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Tales Santander overtook mare. They have been faster for so many days. The Botin design seems to be a blast!
Riechers is a great sailor, as well as Rogues and both have identically very fast Sam Manuard designed boats. For many time Rogues managed an advantage to Riechers and then Riechers was able to maintain that distance but unable to approach, at least in pure speed. Pella has been able to win on Rogues in pure speed and I believe that has something to do with the boat that quite amazingly, given the lack of experience of its designer on this type of boats, is the faster one.
Saying this, I would love that those 1200nm to the end would be enough for Pella to win over Rogues even if I think that would be almost impossible. An all Spanish team winning a French transat would be a blast
Cartographie Transat Jacques Vabre 2013 | Suivez la course en direct !
On the mini transat great sailing for Benoit Marie that managed to overtake for the first time Pedote and his bathtube bow racer. It happened on 12k winds that should give already and advantage to Pedote's boat but had to do with strategy and different courses. Benoit has and advantage of 6nm.
Cartographie | Mini Transat 2013 - Douarnenez / Lanzarote / Pointe-à-Pitre
But what really makes this race great is not only the stories of the leaders (that are professional sailors) but the stories of the other 60, the passionate, more or less amateurs that have dreamed with this race and from whom the more important is to make it and cross the Atlantic. They have fantastic stories to tell. Just two of them:
Express repairs for Craig Horsfield: The South Africa navigator, who is based in Seattle, has contacted the Top 50, one of the vessels accompanying the race. He broke one of his rudders, went over the side to repair it and restarted immediately. All is well on board.
Ludovic Méchin recounts his epic: "I arrived in Rabat towards dusk, towed into the channel by a pleasure craft. Firstly, I had to do
all the paperwork. Then I got some sleep so I would be lucid by the time I started the repairs. A portion of the transom was ripped and another is delaminated inside. The next morning, on opening my email inbox in a cyber cafe, I found a message from three friends who warned me that they were on their way with tools and equipment. They arrived at 17.00 on the same day. Two cruising boats that were also in the harbor helped us a great deal too. Without this I would not have been able to leave.
It was raining, so, I had to do a repair with plywood and aluminum. Then, the passage to Lanzarote had to be done without much wind. Now I've beena ble to check up on the repairs, check the rig and the boat in general before moving on. I've also refuelled, because I ate almost everything on the detour to Rabat. I set out again in adventure mode, I'll make the crossing for myself, but especially for all those who helped me restart from Rabat. "
About the delivery to Sada after the cancellation of the first part of the race:
Sofie de Clercq (Ville de Marseillan)
"During my delivery, I had an autopilot problem. To get some rest I decided to heave to several times. But at no time did I think to stop. In any case, I'm really glad I did that. The scenery was really beautiful and I discovered something that I never would have known otherwise. In Minis, 35 knots is acceptable, but 40 knots, it's just too mutch ... "
Hugues Chollet (Soutenez le Bel Espoir)
"I never thought I'd be able to do what I did. When we left Gijon, we were not making headway, we couldn't make decent progress. Like many others, I stopped at Moras. At this time, I was at the bottom of a hole, really depressed. With some other competitors we found ourselves on one of the accompanying support boats where they gave us a good meal. The next day, morale had returned, it was almost beautiful. We knew there would be wind, but I told myself, this is a challenge, you have to go. We took a good bashing, but we made it. Looking back, I am proud to have managed it."
Robert Rosen Jacobson (Postillion Hotels):
"It is ironic that I am the first of the group to reach Sada. I honestly do not remember ever having met such difficult conditions in the Mini. But I started and was determined to make it to the end. On the passage around Cape Ortegal, the boat literally flew over the waves. I adopted a simple rhythm: let the autopilot steer and take refugee inside the boat, I watched the traffic on AIS and every fifteen to twenty minutes, I put my head out ... "
Ian Lipinski (Pas de futur sans numérique)
"The stop in Moras was a surreal. Two dozen Minis gathered in this industrial port, coupled up on buoys moorings. The most amazing moment was when Justine (Mettraux) and Clement (Bouyssou) took the decision to leave when Janus Tamme arrived in port with three reefs and a storm jib after being driven back from his passage round l'Estaca de Barres. You had to have some backbone to do that and to trust the files which forecast that the wind would ease off. "
and shattered dreams:
Katrina Ham capsizes outside Ribadeo: While delivering her boat to Sada, the Australian sailor reported a problem with her gooseneck and requested the assistance of an escort boat. On the outskirts of Ribadeo, she asked for a tow to enter the port. In the entrance channel a wave suddenly took the boat and capsized it. Katrina was not clipped on and fell into the water, but was immediately recovered by the Ribadeo's pilot. The sailor, who was very shocked, has been taken to hospital where she is under observation.
Katrina Ham (Shipyard Le Borgne), meanwhile, is out of the hospital. All is well, but she is still a very shocked sailor and her boat is not seaworthy.
Diane Reid Dismasted: The Canadian sailor informed the race management, through a cargo ship which was passing nearby, that her mast has broken. She has not requested assistance and just wants to be supported upon her arrival in Lanzarote. She triggered the button on board to indicate that all is well.
Broken mast for David Genest: Late this morning the skipper of Bingo made contact with a passing cargo ship and sent the following information about his intentions to the Race Director. David is well, he does not intend to ask for assistance and is headed to Lanzarote at 4-5 knots, which suggests that part of the mast is still in place.
Yannick Le Clech dismasted: The disappointment must be tough for Yannick who had fought hard to be on the starting line for the Mini Transat. Victim of a dismasted off Porto, Yannick wanted to recover his boat himself, refusing to ask for outside assistance and instead building a jury rig. His adventure ended prematurely, but he has shown all the qualities of an outstanding seaman.
The story of Ian Lipinski on the very rough conditions of the beguining of the race and that lead to his cancelation:Ian Lipinski was dismasted on the first night of the Mini Transat. After activating his emergency beacon, he was recovered by the Mazouri, a cargo bound for Sfax, Tunisia, via Gibraltar. Ian is doing well and is safely on board but had to abandon his boat Pas de Futur sans Numérique, No. 539. Two days after the incident, here is his story:
It all over for 539, which I have had to abandon... I had three reefs in the main and a reefed solent overnight. The sea was rough but nothing more. I had a first warning last night hurtling down a steeper than usual wave. Result, I broached violently. All the gear was swept down the back, I found myself against the crash box! The boat dropped vertically and fell to the side. I release the tiller and drop into the water to leeward against the lifelines ... I'm OK again.
But late that night, after a ten-minute nap, I went to open the door to go outside, I felt the boat take off on a very fast surf. I just had time to stand firmly at the opening of the door, a second no more, when the boat was on its roof. The water instantly flooded the entire interior. I had perhaps 50 centimeters of air space left. Everything inside is floating and slopping around. It is all black ... and the boat is upside down, like an inverted umbrella! I did not really panick, but told myself very quickly that the situation was not terrible. No VHF, no reasonable opportunity to escape, no power inside the boat ... and still its not coming upright. I think that the water is cold and I will not be able to last in it very long. I soon realise that I cannot get out of this on my own and in five minutes I've decided to activate the EPIRB. I need a little time to find it because after this rodeo ride and in the dark I've lost my bearings a bit in the boat! Then I put on the TPS suit and that warms me up. I think I have been upside down for about 45 minutes to an hour.
