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July 8, 2019 Corner Brook— It is fundamental to the effective operation of the Federation of Newfoundland Indians (FNI) and Qalipu First Nation (QFN) that we receive the best possible legal advice available in order to move forward to achieve the goals of our people and organizations. A recent decision by the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court in Benoit v. Federation of Newfoundland Indians and Her Majesty the Queen of Canada determined that legal advice from our lawyers published on the internet, illegally and without permission, by persons unknown was no longer covered by the blanket of solicitor- client privilege. This issue is of concern to Qalipu First Nation and the Federation of Newfoundland Indians. The Financial Management By-Laws of the Qalipu First Nation Band clearly state in Exceptions to Disclosure, Section 54, that the General Manager, must refuse to disclose information; (b) legal opinions which are subject to solicitor-client privilege.
Such privilege is fundamental protection for individuals and businesses to comfortably seek legal advice outside the public domain. It means that conversations, phone calls, e mails, documents and discussions regarding confidential matters are private between a client and their lawyer. Solicitor-client privilege is an important legal concept that allows clients to trust their lawyers with private information. The Supreme Court of Canada has called it, "a principal of fundamental justice and civil right of supreme importance in Canadian law." Such privilege is that of the client.
In deciding to appeal the decision of Justice Marshall, FNI/QFN are seeking to preserve a fundamental right necessary to the effective operation of our Band Council. QFN and the FNI must continue to have full and frank discussions with its legal advisors without fear that the information or advice might somehow become available to persons who might not share our stated goals. The appeal of Justice Marshall's recent decision is limited to this single issue, and that issue only. While the Benoit case, in its initial intent, continues with our cooperation and respect, we are appealing the decision of Justice Marshall regarding our right to maintain the principle of solicitor-client privilege.
As many of you may know, in a previous Benoit decision Newfoundland Supreme Court Justice Jillian Butler required the FNI to communicate to the Minister that individuals named in Benoit remain on the Founding Members List created under the Settlement Agreement. We did as directed by carrying out Justice Butler's Declaratory Order which required that a letter be written to the Minister demanding that the Plaintiffs in the Benoit Case be maintained as Founding Members. In the letter to the Minister we went further than consideration for the six plaintiffs stating that they were representative of a larger group who lost status and requested that all who lost status be reinstated. We received no reply from the Minister in response to demands. Neither the FNI nor QFM appealed Judge Butler's decision on the Benoit case. Further, regarding earlier court decisions rendered in favor of the plaintiffs including Foster, House, Wells and Wells and Kennedy, neither the FNI nor QFN appealed the court decisions made in favor of those represented by these court cases and encouraged the Government of Canada to do likewise.
Protecting the principle of solicitor-client privilege, which is the only issue in response to the recent decision by Judge Marshall, is our fundamental right. It appears that at least one group calling themselves "Friends of Qalipu Applicants" is presenting our concern for protection of our solicitor-client privilege in a different and misleading context.
The Band Council of the QFN will continue to move forward to achieve the stated goals of our people and organization and will stand by the collective view that the preservation of the Band's legal rights is essential to achieving this objective.


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Our oven cleaning and detailing methods are efficient and industry-tested. We use professional detergents that cannot be found in the stores. The products are fume-free, safe and non-caustic detergents, as your family's health is of utmost priority to us. If an incident occurred in the kitchen, you can take advantage of our one-off domestic cleaning. If you need your entire kitchen deep cleaned, you can count on our professional end of lease cleaners.
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By Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.23.2016:
This photograph was used by Texas Agricultural Sid Miller to lambaste President Obama for being in Cuba while holding a Che t-shirt during the Brussels attacks. The problem? The photo is a doctored fake.
The actual photo was taken at MIT in Cambridge in 2009, and the t-shirt did not have Che on it. Instead, it showed an imprint with the continuity equation and the Navier-Stokes equations (of motion) for incompressible flow. The photo was used by a hoaxer and that equation removed and replaced with the image of Che.
Commissioner Miller, already known for strangeness and opening his mouth before his brain (or research) engages, just continues to make himself look like a complete fool.
There will likely be no apology forthcoming. After all, he didn't know it was a hoax! Not that it matters – it will be a cold day you-know-where before Miller apologizes to the president for anything.


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan dined at OvenBird on Monday.
The couple sat in the hearth room and enjoyed a dinner that included spit-roasted duck, shaved Brussels sprouts, oven-roasted broccoli, tuna and avocado toast, serrano peppers, sunchoke paella, octopus, and beef fat candle. Zuckerberg had OvenBird's signature cocktail, the Rufus Horneros.
The couple arrived in Birmingham after kicking off a tour of 50 states in Alabama's Mobile and Bayou LaBatre. They also visited Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The Hastings gifted the couple with Hot and Hot Fish Club cookbook, Reel Masters book that features Chris Hastings, and Seeds of Reprisal: Monsanto vs. Michael White (an Alabama farmer) by John Park.
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Business environment is, no doubt, changing rapidly in today's business world. To stand out in such arena you need to know how to innovate and impress at work. According to a study by IBM, "About 60% of CEOs polled cited creativity as the most important leadership quality, compared with 52% for integrity and 35% for global thinking."
To promote a resourceful work atmosphere for yourself, you need to walk around what the pain points are at work for your customers, the services your organization provides and the challenges your colleagues face. Then, set some time aside or make yourself a part of a nimble team to find creative solutions to solve these challenges one by one. So let yourself allow thinking out of the box and giving yourself time, tools and the resources to help you explore new arenas for innovative ideas and this will be a prominent way to value adding,cost effective and constructive business solutions. Take a look at the 10 best ways to know what you should do at your work.
1. Make the words change from 'I Can't' to 'I Can'
You must be innovative if you allow yourself to be so. Have faith yourself and be bold with coming up with creative ways to get free from challenges at work.
2. Recharge your 'psychological creativity muscle' and boost yourself into problem solving mode
Don't be crestfallen with the problems before coming up with solutions. Look for what is not working well and then make an innovative solution to improve it.
3. Be supportive and accessible to available assets
Remember that no man is the isolated meadow. You can never innovate alone in an organization. You need support, buy-in and a change of behavior for any innovation to succeed. Just collaborate and widen your network.
4. Be not feeble
Do not consider yourself feeble. Be persistent. Have faith on yourself and your ideas. Once you get any innovative idea nailed down, be laser sharp focused to do what it takes to achieve an end result that you envisioned.
5. Find out the probable bottlenecks
Just prior to think first why should they buy into your innovative solution? Before you sell your idea, give end users a very good reason why they need that innovation that you are pushing.
6. Get out of the box and be there where you want to be for being innovative
Be sure to think outside the box to innovate and impress at work but aim to present your idea inside the box.
7. Take risks and get ready to fail or make mistakes
Thomas A. Edison has a famous quote and that is "I have not failed. I've just 10,000 ways that won't work". Particular amount of risk-taking or failure is inevitable with any innovation. Allow yourself to learn from your mistakes. Never be put off creativity by sentencing yourself for an idea that doesn't work out.
8. Let your brain set free
Don't pressurize your brain if your idea or work doesn't become successful first. Your brain is not a pressure cooker. Definitely, your day-to-day environment and routine can affect how you think and feel. The more stress free and clam you are, the more receptive you will be to tap into your creative sphere. Find inspiring spots to help trigger your creativity.
9. Doodle things down over and over again
Maintain your journal and always scribble down your ideas and thoughts. Writing every thought, idea, tip and inspiration down ought to be practiced. Practice, lone brainstorming and think on paper.
10. Be curious and grow inside you 'need to know' attitude
Remember, if you are not enthusiastic of anything, you cannot innovate and impress at work. All great innovations are curious and they like to make the problems solve. Try and go against the grains in how you see the stuffs.
You are the master of your own psychology. No one can change it unless and until you are inside you. Get free yourself from mind-created constraints. The only way to do this is by lessening assumptions and restrictions. Open your mind to new ideas and solutions without setting for self-limiting beliefs. Just be creative because you know, innovation is more about psychology than intellect.■


