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Sacramento Photos
I'm in Sacramento, California. Here are some pictures from where I am.
Hope your day is fabulous, wherever you are.
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Is that first one the Sacramento Bee?
I don't see any reference to it on your blog, but Tom Hanks name checked you in the New York Times book section today. He's obviously got great taste.
My hometown. Enjoy, there are a lot of things to love about the area.
Hoping you caught NYT By the Book where you make Tom Hanks list:
Which novelists do you especially enjoy reading?
Alan Furst, Philip Kerr, Amor Towles, John Scalzi.
Cool, what are you doing over there?
I'm no flower expert, but that first picture looks like the top of a triffid. Protect your eyes.
Yesterday, I arrived in Villereal, a village in southwest France where I'm going to housesit over the winter and look after a herd of alpacas. I did not make Tom Hanks's list of favorites, but last week George R.R. Martin called me "criminally underrated," and one of the "giants of the genre." So there's that.
That first photo is exactly the sort of thing I expect from Rusty, of HoneyBeeSuite.com.
Doesn't that violate some rule against crossing the streams?
In other words, Great photo of an actual honey bee (not one of the thousands of other kinds of bees, who are also quite lovely, but not my personal fanaticism).
At an outdoor wedding in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Not the ideal time of year, but the storm blew through yesterday, and the fall leaves are gorgeous.
I love the balloon with the capitol.
I'm glad you are far from the fires, although they might be providing you with some nice sunsets.
"… don't drink the water and don't breathe the air" — Tom Lehrer
creepy looking monk!
Xopher Halftongue, "Where are the other 98?"
Dang, you beat me to it. :)


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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Chicago at the front lines of the immigration battle
Here's an interesting article from the Tribune about how Trump's election has galvanized citizen groups in Chicago to redouble their efforts to protect undocumented immigrants. It also mentions a lot of worthy organizations, for anyone who's interested in volunteering for the good fight.
Posted by chicagron at 8:30 AM
Labels: Chicago, current events and politics, immigration, inequality, migration, race, urban social and labor issues
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Congratulations to Daan Van den Broecke the winner of the 2016 David Sugden Award Young Engineers Writing Award (pictured above receiving his award at the recent WTC2017 held in Bergen from ATS President, Ed Taylor). Daan has relocated to Belgium to continue broadening his working experience after completing his Masters of Science (Master of Fire Safety Engineering) at the University of Queensland. As well as recognition of an outstanding technical paper, the Sugden award prize also includes complimentary WTC registration and a significant contribution towards flights/accomodation for the duration of the event. Daan's Masters thesis entitled Study on the Effectiveness of Sprinkers in Tunnels was a standout for the judging committee and joins other high quality submissions from previous years.
Below are a few words from Daan on the award and encouragement for 2017 applicants!
I would like to thank the Australasian Tunnelling Society for the incredible experience experience at WTC2017 in Bergen, Norway. It was an absolute pleasure to be part of the Australian delegation. I got the opportunity to follow technical sessions on topics in my field of interest and get practical knowledge from several spectacular site visits. This gave me a great fundamental knowledge on the current state of the art in the tunnelling industry.But more than anything, I could connect with some very interesting professionals and forged some true friendships during the the many social events. Can't wait for the next!
Image (Left to Right): Keith Bannerman (ATSym Chair and ITAym Steering Committee), Ed Taylor (ATS President), Daan Van den Broeke (2016 David Sugden Award Winner), Alexandre Gomez (ITA Vice-President and Tutor to ITAym), Jurij Karlovsek (UQ Lecturer, past ATSym Chair and past ITAym Chair)


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This past week end saturday the 1st and sunday the snd of february, Free Lance booked, organised several trips for payloads teams as:
A day at COCO Creek by Montsinnery county, Caîman Island and scarlet Ibis watching by Sinnamary, A trip to Cacao village and Two days on a shelter up in a giant tree at Canopy Camp on the Kourou river. Of course the classic Devil's Island trip and for those who enjoyed nice food, welcome and site: the Belle Amédée Restaurant one of the best in french Guiana.
All these trips and leasures were done on free time and helped the spacecraf team members to relax and enjoy this new country and environment. FM


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Our FUNdament Grüner Veltliner 2018 is SALON National Champion 2019! So he is the best Grüner Veltliner in the category `Grüner Veltliner klassisch´. Naturally, Weinviertel is happy about that, because it is our parade variety. Hardly any winemaker in the Weinviertel does not have at least one Grüner Veltliner on offer. We have 4. And of that, one more SALON wine has become. Our Kugelberg 2018 is one of only 270 salon wines this year.
"And with such a difficult vintage! ..." The year 2018, it was hotter than ever before, Georg Weinwurm had to fight for the acidity. It was worth it!
We were already SALON National Champion in 2011. At that time with our Zweigelt Reserve 2009. What the Grüner Veltliner with the white wines is the Zweigelt with the red wines. The most important wine variety among red wines in Austria with the largest cultivated area. That makes us very proud! Nobody has yet managed to become national winner of SALON with these two varieties.
It is a long way to the victory. There are some tasting rounds in Lower Austria to pass first. A maximum of 188 wines from around 6,000 make it from the state award to the SALON final tasting. Then the best 3-5 wines of each category are tasted again and the winner determined.


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You can generally rollover plan balances, or even part of a plan balance, from a Thrift Savings Plan, IRA, 401k or other plan to another eligible plan. Rollovers can go directly from one plan to another, or you may be the intermediary, actually taking constructive receipt of the money before forwarding it to the new plan. However, not every plan is eligible to rollover to every other plan.
General Rules
Broadly speaking, TSP accounts are subject to the same rollover rules and provisions that govern other tax-deferred retirement plans, including traditional IRAs and 401k plans. If you have an old TSP balance and you are now covered under a new employer's 401k, you can generally roll the balance over. You can also generally roll a TSP account over to a traditional IRA account.
Tax Consequences
There are normally no tax consequences involved in rolling a TSP balance over to a 401k or other retirement plan. The IRS does not consider you to be in constructive receipt of the money. However, if you take the money directly, you only have 60 days to complete the transfer to your new 401k or you could be charged interest and penalties.
Roth Accounts
The specific rollover rules depend on whether your TSP plan is a Roth account or a traditional TSP account. Congress authorized Roth TSP accounts beginning in 2012. These are not tax-deferred accounts. You have already paid the taxes on Roth accounts. Roth accounts cannot generally be rolled over into anything but a Roth IRA or a Roth 401k designated account if your company has them.
Special Considerations
To make a withdrawal or transfer out of your TSP account, you must request it in writing by filling out a Form TSP 70 (for a full withdrawal) or a Form TSP 77 (for a partial withdrawal), and your signature must be notarized. You must also have your spouse sign off on the request if you are a FERS employee or uniformed services member.
