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Orange business customers can now get their hands on the HTC Touch 3G. With its excellent multimedia functions it would appear that the operator is gearing towards that much talked about 'prosumer' market. Available in a matt black finish, the HTC Touch 3G is controlled via the 2.8-inch touch-screen, while all your internet desires are catered for with both Wi-Fi and HSDPA onboard with the additional bonus of a 3.2-megapixel camera. Orange is quick to promote the fact that the HTC Touch 3G can handle a 30GB microSD card (though at present Sandisk for example are currently only selling 16GB versions), which will provide plenty of storage for music, videos and photos.
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Stacey had been suffering from bad headaches for a number of weeks when her parents decided to take her to see the doctor. The family's GP examined Stacey and could find no obvious issues. However, he recommended that Stacey should receive further diagnostics from a specialist.
To avoid having to wait, Stacey's parents decided to have the diagnostics conducted privately. They called HCA's Chelsea Outpatient Centre on the King's Road, which was easily accessible for the family, and were immediately given a convenient appointment. Stacey's parents knew that the non-clinical feel of the centre and avoiding a "hospital" visit would help to reduce Stacey's anxiety.
Once at the centre, Stacey met with a specialist for a consultation and examination. She had a number of investigations, including a CT scan on the centre's cutting edge CT-MRI scanner. It was then that Stacey and her family were met with some terrible news: the CT scan had revealed that Stacey had a brain tumour. Stacey's parents were shocked; they had expected that nothing would be found and that they would be sent home with some pain killers. The specialist advised that time was of the essence and that Stacey should immediately see a neurosurgeon. The family benefitted from private healthcare insurance coverage and so they didn't hesitate to transfer Stacey to The Harley Street Clinic.
Stacey visited The Harley Street Clinic the same day. Upon arrival she had an MRI of her brain and spine to further assess the brain tumour, and met one of the neurosurgeons. With not much time available, Stacey's parents were relieved to find that her surgeon was a leading specialist from one of London's major NHS teaching hospitals.
Following her MRI and consultation, Stacey's case was reviewed by The Harley Street Clinic's specialist paediatric multi-disciplinary team (MDT). This team includes personnel representing all specialties and treatment options (surgical, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc.) drawn from across HCA's network, and reviews the evidence of each case in order to recommend the most appropriate treatment. The MDT concluded that Stacey should have immediate surgery to remove the brain tumour, followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy to wipe out any remaining tumour cells.
The family felt that they were in safe hands and elected to go ahead with the plan laid out by their neurosurgeon following the MDT's meeting. Stacey had surgery to remove the tumour the following day. After surgery she headed into The Harley Street Clinic's specialised paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
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Fantastic news followed: Stacey's post-operative scan confirmed that the tumour had been successfully removed. Stacey was transferred to the care of her sub-specialised paediatric neuro-oncologist to complete her treatment, with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
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Beautiful beach. Many facilities. Well organized gym and activities. You can never get bored. Extremely noisy. Rooms do not have any kind of sound isolation. I could hear everything from the rooms around. Many greek families with lots of noisy children. No chance at all to sleep beyond 7:30 in the morning. Though the buffet was of very good quality you couldn't enjoy any meal due to the noise and the lack of organization. Badly trained staff . It took them ages to clean up the tables.Bar was very expensive. we had to pay 2.80 euro for one littre of water . Ladies working in reservations very rood and non professional. NOT the place for people without children.
It was a beautiful location. The beach had plenty of chairs and umbrellas!
Very nice environment, sandy beach, good cuisine, good sport and cultural programmes. The hotel is mainly visited by family with small children, so it might be noisy for couples who seek a quiet vacation. Elevators are rather small and you have to wait long for them. You have to share dining tables with others (tables with 8 seats).
The price of the table water was unspeakable: 2,80 euro per bottle?? Also the launch and dinning hours should be extended as the predefined range of two hours is not enough
The beach is gorgeous , the pools are inviting and the landscaping/gardens are well taken care of. Also, the food is very good, considering the amount of people they have to cater for. The hotel should reorganise the procedure regarding the food service ! Although the food was very good, you are obligated to share your table with strangers and there should hotel staff serving the food, not self service,as each serving utencil must have been touched hundreds of time by the time you serve yourself.
Everything but the food Food
It is new. The owners are looking after the details of the business. No direct access to sea. You have to exit the hotel to get to the beach.
The staff were always very friendly and very obliging. The hotel was still suffering with teething problems when we went in September mainly due to the thunderstorms we experienced, but this did not affect the quiet and relaxed nature of the holiday. The pool was excellent and cleaned regularly.The food was 5 star quality with plenty of variation (you must try the apple pie). Rooms were very comfortable and stylish. Tsilivi has plenty of bars and traditional restaurants but the bars all have tv screens. which not everybody wants. The restaurant service was very good but the staff need 5 star training. Drinks prices at the bar were expensive. They need to lower them to get more people to use the bar especially during the evening when the bar was so quiet. There was a charge to use the indoor pool!
everything!!!! The hotel is very beautiful, comfortable and nice... The stuff is excellent... And chef is the best!!!!
the service was very good and also the food was perfect.i the location
locaton of the hotel was good.room very nice,and the food was excelent,a great trip.
Service was 110%, Staff 110% it was clean and a very pleasent/new/nice hotel
The only real issue was the awful smell that was coming from the bathroom. The reception staff said they would send maintenance to have a look but no-one actually made an effort to speak to us about it.This was a very big problem and l would not stay again at the hotel because of it.Also, l am in the travel industry and this is a very bad outcome.
Very good hotel in comparison to what is standard in Greece. In fact, it sticks out a bit as a big city hotel in a countryside/beach setting. The staff was mostly very polite and well intentioned. Small details only and probably not worth taking seriously. Associated guest services are a bit too expensive for the setting. I'd also raise that this is not a beach location -- and the beach nearby isn't anywhere near the quality of the hotel so don't expect it to be.
