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LOYAL AIDE: Well-liked staffer said to be Newsom's truest backer
Perhaps no one was more loyal to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom or worked harder for him than Alex Tourk, his former deputy chief of staff and, until Wednesday, his re-election campaign manager.
That's why many City Hall insiders viewed Newsom's affair with Tourk's wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, as the ultimate breach of trust.
"I have a pretty strong set of beliefs in terms of being a progressive politician," said Supervisor Chris Daly, a vocal critic of Newsom who nonetheless spoke highly of Tourk. "In six years, what I've found even more important are personal relationships and loyalty. We grapple with tough issues. There's a lot at stake. Often it seems like people are out to get you, and given that, there is nothing more important than having people who care about you.
"It seems like there was no one that was more loyal for Gavin Newsom than Alex Tourk," Daly said Thursday. "In terms of political implications, this is what really hurts Newsom -- the loss of his most loyal supporter raises questions of trust for anyone in the Newsom operation."
There was a time when the Tourks were a prominent City Hall power couple, reflecting and complementing Newsom's own youthful style and glamour.
Tourk, 35, was a political operative and a Newsom true believer, appreciated by many in and out of government for his personable nature and admired for his natty wardrobe. After working for Lou Pappan, then the Democratic assemblyman from San Mateo, he earned a reputation under Mayor Willie Brown as a highly competent staffer positioned to grant favors and fix problems for people in the Office of Neighborhood Services.
Tourk proved crucial as a campaign aide during Brown's bruising but successful run for re-election in 1999, then worked for Brown's chief of staff, Steve Kawa. He left for a job with the 49ers but soon signed on with Supervisor Newsom's campaign for mayor in 2003.
As deputy chief of staff in the mayor's office, Tourk was responsible for implementing such priorities of Newsom's as homelessness programs and efforts encouraging businesses and citizens to work more closely with city government.
Tourk's work led to two catchy-sounding programs, Homeless Connect and SF Connect, that helped burnish the mayor's image as a caring, can-do politician. The respective programs help link the homeless to services and urge San Franciscans to volunteer for a variety of causes for the city's benefit.
"Everyone knows how key he was for Homeless Connect and SF Connect," said Nathan Nayman, head of the Committee on Jobs, a business lobbying group. "That's primarily what he will be remembered for. Alex has always been a team player. He's a people person."
Those people skills helped Tourk win over even the mayor's most intractable critics.
"I always saw him as one of the good guys in the administration, even though I've been highly critical of Project Homeless Connect," Daly said. "We always had a relationship based on mutual respect. Unlike some folks in the mayor's office, it didn't devolve into political animosity."
Rippey-Tourk, 34, also was a high-profile member of the mayor's team. In an administration populated by bright, young people, her glamorous appearance turned heads at City Hall and on the red carpet at the numerous society events she attended.
Rippey-Tourk joined the administration in 2004 as Newsom's appointments secretary, in charge of managing the city's many and at times unruly commissions. But by last spring, she was running into political trouble.
First the administration botched an attempt to shake up the leadership of the Municipal Transportation Agency board, which oversees the San Francisco Municipal Railway and the Department of Parking and Traffic. Ultimately, the board's vice chairman remained in his position despite last-minute lobbying by Rippey-Tourk.
The following month, the city's Taxi Commission was in open revolt against Newsom, voting to fire his handpicked director. Rippey-Tourk was not around to handle it, however, having gone on leave for treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
Newsom said then that her absence was partly to blame for the administration's failure to appoint more cooperative members to the Taxi Commission.
"It's one of those rare instances of timing," he told The Chronicle at the time. "Everything has worked against you to allow this to happen."
Rippey-Tourk never returned to her city job, instead taking a position with the new Benefit magazine and hosting a radio show on philanthropic endeavors. In September, the magazine featured Newsom on the cover.
The same month, Tourk left the mayor's office to head Newsom's re-election campaign, a job that ended Wednesday after a stormy conversation between the two men. Tourk and his wife, who have a 2-year-old son, were in seclusion Thursday.
Most City Hall and political sources expressed nothing but sympathy for the two.
"I am proud to have hired Alex into city government when he joined Mayor Brown's government in neighborhood services," said Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who called Tourk "an exceptional human being."
"On every campaign and in every job Alex Tourk has had, he has been the first person in the office in the morning and the guy who turns out the lights at night," said Alex Clemens, the well-connected owner of Barbary Coast Consulting, a media relations and political consulting company. "He is the consummate political operative, one of those people in politics who goes out of his way not to make enemies. Everyone who knows him feels bad for him."


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A man and a woman arguing in the street attracted a large crowd and three police vans according to onlookers.
Police said they were called to Derby Road in Longridge at 1.30pm this afternoon after reports of a man threatening a woman out of his car window.
Police said no arrests were made but the pair were taken away from each other.

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The possibility to lodge an asylum application in practice is a prerequisite for the effective protection of those in need of international protection. If access to the asylum procedure is not guaranteed by the national authorities, asylum applicants cannot benefit from the guarantees afforded to those under the asylum procedure, leaving them subject to detention at any time. The length of time in which it took for the applicant to lodge his asylum application violated his rights under Article 13 read in conjunction with Article 3 ECHR.
The refusal of an entry decision given to an unaccompanied child at the Franco-Italian border is manifestly unlawful and constitutes a severe breach of the applicant's interest.
The Refugee Appeals Board reversed the Danish Immigration Service decision to Dublin Transfer a female asylum seeker and her two minor children to Italy. The Board found that a transfer to Italy could amount to a breach of Article 4 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as reception conditions in Italy are subject to certain shortcomings and the asylum seeker and her two minor children were considered to be extremely vulnerable.
The decision of the Administrative Court of Düsseldorf prohibits a Dublin transfer of an asylum seeker from Germany to Greece stating that there are substantial grounds for believing that systemic flaws in the asylum procedure and reception conditions in Greece could put the applicant at risk of being subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment, in violation of Article 4 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
An asylum seeker was prohibited to travel from Ceuta (Spanish autonomous territory) to the Spanish peninsula despite the fact his application for international protection was being examined.
An application to suspend the effects of a decision, contained in an appeal of a decision ordering return and a ban from re-entering the territory of Poland and other Schengen area states should be allowed, due to the validity of the Applicant remaining in Poland pending the conclusion of the administrative court proceedings. Under art. 61 § 3 of the Act on Proceedings before Administrative Courts, the Court may, upon the application of the Appellant, order that the challenged decision be suspended, in whole or in part, if the act or function to be performed would result in a risk of...
The applicant, an ethnic Ingush and a Muslim from Ingushetia, Russia, feared her former husband and his family. She feared they would take her daughter away from her because she ran away with her child. Moreover, the applicant feared her eldest brother as he would marry her off to an elderly man and take her child away and hand the child over to her former husband.
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Both applicants seek legal assistance and to register their application for asylum, which was previously refused by the Alpes Maritimes Prefect. The interim relief judge decided that the Prefect's refusal to provide the individuals with an application form to register their application for asylum, notwithstanding their presence within the territory and contact with the police, amounted to a serious breach of the right to asylum.
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1. An application for asylum lodged in Germany only qualifies as a subsequent application within the meaning of section 71a of the Asylum Act, interpreted in conformity with the constitution, if the first asylum procedure in a country that is generally determined to be a safe third country has actually been conducted in compliance with the 1951 Refugee Convention as well as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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Medical needs for a vacation are largely in the "prepare for an emergency" and/or maintenance prescriptions for ongoing conditions categories. In addition to prepping for emergencies, living overseas means dealing with the day-to-day medical issues that revolve around kids.
That said, much of what we said earlier about health and medical issues overseas applies equally to traveling abroad and living abroad. If you haven't had a chance yet to review those pages, particularly what we have to say about insurance, its probably best to start there, and then return to this page.
Otherwise, let's get started on additional health and medical issues that apply more to living abroad than for simple visits.


