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In a statement released on Saturday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lauded Guzman's arrest. "Today's apprehension of Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman Loera by Mexican authorities is a landmark achievement, and a victory for the citizens of both Mexico and the United States. Guzman was one of the world's most wanted men and the alleged head of a drug-running empire that spans continents," he said. "We are pleased that we were able to work effectively with Mexico through the cooperative relationship that U.S. law enforcement agencies have with their Mexican counterparts. We look forward to ongoing cooperation, and future successes."
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson also praised the Mexican Government. "The operation led by the Mexican government overnight to capture Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman Loera is a significant victory and milestone in our common interest of combating drug trafficking, violence and illicit activity along our shared border," he said, in the joint statement. "We congratulate our Mexican partners in this achievement and we will continue to work collaboratively with them to ensure a border region that is safe and secure, for the communities and citizens of both our nations."
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Alexander G. Chamessian of Duke University School of Medicine would like to invite you to take a look at a new online discussion community called Pain Researcher. I established this site in order to facilitate the sharing of information and ideas among pain researchers, particularly trainees. While the pain community has an excellent outlet for news and commentary in PRF, we are lacking a space to ask quick (but important) questions and engage informally.
Some of the ongoing threads so far:
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So far, the reception of the site has been excellent, but I hope that it will continue to grow and the discussions will become more frequent and varied. I invite you to join the discussion, and to share the site with your students and colleagues who might also find Pain Researcher of benefit.
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What exactly is the point of life to you?
Im sort of drifting on the idea that living is just something we do cause we have been programmed to live for as long as we can. We are born and then we just find a purpose to live for.
why would it be any difference if you die now or die later?(apart from being able to achieve immortality in the future , if it was ever possible )
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In the grande scheme of things I don't think there's a point. You lose everything regardless of when you doe and any mark you leave on this planet is temporary since eventually the earth will be gone and humans will be extinct.
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On 09/28/2011 01:29 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Carl Marcum<email@example.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I wanted to gauge the interest in including Groovy [1] as a scripting >> language. >> >> For those not familiar, Groovy is a dynamic language for the JVM that >> includes features like closures, builders, and dynamic typing. > > >> There is currently a Groovy For OpenOffice extension [2] for this >> available under LGPL. I have contacted the author regarding additionally >> licensing the extension as Apache and he would be willing to do that to >> include it. > > >> Groovy itself is under the Apache 2.0 so I thought it may be a good fit. >> > > > My biggest reservation toward this is if groovy makes OOo even more heavy. > Meaning that if it get bundled in, it will create a similar effect to Python > runtime within OpenOffice.org. I haven't look into it yet, but I think the big part is the JVM that is already included anyway. The groovy jar is about 2MB and the complete extension oxt is about 8 Mb I believe. > > So there are some spring cleaning that needs to happen to python, meaning > removing all modules and files that are not needed by OOo and maybe even > adding some files that will ease the development of Python in the scripting > framework ie. TCL and others. > > On a similar venue, I will recommend that adding Groovy would also need > bootstrap to minimize the overall size impact of the bundle. > > At the same time many projects to improve the development of extensions have > been idle including a Java-GUI development environment and UNO-base IDE for > Python and other scripting languages (like Beanshell, and others. > Hopefully not idle for much longer :) > Of course the smartest and quickest thing to do is to make the Basic IDE/GUI > designer compliant with the rest of the languages (Java, Python, Beanshell, > ... Groovy). > > >> >> I am willing to work on this if there is interest. >> >> Best regards, >> Carl >> >> [1] http://groovy.codehaus.org/ >> [2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/GroovyForOpenOffice >> > > > Best regards, Carl
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Despite having been out of college for a couple of years now, the internships I held while attending school in Boston were strongly formative and transformative in my succeeding career choices and passions. In my four years of college, I held five internships with various nonprofits in the Boston and Los Angeles areas. As a college student, I knew I was passionate about social activism, environmental justice, theatre, and educational equity. Although I greatly valued and benefited from my college education and experience, I was also aware that the courses I was enrolled in would only teach me so much. Without taking advantage of additional opportunities outside of the classroom, I would have to wait years to apply the knowledge and passion I was gaining and building from classes into the 'real' world beyond school.
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Attending college in the heart of a city had a plethora of advantages—one being that I had many organizations and companies in close proximity, which meant that I could search and apply for various internships. That close proximity also allowed me to attend school while simultaneously being involved in a myriad of extracurricular activities and leadership opportunities. Even when interning over the summer, like many college students are doing right now, I was able to take advantage of summer housing through my college, volunteer at various shelters and organizations in my spare time, continue to build my resume, and explore new areas of the city I was interning in.
Having said all this, I cannot stress enough how much more prepared I felt on my college graduation day for what laid before me in my young professional career because I had held the internships that I did. Not only did I feel academically prepared to start my corps member commitment with a national public service program and teach in a high-need school district, but I also felt professionally prepared to collaborate with new coworkers and professionals, delegate and handle a multitude of high-priority tasks, effectively manage a group of people (both younger than me, my age, and older), articulate myself in an empowered and dependable way, work hard toward a common goal, and confidently ask questions to improve my skills and performance.
If you are able to hold an internship during college or over the summers in between, I highly recommend applying and taking advantage of the opportunity. Each internship I held helped me develop integral and beneficial skills that I may not have been able to develop without the opportunity (or not until a later time in my young professional career). I learned how to assert myself as a young person in a sea of older professionals, navigate my way through the nonprofit sector, ask for help and additional information to better my internship performance and expand my knowledge, achieve goals I didn't think I was capable of as a 19-22 year old, and maturely and responsibly carry myself through the professional world as a college student.
Among the various professional experiences and skills I learned and gained as an intern, I also learned what not to do as an intern;those are lessons that I wish I had in my back pocket before serving in my first internship position. Although this list could be exhaustive, these ten suggestions are in my opinion—and of those of the young professionals I also consulted—the most important tips to keep in the forefront of your mind as you approach your internship.
1) Do not be afraid to ask questions or for feedback.
Some of the best, most helpful, and most impressive interns are ones who continually make sure they are completing tasks correctly and efficiently, and routinely check in for feedback to improve their performance.
2) Do not expect each internship experience to be glamorous and don't automatically feel entitled to the most exciting tasks.
I remember seeing the instagrams of some of my fellow college peers who were interning on movie sets, magazine photo shoots, and in art galleries while I was running to FedEx to mail out a nonprofit's recruitment materials to over 20 colleges in the northeast. In most fields, interns or entry-level employees will be assigned administrative work and should expect to 'pay their dues' to some degree. Obviously, you should still feel treated with respect, fairness, and equality as an intern, but the tasks you are given to complete may not be the most desirable. However,they are still necessary and greatly helpful to your organization and/or company.
3) Do not let your employer take advantage of you.
There is a difference between an internship and an unpaid staff position. If you are going above and beyond your initial volunteer or intern agreement and feel you are working considerably more (or taking on tasks beyond that of an unpaid intern), you should be compensated in some way (salary, college credit, a stipend, etc.) for your hard work and significant dedication.
