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Girls soccer: Western Mass seeds released, Wahconah to defend title
GRANBY — The only defending Western Massachusetts champion from Berkshire County in boys or girls soccer is the Wahconah girls squad.
Seeded second in Western Mass Division III in 2015, the Warriors earned a bye in their title defense to the quarterfinal round of this year's tournament after the seeds were released Monday at Granby Jr./Sr. High School. Wahconah (14-3-1) will host the winner of seventh-seeded Mahar and 10th-seeded Putnam in the quarterfinals. The Warriors defeated South Hadley, Sabis and Granby en route to last year's crown.
"We're a different team this year," Wahconah coach Pat West said. "It's just a brand new year. We do know there are an awful lot of good teams in the tournament. It would have been nicer to be [No.] 1, but we knew it wasn't going to happen based on the Walker 2.0. So we are where we are."
Monument Mountain was the only other Berkshire County squad in the 10-team Western Mass Division III tournament. The Spartans (11-6), seeded fifth, will play fourth-seeded Palmer in the quarterfinals.
Pittsfield, seeded eighth in the 10-team Western Mass Division I bracket, is the only girls squad set to play a game in the first round. The Generals (12-6), who have lost four games in a row, will host ninth-seeded Holyoke on Thursday at 3 p.m. Winner of that game will travel to play top-seeded Ludlow in the quarterfinals.
"We're looking forward to the home game," Pittsfield coach Andy Waluszko said. "We had a rough stretch, lost a few in a row. We played seven games in two weeks or something, so the girls were beat and you have some injuries. But this gives us a break to recoup. And the home game, I'm glad we got a home game."
In the 10-team Western Mass Division IV tournament, Berkshire County will have four teams. Lenox is the highest seed, earning the number two spot. The Millionaires (11-4-3) will host the winner of seventh-seeded Smith Academy and 10th-seeded Pathfinder in the quarterfinals.
Should it advance from there, Lenox would play third-seeded Gateway or sixth-seeded Mount Everett. The Millionaires lost to the Gators earlier in the season.
"I think first and foremost our goal this season was to do what we needed to do to get into the tournament," Lenox coach Kyle Zinchuk said. "One of our goals was to make the tournament and then we wanted to win the South. If that happened, we were hoping for an improved seed in the process (from last season).
"Smith is a very solid side," Zinchuk added. "We'll take it one game at a time, we have to focus on that game first and foremost. And then it would be nice to play Gateway or Everett in that next round, should we get there."
There will be an all-Berkshire County matchup in the quarterfinals as well, as fourth-seeded Lee (8-8-2) will host fifth-seeded McCann Tech (14-3-1). Finally, sixth-seeded Mount Everett (11-5-1) will play against third-seeded Gateway on the road in the quarterfinals. The Wildcats, Hornets and Eagles all have byes through the first round.
The first round will be played on Thursday with quarterfinal matchups set for either Saturday or Sunday. The girls semifinal round is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 11 with sectional finals to be completed by Saturday, Nov. 14. The state semifinals will be played on Wednesday, Nov. 18 with the state championships on Saturday, Nov. 21.
Western Mass Tournament Seeds
Division I: 1-Ludlow, 2-Minnechaug, 3-West Springfield, 4-Chicopee, 5-East Longmeadow, 6-Northampton, 7-Amherst, 8-Pittsfield, 9-Holyoke, 10-Agawam.
Division III: 1-Granby, 2-Wahconah, 3-Southwick, 4-Palmer, 5-Monument Mountain, 6-South Hadley, 7-Mahar, 8-Athol, 9-Renaissance, 10-Putnam.
Division IV: 1-Monson, 2-Lenox, 3-Gateway, 4-Lee, 5-McCann Tech, 6-Mount Everett, 7-Smith Academy, 8-Smith Vocational, 9-Hampden Charter, 10-Pathfinder.
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Researchers found a protein triggered by rheumatoid arthritis could undo the "tangles" in the brain that are thought to cause Alzheimer's.
A new study found that memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease was partially reversed by the protein, GM-CSF, which also lowered the risk of getting the illness.
The University of South Florida scientists found in some cases the memory impairment was completely undone after treatment with the protein, which is commercially available and known as Leukine.
While people with rheumatoid arthritis are subjected to swollen joints and decreased mobility, the protein produced by the disease stimulates scavenger cells in the body.
In tests on mice, these cells removed amyloid deposits or tangles left by Alzheimer's in the brain, which lowered the risk of catching the disease and helped restore memory.
Scientists on Sunday said they were excited by the research, published online in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, because they have struggled to treat it with existing drugs before now.
"We were pretty amazed that the treatment completely reversed cognitive impairment in 20 days," said Dr Tim Boyd, the scientist who led the study.
Prof Huntingdon Potter, a molecular medicine involved in the study, said that he hoped the treatment could soon be tested on humans.
"Our findings provide a compelling explanation for why rheumatoid arthritis is a negative risk factor for Alzheimer's disease," he said.
"Our study, along with the drugs track record for safety, suggests Leukine should be tested in humans as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease."
In their study, scientists used two groups of mice, one healthy and the other genetically modified to develop Alzheimer's like symptoms, including memory loss.
Half of the mice were injected with GM-CSF, the other with a placebo saline solution.
After 20 days, researchers found the memories of Alzheimer's mice injected with the protein had improved substantially compared with mice treated with a placebo.
They found the brains of protein-treated mice showed a more than a 50-per cent decrease in beta amyloid, a substance that is hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
They also showed more immune cells known as "microglia" in the brain, which were described as the body's natural garbage collection cells which remove toxic-style substances.
The new research could provide new hope to almost 500,000 people who suffer from Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia in Britain.
There is no known cure for Alzheimer's disease and experts believe the number of people who suffer from it will double by 2050 as the population ages.
Meanwhile around 646,000 people in Britain suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, where their immune systems attack their joints, which eventually become extremely painful and debilitating.
Around half of sufferers are too disabled to work within a decade of the disease taking hold, costing the economy an estimated £4.75 billion every year.
Dr Susanne Sorensen, Head of Research at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "This exciting research provides a possible answer to the long unexplained question of why rheumatoid arthritis could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
"Given that the identified protein is already available as a drug that is proven to be safe in humans, the time taken to develop an Alzheimer's disease treatment could be substantially reduced.
"However, we must not jump the gun. Much more research is needed before we can say for certain that the findings demonstrated in mice would also occur in humans."
She added: "It may provide the explanation of why people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis are less likely to get dementia although it does not guarantee that they will not get it."


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A trio of noteworthy leftovers after the Boston Celtics introduced some of the acquired players from a blockbuster swap with the Nets on Monday:
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The Rondo-Humphries dust-up from last season.THE RONDO-STEVENS MEETING
After spending four days at summer league in Orlando, new Celtics coach Brad Stevens returned home to Indianapolis last Thursday. He hadn't even unpacked when he hopped in his car and made the two-hour trek to Louisville to meet with All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo at his youth basketball camp. How did that meeting go?
"We just sat down for an hour, or an hour and 15 minutes, and I thought had a nice sitdown," Stevens said. "We talked a lot about life, we talked a lot about basketball. We hit on neither exclusively, we just talked. I found him to be very insightful, very intelligent. And that was consistent to what I had heard from those who knew him best. I'm really looking forward to spending more time together. I know he's working really hard on his rehab, and he was actually at rehab, then came back to his camp and then we both spoke to camp real briefly and I took off. He was great."