Finally, the boat rights itself. I can get to the portable VHF in the safety box and manage to call "Cocoche" (Eric Cochet), 832. I hear that he re transmits my status to the escort boat, which offers to turn around and sail upwind to come to my aid. I say its not realistic and asked him to continue his journey because he can do nothing for me. I then trigger the the race tracker into distress mode. I set off a flare and send out a mayday on channel 16. It's still dark and I do not feel able to go out on the deck to release the rig, because I do not feel that assured on the boat in the TPS. The rig hull hits a bit but its OK more or less. The sun rises and I see a cargo ship passing because I'm not far from the axis of the DST. I set off a new flare ... No reaction from the cargo boat.
I can not seem to reach anyone on the portable VHF. I am looking for my passport stored in a workbook with a little money. I find it and slip it into my dry suit along with Panda, my soft toy I had taken on board for the first time! Coco, my second mascot, can not be found, but I keep myself busy looking for him... I try to empty the boat using a bucket. It's a mess and although I manage to lower the level a little, it quickly comes back in. I don't really feel in danger and I know that help is now triggered. Anyway, I don't feel I can go on on my own. The boat is destroyed and full of water, the electronics are all out, the steering broken ...
Then a ship arrives. I help them to locate me with a flare. He begins his maneuver but he's a little slow. His transom is towards me. I think I'll pass under the stern, which rises and falls with the waves 4 meters. Finally a huge crash at it comes down on poor 539, but thankfully I'm not crushed. The hull of Kalonig slides to leeward of the cargo ship and the crew throw me down mooring ropes which I secure on the winches. I'll have to climb the rope ladder that the crew lower against the hull of the ship. It goes up; it goes down: you have find the precise moment to jump on the rope at the top of the wave. Please do not fall into the water. At the third attempt I managed to climb the rope ladder and 5 seconds later I'm on the deck of the ship. Time to watch my mini drift away in the wake ...
The captain is wonderful and very caring with me. I have a deluxe cabin and I'll pass the Strait of Gibraltar for the first time in my life! I haven't yet had much time to think, I slept and ate. I will get my revenge next time. I do not really think I made a mistake, other than to have not taken shelter in the lee of the coast ... But then, I would not have been racing ...
We are off to Sfax, Tunisia. We should arrive Tuesday.
692 Dismasted: Mini 6.50 No. 692 (Diaoulic 692) was dismasted on Thursday afternoon. The skipper Yannick Clech did not request assistance and assured the Race Director that all was well on board. He is currently heading to Lisbon under jury rig and try to go again.
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Sep 20 2011 (23:36) 12803/Visakhapatnam - Hazrat Nizamuddin Swarna Jayanti Express
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Travelled by this train recently from VSKP-WL by 2nd AC.
Started on time with from VSKP from PF#4, Loco in charge is WAP4. Started slowly from the station. After long time i boarded a train which passed through DVD,AKP with out a stop. But there are after its starting going very slowly..stopped at Tuni for signal clearance. By the time it reached RJY its 30 min. We though from there it will cover the late by BZA..But stopped at kovvur. After that its further lost its speed then went to loop line of the oposit track at PULLA station. No one knows whats happened stopped there for 15 min. So people told there is a accident, some told repair....
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Hey! I too remember travelling by this train on 2A in 2009. It was so horrible. I traveled from VSKP to AGC, the rakes were very old, and were vibrating too. The night was really bad. We reached AGC on time. But the journey was not comfortable.
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Have you ever encountered a Firefox theme that interferes with the Fast Dial display ?
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Prasanna (born 10 February 1951), is a major Indian theatre director and playwright from Karnataka. He is one of the pioneers of modern Kannada theatre.[1] He graduated from the National School of Drama (NSD). He founded Samudaya and gave a creative direction to Kannada theatre in the 1970s with other activists. Prasanna lives in Heggodu in Karnataka. He is known for his organisational skills and new ideas and innovations in theatre.[2] He is a Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee. He has directed plays for National School of Drama (Repertory Company, NSD), Ninasam, Rangamandal-Bhopal, Rangayana and worked with many theatre organizations of India.[3]
Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, Gandhi, Life of Galileo, Thai (Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children), Acharya Tartuf, Lal Ghas Per Neele Ghode (translation -Uday Prakash), Ek Lok Katha, Shakuntalam (Abhijñānaśākuntalam), Fujiyama, Dangeya Munchina Dinagalu, Kadadida Neeru, Uttar Ram Charit, Cupid's Broken Arrow,[4] William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Seema Paar(Play on Bharatendu Harishchandra)[5] etc.
He is also a Kannada playwright, Novelist, and poet. Some of his dramas are:Uli,Seema Paar,Dangeya Munchina Dinagalu, Ondu Lokada Kathe,Haddu Meerida Haadi,Mahihmapura,Jangamada Badaku.
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- Docu-film "In search of an ideology" Direction- Prasanna, Assist direction-Arvind Gaur for Doordarshan, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,India
- Docu-film "Gokak" (V. K. Gokak) for Sahitya Akademi, Delhi
- Creative Director- Taana -Bana (1991), TV Serial produced by Press Trust of India (PTI-TV)
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- B V Karanth award, 2007, National School of Drama
- Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, for Direction, 1999–2000
- ^ Parul Sharma (2007-12-31). "An acting activist all the way". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
- ^ DH News Service. "Introduce theatre edn in govt schools: Prasanna". Deccanherald.com. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
- ^ Rangayana Mysore. "the pioneers of Modern Kannada Theatre". Rangayana.org. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
- ^ The Times of India (2005-02-26). "This play gives desi hue to foreign classics". The Times Of India. Archived from the original on March 5, 2005. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
- ^ Ankur Kalitaa. "The Ultimate Frontier-Prasanna's Seema Paar explores the many faces of death". Cities.expressindia.com. Retrieved 2008-12-21.


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- The Guardian: Royal Bank of Scotland has yet to decide whether the £390 million fine for rigging Libor should have an impact on any bonuses for Stephen Hester for this year amid renewed focus on the chief executive's pay.
- The Independent: Current and former top executives at the taxpayer-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland will on Monday be grilled by politicians, less than a week after the bank was fined £391 million for rigging the Libor interest rate.
- Financial Times: Viviane Reding, Europe's most senior justice official, is adamant she will fight US attempts to water down a proposed EU data protection and privacy law that would force global technology companies to obey European standards across the world.
- Financial Times: The FBI is probing corruption allegations against a subsidiary of EADS, Europe's biggest aerospace company, relating to a contract in Saudi Arabia for the UK's Ministry of Defence.
- The Daily Telegraph: Nat Rothschild has lined up Brock Gill to be the next chief of Bumi.
- Financial Times: EasyJet is braced for a bruising annual meeting next week after Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who founded the airline in 1995, said he would vote against plans to award the chief executive a £5 million pay package.
- Financial Times: BlackRock's leading position in Europe's rapidly growing exchange traded funds market has prompted some observers to ask if its iShares ETF business has become too big.
- Financial Times: State Street is fighting two separate US lawsuits over claims it retained an "exorbitant share" of securities lending revenues, allegedly causing investors to suffer "massive losses" amounting to "hundreds of millions of dollars".
