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Lottery Millionaire's Tale: My $800 James Bond Toaster/
My Dualit toaster sits prettily on our kitchen bench.
As you probably know by now from following my newsletters over the years, I have a leaning towards quality.
My Bentley and Lexus cars are top quality models.
My Omega is an excellent quality digital watch.
My Apple Mac computers are a beautiful design quality.
My wife is a quality partner of nearly 40 years (and while expensive, she looks better each year :)
I'll tell you about the other quality things I buy shortly.
Anyway, I thought I should get a top quality toaster to match my 'quality' lifestyle.
Maybe something a little James Bondish too. Stylish, elegant.
And that's where the problem started.
To find the perfect toaster I did a little research, but in the end simply bought the most expensive. (Hey - this trick doesn't work all the time, but in most cases it has).
My daughter, who was visiting a short while later, said, "You paid HOW MUCH for that!?"
Yes, I paid $800 in our currency for the British built Dualit.
That's about $US700.
And it's almost 20 times more than the same K-Mart or Target item.
And sit down while you read this - it actually does 20 times LESS than the cheapest toaster out there.
In fact, the only similarity to any other toaster is that it cooks toast.
The average toaster pops up when the toast is cooked.
The Dualit toast has to be manually raised with a quaint lifting knob.
The average toaster has a timer which needs no adjustment each time.
The Dualit timer has to be adjusted and set each time you put toast in.
The average toaster will ping when it has finished cooking.
The Dualit makes no such noise. Only the whirring of the timer will tell you when it finishes.
The average toaster can cook a single toast.
The Dualit requires you to put 2 pieces in to avoid burning one side.
I could go on about the lack of usefulness.
So why did I buy it?
Well I'm told it will last forever. If the elements burn out, they can be replaced instead of having to buy a new toaster.
It is shiny, and has a timeless, classy design.
Anyone rich will instantly recognize your Dualit and applaud your cleverness... welcome you to the insider's club of the knowledgable wealthy. (Note of slight sarcasm creeps in here!)
But are those reasons for buying it?
Not for me. I don't buy by brand, or for show... I buy for great design and quality.
And the Dualit ticks the boxes there, but I wouldn't buy another.
So how do you choose a lottery system that does everything you want?
Because you can't apply the same principles of expensiveness here.
Do you choose the system with the greatest number of promises? The cheapest? Or with a flashy website?
No - you buy on results.
Testimonials from hundreds of happy users, like mine has.
And this is one time where the best doesn't have to be the most expensive.
I'm able to keep my prices low because of a peculiar quirk of geography... our dollar's currency exchange value is lower than the US.
This means I can sell cheaper than anyone else and still make a decent profit. So I haven't raised the price for years.
My system is not expensive, elitist or even great design.
But if you want an extraordinary 98% win rate (that's the success rate I get personally - you might not reach that level immediately), then I believe it's the only system out there.
Jerome could buy a Dualit toaster easily enough with his winnings, and have change:
Hey Ken - if you had an 11 for this Silver Lotto System you would get it from me. I WON $880 YESTERDAY. Wow!!!!! I never thought it would work but it has - even though its only a small amount. Thanks a million! (hope I can say that soon)
Jerome K. Chicago, USA
Now I'm just off to make myself a cup of green tea and have a slice of wholemeal toast for breakfast.
I'm stepping over my Roomba robot vacuum - one of four I own - as it cleans up my kitchen.
Opening the drawer and looking at my $300 French cast-iron skillet.
Then going to my 21st century $4,000 Mitsubishi fridge to get the butter.
Plunking the crockery down on my $6,000 stainless steel bench next to the Smeg 5-cooker gas hob, as I look at the news on the 65" Panasonic plasma flat screen tv.
I don't mean to boast, but I say this to make you slightly jealous. Because envy is a great motivator :)
There's only one way to afford an expensive lifestyle like this, and that's with lottery winnings:
Hi KEN
Its about time for us to cheer up and know that one day we can tern the table around , I am sure you know i got your system 6 months ago and reading all you newsletters and what ever updates you post me . last Saturday i was one of the lucky winners we shared the big jack (pot) ... This is where we stand today. 6 provisional winners of $537,396.59 each and we are one of the 6 . ... the issue is not winning witch did not makes us sleep , but where and what to start with . I am very happy to let you know that we are looking to buy our first home and that what we always wish and it cam through .
Regards Maher M. AUSTRALIA
Follow the approved success steps that my winners use:
#1: Buy the Silver Lotto System
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Mmmm, that toast was NICE!


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Are Women Going To Stand Up
by Gray Graham
Someone yesterday shared a blog post by Byron Hurt: Are You Man Enough to Challenge Too Short? Like most issues like this we can only effect those people that are directly in our lives daily so that basically is just going to be our children and maybe a few others.
Our culture is at the point where this is commonly tolerated and accepted. I disagree with the belief that this is just the minority , everything we see in society indicates it is the majority. Most think it is harmless. Too Short is not saying anything that other hip hop artists aren't saying. Many of his fans are women. We see women everyday post songs on Facebook, Twitter, and Google + with male rappers constantly degrading women and they love it.
Some of the men most beloved by women are the very ones who belittle, degrade, abuse, and assault the very character of women. Recently I was compelled to correct such a display of disrespect towards women from a man, only to find my efforts where unwelcome by women who were present.
So the real question is not if men are going to stand up to Too Short and other rappers, the question is are women going to stand up for themselves and demand more respect. Until that happens by the hundreds of millions then nothing is going to change.
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Liyana Silver: The Feminine Genius of Motherhood
The Mama Truth Show is especially for ambitious, soulful, women that are ready to STOP being so hard on themselves, release self-bullying and embrace their Inner Wisdom.