New Celtics big man Kris Humphries joked he knew the question was coming when asked during the press conference Monday about last season's dust-up with Rondo that left Boston's point guard suspended for two games. Rondo came to the defense of teammate Kevin Garnett when Humphries knocked him down during a November meeting in Boston. Rondo and Humphries got tangled and spilled into the crowd below the baseline, leading to Rondo's ejection and subsequent two-game ban. Have the two talked since Humphries was dealt to Boston?
"I haven't talked to him, but I think we'll have a good relationship," Humphries said. "I think things happen within the game. If you look at it, it really was nothing. The media tries to blow things out of proportion. I think we'll come in and obviously I've got to do my part to earn his respect in terms of playing hard and contributing to the team and we'll just go from there."
Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge needled Humphries, suggesting he flopped because the big man allowed Rondo to overpower him too easily during the scrum.
Ainge spent a good deal of time Monday reflecting on the emotional side of trading away franchise icons Paul Pierce and Garnett. While we all know Pierce's No. 34 is bound for the rafters at TD Garden, there's some debate about whether Garnett's No. 5 belongs up there as well after six seasons in Boston. Ainge sided with what most observers when he noted Garnett should be honored as well.
"If it were my decision, their numbers would be hanging in the rafters some day," Ainge said. "Their legacy has been made here in Boston and they still have basketball left in them. At the same time, we're still going to want to beat them. Those guys were great for the city of Boston, great for the Celtics franchise and great for all of us that were associated with them."
While discussing the opportunity to trade Pierce and Garnett together, Ainge added, "They're great people and they've done a lot for our city and the fact that they get to go together and play on a team where I think it will be an ideal fit for them because they don't have to carry a heavy load, because they have three other All-Stars on their team and they have a great deal of depth, it's pretty ideal for them. Collectively, individually, there were no better offers for us over any time over the last few years. So it was an opportunity of, rather than having KG play one more year and us not be the standard we had hoped to be and Paul with one year left on his contract, it definitely was the right move for us in trying to fast forward the rebuilding process."


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I emailed support a while back and replied to another post, but basically in server mode or in regular mode, my spiceworks crashes with Windows error report of Spiceworks-Finder.exe and a command window in the background. When I close the command window and error, Spiceworks resumes. I cannot figure this out. Please help. I am using the latest version.
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You said you're on the latest version, is it 2.1.18955? The .dll to fix this should have been bundled in that version. Let me know, if its not we need to fix that ASAP and I'll get you the right .dll.
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I am on that version. Can you send the .dll? thanks in advance... Also, email@example.com sent me a message asking for me to zip up my db and send it in. The ticket# was 16076 and I have sent in the DB.
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I just sent you a private message. If the .dll works please let Harold know as well on that ticket number.
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I am having the same issue, on version 2.1.18955...
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Myshell sent me an event-log.dll file that seems to do the trick and prevent the crash. Apparently, this will be fixed in future versions. Send a message to her.
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Hyderabad: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K. Tarakarama Rao said that the Telangana Government would turn Hyderabad into a world-class city by involving citizens.
Addressing a workshop on Good Practices in Urban Development at Administrative Staff College at Khairtabad here on Saturday, KTR said the State Government was keen to make Hyderabad a Smart, Green and Global City by adopting innovative methods. He said that the State Government was study the successful models so as emulate them in Hyderabad. He said that the State Government would ensure better roads, proper sanitation, pollution-free environment and provision of basic minimum facilities. He said an Action Plan has been put in place to achieve the desired goals.
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The volume of web-based attacks increased 93 percent in 2010, according to the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Yes, some of the biggest and most common security threats include malicious links from spammers and phishers, hackers who want to crash computers and send malware for whatever reason and thieves who wish to steal customer data and people's identities. Yes, small businesses need to be protecting themselves against those threats, but there are many security threats that often go overlooked, and often unprepared for. Here are five of those threats, their consequences, and what can be done about them.
- Hijacked Domain Names – This is where a hacker or cybercriminal has redirected your website or domain name to another, malicious website. It could also mean someone transferring your website domain over to them, and then registering it with another host. A quick Google search reveals is a very old security threat, spanning all the way back to 2005. To prevent this from happening, use a good password for your hosting account, make sure the contact information is up-to-date at all times (it looks bad on you if it doesn't, which could make it hard to get your domain name back if it is hacked), and keep track of renewal dates (once the date is up, someone else could use the name). In the even that your domain name gets hijacked, contact your web host immediately to straighten things out.
- Disgruntled Employees i.e. Threats from the Inside – Whether they are still with the company, or have left, employees need to be trained on security awareness with strict security policies put in place. Take the time to make employees aware of their access privileges and to have them sign agreements that they understand these policies and privileges. Protections especially need to be in place after IT professionals leave your company. In July, a disgruntled IT administrator deleted several virtual hosts at a Japanese pharmaceutical firm, freezing the company's operations for several days and costing them almost a million dollars. You wouldn't want to be at risk simply because the IT guy wasn't happy with his layoff.
- Physical Breaches and Theft – Yes, don't forget the consequences of someone walking out with your hard drive, tablet, or laptop, whether it be a customer or an employee. Laptop theft alone already accounts for billions of dollars in losses. Keep stationary devices locked to a pillar or post. For the mobile devices, have the data on these devices encrypted, so the thief can't take it and use it for their own gain. For both types of technology, do a remote data wipe once you find out a device has been stolen.
- Loss of Accountability Over Employee Accounts – You may not realize it, but your employees could be sharing passwords. This tends to happen when someone goes on vacation or maternity leave, and he or she wants to grant access to coworkers to keep things going. Although this practice is mostly harmless, it does make it hard to hold someone accountable in case something does happen. How can you hold someone accountable to a damaged account if five different people have access? To prevent this debacle, either enforce a policy that's against sharing passwords and accounts, or utilize a cloud office productivity suite such as Microsoft 365. This can not only ensure that each person gets a unique account and password, but can also grant an administrator to see people's behavior. So, if something does go wrong, you can track down the culprit.
Overall, protecting yourself and your business from security threats is a constant challenge. There's never a "one and done" solution as threats change, and new threats appear. In the end, it's better to do what you can now and have a plan in place in case of a security breach, instead of waiting for a security breach to happen before doing something and taking the necessary precautions.


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text: The iView Film Festival that will be held for the third time in New York from 18 to 26 September is supposed to screen Indian movies mostly. Onirs I Am will be premiered on the inaugural day of the festival and the Bollywood movie Mirch, a Big Pictures production, will mark the end of the gala.The festival director, Myna Mukherjee, said that cinema is a most powerful and effective way to make reforms in the societies and change the mindset of people who are silent about fundamental issues of human rights, gender and social iniquities. She expressed her thrills over the amplification of the festivals mission with many voices as a most popular media to throw focus on the issues.Onirs I Am is a sharp focus on common and conflicting issues like homosexuality, unmarried motherhood and childhood sex abuse in India. The United Nations Development Program has supported the directors motive behind this movie.Mirch, directed by Vinay Shukla, is an album of four stories having infidelity as common theme. It stars Raima Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Vinay Shukla, Shreyas Talpade, Prem Chopra, Arunoday Singh, Boman Irani and Shahana Goswami.Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyun, directed by Sanjay Sharma, too, will be premiered at the festival. It is all about how a struggling model arrives in Mumbai in quest of fortune and fame, and ends up having a relationship with a man. It stars Zeenat Aman, Rituparna Sengupta, Helen, Kapil Sharma and Maradona Rebello.


