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1International Water Management Institute, P.O.Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh
3Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India
4The Policy School, Mangalpura, Anand, India
This paper offers an assessment of the social impact of the treadle pump technology for manual \ irrigation in Eastern India, Nepal terai and Bangladesh, South Asia's so called 'poverty square'. Many claims are made in favour of the technology. It self-selects the poor; it puts to productive use the region's vast surplus family labor, and is claimed to raise the annual net household income by US $ 100 on the average.
The paper reviews evidence from a variety of studies—including our own--designed to test these claims; and concludes that: [a] the treadle pump technology does 'self-select' the poor, although the first-generation adopters tend to be the less poor; [b] it does raise net annual incomes of adopter households by US $ 50-500 with an average value in the neighborhood of US $ 100; it transforms small-holder farming systems in different ways in different sub-regions; in North Bengal and Bangladesh, adopters take to cultivation of High Yielding rice in boro season; elsewhere, adopters turn to vegetable cultivation and marketing; [c] it results inincreased land-use intensity as well as 'priority cultivation'; adopters provide crop-saving irrigation in a large part of their holding but practice highly intensive farming in the 'priority plot'; [d] average crop yields on 'priority plots' tend to be much higher than obtained by farmers using diesel pumps or other irrigation devices; [e] income impact varies across households and regions; but $100/year as the average increase in annual net income seems a conservative estimate. Less enterprising adopters achieve fuller employment at 'implicit wage rate' that is 1.5-2.5 times the market rate. The more enterprising take to intelligent commercial farming and earn substantially more.
For a marginal farmer with $ 12-15 to spare in this region, there could hardly be a better investment than a treadle pump which has a benefit: cost ratio of 5, IRR of 100% and pay-back period of a year. It thus ideally fills the need of the marginal farmers in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra basin. The challenge lies in its marketing; exceptional ingenuity seems to be required to put the treadle pump in the hands of millions of rural poor. In Bangladesh, where this has become possible, over a million pumps so far sold probably do not account for a large proportion of the irrigated area but have certainly reached a significant proportion of Bangladesh's rural poor. In Eastern India and Nepal terai, the technology was introduced only in the 1990's; therefore total sales have been in the neighborhood of 200,000 against an estimated ultimate potential of 9-10 million. For significant impact on the poverty in the region, treadle pump sales need to quickly cross the 100,000 per year barrier in Eastern India and Nepal terai, possibly by recreating here the conditions that led to Bangladesh's three-year long sales boom during the early 1990's, which very nearly saturated its treadle pump market.
The National Department of Agriculture of South Africa is organizing a workshop 'Women in Irrigation in Southern Africa', in collaboration with the Southern African branch of the International Commission of Irrigation and Drainage (SANCID), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), International Programme for Technology Research for Irrigation and Drainage (IPTRID), and Ford Foundation, on 23 October 2000 in Johannesburg. The aims of this workshop are
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gender-balance in irrigation development,
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Justin Bieber Brought Mystery Brunette Date To Concert Last Night!
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Rumor had it that Justin Bieber was to meet up his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez at a concert yesterday, where Justin Timberlake had a gig. But that certainly wasn't true at all - since Justin Bieber showed up with a mystery brunette date. Justin was dressed very casually wearing jeans and a jacket, while his date was glammed up in a black dress and a leather jacket. The question remains: who is this lucky girl?! (contactmusic)

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But these incidents haven't soured Lewis on the Beach. In fact the same month he settled his criminal case, he closed on his North Bay Road mansion. But he never quite got the hang of just relaxing. Rather, he turned his late-night forays into a job, scouting clubs to buy.
In the fall of 1999, Lewis formed two companies, NSU and Joe Black Productions, hiring friends he thought knew their way around the nightlife scene and partnering with a Boston pal, Paul Caputo. The companies leased spaces with liquor licenses, starting with the former Paciello lounge Risk, most recently known as Zen. Lewis renamed the place G-Spot. To many observers the name's overt sexual reference was an indication of the nightclub neophyte's vulgar tastes. Lewis would later tell Miami Metro magazine that he regretted the moniker. "G-Spot was an experiment to learn about the market," he told the article's author, scene-chronicler John Buchanan. "It was put together in about twelve days."
But Lewis certainly didn't talk like a neophyte. He boasted repeatedly that he was going to dominate business on the Beach and told Buchanan that two major nightclubs, Level and crobar, were a fad. Both, he predicted, would be gone by next season.
"Shawn came here, and his most obvious personality trait was that he didn't give a damn. He surrounded himself with his own friends from Boston, and he said what was on his mind," says Buchanan. "And he made some people mad. He didn't get to know the power structure. Pretty soon he found out South Beach is a neighborhood, and the gossip and backbiting is fierce."
G-Spot foundered, drawing a crowd of young kids. The elite partiers, including a core three dozen of the most wealthy patrons the clubs rely on to spend thousands of dollars a night on VIP tables and champagne, steered clear. In May 2000 Lewis closed it.
"He thought he could become us by buying up all the property," sniffs one nightclub proprietor. "But you've got to be reputable and hip. The nightclub industry is about personality. You do not attract society, the A crowd, with vulgarity. He just hasn't earned any respect yet."
The failure hit Lewis hard, but he had no intentions of retreating from South Florida. By this time he had met Liz Romero.
Lewis claims to have high standards for his love life. His role models are his grandparents, married more than 50 years until his grandfather's death earlier this year. "I take a look at that relationship, and through thick and thin they stuck together," he says. "No matter how hard the problems, they weathered them together." But the circles in which Lewis was traveling, the flash and sizzle of South Beach, did not necessarily make a good hunting ground for a soulmate. And then there's the warping effect money can have when decent people do meet.
Romero, a petite, buxom Cuban raised in Hialeah, had flitted around the fringes of the fabulous set here for years. In 1995, at age 21, she was Miss Hawaiian Tropic. She modeled provocative bikinis on the Website latinsensations.com and even dreamed of being a Playboy model. In 1999 she was selected as a Dolphins cheerleader, her pert looks enhanced by years of ballet and jazz dance lessons. But all her attempts to penetrate the glamour world were extracurricular, she maintains, secondary to her schooling. She has an associate's degree and is pursuing a bachelor's while working as a dental hygienist. Four years ago she bought her own condo on Miami Beach's West Avenue, of which she is very proud.
Romero met Lewis through some friends on an idle Sunday afternoon in early February at the Nikki Beach Club, the sandy playpen at the foot of Ocean Drive where club people like to recover from their all-night excursions. Though they were interested in each other, it took awhile to connect. "We played phone tag for two or three weeks," Romero recalls. Finally on February 22 they went on a date -- to play miniature golf and eat dinner at Macaluso's.
Things went well at the golf course, and their romance took off. The day after their first date, Lewis flew Romero to Cancún for three days. On the evening they returned, Lewis proposed. Romero gasped and said yes. "I was swept away," she recounts. "It was crazy, romantic, a whirlwind. And marriage is definitely something I want." That night Lewis pulled up to a jewelry store on Ocean Drive and bought a six-carat diamond ring worth an estimated $30,000. (Because of a nondisclosure agreement that prevents her from discussing details surrounding the wedding, friends had to describe the ring to New Times.)
Those who know Romero describe her as a levelheaded women who is always involved in serious relationships. Prior to meeting Lewis, she had been in a four-year relationship, and she has been married once before, to a Miami police officer. Even Lewis's friends down from Boston say she seemed genuine. "I can tell a phony, and I thought she was a pretty decent kid," says former colleague Joseph Benson. "She didn't seem like a gold digger. But who knows what happens behind closed doors."


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LOUISVILLE — Zayat Stables says that Nehro, runner-up to Animal Kingdom in the 2011 Kentucky Derby, has died of colic.