text: Recipes Pastries, Pies & Tart Recipes Savoury Pies, Rolls & Plaits Wholemeal spinach, feta and potato pies Back to Savoury Pies, Rolls & Plaits Wholemeal spinach, feta and potato pies Total Time 2h 0m Prep Time 1h 30m Bake Time 30m Serves 6 Skill Level Intermediate 0 Reviews No ratings yet Save Save this recipe Share Beautiful little purses. Spinach with feta is a classic combination and the addition of potato and wholemeal pastry make these pies a little more satisfying. Be creative and add your own touches, be it sweet Thai chilli sauce, garlic or even caraway seeds. Method To make the pastry, rub the flours together with the butter and suet until it is the texture of breadcrumbs, then work in the milk (you may not need it all) until the pastry comes together. Knead the pastry on a bench until soft. Press the pastry into a flat, round shape and chill for one hour while you make the filling. Boil the potato for ten minutes until cooked, then drain. To wilt the spinach, tip it into a colander, pour over boiling water from a kettle, drain, then squeeze out all of the liquid. In a bowl, mix the spinach with the potato, cream, feta, egg and two-thirds of the Cheddar. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, then set aside. Preheat the oven to 220°C (fan 200°C, gas mark 7). Roll out the pastry on a floured surface to 3mm thick and cut out six squares, each approximately 13cm×13cm. Spoon some mix into the centre of each square, then brush the edges with egg. Bring all four corners together over the filling, pinching the edges together to make a sealed purse with the pinched edges facing up. Mix the egg with water. Transfer the pies to a baking tray. Cut two slits in the top of each pie with a sharp knife. Brush each generously with egg wash, then top with a large pinch of grated Cheddar. Bake in the oven for thirty minutes or until golden and the cheese topping has melted. Leave to cool slightly. These are delicious warm but perfectly acceptable cold, too. Let's Bake The easiest way to follow a recipe Reviews Unfortunately there are no reviews for this recipe yet! Leave Your Thoughts Unfortunately reviews are not permitted to non-registered users. Please Log in to leave your review or ask us a question. Ingredients Metric For the pastry 140g Plain wholemeal flour 140g Plain white flour 85g Butter (unsalted) (cold, Diced) 85g Vegetable suet (shredded ) 100ml Milk For the filling 1 Baking potato(es) (small, Peeled and cut into small chunks ) 200g Spinach 100ml Double cream 100g Feta cheese 1 Egg(s) (free range) (beaten ) 100g Cheddar cheese 0pinch Salt 0pinch Pepper 0 Nutmeg (fresh, Grated ) For the glaze 1 Egg(s) (free range) 1 tbsp Water Recipe Alternatives Ravioli Filled with Spinach & Ricotta Ravioli Filled with Spinach & Ricotta Total 1h 15m Serves 2 Skill Easy Diet Rating No ratings yet Bacon, curried egg and ricotta pie Bacon, curried egg and ricotta pie Total 1h 50m Serves 10 Skill Intermediate Diet Rating No ratings yet Granola Parfait New Granola Parfait Total 40m Serves 10 Skill Easy Diet EF/GF/Veg Rating No ratings yet


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Wife of one emperor, mother of another, Empress Livia proves a powerful tool with which to amplify on the "dog days" of the Roman Empire.
British journalist Dennison (The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter, 2008, etc.) deftly sifts the historical record for a portrait of a woman in the right place at the right time. Livia was the daughter of Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, who belonged to Rome's most distinguished senatorial families but backed the wrong side after Julius Caesar's assassination and was eliminated during the Second Triumvirate's Proscription. Nonetheless, Livia had been married off at age 15 to "turncoat" Tiberius Claudius Nero, had two sons quickly by him, living often in exile, before her affair with Octavian, the youngest of the Triumvirate, precipitated a hasty divorce and remarriage. Thus Livia allied herself with Rome's first citizen, and their marriage lasted more than 50 years. Although she had clear ambitions for her two sons, Tiberius and Drusus, Livia herself was not allowed to share power as Octavian's star rose over the next half-century—although "access…was arguably Livia's true patrimony." The first order of business was the necessity of defeating Mark Antony, who had broken off and allied himself with Cleopatra. After Actium, Octavian assumed the name "Augustus," revered one, and gradually Livia also became an archetype by imperial propaganda, becoming sacrosanct, as depicted in public statues—faithful, steadfast and chaste, as opposed to Cleopatra's exotic, promiscuous, beguiling depictions. Her childlessness with Octavian might have been troubling, had Octavian not truly loved Livia. He finally adopted Tiberius as his son, and Livia ultimately secured Tiberius's inheritance of power upon Octavian's death in 14 CE. Dennison does a nice job of defending this fascinating character from "demonization" through the centuries, and knowledgeably considers many facets of Roman history, including religion, the place of women and children, family life and iconography.
A deeply considered look at women and power in the late Roman age.