4) Do not show up late or take more than 1-2 days off (unless it's an emergency).
During my final internship in Boston as a senior, I was balancing way too much. I was holding two internships, three regular jobs, college classes, a self-directed senior project, and two significant leadership opportunities on campus. My immune system was weak, I was rarely sleeping and not catching up on that lost sleep (especially because one of my jobs had me working until 2 AM most weekend nights), and I was stretched thin preparing for my post-grad job. With that said, there were many times I had to call in sick, come in late, or leave early from my internship. Although I gave that internship my all while I was there, I inconvenienced my supervisor and department coworkers because of my sick days and chaotic senior schedule.
5) Do not take a longer lunch break than you are given.
I know most people don't recommend working through your lunch (I am definitely guilty as charged in that area!), but I also don't recommend the opposite either. You may be used to taking your time in your college's dining hall, but don't push your limits on your lunch break. Take some time to recharge and then get back to work.
6) Even if you are already familiar with the organization/company, don't assume you know how everything works.
Yes, you are there to work and serve, but you are also there to learn and gain necessary skills that will propel you toward your desired career path. Be humble and approach every task as a learning lesson and stepping stone. Even if there is something you already know, you can use that opportunity to deepen your understanding and experience even more.
7) Do not complain.
I want to put a disclaimer out there that if you do feel like you are being treated unjustly and unfairly in your internship experience, definitely feel empowered and supported enough to speak up and say your truth. However, if you feel treated fairly in your internship experience and you just dislike a task or assignment given to you, do not complain. Just like I tell the students I teach, in life there will always be things you do not want to do, but you will become a better and more humble person if you push through, give it your best, and do it anyway.
8) Do not treat your internship like summer camp.
This is not a summer opportunity to make friends, have fun, party, and make memories. Sure, having fun and enjoying your internship is important, as it may be the field you are interested in working in for the rest of your life, but don't treat your internship unprofessionally. You are there to work, learn, and develop new skills, build up your resume, become a more knowledgeable young professional, and prepare for your post-grad life. If you want to have a blast at summer camp, then go to summer camp.
9) Do not pretend you have skills you do not.
I know a lot of internships require college students and young professionals to know InDesign, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, and other advanced software programs. If you do not know how to navigate these programs but are expected to in your internship, do not lie and tell your supervisor you do. Be honest, then learn fast, take initiative, and seek help and assistance.
10) Do not create your own silo.
You are not your own island. Take advantage of the department(s) of professionals at your fingertips and network daily. You never know which one of your coworkers may help you connect to a future job in that company/organization or another. Collaborate and connect with as many professionals as you can in your short time as an intern and do not isolate yourself just because you may not technically be a part of their paid staff.
Collaborate and connect with as many professionals as you can in your short time as an intern and do not isolate yourself.
Sure, you can spend your summer lounging by the pool, reading magazines, and spending time with friends, but you can also do those things and celebrate your summer after a 9-5 internship. I do not regret any of the internship positions I held and I am proud to have them displayed on my resume and LinkedIn profile. I worked hard in each one I held, pushed myself outside of my comfort zone, learned a multitude of new skills that have helped me tremendously in my post-grad job and beyond, and connected me with inspiring professionals who I am still in contact with today. Just keep these tips in mind and you will not only survive your summer internship, but you will thrive!
Dylan Manderlink is a 20-something first grade teacher in southeastern Utah who is passionate about social justice, the arts, education, environmental preservation, and feminism. She is a graduate of Emerson College and studied a self-designed major, Investigative Theatre for Social Change. Following graduation, she moved to rural Arkansas to teach high school through the national public service program, Teach for America.


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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done… – Matthew Arnold Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God's residence is next to mine, His furniture is love. – Emily Dickinson Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. – Emma Goldman I love humanity but I hate people. – Edna St. Vincent Millay Love — is anterior to Life — Posterior — to Death — Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth — – Emily Dickinson Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. – Willa Cather Life is a quest and love a quarrel … – Edna St. Vincent Millay For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to throw away; A time to tear, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate, A time for war, and a time for peace. – Ecclesiastes (more) When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix (more) It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. – Thomas Merton Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred. – Mohandas K. Gandhi Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock. – Mary Parrish Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. – Carl Jung When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. – Amy Tan I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. – Mary S. Calderone Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great. – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new. – Ursula K. Le Guin That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love. – Emily Dickinson
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French President and Co-Prince of Andorra François Hollande praised the Andorran Government's decision to open up the nation's economy and reform the tax system in the wake of the financial crisis during a recent visit to the Principality.
Hollande said the country had chosen openness and a commitment to a broad movement of reforms "with a particularly ambitious agenda." He said decisions to lift restrictions on foreign capital and the modernization of taxation will allow the country to fully integrate with Europe and the rest of the world, and enable the territory to balance its public finances.
Since 2009, Andorra has introduced a VAT-like general indirect tax (IGI), corporation tax, and non-resident income tax. Meanwhile, the Principality intends to apply personal income tax from January 1, 2015. The signing of tax information exchange agreements and double taxation treaties, including a double tax accord with France, further demonstrates the country's efforts to ensure tax equity and tax compliance, Hollande said.
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I hate to feel forced into keeping fit, if my track record has proven anything is that I need to do exercise when I don't realise I am. When I say exercise when I don't realise, a prime love of mine is cycling; out in the fresh air but you don't often know you're exercising. You can do your day to day tasks, cycle to work, cycle out for a picnic...the list goes on and you're keeping fit = winner.
I've previously blogged about my love for cycling but I figured I'm looking for some needed inspiration so I'm hoping to take you along with me.
Firstly cycling has many benefits but one major one is that it's low impact, meaning it is a fantastic exercise for beginners right the way through to experts. With regards to this post I'm not say you need to be the next Bradley Wiggins or the next Mark Cavendish, I'm talking about cycling for the love of the activity and today I'm listing the bikes for ladies who want a fashionable push bike.
I have a wonderful bicycle called Gertie, I bought her last year off a market stall and have thoroughly enjoyed riding her to work, to my friends, to the shops and so on. She was £70.00 and to be honest it is the best money I've ever spent. You'll have noticed some bikes out in the shops are quite pricey so I've listed a mixture below - but each one is amazing in its own way.
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Their website does not seem very informative too, or maybe I'm just not good at using their website.
Thank you.
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Just doing some rough sums here:
Rent per week: $300
Rent per month: $1300 (300*52/12)
Cost per month through Rental Rewards – $31.30 (assuming Amex is charged the same amount – I couldn't find info from website) and assuming you pay once a month.
If you have Amex Explorer card, earns 2 MRG points per $, you get 2600 pts per month, which are worth $52 if you value them at 2 cents per point (cpp).
If the value of the points you earn is more than the extra cost you have to pay by going via Rental Rewards, its is worthwhile. However, essentially, you are 'buying' points. It comes down to how much you are willing to pay for the point of your choice.
