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TODAY VENEZUELA, By Jackson Ventrella – Lilian Tintori understands the Venezuelan regime for what it is: corrupt, criminal, and evil.
Her husband, Leopoldo López, was stripped of his political rights when President Hugo Chávez saw the potential and dangerous competition that he posed. Eventually this led to Leopoldo's investigation and his current imprisonment, which has been ongoing for three years now.
López is one of nearly 110 political prisoners the Venezuelan government refuses to release. The current president, Nicolás Maduro, frequently protects the corrupt while punishing those who support the opposition. He even contrives enemies for himself out of thin air.
Consider the case of Joshua Holt.
Holt is an American citizen who is currently being held and tormented in a Venezuelan prison after being arrested on "terrorism" charges. After traveling to Venezuela to get married, both he and his wife ended up in prison and remain there to this day.
The inhumane treatment Holt has received is horrifying. Not only has he lost 50 pounds, but the judge has conveniently skipped his trial four times, which seems to have crushed any hope that his case will be heard.
Or consider former political prisoner Francisco Marquez, a dual U.S.-Venezuelan citizen. Marquez was held in a Venezuelan prison for four months before his eventual release. Even after having charges dropped, he was not immediately released. Although he did not experience torture himself, he heard the nearby screams of terror frequently.
The inhumane treatment of prisoners in Venezuela only adds to the laundry list of intentional evils committed by both the Chávez and Maduro regimes.
This brutality has not gone over well recently with the new U.S. administration. President Donald Trump recently tweeted, "Venezuela should allow Leopoldo Lopez, a political prisoner and husband of Lilian Tintori out of prison immediately."
This remarkable departure from the Obama administration's policy toward Venezuela reflects a new and robust U.S. commitment to the people of Venezuela. It is a clear sign that the United States stands against the corrupt Maduro regime and supports the democratic aspirations of ordinary Venezuelans.
Venezuela should allow Leopoldo Lopez, a political prisoner & husband of @liliantintori (just met w/ @marcorubio) out of prison immediately. pic.twitter.com/bt8Xhdo7al
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017
The grave human rights violations this regime has committed have spurred the United States, along with other regional stakeholders, to pressure the regime to release its political prisoners.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich's assessment of the situation points in the right direction. He says that the United States ought to be "proactive, not vocal: We should not engage in spitting contests with cobras or in verbal battles with deceitful third world autocrats."
The Maduro regime is undoubtedly governed by the corrupt. Tareck El Aissami, the newest vice president of Venezuela, is widely acknowledged to have ties with drug cartels as well as the terrorist group Hezbollah.
It is clear that the Venezuelan regime does not prefer any ethical system over another, so long as it retains control.
The Obama administration knew full well that the Venezuelan vice president is a criminal, but it took no strong action. Yet within the first month of Trump's administration, El Aissami's illicitly obtained assets in the U.S. were confiscated.
The Trump administration's clear position on Venezuela is a welcomed change from the moral ambiguity of his predecessor. Moving forward, the administration must continue holding the Venezuelan government accountable in the hopes of bringing political freedom to the Venezuelan people.
Article originally appeared on Panampost.com. Jackson Ventrella is a member of the Young Leader's Program at The Heritage Foundation. His article was originally published in with the Daily Signal.
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Halloween is a lot of fun for both kids and adults. When else can we wear inappropriate costumes, gorge on unlimited candy, and create a "Walking Dead" display in our front yard? But when the spectral mist of Halloween creeps into the workplace, things can get really scary. Here are some real-life Halloween work-place mishaps that left employers haunted:
- A retail store put up a notice encouraging employees to come to work in costume on Halloween. About half participated, while the other half showed up in their regular clothes. Donna Meraz was one of the employees who didn't wear a costume, claiming that doing so conflicted with her religious beliefs. Later that year when Meraz's work hours were reduced, she sued the company alleging she was retaliated against for her religious beliefs after refusing to work in costume on Halloween. The court gave the employer a treat, dismissing Meraz's retaliation claim.
- An employee brought a retaliation claim against her employer, alleging she was fired after complaining about a male supervisor who constantly made suggestive remarks about female employees. On one occasion, a woman wore a cat costume to work on Halloween and the male supervisor allegedly said that he "liked her tail." Unfortunately, the male supervisor got up to other hijinks like this and the court ordered the case to a jury.
- Several black and Hispanic employees of a city parks department brought class action claims alleging race and national origin harassment. One piece of evidence included the fact that a white supervisor hung a noose in the office as part of an annual Halloween display. The supervisor continued to hang the noose as part of the display even after a black employee complained. Even though this evidence was certainly scary, the plaintiffs could not establish a class-wide hostile work environment claim.
- In an apparent homage to "mean girls" everywhere, several female co-workers routinely harassed another female employee about the size of her breasts. One Halloween, the co-workers came to work with their bras stuffed and wore name tags with the name "Anne" – the target of their bullying. A male co-worker later took photos of the female co-workers in sexual poses. The co-workers got their cauldron spilled when a court allowed Anne's sexual harassment claim to go forward to a jury.
These examples demonstrate why it's sometimes best to leave the ghosts and goblins at home this time of year. Don't fear the reaper, though. Following your regular HR policies and practices of requiring dignity and respect in the workplace – including on Halloween – should keep you out of the witch's brew.

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Thomas P. Peschak is a Fellow of the ILCP (International League of Conservation Photographers) and a contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine. He leads a near nomadic existence and spends 300 days per year in the field on assignments around the world. He was recently named as one of the 40 most influential nature photographers in the world.
He trained as a marine biologist and specialised in kelp forest ecology, shark conservation and the impacts of illegal fishing. He retired from science to pursue a life dedicated to environmental photojournalism after realizing that he could have a bigger conservation impact with his photographs than statistics.