Peaceful and quiet, decent location in resort and convenient for airport. Obviously very new and clean, food acceptable. Certainly not 5 star compared to northen europe, carribean or usa. Not enough pool towels, no wine glasses in restaurant, no red wine at cocktail bar, room toiletries and tea and coffee not checked. Only English tv news channels
I liked the hotel. It was close to the beach and walking distance to everything including the square with all the outdoor bars at night. The room was comfy, had wi-fi, tv, a balcony with a sea view and we really enjoyed our stay. Not that I can comment on. The reception staff were very nice, wasn't too impressed with the bar person...but no big deal.
the hotel was quite and the staff was friendly. bathroom in the room
Management was there to help you 24/7 with anything you need and they were very accomodating. The location of the Hotel was also ideal for exploring the entire Island of Zakynthos.
Friendly staff and nice room design
Clean and nice rooms, polite personnel, close to Zakynthos center there was no parking
The only thing that i liked was the view because we could see the sea, not a spectacular view but not something that you see every day. The bathroom was very bad, the walls had traces of mold making to be a strench of breathing. The room was quite small for a 4 star hotel.
Very professional check-in. Reasonable breakfast with good opening times. Internet access is free (even if notices in rooms need updating). Parking ok (restricted but we did not have issues in Aug). Stairs to access the hotel reception, also one of the rooms was very small. Breakfast could do with full size toaster working for non pre-sliced bread.
The staff is very nice and handfull.the location is great,the breakfast is good no vechtable.the hotel is clean.we will come back. everything is very good.but in breakfest no vechtable.


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Regensburg: Garden Festival in the Princess' Palace of St. Emmeram
Some of you may know, that Justin and I are back in Germany for summer vacation. This is also the reason for the relatively long absence of content creation on JanaCalifornia. However, now I'm back and I have many great stories for you.
Regensburg, my home town, has quite a few interesting things to offer. One of the big tourist draws every summer is the garden festival at the Palace of St. Emmeram which is home to the Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. She still resides there and chances are good you will actually run into her when you take a stroll on her property.
Once you enter the premises, you are surrounded by luscious, green trees.
The vast grounds resemble a magical forest with the castle towering at the end,
transporting you into the glamorous era of royalty.
When you take a stroll through the woods, along the pond situated in the middle of the garden, the anticipation builds as you walk toward the big Romanesque-Gothic building.
During the annual garden festival, various vendors set up their decorated booths all over the garden. Customers can find anything from artwork and garden furniture to fruit syrups and expensive clothing.
Once you get hungry from all the shopping, food booths are there to quench your desires with beer from the Thurn und Taxis brewery and local specialties.
The garden festival is not the only summer festival held at St. Emmeram's Palace. The Princess hosts a music and theater festival "Schlossfestspiele" with many special guests and outstanding performances, which brings more than 30.000 visitors to the castle each year. Elton John is scheduled to perform this year.
Come to St. Emmeram's Palace for a special occasions such as the summer festival or the romantic Christmas market or every day to take a tour of the magnificent chambers. With its well-kept green gardens and the ostentatious building take you back to the royal high times of imperial rulers.
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Giants Lower the Broom, Complete Sweep of Nats
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
When one of the bleakest homestands in franchise history reached its final, decisive moment late last night, the agony again arrived, on time as always. Instead of a bases-loaded eighth-inning hit, the Washington Nationals managed a line-out to right. Instead of a win, the Nationals simply duplicated misery, which is the one thing they do best.
Because of several failures to score late, the Nationals concluded their week at Nationals Park with a 3-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants, the endpoint of a series sweep. Perhaps the Nationals aren't yet the league's worst team -- with a 25-40 record, they remain percentage points atop Colorado -- but they're likely its biggest martyr. Losers in eight of nine games, the Nationals left town in the kind of depleted state that prohibits decent baseball.
"We all need to get better," Aaron Boone said. "We've been pretty decimated, but at the same time -- me, the guys in here -- nobody cares. We've just got to go out there and perform."
This homestand, the Nationals lost almost no matter the circumstance. They lost despite early leads; they lost despite exemplary starting pitching; they even lost despite Barry Zito. They lost last night despite two San Francisco throwing errors, and despite multi-base-runner rallies in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. In the eighth, with the bases loaded and two outs, Felipe López sizzled a Brian Wilson pitch straight to right fielder Randy Winn, who scarcely moved to catch the ball.
In four of the seven games this homestand, the Nationals scored one run or none. Dmitri Young's viral illness, compounded by injuries to five Opening Day starters, compounded by intractable slumps of those replacing them, reduced Washington's lineup to a nine-part definition for frailty.
Ryan Zimmerman spent his idle time holed up in the clubhouse, each afternoon passing as he lounged around in a sleeveless T-shirt. Sometimes, a therapeutic patch -- a Band-Aid-type figure-8 whose purpose confused even Zimmerman -- covered the base of his injured left shoulder. Yes, Zimmerman said: Not playing felt miserable.
Perhaps Zimmerman's injury doubled as the tipping point, a loss that altered the Nationals' trajectory. With their third baseman, they had survived. Without him, they nose-dived. Washington entered last night with the following June totals: a .223 batting average, a .308 slugging percentage, and just two home runs. It was the work not of a struggling offense, but a doomed one.
A few healthy veterans, once they return to the lineup, might at least enable a return to competitiveness. When team president Stan Kasten was asked yesterday why his team, as constituted, was worth watching, he mentioned both the recent past and the near future.
"Except for the last five games, we've been a .500 team for the last 40 games, a quarter of the season," he said. "You can try to figure out how. But it was that depleted talent pool that was doing it. And I think they'll be back to that, and better. Because every day we'll be adding players back in. And we are expecting promotions throughout the rest of the summer. It's clear that we're in a position where there's finally talent on the doorstep."
This homestand also tested Manager Manny Acta's stamina for patience, which at this point has revealed no breaking point. His optimism framed every defeat. After one loss, Acta explained his mind-set thusly, "I just come every day to the ballpark telling myself that today is going to be the day."
"I am patient by nature," he added yesterday. "And I know our ballclub -- it's very tough losing all the games we have lost. But it gives us an opportunity to see these younger guys. I have to be patient with these guys. Do I want to win every single day? Yes, I do. I think everybody knows that. But you need to take it as it comes for now."
Last night, it came in the familiar narrative arc. Pitching created the backbone for a winnable game. But the offense lacked the muscle to make it happen. Tyler Clippard, a 23-year-old acquired in December from the Yankees, made his Nationals debut (and just his seventh major league start). His 4 1/3 innings mixed the promising (six strikeouts) with the troubling -- three runs, and late wildness that demanded his exit.