How can we, as moms, use our feminine genius to wake up and turn on in an even deeper way? Join Amy as she interviews Liyana Silver, author of the new book Feminine Genius, for a provocative discussion about our femininity, the dark sides of our souls and the opportunity we have to raise our children to have empowering belief systems from day 1. This interview is deep, soulful and filled with huge AHAs! Visit Liyana's work at www.liyanasilver.com
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|Real Name
|Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán
|Birth Place
|Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
|July 18, 1990
|Mexican Professional Boxer
|Canelo ("Cinnamon")
|Boxing Professional Debut
|175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
|in Kilograms- 75 kg
in Pounds- 165 lbs
|Chest: 41 Inches
– Waist: 33 Inches
– Biceps: 15 Inches
|Eye color
|Hair color
|Reddish Brown
|Horse Riding
|$20 million/bout
|Net Worth
|$21.5 million
Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán, commonly known as Saúl Álvarez, or by his nickname "Canelo" Álvarez, is a Mexican professional boxer who was born on 18th July 1990 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. , Álvarez is ranked as the world's best boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec and eighth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) and The Ring. He is also ranked as the world's best light middleweight by the TBRB and BoxRec, as well as ranked the best middleweight by The Ring and second by the TBRB.
Personal life
Álvarez was engaged to Marisol González, who is Miss Mexico Universe 2003 and a sports reporter for Televisa Deportes.
|Total fights
|Wins by KO
Records (main ones)/Achievement
• Currently he is the holder of WBO light middleweight title since September 2016.Records (main ones)/Achievement
• Currently he is the holder of WBO light middleweight title since September 2016
• He has held the Ring magazine and lineal middleweight titles since 2015.
• From 2011 to 2013, he held WBC light middleweight.
• He held the WBA (Unified) and Ring light middleweight titles in 2013; and the WBC middleweight title from 2015 to 2016.
• As per Boxing website BoxRec, he is the world's best boxer pound for pound, and eighth best boxer by The Ring.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Canelo Álvarez
Does Canelo Álvarez smoke?: Not Known
Does Canelo Álvarez drink Alcohol?: Not Known
Álvarez learned horse riding in his own horse farm in his childhood, which he continues even today.
Álvarez is youngest to his all brothers, all of his brothers also are professional boxers. His brothers Ramón Álvarez and Ricardo Álvarez are welterweight boxers and Rigoberto Álvarez is former Interim WBA World Champion.
"Canelo" in Spanish Language is the masculine word for cinnamon, which is a common nickname for people with red hair.
Álvarez started Boxing when he was 13 years old. In 2004, he carried off the silver medal at the Junior Mexican National championships, held in Sinaloa.
Álvarez turned professional at the age of 15, in his first 19 months as a professional, he knocked out 11 of his 13 opponents, all of whom were significantly older to him.
In his professional career, he won 48 bout in 50 games and faced 1 loss and 1 draw.
Father- Santos Álvarez
Santos Alvarez
Mother- Ana Maria Barragán
Mother and sister of Alvarez
Brothers- Ricardo Álvarez, Ricardo Alvarez, Rigoberto Álvarez, Rigoberto Aalvarez, Ramón Álvarez, Ramón Álvarez
Sister- Ana Elda Álvarez
Social Profiles of Canelo Álvarez


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Our weather is often quite different than that which is forecast for the nearest town, of Port Perry. Also, remember that frequently the forecasted weather never occurs.
It is however a way to get a general idea how the day might be.
Will it actually rain? Will it be as hot or cold as forecast? Who knows?
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Fathom Events, Golden Boy Promotions and HBO Pay Per View Present
Highly-Anticipated Fight Live in Movie Theaters from T-Mobile Arena in
Las Vegas
DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cinemas across the U.S. will play host to a Cinco de Mayo weekend
mega-fight with a pulse-pounding live broadcast event featuring two of
Mexico's finest boxers: "Canelo
Álvarez vs. Julio César Chávez, Jr." in a historic showdown that
will rival the biggest fights in Mexico's rich boxing history.
Two-division world champion Canelo Álvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) will
square off against former WBC World Middleweight Champion Julio César
Chávez, Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs) in a 12-round battle.
Presented by Fathom Events, Golden Boy Promotions and HBO Pay Per View,
the one-day cinema broadcast is set for Saturday, May 6 at 6:00 p.m. PT
/ 7:00 p.m. MT / 8:00 p.m. CT / 9:00 p.m. ET, live from the sold-out
T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. In addition to catching all the in-ring
action up close and personal, event attendees will receive an exclusive
commemorative fight mini-poster. Fighters for the undercard bouts will
be announced shortly.
Tickets for "Canelo Álvarez vs. Julio César Chávez, Jr." can be
purchased beginning Friday, April 7, 2017 online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com
or at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will
be able to enjoy the event in select movie theaters through Fathom's
Digital Broadcast Network (DBN). A complete list of theater locations
will be available April 7 on the Fathom Event's website
(theaters and participants are subject to change).
On May 5, 2016, Álvarez celebrated T-Mobile Arena's first boxing event
with a knockout of Amir "King" Khan. Álvarez last fought on September
17, 2016, knocking out the previously undefeated WBO junior middleweight
champion Liam Smith. Chávez, Jr. was last in action on December 10,
2016, when he secured a unanimous decision victory over highly-regarded
German fighter Dominik Britsch.
Álvarez says, "Julio César Chávez, Sr. is one of the best, if not the
best fighter in history. I grew up watching him and learned a lot from
him, but that won't have any influence when I fight his son… I want to
remind you that when two Mexican fighters face-off, a spectacular show
is guaranteed, and I can assure you that May 6 will be no exception."
"This is going to be a tough fight. Every fight is important, and this
one especially because it is between two Mexicans fighting each other
for the glory," Julio César Chávez, Jr. said. "I'm going to win, but my
country will too, because this is the fight that boxing needs."
