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Welcome to The House Of Dandridge's "Non-Profit BILLBOARD" Page!
Each month we will choose a different non-profit or charity to spotlight and highlight ways in which you can help by volunteering, promoting, attending fundraising events, etc.
Do Something : Have Your Donation Doubled During Hetrick-Martin Institute's June Match!
Our very own DJ Chauncey D is indubitably excited to be spinning live on the Hetrick-Martin Institute float in this year's New York City Pride Parade on Sunday, June 30th! Hetrick-Martin Institute is an extremely important LGBT Youth focused organization that helps to keep our younger siblings in the community safe and strong and is also the home of The Harvey Milk School!
Here is their mission statement:
The Hetrick-Martin Institute believes all young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. Hetrick-Martin creates this environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth between the ages of 12 and 24 and their families.
Through a comprehensive package of direct services and referrals, Hetrick-Martin seeks to foster healthy youth development. Hetrick-Martin's staff promotes excellence in the delivery of youth services and uses its expertise to create innovative programs that other organizations may use as models.
Vital programs usually need vital resources and that is where you come in…any donation you make until the end of June will be doubled! Go get to it! Get that credit card out!
June is one of the most significant months for LGBTQ youth.
In its own way, it's exciting with the end of the school year, the beginning of summer and Pride month. On the other hand, it is the most precarious time of year for our young people.
Thanks to the support of the HMI Board of Directors, every dollar you give in the month of June will be matched up to $100,000–with your support, that can be $200,000 to keep HMI's vital youth programming up and running throughout the summer and beyond
HMI provides services throughout the summer months to youth who are not in school and need our support systems more than ever. This summer, youth will come to HMI for job readiness training, GED prep and academic enrichment programs. Many of our members will come to HMI because they have nowhere else to turn for a hot meal, clean clothes or a hot shower; many even coming to seek refuge from abuse and violence.
Here's how you can help change the lives of our youth during HMI's June match:
· Make a personal donation (www.hmi.org/donate);
· Invite friends to dinner and have each of them add $5 or $10 to their share of the bill and
donate the remainder to HMI after the check is paid;
· Host a dinner party at home and have cash boxes for your guests to leave donations for
HMI's June match;
· If you own a bar or restaurant, host an HMI night and give a percentage or all the proceeds to
HMI's June match;
· Any retailer can donate a percentage or all the proceeds from their business to HMI's June Match
HMI's programs and services wouldn't be possible without your generous support; your life-changing donations can help change the lives of LGBTQ youth.
If you would like more information on any of these opportunities, please contact Allen Cohen at 212.674.2600 x278 or email@example.com.
Please make checks payable to Hetrick-Martin Institute, 2 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003.
Right now we're going to do something a little different simply because of its urgency as well as featuring an issue that is a hot button topic in today's LGBT Community politics.
Please Help a Brother Out: Come Fund Top Surgery for Bryan
Please Help a Brother Out: Come Fund Top Surgery for Bryan
By now practically everyone in the Queer Nation has heard of the really unfortunate incidents that occurred in March of this year on the Washington Mall during the Supreme Court arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
But do you know the real people who it happened to? Well meet the guy who was holding the Trans* Flag that day.
As Bryan Ellicott explains, what started as a happy and exciting day of LGBT Pride & History turned into his "Supreme Court Marriage Rally Transphobic Experience From Hell" when a staffer and one of the big Gay Inc. groups (ok so it was HRC again) became upset to see other than approved people and symbols cluttering up their photo-op moments and tried to run the riffraff off. With Bryan his Flag suddenly thrust unwilling into a staring role as "unapproved riffraff".
A political activist for the progressive and LGBT community Bryan describes himself as an "open and proud bisexual transman". A native of Staten Island NY graduating from College of Staten Island with a BA in Poli Sci, he has interned in the offices of Christine Quinn, the Speaker of the New York City Council and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. During 2012, he went out and worked in the Ohio OFA (Organizing for Action) office helping re-elect Obama to a second term. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy Bryan worked with FEMA doing Community Relations work. He's currently a board member of theStonewall Democrats of New York City and a campaign aid (LGBT Liaison) to Mel Wymore in his run for the New York City Council.
Says Bryan,
"the bulk of my work is in the LGBT community whether it be advocating for Marriage Equality across the country, calling out the need those who talk ill to me or any of my transgender brothers and sisters as well as my continued work for Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) in New York State or when it comes to people learning about bisexuality and not thinking those horrible myths are anything but that."
When trouble came Bryan and his friends were there standing strong representing the the entire LGBT Community. So while you are cheering the symbolism please also remember the actual person. Says Bryan,
"I wanted to ask you my brothers and sisters to help me in my journey. Top surgery is my next step toward the place I want to be. Anything you can do to help me would be most appreciated and if you could share this with others that would be amazing as well."
So what do you says people? He was there for us. Can you be there for him?Please click the link and Help Fund Top Surgery for Bryan. Thanks
Bialogue is an activist/political social justice group working on issues of local, regional, national & international interest that effect the bisexual, non-monosexual, queer-identified and greater LGBTQ+ Community.
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January is Visual AIDS Month!
Celebrate Visual AIDS' 25th Anniversary
@ the 15th Annual Postcards From the Edge
Hosted by Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
NEW DATES: January 25-27, 2013
For more info click here.
Call for Artists:
Postcards From the Edge
A Benefit for Visual AIDS
DEADLINE for submissions EXTENDED to Wednesday, January 2nd
We invite artists to donate a 4″ x 6″ original work on paper for our Postcards From the Edge exhibition and benefit sale. Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and mixed media are all welcome.
Artists must be 18 years or older to participate. Only one entry per artist.
To participate, please carefully follow these steps:
- Download submission form here. Complete both Collector and Visual AIDS record form. (If you prefer to receive submission forms and a blank postcard by mail, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Visual AIDS)
- Create your original artwork on any 4″ x 6″ heavy weight paper. (Recommended: 140lb watercolor paper.) ONE entry per artist. Click here for more artwork rules and suggestions.
- Sign and Print Name on the BACK ONLY. Indicate the top with an arrow.
- Carefully package artwork. Recommended: wrap artwork in wax paper and place between cardboard. DO NOT wrap wet or sticky artwork. DO NOT send charcoal or pastel drawings that are not fixed or easily smear.
- If you need confirmation that we received your artwork, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard, which will be mailed back to you.
- UNSOLD artwork will NOT be returned unless a 6″ x 9″ SASE is included with submission. Please be sure proper USA postage is included. Visual AIDS is not responsible for artwork lost or damaged in the mail.
- Suggested entry donation. We truly appreciate your generous contribution of artwork. There has never been an entry fee for Postcards From the Edge, but keep overhead cost down, please consider making a donation.Your donation will help Visual AIDS celebrate its 25th Anniversary and continue its important work … because AIDS is NOT OVER.
- Mail the following by Wednesday, January 2, 2013 to Visual AIDS:
- artwork
- submission forms
- confirmation card (optional)
- 6″x9″ SASE for return of unsold work (optional)
- entry donation (optional)
Send to:
Visual AIDS
526 West 26th Street #510
New York, NY 10001
What is Visual AIDS?
Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness through producing and presenting visual art projects, while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. We embrace diversity and difference in our staff, leadership, artists, and audiences.
Postcards From the Edge is produced every year with help from volunteers who process the artwork, install the exhibition, and work during the event. To join in the fun, please contact Visual AIDS at email@example.com.
Images courtesy of Steven Rosen Photography
Postcards From the Edge
Hosted by Sikkema Jenkins & Co
BENEFIT SALE – Saturday, January 26th and Sunday, January 27th, $85 EACH
Take a guess: Over 1500 anonymous displayed postcard-size masterpieces. First-come, first-served. $5 suggested admission. Cash, check, credit card (MC/VISA/AMEX) accepted. Proceeds benefit Visual AIDS.
PREVIEW PARTY – Friday night sneak peak, January 25 – the only opportunity to see the entire exhibition. No sales.
VIP Preview - $85 admission (payable at the door) allows you into the gallery one hour before the crowd arrives, so you can get a closer look at all the artwork. Admission includes two raffle tickets – enter for the chance to win prizes, including the FIRST PICK of any postcard that evening!