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text: leading 67-63 after Tom Granado calmly made two free throws with 1:56 to play, firstname.lastname@example.com (562) 698-0955, Ext. 3046 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You're all set! LA HABRA – Whittier Christian High School's remarkable boys basketball season came to an abrupt end when Buckley grabbed a 69-67 victory over the Heralds in Tuesday night's CIF-Southern Section, Division IV-A quarterfinal playoff game. The Alpha League champions, not only didn't score again, and turned the ball over on its next-to-last possession. "A game like that is tough to swallow," Heralds coach Sherwin Durham said. "Unfortunately, we work to get ourselves set up to make a good run at the finals and we don't take advantage of the opportunity." Whittier Christian made just two of 16 shots and trailed, 18-5, after one quarter. The Heralds then put together a spirited rally behind Jake Ries' 10 points, including two 3-point baskets and eight points from Granado to trail 33-28 at halftime. Granado continued his run with 10 points as the score changed hands six times in the third quarter and Whittier Christian trailed, 48-47, going into the final period. Granado led all scorers with 27 points. Poland had 25. Richie Polan's put-back basket seconds earlier had given Buckley (23-6) a 68-67 lead and after the Heralds' turnover, he made one of two free throws for what turned out to be the final margin. Whittier Christian (25-5) brought the ball to midcourt and Randy Oronoz called time out with 6.9 seconds left, but when play resumed, Zach Torres' last-ditch, 10-foot jumper from the baseline was short and the Griffins got the rebound.


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Our relationships with Atradius are deep, they are long lasting and certainly they are valued.
We began working with Emirates Global Aluminium in 2004. Toby Shore, Senior Director for Group Treasury, Risk, Insurance and Tax. He acknowledges the length of time we have worked together is a testament to the strength of our partnership.
EGA's two major credit insurance aims are to meet stakeholders' requirements in relation to risk retention and to maintain a robust risk mitigation strategy.
"By holding a trade credit insurance program, we're able to trade with business partners, but also recognise the requirements of our stakeholders in terms of counterparty credit exposure management and balance sheet management," explained Toby Shore.
Our role
Our role involves supporting EGA's risk management strategy and providing market and sector insight as a trusted business partner. EGA's own credit philosophy is that they decide on whether they trade with a particular customer or not. They look to us to validate their decision and provide information to help them understand the risk factors surrounding any proposed business relationship.
The information and support we provide EGA is one of the risk factors they consider when forming their overall opinion of how credit worthy a customer is for them to trade with.
The relationship we have developed with EGA is also an important facet of our role with the company. Toby Shore highlighted this as something special. "The local account team here in the UAE is first class, the key account managers that we get and that we interact with from Amsterdam, not only understand our business but look to help us understand the challenges that they may face and within the geographies that we operate within", he said.
Atradius Credit Insurance has helped EGA grow their North American market at a speed and size that they would not have had an appetite to achieve if they had not had an effective risk management program in place.
As Toby Shore acknowledged: "Our business relationship and our partnership with Atradius really helped us to achieve our ambitious growth targets in North America.
"We point to the support we got from Atradius, and that we still enjoy, in the North American market to help us facilitate the rapid growth that we've seen in the last two to three years."
In addition, we have also supported EGA through three claims and, in all three instances, the company has been pleased with the outcome.
About Emirates Global Aluminium
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) is one of the world's largest primary aluminium producers. EGA's core operating assets are Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) and Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) – whose combined production is 2.5 million tonnes per year – and with interests in bauxite mining and alumina refining.
The combined DUBAL-EMAL portfolio comprises high quality aluminium products in four main forms: re-melt ingot (foundry for automotive applications and high purity aluminium for electronics and aerospace); billet (use for construction, industrial, transportation and automotive purposes); slab ingot (for lithographic sheets, food and drinks packaging, and the automotive industry); and liquid metal.
Most of EGA's annual production applies to value-added products; with about 90 per cent of total production being exported across the world. The company's key markets are Asia, the Middle East and North Africa region, Europe and the Americas.


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White Steel Falcon skull and bones
WOW!!! LOIC! I applaud your beautiful work! Simply PERFECT! LOVE IT LOVE LOVE IT! Thanks soooo much my friend. She is a work of art! The relicing is just right, neck plays wonderfully, and I love how you aged the knobs and Bigsby as well. Magnifique! PLAYED IT THROUGH MY 64 BLACKFACE DELUXE! The most versatile and resonant and warm sounding guitar I have ever played! This going to be my main guitar on my upcoming tour! I can even get some Tele sounds out of it!!! On the tour i am bringing my Gretsch Black Falcon and The Le Pape and all my tones are covered! The sustain on this guitar is unreal! I also cannot believe how WARM it sounds- it is the such a vintage yet COMPLETELY ORIGINAL SOUND! The Piezo's bring out such incredible resonance, and the neck feels so perfect and creamy! SHE IS PERFECT! YOU ARE A GENIOUS!!!!!!!! Thanks for building me the best guitar I have ever heard in my life! You are a true MASTER LUTHIER! With IMMENSE admiration.


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Pharoahe Monch - Broken Again
- Artist: Pharoahe Monch
- Track: Broken Again
- Producer: The Lion Share Music Group
- Album: P.T.S.D
Haile Selassie Karate, Bad MF, R.E.M. and Get Down, the previously-featured singles off Pharoahe Monch's senior set, were more about lyrical pyrotechincs than heady concepts, but don't get it twisted; the album sees the Organized Konfusion member tackling some heavy themes. Case in point: new single Broken Again, which describes the physical, mental and emotional hardships of an ex-heroin addict struggling to stay on the wagon. The Lion Share Music Group provides a tuneful backdrop for the rhymesayer's empathetic bars, and aaronisnotcool directs the accompanying visuals. Feeling it? More awaits on the artist's P.T.S.D. LP, out now via W.A.R. Media.


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Peonan Point: School Greenhouse
The students and staff of Peonan Point School have been fundraising for the last two years to build a greenhouse for the families who reside on the Point. The greenhouse is intended to operate all year round producing fresh foods for the community members and offer a diversity of learning opportunities to the local students. There are currently 8 students at the school. Fundraising efforts were quite labor intensive and included: making crafts to sell, baking for bake sales, and cleaning the local dump-site each spring. Parents, family and the craft sale attendees in nearby Ashern have generously supported the students. After the grant funds were applied to the balance due, they found the students had raised enough funds to make up the difference required.
As this greenhouse was meant to fill a gap in the community's accessibility to fresh produce, it needed to be a structure that would work in Manitoba winters. After considerable research and many nay-sayers, they settled on working with a company called Growing Technologies. Located in Neepawa, Growing Technologies helped to determine the size and design of the greenhouse. The structure was tested through two Manitoba winters with users successfully growing produce and flowers.
They had a few setbacks in the timing of the project, but kept pushing forward. The greenhouse was erected on a miserable, cold day in the fall of 2016 which was later than planned. Then the rain came and did not stop for about six weeks. That weather made travel in and out of the Point difficult at best. This pushed back the electrician's schedule, but hydro was finally hooked up in late October. The next challenge was getting the topsoil delivered. Many suppliers could not get to their stockpiles because of the wet, unfrozen ground. The grade 11 student who was taking a horticulture course tracked down a supplier in Hilbre and soil was delivered in early December. Everything was finally in place except the water.
The greenhouse has made a number of learning opportunities possible. For the first time at Peonan Point School, senior year students are able to take optional horticulture courses for high school credits. This opportunity is important, as most of the students have to take their high school courses by telephone or from the teacher in a tiny one room school. This has meant it has been difficult for students to get enough optional credits at the grade 11 and 12 levels. Currently a grade 11 student from the community is enrolled in two horticulture courses: greenhouse and landscaping. He monitors the temperature inside the greenhouse (in our 40 below weather) to determine what it should be set at. He has also searched out soil prices, researched plants that grow well in cooler temperatures, and cares for the plants that were salvaged from summer gardens. He is in the process of drawing up plans for a landscaped area to the south of the greenhouse. The creation of the raised beds and walkways have also put our Grade 11 students' woodworking skills to use.