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Christine walkden
Christine is known for down-to-earth, no-nonsense style and irreverent approach, whether giving advice as BBC One Show's resident gardener or hosting her latest BBC series Glorious Gardens from Above.
A keen gardener from the tender age of 10 when she took on her first allotment, Christine started growing vegetables and flowers and enterprisingly sold them to school teachers and local residents!
Christine is always willing to get her hands dirty and happily shares her passion for plants. Whether championing growing vegetables or enjoying Britain in Bloom she is always ready with her trusted gardening tips.
A regular panelist on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time, she is a past winner of the Garden Writer's Guild Radio Broadcasting Award. She also leads garden tours and field trips throughout the world including China, Asia, USA, Africa and many European countries.
Toby says, "Christine is always a firm favourite with visitors and has been a friend of our GardenFest at Powderham so we are really thrilled she has agreed to join us at Forde."
Christine will be giving practical demo's and answering your garden questions in the Great Hall on Sunday at the Festival. Don't miss it!
charlie dimmock
Back on our screens with BBC's Garden Rescue, Charlie Dimmock has been an on and off-screen favourite since her days presenting the hit makeover show Ground Force with Alan Titchmarsh and Tommy Walsh.
Growing up in the New Forest, Charlie trained in horticulture and was catapulted to fame after a TV producer spotted her water gardening skills at Romsey Garden Centre. She made a TV pilot for Ground Force, the show was commissioned and became an instant hit. At its peak the show reached 12 million viewers, making Charlie one of the most recognisable and well-loved names in gardening.
Toby says, "I'm delighted Charlie is coming to Forde. I know how busy her schedule is so it's wonderful she is taking the time to come down. I've known her for years and she is great company and a really good speaker. We're all in for a real treat!"
Charlie is joining as at Forde Abbey on Saturday, where she will be sharing her practical knowledge of plants and water gardening along with not a few anecdotes about her fascinating TV and gardening career.
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Toby is host of both GardenFest at Powderham Castle and the new Garden & Harvest Festival at Forde Abbey. He will be joining our other celebrity speakers on stage in the Great Hall, answering garden questions and giving practical demo's in the arena and Kitchen Garden.
Known for his practical and entertaining approach to gardening, Toby is a trained horticulturist who enjoys explaining the finer points of gardening with the knack of making difficult gardening skills easy to beginners.
Toby writes weekly for Amateur Gardening magazine, and is a regular columnist for the Times Home Supplement and Telegraph Gardening. For the past five years he has run a boutique garden centre at Powderham Castle in Devon with his wife Lisa whilst making regular appearances on-screen, including BBC Great Garden Revival and the BBC's coverage from RHS Chelsea Flower Show.


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The latest, greatest food fads are usually a turnoff to me. The basics of "eat nutritious foods, not too many of them, and satisfy cravings in moderation" is what I strive for. However, I am far from following this in my life. The one I have heard a lot about lately is one that intrigues me though – "Clean Eating".
As with most "diet fads", it proposed a detox of sorts, to get you into the program. The detox suggests cutting out all the "bad things 100%" for a period (2 weeks seems to be the norm). The benefit of this fad is that it follows the mantra of "eat nutritious foods" – which I can get behind. However, I am not good at this for a few reasons. The biggest reason is my will-power. I will cave for the super-processed food in lieu of not eating or eating very late because I didn't plan well, and frankly, some of them are just super tasty. I don't do the cooking in our house (hubby is on board with making good food from scratch, but loves "food in a box" flavor on many things – as does the kiddo… two against one, and, I hate cooking.) I go through phases of good planning – but it is not consistent. At all.
So, while chatting with friends about this, I was thinking that I could do a "clean eating light" plan, aka, like when company is coming. It is kind of like your house might not be as clean as it could be, but it will do for company coming over. So, here's my dining plan… of sorts.
I may not do the cooking, but I do the grocery shopping. I will buy the "whole foods" in all forms except bread (kid will not eat it and hubby doesn't like it and I won't eat a loaf of the "good" stuff before it goes bad), I can't afford organic everything, so I don't. My bacon is most certainly processed, but it is so tasty, I am letting that "get swept under the rug". Breakfast can be different for all – I need something the kid will eat on a weekday in under 10 minutes when needed – let's not try to save the world at breakfast, let's just get out the door without the need for child services to be called, shall we? Salad dressing is another one I can make, and like better, but simply not willing to commit to all the time. I will get dressing that I know all the ingredients. I gave up on soda and don't really want it anymore, but my tea gets a tsp of sugar. Not "natural sweetener that is not processed", sugar. OK, honey if I am home… but on the go it is sugar.
Eating like company is coming is something I can commit to. and I am sure there are other changes to "clean" I will make along the way.
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Tobogganing & Sledding
Winter fun at its very finest! There is nothing more rewarding than a fun-packed toboggan adventure together with your family or friends, followed by a stopover at a picturesque mountain inn. This is an absolute must during your winter holiday in Obergurgl-Hochgurgl. The unrivaled highlight can be found in Hochgurgl: a winding, three kilometer long natural toboggan run leads from the top station of Hochgurglbahn mountain gondola down to the valley. Enjoy an effortless ascent with the mountain gondola from the hamlet of Pill. Romantic night sledding is scheduled once a week on the floodlit track, followed by a stopover at "Downhill Grill". Winter holidays with absolute snow guarantee for all kinds of sports.
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Night Tobogganing and night skiing in Hochgurgl from 7.30 pm - 10.30 pm
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Free night tobogganing bus service from Obergurgl and Sölden
For lift pass holders and children under 8 years the lift ride is free of charge. Child rates apply for young guests between 9 and 14 years.
Toboggan rental at the base station of Hochgurglbahn mountain gondola and at Scheiber Sport at Top Hotel in Hochgurgl.
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Oneness - motor yacht - 45 m (150 ft - Palmer Johnson - 2009
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Johannesburg - The Gauteng Department of Education has been paying fees for former Wits University student representative council leader Mcebo Dlamini, who was arrested in connection with violent protests for free education.
This was revealed by Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi during a briefing at a Secondary School Intervention Programme in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
"We (the Gauteng government) sponsor Mcebo Dlamini to study LLM, and now he is in prison," Lesufi said.
The 32-year-old Dlamini, who was arrested at his Wits residence in the early hours on Sunday, faces charges of public violence, theft, malicious damage to property and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
When asked what criteria were used to give Dlamini a bursary, Lesufi said: "We offer R208m in university bursaries. We have an agency called the Gauteng City Region, a skills development agency, and people apply (for bursaries) based on academic progress, scarce skills and financial status. He applied like any other person."
He said Dlamini had been receiving the bursary since the beginning of this year, when he enrolled for his degree.
When asked if Dlamini met the criteria, Lesufi said it was the Gauteng City Region's task to assess and approve the applications. When asked if they would consider reviewing or suspending Dlamini's bursary because of the serious charges he faces, Lesufi said: "The bursary has its own regulations, including attending classes, and writing and passing exams."