Artist Preview - Participating artists can attend the preview for free one hour after VIP Preview.
All participating artists are invited to attend the ARTISTS PREVIEW PARTY for FREE starting at 6PM. No need to RSVP. ALL names will be held at the door. Free admission is for participating artist ONLY — additional guests can buy tickets at the door.
Artists requesting return of unsold postcards and those requesting information about the collector of her/his artwork will receive notice in 4-6 weeks.
here is a portion of the list of previous Postcards From The Edge artists
Past Postcards From the Edge artists include: Vito Acconci, Dennis Adams, Ricci Albenda, Meredith Allen, Jose Alvarez, Emma Amos, Carl Andre, PollyApfelbaum, Ida Applebroog, David Armstrong, Dotty Attie, Alice Aycock,Aziz + Cucher, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Burt Barr, Lynda Barry, Barton Lidice Benes, Lyndia Benglis, Peter Berlin, Katherine Bernhardt, Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Nancy Brooks Brody, AA Bronson, Robert Buck, Matthew Buckingham, NancyBurson, Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Aaron Cobbett, Greg Colson, Renee Cox, Kim Dingle, John Dugdale, Angela Dufresne, Marcel Dzama, Frank Egloff, Nicole Eisenman, Joy Episalla, Mitch Epstein, John Evans, Neil Farber, TonyFeher, Angelo Filomeno, Karen Finley, Louise Fishman, Flechemuller, Robert Flynt, Tom Friedman, Adam Fuss, Joy Garnett, Jeff Gauntt, LuisGispert, Judy Glantzman, Milton Glaser, Robert Gober, Anthony Goicolea, Nan Goldin, Leon Golub, Maria Elena Gonzalez, Joanne Greenbaum, HansHaacke, Ann Hamilton, Jane Hammond, Erik Hanson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mary Heilmann, Geoffrey Hendricks, Arturo Herrera, Matthias Herrmann, Jim Hodges, Elizabeth Huey, Scott Hug, David Humphrey, James Hyde, Alfredo Jaar, Emily Jacir, Bill Jacobson, Xylor Jane, Bill Jensen, ChrisJohanson, Joan Jonas, Michael Joo, Miranda July, Nina Katchadourian, JohnKelly, Brian Kenny, Terence Koh, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, JulianLaVerdiere, Louise Lawler, Cary Leibowitz, Charles LeDray, Zoe Leonard, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Whitfield Lovell,Lovett/Codagnone, Vera Lutter, Giles Lyon, McDermott & McGough, Kerry James Marshall, Barry McGee, Julie Mehretu, Robert Melee, Marilyn Minter, Mary Miss, Donald Moffett, Slava Mogutin, Frank Moore, Carrie Moyer, MattMullican, Vik Muniz, Elizabeth Murray, James Nares, Yoko Ono, CatherineOpie, Dennis Oppenheim, Tom Otterness, Tony Oursler, HermesPayrhuber, Ed Paschke, Sheila Pepe, Paul Pfeiffer, Jack Pierson, WilliamPope L., Richard Prince, Ernesto Pujol, Paul Henry Ramirez, Jessica Rankin, Erwin Redl, Richard Renaldi, Eric Rhein, Dorothea Rockburne, Tim Rollins + KOS, Kay Rosen, Sterling Ruby, Edward Ruscha, Betye Saar, Tom Sachs, Carolee Schneemann, Gary Schneider, Collier Schorr, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Joel Shapiro, Jim Shaw, Mark Sheinkman, Kate Shepherd, Cindy Sherman, Amy Sillman, Tom Slaughter, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Annie Sprinkle, Stuart Sandford, Pat Steir, Billy Sullivan, Sarah Sze, Philip Taaffe, BarbaraTakenaga, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Scott Treleaven, Spencer Tunick, RichardTuttle, Penelope Umbrico, Bill Viola, Kara Walker, John Waters, Carrie MaeWeens, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Matthew Weinstein, TomWesselman, Fred Wilson, Millie Wilson, Rob Wynne, Lynne Yamamoto, Carrie Yamaoka, John Zaso and many, many others …
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December is Ali Forney Center Month!
We have fallen behind on our Non-Profit of the Month Spotlights but this is the perfect time to start up again…with an organization that is desperately in need of help, support and money.
The Ali Forney Center provides housing for homeless LGBT youth in New York City and it's surrounding areas. From runaways to kids who have been thrown out of their house for being gay, The Ali Forney Center is basically a haven and makeshift fortress for the future of the LGBT community. AFC is the nation's largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBTQ youth. Their goal is to provide homeless LGBTQ youths, aged 16-24, with the support and services they need to escape the streets and begin to live healthy and independent lives. Read more
One of the annexes of AFC in Chelsea was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy flooding and has devastated the organization. As the holidays and the cold weather approach, the thought that even more LGBT youth than usual may be stranded in the limbo of NYC because of this disaster is horrific to say the least.
Click here to find out ways you can help by donating and/or volunteering
Items Always Needed:
- Toiletries
- Cleaning supplies
- Office supplies
- Twin sheet sets
- Towels and wash cloths
- Socks, underwear and T-shirts
- School supplies and book bags.
They DO NOT accept used clothing, linens, or toiletries.
These items can be dropped off at our Main Office (224 West 35th Street, 15th Floor)
Click here to find out how you can also create your own fundraising campaign
Dear Friends,
On Friday we were finally able to inspect our drop-in center in Chelsea, half a block from the Hudson River. Our worst fears were realized; everything was destroyed and the space is uninhabitable. The water level went four feet high, destroying our phones, computers, refrigerator, food and supplies.
This is a terrible tragedy for the homeless LGBT youth we serve there. This space was dedicated to our most vulnerable kids, the thousands stranded on the streets without shelter, and was a place where they received food, showers, clothing, medical care, HIV testing and treatment, and mental health and substance abuse services. Basically a lifeline for LGBT kids whose lives are in danger.
We are currently scrambling for a plan to provide care to these desperate kids while we prepare to ultimately move into a larger space that will better meet our needs. The NYC LGBT Center has very kindly and generously offered to let us temporarily use some of their space, and we hope to determine the viability of that on Monday. Also, I am especially thankful that none of our housing sites were affected by the hurricane and that none of our clients or staff were injured by the storm.
It is heartbreaking to see this space come to such a sad end. For the past seven years it has been a place of refuge to thousands of kids reeling from being thrown away by their parents for being LGBT. For many of these kids coming to our drop-in center provided their first encounter with a loving and affirming LGBT community.
I thank all of you for your care and support in a most difficult time.
- Carl Siciliano
March/April is BAGLY Month!
BAGLY: The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth, is a youth led, adult supported social support organization, committed to social justice, and creating, sustaining and advocating for programs, policies and services for the LGBTQ youth community.
In July of 1980, long before the days of community, political or financial support, BAGLY was founded by LGBTQ youth who believed that an organization led by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning youth would be central to meeting the core physical, social and developmental needs of Greater Boston's LGBTQ youth community. Turns out they were right! Three generations of queer youth movement leaders later, BAGLY is recognized nationally for its pioneering role in creating, sustaining and advocating for social support, leadership development and health promotion programs for LGBTQ youth. BAGLY's approach and historic practice, which has served over 30,000 youth, is replicated by programs and organizations across the country and our earliest programs (Including our Youth Speakers Bureau, youth led HIV/AIDS education and the nation's first prom for LGBTQ youth) have provided a foundation upon which many youth-led programs and organizations are built.
Become An Ally of BAGLY on Facebook
Follow @BAGLYinc on Twitter
Check out an exclusive Chauncey Chat with Kurtlan Massarky, BAGLY's Director of Development
October 2011 is LGBT History Month courtesy of Equality Forum
Thankfully, The Equality Forum has compiled a list of heavy hitters in the LGBT Community that have made an indelible mark on our heritage and constantly written epic saga of yearning for acceptance, boundary and genre bending and political perseverance. Each day the 30 second promo clip will refresh and a new person will be highlighted.
Some of these people are well known and some not. Get introduced or reintroduced to someone out there that has made a difference in the lives of so many. Feel free to leave a comment about how you feel about the icon spotlighted or perhaps a personal story you may have experienced with that person or because of that person. Let's have a dialogue!