A dedicated conservation photographer he believes strongly that photographs are one of the most effective weapons in conservation today. His feature story on manta rays of the Maldives appeared in National Geographic magazine in 2009 and resulted in the proclamation of a marine reserve and protection for these rays. He is presently spearheading campaigns to make marine reserves more effective in Africa, stop unsustainable shark fisheries and raise awareness of manta ray conservation in Sri Lanka. In 2010 he was part of a small team of photojournalists that travelled to Canada's Great Bear Rainforest to create a photographic legacy to prevent the construction of an oil pipeline from destroying this unique coastal wilderness forever.
Thomas believes that the combined force of photojournalists, conservation NGOs and local communities is very powerful. He has worked as the official photographer of WWF-SA (World Wide Fund for Nature) and for four years spearheaded the Conservation Photography Unit as Chief Photographer for the Save our Seas Foundation where is is now Director of Conservation. Thomas is a multiple winner in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards and in 2011 he received a World Press Photo Award for his work.
To learn more about Tom please check his website www.thomaspeschak.com
Steve Backshall
Steve has been passionate about the wild world ever since he could crawl; growing up counted as his best pals the animals that lived around him – from the asthmatic donkey, to the grass snakes in the manure heap! After leaving Exeter University with a degree in English and Theatre studies, Steve studied martial arts in Japan and wrote for the Indonesian Rough Guides before pitching an idea for a TV series to the National Geographic Channel and becoming their 'Adventurer in Residence' getting into many scrapes along the way! His adventures and credits include circumnavigating the globe time and again, venturing into the Sinai desert, completing the Israeli paratroopers selection course, catching anacondas, vipers and cobras, and (perhaps the best job ever) making "The Ten Great Dives of the World", for the series 'Earthpulse'.
Steve now finds himself to be one of the busiest presenters on television, mainly working for the BBC's Natural History Unit. In 2003 he took his place on the long running children's wildlife programme 'The Really Wild Show' and has been lucky enough to experience wildlife highlights including, sharing a beach with 75,000 nesting olive ridley turtles, having a baby mountain gorilla take him by the hand, and having a red-eyed tree frog leap into his face. Steve now fronts the BBC kid's series 'Deadly 60', travelling the world to learn about the most inspiring predators. He's been squirted with ink by humboldt squid, flirted with by tarantula, charged by elephants, and stared out by thresher and great hammerhead sharks, but still maintains that wild animals pose no threat to people – in fact quite the opposite. Exposed to such amazing experiences, Steve is a passionate conservationist and supports numerous wildlife charities.
To find out more about Steve please check his website stevebackshall.com
Doug Allan
Doug Allan is an award winning freelance wildlife documentary cameraman and photographer, whose experience in the field spans the last 5 decades. Among Doug's best known work are his contributions to the BBC documentaries The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Life, Human Planet and Frozen Planet.
After graduating in marine biology, Doug worked on various research and diving jobs before his big break came in 1976, when he took up as a research diver on the British Antarctic Survey station at Signy Island… the beginning of a love affair with the ice that lasts until this day and is captured in Doug's latest book Freeze Frame which came out in 2012.
Doug became interested in the work of the Manta Trust when he did a recent filming trip with the BBC Natural History Unit to the Maldives in 2011, for a forthcoming series entitled How Life Works with Chris Packham. During his time in the Maldives Doug was fortunate enough to have an encounter with over 50 mantas and a whale shark in Hanifaru Bay, and having experienced the magic of swimming with all those mantas he has now pledged his support to The Manta Trust.
"Mantas can't fail to impress, they're spectacular animals to encounter underwater, and Guy's level of knowledge about them and their individual characters gave me a whole new level of fascination. The integrity of the science that he and his volunteers are undertaking, their genuine respect for their subjects, their efforts at conservation – all those shone through for me. It's a privilege to be one of the Trust's patrons."
To learn more about Doug please check his website dougallan.com
Valerie Taylor
Valerie Taylor is a world renowned underwater filmmaker, marine conservationist and shark expert.
Born in Australia in 1936 Valerie, alongside her husband Ron, was a pioneer in the fields of underwater photography and film making, making, directing, starring in and producing countless films as well as publishing in an abundance of magazines and authoring numerous books on the underwater realm. Amongst the Taylor's most famous accolades was the filming of the live shark scenes in Jaws. They are also widely known for being the first people to ever film Great White Sharks underwater without a cage.
Valerie has campaigned for a variety of species over the years and has won many awards, both for her photography skills and for her wider work for marine conservation. To this day Valerie is regarded as one of the world's top underwater photographers.
Valerie first ventured underwater in 1956 and is greatly concerned how the oceans have changed in her own lifetime and about people's ignorance of the underwater world and what is happening to it. "Like all animals, fish, they need somewhere to live, love and breed, and if we don't give them those places we're going to lose them…"
"One day there will be one manta alone swimming in an empty sea looking for a mate. Unless we stop killing them now."
The Manta Trust is honoured to have Valerie as a patron of our charity.
Doug Perrine
Doug Perrine is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost marine wildlife photographers. His photographs have been reproduced in virtually every major nature magazine in the world, as well as in thousands of books, calendars, greeting cards, posters, etc., including more than 100 covers. His photography has won a number of awards, including the prestigious BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition as the overall winner (2004), and also winner of the animal behaviour category and the Nature's Best/Cemex competition in the Professional Marine Wildlife category. He is also the author of seven books on marine life and numerous magazine articles.
