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Once I moved back to Nicaragua I requested my office and bedroom be black and white but it didn't happen. Now I don't know if I want an office but every time I walk into a furniture store and lay eyes on a glass desk with long metallic legs, the daydream starts all over again. And as for my room, well its pastel pink, green, and purple - I feel like a little girl. But besides that Nicaragua doesn't have any contemporary modern furniture stores and I really don't want to figure out how to bring in furniture through customs or tax free - what a headache! So I'll just sit back and keep these pictures in file for when I finally buy my own apartment (sigh). | <urn:uuid:e471213b-09f2-4a7c-91f8-c42d1c4f3011> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://beatriceitaliana.blogspot.com/2011/08/interior-design-my-dream-space.html | 2018-05-24T19:46:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866772.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524190036-20180524210036-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.970961 | 145 | [
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The X-Files 2
If you are a fan of the X-files tv series, don´t miss the new film. I did watch it yesterday, and it is great to see Mulder and Scully together again! The chemistry between the lead actors still shows on the screen, and if the film has the feel of a longer TV episode, we hope someday they´ll give Chris Carter real cash (to make a great film with $35 mil? only if you are a Korean movie director) to make a bigger adventure, and make happy the CGI fans.
official homepage: http://www.xfiles.com
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Princeton Festival names young pianist competition winners
Six young pianists were named winners in The Princeton Festival’s annual competition for young pianists this month. The annual event was held at the Clark Music Center on the campus of the Lawrenceville School. More than 100 students entered the competition and competed in six categories. Winners were named in the following categories:
Elementary Artists (ages 6-9): Elijah Yoon of Glen Mills, Pa.
Intermediate Artists (ages 10-12): No winner named in this category
Junior Artists (ages 13-15): Elizabeth Yang of Belle Mead.
Senior Artists (ages 16-18): Qinghong Lian of Flushing, New York.
Four Hands: Elizabeth Yang and James Yang of Belle Mead.
Open Class (under the age of 25): Ziang Xu of Boston, Mass.
Richard Tang Yuk Award for Outstanding Performance (and the winner of the Jacobs Music Grand Prize trip to Tanglewood: LiYuan Byrne of Verona. | <urn:uuid:b582fde0-acfa-43e5-88e3-23e2f4a060bb> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://planetprinceton.com/2017/06/26/princeton-festival-names-young-pianist-competition-winners/ | 2018-05-24T19:46:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866772.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524190036-20180524210036-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.936344 | 209 | [
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I was dismayed to read today about a real estate investor who was the victim of a ‘scam’ involving one ‘sourcing’ company (who seems to be well know for such things, according to Google). Read about it here.
The investor made all the classic avoidable mistakes – he plainly didn’t check Zillow or Trulia (put in the links for these) for the price history and market price for the property, he didn’t visit the property, he didn’t check out the property manager, the rental contract, or the condition of the house. And he ended up paying for it.
Due diligence is a vital aspect of any real estate purchase – fortunately there are plenty of reputable brokers and sources of real estate both in US and UK and, while they provide a valuable service and source good quality, usually turnkey investments, all of these will ask you to do your own checks and due diligence before committing any of your hard earned money.
Ok, lets say you’ve found a property finder who you get on well with, and he’s found you a property that, at least on paper, looks like a good investment. What next?
- Check out comparable properties nearby. Checking the address on the Zillow or Trulia websites easily achieves this. You can see what else is for sale on the market nearby and what has sold recently and for what price.
- Visit the property. This of course isn’t possible for everyone. If it isn’t possible, the internet can provide viable alternatives – A quick ‘virtual’ visit to the neighborhood on Google street view can tell you what the area is like – are there many boarded up and empty houses? Are there a lot of gaps? Is the house the same as the photos the finder sent you? In addition to this, the finder, if reputable, will have contacts with good builders/maintenance teams, who can take a quick look at the property to see if there are any repairs required and assess the overall condition. If you can go there yourself, go with a builder to check the same.
- Speak to a local letting/management agent. Again, a reputable property finder will be linked up to a company like this who can perhaps check the tenants, and check the existing rental contract. You can check market rents on Zillow and trulia, and confirm the rents with the agent. He will also be able to quickly assess the quality, and check past payment history with the seller.
- Check for back-taxes owed and any other liens. Your attorney can do this in the purchase process, but if you feel there maybe an issue, it’s also worth checking yourself with the local city hall before you commit. You can also check who the current owner is online without too much trouble, and if there are any title issues there.
When your happy with the area, condition, tenants and title, then take the net rent, AFTER the letting/management fees, taxes, water, user fee (garbage collection) and take a FURTHER 15% off that figure for potential voids and repairs. This figure should be your net net income – it varies from city to city, but in Buffalo with the houses we buy it’s around 12-20% depending on the area and whether it’s a single or double unit.
This should be the figure you’re happy with as an income from the investment, weighing up the potential growth, the areas potential, and the various other risks. There are various methods on assessing risk in an investment – this article, although 2 years old, cites investment risk as
- % of people spending >30% on housing
- % without health insurance
- % not working
giving an overall housing stress indicator. Buffalo was shown to be the lowest risk city for investors in USA, followed by Pittsburg and then Minneapolis.
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So, I (along with many others, it seems...yet no fix) lost my IMEI when using Matt's 1.7 Utility to sideload ICS. I've done absolutely EVERYTHING to try and recover it from flashing back to .744 and manually updating to .181, to flashing just the radio, massive resets, etc. Nothing has fixed this issue and now it seems, I cannot even install the actual pushed OTA from VZW. My RAZR was rooted months ago, but I unrooted a long time ago in anticipation of ICS. I called VZW today and they are shipping me a new device that should be here by Tuesday. Nevertheless, if anyone has ideas that maybe I haven't tried, please let me know. I cannot tell you how frustrated I am... Tx! | <urn:uuid:e5a473e9-8f16-4a88-894a-d15699992b53> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.droidforums.net/threads/imei-uknown-after-attempting-ics-update.214500/ | 2018-05-25T20:58:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867217.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525200131-20180525220131-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.96823 | 171 | [
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No ‘experts’, no one-size-fits-all advice, just the truth about how to improve your sex life delivered straight from people like you, to you.
Today we’re going to try something new. We are simply going to share what has brought real change to people’s sex lives and let the data speak for itself.
Some of the ideas are remarkably out there (cue sex on LSD), and some of the ideas are what you may expect. Take the time to review them all and consider what you haven’t already considered. Ultimately, if you leave here with the resolve to try one of these ideas, we will chalk that up as a win. At the very least, bask in the fun sexy times of reading about what has worked for others.
For the record, we don’t endorse one strategy over another. For example, we would have a tough time standing behind the promotion of taking LSD and having sex. Nevertheless, this is what has worked for people who were part of the survey.
And who might these people be? 57 young adults from a previous survey we conducted, all between the ages of 24 and 45, 60% are male and 80% of them identify as straight. We’ve also got a handful of heteroflexibles, bis, pansexuals, sapiosexuals, queers and demisexuals in the mix. These are real people who are sharing the actions that have actually moved the needle for them. It’s that simple.
The following ideas of awesomeness are only possible because decent people took a small slice of time out of their day to share their experiences with us. In order for us to continue to offer insight into intimate relationships, we need you to please donate a few minutes right now and fill out our new survey so we can all learn, move forward and keep the sexy times rolling.
And now, on to the insights. We’ve bucketed the responses into two categories. The first is common responses, ranked by prevalence. For each of the common responses, there is a bit more detail about how you can approach these ideas in case you want to get started.
The second bucket is the fringe responses. This is often one person’s idea or action that has really helped them, but this approach was not shared by anyone else. Just because they’re alone in their response does not mean it’s not a worthy idea. Instead of sending all these responses to an internet wasteland, we were feeling adventurous and figured we would share them. It’s important to keep in mind that we are all incredibly unique when it comes to sexuality, no two are truly alike. So we are simply offering up the information and leave the resonating and sampling up to you. Without further adieu, here we go…
The common responses that actually helped people improve their intimate lives.
Talk To Your Partner 30%
Where’s the shocker emoji when you need it? Believe it or not, talking to your partner ranked as the most common activity attributed to helping people improve their intimate lives. Where to start, you may say? Well, some of our participants said asking their partner for feedback or simply what they like was a great place to kick things off. Creating a space to have that conversation with your partner is important and it may be a little awkward initially if the two of you don’t normally have those types of conversations. You could start by sharing what you like in order to demonstrate that you’re willing to get vulnerable. You could also share your insecurities and anxieties. Or you could ask them how they feel when you do that thing with your with your nose or elbow 😉 Many of your peers are grateful they made it over that initial communication hurdle. One awkward conversation with your partner can have the potential to spark an endless universe of connection and sexual exploration. So consider opening those lines of communication, it might just be the best way to Sherlock Holmes your way to your partner’s heart.
Sexual Exploration — With or Without Partner 28%
Become the Ernest Shackleton of your desires. Go forth, where no hipster hath gone before. Our friends cited curiosity, following desires, role playing, exploring kink, public sex and attending sex and orgy parties as concrete ways to kick up the exploration. Sometimes strangeness or newness is what we need to make the change we want, and most of us can have a tough time getting this from the same old same old. Plenty of young adults are now looking into experimenting with ‘monogamish’ or open relationship styles to allow for honesty, trust and transparency to be baked into the adventure experience. Sadly, most exploration today includes an element of going behind your current partner’s back. It doesn’t have to be that way, there are a plethora of outlets to explore safely and responsibly together. A ‘2nd base party’ where you simply make out with other patrons (nothing more and nothing less) could be the gateway drug to getting things started.
Read Books, Blogs And Articles 18%
Lincoln famously said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe”. What ‘axe’ do YOU think he was really talking about here? We like books and articles ourselves. Reading is a wonderful way to expand your horizons by digesting the thoughts and philosophies of people who spent a long time thinking about the ideas they are sharing with you. If you’re up for stories to bring more empathy into your intimate life, then we’ve got your back. Over here at cambyo, we go through intimacy books like Brooklyn goes through kale. Here are three you may want to consider given their ‘needle moving’ qualities.
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski. Main takeaway: The map that most of us have inherited about the world of intimacy and how we fit in that world does not match the terrain. If we are able to break down the barriers that a sex-negative culture has imposed on us, we can start to see and accept that we are all wonderfully unique and normal.
Sex At Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha. Main takeaway: Being attracted to other humans outside of your relationship is natural, so we should keep this in mind in our relationships. We should look at monogamy as choice, just like many people choose to be vegetarian. And just because you choose to abstain from eating meat does not mean that bacon won’t continue to smell great.
The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin. Main takeaway: “In eroticism, as in life, free choice increases with consciousness. One of the major benefits of identifying your core erotic theme is that once you know what it is, how it formed, and what it’s trying to accomplish, you can begin to work with it and coax it in directions consistent with where you wish to go. Those who simply act out their impulses blindly are the least free of all.” — The bauce, Jack Morin himself.
Have More Sex 16%
For some people, learning by doing is how they’ve made improvements in their sex lives. This idea is pretty simple. To become a better cook, it takes guidance and practice, becoming a better lover is possibly the same thing. Yet we often reject this notion that sex and relationships are things we can improve with intention. The data shows that we can. If it’s a priority for you, you may want to consider scheduling in the time to make sure it happens with frequency. Get your reps up. Simply being open to adopting what Carol Dweck calls the ‘growth mindset’ with regards to your intimate life could be the impetus you need to not view yourself as broken just because everything isn’t going your way.
Talk To Friends 12%
Next time you’re in the middle of a nice dinnertime conversation with your trusted friends, tell them about the sex you had in your partner’s dad’s Mercedes in a Burger King parking lot. Or perhaps your deepest insecurities, questionings or longings when it comes to sex and relationships. You may find yourself shocked at the information and riveting conversation to follow. You could even go so far as hosting a dinner party where you have the specific intention of discussion certain aspects of intimacy. We do it regularlyand it’s an incredibly rewarding experience. There is a lot to gain from a simple exchange of information and beliefs as you may find truly hidden gems in your closest friends’s minds. Disclaimer: it’s important to know your audience on this one 😉
Multiple Partners 11%
Specifically, having sex with a diverse group of interesting people is one of the ways people learn about intimacy and develop their sexual intelligence. Much like we are changed forever when we travel to a new and strange land, or read an amazing fiction book. We are also transformed by engaging romantically with new/different/interesting people. This is not an open invitation to get nasty with whomever you please, although if that’s your thing, then go get it. It’s more about exploring with intention. The more fringe or crazy or different the experience, the greater expansion of your emotional (and zexual) awareness. It’s important to note that there are respectful and disrespectful approaches to engaging with multiple partners. We’re big fans of the honest, transparent and well-intentioned philosophy.
Sex Coach + Therapy 7%
If Tiger Woods needs a coach for golf then one should consider a coach for their… Ah poor analogy choice. Forgive us for the crassness, let’s try that again. Relationships are really hard. Our boy Alain de Botton said that marriage may be the most ambitious undertaking human beings take on in their lives. So if most of us see an opportunity for improvement in our intimate lives, then why the eff aren’t we soliciting assistance for the most ambitious endeavours we will ever embark on? If you want to find coaches who are a great fit for you, we got you covered on this front. And if you got offended by the Tiger Woods comment, then you’ll definitely want to keep reading…
Eliminating Stigma 5%
If you still get triggered by the words herpes, BDSM, kink, orgies, polyamory, HIV, homosexual, cheating, premarital sex and threesomes, then this section is for you as there is likely work to be done. One of our heroes, Emily Nagoski, says the largest problem we collectively have with sexuality is that the ‘map’ we each have of what we think our own sexuality should be is all crunked up, and that we can overcome many of our own obstacles by simply adjusting our map to more accurately reflect the truth about our sexuality. And what’s one of the main contributors to the messiness of our personal maps? Stigma and taboo, usually impressed on us by society.
Way back when, a man by the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson observed people leading lives based on tradition, limited by religious forms and social habits. No one could be themselves because they were all too busy being what they were supposed to be. He felt that if you could get rid of the burdens — the past, religion, social forms, then each person could find out who they truly were. It may be worthwhile taking some time to reflect on some of the burdens you could remove from you own live.
Side note: eliminating stigma is also a byproduct of communication, conversations with friends, coaching and reading. But based on the way we collected the data, we counted it at 5% based on the amount of people that specifically mentioned it.
Take Care Of Yourself 5%
Specifically making sure you adequately address sleep, diet and exercise. Time to get all Richard Simmons on dat ass. The body is a system, in order to feel good and thrive, one must take care of the whole system. Three good places to start are sleep, diet and exercise. If any of these are not nailed, or perhaps there is too much stress in your life, then it’s going to be incredibly difficult to address the primary obstacles in your intimate life head on. If you’re not nailing these three pillars currently, we strongly urge you to consider starting your journey here. Most people have a tough time even having sexy thoughts occur if they don’t establish a baseline of feeling good.
Sex Exercises 4%
Tantra, Kama Sutra, kegels, multi-orgasmic practice, starting and stopping when you pee, and lifting heavy objects with your vagina. The list of exercises are endless. Regardless of the efficacy of each exercise, it’s still more time and intention towards this aspect of your life. Whether or not there is placebo accompanying these exercises, they seem to help some people.
Seriously, participating in surveys and learning about how you fit into the overall picture was a common answer. Now participate in our survey so we can keep the sexy times rolling.
And now for the fringe ideas and approaches that helped people improve their intimate lives.
Give ’em a good hard look. Think of it as a free garage sale from the cambyo community. Take what you please. Discard the rest. Enjoy.
- Becoming a better strip dancer (and dancing for myself)
- Dancing on my own and taking dance classes
- Focusing on pleasure and becoming pre-game centric
- Wearing lingerie
- Attending Quodoushka workshops
- Reading poetry
- Being myself
- Smoking. Note: it is unclear exactly what they smoked, but they smoked something.
- Sex on LSD. “It worked amazing and was a spiritual experience that opened up a new form of love making that I then realized was very similar to Tantra” — person who answered ‘Sex on LSD’
- Attending OneTaste events and workshops
- Using OMGYes to learn more about the female anatomy and orgasm
- Developing myself more generally aka personal development
- Instructional porn. We like XConfessions, you may want to give that a gander. It still is porn, so definitely NSFW.
That’s all folks. Hope this information has served you well on your journey. If you found this post insightful hit the ‘heart’ so other people on Medium will find it. Subscribe to cambyo so that your friends can get their ‘jam’ on as well. Was this useful to you? Let us know! Please comment below if there is something you’d like us to address in our Insights series going forward. | <urn:uuid:f726790c-482d-4929-9d75-c79330774a06> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://cambyo.co/2016/12/06/young-adults-improve-sex-lives/ | 2018-05-26T19:34:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867859.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526190648-20180526210648-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.957031 | 3,089 | [
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This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.
A bright eyed baby in a wicker buggy.
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This is a Kruxo Postcard that was used from 1910 to 1920
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Tuesday nights I watch ‘The Little Couple’ with my Mom!
I LOVE this show!!!
There is no way I can watch it and not laugh and be happy!
The kids are the best! Will (CAKE!) and Zoey (all the adorable outfits!) steal the show each episode!
Tonight the kids had swimming lessons! Will is fearless jumping in and out of the pool and loving every minute of it! Zoey, you can tell that maybe she didn’t want to get her hair wet! LOL! But, she still did awesome and she is only two years old.
Did I mention I love this show?!
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Sharfuddin and Coxe, JJ.
1. The petitioner, Bhim Lal Sah, on the 2nd January, 1912, complained against Atraj Singh and others of halving committed certain offences. On this the following order was passed: 'Complainant to prove his case on 18th January, 1912. Accused may cross-examine.' No local investigation was ordered. No reasons were recorded for distrusting the complaint. Indeed, it is difficult to see what reasons there could be. The order was absolutely illegal, and, considering how opposed it is to the plain words of the Code, and how frequently orders of this kind have been condemned, it is very difficult to understand how the Magistrate who passed it could have, believed that he was doing what he was entitled to do. The case dragged on till near the end of February, when the complaint was dismissed. The prosecution of Bhim Lal was then ordered under Section 211. The case then seems to have come before this Court, and this Court held that the accused persons should be properly tried, and that until they had been tried the proceedings under Section 211 should be dropped. They were tried and acquitted by Mr. McGavin, Deputy Magistrate, on the 1st August. A week later Mr. Warde Jones, another Deputy Magistrate, called on Bhim Lal to show cause why he should not be prosecuted under Section 211, and, finally, on the 23rd August, directed his prosecution under Section 476 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The District Magistrate, however, hesitated to act on this proceeding, and observed that the order ought to be passed by Mr. McGavin. Thereupon, Mr. McGavin passed the following order on the 16th September: 'Petition purporting to show cause against prosecution under Section 211 filed. The cause shown is not good. Draw up proceedings under Section 211 of the Indian Penal Code.' The petitioner then obtained this Rule on the District Magistrate to show cause why his prosecution should not be set aside on the first, second, third and sixth grounds mentioned in his petition. The Rule must clearly be made absolute on the third ground. The order of Mr. McGavin purports to have been passed under Section 476 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Now, if he had thought that action ought to be taken under that section, he ought to have passed the order one-and-a-half months before. The fact that he did not do so indicates very strongly that he did not at the time think it necessary, and that the belated order of the 16th September does not represent his independent judicial opinion. As to the order of the 23rd August, it is unnecessary to waste words on it. There was no judicial proceeding of any sort or kind before Mr. Warde Jones, and his order for the prosecution of the petitioner was altogether beyond his jurisdiction. We are, however, informed that the persons accused by Bhim Lal petitioned for his prosecution, and we have considered whether Mr. McGavin's order can be treated as one under Section 195 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Clearly there may be cases in which a Court may not think it necessary In the public interest to take action under Section 476, but may be willing to allow the person injured to seek redress. In such a case it is not necessary that the order should be passed at or near the time of the disposal of the original case. But, considering how illegally and unnecessarily Bhim Lal has been harassed in these proceedings, we do not think that his further prosecution should be sanctioned.
2. The Deputy Magistrate in charge, Mr. Warde Jones, has submitted an explanation, and with inference to this Court's condemnation of the practice of securing the attendance of the accused person, says that it is a 'matter of common practice that when cases are inquired into locally under Section 202 of the Criminal Procedure Code by judicial and non-judicial officers, the statements of accused persons and their witnesses are almost always taken: and inasmuch as Section 202 of the Criminal Procedure Code does not specifically forbid such, procedure, and in the present case the accused persons availed themselves of the option given them to cross-examine, put in statements and adduced evidence, I followed the practice.' He refers to another decision of this Court in which, in his view, this practice was' sanctioned, and asks for guidance.
3. It may be observed that the Deputy Magistrate appears to be in error in supposing that there was any* local investigation under Section 202 in this case, but leaving that aside, we may express our hearty concurrence in the condemnation pronounced by the former Bench on the practice of conducting these preliminary inquiries in the presence of the accused. The practice of making the accused a party to such proceedings was condemned in Baidya Nath Singh V. Muspratt (1886; I.L.R. 14 Calc. 141, and its futility is obvious. We do not suppose that Magistrates have so little to do that they prefer trying cases twice over, and it is difficult to avoid a feeling of uneasiness lest the object of the practice may not be to harass complainants and deter them from seeking relief in the Criminal Courts.