To find out more about the School Greenhouse please read here.
To find out more about other community partners please read here.
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2CELLOS: Two 20-somethings rocking out, making the cello cool
Welcome to Throwback Tunesday, where Mashable amplifies the echoes of music past. With genre trends and throwbacks, we synthesize music and nostalgia.
Trying to describe 2CELLOS in just a few sentences is simply impossible. They're more than just a pair of pals playing some cello — they create a modern day mashup of boundary-breaking rock, pop and classical music. And, you can't fully appreciate the talent that Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser bring to the table until you've watched them perform, either in one of their YouTube videos, which have accumulated tens of millions of views, or in-person (which we highly suggest you do).
The Croatian duo found fame after they posted a viral cover of "Smooth Criminal" on YouTube in 2011. Since then, they've released three albums, have gone on tour with Sir Elton John, appeared on shows like Glee, Ellen, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Today show and, as of this week, performed live at Mashable's office. And we can tell you firsthand that these cellists know how to rock.
Cello duo @2cellos stopped by @MashableHQ this afternoon for a little jam session: http://t.co/Spgb99t67h
— Mashable (@mashable) February 2, 2015
After their sweat-inducing, bow-destroying performances of some classic rock ballads — "Thunderstruck," "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Smells like Teen Spirit" — Sulic and Hauser sat down with Mashable to talk about their process, inspiration and the incredible journey thus far.
Q&A with 2CELLOS
Why did you choose the cello to play as children?
Stjepan: I heard it on the radio when I was little, and the sound was so warm, so magical. I fell in love immediately. It was a beautiful slow sound. It sounded like a human voice, so tender and gentle.
Luka: I started when I was 5, my father was a cellist as well. That's how I started — I didn't have any choice. It was already my biggest passion, and I never thought about doing anything else.
The two of you met when you were around 14?
S: We were considered to be rivals.
L: Because we were both ambitious young cellists from the same country. We were going to competitions and master classes, practicing like crazy. We were in fact good friends, but still this rivalry exists between us when we play or hang out.
S: But it's healthy because we push each other ...
L: ... who gets more likes on Facebook.
Who's winning?
S: When you're bored, he's winning.
So, what made you want to join forces?
S: Because we were good friends, but there was always this tension, so much excitement and energy. We always wanted to play together, but we didn't have time because we were studying in different countries. Then he came to London to study.
You have such great chemistry and are so in sync. Was that something that was there from the beginning or something that you had to work on?
L: It comes naturally. We are different, but we complement each other very well, and we naturally feel what the other person is going to do.
S: It was [there] from the first moment.
How did mixing of genres start?
S: We just wanted to show that music is universal. Why divide it into different categories? It made no sense to us. And cello has so many possibilities, so we tried to do something exciting.
L: We were hanging out in London, thinking about what we could do. We felt restricted in the classical music world that has certain rules. We wanted to break out and do something new, like a revolution sort of.
S: The cello musical revolution.
L: I think it's also good for classical music in general, too, because we include them in shows, and we play for a wider audience, so we introduce classical music to them as well.
You really started gaining hype after you put your "Smooth Criminal" video on YouTube, and you got something like over 3 million views in the first two weeks. Can you take me back to that time. What was it like getting so many views all of a sudden?
S: Everything we could have ever imagined came true. It was amazing.
L: Actually it was a bit stressful because we were suddenly thrown from being in this classical world, studying to spotlight. Show business is so different, we got like 100 emails a day.
S: A day? Five minutes. We just had this one song, and we didn't have anything else, no management, nothing.
L: Luckily we met the right people at right time. And also Elton John discovered us and he also signed us to his management and helped us through all this ... we were lucky that we could develop from YouTube sensations to something else. We signed with Sony, and the third album just came out and our second was full of collaborations.
When you come up with new songs to cover, how does that work? How do you pick?
L: For this album everything started with "Thunderstruck." It came out a year ago, and we were so happy with feedback from the people, and this is where we combine classical stuff with hard rock, combine two worlds and break the boundaries. That set the concept of the whole album. We tried to think about which tracks would fit this classical material as well. "Thunderstruck" took us three months to get final arrangements. Some come really quickly. We suggest songs to one another and see.
What about when you disagree?
L: It's good to suggest silly ideas.
S: The first time I suggested "Wake Me Up," he said, "Let's not do it." Then a year later, he said, "Okay, let's do it."
L: Yeah, I woke up.
Your music videos are incredible — not only astounding musically, but also really funny. How did the concept for "Wake Me Up" come about?
S: It's like our life ... autobiographical.
L: Many of our videos have autobiographical meaning. When we go to studio to record a track, at the same time we think about the video concepts. When we did the arrangement for "Wake Me Up," it's normal at the beginning, then dance music and the middle part is classical — so we said, "Oh, lets make a story like when we were children and then we escape from music school like we're rebellious, and then the current time rocking out in a club with girls, and then when the classical part comes we can get makeup to look old and go to nursing home and play classical and start rocking out, and old people rock out with us." We think about different ideas and make them happen, I guess.
What did you think of how you looked in the old makeup?
S: I hope I will look like this. L: I hope I won't.
You think that will be you two, still playing cello together when you're old and gray?
L: We hope to do this for as long as we can.
S: Yes, to keep rocking for as long as we can. That we should always keep this child in us forever.
You also have an original song, "Celloverse," on this album. What was it like to create your own song?
L: We wanted to break our routine of recording other arrangements, so we came up with riffs and a melody, and after we rerecorded it sounded like traveling through the universe, like when you die and your soul goes up. The word [Celloverse] was mentioned on social media. Then we named the whole album after this song. Many fans say this is their favorite track, which is encouraging. We want to do more originals.
You've been touring and promoting this album for a little while now?
L: First we went to Australia, then to Japan, and in Japan we celebrated our fourth anniversary of when "Smooth Criminal" was uploaded. January 20 is now officially 2Cellos day in Japan.
Your performance today was pretty intense. How many bows do you go through in a week?
L: I actually destroyed one during this filming.


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Qubool Hai 4th March 2013 Written Episode Update
Qubool Hai 4th March 2013 Written Episode, Qubool Hai 4th March 2013 Written Update
Scene 1:
Location: Inside the delapidated building
Zoya says that there must be someone around this house, who can give info about the residents of this place. A person walks in and asks about them. zoya asks him who used to reside here. He says that he has been guarding this place for ages, but noone has come here. she asks if he has any info at all about the owner of this place. He replies in negative, saying that years back, someone used to come, but nomore. She shows him the pic that she has and asks him if he recognizes anyone. Pointing out to a pesrson, he says that he knows this man. She asks him about the pwerson's name. But he sys that he doesnt remember the person's name but that years ago, he went to america, and had returned after that. she asks if he knows where he lives now. He says that he has a vague impression, that he lives in bhopal, somewhere near the big mosque. She tells asad that this man is her father, as it coincides wioth the info, that she has of him going to america. SAhe goes out in despair. Zoya is overwhelmed having come face to face with an aspect of her past, and coming one step closer to finding her father.
Asad places a hand on zoya's shoulder to comfort her. Zoya turns around and looks for solace in his arms and hugs him tight.(MITWA MOMENT) Asad, too finally, letting go of his awkwardness hugs her and wraps his arms around her, while she sobs on his shoulders.
