text: Lifestyle 'Can't believe you are gone' Jeff Koinange mourns his elder brother – Photos Published 2 weeks ago on September 14, 2020 By KSN Reporter FacebookTweetPin Media personality Jeff Koinange is in mourning after his elder brother Waiganjo Mbiyu passed away in a road accident. Taking to his social media platform to pay tribute to his brother Jeff penned 'Still trying to.come to terms with the fact that you are no longer with us, my Big Brother and My Friend. Yours was a Gentle Soul with a Heart of Gold! You will be Sorely Missed and this Pain will NOT go away anytime soon! We Loved you BUT God Loved you More, Father Abraham! #RIPDavidWaiganjoMbiyu#TillWeMeetAgain According to sources, Mbiyu, who is son to the late Mbiyu Koinange passed away in a road accident after his car rolled on the Mau-Narok road several times. Waiganjo was driving to his farm in Mau-Narok from Nakuru town, when the fatal incident occurred Waiganjo Mbiyu,Jeff Koinange's brother. Waiganjo Mbiyu,Jeff Koinange's brother. Waiganjo Mbiyu,Jeff Koinange's brother. Waiganjo Mbiyu,Jeff Koinange's brother. Waiganjo was one of the ten kids sired by the late former Minister and his two wives. He was sired by Koinange's second wife Ruth Mbiyu. May he rest in peace and may his family find peace during this tough moment. By Mpasho.co.ke Post Views: 372 FacebookTweetPinREAD ALSO: MUST WATCH VIDEO: Lee Njiru reveals tightly guarded details about Moi, Jomo Kenyatta Related Topics:JEFF kOINANGEWaiganjo Mbiyu Up Next PHOTOS:Daughter to the late MP Karisa Maitha holds lavish wedding – Photos Don't Miss How camp in the limelight for blocking wildebeests was approved You may like Premonition? Waiganjo Mbiyu's haunting thoughts about dying VIDEO: Jeff Koinange makes a surprise appearance on Rwanda TV as co-anchor Click to comment Leave a Reply Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Website Lifestyle Help me find my child, desolate father pleads over missing daughter Published 9 hours ago on September 27, 2020 By KSN Reporter FacebookTweetPin Joseph Koko clings tenderly onto the bittersweet birthday message his 13-year-old daughter Monicah Atieno, wrote him a few months ago. "My dad is the best man in the world. My dad is the best father one could have. He brings joy to those who are sad and inside him is full of love," reads the heart-rending message Atieno wrote to her father. The young Atieno has been missing since August 6 but Koko believes she is still alive. Everyday he prays and hopes for his daughter's safe return. The seven weeks since Atieno vanished have been nothing short of hell."I am not at peace. I feel like my daughter is looking for a way to get in touch with me. Life has become meaningless. I have lost my appetite for food and pleasures of life. When I remember that my daughter might be locked up in a basement, sad and alone, it breaks my heart," Koko says. Koko says that Atieno disappeared on August 6 this year in Nairobi's Central Business District. On the material day, Koko and his daughter were to travel back to Mombasa County after President Uhuru Kenyatta had lifted the ban on travel outside Nairobi. Even though Koko stays in Mombasa and Atieno schools at Gates Academy in Homa Bay County, the pair found themselves stuck in Nairobi when President Kenyatta imposed a ban on movement, in March. READ ALSO: FULL INTERVIEW: Waiguru says this when asked of the last time she spoke to Uhuru"When schools closed in March, I asked some of my relatives to pick Monicah from school but they didn't have time so I went for her myself. I also had some business to do in Nairobi. Before we could travel back to Mombasa, the partial lockdown came into force and we were stuck," a pensive Koko says. When that happened, Koko explains that they were hosted by a friend. However, in August, when the ban on travel was lifted, Koko decided to travel back home with Atieno. Before travelling, he took the daughter to her uncle's home in Umoja 3 so she could spend time with her mother who lives nearby. Koko and Atieno's mother separated when she was young but he felt it was good if the two spent some time together while in Nairobi. A picture of the missing Monica Atieno. When Atieno's mother failed to turn up after three days, Koko went to pick his daughter. That morning, they traveled from Umoja to Nairobi's CBD to make travel arrangements. On that day, August 6, father and daughter went to a cyber café in Nacico Chambers, where he left her in the company of a friend as he went to make travel arrangements. "After leaving, my daughter followed me. I told her to go back and bring my bag. I then instructed her to return to the cyber cafe and wait for me," Koko recollects. READ ALSO: VIDEO: 'Wazungu' wa Kenya appear on Jeff Koinange LiveHe then went to a cyber café with better internet speeds to book bus tickets online. When he was done, less than an hour later, he returned to the other cyber café, and was shocked not to find Atieno. "I returned less than hour later and was told she followed me. I told them it can't be because my daughter always follows my instructions. "I concluded that she probably went back where we were staying because the cyber cafe was full of people," Koko says. After failing to find her, Koko went to preach outside the Kenya National Archives, hoping her daughter would be back soon. But when he went back to the cyber café and she was not back, he sensed something was amiss. Troubled, he went back to Umoja to check if the girl was there. But she was not. It is then that it hit him that the girl was missing. On August 7, Koko made a report at the Central Police Station in Nairobi. The matter was recorded under OB number 102/07/08/2020. However, he says the police have been of little help, as they keep referring him to different departments without any progress. When contacted, the Central Police Station OCDP Mark Wanjala told The Standard that the detectives at the department had reviewed CCTV footage and interviewed several parties including the missing girl's parents and the people at the cyber but were yet to get any leads. READ ALSO: VIDEO: Jeff Koinange makes a surprise appearance on Rwanda TV as co-anchorHowever, Wanjala said the police are looking at the possibility that the girl is with a close relative. But Koko strongly believes his daughter may have been kidnapped. What makes him even more suspicious, is that Monicah had made strange reports of people following her. "Monicah told me men in caps were monitoring her movements. We used to stay in Riruta Satellite then. "She was studying at Bridge International but transferred to Riruta Satellite. I opted to be walking her to school, but when I moved to Mombasa in 2019, I enrolled her at Gates Academy, a boarding school in Homa Bay County," Koko says. He says that Atieno may have been kidnapped, probably by the people who were trailing her. With nowhere to turn, he opted to circulate information about Monicah's disappearance on social media, but that too has not yielded any results. Broken, he is now counting on Kenyans to help him locate his dear Monicah. by Standardmedia.co.ke Post Views: 51 FacebookTweetPin Continue Reading Lifestyle How nuns wrested key hospital from US priest Published 11 hours ago on September 27, 2020 By KSN Reporter FacebookTweetPin A ten-year battle over control of multi-billion shilling St Mary's Mission Hospital between a US priest and nuns ended on Friday after the Court of Appeal ruled in the sisters' favour. The court ordered that the property in Nakuru and Nairobi be transferred to a limited liability company — St. Mary's Mission Hospital Nairobi — that is directly linked to the Nuns. The judges in a 65-page judgment, noted that the company would eventually endow, maintain and manage the hospitals. They noted that the absolute ownership of the hospitals would be eventually vested in the company. The court directed that Dr William Charles Fryda and the sisters jointly oversee the handover of the hospitals from the sisters to the company and ensure that it is fully vested with the ownership and management of the same. Surprisingly, the subscribers and directors of the company are members of the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi (ASN). The judgment was made by Justices Asike Makhandia, Kathurima M'Inoti and Agnes Murgor. The appeal by Fryda concerned the legal ownership, control and management of St Mary's Mission Hospital Langata founded in 1999 and St Mary's Mission Hospital Elementaita that was opened in 2007. The priest appealed against a decision by Justice Sila Munyao of Environment and Lands Court in Nakuru. READ ALSO: Hilarious Video: "Jeff" asks "Miguna" whether he has "Sanitized"In the judgement, Justice Munyao said the properties were not held by the sisters in trust for Fryda and ordered that it be transferred to the company. Fryda, a medical doctor and a citizen of the United States of America filed a suit against ASN and St Mary's Mission Hospital Nairobi in 2010. He claimed that in 1998 he sought for land in Nairobi specifically to put up a hospital to cater for the poor. He ended up buying St Mary's Langata at Sh38 million. Transfer the property To actualise his vision, he paid for the incorporation and registration of St Mary's Mission Hospital Nairobi as a limited liability company. However, since the company was yet to be registered