4. As regards the case cited by the Deputy Magistrate, we are, with the greatest respect, unable to agree with the view expressed that, in inquiries under Section 202, the accused should be allowed, if necessary, to cross-examine the complainant's witnesses. Or rather, we should say that, in our opinion, it cannot ever be necessary. The expression of this view was not necessary to the decision of that case, and we do not think that it need be referred to a Full Bench.
5. When a man files a complaint and supports it by his oath, rendering himself liable to prosecution and imprisonment if it is false, he is entitled to be believed, unless there is some apparent reason for disbelieving him; and lie is entitled to have the persons, against whom he complains, brought before the Court and tried. In the present case there was at first', at any rate, no reason whatever for distrusting the truth of the complaint, and the case should have been tried without further delay. | <urn:uuid:3d401748-69a7-4f61-9198-d3852bf467c8> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.legalcrystal.com/case/865578/bhim-lal-sah-vs-emperor | 2018-05-27T21:51:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794870470.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527205925-20180527225925-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.974339 | 1,274 | [
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Author(s): Roy Strong
The author looks at the many elements which make up a garden - paths, paving, steps, walls, hedges, fences, pergolas, arches, arbors, water, obelisks, sundials and statuary. There is a section on training plants and the book is extensively illustrated with photographs.
Good copies, HB with dj. Some fading to spine of dj.
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Agnew case revisited; Go Quietly or Else, by Spiro T. Agnew. New york. William Morrow & Co. $10.95.
Here's a book for anyone who wants to reopen the pages of the Agnew affair of seven years ago. But few probably will. At first reading it seems straightforward enough -- the former vice-president wants us to believe he's really an innocent man wronged by our judical system. But it quickly gets more complicated. for one thing, in the final analysis he is precisely the one who could have prevented the "wronging" but didn't -- because he didn't contest a criminal charge of evading income taxes. And he also permitted, as the result of plea bargaining, a 40-page list of evidence against him in this and other cases to be made public.
As a result he had to resign the vice-presidency in disgrace. And, because his nolo contendere plea resulted in his becoming a convicted felon, he was predictably prevented from practicing his vocation thereafter -- he's lawyer.
Would a person as innocent of wrongdoing as he claims have acquiesced in all this? doubtful. That the question should be asked at all stems from the nature of a nolo contendere plea -- it prevents evidence in a case from being presented in court. And, therefore, from having the full evidence on both sides made public.
Not surprisingly, the evidence Mr. Agnew offers here would weaken the case against him. He holds that overzealous prosecutors -- whom he calls "The Gang of Four" -- combined with business associates and friends to charge him with crimes he did not commit. And that there was no independent corroboration of evidence against him.
We cannot know precisely what prosecutors would say to that now, which is why the careful reader would delve more deeply into the Agnew book of clues withing. And it is here that the former vice-president frequently weakens his case.
To begin with, he admits his own lawyer apparently believed the charges against him were provable. if he were in fact innocent, why not change lawyers?
The heart of the allegations was that he had accepted contributions from engineering firms in return for providing them with government contracts -- in other words, that he took brides. He vigorously denies this.
But he says that, as maryland's governor, he did accept contribution from businessmen and, "Of course, I would give the jobs to my friends whenever they were fully qualified to do the work; why on earth should I give them to my enemies?" Such selection by the governor, he insists, had been "a normal thing" in Maryland -- a chilling thought.
Agnew's rational arguments are marred by the bitterness he feels -- toward the Justice Department for its leaking of evidence to the press, toward the Nixon White House for having shunned him, toward presecutors and former associates.
They're marred, too, by his instance that so many factions were out to get him -- prosecutors, attorney general, press, liberals, and White House officials. He even believes that Alexander M. Haig Jr., a Nixon White House chief of staff, issued a velied threat to have him killed if he did not resign.
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The Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Act (FEPA) prohibits employment practices that discriminate against a qualified handicapped person on the basis of the person's handicap. The FEPA covers private employers with six or more employees and all public employers (MA Gen. Laws Ch. 151B Sec. 1 et seq.). An employer may not ask an applicant about the existence, nature, or severity of a handicap. Employers may condition an offer of employment on the results of a medical examination conducted solely to determine whether the employee is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with reasonable accommodation (MA Gen. Laws Ch. 151B Sec. 4(16)).
Associational discrimination. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that the FEPA prohibits employers from discriminating against an employee based on his or her relationship or association with a person who has a disability (Flagg v. AliMed, Inc., 992 N.E.2d 354 (2013)). The employee in this case claimed his employer fired him because it did not want to pay the substantial medical expenses resulting from his wife's disability. In reaching its conclusion, the court noted that "when an employer takes adverse action against its employee because of his spouse's impairment, it is targeting the employee as the direct victim of its animus, inflicting punishment for exactly the same reason and in exactly the same way as if the employee were handicapped himself."
The federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) expressly prohibits covered employers from discrimination based on an employee's relationship or association with a person who has a disability.
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Three immature drake Eider - Maer Rocks - click to enlarge.
Nick and I had a look off the seafront first thing this morning, and I popped out again late afternoon to grill a large flock of c300+ Gannet. Totals included 3 Eider, 9 Common Scoter, 3 Red-breasted Merganser, 1 Long-tailed Duck, 3 Great Northern Diver, 2 Red-throated Diver, 6 Purple Sandpiper and 3 Turnstone. Large numbers of auks seemed to be mostly Guillemot and there were a number of Kittiwake knocking around. Best bird was a Great Skua that was sniffing around the periphery of the Gannet flock this afternoon. | <urn:uuid:875e7c35-0b08-43d2-b356-65ded11e3eab> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://gobirdingexmouth.blogspot.com/2018/01/new-years-day.html | 2018-05-21T22:50:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864558.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521220041-20180522000041-00595.warc.gz | en | 0.951086 | 147 | [
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Read 'Em And Creep
Hey, fiends! The aforementioned books I've been working on are finally available for preorder. MONSTERS! is slated to lurch onto bookshop shelves in June. I got my preview copy, and it looks pretty swell, if I do say so myself. HEROES! is due out the same time, and ROBOTS! and MANGA! are coming out in January 2008. That's a long way off, and I guess it's a little early to be posting about these, but what the heck... I'm excited! | <urn:uuid:ae3c2370-f947-418b-8c93-060c569bd0a6> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://monsterama.blogspot.com/2007/04/read-em-and-creep.html | 2018-05-21T22:45:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864558.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521220041-20180522000041-00595.warc.gz | en | 0.965217 | 123 | [
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Meet at Villa Mandala for a week of yoga, surfing and exploring the beautiful Moroccan coast and culture. You’ll come to learn, relax and explore and you’ll leave with amazing friends forged from an epic journey.
We are in love with the Moroccan coast and can’t wait to go back to our favorite yoga and surf spot with one of our favorite teachers, Amber Campion, just south of Taghazout.
We’ll practice yoga in a breathtaking location with Amber. Surf in perfect warm water waves (for all levels). Sleep in an enchanting villa. Eat incredibly delicious and health meals. Take a trip into the dessert to a magical swimming hole. Visit a local market and experience a local Hamamm (Moroccan bathhouse).
YOGASCAPES believes in nourishing and balancing the body and mind through a daily diet of vitalizing yoga, serene surf and wholesome food within a tranquil environment. Our friendly, highly experienced team will help you develop your own yoga practice, take you surfing in perfect waves – and create the perfect retreat.
As we invite you to enjoy this amazing week in Morocco we also encourage you to use this retreat as a launching point or an ending point for exploring this unbelievable part of the world.
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Situated right in front of Banana beach, tucked away from the market’s hustle and bustle and standing out as the best villa in the area, Mandala is the perfect surf and yoga escape. The large, private ocean front terrace has plenty of space for basking in the sun by Mandala’s pool or lazy afternoons in shady spots. Seconds from fantastic surf of Banana Point, Onze and Douze, Mandala incorporates privacy and a soulful individuality.
The area immediately surrounding Villa Mandala is not a tropical paradise but the sea views are beautiful and there are great beaches are in walking distance. It is a distinctly North African beach-side location that is susceptible to the constant natural and man made changes that rapidly occur in the developing world. Its part of the experience and its what makes Villa Mandala a true gem, hidden off the beaten track and Banana Village’s best kept secret!
“Stunning, friendly, relaxed and such lovely staff. Surf and Yoga Paradise.” – Margarito Fullilove
Villa Mandala has a private hamam (Moroccan sauna) for two so you can unwind and rejuvenate after a long day in the surf. The roof top terrace has a stunning wooden yoga shala and is the perfect place to sunbathe, chill out or have a drink at sunset. Downstairs there is a big living area with large sofas, TV, satellite, lots of films, wireless internet, books to read and games to play. Like our original surf camp the atmosphere is laid back, fun and friendly. The terrace and pool area are the perfect place to have breakfast in front of the surf, or enjoy a few drinks in the evening. Villa Mandala is a very special place for a truly unique and unforgettable holiday.
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Education Consulting – Study Abroad – New Opportunities
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Consequently an education consulting aids the household/ students in making instructional decisions. This may include helping to discover an overseas school / college registration that are good fit for your student. Best consultancy is available in Chennai @ Aksent. Better consultants don’t guarantee placement as recommendations, and might suggest alternative options.
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People Use the services of educational advisors in a Variety of ways:-
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If you had given truth serum to Derrick Favors and the Utah Jazz in December, both sides probably would’ve pointed to an inevitable breakup.
The Jazz and coach Quin Snyder have held a long-standing search for a playmaking power forward, one who can shoot to 3-point range, and one who can also make plays for himself and others off the dribble.
And Favors has long wanted to be featured more. He’s wanted to be on the floor nightly in late fourth quarter situations, and that simply wasn’t going to be possible with Rudy Gobert at center.
As the Jazz offseason looms, those two dynamics haven’t changed. In Games 4 and 5 of a Western Conference semifinal loss to the Houston Rockets, Snyder started Jae Crowder at power forward over Favors and brought the longest tenured Jazz player off the bench for the final two games of the season.
And, while Favors understood the move, and even publicly endorsed it, he wasn’t completely happy with it. He’s a competitor. And, with him playing at his best since the 2015-2016 season, he wanted to be on the floor.
But, as Favors heads into unrestricted free agency this summer, the two sides have come to a mutual appreciation, one that raises the possibility that Favors may indeed stay with the Jazz.
“I want to be here,” Favors told The Salt Lake Tribune in an interview on Saturday night. “I love my teammates, I love the organization. This is where I grew up. At the same time, I know that if I’m going to be here, there are certain sacrifices that I’m going to have to make. So, I just have to wait and see how things work out when the time comes.”
There’s no doubt the two sides became closer as the season progressed. The Jazz appreciate Favors’ professionalism — he never made a peep publicly or privately when he was frustrated about not playing down the stretch of games. The Jazz have been a very good team with Favors and Gobert on the floor. And for the second consecutive season, Favors showed up huge in the postseason.
“What Derrick did against Oklahoma City shows what we can do with he and Rudy on the floor together,” Snyder said.
Favors’ impending free agency promises to be complicated, even fascinating to watch. If Favors returns to the Jazz, he knows he will have to sacrifice touches and statistical opportunities. He will be 27 years old, and he will basically consign himself to being a role player in his prime when it’s obvious he can be more in another situation. He averaged 12 points and seven rebounds a night this season. In a nine-game stretch without an injured Gobert earlier in the schedule, Favors averaged almost 17 points and nine rebounds.
It’s obvious Favors and Gobert can play together. But if the Jazz want to conquer Houston or Golden State, it’s also obvious the Jazz will need to play smaller. That’s why Crowder started the final two games against the Rockets. Utah simply couldn’t start Gobert and Favors together and hope to defend Houston’s smaller lineup.
That’s the conundrum with Favors and the Jazz. Favors wants a bigger role, but he loves the winning situation Utah has created over the last two seasons. The Jazz love Favors and what he brings on and off the floor. But, to get over the hump of Houston and Golden State, they know they have to play small ball to a large degree.
Despite this, both parties are amiable for Favors to return. He makes the Jazz unique, because not many teams can keep a rim protecter on the floor for 48 minutes a night like Utah can. So, the pros of keeping him probably outweigh the cons, even in the context of possibly competing for a championship.
“If there’s no Derrick, there’s no second round of the playoffs last season,” Lindsey said.
Ultimately, it may come down to money, or opportunity for Favors. He will be one of the best big men on the market, but this is a market that may not have as much money as in previous summers.
Favors will spend his summer in Atlanta with his family. He said his focus during the offseason lies in improving his 3-point shooting, which took a leap this season.
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Game Day Grub ~ Broccoli & Cheese Stuffed Pistolettes
Broccoli & Cheese Stuffed Pistolettes
1 lb ground beef
1/2 cup diced onion
2 cloves minced garlic
2 cups chopped broccoli
1 can diced tomatoes with green chilis
1 can of Cream of Chicken soup
1 small block of Velveeta cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
1 dozen pistolette rolls*
Melted garlic butter
Brown ground beef, toss in onions and garlic and cook for a couple of minutes. Add broccoli, tomatoes and soup. Mix well and add cheese. Stir until cheese is melted. Add salt and pepper to taste, remove from heat and set aside.
To prepare pistolette rolls, cut a small piece off the end of each roll and scoop out the inside. Now spoon the broccoli and cheese mixture into the rolls and replace the piece of bread that was cut off. At this point, the rolls can be frozen for future use or baked. To bake, brush the tops of the rolls with melted garlic butter and bake in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes or until pistolettes are a nice golden brown. Enjoy!
* Pistolettes rolls are small French rolls. If you can't find them in your area, any sturdy roll that will hold the stuffing will work.
Happily married to a college football coach for 14 wonderful years, mom to 2 amazing little knuckleheads, photographer, crafty chick, loves to cook, wannabe gardener, beach bum, pool floater, Saints fan, happy girl ___
ORIGIN: Natchitoches, Louisiana___
MAY BE SEEN: Getting rowdy at football games, riding on a Mardi Gras float, arguing with my computer, jumping curbs in the minivan, with my nose in a book, dreaming about a vacation, digging in the dirt, chasing kids and acting crazy with a camera strapped around my neck___
SECRET WEAPON: PhotoShop___
CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: Flipflops, Coca~Cola, computer, camera, library card, kids' giggles, husband's love and support___
ENEMIES: Long lines, slow drivers, hurricanes___
HEROES: Parents who made sure I've been loved every day of my life, my children who make me laugh until my belly hurts and my wonderful husband for always saying yes to my crazy ideas and loving me uncondionally no matter what___
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“The equipment works exactly as advertised and we’re saving half the time on drying fillers and paint,” Marshall Auto Body President Aaron Marshall said in a statement. “Flashing of the waterborne base coat is dramatically better and we do not have the expense of quick drying clears.”
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Christian and Noah doing some light reading in their new chairs from Grandpa & Grandma..
One day, I thought they were playing downstairs while I was upstairs...
it was "too" quiet, so I went to check on them.
Christian said, "We got too hot." They were looking at some kind of "World's Records Book"
"Quien se esconde?"
Daddy reading one of their favorite Spanish books to Noah.
Noah is in the beginning stages of potty training. We have better days than some.
One morning, they both needed to take care of business. Christian has recently enjoyed looking at a magazine while he goes..."This Old House". So naturally, Noah decided he needed to do the same thing. It was quite the sight.
In Preschool, they were discussing incline planes...and they built a creation using scrap wood and wood glue. Christian made two VERY large ones...using a LOT of glue!
These are the moments that I want to freeze time....
Noah reading a book to Jonah..he's still so in love with his baby brother.
Two of my loves...
Noah was saying something about "Che-chen??? (Christian)"
We all enjoy a good Freddy's visit.
They have such sweet moments while Christian is at preschool..
the house is usually so much more quiet. Not to be mistaken with dull, or boring...just less noise.
We've all enjoyed being outside more.
This is at Grandpa and Grandma's...oh how they have the fun things to play with!
I was in the kitchen, and I knew Noah went down the hall...
when it got really quiet, I went to check and he had climbed into Jonah's crib to play with him.
They both thought that was just fantastic!
One day, these two were playing outside at our house while I was inside feeding Jonah. Normally, this is not a problem. But on this particular day, they were pushing around their cars that the kind they can sit in and scoot. They decided to take them for a stroll down our street, all the way to the corner, by the motorcyle shop. Needless to say, when I walked out to see where they were and then walked to the front to find our neighbor lady walking on the road towards the corner...I knew.
Long story short, we needed a different change of scenery by the afternoon..so we loaded up the stroller and Christian's bike and strolled around town for a couple hours.
This was at Hesston College, where we started, and had to stop for a break after about 3 minutes in.
These two in the morning are often quite snuggly.
These boys keep things interesting...often funny....sometimes wearing...but very rewarding.
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One day after Dave Cottle resigned as head coach of the Maryland men's lacrosse team, a list of three leading candidates to become the next coach has emerged. According to numerous sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the three leaders are currently employed elsewhere, the three leaders, in order, are Bryant Coach Mike Pressler, Syracuse women's coach Gary Gait and Notre Dame Coach Kevin Corrigan.
One source familiar with the situation said that Maryland Athletic Director Debbie Yow is "looking to make a splash" and also is looking for a proven winner.
Pressler is the coach of the U.S. national team, which plays in the World Games in Manchester, England, this summer. He previously was coach at Duke. His tenure there ended in 2006 after he was fired following allegations that three Duke players raped an exotic dancer at a team party. The charges were later proven false.
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Corrigan has Notre Dame in the Final Four following a 7-5 victory over Maryland in a quarterfinal on Saturday. It was that loss that led to Cottle's resignation on Sunday.
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It’s not really a very old story, relatively speaking, originating circa 928: there are other older an newer stories that connect with this one, such as Medusa (the old “turn you into stone” thing), Circe (“you’re such a pig!”) and various harpies, sirens, Scylla, and Ariel. Yes, I said Ariel. Because in the original Little Mermaid story she takes the high road and doesn’t turn into a sea serpent, murderer, or even a a shrimp boat captain, but sea foam. Sea foam. Really, Hans Christian Andersen? Foam? Ultimately she turns into some kind of spirit that seeks out good children, because for every good kid she finds, it moves her closer to heaven:
The little mermaid lifted her glorified eyes towards the sun, and felt them, for the first time, filling with tears. On the ship, in which she had left the prince, there were life and noise; she saw him and his beautiful bride searching for her; sorrowfully they gazed at the pearly foam, as if they knew she had thrown herself into the waves. Unseen she kissed the forehead of her bride, and fanned the prince, and then mounted with the other children of the air to a rosy cloud that floated through the ether.”
“After three hundred years, thus shall we float into the kingdom of heaven,” said she. “And we may even get there sooner,” whispered one of her companions. “Unseen we can enter the houses of men, where there are children, and for every day on which we find a good child, who is the joy of his parents and deserves their love, our time of probation is shortened. The child does not know, when we fly through the room, that we smile with joy at his good conduct, for we can count one year less of our three hundred years. But when we see a naughty or a wicked child, we shed tears of sorrow, and for every tear a day is added to our time of trial!”
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One perspective I found interesting is that Kiyohime is not really considered an evil being, just misunderstood (isn’t that right, gals?):
Kiyohime was not a villainess, even in folklore. The concluding words of Koi no tenarai, “The Learning of Love”, from the Nagauta cycle “Kyo Kanoko Musume Dojoji” paint a sensitive picture of a woman tormented by her love, and an unfeeling rejection from one to whom she considered herself bound.
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I’m not sure who originally wrote this website, but there are a lot of misspellings in it. However, you’ll get the gist of the story: http://www.dojoji.com/e/anchin/anchin.html
Here’s a synopsis of the story here: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cyw&CISOPTR=311
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Sometimes the simplest things are the best things in life... like Jake Gyllenhaal shirtless on a beach.
Let's hear it for the boys.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
RECIPES FROM ELIZABETH
This is my friend Elizabeth. Most of you know her story and that I've been visiting her, first at her home and then after she fell, in a Assisted Living Facility. She's 98 and I only dream to be as sharp as her.
She was so excited when I got my KitchenAid and since it was impossible to show her in person, I took a picture of it and gave it to her on my last visit.
Today, when I arrived she had several recipes for me. Here she is with then laying on her lap. They are almost as old as she is. The pages tatted, torn, and faded. She was excited because most of then are bread recipes and she knows I'm anxious to make bread with my new bread hook.
There is a bagel recipe, a 5" popover recipe and a "Real" German Chocolate Cake...No mix here, and the Coconut Pecan frosting from scratch. The hard part. She wants me to try all of them, and either take a picture or bring her some. Her son is making me copies so she can keep her originals.
Today I told her that I was learning so much from her....and she said she was learning from me too. She pointed to a letter that had a "forever" stamp on it and told me she will love me forever. Brought a tear to my eye. I do love this dear woman. | <urn:uuid:819abb47-be5b-4a8b-9711-4c7541e85d8e> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://gotaminuteortwo.blogspot.com/2015/02/recipes-from-elizabeth.html | 2018-05-21T01:29:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863901.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521004325-20180521024325-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.993207 | 309 | [
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Last week saw reports of the largest producer of memory suddenly buying Flash and mobile DRAM from their competitors. The most obvious reason for this move would seem to be that they need to supplement their insatiable demand for their own electronic products with outside sources. While we believe strong demand, coupled with slower supply growth, has been the cause for explosive price increases in the last 6 months, we believe the real reason for this move is the recent saber rattling in North Korea. It started with the North's propaganda map of their proposed strategic missile strikes into the U.S. Besides the obvious targets of Washington D.C., and one or two west coast cities, the only other target was Austin Texas. Why Austin? Well, it happens to be the home of a large logic fab belonging to this South Korean producer!