Here is the list of icons for 2011 followed by a short video of their contributions and history.
April/May is
Dance Parade Month
On Saturday May 21, 2011 over 10,000 dancers will converge on the streets of New York City showcasing 65 forms of dance in a free outdoor dance parade and festival!
The parade route starts on 21st street, where we will boogie our way down Broadway, hula, swing and Irish step our way past Union Square and into University Place. At Eighth Street we will Salsa, Tango and Waltz East into Saint Marks Street. Our House, Techno and Disco floats will have afternoon shoppers wigglin as they watch us get down in the heart of the East Village. A straight shot from there brings us to DanceFest in Tompkins Square Park. At DanceFest we will come together and watch free dance performances on stage and at specific sites throughout the park–Free dance lessons are offered or you can enjoy a Dance Party.
Our mission is to promote dance as an expressive and unifying art form by showcasing all forms of dance, educating the general public about the opportunity to experience dance and celebrate the diversity of dance.
For more information on how we're changing the world through dance, click here for a downloadable overview. Come check out who's already registered. Is there a dance you don't see? Is there a group that should be apart of this? Get them to join us!
Join Dance Parade on Saturday, April 23rd for it's annual
International Dance Day Gala!
February/March is
Marriage Equality Month
(we unfortunately dropped the ball early February so we are extending our Non-Profit of the Month Status through March)
We need your help to win equal marriage rights for ALL New Yorkers.
Here's what you can do:
- VOLUNTEER! E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
- SIGN UP for our Newsletter, Action Alerts, and other updates by entering email above.
- DONATE to Marriage Equality New York.
- CONTACT your NY assembly member and NY state senator today.
- CONNECT with the MENY District Community Organizer (DCO) in your state senate district to get involved locally.
- ATTEND MENY events in your community and statewide. Check the Events Calendar.
- START a MENY chapter in your city or at your university.
- CHECK-IN with MENY's Blog for up-to-the-minute news.
"Like" MENY on Facebook
Follow MENY on Twitter
Wine Tasting for Marriage Equality Event
Join Marriage Equality NY PAC and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in celebrating the return of Spring with good wines, good food, and good friends, for a good cause.
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy" — Benjamin Franklin
Suggested donation of $50
Betsy Malcolm, Host
The Economic Impact of Gay Marriage in New York Event
Monday, March 14th 6:00pm
Met Life
How would Gay Marriage in New York Impact Your Business?
Find out more from John Liu, NYC Comptroller and a group of
panelists including representatives from Marriage Equality NY, American Airlines, Prestigious Elegant Event and the foremost economist on economic effects of gay marriage, M.V. Lee Badgett plus many others whose business will be impacted from same-sex civil marriage.
Followed by Q & A, networking opportunity, the session promises to deliver realistic financial status in real time with current world, social & governmental conditions and what might be the future.
Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
RSVP @ ManhattanCC.org/LGBT
$25 members / $35 non-members
Discussion moderated by Paul Schindler, Editor-In-Chief, Gay City News.
January is Visual AIDS Month!
Postcards from the Edge EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW…and more!The 13th Annual Postcards from the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS is this week! January 7-9, 2011 (rain, snow or shine) Hosted by CRG GalleryBENEFIT SALE Over 1400 anonymously displayed postcard-size artworks. (click here for a full list of artists) Saturday, January 8, 2011 from 10:00 – 6:00 $85 EACH. Buy 4 and get the fifth as our Thank You. (planning on waiting in line early? The Van Leeuwen truck will be parked out front of CRG Gallery on Saturday @ 9am with hot coffee and homemade pastries. Don't want to wait in line…bid on VIP Access)Sunday, January 9, 2011 from 12:00 – 4:00 $85 EACH. Buy 2 and get the thirdas our Thank You. PREVIEW PARTY Sneak Peek: The only opportunity to see the entire exhibition. No sales. Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m. $85 admission includes one raffle ticket. Admission payable at door. Participating artists attend free. RAFFLE One raffle ticket with price of admission. Additional raffle tickets $10 each. GRAND PRIZE – First pick of ANY POSTCARD that evening MUSEUM PRIZE PACKAGE – Membership and/or guest passes to Guggenheim, New Museum, Museum of Art & Design and Museum of Sex ARTISTS PRIZE PACKAGE – $100 Pearl Paint Gift Certificate and $50 Chelsea Frames Gift Certificate SILENT AUCTION Small works by Larissa Bates, Nicole Eisenman, Harmony Hammond, David Humphrey, Eric Rhein and Marc Swanson. Also bid on 2nd pick of any postcard that evening. NEW – Bid on the opportunity to be one of TEN people to receive VIP ACCESS to Postcards From the Edge. The ten highest bidders will get in the front of the line on Sat., January 8. VIP ACCESS allows you to go directly to the front of the line…NO WAITING. You will be allowed in the gallery as soon as the doors open at 10 AM. Once the doors open, those behind you in line will also be let into the gallery. Postcards from the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of over 1400 original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until purchased. All proceeds support the programs of Visual AIDS. Can't wait! Get a sneak-peek of Postcards from the Edge artwork now on Facebook or Flickr. Clickherefor a full list of participating artists.Questions? Visit out FAQ page here or email email@example.com AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving the legacy — because AIDS IS NOT OVER! visualAIDS.org |
December is Green Chimneys Month!
Launch nature-based career training for LGBTQ homeless & foster youthNYC Division of Green Chimneys
For more than 20 years, Green Chimneys-NYC has been a safe haven for homeless & foster care LGBTQ youth who have experienced rejection by their families & been victims of abuse & discrimination. Green Chimneys empowers & equips them with vital life skills & resources for a productive future.


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you would think that after shaving your legs again and again and again all the fucking time that your leg hair would be like hey guys i get the feeling she doesnt want us around maybe we should just give it up but literally theyre always just like MAYBE THIS TIME!!!!
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I hate that feeling when you're not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty and every little thing gets to you and everyone that talks to you makes you angry and you want to punch everyone in the face
I think the weirdest thing is that the person you're going to marry and spend the rest of your life together with is currently walking the earth, living their own life, going to school or going to work or whatever, doing all these things and making all these memories that you'll get to hear about from them years from now.
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Electronic Arts released new games this week including Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Ultimate Mortal Combat 3 for iPhone and SimCity Deluxe for iPad, and to celebrate the holiday season, they've put a ton of their iOS games one sale for $0.99. Yes, you heard that right, a TON of them (over 70 to be exact), even iPad!
Battlefield Bad Company 2:
Based on the bestselling console game from DICE, let the battle rage in the jungle, snow, and desert, in close-quarter combat, and in the air. Utilize intuitive controls as you destroy enemies with tanks and choppers in state-of the-art vehicular combat. Go all-out in full online multiplayer mode, and get a modern-warfare simulation for iPhone & iPod touch that's second to none. [$0.99 on sale - iTunes link]
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3:
The original arcade fighting game is available NOW! With 13 klassic warriors including Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Sonya Blade; multiple game modes; kustomizable kontrols; and updated visuals aimed to maximize the high-resolution Retina Display...you can relive the brutal combos and vicious fatalities that made Mortal Kombat one of the most iconic videogames EVER! [$6.99 - iTunes link]
SimCity Deluxe for iPad:
Made for dedicated and casual players alike, let your inner urban planner run wild with the world's favorite city building simulation. As Mayor and City Planner, take delight in the immersive visuals, the bigger display, and responsive touch controls – all designed just for the SimCity Deluxe experience on iPad! [$0.99 on sale - iTunes link]
So if there were some EA titles on your wish list that you were really hoping to pick up soon, now is the perfect time. Games such as Madden and Mirror's Edge for iPad are normally over $10 each on iPad, so these sale prices are ridiculously good. Even two new releases are on sale for $0.99 as well. Can't beat that! (Mortal Kombat will still set you back $6.99 though. Fatality!)
Video and screenshots after the break. Anyone planning on picking up some of these titles or gifting them to others? Let us know what you decide to purchase or gift in the comments!
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CNN has just launched an iPad app that allows users to browse stories, read breaking news, as well as share stories via Twitter or Facebook. The app has a couple different views built in so you can choose to either quickly view stories or view a complete, interactive slide show.