when he bought it, he agreed with ASN, that the title deed be registered in their name with the understanding that the nuns would later transfer the property to a body he was to register. The priest said he started development of the property with his money and that from friends and donors. He said he spent Sh553 million on the project. Later in Elementaita, he spent Sh365 million. Back then, Dr Fryda worked at Nazareth Hospital in Limuru before stepping down in 1995 to put up a new mission hospital. READ ALSO: MUST WATCH VIDEO: Lee Njiru reveals tightly guarded details about Moi, Jomo KenyattaAccording to him, in 1997, some land became available and he was in talks with donors for two years about his hospital vision. Then, he had not created a legal entity under which the land could be registered. Since he was not a Kenyan citizen, he did not wish to buy the land in his name. He therefore, asked Sister Maria Felix Mwikali of ASN to register the land under ASN on the understanding they would hand over the property to the company he intended to form once registered. From his mission, he said he wrote a cheque of Sh5 million in the name of ASN being a deposit for the land on December 11, 1997. He later learnt that the land would be held in the name of the Catholic Church which he was not agreeable to. He thus asked ASN to refund the money which was done in October 1998. In mid-1998 he bought 10-acre land in Langata at Sh1.8 million an acre. He later acquired another parcel of land at the same place. ASN on their part said the hospitals were as a result of a collaborative meeting between them and Maryknoll Fathers and brothers which Dr Fryda was linked to. It was agreed that ASN would be legal owners of the hospitals. They denied that Fryda paid for the properties alone. READ ALSO: Vicky: Here are my Covid resultsThey further said ASN was solely responsible for the formation and incorporation of the company. ASN through Sister Marie Gacambi denied claims that they held property in trust for Dr Fryda. Gacambi said they contributed to the projects by acquiring, constructing and maintaining them from their own resources. She said ASN together with Fryda, developed the Hospital Management Procedures. With regard to the developments on the parcels of land she said Fryda played the role of Chief Executive Officer. Fully trusted From the evidence, the Judges said it cannot be disputed that at the beginning of 1997 Fryda and ASN fully trusted each other. The relationship they noted was founded on a common purpose to establish a hospital that would provide quality health care for the poor. To date it was unclear what caused the misunderstandings. "But to us it was all about egos, high handedness and not control by both parties. What is clear though is that the relationship between the appellant (Fryda) broke down irretrievably and led to this litigation," stated the judges. by Standardmedia.co.ke Post Views: 99 FacebookTweetPin Continue Reading Lifestyle Lover's dashed dreams and mystery last moments with Keroche heiress Published 14 hours ago on September 27, 2020 By KSN Reporter FacebookTweetPin Today, the Sunday Standard continues the story of a tragic romance between Omar Lali and Tecra Karanja which changed forever after her fall in a house. By the time Keroche heiress Tecra Karanja and her lover Omar Lali got to Mombasa, the two were done with bus rides. Tecra called a close friend who sent her some money and the rest of the journey was completed by air. Back home though, her family was not at peace and tried to reach Tecra, just to know if she was okay. But when she wanted, Tecra could be stubborn. And single-minded. And could shut you out of her life and ghost you until she felt in a safe enough space to engage. It was close to a month before she answered the phone calls from home that sought to know how she was doing. Eventually, it was agreed that a close relative would fly down to Lamu to find out how life on the island was treating her. After that visit, a verdict would be reached. Tecra was doing fine, and was showing no indications that she would leave the island, at least not any time soon. Tecra would later reconnect with her family, and crucially, got introduced, formally, to the man who had won her heart. This sort of legitimisation of the relationship took a huge weight off their shoulders and soon, the two were thinking of a future. A family. And everything in between. But, again, there always looked to be one more huddle in their journey. This time, the hurdle proved insurmountable. The first time the two talked of a life together, they were at the Holy Trinity Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The church, that is more like a cathedral is commonly referred to as Kidist Sellasie and represents most of the things that Ethiopians hold dear and sacred. The church compound is the burial place for those who fought against the Italian occupation and those who accompanied the Emperor into exile from 1936 to 1941. The Emperor Haille Sellasie and his wife the Empress Menen Asfaw are buried to the North of the cathedral. It is around this rich history that the two first joked about the idea of marriage, and without any ceremony or fanfare agreed to marry each other. Deep down though, Omar knew he had to make a proper proposal. So he bid his time. From Addis, they went to Tanzania, then to Zanzibar. Marriage proposal The next time they were in Kenya, he went down on bended knee and asked for Tecra's hand in marriage – properly this time. "She said yes," he says. The photo they took on that day captures the range of emotions running through both man and woman. Omar goes down on his knee. He asks the question. Tecra moves back as if shocked by the question. Then says yes and jumps on Omar. All that they needed to settle on was a date. And they did. May 30 looked promising. Only their closest friends would be invited. Plus, family. But before then, Tecra had to get immersed into the role of wife that she would play in coming months. So she started taking cooking lessons from Omar's sister and mother. You'd find her, clad in a dera, head wrapped to cover her hair, making Friday biryani. Then the two flew out to check the progress on the developing business in Naivasha – the rustic restaurant and campsite. But it is while they were there that Omar's youngest daughter came to visit from the Netherlands. "I flew back home to be with my child. A few days later she joined me," he says. Then the lockdown happened. On March 25, the Kenyan airspace was shut down. A week later, movement into Nairobi by road was also stopped. Omar and Tecra found themselves locked on the island. Now the rainy season in the sparsely populated Manda Island that the two had made a home in is far away from the bright pictures in tourism brochures. For islanders, rain comes with bugs. Snakes. Mosquitoes and rough tides. So the couple chose to move from Manda, to the more populated Shela, a decision arrived at on April 18. A big part of the day was spent house hunting. "We looked at several houses but she didn't like them," Omar says. Eventually, they made way to a Jaha House, a three storeyed, 4-bedroomed popular holiday rental. They both liked the house, so they settled on it, agreeing on a cost of around Sh9,000 a day, cheaper than the resorts they were living in before that would charge upwards of Sh20,000 a night. Life settled into a routine over the next week. And soon, they had thoughts of having friends over to see what they were up to and scheduled a mixer for April 24. So they went shopping. Bought some alcohol, passion juice and madafu. Then when they got home, on the evening of April 23, Tecra made soup for both of them. READ ALSO: FULL INTERVIEW: Waiguru says this when asked of the last time she spoke to Uhuru"But God had his own plans," Omar says. "I never even got to drink the soup, the last meal she made for me," Omar says. On that night, there were sounds of laughter and joy from Jaha House. "It was as if they were having the best of time," a staff member we spoke to said. "It was as if they were reliving their best memories." A few hours later though, it went quiet, and then the frantic calls for help. "There was some drinking," Omar says. "So I blacked out. This was the first time since we knew each other that I went to sleep before her. I had always made a point of making sure she sleeps before I did." Omar says the next thing he heard was something fall down with a thud. Then a muffled scream. Just once. But loud enough to wake one up. "I was startled. I went down stairs and found her on the staircase. We were alone. She wasn't moving. I thought I lost her on the spot," Omar says. "Then I started mouth to mouth." It was around a quarter past 5am. The resuscitation helped and Tecra regained consciousness. Minutes later, Quswai Lali was startled awake by a call from his elder brother Omar. "He told me to rush to Jaha House and that there had been an emergency," Quswai says. "She (Tecra) was trying to talk but words couldn't come out." Tecra was in great pain and bleeding from the ear. They needed more help. So Omar called his brother-in-law Ali Bakari. "He told me he needed help. I asked him what help he needed. He told me that Tecra had fallen down the stairs," Ali Bakari said. Ali Bakari, who works as a night rescue boat operator for