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Polio Plus Update - December 12, 2016
Portion of 'Papa's Boots' Proceeds to Benefit Polio Plus
By Carl Good III
On December 9, Amanda Graves gave a moving presentation to the Rotary Club of Wachusett Area on her children's book Papa's Boots. The short, beautifully illustrated book chronicles a grandfather explaining his childhood polio to his grandson. Amanda is an excellent speaker and provides a portion of the proceeds to Polio Plus. For more information, contact Amanda at email@example.com. To buy the book at Amazon.com, click here.
Members of the Wachusett Area club contributed $531 in cash and checks, which was further supplemented by $20 that Amanda gave to Polio Plus from the sale of 20 copies of Papa's Boots. Another $20 came from the sale of special Fathers' Day cards that Past District Governor Carol Toomey brought to the meeting. Wachusett Area members will get Paul Harris Fellow credits for their $531 contribution. The other $40 was credited to the club. Rotary's polio-eradication effort will get a total of $1,713 as a result of a 2-to-1 match by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Wachusett Area Rotarian Lisa Bean, who chairs the club's Speakers Committee and is a member of the club's Board of Directors, had e-mailed club members to bring at least $26.50 each in cash or in a check to the meeting. It paid off nicely.
Last week, I made presentations on Polio Plus at the Rotary Club of Franklin and the Rotary Club of Worcester. These visits are very rewarding because of the chance to meet other Rotarians and see their enthusiasm for the Polio Plus program.
Left to right: District Polio Plus Chair Carl Good III and Franklin President Terry Katasaros
As District Foundation Chair Sanjay Deshpande has noted, our districtwide goal is that each Rotary club contribute at least $26.50 per member to Polio Plus during the 2016-2017 Rotary year, which ends next June 30. We appeal to all 51 clubs to do their best to meet this modest goal.
Remember that contributions to Polio Plus during this Rotary year will count towards the "per-capita contribution to the Foundation" eligibility requirement for receiving District Grants and Global Grants during the next Rotary year, which begins next July 1. Since that per-capita requirement is based on club membership as of last July 1, all collections from new members this year will add to the total but the average will be based on the July 1, 2016 membership. So, we appeal to all members to contribute to Polio Plus and other Foundation funds.
If all clubs achieve this goal of at least $26.50 per member in Polio Plus contributions, the total collection from the 1,455 Rotarians in our district would exceed $38,550. Because of the Gates Foundation's 2-to-1 match Rotary's fight against polio would receive more than $115,600 through the contributions of our district's Rotarians.
Virtual-reality films bring a new dimension to polio fight
At this year's World Polio Day celebration in Atlanta, Rotary harnessed the power of virtual-reality technology to build empathy and inspire action in our fight to eradicate polio.
Learn more about the films, click here.
To watch the video of World Polio Day in Atlanta, click here.
If you are had an event for World Polio Day (or Week), please send me a brief description. We are keeping track of the events.
Carl Good III, chair of the District Polio Subcommittee, may be reached at email@example.com.


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|The Mediterranean War
|Part of Vae victis!
A sea battle between the two sides of the war
|Commanders and leaders
|Octavian I
|Casualties and losses
|~4,000 (including civilians)
The Mediterranean war was a war fought between Carthage and Safineim, primarily over trade across the sea. It was a relatively bloodless war, with the highest casualties being experienced in south Italy while Carthage was landing their troops. Despite the low casualties, the war had a major effects on trade and the economy, and allowed Carthage to gain wealth at the expense of the Safinei. The war would ultimately decide who controlled the trades routes of the Mediterranean for almost a century.
When Safineim had first set up trade routes, Carthage had naturally felt economically threatened by the development. In order to limit their loses, they arranged negotiations on the matter with Safineim. It was eventually agreed upon that Safinei ships would have to give 5% of their cargo to Carthage, and in exchange, Safinei traders could continue business. However, as time went on, Safinei traders began to try to pay less then they had to. When several ships tried to get away with paying nothing, conflict was almost inevitable.
After the four ships were discovered to be evading the fee, the ships were quickly looted and sunk, and most of the crews killed. The Safinei quickly retaliated by declaring war on Carthage. Knowing they could not beat the superior Carthaginian navy head to head, the Safinei navy quickly spread into several groups, each one designed to ambush a single or pair of enemy ships. However, Safineim had underestimated the Carthaginian navy, and after only two months of fighting, the Safinei navy was essentially useless. Despite this victory, Carthage continued the assault, destroying as many trade ships as possible. Meanwhile, Carthage began to muster troops on Sicily, ready to invade southern Italy.
With the Safinei navy destroyed, the Carthaginian army moved from Sicily to southern Italy, triggering intense fighting. Eventually Carthage was able to establish a foothold in Safineim, but faced with high casualties, was unable to push further. The fighting then bogged down to two almost stationary lines, both sides struggling to gain the advantage. Struggling to gain the advantage, Carthage began to blockade Safineim, making it impossible for any supplies to get into the nation, except through Etrusca, which of course refused. Thus gave Carthage the upper hand it needed to break apart the Safinei line, and maneuver their troops into a more adventitious position. With Carthage threatening to move northwards into Safinei heartland, Safineim had no choice but to surrender.
As Safineim was defeated badly, it was essentially forced to submit to whatever Carthage chose to demand from the nation. Surprisingly, Carthage made no land demands, but made up for it with harsh economic penalties, focused mostly on trade. First of all, Safinei ships had to dock in Carthage at the beginning and end of each trade run, and if Carthage chose to, they could place troops on the trading ships to regulate taxes and trade. This severally hurt the already falling Safinei economy, and made it difficult for the economy to recover. Additionally, the war secured Carthaginian dominance over trade for almost three hundred more years, and would remain an economic power long after that.

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Interview with detainee AS
12 October 2006 - Detainee AS
Interview with detainee AS
A Libyan known only as Detainee "AS", has given an exclusive interview with Islam Channel News.
He's been detained for nearly five years and is considered a threat to national security. But he's never been charged with a crime and isn't allowed to see the secret evidence against him. He is currently held in Long Lartin Prison.Islam Channel News ran a special programme on Detainee AS's allegations at 5pm and 9.30pm on Thursday, October 12, on Islam Channel.
Islam Channel is available on the Sky platform, Channel 813. It is also popularly watched online at www.islamchannel.tv For details on how to access Islam Channel on other satellites, including Astra and Hotbird, log on to the website.
Rough Transcript of the Interview
My dear respected brothers and sisters. My name is __ and I am from Libya. I have been in prison since May 2002. I am currently detained at Long Lartin prison.