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|X-mas Gifts Mafia
|Game information
|Game thread: X-mas Gifts Mafia BTSC threads
|Players (Small)
|Start Date
|Winning Faction
|#, player
|First to Die
|Last Remaining
|Fat Tony / Prince Marth
X-mas Gifts Mafia was a game designed and hosted by Plasmid based on his won design.
It began on November 19, 2013 and ended in a Baddie win in N4 (November 29).
Game Mechanics Edit
The twist for this game is that the goodies don't get to use their own abilities, at least for most of the game. On N1 they can use their own action like normal. After that, each goodie will have to pick a player who they trust enough to use their action. During each day phase, they name a player who will be able to use their action on the next night.
Example: GM gets the redirect role. N1, GM redirects Phaze to Slick. D1, GM says "give Vine the redirect for N2". N2, Vine gets a message at the beginning of the night saying that she has the redirect ability, and any others that were given to her, and gets to use all of them that night. D2, GM says "give Phaze the redirect for N3". Etc.
For the purposes of blocking and redirecting and such, ability transfers are considered to happen during the day phase and are not blockable or redirectable by night actions, but they ARE blocked by lynching. Whoever received the ability will be the one who is considered to be using it for the night. So in the previous example, if GM were blocked N2 then Vine's redirect would still go through, but if Vine were blocked N2 then the redirect would fail.
Each of the goodies will have an ability to transfer like this. The baddies do not have abilities to transfer. The baddies will need to make themselves look like goodies if they want the goodies to give them any of their abilities. And there are spy abilities that will tell you which players gave their abilities to whom. To keep from being outed by such a spy, the baddies each get to say "make it look like I gave an ability to player X" each night.
- You cannot give your ability to yourself, but you may decide to give it to no one.
- OOP: Block > Redirect > RID kill
- Redirected spies aren't told they were redirected.
- Redirected RID kills will kill the player they're redirected to if the originally targeted player's role-ID was guessed correctly
- Tie lynch = no one dies.
- A vote redirect during a day phase can be screwed with by a block or redirect on the preceding night -- think of blocks and redirects as lasting for a full cycle. Ability transfers and ODTG lynch frame can't be affected though.
- NPs will say "[Player name] got redirected" and "[Player name(s)] got killed". There will be no indication of who did the redirecting or killing, nor a distinction between a goodie kill and a baddie kill or between a regular kill and a RID kill.
- To clarify the baddies' bogus ability transfer:
- Suppose Nana is a baddie, and she doesn't want the goodie who spies who you give your ability to to know that she's a baddie based on the fact that she doesn't have an ability to give. So Nana says "give a fake ability to Vine". Now the spy sees "Nana gave an ability to Vine" so Nana isn't outed as a baddie based on not having an ability to transfer. Vine does not see any abilities from Nana's bogus transfer.
- Specifically, it does not work like "Nana gives a fake vote redirect to Vine, and Vine tries to use the vote redirect but it doesn't do anything"
Role DescriptionEdit
Goodie Abilities
- Kill (not blocking)
- Block
- Redirect
- Messenger. Receiver does not get to respond via host-pm.
- Vote redirect
- Spy ability receiver (see who your target gave their ability to). Night 1: see who your target acted on (doesn't detect NK)
- Spy ability givers (see who gave their abilities to your target). Night 1: see who acted on your target (doesn't detect NK)
- Save an ability: If you receive this ability, then you can use it at any point in the game, once for each time you receive the ability. Think of it as getting a card in your hand that you can play at any time. This ability allows you to pick one of the actions you're able to use and say "I don't want to use it tonight, I'd like to hold on to it and use it later in the game." If you save an ability this way, again, consider it to be like having a card in your hand for that ability that you can play at any time.
Baddie Abilities (3 players)
- One NK (not blocking) OR two RID kill (blocking) attempts each night. Must have a carrier. RID kills can each have a separate carrier if you want. Blockable and redirectable.
- ODTG lynch frame. No carrier needed.
- Bogus action for each baddie N1 -- Spies will spy you as acting on your target, and will spy your target as being acted on by you, even though no action will actually happen. Spies cannot spy an NK being carried N1, but the NK can be blocked or redirected.
- Bogus ability transfer for each baddie from D1 onward.
- During the day phases, each living baddie can redirect a goodie's ability transfer for the upcoming night, but if they decide to use this redirect then they must redirect to another goodie and not a baddie.
Host's Summary Edit
I've got to say, this ended up being the weirdest game I've hosted, and I've run a couple of lolcats and a nyan. It had me messing up Fat Tony's action to get him killed and needing to call Prince Marth in to take over his role, Boquise successfully defending himself by saying "I think I killed Aura", "Maybe I was redirected" (when you would clearly know if a kill action were redirected and not need to think about it), and "j/k I really killed Hachi happy.gif", and finally the baddie win because of forgotten ability transfers. So in the spirit of weirdness, I'll give MVP to Fat Tony / Marth, despite the fact that they Vommacked Shadow N1 and gave the baddies a kill for N2. After all, they did kill Aura and were able to definitively clear GM, which was largely ignored by the goodies later on.
Next time I'm a baddie, I'll have to try to defend myself by saying I was busy killing people who don't look the least bit scummy.
Game Idea and Expectations Edit
Special commendationsEdit
Host disappointmentsEdit
Alternate endingsEdit
Winning Faction Edit
- Boquise
- Aura
- Araver
Day and Night Posts Edit
Lolcat: I can haz prolog? Other lolcat: I rote you a prolog, but I ated it. Lolcat: Nyan u do prolog. Nyan: Nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan....
|Night 1
"What's Shadow doing in her player account?" pondered the Grinch. He pondered and pondered and pondered some more. But then he got tired of pondering and just killed her to put her back in mod account. He also knocked araver delirious.
TLDR version: Araver got redirected and Shadow got killed.
|Day 1
It's tragic when the hordes flooding into Black Friday literally trample someone to death with their mob. So would say Kiwi, who died this day as the spy of who receives a target's ability transfer.
|Night 2
Aura was enjoying some eggnog with a little of that extra special nog, which led to a groggy fog. As she slogged down the street, she saw the most ridiculously overpowered X-mas decorations she'd ever seen in her life. She peered at the jet-powered sleigh, and perhaps the nog fumes were a contributing factor, but regardless of the exact reason she ended up being instantaneously incinerated, as did Hachi in the house next door.
Incidentally, Fat Tony was safe and sound in his home throughout all of this.
TLDR: Aura was redirected. Aura and Hachi were killed.
Unfortulately Fat Tony was already put in ghost thread, so I can't really bring him back into the game at this point. So Prince Marth is coming in as a backup to take over Fat Tony's role. (Sowwy FT.)
|Day 2
Looks like there won't be a World War I style Christmas Truce on this vote lynch after all. Araver died a horrible death befitting a baddie.
|Night 3
Dee thought it would be cute to dress up in reindeer antlers. The hunter thought the antlers would look nice over his fireplace. And so dee died. As did Prince Marth... the hunter had downed a fifth of Jack Daniels and hit Marth with a potshot while going after dee.