Oscar De La Hoya, Chairman and CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, said,
"Mexican boxing is the best, and when you have these two top boxers who
want to give the best to the fans, we couldn't pass it up. Canelo, the
biggest boxing star, will take on not only a former world champion in
Julio César Chávez, Jr., but the son of the biggest star in the history
of boxing in Mexico."
"There's nothing like seeing these warriors – Canelo Álvarez and Julio
César Chávez, Jr. – do battle, larger than life, on the big screen,"
John Rubey, CEO of Fathom Events, said. "It's like having a real
ring-side experience in your local cinema surrounded by other fans!"
For artwork/photos related to "Canelo Álvarez vs. Julio César
Chávez, Jr." visit the Fathom Events press
Canelo vs. Chávez, Jr. is a 12-round fight presented by Golden Boy
Promotions. The event will take place on Saturday, May 6 at T-Mobile
Arena and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®.
About Fathom Events
Fathom Events is recognized as the leading domestic distributor of event
cinema with participating affiliate theaters in all 100 of the top
Designated Market Areas®, and ranks as one of the largest overall
distributors of content to movie theaters. Owned by AMC Entertainment
Inc. (NYSE: AMC), Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK) and Regal
Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) (known collectively as AC JV, LLC),
Fathom Events offers a variety of one-of-a-kind entertainment events
such as live, high-definition performances of the Metropolitan Opera,
dance and theatre productions like the Bolshoi Ballet and National
Theatre Live, sporting events like Copa America Centenario, concerts
with artists like Michael Bublé, Rush and Mötley Crüe, the yearlong TCM
Big Screen Classics film series and inspirational events such as To Joey
With Love and Kirk Cameron's Revive US. Fathom Events takes audiences
behind the scenes and offers unique extras including audience Q&As,
backstage footage and interviews with cast and crew, creating the
ultimate VIP experience. Fathom Events' live digital broadcast network
("DBN") is the largest cinema broadcast network in North America,
bringing live and pre-recorded events to 896 locations and 1,383 screens
in 181 DMAs. For more information, visit www.fathomevents.com.
About Golden Boy Promotions
Los Angeles-based Golden Boy Promotions was established in 2002 by
10-time world champion in six divisions Oscar De La Hoya, the first
Hispanic to own a national boxing promotional company. Golden Boy
Promotions is one of boxing's most active and respected promoters,
presenting shows in packed venues around the world and has worked with
networks such as HBO, HBO Latino, Estrella TV, ESPN, TeleFutura, FOX
Sports 1, FOX Deportes, Televisa and TV Azteca. The company has also
promoted some of the top boxing events in the history of the sport
including De La Hoya vs. Mayweather, Mayweather vs. Canelo and other
notable pay-per-view fights featuring fan-favorites Bernard "The Alien"
Hopkins, Juan Manuel "Dinamita" Marquez, Miguel Cotto, Marco "Baby Faced
Assassin" Antonio Barrera, Erik "El Terrible" Morales and Sugar Shane
Mosley. For more information, visit www.GoldenBoyPromotions.com,
or follow on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube @GoldenBoyBoxing.
Fathom Events
Jessica Nelson, 720-262-2753
Schwappach, 720-262-2713
Marketing for Fathom Events
Erik Stein, 818-761-6100
Boy Promotions
Ramiro Gonzalez, 213-489-5631
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One of our newest modular units, the C80 creates optimal indoor comfort while being highly energy efficient.
Both are accomplished in large part thanks to high quality materials and construction that create top notch insulation. Beyond the benefits for people and planet, it's kind to your wallet with its low operating costs.
The C80 is intended for relatively short term rental periods (around one year), most often as quick extra space for schools, daycares or offices.
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Unlike the other, for short-term rental products on the market, the C80 system is very energy efficient . The U-values of the building fulfill the regulations for a permanent building. Also, the system comes standard-equipped with centralized ventilation system with a powerful heat recovery system . The energy consumption for individual parts such as ventilation, heating, lighting etc. can be measured separately, which fulfills current requirements for permanent buildings.
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All-Ireland champions beaten as Longford hit the headlines
By Cóilín Duffy
Interesting times already in the Senior GAA World, and it's not even the end of January
It's early season, and teams are starting to find form in the GAA World, but the form book which would have suggested a Meath- Dublin Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup decider was thrown out the window on Sunday, as Longford earned their place against the Royals, with a convincing 1-12 to 0-9 victory over Dublin in Senior competition for the first time since 2000.
Interestingly, It was 16 years ago to the day last Friday since Longford last beat Dublin with a 0-20 to 1-16 victory in the O'Byrne Cup.
While given the time of year, Dublin were understandably in experimental mode, they fielded seven players who started last September's All-Ireland final win over Kerry; Cluxton, Jonny Cooper, Philly McMahon, James McCarthy, Denis Bastick, Dean Rock and Paddy Andrews.
In a year where Dublin will journey outside of Croke Park for a Championship match for the first time since Longford came close to beating them on June 4th 2006, there was a bit of revenge for that particular fixture all those years ago.
A draw, a comfortable win and a slender win had been Dublin's lot in the 2016 O'Byrne Cup prior to Sunday's game, so really was a loss to Longford as big a shock as envisaged? Speaking on Monday to the Irish World at a press event for Dublin GAA sponsors AIG, Dublin defender Jonny Cooper gave his response to that particular question.
"All credit goes to Longford in this case. Very much they stuck it to this Dublin team and reaped the rewards at the end," he said. "I don't know what people are saying in terms of media and outside perception, because that's not something in any way feeds into our system, but what I would say is credit does go to Longford, but ourselves also as a playing group in the Dublin environment we have to look at what happened yesterday.
"Certainly that's not going to be good enough in any way going into the League campaign. "I don't think we lacked in desire or effort. I just think we fell down on the basic skills of the game that we didn't execute well and obviously they scored more than us which is an unfortunate thing.
