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Perpetual's board and senior leadership team reflects the experience, quality and integrity for which Perpetual has become known since it was founded in 1886.
The board directors all have extensive business experience, including as chief executives or directors of major financial institutions or corporate services and consulting firms. Our senior executives are highly qualified and have extensive experience in a range of business areas, specialising in financial services.
|Board Members
|Peter Scott, Chairman and Independent Director
BE (Hons), M.Eng.Sc (Age 58)
Mr Scott has more than 20 years of senior business experience in publicly listed companies and extensive knowledge of the wealth management industry.
Current company directorships:
|Geoff Lloyd, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
LLM (Distinction) (UTS), Adv. Mgt. Program (Harvard) (Age 44)
Mr Lloyd joined Perpetual in August 2010 as Group Executive of Private Wealth and has led the development and implementation of the growth strategy for Private Wealth. He took on the additional responsibility of Head of Retail Distribution in September 2011. Mr Lloyd was previously General Manager, Advice and Private Banking at BT Financial Group (BTFG) following the merger with St George's Wealth Management business. Prior to the merger, he led St George's entire wealth management portfolio and was a member of the St George Bank Group Executive reporting to the CEO. He has held many senior positions at BTFG, including Chief Legal Counsel and Head of the Customer and Business Services Division.
Mr Lloyd has over 20 year's experience in the financial services industry and has an extensive understanding of the industry and demonstrated leadership skills.
|Paul V Brasher, Independent Director
BEc (Hons), FCA (Age 62)
Mr Brasher was formerly Chairman of the Global Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers International. He previously chaired the Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Australian firm and held a number of other senior management and client services roles during his career with the firm. Mr Brasher was Client Service Partner and /or Lead Engagement Partner for some of the firm's most significant clients. He also spent significant periods working with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the US and UK. Mr Brasher is currently Chairman of Incitec Pivot Limited and a Board member of the Essendon Football Club. He is a member of Perpetual's Audit Risk and Compliance Committee and People and Remuneration Committee.
Mr Brasher brings to the Board his local and global experience as a senior executive and director, particularly in the areas of strategy, audit and risk management and public company governance.
Current company directorships:
|Philip Bullock, Independent Director
BA, MBA, GAICD, Dip. Ed. (Age 59)
Mr Bullock brings to the Board extensive management experience in Australia and Asia in technology, sales and client management, product and brand management, distribution marketing and talent development.
Current company directorships:
|P Craig Ueland, Independent Director
BA (Hons and Distinction), MBA (Hons), CFA (Age 54)
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|Sylvia Falzon, Independent Director
MIR(Hons); B.Bus; GAICD; SF Fin (Age 48)
She is currently a Non-executive Director of Cabrini Health, Museums Board of Victoria and serves as Chairman of the Cabrini Foundation. She is a member of Perpetual's Audit Risk and Compliance Committee and Investment Committee.
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|Elizabeth Proust AO, Independent Director
BA (Hons), LLB, FAICD (Age 61)
In addition to her skills from her leadership roles in significant change management programs, Ms Proust brings to the Board her strengths in human resources, public affairs and strategy development, and her strong knowledge of board processes and governance through her many senior executive and board roles.
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|Joanne Hawkins
|BCom, LLB, Grad Dip CSP FCIS
Appointed Company Secretary in June 2003.
Ms Hawkins is head of Perpetual's Legal, Risk & Compliance and Company Secretariat teams. Prior to joining Perpetual, Ms Hawkins was Assistant Secretary of Macquarie Bank and Ord Minnett and was Company Secretary, National Bank of the Solomon Islands. Ms Hawkins also worked as a solicitor and legal adviser in New Zealand.
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Joined Perpetual in August 1994. She was appointed Assistant Company Secretary of Perpetual in 1999 and Deputy Company Secretary in 2009. Ms Charles has over 15 years experience in company secretarial practice and administration and has worked in the financial services industry for over 25 years.
|Geoff Lloyd, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
Geoff Lloyd is Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Perpetual Limited. Founded in 1886 and listed on the ASX, Perpetual is one of Australia's largest independent, diversified financial services groups.
In 2012, Geoff and his senior leadership team rolled out Perpetual's Transformation 2015 strategy designed to simplify, refocus and grow Perpetual.
After two years of this three-year plan NPAT has increased threefold and the business has achieved annualised cost savings of $50 million pre-tax to date. Growth initiatives put in place as part of this strategy include the successful acquisition of The Trust Company in December 2013 and the launch of a new Global Equity capability in September 2014.
Geoff has over 20 years' experience in the financial services industry. Prior to being appointed CEO, Geoff had been Group Executive of Perpetual Private Wealth and Head of Retail Distribution.
He was previously General Manager, Advice and Private Banking at BT Financial Group (BTFG) following the merger with St George's Wealth Management business. Prior to the merger, he led St George's entire wealth management portfolio and was a member of the St George Bank Group Executive.
In a previous stint at BTFG, Geoff held other senior positions including Chief Legal Counsel and Head of the Customer and Business Services Division.
Geoff is Deputy Chair of the Financial Services Council, an Advisory Board member of The Big Issue, and a Patron of both the Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) and the Emerge Foundation. He also sits on the University of Technology Sydney Law Advisory Board.
Geoff has a Masters of Law (Distinction) from the University of Technology, Sydney and has completed the Harvard University Advanced Management Program.
|Gillian Larkins, Chief Financial Officer
Ms Gillian Larkins joined Perpetual as Group Executive Transformation Office in October 2012, and assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer in January 2013.
Ms Larkins has approximately 20 years of experience in finance, strategy and management roles across a number of industries. Most recently, she was Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director of Westpac Institutional Bank, responsible for Finance and Strategy, and prior to that, Chief Financial Officer Australia & New Zealand of Citigroup. Ms Larkins has also served on the board of Hastings Fund Management as a non-executive director from 2009 to 2011.
As a member of the Executive Leadership Team reporting to the CEO, Ms Larkins heads Perpetual's Finance, IT, and Risk functions, which include Audit, Legal and Company Secretariat.
Ms Larkins holds a Master of Business Administration from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Accounting & Finance and a Bachelor's Degree of Commerce, majoring in Economics, both from the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is a member of the NZ Chartered Accountant's Society and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Ms Rebecca Nash joined Perpetual as Group Executive People and Culture in August 2012.
Ms Nash has extensive experience as a senior executive in the financial services and consulting industries. Prior to joining Perpetual, she held a number of executive positions at National Australia Bank in both functional and operational roles, including human resources, strategy, integration, and Direct sales & service. Prior to her career at NAB, Ms Nash was a senior executive in Accenture's financial services practice.
At Perpetual, Ms Nash is responsible for the company's human resources, performance management, recruitment, and staff development functions. She is a member of the company's Executive Leadership Team.