While no one believes the North can hit the U.S., that map does reveal the North's thinking about what their top targets would be in the South if hostilities escalate. These top targets are also the biggest strategic risk to the rest of the world…..solid state memory. It turns out that 55% of the world's flash memory and 65% of the world's DRAM is produced within 85 miles south of the Korean DMZ. In fact, this major memory manufacturer produces all of their memory (over 40% of the world's supply of each type) in one complex called Nano City, 65 miles from the DMZ. Last year, they even added the world's largest fab to this complex, which cost over $10 billion. The market is beginning to realize the potential risk to supply as we are starting to see premiums placed on memory produced from countries not in a technical state of war. After all, why would anyone put their electronic end products at risk to the actions of Kim Jong Un if you didn't have to. History has shown that when natural (or manmade) supply disruptions of strategic components occur, the ability to source these components boils down to not how much you are willing to pay, but whether you are already a customer and will receive an allocation.
The risk to the largest memory producer is immense as one strike to Nano City would put an instant stop to the world's biggest electronic producer's products. Undoubtedly, they are now scrambling to reduce their vulnerability by shutting down some of their Nano City production lines and moving the equipment to a new memory fab in China. Since there is not any spare capacity, they are sourcing memory from their competitors to meet their current customer commitments while these lines are off line. The lost production while this equipment is being moved will have a big impact on the industry in the second half of the year. This is due to the need to build inventory in the slow first half to meet the much stronger demand in the second. Since inventory isn't being built, we think when it comes to memory prices, you haven't seen nothin' yet.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.
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I write to you to BAN you from predicting, forecasting or even dreaming of scams at entities under the control of the Govt of Kenya or Ministry of Energy.
Such predictions have a way of coming true. Furthermore, shedding light on such scams or potential scams makes us look exactly like what we are. We feel exposing these to the public shall open their eyes & make it difficult for us to continue such plans prior, during & post to the 2012 elections.
We have our friends (mboss, can I call them flunkies) in the Media who are capable of not informing Kenyans as & when needed.Of course, all actions are for the good of the few at the expense of the many.
This is a blogpost you posted in January 2009, please note as you predicted, such a scam did take place around June 2011 but we feel you should not predict or highlight such matters. Let our PR folks deal with it by:
- Blaming the Kenya Shilling (note to self; Do not piss off CBK Guvnor)
- Blaming the Arabs/Indians/Malaysians/Somalis
- Blaming consumers
- Finally our fail-proof method; blaming KenolKobil. No reason required.
To save taxpayer money, we have pre-printed letters blaming KenolKobil for any & all ills facing us. We found it easier & thanks to the Media & gullible Kenyans, it works very well.
So herewith we BAN you from predicting scams concerning any of the following entities:
Govt of Kenya
Ministry of Energy
Kenya Pipeline Company
National Oil Company of Kenya
Central Bank of Kenya
After all the transfer of wealth of only 10/- per Kenyan per month means a freaking lot to the some of us. Consider it our version of "AllKenyans4SomeKenyans".
Thank you for your cooperation on behalf of the politically helpful folks,
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|Crown Las Vegas|
|2600 Las Vegas Boulevard South|
Las Vegas NV United States
| Intended completion date||2011|
|Units / Rooms||3,975|
| - hotel|
| - casino|
| - conference|
| - observation|
| - parking garage|
| - restaurant|
| - retail|
| - highrise|
| - futurism|
| - glass|
| - steel|
| - concrete|
| ||Heights|| ||Value||Source / Comments|| |
|Spire||1888 ft||SOM Tower Elevation Section Plan, December 11, 2006|
|height to top of rooftop element|
|Roof||1648 ft||SOM Tower Elevation Section Plan, December 11, 2006|
|height to principal roof below dome|
- Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Tower) and Steelman Design Group (Podium)
- Developer: IDM Properties/York Capital Management/Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd.
Facts & Description:
- The Crown Las Vegas was to be located just north of the Fontainbleau Hotel, on the former site of Wet'n Wild water park along Las Vegas Boulevard.
- If completed, this project will be the tallest building in the United States, and the tallest hotel in the world.
- The structural design of Las Vegas Tower is modeled after that of Burj Dubai in Dubai.
- Crown Las Vegas was cancelled in March 2008, the land was put up for sale. Originally with a height of 1,800 feet, the tower was scaled back to 1,063 feet due to height concerns from the nearby McCarren International Airport, leading to its cancellation.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., May 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced the appointment of Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H., to the position of senior vice president, Global Regulatory Affairs and Safety, effective May 19. Galson will report to Sean E. Harper, M.D., executive vice president, Research and Development, and will be responsible for all regulatory and patient safety functions across Amgen.
Galson joined Amgen as vice president of Global Regulatory Affairs in October 2010. "Steven has led Amgen's regulatory team for the past three and a half years, and his success in this critical role has prepared him for these expanded responsibilities," said Harper. "Steven's deep and broad experience in both the public and private health sectors makes him an excellent choice to manage the unprecedented number of regulatory filings that Amgen has planned, and to lead our effort to continually evaluate and communicate the safety profile of our medicines."
Galson came to Amgen from Science Applications International Corporation, where he served as senior vice president for Civilian Health Operations and chief health scientist from October 2009 through October 2010.
Prior to that, Galson had a distinguished 23-year career in United States (U.S.) Public Health Service. From 2007 to 2009, he was acting U.S. Surgeon General. During the Bush-Obama transition in 2009, he was the acting Assistant Secretary for Health. From 2001 to 2007, he served as deputy director and director of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, where he provided leadership for the center's broad national and international programs in pharmaceutical regulation.
Prior to his arrival at the FDA, Galson was director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Science Coordination and Policy, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. He has also served as the Chief Medical Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy. He began his Public Health Service career as an epidemiological investigator at the Centers for Disease Control after completing a residency in internal medicine at the hospitals of the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Galson is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Surgeon General's Medallion and the Secretary of Energy Gold Award. He has been a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners and a peer reviewer for medical journals. He is the co-chair of the Institute of Medicine Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation and a member of the Board of Directors of Vanda Pharmaceuticals. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Stony Brook University, an M.D. from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health and an Honorary Doctor of Public Service from Drexel University. He is board certified in preventive medicine and public health and occupational medicine.
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be the world's largest independent biotechnology company, has reached millions of patients around the world, and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
CONTACT: Amgen, Thousand Oaks
David Caouette, 805-447-2661 (media)
Arvind Sood, 805-447-1060 (investors)
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Change to a Natural Homemade Fabric Softener for Safer Laundry
Removing all products with fragrance (as an ingredient) will immediately improve air quality in your home.
And one of those products on the list of chemicals is the commercial fabric softener where the ingredients include:
- Benzyl acetate (linked to pancreatic cancer)
- Benzyl alcohol (an upper respiratory tract irritant)
- Ethanol (linked to central nervous system disorders)
- Limonene (a known carcinogen) and
- Chloroform (a neurotoxin and carcinogen)
What can you use instead? How about this very simple recipe?
Here is the natural “homemade” fabric softener recipe
You will need:
- 1 gallon white vinegar.
- Mix ingredients together and pour into a storage container.
- Dilute the vinegar mixture with water before being used in your laundry.
- For regular sizes loads, mix 1/4 cup of vinegar mixture with 3/4 cups of water.
- Pour the fabric softener into your washer during the final rinse cycle.
There are other laundry products that can cause harm too…
Dryer sheets are designed to stay on clothing for a long period of time and slowly release their chemicals throughout the day and night, leading to prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals.
Today, many people think that hanging clothes out to dry in the sun is old-fashioned and inconvenient but feeling your clothes are cleaner when using chemically-fragranced dryer sheets is an advertiser’s myth. The sun’s rays act as totally natural and efficient disinfectants – killing germs, bacteria and dust mites that might have survived the washing process. If you’re using toxic dryer sheets, you are going to add to toxins in your air and your home.
There are safer alternatives to dryer sheets
- Skip the dryer sheets completely and rise to the challenge of static cling and clothes softening by adding a dash of vinegar to the rinse cycle.
- Alternatively, you could pop in a sachet of fresh herbs.
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A North East man has rewarded for his efforts to help the business community.
Chris Baxter, 41, from Chester-le-Street, has been given the accolade of national coach of the year by business advice and coaching specialists Ology.
Chris beat competition from 15 finalists.
Chris runs one of the Ology franchises, the fastest growing business coaching network in the UK.
Chris, who previously worked for manufacturing and retail businesses, set up his franchise 15 months ago. He said: "I am absolutely delighted." | <urn:uuid:2102c18b-29a9-4266-9d3c-ea5551140d4f> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/he-is-the-biz-1538837 | 2018-05-23T01:46:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865023.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20180523004548-20180523024548-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.974493 | 108 | [
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So, last week there was a tie between three covers of The Forest of Hands and Teeth. :D
This week's cover comparison is: Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
US Cover Australian Cover
Both covers are very pretty but I have to say I love the Australian one. There's just something about it that draws my attention. From the colors to the girl's position, I think it's perfect.
What about you? What do you think? Which one is your favorite cover? | <urn:uuid:13513e36-39cd-43a3-b638-839417126888> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://librarymosaic.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html | 2018-05-24T02:13:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865884.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524014502-20180524034502-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.984375 | 101 | [
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(Optional soundtrack to this blog post...)
There's going to be some kerfuffling today over the fact that the president's re-election campaign has set up a Super PAC called Priorities USA — was there something in the Citizens United decision I missed mandating that all Super PACs have incredibly lame names that sound like they were burped up by the marketing boys at Amway? — and that, long ago, the president excoriated the members of the Supreme Court to their faces during a State of the Union address on the very issues their decision had birthed upon the electoral process. Most of the hollering soon to ensue will be variations on the theme first voiced by Edward G. Robinson in The Ten Commandments: "Nyah, nyah, where's your Moses now?"
This has always been the most insidious thing about the Citizens United decision. It is completely self-sustaining. First, the decision contains within itself mechanisms by which almost every legislative attempt to change it will be ruled unconstitutional, leaving its opponents only the cumbersome route of amending the Constitution to rid us of it. Second, and most immediately important, the changes it wrought in how we finance elections effectively take the actual questions about big money in politics off the table. The president is vehemently opposed to the decision and to what it has done to deform our politics. Unfortunately, the president would also like to get re-elected, and he has to do so on this newly deformed electoral landscape, and while (likely) running against a man who demonstrated that he has utterly no conscience in raising gobs of unaccountable corporate cash and in how he puts it to use. (I still maintain that Willard Romney's greatest personal insult to me was that I felt a millisecond of compassion for Newt Gingrich over what was being done to him in Iowa.) Hence, the president either has to put himself at a profound disadvantage unilaterally or, in the words of Kevin Costner's Eliot Ness, he has to become what he beholds. All of which, of course, comes with a stack of IOUs as big as K2, which requires the politician in question to become something of a ho, or something of an ingrate. And the system hums merrily on through the next election cycle.
In either case, the fundamental damage done to the system by this misbegotten decision remains largely intact, and largely immune to any democratic-small-d attempts to correct it. The decision contains provisions that will turn off any legislative remedy, and any candidates wishing to correct the damage can either become somewhat hypocritical, or they can lose. The president has chosen the former course. Can't really say I blame him much. | <urn:uuid:fc3631a1-c812-4f6c-a0d1-73b42029852f> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12607/obama-super-pac-6652826/ | 2018-05-24T03:09:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794865884.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524014502-20180524034502-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.977924 | 550 | [
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MIAMI - (AP) James Harden made only one field goal Friday for Arizona State, and it was a big one.
The Sun Devils' scoring leader struggled most of the game but sank a 3-pointer with 4:02 left to help hold off Temple, and Arizona State won 66-57 in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Harden went 1-for-8 and was held to nine points, less than half his average. But junior Derek Glasser scored a career-high 22 points and Jeff Pendergraph also had 22 for the Sun Devils, who shot 51 percent.
Sixth-seeded Arizona State (25-9) reached the 25-win milestone for the first time since 1975 and will play Sunday against Syracuse (27-9), which beat Stephen F. Austin 59-44.
No. 11-seed Temple (22-12) was eliminated in the opening round for the second year in a row. | <urn:uuid:267acc7e-bab8-4332-97a8-439faeb45b8a> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.nbc11news.com/sports/headlines/41596247.html | 2018-05-25T01:24:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866917.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525004413-20180525024413-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.974599 | 194 | [
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Monday, September 6, 2010
One of the better things about living in The Great White North is that you are always offered cream with your coffee, which - with a nod to Mr. Lyle Lovett - is one of my favorite things. A while back, I found myself sitting in a local coffehouse, drawing on a napkin and gave life to a lonley little coffee cup, named, of all things, "Joe." So for your enjoyment, I offer up the first episode of ADVENTURES IN COFFEELAND. As always, comments are welcome. | <urn:uuid:118ff8d5-15cd-4e5a-8d2b-4db9f052c04a> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://thehyenakitchen.blogspot.com/2010/09/ | 2018-05-26T02:03:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867277.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526014543-20180526034543-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.96651 | 120 | [
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The Dewy Skin Guide
Find the right cleanser.
Tight feeling skin does not equal clean skin. Your skin can feel both baby soft, non-greasy, and still very clean after a cleanse. You just need to find the right cleanser for your skin type. Clinique's Take the Day Off cleansing balm has really been working well for me lately. Keep looking until you find "the one." It's worth it. Starting with a healthy base makes a world of difference!
Apply liquid highlighter underneath liquid foundation.
I just pop it on the spots that I want to highlight, let it dry, and then go in with a brightening foundation*. This brightens up my face without making it look like a disco ball - very work appropriate. For days when I want a bit more glow I can always go back and highlight a bit more on top where I need it. I'm currently using High Beam by Benefit, but there are a lot of cheaper highlighters on the market now that do a good job as well.
*Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation really is worth the hype, but their color range is lacking for both pale and darker skinned ladies. I wear it in the lightest shade 100 Ivory.
like the 15. Bronze from H&M (seriously, why aren't more people talking about these blushes?), can really make your cheekbones pop. A million extra bonus points for blushes that highlight while containing no actual chunks of glitter!
A slightly salmon toned under eye concealer works well to counteract any under eye darkness. Benefit's Erase Paste in fair has pretty much saved me this pregnancy. I was worried about how pink it was until I tried it on. But as you can see in the photos it actually balances out those darker tones and looks natural on the skin.
Up until a week or so ago, I was suffering from extreme exhaustion, no matter how much I slept. My under eye circles (which I rarely experienced before pregnancy) were deep and dark, and the rest of my skin was very dull with slight grey tint to it thanks to the anemia. A combination of the Erase Paste, the Wake Me Up foundation, and iron supplements ;) helped me look much more presentable.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group and US independent music firm Concord Bicycle Music have joined forces to set up The Musical Company (TMC), a new firm managing and exploiting the assets of creators of musical theatre works.
TMC will be jointly owned by Lloyd Webber (pictured), Concord Bicycle Music and the Really Useful Group and will operate from RUG offices in London and CBM offices in New York.
"TMC enters the market with a unique and superior skillset in support of musical theatre creators: professional and amateur licensing, music publishing and original cast recording. Exceptionally well-capitalised. Asset rich. Under one roof. Worldwide. And determined to both create new opportunities for, and preserve long-term value of the works of its affiliated writers and rights holders," said Concord Bicycle Music chairman Steve Smith.
TMC has appointed Sean Patrick Flahaven as its founding CEO, effective Monday, October 3. Flahaven joins from music publishing company Warner/Chappell Music where he served for the past eight years as SVP Theatre and Catalog Development.
The Really Useful Group has appointed TMC as exclusive agent to manage professional and amateur performance licensing of the works jointly owned by Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice -- which includes Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita -- as well as Lloyd Webber's solo repertoire including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, School of Rock, Starlight Express, and Sunset Boulevard.
"Steve Smith and his team at Concord Bicycle Music have distinguished themselves as both proactive advocates for creators, and quality stewards of artistic legacy," Lloyd Webber commented. "We are extremely enthusiastic about collaborating with them to create an exceptional, multi-disciplinary theatrical music rights management company."
Concord Bicycle Music has also named TMC as the manager of its interests in the works of Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner Marvin Hamlisch, including songs, film scores and the musicals A Chorus Line, They're Playing Our Song, The Goodbye Girl and Sweet Smell of Success.
On behalf of the venture, Bicycle Music Company's publishing team will manage and administer Andrew Lloyd Webber's original song portfolio worldwide, including Memory, The Music Of The Night, All I Ask Of You, The Phantom Of The Opera, Think Of Me, Pie Jesu, Love Changes Everything, among hundreds.
Flahaven said, "I am excited and honored to be leading an exciting new venture with unique, unparalleled service for both established and next generation musical theatre writers. Starting with these iconic catalogues and the support of Andrew, RUG, and CBM gives us a terrific base from which to actively seek new talent." | <urn:uuid:89df6939-2670-469f-bcce-f02673c25ae4> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.musicweek.com/management/read/really-useful-group-and-concord-bicycle-music-set-up-the-musical-company/065972 | 2018-05-21T05:01:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863949.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521043741-20180521063741-00355.warc.gz | en | 0.946207 | 548 | [
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Low cost micro-controller based 4 digit presettable LED down counter with four operating modes that control how the output behaves when count reaches zero. Suitable for low to high speed applications (30 to 4100cps). Ideal for process control and counting applications.
Accepts inputs from any make contact so can be used with switches, relay contacts, open collectors outputs or push buttons.
Two onboard push buttons (SET and INC) are used to set the operating mode and starting count.
Inputs for Count, Rate (debounce) and Reset (to preset value). Output is an open collector transistor (NPN, 100mA @30V). This can be used to trigger, for example, our 3156 relay board or the 3141 delay timer board.
The four operating modes are detailed in the User Manual (see Technical Specifications table below).
Count, Reset, Rate, Output and Power In are brought out to a 10-way header for easy connection. The board has Power-In reverse polarity protection.Specifications
e.g. Order Code 660.446UK with connector 778.106
|Current||20 - 50mA max.|
|Operating modes||Count Stop, Output Hold |
Over-Count, Output Hold
Auto-Reset, One-Shot Output
Over-Count, One-Shot Output
|Count range||0000 to 9999 (10,000 max)|
|Low: 30 cps (15mS high, 15mS low) |
High: 30,000 cps (measured)
|Inputs||Reset / Count / Rate|
|Input trigger||make contact e.g. switches, relays, open collector outputs or simply push buttons|
|Output Type||Open Collector Transistor, NPN, 100mA @ 30V |
(see Help Sheet)
|Display||4-digit 7-segment with decimal point, 14mm RED LED|
|Connections||10 pin SIL header|
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K8035 Multifunctional Up/Down Counter Kit is ideal for counting people or parts, scorekeeping, etc. through on-board push buttons or by external pulses. Output activates when user preset value matches count...
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General purpose Up / Down event counter with Preset and two mains rated relay outputs - one for Up count Preset and one for Down count reaching zero. Suitable for us in a wide range of process control applications...
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The Brookings Cafeteria podcast features in-depth conversations with experts about their ideas and research.
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Fred is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (Diplomacy & International Security; Soviet & Russian studies); an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Field Artillery School (earned Master Gunner award); and holds masters’ degrees in public policy and U.S. history from Georgetown University and George Mason University, respectively.
He listens to punk rock (particularly The Clash), watches the Tour de France intensely every summer, and loves family history/genealogy. On his blog, publichistorian.com, he writes about his ancestors and stories of history that are of interest. You can follow him on Twitter @publichistory. In all of his spare time, Fred continues to work on a novel, a piece of historical fiction.
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William Murphy is a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Technology Officer at Blackstone, leading the Blackstone Innovations team. Mr. Murphy is responsible for the firm's use of technology along with a strategic technology investment portfolio. Mr. Murphy also serves on several boards of directors of our investments along with the board of the Blackstone Charitable foundation.
Prior to joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Murphy was founding Chief Technology Officer for Capital IQ where he was responsible for overseeing all product design, development, infrastructure and technology support and was involved with all operations of the business. Before Capital IQ, Mr. Murphy led teams at Sapient, delivering solutions for large clients primarily in financial services.
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We’re hiring again! We’re looking for a driver, productions operator, all around good guy to keep things rolling around here and put up with all of these ladies on a regular basis! If you know someone interested, send them to us!
Delivery driver and productions operator to join our Ashley & Co. team. Hours will vary from 30-50 per week, depending on season, with many nights and weekends. Responsibilities include inventory control, organization and cleanliness of warehouse and storage, delivery trucks, overall property and client communication upon delivery and pick up. Inventory includes tables, chairs, linens and misc. décor items. We are in a fast paced environment that requires quick thinking and good problem solving skills when onsite with clients.
*have valid driver’s license and be able to clear insurance screening
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Please email us at [email protected] or apply in person:
Ashley & Co.