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- Financial Times: A radical new option for the financial rescue of Cyprus would force losses on uninsured depositors in Cypriot banks, as well as investors in the country's sovereign bonds, according to a confidential memorandum prepared ahead of Monday's meeting of eurozone finance ministers.
- Financial Times: President Barack Obama will put job creation at the centre of his second term agenda, laying out a broad vision for robust economic growth and easing the strains on the US's middle class when he delivers his fifth state of the union address on Tuesday.
- Daily Mail: The wholesale price guaranteed by the British government for nuclear power generation is likely to be less than £100 a megawatt hour.
- Financial Times: The US is to make a concerted push into European derivatives with CME Group, the world's largest futures market operator, set to begin clearing off-exchange swaps in coming weeks.
- The Daily Telegraph: Drinks giant Diageo is pouring fresh investment into its gin brands, Gordon's and Tanqueray, to take advantage of a surprise surge in sales of the spirit in hard-hit economies such as Spain and the UK.
- Financial Times: Plans by Anglo-Indian refining and power generation group Essar Oil to shift exposure from rupee to dollar-based debt are expected to cut financing costs at London-listed parent company Essar Energy.
- The Daily Telegraph: Barclays will begin the process of repairing its damaged reputation on Tuesday, admitting that the "old ways weren't the right way to behave".
- Financial Times: MCX-SX, a new stock exchange in India, opens for trading on Monday, pitching the country's main commodity bourse into a three-way battle with the two established incumbents as they look to attract investors around the world.
- The Daily Telegraph: Standard Chartered is planning a major push into Iraq as oil majors and development companies from Asia demand greater financial services support in the country.
- Financial Times: India's Kingfisher Airlines are grounded and its leased planes are being seized by angry creditors, but there is little sign of that turbulence on its website, flykingfisher.com.
- Financial Times: New job vacancies in the City slumped by a further 18% last month compared with a year ago as redundancies and scandals at the banks took their toll, a Square Mile recruiter has reported.
- The Independent: City workers who switched their jobs last month will have started the year with an average 24% pay rise, figures have revealed.
- Financial Times: Currency investors are profiting from an emerging policy divide between Europe and Japan that some believe has the makings of a fresh round of global currency wars.
- Financial Times: Financial institutions face fresh attention from aggressive activist and hedge fund investors, adding another distraction to a list of troubles that already includes increased regulation and diminished profits.
- Financial Times: Chinese moves against corruption sparked a sell-off in jewellery retailers in Hong Kong late last week after Beijing ordered an end to advertisements that suggest giving gifts to bosses.
- Daily Mail: Associated British Foods has hit back at claims that it paid less than 0.5% of its $123 million in pre-tax profits between 2007 and 2012 to the Zambian government.
- The Daily Telegraph: The incoming chief executive of energy firm, SSE, has agreed to give up the staff discount on his energy bill and donate it to charity after his predecessor faced criticism for accepting the 12% reduction.
- Daily Mail: Waste removal firm Biffa made a £978 million loss in 2011-12 after taking a £900 million writedown because of falling revenues.
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- Financial Times: American Airlines is putting the finishing touches to its merger with US Airways to create the biggest US carrier by revenues in a deal expected to be announced this week.
- The Daily Telegraph: Lion Capital, the private equity firm linked to Findus, has made a £300 million swoop on ghd, the company behind the ceramic straightening irons advertised by Katy Perry.
- Daily Mail: Walgreen, the largest chain of chemist stores in the US, is embarking on a roadshow to try to attract UK investors with an eye to a listing on the London Stock Exchange next year.
- The Guardian (Comment): There may be grounds for hope over the economy, but the elite still looks after itself and treats the little people with contempt.
- The Guardian (Comment): You don't have to go to India to look for the dark side. It's right here in Britain too – including at RBS, where the failure of leadership and lack of any moral direction just go on and on.
- The Daily Telegraph (Comment): A change in policy is in the air. About time too. Not only was the last quarterly GDP growth figure negative but the next one may also be pretty weak.
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- Financial Times (Lex): Cashed out: spending has returned and the regulations have proven to be manageable, but the driver of the gains has been the move towards a cashless society.
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BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese cabinet's decision to carry out targeted reserve requirement ratio (RRR) cuts in more banks is in line with its pledge to deepen financial reform and better serve the real economy, which analysts say will ultimately boost economic restructuring.
The State Council, China's cabinet, announced last week that the country will lower the RRR for banks engaged in proportionate lending to the agriculture sector and small and micro-sized enterprises (SMEs). Details of when and how much the cuts will be have not yet been announced.
The targeted credit policy continues after the RRR was cut for county-level rural commercial banks by 2 percentage points and for rural credit cooperative unions by 0.5 percentage point in April.
"Targeted RRR cuts are award measures that aim to boost financial support for the real economy. Compared to systemic RRR cuts, the distinguishing policy is more targeted and will guide credit to agriculture and small firms that badly need it," said Ji Zhihong, director of the financial market department under the central bank.
Ji forecast that the targeted cuts in RRR this time may prioritize banks that grant proportionate loans to SMEs, because RRR cuts have previously covered rural-based banks and financial institutions.
The RRR sets the minimum fraction of customer deposits that each bank must hold as reserves rather than lending, and is an important monetary tool used by central banks. Lowering the RRR is often aimed at boosting bank lending to shore up economic growth.
Analysts said the targeted move indicated that broad-based RRR reductions for banks are unlikely in the near future.
In the same statement, the cabinet said that it will optimize the country's financing structure, with financial resources to be allocated to support vital state projects, companies' upgrading efforts, and service sectors.
Guo Tianyong, a researcher at the Beijing-based Central University of Finance and Economics, said the cabinet's call to optimize the financing structure is a key point in the country's push for economic restructuring.
Railway and water-related projects, energy, shanty-town renovations, affordable home construction and municipal infrastructure projects will have more credit support. The upgrading of companies, emerging industries of strategic importance, high-tech sectors and daily services sectors will also enjoy favorable credit policies, Ji said.
At the same time, the central bank's monetary policies will squeeze credit lending out of low-efficiency industries, with local government financing vehicles, industries with excessive production capacity and the real estate sector likely to have their borrowing strictly controlled, Ji said.
Zhang Xiaopu, a policy research official at the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), said that the CBRC will further reforms in the banking sector with an eye to enhance risk control and bank services. Zhang's remarks come as the country faces the rapid rise of shadow banking, which has brewed financial risks and raised companies' financing costs in recent years.
Some changes are in sight. Data from the People's Bank of China, the central bank, said that banks' medium and long-term loans to service sectors rose 15.5 percent year on year as of the end of April, with the growth rate picking up by 1.8 percentage points. In contrast, medium and long-term credit to industries with excessive production capacity grew only 5.9 percent, down 1.6 percentage points.
China to cut RRR to help agriculture, SMEs
BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) -- China is to cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for more banks to provide support for the rural economy and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
"The country will lower the RRR for banks whose loans for real economic activity such as lending to the agriculture sector and SMEs have reached a certain proportion," according to a statement released after a State Council meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Friday. Full story
RRR cut unlikely: economists
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- A fully-fledged cut of the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for banks is unlikely, as the central bank prefers targeted monetary tools, economists have said, as speculation mounts about such a dramatic move to heat China's lukewarm economy.