Ms Nash holds a Bachelor of Business degree from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Change Management Qualification from the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
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Prior to joining Perpetual, Mr Green was at JP Morgan Chase Bank for ten years, most recently as Australasia Business Head - Institutional Trust Services based in Sydney and previously as Vice President - Head of Account Management and Vice President - Head of Analytics based in London, covering the European, Middle Eastern and African markets.
His career began as a solicitor for Corrs Chambers Westgarth. He holds a Masters of Business Administration (London Business School) and a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce (University of Queensland).
|Michael Gordon, Group Executive, Perpetual Investments
Michael Gordon joined Perpetual as Group Executive Perpetual Investments in January 2013.
Mr Gordon has significant domestic and international experience as a leader of asset management businesses and is a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry. He has held roles with a number of well-regarded global investment managers in Australia, Asia and the UK, where most recently he was BNP Paribas Investment Partners' Chief Investment Officer for Equities. Prior to that, he held senior positions with Fidelity Investments International and Schroders Investment Management.
Mr Gordon holds a Bachelor of Business, Accounting & Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney.
He leads the end-to-end business of Perpetual Investments, Perpetual's specialised asset management division, which includes the investment management team, product, and distribution.
|Mark Smith, Group Executive, Perpetual Private
Mark Smith joined Perpetual as Group Executive Perpetual Private in November 2012.
Mr Smith has over 20 years of financial services experience, gained predominantly at BT Financial Group, Westpac's wealth management arm. Most recently, he held the role of General Manager Bank Distribution and Insurance, with responsibility for approximately
Mr Smith holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Macquarie University, and is a recipient of the David William Fellowship Award.
At Perpetual, he leads the Group's wealth business, which includes the philanthropic, trustee and High Net Worth advisor businesses, as well as the Fordham group, specialising in accounting and advisory services to business owners.
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How to be a Domestic Goddess is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. What this deliciously reassuring and mouthwatering cookbook shows is that it's not hard to bake a tray of muffins, or a sponge layer cake - but the rewards are high. Here is the book that feeds our fantasies, understands our anxieties and puts cakes, pies, pastries, preserves, puddings, bread and biscuits back into our own kitchens. With a writer's flair and a cook's passion, Nigella brings you everything from brownies to bagels, from gooseberry-cream crumble to double apple pie, from pizza to pistachio macaroons, from festive bake to Barbie cake.
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Nigella Lawson is the author of bestselling books - How to Eat ('may just be the best cookery book ever' Daily Telegraph), How to be a Domestic Goddess (British Book Awards 2001), Nigella Bites (WHSmith Award 2002) Forever Summer ('images of warmth and Mediterranean climes' Time Out), Feast, ('a voluptuous and delicious piece of food writing' Guardian), Nigella Express (no. 1 bestseller with over 1 million sales), Nigella Christmas ('everything to make your Christmas sparkle' Independent) and Nigellissima - which, together with her successful TV series and her recent iPhone App, Nigella Quick Collection, have made hers a household name around the world. She lives in London with her family.
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We all have days when we wish we could dust our forearms with flour and bake the perfect cake or loaf just for the therapy, the smell and the satisfaction. But for most of us this dream never becomes a reality because life is just too busy. Lawson shows us how to get great results from baking without the sweat and with all the romance. Her descriptions are charged with love and enthusiasm - and a touch of realism: 'You might think that preparing the tins sounds fiddly, but in fact the job is just demanding enough to make one feel uncharacteristically competent in a Blue Peter kind of way, but not so demanding that actual dexterity is required.' This is an ABC for scrummy, feel-good comfort food, which will make everyone think you're a goddess in the kitchen. (Kirkus UK)


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As social media sucks up ever more of our time and attention, marketers are scrambling to find ways to listen in on what people are saying about them, engage them in conversations, and track the results. And ideally they don't want to do that with a gazillion different products–which is driving a lot of the companies providing them into each other's arms.
Latest example: New York-based Sprinklr, which makes one of the broadest sets of social media management software offered as an online service, is announcing today that it's buying TBG Digital, one of the pioneers in helping big brands advertise on Facebook and Twitter Twitter. Such consolidation isn't new, but with more social media enablers rushing into the market, M&A doesn't look to end anytime soon.
The five-year-old Sprinklr has been making a big play to become a one-stop shop for all social media marketing. In short, says CEO Ragy Thomas, Sprinklr aims to reinvent the front office in the same way human resource management firm Workday is reinventing the back office. Sprinklr now offers 15 integrated products or "modules" aimed at helping big brands manage their social presence across paid media (advertising), owned media (websites and apps), and earned media (public relations and the like).
Thomas says the acquisition will help accelerate Sprinkr's recent release of a paid social media product to complement others in social listening, engagement, and other areas. Ten-year-old TBG brings not only technical expertise in paid advertising but big-name customers such as Dell Dell and Vodafone and most importantly sales folks who know how to serve them. "I had to get external help to get our technology to market," Thomas says.
Sprinklr, which boasts big brands such as GM, Virgin Atlantic, and Microsoft in its own client base of 500, plans to keep the TBG workforce, some of which has shared offices with Sprinklr in New York and San Francisco. Indeed, it's looking to hire 50 to 70 more people. With TBG, Sprinklr will have 500 people worldwide, up from 300 in late April. That's when it raised $40 million in additional funding and said it's aiming to go public next year.
Despite its broad portfolio of products, Sprinklr still has to contend with a large array of competitors. Besides a raft of startups such as SocialFlow and Lithium to TBG rivals Nanigans and Kenshoo, Sprinklr is up against big companies that have themselves been buying up a number of social media management firms, among them Google, Oracle, Adobe, and Salesforce.com. Thomas gamely contends that "there's enough complexity in the social infrastructure that warrants a distinct solution" focused on all the aspects of social media. The larger companies, he contends, can't focus as sharply on social media.
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Sahebganj district
|Sahibganj district
साहिबगंज जिला
|District of Jharkhand
Location of Sahibganj district in Jharkhand
|Administrative division
|Santhal Pargana Division
|• Lok Sabha constituencies
|• Assembly seats
|• Total
|1,599 km2 (617 sq mi)
|Population (2011)
|• Total
|• Density
|720/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
|• Urban
|• Literacy
|53.73 per cent[1]
|• Sex ratio
|Official website
Sahibganj district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India. Sahibganj is the administrative headquarters of this district.
In April 2015, the district earned infamy due to the fact that children were being sold by their parents to middlemen to becoem pickpockets in NOIDA.
The history of Sahibganj district centers mainly on the history of Rajmahal, Teliagarhi Fort, Bhognadih and Sahibganj Town. There is evidence in the pages of history that the area is inhabited since time immemorial only by Malers (Mal Paharia). They were the early settlers of the territory of Rajmahal hills, who still reside in some areas of the same hills. They are considered to be the "Malli" mentioned in the notes of Megasthenese, Greek Ambassador of Selukus Nikater, who happened to be in the vicinity of Rajmahal hills in 302 BC. Till the visit of Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang in 645 AD, the history of this area was wrapped in obscurity. In his travellogue the Chinese pilgrime mentions about the Fort of Teliagarhi (On rail route, near Mirzachauki Railway Station), when he saw the lofty bricks and stone tower not far from the Ganges. Information is gathered through the pages of history that it was certainly a Buddhist Vihar.