Lesufi pleaded with #FeesMustFall negotiators to resolve the matter speedily to allow matriculants the opportunity to study at public universities next year.
"I'm scared and fearing the worst… We need to be sure that they will be in a position to apply and be admitted to higher education institutions (next year)," Lesufi said.
"The reality is dawning on us of having a generation that might not be able to receive higher education. But we are confident that parties involved will try to resolve the matter."
Although his department has not spoken to Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande about the matter, Lesufi said the situation was of serious concern.
"We are quite ready as a province and plan to crack it this year. We want any percentage over the Western Cape," Lesufi said.
Gauteng has registered a total of 153 973 Grade 12 learners, which is the second highest number of candidates in the country. KwaZulu-Natal leads with 169 661 matriculants.
Meanwhile, Dlamini's bail application was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. Magistrate Albertus Roux said he would hand down his ruling on Wednesday, after reviewing all arguments.
Prosecutor Steven Rubin had opposed Dlamini's application, saying he was a flight risk and might go to Swaziland where he was born, and he had misled the court when he said he had a test to write on Tuesday.
Rubin said the State was in possession of footage showing the #FeesMustFall leader in possession of dangerous weapons, referring to sticks and stones, and said the State also have a photograph of Dlamini attacking a police officer.
In his affidavit, Dlamini clarified his age and indicated that he is actually 30 years old and not 32 as was previously reported. His lawyer, Mongezi Ntanga, said Dlamini only knew his real age when he was reunited with his mother later in his life, as he was raised by his aunt.
Dlamini said he had no intention of fleeing the country because he was still a student at Wits and it would be political suicide to go against the court. He was also willing to hand in his passport, he said.
He also denied assaulting a police officer as the State indicated; instead he said he was the victim in the situation.
Wits students and workers gathered outside the court to show Dlamini support. Vuyani Pambo, who has also been in the forefront of #FeesMustFall protests, appeared upset with the case's postponement.
"There is no interest in justice, you can see from the attitude of the prosecutor they are nonchalant with what's happening here. They don't see any emergency of the case, they don't see any emergency about the state of the state.
"Why is that in a country of so many illiterate people that free, quality, decolonised education could be a secondary issue and the president is constantly out of the country," Pambo said.


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Lying among a pile of papers at the hideout in Pakistan where Osama Bin Laden was shot dead was a carefully worded 21-page letter.
It warned of the rise of a new and ruthless group of Islamic extremists capable of such extreme brutality that al-Qaeda should sever all links with them.
In fact, it claimed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or ISIS) had such complete disregard for civilian life that it could damage the reputation of al-Qaeda - if such a thing were possible for an organisation that has long traded in murderous terrorism.
The document, written by one of Bin Laden's senior officials in 2011, went on to catalogue some of its acts of barbarism - including the use of chlorine gas as a chemical weapon, bombing mosques and a massacre in a Catholic church in Baghdad.
In essence, the letter said that ISIS was simply too extreme even for the group that killed thousands in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Today, ISIS, which now styles itself as simply Islamic State (IS), has become a powerful military force that has control of an area larger than Great Britain.
Living under their ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam are six million people, a population larger than that of Ireland, Denmark or Finland.
Their trademark black jihadi flag has fluttered in the background of chilling "promotional" videos of executions - including crucifixions and beheadings - as the militia seizes vast areas of Iraq and Syria. In short, the "caliphate" - or Islamic state - it claims to have established represents the biggest shift in the political geography of the Middle East since the borders of modern Iraq and Syria were drawn under the Sykes-Picot agreement drafted between Britain and France in 1916.
To understand the threat Islamic State poses to the region, it first needs to be appreciated how it has grown into a force to rival al-Qaeda.
The group was founded by 43-year-old Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, a firebrand cleric held prisoner for four years by American troops in Iraq.
The leader, a Sunni Muslim who despises the Shia-run Iraqi government, now commands more than 10 000 fighters, many of them former Saddam Hussein-era soldiers or disenchanted Sunnis who lost power and influence after the fall of the dictator's regime.
More worryingly, foreign Islamic extremists, including about 500 Britons, have joined IS to fight in Syria and Iraq.
The group controls valuable oil fields and, with the help of wealthy Sunni backers from the Gulf states, is estimated to have amassed a staggering £1.2 billion. It has even sold 8 000-year-old antiquities it has seized.
But its real assets lie in the fanatical loyalty of its fighters (they all swear allegiance to IS) and the state-of-the-art weaponry they now possess.
Much of its armoury was seized during a lightning advance several weeks ago, when fleeing Iraqi troops abandoned the artillery and armoured vehicles that it had been given by US forces.
With captured American Humvees and the latest precision firepower, they are more than a match for the formidable Kurdish Peshmerga - which defends the Kurds' semi-autonomous region in the north - and its 12.7mm Soviet-era machine-guns and outdated Russian T-55 tanks.
As Ali Khedery, a former American official who advised US generals in Iraq, has said: "They are literally outgunned by an IS that is fighting with hundreds of millions of dollars of US military equipment seized from the Iraqi Army, which abandoned it."
So it would be naive in the extreme to think of Islamic State as a motley crew of scrappers.
A force capable of meting out so much wanton violence is invariably led by commanders who rule with an iron will.
But what marks them out as being particularly savvy is the way they have used social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to create a digital "public relations" machine to promote their jihad and strike fear into the hearts of their enemies.
Any fighter on the ground can film an act of brutality and upload the footage in a matter of minutes - although some videos of botched amputations or killings has led to a clampdown by IS commanders. One Spanish fighter promised to upload a film of a man being crucified for his friends back home, but was quickly reprimanded by his superiors.
His later contrite posting simply read, "Our leadership forbade anyone filming it."
However, the videos already in circulation have already created a climate of terror.
Some opposition soldiers, particularly in Syria, are defecting to the group. After all, IS has money - some of which is said to have come through private donations from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Equally, those captured by the militia face a stark choice - defect or die.
Despite being trained by American troops, the Iraqi army has proven worryingly ineffective in taking on this threat.
It's why the terrorists now control much of the north of the country. They have also seized a former chemical weapons plant and a large dam that could be blown up to flood the regions downstream.
The populations of the Kurdish capital of Irbil, as well as the national capital Baghdad, are now in no doubt as to the fate that would befall them if these Sunni extremists prevail.
If IS cannot be stopped, they are clinging to the hope that rescue will come in the form of Iran, which supports Iraq's Shia-led government, or the US.
However, both countries are reluctant to commit troops on the ground in the political and religious quagmire of Iraq.
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi knows this only too well.
It's is why his IS troops have been so emboldened to sweep across much of Syria and northern Iraq in recent weeks. In the past fortnight they have fought on five fronts: against the Iraqi army, the Kurdish peshmerga, Bashar Al-Assad's Syrian regime, the Syrian opposition and the Lebanese army.
When he was released by the American military police from the Camp Bucca detention facility in Umm Qasr, where he was held as an insurgent, al Baghdadi said ominously: "I will see you guys in New York."
A fanciful threat?