On its website, the stable announced that Nehro had been training with Steve Asmussen at Churchill Downs when he was found to be uncomfortable in his stall early Saturday. The 5-year-old "spiraled badly" and died on the way to a clinic.
Owner Ahmed Zayat said Nehro "was my favorite horse. ... He cannot be replaced and I'm devastated."
Bought at Keeneland's September yearling sale for $170,000, the bay colt posted runner-up finishes in the Arkansas, Louisiana and Kentucky derbies and the Pimlico Special. He won twice in 12 starts and earned $978,381.
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Siena's Duomo is a beautiful mixture of Romanesque-Gothic architecture designed by architect Nicola Pisano. It is already considered one of Italy's greatest cathedrals and it would have been the largest cathedral in the Christian world if 14th century plans would not have been abandoned due to the plague of 1348. The Duomo consists of masterpieces from the likes of Donatello, Duccio di Buoningegna, Giovanni & Nicola Pisano, Michelangelo and Pinturicchio. During the 12th century the construction of the Duomo began and it continued until 1382 when the facade and apse of the cathedral were completed. The exterior of the cathedral was done in multicolored marble while the Campanile, which was constructed in 1313, and the interior are decorated in black & white stripes. The beautiful & remarkable facade was done in Romanesque-Gothic design and is the creation of Giovanni Pisano. Most of the sculptures located on the facade are copies of the original, which were moved to the Museo dell'Opera located inside the Duomo. Directly above the entrance is the symbol of the Risen Christ. If the exterior wasn't enough to captivate you then the interior would surely do it. The interior is magnificently designed. If you look to the ceiling you will notice that 172 popes are looking back at you. If you look to the marble floor you will see 56 panels depicting various sacred scenes. For most of the year these panels are covered to protect them, but they are uncovered during special occasions for every one to admire. Located in the northern aisle is the Piccolomini Altar, which was started in 1481 by Andrea Bregno. Between 1501-1504 Michelangelo created the four lower statues, which depicted Saints Gregory, Paul, Peter and Pius. The top statue of the Virgin with Child is attributed to the Sienese sculptor Jacopo della Quercia. Just beyond the altar is the entrance to the Piccolomini Library, which began in 1492. The library houses the personal books & papers of Pope Pius II. The highlights of the library include the frescoes by Pinturicchio that depict scenes from the life of Pope Pius II and the 3rd century Roman copy of Three Graces originally done by the Greek artist Praxiteles. Just beyond the library is the Chapel of St. John the Baptist, which contains a statue of the Saint, and the Pulpit by Nicola Pisano. The Pulpit contains scenes from the Life of Christ. Located in the unfinished nave is the Museo dell'Opera. This section of the nave was roofed so the museum could occupy the space. The museum contains many of the original pieces by Donatello, Giovanni Pisano and Jacopo della Quercia. Of all the pieces the most important is the Maestà by Duccio di Buoningegna. One side of the Maestà contains the Madonna surrounded by angels, apostles and saints. The other side contains 26 various scenes from the Life of Christ. Located near the Museo is the archway to the baptistry. The baptistry contains the baptismal font designed by Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Jacopo della Quercia. Related Information:
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1Choose a suitable place for the plant in your garden. Using a spade, dig a hole that's slightly bigger than the size of the pot that it's growing in. Pile the excavated soil to one side.
2Use a garden fork to loosen the base of the hole, mixing in a couple of handfuls of compost, together with a little bonemeal. Add some more compost to the excavated soil.
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Located on the outskirts of Tsilivi, this five star villa complex (apart-hotel, holiday homes) St John Villas Hotel & Spa has been constructed and furnished in a contemporary manner yet still retains a traditional Zakynthian style.Ideally situated on the grassy hill of Tsilivi offering panoramic views of the Ionian sea and overlooking the village and the long sandy beach, these villas are of the highest quality and all have the added luxury of their own private swimming pools.
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HMV, Our Price, Virgin: The place where you bought your first CD
If HMV stores disappear from the High Street it will mean the extinction of the High Street chains where most bought their first music.
Music was always better back in the day. Few things are as susceptible to nostalgia.
The likely demise of HMV, the last major music retailer on the high street, is a sad reminder for those who began buying music in the 80s or 90s that life will never be the same.
Remember the thrill of that first purchase.
Browsing at the racks and deciding on your format - vinyl for the artwork, tape for convenience, CD if you were rich.
Feeling the weight of it in your hand as you approached the counter, a hint of anxiety that the sales assistant might snigger or tut. In branches of Our Price you would bring the empty cassette box to the counter and the impossibly cool looking assistant in black polo shirt would get "the goods" from a cupboard behind them.
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End Quote Andy MarczakMy memory is that the Classical section was in a separate soundproof booth, as protection from 'that racket'"
On the way home you would battle with the cellophane before reading the lyrics. Pressing play and you would sometimes be met by crushing disappointment at the realisation you'd been sold a lemon. More often there was a sense that something new and exciting was taking place in your bedroom.
The first record you bought was likely to have been at a High Street chain. Mine was The Rain by Oran Juice Jones on 7 inch at Woolworth's in 1986.
In the 1980s retailers like Woolworths, Boots, John Menzies, Littlewoods and WH Smith had a music department selling chart singles and the odd album. For a wider choice you had to venture to the dedicated chains - Our Price, HMV, Virgin, and in London, Tower Records.
Later you might discover independent record stores policed by sullenly cool staff, as evoked by Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. But HMV and its sidekicks were the gateway record store.
Readers' firsts
- Jeremy Bolton, Basingstoke: It was Rubber Bullets by 10 CC. It was 49p from Woolworths . I was on a school trip and got told off for spending half of my £1 spending money on a single and not on a present for my mother as we had been told to.
- Tony Book, Hove: My first 12 inch LP was the musical High Society. it cost £1 and 15 shillings in 1957 in Newcastle. It cost a 'fortune' for me in those days. my most recent purchase is a Bond movie download for 79p.
- James Grandidge, Wakefield: My first CD was The Beautiful South's debut Welcome to the Beautiful South from HMV Wakefield, complete with controversial cover that was temporarily banned, I thought I was buying a rare item, it turned out that the temporary version became the rare one.
"A lot of people in the indie sector have a patronising view of people who shop in HMV," says Simon Price, music critic for the Independent on Sunday. "But everybody starts that way."
Price remembers queuing up in his local HMV in Cardiff in the early 80s to get a copy of Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye signed by Bananarama. "I think I had a massive crush on Siobhan," he says. Years later he was there to do a signing himself, after writing Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers).
HMV had the pedigree. His Master's Voice - the name was august and patrician sounding, the first store opened by Sir Edward Elgar in 1921, and Nipper the dog and the phonograph taken from an 1890s painting.
None of this mattered to the teenage you. HMV seemed cool and edgy to a 14-year-old who'd only vaguely heard of the Stone Roses. It was also huge, like the vast rolling plains of the Serengeti, only populated by the back catalogue of Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Fleetwood Mac rather than big cats.
There was often a perspex stand housing a CD cover and the rubric "Now playing" written on it. Then came the listening post, which seemed revolutionary. Sound from the capacious headphones flooded the senses. It was sometimes hard to control the pelvis and feet.
Until you sensed the man listening to Simple Minds was looking at you.
The in-store gig was another HMV staple. Rather poignantly, the website on Tuesday still displayed a list of acts - Adam Ant, Funeral for a Friend and Bullet for My Valentine - who are slated to play at HMV's stores in the coming weeks.
Gareth Harwood, on Twitter as @greedy_fish, tweeted a picture of the HMV dog being put down. He looks back fondly on buying records at Virgin Megastore in Brighton.
"My first CD album is a bit embarrassing it was Cross Road by Bon Jovi - their greatest hits. I washed cars to pay for it. It was an adrenaline rush to get it home."