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Refreshing 'Ologists: Aquatic restoration & management with Colleen KamoroffAugust 20th, 2017 by Mono Lake Committee Staff
This post was written by Molly Casey, 2017 Mono Lake Intern.
Our refreshing 'ologist for this week is researching techniques in parks to be used for monitoring and managing aquatic wildlife. Join us this Wednesday, August 23 at 4:00pm in the Mono Lake Committee gallery to hear about how scientist Colleen Kamoroff uses eDNA in water samples to learn more about an area and the species that occupy it.
DNA obtained from filtered water samples is often referred to as aquatic environmental DNA or eDNA. eDNA is a promising tool for monitoring invasive species as well as detecting rare and elusive species; however, using eDNA as a tool in this way is hindered by scientists' inability to distinguish whether sources of DNA are alive or dead.
Colleen and her colleagues analyzed how the detection of eDNA from dead and live model organisms is different depending on how the samples are collected. They applied the resulting method in the field at lake restoration sites across Yosemite and Sequoia Kings Canyon National Parks. The results they found highlight that how eDNA should be collected and tailored to maximize the utility of eDNA techniques in aquatic habitat conservation.
Yosemite National Park has incorporated these eDNA techniques into their aquatic wildlife program, including the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog restoration, bullfrog eradication, California red-legged frog introduction, as well as detecting foothill yellow-legged frog and Western pond turtle.
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One in three rural or remote workers will suffer from mental illness every year.
Mental Health Program
Jem Health have developed a multifaceted, proactive mental health program, to raise awareness about the benefits and challenges associated with working remotely and the effects of a FIFO lifestyle.
The program educates and equips participants with a range of strategies to assist in maintaining healthy mental and physical well-being while living and working away from their families and friends.
It will also assist your business in identifying the greatest challenges your team face in the first three months of working away as well as decreasing employee churn.
Our mental health program comprises of 4 stages;
- Remote Control Induction: Prevention, Awareness & FIFO Resilience Training
- Proactive Phone Assistance
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Jem Health also offer counselling at their Perth based clinic. Individual or group / family sessions can be booked by calling the Jem Health clinic. Confidentiality is assured, with a private and comfortable environment provided.


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Ashton Kutcher, Colonel Sanders, Look-alikes Terrorizing Real Homeowners of OC
> Two suspects reportedly dress up as the actor (Ashton Kutcher) and KFC Colonel. Local residences in Newport Beach, and especially residents of Villa Balboa, have never seen anything quite like this. Fifteen bicycles have been stolen in recent weeks.
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Linda D. Kennedy, an intellectual property attorney, joins Butzel Long
DETROIT, Mich. – Intellectual property attorney Linda D. Kennedy has joined Butzel Long and is based in the firm's Detroit office.
Ms. Kennedy concentrates her practice on intellectual property, including client counseling and opinion work, patent prosecution, patent litigation, trademark law, copyright law, and trade secret litigation.
"Linda has a solid background in intellectual property law," said Justin G. Klimko, President, Butzel Long. "She is an excellent addition to our Intellectual Property Practice Group."
Ms. Kennedy has advised clients that develop cutting-edge technologies in the automotive and health care industries. Her patent opinion and prosecution work has included medical devices, industrial polymers, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, diagnostic systems, cosmetics, electrolyte additives, pre-crash alert systems, fueling strategies and emissions reduction systems. She also has represented companies in patent litigation involving pharmaceutical compositions, semiconductor manufacturing methods, low-emissivity glass coatings and electronic trading software for commodity markets.
Prior to joining Butzel Long, Ms. Kennedy worked at intellectual property boutique law firms and as in-house counsel for the Dow Chemical Company, where she managed products liability lawsuits in plaintiff-friendly venues throughout the country.
Ms. Kennedy is a graduate of Michigan Technological University (B.S., summa cum laude, Scientific and Technical Communication, 1991), the University of Minnesota (B.A., Chemistry, 1996), and of the University of Minnesota Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1998). She is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Supreme Court, and the State of Michigan.
Ms. Kennedy is a member of the American Intellectual Property Association, the American Bar Association, and the Michigan Technological University Alumni Association, of which she is a past officer and board member.
About Butzel Long
Established in 1854, Butzel Long is a leading law firm with offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Michigan, New York City, and Washington, D.C., as well as Alliance offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Mexico City and Monterrey. The firm is also a member of the Washington D.C. law firm, Butzel Long Tighe Patton. Butzel Long represents clients from diverse industries on regional, national, and multi-national levels and is a member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms. Visit the Butzel Long website at www.butzel.com.
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Speeds your draw plus provides faster target acquisition. Threaded, rear dovetail filler block allows fast changing of rear sights. Front sights attach with a single locking screw. Aro-Tek Target Sights have low reflection, serrated fronts for sharp, clear target definition.
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Murano Venetian Glass Candy Cane. This exceptionally beautiful coin is the first coin in the Royal Canadian Mints series featuring an engraved and painted festive design with one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted Venetian glass candy cane element created by Cortella & Ballarin s. Master glassmakers from Murano, Italy.
Murano glass is prized around the world for its clear and vibrant colors. THE COIN IS IN PERFECT MINT CONDITION , FREE OF ANY VISIBLE DEFECTS, AND COMES WITH. Proof with color and Venetian glass element.Designed by Canadian artist Maurice Gervais , the reverse image features a collection of holiday symbols, including a cluster of poinsettia leaves beneath a decorative ornament, a five-pointed star and a red, white and green glass candy. Visual elements of the coin are finely engraved and meticulously presented in a beautiful proof finish (frosted raised elements on a mirror background). Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England facing right, executed by the Susanna Blunt, with legend: ELIZABETH II D.
("Elizabeth II, Queen by the Grace of God") also appears. Packaging: Coin is encapsulated and presented in a maroon clamshell case lined with flock and protected by a black outer sleeve. PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO ASK QUESTIONS AND PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER LISTINGS!
FOR CUSTOMERS IN UNITED STATES. EACH SALE COMES WITH UNCONDITIONAL 100% GUARANTEE OF THE QUALITY AND. IF THE COIN IS NOT AS DESCRIBED. SAME 100% GUARANTEE OF THE QUALITY AS FOR USA CUSTOMERS. The item "Canada 2013 Murano Venetian Glass Christmas Ornaments $20 Silver Proof Coin" is in sale since Monday, October 02, 2017.
This item is in the category "Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ Canada\Commemorative". The seller is "nersess" and is located in Illinois. This item can be shipped worldwide.


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At just 24 years of age, Matthew Cowdrey has already achieved Paralympic, World Championship and Commonwealth Games glory. A multiple world-record holder, the teenage swimmer has become one of the top amputee athletes in the world.
At just 24 years of age, Matthew Cowdrey has already achieved Paralympic, World Championship and Commonwealth Games glory. A multiple world-record holder, the South Australian swimmer has become one of the top amputee athletes in the world.
Born with a congenital amputation to his lower left arm, Cowdrey has shown immense strength and courage to succeed and reach incredible heights in the world of swimming.
Cowdrey started swimming at the age of five and was determined to not just be as good as any able bodied person, but to be better. Having set his goals for success, Cowdrey quickly stamped his mark on his S9 classification, breaking his first Australian open record at age 11 and world record at age 13.
In 2004 he competed at the Paralympics in Athens where he won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals and finished the meet with two World & Paralympic Record times. His amazing achievements were recognised when he was named the Australian Swimmer of the Year with a Disability two years in a row and the 2005 Male Athlete of the Year at the Stan Wickham Disability Awards.
Cowdrey dominated the national titles in 2006, winning all eight of his events and breaking several world records to qualify for his first Commonwealth Games team. He continued to improve on his personal best times and became the only Australian male swimmer to win individual gold at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games – where he won gold in the men's 50m and 100m EAD Freestyle events, both in world record time. His brilliant performances were recognised when he was awarded the Commonwealth Sports Award for most outstanding male elite athlete with a disability.
Having never competed at the World Championships, Cowdrey produced a phenomenal performance at his first world titles in South Africa in 2006, winning an incredible five gold medals, two silver and a bronze.
Cowdrey just returned from the 2008 Beijing Paralympics with an amazing swag of 8 Gold Medals – an incredible performance! In Beijing, Cowdrey set five world records and was Australia's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the Games
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Cowdrey won gold medals in the 100 m backstroke S9, 50 m freestyle S9, 100 m freestyle S9, 200 m Individual Medley SM9 and 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 pts, silver medals in the 100 m Butterfly S9 and 100 m Breaststroke SB8 and a bronze medal in the Men's 4 x 100 m Medley Relay
In winning the Men's 50 m Freestyle S9 event at the 2012 London Games, he became Australia's most successful Paralympian by winning his 11th gold medal and 20th medal overall, surpassing Tim Sullivan in gold medal count and Kingsley Bugarin in the overall medal count.
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2004 Athens
100m Freestyle GOLD
200m I/M GOLD
4 x 100m I/M Relay GOLD
100m Butterfly SILVER
4 x 100m Freestyle Relay SILVER
50m Freestyle BRONZE
400m Freestyle BRONZE
2008 Beijing
8 x GOLD MEDALLIST
Commonwealth Games
2006 Melbourne
50m Freestyle (EAD) – GOLD (WORLD RECORD)
100m Freestyle (EAD) – GOLD (WORLD RECORD)
International Paralympic Committee World Swimming Championships
2006 South Africa
100m Butterfly Gold (WR)
100m Freestyle Gold (WR)
50m Freestyle Gold
200m Individual Medley Gold
400m Medley Relay Gold (WR)
100m Backstroke Silver
400m Freestyle Relay Silver
400m Freestyle Bronze
Telstra Australian Swimming Championships
2008 Sydney
50m Freestyle Gold
100m Freestyle Gold
100m Backstroke Gold
100m Butterfly Gold
200m Individual Medley Silver
400m Freestyle Silver
Commonwealth Games Trials 2006 Melbourne
200m Individual Medley (MD) – 1st (WORLD RECORD)
100m Backstroke (MD) - 1st
50m Backstroke (MD) - 1st (WORLD RECORD)
50m Butterfly (MD) - 1st (WORLD RECORD)
100m Freestyle (MD) - 1st
50m Freestyle (MD) - 1st
Commonwealth Games Trials - Team Qualification Races
100m Freestyle (EAD) - 1st (WORLD RECORD)
50m Freestyle (EAD) – 1st
Telstra Australian Open
2005 Sydney
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Telstra Swimmer of the Year Awards
Swimmer of the Year with a Disability2004, 2005, 2006,2007, 2008
Telstra Australian All-Star Swim Team 2006
Commonwealth Sports Awards
Outstanding Male Elite Athlete with Disability Award 2006
Australia Day Honours
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Medalist in the Athens Paralympics 2005
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Australian Paralympian of the Year Awards
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The agenda for Stream in Jaipur, India 2019 is in your hands. There are six session times a day, hosted in nine different meeting spaces. Each session runs for 1 hour (give or take) and all sessions are led by you, the Stream participants. Here's how it works:
The Stream team is on hand to help. Please get in touch if you'd like to talk an idea through before posting, or would like help finding some co-hosts.
As marketers should we take on more responsibility in shaping our clients products to be more environmentally conscious and socially responsible. For example, the packaging of drinks and food in plastic; reusable batteries, plastic versus wooden toys etc.