The CNN app also allows you to leave comments and engage with the rest of the CNN community. As live video is available, you'll also be able to stream that when breaking news occurs. If you find a story you'd like to save for later or show someone else, you can save stories for offline reading as well.
Google's annual Zeitgeist reports has come out and shows Apple's iPad has taken the number one position for consumer electronic search queries in 2010. It also took the number two overall fastest rising search query behind Steve Jobs' favorite thing...chat roulette. Apple's iPhone 4 came in in the number two position in the consumer electronics category.
Use Google's Chrome browser on your Mac or Windows PC and wish you could easily transfer data on to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad? Well thanks to a Chrome Extension you can and we'll show you how after the break!
Based on a recent patent filing, it looks as if Apple may be looking at even more ways to buy and share apps. This approach would be a bit more social as it would allow your friends to share applications with you that they think you may enjoy. This could work through the network, through a cloud service, or through IR.
Frustrated that your iPhone auto-correct dictionary has "learned" an incorrect word and curious how to reset it? Worried you might have a damnyouautocorrect moment when SMS'ing that important contact? Apple doesn't give you very many options when it comes to editing dictionary entries but if your iPhone has learned to incessantly auto-correct something that isn't right, there's an easy way to fix it. We'll show you how after the break.
Google quietly announced that the desktop version of their Google Docs editor now works on the iPad. Google recommends you use the desktop version mainly for advanced editing such as the generation of new spreadsheets and alignment modifications. If all you need to do is make a few quick and easy edits they still guide you towards their iOS friendly mobile editing version.
Will this help make you more productive or is the mobile version more than enough to satisfy your document editing needs? Let us know if this is a welcome addition for you in our comments section.
Today it was announced that Howard Stern has inked a new deal with Sirius XM satellite radio that will keep him on air through 2015. This is great news for all of the iPhone toting Stern fans out there as this new deal allows for his show to be on for another five years but it also allows the show to be streamed over your iOS device via the Sirius application, something that was not allowed previously due to Stern's old contract.
Yesterday at D:DiveIntoMobile, Google's Android chief, Andy Rubin had some interesting comments about iTunes and iPhone, and showed off Motorola's upcoming Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" tablet. When asked if Google had any plans to start their new music store off with downloads, similar to how Apple's iTunes does it, Rubin's response was quick and to the point:
We could build that 10 times over... (it's) not the right experience.
Rubin also said he would like to see users have an intimate connection to music again like he had as a young kid when he would go to music stores to purchase albums. On the subject of iPhone:
We have all heard the rumors of the iPhone going to Verizon in early 2011 but today we are hearing word from Analyst Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros., that Verizon is not only interested in obtaining Apple's widely popular iPhone but they may be willing to pay a price to keep it out of the hands of Sprint and T-Mobile.
We are hearing that (Verizon) does not want iPhone, the hottest selling smartphone, available on T-Mobile USA and/or Sprint and may be willing to pay for exclusivity to itself and AT&T," Wu wrote. "For these reasons, (Verizon) could be more willing to give in to Apple's terms.
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You never know in the PL and especially with our beloved blues! I don't think West Brom will be as good now that Lukaku has gone and they've not replaced him at all so I'd hope for 3 points against them. Norwich have signed some decent players but I reckon they over achieved last year so they should be in a relegation battle again, so I would want 3 points. I think Cardiff away could be the toughest actually as when a team has just been promoted they want to prove something and over the years we have seen so many teams start the season strong and fall away in the second (Burnley, Hull, Blackpool just to name a few), but you would still hope for 3 points there but that could be the toughest.
So to answer your question, we could get 0 but I'd expect 9
:-)Think I agree with Paulson on this 7 points, hopefully no less but I feel we'll all have a better idea after this tournament we're in. It may take a while to adapt to Martinez style of play
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Even though it might be over too quickly for platforming veterans, those who like action from the word go will find their long lost pal in Kao the Kangaroo 2. With an enormous and linear breath of fresh air feeling, this game puts the cool back in old school and will have most gamers jumping for joy for as long as it lasts!
While Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2, is in no way a ground breaking game, it does offer a pleasant experience to gamers who will enjoy a game that brings back memories of past platformers.
Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 isn't the best choice for exposing anyone to the platforming genre for the first time, but for those seriously dedicated to the genre, this is a mildly fun weekend retreat.
The real problem is that it has been done so many times before that at some stages in the game you get that déjà vu feeling you played the same location, executed the exact move and experienced the same sequence of events but this time it's a Kangaroo you are sharing it with and not another endearing character.
While the design was obviously geared towards kids, Kao still lacks the necessary polish to be recommended, even at its price, and the overall difficulty may prove it to be a bit too harsh for its audience.
Kids thrive on new ideas, excitement and imagi-nation, and can easily handle complex situations and scenarios - none of which are on show here. Just because they're young doesn't mean they should make do with a bland, unimaginative, unchal-lenging and in parts quite shoddily finished effort.
End-of-area bosses helpfully announce their weaknesses at the beginning of encounters, coin-laden paths dot their way around levels, and there is always a mammalian helper ready and willing to explain the use of contraptions.
Score distribution:
Positive: 1 out of 1
Mixed: 0 out of 1
Negative: 0 out of 1
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Finally someone is doing a cost analysis study on the effect of child abuse. Hopefully the government and insurance companies will take some measures to prevent child abuse and provide proper treatments for the victims now that they see the dollar signs..
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I am looking for information on my Mason family.
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After the so-called crushing of the ZCTU protests last week and the mass arrests and near murder that followed; surely ZANU PF could be lying to themselves if they say the mass action was not a success. Like in the past there are so many positives that have emerged from this from all the madness with which ZANU PF confronted this latest action by the people.
I am totally against the near murder of our leaders in Zimbabwe but for the first time in the history of this new revolution we are now seeing a leadership so prepared in confronting the regime. And look at a government that is so prepared to embarrass itself by fighting against the defenceless. It is also ironic that they chose to do so at a time when their President, Robert Mugabe was attending the Non Aligned Movement Summit in Cuba. One will see the preparedness of ZANU PF not only to butcher its own people but to move away from the very core principles of NAM which are to promote the sustenance of peace: through the acquisition of freedom for all! What Zimbabwe shamelessly did was first to show that they will deny that freedom to their citizens and secondly make sure that the form of peace they will be given will be "silence". Yet like I said there is a clear show that this has strengthened the resolve of the oppressed masses even further, and now Zimbabweans all over the world are more determined to liberate themselves than the oppressor is determined to oppress them.
Not that we have never protested before, no. Not that we have never seen the wanton beating of people and mass arrests; no. I for one have been beaten up, arrested, and messed up in several ways in these protests; and so are the comrades that I can single out; Patson Muzuwa who is now here in the UK, Innocent Mupara, Nkululekho Sibanda, Dhewa Mavhima, Tendai Mutyambizi-Dewa, Crispen Kulinji, Tom Tawanda Spicer, Durani Rapozo, Elliot Pfebve etc all currently in the UK and departed comrades who died from the sword of the enemy again through these mass actions such as Tonderai Machiridza, Edward Mukwasi, Appleby Kokoba; Ropafadzo, Talent Mabika, Tichaona Chiminya, Effildah Pfebve, Trymore Midzi etc. But in the past it wasn't the leaders who were at the front, it was others and so at that time because of what was happening around us, and the reluctance of the leadership to be in front, some decided they had to leave since they thought the leadership didn't believe in the struggle they were telling us about. But things change, some of them very fast. We now seem to have a positive leadership; very proactive in the struggle and so ZANU PF has been shaken to the apex of its madness; left, right and centre they can show the full nakedness of their decadent political ideologies; not only the thighs, not only the pants but of course the full view of the genitals too! It's not the zip that is down anymore, the pants are down as well!