I and sixteen more brothers from Libya, Jordan and Algeria are still detained secretly without any charges, in an isolated wing. We are now facing deportation to our countries and most of us have now been detained and fighting this case for the past 5 years.
None of us have ever been charged with anything and we still claim our innocence. We are ready at any time to face any allegation they have against us before an ordinary court. We are innocent people. We were kidnapped from our houses and are being detained as hostages. They took us from our houses and put us in prison simply because we are Muslims. All our families outside are suffering. They're being treated very badly, one of the brother's wives has miscarried her baby subsequent to the barbaric raid the day her husband was kidnapped by the police. I and another brother have not seen our wives for the period of our detention which is nearly 5 years.
Our situation in prison is very hard. We all have been classified as A category – high risk prisoners. Therefore we are not allowed to get any domestic visits by anyone unless the Home Office approves the visitor's name, and this takes a very long time to be processed and get cleared. In this prison they don't want the reality to emerge to the public and the Muslim brothers and sisters around the world.
Some of the brothers here have become mentally ill and they are under very heavy medication. We always get strip-searched in our daily routine; when we come back from our legal visits and our domestic visits, and if anyone refuses then they use force against him to take all his clothes off, the same as Abu Ghraib prison. It's very stressful. All our mail and phone calls are monitored, that's why it took me a very long time to pass this message on. The court we are appealing to now - called the special immigration and appeals commission which has been made specifically for the detainees - we call it the fascist court martial because they use so-called secret evidence. The reason of this secret evidence… Because of national security. But this is an excuse only because subhan Allah nobody knows what this evidence is. Can you believe that our solicitors are not entitled by the rules of this court to look at the evidence against us so how can we defend ourselves? Certainly everything is based on fabrications and falsehood which can't be sufficient to be used in ordinary court. The judges are always on the side of the Government.
They only listen to what they get from intelligence sources. We need juries and we need a fair trial.
They have now signed an agreement with the dictator regime of Qaddafi in Libya, who had a very bad reputation in the west, who bombed Lockerbie, supported the IRA, and his regime was considered as the axis of evil. His regime name is still on the terror list at the United Nations. He does to his people, even more than what Saddam Hussein has done.
The agreement was that if I was deported I would get assurances by the Libyans that I wouldn't be tortured but the funny thing is that they both have got the right after six months of my deportation to withdraw from this agreement. This is an utter joke. This government simply and behind closed doors wants to hand me back to the fascist regime in Libya and to get me killed by death penalty. I've got proof that the Libyan government told the home office that I am a member of the Libyan Fighting Group, which I totally deny. And they say that if I was convicted, I would get the death penalty, which the British government wants.
At the end I've just got a message; one message to the Muslim Council of Britain and the other to my Muslim brothers and sisters. The message to the Muslim Council in this country: shame on you, shame on you, shame on you. You went to Iraq appealing for the release of Mr. Norman Kember, which was very kind of you anyway, as Sheikh Abu Qatada had done it as well - he appeared on TV and he said 'you must release him'. But you never spoke openly about our situation, or even try to arrange any demonstration against this unlawful detention for the past five years. The biggest kind of failure of this Muslim Council to help Muslims in this country, that (was when) one of the members called Dr El-Hilbawi was asked by the Government about the best way to deal with us. He replied "these people shouldn't be detained or sent back to their countries, but the best solution… to keep them in mental institution". He called us a crazy people, that we are not…
Subahan Allah he never came to us, and he never spoke to us, and he doesn't know anything about even about our daily life. He doesn't know nothing. We (were) kidnapped, we are hostages. Why he is saying we are crazy people and we should be detained? He only wants to please the British government.
This life is very short and Allah (subhaana wa ta'ala) certainly one day is going to judge between us insh Allah.
And my message to my sincere Muslim brothers and sisters: We are your brothers in Islam. This Islam is based on brotherhood. We are your brothers. Imagine your brother in blood… I seek your help after Allah, we all seek your help after Allah (subhaana wa ta'ala). We are going through a very difficult time. It is a responsibility on your shoulders. You must all write to the Home Secretary John Reid and ask him 'why did you put these people behind doors?' Tell Tony Blair, 'why don't you put these people before an ordinary court?' And also try to arrange a big demonstration for our immediate release. We all are innocent and we need to be around our families as everybody lives around his family.
The other thing we want the whole journalist in this country to demand the Government to visit us. We not asking for something wrong, we're asking for the media to come. The media went to Guantanamo, went to Abu Ghraib… went everywhere. Why don't they come to us in here? We would like to speak to them, we'd like to convey our message we are innocent people victimised by the British government. And we ask all the Muslim brothers and sisters to make a lot of du'a for us that Allah (subhaana wa ta'ala) keep us firm and to make a lot of du'a for our release, insh Allah. And the last thing is that, Imam Malik radi Allahu anhu said, if the Islamic state spent all the money till the last penny… in the Islamic state to release the Muslim prisoner, they should spend it. We're not asking our Muslim brothers to send us money in here for our food, we're asking them just to support us, just to go at least for demonstration, just to write, just to do something.
Wa'assalaamualaikum wa rahmat allahi wa barakatu.


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Discipleship is not the path of least resistance, the path toward riches, or the path of convenience. It isn't usually popular or logical, and can bring times of temporary heartache and doubts. And when it does, we have a response.
In Mark 10, we read about a Rich Young Ruler who went away sorrowful because he was not as good as he thought and was unwilling to trust Jesus. That completely blew the disciples' paradigm - they thought riches were a sign of God's blessing and said "Who can be saved then?" (Mark 10:26). Jesus says, "With man, it is impossible; with God all things are possible" (Mark 10:27) reminding them that if they're going to have eternal life, God is going to have to do something. Mankind can't make things right on their own.
That reminder freaks Peter out. Unlike the Rich Young Ruler, the disciples had left everything behind to follow Jesus (Mark 10:28). Jesus lays out the paradigm for discipleship saying that's exactly the kind of commitment he's looking for: the people who are last in the world's eyes will be first in God's economy.
I love verse 32. "The disciples were now on the way up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were filled with awe, and the people following behind were overwhelmed with fear."
It's hard to be a sold-out follower of Jesus, but you see two groups of people here. The people who were closest to Jesus were filled with awe; the people who were haphazardly going along were overwhelmed with fear.
The closer you get to Jesus, the more fear turns into worship.
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Note: The main character's self-image is complicated by several factors, including but not necessarily limited to: Some of the folks around him really admire what he can do, while others look down on him. He can perceive and feel more than he can articulate. And he speaks almost entirely in quotes.
"Do Wrong to None"
They repelled the attack
without a single casualty on either side.
The Carinan jumpship docked
with the surveillance base to pick up
the team of code crackers
and decommission the station.