Faced with an economic slowdown, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has been treading cautiously in its monetary policy shift. Instead of an RRR or interest rate cut, the central bank has resorted to measures such as "targeted" RRR cuts for rural banks and re-lending. Full story
Decline in forex funds to lower RRR: analysts
BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The drop in China's funds outstanding for foreign exchange in June increased the odds of the central bank lowering the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) in the second half of the year, China Securities Journal reported Tuesday.
China's total yuan funds outstanding for foreign exchange reached 27.39 trillion yuan (4.44 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of June, down 41.2 billion yuan month on month, indicating the first net outflow of capital since last year, figures from the People's Bank of China (PBOC) showed on Monday. Full story


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William Gilbert III agreed to settle his age discrimination case against Monsanto Co. by accepting a lump sum payment and immediate access to his pension.
Because the company's attorney said the benefits were immediately available regardless of the settlement, Gilbert's lawyer drafted an agreement that didn't mention the pension. They told the trial court that they had settled, and the judge dismissed the matter.
Monsanto paid the lump sum but didn't start the pension payments. So Gilbert had to go back to court to get an order to start the payments. The trial judge gave the order but refused to award Gilbert attorney fees for his extra trouble.
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Advice: When settling a case, be sure your company fulfills all terms of the agreement. Companies sometimes gamble that the employee won't file a separate lawsuit, this time for breach of contract, to get his whole settlement. Not smart. This case shows that employees don't have to go to all the trouble of a new lawsuit.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
There will be a few 'stattos' out there I'm sure who will know the answer but I cannot remember the last time we not only lost three games our of four but failed to score in any of them. Losing RVP is not just coincidence of course but having scored goals from all over the pitch all season I'm not sure any of us thought it would cause such an immediate problem.
Sunday was a very difficult day in what was for me personally a thoroughly enjoyable weekend. Four friends and Norwegian Gooners (Lars, Anne, Magnar and Anita) had travelled and stayed for four nights and consequently good fun was enjoyed by all.
Included in the activities on offer was the chance to join us Maidstone Gooners on our History Walk. With so much planning involved and 30-odd hardy souls arriving in deepest Plumstead so early in the morning that even public transport offered no means of getting there, all we could hope for is the weather to be kind. OK, England in late November was always a risk but calling it horrendous is a severe understatement!
It started well enough, leaving the Star Inn, the only pub still standing where players were known to have changed before matches, with a stroll across Plumstead Common in dry and relatively warm conditions, the location for our first home back in the late 19th century. After seeing the remains of the Invicta Ground terracing located in the gardens of Hector Street's terraced housing we moved on to take a look at the location of both the Sportsman and Manor Grounds, the latter being our longest-serving home before moving north of the river.
By the time we reached where it all began way back in 1886, the famous Dial Square located in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, the heavens had opened and were to do just that dozens of times for the remainder of the walk. It certainly made the whole affair more of an endurance test than enjoyable and for want of a better phrase, put a bit of a dampener on things.
Before the rains came at The Star Inn Plumstead!
Where it all began, Dial Square, The Royal Arsenal
14 miles on, soaked through to the skin!
Some 14-odd miles later we reached The Angel Islington and spirits were raised considerably when Perry Groves made a brief appearance and Bob Wilson joined us for the final stage of the walk. And the rains still fell down!
Aching, wet through and freezing cold we took in our two most recent grounds and looked forward to the game ahead in hope that at least that would warm us all up a bit!
With the way the whole day had gone so far we really should have known better! The current league leaders came, were clinical, the big decisions went their way and they left with the three points, it's as simple as that.
Until they scored we had definitely been the better side but we also have to be honest and admit our visitors defended well and were rarely troubled to any large extent.
Sometimes I feel we perhaps suffer due to our incessant desire to attack, entertain and score goals. For me it seemed every time we attacked with width our opponents had five or six players in the box, just in front of the goalkeeper. Inevitably, trying to break down that degree of defensive numbers is extremely difficult, especially against the very top teams.
For both of their goals however, when the ball came from wide we only had a couple of defenders in that same kind of position. As I mentioned above, with our flair and great longing to attack, sometimes we suffer by not defending in numbers as a team and in my opinion Sunday was a perfect example.
Of course, if our goal early in the second half had been allowed as in the vast majority of cases it would have been, the outcome just might have been different but overall it just wasn't our day.
A trip to a Manchester City outfit boasting nine multi-million pound buys in their starting XI and yet three more warming the bench is probably not the best game to be facing to try and bounce back, especially having made nine changes from Sunday and one of those playing out of his favoured position!
With an inevitable cold lurking under my skin, the long trip north didn't look particularly inspiring but to see how our developing talent could fare up against an almost gratuitous array of expensive superstars was an opportunity I didn't want to miss.
For much of the first half we held our own, in fact as the half wore on we looked the stronger side and to go in level at the break was no less than we deserved.
In the league game back in September I remember commenting that when you buy some of the game's most talented individuals there is always the chance they will produce something of high quality and unfortunately for us we saw it again last night. With the game at its most even it took a couple of such moments to take the tie away from us.
Another extremely beneficial Carling Cup campaign comes to a close with a similar outcome to many other years. Eventually, in the last two, four or eight as has been the case almost every season, if you meet one of this league's top sides and they choose to put out their strongest possible XI, it has proved one step too far if of course another hugely important lesson in our younger players' continued development.
We all need to pick ourselves up quickly as we take on a Stoke side enjoying a start to their second top-flight season that mirrors the success of their first.
Finally a massive thanks to all those who took part in our walk on Sunday and to each and every one of you who donated to the cause. When we see the totals involved it makes the drenching seem worthwhile!
Come on you mighty Gooners!
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The Matapihi owner of an adult pitbull has been charged after police say his dog attacked and bit his 3-year-old nephew on the face, resulting in a 6cm gash under the boy's right eye.
Arron James Kohu, 41, who briefly appeared in the Tauranga Community Magistrates' Court on Thursday, faced a charge of being the owner of a dog which causes injury.
It is a charge which attracts a maximum sentence of three years' jail.
Police say the dog, which was tied up on a long chain, attacked the boy at Kohu's Waikari Rd address on March 27 while the toddler was playing near the animal on the back lawn.
The Hastings toddler, who was visiting the property at the time, was treated at Tauranga Hospital.
The animal was seized and remains in the dog pound pending the outcome of the court case.
Kohu sought interim name suppression until his next court appearance on the basis that publication of his name and details of the case would have a serious impact on his sick mother, who lived with him.
Police opposed the application.
Community Magistrate Sherida Cooper declined the request.
She said any upset and embarrassment would be a natural consequence of any criminal court appearance.
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The Tripolar Chessboard, Putting Iran in Great Power Context
From Tomdispatch today, Michael Klare's "The Tripolar Chessboard, Putting Iran in Great Power Context" http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=92161
For months, the American press and policy-making elite have portrayed the nuclear crisis with Iran as a two-sided struggle between Washington and Tehran, with the European powers as well as Russia and China playing only supporting roles. Energy and geopolitical expert Michael Klare suggests in his latest piece for Tomdispatch that our media focus is far too narrow. "An informed reading of recent international diplomacy surrounding the Iranian crisis suggests," he writes, "that another equally fierce -- and undoubtedly more important -- struggle is also taking place: a tripolar contest between the United States, Russia, and China for domination of the greater Persian Gulf/Caspian Sea region and its mammoth energy reserves."