The thing is Zimbabweans have been too long in the queue and no amount of force can be used to turn them away at the gate, they are demanding their freedom and they are doing it with a force never shown before. There is a sudden resurgence of the spirit of Zimbabwe, that realisation that we are our own liberators and now there is no turning back. Events last week in Zimbabwe followed positive events in the UK for example were the MDC External Province of the UK successfully held a Congress to elect a new leadership. This is unparalleled in the history of Zimbabwe, not even ZANU and ZAPU during the liberation struggle managed to have such vibrant structures in Europe! This is a clear sign that the struggle we are fighting is inheritable; it is capable of a legacy and the legatees are there in the Diaspora. A cause that is inheritable is not capable of defeat and this is why the inheritable cause that was the First Chimurenga or Umvukela became the fire that the Second Chimurenga was and that fire was never extinguished. The same goes for the ANC, formed in 1912, it was five years before the birth of its most popular hero Nelson Mandela in 1917. Needless to say the struggle would later identify with him fifty years on with the Rivonia Trials in 1962 and the miracle that his story became with his ascendancy to be the first black President of South Africa in 1994.
Robert Mugabe on Wednesday didn't even use his regular police forces to crush what he thought was dissent; he didn't even have the power to summon them because they too are fed up with a decadent rhetoric that roams houseless in the battle for hearts and minds. He used an equally decadent product, the Youth Militia or Green Bombers who have been taught to rape their own mothers and sisters shamelessly in broad daylight. They had the temerity of kicking an elderly and defenceless woman such as Mai Lucia Matibenga. That Mugabe has resorted to that kind of behaviour is of course not good for an octogenarian but nevertheless shows the desperation that the government back home is in. They think the incidents will frighten people to back down. By nearly murdering Matombo, Chibhebhe, Matibenga, Raymond Majongwe, Thabitha Khumalo etc they are trying to sound the same for Morgan Tsvangirai, Isaac Matongo, Thokozani Khupe and the other MDC leaders since they have all promised to lead from the front. They are trying to say that they too will face ZANU PF's full wrath.
They are thinking that if they kill those people then the fire is extinguished. No, the fire is not extinguished by removing the flame! You have to extinguish the source of the fire. For if you do not do that only one fan is enough to rekindle it. The struggle for Zimbabwe is now capable of re-kindling itself; there are legatees all over ready to take over even if the current crop of leadership is disappeared. There are several young activists both in Zimbabwe and in the Diaspora: Remember Moyo, Harris Nyatsanza, Lynnette Mhlanga, Wellington Chibhanguza, Linder Mtimbanyoka, Alois Phiri, Yeukai Taruvinga, Tendai Mutyambizi-Dewa, Vincent and Jameson Mashakada, Innocent Kanjedzana etc all of these young people are a generation of leaders who may not even be 30 years of age and they are capable of assuming leadership if all of us are killed in the struggle and because the retirement age is sixty-five; they each have more than thirty-five years to carry on the fight on behalf of us. Mugabe is panicking because people power is being unleashed onto him. He can not withstand anymore and he has begun repeating the same mistakes that put him in the place he is today; the disproportionate use of force. I can recount them: the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s which was the disproportionate application of force against twenty-two military renegades whose main purpose was to protest against unequal treatment in the army. The right thing would have been to call for a military commission to investigate these allegations but his reaction: the demotion and eventual dismissal of all senior army officers who were ex-members of ZIPRA, the sacking of all serving PF-ZAPU cabinet ministers and the dissolution of the government of national unity; the mass arrests of all leaders of ZAPU; the unleashing of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland followed by the atrocities there. Result; ever unhealing suspicion between Ndebele and Shona in Zimbabwe, ever-present tension in Ndebele and Shona relations in Zimbabwe; Matabeleland politically became a no go area for anything Robert Mugabe and talk of an Ndebele homeland became a stark necessity. Mistake number one for Robert Mugabe.
Mistake number two; so-called Unity Accord in 1987. Failed to cease the opportunity for political posturing and make Joshua Nkomo the first post Unity President; instead Nkomo was just a senior minister. Result the Unity was a stillborn baby. Mistake three; after a successful campaign to end apartheid in South Africa and to stop the civil wars in Mozambique and Angola; he failed to cease the opportunity and resign. Result; the emergence of a Nelson Mandela whose style of leadership would be revolutionary and would change the very concept of leadership in the entire world. Mugabe was overshadowed.
Mistake number four; at ZANU PF Congress in 1999, he failed to read the changing times and make John Nkomo the president of ZANU PF and possibly Zimbabwe. Nkomo then was riding the crest as a no-nonsense minister having fired corrupt mayors and under-performing governors as the Minister for Local Government. Such leadership renewal would have neutralised the then new political party MDC.
Mistake number five; used violence against MDC supporters in 2000. The party was still young and not a real threat but people begun to sympathise with it. As a result the ZANU PF approach negated it in the eyes of traditional supporters who then went in droves to MDC in protest. As a result MDC won 57 seats, by far better than even the predictions of its leaders who had thought MDC would manage between 20-40 seats.
Mistake number Six, he ignored advice even from the likes of Chenjerai Hunzvi and Border Gezi after the 2000 parliamentary elections that violence against the opposition should cease as it was time for nation-building. Violence continued at the instigation of Robert Mugabe; commercial agriculture was destroyed and the country slid further into chaos. Mistake number seven, he refused to allow international observers to observe the 2002 Presidential Elections. Anyone who has monitored elections before knows that EU Election observers and any other international observers are really useless as they in fact do not monitor anything. They will always come to the verdict that elections were free and fair even where rigging is there for everyone to see. This is why Ugandan and Nigerian elections received the free and fair verdicts even though local independent observers were stating otherwise. Mugabe himself knows how the West rushed to congratulate him for winning freely and fairly in the 1996 Presidential elections where he contested against himself after the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole and Bishop Muzorewa had pulled out citing an unfair playing field.
The recent mistake has of course been Operation Murambatsvina which has turned virtually every living Zimbabwean against Robert Mugabe. All the Robert Mugabe mistakes have been the disproportionate response to very simple things and each time he does that he creates more enemies. It is now clear that pain is being used as a method of intimidation. But just as is happening in Matabeleland where the sons and daughters of those killed have decided to carry on with the struggle and are demanding even more than what the generation before them was demanding; then the people of Matabeleland and the Midlands were demanding to be taken as people, for Mugabe to stop subjecting them to a police state; such simple things. He thought he silenced them by unleashing Gukurahundi on that generation. The current generation has evolved and are demanding even more; they are demanding the birth of the nation of Mthwakazi; thanks to Mugabe they have been radicalised and not softened. The same for the other crop of activists; the current generation of opponents are demanding free and fair elections, democracy, dignity for their women and right to work and sustainable pay and worker rights for their workers. Mugabe is beating them out of these legitimate demands. But the next generation sees their leaders being humiliated; they are being radicalised and will not stop at demanding the above, no. They will demand the death of Robert Mugabe and his cronies. The next generation is being radicalized and their anger will not stop with Thabo Mbeki's diplomacy, no! Their anger will be absolute, reverberating across the world and not even the sweet tongue of the UN Secretary General would stop them. They may only be stopped by the intervention of the UN blue berets.
Aluta Continua!
Julius Sai Mutyambizi-Dewa is a PhD in International Law candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. He was recently elected as the Secretary General Of MDC UK External Province. He writes in his personal capacity.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Arrests, Torture and Political Persecution Orders Of The Day In Zimbabwe
While there has Been a widespread condemnation of the torture of ZCTU leaders the Zimbabwean labour movement, who were arrested and tortured by the brutal regime of Robert Mugabe as they prepared to lead workers on a demonstration at lunch time last week on the 13th of September 2006. 150 people were arrested as they demonstrated in cities across Zimbabwe against the aforementioned torture of ZCTU & MDC leaders by the same state machinery.
Unions all over the world intend to demonstrate at Zimbabweans embassies worldwide in condemnation of the torture of union and political leaders in Zimbabwe. It goes to show how barbaric this callous government will degenerate into in their ill-fated efforts to cling to power. What baffles the world is the suppression of labour unionism in Zimbabwe, workers have inviolable rights to belong to a union and its their right as a worker to demonstrate against ever falling standards of living. Not in Zimbabwe where workers are not free to associate and belong to a union and the torture of ZCTU leaders and senior MDC members must be condemned in the harshest of terms. Unionism of workers is not anything new, labour unions have been existence for over 300 years. Early trade unions were designed to cater for members in the event of unemployment or sickness, trade unions have evolved over the years their role changing influenced by their socio-economic environments. While collective bargaining for better wages for and on behalf of their members remains the main activity, unions are a bedrock of grassroots politics. Mugabe knows that unions are powerful after all they toppled his friend Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia and Ushered Chiluba on the scene. In South Africa apartheid would not have been eridicated had ANC not formed a tri-partite alliance with COSATU and South African Communist Party (SACP). Even in our own MDC formed at a workers convention in 1999, therefore by suppressing workers Mugabe thinks he can stop a revolution.