A continuous history of the district is available from the 13th century when Teliagarhi became the main gateway of Muslim armies marching to and from Bengal. During the Turkish dynasty rule in Delhi, Malik Ikhtiaruddin-bin-Bakhtiar Khilji marched towards Bengal and Assam trough Teliagrahi pass. He captured Bengal and its king Lakshaman Sena fled away to Cooch Behar (West Bengal).
In 1538, Sher Shah Suri and Humayun came face to face for a decisive battle near Teliagarhi.
On 12th July 1576, the battle of Rajmahal was fought and the foundation of the Mughal rule in Bengal was laid.
It was Man Singh, the most trusted general of Akbar, who in the capacity of Viceroy of Bengal and Bihar made Rajmahal the capital of Bengal in 1592. But this honour of Rajmahal was short-lived, for the capital was shifted to Dacca in 1608.
Shortly after this, Teliagarhi and Rajmahal became the seat of a fierce battle between the rebellious Prince Shahjahan and Ibrahim Khan. Shahjahan emerged victorious and became the master of Bengal for the time being, losing finally in 1624 at Allahabad.
In 1639, Rajmahal regained its glory and was once more made the capital of Bengal by Shah Shuja, the second son of Emperor Shahjahan, on his appointment as the Viceroy of Bengal. It continued as the seat of the Mughal Viceroy up to 1660 and a mint town till 1661. It was at Rajmahal that Dr. Gabriel Boughten cured the daughter of Shah Shuja. By this means Dr. Boughten succeeded in securing an order (farman) from Shah Shuja giving the English the liberty to trade in Bengal. Thus the minutest foundation of the British rule was laid here. The fugitive Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud- Daula was captured at Rajmahal during his flight after the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
The entire Santhal Pargana along with portions of the present Hazaribagh, Munger,Jamui, Lakhisarai, Begusarai, Saharsa, a part of Purnia and Bhagalpur, districts was termed as "Jungle Terai" by the English on assumption of Diwani in September 1763 from Shah Alam II at Allahabad after the Allahabad Treaty.
The victory at Plassey made British master of the then Bengal which contained the present Sahibganj District. In Santhal Pargana, they were up against a band of simple but determined opponents, the Paharias. Paharias were great lovers of freedom and could not tolerate any intruder in their homeland. The English were very much concerned and Warren Hastings the Governor General of India organized a special corps of 800 men in 1772 to curb the Paharias. The corps was put under the command of Captain Brooke, who was appointed the Military Governor of the Jungle terai.
As a direct consequence of the Santhal Hul or Rebellion of 1854-55 led by Sido and Kanu brothers Santhal Pargana has been created as a separate district in 1855 by ceding portions of Bhagalpur (which is now in Bihar) and Birbhum (which is now in West Bengal) district.
The 1942 movement also spread to entire Santhal Pargana division, for that matter in Sahibganj and on the 11 August 1942 a general strike was observed. On 12 August 1942 a procession was taken out at Godda and soon the entire district was aflame. Thus the district of Santhal Pargana marched hand-in-hand with other parts of the State in the protracted struggle for country's freedom which yielded the result on 15th August 1947 in the form of end of slavery.
Government considered the Paharias and other tribals of Rajmahal hills as demographically underdeveloped section of society and embarked on policies and plans for their emancipation. Government's efforts in the past could not bring the desired results and the district continued to remain relatively backward. The Jharkhand Movement for separate statehood thus gained momentum and finally on 15 November 2000, a separate state named as Jharkhand came into existence comprising the 18 districts of the Chota Nagpur and Santhal Pargana divisions.<http://sahibganj.nic.in/en/History.html>
The district lies approximately between 24°42' and 25°20' north latitudes and between 87°25' and 87°54' east longitudes. This district covers an area of 1599 km².
The district can be divided into two natural divisions based on its geographical features. The first region consists Borio, Mandro, Barhait, Pathna and Taljhari blocks and it is a part of the Damin-i-koh region. The hills and its slopes are covered with forests, once dense but scanty now. The second region consists Sahibganj, Rajmahal, Udhwa and Barharwa blocks. This plain region comprises the uplands, undulation along ridges and depressions. The Ganges, Gumani and Bansloi rivers flow through this region.
In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Sahibganj one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).[2] It is one of the 24 districts in Jharkhand receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[2]
Due to poverty and the local mafia, pick pocketing in larger cities has become a major source of income for the vilage of Maharajpur in Sahebganj, with young boys sold to middlemen for this reason.[3]
The district comprises two sub-divisions: Sahibganj and Rajmahal. Sahibganj sub-division consists of four blocks: Sahibganj, Mandro, Borio and Barhait. Rajmahal sub-division consists five blocks: Taljhari, Rajmahal, Udhwa, Pathna and Barharwa.
There are three Vidhan Sabha constituencies in this district: Rajmahal, Borio and Barhait. All three are part of Rajmahal Lok Sabha constituency.
According to the 2011 census Sahibganj district has a population of 1,150,038,[4] roughly equal to the nation of Timor-Leste[5] or the US state of Rhode Island.[6] This gives it a ranking of 407th in India (out of a total of 640).[4] The district has a population density of 719 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,860/sq mi).[4] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 23.96%.[4] Sahibganj has a sex ratio of 948 females for every 1000 males,[4] and a literacy rate of 53.73%.[4]
Export of Pickpockets[edit]
In March 2015, an article by Firstpost and in April 2015, a subsequent news expose by the Hindi television channel NDTV in its Prime Time programme NDTV Khabar showed footage and interviews from Maharajpur village which showed that the 14 boys caught pickpocketing in NOIDA all belonged to this village. The program and further investigation revealed the presence of a well established network between the local panchayat members, parents of young under age boys and the mafia. Boys who were below 18 years of age are sent to NOIDA by parents, through middlemen, to become pickpockets. Parents were given 3 lakh rupees per annum for this participation.
If any children were caught, they were rescued by the local panchayat members by issuing "letters of honesty" and furnishing the relevant paperwork. It showed a large organisation of participants who, in a Dickensian Oliver Twist way, first trained these boys in "tricks" of pickpocketing in nearby towns prior sending them to NOIDA.[7] Children thus taken were ill treated and physically abused by middlemen if they did not achieve their target of robbing goods worth Rs. 500 per day.
