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Boasting majestic and uninterrupted views of the Indian Ocean and located on the south-western tip of the Bukit Peninsula of Bali, Indonesia, OMNIA provides an all-day dayclub destination where the experiences are uniquely found and many in number. Perched atop a 100-meter plateau overlooking the beauty of the limestone ocean floors below, OMNIA Dayclub is just 30 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport and 15 minutes from Jimbaran Bay near the renowned Uluwatu Temple. OMNIA is adjacent to Sake no Hana, a modern authentic Japanese restaurant from London's St. James Street. Sake no Hana features a la carte menus that provide a selection of charcoal grill, toban and kamameshi dishes, while sushi and sashimi are prepared-to-order at the sushi bar. With views unique to anywhere on the island and an all-encompassing daytime experience that features an array of VIP areas, Sake no Hana restaurant, and the beauty of Uluwatu, the OMNIA Dayclub experience sets a new standard of service and experience within Bali and beyond.
Overlooking the Sea of Cortez, OMNIA Los Cabos creates an all-day escape from the traditional and expected. The beachfront dayclub is arranged around a central pool with an array of VIP areas including two-story VIP bungalows with private infinity plunge pools, private cabanas, and chaise lounges. OMNIA's atmospheric environment weekdays morph into a high-energy DJ-centric scene come week's end – collectively, providing a complete daytime party destination for the region. With a talent line-up of world-class DJs, OMNIA Dayclub sets a new standard of service and entertainment within Los Cabos and beyond.

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Colors 55 reveals another side of a city known for too long as just being home to one of the UK's largest road junctions (Spaghetti Junction to locals). So stop and pull off the highway, Colors is glad to show you around Birmingham, the city with more canals than Venice, more trees than Paris and more parks than any other European city. Visit the colorful neighborhoods of Handsworth and Sparkbrook, the Botanical Gardens, Europe's biggest cinema complex and Birmingham Central Mosque.


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I get so many requests for something new, alternatives to the old style corsages like the ones somebody's grandmother used to wear. You know the ones on elastic, metal clamps and glue, like you wore to the prom with boring flowers? We don't do those anymore, if I can help it. Plus the ribbon wrap is so sweet. The silk flower component of this makes it a fashionable accessory that looks fresh long after the wedding day - even tied around a pony tail. Ideal for MIL's, flower girls, bridesmaids the day of the wedding or the bride if she's a party honoree. So let's get to work on these pretty little things for all of your favorite people. Join me as I show it all to Alva & Austrie and The Glitter Blog & Izzy Hudgins Photography.
This DIY is part of our party post we did with Pottery Barn, "7 Money Saving Secrets to a Picture Perfect Party"! To see the whole post click here.
- A silk flower
- Glue
- Wire cutters
- Nickel Metal Bases
Step 1: Choose your flower. I love the white. And the soft, round aesthetic of a ranuculous. It's elegant and big. Plus it means, "I'm dazzled by your charms" in flower-ese which perfectly describes my feelings for the bride, Ashley Usry. Gardenia's and garden roses are great options, too.
Step 2: Cut a large bloom off one of the stems using the wire cutter. Try to cut so the flower is as flat on the bottom as can be.
Step 3: Trim the ribbon 15" - 18" depending on the wrist size. Fold it in half to find the center of the ribbon.
Step 4: Glue the flower to the center of the ribbon.
These are so easy that my sister made them for the entire party in just a few minutes. Literally record time. If you make your own, I'd love to see it!
Photography: Izzy Hudgins Photography
Get the look with Pottery Barn Galvanized Metal Wagon Party Bucket, Beachcomber Wood Handle Basket, Vintage Wood Carved Cake Stand, Riddling Rack Succulent Stand, Varigated Petal Succulent Stem,
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Models: Maggie Buckley, Marley Jones, Halei Jo Sessum, Ashley Usry & Misty Williamson all of Georgia Southern University
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Ribbon: Lion Offray
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Brexit will have fundamental implications for the UK data protection regime. Until Brexit takes place, there will be a period during which its precise form and implications for UK data protection laws are not clear. This interim period comes at a time when data controllers are already anticipating the significant changes that will be made by the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") from 25 May 2018.
The GDPR will significantly update EU data protection law, harmonize data protection rules across the Member States and grant individuals important new rights to control the use of their personal data. It will extend the scope of EU data protection rules to a wider range of non-EU entities and increase obligations on those processing personal data. The GDPR significantly increases penalties for noncompliance, to a maximum of €20 million or, if greater, 4 percent of global turnover.
Companies will need to prepare for the introduction of the GDPR at the same time as they are considering the potential implications of Brexit for data processing in the UK.
UK Data Protection Regime
Data protection in the UK is currently governed by the Data Protection Act 1998 which implements the EU General Data Protection Directive ("Directive"). From 25 May 2018, the GDPR will apply directly in the UK (unless Brexit has taken place by this date). After Brexit, the GDPR will no longer apply in the UK, although it will still apply as a matter of EU law to UK businesses in relation to their sales of goods and services into, or monitoring individuals in, the EU.
While Brexit will allow the UK to set its own data protection rules, in practice, this freedom will be constrained by the impact of the EU data transfer rules.
The Challenge of Data Transfers to the UK Post-Brexit
Both the Directive and the GDPR prohibit transfers of personal data from the EU to countries lacking "adequate" data protection rules. EU regulators and courts have increasingly adopted a strict interpretation of "adequacy", effectively requiring substantial equivalence with the EU data protection regime.
The UK will face a choice. It could decide to apply data protection rules that are recognized as "adequate" by the EU Commission, in which case personal data can be transferred freely from the EU to the UK, reducing costs for business. However, this is likely to involve applying rules similar to the GDPR (potentially with some variations, such as lower penalties). Alternatively, the UK could adopt laws that the EU did not consider met this standard, in which case businesses in the UK would be subject to the same restrictions that currently apply to data transfers from the EU to the United States or Asia. In this scenario, transfers of data from EU Member States to the UK would require use of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding Corporate Rules or a bilateral agreement similar to the EU–U.S. Privacy Shield. These arrangements are likely to lead to cost and complexity for businesses and, in the case of a bilateral agreement, would need approval of the EU and the UK government.
Possible Scenarios
Clearly, the overall form Brexit will take is not yet decided and will be subject to significant discussion. However, it is likely that each of the basic outlines for Brexit currently being canvassed will have a similar implications for the UK's data protection rules.
- If the UK trades with the EU as a member of the European Economic Area, it is likely that the EU would require the UK to adopt measures similar to the GDPR as part of its commitment for access to the single market.
- If the UK relies on bilateral trading agreements with the EU covering different sectors, it will face a choice between adopting "adequate" data protection rules to allow UK businesses to receive unrestricted data flows from the EU or accepting that UK businesses will have the cost and administrative burden of putting in place alternative arrangements to allow these transfers. For example, Switzerland has adopted a data protection law that closely resembles the Directive, and it is likely to amend this to reflect the GDPR.
- If the UK trades under the WTO rules, it will face the same choice as to whether to apply "adequate" data protection rules. Canada has been approved by the EU as having adequate data protection laws after essentially mirroring the EU rules.
Whichever approach is taken, the EU transfer rules give a strong incentive for the UK to adopt measures that are broadly equivalent to the GDPR.
Regulatory Uncertainty about EU–U.S. Data Transfers
There are ongoing uncertainties about transfers of personal data from the EU to the United States. The EU–U.S. Privacy Shield (which replaced the U.S.–EU Safe Harbor framework ruled invalid by the European Court of Justice in the 2015 Schemes ruling) has only recently been approved and may be subject to further legal challenge. There are also ongoing proceedings before the Irish High Court challenging the validity of transfers using the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. Brexit will add further uncertainty and potentially require parallel negotiations between the EU and UK authorities to agree on bilateral arrangements to permit data transfers to the UK. This uncertainty will be a particular concern for cloud services providers, which often depend on unrestricted worldwide data flows.
While Brexit gives the UK a theoretical ability to set its own data protection rules, there will be incentives to maintain rules that are substantially similar to those of the EU. Regardless of the form of the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU, EU data protection rules will continue to have a significant influence on UK companies. For some UK businesses, the GDPR will apply directly as a matter of EU law.
Businesses should be considering the impact of the GDPR irrespective of Brexit. Brexit adds uncertainty to this evaluation and will be a factor in certain investment decisions, such as where to locate data centers to service EU customers.