Perhaps not, when you consider that the greatest threat Islamic State poses to the world is that this so-called caliphate becomes a training ground for international terrorism, and unleashes an army of extremists against the West to kill and maim far from the bloodsoaked deserts of Iraq. - Daily Mail


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WILLERA BY THE SEA - Willera by the sea - Picture Perfect Beach House
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My name is Willera by the Sea and I will tempt your senses You?ll notice me tucked behind the lush rambling cottage style garden and with the sound of the sea only metres from my door step, you will instantly be reminded of why you are here? to RELAX & ENJOY
Now step inside & be impressed with the essence of breezy coastal living that encapsulates this home. The wide and welcoming entry leads the way to a large north facing open plan kitchen, dining & living which is surrounded by a wall of windows and french doors letting in plenty of natural light. The kitchen has a touch of country with the timber cabinetry and quality appliances have been considered including dishwasher and expressi coffee machine starting supply of pods provided. The main lounge has a large smart TV, DVD and Netflix capability as well as wi-fi. This home is well zoned for families a with a further rumpus / living room at the rear of the house complete with billiard table, large flat screen TV and plenty of room to move. Easy access to the north-facing deck can also be gained allowing everyone to congregate on the large deck for summer BBQ?s or a winter brekkie in the morning sun.
Having five bedrooms sleeping a total of twelve guests, there is room for all at Willera by the Sea The bedding configuration consists of four bedrooms with queen beds and one bedroom with two sets of children bunks. The main bedroom has WIR and BIR plus ensuite with shower and toilet. There are two additional bathrooms with shower and toilets also.
The outdoor area consists a large deck and spa ONLY AVAIL NOV - MARCH. The long driveway / carport which will fit 2 cars.
Willera by the Sea is the perfect beach house for all months of the year having gentle hydronic heating in the cooler seasons and reverse cycle ac for the warmer months. Its location is only meters from the picturesque bay beach and also only a short stroll to the town centre, blues train, Royal Hotel and Cafe.
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Doona's and pillows provided BYO sheets, pillow cases, doona covers, towels & tea towels
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Typographic Scarfs
Jan. 10, 2010 No Comments Posted under: Accessories, Gifts
Laser cut technology made possible the creation of awesome typographic scarfs designed by Little Factory studio from Hong Kong. These ultrasuede scarves from MicroFactory are laser-cut with either upper-case, lower-case, or numeric characters in a close pattern. These original scarfs with plenty of laser-cut letters are made of microfiber suede and measure 160 x 10cm.


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It has been said that to be a poet at 20 is to be 20; to be a poet at 40 is to be a poet. Please welcome Chris Abani, a man who understands intimately both ends of that equation. From Nigeria, via London and Los Angeles, poet, storyteller and an old fan of the Sullivans, Chris Abani.
ANDREW DENTON: Welcome, sir.
CHRIS ABANI: Get comfy there.
ANDREW DENTON: Welcome to Australia, your first time here.
CHRIS ABANI: First time in Australia.
ANDREW DENTON: I have a present for you, a treat for you, a gift from all of Australia. This is a gift
CHRIS ABANI: All of Australia?
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah, from all of Australia. This is a gift from your childhood. Watch that screen there.
CHRIS ABANI: Its Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo.
CHRIS ABANI: That was wonderful, thank you.
ANDREW DENTON: What memories did that evoke in you?
CHRIS ABANI: I was about maybe eight or nine when we got that show in Nigeria. It was remember watching it. And I remember that particular one cause my brother, Greg, who was four years older than me, always always tried to spoil things and he said you know a kangaroo cant really put a letter in its pouch cause its all mushy in there, but still, no, it brings back a lot of memories of of a more innocent time.
ANDREW DENTON: I dont want to disillusion you but the only way they could do that was by hideously torturing the kangaroo with electrical wires. It was just it was actually paws on sticks.
CHRIS ABANI: Very Nigerian show then.
ANDREW DENTON: Well get to that. I have never been to Nigeria. As a first time visitor what would fascinate me about your country?
CHRIS ABANI: The airport.
ANDREW DENTON: Thats it.
CHRIS ABANI: Unlike well, you know, things has changed so dramatically. When I was growing up, things were a whole lot different when I was a child, but theyve got progressively worse, so we have wonderful airports where the radar doesnt work and people fly by instinct. And, you know, we always we always make fun of that. We have talking drum radar. But so, just the fact that you landed and go through customs unscathed would be quite the thing, but it depends on where you landed. If you came in through Lagos, which is an amazing city. Its really one of those remarkable cities that are like Cairo or Mexico City, theyre wonderful things to see. The markets are just amazing. Theyre like open-air souks. Theres also some less nice but really interesting things like the old slave market things like this, the national theatre, theres all that kind of great stuff. The food is amazing. We make some of the best Chinese food ever and one of the things I love most is a restaurant in Lagos that has a sign that says authentic Nigerian sushi.
CHRIS ABANI: But its sort of a mix of things. Lots of yams, lots of things like that. Very starchy food, very meat and potato kind of people.
ANDREW DENTON: See I thought you were going to say like rhinoceros beetle still clicking.
CHRIS ABANI: No, we dont actually no, well no, we flew those as kids though. You get a rhinoceros beetle and you tie a piece of string around it and you send it up and its like a helicopter.
ANDREW DENTON: Thats interesting, the different toys that people played with in different cultures. What were some classic games that you boys got up to?
CHRIS ABANI: It was, well there was stuff like trying to trying to we would go crab hunting but the whole idea was well, the thing about crab cause youd have stick, this was by a river and youd have to stick your hand in a hole that you couldnt what was in it to try and pull out a crab. And so the the big thing was trying not to get bitten by a snake and whoever got bit by a snake was was was a lousy crab hunter. So, if you won then you got some nice crab.
ANDREW DENTON: And if you lost werent you a little bit dead?
CHRIS ABANI: Well, not quite. You know, we would you know little boys bush first aid, like wed cut the the thing with a razor, put a tourniquet and then wed pee on it cause it disinfects the wound.
ANDREW DENTON: Oh okay.
CHRIS ABANI: We used to love that part, the peeing on the wound. My mother was English and growing up sort of biracial and bicultural I would be out hunting squirrels with slingshots and then the four oclock or the tea bell would go and Id have to scamper on to the front veranda where mother had set up tea, full English tea with cucumber sandwiches and her Glenn Miller record collection and Id have to sit there with my pinkie pointed drinking tea with my mother and sort of going from sort of talking like that, to sort of going yes, well mother, its quite hot today isnt it, and then all my friends be out on the on the lawn outside making fun of me going, you know. So it sort of being able to to not only cross cultures, but it was a wonderful childhood in that sort of sense, magical.
ANDREW DENTON: Youre a beautiful storyteller. Im going to keep pressing you for a few more. Teaching or discussing birth control with Nigerian women when you were still a child.
CHRIS ABANI: Yes. I was raised Catholic and my mother, she was very Catholic, and she wanted to teach Billings Ovulation method, which is sort of a Catholic devised birth control that involves pulling out is one of them. But also through the scientific study of the urine of the women and measuring the size of her vulva, you can figure out when shes most likely to have a boy or a girl. So most of the women she was talking to in their 30s and 40s and didnt speak English and my mothers Ebo was sort of enough to get into trouble in a restaurant, right, sort of when you order the snails and you get the alligator kind of thing. So she would take me along to as her little interpreter cause no one else wanted to do it and I sort of was like a mummys boy, so I was eight years old and sort of sitting next to this woman going you know in Ebo, sort of well, you know these are women whove never discussed sex with their husbands right and so Im saying to them well you know when you measure your vulva and its expanded and so you insert this and it was very, very traumatic for them. I didnt think anything of it as a kid, Im sure, but now I look back at it and I just think you know my mother was a kind of intriguing woman and really sort of in her own way was very avant garde without probably meaning to be.