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Location: Ayan's residence
Razia is wondering who could be behind sending the message, and wonders if she is doubting unnecessarily. She finds a cloth underneath which to her horror, lie burnt dolls, which remind her of the conspiracy. As she leans on the almirah, more such dolls fall on her, making her scream in horror.
She runs down, and asks humaira if she saw anyone going into her room. when she says no, humaira is shocked when razia goes berserk and starts shouting out who was here. She takes humaira to her room, but to her surprise, she finds the room without any trace of a single doll, and is shocked. humaira is upset as she doesnt understand whats going on.
Razia thinks that things are getting out of hand and that she is being targeted, and decides that she would have to find out if Billo Rani has started with her plan. Razia is happy, when she talks to Billo Rani, and says that she shouldnt waste any more time and start with her plan.
As razia tries to wipe her hands in a cloth, she is scared to find her hands soaked in blood, with a chit saying,
She says that every bet has a wonner and a loser, and razia never loses. She says that whoever is doing this, wont stop,hence she has already laid out the trap this time, and she would know who's behind this.
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Location: Ayan's residence
Nazma opens the door, on someone knocking the door. She is surprised to see a gaudily dressed woman standing there and asks what does she want. she gets in introducing herself as Billo, saying that her maid has sent her as she was out of town for a week, and hence has send her instead. when dilshad asks that she doesnt have any info about this, and they dont anything about her too, billo says that she knows everything about them, as she has been told everything by padma. She begins to do her work, while dilshad and nazma are still confused.
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Location: On the road
Asad and zoya begin to get into the car. asad asks zoya is she's alright. Not getting a response from her, he goes to her and asks again. she says yes. He asks if she ever thought why her dad never tries to find her. Zoya in confused. He clarifies saying that she's going through lenghts and breadths to find out about her father, but he never bothered to do the same for her daughter, which he ideally should. zoya asks him not to talk like that, as they dont know for sure, if he searched for her or not, and that when she finds him, they would be abel to clarify all doubts as to why he left her and if he tried to find out about her or not. Asad decides not to take it any further and stops.
Zoya gets ayan's phone. Zoya talks to ayan on the phone, in a codic language, saying that asad has left along with her and is asked by ayan to stop at Kalibagh Crossing, where they would start along with their plan. He asks why isnt she talking, she says in a codic language, that asad is sitting right next to him. They decide to call their mission, OPERATION LAAL RUMAAL.
Zoya is asked by asad, about the unusual name robert, and she in retorts back saying that is it that he's jealous that she was talking to another guy. asad rubbishes off her stupidity.
Midway, zoya asks him to stop, as she wants to drink tea. As asad says that they would find a better place, she again frustrates him, by saying her poetry,
India mein beech sadak mein mil jaati hai gaayin….
Aur sadak kinare milti hain, duniya ki best chai..!!!
Asad, again gives in to zoya's whims just to get her to shut up. she gets out and goes on to get asad to order for tea. While asad is busy, zoya waves at ayan, with a red handkerchief, and ayan too does the same, saying that the operation has begun. Asad finds her doing so and asks if she was signalling someone. she says no and that she was trying to just dry her handkerchief, which she did. Asad not wanting to get into a stupid conversation with her, gets him tea.
As ayan goes on work on asad's car, taking fuel from his car, through a pipe, in disguise, draped with a shawl, to distract asad, zoya says that she wants a better tea, as this is stale, and goes on to tell asad how much she is health conscious about the fact that she wants a good tea and not a stale one. Asad is increasingly getting impatienn with her idiocies, while ayan goes on about his work, as zoya keeps him occupied with her whims.
Ayan thinks to himself that without petrol in his car, he wont be able to go to Bhopal, and if that happens then he wont be able to present himself at the hearing also. The screen freezes on his face.
Precap: Zoya is trying to scare off asad, by giving him an account of how a ghost of a lady keeps wandering in the night, with a candle asking for lift in their vehicle. She screams out in horror, as she finds a similar person on the road. Asad, however goes upto that lady, and slaps her tight, instead of getting scared. Zoya is shocked to see this.
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Arturia are excited to announce the imminent release of MiniLab MkII: a space saving, high-quality controller bundle that's perfectly suited to small home studios and musicians on the move. MiniLab MkII combines an expressive 2 octave keyboard, RGB backlit performance pads, 16 rotary knobs, with an impressive suite of included software, for an amazing price.
Key features of the MiniLab MkII include:
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Using sheets of A1 paper, famed paper artist Richard Sweeney created four sculptural life-sized horse for an Olympic-inspired flower festival. Set inside Lincoln Cathedral in the UK, "Dreams of Gold" saw tens of thousands of flowers from every corner … Continue reading
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Granted, tablets are getting up there in size, but even after a couple of Android all-in-ones (including, in fact, one from Acer early this year), we're still not fully used to playing Angry Birds on a glossy 24-inch display. We're sure we'll get a better handle on it, but these things take time. For those who want their Android games and apps in full, giant HD, there's the DA241HL. We've got to admit, while it's still an odd space, Acer's doubling down here, with a pretty nicely designed all-in-one that looks a bit better than the current DA220HQL.
Along the bottom, you'll find one long speaker grille with four buttons: input, monitor settings, volume up and down and power. Flip the device around to find the hinged stand and a removable panel that hides three USB ports, an SD slot, a headphone jack, HDMI and micro-USB sockets. The USB, in particular, will come in handy when you want to connect up a keyboard and mouse, and you'll be using the HDMI and micro-USB should you decide to connect a phone or PC to use it as a secondary display.


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Contesting Real Estate Tax Assessments
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February 2017 Market Overview
$Us Dollar:
This month started with improved ADP Non-Farm Employment Change and Non-Farm Employment Change, ISM Manufacturing and Unemployment Claims. CB Consumer Confidence, Average Hourly Earnings m/m, ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI and Unemployment Rate came below Expectations. Fed Funds Rate remained at 0.75%. Second week saw improved Crude Oil Inventories, improved Unemployment Claims, while Preliminary UoM Consumer Sentiment disappointed.
This mid-month brought good news all around with improved PPI m/m, Retail Sales m/m, Core Retail Sales, CPI m/m and Core CPI m/m, Building Permits, Crude Oil Inventories and Filly Fed Manufacturing Index. FOMC Meeting Minutes were disappointed with cautious approach to fixed date on rate hike, Unemployment Claims were improved and Crude Oil Inventories came well below.
USD Index is potentially forming Head and Shoulder, with the neckline at 99.45 and the target around 95.05. Now dancing on 100 support.
The month started with reduced Manufacturing PMI but above expectations and reduced Caixin Manufacturing PMI. Trade Balance came at 355B, well above expectations. CPI y/y came at 2.5%, and above expectations of 2.4%.
German Ifo Business Climate came below expectations as did German ZEW Economic Sentiment and Flash GDP q/q. Second half of the month saw improved Flash Manufacturing PMI, Flash Services PMI and German Ifo Business Climate. Uncertainty with upcoming French and Dutch elections weighted on the Euro.
EurUsd reversed at 1.0847 resistance and slowly descended to the zone of support around 1.05, testing it twice.
The month started with Manufacturing PMI as expected followed by disappointing Construction PMI and Services PMI. Official Bank Rate remained at 0.25%. This was followed by improved Manufacturing Production m/m and Claimant Count Change, while CPI y/y, Average Earnings Index 3m/y and Retail Sales were disappointing. Second half of the month brought Improved Second Estimate GDP q/q.