Some responded eagerly to the news.
Sweep, their pickup man who found signals,
and Crowbar, their code breaker,
were thrilled at the idea of getting off early
from what was to them punishment duty.
Not everyone wanted to go, though.
Shakespeare wanted to stay,
here in this place he'd made his own,
doing his job of identifying key words or phrases
that probably meant something else,
and interpreting what they referred to in a military context.
Quell, their jammer,
likewise had no interest in
returning to active service or discharge
where people would expect him to talk to them.
The Carinan soldiers motioned
for Shakespeare to come with them.
He braced himself for a struggle, for flight,
and shook his head silently
because if he spoke then they would know
how different he was.
It's hard to get by in the army
when people know you're a freak,
even if you're stupendously good at what you do.
It's hard not to antagonize people
when you don't know
what your body language looks like.
The Carinan soldiers shifted their guns
and caught Shakespeare by the elbows,
grumbling at him, "Hurry up, don't make us late."
Shakespeare planted his feet on the familiar deck
and leaned backwards, but the soldiers were bigger
than his merely average body, and dragged him
toward their ship and a duty that was not his.
In the scuffle, the words broke free:
"No man has aught of what he leaves!" (1)
They stared at him, then,
at the Specialist insignia on his uniform,
and one of them muttered, "Freak,"
twisting his arm painfully behind him.
That made Shakespeare all the more desperate
to escape, because people who thought like that
could be dangerous and there was no telling
what they might decide to do.
So he fought.
Having already failed in
not antagonizing someone accidentally,
it's also hard to fight if you're just
trying to get away without hurting anyone.
These were things that Shakespeare
understood intuitively but could not articulate
in his own words, especially under stress.
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none," (2)
he panted as he eeled out of the clutching grasp
and ran shirtless down the corridor,
leaving behind part of his uniform and most of his dignity
in Carinan hands that had somehow become enemy hands.
Suddenly the lights went out,
dousing the station in flawless dark.
"I have loved the stars too fondly
to be fearful of the night," (3)
Shakespeare murmured to himself.
The soldiers were not so sanguine;
they swore as they stumbled after him.
Shakespeare knew this game.
He squeezed himself into a maintenance hatch
and shut the access panel behind him.
Then came a sharp hiss and squeal,
followed by more swearing as the soldiers
yanked their comm links away from their ears.
Static crackled in the wall speakers.
"Heroic action," Shakespeare whispered,
"which makes a mighty noise in the world." (4)
Quell had worked his tricks and cut off
the soldiers from communicating with their ship.
Hiding, Shakespeare waited
until the nervous soldiers gave up and left,
all but deaf and blind in the buzzing darkness
of the base that was not their home.
Shakespeare knew this game,
and when the lights came back on,
he understood that they'd won.
But this time there was no Crowbar to call,
"Come out, come out, wherever you are," (5)
no Sweep to pass around contraband chocolate,
and it hurt to think of them on a Carinan jumpship
going farther and farther away.
His spotter, gone;
how would he find signals now?
His translator, gone;
how would anyone understand him now?
There had been four of them,
always four since the day he came,
but now half the team had left
and Shakespeare said mournfully,
"We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage."
The lights blinked All Clear.
Shakespeare unfolded himself stiffly
from the maintenance hatch,
but his shoulders still hunched
and his arms wrapped around his aching chest.
There was only himself,
and Quell who did not like to talk,
in a station suddenly filled with echoes
where friendly voices once had been.
* * *
1) "no man has aught of what he leaves" -- William Shakespeare
2) "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." -- William Shakespeare
3) "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." -- Sarah Williams
4) "Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy." -- Mary Astell
5) "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" -- The Wizard of Oz
6) "We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage." -- Shakespeare


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Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Our Nation Did This To Its Own People
6 comments:
- Anonymous26 April 2016 at 16:59
This had nothing to do with Thatcher and it had nothing to do with class.ReplyDelete
It had to do with mistakes by the Yorkshire police and ambulance services.
English teams were banned from playing in Europe by UEFA at the time of Hillsborough, thanks to the behaviour of Liverpool fans.
Again, nothing to do with class. Or with Thatcher.Replies
Thatcher would be a co-defendant in Duckenfield's conspiracy trial if she were still alive. Wait for the Police to say those words. Would they dare not say them? How the world turns.Delete
- Anonymous26 April 2016 at 17:09
At least one major city will explode if he doesn't go down. As you say, probably everywhere that Thatcher shafted and that is a huge part of the country. The police have always said that justice was irrelevant to the maintenance of law and order. One of theirs now has to go to prison for the rest of his life to maintain law and order. How the world turns, Mr. Lindsay, how the world turns.ReplyDeleteReplies
But this will be justice.Delete
- Anonymous26 April 2016 at 23:08
Isnt Liverpool a little absurdly self-righteous over some police mistakes at Hillsborough and some rumours about their precious supporters when-just a few years earlier-their fans quite deliberately charged at and killed 39 people at Heysel?ReplyDelete
You can hardly blame the Sun for thinking hooligans were responsible for the latest crush involving Liverpool fans (even though on this particular occasion, for once, they weren't at fault).Replies
The tragedy is that you can't even remember any of this. Even I can remember watching Heysel unfold on television.Delete


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Thinking on St. Bruno for his feast day this morning, I opened up the home page of the Carthusian order. I don't know if it's some kind of quote or motto or something, but I was struck by the greeting to visitors:
"Friend, whoever you are, whatever led you to this site, welcome. You will not find anything fashionable, not even a concern for being different."
I find that profound and challenging. Anyone who wants to live a devout life of any sort must forever struggle with the rotten intuition of the Pharisee who thanked God that he was not like other men. This is especially true in a society that has given up not only on the truth of eschatology but even the erstatz eschatologies of the worldly philosophers of history and thus craves novelty and celebrity as the only things left to provide temporary relief from the general aimlessness.
When we decide each day that we want to live a spiritual life, the devil will do everything he can to stoke our vainglory and encourage us to think it zeal and righteousness. The injury of original sin has left each of us with a little narcissistic celebrity inside. It's easy to get convinced that this person is our 'leadership potential' or our zeal for the reform of others. Since it's easier to worship a celebrity than to worship the living God, the devil sees a lot of potential for damage to souls through ministers who let themselves become their own worst selves.
The good news is that God wills to save us from ourselves. The very work of prayer teaches us interior poverty because God refuses to be a commodity or a possession. A life of prayer doesn't make us special, but instead teaches us that the need to be special is a dead end that leads only to alienation. The God who desires us in prayer is no-thing that can be had and no credential that can be pinned to our insecure heart. Prayer delivers us from the horrendous cut-throat system of this world in which I can only be somebody if everyone else is a nobody. Prayer opens us to the truth that we are all somebody only because of the Someone who is the Ground and Love out of which we are all spoken into being. The spiritual life exists not to help us indulge our need to be special or different, but to let go of it.