the county government didn't go alone. He called his friends Yahya and Ahmed Ali. When he got to the scene, he says, he saw Omar propping Tecra up and asked if there were any chairs they could use. In a few minutes, the five men dashed out of the house, navigating around the narrow alleys of Shela in search of medical help. Healthcare services in Shela mirror those in many other parts of rural Kenya. They are few and far from ideal. The nearest one to them was Shela Dispensary. They had to make a dash for it. At around 5:45am, the dispensary received a call from Jaha House. There had been an emergency that required a house call. But the staff members on duty that night were caught between a rock and a hard place. There was another ongoing emergency at the facility as well. A pregnant mother was having a complicated delivery. So they told the occupants of Jaha House to try and bring their patient to the dispensary. Some minutes to 6am, three gentlemen rushed into the dispensary. They were carrying a plastic chair. On it sat a woman. Hunched forward. It was Tecra. Dispensary staff declined to speak to us and said they were under instruction to refer all queries to the King Fahd administrator's office, which turned down our requests for interviews on what happened on that day. However, witnesses we spoke to said that at the time she was being admitted, Tecra was in pain. And was a bit incoherent. She couldn't keep calm and looked unsettled. But the doctors who received her were in a dilemma. It proved quite challenging to communicate to either Tecra or Omar. The two were, again from witness accounts, drunk. So she was put under some dextrose to try and counter the effects of what health workers diagnosed as alcohol in her body. This calmed her down. But the attending medical officers noticed something else. She was bleeding from her left ear. And it didn't seem like there was much for them to do. They examined her to determine whether there could be any other sources of the pain but found none. They then decided to refer her to King Fahd Referral Hospital. But before she left, she talked to the medical staff present and, according to witnesses, called someone whom they say was her father. Shela Dispensary isn't unfamiliar to Omar. It is less than 100 metres from Omar's house which is separated from his mother's and brother's by the narrowest of alleys. So when he called his brother and brother-in-law for help, they walked the few steps up a gentle slope to the health facility. Jaha House, where the two spent their days, is less than 200 metres from the dispensary. On that day, everything happened within a 200 metres radius. The trip to King Fahd Referral Hospital was by speed boat. They were there in less than two minutes. By this time, they were joined by one of Omar's sisters, Fadhila. It was now 7am and after being received, Tecra was sent for a scan. "We were told the results would be out in three hours," Omar said. As they waited for the results, Tecra looked like she was recovering. Medical records show that she woke up at least three times from her bed to use the washroom. "At 9am, I called her parents to let them know what was going on," Omar says. "The doctor came it at 10am." READ ALSO: "I do go broke, just like the next person," -Jeff Koinange.By midday, the scan results had not come in. Two hours later, still nothing. By this time, Omar says the doctors were not giving him enough information, and he says, he hardly understood what they were saying. So he made a call to Tecra's mother. "I thought she probably was with a doctor and could be able to interrogate what they were saying. But the doctors refused to talk to her," he says. Specialised treatment It was now 4pm. The doctors at King Fahd were contemplating taking Tecra for more specialised treatment. To Mombasa. Via road. This is when Omar made another call to Tecra's family. They needed to evacuate her. At around 8pm an air rescue plane landed at Magogoni Airstrip located within the American base that had been attacked by Al Shabaab militants in early January. At around 11pm, the air ambulance touched down in Nairobi's Wilson Airport. From there, an ambulance transferred her to the Nairobi Hospital where she was quickly taken for another scan. "We got the results in a few minutes," Omar says. "We were told that the results we got in King Fahd were different from what the Nairobi Hospital ones showed." He adds: "The doctor said that we let her heal naturally. At that time, I felt that everything was going to be okay. So we left the hospital." The trip from Lamu to Nairobi Hospital lasted just over an hour. During the entire time, as Tecra was put on oxygen and on monitors in the airborne hospital ward, Omar was with her. Hoping and willing her to live. All those kilometres away, Tecra's family too was concerned. By this time, there was a little bit of panic within them. Since morning, family member cellphones had been lighting up with updates from the King Fahd. From the first call that Omar made to Tecra's parents to when they left for Nairobi. There was an air of anxiety over what was going on. Omar's explanation was sufficient at the time. After all, Tecra would wake up and let them all know what happened on that April night. But she didn't, and the anxiety grew into something more. It grew into suspicion. The days following Tecra's hospitalisation were strange ones for Omar. After leaving the hospital that night, he retreated into her family home in Nairobi's Runda Estate. The next day, he was chauffeured by a driver, who was well known to him, to the Nairobi Hospital to visit Tecra. She was recovering. All indications were that she would pull through. But things would quickly take a dramatic turn. A report at the Kilimani Police Station, OB No.87/27/4/2020 made by Tecra's mother, Tabitha, detailed the events that led to her daughter's hospitalisation – from the fall to the evacuation. The statement was in support of a murder charge that had been initiated by the Lamu West DCI office. "Three days later, I called to ask whether I can go to the hospital to see Tecra but I was told that there was no need. The doctors had said she was getting better," he says. He later learnt that plans were being made to get him back to Lamu. He was required to send back a few personal items. On May 1, Omar, a driver and an individual who was acting as a bodyguard left for Lamu by road. By the time the travellers got to Mtito Andei, a town some 240 kilometres south east of Nairobi, Tecra's mother called Omar. "I could tell she was distressed. She asked me what I had done to her daughter," he says. "It was all confusing, but we went on with the journey." The trio got to Mokowe, on Lamu's mainland on Saturday May 2, took a boat to Shela where the two other gentlemen took Tecra's belongings. Omar went to see his mother in Shela. After the visit, he was arrested and taken to Lamu Central Police Station. The station is placed on one of the highest points of the island, and as Omar walked up the steep hill and into a cell, he didn't know it would be close to a month before he descended that hill again a free man. The two-day journey had got to him. He was tired, so he left his phone at the OB desk and went into the cell. On May 3, he woke up and went to check on his phone. His mailbox was flooded with condolence messages and missed calls, many of them from his eldest daughter. So he called her back. "She told me Tecra had died," Omar says. "My heart sunk." A week after the death of Tecra, a team of investigators was dispatched from Nairobi. Lamu is set up in such a way that no matter how good a detective you are, you cannot sneak ashore. The boat captains will tell each other about you and before you check into your hotel, almost all the villages will know of your presence, and most importantly of your mission. READ ALSO: Collymore continues to inspire many, one year after his deathThis was no different for the eight officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations that landed at Manda Island, and then proceeded, by speed boat, to Shela village. The men spent the next five days asking questions, visiting different scenes and trying to piece together events on the night of April 23. By the time they left, even village elders knew that the team of eight was split right in the middle. Four were acting for the state. Four were on the island at the request of Tecra' family to possibly dig up the truth and bring some sort of closure. Closure though, for all involved seemed distant. The trial of Omar for murder began on July 16 the way his lover's life ended. In uncertainty. Weeks after being granted bail by a Lamu court, Omar was taken to a Garsen court staring at a murder charge. Two days before he was taken to court, the office of the Director of Public Prosecution in Lamu received what looked like new evidence in the case that, in their own words 'was sufficient to prefer a murder' charge on the 51-year-old. That was on Friday of July 10. No charge There had been no charge yet. Just investigations. There were of foul play in Tecra's death. But nothing more than that. After spending weeks in remand while investigations went on, Omar remained certain that a murder charge was not on the cards. Court proceedings were supposed to start at 10am. At 2pm, it still hadn't started. Then, in