When Clippard departed a 3-1 game, relief pitchers Brian Sanches, Jesús Colome, Charlie Manning and Luis Ayala held the Giants scoreless.
But a close game only accentuated Washington's shortcomings. In the first, both a hit and a walk were extinguished via failed stolen base attempts. Back-to-back hits in the third set the stage for an Elijah Dukes groundout. In the seventh, a López double and Wily Mo Peña single placed runners on first and third, one out. Boone pinch-hit, and one-hopped a double play to second base.
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Clinton Holds Six-Point Advantage in Tar Heel State In Fla., 45 Percent Support Clinton, 44 Percent for Trump N.C. Senate: Burr, Ross Tied at 48 Percent N.C. Gubernatorial: Cooper Leads McCrory by Six Points Fla. Senate: Rubio Ahead of Murphy by Eight Points
OCT. 29, 2016 – Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by six points in North Carolina, while the two nominees are deadlocked in Florida, according to two new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls in the battleground states.
In North Carolina, Clinton is up two points from last month, holding 47 percent of support among likely voters while Trump follows with 41 percent. Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson has eight percent, and the Green Party's Jill Stein is not on the ballot. In a head-to-head, Clinton maintains a six-point advantage over Trump: 50 percent to 44 percent.
In Florida, 45 percent support Clinton while 44 percent support Trump. Johnson holds five percent, and Stein is at two percent. In an earlier NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll this month, Clinton was ahead by three points in the four-person race with 45 percent compared to Trump's 42 percent. In a head-to-head, Clinton and Trump are tied with 46 percent.
The polls also were taken before FBI Director James Comey announced Friday that his organization learned of the existence of new emails that appear "pertinent" to its previous investigation into Clinton's email practices.
The Senate race in the Tar Heel state remains a dead heat as Republican Sen. Richard Burr and Democratic challenger Deborah Ross both hold 48 percent of support among likely voters. In the state's gubernatorial race, Democratic challenger Roy Cooper leads incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory by six points among likely voters, 51 percent to 45 percent – a one-point increase from earlier this month.
In Florida's Senate race, incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio is ahead of Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy by eight points, 51 percent to 43 percent – a six-point increase from mid-October.
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While bicyclists also own automobiles, some do not, choosing to instead use their bicycles as their means of transportation. Those who do own insured cars may not be aware that their policies also provide some protection to them if they are injured in a bicycle accident while commuting. Cyclists who do not own cars and…Details


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This is one more in a long list of foreign funds that are tapping Indian investors' savings when Indian mutual funds have been unable to sell Indian funds
Deutsche Mutual Fund has announced the launch of DWS Gold and Precious Metal Offshore fund. The investment objective is to generate capital appreciation by investing predominantly in units of DWS Invest Gold & Precious Metals Equities Fund. The scheme would allocate 90-100% of assets in DWS Invest Gold & Precious Metals Equities Fund or other similar overseas mutual fund schemes with medium- to high-risk profile. It would further invest up to 10% of assets in money market instruments with low- to medium- risk profile.
In recent weeks, there has been a rush of foreign funds queuing up to tap Indian savings for foreign products. (Read, 'Another overseas fund from DSP BlackRock, this time it's Chinese'.) DWS is cashing in on the high interest in gold. DSP BlackRock launched DSP Black Rock World Gold fund in August 2007. The fund predominantly invests in units of BlackRock Funds- World Gold Fund. Similarly, AIG launched AIG World Gold fund, in May 2008, which invests in companies engaged in the extraction, processing and marketing of gold through an international fund.
Global funds offer diversification benefits, investing in stocks (biotech, technology, energy, agriculture and mining, etc.) that an Indian investor may not be able to buy through investing in domestic schemes. However, funds that put money in foreign stocks don't necessarily offer diversification. For, markets around the world have been moving in sync over the last five years and non-correlated assets are not easy to find.
As with other kinds of products, foreign funds are not about returns alone. There are risks too. In the case of DWS, there is a risk of concentration in a single volatile sector. The top five holdings of DWS Invest Gold and Precious Metal Equities fund as on 29 April 2011 are Goldcorp, Newcrest Mining, Agnico- Eagle Mines, Newmont Mining and Yamana Gold.
The fund will be benchmarked against S&P BMI Global Gold and Precious Metals index. The scheme will charge a 1% exit load if units are redeemed within 12 months from the date of allotment.
Unfortunately, the S&P BMI Global Gold and Precious Metals index has not performed that well. From 1 May 2006 to 30 April 2011 the Sensex gave an annualised return of 11%, while the S&P BMI Global Index gave an annualised return of 4.01% in the last five years.
Moneylife Foundation urges the PM and others to completely ban MLM companies in India or bring these companies under the regulation of either RBI or SEBI. Moneylife was the first to expose the Speak Asia online survey scam on 8 October 2010
Moneylife Foundation has been writing against multi-level marketing schemes for some time now. Following the exposé by Moneylife on Speak Asia Online Pte Ltd and its multi-level marketing schemes, Moneylife Foundation has sent a representation to prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, finance secretary Sushama Nath and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor D Subbarao urging them to ban all MLM companies and their schemes in the country, or to bring all MLM companies under the regulation of either the RBI or the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), to stop them ensnaring gullible people.
According to Moneylife Foundation trustees, while the investor population in the country has fallen to 80 lakh, Speak Asia has managed to lure nearly 19 lakh people into its get-rich-quick scheme. The number accounts for a sizeable portion of India's investor population as well as internet users.
Speak Asia requires its members or 'panellists' to deposit Rs11,000 (though the rates vary, as we have seen in the countless posts by agents of Speak Asia on various sites) and then conduct surveys for which the company pays Rs500 per panellist per survey. A panellist gets an added commission if he recruits new members. There is no guarantee as to who will return the money if the company collapses.
It claimed to have conducted surveys for companies like ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, Nestle and Bata, but all these institutions have denied their association with Speak Asia. At a press conference held in Mumbai on 16th May, Speak Asia formally apologised for using the names of these companies. But it also refused to name a single client.
Singapore-based Speak Asia was previously known as Haren Technology Pte Ltd and is owned by one Ms Harinder Kaur. The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) of Singapore has given it a non-compliant rating on the ACRA website for not submitting details of its AGM (annual general meeting), annual returns report and other documents.