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alhamdulillah i am celebrating ramadhan in malaysia. however, my other half is struggling in the heat of the summer in dubai. how hot can it get in dubai? let the picture speaks for itself!
laporan oleh encik khairul, lintas lansung dari dubai!
this is taken by mr. khairul in the daytime. temperature was a scorching 55 degrees! according to UAE labor law, anyone working outdoors will be banned from working outside between 12.30pm-3.00pm between 15 june to 15 september. companies found to be breaking the regulation will be fined 15,000 dirham (RM12,800).
…and if you think that THAT is hot enough, perhaps you'd also think that the night would be gentler to the people and gets colder – NOT! this was taken by mr. khairul just last few nights, and the temperature shown was 49 degrees.
49 degrees. at night! ouch, that's pretty darn HOT!
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may Allah grant patience and perseverance to my mr. khairul and all our malaysian buddies in dubai in facing the summer ramadhan in such hot temperature. amin!
(time sahur minum air banyak dan jangan lupa kurma ok! pemberi tenaga!)


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We've heard a lot about the various tribute comic books created to benefit charities following the Attacks on America on September 11th. Marvel Comics released "Heroes" a few weeks back and has "A Moment of Silence" coming up. Alternative Comics has "9-11: Emergency Relief" due out early 2002. There have been other tributes and even more on the way.
One thought that comes to mind is wouldn't it be nice to have the artwork from all these various tribute books in one place to look at up close? David Gabriel had just that idea.
David Gabriel is the president of the New York City Comic Book Museum. Started in 1999 by Gabriel, a life-long comic fan, this non-profit corporation has focused on unique programming and exhibits. While they don't currently have a permanent facility, the museum has hosted a number of interesting programs. Their first exhibit "Comic Books and AIDS" found itself hosted at the Empire State Building earlier this year, then traveled to New Rochelle High School and spent time at New York Hospital for World AIDS Day. They produced an award-winning video documentary called "Comic Books and AIDS: What's the Story?" which contained interviews with Peter David, Jim Valentino and many others. They're current focus is a "Women in Comics" exhibit that has traveled around a bit, starting with a panel discussion at Comic-Con International: San Diego earlier this year and will continue on the NYCCBM Web site in interviews with female professionals in comics followed by an exhibit in the spring of 2002 of women's work in New York City and possibly another video documentary. Most exciting for Gabriel is a recent development for the NYCCBM.
"I have met with individuals who are ready to begin the process to search, secure and develop a permanent home that will serve as a research facility as well as a showcase for the comic book industry," Gabriel told CBR News. "More on that soon, but the goal is the next two years!"
The latest exhibit for the New York City Comic Book Museum is titled "Heroes Among Us" which will collect artwork from the various tribute books out there in one place for fans to look at up close.
"Shortly after the tragic events of 9-11 the NY Post ran a single panel comic strip (still posted in our online exhibit) with three solemn figures of Spider-Man, Superman and Batman asking a NY Firefighter for his autograph," Gabriel said. "I thought that this humble comic said so much about the human spirit that existed in the city (and if you haven't actually been here to NYC since then to witness any of this, it is truly a different place). The thought of our comic heroes being in awe of a true-life hero was so inspirational that I, and many board members, just knew an entire exhibit should be created to exemplify this idea of the 'Hero.'
"I sent out a few emails to artists and contacts in the industry and found that Marvel Comics was quickly interested in helping us out however they could. I spoke with editor Andrew Lis who said that Marvel would donate the artwork from 'Heroes' to the museum by allowing us to create enlargements of the entirety of the book. They still retain the originals and will be auctioning them off for charity starting in January. As hard as it is to imagine, the enlargements are even more stunning than the pages of the book itself. The 'Heroes' section makes up an incredible part of the exhibit. Marvel wants to also include its upcoming 'Moments of Silence' in the exhibit."
"Then I heard about '9-11: Emergency Relief' from Alternative Comics. Publisher Jeff Mason was equally forthcoming with allowing us exclusive enlarging rights to many pages of the book and these story pages will also be an integral part of the Heroes Among Us exhibit. Different from the Marvel book in that '9-11' contains actual stories from artists and writers who witnessed the tragedy on that day. The stories are quite moving and really show the depths reachable through comic book format!"
In addition to the above, individual pieces from New York artists and portions of the upcoming Dark Horse Comics relief project will be included in the exhibit.
A date for the exhibit isn't set and a location hasn't been firmed up yet, but Gabriel has three venues he's negotiating with and wishes to travel the exhibit all around New York City. Once a location and time has been finalized the news will be posted to the NYCCBM Web site and right here on CBR.
"I am also planning an offshoot event called 'Heroes on Fifth,'" said Gabriel. "For this I am seeking the help of all the stores and businesses with storefront windows on Fifth Avenue to place one piece from the exhibit in their window for a few weeks either in January or February. This will be an amazing tourist and shoppers draw for all involved, and it has the potential to be as famous as the cows that were all around the city last year. [In 2000 statues of cows painted by different artists could be spotted all over New York City.] My feeling is that we need to concentrate on the human aspect of this tragedy, on the heroic deeds and consequences, rather than the horror of it all. I think it will be quite cathartic for everyone. And the best part will be that thousands of non-comic book fans will be seeing this great artwork!"
An opening night New York City event will be free to the public and the cost for the permanent exhibit will depend on the venue that hosts "Heroes Among Us." Those museums under consideration as hosts for the exhibit have nominal fees attached as entrance into their own museum space.
Visitors to the upcoming exhibit will be able to look at incredible art by comic artists from around the world in the city that the work pays tribute to.
"People will see AMAZING art and read some incredible stories," said Gabriel. "I think people will understand what it is to be a hero, through the eyes and dedication of a superhero loving industry. Comics-lovers will enjoy having their art form elevated to new heights of glory. While the non comics-lovers will fondly remember what it was like to hold a comic in their hands and may want to revisit that feeling. Above all, the exhibit will grant audiences the gift, if only for a little while, to remember the men and women affected on that horrible day, remember the spirit of those who redefined heroism, and, hopefully, to ease their minds and maybe remove some of their pain. Art has a comforting way of doing that."


