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Elektor is a monthly magazine about hobby electronics, first published as "Electuur" in the Netherlands in 1960, and now published worldwide in nine languages: English, German, Dutch, French, Chinese, Greek, Spanish, Swedish and Finnish. Elektor publishes schematics of electronic designs geared to hobbyists, but also of interest to professionals. To help hobbyists build these designs Elektor also offers printed circuit boards of many of its designs, and kits and modules. If the design uses a microcontroller, as is now often the case, Elektor also publishes the sourcecode for it on their website
ContentsColophonWho's who at Elektor magazine.News & New ProductsA monthly roundup of all the latest in electronics land.Introducing mbedWhat's That in the Air?Here we tackle the theory and methods of real-time oxygen and hydrocarbon compound measurements.MicroFuel Cell. Measures Oxygen ConcentrationA must read and must have not just for divers and cave explorers.The 5532 OpAmplifier (2)Besides construction and test results, the closing instalment also covers bridged operation and modification for 4 ohms.Sensorless. Motor Speed MeasurementA technology is described that enables the speed of an electric motor to be measured by means of an ammeter circuit.Wireless Instrumentation NetworkAdd Maxstream and Xbee modules, stir in some Arduino and you have a measurement network with no wires.Portable EnergyAlternative energy sources for your cell phone, iPod and other gizmos normally operating from rechargeable batteries.JTAC Live Buzz (E-Labs Inside)JTAC is increasingly used for boundary scan methods, calling for new IC architectures.USB port from a g-pin sub-D connector (E-Labs Inside)FTDI have again come up with the goods!Rapid Prototyping (E-Labs Inside)The AutoFab product from Muvium presents a new approach to circuit prototyping.Image Processing Made EasyBluff your way into motion detection with a webcam.Designing and Making. Basic AntennasIt's surprisingly easy to make monopoles, dipoles and directional antennas for the 2.4 GHz ISM band.Talk Show (ATM18 series)VRBot, Speakjet and ATM18 are the main ingredients of an experimental voice synthesizer with a giant 1-pixel indicator thrown in for fun.Unilab DuoHere we show how the Unilab bench PSU gets converted into a twin supply together with the September 2010 V/I readout.Design TipsLED remote control for RC models Simple IR remote control testerCamera Interval TimerA fully programmable timer & multishot controller for photo cameras like the Canon EOS.Light TrackerVery likely one of the simplest robotics circuits around that succeeds in finding light sources.HexadokuOur monthly puzzle with an electronics touch.Retronics: Chauvin-Arnoux MF7. Precision Astatic WattmeterRegular feature on electronics 'odd & ancient'. Series Editor: Jan BuitingComing AttractionsNext month in Elektor magazine.


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WEEK 05 (2 – 8 November 2009)
Project-based Learning (PBL); WebQuests
Learning Objectives
Project-based learning
Condition: After reading about project-based learning (PBL) and viewing some examples
Audience: Participants in this course
Behavior: Will share a project-based learning lesson plan for one or more of their classes, including why the students will benefit (work can be in class or outside of class)
Degree: In at least one post on Nicenet and comment on it in their blog
Condition: After reading about WebQuests
Audience: Participants in this course
Behavior: Will describe a WebQuest they could use in class (and if possible, start to create a WebQuest)
Degree: In at least one post on Nicenet and comment on it in their blog
Readings are required! Go carefully through them and use them to help form a basis for your postings in the weekly discussions. Please work on both topics this week.
Project-based Learning (PBL)
Additional Resources
Weekly Requests and Reminders:
Discussions: Go to Nicenet, log in, and participate in this week's topics.
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In Memoriam
ECSL has lost one of its earliest leaders, a most ardent supporter for advancing genuine service learning, a guiding light, & a gentle, inspiring mentor to all who had the fortune of exchanging ideas with her. Ann Nelson came to ECSL in our second year of infancy and was a precious participant as we grew over the last 25 years. She served as an indispensable voice on our Strategic Council, was an anchor for more round-table conversations than can be enumerated, created most our of ECSL handout materials from bookmarks to pamphlets and even made puzzle pieces when we needed to demonstrate how the 5 steps of service learning fit together. She participated at all our national and state conference presentations and developed unique and innovative service learning curriculum. Her creative energy and generosity resonates through the spectacular "spirit dolls" she hand-stitched and decorated for annual recognition of an exceptional ECSL participant. Henceforth this honor will be the "Ann Nelson Spirit Award". Her legacy lives on through our continued efforts to grow meaningful Service Learning.
