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I will start with Libya: I debriefed the [Foreign Affairs] Ministers on my visit to Tripoli on Saturday, where I inaugurated the European Union offices that will host both the European Union Delegation and the staff from EUBAM (EU Border Assistance Mission in Libya), our mission that is supporting Libyan authorities in their work on managing their borders - in particular, land borders - and I had the pleasure to meet some of our staff that is already there.
The strong signal we are giving is that the European Union, which has always been present in Libya through political and financial support, is now also physically back in Tripoli. So our daily work with the Libyan authorities, with the municipalities, with the civil society, with the UN agencies is going to be strengthened on a daily basis and this was welcomed by all Ministers.
Let me remind you that we have with Libya a strong political partnership, strong EU support for the country itself, with over €350 million of ongoing programs financed by the European Union and mainly run by UN agencies and civil society in Libya, including a strong component on women empowerment - I want to stress this because the Ministers and I discussed this point during the meeting today.
This to say that even though on the media most of the attention when it comes to Libya is linked to migratory issues, most of our conversation today with the Ministers and most of our work with the Libyan authorities and with the Libyan people is actually focused on Libya itself.
First of all, supporting the political process in Libya. The work the UN Special Representative [for Libya, Ghassan] Salamé is doing to prepare the elections is very much supported by the European Union. We believe that the work towards elections must be accelerated and we are supporting it ourselves; we are supporting the Electoral Commission and we believe that a proper constitutional and legal framework must be prepared before the elections take place.
We also discussed and worked a lot on the economic situation. That is what counts the most for the Libyan people. In particular, we witnessed in the recent weeks a crisis on the diversion of resources in the Oil Crescent. Luckily - and thanks to a lot of work that has been done in a coordinated manner - the current crisis has been overcome. But we agreed, both with our Libyan counterparts but also with the [Foreign Affairs] Ministers today, that we will increase our work together with the United Nations to end distortions of revenues and ensure that the revenues deriving from oil can be distributed in a transparent manner.
On migration, as I said, this is not the main focus of our work with Libya, but still is a work that is ongoing. We agreed with the Ministers to keep our focus based on cooperation and partnership with Libya, but most of all with the United Nations agencies, the IOM and the UNHCR and the African Union.
I will give you two numbers that show us that the work that we started this last year has brought results. One is the number of migrants from third countries that have been returned voluntarily, in an assisted manner by the IOM with European Union financial support from inside Libya to their countries of origin: that is 28,000 people in the last months - more than all taken together in the previous years, I would say. So this work needs to be sustained and consolidated. And the second number I would like to give you is that arrivals to European coasts from Libya have gone down by 85 percent compared to the same period of last year.
I think this shows us clearly that the work we have started to do together last year is finally bringing results. Obviously, it needs to be continued and consolidated. This requires also resources and the Foreign Ministers committed to contribute more on the financial side, especially to the Trust Fund for Africa. And we will continue also our work with a G5 Sahel.
We also had a point on the agenda on the Eastern Partnership, let me move to that. We will have a Ministerial Meeting with all the six of our Eastern partners on 15 October. Today was an important moment to take stock of our work after the Summit that took place here in November and to prepare the Ministerial. We see clear progress in our relations with all the six partners.
We had a good Summit with Ukraine just a week ago. We had a Partnership Council - the first ever Partnership Council - with Armenia at the end of June. I had the pleasure to meet the new Prime Minister [of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan] last week. With Azerbaijan we initialled the Partnership Priorities also last week, with the Foreign Minister [of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov] and myself. We see recent developments in Moldova actually as very worrying, while with Belarus there are some encouraging steps.
We are working very closely together with each of them to implement the decisions that were taken for developing 20 projects, concrete projects, 20 deliverables for 2020. And let me say also that I believe this is an important day to reconfirm something that was very strongly underlined by all Ministers today: the European Union's firm, consolidated position on the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of our Eastern partners.
Last but not least, we had with the Ministers an update on the situation in DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]. I had myself the chance of discussing developments there with [US Secretary of State, Mike] Pompeo last week and also with the Foreign Ministers of Japan [Tarō Kōno] and South Korea [Kang Kyung-wha] during these days on the phone. We are united, as the European Union and Member States, to support both processes that are underway.
On one hand, the denuclearisation process that is led by the United States together with Pyongyang, where we would stress the need to have full denuclearisation, irreversible denuclearisation and verified denuclearisation before any sanction is lifted. So we will keep our economic pressure there. If I can give you an example, with Iran we lifted the nuclear-related sanctions not just at the end of the twelve years of negotiation on the agreement, but after the agreement was implemented on the Iranian side. So we are talking about a long way to go. Pressure will be maintained, but at the same time we will support with all possible means - political means, first of all - the political and diplomatic track. We believe there is no other way than diplomacy and dialogue to bring the peninsula to a denuclearisation.
We will also support with all our means the intra-Korean dialogue. I discussed this this morning with the Foreign Minister of Seoul [Kang Kyung-wha] and we will meet soon in Asia. So also in this the European Union can be a reliable partner for our friends in Seoul.
Maybe just two points that were not on our agenda but that we addressed during the meeting.
One is the situation in Gaza, where we have seen a very worrying escalation with the heaviest rocket fire from Gaza and Israeli attacks since 2014. And we all agreed to use all our channels to urge the parties to take a step back, stop the violence, prevent another war and alleviate the situation for the people on the ground. We believe the only way is to support the UN and Egypt in their effort to revive the Palestinian reconciliation. We are working very closely, together with the UN, with Egypt, but also with Norway as the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee chair.
And then, last but not least, let me inform you that today the [Foreign Affairs] Council has endorsed the update of the Blocking Statute's Annex proposed by the European Commission following the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. This is a very welcome step from the [Foreign Affairs] Council, from my side. It gives us a consistent step forward in the set of measures that the European Union has put in place to make sure that the economic benefits deriving from the nuclear deal can continue to be in place for Iran.
Q. You debriefed the Council on the Joint Commission [of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal] meeting in Vienna and you had a meeting with Mr [Mike] Pompeo [Secretary of State of the United States] last Friday. The US Secretary of State and his colleagues of the Treasury have answered France, Great Britain and Germany's letter, that the United States refuse any exemption even for the healthcare. Do you think that with this American tough line, the impact of the measures you are taking with Russia or China will be limited, whatever you do and whatever your good intention or diplomatic effort is, and in the end that Iran will be left to choose whether to accept to implement the agreement or not? Because in the end, it is as Mr Zarif said: it is in their interest to keep the nuclear deal.
I have seen the reply that was addressed also to me as we wrote the letter together. I have to say I have not seen anything new in the reply, apart from the already very well-known US policy, so no surprises not for good nor for bad. The set of measures we have been putting in place both at the European Union level, at Member States' level and at third countries' level and that we have discussed in Vienna last 6 July seemed to be, to me but also to all of us including, I believe, the Iranian counterparts, an interesting set of measures that can allow us to guarantee that Iran continues to benefit from the economic benefits coming from the implementation of the agreement as it has always been foreseen by the agreement itself. So, I do not see this reply as bringing anything new to the work we are doing.
Q: Sulla Libia, tema di cui avete discusso oggi. Questa mattina il Ministro dell'Interno italiano [Matteo] Salvini è tornato a chiedere all'Unione europea di riconoscere i porti libici come porti sicuri. Uscendo dalla riunione del Consiglio [Affari Esteri], il sottosegretario italiano agli Esteri [Emanuela Claudia] Del Re ha detto che l'Italia sta lavorando per rendere i porti libici sicuri. Inoltre, nei giorni scorsi il premier italiano [Giuseppe] Conte aveva annunciato per l'autunno una conferenza sulla Libia da tenere in Italia, nella quale coinvolgere anche gli Stati Uniti, per dare seguito alla Conferenza di Parigi. Vorrei capire, innanzitutto, sulla questione dei porti libici se ci sono le condizioni, se e quando ci saranno e cosa bisogna fare per fare in modo che ci siano queste condizioni, per dichiarare tali i porti libici. E poi su questa conferenza sulla Libia che il governo italiano ha intenzione di organizzare se voi siete in qualche modo stati coinvolti e se avete intenzione di contribuire.