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KALAMAZOO, Mich. (June 5, 2014) — The reigning MAC Coach of the Year is sticking around Kalamazoo until at least the end of the decade.
Western Michigan and men's basketball head coach Steve Hawkins have agreed to a new six-year contract, according to a release from the university on Thursday.
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Part 1 - The LandsOf all the things I never expected to figure out, architecture was near the top. After all, the setting has limits in what it can do with building materials. Stone and wood can only go so far up before collapsing on itself. But, there is magic in the world, and magic changes what can and can't be done.
Part 2 - Militaries
Part 3 - Elves
Part 4 - Architecture is below.
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Part 6 - Wrap Up
Starting with the elves, since they're fresh from the previous part, each type of elf has used magic to create their cities. The sylvan elves grew Wildwood in a forest; the dark elves grew the Sundered Chasm in a cavern; and the crystal elves formed their city from crystals. None of those cities could exist without magic. With Wildwood, the entire city is raised off the ground, with buildings connected by walkways. Obviously, horses are only allowed at the stables at the cities various gates, but height restriction are now based on the trees themselves and not construction technology. Buildings are coaxed from the trees, forming the basic layout, though other items, like doors and window panes, have to be installed afterward. The tallest building, the Council Chambers, has a garden in the centre. The Chambers are formed from and around the oldest tree, which branches out wide enough to let the sylvan elves place an ornamental garden in the centre. This might be difficult to film if adapted...
In the Sundered Chasm, since there are no trees, nor room or light for them to grow, so the dark elves formed the city out of the earth itself. Being underground, height restrictions aren't a consideration. The central tower, home to the temple of the Outcast Queen and where the ruling families gather to argue, is by tradition the tallest structure, and must be seen by all locations of the city. The ruling families cluster near the central tower, with each home taking its own style from the whims of the Matriarch. The common folk live in a maze of tunnels and alleys, with homes formed as needed without planning. The marketplace, though, was created as that, so the buildings there look more traditional, allowing the traders who come to the city to feel like they're in a familiar place. Even then, the inns are made from a solid piece of earth, not stone or wood.
The crystal elves would have similar buildings as the dark elves, except made from crystal above the surface. Height now does matter, if only as a way to separate the ruling families from the commoners. Natural crystal formations dictate where housing would be, so streets are formed as travel dictates. There isn't a central tower; instead, the Council of Matriarchs meet in a crystal formation grown from the side of a mountain, allowing them to look down upon the city when they discuss matters.
The dwarves, at least in the Realm Below the Mountain, don't bother with magic. They carved their kingdom out from the mountain. Areas were planned. The Realm Below has an entry cavern where visitors can be verified before being allowed further. Going up inside the mountain from there leads to Embassy Row, where ambassadors from other realms may set up an office to help with trade and negotiations with the dwarven kingdom. Going down leads to the market, the main area where drawves and outsiders mingle. Beyond the marketplace and deeper in the moutain are the shops and homes of the dwarves. Magic isn't used to create buildings. The dwarves excavate as needed, though this does place a limit on the size of the Realm. The dwarven guild hall, where the various guilds send representatives, is just past the market, keeping close to where trade occurs. The further out from the guild hall, the lower the property values; it takes more time to get from the outer edges to the hall. However, for some dwarves, especially the miners, this isn't a problem. The miners are closer to where they work, and they are always expanding the Realm by following veins of ore.
The dwarves have a preference towards technology, which is available to far more people than any sort of magic. To get ore from the Realm to the sea, the dwarves built a canal system. Transportation between dwarven realms is via a rail system, some of it with carriages pulled by giant lizards, other parts with steam, depending on how secure the area is. More delicate goods are shipped with the rail system, avoiding weather conditions on the surface. Ore, however, doesn't care if it gets wet.
The human settlements will follow more traditional means of building. Castles made of stone, inns made of a mix of stone and wood, Nicean homes on stilts due to the potential for flooding along the islands' coasts. Some areas may use magic more than others. Colleges of magic will have magical reinforcement in place. With humans, I'll fall back to what has been used historically, depending on the aesthetic I want in use for a location. Few settlements will be thoroughly planned out; the grid pattern seen in North American cities core is a deliberate choice applying lessons from European cities that were more ad hoc in development.
The end result, I hope, is a world that doesn't feel like a mono-culture. Each city, each town, no matter the nation, should have its own character, making the world itself seem more alive.


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Syracuse's Farmers Market, located at 2100 Park Street, next to the Greyhound bus station and across the highway from the Carousel Center, isn't easy to miss. Five long enclosures with green roofs, labeled A through E, and freestanding white tents in the sun house dozens of vendors. The Market is a yard sale, a garden sale and a green market all thrown together, and it runs year-round.More often than not, the vendors are the farmers themselves. Old sunspotted men unload their produce from the backs of their trucks while their hardened wives work the cash register. This is a family affair: children and grandchildren work as much as adults. These men and women don't feel the need to hawk their goods or harass potential customers, which is a nice change from NYC street fairs.
The prices are shockingly low: three onions for three dollars, a 75 cent eggplant. One bread stall has a buy-one-get-one-free end-of-the-day loaf special. It's cheaper than Wegmans and light years more affordable than Whole Foods, where food is made expensive by the packaging and shipping. Some stands advertise that they accept food stamps as payment, making a very good case for cheap, healthy calories (while also making this blogger happy as a clam.)
For such an old institution, the Farmers Market is surprisingly forward-thinking. Everything is locally grown by small farms. A preponderance of meats are free-range, grass fed, and organic. A rainbow of homemade pasta, cut into long, thin strips and short, dry squiggles, are mostly vegan. Reading material is available to educate you on the benefits of Islam and explain why it isn't terror-based. Even progressive ideas like Fair Trade have wormed their way upstate.
The farmers and vendors sell prepared foods as well. Will you buy the coconut chocolate pecan fudge or the cinnamon chili chocolate pecans? The natural peanut butter or the canned jams and vegetables? There are samples galore: try the cheese, peanut brittle, grass-fed jerky and wine. Lots of homemade treats are sold in Ziplock bags. Must-haves are the pure maple candy, sold at Leonard's Maple Syrup by the most adorable, authentic-looking, crusty old farmer I've ever seen; and the 25-cent sticks of flavored honey (lemonade! peach!), sold at the tiny honey stand.
Beyond farm-fresh produce and prepared cuisine, the adjacent flea market includes household goods and apparel. Sift through tables and cartons of shea butter, sunglasses, jewelry, toys, sheets and candles before heading off to lunch at one of the meal carts. Smells from the Pierogie Guy, Ma & Pa's Kettle Korn and Dogs On Wheels permeate the air. There's even Thai and Laotian food, and of course, that zenith of gustatory pleasure, fried dough.
This is Syracuse at its best, most interesting, most accepting and most progressive. The crowd is a melting pot. Women in hijabs push strollers past teens in bondage pants and baggy jeans; men in big glasses and trucker hats purchase cookies from pinch-faced Amish women, who will smile if coaxed. (The Amish pastries are very good; give one a try.) All in all, the Farmers Market is a fantastic jumping-off point for the local food movement, and for culture in Central New York.


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Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
U.S. Department of Labor
Employment Standards Administration
Office of Labor-Management Standards
Washinton District Office
800 North Capitol Street NW
Room 120
Washington, DC 20002-4244
(202) 513-7300 Fax: (202) 513-7301
April 6, 2007
Mr. Leo Bosner, Local President
American Federation of Government Employees AFL-CIO
Local 4060
PO Box 23339
Washington, DC 20026-3339
Re: Case Number
LM File Number: 541-561
Dear Mr. Bosner:
This office has recently completed an audit of American Federation of Government Employees Local 4060 under the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to determine your organization's compliance with the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As discussed during the exit interview with Treasurer Robert Autrey, Secretary James Driver, and you on March 21, 2007, the following problems were disclosed during the CAP. The matters listed below are not an exhaustive list of all possible problem areas since the audit conducted was limited in scope.
Recordkeeping Violations
Title II of the LMRDA establishes certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements. Section 206 of the LMRDA and 29 C.F.R. §403.7 require, among other things, that adequate records be maintained for at least (5) years after a report is filed by which the information on the report can be verified, explained and clarified. Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. §458.3, this recordkeeping provision of the LMRDA applies to labor organizations subject to the requirements of the CSRA as well. Therefore, as a general rule, all records used or received in the course of union business must be retained. This includes, in the case of disbursements, not only the retention of original bills, invoices, receipts and vouchers, but also adequate additional documentation , if necessary, showing the nature of the union business requiring the disbursement, the goods or services received, and the identity of the recipient(s) of the goods or services. In most instances, this documentation requirement can be satisfied with a sufficiently descriptive expense receipt or invoice. If an expense receipt is not sufficiently descriptive, a note can be written on it providing the additional information. An exception may be made only in those cases where 1) other equally descriptive documentation has been maintained, and 2) there is evidence of actual oversight and control over disbursements.
In the case of receipts, the date, amount, purpose and source of all money received by the union must be recorded in at least one union record. Bank records must also be retained for all accounts.
The audit of Local 4060's 2005 records revealed the following recordkeeping violations:
Lack of Documentation to Support Disbursement of Local Funds
Adequate documentation was not retained for a purchase of office supplies and for disbursements related to an arbitration. Receipts must be maintained for all expenses.
As agreed, provided that Local 4060 maintains adequate documentation as discussed above in the future, no additional enforcement action will be taken regarding this violation.
Reporting Violations
Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. §458.3, the reporting requirement under 29 C.F.R. §403.2 (see LMRDA Section 201(b)) is made applicable to labor organizations subject to the requirements of the CSRA. This provision requires labor organizations to file annual financial reports that accurately disclose their financial condition and operations. The CAP disclosed a violation of this requirement. The Labor Organization Annual Report, Form LM-3, filed by Local 4060 for fiscal year ending December 31, 2005, was deficient as follows:
1. Some Payments to Officers Not Properly Reported
Local 4060 failed to include a reimbursement to a local officer in Item 24 (All Officers and Disbursements to Officers). Such payments appear to have been erroneously reported in another category.
All direct disbursements to Local 4060 officers and some indirect disbursements made on behalf of its officers must be reported in Item 24. A "direct disbursement" to an officer is a payment made to an officer in the form of cash, property, goods, services, or other things of value. An "indirect disbursement" to an officer is a payment to another party (including credit card companies) for cash, property, goods, services, or other things of value received by or on behalf of an officer. However, indirect disbursements for temporary lodging (such as a union check issued to a hotel) or for transportation by a public carrier (such as an airline) for an officer traveling on union business should be reported in Item 48 (Office and Administrative Expense).
2. Failure to File Bylaws
Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. §458.3, the requirement under 29 C.F.R. §402.4 (see LMRDA Section 201(a)) is made applicable to labor organizations subject to the requirements of the CSRA. This provision requires labor organizations to file copies of any revised constitution and bylaws at the time that it files its annual financial report. The CAP disclosed a violation of this requirement. Local 4060 amended its constitution and bylaws after the latest one on file and prior to 2005, but the required copies were not filed with its LM report for that year. A copy of Local 4060's constitution and bylaws has now been filed.
I am not requiring that Local 4060 file an amended LM report for 2005 to correct the deficient item, but as agreed, Local 4060 will properly report the deficient item on all future reports filed with this agency.
Other Issues
The audit revealed that Local 4060 officers give a financial report at membership meetings. However, the union does not record this information in the meeting minutes. I strongly recommend that Local 4060 include this information in their meeting minutes as it is an internal control of union funds.
I want to extend my personal appreciation to Local 4060 for the cooperation and courtesy extended during this compliance audit. I strongly recommend that you make sure this letter and the compliance assistance materials provided to you are passed on to future officers. If we can provide any additional assistance, please do not hesitate to call.
cc: Treasurer Robert Autrey Secretary James Driver