Right Against War with Iran
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Right Against War with Iran
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Chuck Pena (Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy):
"Refocusing the War on Terrorism"
Ivan Eland (Independent Institute)
"The United States Might Have to Accept a Nuclear Iran."
Phil Giraldi (former CIA officer, contributing editor, The American Conservative):
"Iran: Same Bad Intelligence, Same Catastrophic Results"
Pentagon confirms Iranian directorate as officials raise new concerns about war
By Larisa Alexandrovna, http://www.rawstory.com
Current military and former intelligence officials remain concerned about a US-led strike on Iran, despite the recent appearance of diplomacy on the part of the US State Department and the offer of an incentives package to Iran.
Officials point to new developments, such as a recent meeting in Rome between an Iranian arms dealer and controversial neoconservative Michael Ledeen and the March creation of the Iranian directorate inside the Pentagon, as examples of recent events similar to the lead up with war in Iraq.
Iran offers settlement as Bush prepares nukes
By the War and Law League
I. Iran renounces bomb and offers nuclear concessions, but Bush keeps threat of atomic attack 'on the table'
A representative of Iran's supreme leader has renounced nuclear weapons and offered extensive concessions in a document ignored by Bush and his subordinates, who seem hellbent to carry out war plans against Iran.
Will the White House Moron Bring On Armageddon?
By Paul Craig Roberts
John Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be confirmed as America's ambassador to the UN by even the compliant and corrupt U.S. Senate, got the job as a recess appointment. He is using the platform to push America into war with Iran.
Bolton told the Financial Times (June 9) that the Bush Regime has no intention of reaching an agreement with Iran. Time is running out for diplomacy, Bolton told the Financial Times. Iran has a short time remaining in which it can give up its right under the nonproliferation treaty to enrich uranium for nuclear energy or be attacked. Bolton said that U.S. security guarantees for Iran "were not on the table."
Bush Iran Strategy Suffers Major Diplomatic Defeat
By Gareth Porter
Despite claims that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has
regained the diplomatic initiative from Iran with a conditional offer
to join multilateral talks with Tehran, the real story behind the
policy shift is that the administration has suffered a decisive defeat
of its effort to get international sanctions for possible military
82nd Airborne Going to Iran?
Received from a soldier's mother-in-law:
"My son-in-law has had orders for a 7/27 deployment to Iraq for several months. He's with the 82nd airborne at Ft. Bragg. Today his orders for Iraq are "on hold" for 2 - 12 months and he was advised his Apache helicopter units are being held now for deployment to IRAN....Just wanted to alert you to this startling announcement that won't be seen on any evening news show."
Nonaligned Nations Prepare to Back Iran
By Associated Press
Vienna, Austria - Western countries at a 35-nation U.N. meeting pushed Tuesday for consensus on the need for Iran to freeze uranium enrichment, but diplomats said that most nonaligned countries were preparing to endorse Tehran's right to continue the work.
The diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were divulging confidential information, said the 16 International Atomic Energy Agency board members from the Nonaligned Movement were likely to issue a joint statement at odds with Western efforts on enrichment.
The Other Cheney Behind the Scenes
By Robert Dreyfuss, The American Prospect
At the very heart of U.S. Middle East policy, from the war in Iraq to pressure for regime change in Iran and Syria to the spread of free-market democracy in the region, sits the 39-year-old daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney, appointed to her post in February 2005, has a tongue-twisting title: principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs and coordinator for broader Middle East and North Africa initiatives. By all accounts, it is an enormously powerful post, and one for which she is uniquely unqualified.
Iranians and Americans Say No to War
How to dismantle an atomic crisis
Seymour Hersh writes an article in the New Yorker. President George W. Bush makes a statement to the press in Washington. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issues a letter from Tehran. But there is something missing from this debate: the voices of the people with the most to lose.
This is a campaign to bring the voices of Iranians and Americans into a discussion that is being dominated by extremists on both sides and bringing us closer to the unthinkable: nuclear war. Our leaders continue to rattle their sabers and spread fear, but we're ready to talk, and if they won't take that first step, we will take it for them. We've had enough. Enough posturing. Enough threats. Enough fear.
Idaho activists want test at Nevada nuke site canceled
EMMETT, Idaho --A group of Idahoans who attribute their health problems to radioactive fallout from open-air nuclear tests in Nevada rallied to demand medical compensation and a stop to a massive non-nuclear explosion that is currently on hold.
About 80 Idaho downwinders gathered Sunday, including many who said they had lost family members to cancer caused by exposure to radiation from the fallout and some who said they were fighting cancer themselves.
Reid Presses to Keep Administration Honest on Iran
Reid Presses to Keep Administration Honest on Iran, Unveils Intelligence Oversight Legislation at YearlyKos Convention
LAS VEGAS, June 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid today delivered the keynote address at the YearlyKos Convention in Las Vegas, announcing a new initiative to ensure the Bush Administration speaks honestly and accurately to the American people about the challenge Iran poses. With the Bush administration stepping up its public and private diplomacy with Iran, Reid announced that Democrats would take new steps to hold senior Bush administration officials accountable for their statements on Iran, just like they have fought to hold them accountable for their misleading statements about the Iraq war.
How to slow the spread of the bomb
New pressures from the Third World are straining non-proliferation efforts.
By Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com
WASHINGTON - The world may be teetering on the edge of a worrisome new phase in the sixty-year-old age of atomic weapons.
North Korea now has the bomb, probably. Iran may seek nuclear devices of its own. India's stockpile of weapons-grade fissile material could soon grow larger - thanks to a controversial new treaty with the US.
Bush's Atomic Two-Step
By Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung, www.tompaine.com
Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung are senior research associates at the World Policy Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center.
The game of nuclear diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran continues, with the ball squarely in the Iran's court. Last week, the United States abruptly shifted tactics and began to engage directly with European-led negotiation efforts aimed at convincing Iran to limit or end its nuclear activity. This week U.S. and European officials revealed that the U.S. has even offered Iran nuclear technology. In what is being viewed as an upset for administration hawks, the U.S. promised that Iran will be allowed to continue its enrichment program, as long as it agrees to first suspend all activity, so that it can "prove"—presumably through IAEA inspections—that its intentions are entirely civilian.
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Sankichi Toge: Hibakusha (A-bomb survivor)
Sankichi Toge was born in Japan in 1917. He started writing poems at the age of eighteen. He was twenty-four when the A-bomb was dropped. He died at age thirty-six, a victim of leukemia resulting from the A-bomb. His first hand experience of the bomb, his passion for peace and his realistic insight into the event made him the leading Hiroshima poet in Japan.
Just in time for the 2006 Election – Bush Warms Up for a War with Iran
By U.S. Labor Against the War
In the face of mounting international isolation, eroding popular support and growing discontent even within the U.S. political and corporate elites, the Bush Administration has put the nation and the world on a collision course with Iran. This new diversionary effort to manufacture a crisis could well lead to another act of military aggression that will needlessly sacrifice thousands more innocent civilian lives in Iran, result in hundreds or thousands of additional deaths among U.S. military forces, and raises the risk of escalating into a war that could spread across the Middle East and beyond to a confrontation with Russia, China and other major powers.
