland mafia, which never recovered.
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chiplotle> plotter.selectPen(0)
chiplotle> plotter.selectPen(1)
chiplotle> plotter.write(Circle([5000,3000],500))
chiplotle> plotter.write(Circle([5000,4000],500))
chiplotle> plotter.write(Line(5500,3000,8000,3000))
chiplotle> plotter.write(Line(5500,4000,8000,4000))
chiplotle> plotter.write(Line(8000,3000,8000,4000))
chiplotle> plotter.write(Line(8000,3500,8500,3500))
chiplotle> plotter.penUp([8000,4000])
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the life of an indoor cat
always wanting to get out
but when she gets out?
many times
she gets scared and runs back in
where she knows it's safe
Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Leytonstone, London here are the details of the project.
The Terrace House Garden in Leytonstone, London E11
BRIEF:
This plot was a long urban garden and was almost completely bare, but for two large, established trees. The client was attempting to construct a pond in the near right corner using green slate boulders as decoration, and requested that this should be included in the design.
The interior of the house had a modern, contemporary feel fused with Victorian architecture. As the patio doors lead directly from the kitchen/diner into the garden, the garden becomes very much an extension of the house – as such the style of the interiorwas of particular consideration in the design the exterior space.
SOLUTION:
The final design created a low maintenance garden with a simple and contemporary feel. The area directly behind the house was laid with decking, running half way down the left side of the space. New wooden fences, to replace the existing worn out wire fences, were erected down the right of the garden, onto which a selection of clematis and everlasting sweet peas were trained.
The main area of the garden consisted of a tapered, oval shaped lawn, encircled by a raised bed following the same shape as the lawn. A smaller, tapered oval raised bed in the middle of the lawn served to slightly mask the bottom of the garden, breaking up the space and helping to create a sense of intrigue.
The simplicity of the borders was echoed in the planting, which consisted of white flowers and green foliage. Cool, crisp and elegant, a white planting scheme provides an air of harmony and tranquillity, and is well suited to the style of the garden and the interior of the house. An area devoted to graceful architectural ferns helped to accentuate the simplicity
of the space and serves to provide a stunning and effective display throughout the year.
Re-designing the layout of the client’s existing pond, using state boulders together with a powerful pump to produce an effective waterfall, helped to create a striking water feature. The pond and surrounding area was given life with the addition of water lilies and other aquatic and semi-aquatic plants. A bowed Cedrus libani (ssp.atlantica) ‘Glauca’, trailing branches in the water, presented the final flourish to the space.
TESTIMONIAL:
“Katrina and her team worked extremely hard and long hours to complete the garden quickly and with minimum disruption to our home. Considering that we have no access other than through the entire house, there was almost no disruption to our lives.
Watching the garden grow from its original design and come to life was amazing. It exceeded our expectations completely, and the aftercare pack and service offered by Earth Designs was brilliant.
We have no hesitation in recommending Earth Designs to any of our friends, who have also been amazed with our fantastic new garden - of course we have been showing it off at every sunny opportunity. Thanks to Katrina and her team at Earth Designs for such a fantastic design, utilising the space brilliantly and creating an outside space that we are extremely proud of.”
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Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.
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