the sweltering heat of Garsen Law courts, where the case had been moved to from Lamu law courts where he had been charged initially, the magistrate walked in at around 3:30pm and started the proceedings. It seems it was too early to determine whether there was a murder case. And in a complete turn of events, public prosecutor Eddie Kadebe announced to the courts that his office had opted to take another direction. "The other side was represented by lawyers James Orengo and others but they are not here. We will first withdraw the murder charges and take the direction of an inquest," said Kadebe. Omar collapsed in a heap, thinking that perhaps vindication was coming his way since barely two days earlier, the same court had allowed Kadebe to prefer murder charges against Omar after months of investigations, saying detectives had gathered enough evidence to charge him with Tecra's murder. Kadebe had earlier said the toxicological evidence, postmortem reports, phone records including documentary exhibits and witness statements proved that Omar was behind the murder of Tecra. Even as the case was sent for an inquest, crucial elements could still not be agreed upon. First, an investigations report by the Lamu West Directorate of Criminal Investigations paint Omar with a different shade of paint. "Investigations reveal that during the 10-month relationship between the two, Omar exhibited weird personal traits of aggressiveness, possessiveness and was jealous. He physically engaged in fights and confrontations with any person whom he suspected or thought was a threat by coming into social contact with the deceased," the report reads. It mentions one particular incident when Omar physically fought a reveler at a bar in Lamu. Omar says that the reveler had touched Tecra inappropriately. Some witnesses who spoke to the authorities also said that Omar kept Tecra away from some of her friends. He says that the only friends he kept off Tecra were those who were introducing 'bad habits' to her. An autopsy report, which ought to have provided some definitive information remains divisive to date. The postmortem conducted on May 12, 2020, indicated the deceased succumbed to head injuries occasioned by blunt trauma. The pathologists from both Omar's side and Tecra's family could not rule out the fact that the trauma could have been caused by Omar's hand. Neither could they rule out the fact that it could have been caused by a fall. At the end, Tecra's death could either be a near perfect crime, or an unfortunate incident. Eventually, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions dismissed the murder charges. There wasn't enough evidence to sustain it. His freedom though is far from assured. Once in a while he gets strange calls to his phone. "People call to tell me they will come for my head," he says. "Amid these are people who know me very well because sometimes they even tell me where I am and what I am doing." He says he remains unafraid. 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The Political Economy of Trade and Migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress
Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, Max F. Steinhardt and Maurizio Zanardi August 2018
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We systematically examine the drivers of U.S. congressmen's votes on trade and migration reforms since the 1970's. Standard trade theory suggests that reforms that lower barriers to goods and migrants should have similar distributional effects, hurting low-skilled U.S. workers while benefiting high-skilled workers. In line with this prediction, we find that House members representing more skilled-labor abundant districts are more likely to support both trade and migration liberalization. Still, important differences exist: Democrats favor trade reforms less than Republicans, while the opposite is true for immigration reforms; welfare state considerations and network effects shape support for immigration, but not for trade.
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Five charged with various offences including murder, armed robbery
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Five men are set to face the court on various criminal charges ranging from illegal possession of firearm and ammunition and murder to housebreaking and robbery with aggravation, according to the constabulary's Corporate Communications Unit (CCU).
The men are from the parishes of St James, St Andrew and St Catherine.
One of the accused criminals, 20-year-old Brandon Williams otherwise called 'Messi', of Granville in St James, is charged with the May 2, 2018 murder of Ronald Samuels.
It is reported that 37-year-old Samuels was shot dead along Gordon Crescent, Granville in the parish after returning home from a party.
The St James police have also charged 21-year-old Ashton Danville in connection with the robbery of a business establishment along Market Street in the parish. In the September 07 incident, armed men reportedly held employees at gunpoint and assaulted the proprietor and robbed several items including cash.
The police said Danville, who is of Norwood in the parish, was arrested following weeks of investigation. He is charged with illegal possession of firearm, malicious destruction of property, robbery with aggravation, assault at common law and assault occasioning bodily harm.
Meanwhile, two other men have been charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition and robbery with aggravation. They are 21-year-old Rajoui Smith and 19-year-old Tyreke Roberts both of Spanish Town, St Catherine.
Their arrests stem from a robbery on Molynes Road in Kingston 10 on October 03, about 11:20 am. It is reported that two wielded a gun and robbed a man. They were later caught and searched.
The police said one 9mm pistol along with two rounds of ammunition was found and other properties were recovered.
The fifth accused, 27-year-old Shawn Pennant, is charged in connection with a house robbery last month.
According to the CCU, on September 10, two women were at home when an armed man entered and robbed them of cash and jewellery. Pennant was later apprehended and charged with illegal possession of firearm, housebreaking and robbery with aggravation following an identification parade.
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Amplifying Government: The Role of the News Media in Diplomacy
Katherine Brown is one of the seven 2013 Milton Wolf Emerging Scholar Fellows, an accomplished group of doctoral and advanced MA candidates selected to attend the 2013 Milton Wolf Seminar. Their posts highlight the critical themes and on-going debates raised during the 2013 Seminar discussions.
Between November 1979 and January 1981, a group of Iranian students held 52 American diplomats captive in the U.S. embassy, and other places in Tehran, for 444 days. The Iran Hostage Crisis saturated U.S. evening news coverage, capturing the imaginations of the American public.[i] Television was the medium through which American government officials and the public alike came to know about the issues surrounding the situation and the state of hostages. A spokeswoman for the hostage-takers, Masoumeh Ebtekar, who spoke perfect English, regularly made their case on U.S. broadcast stations. In Iran, the takeover was a popular event in the news media as well; Ayatollah Khomeini said it had "united," the Iranian people.[ii] Patricia Karl wrote in her 1982 analysis of the crisis: "The media are increasingly a part of the process (if not the entire process) in the communications between governments and publics about international politics."[iii] In international politics, the news media provides the channel for global understanding, and misunderstanding.
This is certainly true today in a transnational, digital media landscape. Governments can share information through traditional diplomatic means, but nations' news systems are universal and can reach both governments and citizens. News can shape local and foreign opinions and therefore become part of the dynamics that affect the conduct of international relations. This is especially the case for U.S. journalists' reportage and editorials, which are regularly consumed by American government officials and the U.S. public – but also by foreign government officials and journalists who want to understand and/or anticipate U.S. official action and thought.
We discussed such issues at the Milton Wolf Seminar on "Diplomatic Maneuvers and Journalistic Coverage in a Time of Reset, Pivot and Rebalance," held in Vienna in mid-April 2013. It was a three-day event that brought together diplomats, journalists and scholars to discuss how we make sense of current geopolitical pivots in global diplomacy, specifically Iran's enduring nuclear question, Myanmar's shaky movement toward liberalization, and Syria's non-stop bloodshed.
A recurring theme of our discussion was hegemony: Does anyone have the ability to endow an issue or event with meaning, and then create a popular, universal consensus that the proscribed meaning is correct?[iv] Can anyone craft and legitimize a narrative about the consequential events in these three countries?
What we determined, I believe, is that there is no global narrative on global politics. Narratives about international events and issues fragment along national lines.