'Be yourself', as we were told as children. True enough, but they didn't know what they were talking about. Being yourself does not mean what the world thinks it means, namely indulging one's quirks and so-called individuality so as to wrap a certain uniqueness around the meaningless and moral chaos that the world asks us to accept. No, being yourself means letting God love the person he created, and discovering the liberating humility of journeying through the discovery of who that person really is.
"The way to contemplation is an obscurity so obscure that it is no longer even dramatic. There is nothing in it that can be grasped and cherished as heroic or even unusual." (Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, 250)
October 6, 2011
Being a Unique Snowflake
1 comment:
- Sarah said...
Love your words "The injury of original sin has left each of us with a little narcissistic celebrity inside." Ha ha, so true, so true.
I spent 5 months living in an old Carthusian Monastery-turned-school/hotel when I was in university and the stories that went around about the Carthusians were truly remarkable. One I remember well...when a monk dies they are all buried in unmarked graves, and the graves are re-used. In several instances, incorrupt bodies were found when re-using an old grave and when that happened, they would cover the body back up, and dig up the next grave. Unbelievable to think of all the Carthusian saints there probably are, and nobody knows, and they prefer it that way.
St. Bruno, pray for us!
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Domino's Pizza is known world over for the fresh and hot pizzas they deliver. Due to the quality of the products it deliver and its excellent features, the company holds topmost position in the hearts of pizza lovers. The numerous awards and steadfast loyalty of satisfied customers speaks for the excellence of the brand.
Domino's Pizza Group Limited or DPG has 20,000 team members employed in their stores at theUKandIreland. Another 660 stores are coming up inScotland,England,IrelandandWales. Most of the stores are franchised to franchisees, who in turn take utmost care to keep up its original standard.
Domino's Pizza Group is ever cautious to recruiting and retaining the best employees. Delivery system ensures only best quality pizzas are delivered to customers, that too on time! Further, the environment concerned company, takes steps to monitor and reduce its emissions of carbon. The internal environment group of Dominos Pizza is set to lessen carbon emissions wherever possible. Investing in Dominos Pizza by becoming a franchisee is not just monetary investment, but an investment of energy, of time, and of passion.
Customer satisfaction is the ultimate aim of the company and it expects its franchisees to keep up to their standards through operational superiority, good sales and big profits. If you want to become a franchisee of Domino's Pizza, you are required to participate in a month's rigorous Franchise Development Program. The training equips you with the awareness and skills you require to operate a flourishing Domino's Pizza delivery company. The main company ensures its franchise is all set to make quality pizzas and serve customers in the best way.
Domino's Pizza delivers pizza; it is not fast food establishment. The stores of Dominoes do not have facility to eat in. First of its kind to introduce countrywide online and TV ordering, Dominoes also was the first to make use of hot delivery bags. Today, the name Dominoes is a house hold name quite familiar and popular with all. Celebrations are never complete without hot pizzas from Dominos.


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Live the life in this idyllic Lakefront apartment in one of Narrabeen's best kept secret locations. Enjoying never to be lost Lake and tranquil park views with a well-proportioned full length balcony to fire up the BBQ and take in the serenity. This property would suite those looking for everything that the coastal lifestyle of Narrabeen Lakes has to offer right at your door with all the trimmings you would expect to find in a quality property.
- Double brick
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- Light and bright
- Single lock up garage
- Private corner position
- Split-system air conditioning
- Great sized balcony with lake views
- Scenic lagoon walkway at your doorstep
- Nestled between Narrabeen Beach and Lake
- Located close to restaurants, shops, cafes, best butcher in town, entertainment and transportation links to the CBD
Internal - 82 sqm
Garage - 20 sqm
Total lot - 101 sqm
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The London Metal Exchange and World Gold Council launched the LMEprecious trading platform on July 10 in London. The following is an edited amalgam of statements by the LME on the launch.
LMEprecious has introduced exchange-traded and centrally cleared precious metal products to the London market. It comprises spot, daily and monthly futures for gold and silver. The contracts are designed to support regulatory change, enabling greater market transparency and access, as well as providing more robustness to the precious metals market.
LME Gold and LME Silver futures provide opportunities for trading, price discovery and risk management, which creates an enhanced market structure for the precious metals community.
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HOUSTON, TX– Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services, the nation's largest real estate investment services firm, has secured the exclusive listing to market Savannah Apartments (top left photo), a 306-unit Class B complex in Houston.
The listing price of $10,500,000 represents a price of $34,414 per unit and a cap rate of 7.8 percent.
Jeffrey Fript (top right photo) a senior associate in the Houston office of Marcus & Millichap, is representing the seller.
"This property presents a savvy investor with the opportunity to own a multifamily asset with significant upside potential in Houston, one of the healthiest rental markets in the United States," says Fript.
"The property's location near some major employment centers and Hobby International Airport (middle right photo), which has plans in place to expand its Southwest Airlines terminal, further enhances its investment appeal.
"The site is a prime candidate for redevelopment into workforce housing for Southwest employees or a mixed-use, rental project. In addition, the property has a five-year IRR of over 21 percent."
The 231,792-square foot property is located at 8800 Broadway St. on 9.4 acres. Constructed in 1978, the asset includes a mix of one- and two-bedroom units directly across the street from Hobby International Airport.
Renovations to the property include new roofs, boilers, perimeter fences, an updated clubhouse and laundry facilities, new security cameras and a new pool. Unit upgrades include new appliances, cement balconies, kitchen cabinets and tiles.
The property has a loan assumption that matures in July 2016 and is being offered with in-place financing.
Hobby International Airport employs 7,000 people and the city of Houston recently approved plans by Southwest Airlines to expand its international gates, which is expected to generate approximately 10,000 new jobs in the region.
Savannah Apartments' convenient location provides residents easy access to Interstate 45, the 601 Loop, the Sam Houston Toll Road and Highways 288 and 59.
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Danny certainly has the accomplishments to be coach of the year but the middle of the pack finish likely won't let that happen. Great job of getting the most out of the talent we had. The team he formed with his fellow coaches was really impressive and resulted in tremendous improvement in the performance of individual team members.
Chris Haslam has done tremendous work with the bigs that has made them into one of the best two groups of bigs in the conference. Everyone of them has shown real growth this year. All know their roles and have developed depth to their games. Kudos to Chris.
Now for the most important coaching award. Best Dressed. Shawn Dirden wins this one hands down. He even gives Jay Wright a run for his money.