In his father's day the Virgin in Brighton had a hippy feel with bean bags for people to sit and smoke on. But by the late 90s the HMVs and Virgins were morphing into temples of entertainment - video, magazines, T-shirts, posters and books had been added.
Andy Marczak remembers buying Beastie Boys' (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!) at Reading's HMV. "My memory is that the Classical section was in a separate soundproof booth, as protection from 'that racket'!"
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Madonna lived in Luton. I would see her on Saturday afternoons in the Arndale Centre huddled silently together with the members of Mr Mister, Midnight Star and Mike and the Mechanics.
I spent much of my teenage years with Madonna and visited her often at her alphabetically arranged home in the HMV record store in Luton.
For me the HMV store wasn't just a place to buy music; walking into it felt a bit like slipping through the back of a wardrobe into Narnia.
Freelance journalist Caroline Thorpe recalls the indecision that could strike. "I remember a very troubled and lengthy session in HMV deliberating over whether to buy Definitely Maybe or The Great Escape. Went for Oasis in the end, and never regretted it."
Pete Paphides, the music writer and 6 Music presenter, remembers 1980s Birmingham having a dozen places where you could buy records. HMV was the biggest until Virgin opened a Megastore.
Bob Stanley from indie band Saint Etienne wrote a blog last year highlighting how far HMV had fallen.
Paphides went into the Oxford Street store last week after hearing that there were blue stickers on almost everything giving 25% off. He bought a Charles Mingus album on vinyl. "They had a really good vinyl collection in the basement but not many people knew that. All the people who thought of themselves as connoisseurs had stopped going, they felt it was not for them."
The store had diversified too much. "They were desperate to sell you just about anything. There was a big display of Haribos - you could buy sweets!"
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A coalition of 24 US governors from the major parties and each region of the country has asked the administration to take steps to provide a more favourable business climate for the expansion of wind energy according to the American Wind Energy Association.
Demands are being made for a seven-year extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) to provide consistent, low tax rates for wind energy.
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Trump is concerned about the effects of the 11 offshore wind turbines on his nearly completed Aberdeen coast golf course, 'residential village' and hotel development.
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Meerwind wind farm will see a total investment of 1.2 billion Euros when it is built in 2013. It has been a long journey for the project which was proposed back in 2000 and approved in 2007.
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Opening Times
Open all day 7 days a week 12.00 to 23.30
A La Carte Valentine menu
Sittings @ 19.30 & 21.30
Early booking required.
To book a table please
call 020 7792 1066 or
send email
All major credit cards are accepted
210 Kensington Park Road
Notting Hill Gate
Essenza, Ristorante Italiano, London
Essenza is a small and intimate Italian restaurant with a stylish and contemporary interior, located in the heart of Notting Hill Gate, London.
The mandarin coloured banquettes, the wood grain panelling, the candle light tables and the small backlit bar makes it smart without being overly designer.
The menu features dishes from all regions of Italy, we choose the best recipes to match the seasonal offerings. We take pride in choosing genuine ingredients from Italy whenever possible, to create fresh, tasty and beautifully presented food as if we where in Italy.
The wines are carefully selected to complement the food menu and are sourced from most regions throughout Italy.
We are proud to be the sister restaurant of Osteria Basilico and Mediterraneo Cucina Italiana both long established Italian restaurants and also situated in Kensington Park Road, W11.
Essenza is an informal restaurant and no dress code is required. Children are welcome, we have a dedicated menu for them and our Saturday and Sunday lunch are a popular choice with families.
We also have a special express business lunch available five days a week and a takeaway menu when you feel like staying in delivered by www.deliveroo.co.uk.
Specials Board
The winter black truffle and the white, are now in season.
Please come and try it with our hand made pasta, on the carpaccio or on the dish of your choice.
Today's specials are:
Bistecca alla Fiorentina
Well mature grilled Scottish T bone steak appprox 500 gr for one £ 32.00
Nodino al rosmarino
Oven roasted veal chop served with rosemary sauce soinac and potatoes £ 27.00
Spigola di mare al sale
Oven baked in sea salt crust wild sea bass for two £ 48.00
Antipasto Italiano
Parma ham, 18 months seasoned, sun dried tomatoes and bresaola from Lombardia £10.90
Pane Carasau
Thin and crispy flat bread from Sardinia served warm with olive oil and fresh origano
Choccolate Pralina
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( 甘蔗 : "sweet sugar cane" ; 芳石 : "fragrant stone" )AGE: 18
His last name can also be read as "Kansha".
+ Simple, Honest, Ambitious, Confident, OrganizedHouseki can't see it himself, but other people that get to know him will notice that Houseki thinks the world revolves around him. He is a confident but naive young man who has never experienced any real hardship or conflict growing up. Almost everything fell neatly on his lap, especially when he wanted it... At least until his first experience with love.
- Naive, Self-centered, Childish, Spoiled, Sensitive, Melodramatic, Surly
Tea (especially preparation)
Quiet places
Simple things
Romance genres
Uncultured people
Being treated like a child or looked down on
Not getting what he wants


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Styx /ˈstɪks/ is an American rock band from Chicago that became famous for its albums from the mid-1970s and early 1980s. They are best known for melding the style of pop rock with the power of hard-rock guitar, strong ballads and elements of international musical theater.
Styx is best known for the hit songs "Lady" (#6, 1973), "Come Sail Away" (#8, 1977), "Babe" (#1, 1979), "The Best of Times" (#3, 1981), "Too Much Time on My Hands" (#9, 1981) and "Mr. Roboto" (#3, 1983). Other hits include "Show Me the Way" (#3, 1990), "Don't Let It End" (#6, 1983), "Renegade" (#16, 1979) and "Boat on the River", a big hit in much of Europe. The band has four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum by the RIAA. as well as sixteen top 40 singles in the US.
Twin brothers Chuck (guitar) and John Panozzo (drums) first got together with their neighbor Dennis DeYoung (vocals and keyboards) in 1961 in the Roseland section of the south side of Chicago, eventually taking the band name "The Tradewinds". Chuck Panozzo left to attend seminary school for a year but returned to the group by 1964. Tom Nardini had been brought in to replace Chuck on guitar and Chuck decided to play bass guitar when he returned to the band. John Panozzo was the drummer, while Dennis DeYoung had switched from accordion to organ and piano. In 1965, the name "Tradewinds" was changed to TW4 after another band called The Trade Winds broke through nationally. By 1966, the Panozzo brothers had joined DeYoung at Chicago State College and kept the group together doing gigs at high schools and frat parties while studying to be teachers. In 1969 they added a college buddy, John Curulewski, on guitar after Tom Nardini departed. Guitarist James "J.Y." Young came aboard in 1970 making TW4 a quintet.
In 1972 the band members decided to choose a new name when they signed to Wooden Nickel Records after being spotted by a talent scout at a concert at St. John of the Cross Parish in Western Springs, Illinois, James Young's home town. Several suggestions were made, and according to DeYoung, the name Styx (the river in Greek mythology between Earth and the Underworld) was chosen because it was "the only one that none of us hated".
Styx is an American Rock band. Their hit songs have included "Come Sail Away", "Mr. Roboto".
Styx is the first band to have four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum.
In 1989, with Shaw achieving some success with Damn Yankees Styx reformed, bringing in Glen Burtnik (in 1990) to take Shaw's vacated position.
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By: dixie on February 23, 2007 - 9:38am - Add new comment
I'd like to post a few coments on Road Rage and what could possibly cause another person to throw something at another vehicle or to actually cause them harm.
While the actions of these persons is not acceptable, I have a few observations I'd like to mention.
Lady, did you cut the man off?
By: dixie on February 20, 2007 - 4:08pm - Add new comment
Has anybody noticed the debris and junk on the sides of the road, especially 278?
It was appalling to me to see our beautiful Low Country looking like Los Angeles or New York.