Places of religious, historical and archaeological importance and of tourist attraction:
1) Rajmahal:-Situated on the right bank of the river Ganges, Rajmahal is a small but historically important town. It was the seat of Government during the Mughal period when Raja Man Singh, general of Emperor Akbar made Rajmahal the capital of Bengal in 1592. Even today relics of the old and prosperous Rajmahal are visible in this one time capital of Bengal. The town has following important monuments.
i) Singhi Dalan. ii) Akbari Masjid iii) Tomb of Maina-Bibi iv) Tomb of Miran.
2) Mangalhat:- Situated 10 km west of Rajmahal, it is the site of an important monument Jama Masjid which was built during the reign of Emperor Akbar. It can be made a tourist place.
3) Kanhaiyasthan:- Situated on the bank of the river Ganges, is a village situated about 13 km north-west of Rajmahal town and owes its name to the temple of Lord Krishna (Kanhaiya). It is believed that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu once stayed here on his way to Brindaban from Bengal and got the vision of Lord Krishna. Footstep of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is also preserved here.
4) Sahibganj:- It is situated on the southern bank of the Ganges in the north-eastern region of Rajmahal subdivision. Sahibganj has been the sub-divisional headquarters since 1944 and it is the district headquarter as well. It has a municipality, which was constituted in 1883. The town has a well, constructed in 1915 known locally as "Bhagwa Kuan" which was constructed in memory of Edward VII. Residents still use the well for drinking water. In the eastern portion of the town, there located a hillock near residence of Sub- Divisional Magistrate is historically very important.
5) Teliagarhi:- These are remains of an old fort known as Teliagarhi after its builder a Teli Zamindar, who later embraced Islam during the reign of Shahjahan. It is located near Karamtola station.
6) Shivgadi:- This Shiva temple is located in the Barhait block 8 km north of Barhait and is inside the cave. Water from the mountain drips continuously on the Shivling. Devotees gather here in large numbers on Mahashivratri and whole of Shravan month.
7) Binduvasini Temple:- Situated 2 km away from Barharwa railway station. Devotees gather in large number on Ram-Navami at this temple during the fair which lasts for 9 days.
8) Shukravasini Temple:- This is a place of worship of goddess situated at Mirzapur village in the Barharwa block.
9) Raksisthan:- Situated in Mandro block near the Karamtola railway station just west of the Teliagarhi fort. This temple is considered very pious by the tribals and non-tribals. The deity is very ancient. Sutherland has reported about it in his report in 1819.
10) Bhoganadih and Panchkathiya:- The village of Sido and Kanu, the legendary brothers who led the Santhal revolt in 1855, is very sacred for the tribals. There is also a memorial for the brothers in this village. Panchkathiya is a place where these brothers were hanged by the British.
11) Udhwa Bird Sanctuary:- The only bird sanctuary in the entire state of Jharkhand is situated near Udhwa; locally called Patauda Lake. Hundreds of migratory birds reach here every winter even from Europe and Siberia.
12) Moti Jharna:- It is near Maharajpur the natural beauty of it is very attractive which is a very good picnic spot. The stream found its source from the Rajmahal hills.
13) Maghi Mela:- Organized on every full moon of Magh month at Rajmahal, this mela has an important place in the tribal life. Tribals from all over the district gather here along with the family priest to perform the pooja, which lasts for three days.<http://sahibganj.nic.in/en/Tourism.html>
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Udhwa Bird Sanctuary, the only bird sanctuary of Jharkhand state is located in the district, near a place called Udhwa, which is locally called Patauda Lake. Migratory birds reach here every winter from several parts of the World, including Siberia.
See also[edit]
- ^ "District-specific Literates and Literacy Rates, 2011". Registrar General, India, Ministry of Home Affairs. Retrieved 2011-12-11.
- ^ a b Ministry of Panchayati Raj (September 8, 2009). "A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme" (PDF). National Institute of Rural Development. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ^ Kumar, Ravish (2 April 2015). "प्राइम टाइम : ईमानदार अफसरों के दिन नहीं बदलते". NDTV. Prime Time. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f "District Census 2011". Census2011.co.in. 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Retrieved 2011-10-01.
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- ^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
Rhode Island 1,052,567
- ^ Kumar, Ravish (2 April 2015). "प्राइम टाइम : ईमानदार अफसरों के दिन नहीं बदलते". NDTV. Prime Time. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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|Katihar district, Bihar
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|Malda district, West Bengal
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|Murshidabad district, West Bengal


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Based on the 2007 bestseller by Brian Selznick, 'Hugo Cabret' unlocks the secret of an orphan (Asa Butterfield) who finds shelter in a Paris train station. In his travels, he finds a broken machine and befriends an outlandish girl Isabelle (Chloe Moretz) and a toy store manager.
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This is a pleasant surprise. I just hope he plays the leading role because he is certainly a leading man. I just hope they don't make him play a part/parts that are odd-ball like he played in "Artificial Intelligence " ( a robot ) . The trouble with those sort of roles is that they don't really show off his most outstanding asset – which is his FACE ! Of course his acting is excellent; I have never seen him do a bad or wishy-washy or blah job . But a lot of actors are good- the thing is they don't have his kind of face. Comb his hair right or add a little strand here and there and he's classic. Not many actors are .
Isn't there anyone going to join me in these comments ? Come -on -lets have some fun.
I am overjoyed at the news of a Jude-Sascha team up! What glorious fun! Jude should consider more comedy- he makes me laugh. Hey, STELLA! you're right, why aren't people commenting? I agree with you that he should be leading man in more movies, but they could shave him bald for all I care. It's what the man exudes! He's animated and alive from the inside out, and I love to watch him be-bop about.


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But lacking any other reader-specific information, here's my list of books that I recommend you should NOT read as your first King book.
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Glenn Phillips How did you come to Los Angeles?
William Wegman I was teaching in Wisconsin, at Madison, in 1969. It was a pretty amazing position: I was a visiting artist with Malcolm Morley, Richard Artschwager, Robert Morris, and John Chamberlain—all that year at Madison! It was a phenomenally interesting year, and that's when I started working with video and photography. But it was just a one-year position. So I moved out in 1970 to teach beginning watercolor and life drawing at California State University, Long Beach. This was right after teaching Conceptual art and sculpture to graduate students at Madison.
So that was my first Los Angeles experience. I lived in a charming little house in San Pedro and significantly, I guess, I got a dog, and he started appearing in my videos right off the bat. I had a second studio space about a block away, and I used both of those sites for the videos, which appear in what became known as Reel 1 (1970–71). One space has a very normal-looking wooden floor, with a door and windows and so forth, and another is more of a loft-type space, sort of like a forgotten plumbing shop. I believe the house was at 921 Center Street. You might want to landmark that.
GP Definitely. Who were some of the first artists that you met out here?
WW Well, I met several of them about a year later. I wasn't rehired for that Long Beach job, so I moved from San Pedro to Santa Monica. John Baldessari lived around the block, and I used to have coffee with him every morning. I was in a show called "24 Young Artists" at LACMA [Los Angeles County Museum of Art] in 1971, and I met a lot of young artists through that. There was Chuck Arnoldi, Laddie Dill, David Deutsch, and a gazillion others. Well, twenty-one others. And I met Ed Ruscha. I also used to play basketball in Venice with a group of Los Angeles artists.