Winter Workshop Resources
Continue your preparation and planning for student-led service by linking to the books and media resources that were available at the Winter Workshop. Categories include: Immigration, Environment, Literacy and Early Childhood Ed, and Poverty. You'll also find a list of the organizations who attended the meeting along with suggested links between their work and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Coming soon … video footage of the meeting!
2019 Winter Workshop
Next Week! ECSL Summer Strategy Session
Reminder! You're invited to attend the ECSL Strategy Council Meeting on Monday, June 25 from 9:30-11am in Westwood, CA.
Advisors and stakeholders in our service learning community gather to plan the dynamic strategies, concepts and workshop content for the upcoming 2018-19 school year. We welcome all voices!
RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com (address to be provided).
A Powerful Event to Investigate Poverty
This speaker series, held this month in Venice on June 20th from 7-9pm, directly correlates to our spring panel on poverty. Coordinated by a few of our panelists, we highly recommend attending this special event to witness the power of story and first-hand experiences as a form of service learning investigation!
ECSL Participants Investigate Poverty
Following our winter workshop (where we established the essential need to address poverty), educators gathered for a deep investigation into this pressing issue. ECSL invited community organization representatives working on poverty-related initiatives to a panel discussion. We're pleased to share the video footage from this event, and we invite you to bring it back to your classrooms. This resource will help students see the power of using interviewing as a form of investigation in order to become more deeply informed about an issue- thus being better able to engage in authentic social action towards this cause.
No Poverty: Exploring the UN Sustainable Goal at our Winter Meeting
Cathy Berger Kaye led the ECSL Winter 2018 meeting, where she unpacked the issue of poverty and how teachers can use the related UN Sustainable Goal to help address the issue locally with students. Take a look inside the meeting to learn how!


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The Brandt School students started their own football team, WBS Erfurt, which is a part of the University of Erfurt Football League (UniLiga).
Come out and support WBS Erfurt tonight! The 5th game of the season is tonight (06.06), at 20:00 at the fields at Riethstraße.
The rest of the season's schedule is as follows:
Game 5: 06.06.2012, 20:00h (8:00pm)
Game 6: 13.06.2012
Game 7: 20.06.2012
Game 8: 05.07.2012
Game 9: 11.07.2012
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Alsoudani's Untitled is barely recognisable as a portrait. Mixing charcoal with paint, the surface evolves as a dirty corporeal mass, as pure colours become tinged by sooty dust and paint drips down the canvas in contaminated streams. Describing what might be a head, Alsoudani offers up an anguished abstraction combining organic textures with geometric forms. Rendering carnage with an almost cartoon efficacy, Alsoudani summates the base instinct of destruction as a volume of fleshy fields punctuated by industrial rubble; hard-edged circles and arcs lend an absurd consumerist familiarity suggesting windows and bullet holes in the cold pictograph motifs.
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Al-Khatib has told Estates Gazette magazine that "the biggest issues [surrounding money laundering] are perhaps ignorance and complacency" although he says the law is clear that agents "have a responsibility to check the identity of customers."
He says RICS wants to have a major role in any future regulation of agents.
"There's a lot professional bodies can do to ensure compliance by members. RICS will be applying to become a Treasury-designated supervisory body for anti-money laundering" he says. This refers to a European Union law to be enshrined in UK law by mid-2017 which allows industry self-regulation and compliance checking.
In the same article - which considers how the industry should respond to revelations of apparent money-laundering made in Channel 4's From Russia With Love - the National Association of Estate Agents says the focus of agents should embrace identifying and assessing buyers as well as sellers.
"Anti-money laundering procedures in the UK have centred on the seller rather than buyer, with agents failing to appreciate the implications of the Proceeds of Crime Act" explains NAEA managing director Mark Hayward.