Haren Technology itself has frequently changed its garb. The company doesn't have a registered address in India. Despite its claims of being the biggest online survey company in Asia, Speak Asia's reach is limited only to India and Bangladesh. It claims to be in existence since 2006, but the website was actually launched only on 21 January 2010.
Speak Asia's tall claims have been busted by Moneylife, and also exposed by The Economic Times, Star News and Aaj Tak. SpeakAsia's panellists have been arrested in Bangladesh. Lot of articles are available online on the fraudulent nature of the company.
Unlike several other countries, MLM schemes are not banned in India. Hence, schemes like City Limousine, Stockguru and GoldQuest could escape with millions. None of the financial watchdogs in India are responsible for monitoring such schemes, so there is every chance that Speak Asia and its clones like Ram Survey and FLC Online can get away after cheating millions of their savings.
Moneylife Foundation hopes that the government recognises the danger such schemes pose and bans them outright, and also put a regulator in charge to monitor such companies and their activities.
Click here to see the representation sent by Moneylife Foundation
The court was hearing a petition filed by NSE seeking directions to the competition watchdog to provide full details and reasons behind the notice which asked as to why penalty should not be imposed on it for allegedly abusing its dominant position
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to give a copy of its order to the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on the basis of which a show-cause notice for penalty was issued to the bourse for allegedly abusing its dominant position, reports PTI.
"The CCI has to furnish the petitioner any order forming the basis of penalty show-cause notice. On principle of natural justice CCI is directed to furnish a copy of order dated 29th April within one week," justice S Muralidhar said.
The court was hearing a petition filed by NSE seeking directions to the competition watchdog to provide full details and reasons behind the notice which asked as to why penalty should not be imposed on it for allegedly abusing its dominant position.
The CCI notice followed its internal investigations after complaint filed by NSE's rival in currency derivative market, Multi Commodities Exchange Stock Exchange (MCX-SX).
The complaint had alleged that NSE substantially reduced transaction fees to eliminate competition and discourage other entities from entering the market.
NSE had moved the high court contending that the notice did not give reasons as to how CCI reached the conclusion of penalty.
After hearing counsels for NSE, CCI and MCX-SX the bench said, "Any material which is going to be used against him (NSE) has to be given to him. It is simple principle of natural justice.
"In arriving to the penalty show-cause notice you had some order. What is the problem? Give NSE a copy of that," the judge said.
CCI's issued the penalty show cause notice after its director general investigation found prima facie that NSE allegedly violated the Competition Act, specifically section 4, which relates to "abuse of dominant position".
CCI had then asked NSE to show cause as to why a penalty should not be imposed on it for unfair trade practices in connection with currency derivatives trading.
It had sent the notice recently to NSE before deciding on the quantum of fine to be imposed on the bourse.
MCX-SX had alleged in its complaint to CCI that NSE used its dominant position and original monopoly in equity, F&O (Future and Options) and WDM (Wholesale Debt Market) markets to protect its position in the currency derivative (CD) market.
Currency futures trading started on the NSE on 29 August 2008, and at the MCX-SX on 7 October 2008.
While MCX-SX is allowed to trade only in currency derivatives, NSE has presence in all major financial trading segments.


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What are the two conditions for a food to be allowed for us to eat?
Halal and delicious
Halal and tayyib
Tayyib and delicious
What does shaitaan order people to do? [Ayah 169]
To say about Allah that which you don't know
Being obedient to Allah SWT is part of being grateful to Him.
A person who is compelled to eat that which is forbidden must eat it with these two conditions________.
Not desiring the haram food
Should not be transgressing
Not eat the haram food in public
When should we not follow our forefathers?
When they say things which are against the deen.
We shouldn't follow them at all.
When we are more educated than them.
The signs in the universe should make us realize that ___________.
Allah is only one
The world is a beautiful place to live in
Creating something is easy
Believers love Allah in all situations.
What will happen to the relationship between those who followed others in disobedience to Allah SWT?
They will try to help each other on the day of judgement.
They will protect them from the punishemnet
Those who were followed will absolve themselves from those who followed them.
What is the main lesson we learn from these ayaat about following others?
Follow only the powerful people who can help you in akhira
Do not follow anyone blindly.
Follow only those from your lineage.
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Perusing the Albion 2017 calendar I received at Christmas I noted that Dale Stephens is February's featured player. I was immediately comforted by this until I noticed the secondary player for February was Elvis Manu.
Is it a sign?
Other than that, there aren't too many questionable placements other than these...
Rohan Ince (March)
Kazenga LuaLua (June)
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I like to laugh (who doesn't?) and have a fairly sarcastic sense of humour ( I tend to spell this word, along with colour, with the -u-, like I'm British) I am an Anglophile, and Francophile, and Czechofile (not even sure that's a word)... basically I love the world.
I have B.A. in Journalism from Ohio State, my current job unfortunately not using that. I am now trying to figure out the next step. I have been taking some classes to get a feel for another career path.
I am the youngest of five and have six nephews and one niece.
I am pretty laid-back and love to relax and watch a movie but also go out. I love Dayton Dragons games in Summer and Festivals in the Fall.
I'm looking for my own personal Mr. Darcy or Noah Calhoun (what woman isn't?) but when the book ends, what I really want is someone who'll make me laugh, give space when needed, enjoy life and be honest, faithful and loyal. Not exactly lofty fairy tale ideals.
Movies: Pride & Prejudice. Rom Coms. Shawshank Redemption. Musicals.
TV: Castle. NCIS. The Americans. Revenge. Once Upon a Time. Glee. Friends. Big Bang Theory. Firefly. Two Broke Girls.
Music: Country. Top 40. Singer/songwriter. Some Christian. I have a guilty obsession with boy band music.
Activities: I love to play soccer. Sadly, last year I tore my acl and had reconstructive surgery. I am not sure if i'll ever feel I can play again or go skiing (which I also enjoy) or ice skating or many other things. But I am getting back into the gym to strengthen my leg up and hope to get back to more athletic pursuits in the future. This is teaching me patience.
Food: I am really into Paleo/Primal. Good natural food. Really trying to be a healthier me.
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You're a dork/nerd/geek, like me.
You aren't looking for a hookup.
You're serious.