A: Innanzitutto, sui porti la decisione rispetto al fatto che i porti libici non siano porti sicuri è una decisione della Corte Europea dei Diritti dell'Uomo, quindi è una valutazione puramente giuridica, sulla quale non c'è decisione politica da prendere; ma è puramente nella mani appunto di una corte indipendente ed ha i suoi metodi di valutazione puramente basati sullo stato di diritto e sulla legge. Oltretutto, è stata una questione che l'Italia oggi non ha sollevato durante il Consiglio [Affari Esteri], cosi come non è stata sollevata dall'Italia neanche la prospettiva di una conferenza sulla Libia.
Siamo chiaramente disponibili a lavorare per tutte le iniziative, in Europa o nella regione, che possano aiutare il processo politico guidato dalle Nazioni Unite. E su questo c'è stata una convergenza totale degli Stati Membri oggi. È quello che ho discusso con [il Rappresentante Speciale del Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite per la Libia] Ghassan Salamé, con [il Primo ministro del Governo di Accordo Nazionale della Libia Fayez] Serraj, sabato a Tripoli, come fare in modo che l'Europa per quello che riguarda, ma anche il resto della comunità internazionale, il resto degli attori regionali possano accompagnare la Libia sulla strada di elezioni. Ma non solo elezioni: elezioni con un contesto costituzionale e legale definito ed elezioni, soprattutto, che siano preparate in modo tale per cui tutti gli interlocutori politici accettino il risultato delle elezioni il giorno dopo le elezioni. Questo è il vero punto sul quale c'è bisogno di lavorare e su questo c'è unità dell'Unione Europea, c'è unità del nostro lavoro con le Nazioni Unite e credo anche con il resto dei vicini della Libia, del mondo arabo e anche dell'Unione Africana, coi quali siamo in stretto collegamento. Qualsiasi conferenza, qualsiasi iniziativa che vada in questa direzione sicuramente ci vedrà giocare un ruolo importante.
Q. A question about the Trump-Putin meeting: obviously, we saw a number of Ministers coming in this morning saying that they were a little surprised to be described as the "foe" of the United States and that it did not seem entirely appropriate. I wonder if that came up in the meeting, if there was any discussion, any kind of looking back at the NATO drama to see how that has affected how Europe feels about the US?
This was not on our agenda but obviously we are not operating in a vacuum. By the way, I have suggested to the Ministers to discuss transatlantic relations in light of the next meetings that we will have, maybe already next month. I would not say that there is a drama atmosphere here. Here, we are very clear on who are our friends, and as I said earlier this morning, for the European Union, for Europe, the United States of America are and will continue to be a friend. This does not change with a change in administration and this is very clear. Having said that, we will see what comes out of the Trump-Putin meeting today. I hope that they can agree at least on one thing that could be extremely useful for the rest of the world, which is their own agreements on arms control. I think this is a global expectation and something on which they have direct control on, on both sides. So, I hope that this can be an outcome of the meeting, that would be a concrete and positive outcome to be welcomed. On the rest, we will see.
Q. Sur la Libye: à plusieurs reprises, les garde-côtes libyens ou les autorités libyennes ont demandé à ce qu'on leur livre des navires, des équipements militaires, des armes, différents dispositifs. Est-ce que vous avez décidé, est-ce que ces matériels pourront-ils être livrés, est-ce que l'Europe va les financer d'une manière directe ou indirecte, et quel est le support que vous pourrez leur apporter pour qu'ils aient le contrôle entier de leurs côtes?
Premièrement, comme vous le savez très bien, l'Union européenne est en train d'entraîner les garde-côtes libyens, nous sommes prêts à commencer un nouveau cycle d'entraînement. C'est une activité qui est beaucoup appréciée par les autorités libyennes – j'en ai parlé avec [le Premier Ministre, Fayez] Sarraj – et nous avons décidé de continuer cette activité.
En ce qui concerne les navires et l'équipement, ce sont les Etats membres, dans le contexte européen, qui sont en train de donner ce qui est nécessaire et je peux partager avec vous le fait que j'ai proposé aux Ministres, comme je l'avais déjà proposé aux chefs d'état ou de gouvernement au Conseil européen de la fin juin, de mettre à disposition les ressources – qui sont d'ailleurs très minimes - pour que l'opération Sophia puisse être présente avec une petite présence physique à Tripoli pour faire le suivi des garde-côtes que nous avons entraîné.
Il y a comme toujours un plein soutien politique mais après, je ne vois pas arriver l'argent. Donc j'espère que les Etats membres seront conséquents dans leurs préoccupations et j'espère pouvoir avoir les ressources disponibles d'ici à quelques jours, quelques semaines – mais l'été est déjà bien avancé - pour pouvoir faire le suivi de l'entrainement et avoir une petite présence à Tripoli pour faire le suivi du travail que les garde-côtes sont en train de faire; ce qui sera important non seulement pour l'aspect opérationnel mais aussi pour le respect des standards des droits de l'homme.
Q. There is quite a wide discussion ongoing on introducing Qualified Majority Voting in the Foreign Affairs Council. Could you give us an update on that, including indicating which Member States or groups of Member States are in favour and which are against and for what reasons?
I can tell you only one thing that comes out of my experience over these last almost 4 years of chairing Foreign Ministers' meetings or Defense Ministers' meetings, I would say, on average more than once a month, if you put together the three ministerial meetings I chair: we never, never in these almost four years had a problem of unanimity for adopting conclusions. I do not exclude that this could become a problem in the future, but today, unanimity in the Council for what concerns Foreign Ministers, Defence ministers - even on defence, we have decided by unanimity on European defence with the UK still in - and this continues to be the case, unanimity, in taking decisions, so far, has never been a problem. If I can indicate a problem, it is a problem of consistency: once decisions are taken, to implement them together, to put resources when they are needed and to do things together after decisions are made. But I have not seen, so far, a problem of unanimity in this field. On other issues, yes, indeed, but these are not Councils that fall under my responsibility.
Q. Back to the JCPOA: how confident are you, given the huge pressure coming from the United States? For all we know, President [of the United States Donald] Trump could be talking to President [of the Russian Federation Vladimir] Putin about it today. How confident are you that the measures you are introducing will succeed, given that pressure? Could you give us a sort of timeline in terms of what happens next. I believe the first sanctions from the United States are due to kick in towards the end of the first week of next month, and then more sanctions coming in November. If you could just give us some sort of an idea in terms of EU's measures etc.?
The timeline of the re-imposition of US sanctions' is 6 August and, if I am not wrong, 4 November, very much aligned with the midterm election calendar, it seems to me. On our side, we are working full speed; as I told you, already today we had a [Foreign Affairs] Council decision on the update of the Blocking Statute. If I am not wrong, less than two weeks ago, the European Parliament gave its consent as well. So, on our side, the steps are being taken. It is not about a future calendar, it is work ongoing already now.
In Vienna, ten days ago, we discussed together, also with Iran, Russia and China, the next steps and the ongoing work that is taking place currently at technical level, especially on the banking sector, the financial channels, the oil sale and the small and medium enterprises sector. How confident I am? I have to tell you it is a difficult exercise, because the weight of the US in the global economy and financial system is obviously relevant. But we are determined to preserve this deal.
We believe it is absolutely in our security interests; we believe it is in the security interest of the region and of the world. I cannot say if our efforts together with others' efforts are going to be enough, but what I can say is that we are doing all we can and we will continue to do all we can to try and prevent this deal from being dismantled, because we believe the consequences of this would be catastrophic for all.
So, I hope we will, together, in a joint effort managed to preserve this deal. I would not tell it is an easy job. It is a complicated exercise, but we are doing it with all our energy, and so far, I see that there is full determination not only from a united European Union, but also from China, the Russian Federation and other international partners that are keeping their economic engagements with Iran, in coordination with us.