These arbitrary arrests and torture only saves to sow fear in the oppressed fellow Zimbabweans. It becomes important to re-think how to confront the enemy, with partisan police and far reaching security laws its difficult to organise a successful demonstration that will force Mugabe to the negotiating table.
4 independent lawyers led by Happias Zhou a Harare advocat, commissioned by the MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai, to get to the bottom of assault on Trudy Stevenson have found out that she was assaulted by state agents. In a press conference after being handed over the 123 page report, Tsvangirai admitted that MDC had been infiltrated by CIO agents.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
ZCTU Leaders Arrested
The illegal government of Robert Mugabe has arrested ZCTU President Lovemore Matombo, Wellington Chibhebhe (ZCTU Secretary General) together with 10 others and all being held at Matapi Police Station in Mbare, Harare. According to ZCTU spokesperson Mlameli Sibanda whom I spoke to at about 1100 this morning 20 other ZCTU members and their leaders were also arrested in Bulwayo.
The arrests were as a part of a full security scale to prevent nationwide demonstrations in Zimbabwe. The ZCTU's protests were aimed at highlighting poor wages, high taxes and lack of access to anti-retroviral drugs to fight HIV/AIDS. They were also calling for an end to the arbitrary arrests and beatings of street hawkers and self-employed citizens. Intial a day long protest had been planned but was later downgraded to 2 hours for fear of the heavy-handedness of the partisan Zimbabwean police and army.
People that I have spoken to said that its either people were to busy trying to earn a living or they were too scared of the reprisals as they had seen before. Besides these personal sentiments by people all roads that the demonstrators might have used were blocked by the regime's ever suppressing machinery.
Word is also filtering in that the MDC Chairperson for Women's Assembly Lucia Matibenga and Grace Kwinjeh have also been arrested in the security clampdown on the ZCTU demonstrators.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
MDC UK Leadership Chosen
On Saturday 9th of September more than 500 delegates and observers gathered in Oxford for a historic congress to choose the leadership of MDC in UK. Ephraim Tapa a former trade-unionist won the contest to become Chairman of UK from Sakhile Mtombeni a pre-congress favourite. Rodwell Mpungu my former branch Chairman was chosen to become his Vice. It was a historic congress indeed for the first time MDC recognised that large numbers of Zimbabweans living outside UK.
The MDC National Chairperson together with Vice Secretary for International Affairs Grace Kwinjeh and the Chairman for the Youth Assembly Tamsanqa Mahlangu supervised the UK province election. It was a well organised well attended credit should be given to the Coordinating Committe who worked hard to make sure that the event was a success. Also elected was Julias Mutyambizi-Dewa for the post of Secretary General, Virginia Ncube (vice-secretary), Mary Kasirowore (treasurer) Jaison Matewu (organising secretary) and Adella Chiminya (chair-women's assembly).
It ushers us into a new era here in UK for it propels the struggle to remove Mugabe into a new dispensation. The newly elected have a lot of work to do, amongst them to have a visible office that will in future receive delegates and high ranking officials from Harare. They will be charged harshly if they do not deliver for the people escpecially in the first 100 days of office.
People were surprised at the official appointment of Emily Madamombe a Leicester based MDC activist to the post of MDC Ambassador to the UK government together with Herbert Makuvise. But I was not surprised as traditionally in any setting an Ambassador is appointed by the incumbent President. I have nothing against Madamombe as well as Makuvise they are both hard working dedicated activists committed to the removal of Mugabe and his illegal government. I wish them well and hope they will work hand in hand with MDC provincial leadership in UK.
The MDC National Chairperson together with Vice Secretary for International Affairs Grace Kwinjeh and the Chairman for the Youth Assembly Tamsanqa Mahlangu supervised the UK province election. It was a well organised well attended credit should be given to the Coordinating Committe who worked hard to make sure that the event was a success. Also elected was Julias Mutyambizi-Dewa for the post of Secretary General, Virginia Ncube (vice-secretary), Mary Kasirowore (treasurer) Jaison Matewu (organising secretary) and Adella Chiminya (chair-women's assembly).
It ushers us into a new era here in UK for it propels the struggle to remove Mugabe into a new dispensation. The newly elected have a lot of work to do, amongst them to have a visible office that will in future receive delegates and high ranking officials from Harare. They will be charged harshly if they do not deliver for the people escpecially in the first 100 days of office.
People were surprised at the official appointment of Emily Madamombe a Leicester based MDC activist to the post of MDC Ambassador to the UK government together with Herbert Makuvise. But I was not surprised as traditionally in any setting an Ambassador is appointed by the incumbent President. I have nothing against Madamombe as well as Makuvise they are both hard working dedicated activists committed to the removal of Mugabe and his illegal government. I wish them well and hope they will work hand in hand with MDC provincial leadership in UK.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
All Roads Lead To The MDC - UK Congress
The date has been set, the venue ready, the candidates and delegates eager. It's a historic event in every aspect. When MDC was formed in 1999 at the Working People's Convention, no one envisaged that about 1 million Zimbabweans will be living in UK. No provisions were made in the previous MDC constitution to accommodate members living in the Diaspora. Following the second MDC congress in Zimbabwe the MDC constitution was duly amended and ratified by members to include the presence of such large numbers of fellow Zimbabweans that will have been forced to flee their homes and live outside Zimbabwe. It is against this backdrop that MDC members in UK find themselves starring at September the 9th as a day that history will be made.
I have always in the past over-emphasised the need for a robust MDC outside Zimbabwe. On the basis that while the MDC finds a people centred solution like the recent Road Map in Zimbabwe, the international community still needs to be mobilised to act against the evil regime of Robert Mugabe. MDC - UK can never be short of inspiration in establishing a robust exiled struggle movement. During apartheid South Africans exiled in UK together with the support of ant-apartheid activists such as Peter Hain build a formidable movement whose influence and pressure brought negotiations in South Africa. There are so many lessons to be learnt from this movement, there were a few native South Africans leaving outside their country by then but still the movement garnered support and international acclaim for bringing Apartheid to an end.
We are capable here in UK of emulating the efforts of South African and their sympathisers. We can even surpass what they did and bring the world's attention to the evil atrocities that Mugabe regime is carrying out. There is also the need to fund our party's activities in Zimbabwe. We owe it to ourselves to elect the right leadership to carry on with party activities in UK. I had the pleasure of listening to Tendai Biti when he visited UK recently and was moved by his observation that African politics is mired in political patronage were the same people are re-elected to the same positions not by virtue of their skills by popularity. I feel we are political mature in UK to know that we have to put the right people in the right positions irregardless as to whom they are aligned to in relation to the MDC hierarchy in Harare.
It will be a new beginning for MDC UK and new political dispensation that will help drive Mugabe to the negotiating table.
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EPSU-ETUI Collective Bargaining Seminar 23-25 May 2012
A report of the meeting is given below and the briefing note provides background information on the main themes discussed during the seminar:
EPSU's collective bargaining network
the impact of economic governance on collective bargaining
coordination of policy within the ETUC
how industriAll coordinates collective bargaining
collecting data
collective bargaining priorities and work programme
improving the flow of information
Conference Report
The seminar was convened to discuss the main challenges facing collective bargaining in the public services, particularly in the light of the developments at European level in relation to economic governance. The other theme was to reflect on EPSU's collective bargaining work and to consider whether any of the initiatives taken in previous years by the European Metalworkers' Federation (now part of the IndustriAll European trade union) could be usefully adopted by EPSU.
There were 13 participants from 11 countries: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Macedonia and Sweden.
Economic Governance and Collective Bargaining
ETUC advisor Ronald Janssen gave an overview of the system of economic governance and the extent to which it had been set up with a bias towards wage moderation. Effectively Germany was seen as a model to emulate and there was a clear lack of balance in terms of the approach to wage developments.