ANDREW DENTON: Can you tell of the story about when your mums parents first met your dad?
CHRIS ABANI: Well, see my mother comes from a small sleepy English village called Burnham, which is outside of Slough and Sloughs only claim to fame, recently is the Office, but also it was where they made all the chocolates, all the Mars Bar factories are there; the Horlicks factory is there but my grandparents were kind of cool people. They were my father was a my grandfather on my mothers side was a was a gardener for the Big House as we used to say and but he was sort of trying to be upwardly mobile. But you can imagine, this was in the early 50s apart from the GIs, there werent really any black people in... My mother sort of turns up with with my father Michael, who even in Nigeria we would people go oh my god, your father is very black.
CHRIS ABANI: You know he was he was like purple-black. You know like an egg eggplant or aubergine black. And you know, but my grandparents were kind of cool. They didnt think there was anything odd about it. In fact my grandfathers most important revelling sort of way of assessing my father was how much of the classics he knew and what he thought whether he thought Homer was a sham or not, no one within that family seemed to think it was odd and she left to go to Nigeria to to marry him in 56, but they were kind of interesting cool people
ANDREW DENTON: I want to ask you a little bit about that journey, about your mother in a while, but lets stay in your childhood in Nigeria. There was a teacher a Muslim who taught you about the Holocaust. How did that come about?
CHRIS ABANI: Well, so I was born in 66 just as the Biafra war started and so it took it took my mother two years to get through across Biafra to where there was an airstrip that we could get out of the country so I came back when I was about five and so and we arrived back into sort of a post civil war situation and as a child a lot of the stuff doesnt register as much as it does when you sort of recollect it but we were playing out in playing in burnt out tanks and would always come across skeletons still hanging from trees. There would be grenades that we would throw around and then the pin would come off and blow someones hand off and stuff like that. So the unofficial law was that post-civil war Nigeria, nobody taught the the story of the Biafran war in schools because the whole idea was that there was this fear that the kids would would sort of learn this history and then start another war in ten years, and so we had this Pakistani Muslim teacher, Mr Halyard, who didnt think that this was right, that we should know about this history, but knowing that he was there on a work visa he sort of kept trying to find ways to teach it and his way to teach us about Biafra was to teach us Jewish Holocaust history
ANDREW DENTON: Did you know at the time that he was really telling the story of your country or did that come later?
CHRIS ABANI: It came later I think. You know we I dont think when was seven or eight at the time but I became completely obsessed with the Holocaust, so something in me must have had, there must have been an emotional resonance with this trauma and my first book a lot of it had to do with the Holocaust and Nazis and stuff like that, so but I think it, you know, maybe when I was 20 it sort of, it suddenly dawned on me what hed been trying to do.
ANDREW DENTON: I read a story you wrote about witnessing a thief being chased and necklaced in the marketplace, which was very it was very brutal. Can you explain what happened there?
CHRIS ABANI: I think that when you do a certain amount of violence to people, violence becomes accepted and after the civil war there was sort of these rash outbursts of anger, where somebody could be walking through a marketplace and all he had to do was annoy someone who would then scream thief, thief, and if he started running then a mob would descend on him and the mob justice was to lynch you and the lynch in Nigeria was to put a car tyre round your neck, douse you with gasoline and set you on fire. And when this would happen of course as children we would you know run the opposite direction but then the older people would grab hold of you and sort of this very Catholic sense of ritual force you to either look at this or walk up and spit on the burning man as a way to understand what happens to people who are bad.
ANDREW DENTON: Which is what your aunt did to you?
CHRIS ABANI: Which is what my aunt did, made me go up and spit on this burning man.
ANDREW DENTON: Did you walk away from that thinking he was bad or did you walk away from that thinking people are bad?
CHRIS ABANI: I walked away from it feeling very ashamed theres nothing like the smell of burning flesh and it never leaves you and I walked away with that and this complete sense of shame, knowing that something wrong was happening here and that I had become complicit somehow.
ANDREW DENTON: Lets talk about your writing career and your first book when you were 18, 19, Masters of the Board, led you to being accused of masterminding a coup against the Nigerian government. Now thats a strong piece of writing there.
CHRIS ABANI: I was 16 when I wrote that book when it got published and you know it was a thriller, my early work was, and it was a preposterous plot. But two years after that General Vatsa, whod been a patron of the arts and had been particularly good to me, was arrested on grounds of a coup attempt and when they went through his papers they found out that or the claim was that the alleged coup was a direct copy of the plot of the novel. And so a very over-excited young officer arrested me thinking this would earn him some promotion and so I was held for six months in prison as an 18 year old.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah, you had three times in jail and youve written quite a lot about it. I want to quote one line at you, which is the beatings have a certain rhythm once your body gets used to it. How does your body get used to something like that?
CHRIS ABANI: Well, the beatings are usually the worst I mean the least of the problems and in Nigerian prison in terms of torture. I mean torture ranged from you know rape with foreign objects both by inmates and the guards, cause youre caught between two levels of tyranny: the guards and the inmates and it sort of existed outside of the real world in many cases. Electroshock where they would sort of connect nodes to your penis and shock you or tie you to a bed and shock you. There were mock executions so they would take 12 people out and hood them and then shoot four and you never knew which four and this would go on and on, week after week. What happens in prison is your initial reaction to torture is to fight it, is to refuse to be broken by it and that only makes it worse.
ANDREW DENTON: So you have to bend rather than break.
CHRIS ABANI: You have to bend and you sort of learn to give over to the beatings in a certain way and after a while and different beatings do different things to you. Beatings to the to the top of the head can make you feel differently from beatings to the to the back or beatings to the soles of the feet and so you just learn to give in to the rhythm of the beating and just howl until its over and so on.
ANDREW DENTON: You were in solitary for six months. What solitude as I understand it was a like a six by eight foot basically a hole in the ground, right? What do you think about for six months in solitary?
CHRIS ABANI: Well you start by thinking its this is not really happening. And remember its a hole in the ground so its not its basically earth, so youre all your bodily functions are conducted around you. Theres no showers and no you dont see anyone you dont see any light; dont speak to anyone for months. You start by reciting nursery rhymes to keep reminding yourself of of different time. You try to keep track of time by how many nursery rhymes youve recited and you figure out and after a while you stop talking and then you start to hallucinate, I could imagine that you know if Id been smart I would have turned it into like a book of Mormon kind of situation and Id have the church of Chris Abani and Id be rolling in money now but.
ANDREW DENTON: It sounds right actually, the Church of Chris Abani. You put it together as one word. Im a Chris Abanian.
CHRIS ABANI: Yeah, a Chris Abanian. I practice Chris Abanism. Kind of works.
ANDREW DENTON: It does work. You said that as a child you loved reading comic books. When you got into prison there they were again. Can you tell me about John James and the power of Spiderman?