Where are those who are hired to pick up this trash? Do we need volunteers or something? How about prisoners doing that, or will the ACLU get involved?
In any case, the roads and highways look like heck and something should be done. How about stiffer fines? That would even add funds for our County if enforced.
By: dixie on February 14, 2007 - 1:14pm - Add new comment
My friends and I were discussing the May River this morning and one of them said she crushes up bread to feed the birds and also puts chicken bones in her crab pot.
Another lady said all that was a no-no and that NOTHING was to go into the May River, not even crushed up bread.
I would like some answers and also would like to know if everyone is so careful about the river, then what about those people in summer on the sand bar who bring their dogs and kids and leave garbage there for the tide to remove.
Isn't that poluting the May river too?
By: dixie on February 5, 2007 - 12:52pm - Add new comment
I couldn't believe when I read the paper this morning that somebody out there was an admirer of Jihad Jane nee Hanoi Jane Fonda?
If she is so darn popular, then why does she always travel with a crowd and not on her own? Guess last summer she was to take a tour across the country in a bus with her daughter and cancelled? Why? Could it be that she was afraid?
Maybe some ex prisoner of war out there will remember when she told their captives that they were trying to signal her by blinking their eyes.
By: dixie on January 9, 2007 - 2:13pm - Add new comment
Can anybody out there tell me if that little bungalo off of 278 AND 46 is where I would pick up info on what to do on Hilton Head and vicinity.
I must confess I'm very upset over being told they will be here this spring and summer and need to be able to keep them busy. At least during the day there is always the beach, right?
By: dixie on January 2, 2007 - 8:27pm - Add new comment
The Cramer case is becomming as bad as Dickins "Bleak House."
What in the holy name of the Lord are the lawyers doing? AND what about the Judge hearing all these motions and granting the continuances. You know they are using those poor old peoples money.
This case is becomming a joke like the O.J. and Michael Jackson case. AND we the people are allowing this to go on.
Personally if any of these people, either Judge or Prosecutor come up for a vote I will be the first to try to get rid of them.
By: dixie on December 19, 2006 - 9:15pm - Add new comment
I have those discount cards for every market in the area. When I forget my card at a particular store I tell the cashier and she'll ask me to enter my phone number with the area code first and I get an approval.
Not so at Piggley Wiggley. I've had it happen twice to me this past week. I have the card in another purse and when I mention it to the clerk, she charges me the regular price. She just ignores me.
At first I was surprised and let it go.
By: dixie on December 13, 2006 - 9:33am - Add new comment
If I thought last Christmas gave me problems, this year is worse.
I have many friends who are living together and I don't mean teen agers. These are people who choose not to marry but need companionship.
Here's the rub: How do I address their Christmas Cards?
Last year I just put thier last names on the cards and was told that was in poor taste. So now what? This year I have three more and if I can't write "Jones/Smith then what?
Can someone out there give me an answer.
By: dixie on November 28, 2006 - 5:47pm - Add new comment
A friend sent me an e-mail with the address of the ACLU and suggested people send them religious Christmas cards.
Just in case you are interested:
ACLU 125 Broad Street 18th Floor New York, NY 10004
Don't ask me if I have because I'll never tell.
By: dixie on November 8, 2006 - 9:39am - Add new comment
Voted early yesterday----got soaking wet----but don't know if I'm happy with what I'm reading?
Nancy Pelosi speaker of the house? She's a wreck-with a bad face-lift.---BUT the GOP deserves the loss---so what can I say. Maybe next time they'll listen to their constituants. Do you hear this Mr.Graham? Hope you're next to get the hatchet.


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Associations face losing charity status
Charity Commission tells providers to seek legal advice on implications of charging 80 per cent rent.
Housing associations risk losing their charitable status if they implement the government's new affordable rent regime.
This is the stark warning issued to the 1,236 charitable housing associations in England and Wales by regulator the Charity Commission.
It said each association should seek legal advice about whether introducing the regime will affect its charitable status.
The affordable model will see new tenants charged up to 80 per cent of market rent on their homes. The commission has advised associations to look at the extent to which homes rented at affordable rates will relieve poverty.
'Charitable associations operating in areas of high market rents will need to look at this aspect in detail to see whether the affordable rents can provide a means of relieving poverty,' the commission stated in a 1 March response to a Tenant Services Authority consultation on the issue.
A number of associations want to rent some homes to tenants who can afford to pay rents at up to 80 per cent of market value without using housing benefit.
Charitable associations receive benefits such as tax breaks and relief on business rates.
Simon Dow, chief executive of 60,000-home The Guinness Partnership, said: 'We've been debating internally the issue of whether [charging] affordable rent would be a charitable act. It requires us to be more conscious of who we're letting to than we were in the past.'
Bruce Moore, chief executive of 19,000-home Hanover Housing Group, said that without charitable status his organisation would pay 28 per cent on its annual surplus of around £5 million.
Lawyers also warned some associations would have to reassess whether tenants are charitable beneficiaries before renewing the new flexible tenancies ministers are promoting. The new programme allows associations to offer flexible tenancies lasting at least two years.
'Associations will need to reassess tenants and decide whether they are a proper charitable beneficiary. If not, they have to go,' said Adrian Carter, a partner at Trowers and Hamlins.
Andrew Cowan, a partner at Devonshires, said it was likely the Charity Commission would be uncomfortable if a tenancy was renewed and the tenants' circumstances had improved.
A Charity Commission spokesperson said: 'Charitable housing associations must use assets in furtherance of their charitable objectives for the public benefit.' Lawyers think landlords are most likely to be taxed solely on income from affordable rents.
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I am sure that Shapps, Pickles and their supporters on IH will see this as fair when it's just another way to screw tenants and social housing providers.
We'll see as the day progresses what comes out of the woodwork?Margaret Thatcher worked very hard to destroy the social housing sector. Now that they are back in power the cons obviously wish to carry on her work.
It seems pretty obvious to me that letting properties on 80% of market rent isn't a charitable activity by most standards, at least in a lot of the country. Specially if a whole load of existing social rented property also needs to be converted to 80% rents to finance the activity. That really would be selling the (charitable) family silver to subsidise non-charitable activity. Well done the Charity Commission for being brave enough to state the bleedin' obvious. Let's see if they get abolished now for their pains.
No doubt Pickles will turn his tanks onto the Charity Commission next.
Does that means that Housing Association only get Charitable Status under Rent only. They do not have to do anything else that is Charitable
The only surprise here is how long the point has taken reach the surface. Housing Associations never were or are charities in the true sense, in fact several of the larger so-called charities more akin to big business. However, opposition to HA's in the early days was ignored in the main. Recent events and proposals are the sinister result. In any event it is about time the offensive terms of 'social housing' and 'affordable rents' are dropped in favour of a return to proper and seriously administered 'regulated housing'.
Shapps 'what more can we do to privatise HA's?..... Ah, i know'
I have to say I don't see the Charity Commission's logic.
To be charitable you have to provide housing for those in need, i.e. those who can't afford to buy or rent on the open market.
Therefore if you are charging anything less than market rent you are indeed performing an act of charity.
With regard to profits, provides all of the money received from affordable rents is reinvested back into the provision of more housing, then again this serves the charitable aim.
I can see the point that if you grant a two year tenancy to someone on the basis that if their situation improves in two years you can't realistically grant them a new tenancy if they could afford to move out. But then surely that's the point, if they can afford to rent on the open market then they probably should be, and HA's should be setting up corporate arms to enable them to grant open market tenancies to these people if they don't want to move them on.
I suppose the problem will come for people who's situation has improved slightly, so that they could afford to rent at 90% of market value. But even then I would argue that they are still a charity case as they can't afford to rent or buy on the open market and are in housing need.