Not only this but the European institutions were increasingly intervening in the structures and processes of collective bargaining at national level with recommendations for countries to reform wage indexation systems and/or decentralise collective bargaining. The pressure was on to improve competitiveness with a key aim to link wages and wage developments more closely to productivity.
Participants noted some trends at national level that reflected those at European level. Pressure on minimum wages, austerity measures and the impact of privatisation and outsourcing on collective bargaining were highlighted as some of the factors facing public sector trade unions.
There was also concern at the implications for the public services of the emphasis on productivity. The pressure from the European institutions on wage moderation in the public sector in particular was noted, although it was stressed that there was little, if any, evidence for the claim that the public sector took the lead in pay trends with most participants pointing to the continuing influence of the manufacturing, export or specifically the metal sector in setting the pace on pay.
ETUC Proposals for Collective Bargaining Coordination
ETUC confederal secretary Luca Visentini set out the background to the current debates in the ETUC about how to improve the coordination of collective bargaining. He underlined the need for a close cooperation with the European trade union federations and the need to protect the European social model and rebuild or strengthen national collective bargaining systems where they were weak or under attack.
Luca argued that the challenges described by Ronald required a new approach and that the ETUC was planning to undertake a major project covering four key themes: strengthening collective bargaining; defensive agreements and opening clauses; minimum wages and collective bargaining coverage; and cross-border collective bargaining in multinational companies.
The ETUC was also setting up a new taskforce, including representatives from some of the national confederations and the European trade union federations, that was seen as a way of strengthening the work of the collective bargaining committee.
Collective Bargaining Coordination in the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF)
Bart Samyn, deputy general secretary of the new European trade union federation IndustriAll (which includes the old EMF), explained how collective bargaining coordination had developed in the EMF over the previous 20 years. He described the three core elements of the Federation's collective bargaining work: regional networks, the eucoba information exchange system and the common guidelines.
The latest initiative had been the move from guidelines setting minimum standards (for example on working time and pay) to common demands that are integrated into collective bargaining claims at national level. The first two were on the individual right to training and measures to deal with precarious employment.
Bart also explained the structure within the EMF and in the new Federation with a collective bargaining committee with 60-70 members meeting once a year, a select working party of around 15 meeting four or five times a year and a collective bargaining conference that was convened every four years that was like a political congress and had been used to launch the common demands.
Working Groups
The participants divided into two groups to discuss in more detail some of the themes arising from the first three sessions. Some of the key points to emerge from the discussions included:
EMF model was interesting but perhaps more difficult to implement in EPSU because of the difference between EPSU sectors;
Lack of awareness of information provided by EPSU and recommended that there was a need to review whether it was being used;
Some interest in regional initiatives and also suggested that a structure could be based on national coordinators, then regional coordinators feeding into a European network;
Important to identify common issues on which it would be possible to work and not to be to ambitious;
Range of issues raised during discussions – ageing workforce, employee rights, occupational safety and diseases, wage trends, minimum and average salaries, working time, personal development, bonuses and indexation.
Exchanging Information
Richard Pond described the development of EPSU's work on collective bargaining information referring to past annual reports, the information on the website and the bimonthly email newsletter. Participants were asked to comment on the information received from EPSU and to explain how they reported on their collective bargaining to their own members and to the public.
There was a range of different practices with a contrast between some unions, like FOA in Denmark that made particular efforts to publicise the collective bargaining process and others in countries like Macedonia and the Czech Republic where the political situation was different and it was not always seen as helpful to publicise collective bargaining.
EPSU Collective Bargaining Conference Draft Programme
Richard Pond explained how the draft programme for EPSU's collective bargaining conference had been put together and invited participants to comment on the content and format as well and also to comment on previous conferences. The following points summarise the discussion:
It was trying to cover too many issues
There could be different approaches to workshop format but a general need to keep presentations short
Need more practical information for bargainers – examples of what has been achieved
Interest in the pensions discussion with suggestions for focus on flexibility and examples of good negotiating outcomes (eg at Deutsche Post) also interest in the equal pay debate and useful to further debate the initiatives on coordination in the energy sector
Below are specific suggestions for alternative topics:
Health and safety
Dealing with privatisation and outsourcing and their effects on collective bargaining
Ageing workforce
Work-life balance
Further discussion of the WISUTIL project on pay and conditions in the utilities
Pay disputes and member recruitment
Conclusions and reflections on a collective bargaining network
A number of important issues came up during the seminar which will help provide some focus to EPSU's collective bargaining work and it was clear that some further thought had to be given to the way that information was collected and disseminated and above all what kind of information was of practical use to negotiators.
The idea of setting up a collective bargaining network or adopting any of the elements of the EMF strategy were still very much up for discussion and would again be debated at the EPSU collective bargaining conference in December. One essential factor in how these might develop was the sectoral nature of EPSU's structure.
It was hoped that European Commission funding would be available for the conference and if the application were successful it would also allow for another meeting in the spring of 2013 to work further on some of these themes.


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Finance : FAQ
What are the hours of operation for Village Hall?
The Finance Department hours of operation are from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday.
What is the deadline for purchasing a Vehicle or Dog License?
January 1.
What is the Sales Tax in Winnetka?
My garbage was not picked up, is there someone I can speak to?
You should call the Public Works Yards at 847-716-3568. If you get a voicemail, please leave your name, phone number, and a message.
I need a large item (television, refrigerator, washer, dryer, etc.) picked up, how do I arrange for a special pick – up and what is the cost?
Call Public Works at 847-716-3568 to schedule a date for your Special Pick Up. You will be charged $30 for the first cubic yard and $11 for each additional cubic yard. (A cubic yard is 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet.)
How can old paint cans be disposed of?
The IEPA should be contacted at 630-420-6700 to obtain hazardous item disposal information, including old paint cans.
I have a deceased animal on my property; can the Village of Winnetka help me?
If the dead animal is on private property, the resident should use plastic gloves and wrap the animal in double plastic bags, tie the bags shut, and place it in the trash. Public Works may be contacted at 847-716-3568 if you need additional information.
What is the phone number if I have a question about my utility service (discuss a high or low bill, change my billing address, get a final meter reading because I am moving out, start a new service because I am moving into Winnetka, etc.)?
The direct number to discuss any utility billing or service question is 847-446-9550.
Who do I call about parking ticket questions or to make a payment?
The Village has hired a vendor to handle inquiries about parking tickets and to process payments. This will allow you to pay your ticket by credit card, mail, or drop box at the police station. The vendor can also answer inquiries about the parking tickets (payment history, reason for the ticket, etc.) and assign a court date, if desired.
Please note that failure to pay or contest a ticket within ten (10) days of the issuance date will result in additional penalties.
The vendor is Citation Management, and they can be contacted as follows:
By phone (toll free): 877. 501.9924. Winnetka's Agency Code is 4230
By internet: www.villageofwinnetka.org, then click on the Police Dept. web page and select "Pay Parking Citations Online."
By mail: Village of Winnetka Citation Processing Center P.O. Box 3214 Milwaukee, WI 53201-3214
By drop box: Village of Winnetka Police Dept. 410 Green Bay Road
Who is the Village Prosecutor?
The Village Prosecutor attends court and represents the Village in those proceedings. The prosecutor is routinely involved with traffic and parking tickets, code enforcement, and other legal issues for the Village. The Village Prosecutor is Barb Mangler. Her phone number is 847-933-8270.
I am a new resident, when do I get my garbage / recycling picked up?
For information on collections call the Public Works Yards at 847-716-3568.
Who do I call for a mosquito problem?
You should call the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District at 847-446-9434.
Where do I get beach / dog passes?
The Winnetka Park District issues these passes. They are located at Elm and Hibbard Street and their phone number is 847-501-2040.
Who do I call to get information on beach closings?
The Winnetka Park District, at 847-501-2040, can give you information about the beaches.
Where do I pay an ambulance bill?
Ambulance bill payments should be mailed to:
Andres Medical Billing 3323 North Ridge Avenue Arlington Heights, IL. 60004
How am I billed for Water, Sewer, and Electric Service?