TLDR: dee and marth both died.
|Day 3
This time it really was like the Christmas Truce of World War I all over again.
|Night 4
Benjer, Barc, and GM all faced Boquise, knowing that they had tracked down the last of the baddies. All Boq could do was what he was made for... he raised a pair of pistols to point at them, hands trembling at what he feared was in store for himself.
Barc: Not gonna work. The same thing that happened to Aura is about to happen to you.
And so Barc and Benjer each took a bullet to the chest.
Barc: Wait, it's not over yet. GM must have been the one to get the vote redirect from Benjer. That means he can vote to lynch Boq and redirect Boq to vote for himself. We're saved!
And so the D4 lynch was a forced tie between Boq and GM, and Boquise was free to make mincemeat of a defenseless GM on night 5.
Moral of the story: It's better to give... than to have your ass handed to you by baddies.
End of Game Roster Edit
- Fat Tony - Killed N2 (due to technicality); Role take over by Marth - Killed N3
- Dee - Killed N3 by Benjer
- Boquise
- Hachi - Killed N2
- Barc - Killed N4
- Kiwi - Lynched D1
- Aura - Killed N2 by Fat Tony
- Benjer - Killed N4
- Shad - Killed N1 by Fat Tony
- Araver - Lynched D2
- GMaster479 - Killed N5
Actions Edit
|List of actions
Night 1
Day 1
Night 2
Day 2
Night 3
Day 3
Night 4


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The Refugee
Today I would like to briefly share Ms. Feyza Şahin's reflections on Ramadan. She compares Ramadan to a safe haven in a world full of wars and herself to a refugee that would like to remain in the safe haven: "I waited for these days like a desperate refugee, waiting for the border to open. As I was suffering in the hunger and the thirst of my soul, I threw myself through the door that was opened as a cure for all troubles into the arms of mercy, with the hope that it would envelop me and never let me go.read more 1 14.07.2015, Tuesday
The Three States of Ramadan
Ramadan, the beginning of which is mercy, the middle forgiveness, and the end release from Hellfire, is a lot like the prayer with its standing, the bowing down, and the prostration. When Ramadan came we all rolled our sleeves and got ready for worship. Just like standing at the beginning of our prayer. Every believer did this in his/her own way.read more 3 13.07.2015, Monday
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One of our friends who wrote a reflection about Ramadan upon our request is dear Ayşe Şebnem Yeşilkaya. She compares our Ramadan joy to the gaiety of butterflies in spring, our enthusiasm in charity to the flight of butterflies from flower to flower, our slowly refining souls to the elegance of butterflies, and the transitory nature of this season of happiness to the short life of a butterfly:read more 2 10.07.2015, Friday
Our Feelings in Ramadan
I saw the crescent in the sky of the dark blue night, in the red of the flag, on the top of the dome, above the Neretva.* I had a difficult time fasting through the long hours. The gates of divine help opened wide. The sun hid its heat, and the clouds wished the fasters well. Little children envied the adults having suhoor and fasted with food breaks in between. Then they took the next step and fasted all day. Grandparents competed with each other to reward these kids in this life, leaving the reward of the afterlife to their Lord.read more 1 09.07.2015, Thursday
Narrowing the Ways of Satan
In a hadith narrated by Bukhari and Muslim our Prophet says: "Satan circulates in the body like blood. Make his passage narrow by means of hunger."
In the words of al-Ghazali, lusts are grazing grounds for the devils. As long as there is something to be grazed on, Satan will be present. Fasting, through which one establishes a mastery over one's most fundamental (and unmanageable) drives – i.e. his self, narrows the activity field of the Satan and opens space for our soul to expand.
Fasting as Told by Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
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Indonesian Prison Inmates Perform Concert Behind Bars
The eight inmates that make up the band "Children of Iron Bars" rock the audience with their anti-drug hits.
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In a prison courtyard on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, the eight inmates that make up the band "Children of Iron Bars" rock the audience with their anti-drug hits.
Known as "Antrabez" in Indonesian, the band was formed behind the bars of Kerobokan Prison in July, bringing together six men and two women serving sentences of three months to four years for drugs.
"People out there can say that we're the garbage of society," said the band's founding member and guitarist Oktav Sicilia, 35, who is serving three years for marijuana possession.
"But sometimes, garbage is useful - when we recycle garbage, sometimes we create a better product."
The prison's rehabilitation program, mandated under Indonesian law for people caught with small quantities of drugs, provides the band with their instruments.
Authorities hope their success will showcase the benefits of such programmes in a country with strict penalties for drug-related crimes, including the death penalty.
Finding time to practice as inmates in a mixed gender group is difficult, Sicilia said, with the band sometimes performing without all members.
During a concert at the jail on Saturday, the band performed for fellow inmates, prison guards and media without their bassist.
But despite the struggles, the band continues to push forward, looking to raise enough funds to release their album "Time To Change".
They recently released two music videos, one titled "Be Grateful For Your Experiences" featuring a black and white montage of prison life.
The video's director, Erick Est, said he was contacted by the head of Kerobokan Prison, Slamet Prihantara, to help the group.
"When I first studied their songs, they were really nice, very touching and all about their real stories," he said.


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Celebrating Our Tallest Teachers: New Buds, Running of the Sap, Songs of Freedom
A Teaching for Tu B'Shvat | 13 Sh'vat 5777 | Feburary 9, 2017
By Maggid Zelig Golden
We celebrate Tu B'Shvat, the birthday of the trees, this weekend! Tu B'Shvat orients us to the mysterious awakening at this season in the Hebrew calendar. Tu B'Shvat also honors the wisdom of the trees. Trees have long held an esteemed place in Jewish tradition. The Torah is called Etz Chaim, a Tree of Life. Etz, "tree," is similar to the "advise." In the Talmud we learn that Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakai, one of Rabbi Hillel the elder's great students, was proficient in the art of "speaking with trees" as well as other aspects of nature. (Bavli Bava Batra 134a) A midrash reinforces this understanding: "All trees converse with one another; all trees converse with humankind. All trees were created for human companionship." (Breishit Rabbah 13:2) So each year, we gather to honor the trees.
Tu B'Shvat coincides with parsha Be'shallah, where Israel claims its freedom from Egypt in its journey through the parted Red Sea. In an amazing midrash (Exodus Rabbah 21:10), we are offered a vision of this splitting of the sea as one with fruit trees blossoming and birds perched upon the trees singing songs of freedom in celebration of our liberation. In the minds of our sages, Tu B'Shvat — one of the four Jewish new years (Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hoshana 2a) — is a powerful reminder of our liberation. And perhaps more importantly, the tall, tall trees — this day's honorees — are powerful teachers that can advise us on our journey to freedom.