GBPUSD after a short decent in the first week GBP spent the rest of the month consolidating.
First week saw disappointing Retail Sales, Interest Rate remained at 1.5%, and Mid-month brought well improved Employment Change and Unemployment Rate. Private Capital Expenditure q/q came below expectations.
AudUsd ascended to the resistance zone around 0.773, where it remained, retesting it at the end of the month
Week ahead in the News
USD: CB Consumer Confidence, Preliminary GDP q/q, ISM Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing PMI, Unemployment Claims and Crude Oil Inventories.
CNY: Caixin Manufacturing PMI; GBP: Manufacturing, Construction and Services PMI, AUD: GDP q/q, CAD: GDP m/m, BOC Rate Statement, NZD: Employment Change q/q, Unemployment Rate .


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A week of statewide teacher protests in California, over threatened budget cuts that would devastate elementary and secondary schools and their students, included the arrest of 26 members of the California Teachers Association on May 13 after a sit-in at the Capitol here.
The impact of the protests organized by the association, a National Education Association affiliate, is unclear. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, proposed extending $11 billion in expiring tax increases to fund the schools and close the state's overall budget gap, but the GOP minority in the state legislature may have enough votes to block that.
Besides the Sacramento protest, where California Teachers Association President David Sanchez and the others were arrested after refusing to leave lawmakers' offices, thousands of teachers and their supporters marched in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Bernardino, and elsewhere.
All said that without the revenue, state aid – necessary because of California's long-standing local property tax caps – would be devastated, and so would the schools.
"Education can't take these cuts anymore," Joyce Medeiros, a sixth grade teacher in San Juan Batista, told the Associated Press during a 1,000-person rally in San Francisco. She said K-3 classes now have 32 kids or more, far above national averages and recommendations for success in schools. "We've taken our cuts," she said. "It's time to look for other solutions."
"If we don't get the extension, then public education in California will die," A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, told an afternoon press conference there; he accompanied yet another rally that drew thousands. Vincent Precht, a special education teacher in L.A., showed solidarity with his fired colleagues – due to the budget cuts – at the L.A. rally by wearing a woman's pink slip over his clothes, the Los Angeles Times reported. "I've never seen such a terrible anti-teacher anti-union atmosphere," he said.
Susie Hernandez, a fourth grade teacher in Sacramento, came to the state Capitol protest because, "Our state is falling apart. I'm hoping that somebody who can do something is willing to."
But the attitude of the GOP was symbolized by state Assembly GOP minority leader Connie Conway, who said tax increases are not needed to fund the schools. "These big union tactics will not sway my opinion," she said in a statement.
The GOP has countered with its own $2.5 billion school aid plan, which teachers called inadequate.
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This limited edition kit makes this summery sunflower.
It's a perfect quilt to make as a wall hanging.
Do you want just the pattern? Find is here.
Kit Includes:
All the fabric you see in the photo to make one sunflower, including the fabric for the border and binding.
Steam-a-Seam fusible
Full sized pattern on paper
Full sized pattern in reverse on freezer paper
Step-by-step instructions with pictures for the raw edge with spaces method.
Backing not included.
Finished Size approx: 17" x 16"
The blue fabric is what you will put all of the other pieces on top of. Then cut and place the flower pieces on top of the light blue background.
Once your applique pieces are fused to the background, stitch with a straight stitch around each piece with matching thread.
Trim to square, then add a 1" border.
Add batting and backing and quilt as desired


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Grieg Holdings AS, main shareholder in Grieg Seafood ASA ("Grieg Seafood"), has today decided to transfer all its shares in Grieg Seafood to Grieg Aqua AS through a demerger. Grieg Aqua AS will be established when the demerger is completed. The parent company of Grieg holdings AS, Grieg Maturitas II AS, will be the sole shareholder of Grieg Aqua AS.
Through the demerger 55 801 409 shares, corresponding to 49.97% of the outstanding shares in Grieg Seafood, are transferred. Grieg Holdings AS will not hold any shares in Grieg Seafood after the transaction.
In addition Grieg Ltd AS (owned 100% by Grieg Maturitas II AS) holds 217 390 shares, corresponding to 0.20%. The shares held by Grieg Ltd AS will be transferred to Grieg Aqua AS when the demerger of Grieg Holdings AS is completed.
In total Grieg Maturitas II AS holds 56 018 799 shares in Grieg Seafood through its subsidiaries, corresponding to 50.17% of the outstanding shares.
The Oslo Stock Exchange has, pursuant to section 6-2 (3) of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act, granted an exemption from the mandatory offer obligation with respect to the transactions.
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to Sections 4-2 and 4-3 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.


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So why Butter Not Margarine?
To try and understand the facts around this issue, it's useful to go back in history to see where the idea that margarine might be better for your health than butter came from. Most of the confusion started with the publication in 1977 of the report "Dietary Goals for the United States". The key recommendations from this report were that people should increase carbohydrate consumption, reduce fat consumption, particularly of saturated fat while increasing their intake of polyunsaturated fat. The report also recommended a reduction in consumption of cholesterol, sugar and salt.
This report was followed by a 1992 Food Guide Pyramid which recommended that fats and oils should be used sparingly and that the biggest proportion of your diet should come from the bread, cereal, rice and pasta group - in other words high carbohydrates and high levels of gluten.
Since the publication of these two reports, there has been a massive deterioration in the health of the American people and people around the world - this was the beginning of the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, dementia and related conditions, which are happening now.
There are four key arguments that support the idea that using butter instead of margarine will enhance your health.
The Safety of Saturated Fat
A recent research review has shown that the demonisation of saturated fats was NOT supported at all by the research data that was available to the Congressional Panel in 1977, at the time that they came up with "Dietary Goals for the United States".
There have now been several reviews of all the studies done over the last 40 years about the health consequences of dietary saturated fats. These have all shown that a higher intake of saturated fats is not associated with increased risk heart disease, stroke, diabetes or death from any causes. This is contrary to the prevailing dietary advice you will get from most sources, which is not based on what the research data shows!
You could speculate for hours as to why this is so, but the important point you need to know is that saturated fats are NOT actively bad for you - as a group saturated fats are neutral - in that they are neither actively good for you or actively bad for you.
Butter contains about 65% saturated fat. Around 6% is the easily digestible short chain triglycerides - there is some evidence that these are actually heart healthy. It also contains about 8% medium-chain triglycerides – these are all neutral fats. Butter also contains around 21% of the health promoting Omega 9 fats.
The Safety of Dietary Cholesterol
Elevated blood cholesterol is actually a response from your body to stress because cholesterol is the building block for your stress hormone cortisol. So in response to long-term stress, your body starts making more cholesterol, so that it can then make more cortisol because without adequate cortisol you die.
The reality is your body needs cholesterol because;
It is the key component of the cell walls that provides the stiffness necessary for the correct function of your tissues.
It's required at high levels in your brain, in fact, your brain contains 25% of the cholesterol in your body.
Cholesterol is also the precursor to the other steroid hormones in your body, most notably your sex hormones and Vitamin D.
