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Enhancing commerce and lifestyle through innovative solutions
Mr. Francis Olugbenga Shobo, FCA, the Chairman of PayAtitude Global is also the Deputy Managing Director of First Bank of Nigeria Limited (the Bank).
He joined the Board of the Bank in 2012. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Managing Director, he was the Executive Director overseeing the Retail Banking/Public Sector businesses in the Lagos & West Directorate and was hitherto the Executive Director overseeing the Retail Business in the South Directorate.
Gbenga began his professional career with Coopers & Lybrand Chartered Accountants as an External Auditor and Tax Consultant. Over the course of his outstanding career, he became the Divisional Head, Corporate Banking Division of MBC International Bank Limited and subsequently, the General Manager, Corporate/Commercial Banking of FBN (Merchant Bankers) Limited before joining the Bank. At FirstBank, he has served in senior management roles at various times as the General Manager Products & Channels Group; Business Development Manager in charge of Rivers & Bayelsa States; and also held the position of Group Head, National Corporates.
Gbenga has over 30 years' work experience from reputable organizations out of which he has garnered more than 26 years in the Banking Industry in Credit & Relationship Management; Products Development & Improvement; Treasury; Product Sales and Banking Operations, amongst others.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and an alumnus of Kellogg School of Management and Harvard Business School. Gbenga also holds a B.Sc. Degree in Political Science from the University of Ife. In addition, he has taken various courses and attended various programmes in top-rated business schools including The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and Stanford University.
Gbenga is the first person to be appointed to the position of Deputy Managing Director of FirstBank in the Bank's over 120 years history, a testament to his total commitment and professionalism. He is happily married with children and loves reading, playing golf and lawn tennis.
Babatunde Okeniyi is the Pioneer Managing Director/CEO of PayAttitude. Prior to his
appointment as Managing Director/CEO, he was Executive Director, Marketing & Sales
in Unified Payments, Director, IT & Operations in Unified Payments. Babatunde has
also worked in different institutions including Citibank Nigeria, Ecobank and UBA Plc
where he was General Manager and Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the
group with branches in 17 African Countries.
Babatunde holds an MBA (University of Lagos), B.Sc (Obafemi Awolowo University)
and he is an Alumnus of Harvard Business School and Lagos Business School.
Babatunde is a fellow
He has also attended different executive learning programs at Cornell University in USA.
Babatunde is a Process re-engineering and Change Leadership Specialist and he is married to Bimbi with whom they are blessed with 3 children.
Agada Apochi is the Founder of PayAttitude. He is an Organisational Psychologist & Change Leadership Specialist and the Managing Director/CEO of Nigeria's premier financial technology company, UP (otherwise known as Unified Payments), which is owned by a consortium of leading Nigerian banks. He worked for 13 years in 2 Nigerian banks prior to joining UP in 2005.
Agada obtained his Master in Organisational Psychology with specialization in Change Leadership from Columbia University in New York. He also holds a Master Degree in Law, is an Alumnus of Lagos Business School and attended different executive learning programs at Harvard Business School, Insead Business School, Cornell University and Bank Card Business School in Cambridge. Agada holds several academic honours and awards including best graduating student. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1992 and has since worked and gained experience in company law & practice, banking and financial services, electronic transactions, retail business, administration, strategy, execution and change leadership.
Agada is an Innovator, Entrepreneur, Honorary Chartered Banker, Chartered Mediator & Conciliator, Fellow, International Academy of Cards & Payments and Barrister & Solicitor. Agada has to his credit, different professional and technical papers. He is married to his wife, Ada with whom they are blessed with children.
Victor Etuokwu is an Executive Director of Access Bank Plc and represents the bank on the board of PayAttitude Global Limited. He has about 20 years banking experience cutting across banking operations and information technology, internal control, general administration, retail banking, business acquisition and integration.
He joined Access Bank in July 2003 from Citibank Nigeria and was promoted to General Manager in February 2008. He has served the Bank in different capacities, leading several successful and critically important projects across the Bank. The latest of such projects was the acquisition of controlling equity interest in Intercontinental Bank Plc and the subsequent merger of both banks.
Mr. Etuokwu holds a Bachelor of Science Degree and Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Ibadan and University of Benin respectively. He is a Senior Honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.
Mr. Chukwuma Nweke is an Executive Director of United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) and represents UBA on the Board of Directors of PayAttitude Global Limited.
Currently the Head of Operations and Information Technology of UBA, he is an accounting graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (best graduating student) and holds an MBA from the same university.
Chuks is also a qualified Chartered Accountant. He has over 25 years of banking experience.
Innocent Ike is an Executive Director of Skye Bank Plc (the Bank) and represents the Bank on the Board of Directors of PayAttitude Global Limited.
Innocent Ike has over twenty-two years of successful professional banking experience acquired from leading Nigerian banks, mainly Access Bank Plc., GTBank Plc. and Keystone Bank, where he played very strategic roles in these institutions.
He was an Executive Director with Keystone Bank and has also worked as a General Manager in Access Bank Plc. As Group Head, Corporate, Institutional and Commercial Banking Divisions, Innocent Ike successfully developed and managed several high profile relationships with financial institutions, corporate and public sector clients in Lagos, Abuja and South-South regions.
Prior to joining Access Bank Plc., he worked in erstwhile Fortune international Bank Plc., and GTBank Plc., where he played several key roles in Commercial Banking, Treasury and Currency Trading as well as Operations and Technology Divisions. He also had valuable experience in Corporate Finance and Risk Management.
He started his professional career as a Senior Associate with Akintola Williams Deloitte, Nigeria before joining GTBank. Whilst at the accounting firm, he worked in the Audit, Consulting and Financial Advisory Divisions and was responsible for handling several key assignments.
Innocent obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos, where he was the Best Graduating Student in 1988. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Honorary Senior Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).
He has attended several professional, management and leadership programs in world class institutions including Harvard Business School, International Management Development Institute (IMD) Switzerland, Euromoney London and Covey Leadership Centre.
Innocent is happily married with children.


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Sculptural Hand-Building Workshop
Using handbuilding techniques we will create a cool textured Birdhouse or Lantern to enjoy indoors or out. You will explore surface treatments with texture, and colored slips. All skill levels are welcome! $20 due at registration.
LOCATION: Durham Arts Council Clay Studio, Northgate Mall – Space 836, 1058 West Club Blvd. Durham, NC, 27701
INSTRUCTOR: Larry Downing
CLASS TIME: Thursdays 6:30pm-8:30pm
DATES: April 4 and April 11
PREREQUISITE: none
SPECIAL NOTES: ages 18+

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Sleepover At Michelle's!
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haha seems like a fun time- I love coolers! I can't stand hard liquors except tequilaReplyDelete
wow~ looka also fun,why so diff from my semester friends T.TReplyDelete
great that your exams are over. You all look so cute. seems that you have a lot of fun ^-^ReplyDelete
ps: chanel giveaway on our blog
Aww cute looks like you had such a fantastic time with your girlfriends!ReplyDelete
Wow it looks like you had a lot of fun! Im glad that finals are over for you and you can relax and enjoy the summer! hahaha I tried roasting a marshmallow over a candle too and I even tried it over the stove HAHAHAHA But of course it didn't work, microwaving it does but you don't get that nice crispy outside layer, which is my favorite part! Those drinks look super yummy and colourful!ReplyDelete
P.s I love how you ate cucumber slices to ease your conscious of the other foods hahaha
michelle!! i'm having green eyes now!! eee.. so sad i could not make it..maybe some other time.. enjoy ur hols!ReplyDelete
looks like so much fun!ReplyDelete


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Sweet blackberries pair perfectly with tangy balsamic vinegar in this unique dessert.
- Makes: 8 servings
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Difficulty Rating: Easy
- Recipe Created By: Mary Carter
- 1 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 ½ cups fresh blackberries, divided
- 3 cups vanilla ice cream
- 2-4 tablespoons honey, optional
- fresh mint
- Over low heat, stir the vinegar occasionally in a medium saucepan. Allow to reduce to ½ cup, so it's thick enough to coat a spoon. Set ¼ cup reduced vinegar aside.
- Add berries to saucepan with remaining ¼ cup reduced vinegar. Cook over medium low heat until berries are softened and well combined to make a thick sauce, about 10 minutes, stirring often.
- Cool berry mixture thoroughly.
- Allow ice cream to soften slightly. Layer ice cream and berry-vinegar mixture alternately and stir until layered evenly, but not incorporated. Freeze until ready to serve.
- Taste reduced vinegar for sweetness. If desired, stir in honey to make it sweeter. Drizzle over ice cream, and garnish with fresh berries and mint.
Tips & Notes
Take this dessert up a notch by adding very ripe, fresh peaches on top.