GP I heard about that group. That was on Sundays, right?
WW Yes. It was Bruce Nauman, Doug Wheeler, and a few others.
GP Cynthia Maughan—who was a student at Cal State Long Beach when you were there—always made her video art pieces on Sundays when her husband was playing basketball with you guys.
WW I was a terrible basketball player. I also met Van Schley. Do you know him? He called himself a leisure artist, and he did some funny pieces. One was called World Run (1976), where he had himself photographed at every Olympic stadium as he ran around the world.
GP I was actually just looking at that book the other day! It's made to resemble a charming, little coffee table book.
WW Van became a close friend of mine. He was interesting to hang out with. My neighbor in Santa Monica was Gary Weis, who ended up doing films for Saturday Night Live. He went out with Sharon Peckinpah, one of Sam's daughters. I met Lorne Michaels then, and I did some pieces for Saturday Night Live in the mid-seventies.
GP That was after you moved to New York.
WW It was after, but I had several meetings with Lorne back then when he was describing this idea for a live comedy show that would bridge the new comedy with art.
GP You and John Baldessari traded studio spaces at a certain point, right?
WW We didn't trade, because he didn't give me his. I gave him mine. So it wasn't a fair trade at all, was it? I left it for him when I moved to New York. He's barely changed that space, except there are a million more objects in there than when I lived there. I visited John this year, and he gave me a chair I'd left in that space—one that appeared in several of my works.
GP Was it the same chair you used in the massage chair video, the one you hit with the stick?
WW Exactly! I have that in my little home museum. You can come and sit in it, and try out the vibrations.
GP Let's talk a little bit about some of the works that were in the Pomona exhibition. You were showing photographs, video, and some sculptural assemblages, all together. The photographs were dealing a lot with doubles, or this idea of twinning, or identical situations.
WW Those little "find the difference" puzzles often fascinated me. I came to photography rather late. I never studied it in school. I borrowed my wife Gail's camera when I was documenting some things in Wisconsin, and I came to the conclusion that I should be making work for the camera rather than just documenting sculptures. The idea was that the photographs should be the size that you would see in a magazine. At the time, photographs were being brought back to the studio as relics of earth art, and I wanted to distinguish myself from that side of the photo world. I didn't want the photos to be documents, but the actual work. At the time, I thought I was really on to something that was mine. It had strength because it could be reproduced without changing the sense of the work, whether it was here or there. It didn't have to be attached to a place. It wasn't like, "Gee, if you were here, you would have seen this."


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Karen Lewis. Standardized testing and the Eugenics movement.
– Karen GJ Lewis is the President of the Chicago Teachers Union and National Board Certified Teacher.
Many people who are convinced that standardized tests are reliable and valid indicators of student learning are not only sadly mistaken, but they are often people who also support policies that harm children, teachers and schools. This is unfortunate for a variety of reasons, the least of which is that unions, think tanks and other entities no longer pursue alternatives—multiple measures. Researchers have pointed out that standardized tests do not cover 70 percent of teachers, but rather than invest in multiple measures, companies respond with a plan to develop more tests.
What many people do not know is that the use of standardized tests has its origins in the Eugenics movement, where basic tenets assert that certain races are inferior to others biologically and intellectually. From our 21st century perspective, we can look back in horror, but we have to be clear about the original purpose of standardized tests. The original IQ tests were designed by French psychologist Alfred Binet for benign and limited uses: a) on young children who were not developing "normally"; b) as "general" tools to make "general" decisions, not a precise measurement for precise decisions; and c) to signal when a child needed more help in their intellectual development. Unfortunately in the United States, IQ scores were posited to be fixed and innate, and were promptly used to rank and sort individuals by race and ethnic background. Businesses, government agencies and educational institutions used IQ tests to justify placing certain people into certain jobs and excluding them from others.
While the Eugenics movement died an ignoble and deserved death, the leftover love affair with standardized testing has gotten completely out of control. In a society fascinated by statistics, we are often compelled to reduce everything to a single number. Those of us who work with children know that there are so many characteristics that cannot be quantified. We also know that educators are the best positioned and best trained to judge what our children know, what they don't know and what we must do to support their learning. No test written from afar—that doesn't give us immediate feedback and is not aligned to the curriculum—can ever provide us with the information we need to adequately help our students. We should resist every opportunity to steal our time, resources and professional judgment to satisfy the insatiable data monster that No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top have created.
Ask yourselves whether you want to be part of a legacy born of the unholy alliance between the concept of "natural inequality" and the drudgery that has been imposed on many of our classrooms. Do your own research and let's start to have the discussions on what is fair, equitable and good for our children.
February 26, 2014 3:58 pm
How many people do you know that think of themselves as standardized? Can a number 2 pencil be relied upon to test for brilliance? http://optikodes.com/education-reform/two-minds-think-alike/
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While the overuse and misuse of standardized testing is harmful to children and society in general, standardized tests, when used properly, can be helpful in educational planning and in a general sort of evaluation of students along with other measures, of course. The recent use by CPS of standardized tests to pass or fail students was bad practice, diabolical and just plain stupid. The cut off to pass to the next grade was based on a raw score which converted to a grade score, which in truth is a meaningless measure in the standardization of the test.
February 27, 2014 11:30 am
From a historical context, this makes sense to me, but I would be grateful if anyone could provide reliable sources for this information. Particularly, "Unfortunately in the United States, IQ scores were posited to be fixed and innate, and were promptly used to rank and sort individuals by race and ethnic background. Businesses, government agencies and educational institutions used IQ tests to justify placing certain people into certain jobs and excluding them from others." If this were Wikipedia, there would be a [citation needed] tag after that.
February 27, 2014 12:17 pm
Jim Horn has a book half of which goes into this history of standardized testing.
"The Mismeasure of Education"


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Armagnac restaurant in Montpellier will re-open - Olivier Azam
Posted: June 12, 2013|
One of Cheltenham's best loved restaurants Armagnac will re-open again the Echo can reveal today.
The French eatery on Rotunda Terrace in Montpellier closed in May and has not been open since.
Montpellier traders had been left baffled by the sudden closure.
When the Echo called the restaurant's telephone number a recorded message said it had been closed for staff holidays and was due to re-open on May 25 but today it was still closed when a reporter visited.
It is owned by former Gloucester Rugby star Olivier Azam with his wife Katie.
Today the Echo spoke to Oli who confirmed the closure is not permanent.
Oli said: "I wasn't happy with a certain member of staff so it was closed but I wanted to give myself time to get it just right before re-opening."
He said new work commitments meant he had not had the time to sort out the issues at the restaurant but he is due to return to Gloucestershire next week to sort it out and re-open.