AP: U.S. to give Iran nuclear technology
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — In a major concession, the United States is prepared to provide Iran with some nuclear technology if it stops enriching uranium, diplomats said Tuesday.
The offer was part of a package of incentives presented to Tehran Tuesday by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, said the diplomats, who were familiar with the proposals.
UFPJ Talking Points 41
By Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies
** The Bush administration's "offer" to join direct talks with Iran reflects Washington's international isolation on the Iran issue; the offer itself is simultaneously very significant and entirely fake.
** The U.S. is still trying to ratchet up international pressure against Iran - proposing an "antimissile shield" for Europe, still threatening a return to the UN Security Council and calling for a "coalition" to impose economic sanctions - but the split between the U.S. and Europe is rising, and the Bush administration looks increasingly desperate.
If Iran is ready to talk, the US must do so unconditionally
It is absurd to demand that Tehran should have made concessions before sitting down with the Americans
By Jonathan Steele, The Guardian
It is 50 years since the greatest misquotation of the cold war. At a Kremlin reception for western ambassadors in 1956, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced: "We will bury you." Those four words were seized on by American hawks as proof of aggressive Soviet intent.
Tribal leaders lead protest -- Nevada Test Site's `Divine Strake'
By SCOTT SONNER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Tribal leaders were among about 50 protesters who rallied Saturday against an experiment at the Nevada Test Site they fear will produce a massive explosion that will spread radioactivity across the West.
The protest is aimed at the federal government's proposed "Divine Strake" project, the detonation of 700 tons of explosives in an experiment designed to study ground motion and shock waves set off by bombs.
Worlds apart: from Washington to the Nevada Test Site gates
By Andrew Lichterman via DisarmamentActivist.org
Sunday, I was at the Nevada Test Site, speaking at a demonstration against Divine Strake, a high explosive test that will detonate 700 tons of high explosive to simulate the effects of a low-yield nuclear explosion. One of the main points of my talk there was that mainstream debate about U.S. weapons programs remains largely confined to how best to pursue military dominance in service of what really is a global empire. Whether either empire or the use of overwhelming violence to sustain it are acceptable remains well outside the realm of "reasonable" discussion.
Doing the math in Iran
By Ed Kociela, http://www.thespectrum.com
The talking heads on the news channels seemed stunned at the announcement that the United States has agreed to meet, face-to-face, with Iran over its nuclear program if it first agrees to put its development programs on the shelf.
What happened, quite simply, is somebody walked into the Oval Office, tapped the president on the shoulder and offered him the simple math: one plus zero equals a coalition of one.
Blix Says US Impedes Efforts to Curb A-Arms
By Warren Hoge, New York Times
United Nations - Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector, said today that American unwillingness to cooperate in international arms agreements was undermining the effectiveness of efforts to curb nuclear weapons.
Saying it was essential that Washington act to end the stagnation of arms limitation, Mr. Blix said: "If it takes the lead, the world is likely to follow. If it does not take the lead, there could be more nuclear tests and new nuclear arms races."
Sham US Proposal to Iran Evokes Memories of Past Similar Ones
By Stephen Lendman
It may be a new month, but it's the same old Wall Street Journal trumpeting the latest US gambit designed to hide its real intentions toward Iran. Again it was in a front page feature story on June 1 headlined: "In Shift, U.S. Offers to Talk to Iran, Aiming to Bolster Allies' Cohesion." The WSJ is never up to explaining the real motive behind the latest ploy and instead falsely claims it's "a nod to European allies' desire to offer carrots as well as sticks to steer Iran away from its efforts to produce weapons-grade uranium." So to achieve that supposed end, the US has now said it will join with the European-led "negotiations" currently ongoing and actually talk to the Iranians. One has to be impressed with such professed generosity, which, in fact, is just more barely disguised US audacity with a heavy dose of mendacity.
Ensure bomb delay sticks
The Spectrum, UT
When trust has been broken, restoring it can be an astronomical feat as Southern Utah residents and the federal Defense Threat Reduction Agency have jointly discovered.
Anti-nuclear activists, Downwinders, the Winnemucca Indian Colony and Utah and Nevada congressional lawmakers diligently pressed the government to address health and safety concerns surrounding the detonation of the non-nuclear, 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb called Divine Strake.
Spinning on the 'axis of evil'
By Dilip Hiro
George Bush described Washington's decision to join the European Union troika - Britain, France and Germany - in its talks with Iran on the nuclear issue provided Tehran suspended its enrichment and reprocessing activities, as "robust diplomacy".
In reality Bush's move is more an example of spin rather than a grand diplomatic gesture.
For over a year the US has been actively involved in the EU Iran talks. It was at Washington's insistence that the EU troika reneged on its promise to include supply of a light water civilian nuclear power plant to Tehran in the package that it offered Iran last August. The Iranians were so angered by the reneging on this issue they concluded that the Europeans were negotiating in bad faith.
Paradise lost holds a political lesson
The Guardian, Letters
John Pilger notes that Diego Garcia is likely to be involved in any US attack on Iran (Out of Eden, G2, May 29). The point is worth expanding.
The US bases on Diego Garcia and in Fairford, Gloucestershire, are two of only four bases worldwide that possess the specialised servicing equipment needed by the B2 bombers that would play a key role in any such attack. The infamous July 2002 "Downing Street memo" concerning US war plans for Iraq noted that the US "saw basing in Diego Garcia" as "critical". And this March, B2 bombers were spotted at Fairford in what was likely an exercise to familiarise crews with the details of combat operations from a new base.
6 world powers agree on Iran incentives
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria - Six world powers agreed Thursday on a "significant" package of incentives to convince Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Becket said.
"I am pleased to say we have agreed (on) a set of far-reaching proposals," she said. "We believe they offer Iran the chance to reach a negotiated agreement based on cooperation."
Barbara Lee Introduces Resolution of Inquiry on Iran
Cosponsors: Conyers, Baldwin, McGovern, and Payne
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
Requesting the President and directing the Secretary of State to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in their possession relating to strategies and plans either designed to cause regime change in or for the use of military force against Iran.


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Anyone who has ever seen "Jaws" has worried at least once about the potential of a shark attack while swimming in open waters. The truth is that these infamous animals only kill 12 people per year. Guess how many sharks are killed by humans per hour?


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Remember this question of Pelosi during the ObamaCare debate which was asked by many of those who opposed the bill.
Well a Florida judge has now answered that question and it is a resounding answer.
From Insurance Journal in an article titled Federal Judge in Florida Rules Federal Healthcare Law Must Be Voided
"..."Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire act must be declared void. This has been a difficult decision to reach, and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications," Vinson wrote.
He was referring to a key provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and sided with governors and attorneys general from 26 U.S. states, almost all of whom are Republicans, in declaring it unconstitutional. The issue will likely end up at the U.S. Supreme Court..."
Here is link to the actual 78 page decision.