Doug founded SeaPics.com as a venue for his own photography, and later expanded it to represent a growing number of other photographers as well. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Doug was educated at the University of Hawaii and the University of Miami, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in marine biology. He has lived in Morocco and Micronesia (as a Peace Corps volunteer) and the Cayman Islands (as a dive guide/instructor). Since finishing graduate school in 1986, he has been self-employed as a naturalist/photojournalist. He is the author of the books Sharks (1995), Mysteries of the Sea (1997), Sharks and Rays of the World (1999), Ripley's Whales & Dolphins (2000),Ripley's Coral Colony Creatures (2000), The Living Sea (2002), and Sea Turtles of the World (2003). He is the primary photographer for Sea Turtles (1996) and Manatees and Dugongs of the World (1999).
"Among the most graceful and intelligent creatures on the planet, manta rays are also among the slowest-reproducing of ocean wildlife. Having only a single pup every few years, they simply cannot sustain even modest levels of harvest, let along the senseless slaughter that is now being visited upon them, with many thousands being killed annually merely to rip out their breathing / feeding organs for quack "health supplement" products. Please join the Manta Trust in investigating, exposing, and countering these phony schemes to profit by the destruction of the most majestic of sea creatures, and to support research into the biology of these mysterious and enigmatic beings."
Keep up to date with Doug's work at SeaPics.com
Douglas Seifert
Douglas David Seifert learned to swim at age two on Singer Island, Florida. He began snorkelling a few years later and began his diving career in 1974 in West Palm Beach. In 1987, after an underwater photography class with top Australian photographer Kevin Deacon, he made his first underwater images of great white sharks in South Australia. The images were well received and a career writing marine natural history, phenomena, sea life and adventure combined with photographing under the sea had found him. Along his journey, he has been fortunate enough to have learned from the best mentors in the field of underwater photography and exploration to hone his skills and he is deeply indebted to: Ron & Valerie Taylor, Stan Waterman, Howard & Michele Hall, Dr. Eugenie Clark, Norine Rouse, Chris Newbert, Tom Campbell, Doug Perrine, Jim Watt, Dave Fleetham, Avi Klapfer, Yves Lefevre, and Norbert Wu, among others.
In his current role as World Editor of DIVE Magazine, Douglas photographs and writes an extensive, in-depth monthly feature of marine natural history and phenomena entitled WATER COLUMN. Douglas also runs an expedition company, Tiny Bubbles Expeditions, Inc., which has taken discriminating adventurers to the far corners of the world to encounter whales, dolphins, turtles, sharks and other marine life for the past fifteen years.
Douglas is keenly involved in marine conservation, particularly concerning sharks and rays. He serves on the Board of Directors of Shark Savers (www.sharksavers.org) and is a Life Member of the Shark Conservation Society (www.sharkconsoc.com) in the UK.
His underwater photographic images have been published in books, newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, Men's Journal, Esquire, Forbes FYI, Outside, GQ, Reader's Digest, Sports Afield, Nature's Best, Wetpixel Quarterly, DAN Alert Diver and most of the world's dive magazines. These images have won many awards including Bronze Prize, UNEP Focus On Your World 2000; Grand Prize, Papua New Guinea Photo Competition 2000; Winner, Oceans, Nature's Best Magazine, 2002; Highly Commended, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, 1995, 2001, 2004.
Tony Wu
Tony is a waterlogged award-winning photographer who spends most of his life at sea, going to sea, or coming back from sea. In the course of his travels, Tony has witnessed first-hand the deterioration of many marine habitats and accompanying decrease in the health and numbers of marine animals around the world.
With a Chinese heritage, Tony is keen to address over-exploitation of marine resources by people in Asia, particularly in the context of consumption stemming from superstition and/ or a desire to flaunt social status and wealth. For example, he was one of the first people to initiate and execute successful campaigns to address the issue of shark fin consumption in Asia, persuading Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways to remove shark fin from their inflight menus in the late 1990s. Tony has consistently been at the forefront of educational efforts and campaigns related to shark fin consumption ever since.
Having recently learned about the burgeoning trade in manta ray gill plates, Tony believes that working with The Manta Trust and other like-minded people to educate consumers is the key to preventing overfishing and consequent collapse of manta ray populations.
"Mantas command your attention: they are majestic; they are graceful; and they are incredibly photogenic. But sadly, as has too often been the case with charismatic megafauna, mantas are being targeted worldwide in an indiscriminate and senseless manner. They are being killed for the alleged healing properties of their gill plates, which are being marketed in the traditional Chinese medicine trade. The only way to prevent ignorance, superstition and greed from obliterating global manta populations is by working together to educate and protect."
Keep up with ongoing updates from Tony's latest travels on his blog at tonywublog.com
Based in Malaysia Roger is an Emmy award-winning underwater cameraman who regularly works for the BBC's world renowned Natural History Unit.
Roger grew up in North Cornwall with the Atlantic on his doorstep. He first fell in love with scuba diving in Australia when working as a dive master in Byron Bay and since then has racked up thousands of dives around the world in diverse locations from the Antarctic to the tropics. An experienced rebreather diver and an accomplished freediver, Roger is one of the principal cameramen on Blue Planet II and was a key part of the camera team that filmed the Humpback Heat Run for the first time for David Attenborough's Life. Over the past 15 years as a cinematographer Roger has worked on some of the BBC's biggest natural history productions including Life, Life Story and Life in Cold Blood.
Roger has been involved with the Manta Trust for many years, having filmed Guy Stevens and the team on several occasions for Sixty Minutes, Man to Manta with Martin Clunes and Beautiful Maldives for CCTV.
"The combination of their grace, awareness and intelligence make interactions with manta rays some of the most special experiences anyone could hope to have with any marine animal. The work that the Manta Trust are doing to further our understanding of Manta rays, and spread awareness of their vulnerability, is vital to the continued existence of Manta Rays in our oceans."
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They still have the mussels and the pate and the white bean/truffle oil soup - all of which are amazing and definitely must-haves. For our entrees: skate wing, halibut, duck confit, and coq au vin, all of which were delicious!!