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Luc Besson's epic sci-fi action flick Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets had a special screening at CinemaCon on Tuesday, and now today the studio has released a second trailer for the film....Read More
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Meal Prep Is A Life Saver
If you have trouble staying on track with healthy eating during the week, meal prep will be your savior. No excuses because the meals are already made. I have been meal prepping for years now and it has been essential to staying on track with my health journey. Meal prepping holds you accountable all week, you never settle for anything less than a nutritious meal. Eating out is expensive, you will save some serious money by choosing to meal prep, so get ready to see your money grow! Another perk, is that you are optimizing your health and will feel energized all day long.
I began meal prepping in college because I was so busy running from class, to meetings, to work. To stay energized and on my A game I meal prepped. This way I could enjoy a healthy, nutritious and energizing meal. Snacks are also a life savor, when 3:00 p.m. hits and I experience fatigue, instead of reaching for a coffee, I always have a nourishing snack on hand. With a busy schedule, full course load, work and club meetings meal prep and batch cooking has positively transformed my health. The best part is, I look forward to Sunday's where I spend my time in the kitchen, listening to music, candle lit, cooking beautiful meals.
What is meal prepping?
Meal prepping is the decision to prepare your meals ahead of time so that you are sustained throughout the day or the week ahead. Instead of purchasing frozen meals that you heat and serve, you consume higher quality, unprocessed meals that you have created. Meal prepping is truly a form of self love, one prepped meal at a time. The meals you create are balanced, nutritious, satisfying and healthy.
Meal prepping will save you time and empowers you to make a healthier choice, without a second thought. Your meals will be portioned and satisfying, you will never reach for a quick and processed snack or meal again. Planning is a virtue!
Choose A Day
First, take a look at your calendar and choose a day as your Meal Prep Day. Make sure you have enough time to go to the store and pick up groceries, put them away and begin meal prepping. Meal prepping takes about two hours after cooking and clean up. There are 24 hours in a day and 168 hours in a week, you can find a time that works for you and make meal prep a weekly priority. If you want to stay on track in 2018, meal prep is your solution!
Choose A Meal
Throughout the day it is best to consume food every 3-4 hours. Over the course of my nutrition journey, I find that my energy is sustained all day when I eat 4-5 small meals rather than three large meals. I highly recommend this approach because you will not run into that 10:00 a.m. fatigue or 3:00 p.m. wall of exhaustion.
At first, it may be hard to choose which meals to prep, so I suggest thinking about your daily routine and prepping the meal that your time seems most limited. For example, most people I coach feel they find it challenging to eat healthy at lunch and dinner. So they will meal prep for lunch and batch cook for dinner. Roasted vegetables are great to batch cook, you can add them as a nutritious side to your dinner. The more consistently you meal prep, the easier meal prep becomes! It will become second nature after two weeks, and you will be excited to try out new recipes.
Choose A Recipe
Now you can have fun and choose your recipes! I recommend keeping a Pinterest board of meal prep recipes. You can choose to consume the exact same meal everyday or create a variety of different meals. The choice is yours! I know I love variety so I will create all different meals that include different seasonings, spices, herbs and vegetables. Whatever meal you choose to create, focus on balance and adequate portion sizes. Protein portions are the size of your palm, include whole grains, healthy fats, fruits and/or vegetables.
Why Prep Ahead?
- It is a fun and enjoyable activity
- Saves so much time
- Relieves you from stressing out about cooking after a long day
- Holds you accountable to your health goals
- Makes you excited for your next meal
- Saves money
Meal Prep Essentials
- Fresh ingredients – Trader Joe's, Farmers Market, etc.
- Ziploc bags
- High-Speed Blender
- Large Bowls
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- Good Recipes!
- Time
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- A cooking playlist
Variety is very important when it comes to meal prepping right! You have two choices you can meal prep the exact same thing to enjoy everyday or you can incorporate different vegetables, proteins and herbs. On weeks your meal prep time is more limited and, cooking the exact same meal in a large batch will save time. If you have more time, create a variety so that you do not get sick of consuming the same meal.
Variety is the spice of life
Ensure that your recipes include a protein, complex carbohydrate, healthy fat, vegetables and/or fruits. Herbs are a great way to add flavor and each herb offers different nutrients which will benefit your body. I love adding cilantro, basil, parsley, mint, rosemary or thyme. At the beginning of each week I will prep a batch of unflavored quinoa. You can use it all week to make a variety of different healthy & clean meals. You can enjoy quinoa in the morning warmed up with coconut milk, drizzle of maple syrup, cinnamon and fresh fruit. For lunch you can add it to a salad for extra protein. And at dinner you can use it in a stir-fry with olive oil, gf soy sauce, garlic and vegetables. Or make a Mexican quinoa bowl with grilled chicken, black beans, avocado, cilantro, tomatoes, peppers and onion. There are variety of clean meals you can create for meal prep on-the-go.
–Protein smoothies
-Overnight oats with fruit, chia & nut butter
-Greek yogurt, berries & granola
-Hard boiled eggs with avocado toast
-Almond butter, peanut butter
-Tossed salad dressing on the side
–Butternut squash soup in a mason jar
-Complex carbohydrates (quinoa, brown rice, forbidden black rice, sweet potato)
-Protein (hard boiled egg, chicken, fish)
-Vegetable protein: chickpeas, edamame, black beans, tofu
-Additions: nuts, avocado, hummus
-Baked vegetables
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-Homemade trail mix (nuts, seeds, shredded coconut)
-Gluten free crackers
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For the past year and a half, I've been overly apologetic when I explain our homestead to first time visitors. I play it down a lot, because I'm seeing all the unrealized potential that I was expecting to have achieved by now.
There are good reasons, naturally. My health took a noticeable nose dive since 2012, which is saying a lot considering the challenges I'd already been facing for the better part of a decade. Still, I hate to be that guy who was once-upon-a-time going to do something exciting and different but is now just a guy with a bunch of land that just sits there.
Who wants to be THAT guy, right? Lame. Leaving behind the creature comforts of city life without the accomplishments is like being baptized into the redneck religion. It just doesn't happen unless you've thrown your life away for methamphetamines.
As I paused to reflect this week, I realized that some of the people I admire most in the world have been idealists bursting with unrealized potential. That's how they eventually accomplished their dreams. They started by seeing what wasn't there and talking about it as thought it was. They literally willed their dreams into existence by refusing to relent or apologize for the imperfection of the present.
So, as I hunker down in my chair with a nice sheet of sweat weighing down my shirt, I share these thoughts with you. This land that has lain more dormant than I ever intended will come alive with purpose. The day will come when I give friends tours through walking gardens laden with medicinal herbs, edible flowers, and soil enhancing vegetation. I see a day when I recognize every single plant on my land, and I can share the purpose and value of each one.