The former Gloucester hooker, who won 10 caps for the national French team, has just been appointed to a new coaching role at Lyon in the Pro D2 division after leaving Heineken Cup champions Toulon.
"I have been too busy with work and family commitments to be on site at the restaurant to sort it out," he said.
The Kingsholm legend said his team in the UK had made every effort to ensure everyone who had made a booking at Armagnac during the closure period had been contacted by telephone to explain the situation.
"We even had people on site in the evenings when we knew there were bookings to talk to people," he said.
The restaurant is undergoing a refurbishment, said Oli, to include a revamped kitchen.
"I want to get it right rather than do a botch job," he said.
Closure of the restaurant would have been a blow to bustling Montpellier which is currently enjoying a major marketing and promotional campaign.
The Montpellier Association was formed in 2012 to increase footfall to the area and market the rich blend of independent shops in the area.
Armagnac has a good reputation in the Cheltenham eating out scene and is known for producing fine French cuisine.
It was opened by Oli in 2006 under the name "Le Quinze."
In 2009 it underwent a makeover and became Armagnac - named after the famous spirit of Mr Azam's home region of Gascony.


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'Disaster in Iraq was not inevitable'
A full-blown civil war is brewing in Iraq after the radical Islamist insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took control of cities in northern Iraq, with intentions of taking over the entire country. Most recently, ISIS fighters moved into Baghdad while claiming to have massacred 1,700 Shiite army recruits in cold blood. As fighting continues, the U.S. has deployed 275 troops to protect U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
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(Edward Elgar, 2013). When he left Iraq in 2008, the level of violence was the lowest since the U.S.-led invasion six years before.
Gunter cited three decisions made by Iraq Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and U.S. President Barack Obama that lit the fuse for the current conflagration:
Strike one
After the destruction of the Golden Mosque in early 2006, Iraq appeared to be sliding into a catastrophic civil war with al Qaeda taking over much of Anbar Province. But al Qaeda was eventually defeated by a combination of the U.S. military surge supported by the 'Sunni Awakening.' During negotiations with the U.S. military and Maliki, it was agreed that the tribes would fight al Qaeda and, in return, the Iraqi government would ensure that the tribal fighters – the mostly Sunni "Sons of Iraq" – received jobs in either the Iraqi Army or National Police. But after al Qaeda was on the run, the Iraqi government broke the agreement. Only a fraction of the Sons of Iraq ever received the promised employment in the security services. As a result, it should be no surprise that Maliki's attempts over the last year to reach out to the Sunni community for military support have fallen on deaf ears.
Strike two
In the 2010 national elections, the Iraqiyya Party led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi won the most seats. Although Allawi is Shi'a, the Iraqiyya Party was non-sectarian and received most of the votes of the Sunni community. Maliki outmaneuvered Allawi to not only continue as Prime Minister but also to ensure that Allawi's supporters gained little from their electoral victory. The three most important Ministries – Defense, Interior (Police) and Oil – remained under Maliki's direct control. And the Chairmanship of the Military Commission that was presented as a substantial concession to Allawi's Iraqiyya supporters turned out to be powerless. The lesson to the Sunni community was clear, democracy under Maliki was a fraud. The Iraqiyya Party splintered; religious and ethnic parties dominated the 2014 elections.
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Obama's decision to abandon Iraq. Negotiations on the size of a residual force bogged down although according to news reports, the U.S. and Iraq were fairly close. The U.S. was seeking about 10,000 U.S. military personnel to remain in Iraq primarily to train and support the Iraqi military while Maliki would accept about 5,000 but only if the U.S. insisted. Vice President Joe Biden took over the negotiations and the results were the complete departure of all U.S. military personnel. Without the U.S. military presence, the Iraqi security forces lost much of their capability to successfully fight the insurgency. And the inability of the U.S. and its allies to prevent either jihadist fighters from the Syrian civil war or the Iranian government from using Iraqi territory for their own purposes has greatly complicated maintaining security.
In their decisions since 2008, Maliki and Obama have something in common. Both have focused more on pleasing their political supporters than on making the hard decisions necessary if Iraq is to have a secure, prosperous, democratic future.
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One of the top exec's at the company I formerly worked with used to call the hotel/caterer ahead of time and ask for peaches and cottage cheese for her lunch. Everyone just figured she was sick of rubber chicken and overcooked veggies.
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I agree with those who suggest contacting the caterer in advance -- chances are they're already doing special meals for other people (diabetics, vegetarians). At least you'll be able to know what's on the menu in advance, and make plans accordingly. I attend a lot of conferences, and find my meal strategies depend on the type of event and what's being served. Since it won't be possible for you to slip out and grab a meal somewhere else, knowing what's on the menu seems like the best place to start. You can supplement with foods you've brought yourself after that.
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Posted 08 September 2013 - 03:48 PM
Special dietary needs are common, and just about every caterer can accommodate them--provided they know in advance. Celiac disease is nothing to be ashamed of. I don't understand why you want to keep it secret.
EXACTLY what HE said.
I just tell people "I have celiac disease and I need to be gluten free. "Watcha got I can eat?" with an ingratiating smile.
I have been to weddings, funerals, and meetings and no one has ever made me sick. Most people want to help!
CALL the caterer.
Hon, if you have Celiac, this is for the rest of your life. Get used to being a bit assertive, a bit humorous and NOT AT ALL ashamed.
I also own a Koolatron cooler and bring food with me in my car everywhere I go.
This is not a big deal, honest. Do not let one single meal get you down or make you crazy. if nothing else, bring fruit, yogurt, some JIF PB cups and gluten-free crackers and just dip away. Honestly, it's not a big deal.
if you simply cannot do any of these things for whatever reason, well, I have skipped lunch and nothing bad has ever happened.
Just drink water so you do not dehydrate..
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Posted 10 September 2013 - 11:19 AM
I did this and called the caterer ahead of time. They had a plate ready for me. If you want to be discreet, tell them you'll make yourself known to them when you arrive (get there a little early) and that way they can get you your plate quietly. Worked very well for me.
Other times, I've just put a Kind bar or two in my bag, taken a plate of food and smushed it around so it looks like I tried it. Then ate my Kind bar when we got back to our seats.
There's almost always a plate of fruit, too, in my experience - just try to get to it early so you can avoid contamination.
Good luck.
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Posted 10 September 2013 - 12:13 PM
I also have sjogren's and I get extremely tired and don't want anyone at work to believe that I am not capable of doing my job. It is really not the eating part. I just worry that I may not make it to retirement.
Renaye....I have Celiac, Sjogren's, Reynaud's and Hashi's thyroid disease so I understand your concern about fatigue and the fear of having people think you are a "sickie" and may not be able to last in your job. I have a very demanding job, particularily this past month. I have been doing lots of overtime to meet a deadline before I head off on vacation at the end of the month. It's insane here right now but I have been gluten-free for 8 years and, although I do not like working 12 hour days right now, I can do it without too much wear and tear. Not to say I am not tired by Friday but I am managing well enough.