Q. Il Primo Ministro [italiano] Giuseppe Conte ha scritto alla Commissione [europea] chiedendo, tra le altre cose, una revisione del mandato della missione Sophia. A suo parere, è probabile che l'Italia riuscirà a mantenere il comando della missione Sophia come ha adesso in caso di revisione del mandato oppure no, visto che il vice-comando è francese?
La revisione del mandato di Operazione Sophia è un processo che era previsto, previsto che iniziasse per dopo l'estate. Io ho chiesto già dalle settimane scorse che venisse accelerato e quindi credo che già nei prossimi giorni gli Stati Membri potranno iniziare a lavorare su questo. Ed è una revisione complessiva del mandato. Approfitto della domanda per dire che io propongo che il mandato sia anche esteso al controllo del traffico di petrolio.
Quindi sarà una discussione più ampia che gli Stati Membri avranno e che sta agli Stati Membri fare, la Commissione in questo non ha voce in capitolo. Però su mia proposta gli Stati Membri discuteranno su questo. Oggi di questo non si è parlato, l'Italia non ha posto questo tema oggi durante il Consiglio Affari Esteri, quindi immagino che lo farà in sede di ambasciatori, di CoPS [Comitato politico e di sicurezza]
Per il momento io posso dire questo: l'Italia ha ospitato il quartier generale operativo dell'Operazione Sophia, che oltretutto ho visitato due settimane fa con la Ministra [della Difesa Elisabetta] Trenta e il Sotto-segretario agli Esteri [Manlio] Di Stefano in occasione del terzo anniversario della nascita dell'Operazione. In quella sede, tutti e tre, io stessa, la Ministra [della Difesa Elisabetta] Trenta e il Sotto-segretario agli Esteri [Manlio] Di Stefano abbiamo espresso il nostro apprezzamento e il nostro pieno sostegno all'operato degli uomini e delle donne in divisa provenienti da quasi tutti gli Stati Membri nel Mediterraneo. I grandi risultati che l'Operazione ha già ottenuto e la necessità anche di rafforzare il mandato su alcuni aspetti perché possa avere ancora più un impatto positivo e perché possa essere più sostenibile nel tempo.
Per il momento, il comando italiano e il fatto che il quartier generale operativo sia a Roma si è mostrato essere ottimo. Non ho mai visto da parte di nessuno Stato Membro nessuna perplessità e/o critica rispetto ad un comando italiano che è stato eccellente. Vorrei ringraziare anzi l'Ammiraglio [Enrico] Credendino per un lavoro fatto che è stato veramente esemplare e non facile. Quindi mi auguro che questo possa continuare ad essere il caso.
Link to the Q&A: https://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/player.cfm?ref=I158628


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Reusable Straws
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Since we'er sure you're now ready to make the change, head over to the Plastic Pollution Coalition and take the pledge to say "No Straw Please".
Reusable Bags
Here in Chicago we have a plastic bag tax, which means if you go into any store and didn't bring your own bags, they will charge you 7 cents per bag. It doesn't seem like a lot, but who really wants to pay 7 cents every time you go to the store. It seems to be working so far as I am always sure to keep a reusable bag in my car and purse.
This first company Eco Bags has a great selection of different reusable totes, string bags, produce bags and so many more. Their mission is to "offer thoughtful, ethically and sustainably sourced, durable-reusable bags that inspire people to reduce, reuse, recycle and re-imagine the world we live in." They've been in business since 1989 and by the looks of it, inspired many to switch from plastic bags that just end up in landfills to these great reusable bags!
On the search for reusable totes, I found this company Oxgut. They create furniture, mats, and other great accessories out of used fire hoses! The fire hoses that are reclaimed come from US based firehouse. For me, many of my family members were and are firefighters, so it was exciting to find these cool products.
Reusable Water Bottle
Plastic water bottles are out, stainless steel water bottles are in! Klean Kanteen is a family run business that started in 2004, when they wanted a non-toxic alternative to single use water bottles. They have a great selection of different kinds of bottles, food canisters and cups.
Personally, I carry my water bottle everywhere with me, it took a bit to get in the habit but it's totally worth it.
Other helpful tips
Donate your gently used items. Clothes, shoes, furniture and kitchen items that are taking up space in your home could be great items for others to use! Also, purchasing used items instead of buying brand new every time.
Grow your own produce. If you have the space you can grow all kinds of vegetables. Even in a small apartment you can create a herb "garden". There's a possibility your neighborhood could have a community garden as well. You'll feel accomplished when you see your hard work pay off.
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Suffocated by the silence surrounding homosexuality, a lesbian activist has started India's first bookstore devoted to the subject.
Madhavankutty Pillai
14 Jul, 2010
Among the many things that Shobhna S Kumar does as a lesbian activist includes counselling those who want to come to terms with their sexuality and hosting events where community folk can meet each other. Her latest venture, though, melds another aspect of her life with her activism: reading.
"I was born in Fiji, then went to Australia and then to the United States before finally falling in love and moving to India. When I came to Mumbai seven years ago, I found that I just couldn't find the kind of books I wanted. Also, I realised that in ordinary bookstores, people were uncomfortable being seen reading or buying books dealing with homosexuality. The apprehension was what the person next to you would think," she says. Then there was also the fact that very few books related to homosexuality were available in India. She had a personal collection of 1,000 books, but they had all been mostly bought abroad. You could buy from Amazon but the shipping charges could bankrupt you. She decided to change things.
Her bookstore, queer-ink.com, has been online since early April after a soft launch, and recently, on 2 July 2010, the anniversary of Delhi High Court's decriminalising homosexuality, her online bookstore for the gay community, probably the only one in India, went formally open. "It's basically trying to give people a comfort zone," she says. At the website, the genres are divided into fiction, non-fiction, children, family and magazines. The children's category is the only one that has nothing to do with the theme of homosexuality. The family category has a number of books for relatives and parents to cope with a kin's orientation. The magazine section has titles like Bombay Dost and Swikriti Patrika.
Almost all the English books in the fiction category were written abroad, for there are very few by Indians. An exception is You Are Not Alone by Arun Mirchandani, which Shobhna recommends for being "beautifully written, it's a gay person's life in flashback".
The venture, she says, is extremely risky, because her customers are not high-end, and being a new and small scale operator, she gets no credit and has to pay upfront for all the books she stocks. She still manages to sell
Rs 30,000 worth of books in a month, and the trick is to stock not more than ten copies of a title at a time. She expects to do better now that the launch is through. If it works out, at some point, she wants to get into publishing.
But queer-ink.com is not just about reading. It also aspires to be a networking zone. There is a writer's corner where members of the community can pen their poems and prose. There is a queer calendar which is currently blank, but anyone can post an event there. If you are straight and want some insight into the queer world, a section called Queer Lingo explains terms related to the community.
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What is BoomStarter?
Boomstarter is an online platform, born to give the opportunity to whomever has a creative project to share it with the community and to collect requested funds to realize it or develop it.
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What do have I to do to be a Starter or a Funder?
You only have to sign up. Then, you can choose to start your project or you can choose to fund one or more projects. -
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You just have to click on the "sign up" box provided and to fill in the form with your Name, Surname, Nickname and your Email address. You will need to agree to Terms of Use and Privacy Policy too.
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Once you're signed up, you can choose to propose your project to BoomStarter's Staff by checking the "Propose Your Project" box provided.
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Once your project will be online, it will have his own page. In real time everybody can see the fund raising level and how much days are remaining to fund. The project will be online until the funding time will be up.
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Leonilda studied the Certificate of Attainment in English. "The teaching methods were good and the tutors had prepared all the tools that they needed for each class," she says.
As part of her course, Leonilda analysed newspapers and wrote reports about everyday topics like houses, the weather and places. She says the highlight was making a presentation in English to her fellow students, giving her opinion of the course and telling them about her plans for the future.