That's important to me because even now, when I walk our property, I mostly see green plants I can't name. I'm years behind where I want to be in plant knowledge. But it's important to me to develop a land where everything has a purpose. We might not see or understand the manifold purposes or abilities of each plant, but we'll know why we brought it here and what we can do with it.
And then the land takes on a whole new meaning. It takes on an aura that cannot be extinguished. It becomes a living canvas of life and value and intricate relationship. And I will savor every bit of it.
So maybe idealism isn't so bad
If you've been embarrassed by unrealized potential, don't stop there. Ask yourself whether you still believe in the ideals that led you down this path. If the answer is yes, consider reclaiming your ideals and speaking them out loud each new day.
It's basically self-encouragement. Championship athletes master self-talk and envisioning the goal. It's what winners do. You can do it too.
How to start reversing the failure curse
Stick to three goals. Limit yourself even if you really think 5-10 different goals are driving you. Simple is better. They may evolve with experience, but don't be too hasty to change any one of them.
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Rick Simon and AJ Simon are polar opposites – Rick is a war veteran with a cowboy look, AJ Is a college grad with a taste for refined suits; Rick likes trucks, AJ likes classic sports cars; Rick lives on a boat, AJ lives in a house – who come together to run a private detective agency in San Diego, helping the locals with all manner of crime: stolen cars, kidnapping, bank robberies, you name it.
Created by Philip DeGuere (JAG, NCIS), the show was almost cancelled after its first season, but gradually became one of the biggest hits of the 1980s thanks to a Thursday night pairing on American network CBS with the megahit Magnum PI (also starting this month on JONES! too). The series eventually spawned a reunion movie in 1995, and had its opening credits recreated by Adam Scott and Jon Hamm in the 2012 short The Greatest Event In Television History.
SIMON & SIMON stars Gerald McRaney (Major Dad), Jameson Parker (JAG), Mary Carver (Arachnophobia), Eddie Barth (Night Court) and Tim Reid (WKRP In Cincinnati).


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These lyrics are transcribed from the performance at Desert Daze on 12 October 2018 and are likely to change if this song is recorded and released
There was a shop called Swanky Modes
Just off the top of the Camden Road
I walked past, recognised you
You screwed a guy then you killed him after
In a film I'd seen about a week before
Way, way, way, way back in the days of yore
Nothing could touch you
Or leave the slightest imprint upon you
Well, you just didn't care
Your hair was the same
Your face looked older and your clothes are grey
Working in the French shop
Trying to keep the dream alive
I saw a guy shooting up on the towpath
He didn't even look up as the shoppers walked past
I thought I heard him say
"How about you get on this?"
Well, how about you get on this?
I can resist gentrification
But I cannot resist temptation
You're carrying a basket
When a ??? caught your eye
A glint behind the clutter of a shop-soiled life
Surely you could miss your appointment
I'll try not to be another disappointment
Turned out you lived above the shop
And that's why you worked there
(No shit Sherlock)
It was a very small flat, with a very narrow kitchen
No need for further explanation
You sat down on the work surface
I got down to work on your surface
I could hardly get my breath
??? like needles on the back of your legs
Hey baby, how about you get on this?
Oh yeah, well how about you get on this?
Well, the ???, had to brush them off
I tried to make tea, but the milk was off
And I forgot my shopping in my rush to get home
In the days of VHS and casual sex
Welcome to the peppermint jungle
So glad that you could come for tea
I know you like a bit of rough and tumble
But you never left your mark on me
Some fall by the wayside
Some moved up to Teeside
Some still scoring cocaine
Some laid up with back pain
Ain't it sad when your dreams outlast you?
The things you do to make life go faster
Working on a ringtone, working on a master plan
And the next thing I heard, someone said you were dead
No more hot knives or setting fire to the bed
You were only trying to keep the dream alive
You tried to keep life at a safe distance
But it's futile to offer resistance
So how about you get on this?
Well, how about you get on this?
How about you get on this?
(Get on this)
How about you get on this?
(Get on this)
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If you've ever suffered a severe, heart-rending loss, probably the last thing you were feeling was "blessed". Gutted, angry, lost, empty, broken maybe, but…"blessed"?!! But then again, Jesus did say, "In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." So today we're continuing our study of The Beatitudes with teacher and author of the book, "Broken Yet Blessed" Kathi McCarty, who is here to help us understand the 2nd Beatitude…
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."
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Can there be joy in sorrow?
Matt 5:4 | Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted
It is not about situational sadness…the world is full of reasons to be sad.
Mourn: Gr. Penthein; used only in context of grieving the dead; an intense sorrow which pierces the heart; poignant, visible, tearful sorrow which cannot be held back from the world to see.
It's a recognition of one's spiritual bankruptcy; beggars who have no recourse to help themselves.
Does sorrow have value?
Sorrow has its own unique blessedness (There are things only sorrow can teach):
Man can (re)discover God in sorrow
Every attribute we need while mourning (grace, mercy, compassion, etc) can be found in Jesus.
Man can discover faith in sorrow – a faith that deepens and can be refined to maturity
Man can discover what truly matters in life through sorrow – mourning can give us an eternal perspective necessary to suffering
What is Godly sorrow?
The spiritual correlation of this beatitude is speaking of the blessings that can come when we:
Grieve over the sin/death in the world
Rom 5:12 – sin entered the world and brought death
Grieve over injustice, tyranny, and oppression
Ps 12:5 | God hears the groaning "Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the Lord; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."
Ex 23:6-7 | the injustices that come from rich men
"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Luke 18:1-8 | the unjust judge toward the lowly And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary. For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'"
And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
Mic 6:8 | upholding the moral principle
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Grieve over the lost/sinner
2 Cor 7:9-10 | sorrowful to the point of repentance
As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
Rm 10:1 – heart's desire & prayer for others' salvation
1Tim 2:1-6 | recognizing God's enemy
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
Mt 9:37-38 | pray for more laborers in the field
Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
Col 4:3 | pray for those who are laborers At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison
Beauty for ashes…
Is 61:1-3 | "To all who mourn (grieve) in Israel" The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
Those who are in God's house get His attention when they grieve. We can get burnt by life experiences.
Sitting in ash piles, looking quite ugly
Ecc 3:11 | "He makes everything beautiful in its time."
The Maguey plant… prehistoric, in Mexico. Every season of the plant produces something of necessity for living.
Oil of joy…
Oil was used to make the face shine…
Oil is a reference to the Holy Spirit.
