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Rep. Esty begins series of community conversations on gun violence prevention
TORRINGTON -- Attempting to gather opinions from constituents in the wake of last month's mass shooting in Newtown, freshman U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5, began a series of roundtable discussions about gun violence prevention with a meeting Monday morning at city hall.
Esty, whose district includes Newtown, is a vice chairwoman of the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, which was created in the shooting's aftermath.
The group of about 20 officials and Torrington-area residents talked about topics ranging from background checks on gun purchases to current gun laws and mental health issues.
"This is so deeply personal for us," Esty said after the meeting, which was closed to the media. "That's why it's so important to really have a chance for community conversation and to let people express their views and really work together to come up with good solutions."
Esty said she plans to hold similar meetings across the 5th District this week. The congressional task force will attempt to develop proposals to prevent gun violence by examining topics from possible restrictions on firearms to changes in the country's mental healthcare system and violence in pop culture.
Esty, a Democrat, has expressed her support for the reinstatement of an improved assault weapons ban and other gun control measures.
"What we are trying to do is minimize the chance that something like (the Newtown shooting) happens any place else," Esty said. But she added that gun violence occurs everyday across the country, in small and large towns and cities, including in Connecticut. While it doesn't draw as much attention as the Newtown shooting "it devastates families and communities."
Esty called the meeting "very productive" and said the discussion went beyond gun safety and control, focusing on mental health issues.
The participants in the meeting, including local town leaders, first responders, clergy, teachers, Board of Education members and gun sellers, said mental health is a major problem that must be addressed, according to Esty.
"(There was) strong support for universal background checks," Esty said. "Everyone thinks that's a critical piece here; making sure that weapons do not get in the hands of people who should not have them. And that's felons, and people convicted of domestic violence, and that's people who are mentally not suited to own firearms.
The congresswoman said it will be important to find common ground among many diverse opinions. One of the ways she plans to do that is by including stakeholders from both sides of the discussion, including gun owners and gun sellers.
Chris Marino, the owner of Autumn Gun Works in Goshen, was one of the gun dealers involved in Monday's discussion. Marino, the secretary for the Northwestern Connecticut Sportsmen Council, said there is room for a "meaningful discussion by all the concerned groups, especially gun manufacturers, the gun dealers' network and sportsmen's groups."
Marino was pleased most of the discussion focused on fixing mental health issues.
"I was pleasantly surprised to hear so many educators and (first responders) talking about the mental health issue and the lack of focus on mental health at the state and federal level," Marino said. "This has been a purposeful thing for 30 to 40 years. The state has been backing off of their responsibility and ... putting them out into the communities to fend for themselves. That's not right."
Esty said that during the meeting, teachers talked about protecting their students and co-workers. One tough topic, Esty said, will be sharing mental health and criminal records.
"That's going to be a challenge to think about how do we appropriately get people treatment but also share information so that people who can't be trusted with a firearm don't get easy access," Esty said. "These are not easy issues and the answers I don't think are going to be easy either."
Litchfield First Selectman Leo Paul Jr., among those at the meeting, said it was "good for people to sit in that kind of a setting and exchange their views and give Congresswoman Esty an opportunity to hear what people in her district are thinking and believe."
Paul said he doesn't think the answer is to "hinder the ability of the legal gun owner."
"The legal gun owner adheres to the laws," he said. "That's not the group of people at issue here. I think some of the proposals are beginning to interfere with the rights of legal gun owners."
But Paul said he thinks a conversation on gun violence is necessary and there are some changes that can be made.
In his role as first selectman in a town without a police force (Litchfield is patrolled by state troopers), Paul is responsible for approving and signing gun permit applications.
During the meeting, he talked about how there often isn't enough information on mental health available to those signing the permits, because of privacy laws. He said it may be worthwhile to provide some of those records to those selling guns and signing permits.
"It's worth having a discussion about it," Paul said.
Torrington Mayor Ryan Bingham also spoke during the discussion before heading to Hartford to represent the Conference of Connecticut Municipalities during a legislative hearing on gun violence there.
The round table meeting in Torrington was off the record so those uncomfortable with speaking on the record could share opinions with Esty.
"We will be having many open meetings but these initial ones are designed to get the most candid sharing and then take that forward for those who do want to appear on the record," Esty said.