I think the issue here is priority of need, does a person who is in an affordable rent property, who can afford, say, a 90% rent get to keep that property by virtue of the fact that they are living there, or should they be removed and the property given to someone in greater housing need? Arguably by making that person homeless you increase there housing need, and there is also the issue of the Human Rights Act, could you really kick someone out of their home because there is someone else more in need?
For the most part, I think the charity commission are over-reacting, most affordable rent people will still be charitable cases, it's only going to be a few (the ones who are still in housing need but can afford rents at higher rates than 80%) that will pose interesting legal questions and, I suppose, we'll only know the outcome of that when we have a few cases.
I have to say that I doubt this ever entered the government's mind when they were considering Affordable Rents!This is perhaps a logical outcome of the trajectory along which housing associations have traveled since the 1988 Housing Act. I am not sure how organisations such as Places for People, Circle Anglia and Home Group can be called part of the voluntary sector when they are clearly businesses managed and operated by people receiving salaries. Having a few voluntary board members does not equate to kind of voluntary activity that most of us would associate with the word, such as running brownie or scout troop or helping out at charity store.
Their charitable status is perhaps a less clearly defined issue. Clearly, by offering homes at well below market rents or prices to people in need of housing could be seen as being a charitable enterprise. That some of them have grown rather bloated is perhaps an unfortunate consequence of wider social trend towards the acceptability of glitter and greed. A clever lawyer, I would venture to suggest, would argue that affordable rent at 80% of market rent is still below the tariff set by the markets and could therefore - just - be considered charitable. If however the Charity Commission's suggestion prevails, then I would expect the Coalition to accept that as being perfectly acceptable. Combined with the rapid phasing out of capital subsidy for new build and the de facto deregulation of the sector, there is little or nothing to stop housing associations abandoning what for all too many has been the pretence of being charitable, social organisations and go all out to become private sector landlords, floating on the stock market for example. That raises the question, as yet unresolved, as to who actually owns a housing association and the other issue of what we used to call 'grant in the ground'. The latter could be resolved by Treasury taking a cut of any flotation proceeds as settlement for grants aid. The former will require nifty work by some clever legal beagles but is not unresolvable.
Everything is going swimmingly for the Coalition. Housing policy is moving to where they want it - a massive increase in private rented housing, a run down of owner occupation for all but the most well off and an end to the notion that society has a moral responsibility to house its members. The rate of return from the existing stock will increase, allowing assets (and tenants) to be sweated harder than ever before.Is it still the case that the largest recipients of 'charitable income' in the UK is the public schools?
If so anyone care to discuss whether Eton or your local housing association provides more of a charitable service of benefit to the public?
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For What It's Worth
Has Ron Paul abandoned the liberty movement? Based on his long history of principled work on behalf of freedom, not likely.
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
~For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield, 1966
I'm angry today.
More accurately, I'm simply appalled by the reaction of far too many people to the one-two sucker punch delivered to the liberty movement last week, first by Rand Paul's endorsement of Mitt Romney, followed by Ron Paul's silence on the issue except for the now-infamous 'be respectful' statement and the ambiguous status of his presidential campaign. For them Ron Paul has suddenly become a pariah, a sign of defeat and despair. I could not disagree more strongly with this attitude.
I can understand this reaction from those who've only been familiar for a short time with Ron Paul and simply assume they've been sold out. And why not? Who could blame them for this assumption? They've learned quickly to recognize that being sold out by those who represented themselves as trustworthy to gain their consent or cooperation is an ongoing hazard in these atavistic times...it's just a survival strategy. What concerns me are others who are familiar with Dr. Paul and have been keeping an eye on him for years who've dropped him like a hot potato at the first real sign of trouble. It's as if Paul's flawless record suddenly became meaningless almost overnight as they blithely assert that he's suddenly begun the same old game playing or selling out people who've trusted him like any other opportunistic politician does. This response baffles me. I've written before that I've been familiar with and admired Dr. Paul since the 1990s for his consistency and single-minded support of liberty for so many years. The events of the past week are confusing and unsettling to be sure, but to go from supporting Ron Paul and his policies directly to writing him off as just another hack is not only irrational but destructive to the liberty movement itself.
I've never met Dr. Paul and don't presume to know his mind, but after the better part of twenty years' worth of reading his articles and books, watching him speak truth to power, consistently opposing the Establishment's constant spreading of death and debt, I think I have a pretty good handle on the man's character. He has never allowed expedience to compromise his stalwart support and promotion of liberty, sound money and noniniterventionist foreign policy. Not once. Even though I haven't met Dr. Paul, that makes him a friend of mine, and when a friend is involved with something so out of character, so against his character that the immediate response is a gut feeling that something's wrong, I will not automatically assume he's done an about-face reversal to negate all those years of effort, all those years of writing, speaking and acting in accordance with his core beliefs and values.
This occurred to me just a couple of days ago; while rolling past a bookshelf in my library, I stopped and plucked my copy of Dr. Paul's book The Revolution: A Manifesto from it and opened it to a random page. On that page was one of his many discussions of economics in which he made reference to one of the standards of libertarian thought, Frédéric Bastiat. It was quite a striking reminder right at that moment that not one bit of Dr. Paul's work is meaningless, or fluff, but completely solid and important to the liberty community. To assume he's abandoned all of that for whatever reason would be for me a treacherous act against a friend, one who I've had faith in for a long time, not from any mindless devotion, but for very concrete reasons based on his long history of integrity and consistency.
Speaking of reasons that explain his current silence, I can't explain it, and won't be able to without some solid data. Various possible explanations have been flying hither and yon around the internet, and some might be valid, or might not be. Some think that Dr. Paul might be pondering strategy, others opine that he's been threatened if he doesn't back down. I think it would take a much bigger threat than one against his personal safety to coerce Dr. Paul, something on the order of an attack on his supporters or even innocents. Goodness knows the actors trying to maintain the status quo, support the murderous military/industrial complex and continue the huge multinational banks' work in spreading debt worldwide to increase their profits and power have shown their willingness to use any means necessary to do so, as I detailed in my piece on the so-called 'model airplane bomber' false flag operation the FBI manufactured this past autumn. Who knows? Not I, but it really doesn't matter, and does not detract from Dr. Paul's superb work in the cause of liberty and the results he's gotten to date in furthering it. One of my regular sources for current events, Adam Kokesh, has impressed me by maintaining a level headed perspective on all this, from his consideration of possible skulduggery intended to sabotage Ron Paul's effectiveness to reminders like I just listed that it behooves people not to forget Dr. Paul's good works over many years that benefit all of us. That last link includes the words of Dr. Paul's wife Carol herself excerpted from a recent interview reaffirming Ron's unwavering commitment to liberty, something I don't need to be convinced of but are an undeniable comfort all the same.
My admonishment that those who ought to know better who are putting forth the idea that Ron Paul has sold out his supporters are damaging the liberty community is not made lightly. I visit any number of sites, blogs and journals on a daily basis, and there's an unmistakable feeling of sadness and betrayal permeating a lot of these. Again and again I hear the recurrent sentiment that people feel like they've been kicked in the stomach, have been betrayed, or are simply immobilized from confusion over this situation. I don't believe in initiating force, of course, but I find myself feeling the impulse to give these folks a good shake or even a (figurative) slap to snap out of it, as Cher administered to Nicolas Cage in the film Moonstruck. I recognize this gloomy miasma of doubt and emptiness that's affecting people, and I can assure you that it's a contrivance. It's the mark of the Cabal's influence; the feeling is as distinctive as a bad odor. We can throw it off and laugh in their faces...if we really want to.