This time of year, when the sap begins to rise in the trees again, is the energetic gateway between the freeze of winter and the blossoming of spring. At dawn, that magical transition between night and day, darkness lightens into color and the air waits for its perfect stillness to be broken by the first bird song. Tu B'Shvat is this liminal moment in the Hebrew calendar. It marks the transition from the unseen to the seen, from the frozen to the flowing, from sleeping to awakening — Tu B'Shvat marks the mysterious beginnings of rebirth and growth.
Once a Talmudic tax-day to determine the fruit tree-tithing schedule on the 15th of the month of Shvat (in Hebrew Tu B'Shvat), the Tzfat mystics of the 16th century evolved our understanding and celebration of the budding trees. For them, it was an important opportunity to honor the mystery of the four seasons with four cups of wine and the four elements with different types of fruits. But most importantly it was a time to honor the trees and the natural world.
For the Hebrew mystics and holy people of traditions from around the world, the tree is seen as a major gateway to G-d: "She [Torah] is a tree of life for those who hold fast to her." (Proverbs 3:18) At Tu B'Shvat we celebrate the many branched pathways that climb toward the heavens and lead us to spirit. We marvel at the brilliant awakenings of the nascent beauty in first buds that we know will become flowers and eventually fruits. And we remember the roots that sink deep into the earth — ancestral pathways that draw from her depths all that nourishes and sustains us, and that which stabilizes us during the toughest storms.
On Tu B'Shvat we remember that the trees are our teachers. The Torah teaches, "a person is like a tree of the field," (Deut. 20:19) and as the Chasidic Rabbi Shlomo of Chortkov writes, "a person should learn how to pursue his spiritual life from the tree." Like Avram, who encounters his "teacher oak tree" (Alon Moreh, Gen. 12:6) immediately upon leaving his father's home, we can receive profound understanding and guidance if we tune into the trees.
Join us this Sunday for Tu B'Shvat in the Redwoods! I wish for us all to deepen our relationship with our great teachers. Let them remind us of our own deep roots. Let them teach us how to tend our tender new shoots and how to tune into the deeper awakenings within ourselves. Happy Tu B'Shvat!


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Get Your Traditional Business into the Digital Age
We successfully transformed our face-to-face training business into an online training business. It took a bit more change and effort than you might think. We had to change our offer to students because our biggest expenses changed. Where once our biggest costs were rent and trainers, our biggest costs are now creating new content and support staff and systems to ensure that all students are happy. We also had to change our business processes and as a result we now use many more "cloud-based" software programs.
Now, most of our team are home-based workers who are living the dream that many mum's (and dad's) want to live. We employ independent and remote contractors (known in Australia as Virtual Assistants) from Australian and around the world.
All of this has put us in good stead to share that knowledge and other "secrets" about online businesses that we've learnt along the way. Our Digital Business Course is aimed at helping traditional businesses learn how to use the various online and cloud-based software tools as well as social media to:
- Run their business more efficiently
- Provide better customer service
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Your Public Profile
In this course we will cover how to structure your website, what to put on your website and how to use it as a sales tool that all your staff can use to sell your products and services. We explore the various online marketing tools available from Facebook, Google and Twitter and delve into the nitty gritty of online content marketing (ie. creating and maintaining a blog) and how it helps you build credibility, increase search traffic to your website and provide a reference tool you can use to support your customers.
Analyse Traffic
You'll also learn about analytic tools that help you understand what goes on at your website. These tools are available to help you see the number of visitors but more importantly where they are going, how long they spend on your website and where they exit. This section of the course includes bounce rates, average time on site and exit page stats – which you can check at any time on your smart phone!
Online Marketing
Once you get a customer or a lead you want to ensure that you remain front of mind for future purchases they might make and we'll show you how to use online email newsletter systems and auto responders to ensure you remain front of mind for the service you provide.
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Finally, if you have a distributed workforce you need a way to ensure that they are able to effectively support your clients. We'll show you how we use cloud based software programs like Zopim and Zendesk to ensure smooth customer support – both before the sale and after it.
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When viewing an issue, I can comment on it or attach a file immediately, but what if I want to change the title, assignee, type, priority, or component? Oh, wait, I think I see. I have to click "edit issue," at the very top? And then I can also comment on it there... but I can ONLY see the original title and description, and NOT any of the subsequent comments, including the comment I just made?!
Is this also a "fix" for something which confused people? I admit, all those radio buttons were confusing. The new set of drop-downs makes more sense--except the status drop-down--but I would suggest just put those drop-downs there from the get-go for anyone who has rights to edit the issue, without making the user click "Edit Issue" and hiding all the comments.
Regarding the status drop-down, I think "reopen" and "resolve" are confusing as separate buttons. It would make a lot more sense to just put "open" and "resolved" in the drop-down. I also don't think "workflow" is a good substitute for "status," which is the correct name for the field. I recommend making "Status" an additional drop-down, like the other items, to the side of every issue, and allow the commenter to change them directly and submit them with the comment as described above.
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Linda Ronstadt Calls Joe Arpaio "a Sadistic Man," Will Participate in Anti-Arpaio Human Rights March Saturday, January 16
Tucson native Linda Ronstadt joins the fight against Joe this January 16
In a conversation this morning via phone, Tucson native and rock legend Linda Ronstadt denounced Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of tyranny in Maricopa County and promised to march alongside thousands of activists planning to converge on Phoenix this Saturday, January 16 for a National Day of Action, which will include a walk to Arpaio's jails and a rally and concert afterwards.
The Grammy-winning recording artist, whose career has spanned four decades and multiple genres, said she was moved by the situation in Arizona and Arpaio's abuses of power to participate in the demonstration, which is being organized in large part by the California-based National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Phoenix civil rights activist Sal Reza's Puente Movement.
"He's a sadistic man," said Ronstadt of Arpaio. "He doesn't have great respect for the law. I come from a police family. My brother was the chief of police in Tucson for many years, a real law man...He was the one who made me understand that when the law is unevenly applied or badly applied, it weakens all law. That's what's very concerning about Sheriff Arpaio."
Ronstadt, who maintains a home in Tucson where she lives part of the year, cited Arpaio's raids against the undocumented, his mistreatment of prisoners in his custody, and the deaths in his jails as reasons for criticizing him. She also blasted Arpaio's police state tactics against those who speak out against his iron rule.
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"Any of us could be snatched off the street without a warrant because of the way Arpaio is applying the law," noted Ronstadt. "He's had people go and arrest Republicans that have opposed him...They have these trumped up charges, and then later on they go, `Oh well, I guess we weren't right about these charges.' By then the damage is done and people are terrified of him. That's what happens in places...where they have dictators."
The lady once dubbed the Queen of Rock described at length her deep roots in southern Arizona. Her paternal grandfather Fred Ronstadt was born in Mexico and emigrated to the U.S. during the 19th Century to apprentice at wagon making. (The Ronstadt family name is German, she said, and is indicative of the European settlers who migrated to Mexico and intermarried with locals.)