3122 Texas Avenue South
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AT&T suit may signal a new antitrust era
New York — The Trump administration’s decision to oppose the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger may be clouded by suspicions of political influence. But considered on its merits, it could mark a significant departure in antitrust policy, one that extends concerns about consumer harm to a broader set of mergers.
The move has disconcerted both Wall Street and the telecom and media industries, none of which expected it. Consumer groups, however are applauding, saying it’s a good step by the Justice Department to protect consumers from higher cable bills and ensure that web-based alternatives to TV aren’t stifled.
Matters, of course, are complicated by President Donald Trump’s long-running feud with CNN, a Time Warner company, which Trump regularly denigrates as “fake news” and “failing.” On Tuesday, Trump called the deal “not good for the country” and said he thought it would cause prices to go up.
The Justice Department has suggested that AT&T could resolve the case by selling off DirecTV or a Time Warner business that includes CNN, according to a person familiar with the situation who couldn’t go on the record. AT&T has rejected any option that would cause it to lose control of CNN.
AT&T says TV bills won’t go up and consumers will benefit from innovations in packaging video. The Justice Department and some experts argue the opposite.
For instance, MoffettNathanson analysts said in a note Tuesday that it was “in fact, very easy to imagine” how a company that both makes and distributes “must-have” news, sports and entertainment programming could use its power to thwart competitors by withholding it from rivals.
The government argues that AT&T could charge upstart streaming services prohibitively expensive fees for the rights to HBO or other channels, or even withhold them, making it harder to compete with AT&T’s services. AT&T has said it intends to broaden, not limit, distribution of Time Warner.
“The DOJ’s argument is simple: AT&T cannot lawfully be given this market power, because the incentives for them to abuse it are self-evident,” the analysts wrote. “It is simply not the case that this is a ‘novel’ legal theory.”
Antitrust enforcement used to be more aggressive. But starting in the 1980s, it became more focused on promoting consumer welfare than on ensuring competitive markets, Khan said. That made “vertical mergers,” where the companies in question weren’t direct competitors, more attractive, since regulators believed they created efficiencies without harming consumers.
For regulators to reject a vertical merger “represents a stark departure from the U.S. enforcement practice of the recent decades,” Columbia law professor Anu Bradford said in an email. The last time the U.S. government won a court victory in a vertical merger antitrust case was in 1972, when the Supreme Court said Ford’s takeover of a spark-plug business violated antitrust law.
The suit against AT&T could be the start of a new, more aggressive tack in antitrust by the Justice Department. But that depends on whether other considerations played a role.
“If it’s politically motivated because the president doesn’t like CNN, then it’s just a wild card,” said NYU law professor Eleanor Fox. “If this represents a change of heart, to be much more aggressive against mergers, it would be a game changer.”
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April 25, 2017
Stolen Police Rifle Recovered
At about 10:30 p.m. on February 3, 2015 Lexington police responded to a robbery call at a convenience store on Newtown Pike. The victims reported that a man came into the store armed with an assault rifle and took cash, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and other items before leaving on
foot. A K-9 team established a track from the store to a nearby storage facility and located a suspect, who was identified as Kyler Aery, shortly thereafter. Aery was carrying a backpack and initially told the officers he was visiting his storage unit before trying to find a place to sleep for the night.
Security footage from the store showed the suspect entering with an assault rifle, taking the property, and wiping down the door as he left. Video from the storage facility showed a suspect climbing over the fence and entering one of the buildings. Aery was Mirandized and admitted to committing the robbery but stated the rifle used was a toy that he had thrown away. Police recovered several thousand dollars from the backpack and obtained a search warrant for Aery’s storage unit.
The search warrant led to the discovery of the loaded AR-15 assault rifle used to commit the robbery, checks and documents from the store, and other items including clothing that matched the security video and the stolen lottery tickets and cigarettes. The rifle had been reported stolen from a locked police cruiser in an adjacent county earlier the same day. It became apparent that Aery had changed clothes and hidden most of the stolen items in his storage unit before the police located him.
Criminal records show Aery, 30, has a relatively minor history in Kentucky, but a variety of activity from other states, including a felony burglary conviction from Wisconsin. Aery pled guilty to Robbery, First Degree and Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon and was sentenced to serve 13 years in the penitentiary. | <urn:uuid:b5a9234f-f7f2-40b8-814e-01c1cb2cbf16> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/26209-2/ | 2018-05-26T06:20:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867311.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526053929-20180526073929-00033.warc.gz | en | 0.982871 | 395 | [
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Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical at the Parliament House
Virginal cheerleading captain Debbie Benton (Takara Anderson) dreams of shaking her pompoms for the Dallas Cowboys, but she can't afford the bus to her audition for America's Team. Her teammates Lisa (Ale Martinez), Donna (Michelle Alagna), Roberta (Sarah Obrock) and Tammy (Katie Ford) rally behind her and form "Teen Services," performing odd jobs (mostly of the blow variety) for their townsmen (Jonathan Speagle, Kyle Stone, Tripp Karrh) to raise the fare. If that synopsis sounds familiar, you may have outed yourself as a connoisseur of vintage porn, because that's the plot of the infamous 1978 skin flick Debbie Does Dallas. Decades after Debbie played the XXX cinemas in Times Square, she returned to NYC in a less lascivious form when Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical became a hit at the 2001 New York Fringe Festival, and went on to a brief off-Broadway run before landing at Orlando's Parliament House.
Adapter Erica Schmidt and book writer Susan L. Schwartz stuck surprisingly close to Maria Minestra's original screenplay – which fell into public domain due to a copyright snafu – but replaced all the explicit intercourse with suggestive slapstick set to songs by Andrew Sherman (with additional music and lyrics by Tom Kitt and Jonathan Callicutt). A nudity-free celebration of cis-hetero-normative masturbatory material might seem out of place at the Footlight Theatre. But as producer Tim Evanicki pointed out, there are enough gay undertones – from the football team's homoerotic post-game showers to a Sapphic stretching scene – for Debbie to qualify for his LGBT-centric 2018-2019 season.
To mount Debbie, Evanicki tapped former OW creative director Adam McCabe to helm his first major musical, and the ribald result is an orgy of tame titillation you could (almost) invite your mom along to. McCabe's smartest move was assembling a consistently excellent cast. Anderson is fresh-faced and full-throated in the title role, making Schmidt's underdeveloped songs sound better than they deserve. Martinez is beautifully bitchy as Debbie's frenemy; Obrock's "dumb blonde" schtick is sharp; and Ford injects a subversive edge that's otherwise absent in the by-the-numbers book. Everyone brings explosive energy to the opening scenes, executing Alagna's stage-straining choreography with an ebullient bounce and delivering dialogue with the improvisational looseness of an SNL skit.
Eventually, the script's choppy scenes and too-frequent transitions slow the momentum, and the over-amplified dialogue and synth-heavy backing tracks fatigued me after an hour. However, the cast rallied as the clock counted down, scoring a touchdown in the final quarter. It isn't the tightest or most original musical spoof I've seen, but if you're OK with sloppy seconds, Debbie Does Dallas should do you just fine.
Wind Up 1957 at Savoy
It's easy to take for granted that places like the Parliament House exist openly, but it wasn't always the case. For Wind Up 1957, Savoy's Starlite Room has set the clock back 60 years to re-create an era where gay bars were secret societies stalked by the vice squad. Longtime local actor-producer Scott Browning was inspired to write this original dramatic piece after reading Gay Bar, the groundbreaking memoir of real-life Los Angeles barkeep Helen Branson, warmly embodied here by Carol Begerow-Adubato.
Browning has written himself a meaty leading role in Jim, a bitter vet who is still smarting from his breakup with Pan-ish Peter (Barry Wright), when his ex appears at their watering hole with female fiancée Wendy (Alina Alcantara) in tow. While their soap opera plays out on the dance floor, fellow patrons Scotty (Josh Breece) and Sam (Rashad Alii) explore an interracial romance, Jack (Benjamin Dupree) unloads about his wartime trauma, and Eli (Mitchell Dean Wells) rails against Red Scare tactics.
Director Vera Varlamov achieves impressive verisimilitude in Wind Up 1957, firstly by seating the audience in the midst of the action; the show is "immersive but not interactive," so look but don't touch. Secondly, she's elicited some remarkably naturalistic and empathetic performances from the cast – especially Browning, Begerow-Adubato and Dupree – that create impact through quiet intimacy rather than volume.
At only an hour, there isn't enough time for all the characters to be fully developed, and some of the dialogue ("loneliness hangs here like cigarette smoke") is so self-consciously on-point that it pierces the fourth wall. But Wind Up 1957 features two magical musical moments involving the central love triangle that were emotionally affecting enough to transcend such flaws. Gay culture may now seem mainstream, but this play's earnest plea for acceptance still needs heeding, lest we wind up back where we were in 1957. | <urn:uuid:3b04d4e4-3396-4c9f-889c-827a7ae7fbbe> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://m.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/we-finally-leave-halloween-behind-and-return-to-the-stage-with-two-polar-opposite-productions-representing-the-range-of-orlandos-glbtq-theat/Content?oid=8383591 | 2018-05-26T06:30:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867311.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526053929-20180526073929-00033.warc.gz | en | 0.942588 | 1,072 | [
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Private villas, flat-screen TVs, and “three-star” dining wasted tens of millions of dollars according to a letter from Inspector General John Sopko to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
The Task Force Business Stability Operations in Afghanistan is back in the news
Last month saw members of Congress overwhelmed with disbelief following a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) that found that the group spent $43 million for a gas station that should not of cost more than $500,000. Now the group is being accused of wasting even more “tens of millions” on housing staff and visitors to Afghanistan in private “villas” rather than in Department of Defense facilities.
“If (task force) employees had instead lived at (Department of Defense) facilities in Afghanistan, where housing, security, and food service are routinely provided at little or no extra charge to DoD organizations, it appears the taxpayers would have saved tens of millions of dollars,” wrote Inspector General John Sopko. The Pentagon business advocacy agency is believed to have spent nearly $150 million on said villas and security for a “handful” of staff and visitors to the country.
Sopko wrote that TFBSO leadership “rented specially furnished, privately owned ‘villas’ and hired contractors to provide 24-hour building security, food services, and bodyguards.” The contracts for these villas also included clauses that mandated flat-screen televisions of no less that 27″ as well as DVD players. Additionally, the villas had to offer food service that required that guests were given two entrée choices and three side-order choices.
Private security spending also a concern in Afghanistan
While the use of contractors to provide security in Afghanistan is common practice, the amounts spent by the Department of Defense outside of the DoD are pretty staggering. Sopko, in his letter, points out that $57 million was paid to the private security firm Triple Canopy from 2010 to 2014 for “armed support.” Defense Group Incorporation was paid $51 million between 2009 and 2011 for “extensive security and other services.” Lastly, Muscogee Nation Business Enterprise was paid $40 million from 2009 to 2014 for “transportation and personal protection…to personnel visiting/traveling to and from project worksites.” Sopko maintains that much of this money was earmarked to these contractors despite the fact that the Department of Defense could have provided much of this for a lot less money.
The letter called on Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, to provide more detailed information on who was staying at the villas and why they needed such a level of security.
“We have received the recent letter from SIGAR and will respond,” Army Lt. Col. Joe Sowers, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement today.
Afghanistan waste blamed on former deputy undersecretary of defense
Paul A. Brinkley, the former deputy undersecretary of defense who was TFBSO’s director from 2006 to 2011 was singled out by Sopko for these spending decisions. Sopko suggests in his letter that Brinkley, now in the private sector, refused to cooperate with his investigation. In a statement, Brinkley denied that he was contacted by SIGAR saying in a statement to USA Today, “I have not been contacted by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction regarding the questions raised in the letter to the Department of Defense since I departed government service almost five years ago, but would be happy to meet and discuss these topics.”
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First Soap Box Derby
Dayton, in 1934, held the first "All-American Soap Box Derby," a race that has sparked interest in automotive engineering in thousands of young people. There were 34 entries in the first derby, which quickly became a national sensation. Local competitions still are held around Ohio counties, with winners coming to the event’s home in Akron, Ohio every July for the World Championship race.
Myron Scott's Idea
Myron Scott was a journalist who came up with the idea of the "Soap Box Derby." He had been reporting on a race that only allowed "home-built" race cars in Dayton Ohio. He then copyrighted the idea and helped spread the idea nationally. The first "All-American Soap Box Derby" was held in Dayton in 1934, but moved to Akron in 1935 for a more challenging terrain. The sport was so popular that a permanent track called the "Derby Downs" was built in Akron in 1936. Derby Downs was built in a city park near the Akron Municipal Airport and the Goodyear Air Dock, where the dirigibles Macon and Akron were housed. A 1600-foot cement-paved raceway was constructed with three ten-foot lanes. The distance the cars would actually travel was 1175 feet.
In 1937, a few new rules came into play. The age limits were changed from 6-16 to 9-15 years, and prior winners could no longer compete. Also, no car could cost more than $10 and adult involvement was strictly prohibited. Today's rules are a little more complicated.
These days, The All-American Soap Box Derby Championship is still held annually in Akron and is comprised of 440 qualifiers from the U.S. and foreign countries. Each competitor builds his or her own gravity-powered car, with assistance from a parent or other adult, from kits purchased from the All-American Soap Box Derby. The first, second, and third place winners in each division and age group are now awarded college scholarships (up to $5,000).
Did You Know?
- In 1934, the winners of the Soap Box Derby were Robert Turner (Muncie, IN) followed by Claude Alexander (Chattanooga, TN) and Jack Fusternberg (Omaha, NE). As first place winner in 1934, Robert Turner earned $500. He won by only 1.4 seconds.
- Scott named the Chevrolet Corvette.
- Prior competitors in the Derby include: Johnny Carson (former Tonight Show host), Tom Sneva (1983 Indy 500 champion), and Cale Yarborough (multiple NASCAR WC champion).
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Welcome to Optimised Heating
Optimised Heating is a Gas Safe registered company working in Bath, Somerset and Wiltshire. Our services include boiler servicing and repairs, central heating upgrades and high efficiency boiler installations. We also work with lpg, heat pumps and biomass boiler systems.
At Optimised Heating we pride ourselves on personal service and every job is equally important to us, with most of our work coming from returning customers. Our engineers are motivated, friendly, efficient and committed to getting the job done to the highest standard.
We provide a wide range of services, from landlord gas inspections, to diagnosing faults on heating systems, to providing solutions for new plumbing and heating installations. If you have an enquiry about our services, would like some advice or to arrange for a service, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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It is commonly understood in the Orthodox Church that the bishop represents the Church, particularly within its conciliar life. But can he truly represent the Church, in its diversity, in every way and context?
The bishop represents the Church in at least two ways: (1) He distinguishes the local manifestation of the Universal Church from any random gathering of like-minded individuals. (Ignatius’s second-century epistles testify to this episcopal function with reference to the person of Christ.) (2) He carries the duty to maintain continuity with the apostolic faith, the traditio of right doctrine. The early church established a clear succession: Christ → Apostles → Bishops.
Our bishops live out that continuity in the roles they play in our conciliar life. Councils developed as the Church’s foremost instrument of insuring apostolic faith and order. Since the bishops are ex officio charged with that task, the councils are constituted chiefly by bishops. Councils function to define Church teaching, and also establish its canonical order to determine its structures and govern its members’ lives through directives about liturgy, fasting, marriage, and so on.
The bishop’s diverse functions, each figuring into his role as representative of the Church, require that he be equipped with theological, administrative, moral, and pastoral discernment to properly govern the Church. But a bishop’s living up to the high calling of his office is not automatic; it is his responsibility. His consecration in apostolic succession does not guarantee purity of faith, as we see in the fates of Apollinarius, Nestorius, and countless others who fell into heresy. Neither does it guarantee that he will maintain his moral purity. The chief guarantee of a bishop’s rectitude resides in the mutual accountability between Church and bishop, such that the Church abides by bishops ruling in council, but also deposes any one of them who grievously fails to hold to his calling—and thus fails to represent the Church.
The bishop’s representation of the Church’s theology, order, and canonical life, therefore, is both a given of his episcopal office and rank, and also contingent on his deliberate and prayerful cultivation of the relevant aptitudes and skills, with the support of his flock.
That said, however, we should ask whether even a thoroughly righteous man of prayer, trained in the Church’s theology, canon law, and history, and a skilled administrator, can comprehensively represent the concerns and lives of the Church’s young and old, rich and poor, married and celibate, ordained and lay. Conciliar deliberations on Arianism or Nestorianism may not require the Church’s entire diverse constituency, but the issues under consideration at today’s councils surely do.
Types of Representation
The Great and Holy Council that assembled in Crete last June tested the capacity of bishops to represent aspects of the Church in several ways. When the churches of Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia, and Antioch each elected to sit out the Council, it was proposed that the Council convene anyway, that each represent the totality of Orthodoxy. Yet the absent churches have rejected the Council’s authority: why? Because they were not represented there. They clearly believe that bishops of one local church cannot represent the bishops of another. Several other groups from within Churches who were present likewise felt under-represented and un-spoken for.
But let us consider a few other Church constituencies who were not at the council in person. The largest such group by far is women. Women, who constitute over 50% of the Orthodox Church, were represented by around five members of the more than four hundred people constituting the Churches’ delegations and advisors. A woman I know mentioned this to a bishop as a problem. He responded by saying that he (a) by being a bishop, and (b) as one who regularly visits his parishes and listens to his people, represents women as well as men. “Don’t I represent you?” he asked?
Well, yes he does. But, also, emphatically no he doesn’t.
In a groundbreaking essay emanating from postcolonial theory, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak highlighted two definitions of representation. One is conveyed by the German Vertreten, which carries a political sense: one person acting as proxy for another. The other is Darstellen, which conveys re-presentation, more like a portrait, which theologians might liken to perikhoresis. The Trinitarian co-inherence is such that our Lord Jesus Christ can say to Philip, “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). Jesus re-presents the Father perfectly, not by proxy.
Both kinds of representation are appropriate and realistic depending on given situations. In the political and ecclesiastical spheres we choose persons to undertake our concerns in the “proxy” sense. In other settings, such as in courts of law, we do well to be there in person, even as we are assisted in our representation by an attorney. The problem arises when people confuse the two forms of representation, especially when they assume that proxy is qualitatively the same as true re-presentation.
Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia, and Antioch could have been represented at the Crete Council by proxy (Vertreten), had they so deputized bishops from other localities. But they insisted that they needed to speak on their own behalf, else the Council would not be universally representative. As regards women, the bishop who told my friend that he represented women did indeed represent all Orthodox Christians, by proxy (Vertreten). But without a woman’s life experience, cultural constraints, and physical nature, the bishop should recognize that he cannot be a voice for any woman, much less all women in the sense of Darstellen.
This raises important questions. The first concerns the representation of people for whom decisions are being made. When a council considers “the churches in the diaspora,” should it not feature a considerable delegation who can speak directly to the “diaspora’s” actual ecclesiastical and pastoral needs? When a council considers divorce and remarriage of clergy, can those decisions really best be taken by persons who, despite their wisdom and pastoral sensitivity, are celibate men? Lived experience is irreplaceable. Realistically, we must acknowledge that the men we elect, in trust and love, as our bishop-representatives cannot fully represent mothers affected by domestic violence, the disabled, the homeless and/or destitute, blue-collar workers, clergy wives, etc., who will be profoundly affected by the canons on which they are deciding. Bishops may represent canon law directly, but they can only represent the Church’s diverse membership, by greater or lesser abstraction.
My second question concerns diversity, generally. Our global councils honor the ecclesiastical universality of representation. Should we not also be concerned with portraying the diversity among and within our churches? Whether or not geographically or ethnically sensitive issues are being decided, a deliberative discussion ought properly to re-present the full diversity-in-unity of the Orthodox Church. We want the diversity of married and celibate, male and female, ordained and lay, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Without them, the Council operates purely on an abstract, “proxy” level, not the “perikhoretic.”
Bishops do represent the Church, and they should continue to be the lead participants of our formal councils. But all of us, especially our bishops, ought to recognize the nature and limits of their de facto capacity to represent us all. That means that our churches should reconsider how to assemble their delegations and advisory bodies. Those on site at Crete displayed little or no diversity in gender, status of ordination, and many other crucial demographics. They represented the Orthodox Church by proxy. Is it time that we take steps to create a truer re-presentation?
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I haven't been painting much but I have been on the computer designing a few new things.
Im also in the process of designing a mural for a wall down on South Terrace in Fremantle. If your a smart cookie you might be able to tell from the photo. Design is yet to be cleared by the client yet.
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Ever caught a really big fish and wondered if it might be a record? You can now check on your phone from right there on the water.
GON‘s official Lake & River Records, which include records for various species of fish for all of Georgia’s major bodies of water, are now available online.
Bill Brantley, pictured here, broke a 22-year-old Lake Oconee record for largemouth bass on May 14, 2012 with a 12-lb., 14-oz. giant. After verification and a certified weight, the giant bass was released alive off the end of Bill’s dock on Oconee.
Each Georgia lake and river now has its own page that includes official records, along with archived articles. To see the records, click here, or you can navigate to the pages under the Fishing tab from the gon.com home page.
Catch A Lake or River Record? Requirements For Record Fish
• Fish must be caught legally by rod and reel in a manner consistent with state game and fish regulations.
• Catch must be weighed on accurate Georgia DOA certified scales with at least two witnesses present.