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Yes, I admit that I am guilty. Guilty of a few things and now I realise that I have a particular unconscious bias.
My awareness of this bias has recently unfolded whilst reading my fifth book. And I am in shock as I pride myself as being immersed in all new world behaviours, practices and activities.
What about you. Are you guilty?
Try this 10 second test: If you see a man with his baby in a pram in a café, with no other adult, what's your immediate thought/reaction/assumption?
What's your answer?
My immediate assumption was: Oh! How lucky is that woman to have a partner who takes their child out for an hour to give her a break.
After delving into Annabel Crabb's book, The Wife Drought, I feel as if I've been slapped in the face and put in my place: I was expecting to have a good laugh, given my fan following of her ABC and iView productions; and whilst there was a good dusting of humour, I was surprised with the volume of common sense and clarity about the wives and lives of men and women over the past decades.
I immersed into reflection, pondering leadership, leaders and their authority and realise that too many businesses are still stuck in the 50s. Few admit that they have a workforce which has constructed systems supporting men and women and in particular their families (think children & grandparents/seniors).
The drought in question is the support which women don't receive when they are in the office or at home. We wives tend to unconsciously take on the roles of: meals, social arrangements, nursing sick kids, child arrangements if travelling, house cleaning etc.
I blame many men!
OK, I've said it. I don't think I've met many men (straight men) who get it. A few who don't behave badly (consciously) and realise that women aren't just looking for equality, they expect a fair go in this modern world which can actually cater for it.
Sadly some blame lies with us women too. Being a member of an average Australian family, I often unconsciously take on the housewife role; regardless of running my own business and working around two kids; I frequently allow or I suppose even encourage my husband to behave that he has a housewife*.
Who needs to read and make sense of The Wife Drought?
Leaders, Human Resource/People Focused folk, Business owners and anyone who is responsible for men and women.
You will want to read this book to heighten your awareness of your possible unconscious bias – which is preventing more women filling the seats which too many men occupy.
This book isn't a man bashing read, however it alerts us to the root cause and symptoms which then identify the solution: we need more men to join by supporting women, changing their approach, being a "wife" too and normalising the fact that men and women need to work at this problem.
So, what do we need to do?
· Like the Norwegians, whose government policies are focused on family and health (and it appears happiness), we need to change the attitude so in our workspace that being 'busy' doesn't equate to effectiveness and success.
· So many Australians are still conditioned to thinking that men work and women care– we're still following Dorothy Carnegie's manual on being a good housewife – a shift in mindsets is required and leaders need to role-model and talk about the necessary change.
· We know women can perform effectively in these roles, however leadership hasn't been activated to make necessary changes including support, understanding and role modelling to make it easier, not an uphill journey.
· We still worry about untested assumptions, inhibiting our desire to do what we want –it's still a juggle and a struggle – let's talk loudly and get some businesses to show us how it can be done.
· And women, take off those aprons and have a good talk to those husbands – set some new standards and agreements on how you want life to operate.
· Finally, for those of you who are doing the right things, please share. Let others know and provide feedback to those in your industry who don't.
I'm concerned that we still have some mindsets which are stuck in the '50s – women need to keep an eye on the pork chops rather than be in the workplace. We need to reframe our thinking, role model what we expect, bust assumptions and experiment with new practices.
On a side note, The Wife Drought is my current Book Club read. We'll be guzzling our champagne and munching on canapes whilst we pull this book apart. One third of our group are wives/mothers, one third are wives and one third are motherless/partnerless women. There hasn't been a murmur in our Facebook page about the book – I'm eager to hear how the book was absorbed by the other two groups of women – do they experience the drought too?
*Sorry Honey - if you read this … you're an exception – you do far more than most men I know. You'd be out the door if you didn't!!!!
Let's connect to work on those assumptions and attitudes and focus on the leadership necessary to make your workplace one which people talk about being focused on what's important.