Ronstadt said she's always considered herself to be Mexican-American. This family history and her ties to the state give Ronstadt further motivation to join the protesters against Arpaio in mid-January.
"I have a couple of dogs in this fight," she stated. "I love Arizona. I've always been very proud of being from Arizona. I don't want this awful man to make me ashamed that I'm from this state or that I'm from a law enforcement family. I don't want to be ashamed of that. I want to be proud of that. He's making me ashamed of it. I'd like for him to stop. I'd like for the people of Maricopa County to wake up and see what they're doing, because there are going to be repercussions from this. Eventually there will have to be some action taken if they keep returning [Arpaio] to office, a boycott or a strike."
Of particular concern to Ronstadt is the treatment of the undocumented and Arizona's prison industrial complex, which she sees as intertwined. She perceives the prison lobby as yet another lobby like "the beer industry or the gambling industry," which makes enormous profits from the criminalization of the undocumented. For the prison industry, someone like Arpaio is a godsend, Ronstadt contended.
Ronstadt said she's also been to the Arizona-Mexico border and to the Arizona desert with individuals working with organizations like No More Deaths. She decried the current economic situation which forces Mexicans to risk death in the desert for the hope of survival in the U.S.
"They're contributing in tremendous ways to the economy up here," Ronstadt commented of Mexican migrants, "and to the labor force. And people are taking advantage of them, and then treating them like dirt, and throwing them back over the border.
"I've held a woman in my arms crying and sobbing at the border because she wanted to get back to her children. She was willing to do anything she had to do to get back across the border and get back to her child, like any good mother would."
The result of this situation, asserted Ronstadt, is a "permanent underclass" that "has to resort to crime to survive." The solution must include a pathway to legalization for the undocumented.
"There has to be some kind of a fair way for them to get citizenship or work permits," she told me. "These are decent, hardworking people who want to live fully in the limits of the law. They don't want to live outside the law. That's much more difficult. They're here. It's a fact. We're not going to keep them out. So we have to figure out how to make it legal for them [to be here]."
Unlike many pro-immigrant activists, Ronstadt declined to criticize the Obama administration's policy towards America's estimated 12 million undocumented, claiming that Obama has his hands tied by Congress and cannot "wave a magic wand" over the issue. She also dismissed concerns that her participation in the march would make her a target for right-wing and nativist attacks.
"You have to stand up for what is right, otherwise bad stuff just overwhelms the whole process," she insisted. "You have to stand up and say, `This is wrong.' I'm going to stand in solidarity with these people. They have a right to have humane treatment."
On January 16, Ronstadt is expected to join UFW icon Dolores Huerta, and Rage Against the Machine/One Day as a Lion frontman Zack de la Rocha, in a walk from Phoenix's Falcon Park to Arpaio's jail complex near Durango Street and 35th Avenue. There, organizers intend to march around the jails, then end with a rally that will include a performance by the Tejano act Little Joe y La Familia.
Ronstadt said she helped garner the inclusion of Little Joe y La Familia in the event, calling them, "one of my favorite acts in the music business." She left open the possibility that she might join them in song at the end of the march.
"It depends on whether or not we have time to rehearse," Ronstadt explained. "I've never performed with [Little Joe]...but if I can, I'll get up and sing a song with him. I just want to go, to show up and show my [opposition to Arpaio]. He's not a good lawman. He's breaking the law and making the law weak. People in Maricopa County need to realize this."
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For the hell of it, someone decided to pit a red hot ball of nickel against a giant jawbreaker to see what would happen. Although it took several attempts and relocation to the inside of a bowl, the blazing ball eventually worked its way clean through, giving us an indication of what it must look like when a volcano erupts in Candyland.
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What Pharoh Cooper Needs to Prove at South Carolina's Pro DayMarch 29, 2016
In the midst of a deep wide receiver class, former South Carolina Gamecocks star Pharoh Cooper can help separate himself from the pack with a strong pro day performance Wednesday.
Draft stock surrounding the 21-year-old varies between analysts. Dane Brugler and Rob Rang of CBSSports.com rank Cooper No. 56 overall, giving him a Round 2 grade and an NFL comparison to Pro Bowl wide receiver Randall Cobb.
However, NFL.com isn't quite as friendly, giving Cooper a 5.6 grade. Lance Zierlein compares him to a much less heralded NFL counterpart in Josh Reed.
South Carolina's pro day will give Cooper the opportunity to prove he compares more to the former receiver than the latter. Of the several drills Cooper will participate in, none matters more than his 40-yard dash time.
At the NFL combine, Cooper decided not to run the 40-yard dash as a result of his quadriceps injury. Though the decision was applauded by ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr., questions about his speed continued to persist.
ESPN's Todd McShay is among those who believe Cooper's needs to increase his 40 time in order to boost his draft stock, per SECCountry.com's Knox Bardeen. He gave some insight as to where Cooper might land in the draft, but also expressed his doubts that Cooper would amaze scouts with his speed:
To me, right around where we ended up giving him the grade in the preseason in that second, third-round range. We gave him a mid-third round (grade) and I don't think it'll be that far off in terms of where he winds up going.
He doesn't have elite size and speed...He's got solid size, solid speed but I don't know that he's going to run a time that's going to make NFL evaluators go back and study the tape.
That mid-third-round grade has been echoed among several mock draft analysts. NFL.com's Chad Reuter has the Philadelphia Eagles snatching Cooper with the No. 77 overall pick, while WalterFootball.com's Walter Cherepinsky has him landing with the Buffalo Bills via the No. 80 selection.
Regardless of what 40 time Cooper is clocked at, there will be some doubts as to the official time. Still, if he shows he can run in the high 4.4-second range (even if it's an unofficial time), it could give him a nice boost up some teams' draft boards.
Aside from the 40-yard dash, Cooper will need to be impressive in the route-running drills. Both NFL.com and CBSSports.com note in their scouting reports on Cooper he struggles to catch up to deep throws, and has questionable route running on both deep and intermediate throws.
At the combine, Cooper measured in at 5'11" and 203 pounds. His height isn't great, but if he can show off strong, reliable hands during the receiving drills, it could very well ease some of the concern about his ability to win the 50-50 balls NFL receivers are expected to catch.
Of course, all this analysis means nothing if Cooper isn't at his best Wednesday. Fortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case:
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The video shows off what we already know about Cooper—he's a hard worker and is determined to bring his A-game to Wednesday's pro day. Even if he can convince just one team to take a chance on him in Round 2, it'll be a major win for both the former Gamecocks captain and his future NFL team.


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The Cham Dance, associated with some sects of Buddhism, is a lively dance which employs dancers wearing masks and ornamented costumes . The dance is accompanied by music played by monks using traditional Tibetan instruments. The dances often offer moral instruction relating to compassion for sentient beings and are held to bring merit to all who perceive them.