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The smart bell was launched at the biggest Polish bike show – Warsaw Bike Expo on April, 2017 and immediately received great reception from bikers, with requests for information coming on average every 45 seconds already in the first 72 hours. Smart bell was handed out to Warsaw cyclists and since over 1000 cyclist already tested the smart bell we gathered feedback for further development which will focus on auto-recognition of the frequencies to enable operation in any location. Availability of the technology used allows cost-effective mass production. Given the smart bell's life-saving potential and the fact that it can work with any car, without additional integration needed, AXA is planning to expand its production to make it available for every cyclist in the Country, as an unique add-on to AXA insurance – to immediately protect bikers on the road from accidents that don't need to happen.
The cyclists sharing roads with cars face new dangers: bicycles are silent, which makes them hardly noticeable on the road. While new technology every year bring numerous innovations in cars' safety systems, not to mention soundproof windows and better entertainment systems for drivers, cyclist can still rely only on a regular bicycle bell, which is not enough to attract driver's attention in new environment – noisy cities and drivers distracted by their radios and MP3. We decided to use the technology that distracts drivers, to make cyclist finally audible and immediately noticeable. The same car audio systems that keeps the driver attention away from what is happening on the road was used to transmit the bicycle bell signal from approaching bicycle trough the car radio speakers. As almost every car is equipped in car radio, using FM transmission was instantly ensuring the appropriate scale and functionality of the solution.
AXA, launching its bicycle insurance, wanted to reach a new target group – urban commuters – who more and more often choose bicycles over cars. This results in 1.000.000 new bikes every year and 5.000.000 cyclists every day on Polish roads. As the road infrastructure is not adapted to this trend, cyclist share the same roads with cars, creating new dangers for both themselves and the drivers. AXA wanted to raise awareness of this new condition and redefine standards of cyclists' safety. The biggest challenge was to make cyclists reconsider their own safety on the road, when the bike insurance is not compulsory. Thus, AXA decided to redefine safety standard for cyclist. The challenge was to find a solution that could immediately rise the safety standards on shared roads, for both cars and cyclists, without massive investment in road infrastructure and adaptable to many types of cars and bikes.
The smart bell is a new type of bicycle bell, that along with regular bell sound, uses radio frequencies to transmit the bell signal through the car radios within up to 5-meter radius. Smart bell works also as a rear light, that when triggered, turns into transmitter to disrupt selected frequencies, making the bell sound clearly audible in cars nearby. Smart bell uses RDS TA protocol to set radios nearby to receive the signal even if MP3, CD or AUX is on. Smart bell uses transmitters with a programmable steering module which can be set to work on different frequencies. Smart bell is connected to transmitter by a wire cable, working also as the antenna to guarantee enough radius with 50 nW e.r.p. power limit set by UE laws for personal FM transmitters. The smart bell was produced in a pilot series to be tested in the street of Warsaw.
Because it's truly lifesaving, people relevant and brand purposeful innovation. To promote its first bike insurance, AXA created a new way to immediately protect cyclists on the roads: a bicycle bell that uses the existing FM broadcasting technology with Radio Data System to transmit, along with its regular sound, the bell's signal through car radios nearby. It's the first bicycle bell that makes the most quiet and vulnerable road users finally audible on shared roads.
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From My December Newsletter: Why I Chose To Inconvenience Myself
It was Wednesday morning and I was composing a piece about peace and harmony. I was behind schedule and it was due Friday. Even so, I couldn't concentrate. Jamar Clark was on my mind. Just days before, this young black man was shot by police. Black Lives Matter protesters had been occupying the 4th Precinct in North Minneapolis since Sunday. Ferguson was my backyard.
The piece I was working on is about a dream in which people all over the world are dancing in the street. Mamas and daddies, sisters and brothers, from Indonesia to Kenya, from Peru to Japan, all holding hands. But the dreamer wakes up, and realizing it is just a dream, goes out into the street and holds their hand out to a stranger. Then two were dancing, then four, then more….
I couldn't focus. I checked the Black Lives Matter Minneapolis (BLM) Facebook page. BLM is all about inconveniencing people, while shopping, or driving, or just going about their lives. I had this nagging feeling that I needed to be inconvenienced, even if it meant staying up late to finish the piece in time.
I needed to walk the talk. How could I write about peace and equality and not work directly towards it? Black people in America are inconvenienced daily in ways I will never fully understand. I checked in with my fear and watched as my mind generated a list of all the reasons I should stay home.
I checked the BLM Facebook page again. The police had just moved in to evict the protestors. I watched the video of the police with riot gear. Something clicked. I grabbed the minimum in case I was arrested, my coat, my drivers license, and a $20 bill.
I stayed there until almost midnight on one the most volatile nights of the protest. I stayed because I wanted to be a witness. I stayed because I felt a deep connection with all the people standing around me. I stayed because I believe in their movement. I believe in their legacy. Deep down, because I was human, their fight is my fight.
The next day around noon, there were just a few of us. We sang songs and listened to stories around the fire. One of the women, a North Minneapolis resident told us we were "knocking down the temples of oppression." A bus pulled up and several people got out to deliver boxes of food. Tents were filled with hot food and beverages. After that, I returned almost daily to hang out around the fires, to eat, to drink coffee, to listen to stories, to support, and to learn.
One day, I watched in horror the video of two men, brandishing a gun and saying they were on their way to the protest site to do some "reverse cultural enrichment." They ended the video with "Stay White." I cried the morning I heard of the shootings of five protestors by suspected white supremacists. I felt guilty for not being down there that night. My heart was in North Minneapolis even when I could not be. I met a family with small children that had spent the night, twice, in the cold Minnesota temperatures. They told me their story of their oldest daughter, their reason for being there. My heart has been, and remains, opened wide by the protesters and their strength.
In between visits, I finished my piece and began a new commission that I had sketched out prior to the protests. But the new piece had been transformed. It was now more harmonically complicated, more dissonant, more unsure. I was changed: my art was changed.
After 18 days, the police moved in again, this time to take down the occupation. It had been a place of home and a community for many, including me. It was a place of healing and a place of hope. But the fight continues. I gathered recently with other protestors to occupy Minneapolis City Hall. I called a local radio station, questioning their reporting. I attended, and spoke at, a Minneapolis City Council meeting. And I will march again for justice.
One night, after I had spent a few hours hanging around the fires with friends, I went directly to a rehearsal for one of my pieces, still in my Sorels and long underwear and smelling of smoke. I wanted these young women to know that music is not separate from life and that life feeds art. I told them that I am careful with how I choose to spend my time, because it all finds it's way into my music. We had a wonderful time talking about their thoughts and their hopes and dreams for the future. And when they sang, it was clear that the music came from a place deep within.
"It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains." - Assata Shakur


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Big stories often take some time to emerge. When they see the light, it's usually just the tip of the iceberg. Mt. Gox was like this and CryptoRush is just the same. Another leak appeared today, this time from one of the exchange's support workers.
DogeyMcDoge has been working for CryptoRush since late February. When looking back on his first month, it's clear that this was an exciting job to say the least. In only a month's time, he saw the exchange get hacked twice. On top of that, the owner's ways of recovering losses was 'unorthodox'.
"Around the 11th of March, I received a message from Devianttwo: "had something bad happen. All I'm saying." I was brought into a Skype call and told that we had been hacked. I was shocked. They told me the amount, and I did not sleep well that night."
The first hacking he witnessed cost the exchange 950 Bitcoins and 2500 Litecoins. A large amount considering CryptoRush is one of the smaller exchanges.
"Someone with an IP from Ukraine. They were looking into it, thought they found the guy. Thought they could get the BTC back. Maybe it was shock. Maybe it was just me being naive. But I believed them."
When you work at a place like this, you feel responsible about the many customers that place their funds in your hands. Even as a support worker, you'll feel guilty whenever something like this happens. You know how it would feel if your coins would suddenly disappear. You've seen exchanges get hacked before, but this time, you are part of that exchange. So you try to replace that feeling of guilt by something else. Some form of hope in a happy ending. You know it's naive, but it's damn well better than accepting the truth and who knows…
The next stage is the so-called solution. Something has to be done, and anything will work as long as people get their money back.