"From a defensive point of view we had a couple of areas of concern – giving away needless frees etc and I'm sure the offensive guys have various things that they didn't execute as we would normally like to do.
"I think the effort was there, but that we just fell down in the area of basic skills from ourselves." Likewise Offaly drew some acclaim for beating Kilkenny in the Walsh Cup on Sunday – a return for the Faithful hurlers to the hallowed turf of St. Brendan's Park for the first time in nine years – the venue which held the first ever All-Ireland Senior Hurling final.
As they had done in their midweek loss to DIT in the competition, an Eddie Brennan managed Kilkenny side once again fielded a team that included none of last year's All-Ireland final winning line-up.
Interesting times already in the Senior GAA World, and it's not even the end of January.


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Houston, TX 77005-1892
Reaching the public with information about space has been a priority since the 1958 Space Act which states that NASA "provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning its activities and the results thereof".
In September 12, 1962 John F. Kennedy came to Rice University and gave his iconic speech:
"...But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
By September 1963, Rice University started the country's first Space Science Department. Information about its history and the alumni of that program (which still runs today as part of the Physics and Astronomy department) can be found at space.rice.edu/alumni.
Research in Physics, Space Physics, and Astrophysics/Astronomy is now part of the Physics and Astronomy Department.
Interdepartmental research, ties to Johnson Space Center and to commercial space activities is coordinated at Rice through the Rice Space Institute.
This website hosts several of the Space education and public outreach sites associated with Rice University, including the Master of Science Teaching program, various Outreach pages including for the MMS mission; the Space Science Alumni pages, Space Weather Forecasting pages, Eclipse observing pages and links to the "Public Connection" outreach page, which has now been "spun off" to our commercial outreach companies Space Update, Inc. and MTPE Inc (doing business as ePlanetarium).


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Visit the Michael Schwartz Library's table at the AHA! Book Festival on Thursday, June 7 at the Playhouse Square, Keybank State Theatre Lobby, 1519 Euclid Avenue. On display from 11:00 am – 8:00 pm will be a selection of our favorite photographs, copied from the Cleveland Press Collection in Special Collections at CSU's Michael Schwartz Library, and all displayed online in our Cleveland Memory Project. Early photos of the Terminal Tower, Mr. Jingeling, Euclid Beach, Eliot Ness, Ghoulardi, and a host of other memories from Cleveland's past will be on display. Select prints will be available for sale at special festival prices.
Meet Richard Klein, author of "Let's Go Shopping at the Square" Cleveland's Leading Downtown Department Stores: A Business Legacy and The Legacy of the Pharmacy Industry:Cleveland, Ohio from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. Ask questions about the history of Cleveland department stores or the Pharmacy industry, buy a book, and ask for an autograph!
Dr. Richard Klein has served as a professor and program coordinator at Cleveland State University for more than 30 years. In addition to his administrative and teaching responsibilities, he has written several professional articles for major publications such as Appraisal Journal, American Preservation Technology Journal and Real Estate Issues. He has most recently published several books in EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University under MSL Academic Endeavors, Michael Schwartz Library's publishing imprint.
The AHA! Festival: Arts and Humanities Alive runs from Thursday, June 7 through Saturday, June 9. Presented by Cleveland State University in partnership with Playhouse Square.


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It's fair to say Anthony Martial has been one of the big casualties of Jose Mourinho's first few months at Manchester United.
The Frenchman might not have received the same harsh treatment as Bastian Schweinsteiger or Memphis Depay, but his manager has made no bones about the fact that he hasn't liked what he's seen from him so far.
With the 21-year-old struggling against Liverpool, he was dropped for the Stoke game.
It remains to be seen whether he'll be restored to the line-up for the second leg of the EFL Cup semi-final against Hull, which United go into with a 2-0 lead.
Regardless, though, Mourinho has fired a warning to the inconsistent starlet that he may have blown his chance to make an impact.
"I don't think he (Martial) lost his focus," he told reporters.
"I think he just didn't take with both hands a big opportunity he had.
"When we spoke about Memphis Depay, we spoke about it being the only position where we have overbooking."
While it's great that Marcus Rashford is often given an opportunity on the wing, it's worrying for Martial, who just can't nail down a place in the starting XI.
The former Monaco man did score in consecutive matches earlier this month against Middlesbrough and Reading, but he seems to have a tendency to go missing when it really matters, like in the Liverpool game.
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The Office of Engagment is Drexel LeBow's concierge desk and matchmaker. We facilitate relationships among the College and its constituencies, including alumni and the business community.
We are responsible for planning and implementing a wide range of events and outreach efforts, including educational and social programs. We coordinate student visits with alumni on Wall Street, bring prominent executives to campus as guest speakers and support the work of alumni who serve on LeBow's advisory board and councils.
Everyone comes to us when they don't know where to turn, and we are delighted to interact with everyone who has an interest in Drexel LeBow.


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This week, the party poopers at the New York City Department of Buildings told doom-and-gloom economist turned jacuzzi-enthusiast Nouriel Roubini that his hot tub had to go.
Roubini, known for his East Village soirées, ran afoul of building code and was forced to remove his 10-person tub from his apartment's roof deck.
But fear not, because Roubini is now proclaiming the hot tub will be back "in the next three months," reports NY Mag's Kevin Roose.
"I'm getting all the permits," Roubini announced from his apartment, the very scene of the crime. The economist was hosting an event for Jack Hidary, a tech multimillionaire self-funding a long-shot mayoral campaign.
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It is now completely clear that any arrears charges which exceed actual administrative costs are unfair and therefore unlawful.
Furthemore, irresponsible lending practices are also unfair and unlawful.
Additionally there are other unfair practices including unarranged counsellor visits - even if they have been attempted.