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Since 2006 the American Buffalo has been issued by the United States Mint in a purity of 999. The motifs of the American Bison and the Indian head have remained unchanged over the years. The denomination is 50 US dollars. The coin can be used as a legal form of tender.
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Ceylan Yeginsu
Ceylan Yeginsu is a Turkish/British multimedia journalist based in Istanbul. She has worked as a writer, producer and editor covering breaking news, politics, foreign policy and culture at leading global publications and has also penned a weekly column on gender equality issues for the Hurriyet Daily News -- the English arm of Turkey's most circulated broadsheet newspaper. She is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.


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|I'm ready for my close up!
— One of Funtime Chica's lines.
Funtime Chica is a buyable entertainer from Rare Finds Auctions. She is one of the most expensive animatronics listed.
Funtime Chica has an appearance similar to Toy Chica. She still has the orange calves and feet like Chica but she has an orange waist instead of pink, like Toy Chica's. She has a built-in speaker just like Funtime Freddy & Funtime Foxy located on her midriff. She also holds her signature cupcake but its appearance looks like a calmer, less frightening and repaired version of Nightmare Cupcake from the fourth game. If one look closely, one of the plates on her pink upper body is missing. Just like the Funtime Animatronics, she has five fingers instead of the cartoonish four fingers that the regular animatronics have.
Custom Night
Funtime Chica: "She isn't here to ruin your day, she just wants her moment in the spotlight. She will occasionally appear on your screen as though posing for the red carpet, accompanied by camera flashes which may cause some disorientation. You'll need to learn to maneuver around your office despite these disorienting effects, otherwise someone else may take advantage of your confusion and crash the party."
|The following information contains spoilers. To view them, click the [show] tag.
- Due to the re-branding said or hinted around the game, it is possible she was made prior to a Sister Location.
- Funtime Chica's cupcake's model has similar teeth to Nightmare Cupcake in FNaF 4.
- It appears Funtime Chica is missing a plate on her left side of her chest. Right now, it is unknown why.
- During Sister Location's teasers, people could find in the source code something called "Chica's Party World" where people think Funtime Chica possibly came from originally, but as of FNaF: FFPS, she came from the Rare Finds Auctions meaning that she was possibly found in one of the older restaurants.
- Funtime Chica may have been added to the game due to her absence in Sister Location.
- The player can get her for free if they play test the Prize King 10 times.
- Funtime Chica is voiced by Becky Shrimpton in Ultimate Custom Night
- She also plays the voice for Bon-Bon from Sister Location
- Funtime Chica's wrist clips into the back of her hand.
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80's Flashback
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So, this band – Vampire Weekend (a.k. my latest obsession)- isn't from the 80's, BUT I think the video speaks for itself with the multitude of pastels, a Thrilleresque transformation and AMAZING sunglasses. On a more serious note though, the lead singer stated in Rolling Stone that the song is "about colonialism and the aesthetic connections between preppy culture and the native cultures of places like Africa and India." Take from that what you will!
Let us know what your favorite part of the video is. Personally, mine is the drummer walking down the beach in long dark socks and mini bongos…need I say more?
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If you are anything like me and are reconsidering the decisions you make as a consumer, then what you wear could be one of the biggest. Yes, I've known about the sweatshops and the human rights issues, the animal cruelty, the waste and pollution etc, but until recently I never really thought there was much my small … Continue reading Ethical fashion – reconsider your wardrobe
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One small step to reducing plastic waste
As of 1st October 2015, England was the final country in the UK to introduce a 5p charge for plastic bags. However, instead of going the whole hog like Scotland and Wales, England has typically done a mediocre job by only introducing the levy on large stores that hire over 250 full-time staff. But then it … Continue reading One small step to reducing plastic waste
Are You Eating Plastic for Dinner?
This video has been created by a student, Andreas Tanner, who was overwhelmed by the amount of litter found on a secluded beach whilst on holiday. The 3-D animation explores how our excessive consumption of plastics has hugely affected marine species across the world causing death and increased human health risks. Watch it and find out … Continue reading Are You Eating Plastic for Dinner?


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Despite great strides made over the past six months toward acclimating to a different, and in part less familiar culture, there are things I miss almost daily about Tokyo, my city of twenty-eight years. A look at the calendar tells me that 184 days have passed since arriving in this little Florida town on the beach. Half a year, quite a lump of days, but even still, few days pass when I don't say to myself, 'Wish I could run out to Tower and pick up a Monkey Majik CD.' Or maybe, 'Sure would like to have some ebi tendon at Futaba.' 'Maybe I'll go to Maruzen tomorrow and check out the new Sailor ink.'
I wrote to a friend in Tokyo yesterday asking if she would mind sending something I badly need and can't find here. Leaving Tokyo in late April, I packed six of the notebooks long used for both journal and first drafts of writing projects. Guess it's because of more free time here, but now all but the last pages of the last Life Noble Note notebook are filled.
Been unable to find in my area here, a café or coffee shop where I can pass an hour or so doing a John Lennon—watching the wheels go round, scribbling in my journal and occasionally blotting errant drops of iced coffee from the pages. I miss the sunbright third floor of Doutor Café in Kugayama…miss that late afternoon coffee hour.
Think too about the numbers of young Japanese boys and girls I so often passed among, those of the green hair and pierced lips, the boys in skirts, the girls in hot pink hightop Keds. The hooked-up youth nose down in cell phones, plugged into iPods, draped in chains and dragging bushel-sized tote bags. The college kids on trains locked into comic books, wearing boots big and heavy enough to cross the Amazon jungle. I miss them all.
Shimizu-san was for years my regular supermarket checkout cashier at Peacock near the Kugayama apartment. She sent a New Year's card each January first, and never a Valentine's Day passed that she didn't give me a box of chocolates. Now I think of her as I stroll the aisles of my beachtown Publix, remembering a faithful friend and wondering about the cost of soy milk at Peacock these days.
I had my hair cut last Friday, and not a bad job either, but it will take a lot to erase from my wants a few more haircuts from Hikaru at Minato 3710. Hardly a time that I look at my hair in the mirror and don't miss the skill and caring service given by my Japanese barber. I wonder often enough what color Hikaru's hair is this month. He pretty much switched colors once a month, from black to yellow, and then to orange and maybe the next month the ever popular favorite tea-brown chapatsu.
These Florida days continue to be crowded with thoughts of the daily, weekly sights and sounds that soothed and jangled my long passage through Tokyo and the whole Japan experience.