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SuperValu has been highly visible in the news of late. And not just on this website. We like to think that many Irish followers of the business news on TV, in the papers and online have taken an interest in the changing face of what is now the largest Irish grocery brand in the country.
Of course, even if they aren't scanning the business pages (and given the events of recent years, that may be a reasonable decision), readers in some areas of the country have probably noticed the name change of the 24 Superquinn stores earlier this month. They have now formally joined the SuperValu family. This name-change is being accompanied by a very big in-store investment programme in the former Superquinn network. But our partners in SuperValu don't plan to stop there. The company plans to add three new stores to the network of 223 stores in 2014, and expand and refurbish 45 stores.
With just over a quarter of the market served by the combined SuperValu and Superquinn, you'd think they'd take a breather! But that's not going to happen anytime soon; the pace of modern life is driving new ideas throughout retail to ease the pressure on customers. And neither SuperValu nor Musgrave has any intention of being left behind.
Some ideas, like online ordering, shopping apps and self-scanning, acknowledge the importance to more people than ever of electronic devices. And now with its first Drive-Through service in Ireland, SuperValu is making a significant gesture in the direction of the ubiquitous, and increasingly indispensable, car. It's a gesture that will help many SuperValu customers to manage their busy lifestyle with just a little more ease. It's being pioneered in Carrigaline where SuperValu has had a presence for many years. So if you're about 14 km south of Cork, do try Drive Through out! It's another small but, we think, important bit of SuperValu history.


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Eric Yap is proficient in many areas of legal practice and had handled literally thousands of legal files ranging from administration of estate to multi-million dollar transactions. He has also appeared in Court of Appeal, High Court, Sessions Court, Magistrates Court, Labour Court, as well as arbitration tribunals. Eric is qualified and registered to provide immigration assistance to those seeking to know more about Australia.
Pursuant to S. 97 of the Legal Profession Act 1976 (Amended 1993) he was appointed as a member of the Investigating Tribunal Panel of the Advocates & Solicitors Disciplinary Board. He is now a panel member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Advocates & Solicitors Disciplinary Board.
In May 2007 Eric was appointed by the Chief Justice of Malaya as a Commissioner for Oaths and he remains one till to date. Eric is also a Certified Mediator with the Malaysian Mediation Centre.
Eric is a legal advisor to Malaysian Pallet Association and an organization known as Charity Food Basket, an NGO based in the Royal Town of Klang.
Eric Yap was the President of the Rotary Club of Port Klang (2002/2003) and has been actively involved in charitable/service projects through the Rotary Club of Port Klang since 1999 and was the Secretary for Attendance at the District level for Rotary Year 2004-2005. He is still a member.
Toh Harnniann read law at the Cardiff University, Wales and graduated with honours in 2001.
Toh was called to the Malaysia Bar in 2003 after obtaining his Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) in 2002 , shortly after which he started his legal career at this firm, dealing mainly with civil litigation.
Toh headed the litigation department and was exposed to a great variety of cases, which have significantly contributed to the growth and depth of his legal knowledge and experience.
Toh was a senior associate in a leading law firm in Shanghai, China in 2007, During his time there, Toh gained invaluable experience in cross-border trading, high-end corporate and commercial transactions, and dynamic working culture.
Apart from legal life, Toh is also active in his community. Toh is the Charter President of the Rotaract Club of Port Klang Centennial, and was awarded The Excellent Leadership Award by the Rotary Club of Port Klang in 2005. Toh was also recently appointed by the Menteri Besar of Selangor to chair the Youth Movement for Zone A of the Sungai Pinang State constituency.


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Britney Spears has done it again.
This time, the pop star crashed her car into a parked station wagon in L.A., and "Extra" caught the whole thing on tape.
Britney, with her dog in her lap and seatbelt unbuckled, couldn't cut a corner in time and crashed into the car outside an L.A. vitamin store.
"I'm a brainiac. Sorry about that," Britney offered to astonished eyewitnesses.
She then asked, "Did I hurt my car?" before stepping out of the car – and smashing the station wagon again with her door!
"It's not bad," Britney said about the damage – to her own car.
That should come as a relief to Britney's new manager, Jeff Kwatinetz.
After being her own boss for a few weeks – and witnessing the damage it caused recently – Brit finally decided she needed representation and hired the mega-manager.
Kwatinetz was once engaged to Brittany Murphy and made headlines of his own when he was fired by Kelly Clarkson.
Now Kwatinetz's first job for Britney, besides calling a body shop, may be to smooth things over with Allure Magazine.
"Extra" has learned Britney is set to be the magazine's September cover girl, even though she reportedly missed four interview appointments.
In addition, according to USA Today, Brit randomly stripped to her waist before heading into hair and makeup for the shoot.