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If you are looking for a special flower bouquet for an anniversary, event, or party, there is an easier way to find them. Rather than going door-to-door visiting Dubai flower shops in your area, you can simply search online for flower shops near you or the location you want to bring the flowers to. Some people still are not open or do not want to consider buying their flowers online because they want to see the real condition of the flowers if they are indeed fresh. But if you want an easier and faster—and maybe even cheaper way to order your flowers, then here's how you can do it:
Look for Flower Shops in Your Area
There are many Dubai flower shops that you can choose from. They can be stand-alone stores or stores within a department store or mall. So how do you narrow down your choices? Think of the location of the flower shop. You want a flower shop that is near your home or place of work or the event location where you need the flowers to be delivered. That's because you want the most efficient and easiest way for the shop to find you and bring your orders. Check Mercury Flowers – Flower Shop in Dubai now to see if they are near you area.
When searching online, you can be specific and just ask the question "nearby flower shops in ___" Nowadays, search engines like Google are very accurate with their results and can immediately show you options based on the specific location you typed. From these choices, you can further narrow down your decision by checking the top hits on your search.
Check the Flower Shop's Website and Social Media Page
Once you get interested in a flower shop, check out their website or social media page like Facebook or Instagram. Why is it important? Based on what you see on their website—like updates, promos, news—and what they post on their social media page, you can already quickly see if they are a shop that can be relied on.
For the website, you can read the profile or "About Us" page of the business to know more about them and if you think they can supply the flowers you need. By checking the website, you can also see already some of their sample products such as customized bouquets, special or seasonal flowers, and even little trinkets that they could attach to your bouquet in case of a special theme like birthday, Valentine's, Mother's Day, etc.
On social media, you can check their posts for promos since many businesses today use social media for instant updates about their discounts, packages, and promos. You can quickly see if they have something that suits your needs and you can take advantage of. Once you see something that interests you, you can also give a call by checking the contact numbers of the business on their social media pages. It is super convenient now since most of the details you need are already online, you don't need to even check the actual store!
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Simple Orange Garnishes For Children' Drinks
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|Cute orange garnish with ears ^_^
|How-To: a slice of orange and one small orange for ears. A toothpick to fix the details.
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|Pic 2: How-To: Take off a strip of orange and roll it into the lolly pop shape. Fix it with a toothpick
|Pic 3: Top the garnish on the glass (pic 1) or place one end in to the bottom (pic 3)
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Hamilton and Button have three further track testing sessions to test the MP4-26
McLaren insist their new car will not suffer early-season teething problems - despite missing the first winter testing session for the 2011 season.
The new MP4-26 will be launched on 4 February, a day after the first official testing session ends in Spain.
It means McLaren have three chances to test its reliability before the opening grand prix in Bahrain on 13 March.
"We are reasonably confident we can get all the reliability we need," said McLaren engineer director Paddy Lowe.
Team principal Martin Whitmarsh said the decision to delay the testing of the MP4-26 was to give drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton "the best possible package" for Bahrain.
It means the British team will head to the first of four winter sessions at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia between 1-3 February with a standard 2010 chassis and a limited number of updates, while rivals Red Bull and Ferrari will unveil their new models for on-track testing.
The clock is ticking for the new season and March will be here in a flash
Red Bull did not test the constructors' championship-winning RB6 in the first winter testing session of 2010 and suffered early-season problems when Sebastian Vettel lost the lead at the Bahrain Grand Prix because of a spark plug problem, finishing fourth as a result, before retiring in the following race in Australia with a wheel problem.
But Lowe remained optimistic that McLaren's rigorous in-house testing will ensure there is no risk of major teething problems for the first race of the season.
"It's always a balancing act between how much mileage you are going to cover from a reliability issue and from a set-up point of view working with the new car," he said.
"Then you are trading against development time in the lab, wind tunnel and office. In terms of reliability impact, more and more work is done in the lab, typically on a dynamoteter (a device which measures force), to prove the major mechanical systems on the car.
"We are more confident that we can hit the ground running with a reliable package without doing thousands and thousands of kilometres on the track. You always learn something from mileage but it's a trade."
McLaren finished second in the constructors' title last year
This season's cars will adopt a number of technical changes including the adoption of moveable rear wings as well as the return of the Kers power-boost system, which had been voluntarily suspended last season, as used by McLaren in the 2008 season.
Lowe believed the new rules introduced by world governing body FIA make it difficult for McLaren to gauge their development against their competitors.
"It's a stressful time for all the engineers from this point onwards and first qualifying at the first race where you really understand where you are," he added.
"Everybody has no reference to what level of absolute performance is needed.
"We are confident with what we have done. The team have worked well over winter and we think we have a good car, but that will probably be true of our competitors.
"We have taken some estimates as to what level of performance we need to be at and we are on track for that. But time will tell whether that is sufficient."
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Mr Kavanagh added that there had since been "constructive conversations" between the home secretary, the Met commissioner and the courts.
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As someone who did not start to like Doctor Who until a few years ago going into the 50th has been an adventure in space and time. Amid six months of rumors, waiting and guessing if it will be good and a pretty shocking series seven finale the day of the doctor has arrived. With my tickets ordered and a whole day to wait to see it I went about preparing. Began by watching all of series seven to see how many hints I could pick up of what is to come. I hear rumors that there might possibly be some content taken from earlier stories so I went through and loaded up a story by each of the previous Doctors.
My Day of the Doctor
Despite the fact that before the reboot the effects were being done with nothing but cardboard and duct tape most of the time the thing that makes it so enjoyable is that the writing was top notch. With a head full of who I left to go pick up my ticket and join the line. I took one look at the line and was surrounded by Tom Baker scarves and people dressed like David Tenant and I knew that I was in the right place. Now to stand in line for the next hour, Question what to do while I wait to get in and be seated.
Time to pull out my iPod and listen to a classic doctor audio book to keep the mood going, I chose a Peter Davidson story that I knew would be done right about time to start moving and finally take my seat in front of the screen.
I will refuse to entertain any spoilers at all but what I will say is, for all hour and a half that it was playing the energy was explosive, every time an Easter egg would show up you could hear the yells from outer space.
If you have ever had any interest in Doctor Who at all I would say that you will not be disappointed.
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Can you watch movies before reading the books? I can't!
(P.S Thanks to Daisy Dayz & Laugh, Live, Dream, Take for the lovely blog awards :))
awww..I want to see it too...
Book always comes first for me too...Thats the whole point, no?....hahaha:)
Ps: I hope you have a sunny morning:)
Sweet. book first too before film... hope i don't get disappointed with the film though.
I can't either! def books first!
I was just telling "style n" that i wanted to read Eat, Love, Pray before watching the movie. Yes, i definitely prefer to read the book prior:-).
I agree...usually like to read the books first. But, sometimes you just have to make exceptions :)
OMG, that is such a nice story, now I want to see it too
Looks like a very cute little movie! For me it's a bit of both, sometimes I see a movie that is so good I have to read the book, and the other way around. But most of the time the book is better than the movie, regardless of the order I experienced them in :)
Yes, I'm with you on reading the book first before the movie, hopefully the movie delivers :) xoxo
books first, always for me!
I usually can because the book and movie tend to be so different, but once I've seen the movie it's rare I'll pick up the book. But if I loved the book I have to see the movie.
This looks brilliant, thanks for sharing! I really want to see it but think I could probably see it without reading the book (I have too many books on my bedside and would never see the movie if I waited!)
"Sometimes life really is a bitch"! lol.
I would love to see this movie! I would have to look up when it's coming out. Sometimes I realize there was a book the movie was based on AFTER seeing the movie, but that rarely happens. It is so much better to read the books first, but often times you don't enjoy the movie knowing that the movie doesn't have a lot of what was in the book (or was changed in some way)! Seeing the movie first makes you appreciate the book more... but I still go for reading the book first!
About your comment: If it was another Christopher Guest movie, was it Waiting for Guffman?
Oh, thank you for this, it looks fantastic and I hadn't heard about it. Hooray!
My Dog Tulip releases September 12 at New York's Film Forum. Love the comments - thanks. Its a fun love story that is great for mature audiences and dog lovers.
I just sent you an award, come by and get it.
i love my accessories too... but now you can go shopping in my room ~ i have a online vintage store ~ and a lot were featured in that last "personal faves" post. check it out:
oo i would love to see this, its sooooo funny when the dog scoots his butt across the carpet!!! (although i think its rather gross when my dog does it)
is this movie only going to be shown in certain area's? i've never heard of it
that looks awesome and NO i can't watch movies first it always ruins the book for me. ps: your blog is adorable!
This looks soooooooo cute! I would definitely want to read the book before hand, but sometimes I find that reading the book afterwards is enhanced because now you can visualize who all the characters are!! I did that with Twilight & Marie Antoinette :)!
me too me too x
wow! i didn't know of that film, although i am a cinemaniac ^^ thanx krystal!
aw, that looks so sweet! i love that it's based on a true story. i also love that last line : "sometimes love really is a bitch." hahaha.
Books are definitely the way to go... but sometimes it's tempting cause the movies are like the perfect cheat sheet! Just enough information and highlights to understand, but the book is always where the true story telling is!
xo tash
Looks interesting!
I hadn't heard of it! I can watch movies before I read the books but then I'm always disappointed by the latter.
I haven't heard of it... I try to read the book before seeing the movie but usually end up liking whichever I do first.
xo Josie
hm, interesting, you're the 2nd person I've seen post this trailer. now my interest in doubly piqued, maybe I'll check it out.
I try my darndest to read the book before the movie. For example: I saw a preview for "Never Let Me Go" about a month ago, and promptly read the book so I'll be prepped for the film. :)
I'm definitely more of a read a book before I see the movie. I can usually still read the book after the movie, but I just have to separate the two.
I ALWAYS try to read the book first. That's like one my favorite way of finding good books to read! In fact Water for Elephants is on my list simply because Reese Witherspoon is starring in it very soon!
I loved that movie...
Thanks for sharing:)
Oh, that is so precious! I was smiling throughout the entire trailer! I want to read the book and see the movie now too!
For the most part I try to read the books before I see the movie, but sometimes I see a movie without realising there's a book and then go read the book after.
x Jasmine


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Green Bentley? I Don't Think So
In my recent post I addressed Yoko Ono's undue frustration with today's hybrids. "Can someone make hybrid cars as comfortable as a Bentley please?" - She asked. My response was that VW's Bentley, the Old World's icon of petrol-gulping prowess, would never pander to pesky celebrities. Apparently, I was wrong.
In today's Forbes article, Bentley's head Franz-Josef Paefgen announced that "We are currently forming a view on the matter, for instance by talking to politicians in England." Talking to politicians will be important, since the car maker plans to start working on Bentleys that would meet tough EU-wide regulations. Good luck!
Of course, Bentley will need more than luck to achieve the impossible. Short of using hydrogen as fuel, making a 6.7-litre 530bhp Crewe-built V8 (the smallest engine in Bentley's lineup) green is not viable without compromising the auto makers long-standing cachet.


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Transform Your Smile with Cosmetic Dentistry
Keeping your smile healthy is important because your oral health is closely linked to your overall physical health. Keeping your smile beautiful is important too because a great-looking grin can boost your emotional health. If you hide your smile due to cosmetic flaws, it affects how you relate to others and how you see yourself.Cosmetic Dentistry at VB&K DDS, LLC Read Transcript
There are cosmetic procedures, besides implants, that can make your teeth look better. I like to do veneers—porcelain veneers because it's an instant change to your smile. Of course, we do all kinds of dentistry here, including the bread and butter fillings. We do composite fillings here that are white that mimic tooth structure. We try to pay particular attention to making your filled tooth look like the rest of your teeth: matching the shade, duplicating the anatomy on top of the tooth, the kind of things that a patient doesn't even know that you're doing. Luckily though, with intraoral cameras, you can show someone exactly what you've done and show the shape of the tooth and show them how lifelike it is. We don't place silver amalgam fillings here anymore, even though it's still commonly done. I feel like that a silver filling is gonna cause problems down the road. We end up replacing a lot of silver fillings here with composites.
Our Crown Point, IN dentists at Van Buskirk & Krischke DDS, LLC can improve your smile, and your self-image, with a variety of cosmetic dentistry services. We even offer facial rejuvenation treatments so you can surround your smile with a younger-looking face.
To schedule a free cosmetic dentistry consultation, call Van Buskirk & Krischke DDS, LLC in Crown Point, IN at 219-641-3422.
Help Your Smile Shine with Cosmetic Dentistry
We can correct almost any smile flaw with our cosmetic dentistry services, including:
- Dental veneers. Thin "shells" of tooth-like material cover the entire front surface of your teeth to hide imperfections like chips, gaps, and discoloration.
- Orthodontics. You can choose from a variety of options for straightening teeth, including Invisalign, traditional metal braces, and clear ceramic braces. We also offer fixed and removable retainers to keep your smile straight.
- Teeth whitening. We create customized whitening trays for you to use for the convenience of your own home with professional-strength whitening gel from trusted brand Oxydent.
- Tooth bonding. This affordable treatment covers flaws like minor chips and slight gaps in a single visit.
- Snap-On Smile. This removable arch of tooth-colored resin fits snugly over your smile. It's completely noninvasive yet gives you a brand-new smile. We simply take impressions of your teeth that are used to create your custom arch.
- Teeth contouring. We can gently shape your teeth to give them a more even shape.
You Can Get a Complete Smile Makeover
If you've got multiple smile imperfections you'd like to address, our Crown Point, IN dentists at Van Buskirk & Krischke DDS, LLC can work with you to create a comprehensive smile makeover plan. Thanks to their years of hands-on expertise and experience with makeovers, they'll help you maximize your time and money. They can even preview your new smile using tools such as digital simulators and wax models.
If you're ready to remake your smile and improve your self-image, call Van Buskirk & Krischke DDS, LLC at 219-641-3422. Or use our online form to book your visit. Your initial consultation is free. We're conveniently located near Jerry Ross Park in Crown Point.
Our dentists are two of the trusted dentists in Crown Point, IN since Dr. Mark Van Buskirk finished his degree at Indiana University School of Dentistry, while Dr. Michael Krischke earned his DDS from University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry.