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Help...vulnerable father, procrastinating sister and a £3000 utility bill(40 Posts)
I can't seem to nc, so I'm having to cut down some personal info, sorry. Where to start?
My father is in his 80's, lives alone, in failing health. He has always been generous to a fault. When he finally sold the family home, (unable to maintain or afford it) he was left with a reasonable sum of money, which along with his pension was to see him through the rest of his life. My mother and father had divorced some years earlier - and there had been a financial settlement, so the proceeds where his alone. He has never been terribly good at budgeting, indeed, as a child I was very aware of the rollacoaster that was my parent's finances - times of plenty followed by red bills and threats - but otherwise we led a very normal middle class life.
Forward to 10 years ago. When Dad came into that money, both my mum and sister felt it was an appropriate place to get a loan for their various projects. My mum was setting up her own business and asked for a £35,000+ loan. I am not completely sure of exact figures - but I am close. My Dad gave it to her (he didn't want to divorce - still loves my mum, but my mum had valid reasons to leave and had given him enough chances). The business failed - landing my mum and stepdad in massive debt which they are still paying off...so my Dad gets nothing.
My sister wanted to buy her own house - all good so far - but couldn't come up with any form of deposit. (She is even more financially irresponsible than my parents). So she asked Dad for a loan - and it was a loan not a gift - which she would repay once she sold the house. He gave her £30,000. She bought the house and all was good, met her husband and then had a son. She was then made redundant from her job, but never mind, because her job and her house was approx 80 miles from where her husband lived! She moved in with him and left the house - yes, that is right, just left the house empty. After a lot of effort from my mum and me, the house was finally got into a state where it could be let (my sister has a pathological distrust of housekeeping...however, she is s.l.o.w.l.y getting better, so I am told ) and she got in tenants. But the house, 5 years later, still has tenants in and hasn't been sold...so Dad get nothing.
Last year, all the financial chickens from my Dad's past came home to roost. He was over £30,000 in debt and could no longer keep up with the minimum repayments (and why the banks kept loaning money out to a pensioner is a WHOLE other thread). Thankfully he came clean to me, and I helped him via a charitable debt association, to contact all his creditors and get them to agree a much reduced repayment. There is more - but I am unwilling to say much, but anyone who has been in this position will know what other measures have to be taken. At the time, he told me that he hadn't received a utility bill yet, but since he had only been in his new build rental for a few months, I was not really concerned, since the LL seemed to be sorting it out. A budget was agreed, including money for utilities. The pressure was off and my Dad could once again sleep at night.
I catch up every once in the while about his finances - and all has been OK, until last night. He has finally been contacted (although wrong name on bill, correct address and meter number) by the energy supplier...2.5 years later...his bill is for £3000. WTAF. He didn't chase the supplier as I had expected, but instead sat back and waited for them to come to him. (I wonder if he thought he would be dead before they caught up with him?) I've told him to get on to it on Monday morning...find out the meter readings when he moved in and get them to work out what he owes them - with the correct back dated tariff. I've done the research, and he does seem liable, (although they have fucked up massively as well, and the LL too) so he will have to pay. He got into this debt over 2.5 years, so they cannot force him to pay it back at once, but will have to agree to let him pay it back over the same period, but that will double his fuel bills with one stroke. Pre-paid meter - he is completely reliant on my Dsis to get anywhere - basically house bound, and I don't trust anyone in my family to ensure that he has enough money on the meter. (I live 3 hours away, so there is nothing I can physically do).
AAAHHHHGGGG....I had a difficult phone call to my mum last night...it went like this....
Why the actual fuck is it my responsibility to sort out this whole family's finances? (Oh...there is more...I just can't write it all down here - it would be a book!)
You and Dsis took his money off him, when he was in his 70's, and you knew this was all he had to live on FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE you fuckers...and now, because you are all CHILDREN and have failed to show any form of financial planning, you are now broke, unwilling / unable to sell the house YOU ARE NOT ACTUALLY LIVING IN....and the only person, once again, who is able to / cares enough to help is THE ONE PERSON who has NEVER TAKEN ANYTHING FROM HER FAMILY...
...I can afford to pay the bill...either at once or in instalments. BUT I have my own family, DC, husband, household, bills and future.....AAAHHHGGG
But I love my bloody useless family and I cannot sit by and watch my father worry / freeze / starve himself to death because he just can't afford to pay.
Nothing to say except that it sounds as if your sister is a nasty manipulative parasite who knows exactly what she's doing... And I'd be playing extremely hard ball with her from now on, tears or no tears. I really hope you can get her house sold and get your Dad living near you.
What I'm going to say comes from experience although it may sound harsh.
I'm guessing that your sister is in her 40s or 50s? I think she's a lost cause, I'm afraid. She'll have been relying on being bailed out by 'Daddy' for most of her life and Daddy (who probably has some guilt lurking around as well) is indulging that through misguided paternal feelings.
I doubt very much whether he has any strong emotional attachment to where he's living but he will likely have a huge attachment to 'keeping things the same' and likely wouldn't, at his age, wish to face tantrums and dramas.
The reason I mentioned asking him to come to live closer to you is that that's likely the only way to get the situation under control - and I'm talking eg quietly removing his cheque book and bank cards so that he can't use them. Is there any chance of - for instance - asking him to come for a visit to you/near you because you 'need him' ? (Think of a reason why you need him.) If you're seen to be the strong daughter then you'll be down the line on his practical priorities, I'm afraid (although not in his love) so you need to redress that balance.
The visit would, of course, be extended .....somewhat..... eventually.
Oh - and has he made a will? That needs to be attended to directly.
Sorry this is so short and a bit brusque. It's a hugely complicated and difficult situation for you.