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Stating that the anti-dowry law was being misused, the Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the police of all states from "automatically" arresting the accused in dowry harassment cases.
The court held that arrests in all cases where the maximum punishment is up to seven years in jail cannot be made on a reasonable belief that the accused may have committed the offence. It said there has to be adequate material to show that the arrest was necessary to ensure proper investigation or to prevent the accused from committing any further offence or any act to influence the outcome of the case.
The order will affect various cases like dowry harassment, voluntarily causing hurt, domestic violence, wrongful confinement, assault or criminal force against a woman with intent to outrage her modesty, as well as other classes of assault and criminal force defined under the Indian Penal Code where the maximum punishment extends up to seven years in jail.
"In pith and core, the police officer, before arrest, must put a question to himself, why arrest? Is it really required? What purpose it will serve? What object it will achieve? It is only after these questions are addressed, and one or the other conditions as enumerated above is satisfied, that the power of arrest needs to be exercised," said a bench led by Justice C K Prasad.
Citing the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data to draw attention to the huge number of arrests made under Section 498A and other dowry harassment charges, the court said these provisions were being "used as weapons, rather than shields, by disgruntled wives".
According to the NCRB, about two lakh people, including 50,000 women, were arrested under Section 498A in 2012. While the rate of chargesheeting the accused was as high as 93.6 per cent, only 15 per cent of the cases resulted in convictions. The bench noted that about 3.72 lakh cases of dowry harassment are currently pending, of which 3.17 lakh are likely to result in acquittals.
The bench directed all the state governments to issue directives to their police departments against making arrests "mechanically", saying they should furnish the reasons why the arrest was necessary. The reasons will be examined by the magistrate, who will order further detention if there is sufficient material, it said.
The bench said both police officers and magistrates will face contempt charges and departmental action if they fail to comply with these guidelines.
The court said the power to arrest contributes to the arrogance of the police. "Not only this, the power to arrest is one of the lucrative sources of police corruption… No arrest can be made in a routine manner on a mere allegation of commission of an offence made against a person. It would be prudent and wise for a police officer that no arrest is made without a reasonable satisfaction reached after some investigation as to the genuineness of the allegation," it said.
Stating that the police department had failed to shed its "colonial image" despite six decades of independence, and its power to arrest is largely considered a tool of harassment and oppression, the court said, "We believe that no arrest should be made only because the offence is non-bailable and cognizable… The need for caution in exercising the drastic power of arrest has been emphasised time and again by courts, but has not yielded the desired result. The attitude to arrest first and then proceed with the rest is despicable. It has become a handy tool to the police officers who lack sensitivity or act with oblique motive."


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As the 2011 Berlinale heads to the finish line, you could say that the underwhelming main competition has come down to a two-horse race, even if only one of those movies features an actual horse. In one corner, there is Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's Nader and Simin, A Separation, a searing marital drama from the director of About Elly, which won Berlin's Silver Bear for best direction at the 2009 festival. In the other is Hungarian director Béla Tarr's, The Turin Horse, a capital-A art movie (in the best sense) about an old farmer and his daughter waiting out what feels like the end of the world. Where Farhadi's film is in color and features lots of talking and arguing and brilliant, impassioned acting, Tarr's film is a 19th-century, black-and-white exercise in pure cinema that features two-and-a-half hours of some of the most remarkable shots ever created for a motion picture.
In a year when all eyes in Berlin were turned to Iran and the fate of condemned filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, Farhadi's film concerns a legal proceeding that, at least at first, seems to carry much lower stakes for all involved. In a judge's chambers, the film's eponymous couple present their case for a divorce: After a long waiting period, Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi) have finally been granted coveted visas to leave Iran for the United States, where Simin yearns to begin a new life and offer a better future to their 11-year-old daughter, Termeh (Sarina Farhadi, the director's own daughter). But Nader has decided that he doesn't feel comfortable abandoning his elderly father, despite the fact that the old man is stricken with Alzheimer's and can scarcely recognize his own son. "He is a good man," Simin says of Nader to the judge, and yet we sense that what s broken between these people can not so easily be fixed.
As in About Elly, which concerned the disappearance of a young woman during a weekend reunion of college friends, Farhadi here once again uses a rather mundane starting point to spin a complex web of deception and other complications. Nader and Simin embark on a trial separation, Termeh staying behind with dad in a bid to bring her mother home quickly. To help with the care of his father, Nader hires Razieh (Sareh Bayat), a pregnant, deeply religious woman who takes the job unbeknownst to her husband, Hodjat (Shahab Hosseini), an out-of-work cobbler. Almost immediately, there are complications—Razieh complains that the pay is too little and the commute too far. Then, one day, Nader returns home to find that no trace of Razieh, save for the scarf she has used to tie his father to the bed, which has not prevented the old man from falling out of it. When Razieh finally returns, Nader quarrels violently with her and literally pushes her out of the apartment. Pay close attention to that scene—and those that precede it—for Farhadi is exceptionally clever at what he does and doesn't show you, and from which perspective you see particular actions.
And just like that, we find ourselves in the world of 12 Angry Men and Rashomon— those two iconic exercises in the subjective nature of what we call "truth." Razieh ends up in the hospital, where she loses her baby—the result, she claims, of falling on Nader's stairs after he pushed her. And given the advanced term of the baby, under Iranian law murder charges are brought against Nader. He, in turn, files his own complaint against Razieh for tying his father to the bed, which only further enrages Hodjat, who has the dangerous glint in his eye of men who feel they have nothing left to lose.
We are also very much in the domain of Jean Renoir and his immortal dictum that "The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons." For two hours, Nader and Simin keeps shifting the film's moral center, first aligning our sympathies with one character, then another, then ever so nimbly shifting the ground under our feet until we have nowhere left to turn, except to young Termeh, blessed with the unblemished moral compass of youth. And like Renior, too, Farhadi is remarkably attune to the way social status influences behavior—the blind arrogance of the bourgeoisie, the self-righteousness of the working class.