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Multiple Teams · North Dallas' baseball class gets on the field
The North Dallas High baseball team has been working out in the afternoon during their baseball class. Coach Steven De La Cerda is entering his fourth season with the Bulldogs, and he is assisted by Coach Cortez Cole. "We have quite a few returning players coming back that have been in both my JV


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Police shot at Dávid Červeň in Myers Park after he threatened to use a firearm. However, police were not able to confirm whether he really had a gun, as one was not found. Police claim Červeň had called them to the park, on Sunday at 19:23. After unarmed officers arrived, he told them he was armed, and so they summoned their armed colleagues. Police claim they tried to reason with the man, but in vain; and they started shooting at 19:45, when he "showed" he wanted to use the gun. He died instantly, the SITA newswire wrote.
One of two witnesses who testified in the case said that police closed in on Červeň, called on him to give up and not to move. The young man did not move, but police started to fire, the Sme daily wrote.
Chief of the Auckland police, Richard Chambers, defended the police action, stating that they did everything they could considering the information they had. They shot repeatedly, but it is not known how many times. Part of the investigation will also be video footage from CCTV cameras that recorded the entire incident.
Červeň arrived to New Zealand on March 20 and had a 12-month visa for a working holiday. His family was informed in assistance of Interpol, Slovak honorary consul Peter Kiely told SITA, adding that he does not know where the man worked or lived, but he was in New Zealand as one of the 100 young people taking part in the popular working holidays programme.
On August 2, local police published his photo as a wanted person, in connection with three armed robberies in spirits shops, while evidence from one of them proved him guilty. However, no firearm was used in the robberies, according to police; instead, he seems to have used a knife.
The Stuff.co.nz. website writes that the Slovak came from Dolný Kubín and had friends in New Zealand, as well as a girlfriend. The information stems form his friend who wanted to stay anonymous and who described him as a friendly, decent, shy person. The only explanation he can figure out is Červeň was suffering from depression, Sme wrote. He underwent knee surgery and could not train kickboxing – which was his source of income. Twice, Červeň placed third at the World Championship of juniors in Beograd, and was European Champion in amateur competitions in Hungary, Switzerland, Ukraine and Poland, according to Sme.
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This building, in your picture, with "broken lines" ,and cubist in appearance, looks similar to the modern museum annex to our "Hunter Museum" here in Chattanooga, TN.
(When I hear of Cooper Union, which I think is in Manhattan, I am reminded that my cousin-once-removed, Gareth, went to Cooper Union to study, after studying at Dartmouth. He was about five years older than me. Cousin Gareth died tragically in a freak snowstorm, while mountain climbing in Vermont, in October 1971. The authorities didn't find his skeleton until seven years later. I still really miss him. He was a great guy.)
Someday soon, I hope to go back to the "lower east side" and see the nostalgic places and so on. I really had some good times in Tompkins Square Park in my youth. Your photo really takes me back. I also recall my Great Aunt and Uncle's brownstone at Ft. Pierce Place in "Bedford-Sty". I wonder how it looks now.


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Our 15 Favorite Photography Quotes!
A beautiful aspect of photography is that it means something different to everyone. What's your favorite photography quote?
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it." – Dorothea Lange
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." – Aaron Siskind
"A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know." – Diane Arbus
" Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow." – Imogen Cunningham
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting an ordinary place… I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." – Elliott Erwitt
"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second." – Marc Riboud
"I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them." – Bruce Gilden
"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." – Alfred Eisenstaedt
"It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are." – Paul Caponigro
"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph." -Robert Frank
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man." – Edward Steichen
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." – Ansel Adams
"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information." – Man Ray
"Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like." – David Alan Harvey
"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness." – W. Eugene Smith
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Michael@Digital signatures
Inspiring quotes from great people.To me "Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." – Aaron Siskind
I love this one. It's so true. Keep shooting and sharing.


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|Architectural Review
The Architectural Review Board (ARB) exists so that Belmont Bay can remain a special place to live. The Covenants Committee is our group that acts as the ARB. Anyone wishing to make external changes to their property must meet the association requirements for modifications and submit an application before initiating work.