A large study done on Swedish woman of a wide age range showed that the risk of death from all causes (and cardiovascular disease) declined as their total cholesterol levels went up. There are other studies that support the same conclusion that reasonably high levels of cholesterol reduce your risk of death. Higher levels of cholesterol also reduce the risk of mental conditions such as depression, dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
The latest research has shown that it is only the very small particle size LDL cholesterol that is a risk factor for heart disease and your body makes this type of cholesterol in response to higher sugar levels, not animal fats. A low-fat diet not only increases your amount of small particle LDL, but it also reduces the amount of heart-protective HDL cholesterol, so increasing your fat intake and eating low glycemic index foods are an important tool for increasing your heart and overall health.
Fortunately, policymakers are finally catching up with the science and in 2015 the United States Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee removed any recommendations to limit the amount of cholesterol in your diet, so the small amount of cholesterol in butter does not put your health at risk.
Your Omega 6/will Omega 3 Balance
Your genes evolved on a diet that had roughly equal amounts of the two essential fatty acids Omega 3 and Omega 6 and your genes have changed by a minuscule amount of the last 10,000 years. The 1977 report "Dietary Goals for the United States" recommended increasing the intake of Omega 6 fats, which gave the fledgeling vegetable oil industry the green light to produce huge amounts of refined Omega 6 oils which are now widely used in processed foods and dominate the supermarket shelves.
The effect of this explosion in Omega 6 oil consumption has meant that most people have somewhere between 10 and 30 times more Omega 6 in their body than they have Omega 3 – a very long way from the desired 1 : 1 ratio which your body evolved on.
The health consequences of this imbalance are profound and are summed up in the proceedings of a scientific conference on the subject.
"A higher Omega 6/Omega 3 ratio is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease, colorectal cancer, asthma, osteoporosis, arthritis and neurodegenerative diseases and various aspects of mental illness, violent behaviour and deficient cognition in both children and the elderly."
Grass fed butter, such as we have in the shops in New Zealand, contains around 1.4% Omega 6 and 1% Omega 3 fats. This gives it a healthy 1.4 : 1 ratio of Omega 6: Omega 3.
This compares very favourably with the butter from more intensive farming systems where the cows are fed lots of oilseed residues and other concentrates containing Omega 6, which gives the butter an Omega 6: Omega 3 ratio of around 7 : 1 to 10 : 1.
Grass-fed butter also contains usefully higher concentrations of vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin K 2 (important for calcium metabolism) and also a fatty acid called CLA, which has been shown to help with weight loss.
Margarine, on the other hand, is typically made from cheap Omega 6 oils, such as soybean or cottonseed oils. Typically this gives them an Omega 6 content of around 25%, with little or no Omega 3. There are some margarine available which contain some olive oil, which does reduce the Omega 6 content, but they still have a very high Omega 6 : Omega 3 ratio and contain damaged fats.
Using grass-fed butter will contribute to a more healthy Omega 6 : Omega 3 ratio, whereas butter from more intensive farming systems and margarine, will both contribute to a less healthy Omega 6 : Omega 3 ratio.
Damaged Fats in Margarine
Margarine is made from vegetable oils that have been processed by the addition of hydrogen to make them into a solid or semisolid spread. The issue for your health is that this process creates trans fats or damaged fats, which can sit on enzyme sites in your cell and block the access of real fats to the enzymes. Trans fats have been shown to be seriously damaging to your health, in particular, heart disease, inflammation, insulin resistance and risk of diabetes.
The partial hydrogenation method used to make much margarine involves bubbling hydrogen through an Omega-6 or 9 oil (i.e. soybean or olive oil) at high pressures and high temperatures (120 - 240 oC) in the presence of an aluminium/nickel catalyst (leaving residues of nasty heavy metals in the product).
Hydrogenation attacks the double bonds present in both Omega-6 and 9 oils in a random fashion, potentially either - shifting them along the molecule, rotating them into trans fats or clipping the molecule into fragments. The potential number of different molecules made by this random process is staggering and has never been fully characterised.
Partial hydrogenation can create very high levels of trans fats, so read your labels and try and avoid processed foods containing partially hydrogenated oils – many of them do.
Because of the trans fat problem that occurs with partial hydrogenation and the damage, this does to the image of margarine, many margarine manufacturers now use a method called interesterification to make margarine with lower levels of trans fats.
This involves complete hydrogenation of an Omega-6 or Omega-9 oil, which means the damaged fragments of fat created by the hydrogenation process are still present.
The resulting solid fat is then mixed with an Omega-6 or Omega-9 oil in the presence of enzymes or catalysts to modify the structure of the blended oil into molecules that do not normally exist in nature, but which give the right texture.
Does this process make a margarine that is any better for your health? - recent evidence suggests not.
The first longer term human study showed that after only four weeks on a diet with a high proportion of interesterified margarine, there were substantial adverse health effects. Fasting glucose was raised by 20%, to a level considered pre-diabetic and insulin production was reduced. This diet also reduced the HDL: LDL ratio in a similar manner to Trans fats.
Health consequences of eating margarine
A recent study on dietary influences on IQ turned up a surprising connection: children who ate margarine regularly scored significantly lower on intelligence tests than their peers. The study was conducted by researchers from Auckland University in New Zealand and published in the journal Intelligence.
The researchers found that children who ate margarine daily scored three points lower on IQ tests by the age of three-and-a-half than children with lower margarine consumption. By the age of seven, the average IQ scores of some margarine eaters were six points below those of their peers.
A recently published Australian study looked at the effects of increasing omega 6 intakes on 458 men who had had a recent heart attack. They were asked to increase their Omega 6 intake to 15% and reduce their intake of saturated fat. They were given safflower oil and safflower margarine to help them achieve this.
As expected, they had a significant reduction in total and LDL cholesterol content, which most people would assume would lead to a reduction in the risk of heart disease. The reality was those eating a higher omega 6 level, some of it from margarine, had a higher risk of dying from or any cause, including heart disease. The authors also reviewed all the published intervention trials where Omega 6 oils replaced saturated fat and found no evidence of benefit.
So why does The Heart Association, and likely your doctor, still promote the idea that you should increase your intake of polyunsaturated fats (omega 6) and use margarine? We know that the latest science shows that this advice actually increases your risk of heart disease – you could speculate for hours as to why this is so, but this doesn't change the fact that substituting margarine for butter is a really bad idea for your health.
Try This
If you are not convinced, try this little experiment - take a lump of butter and margarine and put them on a plate somewhere accessible, but out of the sun.
When I did this, it took three days for a mouse to find them and eat all the butter. When I threw the "olive oil" margarine out 3 months later it was still sitting there totally inert - the mouse wouldn't eat it, insects hadn't touched it and no fungus had grown on it. In other words, IT IS NOT FOOD - there are no enzymes in nature or in your body to digest it.
Since your body uses whatever fats are in your blood stream to make the cell walls of the billions of new cells it makes daily, eating bad fats like margarine is going to affect many bodily processes.
Butter is Better
So go and enjoy a moderate level of grass-fed butter in your diet - I do (well according to my family it's not a very moderate amount at all - they have accused me of having toast with my butter).
Tip of the day: You can make very healthy soft butter by combining a softened 500 g pack of butter with a 250 ml bottle of Flax Original in your food processor. Store in the fridge, preferably in a light-proof container.
David Musgrave - Owner
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Posted: 29th January 2016
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If you have ever read much of the political philosophy and commentary of renowned anarchosyndicalist intellectual Noam Chomsky, then you are probably familiar with his view that large private business organizations are "private tyrannies" oversized and antidemocratic institutions that function according to that most hated of organizational principles, the hierarchy! According to Chomsky,
As state capitalism developed into the modern era, economic, political and ideological systems have increasingly been taken over by vast institutions of private tyranny that are about as close to the totalitarian ideal as any that humans have so far constructed.