Esty will be in Simsbury and Waterbury Tuesday, Meriden Wednesday and New Britain Friday. She met with Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton Monday afternoon and was scheduled to meet with officials and residents from Newtown later in the evening.


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From His Wisconsin Kitchen to Big City Restaurants
Chef Michael White dishes on his Wisconsin roots and love of tuna on toast.
Nov. 6, 2008 -- Cold Wisconsin winters and the smell of freshly baked bread got celebrated chef Michael White into the kitchen. His Italian-inspired creations kept him there.
The Midwesterner grew up tasting food from his Norwegian heritage, but is known for his lavish dishes that incorporate flavors straight out of Italy, including fresh pastas, seafood and tomatoes.
After heading the critically acclaimed New York restaurant Fiamma, White joined forces with his current business partner, Chris Cannon, and moved on to the now Michelin-rated Alto and the Tudor City restaurant L'Impero. White, 37, is now master chef in a new kitchen at Convivio (formerly L'Impero), the Italian restaurant he opened this summer to rave reviews including 3 stars from The New York Times.
It Was a Cold Winter Night
White's relationship with food began when he was a boy learning to cook between weekend trips to swim meets.
"I grew up in the Midwest in Beloit, Wis., and as a young person, food was always important to us. We were always cooking. You know, when it's cold out in the winter time, you're not going to running around," he said. "I mean, you know, it's cold, cold in Wisconsin, and so we were always baking bread and these types of things."
His family had a little garden where they grew food in the summertime. Beloit, he said wryly, was "really not the food Mecca of the United States. But growing up we had really great food, produce, corn, sweet tomatoes.
"And I remember my family bringing me into Chicago to eat at great restaurants. And so my brother and I were really exposed to great food at a young age," White said. "Food was something that was important. Being from a Norwegian family, the food bug got set real early with me. Rice, vegetables, cream sauces, fish -- you name it."
Despite their Norwegian roots, the White family had a taste for Italian food. And, living close to the Windy City, there was plenty of it.
"We loved to go out on Friday nights, after a football game, and go and have pizza as a family," he said. "It was really special."
Chef Chooses His Career
White's career, he said, began to take shape when he would hang out in the kitchen of Italian restaurants and watch the chefs in action.
"It was so cool. I partly learned from just watching and through osmosis, and this was before cooking was popular. Before, it was thought of as a blue-collar job. Cooking now, as you know, is quite a different story. It's something that people think is really cool and hip," he said.
Back when he was young it was still a career that raised eyebrows, especially his father's.
"My dad's a banker, and I told my dad that I was going to be a chef. And he said, 'What?'" White remembered. "I think he had visions of me sleeping down in the basement at home and then flipping eggs at the local diner or something like that. But I think I've done a little bit more than that now."
He has stayed out of the basement -- and the local diner, for that matter. And his parents followed his career, even traveling with him to Europe, when he spent more than seven years living in Italy, often going back and forth to the south of France.
"Everything I do is surrounded around food, which is probably not a good thing," he said. "I don't have that many hobbies. My hobby is cooking."
The Thrill of Competition
White said he has been asked if he would compete on reality television shows. He replied that, with 26,000 restaurants in New York City, from fine dining to hot dog stands, he competes every day.
"You have to be reinventing yourself, and that's difficult. Heading up an Italian restaurant the food press has this idea of what Italian food is all about," he continued. "The rolling hills of Tuscany, you know, Piedmont wine. And that's fine, I take those flavors, I take them and put them into a box and then I get to mix them up. I might take something from Sardinia and mix it with something from Puglia and have a dish together."
White said that in order to really cook Italian food, investing time to absorb culture in Italy is a must.
But the U.S. has its unique strengths as well. White credited everything from farmers' markets to the Food Network for bringing good food into Americans' homes.
Before television devoted air time to food, people just cooked, he said. Now they know about food.
"You can't fool anybody anymore. Eighteen years ago, I started in a restaurant called Spiaggia in Chicago working with chef Paul Bartolotta, and I remember cooking risotto for the first time," he said. "It was like no one knew what that was, and we were making basil pesto, we were making potato-leek raviolis. Nobody had ever seen these things before. Now if you want to do a food demonstration, people say, 'Oh, I make risotto at home now. Oh, I've had potato raviolis.' So, it's difficult."