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Utility companies are only allowed to fit a key meter if it is "safe and reasonably practical" to do so. They are not allowed to disconnect a person of pensionable age during the winter, and Ofgem have said that fitting an inappropriate prepayment meter can count as disconnection.
Can't find the exact quote I'm looking for, but this Ofgem document about smart meters gives the gist:
"where they become aware or have reason to believe it is no longer safe and reasonably practicable for a customer to use prepayment, to offer alternative arrangements
Given the importance of these issues we will take a robust approach to enforcement in this area, particularly where vulnerable customers are involved."
Smart Metering Spring Package - Addressing Consumer Protection Issues, pp3-4
Use the words "not safe and reasonably practical" and "vulnerable person" when writing to the utility company - your housebound, pensioner father living alone definitely comes under that category.
Unless the Dad is named on the deeds of the house ie the loan is legally enforceable in some way then it is entirely dependent on the sister doing the "right" thing and selling up to pay back the loan.
Yes could you get power of attorney and force a sale that way?
Have you looked into getting power of attorney?
I don't think she is, but she is blind to the consequences of her actions where money is concerned, it is like she stopped maturing when she got to 14!
I would really like him to move near us. I have approached the question and he said no. He is quite reclusive, unwilling to venture out and about. He doesn't have any friends locally, but has lived in that area since his late 40s, so he has an emotional attachment he doesn't have to my area. I can approach him again, but I will have to get my timing just right! He understands my Dsis house must go, and wants it to, but he also doesn't want to unset her. Everyone is forced to tiptoe around her...my husband thinks she is some sort of sociopath... Just can't see what her actions do to those around her!
Perhaps you need to play hardball with your dad and tell him that he doesn't have a choice that your sisters house will have to be sold - it's not like she's going to end up homeless by this happening is it!
It's so so difficult. You want/need to limit the problems but you can only do that by creating other problems or by disrespecting your parent's independence.
Have you actually asked your father to move closer to you? (I know you said 'he would never agree' but I wasn't sure whether that was just in anticipation of what he might say.) I suspect that if you loaded the situation correctly he might be persuaded.
Thanks for the replies overnight. You are right Cozie, that is my fear, that if we solve this problem, firstly, nothing will change and there will be another drama next year and secondly, my sister will remain a continuous drain on his resources.
My mother is really sorry for the mess she instigated. Yes, I have heard her say it was 'fair' that she had further money from dad since the original settlement was so low - but she got no sympathy from me down that avenue, and now seems truly concerned about her actions. She lost her home in this business disaster ( I thought you could limit liabilities...) and has had to battle back to renting a house for the first time in 7/8 years finally this year. (Before that she lived in a caravan/ my home / cheap hotels) She and my DSD have only just got back on their feet, and are now looking to find something to start paying off their debit to my dad. And as far as it being weird about owing your DW's exDH money... I was a bit when I found out!
My sister is a much harder nut to crack... She hits behind MH problems...(which I do have some sympathy with since I have had problems myself!) She is incredibly difficult to have hard conversations with. Tears, wailing, promises to change...then nothing...if you try again she just shuts you down and walks away. I have told her she can sell with tenants in, I have even offered to pay her mortgage for her if she gives notice to her tenants so she can sell the house empty! I have given the job of talking to her to my mother!
I am NC with my other sister....oh what a fucked up family!
I think the main difficulty here is that the OP's father may, as far as SS are concerned, be entirely in command of his faculties. So he chooses to indulge members of his family to his own detriment? There are plenty of people who do that and are much younger and more able than him.
I'm not sure what SS could actually do - apart from the fact that a referral, whatever the outcome, might just cause the OP's mother and sister to reflect on their actions, through embarrassment if nothing else.
Agreed. I can imagine that OP's mum may feel she was 'owed' for the years of financial mismanagement when they were married, but the marriage is dissolved, that time is done. (She's married someone else, surely he felt it was deeply odd to be in debt to his wife's first husband?)
'vultures' is the right word. I can appreciate that people can get into a one-off fix which causes problems and for which they might need some temporary help but there is no excuse for continued whining and spending on unnecessary items at someone else's expense, parent or no. That is just totally selfish behaviour. Callous, even, when it's causing the other person such distress.
(My response here may be coloured by past experience, I'm afraid.)
The reasons he didn't want to do it was because it would force Dsis into selling the house for a loss which she couldn't bear, and would also impact my DM delicate finances.
But he's being forced close to bankruptcy by their profligacy. Why on earth shouldn't they feel the effects of that? Who the hell borrows money for a deposit from someone in their 70s and claims they'll get the money back 'when the house is sold'? If he had died in the meantime, presumably this money would just have disappeared out of his estate, meaning effectively your sister would have disinherited you, as well.
The house can be sold with the tenants inside, btw, it isn't an either/or situation. Your sister needs to be pressured to get it on the market pronto.
From the size of his debts, it sounds like your father has basically pissed away the nest egg that should have given him a comfortable old age, if he lent c. 65K of it out and then ran up debts of another 30. I take it the money's all gone, bar whatever capital is in the house? He needs protection to stop the two vultures in your family from pressuring him into withdrawing equity from that too.
I would definitely be having a word with social services.
I used to work at British Gas and the PPs saying he can only be back billed for 12 months are right. If he has the meter readings from when he moved in and now the ebergy company should be able to plot his probable usage pattern and then only issue a bill covering from December 2012 to now.
I was a little concerned about your sister I confess. We had this situation in our own family - where we knew that any money we put in at one end to our Dad would be leached out at the other by the person doing the 'Oh that's such a nice coat/scarf/toy/whatever....' and the old man would put his hand in his pocket. Therefore he would end up broke whatever we did.