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13 million people live below the poverty line in the UK.
Every day people in the UK go hungry for reasons ranging from redundancy to receiving an unexpected bill on a low income. Trussell Trust foodbanks provide a minimum of three days emergency food and support to people experiencing crisis in the UK.
Every year foodbanks feed hundreds of thousands of people nationwide. Many of these are children. Rising costs of food and fuel combined with static income, high unemployment and changes to benefits are causing more and more people to come to foodbanks for help.
At NBC we support these foodbanks by collecting food that they need and then taking that food to the local foodbank depot for them to distribute how they see fit.
If you'd like to contribute then please bring any suitable items to church and there's a box right at the front of church for you to place the items in.
Click here for the Harvest 2018 Shopping List for DENS & the Food Bank


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Notepad ++ for Windows is most powerful , demanded and popular code editor which helps you in editing your online texts , it is an open source online text editor which is available with all latest and required features which is in work from the 2003 and till now it has maintained its own reputation and trust among people as an editing tool and for writing different codes. As in Microsoft Windows, we also get the default notepad but that one is not laced with all necessary features required for editing so people go for the alternative to it and in this field Notepad ++ is the best one used for windows devices. You will be also able to see that Notepad ++ not only helps you in editing else it is also allowing you to support different or several languages which can be used for the purpose of programming.
In the notepad ++ you will be also going to get the inbuilt feature of Notepad++ windows text editor with help of which you are able to do tabbed editing means that you can easily edit or work over your multiple and different files simultaneously with a single click and are able to do the multitasking. There are many languages which are being supported by the Notepad ++ these languages are C , CASE , PHP , C# , C ++ , HTML , JavaScript , Java and much more just in this single software. This was launched for the windows device only and currently working for only windows with each version but there are alternatives available for Notepad ++ for each operating system which are the clones of it with same features and look.
So , today in this article we are going to give you a proper guide of how to install Notepad ++ in your windows PC or laptop having windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 so , if you are also one who wanted to install it on your device then go below for complete information. Before starting the installing procedure let us first know some important things about Notepad ++ which h makes it unique from other text editors. So, first of all we will learn about the features of Notepad ++ and then after we will come to know the Pros and Cons of it and at last we will get all of the stepwise procedure for download Notepad ++ for Windows 7, 8, etc so gather some information before installing.
Pros of Notepad++
1 . The best part is that you are getting all of the latest and required features of editing in this tool or software and you are getting this facility completely free you need not pay anything for it.
- You will be going to get the compatibility of your Notepad with many languages which are not possible with the default or inbuilt notepad of Microsoft as it also supports different languages like as HTML, Java , C ++ etc.
3 . With help of notepad ++ you re going to use the WYSIWYG and it is also supporting the option of drag and drop easily which is user-friendly.
- You will be going to get the option of folding and syntax highlighting which is possible with your any kind of written text whenever required.
Cons of Notepad ++
There are some bugs which are present with Notepad ++ although the developers are trying to solve then it can leave some disappointment in you but despite it the Notepad ++ is awesome and these bugs are not a very big problem and get updated regularly with fixing of bugs in the previous version.
Features of Notepad ++
1 . Document mapping
3 . GUI can be customized easily and entirely
4 . You can auto-complete your text with help of it.
5 . Syntax highlighting and the folding feature which is available for users.
6 . PCRE ( Perl compatible regular expression ) is also able to replace or search anything or document.
7 . Adding bookmark
8 . You will also get the feature of tab interface for the opening of multi document or performing multi tasking.
9 . It is friendly to various kind of languages.
10 . The feature of playback and macro receiving is also available.
How to install Notepad ++ in Windows ( XP/ Vista/7 / 8/ 8.1/10 )
Now , let us come to know that how can you install the Notepad ++ in your all version of Windows operating system for installing you just need to follow the below provided steps :
Step – 1 : So , in the starting you are required to go to the any online source where notepad ++ download link is available or the place from which you can download it easily or we are also providing you a link below with help of which you can easily and comfortably download it with help of this , just simply click on the link and you will be redirected to the download page of Notepad++ https://downloads.tomsguide.com/Notepad-,0305-833.html
Step – 2 : Now , after reaching to the page just simply click on the option of download which is present in a green color box , after clicking on the option you will see a popup window at the top left side of your device screen which is having two options of save file and cancel. From these options you need to click on the save file and after this your downloading will begin.
Step – 3 : So , after saving file you will see that the download for Notepad ++ has begun , now wait till the downloading gets completed.
Step – 4 : After it , you will see the downloading is competed now go to the download section and click on the downloaded file to open it.
Step – 5 : Now , after opening first of all you will be going to see a dialogue box on the home screen of your device which is asking for your permission to make changes in your hardware , so from these options you are required to click on the option of run , only then you will be able to install it on your PC or laptop.
Step – 6 : After granting the permission you will see that another dialogue box appears on the screen with a welcome note to let he Notepad ++ , here you will see an option of next at the bottom side of your screen simply click on this option.
Step – 7 : Now , after you click the option of next instantly another dialogue box will appear in front of you in which you will be going to see the terms and conditions for Notepad ++ as you are required to agree to all of them before proceeding , read all of these and then at last click on the option of I agree which is available at the bottom right side of your PC.
Step – 8 : Now , after accepting the terms and conditions again you will be going to see 2 or 3 same dialogue boxes on which you just need to press the option of next which will be present on your screen till you see any other option in place of next.
Step – 9 : Next , after it you will be going to see the option of install in place of next , now click on this option for installing your file and wait till the process of installing completes.
Step – 10 : After the process of installing gets compete you will be going g to see another dialogue box on which you are required to click on the option of Finish at last and it's all complete.
So , by following all of these above mentioned steps you can very easily download and install the Notepad ++ on your device. Just simply follow these steps and if you face any kind of problem with it then we are here to solve your problem although you will not face any problem still if persist then comment it below we will be here for your help. Download and install this text editing software and you will be going to see how your work gets easier and more editable with all required and important features.


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The reasons why people don't save enough for retirement are as varied as the people who give them. But these three are some of the most common. Learn how you can avoid these retirement savings excuses.
Excuse #1: My employer doesn't offer a retirement plan. Approximately half of all American workers don't participate in a workplace retirement plan, but that's no reason to delay retirement savings.
The fix: If you can't make contributions through your employer, open an individual retirement account (IRA) and aim to deposit 15 percent of your paycheck each month. You can contribute up to $5,500 (or $6,500 if you're older than 50) each year.
Excuse #2: I have too many other financial obligations. If most of your paycheck goes to regular expenses — like a mortgage, student loan, credit card debt and a car payment—saving for retirement may not feel like a priority.
The fix: Think of retirement contributions as another monthly bill. Automatic deposits from your paycheck mean you won't forget to make contributions, and you likely won't miss the money when it doesn't hit your checking account.
Excuse #3: I can just live on Social Security. To live comfortably in retirement, you'll need around 70 to 80 percent of your pre-retirement income. But the average monthly payout from Social Security is less than $1,200 — barely enough to live on.
The fix: You can count on Social Security to cover some of your retirement expenses — just not all of them. Make sure you have other retirement savings vehicles in place, such as a pension, 401(k), IRA or investment account.