Rather than thinking about competition from other restaurants or the Food Network, White said he relies on what he calls "total immersion."
"I've been involved in competition my whole life," he said." I'm a highly competitive person."
If a chef wants to play in "in Series A, in the professional baseball of cooking," White said, he or she has to have that drive, that competitiveness. "You could make no one want to be a chef: long hours, when all your friends are having fun, you're working, holidays. It's hot, hot, hot," he said.
"When people say, 'Oh, I want to be a chef!' You know, you better check it out first," he said. "You'd better hang out in a kitchen before you spend 50 grand to go to cooking school. Because if you go to cooking school first, you come out, and you decide you don't want to do it, well then, you went, threw your 50,000 bucks on the table."
Cooking professionally also comes with the perk of instant gratification, White said, and that's much preferable to working for six months as a salesman to get one commission.
"If I have 200 people at night -- you know, you do antipasto, you do pasta -- I could get instant gratification 600 times a night," he said.
And he gets to make people happy. "It has to be light: New Yorkers eat out every single night of the week in my restaurants. I have customers who come two and three times a week, and in order to have food that is approachable, that has full impact, flavor, you can't kill somebody at night with lots of butter and things like that. And that's why the Italian kitchen is so important, the fact of using olive oil and light broths and things like that. It's really great for people who eat out every day," he said.
Developing a Taste Memory
Training one's palate to be great is possible, White said, but the passion for food really has to be inside people. They have to grow up on good food and develop what he calls a "taste memory." He savors one of his earliest "taste memories" coming from the tomatoes his great-grandfather grew along with sweet corn and watermelon.
White said what people see in him is the real deal, that there's no smoke and mirrors in his work.
"I'm very much like my grandfather was," he said. "Somebody who is, you know, "testona," a very hard-headed person. If I want something, I'm going to go and get it, and that's how I've acted in New York City as well. It's something that you have to have an unbelievable drive."
Yet when he's around the table with his wife and daughter, sometimes simple goes a long way. They have elaborate meals on the weekend, but maybe something like tomatoes and bacon on toast other times.
"The last thing that a chef wants to have on his day off is something complicated," he said.
And if he wants to get out of the kitchen, there's a wealth of choices in his backyard.
"We're blessed in New York City to have unbelievable ethnic food, whether you're going to Queens out the 7 line, or downtown to Chinatown or to Koreatown, these are things that we're very fortunate to have, and that's what we find on our days off," he said. "My daughter loves Asian food. She's like, 'Dad, could we have General Gao's chicken?' When I was growing up in Wisconsin, you know, it was never about that. Now, obviously General Gao's chicken is something that's pedestrian Chinese, but she's there eating snow pea leaves and Szechuan food, and she loves it! Octopus! You name it, the kid loves everything!"
Could that have something to do with dad? Maybe, he said, but it's probably more about his daughter being exposed to a variety of different foods.
"If they see you eating it and the joy that you get out of eating it, they're going to be the same way," he said.
White said that, to him, food means spending time at the table with his friends and his family. Convivio, the name of his new restaurant, means "at the table, banqueting, conviviality, the fact of sharing with others," he said.
But Italian food is clearly his love.
"You know, going to Italy for the first time, back in 1993, I had this idea of staying about six months and all of a sudden I got there -- I mean, let me tell you, it's not all about food, when you see these great, beautiful Italian chicks, with this curly, long hair, and it's about that too. Because you know, I was 20 years old," he said, adding, "But it's really about the food."
Italian food, White said, is the basis for many other ethnic foods.
"If you cook Italian food or French food, you could cook anything after that. You could cook Turkish, you could cook Russian, because it's the method and technique, the process," he said. "You know, working in Italy for me was one of the great eye-opening experiences. It's about working with cheese that just came from the dairy. ... When we'd make chicken stock, I'd go and buy the chicken bones. You don't get to pick out your chicken bones in New York City or Chicago and San Francisco, at least I didn't."
While many chefs get their start just messing around in the kitchen, going to school is very important, White said. Future chefs need to learn their techniques and even the sounds of the kitchen.
"I mean, you have to start at the grass roots, below, cooking, cleaning vegetables. And if I took 10 guys, 10 girls out of cooking school, brought them into the kitchen, [and if] I told them, 'Here's an artichoke, you clean it,' I bet you six or seven wouldn't know how to do it," he said.