Our situation was unresolvable, I'm afraid, and was only 'sorted' by my Dad's death. However, have you spoken to your sister about the problems? (I see you spoke to your mum albeit unsatisfactorily.)
I'll get my facts straight on Monday and then maybe work social media - it is a good idea! Shame it won't work on my DM and Dsis!
is it worth contacting them via FB or Twitter? Not ranting and all that (to begin with at least) - but a bit of adverse publicity can work wonders.
At the moment I will hold my tongue about the company - I'll spill the beans if they act badly towards my father though! (Right now, I bet they are pretty unaware of the situation themselves...we are all just nameless, faceless individuals whose petty concerns and lives don't mean much! Just have a look at all the threads this winter where worried families are trying to keep warm without using energy!)
The energy company will have to take some responsibility. They are restrictions on being able to back bill over certain lengths of time. you say which supplier it is?
Good! And let us know how you get on
I will see if Age Concern can help - they have helped with stuff before. I will definitely try and argue for the 12 month limit - the energy company played it's part in this mess too!
I didn't think they could force anyone to have a prepayment meter anymore?
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isn't it already established that its an alternate world? even Roderick from Roderick firm said it. Its like people watching log hora aren't even watching and they aren't like Isaac which is just being tsundere on stuff.
THIS IS NOT SAO They aren't inside a game or playing a virtual game. Its getting irritating with its being mentioned again and again but people still keep on saying it.
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If you transported a regular person from say, the 1950's, into the world of Log Horizon, he'd find the automatic assumption by modern day Adventurers that the People of the land were not *real* to be literally incomprehensible. Without familiarity with the concept of how NPC's in RPG's function, the assumption that the People of the Land weren't real wouldn't make sense. And given how radically different this Elder Scrolls is from the actual game (especially with the People of the Land), citing familiarity with the original game isn't a very authoritative argument.
Of course now we're just talking about Solipsim here. And the basic tenants of the philosophy apply just as much in our world as they do in the world of Elder Scrolls. And navel gazing philosophies about how everything and everyone might actually be fake aren't necessarily the best basis to determine practical laws/codes of conduct for running an orderly society should work.
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if u read SAO light novel until the last arc, this elder tale still being a virtual game IS possible
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Within the context of the world, the characters don't question whether the world is real or not at this point because there's really no point for them to do so. Let's assume they believe it all to be a game, then what? Well the answer is what we saw; the start of the series and the decline of Akiba and Susekino with a few guilds finding purpose in playing the game but the majority falling into apathy due to lack of purpose. What if they assume it's all real and the Landers are people? Well you have what they're doing now; trying to find their way because this is reality and they have no choice but to deal with it. Taking what the Adventurers are doing in order to stay sane as canonical fact on a mystery which they don't understand or know anything about is folly; they don't know and in most instances they aren't thinking about it because it's secondary to restoring some sense of normalcy and purpose to their existence. This is what the Round Table Conference was about.
Imagine you questioned your own existence. Imagine you can't tell if you're real or fake. Imagine that you can't tell if what you see is real or isn't. What do you do? It seems to me there's really only three choices: you become paralyzed with indecision, you assume it's all a lie and do whatever you want, or you assume it's all real and act accordingly. Which do you pick? In the end it doesn't matter what the "truth" is, what matters is what you do about it.
Shiroe's points about treating the People of the Land as fellow sentients are dressed up in tangible cost-benefit issues (war, hardship, and so forth), however the scene with the random farmers they stayed with on the trip back from Susekino is designed to highlight the fact that to Shiroe the Landers are indistinguishable from "normal" humans. Insisting Akiba treat them like people has little to do with potential harm the Landers can inflict to the Adventurers and everything to do with what is ethically/morally right. Furthermore I suspect that Shiroe saw the link between abusing the Landers and the situation in Susekino, namely that if you convince yourself that something that is, in nearly every single way, indistinguishable from a person is an object which you can do whatever you want with, how long before you start doing the same to people you know are "real?" If Demikas and Brigandia are any indication the answer is "not very long."
TL;DR: The nature of the Log Horizon universe has not been established but the Adventurers gain nothing from believing it is anything except real.
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Thank you for this articulated and well thought out response. And I agree with you completely. At least you didn't right out dismiss the in-your-face correlation about how the setting of this world is a virtual-copy of the online MMORPG. Based on what we've learned up to episode 13, it is still not clear whether these guys are stuck in virtual world or in an alternate universe. So outright dismissing (or showing irritation p) the notion that they still might be stuck in a virtual program would be a bit of a premature assertion.
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You could walk around believing black people are goblins, indians are orcs, and east asians are alien invaders because your mama told you so, despite the behaviors suggesting otherwise.
But I would think that's gonna do more harm than good while living in the real world.
Keep in mind they were NOT playing a VRMMO like SAO. This was a regular game, just like we play in the real world.
Imagine some massive world-wide entity deciding to suddenly kidnap everyone logged on to World of Warcraft on the exact same time around the globe, strapping them to a virtual machine somehow created to simulate the world of Azeroth perfectly. This ridiculous notion was actually dismissed by Shiroe in the very first volume, but his monologues have been all but cut in the anime since that would be a boring first episode.
For this to be even conceived as an man-made virtual world, it would have to involve aliens or supernatural deities. Or time travelers and/or Matrix backdrop.
And at that point, it's kinda moot to even consider this not being an actual magical world, no?
It's Haruhi level of madness.
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I'd really recommend reading it since it isn't written in high academia and his sentence structure tends to be less convoluted and meandering than mine! I don't know if you'll be able to draw direct parallels to Log Horizon from it though I can definitely see how it influenced Mamare's work. It also isn't terribly long since each section probably isn't more than a novel page or two in length; most of that length is taken up explaining things.