"I was informed of the plan to announce CryptoRushShares, a currency that would pay % fees to holders. And the kicker? Fyrstikken would announce 60% ownership of them. But in the back room?
I guess it happens often. A 'small lie' in order to get things done. Nobody would give a damn if it worked so why bother? Beats doing nothing. Obviously a small lie remains a lie, especially in a situation like this. Full transparency would be what every hacked exchange should go for, but that's rarely the case. It's probably harder when you're on the other end of the table, trying to restore faith into your exchange.
Unfortunately, the lie didn't help CryptoRush.
"And so time goes on, and things look OK at first. But then the BTC wallet runs out. Alex123 and fraggyb did not know of our insolvency. Daemon problems we were told was the answer.
The guilt was starting to build up inside of me. I answered very few tickets the week of the 16th. I was conflicted, but I worked at my full time job >40 hours that week, so it kept my mind off of things a little. The issues continued. I kept suggesting ways we could maybe get some BTC back, arbitrage, etc. We didn't even have enough funds for that. I wanted so bad for the exchange to stay afloat, thinking "Maybe tomorrow will bring us back our volume!" But alas, the problems with Zeit, and BTC withdrawals killed our volume. There was no coming back."
As if their problems weren't hard enough, another drama unfolded. The one we witnessed yesterday. Due to a wallet that wasn't updated fast enough, people were able to withdraw more Blackcoins than they had in their account. Drama unfolded; the rest is history.
DogeyMcDoge's confession is real. CryptoRush's admins provided proof for this by tweeting about it.
"#CryptoRush @TheCryptoRush Official announcement coming in the next 24-48 hours in regards to DogeyMcDoge's information leak. Stay tuned."
No room for doubt there anymore. No reason to deny it, as well. In the meanwhile, CryptoRush made a few big announcements on Twitter. Besides the obligatory promises to reimburse stolen funds to its customers, the exchange also announced a new CEO. They also released an official statement on what happened yesterday.
"We are proud to announce that the President of CUAUTM is the new CEO of Cryptorush. With a new CEO, comes new servers, and staff to serve!"
After writing the initial story yesterday, it seemed only fair to provide this update. DogeyMcDoge's writing provides a better look at how CryptoRush works and what challenges they faced in the past month. They will release a statement tomorrow on Dogey's leak but, if it takes them 24 hours to write it, I doubt it will be a good one. It sounds like they'll need 24 hours to look for excuses. That's what you get when it takes 12+ hours to provide more details.
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Review of LNT124: Francisco Mignone - Piano Music
Classic FM Magazine
Short pieces, light moods. Iruzun distributes the Brazilian composer's confections with effervescent profusion. Funky the Cança do Botocudo; sad the waltzes.
Other reviews of this CD:
Robert Maycock, BBC Music Magazine
Clóvis Marques, O GLobo Newspaper (Portugues)
International Record review
Carlos Dantas, Tribuna da Imprensa (Portugues)


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Pride Fort Lauderdale drew thousands of attendees over the weekend looking to show their "pride" in many ways. The Broward LGBT festival, now in its second year, was expected to break an attendance record of 60,000 people over last year's 40,000.
On Sunday, the last day of the three-day spectacle, festival goers were treated to performances by Spanish-American actress, comedian and flamenco guitarist Charo (famous for her guest appearances on the 70s and 80s TV show, "The Love Boat") and Grammy award winner Estelle, known for her hits "American Boy" featuring Kanye West and "One Love" featuring David Guetta.
Miik Martorell, president of Pride Fort Lauderdale, said he was pleased with the turnout and is honored to be a part of the Pride legacy.
"It's truly my honor and pleasure to be a part of such a wonderful event," Martorell said. "We really could not do any of this without support from the community."
Running in conjunction with Pride Fort Lauderdale was the inaugural South Florida Trans Pride, which offered transgender people vendors and resources; a separate bar with proceeds benefiting the trans community; and meet-and-greet opportunities with trans celebrities and activists. Among them were "RuPaul's Drag Race" alumna Carmen Carrera, guitarist Jaimie Wilson, author and actress Rajee Rajindra Narinesingh and trans model and singer Laith Ashley, who performed his singles "Can't Wait" and "Before You Go."
Charo took to the Pride stage twice as one of the promised headliners for "The Love Pride" themed event. Earlier in the day, she surprised the crowd with a rehearsal of sorts, where she performed two versions of her song, "Fantastico" — one on guitar, the other a techno remix. She later came back in the evening for the official performance.
"The song is very, very flamenco. It's very sensual. It's very cuchi cuchi," Charo told the audience.
Throughout the day, DJs Deanne, Tracy Young, Power Infiniti, Guy DeGiacinto and Oscar G revved up the crowd from the main stage and the beach as hot, go-go boys danced in their underwear.
Deanne says her experience spinning at Pride Fort Lauderdale was "incredible."
"I'm so thankful for being able to share my music with so many beautiful people," Deanne said. "I wanted to hold true to the 'Love Pride' theme and bring nothing but love and fun to my set. I hope that I accomplished that."
Estelle closed out the event Sunday evening, performing on the main stage. Weeks prior to the festival, the singer provided Pride organizers a strong statement in support of the LGBT community.
"It's an honor to stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ community as we share this beautiful human experience with Pride," Estelle said.
South Beach comic and drag icon Pussila — dressed in Japanese geisha attire —manned the VIP tent, introducing guests to Hiro Sake, one of the alcoholic sponsors of Pride Fort Lauderdale.
And there was plenty of alcohol flowing. Bartenders from Southern Nights Fort Lauderdale poured drinks for the VIP listers while outside on the beach in tented areas, paid cocktails were served by some of the more popular bars and gentlemen's clubs of the Broward scene. Among them were Hunters Nightclub, LeBoy, Boardwalk and The Pub, which hosted the official Pride after-party at its venue in Wilton Manors with music, food and drink specials all night long.
In the mid-morning hours of Sunday as volunteers set up booths, stages and lights at Pride Fort Lauderdale, clothing vendor Steven Hannestad remarked about the festival's spirit.
"When I was young Prides were the only place I could be myself," said Hannestad, a grandfather and owner of We The People Clothing.
For 35 years, Hannestad has taken part in Pride celebrations. He sells rainbow colored tank tops, pins and apparel featuring bear designs and funny phrases such as "proud nasty woman."
"It was 30 degrees when I left Dallas yesterday," Hannestad said.
On this February day in South Florida it was anything but cold. As the sun rose over Fort Lauderdale Beach, tents like Hannestad's provided a moment of shade. The uniqueness of being on the beach is a plus for a Pride celebration, Hannestad said.
But one of the highlights of this year was including the transgender community in such a prominent way.
"We feel extremely welcomed," said Morgan Mayfaire, founder of TransSocial and a board member of Pride Fort Lauderdale. "The LGB community has opened their arms and welcomed us in. It's been amazing."
A few booths down from TransSocial were vendors representing the City of Wilton Manors Police Department and Chase Bank. Corporations were all over the beach on Sunday, claiming their support for the rainbow colored Pride organization.
Marissa Ellis and Courtney Baxter worked the Wawa booth. The young women from Deerfield Beach said they have been dating for three years.
"I haven't stopped smiling since I've been here," said Baxter, who was participating in her first Pride event. "It's a very uplifting experience and it just puts a smile on my face to see everyone coming together."
Other vendors of note included Sprint, Brightline, the Florida Panthers National Hockey League franchise, Perry Ellis, Miami Beach Mayor and Florida Gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, Fort Lauderdale Police Department, Florida Department of Health and Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The event was staged in the south end of Fort Lauderdale Beach Park. This year's theme was "love."
"I love my grandson, I love what I do for pride," said Dawn Holloway, a board member of Pride Fort Lauderdale.
As with most large scale events on the beach, parking was a familiar complaint. To alleviate traffic concerns, shuttles – in the form of large coach buses -- departed hourly from Wilton Manors.