Eventually, he said, they will do it enough to learn. And then will come a better understanding of their kitchens.
"I could be cutting vegetables with the guys and all of a sudden hear something behind me, and I know it's not right. I mean, I like to say I can hear fire and I can hear anything," he said. "When you're in the kitchen the sound of cooking is like music. That sounds weird, but it really is true. That's how in-tune I am with cooking."
Even a renowned chef has a few marginal items in his cupboard. When asked about his favorite junk food, White named potato chips, because "it's the crunching sound, it's salt ... As a young person I didn't have a lot of junk food. I liked to go to my friends' house when I was little to go get junk food."
White moved on to cheeseburgers and then his 11 p.m. special -- high-quality Italian tuna with oil, celery and Hellman's mayonnaise on whole wheat toast.
"That's what Michael White eats late at night," he said.

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Nuclear Infatuation will be the Topic of Guest Lecture at Baylor UniversityApril 9, 2013
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WACO, Texas (April 9, 2013) - With nuclear development at the forefront of international thought following North Korea's recent actions, Robert R. Johnson, Ph.D., will present a lecture titled "Romancing the Atom: Nuclear Infatuation from the Radium Girls to Fukushima." The lecture will take place at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in Room C.105 of the Baylor Sciences Building, 101 Bagby Ave.
Johnson is a professor of rhetoric, composition and technical communication at Michigan Tech University, where he also serves as chair for the department of humanities. He was awarded the 1999 Best Book Award by the National Council of Teachers for English Publications in Technical and Scientific Communication for his first book, User-centered Technology: A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts. His second book, by the same name as his lecture, was published in 2012.
"Dr. Johnson is a leading scholar in rhetoric and technical communication, who brings his expertise to bear in this engaging account of our sometimes unthinking 'romance' with atomic development," said Heidi Bostic, Ph.D., professor of French and chair of the department for modern foreign languages in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences.
"He examines case studies ranging from the infamous Bikini Islands nuclear testing, to a secret uranium processing plant in Oxford, Ohio (where Johnson used to live), to the recent tragedy at Fukushima, Japan, in the wake of the tsunami," she said.
"Above all, readers and audience members will find Johnson's book and presentation informative, fascinating and thought-provoking."
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The revealing and intimate interviews include 2002 Academy Award-winner Halle Berry (Actress in a Leading Role, "Monster's Ball") and last year's Supporting Actress winner, Pen�lope Cruz ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona"), who this year is a Supporting Actress nominee for her role in "Nine."
Academy Award-winning director James Cameron ("Titanic"), director of "Avatar," sits down with three of the stars from the film, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and three-time Oscar-nominated Sigourney Weaver. "Avatar" is the recipient of nine Oscar nominations this year, including Best Picture.
Ben Affleck, who won an Oscar in 1998 for original screenplay, along with Matt Damon, for "Good Will Hunting," chats with Jeremy Renner, who garnered a nomination for Actor in a Leading Role for "The Hurt Locker." The film is tied with "Avatar" for the most nominations this year, at nine.
Two of the stars reunite from "Fatal Attraction," the 1987 classic film and recipient of six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture -- five-time Oscar-nominated actress Glenn Close and multiple Oscar recipient Michael Douglas. Close received an Actress in a Leading Role nomination for her part in the film.
"Oprah's Oscar special will kick off a great week of television on ABC," said Stephen McPherson, president, ABC Entertainment Group. "The new Oscar rules put the spotlight on more great movies than ever before, and ABC will showcase them all in an Oscar telecast that delivers great entertainment for the fans watching at home. Having Oprah's Oscar special back this year adds to the excitement around Hollywood's biggest event."
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NSW five-eighth Josh Reynolds lashed out with an extraordinary trip on former teammate Ben Barba as Canterbury slumped to their fourth straight NRL loss, a 41-10 thrashing by Brisbane on Friday night.
Reynolds was lucky not to be sent off but his indiscretion, the second time he was put on report in the second half, capped a night to forget for the State of Origin playmaker and the Bulldogs at Suncorp Stadium.
But at the end of a long rap sheet for the five-eighth, he still finished the game in the sheds after being sin-binned for a high tackle on Alex Glenn.