Chomsky goes on to cite with approval the work of political economist Robert Brady who states,
Within the corporation all policies emanate from the control above. In the union of this power to determine policy with the execution thereof, all authority necessarily proceeds from the top to the bottom and all responsibility from the bottom to the top. This is, of course, the inverse of "democratic" control; it follows the structural conditions of dictatorial power.
But what are the "structural conditions" for dictatorial power? And are corporations really "about as close to the totalitarian ideal as any [institution] that humans have so far constructed," as Chomsky contends? Is Starbucks as close to the totalitarian ideal as, say, the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler? Is Wal-Mart as totalitarian an institution as the Bolshevik state of Vladimir Lenin? Even to ask these questions is to see their patent absurdity. For, while a dictatorship is certainly structured as a hierarchy, this is most clearly not a sufficient condition. Rather, the most basic and essential condition for dictatorial power, which stands out unmistakably in truly totalitarian regimes, is the ability of the dictator to initiate physical force to compel others to do as they are told.
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Pet Product Review – YourBreed.com Men's Sherpa Lined Hooded Sweatshirt
My #1 favorite article of clothing…… The Sherpa Lined Hooded Sweatshirt from YourBreed.com. YourBreed.com sent me, as a sample, one of their famous Sherpa Lined Hooded Sweatshirts. Of course, mine is embroidered with an almost 3-dimensional Sheltie image. Let me tell you, it is the most perfect article of clothing for March and April. Its heavy, but soft and lite to carry and wear. And looks so sharp when matched with your YourBreed embroidered baseball cap.
Style and functionality is what this hooded sweatshirt is all about. And at only $65.95 it is a bargain. YourBreed uniquely ebroiders the image of your dog's breed on left chest is understated and fun. The fabric is 75% cotton/25% poly jersey lined sleeves. Front pouch-like pockets contain a hidden cell phone pocket. Tru2size fit, specifically designed slightly larger to accommodate shrinkage after washing. I love the attention they paid to the extras. Like the bone shaped zipper pull and Paw/bone on the back are sure to let everyone know your pride in your dog's breed.
The colors come in grey and white.
If you love the breed of your dog, the YourBreed.com Sherpa Lined Hooded Sweatshirt is a must have! Go to www.yourbreed.com to order yours.
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Linda grew up in Wallaceburg and graduated from Wallaceburg District Secondary School with a degree in Business (Honours).
She currently lives in Wallaceburg and commutes to Chatham.
After completing her schooling she accepted a position at Wallaceburg Brass in the accounting department. She held several positions in the 23 years that she worked there. The most recent positions that she held were credit manager and office manager. She left Waltec Faucets as it was known after 23 years due to plant closure.
She spent eight years at Chinook Group in the administration office working in finance and managing their offshore office in Barbados.
After eight years she left Chinook to work at Community Living in Wallaceburg as the finance manager for four years. From there she left Community Living and applied for a medical secretary position with the Chatham-Kent Family Health Team. In 2006 she accepted the position of medical secretary working with Dr. Parambil, Jon Ann Meko, NP and Mary Bondy as nurse.
Linda said she needed a change and found she was able to learn a lot about the medical field and increase her knowledge through her work. In 2010 she moved to the position of administration assistant and finance manager. She is now responsible for staffing, scheduling, payroll and financial information.
Over the years she has attended many educational programs regarding human resources, billing for OHIP, dealing with difficult people and payroll courses.
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I am Madhur and I married to a very beautiful girl Jhanvi, who is very cooperative and submissive in the bed and open for variations in our sex life. Our sex life is fantastic and we are loving and caring couple with very good understanding for each other. Hindi Sex Stories
Although I have few premarital and extramarital affairs and I feel myself very lucky to avail the opportunities arrived.
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 (Photo credit: indigo_jones)food tour
All across the city you will find locals munching on this ubiquitous snack. It is a meatyragout covered in breadcrumbs which is subsequently deep fried. If that doesn't sound appetising to you, consider the fact that over 350 million of them are eaten every year. The local joke is that you never know what meat is inside (horse?). Kroketten come is many varieties: beef, veal and saté, to name a few (not horse).
Last year's winner of Best Kroket in the Netherlands went to the massive snack-bar chain Febo, which you will find all over the city. Grab a kroket out of the typical Dutch snack vending machines. Get some mustard from the counter and enjoy! (Warning: the inside of fresh kroketten are hotter than the surface of the sun. Eat with caution)
Stroopwafel (Photo credit: roboppy)
This syrup-filled waffle cookie is, to put it mildly, delicious. Originally made in the small town of Gouda (yes, like the cheese) in the 19thcentury from the leftovers in bakeries, within a century there were around 100 bakeries specialising in this sweet snack.
You can find freshly made stroopwafels at many outdoor markets, or simply head to any supermarket where they are stocked in abundance. To maximise your stroopwafel experience, melt the syrup by heating the cookie up (either by putting it over your coffee cup or in the mircrowave for 2 seconds).
Pannenkoek with bacon and Gouda cheese (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pancakes are pancakes, right? What could possibly be special about the Dutch variety?
The answer is, variety. Dutch pancakehouse (Pannenkoekhuis) menus look more like pizza menus than anything else. Enjoy a big, thin pancake with cheese, ham, sliced apple, mushrooms or even pineapple! Furthermore, in the Netherlands, pancakes are not breakfast food – they are more commonly eaten for dinner. And they're filling, too!
Recommendation: try a bacon/cheese pancake covered in syrup. The combination of sweet, savoury and salty makes this a celebration for your mouth.
Check out Amsterdam's smallest pancake house, Upstairs, or in the Pancake Boat, which not only has an hour of all-you-can-eat pancakes, but also takes you on an hour cruise in which to enjoy them!
A portion of poffertjes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
These are little puffy pancakes, most often consumed outdoors in markets during the winter. Made in special dimpled copper pans, they have a cooked outside and soft centre.
They are most often served covered in powdered sugar and melted butter in portions of a dozen or so. They are a great snack for on the go, especially when it's cold.
Pick some up at the Albert Cuyp street market or at the Metropolitan Deli just off Dam Square.
Fresh herring served with onions (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
While most people balk at the first suggestion that they eat what is essentially raw fish, it is an experience not to be missed. Traditionally, herring is only enjoyed between late May and early July. Thankfully, modern freezing techniques mean that this slippery snack can be enjoyed year round!
Nowadays, the brine-soaked herring is usually served sliced into filets on a small paper plate, covered in diced onions or pickles. They are sold in kiosks and fish shops around the city. Check out the van der Rheenen stall on the Albert Cuyp market for great herring. Smooth and delicious: live a little and give it a try!
Smoked eel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you thought that raw herring sounded less than appetising, perhaps smoked Eel is not for you. This fatty fish is quite ugly in the wild – fortunately, the preparation process turns it into a normal-looking pink strip. It is commonly served simply inside a soft bun. And it is delicious.
How much do the Dutch love eels? A charming former tradition in Amsterdam involved hanging a live eel on a rope draped across a canal. Locals would stand on wobbly boats and try to pull the slippery snack-to-be off the ropes. Good fun, but when the local government tried to ban the tradition in 1886, it resulted in a riot that killed 26 people. How many other snacks have done that?