Have we all not been saying for ages that as far as Ron Paul's role in the movement to reclaim and restore our liberties as Americans that he is only a vessel to help carry the message? Further, that it's the message of liberty, not the man, that's central here? Well, now is the very worst time to be sidelined, distracted or dispirited by recent events, unsettling as they are! In fact, isn't it abundantly clear that allowing that message to be slowed or halted is just what the Establishment wants to happen and plays directly into their hands? This is no time for moping around, passively waiting for Ron Paul to act as some Big Kahuna who we need to tell us what to do. No, if anything now is the time to accelerate our efforts to promote liberty and the rest of Dr. Paul's message that's awakened so many people from their apathy, to put our money where our mouths are and act with the same consistency he's shown to be so effective in keeping that dynamic message of genuine change for the better alive and thriving.
If we act contrary to our own words we will only diminish them. How many articles, how many blog posts, how many songs and stories have been written and sung specifically about Ron Paul and his commitment to the cause of liberty, of reclaiming our rights and freedoms so uniquely American in character? Every day that goes by without our standing by them dishonors them, dishonors us, and dishonors Dr. Paul. This is the time for action...to accelerate our efforts with redoubled intent. My most recent article, The 'Anyone But Obama' Trap, was serendipitously published one day before this whole brouhaha began, and I'm glad of that. I meant every word I wrote then, and I stand by them now. I'm putting much of my limited energy into completing my own project to restore my liberty and free me from disability induced housebound confinement that will enable me to join all my friends, brothers, and sisters in Liberty in Tampa in August for the peaceful stand against the destructive Establishment at the RNC. I've even made the most effective offer I can to help that along, and if it succeeds, I'm eager to cover the whole thing in this column for ADH with the photos, videos and interviews I'll be able to obtain if I'm there in person instead of stuck behind this desk in my home.
You'll notice I've paid scant attention to Rand Paul's actions this week, that's because for the moment at least he's made himself irrelevant to our goals. He has plenty of opportunity to prove himself...or disprove himself...as a supporter of liberty in the future, but right now I'm not wasting my energy on him. He's become a nonentity in our mission for now, and while I hope he can redeem himself, the fact is that he's alienated an awful lot of people this week, my friend Adam House of the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul for one. I'll add my caution for strong language in his piece, and while not for the fainthearted, it's a sincere appraisal of Rand Paul that's shared by many. Good luck, Rand...you'll need it.
Returning to the Buffalo Springfield song I referenced at the beginning of this essay: yes indeed, something's happening here, and what it is ain't exactly clear. That's merely a caution, though, and a reminder for us all to be mindful of our surroundings and situationally aware as we proceed at flank speed toward our goal: restoring our liberties, insisting on sound money and a noninterventionist foreign policy for America, just as our friend and standard bearer of the liberty movement, Dr. Ron Paul, has wanted for all of us all along.
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Nick Allison
Another great article by Glenn Horowitz. I would encourage people to read this as well as his past work. While we may not be in agreement on everything (who the hell is?) I sincerely appreciate his honesty, conviction and levelheadedness.
And, those of you who haven't yet done so, please check out Glenn's blog at www.getglennmobile.com. Not only is it packed with great content, it also supports of a cause worthy of the libertarian principles of self reliance and private charity- a cause that I think you will be happy to support.
In a time when journalism has taken a very boring, mundane turn, Glenn Horowitz is one of the few authors producing honest and refreshing work.
Hunter Thompson would be proud.


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Parenting comes with a laundry list of responsibilities. I have an obligation to help my son become a responsible, self-sufficient and productive member of society. But my primary objective right now is simply keeping him safe.
I've already bemoaned the liberal agenda's effect on the generation of Americans we are trying to raise right (See No. 5 here) but the president won't stop there. Nope. Although his daughters are guarded around the clock by armed security, the rest of us are not worthy of the right to protect ourselves. But this is just one message to take away from his list of 23 executive actions issued today under the guise of deterring gun violence.
The other message is that the U.S. government is absolutely determined to control our lives. While many of our friends choose to live in blissful ignorance of this fact--buried in overtime hours, after-school sports, reality TV and Facebook--there is simply no getting around the evidence if you choose to pay attention. This blogger points out several reasons why gun control has no basis in reality. For one, the shooting in Sandy Hook violated several laws already. In addition to subsidizing generations of government dependency, we have the Patriot Act and the Affordable Care Act both of which infringe on our civil liberties in the name of safety and health.
"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." (George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788)
And so here we are in 2013 staring down the barrel of gun control.
Yesterday's development is just the next step to full revocation of the Second Amendment, a cornerstone to the Constitution. If you don't believe this is possible, just take a look at this video which shows guns being seized from law-abiding citizens after Hurricane Katrina.
So what does this mean for a mom? We have a duty to protect our children. I've already begun learning some basic gun safety and I am planning to take a conceal and carry class (they are popping up everywhere due to demand). Eventually it will be necessary to teach my son about the importance of dangers of guns. In this post I looked at safety measures in place at our elementary school.
Check out this story from Smart Girl Politics which talks about A Woman's Right to Choose. Get educated about firearms and your constitutional rights. The right to carry a weapon is nothing to fear! You should be afraid of burglars, rapists and a tyrannical government!
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." - Thomas Paine (1737-1809), American Revolutionary, US Founding Father and Author


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April 2008 Birthday Cards
Challenge Details
A collection of the drabbles and ficlets written for people with birthdays in April. Every month HASA members may request birthday card drabbles (a story of exactly 100 words) on a topic of their choosing. See how much can be said in only a hundred words. This is an ongoing project, so if you would like to request a drabble or write a drabble for others, please feel free to join HASA and get in on the fun. Requests are made in the HASA Birthday Cards Forum.
Entries with Stories
The following authors have entered a story in the Challenge.
- Ainaechoiriel - Ainaechoiriel's 2008 Birthday Gifts
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 28 May 08
- My birthday is April 7th. And in light of our now-started adoption process of a little girl from Russia (http://robandgabrielleadopt.no-ip.org for those who are interested), I request adoption stories. Please, not all Aragorn and Frodo. Though one or two wouldn't be a bad thing, I just want some imagination put into it. There were probably quite a few orphans after all the violence in Middle-Earth. Elf orphans, Dwarf orphans, Hobbit orphans, human orphans. Orc orphans? Not sure I want to see that but it would be a neat challenge if someone could pull it off. Anyway, orphans that needed care. And there were likely adults who chose to take them in. Let's meet some of them and find what's in their hearts. Interracial or intercultural is a plus. And if you just can't stick to a drabble, I wouldn't mind reading a short story but you might have to just give us a 100-word taste here and post the longer story in another place a HASA.
(Using Legolas for character, since he's my favorite. But I will add any character who appears in that list for any drabble that includes him or her as a gift for me.) - fliewatuet - Fliewatuet's 2008 birthday drabbles
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 02 May 08
- I know I have been awfully quiet of late, but I'd still like to make a request for a birthday drabble. My birthday is April, 29th and I am turning 40. Since my all-time favourite character is Aragorn, I would like to read how he dealt with that age (or the Dúnedain equivalent of 40). This can be anything from a birthday party to mid-life crisis. Though I wouldn't mind reading about your favourite character either :-)
- Larner - Larner's 2008 Birthday Cards
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 29 May 08
- Not meaning to do so, Aragorn has managed to offend the Ring-bearer. Now he's been warned that Frodo has quite the reputation as a master of creative revenge....


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Airport News
July was third busiest in Heathrow Airport's history
Mon, 17 Aug, 2009
Heathrow Airport has reported one of the most successful months in its history.
Just under 6.5 million passengers passed through the travel hub in July, which represents a 0.9 per cent rise on the same month last year, according to BAA figures.
BAA, which also owns a number of other UK airports, also reported that Glasgow Airport reported a rise in passenger traffic during the period.
The Scottish airport showed a 5.6 per cent growth in passenger numbers and is the fourth month in a row that it has showed an increase, reaching just over 818,000 people.
Among the company's other airports Stansted and Gatwick both suffered declining visitor numbers, although the fall was not as pronounced as in June.