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So fast… a year has gone and The Creativity Project is now celebrating its first year! It has been wonderful being part of this circle of lovely and inspiring ladies. (Girls, you rock. You do! I am always so inspired by your work.)
To celebrate our first year we will be having a giveaway (yay!). More on that later… so do read on.
This month, instead of embarking on a new theme, we are going to have a little retrospective on some of our past themes. You will see a smorgasbord of past (and some new) photos from our past themes. Please do follow each of the links at each of our posts to move on to the next person in the circle to have a look at the other themes we had going from our first year.
We are also very pleased to have Joseph Davis, Jr. join us as a special guest this month. Do click on his name (above) to see some of the awesome photos he has taken.
One of my favorite themes from last year was Sun Flares. They're so pretty, so very pretty! Here are some photos from each one of the contributors…
Didn't I say? Now do you love sun flare photos as much as I do?
Yes, I did mention a giveaway! To celebrate our first year anniversary, we are hosting a giveaway for a US$25 Photojojo gift card on our Facebook page. There are plenty of ways to enter: 'Like' our Facebook page, share a photo on our page, tweet about us. You could start by clicking below:
Don't forget to head on over to Katherine's blog (Most People Exist) and check out the photos featured there!


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A diverse coalition of organizations, including environmental groups, offshore wind power developers, environmental justice and community advocates, academics, and consultants, with a shared interest in promoting the development of sustainable offshore wind power for New York have joined together to create the New York Offshore Wind Alliance (NYOWA).
NYS, Community Leaders Celebrate Major Initiative to Expand Solar Access
Today officials from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's administration and other state and local officials and community members gathered at an event celebrating a new Shared Renewables program that will empower millions of New Yorkers to plug into renewable energy for the first time.
At the event, two New York City-based organizations, UPROSE and Solar One, also announced plans for a Shared Renewables project in Brooklyn's Sunset Park that will help local low-income families go solar and save on their utility bills.
"Since we are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, it is imperative that we are at the forefront of change, driving a just transition to a new energy system that benefits the most vulnerable first," says Elizabeth Yeampierre, Director of UPROSE. "Our shared solar pilot project will specifically serve low-income renters with lower-cost, stable electricity. This project will provide necessary relief to Sunset Park families who are struggling to keep up with their electricity bills."
"Many of the families who have the most to benefit from low-cost solar energy have historically faced barriers like not owning their home or being able to afford a loan; that's why shared solar is such a transformative concept. Our Here Comes Solar initiative is working with community partners across the five boroughs to develop shared solar projects that empower a more diverse spectrum of New Yorkers to participate in the solar revolution." said Elana Laichena, Program Manager for Here Comes Solar, a project of Solar One.
Also announced at the event, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will dedicate $13 million in 2015 to improve access to affordable solar in low- and moderate-income communities. This support will be comprised of incentives and financing for both rooftop solar and shared renewables projects across New York State.
Speakers included: Richard Kauffman, Chairman of Energy and Finance for New York in the Cuomo Administration; Audrey Zibelman, New York State Public Service Commission Chair; John Rhodes, President and CEO of NYSERDA, NYS Senator Kevin Parker, and NYS Assemblywoman Amy Paulin.
"Record numbers of New Yorkers are harnessing sunshine to save on their energy bills, which is creating local jobs and reducing the need for traditional polluting power. This new program will empower even more communities, families and businesses to participate in that great solar success story," said Sean Garren, Northeast Regional Manager for Vote Solar, a national solar advocacy organization. "We thank Governor Cuomo, his administration and the PSC for making equal access to solar a priority and for speeding our transition to a healthier, more resilient clean energy system."
Under Governor Cuomo, New York State now ranks among the nation's solar leaders, yet a majority of the state's energy consumers – including renters, families and businesses in multi-unit buildings, and property owners with shaded roofs – have been unable to invest in their own rooftop solar energy systems. Low-income consumers who lack access to financing face additional barriers to solar participation. With leadership from the Cuomo Administration via Reforming the Energy Vision or REV, the New York PSC recently issued a final order establishing a new Shared Renewables program that will expand consumer access to local solar, wind and other clean energy resources, particularly among low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.
Shared Renewables builds on New York's successful clean energy policies including the historic NY-Sun and Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiatives. Earlier this month, Governor Cuomo announced that the state's solar capacity quadrupled between 2011 and 2014. Today there are more than 456 megawatts of solar installed in New York, enough to power over 77,000 homes. The state's growing solar economy employs 7,300 New Yorkers according to The Solar Foundation's National Solar Jobs Census.
Learn more about Shared Renewables policies nationwide at: http://www.sharedrenewables.org/
New York Shared Renewables has support from more than 70 organizations acting together to expand access to clean energy. For the full list visit: http://votesolar.org/about-us/press/ny-finalizes-major-initiative-to-expand-solar-access/
About UPROSE: Incorporated in 1966, UPROSE is Brooklyn's oldest Latino community based organization. Today, UPROSE is an intergenerational, multi-racial, nationally-recognized community organization that promotes the sustainability and resiliency of the Sunset Park community in Brooklyn through community organizing, education, leadership development and cultural/artistic expression. Learn more at uprose.org.
About Here Comes Solar: A project of Solar One, Here Comes Solar works to overcome obstacles so that the benefits of solar technology can be enjoyed by a wider and more diverse spectrum of New Yorkers. The initiative works with communities who have been underserved by the solar market, with a focus on owner-occupied rowhouses, low-income affordable housing, coops and condos, as well as shared solar for renters. Learn more at herecomessolar.nyc.
About Vote Solar: Vote Solar is a non-profit grassroots organization working to foster economic opportunity, promote energy independence and address climate change by making solar a mainstream energy resource across the United States. Learn more at votesolar.org


text: Bold and elegant but even more important, they frame the face beautifuly! Created to stand alone or to be coordinated with the bronze cuffs and bangles. Large stamped, sterling silver square with a bronze dangle. The hand stamped texture is a departure from our usual pattern and gives these earrings a a fun, slightly relaxed look. The dangle moves seperately from the square and has a stamped sterling silver square as well as a few carefully placed stamped lines. Slightly domed. Brushed finish is easily maintained. Sterling silver ear wire. Handcrafted in America. 1 3/4"h (from top of ear wire to bottom of the dangle) x 1 1/4"w x 1/16"d.


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My seester had a birthday a few weeks ago, and I'd been waiting until she received the package to post these pictures. The ivory fabric is organic bamboo and if you could feel how soft and lovely this fabric is you would run out and buy it yourself. Elli really loved this birdy fabric so I knew it needed to make it's way into her birthday present.
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Turquoise Bird Fabric by Erin McMorris for FreeSpirit
Ivory Organic Bamboo from JoAnn's* (yeah I couldn't believe it at first either)
This one is one of my own designs. It is a variation of this top that I made for myself recently. You know, it does make me feel bad that you don't have any way of making this. I love to see stuff on blogs, go out and buy the pattern, and make it myself. The problem of course with women's wear is ideally the pattern would have multiple sizes (how does one do this without having a legion of spare bodies in various sizes?) and would be easy to print or purchase. I just have no idea where to even start with this. So those of you who keep asking for the patterns for my tops, speak up and let me know if you have any ideas on how I could get these patterns out.
*Although I would much rather support the small fabric store or Etsy seller than the big box stores for my sewing supplies, I end up at JoAnn's ALOT due to the fact that they carry so much stuff. So I'm thrilled they carry organic cotton. The price bump ($14.99/yd minus 40% with one those awesome coupons) was totally worth it. And let's be truly honest here, the organic offerings out there are really pathetic. And boring. I would love to be wrong about this, so send me your favorite organic fabrics and prove me wrong!