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He may win, but not before he agrees to lose.
- Czeslaw Milosz
He stands in his stall with his fingers laced behind his back, an obedient schoolboy. Bronze sculptures like taxidermied crows perch on the makeshift wall behind him. Kai, his German gallerist, hands him a glass of champagne and squeezes his right cheek between two fat fingers dripping with silver and Santa Fe turquoise. The gesture is anything but playful.
Sibs balances on his heels and swivels his body to face the visitors, squeaking sneakers on poured cement. The sound gives him goose bumps. He takes a sip of champagne, eyes the glass then chugs the rest. Nobody is recognizing him. Young black hipsters wearing garish eighties blazers and shweshwe dungarees walk past, looking right through him. He averts his eyes, ashamed of what he does not know. Old white ladies in skinny jeans gnash their teeth at him and swig from goblets of wine the color of corn syrup.
This is the first time Sibs is presenting a body of work in the country of his birth, after nearly a decade abroad.
Another life beckons, calls to him like the precipice of a cliff.
He drops his glass. People scatter like cockroaches in the light. A boy with a broom comes rushing. Sibs sees, walking towards his stall, the Ugandan delegation led by the green-eyed monstrously beautiful Brynda Maguire, who has been trailing him around Johannesburg since his arrival. He wants to sleep with her, of course, but he can't even get hard for himself these days, and so he ducks his head and disappears into the dark booth next door. A film is screening. It's by his old classmate, Lindiwe. She learned (sooner than did he, stubborn mule that he is) to pimp her heritage, and it has worked. Everybody is talking about her. She deserves it. He sits down in the back, closes his eyes and drifts into sleep. Her voice narrating the film is a memory of his father's big rough hands cupping his face and the sensation of falling out of a window from three stories high.
"Be good," his father said to him that day. "Be a good boy and help your mother until I come home."
The Uber drops him off outside Spring's house, a fortress fronted by high white walls and electric fences twisting into night fog. The triangle-shaped "Don't touch" signs, with red squiggles evoking electric shock, only make him want to touch the wires, to feel the voltage surge through his body.
He is unfamiliar with this area of Johannesburg. He had typed Robertson Avenue into the Uber app when he should have typed Robertson Street, and they had circled an industrial park for an hour before he realized his mistake. He was rude to the driver, then tried to make up for it by asking the man where he lived. Soweto. Turns out their mothers go to church together.
"You're living the dream, man," the driver says, as Sibs gets out of the car.
Now he's an hour late on top of the hour he was already late.
The front gates yawn open and Sibs walks up the driveway holding a bottle of whiskey more expensive than he can afford. It is everything he can do to keep himself from turning around and going back to Soweto to drink the whiskey alone in his mother's kitchen.
Spring's house is full of people. But what hurts is that it is also full of art. Expensive art. Art that was not made by Sibs. Art that Sibs considers inferior. And now, as he looks ahead and sees in a crowd his old friend Spring laughing beside a glowing swimming pool that is lit from above by the moon and from below by submerged lights, he remembers the day Spring brought a loaded gun to school and pulled it out of his green blazer, showing off. The gun had belonged to Spring's father, who, like all their fathers, was a freedom fighter. Someone told on Spring that day, but instead of punishing him, the teachers took the whole class to a funeral, where the wife of the deceased broke into song. Senzeni Na. Senzeni Na, she sang. What have we done?
There is a splash and a burst of laughter; someone has fallen into the pool. People point and jeer as the drunk man – whom Sibs now recognizes as one of the country's most successful artists – flounders and spits. Someone pulls him out, a cream linen suit sticking to his pink body like skin on raw chicken. Sibs looks, suddenly puzzled, down at his hands which are outstretched as though poised to catch an invisible basketball. His hands know things his brain does not.
"Hello, Sibs."
He turns to see Spring's wife, Jacqueline, all red lipstick and black lace.
Jacqueline hugs him. She smells like gardenias and expensive shampoo. He does his best to make her laugh, drawing on some bright reserve. Jacqueline has always been a plain woman, a Benoni girl, not much to look at, too skinny, too much yoga. She runs an NGO, one of the big important ones. Everything she does, she does out of white guilt, including, Sibs thinks, marrying his best friend Spring. Still, he likes her.
"How's New York treating you?" she asks. Jacqueline is golden syrup, too good to be true and yet, somehow, true. Jacqueline and Sibs are the two people in the world who know Spring best, and in that regard they are tethered for life, like siblings.
"It's okay. You know the one thing I really hate about it? The ice cream trucks. They play this song that drives me crazy."
He hums the tune, does a little jig and whirls around like a deranged clown. Jacqueline smiles with a pinch in her cheeks. Sibs never knows if this is because she finds him charming or because she's merely tolerating him for Spring's sake.
She inquires about his work and Sibs finds himself telling her things he has never said out loud. That sculpture for him, to his own dismay, has become perfunctory, done merely to pass muster. That he's thinking of making performances out of his photographs but is hesitant to change track now that he is finally starting to find what feels like modest success. That he feels guilty for stealing his mother's dreams.
"At least your mother has interesting dreams," Jacqueline says, swiping a dill-and-roe-bedazzled crudo from a passing tray. And then she is gone, engulfed by arriving guests. Sibs is left circling the pool, having the same conversation with each of his old schoolmates, feeling his responses grow stale on repeat. He does not believe a word he says.
"Nobody walks here," says Femke, the lithe Danish wife of somebody-or-other-who-used-to-be-captain-of-the-row team. Her husband and her work in finance, first Geneva then Rio de Janeiro, now Johannesburg for a stint. She followed him here; he'll follow her to the next place.
"When I walk to Woolworths," she says, unwrapping a silver scarf from her neck, "people stop me and ask me if I'm okay. Because I'm white."
Sibs feels powerless in the face of her outrage. He cannot bring himself to engage. Instead, he convinces Femke to do a Springbok shooter with him. They tip into their open mouths the creamy Amarula, then the green peppermint goo. They smack their lips and laugh.
Then Sibs gets so drunk on the whiskey he brought that he has to spend the night in the spare bedroom.
In the morning, he puts on Spring's sunglasses and stumbles outside. He lies flat on his back on the grass beneath a palm tree that seems impossibly tall. The heat and the blue sky make his head throb. He wonders what it must feel like to own an actual palm tree. He dimly senses that last night, along with half the Ugandan delegation and a handful of Johannesburg's leather-clad scenesters, Brynda had arrived happily late to the party, and that when she had left, she was no longer quite so happy. There had been dancing. There had been cocaine. Someone had been thrown into the pool against their will, an iPhone destroyed. There had been apologies. He searches his phone for clues: "Fine, I forgive you." at 3:00 A.M. and a few emoji at 3:15 A.M. A circus tent, a turd and a shooting star. He is the turd, she the star.
He feels the sunglasses being pried from his face. Spring is towering over him, laughing.
"You are a piece of work, my friend," Spring says. "You were in top form last night."
"Nice palm tree, bro," Sibs says.
"Thank you. I'm rather fond of it myself. But we're having it cut down. Jax says it sucks water. She wants an indigenous garden."
Spring slaps Sibs's cheeks a few times. "Did you even know we have a drought in this country? Hmm?"
Spring jumps to his feet and marches inside. Sibs trails behind, groggy and bewildered.
"No rest for the wicked," Spring says, downing an espresso and chasing it with a blue-green concoction that Jacqueline hands him. Their movements are orchestrated, elegiac. There have been no children from the marriage. Sibs avoids the temptation to ask why.
There is something mafioso about Spring, but this has always been the case, since childhood. Spring recently bought a run-down apartment block in the city center and his team is working around the clock to gut it. They paid off the police, evicted the squatters and set fire to the building, cashing in on the insurance.
"You should have seen this shit hole," Spring says as he flings a tan suede jacket around his shoulders.
"Literally a shit hole. It was crazy, man. We saw people coming out of holes, there were holes in the building, and they would come out dripping with shit. They would shit themselves so the police wouldn't touch them. You could see the feces, the maggots, coming out of their bodies."
Spring drains the last of his smoothie and daubs his lips with a handkerchief.
"It traumatized me to see that. I promise you, I couldn't eat for a week."
Sibs cannot seem to find any words.
Spring grabs his keys and says, "Come in with me on a building, Sibusiso. You'll make more in rental income than you make on your art, and then you can make work you really want to make, not work you think will sell. Think about it, comrade."
Spring is the only person in the world who would be this honest with him.
As they part, they say in unison as they always did with fists raised high, "A Luta Continua."
The struggle continues.
"Is this your American wife?" says his uncle as they pull up to Sibs's childhood home.
"We're friends," Sibs says. He turns to Brynda and says, "Old friends."
Brynda wobbles her head, purses her lips and stares at him like an alien fly-creature, her face swallowed by black Prada sunglasses. She has tired of his antics. She is still beautiful to Sibs but unrecognizable, costumed in a beaded peach-colored dress too ornate for the occasion, just a casual braai. Her hair, now dyed jet-black, sits too severely, Sibs thinks, against her powdered Geisha skin, her emerald eyes. She is so thin she looks almost ill. Ten years ago she was rounder, her skin blotchier, her hair wilder. They devoured New York: Jamaican jerk chicken, pitchers of Budweiser, food cart pretzels, Junior's cheesecake, 99-cent pizza, day-old bagels smothered with cream cheese and stolen strawberry jam. He recalls now the day they took ecstasy together in Central Park. It rained all afternoon; Brynda led them from umbrella to umbrella. She made friends with everyone. They bounced to shards of light and sound darting around them. They licked warm rain off each other's cheeks and foreheads. It was the closest they ever got to kissing. Now she is divorcing her husband of five years. She refuses to speak of it other than to say, "I should have left five years ago."
He pinches her belly; she slaps his hand away and gets out of the car.