You don't mind someone who doesn't have it all together yet.
You've used the word Bazinga or its derivitive bada Bazinga.
You're normal crazy not Norman Bates crazy (or Tom Cruise crazy).
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The Manchester School Administrators and their enabler School Board have again tearfully cried that they just can't attend to the needs of the school children, because they simply don't have enough of your money. This latest flow of tears is now prompted by the refusal of the school administration and its board to fund the return of police officers to Manchester's middle schools. According to the Union Leader, 10/9/06, Mayor Frank Guinta stated, "It's the right thing to do. They need to step up and say they support the safety of our children." The whimpering response from Leslee Stewart (Ward 1,) vice-chairman of the school board was, "We can't afford it." Yet, among many other things, including cell-phone-gate, they could afford to pay excessively high prices for pizza without putting them out for bids as they were required to do. Ironically, once this was discovered, and they were forced to put out bids, they miraculously were able to get lower priced pizzas from one of the suppliers to whom they were paying higher prices. Interestingly, their reaction was to claim that they had just learned something! This concept, new for them, has only been around for several hundred years. There's no telling how much longer it will take for them to learn that they need to follow requirements. Hopefully, they also soon will learn that the educational and well-being needs of Manchester's children are their main purpose for being.
Manchester parents and voters need to realize that the Manchester School Administration and its School Board are completely independent from the Manchester Mayor and Aldermen, except for their funding. This is why they can behave like royalty, and simply cry at budget time that "we need more money, or we'll fire umpteen teachers!" As Mel Brooks said, in one of his roles, "It's GOOD to be king," and this school administration would like it to remain that way. These parents and voters need to know that Manchester school administrative costs are now 40%, or more, of the school budget, where the average in New Hampshire is in the 30s, and some national legislators have called for it to be in the 20s. Finally, parents and voters need to realize that the only way this monolith can be made to emphasize Manchester children's educational and well-being needs, instead of their own, are in voting booths. Doug Kruse (Ward 8,) the chairman of the school board's Finance Committee, has said that adequate money is there through cuts at the central office, and other efficiencies. Parents and voters need to make sure that Doug Kruse has others on the school board who will work with him to effect a school administrative slimming and other efficiencies. You, the Manchester parents and voters, are the only ones who can help him by voting out and replacing those on the school board, as well as any Manchester Aldermen, who simply want you to give more of your money to feed an over-stuffed school administration.


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By North-west correspondent Alex Stevens
Jurgen Klopp has hinted that Joe Allen, Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana will start Liverpool's Europa League showdown against Borussia Dortmund on Thursday.
Allen was hailed by the Merseysiders' manager for producing a "brilliant" display in Sunday's 4-1 win over Stoke and that he was only withdrawn to keep him fresh for the quarter-final second leg against Dortmund.
Assessing his growing options afterwards, Klopp also claimed Coutinho and Lallana, who were substitutes at the weekend, were both in "brilliant shape".
The Liverpool manager is faced with a series of selection dilemmas in midfield and attack for a tie that is superbly poised at 1-1 after the first leg in Germany last Thursday.
Barring any injuries, the goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, back four of Nathaniel Clyne, Dejan Lovren, Mamadou Sakho and Alberto Moreno, and midfielder Emre Can, are virtually certain starters.
Further upfield, there is growing competition for places, with perhaps only Coutinho, the team's outstanding player, and Klopp favourite James Milner confident of starting the second leg.
That leaves the second central midfield berth and two attacking positions, one on the flanks and one to lead the attack, up for grabs.
It is unlikely the manager will go all-out attack against such a high calibre team, which means a straight shoot-out up front between Daniel Sturridge, scorer of the second against Stoke, and in-form Divock Origi, who has three in two matches.
Klopp is then likely to choose between Lallana and fit-again Robert Firmino, with the Englishman the narrow favourite to be selected.
"When I came here we always spoke about players who are not available," Klopp said after the win over Stoke, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo. "Now we have more players to think about changing the line-up, the system, changing everything.
"We played without Coutinho, who is in brilliant shape, we played without Lallana, who is in brilliant shape."
In a clear hint that manager Klopp is planning to start Allen against Dortmund, he was withdrawn after 78 minutes of Sunday's clash with Liverpool 4-1 up.
"He was brilliant," said Klopp afterwards, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo. "There is no other word for this. We only took him off because we need him.
"Joe is not 100 percent fit, but it is not possible because he couldn't train often enough. He was always on the bench because we have needed him.
"He's a really good player. Now, hopefully he stays healthy forever and now he's a really good option."
In other Liverpool news, a Bundesliga expert has said Dortmund fear one man ahead of the second leg.


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London – The top 25 accountancy firm, HW Fisher & Company, has merged with the private client and business-focused London-based chartered accountants Rhodes & Rhodes.
The tie-up will see all Rhodes & Rhodes' partners and staff relocate to HW Fisher's London headquarters later this year.
Rhodes & Rhodes was founded in 1939 and has an extensive client base of both young and established businesses, as well as high net worth individuals and their families.
Its expertise is a natural complement to that of HW Fisher & Company, a firm established in 1933 and which provides a personal, partner-led service to entrepreneurial SMEs, large corporates and third sector organisations as well as private clients.
Michael Davis, managing partner at HW Fisher & Company, explains: "The acquisition of Rhodes & Rhodes is an important milestone in our strategy for sustained growth. It's an innovative and intensely professional firm, with a philosophy and values similar to our own – so this is the right acquisition at the right time.
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Called Duts, the virus attaches itself to files on machines running Microsoft software and infects nearby machines whenever an item such as a business card or game is sent wirelessly. Experts fear the discovery could pave the way for the first mobile phone viruses which they say would be "virtually impossible" to protect against. They admit they are strugglingto track how many copies of the new virus exist. Previously virus writers have targeted desktop computers because of the large number of vulnerable machines.
However, the huge popularity of mobile phones and hand-held computers now make them targets, experts claim. Duts was discovered by anti virus firm F-Secure. Their UK manager Matt Pearsey said: "We could see a far more malicious version of this within weeks, and all hell could break loose.
"We would urge people who have these devices or even mobile phones to back up their details and make sure their machine is protected. We know the hackers who wrote this and their work is usually copied widely."