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But the part where Shiroe was investigating the settings, his surroundings and the feeling of his surrounding. Its happening when he arrive in elder tales and up to meeting with naotsugu and concluding it after they met that "its real" and even after the episode ended. In the preview of the next episode. Shiroe always say that "this is our reality" heck, I think he also said that in episode 1.
Aside from body disappearance and body becoming real plus following the pre-made character in ET. Can you even suggest that as something like sci-fi genre? plus it happen world wide. It didn't just happen like in one part of the country with only 10000 people. it happen in millions around the world. I think even a world class terrorist group won't be able to hide their bodies around for a long time without being find. Unless you go "fantasy" setting on explaining their disappearance.
Plus next episode would actually explain the "whole body in the game/world" is important. That makes a huge difference on what's happening.
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Doesn't prove the theory, but currently the evidence we have leans in favor of the alternate universe theory.
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I think this discussion though needs to make a distinction between what the Adventurers think of the situation and what we, the viewers, think of it. To the Adventurers the issue is moot because they can do absolutely nothing about it so it isn't something they spend much time caring about; to them it's just another world. To us, the viewer, it does matter on the meta level because it informs how we view the actions of the characters and the world. In that sense I think Log Horizon should have stressed a little harder what we're talking about now.
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I would say the laws of physics still come first, then the MMO rules come into play.
However as we learned from the cooking and other things, the MMO rules are getting a bit flimsy...
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And WTH is noopsphere ? As far i know , every major update (expansion) in MMORPG , ussualy they will have a major quest . So i think if shiroe want to solve the mystery of ET world. He must find out what is noopsphere first ( novasphere ) sphere = is like an orb glowing thing right ? and what is the major quest of this expansion/update
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By virtual world, if you mean by actual modern day human hands with no supernatural involved, then every evidence suggest otherwise. My point is, whatever the explanation is, it must be supernatural (or extremely advanced technology beyond the setting of the story) involved - whether it be collective consciousness of men through the internet (noosphere theory) or Haruhi-like reality warping deity, or extra-terrestrial technology.
SAO explanation simply is unfeasible, and this is confirmed by characters in-story.
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If GDP is Up, Why is America Down? Article
Cobb, C., T. Halstead, and J. Rowe
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A little while ago, while I was in the shower, I had a series of realizations.
I was unmindfully mulling over a financial problem, because my bank had messed and moved all my money into someone else's account, and then I became aware that I was caught up in unhelpful and distracted thinking.
My initial thought was that I was being blown around by one of the "four worldly winds" that Buddhism talks about: gain and loss. We often end up thinking that getting and having stuff is one of the most important things in life, and therefore think that losing stuff is important too.
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It's very easy for us to assume that the one who feels compassion is in some way superior to the one he or she feels compassion for. This is partly rooted, I presume, in the assumption that it's weak to suffer, but that assumption in turn grows from our biological conditioning. We're social animals, and one of the things a social animal has as part of its genetic makeup is a propensity to establish where it stands in a social hierarchy.
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Known in traditional Buddhism as the Lokadhammas, they are eight ways in which the world can 'blow us around' – gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and infamy, and praise and blame.
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Vidyamala talks about the worldly winds of pleasure and pain as part of the Triratna Buddhist Community's International Urban Retreat, where for one week (8 – 15 October, 2011) people around the world at Triratna centers intensify their practice while staying their your home situation. The Urban Retreat is about learning to make Buddhist practice real and effective in daily life.
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Donegal (Irish: Dún na nGall), northwest Ireland in the province of Ulster, sometimes referred to as County Tyrconnel, where they were descended from King Maoldun Baoghal (meaning "peril") of the Heremon line of Irish Kings.
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"She can't take my kidney, but I will be willing to give anyone a kidney that can give her one," Deaton said.
Deaton's proposed swap is actually part of a nationally growing program - called paired exchange - where a patient who needs a kidney is matched up with a compatible stranger. In return, the patient must line up a friend or relative willing to donate an organ to a stranger, too.
Fowler, 63, is not a match with any of her family members or to Deaton, who has AB-positive blood. To make matters worse, because her O-positive blood type is so common, doctors have excluded Fowler from their hospitals' paired exchange programs.
Emory University and Piedmont hospitals in Atlanta and the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, so far, are the only medical facilities in Georgia to participate in such programs, Fowler said.
"We've been told by Emory and Augusta that we weren't eligible because of Craig being AB, and plus I'm O. But most families, if Craig gave an AB, then the family may not want to give me an O because there may be someone else in their family that would want an O. So it's a difficult situation," she said.
Fowler was diagnosed in 1978 with Bright's Disease or nephritis - inflammation of the kidney that is commonly caused by autoimmune disorders. The disease, Fowler said, destroys the filtering system in the kidney.
She had a successful transplant 22 years ago, but realized a year ago that her donated kidney also was starting to fail.
The couple is hoping that there is someone out there willing to give Fowler at least another 22 years of life.
"She knows that she can't wait, and she knows that she can't survive very long on dialysis also," Deaton said. Fowler will likely to have to start dialysis within the next several months, he said.
Kidney exchanges between families, Deaton said, can help patients avoid long waits on the transplant list and the serious decline in health that often occurs in people who are on dialysis for years at a time.
Since 2000, paired exchange transplants have increased drastically, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization.
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Went to Sura and had a few dishes I've never had before like their 'naked' dok bukki. Nobody ever looked at a menu all nite, so it *may* be off menu.
The dok bukki had no hot pepper paste at all, but had a similar consistency and viscosity to the sauce. It appeared to have more veggies (mushrooms, little carrot bits, onions) than regular, but it could have been an illusion because I could actually see all the vegetables clearly.
It was sweet ... with a flavor somewhere between jap chae and bulgogi.