"The shuttle service from my perspective ran perfectly," said Mitchell Grant, a Coconut Creek resident who arrived on the beach shortly after the gates opened to the general public at noon. "The bus was fabulous, clean and had a nice bathroom. It was much improved over last year."


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[Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 28, 2019]
Dummit Fradin litigation attorneys recently won a high profile trial against mainstream rapper Yo Gotti. Yo Gotti, aka Mario Mims, was slapped with a hefty $2.2 million verdict in a North Carolina courtroom today. The amount was then tripled by a Forsyth County judge to $6.6 million because of a finding of unfair and deceptive trade practices.
In 2016, Yo Gotti recorded a verse for Young Fletcher. Young Fletcher, aka Lamont Fletcher, is a local North Carolina rapper who hoped to "jump start" his career with the release of this collaboration.
Yo Gotti received $20,000 for the recording, but never got approval from his label Epic Records. Nor did he provide the required "side artist agreement" which would have allowed Young Fletcher to release the song. Yo Gotti then tried to go around Young Fletcher's manager, Michael Terry, and steal the artist by offering a back-door deal.
Yo Gotti is a rapper from Memphis, Tennessee who has been recording music since the 90s. He's helped other local artists rise to fame by contributing verses like he agreed to do with Young Fletcher. Unfortunately, Yo Gotti did not follow through. Instead, he evaded many communication attempts from Young Fletcher and Michael Terry.
"Yo Gotti didn't realize who he was dealing with," said plaintiff Michael Terry, a talent manager, and promoter in Winston-Salem. Michael manages Young Fletcher and put up the $20,000 for the Yo Gotti vocals.
According to Clarke Dummit, who represents Mr. Terry in the lawsuit, the verdict was a long time coming. "It took us several years to pin Yo Gotti down, and now we'll go after the homes and the cars."
Because Yo Gotti was so evasive and efforts to resolve the matter were ignored, Clarke Dummit arranged to have the rapper personally served last year by a Forsyth County sheriff while Yo Gotti was performing as a headliner in Winston-Salem.
But that was apparently not enough to get his attention, says Clarke Dummit. Perhaps this verdict for damages will. "He might want to pick up the phone now," said Mr. Terry, "because I'm coming after the cars and the Bel Air mansion."
"It was a truly interesting experience to learn about our Mr. Terry and his career in the music industry. I am very excited that Mr. Terry received the outcome he deserves and it is a rewarding experience to be able to help Dummit Fradin deliver this judgment," commented Brett Moore, a former Dummit Fradin attorney who assisted with the trial.
"What I love about this firm is that we are ready for anything. Sure, we focus on criminal law, domestic and immigration, but if a client comes in with an issue in another area of litigation, which is what happened with Mr. Terry, 'We have an attorney for that.' When our team gets hold of a case, everyone dives in with everything they have, and the result speaks for itself," says Abigail Seymour, a former Dummit Fradin attorney who assisted in the trial.


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Korean Multiplex Chain CGV 'Retro-fies' Film Posters for April Fools' Prank
CGV, the largest multiplex cinema chain in South Korea, takes part in April Fools' with a little prank of their own.
If you were to go to CGV's mobile phone app today, you would find yourself faced with strange looking posters at odds with the current times. You can recognize the people in the posters, but everything else, from the font to the overall design, is strangely out of place. For example, you can recognize Kim Woo Bin, Kang Ha Neul, and 2PM's Junho in the poster below, but everything else throws you off. There's hanja (Chinese characters) instead of the Korean alphabet spelling out the title of three stars' latest film, 'Twenty," in old style vernacular. The font of the copy is huge, there are too many words on the poster, and you have to read some of the text from top to bottom, not left to right. The expressions on the faces of the stars are also very…dramatic.
Except…so are the faces on the original "Twenty" poster. So maybe not that retro?
But these sure are. CGV also 'retro-fied' several posters of non-Korean movies playing in its chain of theaters, such as the American films "Furious 7" and Disney's live-action "Cinderella."
Here are some examples of old style Korean film posters for comparison:
Pretty good parodies, right? In addition to the parody posters, CGV is holding a special event called "Trick CGV" where if you come dressed in a school uniform or military uniform, you will discounts on tickets.


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For the "getting to know you" portion of the beginning of the year, I thought I would focus on some things that could really inform my instruction this school year.
I collected some great ideas from the MTBoS, of course! In the spring, I took a class on personality and I read "Showing Our True Colors" which helped me understand the behaviors of many of my students last year. By the time in the year that I took the class, I had observed my students enough to know which color family they belonged to, but this year, I thought it would be nice to start the year with that info. Thanks to Sarah at Everybody is a Genius and Sarah at Math Equals Love
for sharing their ideas and links on the topic as well as learning styles and multiple intelligences. I took the surveys and
summaries and condensed them into a little booklet (three front and
back pages folded in half). We worked through it today.
Here's how I did it. I introduced the notion that I wanted the students to know how to help themselves when it comes time to study and I want to be able to teach them in the ways that work best for them. I pointed out that when the time comes that some of them need individual help, I'll be able to give them a method tailored to their needs if I know how they learn, think, or show their skills.
We started with learning styles because I thought kids might have had at least some background knowledge there. I explained that some of us learn by hearing, others by seeing, and still others by doing. They took the survey. Then, I regrouped the students so they could sit with other people with the same learning style. I asked them to read the provided tips and tricks for that learning style and to discuss how they had used those before or if they wanted to try any that were new. We shared out. Interesting, the visual learners in one class were quick to ask if they could write notes on the paper. I pointed out that they asked to do that because they're visual learners!
Next, we did the true colors personality questionnaire. It's the hardest one for the kids, so I put it in the middle. If I'd done it first, they would have been overwhelmed. If I saved it for last, it might have been a struggle. We modeled how to fill out the chart. They had several words that they weren't familiar with but the nice thing is that there were lots of familiar words that they could lean on even when one word in the group was unknown. As it turns out, "impetuous" was on the test they'd just taken in language arts. Someone asked what it meant and I explained that it meant making decisions without thinking of the consequences. A cheer erupted- most of them had gotten it right on the test! Once the students had completed that questionnaire, I had posted colored papers around the room to correspond to the true colors. Each kid found his group, wrote his name on the colored paper so I could keep a list, and they discussed if they were like the description. The crazy thing is that 39 out of the 58 kids I teach in the afternoon are orange. Oh my goodness, we are going to need to move and be very active this year to learn! The funny thing is that even on the first day, I could tell I had a lot of energy in the afternoon groups!
Finally, we did the MI survey. We didn't get to the analysis yet- that will be tomorrow. We did fill out the graph shown in the picture below. Tomorrow we'll talk about MI and learn our strengths there.
I'm so glad I did this! I feel like it's going to be such a time saver as I plan lessons this year because I'll know better how to approach them. Hopefully this will turn into less kids needing reteaching less often because I'll meet their needs the first time. I'm also super happy that this year I decided to implement an interactive notebook. I think it will appeal to my orange students and all of the kinesthetic learners.
During the last period of the day, my principal came in and we got to talking about what a nice group of kids I have in that class. I told her how surprised I was by their learning style results (about 50% auditory, 20% kinesthetic, 30% visual) and how utterly shocked I was that so many of the kids in Advanced Algebra are orange. She's gold, so her eyes bugged out a little at those numbers, too! She really liked what I did in class today; she even asked to take a copy of the booklet with her.
Here's a look at the front of the booklet that I made. The front cover is courtesy of Sarah from Everybody is a Genius.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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I would love to see the inside of this booklet! I'm wanting to create a booklet with this on the front as well to include lots of great info on one page. Would you mind either sharing your file or posting pictures? I'd be so appreciative! Thanks for considering...ReplyDelete
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December 2006
Circular N° 42/2006
2008 World Scout Moot
the World Scout Committee has received a communication
from the National Board of the League of Scouts of Mozambique (LEMO) which, on the advice of its National Scout Council, has decided to withdraw from hosting the 13th World Scout Moot in 2008. In this same communication, the National Board of LEMO thanked all WOSM National Scout Organizations which have tried to support and encourage LEMO in this unique undertaking. Faced with this situation, and acting in accordance with Article XIII, 1 of the WOSM Constitution,
the World Scout Committee has decided that, in principle:
– the World Scout Moot should be postponed to 2009, or to a later date so as not to create undue and unfair competition with other regional events organised under the auspices of WOSM (such as Roverway scheduled to take place in July 2009 in the European Region) susceptible of
attracting the same type of participant,
– the World Scout Moot should still take place in Africa in order to respect the apparent intention of the World Scout Conference when it originally accepted the invitation of Mozambique to host the event, and the wish unanimously expressed by the Africa Regional Scout Committee that Africa still be retained as the eventual location of the Moot.