The Village issues a bill to most customers bi-monthly. The bill includes charges for water, electricity, sewer, and a second weekly refuse pick up (if the customer elects that optional service). There is also a monthly charge of $9.46 which partially pays for reading the meters, billing the account, and covering some of the Village's fixed costs in providing service.
For water service, the Village charges $29.78 per 1,000 cubic feet. There are approximately 7.48 gallons in 1 cubic foot. Therefore, one thousand gallons of water costs approximately $3.98. ($29.78 rate per 1,000 cubic feet / 7.48 gallons per cubic foot).
For electric service, the Village charges by the kilowatt hour. A kilowatt is 1,000 watts, which is the same amount of electricity as burning a 100 watt bulb for 10 hours. Electric rates vary by time of year and type of customer. A typical residential customer pays about 11 cents per kilowatt hour for service in non-peak months and 13 cents per kilowatt hour during peak summer months (bills issued in June through September).
For sewer service, the Village charges are $10.38 per 1,000 cubic feet. Therefore, for every 1,000 gallons of water used, the sewer charge costs approximately $1.39 ($10.38 rate per 1,000 cubic feet / 7.48 gallons per cubic foot).
Residential customers who select twice a week refuse collection pay an additional charge of $25 per month.
How do I pay my utility bill?
There are four options to pay your utility bill. The customer can mail the payment in the return envelope included with the bill, come to the Village Hall and pay in person, or pay by depositing payment in one of two drop boxes. One drop box is located behind the post office on Dwyer Court about 100 feet south of the U.S. Mail Boxes. The second drop off payment location is a slot to the left of the front door at the Village Hall facility located at 510 Green Bay Rd. These two drop boxes are collected by Village staff and therefore no postage is needed.
The preferred method of payment for many customers is the Automatic Bill Payment option. This option automatically deducts from the customer's bank account the amount due on the due date and avoids the risk of a late payment or worrying about making payments while on vacation. The customer continues to receive a detailed bill.
The Village does not accept credit card payments because the automatic bill payment option is less costly to operate.
The people next door are having construction done, but the noise began too early, what are the permitted hours?
Construction equipment shall be operated only between the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturdays. No work should be don on Sundays and Holidays. If construction noise is being made during off hours, please call the police department at 847-501-6034 while the noise is occurring.
Does Winnetka have a transfer tax?
No. Questions about property records should be directed to the New Trier Tax Assessor at 847-446-8200.
Where do I report a streetlight out?
Please report streetlights or traffic signals that are out to the Water and Electric Department at 847-716-3550.
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Can someone please tell what people are supposed to do for recreation in Kitsap County? Not all of us are golfers. We need a wide variety of recreation for everyone. We need to provide a wide variety of things for people to do. Otherwise, they get into trouble.
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Chicken salad is one of my favorite go-to lunches because it's so easy to throw together. And I love that it can be customized based on what I have on hand and what sounds good at the moment!
I almost always have jars of shredded chicken in my freezer from roasting whole chickens or making chicken stock, so I'll pull one of those out the night before and then put together chicken salad the next morning. (You could also do it with fresh chicken or even turkey after a holiday meal!)


text: I've seen multiple recommendations for Gail Simone's run, especially "The Circle" arc which some people have called one of the best stories ever written about this character. However, I've also seen tons of criticism for the early issues of Wonder Woman Vol. 3, especially that "Amazons Attack" garbage. So my question is, how accessible and self-contained is "The Circle" and the rest of Gail's run? I'd like to buy it on Comixology based on what I've heard. But I don't want to be lost, or have to buy and read lots of crappy issues before that to avoid being lost.


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(The Malaysian Insider) - PKR pitched today a five-point framework for a proposed free education policy to replace a hotly debated government varsity loan scheme criticised for saddling fresh graduates with huge debts.
Key in PKR's proposed living cost allowances and loans is its interest-free element.
The opposition party's strategic director Rafizi Ramli (picture) said irresponsible parties had been "twisting" PKR's proposal, claiming the idea would "destroy" the existing National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loan scheme that provided young Malaysians the best chances of being gainfully employed.
Among the five suggestions mooted by PKR is the set up of specific technical universities, which it said would boost higher learning chances for everyone.
"This is important to balance the number of offers in public institutes compared to private institutes and therefore prevent future dependence on paid higher education," he said in a statement today.
The PKR man pledged that a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) federal government would fully bear the tuition fees at public institutes and provide living cost allowances for qualified students based on their academic achievements and socio-economic backgrounds and family burden.
He added that those from high-income families can opt to pay school fees on their own but can still qualify for a loan from a special fund to be set up for living costs allowance and private education.
"Those without space in public institutes can apply to borrow from the same fund, which will cover their living costs at a fixed rate, taking into account subsidised fees by the government based on their courses," he said.
Lastly, no interest will be charged on the living costs loans taken by the students.
He said the PR bloc would carry out the five-point framework when it takes over Putrajaya.
"This clearly rebuts the argument that Malay/Bumiputera students will lose out if a free education policy is implemented as they cannot support themselves," he argued, in hopes of winning over Malays in their 20s, who make up one-sixth of the voting population.
"On the contrary, a free education policy will enlarge access to free higher education for more Malaysians of all races. At the same time, it will change the existing model of support for higher education that has proven to oppress the rakyat," he said.
The 34-year old estimated an extra RM3 billion annual budget for its proposed scheme.
"I believe abolishing highway toll concessions as promised in the Buku Jingga will save as much as RM5 billion a year, because this is the compensation paid by the Barisan Nasional to the concessionaires every year.
"This money is more than enough to bear the additional allowance of RM3 billion needed to provide for free education," he said.
PKR has insisted that the government can cover the country's education bill with oil profits, and by reducing corruption and plugging leakages in the administration.
Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has led the line in calling for the end of PTPTN, which critics say has saddled many fresh graduates with heavy debt, even before they are gainfully employed.
However, its PR partner PAS has said PTPTN cannot be abolished without having a proper replacement process in place, suggesting that PKR's proposals may not have been fully agreed upon.


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Pettitte testifies uncomfortably in Clemens case
Andy Pettitte (PEHT'-iht) looked like he wanted to be anywhere but on the witness stand in the perjury trial of former baseball star Roger Clemens.
During breaks in the proceedings Tuesday, Pettitte sometimes rubbed his eyes for several seconds, looking like he couldn't wait for this to end.
But Pettitte returns to the stand Wednesday, when Clemens' lawyers will continue to try to sow doubts about the testimony Pettitte provided for prosecutors when he said Clemens had mentioned to him that he had taken human growth hormone.
Clemens, who told Congress in 2008 that his friend and former teammate "misremembers" the conversation, is accused of lying to Congress when he said he never took HGH or steroids.
Pettitte and Clemens pitched together for the New York Yankees and Houston Astros.
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TRURO - A 33-year-old Kemptown man will spend more than five years in federal custody after pleading guilty to a string of charges relating to proceeds of crime and drug possession.
Jonathan Craig Burgoyne, of 1108 Kemptown Rd., was sentenced to two years custody for possession of property obtained by crime. The sentence also includes a $100 victim fine surcharge, to be paid by Sept. 4, 2014.
He was given the same concurrent custodial sentence and fine for additional charges, including 19 additional charges of possessing property obtained by crime and a charge of laundering the proceeds of crime.
Burgoyne had all of the properties involved in the arrests forfeited, including properties, a car, trucks, a tractor, motorcycle, snowmobiles and more than $14,000.
He was also given a fine of $160,000 in lieu of forfeiture, or two years in default, consecutive to the custodial time.
The incidents all occurred between Sept. 19, 2002 and Sept. 26, 2007.
He also pleaded guilty to one count each of possession of cocaine and cannabis resin for the purpose of trafficking.
For the cocaine charge, Burgoyne was sentenced to three-and-a-half years custody, minus 48 days served on remand.
He was given a two-year concurrent sentence for the cannabis resin charge.
A forfeiture order was granted for both, as was a DNA sample order.
He's prohibited from owning firearms for the rest of his life.
The incidents occurred July 19, 2012, in Kemptown.
Burgoyne also pleaded guilty to one count of harassment between July 8 and 21, 2011, in Bible Hill, as well as one count of failing to comply with a recognizance on June 19 in Truro. He was sentenced to one-day custody for both charges, both deemed served by his court appearance.