In the ever fickle world of international film festivals community, Iran enjoyed a moment from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s when filmmakers like Abbas Kiraostami, Majid Majidi and Mohsen Makhmalbaf were the belles of the proverbial ball, feted from sea to sea before ceding the stage to newer "new waves" from the likes of Argentina, Romania and South Korea. Now, Iranian cinema is once again in the spotlight, for less celebratory reasons, but Farhadi's films are a reminder that vital work is still being done in the country and deserves to be celebrated.
The Turin Horse begins with a narrator recounting an episode from the life of Friedrich Nietzsche, who, on a January morning in 1889, supposedly stepped from his doorway in Turin (where he often wintered) and tearfully flung his arms around the neck of an exhausted carriage horse he witnessed being savagely whipped by its driver. Nietzsche, we are told, then uttered his last known words before going on to live the last decade of his life in silence and madness. "Of the horse," the voice concludes, "we know nothing." Tarr's film picks up from there, depicting six days in the lives of the driver, his daughter and the horse, while something apocalyptic stirs in the air outside—literally, in the form of an epic and seemingly endless wind storm.
The opening shot, alone worth the price of admission, tracks the old man and the horse as they trudge home in the face of the oncoming storm, the camera moving alongside them, then in front, then below, all the while the wind and dust blow and the dirge-like strings of Tarr's "permanent composer" (per the press notes), Mihály Vig, swell furiously on the soundtrack. In some ways, the man resembles the horse and vice-versa, weary, obstinate, starting to wind down, rallying against the dying of the light. I did not time the shot (apologies to David Bordwell, with whom I once shared the stage at a panel discussion of Tarr's films in Chicago), but my guess is that it goes on for the better part of 10 minutes—and one does not wish it to be any shorter.
From there, the old man and his daughter batten down the hatches. She helps him to change into his house clothes, and we see that while this may not be the most loving father-daughter relationship in movies, it is a functional one, driven by the harsh realities of the life they share, or of life in general. They eat a dinner of boiled potatoes—one of several we will watch them consume. Around the 20-minute mark, they speak the film's first lines of dialogue, but just as soon retreat back into quiet. We do not need words, though, for as in the silent masterworks that Tarr's film so strongly echoes, everything is there in the faces—faces as sharply etched by Tarr and his genius cameraman Fred Keleman as those in old daguerreotypes, and in the early films of Griffith and Dreyer.
And so the days pass and the storm rages. Eventually, a neighbor comes to say that "the town," wherever that is, has been destroyed, "blown away" in a "perfect victory" of avarice over nobility. Once again, the particulars aren't important, because the story the neighbor tells is the story of mankind throughout recorded history. Or, as the neighbor puts it, "To touch, debase and acquire—it's been going on like this for centuries." Some (and there are not so many) familiar enough with Tarr's work to have an educated opinion about it may suggest that the director, who has fashioned several previous end-of-humanity sagas (Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies) in collaboration with the screenwriter/novelist László Krasznahorkai and co-director/editor/"permanent associate" Ágnes Hranitzky, isn't breaking any new ground here, and they would not be wrong to say so. But I'm not at all sure that newness should be demanded or even desired when a filmmaker has reached this level of poetic intensity in his work. Each sequence in The Turin Horse is more ravishing than the next, as Tarr creates his signature ballets of movement between actors and camera, a series of tableaux vivants that encapsulate, as eloquently as Tarr ever has, the fundamental despair of the human condition.
Tarr has been directing films for more than 30 years now, has been hailed as a visionary by the likes of Susan Sontag, Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant, has been the subject of retrospectives at MoMA and other important museums, and yet has only recently begun to penetrate the defenses of North American art-film distribution. (Werckmeister Harmonies received the smallest of limited releases in 2001; The Man From London, Tarr's lone movie made with "international" stars, a slightly larger one in 2008.) Now he has made a film that is both one of his best and also perhaps the most acutely concentrated expression of his aesthetic (which may, in turn, open the film to a larger audience). It also, undeniably, feels like the end of something—if not of Tarr's filmmaking career (as he hints in the film's press kit), then at least of a certain tradition of 20th century European modernism, of which Tarr has been one of the last dedicated exponents. Nietzsche would have loved it, and wept.
Scott Foundas is the Associate Program Director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and a Contributing Editor at Film Comment magazine.


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Inbox zero. Did you just clench your teeth or tense your shoulders? I did both, just typing the words. Like most people I know, my relationship with what I have come to think of as "productivity porn" is, as Facebook would say, complicated. Just as catalogs from furniture stores make me feel a little anxious about the piles of to-be-read books and magazines (and, ahem, the occasional tuft of dog fur) in my living room, productivity blogs and books make me eye my multiple inboxes with some trepidation.
"Knowledge workers," we are assured, need a system to Get Things Done. Your system is representative of your worth as a worker and as a person. Like you, it is imperfect and in need of constant iterative improvement. Also, your house? It is too cluttered. So is your filing cabinet. And your inbox.
The cruelest part of the onslaught of advice on how to be more productive is that it's largely true. Every job I have ever had has required A System. That system needed to be fit to both my own tendencies and my job's requirements (it helps if your system is compatible with your boss's system as well). A new job requires a new system. Most of my colleagues have their own systems and the common theme I've noticed between those systems isn't Inbox Zero or filing email by sender or project or phases of the moon, it's the architecture.
Whatever your system is, chances are, there's some keystone that the entire enterprise hinges on. A list, a notebook, some kind of folder-based voodoo. If that goes awry, the whole thing falls apart and must be rebuilt. Any new techniques must be integrated into the system based on their relationship to that central conceit.