The World Scout Committee has also asked:
– the Educational Methods Committee and the World Scout Bureau, Central and Africa Regional
Offices, in consultation with the Africa Regional Committee, to develop an alternative concept
of the Moot based on the model of Roverway, i.e. an event in two parts whereby young people
participate in a variety of projects throughout the host country and then gather at a central
point during a few days to share experiences,
– the World Scout Bureau in co-operation with Africa Regional Committee to identify one or
several countries in the Africa Scout Region able to host the event in the newly developed
– the Secretary General to present a final proposal along the above lines to the World Scout
Committee at its March 2007 meeting.
It is the belief of the World Scout Committee that the course of action so taken and proposed is in the best interest of our Movement and will preserve the integrity, unity and credibility of World Scouting.
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Something we all hate to have are cracked or dry feet or heels with callouses. It's really great when you can wear some nice sandals and feel great about it. Still, numerous factors can contribute to this appearance: workout routines, shoes, the aging process as well as our climate.
Seek for help in spas or nail salons so that they can try and prepare their feet for the summer, but these treatments can be very expensive as well as time-consuming. Also, many of the products and creams that are used for this kind of stuff are with a label that says "organic" or "natural" when they are actually abundant in numerous chemicals.
Luckily, there are numerous natural products and tips that you can use at home to help you prevent and stop the formation of dry skin.
Here, we're presenting you a healing foot balm based on essential oils. If you combine tea tree oil with some peppermint oil, it will help you acquire gentle skin because both of them are moisturizing, but they can also protect you from various fungi and bacteria.
The mixture we're going to present you is based on baking soda. It is very simple to prepare and it isn't expensive.
Foot Soak With Baking Soda
- Baking soda – 3 tablespoons
- Lavender oil
- Warm water – (4 or 5 liters)
- A bucket (you'll put your feet there)
- Moisturizer
- Soft scrub sponge / brush / pumice stone
First, you should put the baking soda in the water. Stir them well. Make sure the baking soda is dissolved. Add the lavender oil to obtain a pleasant aroma. It will relax you and soothe all of your senses.
After this, soak your feet in this mixture for 15-20 minutes.
When the time passes, use a pumice stone, sponge or a scrub to rub all the dry and hard skin from your feet.
When you finish with this procedure, you can put some moisturizer with glycerin content (preferably). You can also use coconut oil. Put on some socks so that your feet can be moisturized well. You'd better do this before you go to bed, so that you can leave the socks on throughout the night.
You can repeat the procedure 1-2 times a week. When it's winter, you can reduce to 1-2 times a month.
You can also do a pedicure at home by preparing a paste with a very small amount of water and baking soda. Then, you can scrub your feet with a brush or a sponge.
The treatments you can prepare at home are very fun, but also cheap. If you perform the abovementioned treatments regularly, you'll have gentle feet very quickly and you'll be able to walk into your gorgeous sandals whenever you want to!


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I have done many a stage performances, and anchored live television shows in which viewers called and asked questions and gave their feedback too. The most important thing in public speaking is your confidence, for which reason, it can be nerve reckoning. Standing in front of a visible or not so visible audience and presenting yourself as an expert- the first question you may have to answer yourself is 'do I even know anything?' You got to convince yourself that you DO!!! The next question is 'can I even do it?' , and you got to answer Yes I CAN!
If I needed help with being a public speaker, I would definitely want to hire a motivation coach who also has experience with public speaking. What is important at the initial stages is the motivational push, a mentor who would give me that push and make me visualize myself actually doing it with confidence; someone who could help me calm my anxieties and nervousness. Whatever may be the goal of public speaking, this is the starting point.
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Pedro Ciriaco is quickly earning himself an everyday role in the Red Sox lineup.
The 26-year-old infielder has been raking at the dish since his July 6 call up, hitting .349 with eight RBIs and six steals in his 18 game stint at the big league level. But beyond his game-winning hits, Ciriaco's defense has also earned him added playing time, and he gets the start at shortstop once again on Monday night.
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Clay Buchholz (8-3, 4.93) will be on the mound for Boston, hoping to keep his streak of stellar starts alive and continue lowering his once-bloated ERA. He'll have a tough task ahead, as heavy-hitting Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder make up the heart of the Detroit lineup.
Check out the full rosters for both sides.
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Bombay HC upholds slaughter ban, but says eating beef no crime
Consuming, selling or possessing beef in Maharashtra is not illegal if the meat is from outside the state, the Bombay high court ruled on Friday but upheld a ban on slaughter of cows, bulls and bullocks.india Updated: May 06, 2016 22:33 IST
Consuming, selling or possessing beef in Maharashtra is not illegal if the meat is from outside the state, the Bombay high court ruled on Friday but upheld a ban on slaughter of cows, bulls and bullocks.
The court struck down two provisions of a controversial slaughter ban law that prohibited the import of beef and criminalised its possession, saying the statutes violate the right to privacy and choice of food guaranteed under the Constitution.
"The state cannot intrude into his home and prevent a citizen from possessing and eating food of his choice," said a division bench of justice Abhay Oka and justice SC Gupte.
"The state cannot prevent a citizen from possessing and consuming a particular type of food which is not injurious to health or obnoxious."
The Maharashtra government said it will seek legal opinion on challenging the order as officials said permitting beef from outside the state made it difficult for enforcing agencies to prove a crime.
"We will consult our legal advisors and decide the next step. We are considering the option to approach the Supreme Court," said chief minister Devendra Fadanvis.
Last year, the BJP state government extended a 1976 law that banned cow slaughter and beef possession to bulls and bullocks, making sale or consumption punishable with a five-year jail term and Rs. 10,000 fine.
This triggered a fierce debate on rising intolerance and freedom of choice with activists saying the ban unfairly targeted Muslims – the biggest players in the beef industry and violated constitutional rights.
Petitioner Harish Jagtiani said restaurants will be allowed to sell imported beef again and that the court ruled in favour of people's right to eat the food they want, "wherever they want".
"We're thrilled. It's a total vindication," Jagtiani said.
The bench said section 5D of the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act, 1976 that prohibited cow, bull or bullock meat possession infringed on a citizen's rights.
"The state cannot control what a citizen does in his house, which is his own castle, provided he is not doing something contrary to law," said the bench. The court also said the section had no rational nexus with the object sought to be achieved– to protect cow and progeny from slaughtering within Mahharashtra.
The court also scrapped section 9B that criminalised beef possession, saying only conscious possession of cow, bull or bullock meat – procured from Maharashtra – will invite penal action. The burden of proving this would be on the state and not on the individual, the court said.
"As far as the choice of food was concerned, the citizens were required to be let alone especially when the food of their choice was not injurious to health," the judges said.
Both provisions were added by a 1995 amendment – brought in by the then Shiv Sena-BJP government -- and enforced 20 years later – in March 2015.
Senior state animal husbandry department officials said the government will have to completely evolve the system if it doesn't challenge the verdict.
"Anyone can claim the flesh was brought from outside the state and proving the crime will become a tough task," said a senior official.
The reverse burden of proof might also create hurdles for the police, home department officials said.
The bench upheld provisions extending the slaughter ban to bulls and bullocks primarily in view of the fact that the Supreme Court upheld the validity of a similar Gujarat law.
It also considered the material supplied by Maharashtra to prove its argument that the ban was necessary to sustain the predominantly agriculture economy of the state.