This picture is of a Black Hat Dance (shana) which is not generally considered a cham dance. Examples of chams, masked dances, can be seen at http://englander-workshops.com/gallery.php?gid=6
Nomenclature and etymology
Cham may also be orthographically represented as tscham or chaam.
Cham Dance as morality play and mystery rite
The dances also often depict incidents from the life of Padmasambhava, the 9th century Nyingmapa teacher and other saints. [1]
Cham Dance of the Council of Samye held in Kum-Bum Dshamba Ling
The great debate of the 'Council of Samye' or 'Council of Llasa' between the two principal debators or dialecticians, Mo Ho Yen and Kamalaśīla is narrated and depicted in a specific Cham Dance once held annually at Kum-Bum Dshamba Ling, Tibet.[2]
Meditative rite and offering
Chams are considered to be a form of meditation, and an offering to the Gods. The leader of the cham is typically a musician, keeping time using some percussion instrument like cymbals, the one exception being Dramyin Cham - where time is kept using dramyin. [1]
In Bhutan, the dances are performed during an annual religious festival known as Tsechu, which is held in each district. Only monks or male members of the Royal Academy of Performing Arts are allowed to perform a Cham dance in Bhutan. [1]
Chinese officials have prohibited the festival in the past, and still discourage participation. Cham dances are considered illegal in Tibet by the governing body of the Peoples Republic of China.
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dancing on the demon's back: the dramnyen dance and song of Bhutan, by Elaine Dobson, John Blacking Symposium: Music Culture and Society, Callaway Centre, University of Western Australia, July 2003
- ↑ Roccasalvo, Joseph F.(1980). 'The debate at bsam yas: religious contrast and correspondence.' Philosophy East and West 30:4 (October 1980). The University of Press of Hawaii. Pp.505-520. Source: [1] (accessed: December 17, 2007)
Further information
- Pearlman, Ellen (2002). Tibetan Sacred Dance: a journey into the religious and folk traditions. Rochester, Vermont, USA: Inner Traditions. ISBN 0-89281-918-0cs:Čham


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Brazil: Project Finance 2016
There are 19 practitioners included in this chapter as the country's leading lawyers in project finance. Below we highlight several of the most highly regarded firms and individuals in the market.
|Most Highly Regarded Individuals
|José Virgilio Lopes Enei
|Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados, São Paulo
|Guilherme de Figueiredo Forbes
|Stocche Forbes Advogados, São Paulo
|Stephen Hood
|Davis Polk & Wardwell
|Júlio César Bueno
|Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados leads this chapter with four practitioners listed. José Virgílio Lopes Enei is a high-ranking individual in our research; he co-heads the practice and acts for some of the largest mandates in the market. Sources highlight his aptitude for "always looking at the finer details". Fellow co-head Jose Ribeiro do Prado Jr is "a font of knowledge" and a go-to counsel for energy, infrastructure and mining projects. Mauro Bardawil Penteado specialises in numerous areas including transportation, oil and gas and infrastructure transactions – demonstrating "determination, flexibility, and skill" in the work he delivers. Julia Rodrigues Coimbra is also among the top names in the firm's prominent projects practice.
Stocche Forbes Advogados receives two listings. The "excellent" Guilherme de Figueiredo Forbes leads many of the firm's largest mandates for its international and domestic client base, with sources saying he provides "a first-class service". Paulo Padis demonstrates "real dedication to his work" and has established a prominent practice over the last 15 years.
Davis Polk & Wardwell also garners two recommendations. Stephen Hood has "invaluable expertise in cross-border project finance" and has been based in Brazil for over a decade. He is known as "one of the major players" advising sponsors and lenders in high-value infrastructure projects. James Vickers is also a noted name in the market active in such noteworthy projects as the São Paulo Ring Road – worth US$1 billion.
Pinheiro Neto Advogados' Júlio César Bueno is consistently highlighted by market commentators for his practice, which covers the entire project spectrum. One peer notes, "He is a very sophisticated finance lawyer who works hard for his clients."
At Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados, Pablo Sorj represents private equity, financial institutions and developers in oil and gas, power, renewable energy and mining projects. He is reportedly mindful of his clients' goals and employs "a commercial and practical approach".
Ana Carolina Barretto of Veirano Advogados is a top name in our research. She is "one of the best Brazilian projects lawyers practicing today", one respondent states.


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Dental Caravan in Bagtas, Tanza
As part of the Oral Health Month's Celebration, the provincial government of Cavite thru the OPG-Extension, Provincial Health Office and the Dental Health Association in the province once again facilitated a dental caravan for the day care pupils of Barangay Bagtas in Tanza on February 22, 2017. The medical team composed of volunteer doctors and dentists from the General Emilio Aguinaldo Memorial Hospital (GEAMH) provided free fluoride application, and dental and pediatric checkups to a total of 402 beneficiaries. Pupils have taken home free set of toothbrush and toothpaste from Colgate-Palmolive Philippines, and vitamins and medicines from the provincial government. Additional dental services for the children were performed at the DOH Dental bus. Barangay Chairman Ronaldo Capao together with the rural health workers and day care workers welcomed the medical team and technical staff from PHO, as well as the staff from the provincial government. (PICAD)


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When I walked in to pick up my son from preschool on that chilly November afternoon, Miss Terry greeted me at the door and asked if she could speak with me for a moment. She had Pat's first "report card" and wanted to chat with me.
She was concerned about Pat. He didn't like doing what the other kids did. His favorite spot in the classroom was the reading center to the extent that was also his choice location at nap time. He didn't like playing with the play-doh, because it felt "weird". He didn't always make eye-contact. He didn't play with the other kids the same way as they played amongst themselves. No matter how warm the day got, he wanted to have on long sleeves when he went outside. And her biggest concern: he'd been speaking in a robotic way lately.
She wanted to make a referral to the special needs program in my town. Here in NH, the state mandates that public schools provide special needs educational services at the age of three. She explained that this would involve a letter to the public school district from the Center Director, citing the issues she was discussing with me, followed by an assessment by the district.
My kid is different, sure--he was already reading very well at that point (self-taught) and was easily completing jigsaw puzzles aimed at kids twice his age. He has a memory like a steel trap and could tell you the exact page number on which you would find the illustration and description of any one of twenty-odd (at least) dinosaurs listed in the Complete Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (which incidentally is a textbook, not a children's book and holds a place of pride along with his Atlases and Anatomy book).
A quiet rushing sound filled my ears as soon as she said the words, "I'm concerned about Pat..." I could still hear her words as she spoke, but I felt overwhelmed. And while I have a B.A. in Education, once she started talking about my kid having issues, I felt terribly insecure and inadequate. My cheeks were flaming...not with anger, but embarrassment and regret.
I haven't been doing right by him, I'm thinking. I let him withdraw from the hectic scenes that seem to overwhelm him--his method is to escape with a book and go read somewhere quiet. With all we hear about childhood literacy, what could be wrong with that?. He loves to read, he loves his books. It was how he soothed himself when things got too hairy. I shouldn't have let him.