For those of us working in technology, the tech parts of our job are seamlessly integrated into the daily pattern of our jobs and our lives. A lot of new technology comes cloaked in productivity's clothes. Sites and apps like Instapaper and Evernote are for keeping up, keeping track, and keeping tabs, not new technologies. But if you're a techie who's felt a gnawing resentfulness when you see "GTD compatible" on a website or app description, you know the inner turmoil of tech burnout that many of your colleagues are feeling.
In August, I posted about keeping up and the pressure many librarians feel to stay on top of new technology. Since then, I've been paying close attention to how the librarians I interact with learn new technologies and what systems I see around me for keeping up.
As all the productivity gurus will tell you, there's no perfect system. Just as Inbox Zero is a weak rallying cry for someone who only gets a few emails a day, new technologies have to make sense in our lives before we'll use them.
A few years ago, there was a flurry of activity around core competencies. Personally, I connected it to Learning 2.0 – libraries that had loved Learning 2.0 had found that it also exposed basic tech competencies that needed shoring up. I don't think we're there yet.
As you go about your day, my knowledge-working brethren, count how many times you use small, basic "tricks" to use your computer well. Are you proficient at opening links in new tabs? Do you copy, paste, and select all frequently? Do you use the shift and control/command/open-apple key to select groups of things? Do you alt-tab through things?
If your productivity system falls apart when you forget your Moleskine, or Remember the Milk doesn't sync correctly, imagine trying to keep up with new technology while doing everything in longhand (or libraryhand, for those of you that learned it). Your coworker who can use all of the programs on staff machines and zoom around your ILS like a roller derby champion on Red Bull might be doing all of this with one hand tied behind her back.
If your library has a core competencies plan, dust it off and see how you're doing. At the very least, take some time to make sure everyone on your staff knows how to use keyboard shortcuts in their jobs. Just saying "hey, did you know you can use ctrl-a to select all?" isn't very helpful. Using it to select the contents of a field in your ILS and copy and paste that information somewhere else, is.
Productivity porn may make me gnash my teeth in frustration, but it has taught me that without the basics in place, building a system is next to impossible. Learning about technology may come naturally for readers of this blog, but the next time you want to scream when you see a coworker struggle with something technologically basic, think about your abandoned Delicious links or your languishing Toodledo account. A little kindness and a tech tip will help your colleague feel that much more savvy and that much more kept up.


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Microsoft's Surface tablets are selling quite well, but there's a catch
Last year Microsoft took a $900 million charge to cover unsold inventory of its Surface (mainly Surface RT) tablets. What a difference half a year makes.
In its latest earnings report Microsoft said it generated $893 million in revenue from Surface tablet sales in the fiscal quarter ending December 31st, 2013.
That's over twice the $400 million revenue the Surface division brought in during the previous quarter, but the news isn't all good.
Microsoft actually spent $932 million in order to make $893 million. In other words, Microsoft, at least for now, is actually losing a bit of money on each S... Continue reading >>
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For so many of us, strawberry shortcake is an all-time favorite dessert. Here's a slightly more adult version of the same thing, using sweet-tart blackberries and rustic cornmeal.
Blackberry Cornmeal Shortcakes
Baker's Note
If you can't resist strawberry shortcake, you can easily turn these into the classic version. Omit the cornmeal and use 2 cups flour for the biscuits. Instead of blackberries, substitute the same amount of sliced strawberries tossed with Grand Marnier.
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup fine cornmeal
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
1 Tbs. plus 1/4 cup sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
4 cups blackberries, halved if large
1 Tbs. Chambord (optional)
Whipped cream for serving
Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt and 1 tablespoon sugar until blended. Add the buttermilk and butter and toss gently with a fork or rubber spatula until the flour is just moistened and the ingredients are blended.
Drop 6 equal-sized dollops of the batter onto the prepared pan, spacing them well apart. Bake until the shortcakes are puffed and golden, 15 to 18 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool slightly.
While the shortcakes are baking, in a bowl, toss together the blackberries, 1/4 cup sugar and Chambord, if using, crushing a few of the berries. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled or until serving.
Split the shortcakes in half horizontally. Place the bottom halves on plates and spoon on some of the blackberries and juices. Top with big dollops of whipped cream, then the tops of the shortcakes, and dig in. Makes 6 shortcakes.


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Is a criminal record holding you back?
A criminal record can create potentially difficult and complicated consequences in life. Criminal records can be a barrier to obtaining employment, student loans, professional licenses, and even housing. There is some good news, however. In some cases, an arrest or conviction can be expunged (erased) from a record.
In an effort to make information on the process of expungement more understandable and accessible, the SC Center for Fathers and Families developed an expungement guide that is now posted on the Center's website. Over the last few months, University of South Carolina Law student Chelsea Clark and Jobs Not Jail Project Director Gale DuBose have worked to complete the guide to help those that are trying to right their wrongs and move past their criminal record.
The Center's expungement guide provides an explanation of record expungement - the types, requirements of the process, how to apply, and what happens after you receive an expungement.
When a record cannot be expunged, a pardon could be a viable alternative. A fact sheet on pardons and other resources, including information on criminal records and juvenile expungement, are also available here on the Center's website.


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Built in 1734, the Hancock House is an important tangible link to understanding the history of Salem County and our nation's struggle for independence. It was the home of a prominent Salem County family and is an excellent example of English Quaker patterned end wall brick houses associated with the lower Delaware Valley and southwestern New Jersey. It was also the scene of a British-led massacre during the Revolutionary War. The story of the Hancock House begins in 1675 when John Fenwick, a lawyer and Quaker from England, arrived in West Jersey (now Salem County). With land purchased two years earlier, he established the first permanent English settlement here. called "Fenwick's Colony, " and founded the town of Salem. Eager to populate the area with skilled, industrious individuals, lie advertised the area's assets by stating"... if there be any terrestrial "Canaan " 'tis surely here, where the Land floweth with Milk and Honey."