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Uncovering the Truth
Following Kodai's fated encounter with Teresa, Gatlantis's past is revealed, and the Yamato's crew is enlivened with renewed purpose. Meanwhile, the White Comet Empire advances toward Earth, and the Wave Motion Gun Fleet is all that stands between Zworder and humanity's annihilation. Even with Teresa and the Time fault on their side, humankind must find answers, from within themselves, if they're to have any hope against such deep-seated hatred.
Special Features
- Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Conversation with the Cast
- Episode 23 Commentary
- Textless Songs


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Rome is a city that is proud of its ancient glorious heritage, a city that once expanded its empire throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. Rome is a city drenched in history and Christianity. First-time visitors may be easily overwhelmed by all this magnificent city has to offer. After all, one can find history and art on almost every street corner. That's why visitors may want to do their homework to narrow down what they want to see and do before they get on a plane or train bound for the Italian capital.
The Colosseum is another of Rome's major tourist attractions. Its construction was started by Emperor Vespasian of the Flavian dynasty in 72 AD and was finished by his son Titus in 80 AD. The elliptical amphitheater could hold up to 50,000 people who turned out to watch gladiators do battle, people be publicly executed and enjoy other forms of entertainment. This stone and concrete structure, built in the first century, was the largest amphitheater in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the Romans' greatest architectural and engineering feats.
One of the best preserved Roman buildings, The Pantheon was built in 126 AD as a temple for all the Roman gods. The temple has served as a Roman Catholic Church since the 7th century. Eight graceful granite Corinthian columns extend across the front of this circular building, with lesser columns in back. Though it is 2,000 years old, the Pantheon's famous dome remains the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. It is believed Marcus Agrippa built the Pantheon to be his private temple. The current building was reconstructed by Emperor Hadrian in the second century.
Vatican Museums:
The Vatican Museums began in the 16th century with a collection of sculptures by Pope Julius II. Today, they encompass several museums inside the Vatican City and include some of the world's most important relics. Attractions of the museums include the spiral staircase, the Raphael Rooms, and the exquisitely decorated Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo painted the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. Today the ceiling, and especially The Last Judgment, is widely believed to be Michelangelo's crowning achievements in painting. To keep the massive crowds under control, the museums have 4 itineraries that range from one and a half hours to more than 5 hours. All itineraries end in the Sistine Chapel.
Traditional taste:
Supplì – fried rice croquettes which are stuffed with beef ragout and mozzarella. Bucatini all'Amatriciana – a pasta dish with tomato sauce, guanciale, and grated Pecorino Romano. Spaghetti Alla Carbonara – a pasta dish with a sauce made with whipped eggs, and topped with Italian bacon, pepper, and grated Pecorino Romano.


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Everybody says, "We learn more from failure than success." But most of us would still prefer the latter to the former. Because few seek failure, we're tempted to avoid it at all costs — and that's often where the ethical issues arise. How we deal with failure, in ourselves and others, can have wide-ranging behavioral, cultural and ethical impact — for better or for worse. Greg Conderacci, who teaches this course, is no stranger to failure. Because "bad news is good news," he covered major corporate and government failures as a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal. And, like all of us, he's made many blunders himself. In both for-profit and non-profit leadership roles, he's watched seeming success turn to failure — and vice versa. A BLI Senior Fellow, consultant, and faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, he is a sought-after adviser for personal and corporate turnarounds.
Course ID: OOPS
The Ethics of OOPS! Slips, Mistakes, Failures and Your Future (Webcast Only)
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course participants will focus on failure – personal and professional – to help them:
- Recognize their own failures positively.
- Manage failure constructively on the job.
- Coach others through failure to success.
Major Topics
- Good failure: How to encourage it and harness it's power.
- Bad failure: When it's NOT okay to fail.
- Ugly failure: How to forgive it and move on.
- Fast failure: Can be better than "quick wins".
- Slow failure: The cancer nobody notices.
Advanced Preparations
Who Should Attend
Anyone who might wrestle with issues related to failure and responses to it, especially anyone in a leadership role.
Fields of StudyBehavioral Ethics


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Finance Administration Officer
In the download section below, please note both the job advertisement in German and English as well as the Terms of Reference in English for the position.
Finance Administration Officer
Your Tasks
- Bookkeeping, recording of financial information, preparation of financial reports and assist in preparation of budgets; processing payments and transfers, payroll accounting, dealing with tax issues, maintaining financial records.
- Ensuring that all financial transactions are in accordance with ICPDR financial regulations and rules.
- Financial administrative support to the Executive Secretary.
- Financial administrative support to the technical experts and the EGs as required.
Your Background
- Knowledge of and experience in accounting and financial management.
- Competency with financial data systems and spreadsheet processes.
- Familiar with the main features of the Austrian tax and social and health insurance systems.
- Ability to handle a large volume of work in an effective and timely manner.
- Experience in working with an international/interdisciplinary team is an additional asset.
- Interest and enthusiasm to work in a team
- Perform well under stress and cope with deadlines
- Conscientious, diligent and reliable, highly numerate
- At least 5 years of experience in the field of accounting and financial management from private or public organization, preferably international.
- Sufficient experience with booking system management; a relevant diploma course is an advantage.
- He or she has to be fluent in English and German.
- Knowledge of administrative procedures of an international agency such as EU or UN is an additional asset.
Our Offer
- Full-time employment starting 1 February 2015
- A tax free annual gross salary of 31,000 to 43,000 EUR
- 6 weeks of vacation per annum, benefits and educational opportunities
- A stimulating range of responsibilities and work place at the Vienna International Center
- Work in a small, friendly, motivated and international team
Are you interested? If so, please look at all documents on this page. To apply, please submit a cover letter and a CV in English by e-mail or regular mail to:
ICPDR Secretariat
Attn. Executive Secretary Mr. Ivan Zavadsky
Vienna International Centre, Room D0412
Wagramer Strasse 5
A-1220 Vienna, Austria
The application deadline is the 28 November, interviews are preliminarily scheduled for 8 December 2014.
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Roma Is a Passionate, Personal Letter From Cuarón
December 5, 2018
By Ryan Di Corpo
It is increasingly evident that Alfonso Cuarón can do whatever he wants. Cuarón, who won two Academy Awards in 2014 for editing and directing the boundary-pushing Gravity (2013), is no stranger to diverse projects. He followed his sexually provocative Spanish-language drama Y Tu Mamá También (2001) with the young adult-centered fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). He set Children of Men (2006) in a near-apocalyptic future and Gravity in the depths of space. Cuarón's newest film, Roma, is another break from the obvious.
It is a sensitively written, gracefully shot portrait of a domestic worker in early 1970s Mexico City, where Cuarón spent his childhood. The film is, at turns, both highly intimate and grand in scale. The story belongs to Cleo, one of two housekeepers employed by Antonio, a doctor. While viewers will empathize with Cleo's considerable personal and professional struggles, viewers will not envy her. She is relegated to washing floors, doing laundry, breaking up fights between the children and cleaning up excrement from the family dog, Borras.
After a sexual encounter with a short-term romantic interest, Cleo becomes pregnant and is left without a partner. However, Cleo is genuinely appreciated by the children and the doctor's wife, Sofia—despite her tense mood after she is abandoned by her husband.
Roma is thrilling not only for its compelling portrait of Mexico City teetering on the brink of political violence, but for its introduction of first-time actress Yalitza Aparicio. As Cleo, Aparicio delivers a raw, compassionate and deeply human portrayal of a woman who, despite her circumstances, refuses to surrender. Aparicio seems less concerned with delivering a performance—that is, a show for the camera—and primarily concerned with transmitting Cleo's emotional reality to the viewer. Aparicio develops a personage so utterly convincing that Cleo is not as much a character as someone you know, or wish to know.
Marina de Tavira, the film's only main actor with professional experience, is also excellent as Sofia, who cares for Cleo while also infrequently berating her. De Tavira's task is a difficult one, as Sofia must act as a level-headed authority figure to her children while privately suffering her husband's infidelity. Despite the difference in economic station, as Cleo is subservient to Sofia, their relationship is likely the one most meaningful to Cleo.
Roma is a film of interiors, as most scenes focus on Aparicio's life in the home. Periodically, we get glimpses a Mexico City from long ago, reconstructed with painstaking attention to detail. The city is poised to erupt, as a student demonstration looms. In the most technically audacious moment of the film, Cuarón stages the violence of the Corpus Christi massacre. A seminal moment in the history of Mexico City, the Jun. 1971 massacre claimed the lives of some 120 people, many of them youths.
The scene, which took months to prepare and film, is stunning, involving hundreds of extras and brilliant choreography. Cleo, who is held at gunpoint during the massacre by the father of her unborn child, goes into labor. In the film's most tragic moment, Cleo is rushed to the hospital where she miscarries. Her child was "born dead," the doctor tells her. Filmed mostly in a single static shot, Aparicio is devastating and Cleo's pain—true, excruciating pain—is palpable.
Shot in black-and-white, Roma draws upon the classics of yesteryear, imbued with a neorealist sensibility. Its gorgeous cinematography helps bring the film's era and location to life, without obscuring Cleo's unglamorous life of sacrifice. In all, Roma stands as testament to Cuarón's many inimitable gifts and as a personal tribute to persons too often outside the view of mainstream, multi-million-dollar cinema.