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Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
|An artist's illustration of Majungasaurus crenatissimus
|Scientific classification
| †Majungasaurus
Depéret, 1896
|M. crenatissimus
|Binomial name
| Majungasaurus crenatissimus
Depéret, 1896
Majungatholus atopus
Majungasaurus (pronounced /məˌdʒʌŋɡəˈsɔrəs/ mah-jung-gə-sor-əs "Mahajanga lizard") is a medium sized genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 66.8 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Only one species (M. crenatissimus) has been identified. This dinosaur was briefly called Majungatholus, a name which is now considered a junior synonym of Majungasaurus.
Like other abelisaurids, Majungasaurus was a bipedal predator with a short snout. Although the forelimbs are not completely known, they were very short, while the hindlimbs were longer and very stocky. It
can be distinguished from other abelisaurids by its wider skull, the very rough texture and thickened bone on the top of its snout, and the single rounded horn on the roof of its skull, which was originally mistaken for the dome of a pachycephalosaur. Other abelisaurids have different features: its larger cousin Carnotaurus had two large brow horns on its head, while some others, like Rugops, or Abelisaurus, lack the odd features on their skulls. It also had more teeth in both the upper and lower jaws than most abelisaurids.
Known from several well-preserved skulls and abundant skeletal material, Majungasaurus has recently become one of the best-studied theropod dinosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere. It appears to be most closely related to abelisaurids from India rather than South America or continental Africa, a fact which has important biogeographical implications. Majungasaurus was the apex predator in its ecosystem, mainly preying on sauropods like Rapetosaurus, and is also one of the the only dinosaurs for which direct evidence of cannibalism is known, along with Tyrannosaurus rex, although its' unknown if they actively cannibalized its own species or eat the injured and/or already dead specimen's corpses. When attacking Majungasaurus would bite and not let go, since its teeth curved backward and it had jaws made for gripping than slashing. Current size estimates put it around 8 metres at highest estimation. It was noted for cannibalism by BBC One documentary known as Planet Dinosaur. However, despite there's a high possiblity of cannibalism; as portrayed as active cannibals by most documentaries; it has to be stated, that it is unclear that if the fossil cases are an active cannibalisiation; akin to Modern Komodo Dragons; or Scavenging the dead/dying, similiar to most animals do today, including Humans in time of famines.
Misconception of "Majungatholus"
A braincase was gound beside a fossil remains of a Majungasaurus mistaken with the dome of a Pachycephalosaur. It was considered to be it's own genus until 1996 when a scientist compared it with the brow horn of Majungasaurus and after that it was crystal clear that Majungatholus remains were actually a brow horn of a Majungasaurus. Since then it is considered as the junior synonym of Majungasaurus.
In Popular Culture
- Majungasaurus makes an appearance in Jurassic Fight Club under its' old name Majungatholus where a male wants to mate with the female, but the female will not tolerate it because of her young. The male kills the juvenile but gets killed himself.
- Majungasaurus also starred in Dinosaur Revolution, where a Majungasaurus appears to almost step on a Rahonavis and attacks a Rapetosaurus. Later, two baby Majungasaurus chase the Rahonavis up a tree, but they couldn't climb and they ended up as food for two Beelzebufo.
- Majungasaurus also appeared in Prehistoric Assassins "Claws & Jaws" Where it was hunting a Rapetosaurus.
- The dinosaur also appears in Last Killers from BBC Planet Dinosaur, where a female Majungasaurus and her young scare away a flock of Rahonavis for the carcass of a dead Rapetosaurus. A male soon appears, wanting to also feast, scares off the femlae and her offspring; although later the female becomes aggressive and attacks the unsuspecting male, who ends up as food for the female and her young.
- The dinosaur-themed rock act Majungas, from Chicago, is inspired from Majungasaurus.[1] Their self-titled song "Majunga" off the album "Hear the Roar"[2] is a tribute to the Majungasaurus.
- Majungasaurus is one of the first unlockable dinosaurs in Jurassic World: The Game. Unlike the real Majungasaurus, the game depicts it with two large digits instead of four small digits.
- Majungasaurus makes an appearance in the second season of Dinosaur King. It's coloring matches that of a milk snake.
- Majungasaurus appeared in Jurassic World: Alive.
- Majungasaurus will be one of five exclusve dinosaurs that will be added to the deluxe edition of Jurassic World: Evolution. Its' coloration is mainly grey-ish brown all over the body with dark brown stripes all over the body with white osteoderms.
- Majungasaurus makes a minor appearance in Discovery Channel's Mutant Planet aka Planet Evolution episode "Madagascar" where it sees the asteroid hits into the earth & after the blast, it was seen making one last roar before it died out along with the other Dinosaurs. Due to it's appearance, it almost looked like a Tyrannosaurus rex.
- A Genetic material of Majungasasaurus was in possession of InGen by 2014 and was used in the genetic hybrid Indominus rex in the film Jurassic World.
- Majungasaurus appears in the ROBLOX game "Era of Terror: Remastered", replacing its relative carnotaurus.


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MELBOURNE | Emerald - 35 Albert Road | 20L | 60m | Residential
Slow progress
car park levels generally are, jump form seemed to be about 5 above ground today
I agree with Andre, Construction has been going on for about a year now and it doesn't seem like they have made significant improvement on the progress of the construction. You guys reckon it will be completed by end of next year?
I'd say yes
excavation, footings and irregular carpark levels take time. Should be above ground now and with a uniform floors from now on it will speed up considerably
Thanks for updating the progress guys.. Please keep it posted
thanks mark for the update
Hey, does anyone know the date this building is supposed to be finished/ready for settlement?
^^ there are one or two buyers that look at the thread, but evidently no answer as yet
Hey guys,
I was told by the developer that this project would be completed by the end of the year / early 2015.
but they have another 2 years or so to complete it according to contractual agreement.
Hope that answers your question.
Hi Mark, Thanks for all the photo uploads.
Any more updates would be appreciated.
Hi Guys,
I got a call from the Golden Age group only yesterday, they said settlement at this stage is looking around christmas time. In 3 months they will send an email with an updated settlement time! Loving the photo updates, even though I can walk a block away when I'm in Melbourne! :)


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The head of Uganda's Revenue Authority (URA), Ms Doris Akol, has denied a report that was first published by privately-owned newspaper Daily Monitor about a plan to tax Bibles and Korans, BBC reports.
The media outlet had reported that the Uganda leaders developed the plan after months of discussions between the tax authorities and religious organisations, the latter of whom remained opposed to the proposition.
Clerics across faith groups reacted to the proposal with consternation and disbelief, insisting the religious materials should be tax-exempt since they use them for "spiritual nourishment" of Ugandans.
The secretary-general of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council, Ramathan Mugalu, told the Daily Monitor that the government has "gone too far".
"How can you tax the word of God?" he asked.
The secretary-general of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, Joshua Kitakule, was also unhappy about the decision.
"These items are not meant for profit; so, it is erroneous to tax them," he told the newspaper.
However, Akol has revealed that the story was "fake news".
So @URAuganda @URA_CG and @NRMOnline is so desperate 4 taxes to such extent? Who advises this govt? @Parliament_Ug pic.twitter.com/AZtfbMXgWI
— Arthur Mirama Agaba (@ArthurMirama) May 14, 2018
She made this in a reply to a Twitter user who was questioning the government's alleged plan.
Fake news. The amendments are actually intended to exempt Bibles and Qur'ans. Ref. VAT Amendment Act 2018
— Doris Akol (@URA_CG) May 15, 2018
She said the new tax plan exempts the religious books.
Hon David Bahati has clarified on the article published in the @DailyMonitor alleging that govt has levied tax on bibles and Qurans. He says there will be no such tax as this would mean 'standing in the way of spreading the word of God' #PlenaryUg pic.twitter.com/tM55jqPGyw
— Parliament of Uganda (@Parliament_Ug) May 15, 2018
The Uganda parliament has also tweeted a reaction from Finance Minister David Bahati, he is quoted as saying, " there will be no such tax as this would mean standing in the way of spreading the word of God":


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'Dorinda' Vintage 1940s/50s Brown Veiling on Newspaper - Approx. 2m
This 'Dorinda' brown fine vintage veiling dates was found wrapped around a 1950's German newspaper but very likely dates to the earlier period of the 1940s. It's got the most fabulous pattern and has a super fine structure.
With about 2m on the newspaper we are selling it as a whole piece as it has quite a few breakages throughout, although it does not distract from the overall look of the veiling. Newspaper included!
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Graph Search Ads
If you thought Facebook just launched the Graph search only for an easy access for connections then you must think again. This graph search ads will be a great deal for both customers and sellers. With Graph search ads rolling in, the ads will be targeted based on the search history of the user which will be directed so neatly that engagement will increase by many folds.
The ads will be targeted on various factors such as location, search, and also on the type of profile the user or the sellers have. In other words the targeted ads will be a great demand generation business as users will be easily be able to access things nearby and according to their likes and needs.
If you are not able to understand what I mean then let's make it simple. Generally when you want something , you Google it ! But Google being a search engine brings you everything and on top of that the results on the first page are not always what one wants to see whereas on the other hand Facebook being a social network stores all your info and behavior which will be used to target the best in ad graph searches for you resulting in a greater satisfactory factor. For this very reason Google has been trying to bring all it's services under one user name so that it can too target you just like the Graph search.
Since most of the sellers use Facebook to engage more users with the help of Facebook pages , it becomes certainly the best demand fulfillment choice as they have already spent so much money advertising on Facebook and have earned from so many sales . But with the introduction of this they will simply have tremendous possible engagements that were not possible via Google, although Google has maps to help sellers meet buyers but still they aren't targeted so the engagement is not that effective as Graph search.
So now the best thing to do would be to update you Facebook accounts as frequently as you can so that you have maximum possible engagement. The Graph search ads were recently tested but they were not targeted, but expect the test to be just a drill for a bigger party. Hope this will help you engage more sales. :)
Happy Earnings ! Happy Engagement ! Happy Sales! Happy subscribing! Happy connecting! Happy Graph search! Happy advertising!
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US may develop "next generation" biological weapons in its laboratories located in Ukraine.
Americans framed former head of the IMF Dominique Strauss Kahn – who was a favourite for the upcoming presidential election in France in 2011. He was a critic of US economic policy, harmful for France as well. As president of France, he might have been inconvenient for the Americans. It was a political assassination of a man, who had all chances of becoming the President of France. Therefore in 2012 François Hollande, who was considered useful for the Americans, was put into the presidential chair in France.
Conspiracy theory with no evidence. Consistent with pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about American domination in Europe and lack of democracy in France. For examples see: French Maidan is a lesson for those who refuse to obey American diktat; France is not a liberal democracy.
More on Dominique Strauss-Kahn: CNN.