I should have set up more playdates with other kids, I'm thinking. Because Pat really had a hard time connecting with the kids in our neighborhood who are his age. He wanted to read, and to talk about the solar system, the human skeletal system and dinosaurs in the Mesozoic era. They wanted to play with action figures.
I shouldn't have given in to his quirky preferences, I'm thinking. Pat never liked walking barefoot outside. EVER. He said it hurt his feet--no big deal. He didn't like the feel of wind on his bare arms. He hates loud music, and oh, the vacuum cleaner!! Certain textures freaked him out. I thought I was doing the right thing...I didn't want to torture the kid by making him endure things that were really uncomfortable. Maybe I should have worked to desensitize him somehow. To learn to be OK with these things or at least manage them better.
I should have been a better mother. That's really what my emotions were boiling down to.
I told the teacher to go ahead and make the referral. Even overwhelmed as I was with what I saw as my "mothering-gone-wrong," I knew it could not hurt to have the Special Needs Team evaluate him.
I went in to collect him from his classroom, and was greeted as I always was with an enourmous grin, and running hug followed by a wet sloppy kiss. And I burst into tears as that little boy clung to me, warm breath on my cheek. There is nothing wrong with you, Patrick, I thought. I will do better for you...You are just misunderstood.
Over the next couple of days, my husband and I talked a lot about this referral. It was during one of those conversations, that we talked about the 'robotic speech' the teacher had mentioned. I was puzzled by that one, because it wasn't anything we'd ever seen. Or had we? At the time, Pat's favorite movie Short Circuit, with Kirstey Alley DUH... Ally Sheedy. We burst out laughing realizing, Patrick was imitating Number 5! He did it at home, and we never paid much attention to it. Out of context, we could see why Miss Terry would be concerned! Ultimately, we both came to the conclusion that the evaluation by the team offered no real down side and could only be to the benefit of Pat.
After the evaluation, we met with the Teacher, the Center Director, and a Psychologist from our district. She observed him in class and also worked with him one on one. In the one-on-one, she administered a test to him called the "K-SEALS" (Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Literacy Skills).
Her conclusion was that no Special Needs issues presented themselves and she did not have concerns that he was developmentally delayed in any way. She did have suggestions for his teachers and us as his parents, and she documented them in her report.
First, he appeared to be developing at an age appropriate manner in terms of social skills and motor skills with the exception that he needed to work on his scissor skills. Did I mention he's a Lefty? She recommended also that we continue to guide and supervise social settings to ensure that he is learning positive ways of interacting with his peers. No problem.
The report also included his gross scores on the K-SEALS, but she neglected to share with us what those numbers meant. That afternoon, after a lot of on-line searching, I learned what those numbers meant--Patrick was in the 99th percentile. For those unfamiliar with such scales, there is no 100th percentile. He'd maxed out on the test.
He'd maxed out, and the school psychologist didn't even mention that little tidbit. She concluded the meeting by basically saying that no further services would be offered to Pat but that should we have concerns about his development in the future, that we should contact the district. You see, while the state mandates special education services be provided at the age of three, there is absolutely no mandate of any type that speaks to the needs of those who fall into the "gifted" category. Meeting over, case closed.
Well, yes and no. I had gotten over the "I did wrong by my boy" feelings--and was reminded again to trust my parenting instincts. As I continued to get to know his teacher, the center director, and the others working with Pat at the school, I became somewhat more comfortable with discussing his intelligence and the quirks that go along with it. Somewhat, meaning that I always felt uncomfortable, but that I continued reaching outside of my comfort zone. When other parents would say, "You're Pat's mom? How did you teach him to read? He's so smart!" Even now, I still get so uncomfortable, and find myself pulling out what has become my stock response--"Yes, he keeps us on our toes!" followed by a (usually awkward) changing of the subject.
Two years have passed.
I'm still very uncomfortable talking about the challenges that come from having a so-called gifted child. It doesn't seem to come up in conversation, aside from the "Can he teach my kid to read?"types of questions. Somehow having a child who is more intellectually advanced gets labeled as a bonus that is its own reward. That gets reinforced by the fact that there is no educational mandate here...there is no substantial G & T funding from our local district, and certainly not from the state. With schools being as strapped as they already are, all funds are supporting the existing programs, and not adequately at that. Until the schools are required to provide for programs geared toward the gifted students, there won't be additional funding. No-funding = *very* limited programs, particularly in Podunk, NH.
I have a small handful of people with whom I can speak to about my frustrations and challenges and with whom I don't have to couch my words and fret over giving the 'wrong impression'. I feel as if saying, "I have an intellectually gifted child," is akin to saying, "I'm rich, and can spend money any way I like!" as if I'd be boasting or bragging--rubbing people's faces in the fact. And yet, when other parents point it out, I find myself wanting to squirm.
Am I proud of my boy and what he brings to the table of life? Absolutely. But it comes with a price--isolation. Information and support are tough to come by in general. Here in rural New Hampshire, I count my lucky stars that we have an amazing Gifted & Talented Coordinator in our district. But she's a one-woman show (K-12) with no staff, a laughable budget, and a resistant administration. And she has told me--advocating for my son will be an uphill, and sometimes lonely, battle. Every. Step. Of. The. Way.
We cited that K-SEALS when we requested early entrance to Kindergarten (another situation entirely, that I'll cover at another time). We've been working with the district, specifically his teacher and the hopelessly overworked G & T coordinator. Fresh new challenges, not to mention insecurities (and not just my own), have come to light. I volunteer, I'm a once-in-a-while substitute teacher, I'm active in the PTG--I'm "involved", as it were, with the school. I'm also reading and researching all I can and writing about kids like Pat--which helps me to better advocate for my boy, but also helps me to channel my energy into something more productive than simply fretting that he's not getting what he needs.
So what's a parent to do? I've been focused on this topic for more than two years, and gathering whatever resources I can to help our family navigate the uncharted waters of this wholly unexpected parental challenge. There *are* other parents out there dealing with this, but I think we all feel as if we're isolated. As if we've not been given the OK to speak up about the challenges that are inherent in raising and nurturing a gifted child.
I see a bumper sticker on a van in my travels about town. It reads, "Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." I'm getting better about speaking my mind when it comes to my boy. At least with the professionals. I'm still working on building my own confidence to "Speak my mind" about my son to my parenting peers.
Ignorance of the challenges gifted kids present is likely the biggest roadblock to being able to have a conversation about Giftedness. I speak of innocent ignorance, not stupidity or lack of empathy. The best antidote to ignorance? Information.
These websites have a lot of great information...
Hoagies Gifted Page
Unwrapping the Gifted
Looking for some support? Read about others dealing with the joys and frustrations of teaching and raising a gifted child:
Growing Up Gifted
More than a Childrens Music Class
Hormone Colored Days
The More Child
Queen of Shake Shake
Do you feel alone in parenting your gifted child? To whom do you turn? What resources have you found that have helped you and your family?
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