The Broncos, led by Barba and Ben Hunt, punished the mistake-riddled Dogs seven tries to two in front of a highly-appreciative crowd of 28,344.
Desperate to stop the rot after five losses from their past six matches, Brisbane resurrected their finals hopes in style while at the same time delivering a major dent to Canterbury's top-four claims.
Reynolds' availability for next Friday's clash with Parramatta is in grave doubt while Sam Kasiano also suffered a worrying foot injury.
The Broncos' demolition came as Hunt and Barba produced their best game together as a new playmaking pair, both scoring first-half tries and causing the Bulldogs grief on both sides of the ruck.
Barba has grown in confidence with each appearance at five-eighth but Hunt had lost his form since coach Anthony Griffin was given his notice a fortnight ago.
The halfback was not only sharp with the ball but his defence on the right-edge was top-notch and also pulled off an embarrassing strip on Tony Williams.
Former Bulldogs fullback Barba scored the try of the match on the stroke of halftime for a 20-6 lead.
The Bulldogs played themselves back into the encounter after the break with a Josh Jackson try and then looked set for another.
But Reynolds lashed out with his feet in a tackle near the line that collected Sam Thaiday in the face and resulted in a Brisbane penalty and him placed on report.
It proved a major turning point when Matt Gillett smartly put Corey Oates over soon after.
From there the floodgates opened as Thaiday and Hunt crossed again to seal their biggest win of the season.
Reynolds actually opened the scoring with a flukey two-kick try but Canterbury were their own worst enemies in the first half by completing just 12 of 18 sets and missing four times as many tackles as Brisbane.


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This is the second sketch of Got Sketch Mini.
After I chose the pictures & papers it was very fast & enjoying layout.
The picture was taken on June 2006, Yaara was almost 2 years old. The journaling (Hebrew) says:
Last family vacation before the upcoming delivery of our new baby. Goofing off on the grass of "Beit Gavriel" near the Kinneret, hugging and taking pictures...
I used DCWV patterned papers, solid cardstocks, Fiskars threading water border punch, Letters by Chatter Box, I printed the hat and sunglasses and adhered them with 3D adhesive. The flowers embelishments were bought at a local store and I don't know the company's name.


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Hazelmere road is in Ealing in the county of Greater London which resides in the London region of England. The postcode is within the Greenford Broadway ward, which is in the constituency of Ealing North. This page is a collection of useful information for Hazelmere road, Ealing, and the neighbourhood in which it resides.
Regarding the Index of Multiple Deprivation, UB5 6UN has a score of 7954 out of 32844.
We found 4 house sales in UB5 6UN. The most recent transaction was number 80 that sold for £249,560 on 30 Sep 2011. The most expensive house purchase so far has been number 80 that sold for £249,560 on 30 Sep 2011 and the lowest has been number 82 that sold for £85,000 on 10 Jan 2000. If you are interested in more detailed information then keep reading as we give insights about all of them in this page later on.
The most common ethnicity is Black. Residents have the following ethnicities: 137 White, 0 Gypsy, 37 Indian, 5 Bangladeshi, 29 Other asian, 59 Black, 15 Mixed.
According to the 2011 Census, the UK population claims itself as 87% white. The second largest group are asian 6% and black 3%.
|White: 137
|Gypsy: 0
|Indian: 37
|Pakistani: 13
|Bangladeshi: 5
|Chinese: 8
|Other Asian: 29
|Black: 59
|Mixed: 15
|Other: 20
The national average of social housing is over 18%.
|Owned outright: 28
|Mortgage: 34
|Shared Ownership: 0
|Council: 7
|Social other: 14
|Private rented: 34
|Private employer: 0
|Private relative: 3
|Private other: 1
|Rent free: 0
In 2011 this place had 5 detached houses, 16 semi-detached houses, 49 terraced houses, 51 flats, 2 converted house shares, 0 flats in commercial buildings, 0 caravans.
The most common house type here is Flat.