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Tracie's Plan for PA
As Auditor General, it would be my purpose to review the spending of taxpayer dollars and state-funded processes to prevent any misuse of funds and ultimately deliver recommendations that will improve the lives of Pennsylvania residents.
Tracie's Plan for PA
As Auditor General, it would be my purpose to review the spending of taxpayer dollars and state-funded processes to prevent any misuse of funds and ultimately deliver recommendations that will improve the lives of Pennsylvania residents.
To ensure the Department of the Auditor General continues to issue useful and informative audit reports centered on improving the lives of Pennsylvanians. I will personally review the testing strategies developed for each audit engagement deemed significant before the audit begins to ensure that appropriate risk-based testing strategies will be used during the conduct of the audit to ensure the most effective use of the department's limited resources.
I will keep the established lines of communication between the Auditor General's Office and the citizens of Pennsylvania open so that your questions and concerns related to issues impacting the performance of their local school districts, charter schools, rising health care costs or any issues negatively impacting our most vulnerable citizens, such as at-risk children, veterans, and our elderly can be investigated and appropriately addressed.
As Auditor General, my purpose would be to review the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's spending of taxpayer dollars, and the operations of state funded programs. To identify any fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement of taxpayer funds and issue recommendations to address identified deficiencies that will ultimately improve the lives of Pennsylvania residents.
During the 2019 budget cycle, the State Legislature cut the Auditor General Department's budget by 10%, or 4 million dollars, even though the department remains responsible for the same 5,000 annually issued audit reports.
This 10% budget cut means that the department will have to further reduce its staff complement by at least another 40 employees. This means that the next elected Auditor General will inherit a staff complement of 400 employees or less, the smallest staff complement of any previously elected Auditor General.
I will analyze each bureau's operations to identify where bureau-specific inefficiencies can be improved, and operating costs further reduced. I will also implement a department wide audit bureau-specific cross training initiative that will require each audit bureau director to work with the department's 'Training Office' to ensure that audit staff in their respective bureaus are appropriately cross-trained on how to perform every type of audit conducted by their bureaus; thus, increasing the efficiency of each audit bureau.
The Auditor General's Department's rank-and-file field auditors are members of the AFSCME union. Because union members' seniority is established by bureau, rank-and-file staff cannot be routinely transferred between bureaus, even when an audit bureau is out of audit work and another audit bureau needs additional audit staff, since such transfers would result in the loss of the transferee's seniority.
To address these staffing inefficiencies, my administration would reach out to the union leaders to develop a temporary transfer process that will allow available rank and file audit staff to be used to temporarily assigned to audit bureaus on an as needed basis without negatively impacting any rank and file employees' seniority.
In July 2019, the Auditor General's Audit of Erie County's Magisterial District Court revealed that 880 cases between 2014-2017 were improperly filed in court. Pennsylvania citizens who had committed civil offenses were, without their knowledge charged with or convicted of criminal offenses and given criminal records; negatively impacting these citizens' lives.
I will expand the audit scope of our Magisterial District Courts to include a review of court controls in place to ensure that charged offenses are accurate, and when we find that no such controls exist or are deficient, I will issue recommendations requiring these courts to implement controls, or strengthen controls in place, that will prevent the mischaracterization of civil offenses.
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A Texas police officer who vanished from his home last week was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
Baytown police officer John Stewart Beasley, 46, was found dead Tuesday in a field three miles from his Cove residence, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said.
Beasley, a 23-year veteran of the police force, was reported missing Thursday and last seen walking away from his home. It's believed Beasley died the same day he was reported missing.
"As far as his mental state, everybody has their ups and downs and who knows whether there may be some depression? But actually we feel like he has a lot of good things going on in his life," Hawthorne said.
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Several law enforcement agencies assisted Baytown police, including K-9 teams from League City and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, according to FOX26 Houston.


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Erik (and I?) worked a little today to get a forgotten and neglected Fw 190 variant into the next update, the Fw 190A-8/R-2, also known as the "Sturmjäger".
This is a Fw 190A-8 with an additional 191,6 kg of armour, concentrated around the cockpit and canopy and the outer wing guns. The armament is also changed and consists of 2 x 20 mm MG 151 in the wingroots and 2 x 30 mm MK 108 with 55 RPG in the mid-wing position. The Mg 131s are deleted.
This variant is thus better against defensive fire from bombers (but not rear attacks from fighters!) and well equipped to bring down heavy bombers. The downside is that it is extremely heavy, almost 5 tonnes fully loaded, fully armoured and with a 300 litre drop tank. It is therefore not a fighter and should not be used as such, so no sharp turns or you will stall!
Here´s some interesting information about the armour protection of this and the more standard Fw 190A-8 and where the armour was placed:
And here a drawing of the extra cockpit/canopy armoor and a photo showing its placement. We will not have the canopy armour (except the "Windshcutz" ) in the game version, but this was often removed in the field anyways. Also note that there is no new 3D-model involved, the side armour panels will be simulated on new skins!


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Bambi, 27-year-old Australian model who has been living with Type 1 diabetes for more than half her life, caught up with Lauren Bongiorno, a fellow Beyond Type 1 Global Ambassador Council Member. Find out how she manages her T1D while traveling to exotic locals or what are her must-have snacks for on-the-go!
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The house mouse adult has a head and body length of 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches and a tail length of 2 3/4 to 4 inches. It weighs about 1/2 to 1 ounce, has smooth fur and is usually dust-gray, brownish to dark gray or gray above and light gray or cream colored on the belly. House mice have a pointed muzzle, small eyes, ungrooved incisors, large ears and short, broad feet. The tail is uniformly dark, scaly and semi-naked. Adult droppings are 1/8 to 1/4 inches long, rod-shaped, with pointed ends and containing small hairs (unlike American cockroach droppings which have ridges and lack hairs).
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The rat can also carry and spread disease to a devastating effect although diseases carried by rats are generally not passed on to humans. However, in the middle ages, the black plague wiped out nearly two thirds of the European population. The disease was not caused by the rats directly but was actually caused by infected fleas carried on rats.
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It's time for Apple Crunch Day at Sabold Elementary School. Martindale's Natural Market loves to provide the apples! They're organic, of course. Apple Crunch Day organic apples were donated by Four Seasons Distributor, Paradise Farms, and Martindale's Natural Market, together.
Beautiful organic apples have arrived right from the farms and in the back door at Martindale's. Farmers have been lovingly growing these apples all season long until they were finally ripe to pick. They were packed gently into boxes and sent to Martindale's.
Terry, the Produce Manager at Martindale's, carefully managed all details concerning getting the apples for Apple Crunch Day. Red, yellow and gold colors adorn crisp, juicy Gala apples. Terry and Martindale's Natural Market are happy to have a part in helping our local children learn the joys of eating healthy. We know the kids will love them!