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Book Study: Tactics by Gregory Koukl
January 6 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMFree
Greg Koukl, President of Stand to Reason (str.org) just released a ten-year anniversary edition of his popular book, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions. This expanded edition includes updates and expansions of existing tactics, as well as the addition of an all-new tactic and a chapter on "Mini Tactics" filled with simple maneuvers to aid in discussions.
Our study will include viewing the videos from Koukl to introduce and explain each tactic. We will also practice each tactic in the safety of our study group.
Tactics provides the game plan for communicating the compelling truth about Christianity with confidence and grace. You'll never be afraid to share your faith again!
We will meet the first and third Monday of each month (beginning Monday January 6) at 7pm at Valley Church in West Des Moines.


text: Public Sector Convera releases government search engine beta Grant Gross @itworldca Published: August 15th, 2006Convera Corp. has released a beta version of anew search engine designed to help U.S. government workers findrelevant information within the glut of data on the Internet.The Govmine search engine, available at Govmine.com,uses similar pattern-recognition and semantic analysis that Converacreated for its database search software used by several U.S.agencies, said Kurt Gastrock, Convera's chief operatingofficer.Convera announced the beta of Govmine Monday.Convera has been working on search technologies for more than adecade, and the company's customers have included the U.S.Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, theDepartment of State and the Department of the Treasury, Converasaid.Govmine, free to any Internet user, will be focused ongovernment workers and the way they create search strings. Througha decade of providing database search for government agencies,Convera is able to structure search results based on past government worker queries, Gastrock said."Govmine is able to understand a searcher's query," he said."It's a much faster way of finding solid information."Govmine, which Convera bills as an "alternative" search engine,also categorizes its search results and focuses on relevance, notthe most popular results, unlike traditional search engines,Gastrock said. Govmine is designed to consider synonyms, alternatemeanings and relationships between seemingly disparate data.For example, a search on "NSA wiretapping" on Govmine.com yieldscategorized results including 103 blog entries, 54 poll results and151 results under a "controversy" category.The search results also suggest related concepts such aselectronic surveillance and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,and it lists raw search results, including media reports on theU.S. National Security Agency and its wiretapping activities.In June, search engine giant Google Inc. announced a search engine aimed at people trying to findU.S. government information. But Convera is aiming Govmine at adifferent market, government workers looking for structured searchresults, Gastrock said."Traditional search technology doesn't really understandcontext," Gastrock said. "[Govmine] is not just keywords. We lookat context and relevance." Public Sector government


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[1.6.4] - 964 - Mac OSX 10.9.2 - ForgeGradle build failed (doForgePatchs)
nallar replied to cygnis's topic in ForgeGradleNot sure if this is actually your problem, but from that log it looks like it's actually using the 1.6 JDK: setting 'sun.boot.library.path' to '/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Libraries' setting 'java.runtime.version' to '1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609' 'java.endorsed.dirs' to '/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/endorsed' Try setting your JAVA_HOME environment variable to the 1.7 JDK path?
[1.6.4][Gradle] doForgePatchesPatching Failed
nallar replied to navybofus's topic in Modder Supportedit: Java 8 doesn't work with 1.6.4 ForgeGradle, make sure your JAVA_HOME is set to a java 7 JDK.
[1.5.2] ForgeBackup v1.1.2: Easy backups for SMP and SSP worldsIn BackupModContainer, "InputStream modInfo = BackupModContainer.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("mcmod.info");" should probably be "InputStream modInfo = BackupModContainer.class.getResourceAsStream("/mcmod.info");". Currently it finds the first modinfo file in the classpath, which isn't necessarily the right modinfo file.
[SOLVED] Maven repository
nallar replied to nallar's topic in SuggestionsI settled on including this script. A maven repo isn't too important, however it may be a good idea as many bukkit plugin developers already use maven for their builds. Just wondering, what do you like to use instead of maven? Your own build scripts, ant, or something else? PS: Only tangentially related, here's a small suggestion for an improvement to your current repo: make it easy to see the version number of the recommended build, instead of needing to download it and check the version properties file.
[SOLVED] Maven repository
nallar posted a topic in SuggestionsIt would be nice to have a maven repository with forge builds, it's nice not to need to include forge jars in your repo while still allowing for single-step builds. (Ok, two if you include cloning the repo, or downloading a tarball! )


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1. National Eat at a Food Truck Day
Get a free meal by bringing a friend to any participating Austin food truck. Just say the words "Food Truck Friend" when purchasing something at a truck. Participating Austin food trucks include Belly Up!, Texas Chili Queens and Wanderlust Coffee. The offer requires purchase of one item and is good at participating locations. https://www.neaftd.com/cities/austin
2. Austin Belly Dance Convention
Held Friday-Sunday, the event features more than 50 hours of belly dancing, music classes and presentations for all levels and styles. Prices vary. Noon-10 p.m. (Fri.), 8 a.m.-10 p.m. (Sat.), 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (Sun.). www.theabdc.com/
3. Keep Austin Weird Fest and 5K
Celebrate with the Austin community at Keep Austin Weird Fest and 5K. Dress up in costume and join the world's slowest 5K. There will be minicab races, Willie Nelson braiding stations and local music throughout the night. 4-9 p.m. Downtown Austin, 800 W. Riverside Drive, Austin. $11 for kids, $25 for adults. 512-524-2953, ext. 102. http://keepaustinweirdfest.com
4. Citywide Garage Sale
Held Saturday and Sunday, vendors sell secondhand, antique or used merchandise, such as furniture, clothes and jewelry. $7-$12. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Sat.), 11 a.m.-5 p.m. (Sun.). Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Road, Austin. http://www.citywidegaragesale.com/
5. African American Book Festival
The 11th annual African American Book Festival will take place at the Carver Museum and Library on Thursday and Saturday. The New York Times best-selling author Angie Thomas will discuss and read from her latest work at 6:30 p.m. Free. 1165 Angelina St., Austin. http://www.aabookfest.com/
6. PurpleStride Austin
The 5K run and family-friendly walk has a new route this year at Camp Mabry. The race and walk aim to raise funds for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. 7-9:30 a.m. 2200 W. 35th St., Austin. http://support.pancan.org/site/TR?fr_id=1145&pg=entry