Joy is not the absence of suffering; it is responding to the presence of the Lord in the midst of our suffering/grief.
Neh 8:9-10b | "…for the joy of the Lord is your strength…"
And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law. Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength."
1 Thes 5:16-18 | "In everything give thanks (praise)…"
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Praise for heaviness…
Every morning we decide what to wear. As believers, we choose to put on a garment of praise
Hebrew for praise, "…to completely wrap or cover oneself in…" (leaves no room for the enemy to get in).
Praise prepares us for God's answer, even if it's not what we had hoped.
Acts 16:25-26 | "…they sang praises…and the chains of every prisoner fell off!"
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.
Are you grieving?
Death of a dream?
Death of a job you needed/loved?
Death of a relationship?
Death of someone you loved?
The tyranny/oppression in the world?
A dying world/lost souls who do not know Jesus?
Does your heart break knowing that there are those who will die without knowing Jesus?
Does your heart break for the sin that is entangling you, someone you love, the world around you?
Ps 22:3 | "For you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Your people. Our ancestors trusted in You, and You rescued them. They cried out to You and were saved. They trusted in You and were never disgraced or disappointed."


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Get To Know Us
She is a Jakarta-born artist, Jasmine Hanny Surkatty have been dabbing in various fields of the Indonesian creative industry during her university years before deciding on a field to work on. From being the Lead Concept Artist for Helliger (2013), Graphic Designer for BNSD brand identity for Jakarta Fashion Week 2015 (2014), The Head of Design and Curatorial Team for STAR WARS Weekend Art Exhibition with Lucasfilm (2014) to talkshow HOST for Telkomsel LOOP Movie Trivia Program (2015). As it all went down, she realizes that her love for comics never dies, especially after she got hooked to her passion-side project turn big IP, Komik Ga Jelas™ , a social-media based comic strip with full-blown absurd humor that garnered quite a following.
Graduating with the highest honor from a double-degree Art and Design program in Binus International University and Northumbria University, Newcastle UK (2016), help propels Jasmine H. Surkatty in her dedication to the Indonesian Comic Industry. Her Final University Project, "DUKA", is a therapeutic graphic novel that earn a nomination for the KOSASIH AWARD (2016). On the following year, she went on to publish her first book, Komik Ga Jelas™ 'Penghilang Stres'that got sold out.
Since then she has focused her career into making Komik Ga Jelas™ where it stands now. From releasing the Komik Ga Jelas Trilogy with Elex Media Komputindo, to brand collaborations with big companies and organizations such as, GoJek, Grab, Kompas, R80 Airplane Program, PBVSI (Persatuan Bola Voli Seluruh Indonesia), The Police Force, KPK (Komisi Pebasmi Korupsi) and much more. Komik Ga Jelas™ and Jasmine H. Surkatty has also been chosen as one of Indonesia Comic Artist representative to be invited into the President's Palace as one of the front-runner for Indonesia's positive content-creator, as well as Top 5 Indonesian IP as curated by BEKRAF for KATAPEL Program (2018). Komik Ga Jelas and Gambir Studio has also released a game called "Tebak Gambar Ga Jelas" that's available for Google Play and ios!
Other than Komik Ga Jelas™, Jasmine H. Surkatty has also been a freelance illustrator, and creating other comics such as for, DUMADAKAN Zine (2016 & 2017), Komik Rame-Rame (2015), and such. She's also one of the chosen artist for KREAVI's Female Empowerment Exhibition Collaboration in 2015 as well as POPCON's 1st Creative Ambassador (2014).
Still new to the industry and with a passion to learn more, Jasmine H. Surkatty is still looking forward to expand to other media of art and reach for the stars! #SalamGaJelas


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Even after losing its first game in the double-elimination American Legion state championship tournament, Destrehan-based ES&H Wildcats weren't willing to settle, rallying back to win two straight games to keep their championship hopes alive.
But the team came up short of living out its championship hopes, its season officially coming to an end Monday at the hands of Jesuit-based Retif Oil, 11-0.
Destrehan absorbed a 7-4 loss to Rummel-based Deanie's Seafood to kick off its tourney fare on Friday. The team rallied to upend the Crowley Millers on Saturday, 3-2, before earning a 7-6 victory Sunday in a rematch with Rummel to keep itself in the mix.
But Jesuit proved too powerful for a Wildcats' team full of fresh faces that outperformed expectations this summer and showed strong potential for next prep season.
"We told our guys we're proud of the way they competed," said Destrehan coach Chris Mire. "We didn't finish the way we wanted to with respect to the final score, but for these guys, there's no reason we can't compete next year based on what we saw this summer."
Jesuit scored its 11 runs over the second to fifth innings to put the game away in five innings by the 10-run rule. Will Moran went 3.1 innings of scoreless ball to earn the win, while Destrehan's Joshua MacCord took the loss. Nathan Rhodes led Destrehan (13-10) offensively by going 2-for-2 at the plate.
"We made too many mistakes and left too many balls over the plate," Mire said. "Jesuit is going to punish you for it because they swing the bat really well. It got away from us pretty quick."
Winning the tournament would have been a difficult trek after DHS lost its first game last Friday, which meant to earn the state title, it would have needed six straight victories.
Sunday's game against Rummel saw the Wildcats stay alive on some seventh inning heroics by Josh Vicknair, whose RBI double to right field drove in Nathan Rhodes, who scored the decisive run in the top of the seventh inning.
Max Jacob pitched a scoreless inning and earn the save, striking out two Rummel batters along the way. He went three innings on the day and allowed two hits while striking out three.
The Wildcats jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning before Rummel fired back with six runs in the bottom of the fourth, putting Destrehan's back against the wall. Destrehan clawed back in the top of the sixth where it plated three runs, the last on a game-tying double by T.J. Thomas that scored Dylan Weber.
Vicknair swung a hot bat on the day, going 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. Dustin Weber went 2-for-2 with three RBIs and a run scored. Thomas drove in two runs as well for Destrehan. Ahman Morris, Weber and Vicknair each doubled in the game.
Brock Mire earned the win in a game the Wildcats called upon five different pitchers, also including Nathan Rhodes, Michael Mollere and Nathan Schexnaydre.
In the win over Crowley, T.J. Thomas started and went 6.1 innings while allowing two runs (one earned) on two hits and two walks. He struck out four. Joshua MacCord earned the save, striking out two and allowing a hit over 0.2 innings of work. Thomas, Jacob, Schexnaydre, Rhodes, Vicknair and Dustin Weber combined to each collect one of the team's six hits on the day.
DustinWeber finished the summer perhaps swinging his team's hottest bat.