Architectural Review Process
1. Read the Design Guidelines
The Guidelines, as well as other legally binding documents, are provided to homeowners prior to closing on a house. Please read the guidelines and application requirements carefully before submitting your application.
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Submit your application (PDF) along with any other required documentation to the management company. Please allow the allotted time period for your application to be reviewed. Incomplete information only delays your project.
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The Committee will review your application and perform any site inspections outlined in the association documents. You will be contacted if the Committee has questions or if there are any problems with your request. Note--the Committee enforces community guidelines but it is up to you to make sure you meet local permit requirements.
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Hello. My name is William. I was born, raised and educated in Canada. I am a native English speaker. I have been teaching English as a second/foreign language since 1995. I taught English in the Republic of South Korea from November 1995 to March of 2007. I was a teacher in a private language school, high school and a university during my time there. I also taught Business English at several companies in Seoul. In 2007, I returned to Canada and taught English at a private school.
I received my TESL certification there and I taught General English, University Preparation English and IELTS while I was living in Vancouver, Canada. In July of 2009, I decided to move back to Asia, to Thailand which is where I live now. During my time here, I have taught ESL at a university as well as Business English in a company. I have also been teaching online for the past 8 months.
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The Wuhuan (simplified Chinese: 乌桓; traditional Chinese: 烏桓; pinyin: Wūhuán, Old Chinese: Ohuan, Mongol romanization:Uhuan) were a Proto-Mongolic nomadic people who inhabited northern China, in what is now the provinces of Hebei, Liaoning, Shanxi, the municipality of Beijing and the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.
They were descended from the Donghu, who were defeated by the Xiongnu. After the Donghu were defeated by Modu Chanyu around 209 BC, the Xianbei and Wuhuan survived as the main remnants of the confederation. The Hou Hanshu says that "the language and culture of the Xianbei are the same as the Wuhuan". Tadun of the Wuhuan (died 207 AD) was the ancestor of the proto-Mongolic Kumo Xi (aka Tatabi). The Weishu (Description of the Khitan, Vol. 1000, 2221) records that the Kumo Xi and Khitan (descendants of the Mongolic Xianbei) spoke the same language.
The Hou Hanshu (Ch. 120) records:
The Wuhuan are skilled in mounted archery. They engage in hunting animals and birds. They nomadise from place to place in search of grass and water. Without permanent settlements they live in round yurts (穹廬 - qiónglú). The entrance of the yurt faces the sun (east). They eat meat and drink kumiss (酪 - lào). They make clothes from fine wool (máocuì - 毛毳). Youthfulness and strength are held in esteem among them while old age and weakness are not. They are brave and valorous by nature. In anger they kill each other but nobody harms mothers, because the continuation of their progeny depends on their mothers. Fathers and elder brothers on the other hand can create their own separate tribes, so the original tribe does not bear responsibility for them. Whoever is brave, strong and able to deal with contentious cases of litigation are chosen to be elders (大人 - dàren, or taijin). The office of elder is not hereditary. Each nomadic community has its own small commander (帥 - shuài). A community is composed of a hundred to a thousand yurts. When an elder makes a proclamation they carve markings on wood (刻木為信 - kèmùwéixìn), even though they have no script, and none of the tribes dare to violate it.
In 209 BC, Modu Chanyu, founder of the Xiongnu empire, defeated the Donghu. The Wuhuan and Xianbei were remnants of the Donghu who had fled east. The Xianbei, of the lateral Donghu line, resided to the north of the Wuhuan. The Wuhuan were of the direct Donghu line and got involved in many relations with the Chinese due to their more southern location (around Liaodong). Until 121 BC, the Wuhuan was a tributary of the Xiongnu empire. The Hou Hanshu (Ch. 120) says: "From the time that Modu Shanyu crushed them the Wuhuan became weak. They were kept in constant subjugation to the Xiongnu and were forced to pay annual taxes of cow, horse and sheep skins. If anybody did not pay this tax his wife and children were taken from him."
