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I can haz hot rock for beef?
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I'm all for a sushi and sake night, so when a few of my friends invited my man and I out to Azuma's downtown location last Friday, we didn't even blink an eye before jumping in a cab and heading to meet them. It was a gorgeous night and our friends were already sitting at a large table outside on the beautiful patio when we arrived. My two girlfriends, being the gems that they are, had two glasses of sake and Sapporo waiting for us. Guess I'm starting dinner off with a sake bomb - thanks, ladies!
After ordering a few more warm sakes and drinks, we were ravenous. Diving into the huge menu, I immediately ran into trouble. This was my first time here...and I wanted everything. Luckily, through years of practicing Jedi mind tricks on my fiancé, I now possess the ability to convince him to split almost anything and make him think it was his idea. #gurlpower
We started light with a bowl of steamed edamame ($4) -- fresh, warm and
lightly heavily salted soybeans the perfect companion for my light, crisp Sapporo. Next, we tried the Lady Dragon Roll ($13), one of the restaurant's Specialty Rolls that certainly lived up to the hype. Spicy tuna and avocado are wrapped inside pink soy paper before being ingeniously flash-fried and topped with a sweet unagi (eel) sauce, spicy mayo and an Alaskan mix (I'm still not sure what that is, but it's damn good). Did you get all that? They were so delicious, my friend pushed her sushi aside and ordered a second round.
One of these sauces is not like the other.
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Finally, we were on to the main event: The Hot Rock Beef ($14), sliced New York strip steak served raw with a piping hot rock to cook it on. Also available with Kobe (6 oz for $35, 12 oz for $65), the beef comes lying on a plate alongside a trio of bowls filled with pats of butter and two kinds of sauces. I jumped right in, coating the rock with butter and dabbing thin slices of fresh beef right on top for a quick sear on both sides. We dipped our slivers of steak into the two sauces, quickly determining one was much better. The first tasted almost like A-1, which in my mind had no place here, but the other "special" sauce was a welcome delight -- a thick, salty, teriyaki-like sauce that I continually doused my steak in.
This bucket is the size of my head (well, maybe not my head, because I have a big one, but you get the point).
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On the side, we enjoyed the world's largest bowl of Chicken Fried Rice ($14). Served in a giant bucket-like wooden bowl, the dish was packed with veggies, soft, golden browned rice and sautéed chunks of chicken. I poured any remaining special sauce into the
bucket bowl and attempted to chopstick the rice into my mouth. Even though I dropped about every other bite back into the bowl, we ended up putting a dent in it.
Stuffed and merry, we finished our drinks, paid the bill and headed on to paint downtown red.
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if Mass effect 1 had Mass effect 2`s graphics and Mass effect 3`s gameplay
Elevators still ruin the game.
I'd hate that. I like Mass Effect 1 for what it is, not for what its sequels are.
yea but it would be a much better game all round no rag doll physics, no clumsy hit detections and to top it off that wonderful atmosphere.
Elevators > loading screens.
Hell, no.
The only good elevators were the 1/12 chance that your teammates would actually talk with each other on the citadel.
You're wrong though.
Astus, you have good taste.
Completely right, all the elevators were, and they all lasted way too long, were silence, news announcements on stuff that really didn't add anything to the game or the experience........and then the very rare times your teammates are able to peel their eyes off Shepard's ass to talk about something real quick.
The loading screens were no-intrussive, they usually lasted much quicker than even the Normandy SR-1's Elevator and they're not meant to be anything interesting. ME1's try to be interesting, and instead tend to be just totally annoying.
Didn't some of the news announcements on the elevators trigger side quests or were reporting on results of side quests they added little to the game experience but they did add something.
I miss the elevator music
I kind of miss the Elevators. I think it would work if they just would've had the Squadmates talking to each other. I can only imagine some of the conversations between squadmates in ME2. lol! Especially with Jack or Grunt.
I dont see why people would like a static loading screen over an elevator. And im glad that im not the only one who noticed thr downgraded graphics of me3
ME3 was weird in that regard. Some things looked better artistically but the character models for everyone not Shepard just changed somewhat. Like, Garrus looks better but WTF happened to Kelly?
And i'm not saying the loading screens are great, but they're easily the most overrated thing of ME when only a few of them are interesting. If it was all squad chatter, I'd love it, and would have welcomed the side chatter elevators in ME2 or ME3. Too bad it wasn't, i'd get at best 3 per playthrough. The rest are grating news feeds interrupting 20 seconds of silence prior and after. The loading screens aren't intrussive, and have a timing to them that let you know exactly when to start going.
In ME2, elevator squad chatter would have been great.