They climb into a three-hour lunch that ends with his teenage cousin turning the pages of Sibs's passport and exclaiming each city aloud, bungling the names for comic effect. The crowd – his mother, his granny, his sisters, his aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, half the church it seems – is in hysterics. They are spread out on the front lawn. Sibs is standing at the helm with his arms folded, the jean-clad seigneur of a scarred family he barely knows but loves so much he feels he must atone for the rest of his life to deserve the adoration that now flows toward him. A cow has been slaughtered in his honor.
Brynda seems to be having fun. She is being inspected and prodded by two of his toddler nephews. She is showing them her phone, snapping selfies with them. Earlier, she had with gusto eaten the cabbage, chakalaka, beetroot and chicken stew his mother piled high on her plate. Sibs searches the crowd for the face of his mother; he knows her by her shining cheeks: pure happiness like white sugar bursts through the seams of her two front teeth. He wants to clutch his mother's ankles and say, "Mummy, mummy, what have we done?"
His mother gave her pension to the church. His uncle gambled away a mining fortune and a ministerial position his father would have killed for. Dimly it dawns on Sibs that he left at the wrong time. If he had stayed, he could have forged a life. Now he must fake one. He begrudgingly accepts his uncle's challenge to dance. Bravely, Sibs stomps the ground, kicking up grass and dust, twisting his torso like a snake poked with a stick, thrusting his legs high above his head, higher than his uncle's. He remembers. The women ululate.
He falls to the ground, rests for a moment on his back, laughing. He wonders if Brynda is watching.
The children are restless; they run down the street to play.
It is the hour of dread.
They are asking him: "When are you moving back?"
Suddenly, he longs for New York on a Sunday morning after a snowstorm. He wishes he were walking down the middle of a silent street, past cars mounded with snow like the humps of submerged animals, hands in his pockets and not a soul anywhere in a city of eight million that gives a damn what Sibs does next.
"Can you come to church tomorrow?" his mother asks.
He says he'll try, but he knows he won't.
Brynda folds and unfolds then refolds her legs, tugs in vain at a black pleather miniskirt, fiddles with polka dot stockings, applies then reapplies red lipstick while peering into a round mirror she pulled out of her purse. Brynda cannot sit still and it is irritating to Sibs. For the past few months, he has been sketching the faces of people he loves, rendering their features as tiny black ink dots, then digitizing and animating the ink dots so that the faces morph into each other. It is merely an exercise, he expects nothing of it.
Sibs recalls now how fiercely at the age of twenty-five Brynda remade herself in the image of the curators she admired. She spent her afternoons at the Salvation Army, spent her waitressing tips on makeup instead of food, starved herself skinny. Now Sibs sees a new sadness in the corner of her eyes like a certain quality in the old drag queens he knows; it renders itself as a slow blink as Brynda stares, suddenly still, out the window as weekend rush our traffic slides over the elegant spine of the Nelson Mandela Bridge. Sibs turns around to look at the sunset too; the sky is baby-bib pink and the sun's final rays fall heavy on the vacant lots of Newtown like a blanket. Sibs thinks of his mother sitting at the kitchen table leading him and his siblings in prayer, how she prayed for his father's safety in exile, how she was never religious before his father's disappearance, how his father despised the church. To him, it was 'The System.' Everything was 'The System' – he would even refer to individual people as 'The System.' Sibs laughs now, thinking of it, and shakes his head as he draws Brynda's nose.
Brynda says, "What?" but it is a faux indignation; her voice is tinged with warmth.
"Nothing," Sibs says, and his voice sounds to his own ears like his father's voice, baritone as can be.
Whether or not his father would consider art to be part of 'The System,' Sibs does not know, but he is starting to suspect that it is something he is able to neither navigate nor escape. His sculptures sell from time to time. He is accepted to the good residencies. He has a decent reputation, a few loyal collectors and a devoted, if distracted, gallerist in Kai. Taken together, it hardly feels like a life he wants.
He sketches Brynda's hair. She shivers, suddenly cold, then snaps out of her trance. Something in her has shifted: her whole being now radiates with expectation. She wasn't like this when she was married. Sibs makes a mock-serious face as he finishes the sketch, then hands it to her. She inspects it. Finally, cracking her powder and piercing the fluid outline of her lipstick, she smiles.
"Let's go," she says.
They do a shot of whiskey and then Uber to the closing night party of the fair. Someone has bought one of his sculptures. A small red dot like a bindi has been placed on the one Sibs likes best, the one that looks like a city in flight, a spaceship with feathers, a hash of skyscrapers and body parts both grotesque and sublime. Like a bindi, the red dot signifies true love and prosperity. Once expenses are deducted, Sibs will be left with enough hard cash for half a years' rent in New York, plus something left over for his mother and his sister, his nephews, his nieces, maybe even a new gearbox for his uncle's car, a need that was mentioned at lunch more than once. Or he could use it for a small downpayment on a flat, maybe in Hillbrow or Jeppestown. Either way, it's good news. It's a relief. And yet Sibs feels again a boot upon his neck.
Kai introduces Sibs to the Brazilian Cultural Ambassador who feigns interests in them while leering at the sister-princesses from Venda whom everybody wants to fuck.
Kai waves the man away. "Guess who."
"No, he doesn't have any money, are you nuts?" Kai pulls Sibs into a room where one of Lindiwe's videos is playing in a loop. She is knitting a long carpet made of thick, blood-red wool. Kai whispers, "Anonymous. Says he's an old friend of yours. Bought it in cash."
Sibs lowers his forehead into his palm and shakes his head slowly. "No, no, no, no."
His whole body has turned cold and yet his face feels hot. Sweat prickles his underarms and the back of his neck. He fights the urge to curl up in the corner of the room and cry.
Kai slaps his face harder than is necessary. "Pull yourself together. I don't care who this guy is. Go be nice to him."
Kai points across the room to Spring and Jacqueline who are walking around like they own the place. Maybe, Sibs thinks, they do.
He circles the room a few times as though he's going some place, then taps Spring on the shoulder.
"I thought you didn't like my work."
Spring laughs and hugs him.
"I never said I liked it. It's an investment."
Spring squeezes Sibs's shoulder. "I'll sell it one day when you're famous."
Jacqueline pushes in for a kiss. "He's already famous, sweetheart."
"No, I'm not," Sibs says.
He gestures to a woman wearing a bright pink wrapper around her beehive weave.
"She's famous."
Lindiwe is holding court with the ambassador and some of Spring's rock star friends. Her black skin is almost golden, her eyes wide and bright. She has learned to speak a new language, one that the executives from the bank that underwrites the art fair seem also to understand.
They sit together for the awards ceremony. Lindiwe gets the grand prize; Sibs an honorable mention. At the end, all the award winners are called up on stage. Sibs scans the room, looking for his father.
His father used to threaten to show up at their high school graduation in traditional garb, cheetah tails dangling from his shoulders, his legs and feet bare. As a teenager, Sibs dreaded that day, but his father disappeared before making good on his threat.
Lindiwe's hand is on his waist; they are moving off the stage.
"Congratulations," he says.
"Congratulations yourself," she says. "Move back already and come share my studio with me. I have so much space I don't know what to do with it."
Sibs says, "I'll give it careful consideration."
Lindiwe says, "Don't you want to work with all the cool kids in Jeppe?"
She hands him the award she just won. "It's too heavy," she says.
Sibs does some mock lunges with it then drops it by mistake. It has a small hairline crack that she assures him adds character.
"I'll fill it with gold," he promises.
For the rest of the night, he brings her drinks that he presents kneeling down on one knee.
Lindiwe invites him to her apartment for an early breakfast. She lives on the hill high above the city, adjacent to the Yeoville Water Tower, where as first year students they would go to drink malt liquor and watch the sunrise. Sibs does not know if the area is still considered dangerous.
He arrives too early. He had allowed extra time for Johannesburg's horrendous morning traffic but forgot it was a Sunday. He peers into Lindiwe's flat to see if she is awake. A curtain has been left open. The living room is painted daffodil yellow; dawn has not yet made it bright. There is a red couch, a long wooden table loaded with monographs, wooden chairs reupholstered in blue shweshwe fabric. The smell of shweshwe to Sibs is home: his mother used to make dresses out of it; now it adorns Johannesburg's plushest hotels. There is an ashtray that needs emptying and in a corner, an old Steenbeck editing contraption that must have been a gift, for their generation never used the things. For them, "undo" has always been an option.
Lindiwe's apartment is the kind of home he wishes for. He wishes now that he could marry her, move back to Johannesburg, Berlin's too damn cold, New York's too damn hot and the rent is too damn high, he could take a teaching job here somewhere, he's been inundated with offers the last few days. Maybe he would even open his own gallery; certainly he can do things here that he could never dream of doing in Europe or America.
Lindiwe's floors are wooden parquet arranged in a geometric pattern that pleases him. He thinks about waking her; instead he walks to the patch of grass next to her block of flats and sits on a fallen tree trunk beneath the water tower. The city is slowly waking up. He wonders how many of the buildings are owned by Spring; he once read online that the number runs into the hundreds.
A woman and her two small children crest the hilltop. The woman smiles at him, familiar, like she had just popped out to the supermarket and is returning home with drumsticks for dinner.
"Sanibonani" he says to them, and he can tell from her reply that they're not from here. Mozambique, DRC, Zimbwabwe, somewhere like that.
One by one they appear, walking now towards him in droves, mostly men, but women too. They each find a corner, on the edge of the hill, or under a tree, or on one of the cement slabs, remnants of an aborted construction site. The devout and weary who have come to pray face East. Some pray quietly, kneeling, some stand and sing, some pray at the top of their lungs as though preaching to a large congregation. One man is much louder than the rest. He paces up and down, chanting in Sesotho, hailing, raging, foaming at the mouth.
At first, Sibs simply watches them. Then, he unfurls himself like a black cloth and rises to his feet. He spreads his arms wide and tilts his face to the sky.
Suddenly, there is the sun.
Main Photo: Johannesburg's skyline — by Chris7cn