I do not know how long you have been gluten-free but it will get better with time and you should be able to make it to retirement even with these AI problems. Think positive and stick to the diet religiously and it will pay off. I would not eat the food prepared by the caterer unless they can really assure you the food will be safe and they take it seriously. Otherwise, bring a yummy lunch with you and do not worry one bit about eating something different in front of anyone. This is not high school and you should never be afraid to do this. Just tell them you have food intolerances and prefer to bring your own food...end of discussion. You have nothing to be ashamed of.
Hang in there....you will be fine!
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Posted 11 September 2013 - 09:50 AM
I second calling ahead to the caterer. I have done this twice recently. The first was for an awards presentation for a friend of mine. The event was held at a hotel ballroom that is used to handling a lot of conventions and meetings. It was no problem at all. I didn't realize that my friend had also called to get me a gluten free meal (yes, she is an awesome friend!) and so we both ended up eating gluten-free. Her husband had the regular meal and they both decided the gluten-free meal (which was salmon) tasted much better than the regular chicken. There was a sign by my plate marking it as a special meal and we got served first.
The second event was a company meeting. I called and they said they were doing a buffet and couldn't accomodate my diet. This was in a local community center that had just opened, so they had much less experience catering than the hotel did. I just stopped by Wendy's on the way to the meeting and grabbed a salad and baked potato.
I think so many people are on different diets now for varying reasons - vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, corn free, paleo, etc., that it's not a big deal. If anyone asks why you're eating something different, just say "I'm on a restricted diet." Beyond that it's none of their business.
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Blood tested 8-11 positive, Biopsy 9-11 negative (long story, most gastro drs. are morons)
gluten-free 7-11, Dairy Free (mostly) 8-13 - Everything but butter. Can't live life without butter....
DS - negative blood test, just diagnosed with ADD and other learning disorders, DNA test positive - high risk
Issues related to gluten: depression, low iron, hair loss, positive ana test for lupus, low vitamin D, headache, sinusitis, environmental allergies, brain fog, GI problems, weight gain....the list goes on....
Posted 11 September 2013 - 04:39 PM
Gemini - I have been gluten-free since May 2011. Not sure how much it has really helped as I started plaquenil for fatigue at the same time. I am still constipated but won't ever go back to a regular diet for fear of getting something worse than sjogren's.
Thanks again,
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Posted 12 September 2013 - 10:35 AM
Renaye......have you had your vitamin/mineral levels checked, especially iron and ferretin, plus your thyroid? Please exhaust all other possibilities for your fatigue before resorting to meds. I understand the fatigue but I obviously am not as bad as you are suffering right now because I can do a normal day and go to the gym and not be dragging. Ok...I am dragging a bit today but its over work related. It's been a longgggggggggg week for me. I have also been gluten-free for much longer than you have so please be patient with this. I am sure things will improve over time but am sorry you feel so tired. I have been there, done that and it is not easy to deal with if you are a working girl. My Sjogren's was horrible at diagnosis of Celiac but it has gotten much, much easier to deal with and also symptom wise. There is no doubt about it though...Sjogren's is a b_itch!
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Posted 12 September 2013 - 07:44 PM
Yes I have had my iron, ferretin and thyroid checked. My bloodwork is all normal except a +ana, low vitamin D and I also have osteopenia. So I take vitamin D and calcium. Even my celiac bloodwork is messed up and really not sure since I had a negative biopsy. My gastro resigned suddenly so I am looking for a new one. Hopefully he will have some answers for me. So I assume that you are not on plaquenil? I have sicca and they are really not sure what it will develop into but my grandfather died suddenly with lung complications and swollen sausage like hands so odds are I have something going on....
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Posted 13 September 2013 - 06:57 AM
So we are much the same. I have a positive ANA and RF and they are not a little high but up there. They have come down slowly but recent blood work shows a spike in RF BUT I have no symptoms of anything arthritis. I guess it could be classified as sicca also because I have no arthritis symptoms but my doctor calls it Sjogren's. My blood work for Sjogren's was positive.
I have osteopenia in my hip and osteoporosis in my spine that I have stabilized through weight training, in a gym with a personal trainer who is not shy about making the exercises hard. It's brutal but I love it. I am now playing with my thyroid dose to try and lower it to aid in bone regeneration. It challenging for us older ladies.
One added word of unasked for advice......start taking Vitamin K2 with your calcium. Usually around 80mcg per day should start you off well. K2 directs calcium into the bone because it doesn't always end up in the bone. There have been recent studies from Europe showing this benefit and many people are deficient today for the K's. Doctors, many female, are starting to recommend this vitamin to aid in bone development. I take it myself so we'll see what happens.
No, I am not on Plaquenil. My symptoms, or lack of, keep me away form anything more than Restasis for my eyes. My niece takes Plaquenil for lupus (she is in denial she has Celiac) and there are side effects. I am stubborn and will not take anything unless I am dying. So far, I feel pretty good and can do a demanding day without collapsing. My blood work is a bit scary but until I start to disintigrate, I am not worrying about it. Keep moving, exercise and try and stay positive. It really helps. It just took me awhile to get there.
You say your Celiac blood work is messed up? In what way? Keep with the diet because I have read that those with Sjogren's should also be gluten free, even if they do not have celiac and it's all about genetics and how they play out. I will look for the article that explained this. All I know is that my extreme dry eye and mouth improved after being gluten-free for awhile. It's comfortable to deal with now and I was miserable pre-diagnosis of Celiac.
Gotta run but I will look for that article.......
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Posted 15 September 2013 - 02:10 PM
Thanks for your kindness. I will look into the vitam k2. I am just walking and jumping rope for my osteo. I see the rhuemmy doc next month and will ask him to see if my effort is paying off. Trainer, huh....I am impressed!! I have very mild joint pain in my hands, wrists and my feet but very tolerable since plaquenil. I am very thankful that I found someone to treat me as I am a teacher and have two boys still at home. I believe the plaquenil has helped especially with the fatigue.
Celiac panel from prometheus
DGP IgG +
DGP IgA +
All other levels were negative
HLA typing pattern was not able to be read due to substances in the sample that interfere with the reading. LOL and my insurance didn't pay for it. So much for the genetics part??
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Posted 15 September 2013 - 06:55 PM
I had to use a trainer......I had never done weight training and I did not want to hurt myself. It really helps to have someone teach you the correct way to do things because, at this point, I want no injuries. They push you a bit to challenge you and mix up the exercises for added benefit. I have no choice but to do this as I do not want to take meds for it. I highly recommend it!
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Almost 800 million people around the world don't have
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The International Longshoremen's Association and shipping companies reached a tentative new master contract late Friday evening, averting fears of a dockside strike that would have halted several East Coast ports, including Charleston, officials announced.