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Change is never easy.
But, remember that Allah always with you.
For me. For us.
He brings us this far,
so He'll help us go through this.
Believe that,
Allah is never blind to our tears,
never deaf to our prayers,
and never silent to our pain.
He sees, He hears, and He is never too far. :)


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Hello everyone, good to finally be back on and posting. Got a few cool things to share with you. First off the Knight Guy PC version has been updated to include a leader board. Now you can compete with friends and strangers to see who will get the highest score on arcade mode. You can get Knight Guy here: https://dragoondomain.itch.io/knight-guy or here: https://hunterdragoon.gamejolt.io/knightguy
and as always it is still available on the google play store.
Lastly, I have started working on a summer side project with my daughter. I'm super excited we have a really cool game planned out, and a mostly finished prototype. Unfortunately I will have to save the majority of the details for later.
Catch you guys again sometime soon, it's back to work for me 😀


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Gilbert Curiosities Blogger Interviews Ewart Rouse
May 23, 2016 -- Ever wonder what makes a writer tick? Writer/blogger Maria Gilbert recently interviewed author Ewart Rouse in her recent article (available here), asking about his writing career, his love of cricket, and what advice he has for aspiring fiction writers.
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Sticky Wicket Author Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
July 2013: I would personally like to send my heartfelt thanks to the festival organizers, the South Jersey Caribbean Cultural and Development Organization, for recognizing me as a journalist, author and activist for cricket.Torrential downpours could not dampen the spirit and energy of the Caribbean people during Saturday's 13th annual Caribbean Festival. We danced, ate our fill of roti, curry and jerk, and celebrated our rich heritage, culture and beautiful people.
It truly was an honor to be recognized by my own community.
But it would be selfish of me not to turn the spotlight back onto the members of the SJCCDO, which year-after-year takes time to acknowledge and celebrate those of us from the islands who now call South Jersey home. My special thanks goes to Kylla Herbert, the organization's president, for her dedicated service to the Caribbean community.
Keep shining that light on all aspects of our culture - our music, dances, food, literature and sports.


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About the solution
As an experiment, I wanted to explore how BOARD connects to web services. My challenge here was to design a simple solution where I could get the 10 day forecast for two cities. It was easier than I thought. Once I articulated by query for the Yahoo data, the rest was just connecting the dots. I also have a video walkthrough of the solution to showcase how it all links together.
Youtube Video Walkthrough --> https://youtu.be/LRQ7NIH9vJY
This was done as an experiment. This is not meant to be production-ready code. If you have any questions or improvements, please comment so we can all learn together. If you can think of other experiments to try, comment and maybe I'll do those as a followup post.
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Forecast Screen
Extract Query
Takeaways/ Hints for other community Members:
- Loading data from a web services may take a few tries, but it's doable
- Since we cannot pass parameters to datareaders, we need to have queries that work on their own, without passing anything


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WIN98SE, WNME, WIN2K, W2K3 Multiboot DVD
kubos replied to bish542002's topic in Multi-Boot CD/DVDsyou should try to use your win98's image, but of course with diffrent path to "setup.exe" file in "autoexec.bat". just copy Setup98.IMA and open it with winimage. extract autoexec and change path. then save the image as ME.IMA. // sorry for my english
if $lastKey == key[esc]; then boot 0x80 where 0x80 is HDD0 and 0x81 is HDD1. also 0x00 or 0x20 is FDD, but i'm not sure O_o
kubos replied to janandababu's topic in Multi-Boot CD/DVDsi had the same problem. i was burning my image on different discs or with different appz but i always get "error booting...". when i was looking for solution to this problem i found that new cdshell like 220.127.116.11 doesn't work on older pc's like aopen, compaq. so i get back to using cdshell 22.214.171.124 and it work properly. another try is to put file that name is alphabetically first on your dvd. I put file called "0" (zero). second condition is that file can't be larger than 400 bytes. content of this file is freely. ps. sorry for my english. ps2. i was using vmware where my iso works properly but after burning it fails. so i don't belive this app any more
kubos replied to janandababu's topic in Multi-Boot CD/DVDsit should work, but why don't use win98 diskette? copy the win98 start disk. change it name to win95 and change path from win98 to win95 in autoexec.bat. I used same win98 disk three times for win95, win98 and ME. they work very good.
Multiboot dvd and cdshell
kubos replied to chona's topic in Multi-Boot CD/DVDsIf you still don't know what's wrong just look at line 5. it says: "show image windows.csi" where did you put your windows.csi file? in this case it should be in BOOT folder. better way is to set path to this file. e.g.: "show image \BOOT\IMG\menu.csi" ps. sorry for my english.
Resources For Multi-boot Fans
kubos replied to prathapml's topic in Multi-Boot CD/DVDsgreat topic. but where are loaders? i'm just starting and i need some examples to learn more. so if you have something just post it here.
Who has polish Multi Boot DVD ?
kubos posted a topic in Multi-Boot CD/DVDsIs there any polish user, who has made this DVD? I need some instuctions and help. Kto ma taka plyte gotowa?


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It seems adventurers are always drinking from the pools they come across. Some hold nothing but water, while others hold powerful, potentially life-changing magic.
Other pools—by dint of a quirk of nature or lingering, nearby enchantments—possess minor powers or effects those drinking from the waters can benefit (or suffer) from. Use the table below, to determine what happens to a character drinking from the pool's water:
- The character's tongue swells up to twice its normal size and he cannot speak for 1d4 hours.
- The water from the pool makes the character tremendously thirsty. Unless restrained, he drinks all the liquids he carries—including magic potions and liquid poisons—to assuage his thirst.
- The water is slightly effervescent and gives the character a slight feeling of euphoria. For 1d4 hours afterwards, he gains a +1 morale bonus on all saving throws made to resist charm, compulsion and fear effects.
- The water contains bacteria that makes the character ill. Starting the next day, the character begins to feel sick. While he is not debilitated, the constant stomach cramps inflict a -1 penalty to all skill checks for 1 day.
- The water is brackish and renders the character temporarily blind for 1d6x10 minutes.
- The water is cool and refreshing. The character is refreshed and is immune to fatigue and exhaustion for the remainder of the day.
- The pool's water is laced with minor magics. Unless the character makes a DC 16 Will save, he is confused (as the spell confusion) for 7 rounds.
- The water is amazingly refreshing. The character need not drink for the rest of the day no matter how energetically he exercises.
- The water is laced with mushroom spores. 1d4 hours after drinking the water, the character begins to suffer minor hallucinations. These last for 2d6 hours.
- The water is suspiciously warm, but has no other effect—malign or benign.
- The water is brackish and tastes "flat." The day after a character drinks the water, his skin takes on a faint grey parlour. This skin colour deepens for the next few days, before—just as slowly—reverting to normal.
- The water is discoloured and looks to be contaminated with a decent amount of blood. It has a slight metallic taste. The next time the character exerts himself his sweat is red-hued. It looks like he is literally sweating blood.
- Some kind of granular material is suspended in the water. It is foul, and the taste of it lingers in the character's mouth for several hours.
- The water smells sweet and tastes terrific. After drinking it, a character—for several hours—think he can smell roses in bloom.
- An innocent was murdered—drowned—in the pool, and the foul act has left its psychic impression in the water. Anyone drinking from the pool is beset by nightmares of drowning the next morning.
- Phosphorescent fungi grows in the depths of the pool, and the water seems subtly discoloured. Characters drinking from the water suffer no immediate ill effect, but the next day—when they awake—their eyes have taken on a dim glow, which provides the benefits of low-light vision, but with only a 10 ft. range.
- Powerful delusion magic laces the pool's water. Characters drinking from it believe the pool to have powerful healing properties. Unless they resist the pool's magic (DC 17 Will negates) the believe they have been subject to both a lesser restoration and cure serious wounds.
- The pool's waters are soporific. A character drinking from the waters quickly begins to feel tired and, consequently, for the rest of the day suffers a -2 penalty to any saving throw made to resist a sleep effect or spell.
- The pool's waters are invigorating. Characters drinking the water naturally heal at double the normal rate for the next two days.
- The pool is a conduit—all be it a very minor one—through space and time. Characters drinking from the pool gain a limited ability to see the future. The next time the character is in combat, or other stressful situation, he gains a momentary flash of insight and can add a +2 bonus to any one d20 roll.
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Due to diminishing amounts of farmland and increasing populations globally, Africa will, of necessity, become the breadbasket of the world within the next 20 to 30 years.
It is our moral and social responsibility as Africans to ensure that we effectively utilise the unused arable land on our continent and thus take ownership of this essential agricultural resurgence. If we don't do this, someone else will.
With this in mind, NOSA Agricultural Services (NOSA Agri) was born.
NOSA Agri's aim is to uplift and empower African agriculture through the provision of sustainable, appropriate and relevant agricultural training, education and support systems. NOSA Agri is an exciting new learning and information transfer platform that provides agricultural courses in a modular format to enhance the farmer's own knowledge and experience.
Food security is becoming an increasingly serious global issue caused mainly by increasing populations, ongoing climatic uncertainty, and the diminishing availability of productive agricultural land in first world countries. The bottom line remains that for African agriculture to undergo a radical improvement in line with the volume of money available for investment, the skills levels of small farmers needs to be uplifted at grass roots level in order to increase their individual and collective productivity.
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It's the heart that is insatiable
"After all, the three of us were young. It wasn't just about the pleasure of the flesh. No, it wasn't that simple. The flesh is easy to satisfy. It's the heart that is insatiable, the heart that needs to love, to despair, to burn with any kind of fire…That was what we wanted. To burn, to be consumed, to devour our days just as fire devours the forest."
― Irène Némirovsky, Fire in the Blood