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Where are the plows? It's a question many people are asking.
Driving is treacherous, many city streets remain unplowed or waited hours to see them.
It was the kind of storm in which sanitation plows have a tough time catching a break.
As CBS2's Marcia Kramer drove around Manhattan, she was surprised at the number of streets that have not been plowed.
The unplowed streets made it difficult for emergency vehicles to get through, and for drivers it was like a chorus of Paul Simon's 'Slip Slidin Away.'
"Last year was better, the plowing was better, the salting was better, but not today. Today is just not good," Badu Cisse said.
"It's very bad. Sometimes I have to put the traction off because I cannot get out," Lucas Klusicvk said.
On street after street on the East Side of Manhattan drivers were doing something that looked like self-plowing — hoping that the weight of their cars would melt some of the snow.
It was especially bad outside Governor Cuomo's office on Third Ave and 40th Street.
There was one consolation for Cuomo; city plows may have had a hard time reaching him, but owners of the building his office is located in had a small plow clearing his sidewalk so he could reach his car without much trouble.
"I get paid, I have no choice," the plow operator said, "We have to keep up the building."
Cuomo explained why this storm made plowing harder.
"The wind compounds the problem," he said. "It's almost impossible to clear the roads when you have those high wind gusts because when you clean the road the wind literally brings the snow back."
That's what happened on Madison Ave in the 90s. A convoy of plows cleared the street, a few minutes later the snow was back.
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If you are Harvard Business School and you need to determine how best to improve your executive education offerings, what do you do? The answer: market research, of course.
Srikant Datar, the dean for executive education at HBS, says he spent several years speaking to "hundreds of companies and alumni" in order to "figure out what they were looking for" and how Harvard might adapt its offerings.
"What we heard is that more often leadership positions are being given to younger executives who've only been with the company for two or three years. They are getting more responsibility but they need more executive training," he says. "The big paradigm shift is moving away from executive education and toward executive development."
Another trend was that companies did not necessarily want to spare senior managers for months at a time for an educational programme. "We realised we needed to develop new ways for executives to still be with their companies and reduce the time they have to be here."
This autumn HBS will introduce two newly revamped executive programmes – the leadership development programme and the general management programme – responding to that industry feedback. The biggest changes include introducing more distance-learning products as well as shortening the lengths of the programmes. In addition, HBS has slightly changed the type of executives it targets for each programme.
HBS says it does not plan to alter its advanced management programme – tailored for very senior corporate executives – nor does it expect the changes it has made to its other two programmes to have an impact on enrolment figures.
"The faculty teach the participants but the participants teach each other even more, so it's important for us to have a critical mass [of students]," says Ralph James, executive director of executive education.
The new leadership development programme is geared towards those executives with eight to 10 years of experience who are beginning to be considered by their companies as potential division heads. Participants are typically vice-presidents, directors and project managers. The programme consists of five units, two of which take place at the school's Boston campus.
The first component, which lasts for two months, is an interactive distance-learning course on accounting, finance and quantitative methods – so that once participants get to Harvard they can hit the ground running. "This is so that you have the analytical skills you need before you arrive on campus," says Mr James.
During the second module, participants spend two weeks on campus taking classes from the five-member core executive education
faculty. The classes, which primarily use Harvard's
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marketing, operations, strategy and negotiations.
In the third unit, which lasts three months, participants go back to their companies but also work on
individual and group strategy exercises. In many instances, they are assigned to virtual teams with fellow participants located around the world.
"They learn how to work, build teams and make
decisions across cultural boundaries," says Prof Datar.
Nada Martini, who recently graduated from Harvard's pilot programme, says this particular unit was by far the most challenging.
"In the business simulation, we were each given a role – like head of marketing or head of sales – and we had to work together and fight it out in the 'marketplace' against the other teams," she says.
Ms Martini, a former management consultant who now works at Siemens in New York City, recalls that of her team of five, no one was from the same continent.
"The time difference made it really tricky," she says. "We had some people working on the project at home at 11pm on a Sunday while others were working on it from their office on Monday morning. It was intense," she says.
The most important lesson she learnt from the experience? "Finance can kill you if you don't do it right," she says. "It's crucial that you manage your cash flow as well as you manage every other part of your business."
The fourth module takes place back at Harvard and involves more classroom-based learning. During this time, students are assigned a personal coach – trained by HBS – who customises their leadership development. The coach's main role is to give students feedback on their progress in the programme as well as advice on general management practices.
Ms Martini says she was sceptical about the coaching concept but has since been won over. "It's a person who knows you but is not working alongside you," she says. "They have seen you
interact with your team but it's up to you to provide information about yourself and what you want to improve."
Since her graduation, Ms Martini has kept in close contact with her coach.
In the fifth and final unit, which lasts two months, students continue working with their personal coach, monitoring their progress. "Students are also supposed to use this time to reflect on what it means to be a leader," says Prof Datar.
Harvard has also revamped its general management programme. The course is geared towards division heads and country managers with some profit and loss responsibility, who have typically at least 15 years of experience.
It, too, has five units, three of which are home-based. The overriding goal of the programme, according to Prof Datar, is that participants learn how to diagnose problems and issues in their companies – including recognising threats and opportunities – and learn how to take action to improve them. The course is meant to teach students how to execute changes in turbulent or uncertain environments.
This course, says Prof Datar, underscores the value of distance learning. "Whether it's a technology or global issue, it's important that participants go back to their companies [in between campus-based modules] and try to think about the knowledge they've gained," he says. "Then they come back focused on action and ways to implement change in their business."
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Google has today announced that it has acquired Qwiklabs, an end-to-end cloud platform which aims to provide hands-on lab learning and software testing environments to the developers. With this acquisition, the Mountain View-based tech giant is further adding to its arsenal of cloud services and the widely popular enterprise G Suite. The financial details of the transaction haven't been disclosed.
Founded in 2012 by Enis Konuk, Jitesh Shetty, Qwiklabs has been primarily aimed at providing a natural and intuitive hands-on experience to developers willing to learn how to use modern cloud platforms, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS). The training courses prepared by the company offered step-by-step instructions to learn a popular cloud service, test different use cases, and train in-house teams.
Over the past four years, the company didn't pick up any outside funding and managed to scale the service to accommodate more than half a million users. They've collectively spent over 5 million hours learning how to deploy and manage multiple cloud technologies. The company was also the chosen hands-on training provider for AWS's customers, partners and employees globally.
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We're focused on offering the most comprehensive, efficient, and fun way to train and onboard people across all our products on Google Cloud, including Google Cloud Platform and G Suite. We want to help businesses get the most out of their cloud investment and, with Qwiklabs, we'll give users a place to learn and expand their cloud skills to deliver more innovation, more features and more efficiency for their customers.
Though Qwiklabs is now with Google, it doesn't mean that the platform is abandoning its partners and fellow developers who've spent huge amounts of their time learning cloud technologies in real-time on Qwiklabs. The company has confirmed that it will continue to offer lab learning credits and subscriptions for its existing AWS labs. The already subscribed developers and instructor-led training sessions will continue to enjoy the same access to the humongous library of hands-on labs.


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"The retreat was well-organised, educational, practical, thought-provoking and spiritual," said Pastor Richard Jackson of the recent North England Conference (NEC) Endless Love Marriage Retreat that took place from 10 to12 January 2020 in Stratford-upon-Avon. The NEC President had more to say about the retreat, "The presenters were really good and equipped us with so much knowledge on the different topics and ensuring that our marriages were endurable."
The NEC Family Ministries Department, under the leadership of Pastor Paul Liburd have been organising marriage retreats for years now. This year's retreat had been postponed from October last year. On Friday, the first day of the retreat, just like the retreat before in 2018, the number of years the couples have been married were added up. The 36 couples had marital experience of a total of 642 years. In 2018, 26 couples attended and the marriage age of the couples was 377 years. 10 more couples attended the retreat this year.
On Sabbath morning Pastor Liburd presented on conflict and communication. There were a lot of exercises that required couples to work together and taking time to reflect on their marriages. After lunch Lovemore and Thembi Masiane presented on forgiveness and reconciliation.
There was then a short break before Andrew and Andrea Rashford-Hewitt presented on a taboo subject that is seldom talked about in Adventist circles − sexual intimacy. They shared that sex in marriage should not be seen as dirty but holy as God intended it to be.
Andrew Hazel treated the couples to an evening of laughter during the evening banquet as MC, while they had pictures taken by Donald McKenzie.
On the last day of the retreat Dr Victor and Lynne Samwinga's last two presentations of the weekend were on money, debt and budgeting. Research and statistics shows that financial mismanagement is the lead cause of stress and divorce amongst couples. Many couples left hopeful they could turn their lives around and live a debt free life.
During the question and answer session the couples had a lot of questions to ask the presenters. Pastor Liburd then officially brought the retreat to a close with a commitment service for all the couples. Leebert and Vinette Hughes were available all weekend to provide counselling for the couples who needed it.
Reflecting on the weekend retreat, Phumulani and Zodwa Mloyi said, "The retreat was therapeutic as it allowed couples to deal with difficult issues in a safe place. It was spiritual, informative, challenging, fun and very enriching indeed."
Charles and Brenda Chikasha said, "The financial part of the retreat was the most important session for us as a couple. It's a raw spot for us. The presentation was well done and very practical, it gave us hope and ideas about how to climb out of debt."
January seems like a perfect time to have the retreat as it is that time of the year when most people make resolutions hoping to spark change in their lives. Would 'working towards a better marriage' be one of the couples' resolutions in 2020? The next NEC Marriage Retreat is planned for January 2021.