In 121 BC, the Han dynasty general Huo Qubing defeated the eastern wing of the Xiongnu. He then settled the Wuhuan in five districts (Shanggu, Youyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi and Liaodong) created on the northern Chinese border in order to make them observe the movements of the Xiongnu. This began the close relationship of the Wuhuan with the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). The chieftains of the Wuhuan paid annual visits to the Han capital Chang'an and were given high rewards. During the reign of Zhaodi (87-74 BC), the Wuhuan, who had become strong, looted the tombs of the Xiongnu emperors. The outraged Xiongnu rode east and defeated them. Fan Minyu was sent to aid the Wuhuan. The Xiongnu were out of his reach. Fan Minyu suddenly attacked the Wuhuan, defeated them and beheaded three of their kings. During the reign of Xuandi (74-49 BC), the Wuhuan came frequently to the northern Chinese border and submitted to the Han dynasty. In 49 AD, Hedan, the Wuhuan elder of the Liaoxi district, came to the Han court with 922 other chieftains and "paid tribute" to Emperor Guangwu of Han with slaves, cattle, horses, bows and tiger, leopard and sable skins.
They were active throughout the latter half of the Han Dynasty, often incorporated into the regular military forces of the Han armies. Unlike most major non-Chinese peoples on the frontiers of the Chinese empire, the Wuhuan were relatively cooperative with the imperial court. Around the fall of the dynasty in the 190s AD, however, the Wuhuan joined in many of the rebellions and internal wars of the Chinese. In the 3rd century, the "Wuhuan of the three commanderies", the tribes closest to the Chinese, supported Yuan Shao, the major warlord north of the Yellow River. In 207, Cao Cao led a forced march deep into Wuhuan territory and decisively defeated them at the Battle of White Wolf Mountain. Many of the Wuhuan's powerful horsemen joined him and became known as the "greatest cavalry under heaven". Although various Wuhuan leaders led sporadic revolts throughout the 3rd century, by the 4th century they had largely been displaced by the Xianbei. The remaining Kumo Xi were finally absorbed by the Khitans in the 10th century.
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While I was at Computers in Libraries 2010, I listened to David Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States (he gave one of the keynotes at the conference). During his interview (Paul Holdengraber from New York Public Library interviewed him), he was talking about books and what he likes to read … and mentioned that he prefers print books over ebooks (he likes the aesthetics of paper books).
That's fine – I get that.
But then, the audience … at Computers in Libraries … applauded! Like he'd just won an award or something. And soon after, someone tweeted "Yeah! David Ferriero still reads REAL books!"
Help me out here – what's the most important part of a book – the paper? Or the stuff on the paper? Anyone?
Do authors really think about paper when writing books (I know I didn't when I wrote my book)? Most likely not. Instead, they're thinking about the next twist in the story, or how to adequately describe that next thought.
Does anyone applaud when someone says "I still watch Super 8 movies?" How about if someone said "I still love reading print journals?" Nope. No applause there. No one would tweet "Yay! He still reads REAL journals!"
When I read something, here's what I care about:
- getting sucked into the story (with fiction)
- learning something new or interesting (with non fiction)
- being entertained and engaged (with both)
For me, this happens via paper, my iPhone, my computer, an audio book, an ebook reader, or online. I'm guessing you're reading just fine right now.
So my point? I think it's time for us librarians to get over our paper fetish.
Content and container – the two are really, truly, different. Books are stories or a largish chunk of non-fiction text – novels, biographies, histories, etc. The format or container? This tends to change (though it hasn't in a long time).
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying books are bad. I'm also not saying print is bad. But I am saying that when lots of people applaud someone … at a conference dedicated to computers and the web … for favoring one container over another, it shows our bias, it shows our professional bent … and that bent needs to be adapting and growing and watching the horizon.