The bad weather in Britain has been attributed with a last minute surge in foreign holidays, which could explain the success at some of Britain's largest airports.


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(San Antonio, TX) -- San Antonio, Texas schools are warning parents of anonymous threats against an elementary school. Posts on social media said there would be some kind of action on or around April 25th. It's not known which school is targeted by the threat. Officials say they're not sure how serious the threat is, but they'll do all they can to keep schools and students safe.


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London Drugs is carrying a fashion-centric compact from Just In Case Inc. that the companies said bridges beauty and sexual heath.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, and LOS ANGELES – London Drugs is carrying a fashion-centric compact from Just In Case Inc. that the companies said bridges beauty and sexual heath.
The Canadian drug store chain and supplier said Thursday that the unique compact looks like a mirrored makeup compact and has a hidden compartment to hold condoms.
With the move, London Drugs and Cana International Distributing Inc., the exclusive distributor for Just In Case products in Canada, are taking the message of safe sex to women in Canada, the companies said.
The founders of Just in Case — a mother-daughter team from California, Marsha Bartenetti and Rachael Sudul — created their product to provide a "missing link" between "what we know and what we do" in terms of safe sex, according to the company.
"It doesn't matter how many free condoms are dispersed. If a woman thinks she'll be judged or embarrassed, she won't carry them. Don't underestimate the power of embarrassment over an otherwise smart choice," explained Sudul.
Just in Case said the compacts, which are available in a broad range of styles and price points, are a perfect gift for mothers to give a daughter as she goes off to college as well as for any girlfriend, bridesmaid or recently divorced women starting to date again.
"And let's not forget the overlooked population of widows who are vulnerable to contracting STDs in their later years," commented Michelle Cioli, president of Cana International. "They begin dating again and find the world of dating has changed dramatically. We are proud to be the exclusive distribdistributor of this groundbreaking product that empowers Canadian women of all ages to make smart choices."


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State Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, continues comparing Ohio's renewable energy and efficiency law to Stalinism and other extreme Soviet-era policies.
Seitz's latest comparison, according to Columbus' Business First, claims Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell didn't need "Stalinist" mandates to pursue their inventions.
"It was not some Stalinist government mandating, 'You must buy my stuff,'" Seitz said.
It's not the first time Seitz made the comparison. In March, he said Ohio's Clean Energy Law reminds him of "Joseph Stalin's five-year plan."
Seitz, a director of the conservative, oil-backed American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), remains unsuccessful in his years-long push to repeal Ohio's renewable energy and efficiency standards. He says the law picks winners and losers in the energy market by favoring Ohio-based efficient, renewable sources.
Environmentalists and other supporters of the law claim it helps combat global warming and encourages economy-boosting innovations in the energy market, including the adoption of more solar power in Cincinnati.
Seitz's references to Stalin continue the long-popular Republican tactic of comparing economic policies conservatives oppose with socialism, communism and other scary-sounding ideas.
While Seitz's argument makes for catchy rhetoric, there are a few key differences between Stalinism and Ohio's Clean Energy Law:
Stalinism is a framework of authoritarian, communist policies pursued in the 20th century by Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin. It involves a state takeover of various aspects of private life and the economy.
The Clean Energy Law is a policy established in 2008 by the democratic state of Ohio. The law sets benchmarks requiring utility companies to get 12.5 percent of their electricity from renewable sources, such as wind, hydro, biomass and solar, and save 22 percent of electricity through new efficiency efforts by 2025.
Stalinism pushes out private markets and replaces them with an authoritarian government's total command.
The Clean Energy Law sets standards and regulations for existing private businesses.
Stalinism saves Ohioans no money.
The Clean Energy Law will save Ohioans $3.65 billion on their electricity bills over the next 12 years, according to a 2013 report from the Ohio State University and the Ohio Advanced Energy Economy.
To enforce his policies, Stalin killed millions of people — a number so high that historians have trouble calculating exactly how many died under the Soviet leader's reign.
To enforce the Clean Energy Law, Ohio officials have killed zero people.
Stalinism and other communist policies are widely considered unsustainable by economists and historians and a primary reason for the Soviet Union's downfall.
The Clean Energy Law follows regulatory and incentive models established in various states and countries with flourishing economies, including Colorado and Sweden.
The differences are pretty clear. Ohio's Clean Energy Law might require some refining, and there might be better solutions to global warming, such as the carbon tax. But comparisons to Stalinism go too far.
Traffic can be awful — not just for drivers, but economies
and the environment as well. A study released Tuesday by the Texas A&M Institute
of Transportation found Cincinnati lost about $947 million in 2011 to delays on the road, coming in at No. 27 nationwide.
The Annual Urban Mobility Report also ranked Cincinnati No. 37 nationwide for extra time stuck in traffic, with the average Cincinnati commuter spending an extra 37 hours on the road in 2011. In comparison, the average Columbus commuter spent 40 extra hours in traffic in 2011, and the typical Cleveland commuter spent 31 extra hours. For all three cities, estimates were unchanged from 2010.
Traffic jams also have a major impact on climate change. According to the report, congestion caused cars to produce an extra
56 billion pounds of carbon dioxide nationwide, with Cincinnati commuters producing 421
million pounds.
The report shows why it's important for governments to reduce traffic congestion with transit projects like the Cincinnati streetcar. In general, public transportation leads to less congestion by taking cars off the road as people use buses, streetcars and trains instead. But some cities have taken it even further. By adopting exclusive lanes for buses and streetcars, cities like San Francisco have made public transportation more attractive, which makes people more likely to forsake their own cars in favor of public alternatives.
Nobody stood up for fracking in today's City Council committee meeting that saw dozens of people urge council to pass an ordinance banning injection wells within Cincinnati.
All members of the Strategic Growth Committee voted in favor of the proposed ordinance, with the exception of Councilman Chris Seelbach, who was recovering after allegedly being assaulted in downtown Monday night.
If approved, the ordinance would prohibit injections wells — which inject wastewater underground — from being allowed within city limits. It now goes before the full council.
The practice is commonly associated with hydraulic fracturing – or "fracking" — which uses chemical-laced water to drill for oil and gas. Fracking fluid injected underground has been tied to a dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio.
A 2004 Ohio law puts regulation of oil and gas drilling under the state's purview, preventing municipalities from regulating the drilling.
The wording of the proposed Cincinnati ordinance doesn't mention oil or gas drilling, which proponents say they hope will keep it from clashing with the state law if it passes.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Heidi Hetzel-Evans tells CityBeat that injection wells also fall under ODNR's purview.
She says she isn't sure if the proposed Cincinnati ordinance would conflict with the state law.
"It's very hard for ODNR to speculate on what might happen," she says, adding that there aren't any injection wells or applications for them in the Cincinnati area. "This may not be an issue that's ever tested."
That didn't stop the dozens of people who spoke in favor of the ordinance at the committee meeting from erupting into applause once the ordinance was approved.
Barbara Wolf, a documentarian who has made a video about Cincinnati's Water Works, said that the city has some of the cleanest water in the world, and chemicals from hydraulic fracturing could jeopardize that.
"We are studied by other countries," Wolf said. "If it (fracking fluid) goes into the Ohio River, we don't know what the chemicals are. It's very hard to clean up chemicals if you don't know what they are. And that's one of the things we do really well: clean up chemicals."
(* David Krikorian is a businessman from Madeira who twice ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Jean Schmidt to represent Ohio's 2ndCongressional District. Schmidt is suing Krikorian for defamation, after he called her a "puppet" of special interests for accepting large amounts of cash from the Turkish government. Meanwhile, the Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating Schmidt's receipt of legal assistance from a Turkish-American interest group.)