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188B Investor Stream is a 4-year temporary visa, for people who want to make a designated investment in an Australian state or territory. After maintained an investment in Australian for 4 years, the applicant can apply for permanent residence through the Business Innovation & Investment (Residence) Subclass 888 visa. The applicants can either be in Australia or overseas to lodge this visa.
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1. Under 55 years of age, unless the nominating state or territory certifies that the applicant will make an exceptional economic benefit; and
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8. During the 2 fiscal years immediately before we invite you to apply, have legally acquired net business, investment and personal assets of at least AUD2.25 million. These must be available for legal transfer to Australia within 2 years of the visa being granted.
9. Make an investment of AUD1.5 million in your nominating state or territory
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(Henry Bateman - guitars/vocals, Lewis Downs - guitar/vocals, Frazer Kerslake - bass, Chris Camm - keyboards/vocals, Greg Burns - drums/percussion/vocals)
Caitlin Stubbs:
(Caitlin Stubbs - guitar/piano/vocals, Frankie Harper (keyboards/electronics/vocals), Roan Kenner, (bass) Henry Bateman (guitar), Sam Newham (drums and electronics), Holly Matthews (vocals), Katie Heap (vocals)
Henry Bateman is a musician and songwriter from Gloucestershire, currently studying at the acclaimed Leeds College of Music. Never one to be in a 'mould', Henry's style has been influenced by a range of original guitarists/singer/songwriters – ranging from Michael Hedges to Peter Gabriel, Randy Newman and James Taylor. Their influences have been formative in shaping Henry's ability to play sparkling fingerstyle guitar and write and perform his own compositions with a confidence and flair that is earning him a burgeoning reputation for his spellbinding live work.
"Not so much a breath of fresh air - more a full force musical gale that lifts you to places you didn't know existed. A very extraordinarily gifted young man; one of the coming musical generation's front-runners in the making" – John Drummond (musician and promotor for Brewery Blues, Gloucestershire)
Caitlin Stubbs is a singer/songwriter from Brighton, England. Her songs inhabit a crossroads between the ethereal storytelling of folk/blues and the introspective side of pop. Think Joni Mitchell, Laura Marling and Father John Misty. She takes great inspiration from her poet/playwright grandfather, the late Adrian Mitchell whose anti-war, often satirical songs and poems she sometimes performs alongside her own compositions. She has supported prestigious folk artists such as Marika Hackman and Julie Felix ("Britain's first lady of folk" – The Times). In 2011 Caitlin supported Sarah Lee Guthrie (granddaughter of Woody Guthrie) in Brighton where the two performed a duet of a song that Caitlin's grandfather had written with Sarah Lee's father, Arlo Guthrie.


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Chief incumbent of Kataragama Kiriwehera & another monk injured in shooting
Posted on June 12th, 2018
The chief incumbent of the Kataragama Kiriwehera Rajamaha Viharaya Ven. Kobawaka Damminda Thera and another monk have been hospitalised after being shot at by an unidentified gunman, Police said.
The shooting had reportedly occurred at around 11.00pm within the temple premises.
The monks were rushed to the Kataragama Hospital with gunshot wounds and later transferred to the Hambantota Base Hospital for further treatment.
The motive for the shooting has not been uncovered yet while Kataragama Police has launched an investigations into the incident.


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Fri 13 Sept 8pm
St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington
Dunedin Consort
Duration: approx. 2 hours
There will be 20 restricted view side pew seats available on the night, for cash £15, from 7.15pm
First come first served
A booking fee of £1 per ticket, up to a maximum of £5 per transaction, will be added to all bookings.
Half price concession for children and students in full time education
Credit: David Barbour
Orchestral Suite No 1 in C major
Violin Concerto Op 8 No 6 in C major 'Il Piacere'
Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major
Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major
Violin Concerto Op 8 No 2 in G major 'Summer'
Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor
Sponsored by McInroy Wood
Bach and the Dunedin Consort have been at the heart of every one of our Lammermuir Festival programmes. This year this world-renowned ensemble celebrate their association with the Festival with four concerts including all six of the Brandenburg Concertos, as well as Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Their residency opens with a veritable feast of Bach centred on two Brandenburgs and paired with the always exciting music of Vivaldi, whose music Bach admired so much.
'... a sensational recording [of the Brandenburg Concertos] – perhaps the best period Brandenburg set available'
The Arts Desk
See ticket prices for St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington below. For tickets, please call the box office on 0131 473 2000.
The Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin is one of the great ecclesiastical buildings of mediaeval Scotland, founded in 1380 and known for centuries as "The Lamp of Lothian".
It was severely damaged in the 16th Century during Henry VIII's 'Rough Wooing' of Scotland, and after the Reformation only the nave was used as a parish church, with the choir and tower remaining roofless.
It was finally restored to its former glory in the 1970s, and is Scotland's longest church as well as one of its most beautiful, with a wonderfully warm, resonant acoustic.
St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington
Several Edinburgh to Haddington routes to the Market Street bus stop. Also Perryman's 253 service from Edinburgh Bus Station – Berwick, stopping in Haddington. All drop off in the High St, approx. 5-8 mins walk from the church.
Edinburgh to North Berwick service every hour. Nearest station is Drem. Taxi info on station notice board.
Haddington is 20 miles East of Edinburgh along the A1 dual carriageway. Travelling East take the second exit to Haddington – St Mary's is signposted from the main road. Look to the South, and you will see the old church tower in the distance.
On street parking 100m from the church. Only disabled parking is allowed in the church grounds. There are 4 disabled spaces. Please email email@example.com if you require one of these spaces.Terrain:
Tarmac and gravel
Induction Loop:
Good male/female provision plus adapted toilet for disabled.
Access is via the North Side (side) door, available 30 minutes before concert. Press bell for assistance. Level access into venue.