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"We came from England to make gin," says Jon Lark, cradling a bottle of Kis Wild Gin at his unpretentious backyard still in South Australia's Kangaroo Island. When gin-drinking saw a renaissance in the 2000s, Jon travelled to Europe with his wife Sarah to understand the intricacies of gin-making. They apprenticed at distilleries and returned to set up their own on Kangaroo Island, where they absorbed indigenous Australian botanicals into their recipes, in 2007. The results show in the extraordinary gin and liqueurs they produce at Kangaroo Island Spirits, Kis to the impatient.
Teetotallers must know that gin is a white spirit flavoured with juniper berries and assorted botanicals like coriander, orange, lemon, angelica root and cardamom. It evolved from jenever—the juniper-flavoured traditional liquor of the Netherlands and Belgium. Gin became popular in England during the 18th century; rather wildly popular, in fact, as the period is known in history as the Gin Craze.
Gin-drinking was encouraged to restrict the import of brandy from France, which was at war with England. With widespread demand, gin-making spun out of control as distilleries mushroomed everywhere. Elitists, scoffing at the drunken laity, imposed punitive taxes on distillers. Naturally, this drove the business underground.
Lark, who knows his history, enthusiastically presents a bottle of Old Tom, a sweetish gin that aficionados hail as the 'missing link' between jenever and London dry. The black cat on the label is a throwback to the Gin Craze. The story goes that one enterprising pub owner stuck a woodcut of a black cat on his door, with a slot for a penny under its paw and a lead pipe next to it. Tipplers would slip a penny in the slot and out of the lead pipe would pour a shot of gin.
Taking a traditional gin, Lark gave it "a New World bent" by adding Boobialla—the purple berry of a local tree that botanists know as Myoporum. "The locals call it juniper but it's not, though it is flavoursome, aromatic and does have some pine-iness to it," says Lark. Blended with common juniper, this became Wild Gin. Then came O Gin, distilled using Olearia, the coastal daisy bush sometimes called wild rosemary. Blended with orange and long pepper, it is less floral and more savoury; perfect for cocktails.
Besides gin, Kangaroo Island Spirits also makes vodka and liqueurs at its micro-distillery. The Larks are crazy about the 'Slow Spirits' movement—a lot like slow food, in that their spirits are made from fresh, seasonal and locally sourced ingredients.
It's more than just another Gin Craze.
A version of this story first appeared on July 1 at TheLabel.in
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Almost three decades ago, the first People's Revolution (Jana Andolan I) toppled the autocratic, absolute monarch.
The autocrat and his cronies ran a repressive, an oppressive, and some times brutal regime, holding the people back from making social, economic and political progress. The ruling elite, overwhelmingly hill High Caste Hindus (Khas Aryas), derived their legitimacy from the 1854 laws written by their forefathers, which, among other things, legalized the Caste System, a system that classified a significant percentage of the population as enslavable, and, those at the bottom, untouchable.
Merely half-a-dozen years later, in 1996, a civil war was begun for, among other things, a more inclusive Nepal.
It lasted ten years and over 16K people died. Then, in 2006, the People's Revolution II (Jana Andolan II), toppled the second coming of the autocratic monarch — rather his brother, who took over the reins in a royal coup in 2002. The institution of the monarchy was abolished just a couple of years later by the Constituent Assembly.
And yet, in what we teach our children, almost three decades on since the first revolution, at least what the Grade 8 Social Studies textbooks teach our children, we are still stuck in the days of the autocrats.
It's like none of anything that have transpired and we have done ever did.
When I came across the textbook at one of the private schools where I am doing some science teacher training, I was curious.
I knew, from browsing a number of textbooks, that they were of abysmally poor quality. I have come across textbooks that are "Revised and Updated" to actually make money through a cartel system. I have come across a grade 1 computer studies textbook, revised as recently as 2016, but which teach our children about an obsolete thing: the floppy disk. I have even come across a third grade textbook that talks about polygamy, an illegal activity, as if it were a normal practice.
With the Social Studies textbook, I had to find out if it covered the Caste System, our anachronistic social system that follows a spurious logic.
As a Bhote, a low-caste (enslavable alcohol drinker), I suffered from what I perceived as caste-based discrimination in Nepal when growing up. (Click here and here for more on that.) I am aware of how Dalits, such as Pandav Mallik and those in Thangpalkot, suffer in the hands of others and how our systems and institutions flagrantly dscriminate against them. They are simply horrendous and unforgivable.
And yet, I don't recall a single time anyone at St. Xavier's addressing or discussing the Caste System during my ten years at the school!
Not an administrator, not a teacher, not a staff at the school, no one ever mentioned anything about the system, while students like me suffered silently in a number of different ways because of it. That most of my classmates and other Xaverian friends have struggled to talk about or discuss anything related to the system — and continue to do so even as middle-aged men now — is partly because we never did growing up. With many, I have not really had any honest or fruitful discussion even though I have written extensively about it, talked about it extensively on social media, and have also taken some action to try to address some of the issues etc.
Since returning to Nepal in May 2013 and being very vocal about many of the social ills our society suffers from, I have discovered that Nepalis in general — especially the well-off and privileged — are reluctant to engage in any kind of conversation or exchange about the system (as well as about many of the other social ills). I have decided that they are either in denial of the system or just don't want to know or, worse, just don't know and don't care to know about the pernicious system.
"But," I have been screaming inside myself, "It has shaped the social, economic, and political structures and systems of the country and, in the process, has inflicted much pain and suffering to a significant percentage of the population. How can you appear to be so blind to it?!"
Anyway, I have wondered why they are in denial of or don't seem to know much about the system.
And so, when I came across the Social Studies textbook, I realized it might hold the answer, and sure enough it did…part of it anyway!
I started with a browse of the table of contents. I identified two units, Units 2 and 3 (highlighted bit in the image below) as potential sections under which the topic might be covered.
Convinced that Lesson 1. Social Problems under Unit 3. Social Problems and Their Solutions, would most likely address the issue, I next turned to page 70…to be greeted by this (see image below)!
The stimulus consisted of two pages of texts covering just two social problems: Dowry and 'Intellectual Migration'. That was it! There was NO MENTION OF THE CASTE SYSTEM! (Yes, I am deliberately avoiding commenting on the quality of the text.)
So I went fishing for its coverage elsewhere, notably in Lesson 1 of Unit 2 but did NOT find it there either. Then I skipped to Lesson 3 of Unit 2 to discover why I was NOT finding it and why I wouldn't find it in this textbook at all! 🙁 🙁 See the text highlighted in purple in the image below.
To reiterate the pathetic gloss: "There are bigger issues to be dealt with in today's world compared to the small issues regarding religion and caste." [Emphases mine.]
So, firstly, what to me is, directly or indirectly, the BIGGEST source of many of — if not most of — the social, economic, and political problems our country faces as well as many of the social ills the country suffers from is a "small" issue to the authors or the publisher of the textbook. Secondly, painfully and hilariously at the same time, the authors want our fourteen year old eighth grade children to learn and know that, even as consistently poor as our country has been — making it into the list of five or ten poorest countries in the world many times — and even as consistently plagued by social problems throughout the modern history of country as we have been, our local issues are secondary to the "bigger issues" in "today's world".
Reading like a propaganda literature a royal autocrat and/or his cronies would produce to brainwash his subjects, had this textbook been from my student days back in the seventies and eighties, I wouldn't have batted an eye.
The King and his cronies, prior to 1990, did everything they could to prevent his subjects from acquiring higher level thinking skills, forget about doing what they could to make them independent thinkers. Pretty much all of the locally-published propaganda literature (ahem, textbooks) then, were produced by the government. The education system was set up to basically further the ethnic and nationalistic agenda of the King and the ruling class. There was NO reason for them to provide an education that could breed a population that might challenge his "birth-given right" to the throne and his family's "right" to the resources and riches of the country.
Private publishers have abounded for a while now though, but not much appears to have changed in the content and quality of the textbooks.
Nepalis might have more choices but they are all more of just the same! Even though published by a private company, the above stimulus just parrots the contentious constitution, notably the spiel about "unity in diversity," which, to me, is just a slogan worthy of a satire. 😀 😀 The rest (especially the bits highlighted in blue) is pretty much all propaganda that completely and totally denies ground realities.
That is NOT to say that there is a LOT of disharmony. No sir!!
What I am saying is that there is a significant disaffection. What I am saying is that this stimulus shoves one of causes of those societal disaffection under the rug and paints a rosy make-believe picture of our society. That is no different from the public service notice I found in a village in Sindhupalchok calling for the villagers to forget about the pain of the earthquake and to come together for reconstruction. That is also no different from the then-Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba blatantly lying to an audience at Columbia University about the victims of the 2015 magaquake not suffering from trauma.
Furthermore, keeping the population uneducated and uninformed, of course serves the elite as well as the agenda of nationalist and ultra-nationalist leaders. After all…
If, as the ruler of a country, you don't have much to give to the people & country, the easiest thing to give and sell to a largely uncritical population with a low level of education & awareness is nationalism. @amish973 in the @kathmandupost. #Nepal https://t.co/SV6jnyJ45u
— Dorje Gurung (@Dorje_sDooing) June 29, 2018
What's more, a paragraph in the second page of the stimulus (see image below) harks back to the days of the autocrats, when the country of "Ek bhasa, ek bhesh, ek desh" (one language, one attire, one country) was "Sundar, shanta bishal" (beautiful, peaceful, grand)!
We toppled the autocrat, we toppled his brother, and even eliminated the whole institution of the monarchy and declared the country a federal republic…and this book still uses sayings of the first King who initiated the expansionist campaign leading to the creation of Nepal, ruled by his posterity until about three decades ago and were completely sidelined about a decade ago.
Given that textbooks are revised and updated pretty much every single year, eliminating such blatantly cringe-worthy and sycophantic texts should be easy. But, of course, we are talking about Nepal. When the reason behind the whole process is to make money, rather than to educate the children, why would you?!
Besides, pretending that everything is great and honky-dory and everyone is great and amazing when it actually is not is a national ailment.
Everyone from the average Joes in the streets of Kathmandu to those in the corridors and rooms of the Secretariat in Singha Durbar are afflicted by it. Were "Who does not see the elephant in the room?" an Olympic sport, Nepalis would win, hands down. 😉 😉
Jokes aside though, what can you expect of a population when books such as these are their source of knowledge?! No wonder I keep meeting people who struggle to even recognize the existence of the caste system. I have met fellow citizens, both in person and on social media, who believe exactly what this textbook alludes to about the caste system. What's more, I have had Nepalis accuse me of being a "racist" or "promoting racism", also both in person and on social media, for raising the issues surrounding the system.
We might have done away with the royals but their ghosts still hold sway over those who play very important roles in the education of our children — namely who produce textbooks such as these — and in turn over us.
To be sure, the ghosts hold sway over many others, including many in positions of immense power and influence. KP Oil, our current Prime Minister, and his government is becoming more and more authoritarian, for example.
And when those ghosts call for the whitewashing of our pernicious social system — the caste system — in the textbooks, and when they do, no wonder those who have been "educated" with the use of such textbooks deny its existence so easily and readily.
When will we be free of them? When will they stop haunting us? When?
What do you think?
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The following were added after the publication of the blog post because of their relevance.
Nepali Times (Sept. 14, 2018). After quantity, Nepal's education needs quality. "Inadequate training of teachers and over-reliance on defective textbooks keeps learning sub-standard." [Added Sept. 20, 2018.]
Nepali Times (Aug. 7-13, 2015). U r welcome, wanna cu ASAP 4 a drink. "Textbooks in Nepal's schools aren't just outdated, they are outrageously bad." [Added Sept. 20, 2018.]
Kantipur (Aug. 6, 2018). अनुसन्धानमै बित्यो एक वर्ष | (A Year Gone Already in Investigation). This is about the corruption case Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has brought against Sajha Prakashan, public publishing house that produces all the textbooks public educational institution around the country use. "कर्मचारीका अनुसार [महाप्रबन्धक डोलिन्द्रप्रसाद] शर्माकी श्रीमतीको नाममा रहेको अक्सफोर्ड पब्लिकेसन र समिसम प्रकाशन नामक संस्था शर्माकै रहेको र समान प्रकृतिको संस्थाका सञ्चालक साझा प्रकाशनमा पदाधिकारी बन्नु नियमवालीविपरीत छ ।" [Added Sept. 20, 2018.]
The Kathmandu Post (May 27, 2017). Un-learning. Another excellent article about the abysmally poor quality of our textbooks. This one is about an English textbook. [Added on Nov. 16, 2018.]