CityBeatrecently reported that an "odd coupling" of Congresswoman Jean Schmidt, a Republican, and State Rep. Dale Mallory, a Democrat, held a joint press conference publicly calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse its 2007 decision banning the pesticide Propoxur so that it can be used to combat bedbugs in apartments and homes.
Cincinnati officials will
hold a press conference Thursday to announce that the city will receive a $3
million federal grant to address lead paint problems in apartments and houses.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the grant to the city's Community Development Department. City staffers will work with some local nonprofit agencies in allocating the funds.
At least 240 residential units will be able to have lead abatement completed, officials said.
Mayor Mark Mallory and City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. will formally accept the money, which is the fourth lead-related HUD grant given to Cincinnati, in council chambers at 10 a.m. Thursday. The chambers are located on the third floor of City Hall, 801 Plum St., downtown.
Representatives from the agencies that will help the city use the money also are expected to attend. They include Price Hill Will, Over-the-Rhine Community Housing, Cincinnati Housing Partners, People Working Cooperatively, Working In Neighborhoods and the Northside Community Urban Redevelopment Corp.
Lead poisoning is the leading environmentally induced illness in children, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. At greatest risk are children under the age of six because they are undergoing rapid neurological and physical development.
The United States banned the use of lead in household paint in 1978, but it often can be found on the walls of dwellings in cities with older housing stock like Cincinnati.
An estimated 19,000 children under age six in Ohio have unsafe levels of lead in their blood, according to an analysis by the Environmental Working Group. The number includes an estimated 1,400 children in Hamilton County.
Cincinnati officials announced on Tuesday that the city had won a 2013 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because of local efforts to draw down dirty energy production and replace it with clean sources.
The Cincinnati area currently produces nearly 408 million kilowatt-hours through green energy sources, which is enough to cancel out nearly 60,000 cars' emissions and meet 14 percent of the community's purchased electricity use, according to city officials.
"EPA is pleased to recognize the Cincinnati, Ohio community with a Green Power Community of the Year award for its leadership and citizen engagement in dramatically increasing its use of green power," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in a statement. "We applaud Cincinnati's residents, businesses and organizations for choosing green power that will help address climate change and support a clean energy future."
To commemorate the award, Mayor Mark Mallory unveiled a Green Power Community sign at the Cincinnati Zoo, which installed solar panels on its parking lot in 2011 and became one of the region's leading clean energy producers.
The Cincinnati Zoo's project is one of the many developments that led advocacy group Environment Ohio to declare that Cincinnati could become the solar capital of the region.
Cincinnati also adopted an aggregation program in 2012, which supposedly allows residents and small businesses to get lower electricity prices through 100 percent green power.
On June 14 and again on Sept. 1, the EPA ranked the Cincinnati area No. 6 in the nation for locally purchased green power. The June ranking made Cincinnati the first Green Power Community in Ohio and surrounding states.The city administration says Cincinnati's successes have pushed other cities, including Cleveland and Chicago, to pursue their own clean energy efforts.
In Ohio, state Republicans, led by State Sen. Bill Seitz of Cincinnati, appear ready to adopt looser environmental regulations after months of lobbying from Akron, Ohio-based utility company FirstEnergy.
Seitz is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is attempting to weaken energy and environmental regulations across the country.
A report from the Ohio State University and the Ohio Advanced Energy Economy found Seitz's proposal would cost Ohioans $3.65 billion on electricity bills over the next 12 years.
According to emails and phone calls received by WWVA-AM West
Virginia talk show host David Blomquist, miners said they were told that
attendance at the Romney event would be mandatory and unpaid.
As first reported by The Plain Dealer in Cleveland on Tuesday, mine owner Murray Energy Chief Financial Officer Rob Moore told Blomquist that managers "communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend." He said that people who did now show up to the event, which organizers say drew 1,500 miners and family members, were not penalized for their absence.
Blomquist said during the radio show that current and former
employees had called and emailed him saying they feel they were forced to go,
had to take off a day without pay and a roll call was taken, which caused some
employees to believe they would lose their jobs if they didn't show up.
"Just for the record, if we did not go, we knew what would happen," Blomquist read from an email he had received. "It is wrong what we were made to do because of the outcome if we don't."
The Columbus Dispatch reported that Murray Energy Corp.
founder Robert Murray attended the Tuesday breakfast hosted by the Ohio delegation to the Republican National Convention. Murray told the newspaper that the decision to
close the mine was made at the request of the Secret Service.
Murray disputed the report that miners weren't paid for the day, saying they were compensated for the hours they spend underground, from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. The mine was re-opened for a second shift at 4 p.m.
"They were all there voluntarily," Murray said of the miners
who attended the Romney event, which was also attended by Republican U.S.
Senator Rob Portman and Ohio Treasurer and Senate candidate Josh Mandel.
"You don't pay people to go voluntarily to a political event. If I would've paid them you would be saying you want it the other way. This is all a bunch of nonsense," Murray told The Dispatch. Federal law prohibits the paying of private employees to attend a political event.
Murray blames layoffs at some of his mines on Obama's
policies. His companies have had a history of environmental and safety violations,
and its Political Action Committee has held fundraisers for and donated to
Republican causes.
Romney's Ohio campaign spokesman disputed that the Secret Service had the mine shut down, telling The Dispatch in an email that "It was Murray Energy's decision to close the Century Mine, not the campaign's or the Secret Services." His comment echoes what Murray CFO Moore said on the radio show, that management wanted to attend the event and they couldn't have miners underground without management present.
For his part, radio host Blomquist took issue with the fact that
the miners lost out on a full eight hours of pay because of a political event.
"My whole point is that nobody should be pressured into attending anyone's political event," he told The Plain Dealer. "If they shut the mine down, why should they lose a day's pay? There are some guys that just want to go to work, feed their family and go home."


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About Us
We are the House of YisraEL of Atlanta, Georgia. Our Mowreh is Elqanah Ben YisraEL.
We are located in at 2945 Stone Hogan Connector Suite 104 Atlanta, GA 30331 .
We are a part of the Restoration of the Sacred Laws Conference Held three times a year in various cities across the United States of America, the Founder is Mowreh Elesha YisraEL of the House of YisraEL in Cincinnati, OH.
Our Mission:
1.) Every member of our HOUSE OF YISRAEL has pledged with all his or her heart, spirit and soul to return to the sacred laws of our CREATOR whose name alone is YAHWEH --the MOST HIGH--over all that is, all that has been and all that ever will be. (Duet. 27:26, 30:15-20)
2.) Every member has pledged to work together with all of our combined strength and minds to unite our people here in the Americas to the rest of the twelve tribes of YisraEL scattered throughout the four corners of the earth. (Zeph. 2:1-2)
3.) We have pledged to attempt to pull together the leadership of our people that we might diligently study the sacred laws of YAHWEH and once more make them honorable. (Isa. 42:21; 52:7-8)
4.) We have pledged that we will make it our sole responsibility to awaken every man, woman and child to the GREATNESS and RIGHTEOUS of our CREATOR, our SAVIOR and our only REDEEMER--the ALMIGHTY YAHWEH --and to the true idenity of HIS chosen people--the children of YisraEL, who are and will forever be a black nation. (Jer. 9:23; 14: 1-2)
5.) We affirm, confirm and establish before the world that we are YAHWEH 's witnesses whom HE has chosen. We know, we believe and we understand that YAHWEH alone is our MIGHTY ONE. Before HIM there was no "power" (god) and neither shall there be after HIM. HE alone is YAHWEH --The MOST HIGH--and beside HIM, there is no savior (Christ). (Isa. 43:9-12; Hos. 13:4)
May YAH bless each and every one of you.
YAHWEH bless thee, and keep thee: YAHWEH make his face shine upon thee, and be graious unto thee: YAHWEH lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peae. (Num. 6:24-26)
May the name of YAHWEH be on you and yours forever. HalleluYAH!


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