Garrus: So, Jack. What's with all the tattoos? Were they all on purpose or did you fall asleep on Omega & wake up with them?
Jack: Funny, coming from a guy with a face that looks like it was shoved through a meat grinder. But if you really want to know. They're for every Turian I've killed for looking at me wrong.
Garrus: Well, that's lovely. Shepard, next time let's not recruit from a prison, okay?
If there's anything DA2 did well, it was squad banter.
I dunno. I think people overlooked Origin's banter. probably because there were only about 2 triggers in each town and they were always right before the exit.
I'm not saying Origins didn't have good banter because it did but I'm just saying that 2 did it well as well. Well, slightly better.
They were a lot more comedic and jolly about them, and half the discussions were about Isabella's ****.
Everyone loves Isabella's ****.
I can't tell if you are saying "****" or "dick"
EDIT: I guess that settles it.
If she had a schlong it'd be hanging from that weird skirt/tunic/shirt thing she wears.
To get back on topic, elevators are better than loading screens; there were just too many of them. It was probably because you couldn't travel from one end of a room to the other without having to stop and load or have your textures turn to mud.
I liked the elevators. It kept stuff running instead of having to sit through a loading screen.
Lord knows I do. It's the reason I kept her around.
I DEF think the load times/screens took way too long. I would much rather have had it just be an elevator ride w/ some funny/interesting Convo w/ Sqaudies. Maybe even from time to time have a random citizen or 2, catch the elevator up and add a diff perspective to a convo.
On the whole, turians and krogan looked slightly better, while asari not named Liara and humans looked worse. Animation and emoting on the whole were much stiffer, since they were compensating for the fact that there were more ways people could move. Bioware has always been pretty lazy there though.
The one thing i disliked about elevators was that it pauses if you press on the xbox guide button, i sometimes do stuff there in long loading screens.
Me too, I always hated that.

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…into your life it will creep. The Daily Mail reports on a, shall we say, breathess report from the New Scientist (which could better be described as the Old Conspiracy Theorist, but we digress).
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction – beetles, rats and sharks turned into cunning spies courtesy of a brain implant or two.
But such scenarios are fast moving from fantasy to fact, with laboratories around the world hatching a new breed of spy.
Moths, beetles, rats, pigeons and sharks have been installed with electrodes, batteries and even video cameras in an attempt to create the ultimate spook.
This week's New Scientist reports: "The next time a moth lands on your window sill, watch what you say.
"It may look like an innocent visitor, irresistibly drawn to the light in your room, but it could actually be a spy – one of a new generation of cyborg insects with implants wired into their nerves to allow remote control of their movement.
"Be warned, flesh-and-blood bugs may soon live up to their name."
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Certainly no other body of literature can boast of more physical abnormalities and eccentrics - just a casual glance at the standards reveals the cast of Carson McCullers ``Ballad of the Sad Cafe,'' Boo Radley in ``To Kill a Mockingbird'' and most of the (often inbred) crew in Faulkner's fiction.
Hill Street Press of Athens adds to this pantheon with its first original work of fiction for publication, the debut novel of Sharlee Dieguez.
Titled ``The Bearded Lady,'' the heroine, as you might expect from the title, sports long tresses flowing from her chinny-chin-chin.
The novel begins: ``When Tweet's older sister Jessie first started growing whiskers, they were light, wispy stragglers that Jessie would painstakingly nip out one by one with a rusty pair of mama's old tweezers. Aunt Bean, who always had an opinion on every subject (even if it was the first she had ever heard of it) was adamant that pulling those hairs out would stimulate the skin and cause more hair to grow. The two girls tried to ignore her, the same as they always did, but it looked as though Flora Bean might just be right in this case. By the time Jessie reached her fifteenth birthday, she told Tweets that she was contemplating stopping this painful weeding and just mowing the damn grass.''
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Set in the fictional town of Quigley, Ga., the novel follows the aforementioned Tweets and Jessie, two sisters who, orphaned at the turn of the century, join the circus where Jessie, who shaves herself regularly, gets a job as the financial manager.
Finding a new family among the misfit circus folk, the sisters grow up despite hardship, competition, doomed love affairs and manipulative employers. In the end, the novel is one of redemption.
While author Dieguez is no freak, she herself certainly has a colorful past. Her younger years spent moving from place to place as a certifiable Army brat, her adult resume includes stints as a Playboy bunny, a truck driver, an Indian character in a Wild West carnival, a photographer and an art dealer. She now lives in Maui.
The book's signing came about as a result of a chance meeting between Judy Long, Hill Street's editor-in-chief, and Dieguez's New York agent Sheree Bykofsky, at the Harriet Austin Writer's Conference in Athens last summer.