CHRIS ABANI: Heres this 14 year old boy who one of the things that particularly military regime would do at the time was if a family member was being sought after and they didnt find him they would arrest somebody and hold them as ransom and someone had gone after his father whod fled the country and they took John James and held him as ransom. So here was a kid whos essentially in prison on death row with a bunch of killers and rapists who has no business being there. But who had the most cheerful disposition and the guards, its one of those moments where I think, you know, some of the guards must have recognised their own sons, cause he was the only one allowed reading material and he had three comic books with him. You know, The Green Lantern, Spiderman and the Silver Surfer. And he would teach some of his older inmates, these really vicious men how to read with these comic books and so like you know late at night you would sort of hear a bunch of men reciting things like you know take that, Spidey, or my Spidey senses are tingling and sort of theres something really amazing about literature that that this is the thing about stories that it it doesnt whatever its original intent is it has a way its almost like a like a virus. And, you know, John James was essentially tortured to death. They handcuffed him to a chair and nailed his penis to a table and left him to bleed to death. It took him three days to die and thats how some of us ended up in solitary because we we kind of rioted after that. So there are these ways in which this sort of remarkable young kid continues even in his absence to to kind of reverberate.
ANDREW DENTON: Weve talked about prison. Lets talk about freedom. The idea very interesting idea of closing your eyes and sticking your hand on a map to decide where youre going to go, which it strikes me as dangerous cause two thirds of the world is water.
CHRIS ABANI: Yes, yes. I was having difficulties with the Nigerian government who at this time were unofficially harassing me still at my job and all these other places. So I eeny-meeny-miney moed over a map and luckily it fell on California so thats how I ended up moving out to to Los Angeles.
ANDREW DENTON: How is the rhythm of America different to the rhythm of Nigeria?
CHRIS ABANI: I think the rhythm of Americas very similar to the rhythm of Nigeria. I think it was the rhythm of London that was off you know in the worlds ideas theyre no middle class Africans; were all sort of starving in a village in Ethiopia essentially or running from a civil war somewhere. So the idea that you know there are Nigerians who are like who shop in Hugo Boss and all that sort of stuff doesnt really strike anyone, who only want Starbucks and kind of so.
ANDREW DENTON: See I had you all as attacking Michael Caine in Zulu.
CHRIS ABANI: Exactly, exactly. But you know the sort of the popular the media image isnt of that and so I found America a lot more open in that sense. There is a sense of possibility
ANDREW DENTON: When youre at a party and someone says what do you do, Chris? Do you say Im a poet?
CHRIS ABANI: No, no, I got tired of doing that because you know everyones a poet apparently. You say to someone oh Im a poet and well two things happen: one they think you mean youre a rapper you know its a bit like sort of like with Tim youre like you know theyre thinking about to break down with your bitches and hoes, kind of thing. And then the other thing is where everyone goes oh yeah my aunt writes poetry, which always used to drive me crazy cause I dont imagine if youre a neurosurgeon you said oh Im a neurosurgeon, people would oh really My aunt dabbles in that.
CHRIS ABANI: So at one party I started telling people I was a prophet, which just worked because then people would go oh really? And then they would sort of sidle away from me. And Id go no really, really, that earthquake, that was my work. I predicted that. And so and so I now I just I dont tell people Im a poet, it doesnt help, and plus I when every time Ive told airport security that Im a poet they fall about laughing cause they think Im a wrestler. You know, look at me, they look at me. They look at me and go oh yeah, youre a poet. Yeah, you play football, man.
ANDREW DENTON: Youre a quarterback called Byron.
CHRIS ABANI: Thats right.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah, yeah. You said that your time in prison made you question the inherent goodness of human beings. Is that still in question for you?
CHRIS ABANI: Yeah. It is, you know, when people act towards their better nature Im always amazed by it and humbled by it, and never, never take it for granted and actually go out of my way to acknowledge it because its much rarer than we think. And again, its all that sort of random acts of kindness that I talk about that people do everyday and they never they dont even they dont think its a big deal but it those are the moments are the biggest deal in a sense. Those are the the moments when you real your real humanity shines forward so I think that goodness is something that is earned and fought for on a daily basis and its something that you have to be vigilant about. Cause I think sometimes we think were making choices but were acting towards a received narrative thats running through our heads, you know. So black men are violent, so your reaction you know, what I mean? White people are racists, so your reaction. And I predicted that Obama would win because I said sexism would trump racism because you know if I walked into a bar and George Bush was sitting there and I sat down next to him and I went ah, women; we would bond immediately. Hed get me a beer; we would talk at least for the moment of that drink there would be no black man, white man; no right wing, left wing. We would just be two blokes commiserating, all right.
ANDREW DENTON: Ill be fascinated to see after that story about George Bush if indeed you are a prophet.
CHRIS ABANI: Well whether Bush and I will have a drink or whether Obama will win the presidency?
ANDREW DENTON: Both would be very interesting to see. Chris Abani, thank you so much.
CHRIS ABANI: Thank you very much. Thank you.


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After Metal-Head sings and when he arrives at Cobra HQ with the damaged Overkill in a wheelbarrow, he loses his mustache.
Riddle #2:
Q: What kinds of beans do cannibals like?
A: Human beings.
Riddle #1:
Q: What goes dot dot croak, croak dot croak, croak, croak, dot, dot?
A: A Morse Toad!
How come nobody else on the reunion boat realises what's going on? The boat sinks and nearby a heavy war takes place, but nobody reacts on any of these events...
How come granny got to speak on that altered disk, since she was nowhere near the room where the disk was overwritten?
Metal-Head was the high school football mascot back in his time.
Goof: The ASP reveals Grunt's name: Robert W. Graves. But this person was lost in another world in the Original G.I. Joe series.
Maybe it just was because Grunt's action figure was re-released in 1991.
Cobra Commander always wears a hidden radio in his boots.
The place of the peace conference is named as Conference City in the Swiss Alps. In fact there's a city, where every year is teh big World Economic Meeting (the biggest meeting for people from politics and economy in the world). This city is located in the high mountains and is called Davos.
In this episode the Joes last line isn't Yo Joe!, they end with Peace.
Altitude's file card shows that he used to work in animation until his budding career was shortened by the collapse of syndicated cartoon programming.
The two movie the Joes watch are:
1. Road Trip to Gorky
2. Road Trip to Beirut
The letter of Congress reads:
In conclusion, because the cost of GI Joe's jungle expedition totaled the outrageous eight million, nine hundred and eighty-four thousand, eight hundred ninety-nine dollars and fifty-two cents, the U.S. Senate has ordered you to report to the Battle World proving ground to learn to fight in a cost-efficient manner. Signed, Dr. Deborah Carday. Counter-signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Fact would be: The President can recommend people for positions like Secretary of Defense and Attorney General but, Congress gets the final say.
The news headline reads:
GI Joe Hiss-tory now that Serpent Man is here!
When the Joes finally reach their vehicles, before they can board them Cobra takes out the Locusts and Retaliator Choppers, they say they've lost their air attack. But Avalanche tanks still have attack pods that are flight capable.
The answer Cobra Commander gets (it simply doesn't make any sense, so you can consider this as goof):
We are sorry, but our president is on vacation and we are unable to surrender in his absence.
Your idle threat interrupted "Bowling for Dollars" please see that it doesn't happen again.
Voice-over explaining the location:
Across the blue Pacific, far from the hustle and bustle of civilization, lies the beautiful island of Volcania. Sparkling beaches, waving palms, ancient ruins a dormant volcano and GI Joe's rest and recreation base, better known as Club Joe. Activities include tennis, archery, swimming and fishing.