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The Science of Conservatoin Crime
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How do we reduce risky human behavior?
Many of these ideas have been developed to address a wide range of crimes, not just those associated with the environment. The major premise of Deterrence Theory is compliance with the law. The focus of this premise is that certainty, severity, and swiftness of the application of sanctions will gain legal compliance with conservation/environmental laws. Deterrence theory offers one perspective on lawbreaking compared to, for example, Strain Theory, Social Learning Theory or Social Bonding.
An overwhelming number of conservation crime-related interventions are based upon Deterrence Theory. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Not sure, but at a minimum, one observation is that there may be a lot of other ways of thinking about the problem (and thus solution).
There are two forms of deterrence theory. Classical deterrence holds that rational actors will perform behaviors they perceive as pleasurable and shy away from behaviors they perceive as painful. The threat of punishment is thought to be certain, severe, and swift and criminal behavior will be detected and punished. Yu and Liska (1993) and others have demonstrated that classical deterrence theory has problems explaining all criminal behavior. Contemporary theory offer additional measures including moral emotions (e.g., shame, guilt, embarrassment), social disapproval, and motivation.
There are two forms of deterrence: specific deterrence (e.g., aimed at the known offender) and general deterrence (e.g., aimed at the general population). Both carry with them a set of assumptions. The success of deterrence-based punishment approaches have been called into question; in addition to empirical doubts over efficacy, there are moral considerations. For example, individual deterrence can be used to justify punishing the innocent as what matters is the communication of the penalty, allows for punishment in excess of that deserved by the offense, and be primarily concerned with offenses that might be committed in the future than with the offenses that have actually been committed.
How do we promote good governance and reduce risks associated with poor governance?
On a national scale, governance describes structures and processes for collective decision making involving government and nongovernmental actors. At the global level, governance embodies a horizontally organized structure of functional self-regulation encompassing state and nonstate actors bringing about collectively binding decisions without superior authority.
Issues of declining state sovereignty and the consequent rise of competing forms of governance (e.g., private, inter-, transnational) represent a conceptual, normative, and political challenge for criminology. Critical criminology has historically viewed the state as being the primary problem whereas now one solution that some groups advocate for is a tightening of the state's powers in order to reverse the effects of neo-liberalism and the spread of power to ungovernable and politically unaccountable spaces.
Global governance has implications for criminology, conservation, and risk in their separate spaces; the issue is also relevant to the three when they are combined. In many instances, the word global is used to mean a homogeneous and uniform system, for example of mitigating risks of plastics in marine ecosystems, of crime control, or transboundary/ transfrontier protected areas. Today, scientists, conservationists, and criminal justice practitioners are organized in postnational ways, using the internet and email to communicate and share a common system of values, rewards, and events. Thus it is unsurprising that politicians from around the world borrow from the American style of communicating about crime. We talk about "zero poaching" or zero tolerance policing as examples of policy transfers. Some scholars remind us that we cannot and should not take for granted that surface similarities necessarily imply deeper convergence. Zero tolerance rhetoric may sound the same in the UK and the US, for example, but the policies mean very different things.
When we start to think about global governance, we can think about reframing social justice and political action, which is often a desirable outcome.
How do we leverage creativity to reduce conservation crimes and not create new opportunities for violations at the same time?
Technology and innovation are both a cause and a consequence of conservation crimes.
By cause and consequence, I mean that technology can proceed or result in environmental or other risks that pave the way for new crimes or impact the ability of deviant individuals, groups, and organization to behave in an environmentally threatening way. At the same time, technology is often developed in direct response to an environmental harm or risk that otherwise cannot be mitigated with existing technology.
Implementing innovative technologies provides opportunities to counter conservation challenges at multiple levels and within every step of the crime process by providing those individuals, organizations, and governments working to dismantle illegal wildlife trade the tools and sophisticated structures necessary for a more holistic and integrated approach to address these problems. One of the potentially most significant benefits that modern technology can contribute to the fight against wildlife crime is the ability to coordinate huge amounts of data over space and time more efficiently. This benefit extends across many facets of the wildlife trade chain from patrolling for poaching activity in the field to customs clearance in consumer countries.
Technology also poses challenges. Technological advances have enabled offenders to organize more complicated and successful covert operations. This has contributed to a dramatic rise in poaching and trade and has made situational crime prevention, market reduction approaches, and enforcement more challenging. Modern weapons and technologies for locating wildlife enable illegal killing to occur at much higher success rates than in the past. Modern criminals can more effectively disguise wildlife parts for consumption . In some cases, criminals employ sophisticated, encrypted online communications to plan illicit activities as well as coordinate and maintain networks.
How do power and authority contribute to causes and consequences of conservation crime?
In conservation practice, corruption and organized crime are closely linked. Indeed, the US recognized this synergy in an Executive Order in February. This was noteworthy in that it identified wildlife trafficking as a major organized crime and linked organized crime with corruption.
The nature, role, and extent to which organized crime and corruption factor into the conservation world is highly varied. It is possible to generate more questions than answers, especially when it comes to corruption reform.
Social norms factor into play—either in providing inroads for corrupt behavior or the coercive practices wielded by organized crime syndicates. Perceptions of risk are an important component to think about here—the perceptions of costs and benefits of both corruption and reform and worry about retribution or retaliation or sanction all influence whether or not people engage in these illicit behaviors. Inherent to this conversation is what is legal/illegal and what is illicit. It is also interesting to think about the extent to which corruption and organized crime may be good for conservation in some contexts.
How, why, when, and where can guardians and guardianship be enhanced to reduce conservation crime risks?
Without enforcement, the rule of law may not be implemented in full or correctly. Given the importance of rules for effective conservation, it makes complete sense that we consider rule enforcement!
There are multiple actors that can have responsibility for policing and enforcement in the conservation domain.
We can focus on police, although in the environmental sphere there are are a lot of nontraditional guardians, if you will. Police and other law enforcement officers have and will continue to play a key role in successful conservation. As an institution, police are often criticized for failing to fully or appropriately protect environmental resources such a national parks and the biodiversity within. Michael Pendleton offers a direct critique of how police and the enforcement community contribute to illegal logging in the United States. The idea and importance of community is a common theme in conservation. Community may refer to local-level groups who are embedded within the geographic region they patrol or international groups of actors such as law enforcement organizations that are working together on wildlife and timber crime deterrence.
How can demand for illegal wildlife and their products be reduced?
Markets can be regulated, and as such may be legalized and illicit. As the world increasingly globalizes, market may play a larger role in conservation criminology—many argue that markets are the fundamental structure upon which globalization is built.
Markets relate to demand and demand is one of the pillars of the US Strategy to Combat Wildlife Trafficking. Here are some examples of how demand has been incorporated into the problem set.
But beyond markets, consumer demand is a huge issue when it comes to driving environmental crimes. Check out this website to learn more about how, when, why, and where the issue arises.
How do we promote, enable, and affirm following of rules and norms?
There are many different ways to example compliance with conservation rules.
Most individuals comply with laws and regulations out of deference to authority or belief that behavior prohibited by law is morally wrong. In other words, most people comply because they believe it is the right thing to do.
For others, violations result from unintentional acts due to lack of awareness or inability to comply with regulations. In other cases still, individuals are motivated to intentionally violate laws and regulations. Across Hurd's (1999) framework there are four essential components of compliance: (1) compliance is more likely to occur when there is awareness and understanding of the regulation, (2) positive perception of the appropriateness of the behavioral restriction set by a rule (including agencies and agents related to the rule) reflect a high level of legitimacy and will lead into compliance, (3) A high level of pro-compliance coercion, or presence of threat, generally leads to compliance, as long as the punishment is greater than the possible personal gain, and (4) the more any given rule is congruent with an individual's self-interest, the more likely it is that individual will comply with the rule. These four domains for assessing compliance: knowledge, self-interest, legitimacy and coercion, have internal and external considerations. External considerations refer to influences that an individual cannot control himself/herself, but that another individual could change and manipulate. Internal considerations are influences which occur and are processed within the individual, such as thoughts, perceptions and feelings towards something or someone, which another actor cannot directly manipulate.
How do we DO conservation criminology?
Similarly, conducting policy-relevant science is distinct from strictly theoretical inquiry or bench science. Conservation criminology, for better or worse, carries with it all of these attributes.What are the implications of this? First, the methods that are employed to frame, analyze, and interpret research questions and hypotheses carry with them a larger burden of proof, in my opinion.
Can you justify the appropriateness of your decision to use a particular method to collect data? How do you justify using a particular theory to guide your approach for measuring variables and social phenomena the way you are?
The issue of ethics in conservation criminology is multifaceted. I think principles from indigenous criminology really reflect some of the root principles for conservation criminology to attend to. Essentially IndCrim argues that the failure to address issues of representation of Indigenous people in conversation about crime control systems rests in part with the paternalistic tendencies of settler-colonizer governments and the Eurocentric bias of many within mainstream criminology. Dominant explanations of the causes of this problem, and policies and interventions designed to alleviate it, tend to pathologize Indigenous people, presenting them as individuals prone to criminality, and their cultural knowledge, philosophies, and social practices as deviant and criminogenic. IndCrim mostly refers to the analytical and epistemological approach to examining relationships between indigenous peoples, criminal justice systems, and the criminological academy. It is based on historical and contemporary conditions, holds that Indigenous knowledge is vital for the purpose of gathering, analyzing and disseminating findings, and aims to speak truth to power.
How, when, where, and why do conservation crimes overlap with other serious crimes?
Convergence is rooted in the intersection of crime and deviance, typically with implications for policy making and on-the-ground practice. Convergence is one relevant way for thinking about resolving conservation crime risks at multiple scales. The idea has economic implications, given illicit markets often represent connected problems primarily driven by supply and demand. Key to convergence is the overarching phenomenon of globalization, which enables ready access across national borders, anonymity provided by information technology, and secrecy in international finance. Deviant globalization incorporates the underside of transnational integration, including cross-border economic networks that produce, move, and consume drugs, wildlife, counterfeit goods, toxic waste, and humans. These activities take place in the shadows of the licit global economy. Bad actors use the technical infrastructure of globalization to exploit gaps and differences in regulations, law enforcement, or markets for illicit goods and services.
How do we achieve a state where risks are as low as reasonably possible?
Like compliance and non-compliance, security is coupled with insecurity. Most of us are old enough to be aware of the contemporary emergence of security after 9/11. The idea has since been mobilized in a number of ways including: governing security, governing through security, selling security, imagining security and tackling insecurity.
In classical terms, security means the integrity of territoriality organized sovereign nation states within the system of international law as represented by the United National since the end of World War II. New, broader concepts promote thinking about security policy beyond the military capacity of nation states but also the ability to use political and socioeconomic crises that threaten to cross the threshold to violence and to do so as early as possible using non-military and if necessary, military means. The concepts explicitly includes interests in securing strategic resources which serve to safeguard affluence in the industrialized nations.
Political theory proposes three types of security: (1) security from threats such as enemies; (2) security, or access to, basic goods and rights; and (3) security of states of being, such as peace. The first type of security is most commonly diffused in our popular culture, but really, all three types are relevant to this course. Security is a concept that is closely aligned with concepts of power and power relations. It is interesting to think about how society chooses to respond to security, or rather, insecurity. Molotch (2012) called attention to the extend that risk and fear factor into responses to insecurity, particularly the security architectures and technologies. In many ways there tends to be a top-down command and control approach to security, which can be at odds with the highly decentralized forms of community-based natural resources management that prosper in regions with rich biodiversity and conservation challenges. Top-down approaches often involve surveillance and security management by authorities with little evidence that the strategy actually works.