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Press Release Ithaca, N.Y. The long-awaited appeals case of Mary Anne Grady Flores, one of many Grandma drone protesters at Hancock MQ-9 Reaper Drone Base, will be heard by the panel of judges of the N.Y.S. Court of Appeals in Albany, on Oct. 11, 2017. Depending on the verdict, Grady Flores, who has already served 56 days, may have to complete 65 days in Jamesville, Onondaga County Jail, E. Syracuse. On Feb. 13th, 2013, Ash Wednesday, Ithaca Catholic Worker Grady Flores tookContinue reading
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Amicus Brief for Mary Anne Grady Flores
Jonathan Wallace has written an Amicus Brief for Mary Anne Grady Flores and submitted it to the Appeals Court on behalf of Upstate Drone Action. Mary Anne, one of the first Hancock protesters to receive an Order of Protection, decided not to press her luck and participate in the next civil resistance action outside the base. She did however come to the site of the protest and stand in the street photographing the participants. As she walked back to her car,Continue reading


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By SANCHESKA DORSETT
Tribune Staff Reporter
THE Bahamas Public Services Union is pursuing "legal action" against the Gaming Board for terminating some 30 people without consultation with the union.
In an interview with The Tribune, BPSU President Kingsley Ferguson said the union has hired a lawyer and is pursuing legal action against the government for refusing to reinstate the terminated employees.
Mr Ferguson also reiterated the Minnis administration has until the end of the week to rehire the employees or further "action" will be taken.
According to the BPSU, 17 employees, ranging from administrative assistants to revenue collectors and managers, were terminated last week. Last month about 18 workers were sent home from the Gaming Board.
Mr Ferguson said the BPSU has made attempts to communicate with Gaming Board and labour officials, but has not received any sort of response or clarification.
"We have had a conversation with the Gaming Board regarding the industrial agreement but we have had no conversation as it relates to the reinstatement of those persons that were terminated," Mr Ferguson said.
"So we have hired someone and we are pursuing our legal recourse and we will allow that to take its course. We have someone dealing with it, we have legal counsel and I will not disclose anything else. We are still putting some things together, just in case the government doesn't come to the table. If we reach that point, we will take some action and we will be fair."
Last week, National Congress of Trade Unions of the Bahamas (NCTUB) President Bernard Evans called the terminations "shameful" and "embarrassing."
He said: "While we have allowed this to go on for so long, this is enough. You asked about timeline, the BPSU is mandated by law to allow the process, I believe it takes about seven days to go through the process, but certainly after that seven days all gloves are off."
Mr Evans added that labour groups were trying to "restrain" themselves, but said the time is coming for them to "protest and protest loudly."
In response to the terminations, Gaming Board Chairman Kenyatta Gibson said last week some 30 employees were recently fired after a manpower assessment of the overstaffed agency.
Mr Gibson said over the past four years, staff at the Gaming Board increased by 40 per cent. He also said the entity is focused on engaging persons with a certain skill set who can properly regulate the gaming sector.
He said all those who were fired were paid "equitable and fair separation packages, with each and every one of their entitlements having been dealt with in a very generous fashion."
Mr Gibson said if any errors in separation payments were made, they would be corrected once brought to officials' attention.
licks2 2 years, 10 months ago
They will lose this case. . .the other government hired persons without the prerequisite skills for a specialized job. . .WHAT MUST THE NEW GOVERNMENT DO WITH THEM?
BMW 2 years, 10 months ago
The only people squawking are unions, they need to sit small! All they do is live large on the workers backs.
ohdrap4 2 years, 10 months ago
hey, give me those retirement packag and the triple dipping. thanks.
if i am getting 3-5 thousand per month for doing nothing, i will sue the union.
sheeprunner12 2 years, 10 months ago
Perry gave these people short term contracts leading up to the 2017 Election........ now if these contracts have run their course and the present government determined NOT to renew these contracts, how can this be illegal, un or discriminatory etc??????? ........... Now if there was an ulterior motive for the dismissals, the MOPS (Brensil Rolle) will have to answer to that.
sealice 2 years, 10 months ago
These people knew they were done back in May when the PLP lost ..... so did this dumbars union leader he of course did nothing until now when everyone know's their jobs are over and it's time to move on


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The Best Little Roadhouse - A 2012 Steak Adventure
Inside the place was loud with customers. It reminded me of a Great American Restaurant chain called Sweetwater, right down to the rusty color scheme. We were seated somewhat quickly in the back where it was less noisy and crowded. Once my boyfriend and I were seated, we experienced some of the best customer service I've ever had. Our waiter was prompt, attentive and friendly. The other wait staff were just as nice and professional. I ordered the Gilgamesh Mamba, a beer brewed with black tea and my boyfriend ordered a fruity cocktail we think was the Best Little Roadhouse Punch, though the name escapes us both as I write this review. Both drinks were delicious! I recommend the Mamba to those who like a lighter slightly sweet beer.