A Virginia judge in December ruled the individual mandate as unconstitutional but not the whole health care bill. See Breaking: Virginia Judge ruled part of ObamaCare unconstitutional. Also see Judge stands up for "We the people..." against our Congress over ObamaCare and check out his words in the decision to allow the repeal to go further.
For more on why the individual mandate is key in ObamaCare check out Watch Tim Scott's first debate over health care repeal legislation. If the individual mandate doesn't pass this changes the debate on the deficit and debt and CBO score and more.
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Christian Relief Group Returns to WashingtonJanuary 8, 2014
Members of the FCFI offer a brief prayer before beginning their work helping to clear the debris in Washington. Photo by Tim Alexander.
LEXINGTON, Ill. – A central Illinois Christian relief organization that has responded to natural disasters in the Gulf Coast and the Philippines is focusing its mission of charity closer to home, helping victims of tornado-ravaged Washington to clear their properties of wreckage as they prepare to rebuild their homes and lives.
Dennis Schlagel, executive director of Lexington, Illinois-based Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International (FCFI), said though the group has already cleared wreckage from 75 properties, much work remains before all of the 1,082 structures destroyed by the November 17, 2013 EF-4 tornado in Washington are cleared away.
In the early, chaotic days following the tornado, access to Washington was greatly restricted. FCFI volunteers spent most of the first few days helping salvage items from the wreckage of board member and farmer Joe Bachman of Roanoke, among others. Their relief trailer was located six miles north of Roanoke at the farm of Tom Fitschen.
Returning in January, their plan is to bring reinforcements and stay until the job is completed.
Schlagel said, "It's a great tradition in agriculture (to come to the aid of others) and a profound and biblical way to live. The Golden Rule is to love thy neighbor as thyself."


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Proposed power plant draws ire of Montana Ave. residents
EL PASO, Texas - The El Paso County Commissioners court hearing was unusually packed on Monday morning.
More than 50 people who reside in east El Paso County gathered to ask County Commissioners to get involved with their fight against a proposed power plant in Montana. The homeowners came with small stars reading "Say no," attached to necklaces, each pleading that Commissioners join their side before 15 people spoke to their representatives.
El Paso Electric is looking to build a natural gas power plant capable of powering 80,000 homes. The plan also calls for the ability to expand later on if the region's energy needs change.
According to a report from the El Paso Electric, natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel available citing U.S. Energy Information Administration numbers showing dramatically lower levels of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury compared to oil and coal power plants.
The chief concern with resident who gathered appeared to be how close the plant would be to their homes. The plant, planned to be built on Montana Avenue near Flager Street.
Commissioners spent more than 30 minutes in executive session near the beginning of Monday's meeting. Afterwards an assistant county attorney Erich Morales spoke publicly telling Commissioners that the county had little footing to get involved.
Morales told Commissioners their only option would be to get involved as an effected party and take legal action against the ambient air permit that sits before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). However, he told the County he didn't believe they had much standing to call themselves an effected party, and if they did questioned whether there would be much of a fight.
Moments later County Judge Veronica Escobar summed up the words of the county's lawyer saying, "We (the county) really have no standing," before allowing residents to come forward to speak during public comment.
Despite that news, east El Paso residents approached the dais during public comments person after person pleading the county to change their minds and get involved.
One man, Rafael Carrasco, told Commissioners he and his wife had recently built a home in the area. Carrasco pointed to his children in the audience, a young boy and girl, and questioned what the future of his children would be.
"How can I trust a company that says one thing, but their integrity is another," asked Carrasco pointing to a report from the New Mexico Environmental Department claiming that El Paso Electric had previously declined to report violations. Carrasco, and several other residents, told Commissioners that report showed 650 violations between 2001-2006.
As more people began to question why the County wouldn't get involved, citing the information raised by Morales and Judge Escobar prior to allowing them speak, the Judge stopped speakers to explain the County's position, telling them questions to whether the City of El Paso would handle it differently were correct.
"You mentioned if this happened in the city of El Paso it would be a different story," said Escobar. "That is absolutely 100 percent correct."
Escobar told the residents that the county has continually fought for more powers, similar to that of municipalities, for several decades.
"We cannot do anything more, and we are mandated by the state to do certain things. For the last two decades your county government has been asking our state government to allow us more authority so we can have powers similar to the city of El Paso."
Commissioners Carlos Leon and Vince Perez told residents they understood their concerns and hoped to keep an open dialogue. However, the County closed the topic without a vote because there is nothing in their power they can do according to Commissioners, and their attorneys.
A lawyer working with the residents decried the decision, telling ABC-7 that counties in Texas can get involved with similar cases on the basis of protecting the public health, or their tax base. She cited information about Goliad county getting involved with a TCEQ permitting process for a uranium mine.
Commissioner Perez told the court he believed the county could get involved, but that it would be to the detriment of the county. Perez said it would be a costly endeavour that he couldn't burden the county with, but said he intended on sending a letter to the TCEQ showing his opposition to the proposed power plant.
"I don't think it would change the end result in the outcome of this case," said Perez.
Marybeth G. Stevens, a public relations worker with El Paso Electric, said the company would continue to educate the public on the issues brought up in Commissioners court. She said a previous offer stands that anyone interested in touring their Rio Grande power plant location can do so through her office. Stevens said a similar unit has been built at that location, and that residents can see it first-hand. According to Stevens, no residents have taken her up on that offer since she first made it in April.


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Guide to Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery
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Many women of childbearing age who are obese want to undergo bariatric surgery to lose the excess weight. However, there is still a lot of controversy and debate about whether it is safe to get pregnant after undergoing weight loss surgery. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published several guidelines about bariatric surgery and pregnancy, and studies show that some women may experience an increase in fertility after surgery, and that bariatric surgery can have some negative maternal and fetal effects. (Source: Guideline.gov)
Here's what you need to know about pregnancy after bariatric surgery:
Getting Pregnant After Bariatric Surgery
Many women who are obese need to undergo bariatric surgery for health reasons. Some morbidly obese women are declared infertile, and may be able to improve their chances of getting pregnant by losing the excess weight. Obese women who do get pregnant often experience severe complications throughout their pregnancy, including hypertension, gestational diabetes, fetal distress and preeclampsia. Some of these complications can be prevented when the woman loses weight through bariatric procedures and has recovered completely from the surgery.
In most cases, women who undergo bariatric surgery must wait at least 18 to 24 months to get pregnant. This is especially important for women who have undergone gastric bypass surgery or the duodenal switch procedure, because these procedures cause very rapid weight loss and it can take some time for the body to adjust to the new weight. Bariatric patients also need to make sure that they are getting the nutrition they need to maintain a healthy weight.
Many patients struggle with meeting their nutritional requirements after bariatric surgery because they have to severely restrict the amount of food they eat at any given meal. Women who have nutritional deficiencies after surgery must have these addressed before they can consider getting pregnant.
Bariatric Surgery Adjustments During Pregnancy
Women who do get pregnant after undergoing gastric banding surgery will need to visit their bariatric surgeon regularly to have the band adjusted. The band can be deflated completely for a few months of the pregnancy, allowing the expectant mother to eat whatever she needs to during her term. Deflating the band can also increase the absorption of vital nutrients and supplements, including prenatal vitamins.