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There are many dangerous myths about abortion that are being spread by abortion supporters. This article is dedicated to listing and debunking them.
Myth: Abortion is safe
- To a very limited extent, yes, abortion is safe, as long as doctor is competent in the procedure and conducts the operation in a sterile environment with the proper equipment. Otherwise, abortion can be dangerous if conducted in unsafe, unsterile conditions by non licensed practitioners or by those with little or no medical training. Also, due to the cost of the procedure, many women in the poorer strata of society may be inclined to go to illegal abortion clinics (e.g. - "back alley doctors") which are not sterile or safe to mother or the unborn child.


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2016 Hearts in Havana Heart Ball
The American Heart Association will transform the Hilton Americas ballroom into a swanky and romantic Cuban-infused destination at the 2016 Hearts in Havana Heart Ball. Each year, this themed event celebrates culture, the arts and the philanthropic spirit of the Houston community.
Swaying to the eclectic sounds of modern rumba and Cuban jazz, guests will be charmed by the romance of Old Havana on the eve of Valentine's Day with cocktails, dinner, dancing and a live auction.


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Crazy about their Halloween costumes
When it comes to Halloween, Kansas Citians are a creative bunch.
Anyone can buy a costume in a bag. For some folks, this holiday calls for rolling up the sleeves and doing it yourself.
Whether it's sewing a pattern and adding your own twists; cobbling together things around the house or from the thrift store; or designing and constructing a complicated look featuring foam core board, paint or latex facial appliances, some of our readers go to great lengths.
Happy Halloween!


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Every so often we just get lucky and an amazing Grand Lodge photograph appears. It gives you hope that there are more out there waiting to be found.
It was the 30th of May, 1892, Grand Master William P. Innes assembled a team of Masons to dedicate the cornerstone of the All Souls Universalist Church in Grand Rapids, MI. Among them were two Past Grand Masters and two brothers who would later go on to sit in the Grand East.
Not much is known about the ceremony itself. The Grand Lodge officers were assisted by members of Grand River Lodge #34, Valley City Lodge #86, and Doric Lodge #342 under the escort of DeMolai Commandery No. 5.
After the ceremonies, Rev. Charles D. Fluhrer (pastor of the church and the first Master of York Lodge #410) addressed the crowd regarding the history of the church and the bright future ahead of it.
According to Grand Lodge Proceedings, the following brothers assisted:
Bro. Wm. Dunham, PGM, as Deputy Grand Master
Bro. George E. Dowling, Senior Grand Warden
Bro. Rufus C. Hatheway, PGM, as Junior Grand Warden
Bro. Thomas D. Bradfield, as Grand Treasurer
Bro. Jefferson S. Conover, Grand Secretary
Bro. Rev. J.T. Husted, as Grand Chaplain
Bro. Edwin L. Bowring, as Senior Grand Deacon
Bro. Abraham Schaaf, as Junior Grand Deacon
Bro. E. Harper as Grand Steward
Bro. A.E. Stuck, as Grand Steward
Bro. Crawford Angell, as Grand Marshall
Bro. Henry A. Hydorn, as Grand Tiler
I've studied the photo carefully and identified eleven brothers. You can find most of them labelled in the following silhouette.
Fluhrer- identified from his PM photo from York lodge #410.
Angell- identified from his PM photo from Grand River #34 (confirmed by wearing of the Marshal's apron and holding of the baton).
Husted – identified by Chaplain's apron.
Dowling – identified from PGM's portrait.
Dunham – identified from PGM's portrait and Deputy Grand Master's Apron.
Hatheway – identified from PGM portrait and his champion beard.
Conover – identified from Grand Council photo.
Innes – blurry, but no doubting it is him.
Bowring – identified from his PGM photo.
There are two other brothers in crowd that can be identified from Grand River PM photos. They are Charles Norton (PM 1892) and Edgar Wygant (PM 78, 79, 80).
You have to step back from a photo like this and realize how extremely rare it is in terms of what we have available to us from the Grand Lodge at that time. Most of the men named above exist as an image in maybe one other photo to our knowledge. I always hope others will turn up over time, but I'm thankful that we came across this one.
A few final observations. You can't help but be a little fascinated by Dunham's Commandery head-gear. Nowadays you wouldn't expect that sort of co-mingling of regalia. From a historian's standpoint, it is an interesting nugget when pouring over the photo. WBro. Wygant's secretary's jewel can be seen poking out on the bottom right of the photo. In talking with Tim Gleisner at the Grand Rapids Public Library, it sounds as if the library might have a second photo that was taken a few seconds or minutes before or after. I look forward to getting a copy of it and making some comparisons.
Until next time my brothers…
-The Masonic Historian