It's a nice answer to the question "does everything in a Korean restaurant have to be red?".
It was good, but I'd only order it again to balance out the flavors on the table.
Also had a dish, when translated, is called 'old whole kimchee with mackeral' that was very good. Mackeral was cooked together with well fermented whole napa kimchee leaves. Kind of like a very thick kimchee jigae. You take the long leaves (maybe splitting in half) and wrap it around the fish to eat. Use the leftover sauce to mix with your rice. Spicy and good.
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Ik heb een voltijdbaan gehad bij Zignal Labs (Korter dan een jaar)
The first few weeks were really positive for me, people were very enthusiastic and for the most part genuinely wanted to get to know you. I think this is very typical for any tech startup. I think they also want to make a solid impact for new talent that joins.
From my perspective, people either enjoy working for this company or don't. It's 50/50. Similar to other reviews, I'd also compare it to a fraternal-like culture. I think the only reason they have stayed afloat is because they were working with an open-ended budget. However, this budget is not translated to employees.
Most of the talented engineers left around their 1 year anniversary. The founders have little relevant experience to the type of business they envision and are figuring it out with unlimited budget along the way. When issues rise up such as process management and improvement or learning from previous mistakes, leadership does not document or remember any of them which left employees to just give up. This type of software is dying off and enterprise accounts will focus on other solutions.
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I've a confession to make: I've been playing on one of the peer-to-peer lending sites. Not mystery shopping or anything, just the sort of thing we should all do when we're looking for a loan: find out what's on offer and compare. Ideally we'd be able to check what a loan will cost us in fees and interest, too.
So I went looking for a $20,000 loan, without having any real pressing need. (Take it from me, this is a lot more fun when you're not desperate for the money. I've been there!)
Two things about this experience shocked me. First, when I was approved, the setup fees and interest rate were nowhere to be seen. I actually had to email someone to ask what borrowing 20 grand was going to cost me.
Then, when I finally found out, my second shock was the rate itself: 22.14%! That's higher than almost all personal loans, car loans, credit cards and even some store cards.
Which brings us to the main point of this post: credit history and credit scores. I began wondering why I was being offered such a high rate, so I ran my credit history to see. Although I had no idea what the lender was looking for in a borrower in terms of credit score, perhaps I could guess why I might not fit the bill.
Now checking your credit history is fairly easy these days, but you have to do it with all three reporting agencies: Centrix, Dun and Bradstreet, Veda. You have a right to get it for free, or you can pay under $10 to get yours a bit faster (within a week or so).
Unfortunately, your credit score – the rating that lenders use to decide whether they will lend to you – is not included with your history unless you pay even more. For your "Vedascore", for example, you'd have to either pay a one-time fee of $51.95 or start up their alerts for $7.95 a month.
When I ran my credit history, it included the record of my P2P loan application. Too much shopping for credit like this is one of the things that can drive your credit score down.
What else can negatively affect your credit score? Here's a list:
- Defaulting on a loan
- Not paying after defaulting
- Any insolvency history
- Having too short a credit history
- Not having enough experience with different credit "products" like cards and hire purchase agreements
- Requesting credit too many times from different lenders within a short period
- Living at your present address for too short a time
Since I've shifted house a couple of times in the last two years, I suspect that my high P2P rate was due to that last point. Or perhaps it is too short a history, since there's really not much on it. I'll never know, since lenders' credit decisions always have a veil of secrecy about them.
Happily, there are some things we can do to improve our credit rating and get cheaper credit when we need it. Since April 2012 New Zealand has been putting a positive reporting system in place, with the big banks, utility companies and telecoms starting to report our good payment habits over the last two years to the credit agencies.
So the more often we pay our bills on time – and of course avoid defaults or anything negative – the more our credit score will climb.
But all of this still leaves me wondering why I can get my credit history for free, but not my credit score. I still haven't seen mine.
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3:42pm | 2 Mar 2016
Hi there #4, thanks for commenting. At present, privacy law ensures that our credit histories are freely available to us, but not the scores that are derived from them. A credit score doesn't currently qualify as personal information because it is a separate entity from a person's credit record. Perhaps this will be reviewed in the future as these scores become more and more our "identities" as far as credit goes.
3:42pm | 2 Mar 2016
Under Law (the privacy act) we are entitled to view any records that are held (by anyone) about us and our personal details for free and unobstructed so, how is it that we have to pay and are unable to see our credit score?
3:42pm | 2 Mar 2016
My nephew went and changed his name by deed poll because his financial and criminal history was out the gate. It worked, he is able to work after getting out of jail and he is building his credit rating which is a lot easier than being a discharged bankrupt.
3:41pm | 2 Mar 2016
...discharged bankrupts are treated like 'criminals' for years after their discharge....virtually a life-long sentence....are refused any borrowing and if it is approved 'massive' interest rates/costs....Bloody rip off!!! what happened to Human Rights...????
3:41pm | 2 Mar 2016
I had an Non-Asset procedure back in 2008 and it was suppose to be only for a year then removed. I've still got it on my credit history after all these years - and it was only stressed to me it was only for a year. I don't have any results myself to what my number is.
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Hello, I have a client that uses foxpro 2.6. He has an old NT 4.0 server and win98 clients,that access and use the programs over a network drive, and all is well.
Now he must upgrade the server and clients.
I have a win 2003 server running SBS and winxp pro the clients. I have copied all the necessary files over to the new server and connected the old win98 clients to it, through a network drive and it works. Yea!!!
My question is -
When I try and use the winxp pro clients, using the same setup over the network drive, only certian aspects of the programs will work.
Do I need to configure the config.nt and the autoexec.nt files for the programs?
I run into errors referring to PIF's and access to resources, ie, the modem.
Bottom line, are there some steps that I can take to make these programs work in this new environment?