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The first step of EU's MRV Shipping System regulations are coming into force 31. Aug. 2017.
Compliance is mandatory and will affect ALL vessels over 5000 GT regardless of flag as long as they are calling at any EU or EEA port: http://maritime-executive.com/blog/monitoring-plan-the-first-step-to-eu-mrv-compliance
How many shipping companies are ready for this I wonder? I wouldn't be surprised if it is going to be a mad rush in the two months left to try to get ready.
For those who are not ready, there are several companies ready, able and willing to help.
Here is one of them: http://solutions.veson.com/mrv


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The technology industry is booming, and everyday appliances are being redeveloped to be better than ever before thought possible. With many technology devices, part of a new design means the device is made smaller and portable. One of the most well-known examples is the computer, with original models weighing around one ton; computers are now portable devices that come in all different shapes, sizes and colors.
In the real estate industry, REALTORS®' time is divided between their office and showing homes; therefore, having a reliable device that can handle multiple work functions is essential. Laptop computers are an appealing option, but at times can be difficult to operate because of a lack of space and because they can be inconvenient to carry. Luckily, Intel and other computer companies are beginning to develop Desktop PC HDMI sticks that will connect directly to an HDMI port.
The HDMI sticks contain not only an Atom Quad-Core processor, but 2 GB of RAM for data storage. With the addition of a portable keyboard, HDMI sticks are light-weight and easy to transport from different places. They have the ability to plug into TV monitors to display 1080p display for flawless and visually appealing displays, another feature that would be very useful in real estate.
The current HDMI sticks that stand out are the windows based HDMI sticks known as Intel's ComputeStick as well as MeeGoPad T01.
HDMI sticks are available for sale now. For more information, visit http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-compute-stick.html.
Contributions to this article were made by Harry Albert, Tech Helpline analyst.
Helpful iPad and Outlook Tips
iOS8 Tip: Schedule Do Not Disturb on Your iPad
Do Not Disturb silences calls and alerts when iPad is locked.
Schedule it for overnight in Settings > Do Not Disturb and enjoy your beauty sleep. Your alarm will still ring.
iPad Tip: Multitasking
You can easily swap between apps without having to close the one you're using. Double-press the Home button quickly to bring up the multitasking view. This reveals your apps in the order they were opened as well as a screenshot of what you were doing.
Swipe from right to left to see more and tap on an icon or screenshot to switch back to that app.
iPad Tip: Turn Off Push Email
Using Push allows emails to be received even when you're not using the Mail app.
Keeping push email turned off can save quite a lot of juice though, particularly in areas with poor signal.
- To turn it off, go to Settings, select the Mail, Contacts, Calendar option, and then New Data. Turn off Push at the top of the screen then scroll down and set to Manually.
- To receive email with Push switched off, just open the Mail app.
Office 2013 Tip: Message Preview in Outlook 2013
Not all emails are important for you, some mails will be promotions and marketing stuff. So instead of opening the mail to view the contents, you can enable preview of emails in the inbox.
- From the Menu bar, click on View.
- From the Ribbon, click on Message Preview.
- You can set 1 line, 2 line and 3 line previews which shows the respective number of first lines from the email.
Contributions to this article were made by Kaz Cisowski, REALTOR®.
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Chris Christie Blasted As Sexist After Debate Opening Remarks: See Tweets
Just moments into the final GOP debate of 2015, NJ Governor Chris Christie already enraged the masses by doling out allegedly sexist rhetoric while attempting to speak on national security. Yikes!
NJ Governor Chris Christie was attempting to tell CNN moderators Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt that the United States was in dire straights after the bomb scare which caused the entire Los Angeles Unified School District to close for a day on December 15. Christie wanted to know what was going to happen the next day: how would the men going to work and the mothers taking their children feel? Um, exCUSE us? Many took to Twitter to share their rage. Click through to see their tweets!
"Think about the mothers who will take those children tomorrow morning to the bus stop, wondering if their children will arrive back on that bus safe and sound. Think about the fathers of Los Angeles who tomorrow will head off to work and wonder about the safety of their wives and their children," Christie said in his remarks on the LA bomb scare.
To many, it was an incredibly sexist remark, indicating that men hold jobs, and that all women are just wives and mothers stay at home with the children. Hello, Governor? If you want to be president you may need to look outside and realize it's not 1955 anymore! And yes, that point was not ignored by debate-watchers on Twitter.
Chris Christie's opening statement has mothers taking kids to school and dads going to work. As if we are living in 1950. #GOPDebate
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) December 16, 2015
In Chris Christie world, mothers take kids to the bus stop, while fathers head off to work worrying about their wives & children. #GOPDebate
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) December 16, 2015
Oh good I'm not the only guy that saw the sexist Chris Christie remark lol why do I bother watching this
— ethan (@EHekker) December 16, 2015
Wow. Governor Christie is from the East Coast, so he might not understand that women make up 40 percent of California's workforce. It's more than likely that some of those heading off to the work this coming day will be moms. His point that everyone is going to be worried about their children following the bomb threat is valid — but it shouldn't be gendered.
HollywoodLifers, are you shocked by Governor Christie's remarks? Tell us in the comments!