• Witnesses to the weighing must be older than 18 years old, and they must not be members of the angler’s immediate family nor have a close personal relationship with the angler.
• In many instances where species could possibly be in question, the catch must be positively identified by qualified fisheries biologists.
If you catch a potential record fish, make sure to call GON at 800.438.4663 or email [email protected].
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Lisa Hills, co-founder of Hirsh/Hills Associates, has over twenty-five years of experience as an organizational strategist and expert in talent management. Working with clients who encompass both the private and not-for-profit sectors, Lisa focuses on issues including: leading successful organizational change; developing team talent; creating high-performing teams; designing strategies for individual and team success. Lisa has long-term relationships with clients, partnering with them through the implementation of practical, high-impact solutions as well as guiding them through management and leadership challenges. She provides executive coaching and will work with clients to navigate performance issues, hone communication skills, and enhance management/leadership effectiveness. Lisa also helps clients through the recruiting, on-boarding and developing of emerging talent.
Lisa frequently collaborates with other strategic partners such as Talent Analytics www.talentanalytics.com, (predictive analytics for individuals and teams, Create-a-Cook, www.createacook.com, (high-intensity team building challenges as well as with other management consultants. Most recently, Lisa has joined forces with Nanette Fridman, Fridman Strategies www.fridmanstrategies.com. Together, Lisa and Nanette bring fresh strategies and new approaches to values-driven organizations.
Prior to launching Hirsch/Hills, Lisa served as the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Brandeis University where she was involved in policy making and strategic planning for the institution and served as the Director of the Hiatt Career Development Center. While at Brandeis, Lisa served as the University’s representative to the Waltham and Greater Boston communities. She was a founding member of the Bridging Education and Technology (BEAT) program, a partnership between the City of Waltham, Brandeis University and local technology corporations.
Lisa holds a masters in public administration with a specialization in management strategy and corporate public policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Brandeis University. She has held numerous leadership positions throughout the Greater Boston Jewish community including serving as President of Temple Emanuel of Newton (the largest Conservative synagogue in New England) where she remains deeply involved with the synagogue’s vibrant community. Lisa has chaired countless searches for executive director and clergy positions throughout the Jewish community and has been instrumental in the on-boarding of Jewish professionals in new leadership roles. She is currently chairing Yavneh’s Strategic Planning Process, is launching the Temple
Emanuel’s Legacy Program and is a Co-Chair of Temple Emanuel’s AIPAC Steering Committee. She has served on multiple strategic planning committees for Combined Jewish Philanthropies, has served as Chair of the Prozdor Advisory Board and was a Co-Founder of Jewish Vocational Services Women’s Mentoring Network. Lisa is a contributing author to Roads Taken, was the executive producer for Good Job and was involved with the production of The Recruiting Game.
Lisa resides in Newton, Massachusetts with her husband, Matthew, and their four children, Jessica, Meredith, Benjamin and Amanda.
Lisa Hills discusses talent management in how we can best think about hiring, on-boarding, and playing to the strengths of our employees.
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When spoken about in Western media particularly, Africa has often been presented as a continent ravaged by wars and blessed with vast natural resources yet barely able to feed its people and compete with the rest of the world economically. To present the African continent in this way is not entirely untrue though in the words of the celebrated Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie, it presents only one side of the story – “a single story.” The Africa of today is still plagued by many of these problems yet a great deal of change is taking place; the so-called ‘African middle class’ is well and truly on the move.
By ‘middle class’, I refer to individuals and households that are seeing their incomes rise at a rate that provides them with sufficient disposable income to consume on what in economics we call ‘a higher indifference curve.’ They are able to spend their ‘income excess’ on more, higher value non-food items such as foreign holidays, land, property, company shares, other financial securities, and more. These households and individuals are generally well-educated, to university degree level at least. Several have been educated abroad at some point in their lives and the majority of them can be considered to be in professional employment, as accountants, lawyers, engineers, doctors, IT consultants, educationists, or business people.
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“many Africans are joining the ranks of the world’s consumers. In 2000, roughly 59 million households on the continent had $5,000 or more in income — above which they start spending roughly half of it on nonfood items. By 2014, the number of such households could reach 106 million.” – McKinsey Quarterly, June 2010 Report: What’s Driving Africa’s Growth?
And naturally there will be many other households and individuals earning way above this level. When we look at the education of their children, many are opting for private education over state education systems which in countries such as Zambia, are just about coping due to numerous solvable challenges.
In the minds of virtually all respected commentators, the economic progress being experienced by the continent’s middle class is all good news for the continent’s populace. They often cite the benefits of strong local demand for local products, a widening tax revenue base and job creation undertaken by entrepreneurs. It’s worth pointing out, however, that rising living standards and increased consumption often lead to the middle classes in many countries (not just developing ones) to consume more imported products over local ones.
Just over two decades ago, many African countries, including my own, did away with the socialist economic model that was synonymous with the one-party state. Many of our Independence leaders had held on to that model unswervingly since Independence in the 60s and 70s. By the late 80s and early 90s, it became clear that the model was just not working. Strikes and protests became the order of the day. But with a new generation of African leaders came widespread change and the arrival of democracy and economic liberalisation. Some of Zambia’s state-owned enterprises, most famously its mining giant ZCCM (Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines), moved from public to private hands. The mines were now going to be run not directly in the interests of the people of Zambia but primarily for profit for their new private shareholders.
As the 20th century drew to a close, it became more obvious to people that they were living in a new economic era. I speak about Zambia particularly here but about the continent more generally. Government policies encouraged investment, primarily foreign but increasingly domestic too. It became an era where you did not have to wait to be employed, but you could start your own business and be an employer. An era where you did not have to rent a house all your life, but you could actually buy or build one and pass it on to your children as part of their inheritance. It was now an era where you did not have to feel bad about becoming financially successful, you just went ahead and did it. The American Dream, or something akin to it, was well and truly alive…in Africa!
And this is what all those protests in the 1980s and 90s were about right? These are the sort of societies we have been desiring to build all along, right? When we speak of lifting people out of poverty, this is the point we want them to get to, surely?
Amidst talk of economic progress, there however exists a thin line in my mind between immense optimism for the continent and grave concern.
As an African, I have become fed up of seeing images of poverty-stricken Africans become the defining feature of my continent abroad. We Africans detest that and so anything that reflects our continent in a more positive light is welcome. News of consistent economic growth is often presented as one of those positives. But I raise the question: are we at grave risk of becoming increasingly-divided societies in the process? I am entirely in favour of economic progress, private sector-led economic progress that is, but economic progress that supports the few over the masses is nothing to write home about.
The progress being achieved at present is not as widespread as it should be. Consider urban township dwellers exposed to poor sanitation and at risk (year in and year out!) of waterborne diseases such as cholera? Or the children unable to learn at their rural government school because of teachers striking in protest of better working conditions? Or the father grossly underpaid by his employers on one of the country’s several mines because Labour Ministry officials fail to enforce minimum wage laws? If GDP (Gross Domestic Product) figures are impressive, do these other issues become unimportant?
When governments fail to honour their obligations to the masses, those with a stronger voice must speak out for those unable to speak for themselves. Governments need to be reminded of their responsibilities and must be held accountable. And if the middle class become too comfortable and too preoccupied with the things that occupy middle class people, then they will soon be rendered passive and ineffective; a community side-stepping economic injustices that exist right on their doorsteps. I believe that educated and professional Africans (the ‘middle class’) have a responsibility to hold their governments accountable on behalf of those with a weaker voice.
Seeing the suffering in your brother’s or sister’s eyes should lead you not to shut the windows of your Lexus as you drive passed, but it should instead push you to fight for their well-being too. And I don’t just mean charity (“Hey, here’s a T-shirt!”) though that certainly will be part of it. I mean fighting for the authorities to take seriously their responsibilities of creating fair opportunities for all. To take seriously their responsibilities towards not only those already on the ladder of economic progress, but especially towards those that are barely able to get a grip of the first rung.
Without this and more, we risk blindly entering an era plagued by gross inequalities and materialistic obsession, if we have not already. Economic aspirations must be met but economic injustices must also be fought.
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One in five young Australians would move if a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent sat next to them, a survey has found. And the same percentage would keep an eye on an indigenous person if they were shopping.
More than one in three young Australians also believe that indigenous people are lazy and have been given an unfair advantage by the government.
The findings are published in a research paper commissioned by Beyond Blue.
The study provides a snapshot of the awareness, attitudes, intentions and behaviours in relation to discrimination against indigenous Australians.
"The results were consistent with my experience," said indigenous Australian actor, Greg Fryer.
The 47-year-old also said that while Australia has made progress since he was in his 20s, it still has a long way to go.
The study was based on the opinions of more than 1000 participants aged between 25 and 44.
“This research shows that racism in Australia is still common and that many people engage in racist behaviour,” said the chairman of Beyond Blue, Jeff Kennett.
The former Victorian premier said he was concerned about the impact of racism upon the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
“Racism, like any form of discrimination, leads to distress, which in turn can lead to depression and anxiety," he said.
The study found Western Australia had the highest levels of discriminatory attitudes towards indigenous Australians.
“This research shows that racism in Australia is still common and that many people engage in racist behaviour.”Jeff Kennett, former Victorian Premier
Mr Fryer said that the higher than average results from Western Australia (WA) did not surprise him.
"A lot of indigenous artists have left WA because they just couldn't cope," he said.
Mr Fryer experienced this first hand when, during a flight back from Perth, he was the only one not offered an alcoholic drink. He believes this was due to his heritage.
The study revealed that 42 per cent of participants believed that Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders are given an unfair advantage by the government, while 37 per cent believed they were lazy.
Mr Fryer said that he had been experienced being called lazy because of his heritage.
But because he comes across as articulate and well-educated, many people would not consider him as an indigenous Australian.
"'Well you're not a real blackfella', they'd say."
The data also suggests that other Australians are suspicious of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in shops and stores, with 21 per cent saying that they would keep and eye on an indigenous person while they were shopping.
Beyond Blue CEO, Georgie Harman, said many people harboured an unconscious bias towards indigenous Australians.
“Unfortunately, many people don’t realise when they are discriminating against indigenous people and therefore, don’t understand the profound effect it has on how they feel about themselves," she said.
This attitude was mirrored in the result for Australian's attitudes towards changing discrimination, with 28 per cent saying it wasn't a priority.
On Tuesday, Beyond Blue launched the Invisible Discriminator campaign to show the psychological effect that subtle racism has on indigenous Australians.
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KINGS ISLAND, Ohio – “It rides like a baby coach.”
That was the opinion of the renowned John Allen of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, who’s “baby” was the Racer roller coaster at Kings Island.
The Racer – really its twin racers – has been the focal point of the Coney Mall sector since opening with the park in 1972, and with good reason. The Racer is credited for re-igniting the roller coaster building boom in the early 1970’s, thus beginning the second golden age of the roller coaster.
This summer, the Racer will give its 100-millionth ride, far and away the most in park history. Its record year was 1976, when a park record 3,681,338 rides were given.
In addition to being considered an important part of the roller coaster renaissance of the 1970’s, the Racer was the sight of several world-record riding attempts and is notable for its appearance in the “Cincinnati Kids” episode of The Brady Bunch, filmed at Kings Island in 1973. On May 28, 1982, one side of the Racer became the world’s first full-length, backwards traveling roller coaster (both sides now face forward).
Kings Island officials coaxed Allen out of semi-retirement for the task of designing the Racer. He started to design the ride’s blueprints in 1969. Actual construction began in September, 1970. The first test run came in September, 1971. It worked perfectly the first time as Allen had predicted it would.
The Racer was the first roller coaster built structurally on the ground with prefabricated sections lifted into position and bolted. It was one of the largest roller coasters ever built at the time, and the largest that Allen had built. He considered the Racer to be the finest roller coaster he ever built.
There’s more than 600,000 board feet of lumber in the ride. Nobody knows how many nails. The construction crew started with 6,000 tons of nails which lasted only 60 days.
Kings Island opens for the 2014 season Friday, April 18. Daily Operation begins Friday, May 9.
Kings Island is owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, a publicly traded partnership that is listed for trading on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FUN.” In addition to Kings Island, Cedar Fair owns and operates ten other amusement parks, three outdoor water parks, an indoor water park, and five hotels. Cedar Fair also operates the Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park in Gilroy, Calif. under a management contract.
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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Sometimes it seems that the ideals, visions, and goals of senior management are intricate and incomprehensible compared to those held by CAD management. However, it is not the end goal that is
As CAD manager/users we choose the route of productivity. We leverage productivity via standardization, accuracy, leadership, teamwork and innovative technology. Productivity means on-time, within-budget desirable deliverables. This, in turn, leads to increased profits. On the other side of the “looking glass”, senior management chooses the billable production route. Billability means timely production with minimal overhead. This, in turn, results in profit. Understanding the justification of which path to follow can help us CAD users and managers to demonstrate the value of a managed CAD environment to those who in their “madness” continue only to see it as overhead.
Let’s venture down the rabbit hole, to understand how and where the paths of senior management and CAD management converge, leading to the place of profitable goal realization.
|Overarching Goal: ProfitIt should not be surprising that at the core lies the goal of increased profitability. Senior managers are driven by financial success. All further objectives result in this measurable outcome.CAD Managed Solution: Demonstrating the time and cost savings that the efforts of managing a CAD environment procure is necessary in communicating its necessity and value to senior management. Keep this in mind through each objective noted.|
CAD Managed Solution
|Project Delivery with the Least Overhead:Return on Investment (ROI) is just that – the return must outweigh what was invested in order to increase profit margins. This idea is at the core of all decisions made by senior management.||A managed CAD environment allows for standardization while keeping users billable and in production, which in turn results in project delivery with the least time invested with the fewest staff possible.|
|Timely Project Completion:The speed-to-market philosophy is ingrained in the minds of senior management. Time means money; so the quicker projects are completed, the less overhead invested and the more satisfied the client.||A managed CAD environment allows for efficient workflows in the design process and the smooth implementation of standards. It prevents snags and user error that can result in timely problem solving, rework, and lost revenue.|
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|KLM wing view|
So I decided to take a cheaper flight on a different system. I flew KLM this time from Toronto to Tel-Aviv with a lengthy stopover in Amsterdam. The price was significantly lower than any available Star Alliance flight. Only flights with Turkish Air or Alitalia were close in price. Since I was traveling with someone this time - and he was changing through Amsterdam, I decided to join him. I should note that he purchased a KLM flight, round trip, Toronto to Tel-Aviv, for just over $700 Cdn including all taxes. That was at least $500 less than the lowest priced Air Canada or El Al flight. These are my notes about the flight and about the stopover in Amsterdam.
Overall, I would say that it was quite fun to stop and spend the day in Amsterdam. But to do so, you have to get through the KLM flight, which was brutal, compared to just about any other airline that I have used in the past 5 years (and reviewed on this site).
The main advantage of KLM was the price. It was quite a bit cheaper than just about any other carriers - other than Turkish or Alitalia. I was considering trying one of those but opted for a day in Amsterdam.
KLM leaves Toronto from Pearson International's Terminal 3, which is the older terminal. There was little difficulty in the boarding process. We were offered lounge access for about $30 Cdn (I had no special status on KLM so I would not have been able to get into the lounge otherwise). My flying companion decided that this was a good idea so we spent a couple of hours in the lounge. It was not nearly as nice as the Air Canada lounge in Terminal 1. The food and drink selections were more limited. Even the seats were less comfortable. But even with the additional cost of paying for the lounge, flying KLM was still far less expensive than Air Canada.
Boarding was quite a jungle. It was fairly disorganized, although the ground staff did their best to board passengers by row number. They tried to stick to that but it was all taking place in such a crowded space that it seemed like a far lengthier and more disorganized process than many other airlines.
The biggest problem with KLM was the seats. While I may have gained a couple of pounds since my last flight, this clearly felt like the narrowest seat I have sat in over the course of my five years traveling back and forth between Toronto and Israel. I could barely get into the seat, let alone move in any direction once I was in it. I was sitting at window seat and there were two people in the other seats next to me (the plane configuration was 3-4-3). I was so uncomfortable, I just didn't know what to do. I couldn't concentrate on the book I had, so I wound up watching a really dumb movie.
The plane did have personal entertainment systems, though they were the old-style systems, like those used on many Austrian Air planes. The screen was low resolution and was not a touch-screen. The selection was quite limited. The sound was terrible. While this was still a step up over El-Al (the planes between Toronto and Israel have no personal screens), it was nowhere close to the systems used by other airlines like Air Canada, United, US Air, Lufthansa, etc.,.
I had ordered an Asian vegetarian meal. It was one of the smallest meals I have seen on a transatlantic flight. It was served more than 2 hours into the flight (which was only 6 1/2 hours in total to begin with). The meal included lentils, white rice, tofu and salad but I was still quite hungry. The "house" wine was a South African Cabernet-Shiraz. It was tasty. The flight attendants also offered a variety of after dinner drinks including cognac. So the drink service was comparable to most of the other European airlines or Air Canada. (The American airlines all charge $7 for a bottle of lousy wine). The flight attendants were cheerful and friendly and came around often. I have no complaints about the beverage service or the flight attendants themselves. But it is difficult to get past the tremendous discomfort of sitting in such a tiny, cramped seat on an overnight flight.
For all of my complaints about flying on KLM from Toronto to Amsterdam, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed being in Amsterdam. It was my first time. We had approximately 13 hours from the time our flight arrived in Amsterdam until the next flight to Tel-Aviv. We decided to try and make the most of it.
Getting to the centre of Amsterdam is quite easy and convenient. I should note that we first found a locker in the Amsterdam airport to store our carry on bags. This was a great idea and made our trip that much easier. Locker locations are clearly marked, easy to find and reasonably priced. We then took the "inter-city" train from Schipol Airport to Amsterdam Centraal Station. The cost was about 18 Euros for two of us, round-trip. The train ride itself was about 15 minutes. It was smooth and comfortable.
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The Museum itself was definitely worth visiting, though ideally without the lengthy wait. Centred around the life story of Anne Frank and her famous diary, the museum is, essentially, a Holocaust museum, using the story of Anne Frank as the vehicle. The museum is housed in a reconstructed version of the Frank house and involves climbing up some very steep and narrow staircases and traveling from room to room in the house in which Anne Frank hid from the Nazis for more than two years. There were some very moving exhibits including the actual Anne Frank diary, the exhibit with information about Auschwitz-Birkenau and a video montage at the end with comments from a range of personalities about the story of Anne Frank. The museum is apparently one of Amsterdam's most visited tourist sites. It is a fascinating place and it is heartening to see so many people, from so many different countries, visiting the site.
After our museum visit, we took a short walk over to the Pancake Bakery, a well known and highly recommended pancake house. Since we had planned this in advance, we had a Google map route. It was a short walk and very convenient. I had a veggie pancake - a giant pancake with a melange of stir fried veggies including broccoli, spinach, mushrooms, onions and some feta cheese. It was quite
|Cinnamon Ice Cream Dessert - Pancake Bakery|
From there, we headed off the old Jewish Quarter. We had a Google map for this route as well. We took a short walk, got on a tram car and we were dropped off right next to our destination in less than 10 minutes. We had purchased an all day pass for the Amsterdam transportation system so, again, this was quite easy and convenient. Once you buy these passes, you simply swipe the pass as you get on the tram car and then again once you get off. No cash is used anywhere on this system.
|Portuguese Synagogue Amsterdam - Entrance|
|Portuguese Synagogue - "Esnoga" - Amsterdam|
|Esnoga Respository - Judaica|
We spent more time than we had planned in this complex and wound up skipping the nearby Amsterdam Jewish museum and the old Ashkenazi synagogue. But this synagogue (known as the "Esnoga") alone easily justified the lengthy stopover in Amsterdam.
Traveling through Amsterdam, I couldn't help but feel that I was in a special place. The architectural style of the buildings is attractive, the canals running through the city are enticing and there are so many cafes, museums, interesting stores and other places that I felt that I would need at least another week in Amsterdam - or perhaps several more lengthy stopovers. We wound up missing the Van Gogh museum, the Rembrandt museum and the other great museums that Amsterdam is known for housing. We didn't even make it to Amsterdam's unique Sex Museum, though we passed by the entrance. We also ran out of time to hit the red light district, the famous coffee houses (and hash bars) and the Heineken beer factory. From what I could see, I think it would be quite a bit of fun to just wander around or bike through the city without any set list of places to visit.
Overall, even though the KLM flight from Toronto to Amsterdam was cramped and uncomfortable, the stopover made it all worthwhile.
We took a train back from Amsterdam to the airport and even had time to wander around the duty free shops for a bit. Our flight was uneventful. The plane was very modest with no entertainment screens or other amenities. Fortunately, it is only a 4 1/2 hour flight to Tel-Aviv, though it arrives at 2:20 a.m., which is also brutal.
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As Netanyahu pushes for settlement freeze deal, suburban Ariel could be sticking point
Ariel, the fourth-largest Jewish settlement could prove to be one of the thorniest points of contention in border negotiations that the US hopes will boost stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
Ariel, West Bank — With some 20,000 residents, a new performing arts center, and a university-in-the-making, this sprawling suburb has fashioned itself as an everyday Israeli city rather than a settlement of religious fundamentalists.