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen issued a statement saying the U.S. Maritime Alliance and the International Longshoremen's Association have reached a tentative deal.
"The tentative agreement is subject to the ratification procedures of both parties and, as well, to agreements being achieved in a number of local union negotiations," Cohen said. "Those local negotiations are ongoing and will continue without interruption to any port operation."
Cohen declined to provide specifics in the deal, citing confidentiality of the involved parties.
The master contract between the ILA and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, a group representing shipping lines, terminal operators and port associations, expired in September.
The ILA and the alliance have been tangled in contract talks for several months. The union in late December threatened to strike and cripple more than a dozen ports, including Charleston's, but that was averted by a negotiations extension through Feb. 6.
The union has said one sticking point in the new contract was agreeing on the royalty payments workers get for every container they unload. The alliance has argued that the longshoremen, who it said make an average $124,138 per year in wages and benefits, are compensated well enough already.
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HAMBURG, NY- The Hawks played Wells College in a non-conference game on Thursday afternoon. The game resulted in a heartbreaking 1-2 in a double overtime loss as the Express went on to defeat Hilbert dropping the Hawks overall record to 0-10-1 on the season. This is the third time this season the Hawks have played a double over time match; this is also the second double over time match resulting in a loss.
Wells jumped out to an early 1-0 lead just 11 minutes into the opening period. Forward Blasdimil Gomez scored off a rebound from a Scott Walker (Rochester, NY/ Bishop Kearney) save.
The play stayed even throughout the remainder of the half while Hilbert held the slight advantage with 11 shots on goal.
Hilbert continued to generate shots on net making the Wells goal keeper work for every save. In the 70th minute of play Brandon Bettinger (Grand Island, NY/Grand Island) was fouled inside the eighteen yard box which resulted in a penalty kick. Bettinger capitalized on the kick tying the game at 1-1 with only twenty minutes left to play. This was Bettinger's second goal of the season.
Hilbert dominated play for much of the second half creating an opportunity for freshman forward James Knapp (Lancaster, NY/ St Mary's of Lancaster) with just minutes remaining in the game to almost give Hilbert the game winning goal. The shot was saved by Wells goal keeper Mike Berklin sending the game into overtime.
In the first overtime each team battled back and forth. Neither team found the back of the net however forcing the game into double overtime.
In the second overtime each team had opportunities to put the game away. Wells eventually found the back of the net off a corner kick from Derek Wheeler. Wheeler sent in a cross from the corner as Alioune Sene placed the ball past Walker off a header. Walker finished the day with 11 saves.
"It was a good back and forth game," said Coach Kronenwetter. "I felt like the last 70 minutes we were the better team. I am proud of their effort though."
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They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
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a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist!
a Junior Library Guild Selection
a Richie's Pick "It is, of course, through reading a book like this — and understanding the "Why?" — that we gain the insight necessary to help stop the flames of hatred and fear from spreading in whatever direction they next travel."
a Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year 2010
a School Library Journal Best Children's Book of the Year 2010
a Kirkus Best Books for Teens 2010
a Horn Book Magazine 2010 Fanfare List
a Booklist Top of the List Winner for 2010 and Editor's Choice for 2010
a Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2010
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Starred review: Kirkus "Balancing the stories of the Klan and the former slaves' determination to remake their lives, Bartoletti makes extensive use of congressional testimony, interviews, journals, diaries and slave narratives to allow the players to speak in their own voices as much as possible. Documentation is superb, and even the source notes are fascinating. An exemplar of history writing and a must for libraries and classrooms."
Starred review: Booklist "[A]nother stand-out contribution to youth history shelves. . . . It's the numerous first-person quotes, though, that give the book its beating heart, and her searing, expertly selected stories of people on all sides of the violent conflicts will give readers a larger understanding of the conditions that incubated the Klan's terrorism, how profoundly the freed people and their sympathizers suffered, and how the legacy of that fear, racism, and brutality runs through our own time. . . . [T]his lucid, important title . . . should be required reading for young people, as well as the adults in their lives."
Starred review: School Library Journal "This richly documented, historically contextualized account traces the origin and evolution of the Ku Klux Klan . . . Bartoletti effectively targets teens with her engaging and informative account that presents a well-structured inside look at the KKK, societal forces that spawn hate/terrorist groups, and the research process."
Starred review: Publisher's Weekly "In this comprehensive, accessible account, Newbery Honor author Bartoletti (Hitler Youth) draws from documentary histories, slave narratives, newspapers, congressional testimony, and other sources to chronicle the origins and proliferation of the Ku Klux Klan against the charged backdrop of Reconstruction politics and legislation . . . Copious photos, engravings, and illustrations provide a hard-hitting graphic component to this illuminating book. And while Bartoletti notes that contemporary "hate groups wield none of the power or prestige that the Ku Klux Klan held in earlier years," her account of attending a Klan meeting while researching the book is chilling to the core."
Starred review: Horn Book "Bartoletti tackles a tough, grim subject with firmness and sensitivity. . . . Exemplary in scholarship, interpretation, and presentation."
from a reviewer for CapitolChoices.org: "This remarkable book details the history of America's first and longstanding terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan. With Bartoletti's voice the story reads like a narrative yet provides all the well-researched information about this group that is, shockingly, still with us. . . . To me, this may be the most important book of the year."
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Paris Crepes Bistro in Niagara
Anyone been and have any feedback?
I went there back in October or November. I would just say it was ok. They were sold out of the special by 6pm, which is what I was going to order. I did end up having a crepe and it didn't have much filling in it and the crepe itself was kind of dry. My friend had the cassoulet though and that was tasty. It's still open though so it must be going over fairly well.
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I probably would too, but, there are a few places on Queen St. worth trying. Mide Bistro is good, as is Taps for more casual fare. There is also a good little pizza place (I can't think of the name..) on Queen and the corner of a side street (the street isn't that big so it can be found easily). It's really small and not much to look at but the food is really good.
Went to Paris Bistro for a very early dinner/late lunch.
I had the asparagus soup; ethereal but a little too much potato and not enough asparagus for me.
DH has cheese plate. Too many soft cheeses; I thought it would be more balanced (and so did he).
We each had a buckwheat crepe; mine with ham, tomato and cheese. Texture was perfect, little crunch with chewiness. A little light handed with filling. I also think the tomatoes should be sauteed not cold as they make everything else cold in the filling.
Shared a banana and chocolate one for dessert. Light handed filling too. Ambiance lovely; very attentive server.
For me, the filling and asparagusness was a little on the light side, but I understand overhead and food costs so I don't think prices were unreasonable at all. If this place was closer to home, I'd be there weekly!
On another note, our friends got a margarita pizza from Antica. Crust was good, but this is not a margarita pizza at all. No basil and cheese was perfectly evenly spread. Too bad; with a wood fired oven, there is lots of potential.
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