My side salad was nice even though I'm not a huge fan of Kraft salad dressing. My boyfriend ordered a tortilla soup that tasted very enchilada-esque and yummy. Their delicious sweet rolls are complementary with the meal, even though the menu states otherwise. Our steaks and baked potatoes came out a perfect amount of time after our soup and salads were finished, which is not something that happens at family restaurants consistently. I ordered the 8oz Prime Rib and he ordered 12oz Sirloin. The steaks tasted great! One criticism, from both of us, was that the cuts of meat had quite a bit of fat on them and both of us are picky about fat. Mine came with an au jus and a horseradish sauce, which went well with the Prime Rib. Even the small amount of whole green beans that came with each steak were crisp and tasty. More delicious green beans would have been nice.
I was very surprised at the great experience. It wasn't at all what I expected after listening to co-workers and family who have eaten here. Not that I ever heard any bad reviews, just mediocre. For those interested in prices, both steaks were around $16 a piece. I'm so glad I gave The Best Little Roadhouse a try. And thank you to Paul, our wonderful waiter!
The Best Little Roadhouse
1145 Commercial Street Southeast Salem, OR 97302
(503) 365-7225
Mon-Thu, Sun 11am–11pm
Fri-Sat 11–12am
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My husband and I have eaten here many times over the years and had consistently great customer service and great food. One time we had to send a steak back because it was too rare and they fell over themselves fixing it. The worst thing about BLR is the wait - which shows that others like the place too.
- Rebekah said...
I am a big fan of BLR. They have great staff, yummy food, and one of the best happy hours around. :) My favorite menu items are their Roadhouse salad, ribs with watermelon bbq sauce, and sweet potato side. Oh, and their bread with honey butter! Of course.
- Rob Owen said...
Great American Restaurant chain, huh? Lisa Anne must be a fellow refugee from the D.C. area. I hadn't thought about BLR looking like Sweetwater Tavern before but she's absolutely right. Fun to see the reference.
- Lise M said...
Hi Rob, sorry not from DC, but I did live there for a couple years and I went to Sweetwater quite a bit because it reminded me of the West Coast and I was homesick. Its neat someone else knew the reference! :)


text: President Obama on Thursday vowed that his administration would quicken its intake of Syrian refugees to reach the goal of allowing in 10,000 migrants that he set last year. "Administratively, I think now we have the process to speed it up," Obama said in a surprise appearance during the daily White House press briefing. "There may be efforts on the part of Congress to try to block us," he added. "But our goal is to continue to try to make the case to Congress and the American people that this is the right thing to do." "We believe that we can hit those marks before the end of the year."The administration is currently far behind the president's goal of allowing 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. by the end of fiscal year 2016 in October. Obama set the goal last summer, amid an intensifying battle over the U.S.'s refugee policy. As of Thursday, just 1,703 refugees had come to the U.S. from Syria, according to data from the State Department. The U.S. has made a concerted effort to speed up the process in recent months, with a surge of manpower to the Middle East, and especially Jordan, to try and interview and process more applicants. But so far, the results have been slow in coming. "We're going to keep on pushing," Obama said on Thursday. "And part of what has made this challenging is that we want to make sure that we can, as much as possible, provide the American people an assurance that everybody here has been vetted at a very high standard." Out of the 1,700 refugees already admitted into the United States by the Obama team, expect close to 400 of those refugees to support the radical Islamic group of ISIS. Also expect 100 of those willing to carry out ISIS inspired attacks on the homeland. With Obama now vowing to get his 10,000 refugees or more to admit to the homeland, get ready for the number of ISIS supporters to rise in the United States of America. What this administration doesn't understand or what I think they understand, is that it only takes 10 or fewer of these refugees to take out a major planned attack on our soil. Before Trump becomes our president, Obama is now vowing to turn America into the problem that the European Union now faces with the migrants.