"He had a phenomenal tournament for us, probably had 10 hits over the past two weeks, and multiple RBI games," Mire said. "He's been in the middle of everything for us and was a spark in those two (tournament) wins)."
The tournament opener saw Rummel rally from a 2-1 deficit to score six runs over the sixth and seventh innings in a 7-4 win.
Dickie Gibbs went five innings for DHS, allowing two runs (one earned) on two hits and seven walks. He struck out four. Ty Boyne took the loss in relief. Offensively, Rhodes led the Wildcats going 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Dustin Weber went 2-for-3, Jacob went 1-for-4 with a run scored and Dylan Weber went 2-for-4 with a run scored and RBI. Nicholas Schulin went 1-for-1 off the bench with a run scored.
The state tourney wins came in close games, similar to how many of the Wildcats' victories this summer had come. Particularly for a team lacking experience, late game execution has been on point.
"We've figured out that our guys like to compete," Mire said. "We still have some questions to answer, but we feel like we've got some pieces and now we just have to figure out how to best utilize them together. But they get after it, and that's a really great mindset to take into next year.
"This was a fun summer, honestly. As a coach, when your guys show up with a good attitude and they want to be out there competing every day, it really makes it fun."


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July 14, 2020
Global Impact Responds with New Services to Meet Demand
Submitted by: Global Impact
Categories: Corporate Social Responsibility, Philanthropy & Corporate Contributions
Posted: Dec 02, 2014 – 01:42 PM EST
ALEXANDRIA, VA, Dec. 02 /CSRwire/ - Global Impact, a leader in growing global philanthropy, has launched a new service that is exclusively geared toward assisting companies working in India that must comply with the government's new corporate social responsibility (CSR) requirements outlined in the India Companies Act (the New Act). The organization is one of only a few that can help make companies compliant with the new law by both brokering shared-value CSR investments with dozens of established, respected charities already working in the country, as well as providing services to meet the administrative demands of the new law.
Global Impact has been working with an alliance of more than 120 international relief and development charities for nearly 60 years. Nearly 50 of these charities already are well established throughout India and offer a wide variety of programmatic investment options. Companies looking to quickly comply with the New Act can find a turnkey solution with Global Impact's charity alliance. Furthermore, Global Impact can assist companies with the administrative and back-end requirements of the act, such as strategy, governance, and reporting. For more information about the New Act and our services, please visit our CSR India site.
The India Companies Act was passed by the Indian parliament in August 2013 and has imposed far-reaching changes to the governance of both India-based companies and foreign companies operating within the country. The CSR section of the New Act came into effect on April 1, 2014, and effectively declared that both domestic and foreign-owned companies must make CSR obligations to help remediate poverty and social problems in India.
Companies are subject to the CSR requirements if they have, for any financial year, in India:
Companies that meet any of these thresholds are required by the law to develop a CSR strategy and policy, select an implementation mechanism and partner, develop a project plan, and report on these CSR activities.
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Rarely would you see a reporter utter words like 'lesbian' and 'masturbation' when asking people questions and get away with it all in as suave a manner as possible. When this is a scene in Pakistan, this expectation goes down a lot more. One particular reporter, however, managed this feat and won the Internet while at it.
This guy, seemingly at a political gathering in Pakistan, went around asking people regular questions and bizarre ones all at the same time. He asked men things like 'aap dono lesbian hai?' and 'RDX, ammunition aa gaya', and no he did not get beaten up at any point in time. Still wondering how he pulled this off? Wait till you see the video and get your minds blown by his wit.
Uploaded on Facebook by a page called 'Sarcasmistan V2' the video has over 587k views since it was put up and on listening in carefully this seems to be from a gathering at Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's death anniversary. He also asks people about masturbation and all of his questions the people answer with a nonchalant 'yes'. While this reporter did risk it, seems lady luck shines on him way too brightly and nobody even figured what he was asking.
It's safe to say that all those who go out with their mics to talk to people could take a lesson or two from this reporter with all the sass in the world. To top it, he ends it with a comment on the rising heat and carries the conversation on. Watch him for your daily dose of laughter or a little more than that.


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text: I grew accustomed to seeing dogs speeding along the road with soda cans tied to their tails. Or the daily incident in which four dogs were intertwined with one another post intimacy. The four remained stuck to each other like the cartoon "Cat Dog" as more dogs would attempt to join in. This was typically followed by numerous voices shouting "dale dale" to the pack of conjoined dogs attempting to scare them away. A lack of television lead to frequent afternoons on the porch outside of my casa watching these street dog escapades. One afternoon I saw a smaller honey coated puppy trailing behind two men. Initially I assumed this dog belonged to them, but she quickly reversed and headed in my direction. She stopped herself near a garbage bag outside of the casa next to mine. I ran to greet the puppy and quickly noticed her many scabs. In addition to her scabby skin her body was covered in dirt and she smelled of urine. I immediately picked her up and thought to take her to another casa in order to bathe her as my casa mother was nearby. I placed her under my shirt and frantically knocked on the door to Julia and Ally's room. As soon as they opened the door I presented the puppy to them and squeals of excitement reverberated across the house. We bathed, fed and snuck her into my room to nap with her. In spending two days with her it was hard not to fall in love with the sweet puppy. We eventually named her Barnie short for Barnacles. I carried her with me to the wifi park and used my wifi cards to research the process of taking dogs back into the U.S. It proved to be very difficult, expensive and time consuming. However I couldn't bear the thought of giving her back to the streets of Playa Larga. Unsure what to do with my newfound friend, I thought of the new friends we made in the neighboring town of Pálpite. The students at Korimakao were kind, loving and compassionate and I hoped they would provide Barnie with a new home. We called some of our friends and met them in Playa Larga. I held Barnie and introduced her to the boys. We immediately asked if they would consider taking her in and without hesitation they agreed. At the end of the night they would take her back with them and provide her with a new home. A wave of relief struck the group and we grabbed the boys hugging each one closely.


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The 2015 Winter NAMM is now in the books and I believe I can say without pause, that this might very well be one of the best shows I have attended. As I am sure there are artists blogs, A/R blogs and company blogs spread around the internet touting the latest wares and artists to pull the listener…and in NAMM's case (and more importantly) the buyer's eyes to a particular stage or product. In a way, the writer's blog is no different, all I know…is what I saw, felt and experienced.
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Pittsburgh native (and acapella mainstay) Mike Why's EP "Run My Mouth" was released with six well-arranged and diverse tracks that showcase the width and depth of Why's talents both in the studio behind the mic and the console. It is obvious Why has spent years honing his crafts in the acapella circuit and found an audience coast to coast and has since set out as a solo artist that makes a very strong statement with his first solo album, 'Run My Mouth.'
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