Please note that the figures may include adjacent streets
|Detached: 5
|Semi-detached : 16
|Terraced: 49
|Flat: 51
|Converted house share: 2
|Flat in commercial: 0
|Caravan: 0
Please bear in mind that an individual may hold one or more passports.
|No passport: 17
|Ireland: 6
|Other EU: 43
|Other Non EU: 1
|Africa: 11
|Middle East & Asia: 19
|North America & Caribbean: 1
|Central America: 0
|South America: 0
|Antarctica & Oceania: 1
|British Overseas: 0
The UK is mainly a Christian country, with 59% of residents. 25% of the population claim to have no religion. 4% of the population identify themselves as Muslim, 1.3% Hindu, 0.7% Sikh, 0.5% Jewish, 0.4% Buddhist, and 0.4% as other religions, while the remaining 7.2% did not state their religious views.
|Christian: 131
|Buddhist: 3
|Hindu: 40
|Jewish: 3
|Muslim: 69
|Sikh: 9
|Other: 1
|No religion: 39
|Not stated: 28
Proportion of the population experiencing deprivation relating to low income
Proportion of the working-age population in an area involuntarily excluded from the labour market
Lack of attainment skills in local population
Risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life
Risk of personal victimisation
Measures the quality of the local environment
Proportion of all children aged 0 to 15 living in income deprived families
Proportion of all those aged 60 or over who experience income deprivation.
Attainment of qualifications among children
Lack of qualifications in the resident working-age adult population
Physical proximity of local services
Accessability of housing due to affordability
Quality of housing
E.g. Air quality, road accidents
|No qualification: 46
|GCSES 1 to 4 any grades: 66
|NVQ Level 1: 23
|One A level: 63
|NVQ Level 2: 38
|Apprenticeship: 10
|Two plus A level: 41
|NVQ Level 3: 26
|Degree: 46
|NVQ Level 4-5: 6
|Professional qualification: 31
|Other vocational qualification: 18
The median age of this location's residents is 30.0 while the mean age is 33.15789. The most frequent age group is Thirty to fourty-four. These conclusions are made from the following data: 0-4 years: 34, 5-7 years: 15, 8-9 years: 3, 10-14 years: 12, 16-17 years: 12, 18-19 years: 8, 20-24 years: 26, 25-29 years: 37, 25-29 years: 37, 30-44 years: 74, 45-59 years: 53, 60-64 years: 19, 65-74 years: 18, 75-84 years: 6, 85-89 years: 0.
This location in Northolt is categorised as Urban major conurbation.
Some people have different preferences regarding the altitude of areas, this postcode's altitude is 36 metres above sea level. Areas at higher altitudes could be more favourable due to the expected rise of sea levels in the not so distant future.
155 had very good health and 3 had very bad in this area.
This data lists the total number of room each house have.
|One: 1
|Two: 6
|Three: 28
|Four: 36
|Five: 24
|Six: 13
|Seven: 4
|Eight: 6
|Nine: 3
According to the latest census which took place in 2011, this postcode had a population of 25 people that includes overnight visitors as well as permanent residents. Furthermore, there were 8 households.
This data lists the total number of people normally resident within each household.
|One: 31
|Two: 28
|Three: 30
|Four: 20
|Five: 8
|Six: 2
|Eight: 2
Across the UK, the gender split is equal.
|Total: 323
|Males: 169
|Females: 154
Health is usually influenced by age and the affluence of a neighbourhood, since deprived areas often showing poorer standards of health.
|Total: 323
|Very good: 155
|Good: 108
|Fair: 42
|Bad: 15
|Very bad: 3
Many postcodes have been retired over the years but UB5 6UN is not one of them and it was first introduced on 31 May 1981.
Geographically this area resides in -0.37463 longitude and 51.538038 latitude.
If you are interested in getting to know more about the location codes of this area then it might also be valuable that it resides 512824 eastings and 183378 northings.
Some might find it useful that this area's grid reference number is TQ128833. The grid reference number uses cartesian coordinates.
The district code of UB5 6UN is E09000009 and its county code is E11000009.
Its MSOA code is E02000247, its LSOA code is E01001263, its parish code is E43000199 and its constituency code is E14000675. These codes can come handy when you want to find out more about this location as not all services work with postcode.
Furthermore this area is in a national park.
We found 11 crimes in UB5 6UN in December 2018. Our records show that there were 0 antisocial behaviours, 3 violence and anti-social behaviours, 1 burglaries, 3 criminal damage and arsons, 0 drugs and 1 vehicle crimes. For more detailed analysis please continue reading as we have data for each crime type and all the nearby streets, close to UB5 6UN.