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Dude, Where's My Waiver?
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"Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you. First of all, if you've got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.â€
–President Obama, 2009
Having said that, you wouldn't think a waiver protecting you from the health care law that was allegedly intended to protect your health care would be a necessity, would you?
Nearly a million workers won't get a consumer protection in the U.S. health reform law meant to cap insurance costs because the government exempted their employers.
Thirty companies and organizations, including McDonald's (MCD) and Jack in the Box (JACK), won't be required to raise the minimum annual benefit included in low-cost health plans, which are often used to cover part-time or low-wage employees.
The Department of Health and Human Services, which provided a list of exemptions, said it granted waivers in late September so workers with such plans wouldn't lose coverage from employers who might choose instead to drop health insurance altogether.
Without waivers, companies would have had to provide a minimum of $750,000 in coverage next year, increasing to $1.25 million in 2012, $2 million in 2013 and unlimited in 2014.
The government went out of their way to keep the dollar menu from becoming the five-dollar menu, thus saving money on their lunch hours, but the rest of us might not be so lucky. The waiver is only temporary though, just to get Democrats through the election without a million people being dumped from their health coverage because the Democrats helped them out so much.
Here's one for the irony file:
The biggest single waiver, for 351,000 people, was for the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, a New York union providing coverage for city teachers. The waivers are effective for a year and were granted to insurance plans and companies that showed that employee premiums would rise or that workers would lose coverage without them, Santillo says.
The same people who supported pushing off Obamacare on the entire country have received protection from it. It's good ta be da union.
Can the media please stop referring to something that consumers are running from like the plague as a "consumer protection" now?
7 Responses to "Dude, Where's My Waiver?"
SignPainterGuy on
October 7th, 2010 2:29 pm
"Nobody is talking….", Of course they`re not, no one would fall for their crap if they did !! Nope, just lying and coniving !!!
"It`s good ta be da union." Or KING !! We saw it coming….One of the very few things Obummer DIDN`T lie about…..he said he would protect the unions !!
"consumer protection", one more case in point…if a lib. says it, the opposite is true !!!
We no longer need binoculars to see November from our house !!
Doug on
October 7th, 2010 3:03 pm
fixed that for ya' Doug.
Nicely done!
Marshall_Will on
October 7th, 2010 4:39 pm
Not to come across as being entirely flippant, but the reason I mention the whole "doctor/patient relationship" is simply I feel it was a horrific tactical error on the part of conservatives, or those not delusional enough to believe in free lunches.
Firstly, major employers are changing their HC providers well.., a lot more often than Bin Laden changes his underwear! My wife's employer does so just about every year. In so doing, you get a whole new pamphlet and chances are, your old Doc won't be IN their PPO list! So what's the diff? Who cares, it's hardly my priest and it damn sure ain't my wife! Now if you'll excuuuuse me a man w/ a rubber glove and a sinister smile is telling me this will 'barely' hurt at all?
SignPainterGuy on
October 7th, 2010 8:22 pm
Hard to say which is worse, the "glove" treatment or the hurrying home for a bit of "deep cleansing" and fresh underwear afterward !!? :<*
SignPainterGuy on
October 8th, 2010 7:48 pm
Heard on FOX about an hour ago that the WH released the waiver notice "quietly" on their w/s , 30 companies jumped right away, and now has expanded to 140`ish…their hoping it won`t snowball….. Don`t tell them, but I think Pandora`s Box has been flung wide open !!! TOOOOO LAAATE !!!
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Sri Lanka stocks closed up 1.8 percent Wednesday after the Central Bank cut rates by 25 basis points, driven mostly by domestic buying.
The benchmark Colombo All Share Price Index close up 98 points at 5,516.6 and the S&P SL20 Index rose 31.3 points to close at 2,994.5 points up 1.06 percent.
Turnover was 479 million rupees. Domestic sales were 330 million rupees and purchases 361 rupees. Foreign investors sold 148 million rupees of stock and bought 117 million rupees of shares.
Now, let's take a look at a review of yesterday's stock market update.


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I love them! Brian is my favorite! I also like kirby though!
How about a Yoshi or pacman?
How about a Yoshi or pacman?
Oooh pacman! I totally forgot about pacman, that would be so simple and cute, thanks!
How about Smurfs or more Gumby charaters (I liked the Blockheads, personally), or Yoshi is good, or Donkey Kong? Maybe getting too big/tricky though . . .
Those are some great ideas too! More Gumby would be awsome, the best part about that is that they're claymation so making the pins is an easy transition. I really want to make a Donkey Kong, Smurf and Yoshi, perhaps just the head would work out well, I like a challenge Maybe a Nintendo controller will be next! Thanks for the ideas!


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Following the release of Kinect SDK, Microsoft Research is releasing software development kit (SDK) for a yet-to-be-released Microsoft's multi-touch user interface product the "Microsoft Touch Mouse."
"The 32bit/64bit SDK includes both C# and C++ code samples consuming the Microsoft TouchMouseSensor API which outputs a 13×15 grayscale pixel sensor image from the integrated sensor of the mouse itself. Third party developers can then use this image to detect gestures and other multi-touch events."
Although the tiny sensor and non-commercial license will limit the scope of third-party uses for this device, but making available an SDK even before the product's launch is a notable effort to allow developers to experiment with NUI computing without resorting to brute-force hacks.
You can download the SDK's using the following links: for 32-bit and 64-bit.
More Info: Microsoft Touc Mouse
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The Justice RM Lodha Committee on Monday submitted its report suggesting reforms in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to the Supreme Court.
The committee, which was last year appointed by the apex court to make recommendations to the BCCI in order to prevent frauds and conflict of interest in cricket administration, will hold a press conference expected at around 12 noon on Monday.
With the much-awaited report set to be made public, cricket administration in India is expected to undergo a sea change.
Among the recommendations that might find place in the report can be the abolition of the zonal rotation policy to elect BCCI administrators. There can also be a mention of age and tenure limit for board and state association office-bearers. The report can also recommend that the sports administrators be restricted to have just two terms in their offices.
If the Lodha Committee, including two other retired judges – Ashok Bhan and Raju Varadarajulu Raveendran, decides to redraft the board's Constitution and insists on the state units to follow suit, it is going to be a massive overhaul.
In one of the most important aspects of it, chargesheeted administrators could face possibility of being barred from contesting election.
While there can be scrutiny of revenue and income distribution by the board to state associations, all contracts and appointments might also be screened. There is also a possibility that independent directors may run the board and the IPL may be segregated from the board and run independently.
If the recommendations find their way, the BCCI, which has always denied to come under the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, may not only come under it but also be brought under Sports Fraud Bill and Sports Code of India.
The role of former IPL COO Sundar Raman in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal too comes into focus, with the Lodha Committee expected to advise suitable punishment for the former administrator. As per the Mudgal report, Raman is facing a couple of serious charges and the panel may decide his fate today.
There is a also possibility to revamp certain state associations as some of them are having more than one units.
While the final say might rest with the Supreme Court, the Lodha report is definitely expected to open the can of worms in Indian cricket and only time will tell how the BCCI manages to set itself free from one of the biggest testing times it has faced in recent history.


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