But because Ariel, the fourth-largest Jewish settlement, is located 11 miles deep into the West Bank, it could prove to be one of the thorniest points of contention in border negotiations that the US hopes will give momentum to stalled peace efforts.
The border talks may be imminent if the US and Israel can agree on the terms of a new three-month settlement freeze in order to lure the Palestinians back to the peace table. Palestinians see settlements such as Ariel as eating into an already diminished territory where they seek to establish a sovereign state of their own. But as the Israeli population in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has burgeoned to more than half a million, a consensus has grown in Israel that the largest settlement blocs would be annexed under any peace deal.
"Just focusing on the border, Ariel is a major problem because there are a lot people there," says Yossi Alpher, the co-editor of BitterLemons.org, an online opinion forum on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "By dint of smart politics, it's considered a consensus settlement: There are no fanatics there. People commute to Tel Aviv, they have a proto-university, and, here, they have a new cultural center.''
Ariel receives unusual support – even from Netanyahu
Indeed, amid the ebb and flow of peace efforts, Ariel residents have consoled themselves by asserting that their city is an irreversible fact based on size, and more recently, because of the new cultural institutions.
The recent establishment of those institutions has given Ariel, which lies further from Israel proper than other large settlements, an added soft-power prestige among Israelis that residents hope will tip the balance in favor of its annexation.
When a group of actors and playwrights from publicly funded theater companies said they wouldn't perform in Ariel's new performing arts center that opened this month because it was in a settlement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weighed in.
"Those that boycott are cutting the flesh of us all,'' said Mr. Netanyahu last Sunday, even as he sought support from his cabinet for a freeze on settlement building. Chen Kedem, a spokeswoman for the city said the municipality received dozens of notes of support in response to the boycott. "We haven't gotten this much love in a long time.''
Controversy over a settlement freeze
Netanyahu and the US are finalizing an incentive package in exchange for the freeze, which would include $3 billion in US military aid. Israel also wants a promise that the US will never again ask for a settlement freeze again, though it is unclear whether Washington will commit to that.
Right-wing opponents of a freeze have used the delay in firming up American promises of additional aid to Israel to mount a counterattack and defeat the measure in Netanyahu's cabinet. More than half of the parliamentary caucus from the prime minister's political party has signed a petition against the freeze, putting pressure on cabinet ministers.
No matter what the compromise over the freeze, many Ariel residents do not expect the settlement to be razed under an eventual peace deal because Israel's rank and file identify with the suburb's secular population, who chose the location for economic reasons rather than ideology. Ariel is one of several larger settlement "blocs'' which Israeli politicians have pledged to annex as part of a peace deal – presumably in exchange for areas of Israel proper that would become incorporated in a Palestinian state.
"Ariel is not controversial. It’s not a far-flung settlement,'' says Eran Hershkowitz, a builder who has lived in Ariel for 27 years who says he supports a peace compromise with the Palestinians and understands Netanyahu's reasons for backing a freeze.
Mr. Herskowitz said that during the freeze on housing construction, he was working on new buildings at the Ariel University Center, whose campaign to become an accredited Israeli university is highly political. The Ariel resident called AUC a powerful lifeline for the city because most of its 12,000 students are from Israel proper. Even though the college hasn't been upgraded to university status, Ariel's standing has already gotten a boost: "It’s like Tel Aviv. It will be part of [Israel] in any agreement.''
International community opposed to Ariel
That's not the thinking of the international community, which views Ariel as an obstacle impeding the territorial contiguity of a Palestinian state and all settlements like it as violating international law. When the Israeli newspaper Haaretz last week reported about the authorization of 800 new housing units in Ariel, it helped fan a crisis with the US over settlement expansion. Several years ago, Israel bowed to US pressure not to carry out a plan to create an east-west corridor linking its West Bank security barrier to envelop Ariel on the Israeli side.
Israel could annex Ariel, but it would need to establish a narrow 11-mile long corridor along the present day four lane highway to Ariel which could be a strategic flashpoint in times of tension between the two neighbors. Widening the corridor to include smaller settlements in the area would add strategic territorial depth but would require Israel to swap more of its own land as a quid pro quo.
"If you attach Ariel at the end of a corridor, you have to hope this is going to be a peaceful coexistence between these two states,'' says Mr. Alpher, "because if it is not, and Ariel is a tempting target at the far eastern extremity of a narrow corridor, this is how [stability] could all unravel."
Ariel residents live amid well-manicured shrubs, uncertain future
Ariel residents have an easy commute to jobs in Israel's business heartland. The city's suburban boulevards boast well manicured shrubs. The performing arts center boast a metallic modern exterior. Up the road, the expanding would-be university is driving demand for apartments, say city officials.
When asked about a new settlement freeze and a border agreement that could leave Ariel outside of Israel, Mimi Cohen, became defensive.
"Ariel on the outside?'' asks Ms. Cohen, who – together with her husband – owns a Middle Eastern sandwich shop in Ariel's faded shopping center. At the same time, she acknowledged that any peace agreement would turn Ariel into an "enclave.''
Despite solidarity from politicians who support the performing arts center, the controversy disturbed some residents that the city might one day find itself in the middle of Palestine.
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John McAfee Wants China to Handle US Cybersecurity
Ashley Allen / 2 years ago
Crackpot plutocrat and self-professed “cybersecurity legend” John McAfee believes that the US is doing such a terrible job of protecting its cybersecurity interests, and that it should outsource the task to a country better equipped at dealing with technological threats: China. Yes, McAfee thinks a nation that wants to use an AI system to monitor its citizens’ every move should bring its expertise to American shores.
“China,” McAfee writes in a Business Insider op-ed, “has already stolen top secret information of everyone who worked for the US Government for the past 50 years, accessed critical information from the Pentagon. Homeland Security and the FBI, has everyone’s phone number, address and habits – and this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as we know. China has done the same thing to nearly every nation on earth.”
“I can assure you that the first word of an attempted attack against China, from any quarter, any person or any agency, would be heard, analyzed and dealt with within minutes of its utterance,” he argues. “In China, encryption is controlled by the Office of State Commercial Cryptography Administration (OSCCA). However, items such as wireless telephones, standard computer operating systems and internet browsers are not included under their regulations.”
Therefore, McAfee posits, China should be given the keys to the US cybersecurity initiative: “It would be better to subcontract our security to the Chinese, eat crow and swallow our pride, until we can stand on our own as a nation in this sea of cyber security chaos which we are clearly incapable of navigating.”
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Anchor Boys April 2016
We have had a busy few weeks in the run up to the end of this year's Anchor Boy Session. We are currently awaiting the results of the second colouring competition organised by Partick District.
We had our Parents' Evening/Prizegiving last Friday and were delighted to have the founder of the S.L.A.T.E. charity, Mr Michael Kerins with us accompanied by his wife Marion.
Our theme this year was "Animal Antics. " Earlier in the year we asked our group leaders to suggest a name for their groups and they came up with lions, tigers and hippos which then set the theme for their special night.
During the evening we shared some of our favourite games and presented Michael with a cheque for £150. This is money that the boys had raised by saving 20 pence pieces. They were then rewarded by Michael telling them a story about "wee tom" who went on safari and had adventures with several animals.
Towards the end of the evening we promoted five boys to the Junior Section. They all attended well during the year and joined in the activities with much enthusiasm. They are Calum Brown, Daniel Gillatt, John Mackay, Kyle Thomson and Ethan Walker-Reid. We wish them well in the next stage of their journey through the Boys' Brigade.
Grateful thanks go to my fellow officers Morag Miller and Mairi Black. Mairi joined us this year and has been a great asset and introduced some new ideas. Thanks also to our Church Officer Mr. Ian Murray, Church Secretary Mrs. Jill Syme and several of the officers and boys from Company Section for their help throughout the year. We are grateful that Mr. Gordon Smith played the piano and that Mrs. Brenda Stewart took care of the catering.
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5 Simple Steps On How To Paint Your Car Like A Pro
Car painting is the most time consuming and difficult project to carry out. Painting your car needs 100% attention for you to get a perfect result. Do you want to paint your car yourself and prevent paying experts extra money to paint for you? Painting your vehicles needs some basic skills. Painting your vehicle yourself gives you enough satisfaction and save your time and money. In this
What You Will Need
These are all what are needed to be ready for car painting:
- Time: Car painting is
time consuming. You need to set a convenient time for yourself like around two to three days. It is advisable to paint your car during weekends. This is when you can be free from all your works and will have enough time to do the painting from start to finish.
- Paints: These are the most important materials you will need to start painting your car. The quantity of paints needed for car painting depends on the type of vehicle you have. For example, you need one gallon of basecoat paint, around three
gallonof top coat, and two to three gallon of clear coat for small or medium sized vehicles while for larger vehicles like trucks, you will need something more than that. Though experts will use less than this but for you who are new to painting you need more than enough paint possible that you can use when you make mistakes.
- Air compressor and a Paint spray gun: These are used for spraying paints on the vehicle.
- Electric or air powered sander: This is used for smoothing the vehicle for effective painting.
- Wet and dry sandpaper: You need around 1200- and 2000-grit sandpaper for proper smoothing the places where an electric sander will not be suitable.
- Face mask, undercoat and safety glasses: All these are necessary to protect you from the hazard usually caused by the chemicals used in making the paints
- Masking tape and old newspapers: These are used for covering your walls and floors from stains that may occur during painting. When you cover your walls and floors it will be easy to remove paint stains. It is also used for masking areas you don’t want to paint like the windscreen, mirrors, the tires and rims, and much more.
Procedures: How To Paint Car
After reading the article, you may have learned the basics you need to know before painting your car. Know how to paint cars does not only give you satisfaction but saves your time, money and mostly reduces stress you pass through when you need to employ someone to do it for you.
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OFW is searching for hair and makeup designers to compete in the February 2017 Develop Model Management Beauty Show! The show will be held on February 26 to cap off Omaha Fashion Week at the Omaha Design Center.
NEW THIS YEAR! OFW will be awarding three prizes! Top prize is a $2,500 prize package that includes a $1,000 cash prize, an exclusive VIP table at the August 2017 Finale valued at $1,000 and a full-page ad in Omaha FASHION Magazine. First runner-up will receive a $500 cash prize. Second runner-up will receive a $250 cash prize.
APPLY HERE. Deadline is february 6.
HOW IT ALL WORKS:
- The selected teams will draw a theme from a bowl on Friday, February 24 at Omaha Fashion Week during the Designer Showcase II. Teams will not have any information on what the themes will be until this night! OFW will provide tickets to contest participants for Showcase II.
- Teams have 48 hours to develop and execute their concept based on the theme drawn.
- Four people to a team—a team leader, hair stylist, make up artist, and a stylist to put it all together.
- Teams will have four models assigned by Develop Model Management. It’s up to you to decide what they should wear (no swimwear or lingerie allowed). You will not know who these models are until February 26. You will receive their contact information on the night you draw your theme. We encourage you to reach out to your models immediately.
- How you interpret your theme and present your idea is totally up to you! We have reduced the number of models per collection so you can really pile on the details. No permanent changes, such as cutting or coloring, to models' hair allowed. Check out the judging info below.
- Earliest call time for models on show day is 8 a.m.
- Backstage will be open at 3 p.m. on Show Day
- All teams and models must be checked in backstage no later than 6 p.m. (Hair and makeup evaluations will begin at 6:30 p.m.)
- There will be a panel of beauty industry experts, separate from the OFW selection panel, who will judge teams.
- Participants will receive backstage passes to the show plus a set of complimentary tickets for additional guests.
- Teams will be announced in February so make sure to keep up with OFW on social media!
All styling must be complete by 6:30 p.m. on day of show. Judges will evaluate hair and makeup for each collection in a blind private viewing of each collection before the show (meaning teams will not be present in this session and team names for each collection will not be identified). They will evaluate styling during the runway presentation. The judges will evaluate each team in three categories: Hair, Makeup and Styling. Judging will be done on a 1 to 10 scale.
Hair and Makeup (criteria listed below apply to all both categories, judging during private viewing): 40% each
- Originality - the design is innovative and unique
- Complexity - the design is challenging and involves multiple techniques
- Color - the colors enhance the design and complement each other
- Visual Interest - the design captures your attention
- Workmanship - the overall quality demonstrates outstanding technical skills
Styling (judged on runway): 20%
- the presentation makes an excellent overall impression
- the presentation satisfies the theme requirements of the challenge
- the theme is obvious and completely developed
- the styling is cohesive and well-constructed
- the styling complements the model
- 10 - Perfect
- 9 - Almost Perfect
- 8 - Very Good
- 7 - Good
- 6 - Above Average
- 5 - Average
- 4 - Below Average
- 3 - Poor
- 2 - Very Poor
- 1 - Unacceptable
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The Holiday Retail Season is fast approaching, and smart businesses are preparing themselves to be able to better compete for the consumer’s dollar. The NPD Group has released the results of their 2015 Holiday Purchase Intentions Survey. The results look promising for retailers! According to NPD Group’s summary of the results, “While the majority of consumers plan to maintain their level of holiday spending in 2015, a higher percentage plan on spending more this year (15 percent) compared to last year (12 percent). At the same time, 16 percent plan on spending less this year, compared to 20 percent in 2014. This shows that the gap is narrowing between those who plan on spending less and those who plan on spending more—the closest these two groups have come in the past three years.”
Another promising holiday forecast comes from the National Retail Federation based on its annual survey, which predicts an uptick in average spending per person from $802.45 in 2014 to $805.65 in 2015. As you might expect, shoppers will rely on their mobile devices in record numbers. According to the survey summary, “21.4 percent of smartphone owners will use their device to purchase holiday merchandise this year, the highest seen since NRF first asked in 2011. Additionally, more will use their smartphone to research products (37.9% vs. 35.8% last year) and to look for a way to connect with a retail store by looking up retailer information like store hours and directions (28.4% vs. 26.9% last year). One in five (20.3%) will specifically use their smartphone to look up product availability in a store.”
Clearly, retailers that engage with customers over mobile will have an advantage. Considering the fact that today’s generation is incredibly adept at finding the best deal, retailers that have the closest engagement with this audience stand the best chance at mindshare and wallet share this holiday season. Retailers that engage with shoppers online, in social media, through mobile apps, and by offering WiFi to customers while they are visiting a physical retail location, can gain an advantage. One example of this is the retailer that offers both free in-store WiFi and a mobile app. The retailer can push out coupons and other special offers to their app running on customer devices. Customers with the app receive these offers whether they are in the store or nearby. On-the-spot offers like this can drive impulse purchase decisions and help technology-enabled retailers to garner more wallet share per customer.
For customers clamoring for mobile-enhanced shopping experiences, offering a Wireless network in your stores not only gives them a free in-store connection that lets you understand their behavior. It also enables retail staff to roam the store and serve customers using handheld, WiFi-enabled devices, whether to ring up a purchase or to look up a customer service inquiry initiated online.
The same, long-standing concerns remain. Retailers still need to provide superior experiences, ensure uptime of Web sites and all systems, scale up seasonally, and process transactions securely−fast.
It’s important for retailers to head into this make-or-break time of the year with a great game plan, great partners and solid solutions that will improve their cost position. MegaPath offers a range of solutions designed and built with retailers in mind, including Nationwide Broadband Coverage, Managed WiFi, Managed Network Security, Secure Networking, and a range of Cloud Hosting and secure data backup services. Providing 24/7 customer support and Best-in-Class Service Level Assurances, MegaPath can power your retail business, serving as your single point of contact, with one call for support and one bill. | <urn:uuid:4198260c-8eae-4710-9a85-485fb0819c30> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.megapath.com/blog/blog-archive/retailers-are-you-ready-for-the-shopping-season/ | 2018-05-25T09:14:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867055.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525082822-20180525102822-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.945838 | 757 | [
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Derrel Bryan, Ed.D.
“I believe my role as an educator is to provide challenging opportunities for students to grow intellectually and create an interest for life-long inquiry. In my experiences as a former classroom teacher, coach, district administrator, principal and superintendent, I have found opportunities beyond measure that encourage problem-solving and healthy debate. My goal is to never stop learning and persuade my students to do the same.”
Dr. Bryan retired as principal of Lake Placid Middle School in Highlands County in 2011. However, upon his retirement he agreed to work on a contracted basis with Highlands County and assist with the implementation of the newly mandated performance appraisal system for teachers and school leaders. In his career in public education he has served as a classroom teacher, athletic coach, district administrator, superintendent of schools (Fla. & Ga.) and principal.
Ed.D. University of South Florida – Educational Leadership
M.A. Western State College/Colorado – Administration & Supervision
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"Everybody sees a slightly different rainbow even if standing side by side: each one has his own personal rainbow! The drops of water refract and reflect the rays from the sun backwards, at 42 degrees to the incoming rays. A secondary rainbow, which sometimes appears outside the primary one (at 51 degrees) is caused by two internal reflections instead of just one." link
Upon reflection we can see justification for searching a mirrored and/or rotated 42 symbol. Which links us with 24, maybe even 5b or be. I see a pattern here between 51 and 42, they make me think of 33 and 6 ( 60, 51, 42, 33, 24, 15, 6) It's also important to remember that the tip of the head of your shadow is the anti-solar point and center of the rainbow. This intrigues me about the concepts of Ego and Solar Illumination.
One more thing. The primary rainbow is 96% polarized and the secondary rainbow is 90% polarized. I see the dualism. I see the 96% as a close approximation of dark matter and unconsciouness. I see light was as DNA. Polarization and rainbows talk about parallel lines. They speak of straight and curves. They are Rays. They Flow. | <urn:uuid:bc8b5171-c954-4973-a2bc-e20f0a318bcb> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://g8ors.blogspot.com/2009/11/bow-to-reign.html | 2018-05-26T07:36:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867374.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526073410-20180526093410-00395.warc.gz | en | 0.964537 | 256 | [
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The Main Court
The Main Court is our biggest, highest action space, with over 9,000 square feet of interconnected trampolines extending right up the walls. Leap from mat to mat, bounce off the walls, or show off you parkour moves. Your imagination and skills are your only limit.
The Main Court is ideal for jumpers of all ages and skill levels. Practice your tricks and see how far you can go.
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We couldn’t have done any of this without the help of the data maestros at Match and Ok Cupid: Christian Rudder, cofounder and president of Ok Cupid, and Jim Talbott, director of consumer insights at
These guys and their data teams ran queries of all kinds and pulled spreadsheet after spreadsheet of information to try and answer our strange questions.
You filled out a questionnaire, fed it into the machine, and almost instantly received a card with the name and address of a like-minded participant in some far-flung locale—your ideal match. He called up his friend Robert Ross, a programmer at I. M., and they began considering ways to adapt this approach to find matches closer to home. “This loser happens to be a talented fashion illustrator for one of New York’s largest advertising agencies.
They’d heard about some students at Harvard who’d come up with a program called Operation Match, which used a computer to find dates for people. She makes Quiche Lorraine, plays chess, and like me she loves to ski. ”One day, a woman named Patricia Lahrmer, from 1010 WINS, a local radio station, came to to do an interview.
Bowling Green State University professors of gerontology, Dr. The study authors also delved into the question of which features make a dating site a good fit for seniors.Free dating sites tend to attract more lurkers and creeps.The free aspect also means you get a lot of people not really interested in meeting so you can waste a lot of time reading about and talking to people that won't ever go out with you. It was what people used for online dating before it was cool. Which is all true, but it doesn't translate into more dates.So, now that you know how to look respectable online we've come to the second quesiton of online dating: Where to put your respectable profile. The greatest flaw of OKCupid comes with one of its biggest selling points: it's free. Highly customizable and a fantastic layout make the site easy to navigate and optimal for getting to know your potential dates. Men were asked to rank drawings of women’s hair styles: a back-combed updo, a Patty Duke bob. | <urn:uuid:842bd834-d07c-44a5-bd31-9a404db41be2> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://guitic.d-23.ru/internet+dating+movie+rating/21.html | 2018-05-27T09:55:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794868239.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527091644-20180527111644-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.961149 | 470 | [
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Finance minister says less than 1% of BC homeowners impacted
Three of Canada’s Big Six have been linked to around 2,000 offshore corporations in the Bahamas
Is stepping away from traditional long duration bonds a smart move in the current environment?
Françoise Lyon speaks about a roller coaster career and why creating opportunities for others is so important
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The Investment Funds Institute of Canada has responded to amendments proposed by the CSA
Why less affluent financial advisors may have an edge in handling clients’ wealth concerns
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Emotional investing is a recipe for disaster but how can advisors keep their clients on a logical path?
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The Model of Communication of Education in the Village Unit Cooperatives (KUDs) and in the Traditional Islamic Boarding School Cooperatives (Kopontren): A Study in West Java Province, Indonesia.
AbstractThis purpose of this research is to describe it the differences between the pattern of educational communication in the Village Unit Cooperatives (KUDs) and that in the Traditional Iskamic Boarding School Cooperatives (Kopontrens) in West Java Province, Indonesia. The research was carried out with qua litative approach on 12 KUDs and 12 Kopontrrens in West Java Province, Indonesia. The idea of the research was based on the International and Indonesian Cooperative Princ iples the which obliges the cooperative's to arrange cooperative education program for the cooperative's members and based on the facts of the cultural differences between backgroun d KUDs and Kopontrens. The result of the research indicated that educational communication in the K opontrens is stronger than that in the KUDs Because The process of educational communication process in the Kopontrens has Become a standardized educational program, so that the elements of communication process consisting of "who says w hat to Whom in roomates channel, in what effect and environtment ” has become a package of the educational communication curriculum in Kopontrens . This could explain why the members' particip ation in the Kopontrens is better than that in the KUDs. This result is a method of developing social and policy implication for developing methods for educatin in the KUDs in Indonesia.