Mr Pearsey added: "Virus writers are spreading their wings and they are targeting mobile phones. A lot of these phones are basically small computers, so you need to be very careful."
According to Mark Sunner, of computer security company MessageLabs, mobile phone viruses could be almost impossible to stop.
He said: "The problem is that a phone is just too small to run anti virus software. It could be a huge problem and phone networks need to take a serious look at the problem. Desktop virus software looks for more than 90,000 viruses and that just won't fit on a phone. It is inevitable that viruses will appear and the phone networks need to start taking precautions."
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An inquest is usually opened to record the death and issue documents required for burial or cremation. It's then adjourned until any police enquiries or coroner's investigations are completed. The full inquest can then be resumed, so it's not unusual for the inquest to take place sometime after the funeral.
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Chandragupta Maurya
Mauryan Empire
Conquest of Kalinga
Ashoka's Defining Moment
Converted to Buddhism
Lead by moral example instead of military strength
Ashoka's Conversion
official messages on walls, rocks, and tall pillars
Ashoka's Edicts
Unified and conquered India
Ruled 321-297 BCE
Harsh, clear laws
Bureaucratic system
King Ashoka
Chandragupta's grandson
Continued in footsteps
"Ashoka the Fierce"
Small regional kingdoms
Decentralized power
Diverse people groups
Frequent conflict
Commonality = religion/caste system
Post Aryan Society
Bad temper:
Killed 500 gov't workers and had a torture chamber
Buddhist Values
General Welfare
"India's Golden Age"
Gupta Empire
Chandra Gupta I
Emerged in 320 CE
Organized bureaucracy - local control
Reemergence of Hinduism
(500 year gap between Mauryan & Gupta)
Ashoka died in 232 BCE
Financial failure
Mauryan empire disappeared
Indian art - symbolic instead of realistic
Math and science
Gupta Empire = technological advances
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Cast your minds back, readers, into the mists of time. All the way back to 2008, when the credit crunch was at its, er, crunchiest.
To arrest the UK economy's seemingly inexorable slump into oblivion, the great minds at the Bank of England dropped the base rate to 0.5%, and it's remained there ever since. It's made for rather excellent deals on borrowing for loans and mortgages, but lousy returns on savings.
But wait! What's that a-stirring? Well, it's the base rate, and if you believe the hunky supremo at the Bank of England, Mark Carney, it'll be on the move by the end of the year, continuing to head gradually upwards over the next three years, peaking at around 2.55%. To put that in perspective, the base rate has been at an average of 4%, for the past 300 years or so.
To get some further insight, we interrupted Gocompare.com's resident mortgage expert Matt Sanders as he was perusing the Financial Times with his constitutional coffee and croissant to get the score.
"This news means that we may start to see the best of the best rates disappear. So, if you spot a decent fixed rate and you've made sure that it makes sense to switch after you've calculated the penalties and early exit fees, then it might make sense to go for it. Some lenders might start to withdraw their ultra-low fixed deals ahead of any rise, so get hunting," opined Matt.
There could be a further knock-on effects too, with landlords looking to offload buy-to-let properties they've been sitting on.
"For those looking to chance their luck and wait to see what this rate rise does to the buy-to-let-market, they may find some twitchy landlords looking for a quick exit and snap up a bargain," winked Matt as he slathered a dollop of Bonne Maman black cherry jam onto his buttery morning treat.
Will you be dreading a rate rise or welcoming it with open arms? Tell us on Twitter or Facebook
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'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' hitmaker 50 Cent has allegedly filed for bankruptcy.
A semi-pro football player has ended up having to pay a whopping £11,000 to Aviva after he'd made a £2,000 whiplash claim, only to have 'taken to Twitter' to boast about his own performance on the pitch shortly afterwards. "This case highlights how a minor claim can be seen as an open-goal for fraudsters," quipped Dave Lovely, Aviva global claims director.
The Competition and Markets Authority has blasted the 'confusing and misleading' offers of supermarkets.
Money Shot Letters
To whom it may concern,
As an avid enthusiast of both ball sports and weekly columns tenuously linked to financial issues, I was positively ecstatic to see the topic of last week's Money Shot. But imagine my surprise when for once I didn't side with Covered mag: in my humble opinion there wasn't enough swearing in Wimbledon this year.
Shouting expletives and throwing a 'mantrum' as you so put it, is just passion for the game. We don't all want our athletes to behave like robots. Would you prefer them to bellow "gadzooks"? Stop living in the Victorian ages, Covered mag.
And another thing: Boris Becker is strawberry blond, not ginger!
Letitia Honeysuckle, Chudleigh, Devon
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:08:15PM +0200, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > Extending Map is a good idea : only the parameter type will change, so > this will require only a recompilation without code change (provided > that we route get(RESPONSE_OBJECT) to getResponse(), etc). But this also > clearly states that data can be added to the object model using put(). > There has been several posts in the past giving me the impression this > was possible, but not encouraged. Was this impression wrong ? no you're sure the discussion was about using the objectModel as a generic communication space for component exchange between different pipeline components, eg. generator (or action) placing something to the objectModel and transformer taking it out, .... but if I recall correctly giacomo (and I agree) stated that this should not be used at all and proposed to meke the objectModel readOnly to avoid confusion, becuase there are already objects like session and request that are suited for this type of communication so my 0.2 cents are to make new RequestContext readOnly for adding new objects to it and provide some set/getAttribute methods which will wrap the existing set/getAttribute methods for different underlying contexts... > > Sylvain. > -- > Sylvain Wallez > Anyware Technologies - http://www.anyware-tech.com martin -- 2CC0 4AF6 92DA 5CBF 5F09 7BCB 6202 7024 6E06 0223 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Fort Bend Lawsuit Says Government Contractor Tried To Force Worker To Understate Injuries In Afghanistan
It seems like those giant government contractors working in war zones are always getting into trouble. Or at least getting sued.
Over the last year or so, Hair Balls has brought you stories about Halliburton/KBR workers being accused in court of rape, running and encouraging employees to visit a Thai brothel, and exposing military personnel to contaminated food, water, and improperly incinerated human remains. One man even claims he saw a wild dog running around base with someone's arm in its mouth.
Today, we bring you a new twist on an old theme: medical-records fraud.