Within the realm of international politics, the United States has considerable material (military and economic) hegemony. Within the United States, the American government also wields overwhelming power in shaping narratives about international issues and events for the elite U.S. news media. The image that U.S. journalists craft about America's role in the world is largely based on what American officials tell them.[v] While U.S. officials regularly establish the salience of a foreign issue for the governmental agenda,[vi] journalists regularly turn to official sources for information.[vii] These journalists rarely challenge the consensus between executive officials and legislators (when one exists) on foreign policy issues, especially during the policy formation stage.[viii]
W. Lance Bennett called this ritual reliance on government officials for source material "indexing." U.S. news, he said, is indexed implicitly to the "range and dynamics of governmental debate;" indexing is particularly pronounced in regards to military, diplomacy, trade and macroeconomic policy coverage, issues that have a larger, global effect and which the public may not know much about without the media's guidance.[ix] Journalists tend to deem few sources outside of the executive branch—i.e., the legislative branch, academia, and think tanks—as credible on international relations. This dramatically shrinks the voices commenting on international issues within the press, and grants a minority incredible hegemony over shaping the narratives that echo throughout American news. American elite journalists tend to gravitate toward political controversy in elections and legislative debates. Tension between the American executive and legislative branches about a foreign issue gives that issue a valid space in U.S. news. Once there is consensus on that issue, however, it disappears from the news agenda.[x]
Deferential journalism on U.S. foreign policy is the norm in Washington. This is especially the case during a time of crisis. When it came to U.S. news breaking on Abu Ghraib in spring 2004, for instance, Bennett, Regina Lawrence and Steven Livingston found that "event-driven news reporting, particularly in matters of high foreign policy consequence, is seriously constrained by mainstream news organizations' deference to political power."[xi] In their analysis of media coverage of 35 U.S. foreign policy crises between 1945 and 1991, John Zaller and Dennis Chiu found that the press rarely strayed from government views and often helped to bolster official policy.[xii] Similarly, Piers Robinson's review of U.S press-state relations found that the U.S. press has consistently supported the U.S. government during times of war, most notably the Vietnam War, the 1991 Gulf War and U.S. actions in Somalia in 1992.[xiii]
Over the last year, Iran, Myanmar and Syria have been the recurring subject of foreign news stories in the U.S. news media. These countries tell devastating tales of conflict and human drama.[xiv] The U.S. press mostly ignores the developing world unless there is a disaster, war or other atrocity that shocks the world. U.S. journalists tend to, according to media sociologist Herbert Gans, make "explicit value judgments [in foreign news] that would not be considered justifiable in domestic news."[xv] News of international events is normally focused on events or issues that violate U.S. or western norms—or on how it involves the United States, especially if there are U.S. troops deployed in the country.[xvi]While no U.S. troops are stationed in these three countries, U.S. foreign policies toward Iran, Syria and, to a lesser extent, Myanmar, have ignited controversy between the executive and legislative branches, and during the 2012 elections.
During the 2012 American election season, Iran was a recurring topic. Governor Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, largely agreed with President Barack Obama that it was unacceptable for Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon; although the two insisted there was a difference in their policies on what U.S. should do to stop Iran from acquiring one. When it comes to Syria, current news discourse is focused on a "red line" that Obama established in an August 2012 news conference: If the Bashar al-Assad's regime were to use chemical weapons against its people, then the U.S. would take more aggressive action to intervene in the conflict. Following the administration's April report to Congress documenting evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria, Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, repeatedly cited Obama's 2012 statement as grounds for action. Myanmar was a surprise focus for the Obama administration's second term; in November 2012 Obama was the first U.S. president to ever travel to the country. According to the administration's framing, Myanmar's moves toward liberalization had to be acknowledged and encouraged by the American president. Obama's visit was also tied to the administration's so-called "Pivot to Asia," a central foreign policy priority to strategically "re-balance" U.S. interests from Europe and the Middle East to Asia.
For U.S. journalists, events inside Iran, Myanmar and Syria violate or shock U.S. norms and values. These countries' issues can affect American national interests and be indexed to debate in Washington. For the sake of their American readers, American journalists put the U.S. at the center of the world.[xvii] They often position the U.S. as the international community's sole superpower, prepared to respond militarily to any threat against U.S. national security or the American way of life, or even on behalf of what are deemed to be larger "civilizational" or humanitarian values.[xviii]
How does this U.S. government-influenced news narrative then cascade not just throughout America, but throughout the world? Does it have hegemony in global news? In one way it does. Since the 1970s New World Information Communication Order (NWICO) movement within UNESCO that culminated in 1980 with the publication of the MacBride Report, the developing world has vocally complained about on the imbalance between Western and non-Western new flows. Many countries have to rely on Western newswires, radio services and elite newspapers for information. I argue, however, that the U.S.'s narrative-setting power is limited among global publics– especially in countries where U.S. foreign policy has a serious impact.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan, where I've conducted research on American media hegemony since 2010, a large majority of Afghan and Pakistani journalists assume that their American peers are advocates for U.S. government foreign policy. They regularly identify the concepts of indexing and ethnocentrism in U.S. news and resent how U.S. journalists choose to frame their countries' stories. The U.S. journalists who report from these two countries are hardly advocates for U.S. foreign policy goals; they play watchdogs on issues regarding American tax dollars and military power when they can. But they cover the world in an effort to keep the U.S. government accountable to Americans, not to global citizens. They protect concrete national interests, not ill-defined global ones.
Narratives can shape the structures of global diplomacy. They are part of the communication between governments and publics about the events, or pivots, in foreign affairs. But even in a liberal society like the United States, the government has remarkable hegemony over how U.S. news about the world is written. American government officials drive an American narrative and worldview; U.S. journalists rarely change its course. In this way, U.S. news regularly reasserts American hegemony in the world. As it did during those 444 days, Americans normally become acquainted with the world when a crisis merits it, and puts American protagonists – whether they be diplomats, troops or everyday citizens – at the center.
If the United States experience is any example, the role that journalists play in diplomacy is to amplify the views and the power of the nation for which they write.
About the Author
Katherine Brown is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communications at Columbia University and an Instructor at their School of International and Public Affairs. Her research examines the interplay of news media and international relations, and public diplomacy policy. Professionally, Katherine's served on the editorial staff for Bloomberg News; as a Professional Staff Member at the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the U.S. House of Representatives; as a Communications Adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul; and as an assistant to the U.S. National Security Adviser. She has an M.A. and M.Phil. in Communications from Columbia.
About the Milton Wolf Seminar
Co-hosted by the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, the American Austrian Foundation, and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, the annual Milton Wolf Seminar tackles contemporary issues at the nexus of diplomacy and journalism – both broadly defined. The 2013 Seminar, "Diplomatic Maneuvers and Journalistic Coverage in a Time of Reset, Pivot and Rebalance" explored the critical role of diplomats and journalists in shaping the outcomes of what we call global geopolitical pivots. Pivots in this case refer to emergent geopolitical shifts around which multiple stakeholders – from major powers, to multilateral organizations, to bloggers working in isolation – seek to provide input on the most appropriate outcomes. Examples of contemporary global pivots considered at the 2013 Seminar included: the ultimate resolution of the Arab Spring countries, the shifts in geopolitical approaches to Syria, calls for regime change in Iran, and the intense Western attention to reform movements and government change in Burma (Myanmar). A diverse range of academics, policy makers, and diplomats participated in the two days of presentations and discussions. A full list of panelists is available here.
For more information about past and upcoming Milton Wolf Seminars and future Emerging Scholar initiatives, please contact: Amelia Arsenault.
[i] In addition to network news routinely covering the crisis each night, "America Held Hostage" was an ABC evening news program, hosted by Ted Koppel, from 1979 to 1980, which dealt exclusively with the event. The series later became "Nightline." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167519/
[ii] Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press), 2006.
[iii] Patricia A. Karl, "Media Diplomacy," Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Vol. 34 No. 4, (1982): 143-152.