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|Violence and sexual offences
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|Under investigation
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|Other theft
|Under investigation
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|Vehicle crime
|Under investigation
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Brown and Arizona AG Goddard Announce $94 Million Agreement with Western Union to Fight Money Laundering by Mexican Cartels
Los Angeles – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced a $94 million settlement with Western Union Financial Services, Inc., that resolves a decade-long investigation into illicit money transfers that "have flowed freely" in the Southwest border region.
The settlement includes $50 million in funding for the "Southwest Border Anti-Money Laundering Alliance," a four-state coalition against money laundering that includes the attorneys general of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.
"For years, billions of dollars in smuggling profits have flowed freely between the United States and Mexico," Brown said. "Today's agreement with Western Union gives our region the resources and cooperation we need to stem the flow of illicit cash across our borders."
The settlement follows a decade-long investigation by the Office of the Arizona Attorney General into illegal money-laundering activity in the Southwest border region. The investigation found that hundreds of millions of dollars are being channeled to drug, weapon and human traffickers through Western Union money transfers.
To resolve Arizona's investigation and more effectively address illegal money laundering, Western Union has agreed to:
• Provide $50 million to establish and fund the Southwest Border Anti-Money Laundering Alliance;
• Invest $19 million over the next several years into upgrades to its anti-money-laundering program;
• Provide $4 million to support an independent monitoring program established to ensure anti-money-laundering measures are implemented; and
• Pay $21 million to the State of Arizona to cover investigation and litigation expenses.
Additionally, today's settlement requires Western Union to provide California with access to transaction data so investigators can track trends in the flow of illicit money, identify money-laundering points and target drug, weapon and human traffickers.
The Southwest Border Anti-Money Laundering Alliance will support and fund training, information sharing and other initiatives in member states and Mexico and will work to enhance and better coordinate money-laundering investigations and prosecutions. Under the agreement, law enforcement organizations in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas will each be guaranteed grants totaling a minimum of $7 million to bolster efforts to combat money laundering.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency estimates that $18 billion to $39 billion is being smuggled from the United States to Mexico every year.
Today's agreement with Western Union and the Southwest Border Anti-Money Laundering Alliance's governing agreement are attached.


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Hanselman List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers
I used to hate podcasts, but that didn't last long. I got a longer commute, bandwidth became less of an issue and podcasts, frankly, got better. Of course, I'm a smidge biased.
I listen to a number of podcasts, not all technical, of course. I also watch the nightly news and a number of other news and political TV shows delivered not over the air or via cable, but by podcast.
Here's some technical podcasts, collected and recommended by my folks and friends on Twitter. I've heard some, and added my thoughts. Others I look forward to listening to. They are listed in no particular order. I threw mine in there as well. ;)
NOTE: If you've created a list of YOUR favorite .NET Podcasts, send me a link to your blog and I'll add it here:
- Steve Bohlen's Podcast Playlist for .NET Developers
- Caffeinated Coder's Podcast Roundup
- Matt Penner's "Podcasts Worth Listening To"
- Canadian Developers "Audio Resources On the Go" for the Developer
- Rhonda Tipton's (Epic) Podcast List
- Walden's ".NET Podcasts that are on my iPod"
- ...
And here's mine:
Hanselman's Super Karate Death Car List of .NET and Software Podcasts
Thoughtworks IT Matters - I respect a lot of the guys over at Thoughtworks so I'll give this a listen just based on that. It looks like it's updated infrequently, and there's no dates on their shows on the site (the RSS includes them), so hopefully they'll get a nice meter going and perhaps commit to a monthly or weekly schedule. Looks promising and fairy platform-agnostic, so likely useful for anyone programming in any language.
Hanselminutes - I'll let Scott Bellware's tweeted review of my show speak, rather than toot my own horn: "the one i look forward to is hanselminutes. know it? host is a bit of a nut, but ethical and with a heart :)"
I'm a .NET person, but I also dabble in Ruby and did some time at Nike coding Java. I also like gadgets so the show has become all of the above plus (I think) interesting interviews.
.NET Rocks - The first and longest running, now on show #418 which is CRAZY. Richard and Carl set the standard for those that followed them. Often interviews, sometimes random, always interesting, .NET Rocks is the gold standard.
ALT.NET Podcast - "You're the type of developer who uses whatever works while keeping an eye out for a better way, you reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community, you're not content with the status quo and you realize that tools are great, but they only take you so far..." this might be the podcast for you.