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September 16, 2004
Evil Glenn and His Haiku
Writing assignments;
just one thing I'm not good at.
Takes me too damn long!
Time to do an Alliance assignment. Let's see, assignment for Friday, is ...(sniff, sniff)
SMAAAAASSSHHHHH!!!!! "Good evening, Drunken One!"
Me: "Evil Glenn! You broke my window!"
EG: "You shouldn't keep it so clean... it looked open!"
Me: (plugging nose) "By aw dat's howee, whad ith dat thmell?!"
EG: (eyeing me suspiciously) "Someone called me with a tip about a litter of puppies nearby. Turns out, it was a litter of skunks."
Me: (looking innocent ... or trying to) "Id wadnt bme! I jus mimb my own bidineth."
EG stares at me doubtfully, then asks: "So what is the Alliance up to this week?"
Me: "Oh, jus suppod to wride a haiku ..."
EG: (interrupting) "Curse you."
Me: "Whaaa?!"
EG: "You sneezed, I cursed you!"
Me: "oooohhh....kay. Andyway, I'm spode to wride a ..."
EG: (eyes lighting up) "A song? About me? Ooooh, I love songs about me!"
Me: "No, I ...."
EG: (breaking into a Tiny Tim falsetto, to the tune of"My Favorite Things")
"Murdering hobos,
rid the world of their masses.
Blending up puppies,
to sip from tall glasses.
Razor blades in apples,
each Halloween.
These are a few of my favorite things.
(he starts to robot dance)
Porno for penguins,
and poor robot dancing ...
Me: (unplugging nose to be heard) "NOT A SONG!!"
EG: "No song? What then?"
Me: "A haiku."
EG: "Ohhh, that's what you said when I thought you sneezed. Well, let's see what you've got. (grabs paper off of desk) Dear Abbey, Sometimes I feel.... (looks at me with raised eyebrow) Don't think this is going to be very good! Indeed!"
Me: (snatching paper back) "That's something different. A creative writing assignment or something... yeah. Anyway, I haven't made any progress on the haiku, yet."
EG: "A product of the Grau/Harvey coupling hasn't the wit to come up with a haiku? Your fathers must be disgusted with you!"
Me: "Well, Harvey hasn't blocked me from his site, yet, and Grau still waves from across the parking lot, so they can't be that disgusted."
EG: "Waves, huh? Seriously, watch to see that he's not crossing himself. He does it to me all the time!"
Me:" Anyway, I know I'll come up with something."
EG: "Haikus are eeeaaaaassssyy! I make them up all the time. For example:
Feel the frigid fowl.
It stirs more than just my soul;
Penguins turn me on.
Or another:
Puppy in blender,
Entranced by the swirling mess.
Labrador tastes best!
Yet, another:
The Lord of Darkness,
Has made my blog to prosper.
Thank you, Lawyer God!"
And how's this:
Beating on Frank J.,
I pummel his baby face.
Tell lies about me?!
Me: "Oh, some of your favorite topics. Do you have one about hobos?"
EG: "Er, that one isn't very good, on account I can't stop laughing while thinking about their cute little dying hobo faces. But I'll share what I have.
Ha ha ha ha ha,
I watch the hobo dying,
ha ha ha ha ha.
Muahahahahahaha.... I just love that!"
Me: "Uh, that was lovely ... I guess."
EG: "Say, you wouldn't happen to have a few gallons of tomato juice would you? I've got to get rid of this stench!"
Me: "Nah, no tomato juice, but I've heard holy water works just as well. There's a church right down the road."
EG: "Hey, thanks. I'll give that a .... wait a minute. Nice try witless one! I oughta ..."
Me: "Be going? I've got to write down a couple of thoughts for haikus."
EG: "BAH, you may as well start working on your 'lame excuse for being late!' Maybe you could have your blog sister Boudicca do your homework for you. She seemed to do rather well with her puke-u's. By the way, the limerick from TGOO wasn't too bad, either! Maybe you can get his help!"
Me: "Ok, thanks, I guess, for all of your suggestions. But, I'm really wanting to get back to this assignment. (pulling wooden stake from under desk) I'd like you to leave; I don't want to use force, but I'm prepared to do what I must."
EG: (laughing) "No need for violence, Groggy Guy! I shall leave you. But here's a haiku for your do goody good Alliance, a parting bit of inspiration:
Warmest wishes to,
Members of the Alliance.
You all bugger off!!
Muahahahahahahaha .... "CRAAASSSSSHHHHHH!!!!
Me: "You broke another window! You inconsiderate, flying freak of ...."
EG: "That's lawyer to you! And you really should muddy up those windows!! I look forward to reading your haiku ... sometime next year!!! Heh!"
Me: (thinking to myself) "I think you've given me more than I need to do this."


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Eight years ago, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted and intelligent 19-year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. Wentworth was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him and support his career. Sir Walter Elliot, Anne's snobbish father, and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were highly dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that Wentworth was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement, for she, too, felt it was beneath her young protégée. Frederick, deeply disappointed, went to war; Anne was left alone, brokenhearted and not willing to look for another suitor.
Now, on the verge of spinsterhood, 27-year-old Anne re-encounters Frederick Wentworth but in quite different circumstances. Wentworth's sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch Hall – Sir Walter is forced by his own financial irresponsibility to rent it out and move to Bath. Wentworth himself is now a wealthy captain, prosperous due to maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman with the exception of his old flame. Soon enough he starts courting Anne's spirited young neighbour, Louisa Musgrove. Is it man's nature to forget the woman he loves sooner than woman forgets man? Is an invariably determined person any wiser than an easily persuadable one? And most important, will Anne and Frederick ever get what they really want?
My impressions:
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel – she began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. It was published in December 1817, the same year Austen died (but dated 1818). In many blurbs the novel is called a romance about second chances; there are clear parallels with the earlier novel, Mansfield Park, which also emphasized the importance of constancy in the face of adversity, and the need to endure. However I would call it an Austen version of Cinderella.
Anne Elliot is our Cinderella – a heroine generally unappreciated and to some degree exploited by those around her. It's not that she has to clean, wash, cook and sweep and never goes to any ball, far from it. Still she is lonely and full of regrets while her father and sisters are far too involved in their own self-importance to notice. It is not that she is unloved, but rather that those around her no longer see her as an independent person. As a result Anne has to live vicariously through them. If anything happens in her life it happens because her father and her older sister wishes so and they never take into account a possibility that Anne might want to express her own opinion or, heaven forbid, decide about her fate. She's become such a fixed part of their lives that her likes and dislikes, wishes and dreams are no longer considered, even by those who claim to value her, like her older and well-meaning friend, Lady Russell.
Overall if you've ever felt like your closest relations and/or friends didn't treat you the way they should, if you'd ever been advised wrongly and regretted your decision afterwards, you would understand Anne's quiet misery and gradual wilting pretty well. It is hard not to feel for her but then you ask yourself whether it wasn't also partially her fault. Let's face it – at some time Anne tacitly agreed to become a doormat and her relatives were only too willing to accept her new status quo – it was darn convenient because it solved so many problems, didn't it? Unfortunately it made Anne completely miserable but who would care or notice?
Gillian Beer, a literary scholar, establishes that Austen had profound concerns about the levels and applications of "persuasion" employed in society, especially as it related to the pressures and choices facing the young women of her day. She notes that Austen personally was appalled by what she came to regard as her own misguided advice to her beloved niece, Fanny Knight, on the very question of whether Fanny ought to accept a particular suitor, even though it would have meant a protracted engagement. Ultimately Fanny rejected her suitor and, after the death of her aunt, married someone else.
Persuasion is also the first of Austen's novels to feature as the main character a woman who, by the standards of the time, was already past the first bloom of youth. Austen's biographer Claire Tomalin characterized the book as Austen's "present to herself. . . to all women who had lost their chance in life and would never enjoy a second spring"; I completely agree with her. There is something deeply personal in the narration and characterization of Anne Elliot which shows, in my humble opinion, that Jane Austen cared a lot about her. This is also a subtle book, with a rather simple plot which moves forward slowly. Anne never gives anything away about other characters and herself. She remains shy, paralyzed by social conventions and her own ideas of duty and responsibility for quite a long time.
The self-interested machinations of Anne's father, her older sister Elizabeth, Elizabeth's widowed friend Mrs. Clay, and William Elliot (Anne's cousin and her father's heir) constitute important subplots, full of comic relief; still the sense of humor, in my view, is rather pale, especially if you compare it to the earlier Austen books. It's like an autumn sunny day compared to a summer scorcher.
Finally it should be mentioned that Persuasion reflects an important period in Britain when the very shape of society was changing, as landed wealth (exemplified by Sir Walter, the proud and foolish baronet, and his relation, the Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple) finds it necessary to accommodate the growing prominence of the nouveau riche (such as Wentworth and the Crofts who actually earned their merit, not just inherited it). The success of two of Austen's brothers in the Royal Navy was probably a significant factor here.
Final verdict:
My second best Austen book, right after Mansfield Park, with some biting comments about family, responsibility, and condition of women. Also a great love story with a fully deserved and sweet happy ending. I recommend it wholeheartedly.