This time, the target of a lawsuit in Fort Bend district court is Fluor, a Texas-based corporation that describes itself as a "FORTUNE 500 company that delivers engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance ... and project management to governments and clients in diverse industries around the world."
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In the other corner is Jon Cole of Friendswood, who says he was a Government Service-rated employee serving in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2004, a licensed U.S. Department of Defense Uniformed Services Army contractor, and most recently had a six-month contract working for Fluor in Afghanistan as a Health Safety and Environmental Manager.
Everything was going well, according to the lawsuit, until Cole found himself on a sticky wicket when he was asked to falsify medical documents used to record injuries, which were then presented to the U.S. government and used to grade Fluor's performance. The fewer the injuries, Cole claims, the better the job Fluor was perceived as doing and the more money the company stood to earn.
Cole alleges that he was ordered to change the status of injuries and illnesses from recordable cases to non-recordable and, as his lawyer Gregg Rosenberg told Hair Balls, to decrease the severity of injuries.
But Cole claims he refused to play ball. He argues that if he had gone along he could have been criminally prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and risked the possibility of being sentenced to time in a federal prison.
Because Cole would not do as he was told, he claims, Fluor retaliated and harassed him to the point that he couldn't take it any longer. "He was constructively discharged," says Rosenberg, "meaning the circumstances are so unbearable that he was compelled to resign."
Cole is suing Fluor under the Sabine Pilot doctrine, which is the sole exception to an at-will employment contract. The worker must prove that they were fired or adversely effected solely because they refused to perform an illegal act.
Fluor's motivation for trying to force Cole to falsify and downplay the severity and number of injuries in written reports, Cole claims in the lawsuit, was because if Fluor "was shown to display good performance with lesser recordable incidents, it would be inline to realize significant monetary gains."
Hair Balls called Fluor and will let you know if someone there responds to the allegations.
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Student tracker is an advanced student timetable and grades tracking application with additional features like scheduling exam alerts. It also comes with a home screen widget which can be configured to show either the current weekday's timetable or the current semester's exams. This is the first and the only free android application available in the android market with these many pre-loaded features.
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+ Customize grade points based on your current institution's grading system.
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+ Easy switching between different windows with pre-defined menu shortcuts.
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On January 31, 2014, ONEOK, Inc. ("ONEOK") distributed all of the shares of common stock of ONE Gas, Inc. ("ONE Gas"), a wholly owned subsidiary of ONEOK, to ONEOK shareholders (the "Distribution"). Prior to the Distribution, ONEOK transferred its natural gas distribution business to ONE Gas. The distribution occurred by way of a pro rata dividend to ONEOK shareholders of record as of January 21, 2014, the record date of the Distribution (the "Record Date"). Each ONEOK shareholder was entitled to receive one share of ONE Gas common stock for every four shares of ONEOK common stock held by such shareholder at the close of business on the Record Date. ONEOK did not distribute any fractional shares to shareholders. Instead, fractional shares were aggregated and sold in the open market at prevailing market prices by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., acting as distribution agent. Checks representing the pro rata share of the $34.31 per share net proceeds of the sale of the aggregated fractional shares have been or will be sent to stockholders of record entitled to these proceeds.
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This game is based on the highly acclaimed movie. You must take the role of the scientist who was transformed into a grotesque monster by criminal agents. Guide Darkman through factories, warehouses, and even hang from a helicopter!
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The above graph displays service status activity for Airliners.net over the last 10 automatic checks. The blue bar displays the response time, which is better when smaller. If no bar is displayed for a specific time it means that the service was down and the site was offline.
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The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has penalised Orient Thai Airlines for an incident where one of its Boeing 737-300s landed at Nanning with a missing wheel.
The aircraft was operating flight 0X616 from Phuket to Nanning on 11 April, says the Administration in a statement. After the aircraft landed, it was discovered that the left front wheel was missing. It is not clear what happened with the aircraft's wheel.
The CAAC categorises this as a "serious" incident.
As a punishment, it has decreed that the carrier cut five aircraft from its fleet serving China, and also cut five destinations from its China network: Chengdu, Xian, Nanchang, Chongqing, and Nanjing. These sanctions will run for six months.
It has also imposed a CNY29,000 ($4,453) fine on Orient Thai.
The CAAC calls on Orient Thai to improve both its safety awareness, operating quality, and address any shortfalls in its systems and organisation.


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New Milton Town Council is looking to further improve the town's presence by appointing a
£32,000 pa (pro rata) plus benefits: 30 hours per week
New Milton is a town of some 26,000 inhabitants with its own unique character and identity.
To continue to raise the profile of the town the Town Development Manager will deliver a high quality environment meeting the needs of local businesses, residents and visitors alike.
This position is to act as the springboard building upon the existing business initiatives to ultimately deliver a comprehensive, all-encompassing socio-economic strategy that will meet and surpass the envisaged future profile needs for the Town.
Key deliverables include leading the revitalisation of the Town Centre, of the weekly Street Market, and working with potential new and existing businesses to leverage new employment opportunities.
Establishing strong business relationships with all local and county organisations you will oversee Business Improvement District (BID) proposals to seek and obtain funding and support for initiatives and projects for the Town. Focus will be on delivering pro-active benefits from the improved provision of retail, community, leisure services and re-generation projects.
Ideally you will have a proven track record in the development and delivery of marketing, promotion and public relations initiatives perhaps gained in the retail sector. You will possess outstanding verbal/written presentation skills, an ability to work in a team and be an effective business relationship-builder.
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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter released the following statement after an amendment to create a Debt Commission failed by a vote of 53-46 in the Senate.
"I am very disappointed that the Senate failed to pass legislation to create a bipartisan commission that would offer recommendations on how to reduce the national debt. Just today, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the FY10 deficit will total $1.35 trillion. Our deficits and national debt are simply unsustainable. We need to get serious about reducing our debt and this Commission would be a great start."


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Council on Undergraduate Research project to enhance undergraduate research curricula »
Radford University was recently selected to participate in the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Transformations Project that will examine and enhance the university's undergraduate research-based opportunities over the next four years.
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Geospatial Science Associate Professor Stockton Maxwell will speak about tree rings and climate change in an interview on the With Good Reason public radio program.