Dec 29, 2018
How to Cite
SETIAWAN, Wawan Lulus. The Model of Communication of Education in the Village Unit Cooperatives (KUDs) and in the Traditional Islamic Boarding School Cooperatives (Kopontren): A Study in West Java Province, Indonesia.. European Journal of Social Sciences, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 3, p. 77-84, dec. 2018. ISSN 2601-8640. Available at: <http://journals.euser.org/index.php/ejss/article/view/4003>. Date accessed: 19 may 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejss.v1i3.p77-84. | <urn:uuid:b8b404d2-5d79-4474-8576-2097c824f913> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://journals.euser.org/index.php/ejss/article/view/4003 | 2019-05-19T08:35:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232254731.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519081519-20190519103519-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.885135 | 495 | [
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NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP — In recognition of World Breastfeeding Week, the Marquette County Health Department is holding an event Saturday to promote and support the action of breastfeeding.
The 7th Annual Marquette County Big Latch On event will be held Saturday at the U.P. Children’s Museum Courtyard. This experience is part of a global event that aims to break the world record for the most women breastfeeding at the same time.
Vicki Wood, who works for the Marquette County Health Department, says breastfeeding has many benefits for both mom and baby.
“For babies they stay healthier especially during that first six months when all they need is breast milk,” said Wood. “For moms, they’re finding out down the road we have protection against the female cancers and osteoporosis.”
Tomorrow’s family friendly event is free and open to the public. It starts at 10:00 a.m.
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I admit, deodorant is a bit of a boring subject, and if I didn’t love this one so much I would definitely not be writing a post on it! I haven’t had the best of luck with the bog-standard deodorants, so I decided to do some research. This one kept popping up, and I was getting pretty desperate, so in my basket it went…
Superbly Efficient Anti-Perspirant & Deodorant Cream with Orange, Lemon and Linseed Extract. Our anti-perspirant and deodorant cream is extremely gentle, yet highly efficient. Leaves skin feeling soft, soothed and conditioned with 24-hour protection against sweat and odour.
A cream deodorant does seem quite bizarre on first glance, and it was still equally strange applying it for the first time. It feels quite unnatural putting a cream on your armpits… It doesn’t have a very strong smell, it just smells very clean. In terms of anti-perspirant qualities it absolutely delivers – this works better than any other deodorant I’ve tried in terms of stopping odour and sweat. Unfortunately it didn’t keep me sweat-free during a gym sesh, but that was to be expected. I have noticed that my underarms are more moisturised and that it creates a much smother shave.
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Photograph by Charlotte Marillet @ Flickr (CC)
The sky pinks with sunset.
Orange tints the grasses and the birds call
lychee and rum. The beach sits gritty
between my toes; cicadas hum
a humid blanket round my shoulders
while summer dusk drips
from the fern-tips and eaves.
These are the days
when the waves mould me
like a cliff face, when the wind
shapes me like dunes.
These family-soaked nights,
when the stars twist snakelike
from yesterday to tomorrow, hold me
always on the edge of dream, hold me
always in the deep
I have forgotten my keys
I left them somewhere
some time ago, but I have
forgotten where and when.
I have forgotten what you said
that hot night in Hoi An, where
under the red light of silk lanterns
you whispered how much you loved me,
the geckos blinking at us from the walls. I
have forgotten the way you danced with me
at our friends’ wedding, running your hands
over my hips in syncopation with the jazz band,
my face kissing your neck and both of us hidden
amongst the other dancers. I have forgotten your smell, your skin
softly pulsing with it in bed in the morning, your breath
pulling me into your embrace. I have forgotten
where I met you and when. I have forgotten
why I have forgotten. There must be
some reason, some reason
why I have forgotten
your voice and its
song. I know that
I have forgotten
my keys, but
It is damp, cold, and the garden is
spattered with debris. Used tea bags,
rotting celery and sickly white plastic
packaging have been hefted out of the
garbage bin by the rain,
and lie sodden in the dirt. The sky stares
back, grey blank, a cement sky
that doesn’t care if your lover left you, or
your mother hates you and always
did. The waste
of ordinary life bobs in puddle-holes left
by weeds torn up. A wine bottle leaks the
last of its purple dregs onto the path.
The wind cracks plastic and knocks on
doors in the night. Sirens cry under the
of the sulphur street light, and the rain
pulses against the house, one cloud
opened and gutted against the window,
and then the next one, and another siren,
with sick-yellow, dies in jagged bursts.
In the morning, the washing drags dirty
from the line.
Yesterday’s newspapers ripped apart,
their now black pages torn and
Under too-close asphalt clouds, a boy
throws a ball against a brick wall. The
tennis ball bounces with a thwack, which
echoes with the power of the throw. The
boy leaps as he bowls
and runs to catch the neon yellow fuzz.
Under his grey uniform, his shoulder
bulge and his quads stretch. He twists
and grunts until an invisible school bell
inside his ears, and he runs off with his
school bag through a solitary ray of sun,
the ball shining hot in his pocket.
There are his splintered hands
on the page. They crack with cold
in this coal town, his tin shack
buckled with snow. He’s too worn-out
to work or stoke the fire; he must wait
for his son to come back. His swollen
hands lie limp; my knuckles throb.
There are their whirling skirts, on the page.
They twirl in red blue green pink orange
yellow and white white white for all
the soon-to-be-known girls. The drums beat
and the men clap and the women throw open
their smiles to the sky and sing La la la la lai
faster and faster, tongues tap and skirts twirl
and the sun claps on the cobbles, on the drums,
in their mouths.
There are her hips. Her skin is the terracotta wall,
his hands are the shafts of sunlight through the alley,
the shafts of sun on her hair, her waist, her bare skin.
There is his breath on the wall, its terracotta hot
from absorbed shafts of sun, held by the alley,
and the dust rising golden in the light.
There are the houses on my street. The grass
is washed with full moonlight, and a breeze
rustles the eucalypts. A possum scuttles
from my footsteps up the path, and leaves
crunch to release the bush smell. A home
scent of gums, grass, dust, salt, and sand
rises from the green-grey and velvet night.
My home is vast, vast enough to hold
all my generations and me,
a cross of the t on the page.
A heart-shaped land
Hillsides of red trees
Haystacks on pikes
Plastic rubbish washed up
on the riverbank, now green, now grey
across rocks brown and broken
Brick houses and brick sheds
Hills and hills with skeletal trees
Villagers amble across
the tracks as the train
stops for an hour, two hours
Red signs among the bony trunks
with the skull and crossbones
A gleaming spinaret, a silver beacon
from the valley
Sunset pierces the mountain cracks
I still have so far to go
High Noon in Sarajevo
Little beggar boys weave
amongst the tables of the big central café
Little boys whose faces
look like all those shots from the war, pale
and broken like the side of a building.
Fashionable Bosnians drink coke and smoke,
smoke white-tipped cigarettes
in their fur-lined parkas outside Club Bill Gates.
High noon in Sarajevo — but it’s Wednesday,
and people are walking and working and don’t care
about the past, that’s for tourists. Everyone my age
or older lived through the siege, which is almost everyone I see —
except for the little beggar boys,
handing out cards bigger than their dirty hands,
under the blare of Balkan pop, under
the watch of the Cathedral, the Mosque, the hills.
The central library
full of Hebrew,
Christian and Islamic
books was bombed.
The pages exploded
far into the sky.
For days the citizens
were brushing their
off their shoulders.
Photograph by Tessa Lunney
© 2012 Tessa Lunney
from Contrappasso Magazine #1, August 2012
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ABOUT THE POET
Photograph by Ian Woodforth at the Contrappasso Launch, 1 August 2012
TESSA LUNNEY is currently completing her creative doctorate at the University of Western Sydney. She is looking at silences in contemporary Australian war fiction and has written a novel as the bulk of her dissertation. She has had her poetry, fiction and reviews published in Southerly, Mascara, Illumina, Phoenix, and Hermes, among others. She works as an editorial assistant at Southerly. Apart from reading and writing, she loves swing dancing, champagne, late night art galleries and travel—preferably all together, if she can manage it. She lives in Sydney. | <urn:uuid:4e731aef-bfbc-4067-a25a-4f1b4f25e365> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://contrappassomag.wordpress.com/tag/tessa-lunney/ | 2019-05-21T17:30:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256494.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521162634-20190521184634-00515.warc.gz | en | 0.922143 | 1,602 | [
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Pakistan visa application form. Completed application form for Pakistan will be prepared within 5 business hours of order submission, and emailed to you to download, print and sign.
Original, signed China passport with at least 6 months of remaining validity.
Passport Photo: 2 Include a passport style photo, with a white background, taken within the last 6 months. You may also choose to upload a photo to your order for us to print. There is a surcharge associated with this service.
Itinerary. Copy of itinerary showing exact dates of travel from airline or travel agent and a statement of the nature of the trip. We do not advise to purchase tickets until visa is issued. Please note that the validity, duration of stay, and number of entries on your visa will be based upon your itinerary.
Bank Statement. Original bank statements from the past 3 months showing proof of sufficient funds.
Employment Letter. Original letter from your employer on business letterhead, with contact details, stating the date on which you were hired, your position with the company, and that a leave of absence has been granted, purpose and duration of the trip, and that you will be returning to your current job. For students, please submit an official letter from your school indicating that you are in good standing and that you are registered for the upcoming semester. Please also provide copy and translation.
Letter of Invitation. An official letter of invitation from a travel agency in Pakistan, addressed to The Embassy of Pakistan in applicant's resident country.
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In the latest trading session, Tilray, Inc. (TLRY - Free Report) closed at $46.40, marking a +0.76% move from the previous day. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.3%. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 0.54%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.41%.
Coming into today, shares of the company had lost 19.28% in the past month. In that same time, the Medical sector lost 3.82%, while the S&P 500 lost 0.43%.
Investors will be hoping for strength from TLRY as it approaches its next earnings release, which is expected to be May 14, 2019.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of -$0.89 per share and revenue of $200.92 million. These totals would mark changes of -56.14% and +365.85%, respectively, from last year.
It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for TLRY. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
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The Medical - Drugs industry is part of the Medical sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 88, putting it in the top 35% of all 250+ industries.
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Primary Care Federations are now accepted as the new form of collaboration between practices. This 10 minute blog explores how Federations can function as clubs or networks and provides links to other resources within the source4networks platform.
How do primary care federations function, are they more members clubs or networks? Professor Becky Malby digs deep into the literature to share key themes of functioning federations through her blog.
Additional insight can be gained by reviewing the following references which show the federation model at work and other forms of integrated care. | <urn:uuid:1f30ba08-32ee-4c35-a6f1-e16d28be7f36> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://source4networks.org.uk/resources/blog/157-functioning-federations-professor-becky-malby | 2019-05-24T02:58:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257497.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524024253-20190524050253-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.950531 | 107 | [
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Gujarat to have ‘Smart GIDC’ at Dholera SIR
10th July 2018 | Source by www.thehindubusinessline.com/
AHMEDABAD, 10th July-18 : What is likely to fuel the pace of development at ambitious Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR), the Gujarat government is planning to set up a next-generation industrial estate as part of the project.
The industrial estate — to be developed by Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) — is seen as a Smart GIDC within Dholera SIR to attract Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). Soon to be launched, the Smart GIDC would use digital technology to make utility operations efficient and effective.
“Under the Smart GIDC concept the entire utility operations such as drainage, water, electricity or gas supplies will be controlled and monitored using digital technology. There will be a common duct, from where all these connections will pass. A unit will require to just obtain a connection and plug in. There will also be smart meters and remote digital monitoring,” D Thara, Vice- Chairman and Managing Director of GIDC told BusinessLine.
“To be spread across 200 hectares of area, the new Smart GIDC is aimed to benefit the MSME units with plots at affordable rates. This will trigger the development at Dholera,” said Thara, adding that land has already been earmarked by the Dholera SIR Development Authority for the proposed Smart GIDC and the possession of the same will be given to GIDC within a month.
Infrastructure work will begin at the site after possession of the land. “The marketing of the plots will begin after six months. The Smart GIDC will be a multi-product GIDC without chemical units,” said Thara.
Already, small businesses have started approaching the government to invest in Smart GIDC at Dholera. “We are getting very good initial response,” she said, adding that the Smart GIDC at Dholera will be separate from the 16 new GIDCs already announced by the Chief Minister.
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When it comes to PHP open source ecommerce solutions, there are plenty of options to choose from such as Magento, osCommerce, OpenCart, Spree Commerce, PrestaShop, VirtueMart, Ubercart and CubeCart, amongst many more. Each has been designed with a different user in mind with different needs. However for most developers, Magento is their first choice because of its rich features and its ability to use key marketing promotional tools.
Magento is a key player in the competitive world of e-commerce platforms. One of the main reasons for this is because it is an SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) friendly ecommerce solution which has the flexibility to design and develop optimised ecommerce websites. Here a few reasons why Magento is the best SEO friendly ecommerce solution:
Magento allows you to add the category name to a path for a products URL. The most important fields to consider when doing this are:
Meta Description: A well written SEO friendly description should be used here because it will show in result listings of search engines.
Page Title: Keep this blank to use the category name including parent’s categories.
URL Key: This should be kept short with the key words in the URL.
These options can make a big difference to a SEO strategy. Details such as Name, Description, Page Title and Meta data can be specified for each store view, which is particularly useful for multi-language stores.
In Magento, products can be optimised the same way as category optimization. The Meta Information can be set for the “Default Values” and for each “Store View”. When dealing with images, a good file name can create additional interest and improve SEO rankings. The images of product information can be labelled and can be used for the image’s alt and title tags.
Magento is a very flexible and powerful CMS. It can control each aspect of every page easily. The page title, Meta keywords and the Meta description can be set for every individual page.
If a specific description isn’t given to each page in the CMS, the search engines will pick any string from the content automatically.
Canonical URLs are a big help for search engines to understand duplicate pages and can suggest the preferred URL for each web page, using the new canonical URL tag. To give a canonical URL to web pages, install the Canonical URL’s for Magento module.
XML Sitemaps are Google sitemaps for providing information to search engines that shows where web content is. An XML sitemap never helps to rank well, but it is always useful to get indexed webpages faster in search engines. An XML sitemap can be created by going to Catalogue then Google Sitemap then Add Sitemap, choose a filename, path and store view, and then finally press “Save & Generate”.
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I spent an entire weekend immersed in research and planning for a new summer healing arts program – body, mind and spirit. My co-worker, Summer, encouraged me to revisit my ancestors and cultural history. .
One of the first articles I found (on genetics): Irish DNA originated in the Middle East and Eastern Europe and it’s probably more interesting to me because of my Irish father and Polish/Bohemian mother. Reverence for the sun is the most ancient and widespread spiritual practice. The sun is said to be the most healing medicine, so I’m starting with the ancient sun and spiral petroglyphs I’ll end the series with workshops and demonstrations on the Spirituality of Ancient Eastern European and Middle Eastern Frame Drum.
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Archive for category COSTUME DESIGN
When Vogue.com’s Senior Culture Writer Julia Felsenthal asked me about my costume designer’s backstory on The Astronaut Wives Club, I said “We’re not doing men in great suits and women in New York silhouettes. We’re starting in middle America, and having this journey with the wives as they grow into themselves and learn about life and style.”
But I can’t go without giving props to our prop master Jonathan R. Hodges for working with costumes to source vintage styles from American Optical, Persol, and Ray-Ban. It’s one of those gray areas where costumes and props converge. Julia Felsenthal notes “The finishing touch [in] finding each woman the perfect pair of shades [is major] because nobody needs eye protection like an astronaut’s wife, for whom staring up at the sky is basically an occupational hazard.”
Check out Vogue.com’s full article by Julia Felsenthal From Lisa Loeb to the Astronaut Wives: Why Cat-Eye Glasses Are Cool Again, to find out why Vogue.com’s Fashion News Director, Chioma Nnadi, likes them so much. And get ready for your next post-MadMen fashion fix this week with episode two of The Astronaut Wives Club, “Protocol.”
Ready for lift off and meet the first ladies of space! Tune in tomorrow night after you watch the first 5 minutes of ABC’s “The Astronaut Wives Club” now via YouTube.
#AstronautWives #sneakpeek #preview #countdown
If you think that Leighton Meester wore Blair’s signature headbands off the lot or that Kiernan Shipka slipped a ’60s-era “Mad Men” dress into her bag at the end of the day, think again.
1. When she wore this shimmery, cutout contraption and you never craved a piece of clothing more in your life: See 16 more of Kristen Harris‘s favorite #GossipGirl looks rocked by the UES’s favorite fashionista on Buzzfeed.com.
Holiday Gift Guide
The Look of ‘The Carrie Diaries’ as chosen by Costume Designer Eric Daman: “Fans enjoy the way we’re emulating the’80s without making it too kitschy. We made a fresh, new Carrie Bradshaw.”
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About the Doctor
Dr. Nikkhou completed his undergraduate studies at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and graduated Summa Cum Laude with Bachelor of Science in Physiological Sciences and Neuroscience. He graduated from Yale School of Medicine and completed his M.D. Thesis on “Role of Active Surveillance in Small Renal Masses.” Dr. Nikkhou is passionate about public health and decreasing health disparities. While at Yale, he provided free healthcare to the uninsured through the Haven Free clinic, performed surgery abroad in Zambia, completed the Connecticut Health Foundation Health Leadership Fellows program, and was on the board of the Yale Latino Medical Association.
Dr. Nikkhou completed his surgery internship and residency in Urology at the LAC-USC Medical Center. At USC, Dr. Nikkhou trained and operated with some of the most world-renowned experts in Laparoscopic & Robotic urologic surgery, open Urologic Oncology, Endourology, and Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery. While Dr. Nikkhou enjoys all aspects of urology, he is particularly interested in improving his patients’ quality of life and shortening their time to recovery using minimally invasive techniques and robotic surgery.
Dr. Nikkhou is married and has two young children. Outside of urology, he enjoys traveling and the outdoors, cooking and fitness. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Farsi (Persian).
Throughout his education and training career, Dr. Nikkhou has been a strong patient advocate. He treats patients as a whole and not as a condition, and will do everything he can to help you heal.
Education & Training:
B.S. Physiological Sciences, Neurological sciences
Summa Cum Laude
M.D. Thesis: Active Surveillance and Volume Monitoring in Small Renal Masses
Internship, General Surgery (2012-2013)
Residency, Urology (2013-2017)
USC Resident Teaching Award (2014)
John Stein Excellence Award (2016)
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How much is a comma worth?
Comma usage can be surprisingly contentious. I am always surprised by how many additional ones proof readers put into my manuscripts before they go to the printers (though I have never seriously thought that they were paid by the comma). However, a recent court case has shown just how valuable a comma (or in this case the lack of one) can be.
In Maine, USA, a Mr O’Connor and 50 fellow truck drivers went to court to argue their case for overtime pay. According to the laws of that state, workers are entitled to overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours a week, unless there is a specific exemption. The truck drivers’ firm had told the drivers they were not entitled to overtime pay because the law did not apply to those involved in:
“The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packaging for shipment or distribution of: 1)Agricultural produce, 2) Meat and fish products, 3)Perishable foods.”
The firm claimed that this clause included the drivers who distributed the product. The drivers’ lawyers disagreed, noting the absence of a comma after the word shipment. This, they argued, meant the law could only apply to the people packing the produce ‘for shipment or distribution,’ and not to those whose job it was to distribute it.
In other words, a comma after ‘packaging for shipment’ and before ‘distribution,’ would have made it clear that the drivers were not entitled to overtime. But the absence of a comma, meant they were.
The case went as far as an appeal court judge who ruled that the language was indeed ambiguous, paving the way for the truck drivers to claim overtime pay.
Many guides to grammar state that you should never put a comma before the ‘and’ or ‘or’ that comes before the last noun etc in a long list. Such dogmatism is silly. As the case above shows, the lack of a comma at this point (it is sometimes known as the Oxford Comma, or serial comma) can lead to ambiguity. The overarching guide for all writers, not just law makers, should be – will a comma here make my meaning clearer or not?
As writers, few of us are likely to gain financially from our use of commas, but by applying them judiciously we can at least save our readers from becoming confused. And that’s were a good proof reader comes in useful.
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Angela grew up in an orphanage. She was brought there at the age of six and left at 18, pregnant with her first child. The boy is in school now, while her second child, a five-year-old, plays in a park beside her in the outskirts of Kiev in Ukraine. There is a clinic beside the park and it is here where Angela, which is not her real name, will have an American couple’s embryo inserted into her womb. It is something she has difficulty talking about.
The 26-year-old doesn’t want people to know who she is or where she is from. But she does want them to know that the father of her two children is no longer in the picture. Angela had to give up her third baby for adoption two years ago. She believes this time it will be easier to give up the baby because it won’t be hers.
Angela works as a cook and says it would take a long time to buy a home on her salary: “I grew up without a home. It’s important for me to have an apartment of my own. This is the only way I can do that.”