Sparkling Client - Entirely focused on Silverlight and RIA (Rich Internet Application) technologies, I'd call this an "up and comer" in the .NET podcast world.
ASP.NET Podcast by Wally McClure - The site design is a little wacky, but Wally's got 130+ podcasts focused entirely on ASP.NET and the content continues. He has covered Azure, lots of ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery and many other topics.
Polymorphic Podcast - Craig Shoemaker works for Infragistics and hosts this .NET focused podcast. It's a little spotty as far as the frequency of updates, but he has an easy style and focuses a lot of ASP.NET. He's also had a couple of killer interviews like his one with craigslist founder Craig Newmark.
Herding Code - Hosted by K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott Koon and Jon Galloway, this is kind of the TWiT of .NET podcasts. If you ever wish you could go to coffee and shoot the sh*t with some really smart folks, but you just can't find enough find enough smart guys or enough coffee, look no farther than Herding Code. Each host has a different perspective that adds to the conversation. The sound quality and leveling can be a little off, but not enough to distract from the good content.
Deep Fried Bytes - "Deep Fried Bytes is an audio talk show with a Southern flavor hosted by technologists and developers Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff." Also tends to be a little irregular as far as publish dates, but they always have interesting guests. Mostly Windows focused, but not in a fanboy way, they've had a Linux/Gnome guest and are off to a fine start.
Software Engineering Radio - A language and platform agnostic show, these folks have over 120 shows in the can. The audio quality has been a little inconsistent, but the content is diverse and the guests are first class. Frankly this is one of the most diverse podcasts out there, and they do it without sacrificing depth. Recommended.
The Java Posse - To understand .NET, one has to understand that which came before. The Java Posse has hosts from Sun, Google and Navigenics and is a really quick and terse way to get up to speed on what's happening in the world of Java. It tends to be a little random and conversational, but they have VERY thorough show notes and links. If you're into Java or selling against Java, a podcast to watch.
OpenWeb Podcast - It's new, but it's got John Resig. They are still getting the handle of the audio and tend to have problems overdriving the microphone and have issues with leveling and so that's a little distracting. However, it's got some really smart Google and Mozilla employees talking about the Open Web and how to keep it open. They also get +2 Charisma for publishing not only in MP3 but also in (the kind of irrelevant but totally open) OGG Vorbis format.
They have been REALLY spotty, publishing only every month or two, but that's probably because they are DOING things to make the web better. Let's pressure them to publish more.
Ruby on Rails Podcast - Also pretty spotting on their publish dates, but always a good overview about what's going on in the world of Ruby on Rails. Tends to be a little chattier than I like in a technical podcast "Hey, how's it going, good, how's the weather" but that's a stylistic thing.
This Week on Channel 9 - This is kind of "The Daily Show" for Microsoft Developer Geeks. "Every week Dan Fernandez and Brian Keller sift through hundreds of blogs, videos, and announcements to find the most important stories in the developer community." It's a video podcast primarily, but they also off an MP3 download version as well as versions for iPod and Zune. I visit this show in person every few months, and it's a lot of fun and a great rollup of the week's goings on.
Elegant CodeCast - With a spin towards the Agile/TDD crowd, Elegant CodeCast puts on a show on a roughly twice a month basis.
Enjoy! I say give each one a trial or two and see which shows stick. That's what I do. Then I revisit them a year later to see if they stick differently.
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The eurozone crisis continues to take a hard toll on the global economy, slowing growth in the United States, China and Japan. While European stocks rose today on the better than expected GDP growth in Germany and France, the E.U. as a whole kept with predictions and contracted 0.2%.
There are growing concerns that the current make-up of the single-currency system in Europe may be coming to end—and with good reason. European leaders continue to struggle with fiscal and economic difficulties within their countries and the burden of supporting periphery states. Growth may be up in the Netherlands, Germany and Austria (a scant 0.2 % for each), but it is drastically down in countries such as Finland, which posted a 0.7% decline in output. The third quarter should prove to be testing for the ECB, as Spain continues to rely on the central bank's funds, and other periphery countries will begin to demand financial solutions. It has been suggested that a round of quantitative easing be put into action, but it is unlikely that the ECB would implement such a tool so soon.