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The Colorado Xtreme TV Series features a cast of award-winning expert guides, leading mountain excursions for first-timers and expert adventurists alike. Each episode follows a new group of tourists on high-country trails traveling by machine or horseback, paddling whitewater rivers, and traversing pristine powder snow. Certified guides keep tourists safe and their adrenaline pumping -- captivating viewers with constantly changing weather and trail conditions. Set in some of the most remote territory in America -- a six thousand acre private ranch in Vail, Colorado -- this is real-life, produced in real-time.
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I ran this scenario past Kenney, to see if it would pass shady muster. He'd chased down billionaire husbands, one who'd forged his wife's signature on a divorce settlement that left her just $33 million. In his Tortola office, he nodded. "That's right in the middle of the road," he said. "You could get some people saying, 'Oooh, that's a little dodgy.'" That seemed just about right.
Downtown Road Town is marked by a busy roundabout and the usual Caribbean atmospherics of car horns, exhaust fumes and a whiff of open sewers. In mid-December, Christmas featured prominently: Inflatable Santas and reindeer wobbled along Main Street in the humid air, and calypso versions of Christmas classics blasted from carpet-store speakers. There are street signs in Road Town, but no one uses addresses. Businesses locate their offices in named buildings, and it is up to you to know where those buildings are. My first appointment, for instance, was with a company I'll call Tortola Trust, in Palm Grove House, a stuccoed building in the banking district (where, as it happens, you'll also find branches of banks such as Scotiabank and the CIBC-owned FirstCaribbean International Bank; thanks to its historic ties to Britain, Canada has long had a dominant banking presence in the Caribbean.)
It took a while, and several entreaties for help from passersby, before I found Palm Grove House. Emerging from the elevator at Tortola Trust, I was greeted by two men in their mid-30s, a South African named Mike and a Brit named James, both of whom were dressed in shirt sleeves, open at the neck. They showed me through an impressive suite of offices into a large boardroom, and brought me a bottle of cold water.
After a few moments of chit-chat, I laid out my "situation." I mentioned a "significant amount of money" coming in and the fact that my wife and I had separated, and that I therefore had "concerns around that money."
James and Mike seemed to view this as reasonable. Thoughtful and relaxed, they probed for details, about my marriage, my family (did I have children?) and my assets. Whatever structure I set up wouldn't be to "defraud a creditor as such," James explained; it would be to help me "safeguard" future earnings. They both seemed quite interested in helping me do that.
I wondered out loud whether there was some way to avoid listing my assets under my name. Wasn't that something a BVI company could help me with?
James laid out my options. Most clients set up a BVI company, he explained, with shares listed in their own name, which would be public. "But then what people do to avoid that," he said, "is they put the shares in a trust. So you have the BVI company and the trust. And the trustee of that would be Tortola Trust BVI Ltd. So we would be the shareholder. So you could say it's definitely not in your name, it's in our name."
This is one of the ways to accomplish what's known as "layering"-putting degrees of separation between the public face of the company and the person that a creditor or a government is really interested in: the Ultimate Beneficial Owner. All of the due diligence requirements in the BVI rest on being able to provide that name when a court demands it. That's one of the reasons that, as of last year, you could no longer use "bearer" shares in the BVI. Bearer shares put ownership of a company in the hands of whoever physically held the shares; if the shares for Bob Island Inc. were kept in Bob's lawyer's safe, the lawyer became the owner.
With the elimination of bearer shares, the owner's name can't be completely hidden. But even so, layers can make the digging more difficult. James tried to explain the intricacies of the company-trust-trustee arrangement, and I tried to push him for assurances that my identity would be protected. "I wouldn't recommend, you know...we're not going to lie," said James, somewhat hesitantly. "But, 'Have you got any assets in your name?' No."
Wasn't that a bit risky, I wondered-to make someone else the legal owner of my assets? Yes, actually. It would be possible, James admitted, for the firm to remove me as director of my company, cash in my assets and hide them "somewhere else in the Caribbean." All of us in the boardroom had a good chuckle about that. And James said the firm had insurance to protect me.
As for what I could do with the assets held by my company, well, I could do anything. Although, "if you wanted to buy a nuclear power station," he said, grinning, "we may have some issues with that."Report Typo/Error
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Survey and feasibility study on National Stakeholders' Forums
Why the research?
Research shows several limitations in the implementation of lifelong learning strategies at national level. Several civil society networks including EUCIS-LLL expressed concerns for the lack of consultation of stakeholders. This was pinpointed in several EU progress reports as well as by stakeholders. "The Lisbon strategy partly failed because of the implementation gap between EU decisions and national choices. The Europe 2020 strategy aims to strengthen this impact. This is not possible without the implementers: governments and stakeholders (civil society organisations and social partners) alike."
Political background
EU institutions have always sought input by national administrations, businesses and civil society groups to assist them shaping or implementing policies. The practice became compulsory in 1997 with the Amsterdam Treaty requiring the Commission to consult widely and publish documents before putting forward major new pieces of legislation. This led to the adoption of basic principles for public consultation to ensure all relevant interested parties are properly heard. At national level, the Member States have different practices / approaches relative to stakeholders' participation – and even on the recognition of civil society representatives themselves. Furthermore, most of the time, no one is responsible for lifelong learning strategies in the Ministries and there are no such structured civil society platforms that gather the various sectors as EUCIS-LLL at the EU level. It is thus very difficult to measure the impact of EU policies at the national level.
Role of EUCIS-LLL
During the European Stakeholders' Forum organised by DG EAC and EUCIS-LLL in September 2011, participants made concrete proposals to improve the participation of stakeholders in the implementation of the Education and Training 2020 strategic work programme (ET2020). Two main ideas emerged for the national level:
- the need to have national stakeholders' platform and
- to set up annual Stakeholders' Forums to ensure the broad consultation of the various education and training actors in the countries.
This initiative requires mapping the relevant actors as well as developing cooperation among them. It will also require governments' political will to have regular consultations but also to consider such consultations as important to ensure better policy-making. Mutual trust is a key element in this process. EUCIS-LLL, based on its long experience in gathering various actors of education and training, is in a very good position to move this agenda forward by proposing concrete solutions. Its European member networks cover the whole spectrum of lifelong learning; their national members could serve as a basis to build the national stakeholders' forums and platforms.
Ongoing steps:
- Read the Survey and Feasibility Study on National Stakeholders' Forums
- Read the press release (15 June 2012)
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