The Hancock House sits on property that was purchased from John Fenwick in 1675 by William
Hancock, an English shoemaker. Upon his death, the property passed to his wife Isabella and then to his nephew.
John Hancock. John's inheritance of approximately 500 acres made him a major landholder in
Fenwick's Colony. He contributed to the development of the area by building a bridge across Alloways
Creek in 1708. Now known as "Hancock's Bridge," it permitted passage of an important highway
between Salem and Greenwich and gave the settlement its name. When John Hancock died in 1709, he left his
property to his son William. William, perhaps the most distinguished of John's 11 children, became a
Justice of the Peace for Salem County and served in the Colonial Assembly for 20 years.
In 1734, William and his wife Sarah built the Hancock House. Their initials [W H S]
and the construction date [1734] can be seen in the brickwork on the houses west
elevation. Upon his death in 1762, William left his house to his son William, who succeeded
him in the Assembly and became His Majesty's Judge of the County Court for the county of Salem. It
was this William that figured in the massacre of March 1778.
On the night her father was killed, Sarah Hancock Sinnickson was at her home in Salem with a British force in residence. Frantic with grief and rage at the news of her father's death, she fiercely reproached the officers for the horrid deeds committed by their comrades. The officers threatened to liana her if she did not desist. Sarah defied r';t"' ami flor whatever reason, the British -,•'..;' not carry out their threat. In the 18th century, Salem County was inhabited largely by English Quaker? who were opposed to violence and armed conflict. Yet many supported the American cause. This stance inevitably brought the tragedy of war to hearth and home. The winter of 1777 found General George Washing- ton and his defeated and demoralized American Army encamped at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The British occupied Philadelphia. Both armies were in desperate need of food and supplies. In February 1778, General Washington ordered General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to forage for food, cattle and horses in South Jersey. A month later. General Sir William Howe dispatched 1500 British troops and loyalists under General Charles Mawhood to do the same. Mawhood's foraging activities met with considerable resistance from the Salem County militia and local patriots. Repulsed at the Battle of Quinton's Bridge, a key transportation link to the fertile fields of Cumberland and Salem Counties, the British were eager for a victory. They also wanted to punish the people of Salem County for their support of the Continental Army. On March 20, 1 ?. Mawhood issued the following mandate to his British troops: "Go—spare no one—put all to death—give no quarters." At approximately five o'clock in the morning of March 21. P78, these orders were carried out. With local Tories (British loyalist?) acting as guides, Major John Graves Simcoe and a force of approximately 300 men attacked the Hancock House where they knew the local militia was stationed. Everyone inside was bayoneted; not a shot was fired. Among the ten who were killed, was Judge William Hancock. The British had expected to find a much larger, more heavily armed force. They had not expected to find Judge Hancock. who despite his strong American sympathy was an official in the British colonial government. Proud of their "victory," but chagrined that they had not defeated the Americans, British troops left Salem County" within a week of the massacre. The Hancock house remained in the family until 1911, although the extent to which the house was used as a private residence and the property farmed is uncertain.
Petitions to operate tavern, dating from 1761 to 1870, suggest a seer-.' t. . ;r die house was leased for this purpose. Another commercial use of the property is revealed in a family will dated 1884. In it, the Hancock House was described as a "hotel property and farm." The State of New Jersey acquired the Hancock House for 54,000 in 1931.
The Hancock House earned a place in history on that fateful day in March 1778. Yet the story of its architecture is also important. With its distinctive patterned end wall brickwork, simple lines and little ornamentation, it reflects the building traditions of the Quakers' English homeland. Like many other Quaker homes in Salem County, the Hancock House reflects several different building periods. The main 2 story -ect;on dates to 1734. Construction dates of the two smaller sections are not certain. Another common feature of the Hancock House is the type of brick used in its construction. In 1683, the West Jersey assembly passed an act standardizing the size of the bricks and subjecting them to inspection. Those not meeting this standard were discarded. Such government regulation of the brick-manufacturing industry ensured the quality and durability of these bricks. The Hancock House's unique herringbone pattern in both its end walls and the checkerboard pattern on its front and back elevations are achieved by laving the brick on end and by using vitrified bricks. Vitrified bricks have a dark, blue-glazed surface caused by their proximity to the fire in the manufacturing process. When laid with the more common red colored bricks, they contrast sharply, creating a pattern. Other elements of this architectural style include a pent-roof that wraps around the front and back of the house; simple entrance steps; interior paneling and the use of such local materials as Wistarburg glass. The Hancock House is listed on the NJ and National Registers of Historic Places.


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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 9/24/2012 23:30 (Entered as : 09-24-12 11:30)
Reported: 9/24/2012 10:22:13 PM 22:22
Posted: 10/30/2012
Location: Naples, FL
Shape: Rectangle
Duration:2 minutes
|Bright, color-alternating craft appearing and and disappearing over the ocean
At approximately 11:30pm, a strange light appeared over the ocean and become very bright within a matter of seconds. Two alternating lights appeared side by side and began to change colors (red, yellow, green, and white).
A woman walked by and asked my friend and I if we were seeing it and remarked that she had seen it there almost every other night and it was especially peculiar tonight. She also made out and elongated shape of the craft.
I have also seen strange lights over that area, but tonight was very different.
After about two minutes, the aircraft turned around a quickly disappeared out of sight within seconds.


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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:25:48 +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote: > I see two ways of fixing this bug: either use -batch option which > means that the certificate will be without common name (this approach > is used in quassel), or supply an own OpenSSL config file along with > the postinst script (or generate it in the postinst script as it is > used in openvas-server). > Or point your package at the snakeoil certificate generated by the ssl-cert package? Cheers, Julien
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