text: This one is for my brother Pookie always trying to loud cap me rocking a Boosie fade. I'm going to come back to the states rockin that Webbie (Webbie not weebie nigga get it right, lmao) fro'. For those of you waiting on that Savage Life 3 maybe you can make sense of this interview Webbie just did cuz I have no clue what he was saying or trying to say. http://static.hiphopdx.org/video/player.swf


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Lemongrass – The soul of Thai cuisine
Thai people love lemongrass as much as they love chili. Lemongrass; therefore, is a signature feature in the cuisine of this land.
Not only used in cooking, lemongrass is also a part of Thai daily life. They grow lemongrass around their house in both rural areas and luxurious villas to ward off mosquitoes and other insects. They extract lemongrass for essential oils used in medicine, cosmetics, and traditional therapies. They drink fragrant tea made from lemongrass use lemongrass in most everyday dishes.
Lemongrass is a common plant grown in Southeast Asia. It's used in many dishes in Vietnam and Thailand. These two countries share common ingredients but have their own recipes, creating different impression on Western visitors. While Vietnamese dishes are elegant, focusing more on fresh ingredients and the harmony, Thai cuisine is hot, and lemongrass plays a special role in this kind of flavor.
Thai cuisine is hot, and lemongrass plays a special role in this kind of flavor
Every visitor must try Tom Yum – the sour and spicy soup from the land of golden temples. Apart from spicy chili and the sour taste of fresh lime, Tom Yum carries an appealing aroma of lemongrass. However, not many people know that lemongrass is used in most Thai soups with fish, shrimp, or oysters. Lemongrass stems are bruised, cut into small pieces, and boiled before other ingredients are added.
For visitors, curry is less well-known than other Thai-style sour and spicy dishes, but it is usually included in the daily meals of Thai people. They eat curries like soup and use a variety of spices in cooking. Thai curries don't have the strong flavor of Indian curries. They focus more on the ingredients and the texture by using coconut milk. The green bell peppers, mint, and lemongrass are not cooked through in order to retain their flavor. For stir-fry, the leaves are crushed and mixed in different ratios, creating different curries with suitable colors and tastes for different dishes.
One of Thailand's favorite dishes is pad gung gaeng moo korb (crispy stir-fried pork with red curry). This dish is like love which draws you in but makes you "hurt" because of it. The heat of chili, the flavor of lemongrass, together with other signature Thai spices such as garlic, coriander, pepper, and onion create an explosion of taste and smell.
Thai people eat fresh lemongrass in salad. Khao yam is a rice salad from the Northern Thailand. Traditionally, Thais prepare khao yam with ingredients from their gardens such as grated sour mango, coconut flakes, bean sprouts, greens, and dried shrimp. Of course, an indispensable ingredient is lemongrass. Thin slices of lemongrass are gently cut from the bulb to the stem to keep its natural scent and sweet taste, contributing to this delicious dish.
Every time I visit my favorite Thai restaurant, the chef never forget to put a blue bean flower from his garden into my bowl. This is a precious little thing that makes me love this country and the people here.


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The retail market is still recovering from the recession, but online there are more than glimmers of hope. Mostly because successful retailers are investing in the space, focusing on making consumers happier and bringing in higher earnings. According to comScore, retail ecommerce hit $29.1 billion this holiday season. That's up 4% since last year. Also important is the fact that consumers are happier with their experiences shopping online — and are likely to spend even more money in the space next year.
Online sales, excluding travel, had been growing roughly 20% to 25% annually for most of the aughts, before
slowing to a 6% gain in 2008, according to comScore. Investment firm Credit Suisse released a
report this week predicting ecommerce sales will rise almost 10% in 2010 to $144 billion after ending 2009 with an estimated 1.1% gain.
And according to ForeSee Results'
recent E-Retail Satisfaction Index, customer satisfaction with ecommerce
shopping this season rose 7% to 79 out of 100, the highest since the
survey began in 2001. Last year, only two sites received excellent
satisfaction ratings from the survey, while 11 received that response
this time, including Amazon, Netflix, Apple and Newegg.com.
Not surprisingly, the lowest performers online — like Circuit City and Neiman Marcus, are currently having financial troubles beyond their online shopping endeavors.
But in general, ecommerce business is close to booming. According to the Internet Retailer Online Retail Index, the 25 top ecommerce stocks advanced 91.4% over the course of 2009. That's compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which gained 18.8%, and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, which was up 23.5% for 2009.
According to ForeSee, a satisfied online shopper is 73% more likely to purchase online and
38% more likely to purchase offline— behaviors that translate directly
to the bottom line for struggling retailers. That means that anything that helps improve consumer experience, from quick response rates to free shipping and online help centers, are efforts woth investing in.
Sucharita Mulpuru, retail analyst at Forrester, tells The Chicago Tribune:
"I know this is an overused phrase, but it really is a perfect storm. People want to
find the cheapest products. Most households have broadband, and there
are a lot more devices with access to the Web."