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Attack On Titan – Subaru
Currently streaming on Netflix Instant is an anime series called Attack on Titan, an adaptation of a manga series that centres around massive humanoid monsters who eat human beings. Next year will see the release of a live-action feature film adaptation of the popular series, and the film's director, Shinji Higuchi, just teased the carnage to come with an incredible commercial for Subaru, which brings the monsters from Attack on Titan to live-action life for the very first time.
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GPRA's President discusses what he'd like to achieve in 2019
ABOVE:Dr Sama Balasubramanian (left) and GPRA CEO Andrew Gosbell (right) meet with Mr Tony Zappia MP (centre) to discuss general practice training.
Dr Sama Balasubramanian was elected as the President of GPRA late-2018 and commenced his term as President 1 January 2019. Here, he discusses the key issues in the future.
By Dr Sama Balasubramanian
In 2019, alliance-building will be a key focus.
Whilst the different players in the general practice space may have varying foci and methods, the missions we share are common: to foster a healthy, sustainable training experience for registrars and supervisors alike; to focus on the vitally important mentor-mentee partnership; engender a culture of support for rural and remote practitioners; to advocate for the health of the profession and it's importance at a political level; to continually strive to improve registrar wellbeing, the training experience and educational outcomes.
We will have regular contact with organisations such as ACRRM, RACGP, GPSA, regional training organisations, department of health (state and federal), AMA, primary health networks and others. Only as a united force can we positively impact the experience and image of General Practice.
Building an equitable training experience is essential. Our primary focus will be working on and improving the training conditions for registrars, particularly through our negotiations on the NTCER and changing this negotiation process.
This includes improving access to maternity leave and study leave, negotiating for fair remuneration, ensuring equity in remunerative calculations, facilitating representation and advocacy with trainees in all clinical settings.
Member feedback is vital to this process occurring, and I and the team at GPRA will be working to engage with you to ensure that your input matters.
We already receive vital input and work from the registrar representatives on the GPRA Advisory Council, and need to supplement their hard work with member input on vital issues such as the NTCER and college transition. Please email myself and the team at GPRA for anything GP or training related.
GPRA is only as strong as our members, and thus we look to all of us as driving forces to shape the organisation and the future of General Practice. We all have something to contribute, and your voice will be heard. I really look forward to working and advocating for you.
Upcoming challenges for GP training and GP registrars
There are several key challenges in the near future that need to be managed well to ensure that registrars achieve equity, wellbeing, and high-level training outcomes.
The philosophical elements underlying the devaluing of general practice are tangible to registrars. Addressing the power imbalance in contract negotiations, discussions around appropriate remuneration, workplace conditions and protections on par with fellow trainees is key to ensure general practice is attractive, fulfilling, and a rewarding experience. We are always looking for more registrar feedback in this space and will work for you and with you to make this happen.
Navigating the landscape of General Practice training during the transition to the colleges will be important. Managing uncertainty is an art we specialise in, but managing this within the context of our own training and early careers is challenging.
There are key elements in training policy implementation that require our feedback, including discussions around maternity leave and study leave. There is also the need for proactive advocacy around the NTCER and an equitable training experience. I would encourage all registrars to be involved with GPRA, seek out roles in education/training, and keep providing feedback to us and the colleges. The system needs to centre around registrars.
Developing a healthy understanding of the role of rural generalism within the health system and the need for more support in rural relocation is vital. Registrars must be appropriately informed about these changes and their input heard on the process transforming the face of rural generalism in Australia.
There are increasing social and legal factors impacting trainees across the board, particularly so for those on the independent pathway in rural and regional areas.
We need to organise our system to provide the highest levels of support and advocacy for those that need it the most. In order to do this, effective representation from this group of registrars is vital. We want feedback from this cohort and others on how to make this happen.
How I became involved with GPRA
I originally applied for the role of Registrar Liaison Officer with GP Synergy due to a passion for registrar wellbeing and working conditions, thus adopting a position on the GPRA Advisory Council.
Maintaining this position for over two years, I came to understand the value of an independent member-drive organisation for registrars.
Registrars are the lifeblood and part of the metamorphosis of General Practice training over time. I am passionate about registrar wellbeing and I am looking to drive constructive dialogue at a systems level, so all registrars can have a fair go and have appropriate representation in training, educational, administrative and wellbeing matters.
Why all GP Registrars should get involved with GPRA
Involvement in one's advocacy and representative organisation is vital to driving ongoing dialogue regarding GP training, and thus has provided me a privileged position to channel registrar feedback and lobby stakeholder organisations. This includes the colleges, training providers, as well as state and federal governments.
I believe that trainee input is vital to the sustainability, attractiveness and value of General Practice overall. You cannot drive progress without end user feedback.
Registrars comprise both the end user and end result of General Practice training in Australia, and I have seen outcomes achieved via GPRA.
GPRA provides a terrific conduit for registrars' input to be heard, and fantastic opportunities for registrars to be involved in shaping the future education and administrative aspects of the general practice landscape.
There are fantastic resources such as the exam books, webinars, and plenty of information on employment negotiation and navigating placement enquiries. We also directly address your enquiries and advocate for you.
Remember, GPRA is your voice and your organisation.
Advice for GP Registrars starting their training in 2019...
If you're new to GP training, remember to value yourselves. You are a colleague, not "just" a trainee. Learn about contract negotiation. Use our resources. Tell us what works and what doesn't. Empower yourselves.
Give us your feedback. Let's work together to keep improving general practice training.


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Cheltenham Town FC Whaddon Road
Cheltenham 1-2 Aldershot (12-3-11) att 2,697 with 355 away
This was one that we were looking forward to attending. Cheltenham were on the up while Aldershot were rising back through Non-league. In that time they have spent a couple of seasons in League one and rebuilt this fantastic little ground. Curving around in a L shape are two stands with the one behind being the away end. This offered really good views. I'm sure the one along the side did as well. Opposite was the main home terrace and the main stand to the left. This runs a third of the pitch with a terrace in front. Decent Social club outside the ground too.


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Tom's Top Gay Party Picks New Years Eve Edition
New Year's Eve is just a couple of days away so let's get see what's happening in and around Amsterdam. Club Church will host its NYE Hoerenbal – Casino Anale Royale to ring in the new year with some sex appeal. Come dressed to impress with sexy casino fetish wear. This party welcomes all genders and sexualities.


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Bathroom furniture series
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The XSquare bathroom furniture is attuned in style and design to the contemporary DuraSquare washbasins. The defining feature of the series is a quarter-circle chrome profile, framing the furniture elements on the sides and lending them a distinctive autonomy. In the floor-standing model, the accentuated frame seamlessly transitions into the base frame. XSquare is focused on furnishing bathrooms with a holistic approach: in combination with bathtubs, toilets and fittings, the range offers high-quality furnishing solutions for an elegant ambience.
Statement by the Jury
The XSquare bathroom furniture series inspires with a pronounced sense of style. Versatile combinations open up additional scope for creativity in planning and design.
- Manufacturer:Duravit AG, Hornberg, Germany
- Design:studio KMJ GmbH, Zürich, Switzerland


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Here I am, Music City!
Originally uploaded by Darrell
We spent about twenty hours on highways in five states this week. Road kill was abundant. I saw a fox and a small bear on the side of the road in addition to the usual deer, armadillos and raccoons.
I've concluded that Burger King has surrendered its standards. I've stopped in Burger King restaurants in three states over the last month. All of them were alarmingly dirty and the quality of the food and service has dropped precipitously. Given the starting point, that's saying something. Burger King, which I once really enjoyed, is dangerously close to becoming a last resort for me.
A moment from the Vanderbilt tour which confused me: a parent asked the tour guide about intercollegiate sports. The guide patiently explained that Vanderbilt has 16 sports and competes in the Southeastern Conference. If you don't care about sports, that's one thing; but if you are interested enough to ask about it, how can you not know that Vanderbilt is in the SEC?
Besides, earlier the presenter has asked for a show of hands from people who planned to go to the bowl game. How did the guy miss all that?
At breakfast the day of the game, some people in line were talking about the number of people wearing Vanderbilt gear. We were staying in the official alumni hotel. One lady asked where the game was being played. Another said, "I guess at Dudley Field..." which is Vandy's on-campus stadium. This was incorrect, because the game was in fact being played at the NFL stadium in town. Again, how can you not know that? I actually didn't say anything to them. I wonder what that lady thought when she showed up to an empty stadium that afternoon.
On the way home, we saw Kentucky and East Carolina fans driving into Memphis for the Liberty Bowl. Cars were decorated and flags were flying. College football is just a lot of fun.
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