[iv] See: Todd Gitlin, The Whole World is Watching, (Los Angeles: University of California Press), 1980; Antonio Gramsci said hegemony was the "penetration of ideology (ideas and assumptions) into their common sense and everyday practice; it is the systematic (but not necessarily or even usually deliberate) engineering of mass consent to the established order."
[v] Philio, Wasburn, The Social Construction of International News: We're Talking about Them, They're Talking about Us (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers), 2002: 163.
[vi] A governmental agenda here is defined by John W. Kingdon, "the list of subjects or problems to which government officials, and people outside of government closely associated with those officials, are paying some serious attention at any given time." John W Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies. (Boston: Little, Brown), 1984: 3.
[vii] Leon V. Sigal, Reporters and Officials: The Organization and Politics of Newsmaking, (Lexington, Mass: D. C. Heath), 1973; Tim Cook, Governing with the News, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 1996.
[viii] See also: Gitlin, 1980; Daniel Hallin, The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam. (Berkeley: University of California Press), 1989; N.O. Berry, Foreign Policy and the Press: An Analysis of The New York Times' Coverage of U.S. Foreign Policy, (New York: Greenwood Press), 1996; William A. Dorman and Mansour Farhang, The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference, (London: University of California Press), 1987. For more on the function of American news in U.S. foreign policy see: W. Lance Bennett, "Toward a Theory of Press-State Relations in the United States," Journal of Communication, Vol. 40 (1990): 103-125; Eytan Gilboa, "Global Communication and Foreign Policy," International Communication Association, 2002; Ole Holsti, Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), 2004; M. Linsky, Impact: How the Press Affects Federal Policymaking (New York: W.W. Norton & Company,) 1986; Chanan Naveh, "The Role of the Media in Foreign Policy Decision-Making: A Theoretical Framework," Conflict & Communication Online, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2002); David L. Paletz and Robert Entman, Media, Power, and Politics, (New York: Free Press), 1991; David L Paletz, The Media in American Politics, (New York: Longman), 2002; James Reston, The Artillery of the Press: Its Influence on American Foreign Policy (New York: Harper & Row), 1966; Piers Robinson, The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention, (London: Routledge), 2002; Richard Sobel, The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam, (New York: Oxford University Press), 2001.
[ix] Bennett, 1990.
[x] See Hallin, 1989: 116-117.
[xi] W. Lance Bennett, Regina Lawrence, and Steven Livingston, "None Dare Call It Torture: Indexing and the Limits of Press Independence in the Abu Ghraib Scandal," Journal of Communication, Vol. 56, No. 3, September 2006; 107.
[xii] John Zaller and Dennis Chiu, "Government's Little Helper: U.S. Press Coverage of Foreign Policy Crises, 1945-1991," Political Communication, Vol. 13, No. 2, (1996): 385-405; This is also a typical refrain in Noam Chomsky's work; news framing normally reflects the interests of the government and dominant ideology of the nation where the news agency is based. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media, (New York: Random House), 1988.
[xiii] Piers Robinson, "Researching U.S. Media-State Relations and Twenty-First Century Wars." In Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime, Eds. Allan, Stuart and Barbie Zelizer, (Oxford: Routledge), 2004.
[xiv] Herbet Gans, Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time (Chicago: Northwestern University Press), 2004:31
[xv] Ibid.
[xvi] See: Chang and Nancy Bredlinger, 1987; Zixue Tai, "Media of the World and World of the Media: A Cross-National Study of the Rankings of the 'Top 10 World Events' from 1988 to 1998," Gazette, Vol. 62, No. 5 (October 2000): 331-353.
[xvii] Gans, 2004; 42
[xviii] Wasburn, 2002; 154


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A Simple Favor Review 7.5/10
A Simple Favor starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively is a surprisingly enticing thriller powered by the compelling performances of both stars. Dire Paul Feig had all of the elements to make a great thriller but just fell slightly short on the thrill part. The story is about Anna Kendrick's 'Stephanie Smothers' a stay at home mother who just can't seem to get enough of volunteering. Whether it's volunteering her time at her son's elementary school or her efforts on her vlog for other mothers she just can't stop helping people. She meets 'Blake Lively's' mysterious 'Emily Nelson', through their sons at school and strike up a budding friendship rather quickly. The story takes a turn when Emily asks Stephanie "A Simple Favor" to pick up her son but then seemingly goes missing and Stephanie's life is changed. The film then goes on a roller coaster of twists and turns keeping the viewer on edge. This was an extremely enjoyable film that I just wish pushed the boundaries of the actual thrills a little more, but still a great watch.
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KB Securities acquires $140 mn Facebook-leased Dublin building
KB Securities Co. Ltd., a unit of a top South Korean banking group, has bought a building used as Facebook Inc.'s second Dublin office for around 150 billion won ($140 million), in the first property investment in Ireland by a South Korean financial institution.
The securities firm committed 70 billion won to a fund of LB Investment, a South Korean asset manager and borrowed 80 billion won in a secured loan to close the acquisition on May 29, according to investment banking sources on May 30.
It bought the property from the Comer Group, a London-based property developer, which reportedly spent €5 million on the purchase in 2013 and poured an additional money to renovate the then vacant space.
KB Securities is believed to resell the equity interests in the Beckett building to other South Korean institutional investors, but no further details were available immediately.
The target IRR was 8-9%, domestic news outlet MoneyToday said in February when LB Investment was picked as a preferred buyer of the property.
Facebook has been using the six-story building since last year on a 15-year lease, according to the sources.
Completed in 2008, the property is located in the north Dublin docklands and has a floor space of 17,566 square meters.
A number of Silicon Valley tech companies lease offices near the Beckett building in the City Center of Dublin, pointing to the strength in the Dublin property market.
"Not only Facebook, but also Google and Apple have their European head offices in Ireland which gives a range of benefits to foreign companies to promote their investment," said one of the IB sources. "Its office building market is attracting attention."
The transaction was advised by London-based Knight Frank Investment Management and Helaba, a German bank, provided acquisition finance, CoStar, a property data company, said in a recent report.
KB Securities, with an equity capital of 4.2 trillion won as at end-March, is considering buying additional commercial properties in Europe and Japan.
Last year, it teamed up with domestic brokerage companies to snap up two logistics centers leased to British supermarket chain Sainsbury's and BAE Systems, a British defence and aerospace company, for 167 billion won and around 100 billion won respectively.
To expand global business, KB Securities is now seeking to buy an Indonesian brokerage firm after acquiring a brokerage company in Vietnam in January.
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BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Spectrus Real Estate Group today confirmed it will voluntarily not initiate any new offerings of its tenants-in-common income-producing real estate through the real estate channel and will focus on growing its single-buyer net lease and other business. Since its inception in 2003, Spectrus has been selling tenants-in-common real estate through a real estate subsidiary, FOR1031.
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The tenants-in-common industry is changing and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is currently considering whether sales of tenants-in-common real estate on a securities platform can include appropriate compensation for real estate agents. Following discussions with the staff of the SEC specific to Spectrus, and in light of potential industry changes, Spectrus has revised the scope of FOR 1031's business. Until it has received further judicial or regulatory clarification, any new offerings of real estate by Spectrus and FOR 1031 will focus solely on aspects of its business related to:
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Spectrus' recent discussions with the SEC staff, as well as its voluntary changes, result from a previously announced SEC administrative inquiry directed to FOR 1031 in 2005 regarding tenants-in-common income-producing real estate sales.
Gary Bringhurst, President and CEO of Spectrus confirmed today's action with this statement, "We acknowledge the SEC staff's stance on this matter, and will not initiate any new offerings of tenants-in-common income-producing real estate through the real estate channel. Clearly, the industry is changing and we will continue to monitor the changes, as the SEC staff gives consideration to whether sales on a securities platform can include appropriate compensation for real estate professionals."