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A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Christmas Eve so that Santa Claus (or Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives. These small items are often referred to as stocking stuffers or stocking fillers. In some Christmas stories, the contents of the Christmas stocking are the only toys the child receives at Christmas from Santa Claus; in other stories (and in tradition), some presents are also wrapped up in wrapping paper and placed under the Christmas tree. Tradition in Western culture threatens that a child who behaves badly during the year will receive only a piece or pile of coal. However, coal is rarely if ever left in a stocking, as it is considered cruel. Some people even put their Christmas stocking by their bedposts so Santa Claus can fill it by the bed while they sleep.
While there are no written records of the origin of the Christmas Stocking, there are popular legends that attempt to tell the history of this Christmas tradition. One such legend has several variations, but the following is a good example:
This led to the custom of children hanging stockings or putting out shoes, eagerly awaiting gifts from Saint Nicholas. Sometimes the story is told with gold balls instead of bags of gold. That is why three gold balls, sometimes represented as oranges, are one of the symbols for St. Nicholas. And so, St. Nicholas is a gift-giver. This is also the origin of 3 gold balls being used as a symbol for pawnbrokers.[1][2]
A tradition that began in a European country originally, children simply used one of their everyday socks, but eventually special Christmas stockings were created for this purpose. The Christmas stocking custom is derived from the Germanic/Scandinavian figure Odin. According to Phyllis Siefker, children would place their boots, filled with carrots, straw, or sugar, near the chimney for Odin's flying horse, Sleipnir, to eat. Odin would reward those children for their kindness by replacing Sleipnir's food with gifts or candy.[4] This practice, she claims, survived in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands after the adoption of Christianity and became associated with Saint Nicholas as a result of the process of Christianization. Today, stores carry a large variety of styles and sizes of Christmas stockings, and Christmas stockings are also a popular homemade craft. This claim is disputed though as there is no records of stocking filling practices related to Odin until there is a merging of St. Nicholas with Odin. St. Nicholas had an earlier merging with the Grandmother cult in Bari, Italy where the grandmother would put gifts in stockings. This merged St. Nicholas would later travel north and merge with the Odin cults.[5]
Many families create their own Christmas stockings with each family member's name applied to the stocking so that Santa will know which stocking belongs to which family member.
The largest Christmas stocking measured 51 m 35 cm (168 ft 5.65 in) in length and 21 m 63 cm (70 ft 11.57 in) in width (heel to toe) and was produced by the volunteer emergency services organisation Pubblica Assistenza Carrara e Sezioni in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, on 5 January 2011. The event was organized in order to raise money for a charity helping the aged, one of the group's key functions, and it was also a seasonal celebration for the city of Carrara. Fulfilling the guideline that the stocking had to be filled with presents, the volunteers filled the stocking with balloons containing sweets inside.
The former World's Biggest Christmas Stocking was created by supporters of The Children's Society in December 2007. Guinness World Records awarded the stocking the title of the Largest Christmas Stocking on 14 December 2007 at ExCel in London.[6]
It was made out of over 6,000 squares of red knitting and measured 32.56m long, and 14.97m wide (heel to toe). It weighed the equivalent of three Reindeer and was filled with 1000 presents, which were then given to children in The Children's Society's projects.
The stocking was created as part of The Children's Society's knitting fundraising appeal, 'The Big Stitch'. £14,000 was raised through sponsorship.[6]
David Madera, the previous holder of the title had broken the record in Solomons Island in December 2010 with a stocking measuring 27.46 meters by 11.3 meters.[7]
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I was playing with some purple glitz and glam -- Face Of Australia's 'Castle on a Cloud' from their Pastels collection and a purple glitter nail polish from Chi Chi (this comes in a set of 8 lacquers from Target called 'Bling It On').
I topped that goodness off with Chi Chi's purple glitter top coat!
The clear-based glitter top coat contains large hexagonal glitters, accompanied by tiny round glitters. Although it did look pretty, I somewhat didn't like how the hex glitters are so large! I would've like it better at a smaller size..
The clear base is SO thick. Ugh. I went though a whole lot of trouble trying to get any hex glitters on the nails as the first coat gave me a fair amount of small rounds and about 1-2 hex's (sometimes, none at all). And because of its extremely thick consistency, I couldn't layer on a second coat or it'll never dry!
I'm really not impressed of this Chi Chi glitter coat, but I have two more bottles of these glitter lacquers to try until I can officially dub these as the 'thickest glitter top coats'! Hmph!
I wish you guys all had a wonderful and lovely Christmas where ever you are in the world! Today is my Mum's 54th birthday! My sister and I got beautiful peonies and lilies delivered to her workplace... ^_^
She asked me today, "If I were to receive flowers every year for my birthday, I wonder how many flowers more can I receive?".
You will be receiving birthday flowers for the rest of my life, silly! Happy birthday Mummy Pig!!! ^_^
I hope you guys are having a wonderful day! The weather is beautiful in Sydney today.. I'm home painting my nails.... again -_-"
What are you wearing on YOUR nails today?!


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Often when parents come with their teenage children for their first visit to Cleveland Orthodontics, we are asked, "Why has she/he still got baby teeth?"
This post explains at what age it is "normal" for baby teeth to fall out for children and teenagers and whether baby teeth can be taken out so that braces can start ASAP.
What is "normal"?
The baby teeth have usually all fallen out by 13-14 years of age. Girls tend to start losing baby teeth earlier than boys.
But this is very variable. In the same way that some children mature at different rates physically (e.g. height), some children are far earlier (or later) at losing their baby teeth than others.
Your dentist will be monitoring the loss of the baby teeth during your child's regular check-ups. If the baby teeth are being lost in a normal pattern and at the right age, a referral to the orthodontist may not be needed until all the baby teeth have been lost.
When might baby teeth be taken out?
Most dentists and orthodontists prefer the baby teeth to fall out naturally rather than be extracted. If baby teeth are taken out too early it can disrupt the eruption of the second teeth. Also multiple extractions can also be a traumatic experience for some children.
However there are some instances where the extraction of baby teeth may be considered. These include:
- Badly decayed baby teeth
- Impacted adult teeth, especially the upper canine teeth
- If no adult tooth has grown under the baby tooth. This affects around 5% of people. The most common teeth to be missing are the upper lateral incisors and the lower second premolars.
- Baby teeth still present after the age of 14 (for whatever reason)
Your dentist and/or orthodontist may need to take x-rays of the teeth to decide whether extractions are a good idea. So, the key is to ensure that children are taken for their regular check-ups.
There are all sorts of other things that may need an early orthodontic referral for children.
Can braces be started when baby teeth are still present?
Sometimes yes. Functional braces are used to correct teeth that stick out a lot. These can often be fitted with baby teeth still present.
There also some instances where it may be a good idea to have baby teeth out just before fixed braces are fitted. But this decision will have to be made after an assessment by your orthodontist as it is not always the best way forwards.
Orthodontic treatment is very popular these days and there is now a "fashion accessory" angle to the wearing of braces for teenagers… you can read more about this here.
Despite this, it is often better to let nature run its course by letting baby teeth fall out naturally rather than reaching for the dental forceps, especially for teenagers under the age of 14. However, orthodontists also understand that teenagers want to get brace treatment over with before they are in their later teens.
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Our specialist-led practice has been established since 1996 and provides brace treatment to people of all ages from across the North East and Teesside, including Middlesbrough, Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees, Billingham and Redcar.
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Thanks to Sue - we had the best desserts ever.
Thanks to Dale - we had a fantastic venue for our Christmas party
Our trip leader Colin promises to not get us lost.
It did not take long before the Corvettes started to arrive
The members keep coming from all over Brisbane
Thank you Garth for this beautiful photo
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Message From The Universe For You
Your life is like a ride on a speedboat into the sea. The boat starts at a slow pace and in no time it is thriving into the sea with superb speed. All of a sudden you realize this is no more a normal boat ride, before your moment of realization over you feels that there is no more sailing, it's jumping and flying over the waves. As the moment of adventure begins, your adrenaline rush takes its effect. You may get scared, hold your breath and sit back to pray when the ride going to end. Or you may choose to be to someone else. You may sit at the tip of the speedboat and experience the adventure, the way it jumps from one wave to another, the way it's roaring like it never going to stop and you enjoy every bit of this moment. At times you realize that if you slip from this point, God only knows what may happen to you but that very moment a smile flash in your soul and says "this is what life is all about, the risk brings adventure and the adventure brings the joy of winning over fear".
You start feeling victorious, you feel like you are conquering the sea. That moment you see with a winning soul into the endless sea ahead and you realize that the sea is waiting for you, not to scare you but to welcome you by sprinkle water on your face from those wild waves. The very moment you know that the whole Universe is waiting for you in the middle of a sea, now you can hear only roaring with a speedboat and loud laughter of your own. You experience a divine peace, that's what life is all about.
The sea is always there to give you a divine adventure like your life, it's only the fear that was keeping you back, now your adventure made you win over your fear.
You can choose to be a safe traveler at the back or you can be the ultra-adventurer of life.
Always choose to be the Adventurer keeping all risk at the tip. That's the moment you I experience immense joy of life on every jump and on every fall. The universe is always with you.
Go ahead enjoy the adventure of life.
The Universe