The bench also turned down petitioners who said the ban infringed on the religious rights of Muslims guaranteed under the Constitution. The challenge said poor Muslims --who cannot afford goats – sacrifice bulls, cow or bullocks during Bakr-i-Eid. But the court ruled that such sacrifice wasn't an essential religious practice of Islam, citing a Supreme Court bench that ruled the same.
Since the BJP stormed to power in the Lok Sabha elections two years ago, cow slaughter has emerged as a hot button topic.
Several Hindu groups and BJP leaders demand a nationwide ban on cow slaughter, citing scriptures that describe the cow as the "mother" of civilisation. But activists and Opposition say the proposed ban is used by the ruling party to fan communal feelings for electoral benefit.
In the past two years, Hindus and Muslims clashed repeatedly over suspected incidents of bovine slaughter with vigilante cow protection groups mushrooming all over north India.
The simmering tensions exploded last year when Mohammad Ikhlaq was lynched by a mob in Uttar Pradesh after rumours spread that he killed a calf for its meat.
(With agency inputs)


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text: Posted on February 2nd, 2018 | Heaven Scent Bliss | Leave a comment Rose essential oil has a multitude of properties to boost the mind, body and spirit. Here are 10 of the main benefits, showing what a great all-rounder it is:1. AphrodisiacWell, it is nearly Valentine's Day and roses are associated with romance for a reason… the scent of rose essential oil has been proven in studies to boost the libido and promote romantic feelings, thereby reducing symptoms of sexual and erectile dysfunction and heightening interest in sexual activity.2. Heals the skinRoses are also associated with beauty and that is because the essential oil is an antioxidant, which speeds up the healing process of the skin. This means that it will help to fade marks such as acne marks, stretch marks and scars. It is also a tonic for dry, itchy and inflamed skin conditions and can tone and strengthen older skin, due to its astringent properties. Its anti-bacterial properties mean you can also use it to treat wounds to stop them becoming infected.3. Strengthens HairAs a powerful astringent, rose essential oil can be diluted in a carrier oil and used on the hair to strengthen the roots and help prevent hair loss.4. Protects Against VirusesAt this time of year, we are surrounded by people with coughs, colds and other viral symptoms. The anti-viral properties of rose essential oil protect against and help to treat many types of infection.5. Reduces InflammationWhen diluted in a carrier oil and massaged into the skin, it can help alleviate rheumatic and arthritic pain. Similarly, it can help reduce symptoms of fever.6. Fights DepressionRose oil can fight depression, boost self-esteem, increase confidence and promote mental strength. It is also a tonic for the nerves and can be used to treat anxiety.7. Eases MenstruationIrregular and painful menstruation can be eased with rose essential oil. It eases cramps, nausea and fatigue associated with menstruation and PMS.8. Eases Menopausal SymptomsRose essential oil may improve mood and reduce hot flushes, insomnia, nervousness and palpitations experienced in menopause by balancing the hormones.9. Stops Excessive BleedingExcessive bleeding can be stemmed with rose essential oil, as it speeds up the clotting of the blood. This can be useful for people suffering from excessive bleeding after an injury or surgery.10. Maintains Liver HealthThe health of the liver is key to the health of the rest of the body. Rose essential oil helps to keep the liver functioning properly and can also treat problems like ulcers and excess bile and acids. For many of the treatments above, it may be necessary to dilute rose essential oil in a carrier oil. For more information on how to use rose essential and for specific rose blends, please contact Annie on 07869 123065 or at firstname.lastname@example.com to Book 07869 123065 Related Posts Gallery image with caption: Tips For a Stress-Free Christmas Gallery image with caption: Time Out Gallery image with caption: Choices ChoicesShare the love


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New men's hockey coach Bob Motzko will make his Gophers debut with the 13th-ranked team in the nation, according to the USCHO.com poll released Monday.
The Gophers finished 23-13-3 last year and barely missed the NCAA Tournament field. Days later, coach Don Lucia stepped down after 19 seasons to become a U fundraiser for a year.
Minnesota Duluth, which won the Frozen Four at Xcel Energy Center last spring, is No. 1 in the poll with 44 first-place votes.
The Gophers open the season with a home-and-home series against the Bulldogs. The U will start with a road game at UMD's Amsoil Arena on Oct. 6, and the home opener is at 3M Arena at Mariucci on Oct. 7.
Big Ten schools are right behind Minnesota Duluth atop the USCHO poll: Notre Dame is second, Ohio State third and Michigan fourth.
The Gophers are picked to finish fourth in the Big Ten's preseason poll. Senior forward Tyler Sheehy, of Burnsville and junior Rem Pitlick of Plymouth were named to the conference's preseason watch list.


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I'm in love with... Draco Malfoy!
ok, so this the first story i've ever written. Hope you like it.
Chapter 1
Meeting the Malfoys
"Morgan! Get over here now!" I yelled. Immediately she ran over to stand by me.
"Brooke, Morgan, it's so nice to have you at our house. You and your friends are welcome to stay here as long as you want considering what happened to your uncle." The man said. Me and Morgan looked at each other confused and then looked back at the man. "Oh, I'm sorry. My name's Lucius, this is my wife Narcissa, and our son Draco."
At the sound of the boy's name I busted out laughing, as did all the girls. When I finally calmed down I looked at the boy who looked like he was about to cry. I was always taught that crying showed weakness. I turned back to Lucius.
"You obviously know who we are," I said indicating me and Morgan. "But, uh, back there is is Stephanie, Brionna, Sam, and Melisa." They each raised their hand when they heard their name called. "And my uncle wouldn't be in the position he's in if he hadn't gone out and been so stupid!" I said starting out calm and then getting louder with each word.As soon as I was done with my sentence, the girls all jumped on me to keep me from doing anything I'll regret.
"I'm fine! I'm fine! Get off me! I'm fine!" I yelled. I got up and dusted myself off. "Okay," I looked back at Lucius," If we're to be staying here, we need places to sleep. Where might those places be?"
"Brooke!" Morgan yelled.
"Oh fine, Could you Please show us where we'll be sleeping?" I asked rolling my eyes. At this Draco started laughing but stopped suddenly when I looked at him.
I smiled. I mean it was pretty obvious that politeness wasn't my strong suit, and when Morgan made me be polite I made sure that the people I was being polite to knew that i wasn't comfortable with it.
"Brooke, you know we need to be polite we don't really know these people and..."
"And I'm about to shoot you!" I yelled, cutting her off. This time the whole Malfoy family started laughing.
"Oh honey, you don"t have to be polite. As long as you live here this is your house and we're your family." Narcissa said.
"Yeah, and you definantly don't treat me politely." I said.
"Just treat this house as your own and us as your family." Narcissa said again.
"So, about those sleeping arrangements..." I said looking at a laughing Lucius.
Him and Draco were laughing at what I had just said to Morgan.
"Oh, of course, right this way." He said leading us all into the manor. Once inside he yelled, "Dobby!" Then there was a snap and a little house elf appeared.
"yes master?" The elf said in a squeaky voice.
With another yell Lucius said, "Go get the girl's stuff and take it up to their rooms!"
"Yes master." And with the snap of his fingers the elf was gone.
Lucius led us upstairs with Draco and Narcissa following behind. I guess they were there in case we got lost... who knows. "Okay, before I show you where your rooms are is there anything i should know that would help me put you in a good room?" Lucius said turning around to face us.
"Yeah, Melisa and Stephanie hate each other so they need to be as far away from each other as possible." I told him looking behind me giving those two dirty looks over my shoulder.
"Okay then. This first one is Melisa's then. The one next to it is Brianna's. Across from Melisa is Sam, and next to that is Morgan's. Stephanie's is across from the room next to Morgan's, which is yours Brooke. Sorry to tell you that you're going to have to share a room with Draco Because we don't have any other open guest rooms that are ready." He said. He told me he was sorry, But he sure didn't look it.
***** sorry had to stop it there. please comment and give me ideas i'm running out. thanks for reading *****