Paling is best enjoyed at an old fish seller, like Vishandel Zeedijk or at one of the many street stalls.
A selection of Dutch liquorice (Photo credit: BohemianDolls)
While the other snacks on the list are universally enjoyed in the Netherlands, this Dutch liquorice is either loved or hated – and passionately so. This division, however, doesn't stop the average Dutchman and –woman from consuming 2 kilograms per year (the highest liquorice consumption in the world).
The candy comes in sweet and salty varieties, and dozens of shapes and styles. Supermarkets often have entire sections devoted to this delicious/disgusting treat. So, are you a lover or a hater? Pop one in your mouth and you will quickly find out.
Patat Met
Patat met in the traditional cone (Photo credit: Daniele Muscetta)
Patat Met literally translates into "French fries With�. With what? Mayonnaise of course. While the best French fries are actually from Belgium, they are enjoyed with great gusto in the Netherlands.
There are many different options as far as toppings are concerned, but there is one golden rule: no ketchup. Eating French fries with ketchup is the quickest and easiest way to get labelled a tourist.
Thick crispy fries, or frites, served in a paper cone and generously decorated with delicious mayonnaise… simply the thought of it is enough to get most Dutch mouths watering.
For more exciting options, try the patat oorlog (fries with saté, mayonnaise and diced onions) or patat speciaal (with sweet curry ketchup, mayonnaise and diced onions). Yummy!
Some good places for Patat include the chain Manneken Pis, or the great Vlaamse Friteshuis Vleminckx.
A plate of Oliebollen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Traditionally served and eaten on New Year's eve, these deep fried balls of dough, raisins and apple are a sure sign that the holiday season is approaching. Usually served with powdered sugar, they make for a delicious stack for those on the go.
When the holiday season starts, oliebollen (literally, oil balls) can be found at markets and street stands. They are also cooked in houses around the country – if you're really lucky, perhaps you'll be invited in to try grandpa's secret recipe!
Hutspot, one of the many varieties of Stampot (Photo credit: Accidental Hedonist)
This is not a snack. Stampot is just about the staple dish of the Netherlands: chopped vegetables mixed in with mashed potatoes, served with a large smoked sausage and covered with a generous helping of gravy. The type of vegetable varies depending on what type of Stampot you're making.
When it's raining out (which is most of the time) a good stampot will put a smile on many a Dutch face. Heavy, tasty and nutritious, it is so incredibly Dutch that you might just have to buy some wooden clogs to go with it. A good place for Stampot is the Café Sonneveld in the Jordaan area.
So there you have it! Whet your appetite with the great treats. So good it'll make you wonder why the Dutch aren't fatter! (my guess, the biking helps).
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Billy "The Kid" Dib gunning for Sydney showdown with Tevin Farmer in July
Australian super featherweight Billy "The Kid" Dib 43-4 (24) is hoping that the IBF-mandated world title fight between himself and American southpaw Tevin Farmer 25-4-1 (5) takes place in his hometown of Sydney in late July.
The 32-year-old Dib, who held the IBF featherweight championship in 2011-12, became eligible for the title shot when Japan's Kenichi Ogawa was stripped of the championship and suspended from boxing for six months after failing a doping test conducted last December – the same month Ogawa bested 27-year-old Farmer by split decision to win the vacant title.
"It's definitely going to be in July – on either the 26th, 27th or 28th – and it'll be here in Sydney hopefully," Dib told Brendan Bradford of the Sporting News.
"We want to bring the best fights to Australia. I feel like I'm in the twilight of my career and I want to close out my career by giving Australia some amazing performances and something to remember me by.
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Happy October! This week at The Hearth and Soul Link Party we are welcoming October with posts to inspire you for the new month and beyond!
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Auto loans are generally one of people's largest expenses, behind mortgages and student loans. When purchasing a car, you should not wait until you are at the dealership to think about financing. With a little preparation, you can get a great deal that will save you thousands of dollars in the long run. Since cars quickly depreciate in value, consumers should try to minimize the amount of interest they are paying by finding the best financing terms and putting as much money down as possible. Keep in mind the following tips to help you get the best deal possible on a new vehicle.
Obtain financing quotes before you go shopping.
People with excellent credit can often get great interest rates directly from a dealership, especially if the manufacturer is offering special incentives. However, it is still wise to check out rates from credit unions, banks, and other sources. If you do not have perfect credit, then you may not qualify for dealer incentives, but don't despair because of it. Instead, check out a bunch of different lenders before you head to the dealership. A number of online lenders exist, and you can see your rate and the maximum amount you will be allowed to finance within seconds. Lenders include E-Loan, Clearlane, and LendingTree. Banks and credit unions also have great deals for people with less-than-perfect credit. Once you are at the dealership, don't be afraid to use pre-approved rates as a bargaining chip to try to get even lower financing through the dealership.
Consider gap insurance.
Dealers and lenders will both offer gap insurance to people purchasing a new car. Gap is actually an acronym for "guaranteed auto protection," meaning that the insurance will cover any difference between what an insurer believes a car is worth and what is still owed on the vehicle in the event of a total loss. For example, suppose you total your car by slipping on black ice. You still own $15,000 on the car, but the insurance company values it at $12,000. In this event, you would still owe that $3,000 and be without a car. If you have a short-term loan for the vehicle, you may never need gap insurance. A long-term loan could end up saving you a lot of money considering how quickly vehicles depreciate. However, dealers tend to charge a lot for gap insurance, and better rates can be secured through insurance companies, so be sure to shop around.
Keep loan terms as short as possible.
In order to minimize the amount of money spent on financing, it is important to keep loan terms as short as possible. Sometimes, this means purchasing a cheaper vehicle to keep your monthly payments down. Generally, car salespeople use monthly payment as the basis for negotiation, but this can get you in trouble. Extended terms ultimately mean more money for the dealership, so you should avoid getting lured in with cheaper monthly payments. Keep in mind that shorter terms typically come with lower interest rates since they present a lower risk for the dealership. In general, a three-year car loan is the best option since this can help you avoid other expenses, such as gap insurance. While the monthly payments are higher, it is less likely that you will be underwater with this loan.
Stay up to date on your credit.
Before making a big purchase, such as a car, you should request credit reports from all three of the major credit reporting agencies and ensure that they are accurate. AnnualCreditReport.com is a federal resource that you can use to check these reports at no cost. Since lenders may use any of the three reports, it is important to look at all of them and fix any mistakes. That way, lenders will see the best possible credit score. Importantly, the credit reports will not include a score, just a credit history. You may also want to check your score using one of several other sites to find out where you stand. Knowing your credit score will help you to strategize to get the lowest interest rate and avoid unfortunate surprises at the dealership.
Compare the loan's total cost.
While comparing auto loans usually means a greater focus on annual percentage ratings (APRs) for most people, it is actually more important to think in terms of the total cost. Since loans often have different interest rates, you can only compare them by looking at how much you will end up spending at the end of the day. Even if an interest rate stays the same, a longer loan term will mean more money spent on financing. A three-year loan for $15,000 with an APR of 6.5 percent will mean more than $1,500 in interest by the time it is paid off. Stretching out the same loan over the course of five years will reduce your monthly payments by more than $150, although the total interest will skyrocket to more than $2,600. You can always drive down the amount of money spent on interest by putting more money down on the vehicle and financing a lesser amount.