Bringhurst went on to say, "Our initiative to diversify our business two years ago is paying off today. We have built a significant single-buyer net lease business and will focus on continued growth in that and our other markets. We expect to complete in excess of $200 million in single-buyer net lease business in 2007 and expect it to grow to more than $400 million in 2008."
Spectrus Real Estate Group is a real estate principal and leading provider of investment real estate. Established in 2003 as FOR 1031, the company launched into the real estate industry to meet the growing demands of the 1031 exchange market. Spectrus has multiple properties for real estate buyers. Spectrus is based in Boise, Idaho. http://www.spectrusgroup.com
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Choosing a new phone system for your business is more consequential than you might think. Many business owners still feel that the only thing a phone really needs to be able to do is make a call. This ignores all of the technological innovations that have been made in the past few decades.
Yes, the truth is that there is much more to a modern business phone system than the simple ability to make calls. But what exactly do you need to look for? To help answer that, here are some questions that you should always ask when choosing a new business phone system.
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The first thing you need to decide is how far you need to go when updating your business phones. In some cases — especially if you're already using a more recent VoIP phone system — you may just need to upgrade your phones. VoIP makes it easy to add new lines and features without having to install new hardware. It's usually as simple as a software update. In that way, VoIP systems are very future-proof.
On the other hand, if you haven't upgraded your business phones in a while and you aren't using VoIP, you may need to completely overhaul your phone system. That means getting rid of old hardware and installing a newer, more modern solution. This is obviously a bit costlier, but all of the new efficiency features you gain access to are almost always worth the price of admission.
Are You Planning On Growing?
If you expect your business to grow in the coming years, you need to consider this when shopping around for a new phone system. Some phone systems are less rigid than others. These more scalable phone systems can easily grow alongside your business without you having to invest in expensive hardware upgrades. You could also plan ahead and get a phone system with more lines than you currently need, but you run the risk of encountering the same problem the next time you experience growth.
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Request approval to schedule and implement changes to production systems. A weekly College-wide Change Control meeting takes place every Tuesday morning at 8:00am, where change requests are discussed and approved.
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Changes occur during one of the College's maintenance windows:
- Thursday and Friday from 5:00am - 6:30am
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"We are aware of the allegations that have been made against Mr. Freeman," a Visa spokesman said in a statement. "At this point, Visa will be suspending our marketing in which the actor is featured."
The Visa statement followed a similar decision by the Vancouver, Canada, transit system to backtrack on a plan to use Mr. Freeman's voice for some announcements over its loudspeakers.
It was still unclear on Friday to what degree Mr. Freeman, an Oscar winner who, at age 80, maintains a busy acting and voice-over career, would lose work as some other entertainers accused of misconduct have. But in another sign of his diminished stature, SAG-Aftra, the actors union, told The Hollywood Reporter that the reported allegations were "compelling and devastating" and that it was reconsidering the lifetime achievement award it had given to Mr. Freeman earlier this year.
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On Thursday, Mr. Freeman issued a statement that said: "Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy. I apologize to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected — that was never my intent."
A day later, he followed up with a second statement. "All victims of assault and harassment deserve to be heard," he said. "And we need to listen to them. But it is not right to equate horrific incidents of sexual assault with misplaced compliments or humor."
Mr. Freeman's statement appeared to address claims from former staff members of Revelations Entertainment, the production company that he co-founded, that he created a "toxic" work environment. "I admit that I am someone who feels a need to try to make women — and men — feel appreciated and at ease around me," he said. "As a part of that, I would often try to joke with and compliment women, in what I thought was a light-hearted and humorous way. Clearly I was not always coming across the way I intended."
"But I also want to be clear," he added. "I did not create unsafe work environments. I did not assault women. I did not offer employment or advancement in exchange for sex. Any suggestion that I did so is completely false."
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Mr. Freeman has two other movies in advanced stages of production: "Angel Has Fallen," a sequel to the 2013 thriller "Olympus Has Fallen," in which he reprises his role as the politician Allan Trumbull; and "The Poison Rose," in which he plays a Texas crime boss. Millennium Films, the company behind "Angel Has Fallen," and March On Productions, which is producing "The Poison Rose," did not respond to queries.
Mr. Freeman's deep and recognizable voice has been used to narrate numerous commercials, and he has appeared in some himself, including a Mountain Dew commercial that began running during this year's Super Bowl. A spokeswoman for PepsiCo, Mountain Dew's parent company, said the commercial had previously stopped running.
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Zero Waste | Buzzcloth Review & Giveaway – UK Beeswax Wraps
The zero waste lifestyle is something that I've been very interested in for a while and recently have started to implement as much as I can. There are a few areas that I'm particularly keen to reduce waste in and that's in the bathroom and the kitchen and nappies by using cloth nappies. I'm trying to choose less wasteful packaging or types of packaging that can be reused or properly recycled and in the kitchen I'm trying to use as few disposable products as I can.
I use glass containers for leftovers and reusable oven liners or just glass oven trays instead of baking parchment and aluminum foil but there are occasions where I need to wrap up foods that do not fit in a box and that's where beeswax wraps, like the ones from Buzzcloth, come in and help me avoid plastic bags and cling film.
Buzzcloths are made by hand here in the UK and are available in a range of handy sizes. They are made from beeswax (they smell lovely, like honey!) and cotton and simply scrunch around your foods or over bowls to keep air out, moisture in and food fresh. You can also fold them into little pouches.
They come pre-cut and ready to use and after each use, you wash them in cold, soapy water (an eco-friendly dish soap is preferred) and hang them to dry before using again.
Beeswax wraps are made from totally natural materials and will last you between 3 months and 3 years depending on use and care and can then be discarded in the compost. If you cut the wraps into strips first, that will help them biodegrade faster.
Buzzcloths have many benefits. They're non-toxic, free from chemicals and food-safe, of course, and because they're natural, reusable and biodegradable, they're very environmentally friendly. The cost per use is low too and they can be used for so many things:
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- To seal the open side of a cut loaf of bread or to wrap the whole loaf if you have a Large Buzzcloth.
- To wrap halves of vegetables or fruits to keep them fresh at home.
- To wrap fruits in to protect them when in your lunchbox.
The way the Buzzcloths shape and mould around foods and bowls by simply using your hands is very satisfying and I love how the beeswax wraps are all natural and help keep our food fresh and protected without any plastics and chemicals. Plus, of course, they do not create any waste at all which is wonderful too!
The only things you're not supposed to use beeswax wraps for are anything hot (do not wash in hot water and don't put it in the microwave or oven) or raw meat. You can put the raw meat in a bowl, then cover the bowl up, though.
Yolanda Drewell is the name of the woman who founded Buzzcloth and I love her ethos:
"I have consciously decided not to put the logo on my product. This is a strong statement to the idea that plastic is everyone's problem, and we all need to do whatever we can to reduce our plastic use. Make your own, buy another brand, it doesn't matter to me – just don't use plastic.
I also publish my competitor's on my website and I do not accept orders from Canada or the US. This is a statement which again supports the above that plastic is everyone's problem, and also it doesn't make sense to us to do everything we can to reduce our carbon footprint (recycled packaging for instance) when we send our product across the world where there are other people making the exact same product."
Buzzcloths are available to by online here in different bundles and the different sizes available are:
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Details on what each day will contain will follow in the Autumn term following an in-depth analysis of Academy and Trust need.