Patient who have undergone gastric bypass surgery must still work hard to maintain a healthy weight and avoid excessive weight gain during pregnancy. Losing weight while pregnant is not safe, and some patients can benefit from meeting with a registered dietitian and personal trainer throughout their term so that they are strong enough to carry the child to term. Regular exercise and a healthy diet after gastric bypass surgery will help the expectant mom maintain a healthy weight throughout her pregnancy, and can also lower the risk of complications.
If you want to get pregnant after undergoing bariatric surgery or are thinking about a weight loss procedure during your childbearing years, set up a consultation with a bariatric surgeon in your area.


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Fisiologia da Voz
Técnica Vocal
Fisiologia da Voz
Funcionamento do diafragma
Músculos internos
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Beef Tenderloin Steaks with Red Wine-Cognac Sauce
Beef Tenderloin Steaks with Red Wine-Cognac Sauce
Total Recipe Time: 20-25 minutes
Makes 2 servings
- 2 beef Tenderloin Steaks, cut 3/4 inch thick (about 4 ounces each)
- 1 teaspoon coarse grind black pepper
- 1/2 cup Pinot Noir or other dry red wine
- 3 tablespoons cognac or brandy
- 2 tablespoons reduced sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons whipping cream
- 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
- Chopped fresh parsley (optional)
- Press pepper evenly onto beef steaks. Heat 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot. Place steaks in skillet; cook 7 to 10 minutes for medium rare (145°F) to medium (160°F) doneness, turning occasionally. Remove to platter; keep warm.
- Add wine, cognac and soy sauce to skillet; bring to a boil. Cook 2 to 3 minutes or until reduced to about 1/4 cup. Whisk in cream and brown sugar; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer 1 to 2 minutes or until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally. (Sauce will turn a rich chocolate-brown color.)
- Remove from heat. Add butter; stir until melted. Spoon sauce over steaks. Garnish with parsley, if desired.
Cook's Tip: To cook in 10-inch nonstick skillet, increase cooking time for wine, cognac and soy sauce mixture to 5 to 6 minutes. Whisk in cream and brown sugar and proceed as above, increasing the simmer time to 2 to 3 minutes.
Nutrition information per serving: 384 calories; 18 g fat (10 g saturated fat; 6 g monounsaturated fat); 103 mg cholesterol; 594 mg sodium; 4 g carbohydrate; 0.4 g fiber; 26 g protein; 7.7 mg niacin; 0.6 mg vitamin B6; 4.5 mcg vitamin B12; 2.3 mg iron; 28.9 mcg selenium; 4.7 mg zinc.This recipe is an excellent source of protein, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, selenium and zinc; and a good source of iron.
Beef Filets with Ancient Grain & Kale Salad
Total Recipe Time: 35 to 40 minutes
Makes 2 servings
- 2 beef Tenderloin Steaks, cut 1 inch thick (about 6 ounces each)
- 1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon cracked black pepper, dividedSalt
- 3 cloves garlic, minced, divided
- 1 cup reduced-sodium beef broth
- 1/2 cup pearlized farro
- 1 cup thinly sliced kale
- 1/4 cup dried sweetened cranberries or cherries
- 2 tablespoons sliced almonds
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- Combine 1 clove garlic and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; press evenly onto beef steaks.
- Combine beef broth, farro, remaining 2 cloves garlic and remaining 1/8 teaspoon pepper in small saucepan. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer 15 to 20 minutes or until most broth has been absorbed. Remove from heat. Stir in kale and cranberries. Cover; let stand 5 minutes. Stir in almonds and lemon juice. Season with salt, as desired.
- Meanwhile, place steaks on rack in broiler pan so surface of steaks is 2 to 3 inches from heat. Broil 13 to 16 minutes for medium rare (145°F) to medium (160°F) doneness, turning once.
- Season steaks with salt. Serve with farro mixture.
Cook's Tip: Quick (pearled) barley or long-grain brown rice may be substituted for farro. Cook according to package directions using 1/2 cup preferred grain and 1 cup reduced-sodium beef broth. Stir in kale and cranberries. Cover; let stand 5 minutes. Stir in almonds and lemon juice. Season with salt, as desired.
Nutrition information per serving: 550 calories; 14 g fat (4 g saturated fat; 6 g monounsaturated fat); 110 mg cholesterol; 682 mg sodium; 59 g carbohydrate; 10 g fiber; 47 g protein; 15.1 mg niacin; 1.1 mg vitamin B6; 2.0 mcg vitamin B12; 4.5 mg iron; 62.1 mcg selenium; 8.2 mg zinc; 161.8 mg choline.This recipe is an excellent source of fiber, protein, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, iron, selenium, zinc and choline.
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A giant Lego man has washed ashore on a Florida beach.
Discovered by a man taking a morning walk on the beach, the eight-foot-tall, 50 kilogram fiberglass Lego man wears a t-shirt that bears the cryptic message "No Real Than You Are" on its front and "Ego Leonard" on the back.
Originally thought to have been a viral marketing stunt from Legoland, a Dutch artist is believed to be behind the giant figurine - though whether Ego Leonard is the artist or the Lego man's name, no one is sure.
Believe it or not, he's not the first of his kind, either - other Lego figurines washed up on beaches in Holland and England in 2007 and 2008.


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'"Those are big shoes to fill. I was pretty hated," he said. "Hopefully he's not [as hated]. As his father, I hope he doesn't get to that level but he likes to play as that instigator and [be an] in-your-face kind of player."'
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Med Ed Report briefs
ScopeMedical, a UK-based medical communications company, has opened a US outpost in Princeton, NJ. The 15-year-old company, which boasts a staff of 55, is led by CEO Jeremy Williams, who said the firm was expanding to the US in response to client demand.
Vermont's harsh law regarding gifts to physicians and other financial relationships between healthcare professionals and drug companies takes effect this month. The law allows for honoraria to CME speakers, but with many strings attached.


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Wednesday, April 9th 2014 at 3:30 pm
Controversy continues to rage over the artificial sweetener aspartame. Since it was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1981, aspartame has made its way into more than 6,000 food items.
The FDA claims aspartame is safe but has set an acceptable daily intake of no more than 50 mg per kilogram of body weight. In other words, an adult weighing 165 pounds should consume no more than 3,750 mg of aspartame a day. A can of diet soda typically contains about 180 mg of the chemical. That means the FDA's "safe" limit equates to about 21 cans of diet soda per day.
But is any level of aspartame really safe?
For decades researchers have claimed aspartame is responsible for headache, memory loss, mood changes, and depression. Consumer complaints back them up. Over 75% of adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA concern aspartame. Reported problems include headaches, migraines, vision problems, tinnitus, depression, joint pain, insomnia, heart palpitations, and muscle spasms.
Recently researchers from the University of North Dakota wanted to test the safe limits of aspartame over a short period of time. They found that at just one half of the FDA's "safe" acceptable daily intake, aspartame caused serious neurobehavioral changes including cognitive impairment, irritable moods, and depression.[i]
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Dayanan Business Consulting is managed by Gemma Dayanan who has years of experience in expediting red tape and bureaucracy.
Gemma is assisted by:
– David Elefant a 15 year Philippines business veteran. David's experience ranges from telecommunications to construction supplies.
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Masters in Real Estate, Cornell University
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