The average surrogate receives between €10,000 and €14,000
Sitting next to Anna is Angela, the 32-year-old hairdresser from California who has contracted Anna to be her surrogate. “Four years ago after giving birth I had terrible bleeding. They removed my uterus and I can’t get pregnant anymore,” she says. “I can afford to do this here but not in California [where it is also legal, but costs €120,000.]”
Angela and Anna have reached an agreement in an industry that is built on the desire of thousands of couples to be parents and women’s need, some greater than others, for money. In Ukraine, a complex network of third parties have stepped in to connect these two needs, turning the country into one of the most popular surrogacy centers in the world.
Ukraine’s Health Ministry doesn’t keep official records of surrogacy. Nor are there available statistics. In Ukraine, future parents are shown catalogues with photos of women and their general information from which they can pick a surrogate or an egg donor. They can choose the sex of the baby – which is illegal in Spain – and do not need to pass any controls. To hire a surrogate, the couple just needs to prove they are legally married and can’t have children, although one of them must have a genetic link to the child. In a country where the law is so lax, “it’s as if there were no regulation at all,” says one Ukrainian deputy.
Anna has rented an apartment for Angela and her children in the outskirts of Kiev, where she will live for the next nine months. She wants her to be close to hospitals and the clinic that is overseeing the process. Angela will not have to work during this period of time. Asked how much she is charging, Anna jumps in: “Around €20,000, which includes rent, food and clothes.” It’s more than the average fee, which is typically between €10,000 and €14,000. Angela doesn’t say anything. This will be her first time as a surrogate. “I decided to give up my (third) child when I was pregnant. I didn’t speak to him, I didn’t stroke my belly. I will do the same thing now,” she says seriously.
We don’t want to be seen as a country where you can fly in, choose a woman and have a baby
Ukrainian deputy Iryna Sysoyenko
The public squares in downtown Kiev are filled with people dining in sidewalk cafes and restaurants. But despite the modern, vibrant scene, posters recruiting soldiers are a reminder of the revolution that broke out just four years ago, followed by the Russian annexation of Crimea, and of the fact that Ukraine’s border is still a war zone today. Ukraine’s currency, the grivna, plummeted as a result of the crisis and while authorities boast of 2.5% economic growth, Ukrainians complain of precarious working conditions and low salaries – the average is €237 a month.
Widespread corruption has made matters worse, creating the perfect conditions for the surrogacy industry to thrive. “From 2014, businesses with foreign capital began to set up in Kiev and buy Ukrainian clinics and agencies,” says lawyer Sergii Antonov. “The boom happened in 2015. Foreigners started to be the main clients. Thailand and India banned the practice and the demand moved here. The financial crisis meant that there were more women willing to be surrogates.”
Antonov estimates that between 2,000 and 2,500 surrogacy contracts are signed each year in Ukraine. The process normally involves multiple third-party agencies which receive a commission for their work. In theory, clinics should only take care of the medical side of things but often they are linked to other agencies that pass on clients and women who want to be surrogates. They also provide translators, lawyers and look for accommodation for the future parents. All for packages priced between €39,900 and €49,900.
But not all surrogacy processes go according to plan. Stanislav Kutsenko, the head of territorial administration of the Justice Ministry in Kiev, says that “in the last two years, around 40 or 50 women have come to us saying they wanted to keep the baby after giving birth. We find ourselves in the situation of explaining to them that they have no rights over the child.” Kutsenko believes greater regulation is needed, and wants surrogacy contracts to protect the rights of surrogate mothers.
Ukrainian deputy Iryna Sysoyenko agrees. She has co-authored a bill to ban foreigners from using surrogates, or at the very least to stop couples from countries where the practice is illegal, like in Spain. The proposal, which will be voted on in November, wants to make the industry less commercial. “We don’t want to be seen as a country where you can fly in, choose a woman and have a baby,” she says. Another parliamentary group is working on a draft law to “protect the rights of egg donors, surrogates and children.”
A Spanish family wanders around outside a public maternity ward in Kiev. They are one of the 45 Spanish couples who were unable to return home after using the clinic Biotexcom for their surrogacy process. The Spanish embassy refused to issue a passport for their babies until it could rule out possible human trafficking, leaving them in limbo for almost two months. Before going down the surrogacy route, the Spanish couple says they tried various unsuccessful treatments, and adoption. “This was not a whim,” says the woman. “It is our last chance to fulfill our dream of being parents,” he adds. The couple explain they keep in touch with the surrogate mother via video chat and saw her after the birth, “she’s not poor, she’s a cook,” they explain.
It’s not difficult to find Spanish couples who have come to Ukraine to use a surrogate. In the entrance to one of the main surrogacy clinics, Biotexcom, two couples look like they have come straight from the airport. Biotexcom controls two thirds of the surrogacy market with foreigners. Pregnant women are visible everywhere in the high-security facility. In one examination room alone, there are 22. The center closed for a few weeks in August. According to the company, it was for an annual clean-up but it happened just after Biotexcom’s owner, Albert Totchilovski, was put under house arrest over child trafficking and tax evasion accusations.
The hospital told me the fetus had been dead for two weeks. The clinic only gave me €300
Surrogate mother Maria
Maria, 30, had a bad experience with Biotexcom five years ago when she decided to be a surrogate. “I needed money because I had just got divorced,” she says. “Seven weeks into the pregnancy, I experienced heavy bleeding. I called the clinic and they told me everything was normal. Fifteen days later I had more heavy bleeding. The hospital told me the fetus had been dead for two weeks. The clinic only gave me €300. I took me two months to recover. It was very hard and very sad.”
Maria, who has a diploma in chemistry and ecology, tried again last year. “I was working in a cafeteria. I was not in need, but I wanted money so I could move out of my parents’ house with my daughter,” she explains. This time she went to a different clinic. “They treated me like a human being. It was nothing like the first time where I felt like a piece of meat. Before the process, they gave me a psychological examination and I met the parents after signing the contract.”
Biotexcom has been linked to various scandals across Ukraine for some years, but it was the human trafficking and tax evasion charges that raised alarm bells at the Spanish embassy in Kiev and put a hold on baby registrations. The investigation will also reopen older cases involving the company, says the prosecutor overseeing the case.
“We believe the Italian couple who left Ukraine in 2011 with a baby that had no genetic link to them is not an isolated case,” they say. The prosecutor wants permission to conduct 200 DNA tests in countries across Europe and in China to investigate whether more children have been victims of trafficking.
Totchilovski is also being investigated for tax evasion. Biotexcom only has $200,000 in equity when it should have earned at least €30 million in the past three years, says the prosecutor, who suspects the money has been sent to tax havens in Cyprus and Lithuania.
Spanish couples who went through Biotexcom are being recommended to do a DNA test to see whether they have been the victims of fraud.
But despite the scandals, Spanish couples continue to flood in each week to pick up their babies from Ukraine. “If there are abuses they should be punished,” says Cristina, one of the women affected by the embassy holdup who used Biotexcom. “We shouldn’t demonize the process. We did it within the law of this country and if they believe there are no safeguards, they should put in the necessary controls,” she adds.
English version by Melissa Kitson.
Albert Totchilovski, the owner of Biotexcom, lives in a large home in Kiev. Inside his spacious living room there is a large green rug, a pilates ball, two sofas and an empty bar. Two security guards and a German shepherd guard the room.
According to Totchilovski, Biotexcom controls one fourth of the global surrogacy market and 70% of the market in Ukraine. He has built an empire offering couples the chance to be parents with packages that start from €39,000. Now he is facing between eight and 15 years in prison for child trafficking and tax fraud. But he doesn’t seem too worried, even though he is under house arrest.
He admits that the Italian couple who left Ukraine with a baby had no genetic link to them.”We received the sperm sample from another clinic, but no one has cared about the case since 2011 although the police knew about it. Now they are beginning an investigation about nothing.”
On the accusations of tax evasion, he says: “They want to collect money from businesses for next year’s elections. That’s the mentality here.”
Totchilovski has dual German and Moldovan citizenship, but little it known about his background or how he got the money to get into the surrogacy industry. “I had nightclubs in Moldova and then I emigrated to Germany. I had no money there. I worked in a glassworks shop,” he says.
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Youth, Family, Nutrition and Health, Fitness and Wellness
Decreasing the prevalence of obesity among adolescent children in Mississippi requires focusing on the key risk factors and correcting them through behavior modification, decreasing caloric intake, increasing physical activity, and educational programs.
There is a strong need for more prevention at a very young age, since an obese child will probably become an obese adolescent, and ultimately, an obese adult. However, if overweight/obesity or the risk of it is already present, then appropriate intervention should be readily available for the age group to prevent further weight gain as well as onset of hypertension, and dyslipidemia in adolescent population.
The Youth, Family, Nutrition and Health, Fitness and Wellness Planned Program will utilized a integrated approach to address relevant issues facing youth and families. Stakeholders from our environmental scanning processes led to the integration of three planned programs into one.
The identified a need for the Alcorn State University Extension Program (ASUEP) to aid youth in resisting risky behaviors such as: tobacco use, high rates of teen pregnancy and infection rate of sexually transmitted diseases, increase dropout rates and juvenile delinquency and lack of recreation activities as relevant issues facing youth in the state.
Also, other issues identified were the lack of skills that youth possess to enter in leadership roles and opportunities in schools and communities; lack of job preparedness/readiness and career and business development An area of the planned program with focus on youth at risk by exploring methods to provide support systems to aid youth in resisting risky behaviors such as teen pregnancy, STD's and tobacco use, dropouts, alcohol and drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, etc.
Educational programs will develop negotiation, decision making and coping skills of youth to resist risky behaviors. Also, club development/volunteer management to facilitate the organizing and managing of community and school based clubs will be implemented.
First, volunteers will be trained to work with youth in clubs to provide variety of educational, cultural and citizenship opportunities. Youth leadership will be another emphasis of the program to enhance leadership competencies and the necessary personal, social and cognitive skills to become leaders in school and communities.
Second, an emphasis will be on increasing limited-resource youth participation in leadership opportunities. Another focused area of youth development is on career development/workforce preparedness to develop job readiness skills to assist youth in the job searches and increased awareness of career options and youth business opportunities.
Three, the planned program will emphasize many issues facing the "family”, educational programs will implemented on providing an understanding of the social, cognitive, emotional, and physical development of children and families. Providing educational programs on Sudden Infant Death, Shaking Baby Syndrome, and other educational program empower parents with the knowledge to provide quality learning environments for children. Creating healthy families will consist of developing parenting skills and quality child care and afterschool programs that promote quality learning environments.
Family Resource Management will, also, be emphasized exploring strategies to assist youth and adults in families to obtain and managing money and financial resources effectively to meet present needs and future goals. Our stakeholders also identified the lack of parenting and money management skills; the lack of child care training and facilities and high rate of obesity among children, youth and adults.
Another area of the planned program focuses on Nutrition, Health, Fitness Wellness and Obesity programs to provide information about nutrition, health lifestyles and physical fitness. Current trends in obesity among African-American children, youth and adults remains the highest among all ethnic groups in Mississippi. Since obesity starts early in childhood and extends into the adolescent years and possibly into adulthood, intervention and or prevention strategies are necessary to addressing this issue.
Nutrition behavior modification with healthy eating and increased physical activity are contributing factors to the prevention and management of obesity in all population groups. Also, research conducted will be translated into practical application and disseminating on nutrition, health, physical fitness, wellness and obesity for youth and families in communities.
- Nutrition Education and Behavior
- Healthy Lifestyle
- Individual and Family Resource Management
- Human Development and Family Well-Being
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As well as being a calm and beautiful garden, Cotehele is a wonderful example of a landscape transition from a terraced area near the house, through a gardenesque woodland garden to the sublimity of the sea shore. The late-medieval granite house has a terraced garden (1862) overlooking a sheltered valley which is planted with exotic and tender plants. It belonged to the Edgecumbe family, which owned Mount Edgecumbe, until 1947. The house and the dovecote are medieval - and very fine. The woodland valley garden is late Victorian, with a picturesque/gardenesque character.
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2. Take with you all of the household goods and furnishings, and other items of personal property which you want to have, and inventory what you take. Although it is not a law, the old adage “possession is nine tenths of the law” is very applicable here. The reason boils down to the fact that litigating personal property issues is usually prohibitively expensive, because it normally costs more to litigate than the stuff is worth. So if you ever want to see it again, it is much simpler and easier to take it with you when you leave. [Caveat: don’t get too greedy. If you empty the place out and leave the spouse and children to sleep and eat on a bare concrete floor, you will not look good].
The Petitioner must personally serve the Respondent (non-filing party) with the Summons and Petition, unless a Joint Petition is filed. The Respondent has 30 days to answer the Petition. In the case of service by publication, the 30 day time period does not begin until the expiration of the period allowed for publication. In the case of a Counter-Petition for dissolution or legal separation to a Petition for Dissolution or Legal Separation, no Answer to the Counter-Petition is required, and the original Petitioner is deemed to have denied each and every statement, allegation and claim in the Counter-Petition.
Still want to try mediation? Check out the primer on mediated divorces, and talk to an attorney. And keep an open mind about the process, even if feelings are running high right now. Green says she had a client who would say she tried to say to herself, “‘how will I feel about this in five days, how will I feel about this in five months, how will I feel about this in five years?’, and I thought that was a very useful question for a person to ask themselves when they’re beginning this process.”
Under both Minnesota law, and federal law, as long as you yourself are a party to the conversation, it is lawful for you to record that conversation, even secretly. Furthermore, such recordings happen often enough in family practice that you are wise to assume that any telephone conversation with your spouse is in fact being recorded, and to temper your speech accordingly — i.e., no anger, name-calling, or spiteful speech of any kind.
The Summons is a separate legal paper telling the respondent to answer the Petition within 30 days. If the respondent does not, he or she is in default and the divorce is uncontested. This means the petitioner (the spouse who wanted the divorce) may be granted the divorce and other relief requested. The Summons also forbids both parties from selling or getting rid of any property or harassing one another. It requires each party to maintain any insurance for the family. If one spouse spends money belonging to both parties after receiving the Summons, he or she will have to explain to the court why the money was spent.
Temporary maintenance and temporary support may be awarded in a proceeding brought for legal separation. The court may also award to either party to the proceeding, having due regard to all the circumstances and the party awarded the custody of the children, the right to the exclusive use of the household goods and furniture of the parties pending the proceeding and the right to the use of the homestead of the parties, exclusive or otherwise, pending the proceeding.
Divorce is actually a legal procedure between you and your spouse, so, in order to satisfy legal requirements, you must properly notify your spouse that legal action is being taken against them. In a divorce proceeding, this is called Service of Process, and involves delivering copies of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage and Summons along with supporting documents to your spouse in a timely manner.
In all of the states we practice in, both equitable distribution states and community property states, the parties are encouraged to actively participate in, and come to agreement on, the fair division of their marital assets and liabilities. But unless you and your spouse are experts in the financial matters pertaining to divorce, this can be a dangerous path to walk.
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All property that was acquired during the marriage is called "marital property." It does not matter whose name is on the title. Both parties are assumed to have made an equal contribution. A homemaker's work in the home counts as an equal contribution. This "marital" property is divided fairly. Usually, fairly means equally. The court will decide the value of all the property and try to divide the property so that each spouse gets approximately half of the overall value. If one spouse has misspent the family's income, or misused or taken property, the court may award more property to the other spouse to make up for that. If one spouse has special needs, the court may award more property to the needy spouse.
Marital property is defined as property, real or personal, including vested public or private pension plan benefits or rights, acquired by the parties, or either of them, to a dissolution, legal separation, or annulment proceeding at any time during the existence of the marriage, or at any time during which the parties were living together as husband and wife under a purported marriage relationship which is annulled in an annulment proceeding, but prior to the date of valuation.
If a person wishes to terminate his or her marriage, he or she may file for a divorce. In a divorce proceeding, the court will terminate the marriage and determine the rights and responsibilities of the divorcing parties regarding child custody, child visitation, child support and spousal support (alimony). The court will also redistribute marital assets.
I want to get divorced, but my spouse doesn’t. Can my spouse prevent us from getting divorced? No. Your spouse can, however, refuse to work together on the terms of the divorce. If that happens, you would have to file for divorce and have your spouse served. Unfortunately, this would mean a contested divorce process, which is long and expensive and tends to generate new animosity between you. Faced with that prospect, many spouses eventually cooperate to develop a separation agreement and file an uncontested divorce.
In mediation, the couple, with the help of the mediator, works out agreements on the above issues. Sometimes agreements come easy, sometimes they take time and a lot of work. When agreements are hard to reach, that is when the mediator intervenes. It is the mediators job to keep the lines of communication open, brainstorm ideas, reality test the couple, teach empathy and assist the couple in their decision making process. Mediators help keep the couple focused on the issues at hand, trying not to get them off track. When divorcing couples get off track and away from the above issues during mediation, arguing, name-calling and bad prior memories are brought up.
Second, you and the other party are more likely to adhere to the terms of your agreement if you have some ownership of it. It is not uncommon for parties to a divorce or other family law dispute to return to court after their initial proceeding to address problems with a party who is not abiding by a parenting time schedule or failing to pay child support. Parties who make their own decisions about those issues through mediation are more likely to feel responsible for the terms of their agreement and to abide by it.
1. Never let your spouse suck you into a fight — even a verbal one. Once it starts getting heated, just withdraw from your spouse’s presence. While this won’t protect you against a spouse who is willing to make up a false abuse allegation out of whole cloth, it will protect you from a spouse who is trying to set you up to do something which will allow him or her to claim s/he was physically harmed or put in fear of imminent bodily harm.
If the custodial parent wishes to leave the state, the other parent must agree that the children can move or the custodial parent must get permission from the court. If the other parent agrees, the agreement should be put in writing. The court must weigh certain factors when deciding whether to allow the move. The factors are things like the reason for the move and the child’s relationship with the other parent and other family members. The parent requesting the move must convince the court to give permission, except in domestic violence cases.
If there is a chance your spouse may seek an Order for Protection or Harassment Restraining Order against you — whether legitimately or fraudulently — it is important to have a plan in case you are suddenly served with one and are barred from your home, with no court hearing set for two weeks. If that happens, do you have a place to stay? Cash and important documents? A spare change of clothing?
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Even if you don’t qualify for the summary dissolution, you may be able to proceed with an uncontested dissolution, where you and your spouse reach an agreement about the division of your property, and, if you have any children, what arrangements will be made for them. You begin the procedure by preparing and filing a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, along with various supporting documents. For an uncontested dissolution, one of these documents you would be a marital settlement agreement outlining the division of assets, and your agreement regarding any children. These documents are filed with the court, and copies of them are provided to your spouse. You will attend a court hearing, at which time the judge will make sure that all of your paperwork is in order, perhaps ask you a few questions, and enter your Decree of Dissolution of Marriage.
Mediation also allows couples to avoid the risks of trial, protects confidentiality, and decreases stressful conflict. Mediation may also protect the children of a marriage from the pain of parental conflict. Because the parties work to create their own agreements, couples who mediate their divorce settlement often find greater satisfaction than those who go to trial. Moreover, the couples learn skills to help them resolve future conflicts.
Divorce mediation is a voluntary settlement process used frequently and successfully by married couples who want to divorce, and by domestic partners who want to separate. Divorce mediation gives couples the option to plan their futures rationally, and in an atmosphere of cooperation and mutual respect. With the assistance of a trained divorce mediator, you can reach an agreement that is custom-made for your family, your finances and your future. To learn the answers to frequently asked questions about divorce mediation, please review our FAQs.
A dissolution of a marriage shall be granted by a county or district court when the court finds that there has been an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship. An irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship is achieved by living separate and apart for at least 180 days or serious marital discord adversely affecting the attitude of the husband, wife, or both towards the marriage. (Minnesota Statutes - Chapters: 518.06, 158.13)
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The vast majority of divorcing spouses - 97% according to some research - resolve all issues without going to trial. More and more individuals are resolving their issues on their own. Attorneys have recognized this, and many seek to support divorcing spouses in this do-it-yourself process. For example, some divorcing spouses will meet with attorneys separately for a consultation, and then attend mediation on their own. This way, each spouse can be well-informed about their options, but still maintain control (and keep the costs down) as they move forward to resolve any outstanding issues.
Christine Callahan has completed the certified training and is on the court roster for counties in the southwest metro to conduct Social Early Neutral Evaluations (SENE, for custody and parenting time) and Financial Early Neutral Evaluations (FENE for support and property division). For more information about the Early Neutral process in Minnesota, please see our articles.
Also, divorce in the court system is public domain. Anybody can sit in court and hear the specifics of your divorce. On the other hand, mediation is confidential, private and conducted behind closed doors. In mediation, there are no attorneys putting up walls between you and your spouse. Mediation is about working together, doing things in the best interests of your children and focusing on being able to be parents for your children for years to come. Unfortunately, divorce in the court system is designed to put up that wall and limit communication, which inevitably leads to many post divorce problems and many more hours and thousands of dollars in court.
To put this amount into perspective, a typical retainer paid to a divorce attorney (by one spouse) is $2,000 (or more); which means, if you both retain an attorney the starting price will likely be at least $4,000. The sticker shock gets worse when you consider that many sources indicate that when each spouse is represented by an attorney the average US divorce costs around $15,000. This same research indicates that divorce mediation in general is between 20-50% cheaper than the traditional adversarial legal process.
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