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Transportation Officials Weighing Repairs for Bridge Connecting N.H. and Vermont By Ben Henry • Jul 19, 2017 Wikimedia Commons The New Hampshire Department of Transportation and its counterpart in Vermont are considering repairs to a bridge between the two states that's been closed since 2009. The Vilas Bridge was built in 1930 and stretches over the Connecticut River between North Walpole, N.H. and Bellows Falls, Vt. N.H. Department of Transportation Says Rural Roads Need TLC By Hannah McCarthy • Apr 11, 2017 flickr/bcgrote House lawmakers met Tuesday to review a bill that seeks to provide $36 million for road and bridge repair in the state. There are six highway districts in New Hampshire – but not all are created equal. That was the argument from the Department of Transportation as they argued for a formula change in the way highway repair money is handed out. State Plans To Increase Road Paving Work In 2016 By Brady Carlson • Apr 25, 2016 N.H. Department of Transportation Website About 700 miles of New Hampshire highways will be repaved or maintained this year, according to the state Department of Transportation. It's the third straight year the DOT has increased its paving work. Granite Geek: I-93 Experiment Focuses On Reading Highway Signs At Night By Peter Biello • Feb 17, 2016 You may not have put much thought into the design of the signs on the highway, but right now engineers in New Hampshire are giving careful to how these signs reflect light. An experiment on Interstate 93 is comparing two different kinds of reflectivity to find out which is easier to read at night. Granite Geek David Brooks spoke with NHPR's Peter Biello. New Transportation Commissioner To Be Sworn In By Brady Carlson • Oct 19, 2015 construction-institute.org Governor Maggie Hassan will swear in the state's new Transportation Commissioner today. Victoria Sheehan of Nashua served in a number of roles for the Massachusetts Department of transportation, most recently coordinating the highway division's five-year, $5 billion capital plan and $600 million annual operating budget. The Executive Council confirmed Sheehan in September. She succeeds Chris Clement, who stepped down as commissioner in December to take a position with the University of New Hampshire. Highway Repair Fund Raided To Cover State's Snow Removal Costs By NHPR Staff • Apr 20, 2015 Sara Plourde, NHPR This winter's series of heavy snowfalls put a $9.2 million hurt on the state's annual snow removal budget and led to a raid on the fund that pays for road and bridge repair and maintenance. Figures compiled by the Department of Transportation show the state spent $48.3 million to clear roads this season. It had budgeted $39.1 million and needed a transfer from the State Highway Fund to cover the shortfall. DOT spokesperson Bill Boynton says not only was there simply more snow this winter, the storms were longer. The ET Plus Dilemma: Whether Many Of The State's Guardrails Pose A Danger By Chris Jensen • Mar 26, 2015 Courtesy of Trinity Industries Whizzing along New Hampshire's highways, most drivers probably don't give much thought to those square black and yellow plates on the end of guardrails – called end plates. But there's a concern that one of the models used in New Hampshire and many other states could be dangerous. The worry is that, instead of guiding an errant vehicle away from danger as they are meant to do, the guardrail may pierce the passenger compartment and skewer its occupants.


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UFC Signs CM Punk To A Multi-Fight Contract
As we all know former WWE Champion Phil Brooks, 36, has signed an MMA contract with the bigest promotion of mixed martial arts the UFC.
Ariel Helwani caught up with President of the UFC Dana White explaining his decision about signing CM Punk:
"He comes to all the fights, he's a huge fan. Once his deal was up with the WWE, he called me and he said 'I would really like to fight in the UFC.' I told him 'you've got no fights.' But he wants to try it and obviously the guy is a huge superstar. I'll give him the shot. I'd say I agree with every one of the things people are saying. Yeah, of course, I'm absolutely skeptical. Who knows? You don't know unless you try. You don't know if the guy can fight unless he fights. He wants to fight here. He's like 'I'm at an age where I don't have time to go work on my game and work my way up to the UFC. I'd like to start here, I'd like to give it a shot if you would give me that opportunity.' I said 'yes, I will.' I don't know (when his debut will be). What did he say? I think what he wants to do is take his time, start training, get with the right camp. It could be six or seven months."
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When we got the invite to show at 303 Magazine's Denver Fashion Weekend 2013, the answer to Charlie Price was immediately YES! As expected, Charlie delivered. We hope everyone feels we did as well. Equillibrium is very pleased with the end result of the fashion show production… here's the anticipated video for all who missed it!
For those not familiar with us, we'd like to share a blog we wrote a few years ago about our business ethics and moral code for sourcing materials for our products. "Equillibrium's Transparent 'UP' Side"
As a leader in conscious fashion design, Equillibrium's creator and designer, Deb Henriksen, LEED AP BD+C, also got a blog interview from the West Word we'd love for you to check out: Equillibrium Clothing Represents Sustainability at DFW 2013 .
BIG UPS and HUGE thank U to ALL involved for this gr8 event, Denver Fashion Weekend 2013… We'd like to name a special few: 303 Magazine, Charlie Price, Jonelle, Ramon, and Hallie from Evolution Salon, Mona Lucero, Margaret and Christine Cutter, Lisa Huff, Ben Owens, models: Kelsey, Karly, Wendy, and Madison.


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Medical Robotics (RAAK-PRO)
The Saxion Research Group "Mechatronics" has the lead in a project on Medical Robotics. This project focuses on the application of mechatronic principles in healthcare by translating scientific innovations into practical robotic systems. These robotic systems can assist in activities of daily life for the elderly and disabled at their homes, in hospitals and in care centres. Medical care currently consists of mainly manual labour, with very little automation. Due to our aging population the demand for care will increase rapidly, but the workforce is expected to decrease. This increasing gap may be reduced by means of robotization of certain tasks. Furthermore, robotization has the potential to provide more flexibility in timing of service to a client, which increases autonomy and quality of life.
In the first phase of the project a number of functional building blocks is developed on care robotics: gripping, vision, navigation, sensing and user interaction. These translate into technical building blocks like fingers, transmissions, robot arm, IMU, laser range finder, etc. In this first phase there is a close collaboration with the industrial partners, Focal Meditech, Demcon and Roessingh R&D, to define the system requirements for the proof-of-principle setups on one hand, and with the research partners UT-RAM and AVANS on the other hand to find innovative solutions for complex technological challenges. In the second phase these building blocks are to be combined into two or three demonstrators that will show the successful implementation of the mechatronic principles in working robotic systems for healthcare.


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An Ivy League MBA for working professionals—refine your skills and cultivate your leadership potential.
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Its unique delivery format. Classes take place every other weekend, but the immersive environment is reflective of residential program experience.
Johnson's Executive MBA Metro NY classes are taught by Cornell's world-renowned faculty on Saturdays and Sundays at the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus in New York City. The residential component, including the Saturday evening stay in a four-star, New York City hotel, allows you to remain fully immersed in coursework and team projects with minimal distractions.
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Weekend Classes
The program curriculum is sequenced and integrated. It's focused on general management principles and is applicable to students from any industry or functional area. During your second year, the curriculum will expand into more advanced coursework, including Innovation and New Venture Creation, Valuations, Advanced Strategic Analysis, and the Global Business Study program, which brings our executive MBAs into an international market for a week-long business immersion. You will also be able to customize your experience with elective courses.
Immersive Residential Sessions
The Executive MBA Metro NY program includes four residential sessions on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY. During these weeks, you'll complete intensive coursework and engage with faculty, classmates, and the broader Cornell community in a variety of ways.
Student Experience
While Cornell's faculty lead and facilitate classroom instruction, your peers will also make significant, real-world contributions to the learning environment. Class diversity in all forms leads to engaging conversations and new perspectives. Residential class weekends allow you to work on team projects with your colleagues and develop your personal and professional network.
Start date: July 2020
Duration: 22 months
Price: $195,498 — Total tuition and estimated expenses for program duration
Deadline: May 31, 2020
Location: Tata Innovation Center, New York, NY
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