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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 220.127.116.11
The issue is this - First of all, I didn't know they'd charge $20 for an inquiry! What's stopping people from making inquiries to cost their competition money? Secondly, they charged a credit card that doesn't belong to me - my name is on it, but it's not mine - w/out my authorization. That credit card is not associated with nor was ever used for the domain in question. Third, the party who made the inquiry could have contacted me via my web site in any number of ways.
Their inquiry was baseless. Neither the inquiring party, nor DomainsByProxy.com has responded to my emails. How can GoDaddy.com & DomainsByProxy.com justify charging $20 on top of the yearly fee to simply send an email?
<snip> I have a P.O. Box to protect my privacy, somewhat. But wanted that added security for a few of my domains. Because of this, I'm considering letting all of them go as it's not worth the potential charges and headaches.
Anyone else run into this? How did you handle it? How was it resolved? Or was it?
[edited by: Webwork at 5:03 pm (utc) on Nov. 14, 2006]
d. Forwarding Fees
In consideration for (i) handling and forwarding certified and traceable courier mail and certain first class correspondence, and (ii) responding to and dealing with complaining third parties, You agree to pay DBP at the time such services are provided...
e. Additional Administrative Fees
DBP reserves the right to charge a reasonable service fee for administrative tasks outside the scope of its regular services. These include, but are not limited to, customer service issues that cannot be handled over email but require personal service, and disputes that require legal services....
From FAQs:
What are Domains By Proxy's shipping and handling fees?
When Domains By Proxy receives certified or traceable courier mail or legal notices addressed to your domain that requires forwarding, we post an e-mail message to your Domains By Proxy account under the "My Messages" page. The message identifies the sender of the correspondence, the date we received it and a brief description of its contents. You have 72 hours to decide whether you wish to reject the correspondence or have it forwarded via overnight courier or facsimile (or both).
- If you choose to have the correspondence faxed, the charge is $1.50 per page plus a handling fee of $20.00.
- If you choose to have the correspondence sent via overnight courier, the charge is the courier's cost (typically Federal Express standard overnight) plus a handling fee of $20.00.
Seems pretty clear to me. Did you read the fine print before you signed-up with the service?
I just went back and looked up the "Domain Name Proxy Agreement" as if I were adding it to a domain name - Nowhere, that I can see, does it specify $20 or Twenty Dollars (ctrl+f for "20" and "twenty"). So, technically, I didn't agree to that.
I logged into my account on DomainsByProxy & there was nothing under "My Messages" & I never asked for anything via overnight courier. I haven't received anything via Fed Ex, or any other courier, from DomainsByProxy, so why was I charged that much anyway? Your quotes don't mention email correspondence.
Regardless, the bigger issues still stand - How do they prevent abuse via baseless inquiries such as the one in my case? Why did they use a credit card that was not associated w/ that domain name & that they were not authorized to use? Why aren't they replying to emails?
They give themselves 72hrs to reply - I never got a reply to my first, after waiting 72hrs, I'm still waiting on the second and when that 72hrs are up, I'm getting on the phone.
[edited by: Celicaphile at 10:04 pm (utc) on Nov. 14, 2006]
DBP reserves the right to charge a reasonable service fee for administrative tasks outside the scope of its regular services. These include, but are not limited to, customer service issues that cannot be handled over email but require personal service, and disputes that require legal services....
You may argue as to whether or not $20 is "reasonable", but there it is. It's pretty wide-open.
This is like many other open-ended consumer contracts - i.e. your cell phone agreement, most insurance policies, etc. They pretty much have the right to change anything any time they want, and set fees as they see fit.
The only real recourse you have is to terminate the agreement and choose not to do business with them.
Well, what do you expect for $10/year?
Yes, anybody who wanted could absolutely cost you a ton of money. Just make a bunch of phone calls, send a lot of certified letters, and make a lot of legal threats. With or without basis.
If you have more than a small handful of domains, it's cheaper and probably at least as secure to simply get a P.O. Box ($35/year), seperate voice mail($25/year - even free now with at least one VOIP service), and disposible email address service($10/yr). OK, a handful and one digit of domains.
I might write the $20 off as lesson learned if it came out of one of my accounts, but they charged a credit card they have no business using w/out my authorization.
That's the main problem. That and that they cannot answer a single email w/out referring me to the general manager who doesn't answer any of those emails.
I will definitely not be using them again as I do already have a P.O. Box, but I'll have to remove my name from the whois info since sites like zabasearch exist...
[edited by: Celicaphile at 12:17 am (utc) on Nov. 15, 2006]
You don't even have to use their privacy services. Read the first few paragraphs of their service agreement at their main site and you'll find a similar provision.
And before you consider disputing the billing charges, be aware that registrars treat such as fraud unconditionally. They'll lock and suspend access to any account that bore the credit card details.
If you don't agree with any of their terms, move your domain names elsewhere.
<Snip - Shameless plug removed. ;-P )
[edited by: Webwork at 10:00 am (utc) on Nov. 15, 2006]
[edit reason] Ahem . . Shamless plugs are unforgiveable even amongst buddies. [/edit]
I'm glad it wasn't a client's credit card, otherwise it probably would have been disputed. The card belongs to my parents & was used for a site I did for them quite some time ago. It was never used for the domain in question.
Like I said, I might have written it off as lesson learned, but it's not the terms I have a problem with - it's the fact that the terms don't mention the fee and/or it doesn't apply to me. As far as I can tell, there was no reason to charge me, and, again, they had no authorization to use that card.
I pay a yearly fee for them to provide the service & they state that there are additional fees for anything beyond email correspondence, which there was not. The $20 fee isn't mentioned in the agreement I accepted. It may be in their FAQ, but it doesn't apply to me.
It may be in their FAQ, but it doesn't apply to me.
You can think it doesn't apply to you. But the registrar doesn't have to see it that way, especially when you've agreed to all their terms the moment you registered your domain name with them.
Their terms are "ambiguous" enough to cover whatever they see fit. You can probably complain to the powers-that-be, but don't expect anything positive.
If it indeed results into a UDRP and if you win, remind them to kindly refund you. ;)
(sorry for the shameless plug, WebWork!)


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a beautiful apartment community in Olathe, KS
Located in the heart of Olathe, Deerfield Apartments puts you close to everything you enjoy. Come and enjoy relaxed living just steps away from everything you need. We are nestled in a park-like atmosphere, but within a short driving distance to shopping, restaurants and entertainment.
Our one and two bedroom floor plans are creatively designed with attractive amenities to enhance your lifestyle. Careful attention has been placed in the places you gather and use most, offering uncompromising distinction in gracious apartment living. Our fully-equipped eat-in kitchens, spacious walk-in closets, plush carpeting, ceilings fans, air conditioning, and window coverings are just a few of the standard features you will find. Select homes feature a balcony or patio and a gas fireplace.
Become a resident of Deerfield Apartments and gain access to all the wonderful community amenities and services we offer. Community features include a refreshing pool with sun deck, clubhouse, beautifully landscaped grounds, storage spaces, 24-hour emergency maintenance, a clothes care center in each building, professional management and more! Deerfield Apartments was designed to compliment your personal lifestyle and provide convenience for stress free living.
Deerfield Apartments welcome your furry family members! We do have a pet weight limit of 45lbs with a maximum of 2 pets per apartment. A pet monthly fee of $20.00 per pet will be due on the 1st day of each month along with your rent amount. Please see below for breed restrictions.
Cats and Mid-sized dogs are Welcome.
Maximum 2 pets per apartment home.
Deerfield has a 45lb maximum per pet and certain dog breed restrictions may apply. Call for details.
The monthly pet rent is $20 per pet per month.
Dogs: 1 dog: $150 deposit + $150 non-refundable pet fee=$300 / 2 dogs: $200 deposit + $200 non-refundable pet fee=$400
Declawed Cats: 1 cat: $150 deposit + $150 non-refundable pet fee=$300 / 2 cats: $200 deposit + $200 non-refundable pet fee=$400
Non-declawed Cats: 1 cat: $250 deposit + $250 non-refundable pet fee=$500 / 2 cats: $300 deposit + $300 non-refundable pet fee=$600
Pets under the age of 1: $250 deposit + $250 non-refundable pet fee=$500 PER PET.
Combination of Cat & Dog: 1 declawed cat and 1 dog: $200 deposit + $200 non-refundable pet fee=$400 / 1 non-declawed cat and 1 dog: $300 deposit + $300 non-refundable pet fee=$600.
All other combinations please ask for details.


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The Monetary Authority (Amendment) Law, 2016 gives the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority power to impose administrative fines. The law passed on Oct. 24 and was gazetted on Nov. 23 but is not yet in force. No commencement date has been set.
It is expected that the law will be effective after the consultation on the underlying regulations is closed.
The amended law empowers CIMA to impose administrative fines on licensed and regulated entities and individuals for breaches of "prescribed provisions" of the law, the money laundering regulations and "regulatory laws."
Regulatory laws include the Banks and Trust Companies Law, the Building Societies Law, the Companies Management Law, the Cooperative Societies Law, the Insurance Law, the Money Services Law, the Mutual Funds Law, the Securities Investment Business Law, the Development Bank Law and the Directors Registration and Licensing Law.
Fines range from $5,000 to $1 million. CIMA will be able to impose cumulative fines of up to $20,000 for a single minor breach.


text: TRENTON — An Assembly panel passed legislation prompting a study of microgrids and electric generators to reduce the duration of power outages in the state. The bill is sponsored by Assemblyman Hal Wirths, who represents part of Sussex County that was hard-hit by extended blackouts after back-to-back snow storms in March.Wirths' measure directs the Board of Public Utilities to conduct a six-month review of the effectiveness of microgrids in restoring power after a storm or natural disaster. "Microgrid technology holds tremendous promise," said Wirths. "We had families who were without power for almost a week last winter. Tens of thousands of customers were kept in the dark while they waited for repairs to be completed. The study will consider whether there is a better way to deliver power and keep the lights on in a storm."The electric grid is an interconnected web of wiring that links homes, businesses and schools to a power source. Damage to the grid, common during and after storms, can sever service to neighborhoods or entire towns.Microgrids operate within the grid, but can function independently in the case of a power failure, seamlessly providing homes with electricity from local generators."Storms are a fact of life in the northeast, but going without power for the next week is unacceptable," said Wirths. "This could be a solution to the massive power outages we had after Superstorm Sandy, when more than 3 million homes were without power in New Jersey and Pennsylvania."