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Vienna, Austria, 2010/09/29 - Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, announces the appointment of James McCummiskey as Senior Vice President Operations, effective October 1. Borealis
He succeeds Philippe Roodhooft who has taken over the role of Senior Vice President Product Management & Supply Chain.
James McCummiskey joins Borealis from Ciba Inc. where he was most recently a member of Cibas Group Executive Committee until the companys takeover by BASF. He began his career in 1973 at Ciba Inc. in Paisley, Scotland where he held several key positions within the manufacturing and engineering discipline, before becoming Head of the Global Business Unit Classical Pigments in 1996. Five years later, he took over the role of Managing Director at Cibas largest single site chemical plant in Bradford as well as Grimsby, UK, where he later assumed the global business responsibility as Head Business Line Water. During this period he also successfully completed a number of special assignments to turn round difficult operational issues on other Ciba sites as well as fulfilling board memberships of JV's in Korea, China and India. In 2007, he was appointed Executive Vice President Ciba Inc. as Head of the Water and Paper Treatment Segment, based in Basle, Switzerland. James McCummiskey is a Scottish citizen and has Full Technical, Ordinary National and Higher National Certificates in Engineering from the City and Guilds of London Institute.
James has learned the chemicals business from the bottom up with his many and diversified roles in manufacturing, engineering, industrial relations, sales and marketing, says Borealis Deputy CEO Herbert Willerth. I am pleased he will be joining Borealis and bring his wealth of experience ranging from a hands-on understanding of operations to the most senior level of leading an integrated business to the challenging role of Senior Vice President Operations.
Philippe Roodhooft has a long history in the polyolefins industry beginning in 1990 with Neste Chemicals in Belgium. When Neste Chemicals was integrated into the newly formed Borealis in 1994, he became a member of the Borealis Belgium management team. Philippe Roodhoofts previous experience in Belgium includes Engineering Manager, Plant Manager, Location Leader, as well as Group Planning Manager. When he assumed the role of General Manager Borealis Central Europe in 2007, he moved to Austria. Since 2008, Philippe Roodhooft has held the position of Senior Vice President Operations based at the head office in Vienna. He was born in Belgium in 1963 and holds a degree in Applied Sciences from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
I am glad that Philippe now brings the wealth of experiences he gained in various key positions at Borealis into his new role in product management and supply chain, says Gerd Löbbert, Borealis Executive Vice President for Polyolefins, effective October 1, 2010. With his know-how in operations locally and from a group perspective he we will make a significant contribution to building a solid bridge between operations and the requirements of the business and operations.
Borealis is a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions that create value for society. With sales of EUR 4.7 billion in 2009, customers in over 120 countries, and 5,200 employees worldwide, Borealis is owned 64% by the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) of Abu Dhabi and 36% by OMV, the leading energy group in the European growth belt. Borealis is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and has production locations, innovation centres and customer service centres across Europe and the Americas. Through Borouge, a joint venture between Borealis and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), one of the world's major oil companies, the company's footprint reaches out to the Middle East, Asia Pacific, the Indian sub-continent and Africa. Established in 1998, Borouge employs approximately 1,400 people, has customers in more than 50 countries and its headquarters are in Abu Dhabi in the UAE and Singapore.
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½ Kg Lamb or Mutton
1 Onion, sliced
3 tsp Kashmiri red chili powder
1 tsp fennel powder
1 tsp dry ginger powder
Pinch of asafoetida
½ cup yogurt
1/2 Cinnamon stick
2 Black Cardamoms
2 Green Cardamoms
4 Cloves
Pinch of nutmeg
Pinch of mace
1 Bay leave
Salt (To taste)
Coriander leaved, chopped ( to garnish)
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In a heavy bottomed pan heat mustard oil on high flame. Rogan josh is traditionally cooked in mustard oil but you can use any other oil of your choice.
When oil is hot add cinnamon, bay leaf, asafoetida and onions. Sautee till onions are golden brown. Be careful that onions don't get burnt.
Add meat and ¼ of the salt and stir well. Let meat fry for 10 minutes over medium heat.
Make a paste of Kashmiri red chili powder in little water and add into meat. Give it a good stir.
Now slowly and gradually add yogurt and keep stirring the meat so that it does not stick at the bottom of the pan. Let it cook for 5 minutes over high flame.
Add fennel powder, dry ginger powder, dry and green cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, mace and rest of the salt into the meat. Stir nicely.
Add water of broth as per the consistency of the curry you want. I have used ½ ltr of chicken broth here but water will also work just fine.
Cover the lid and let it cook. If you don't want to pressure cook then it will take 40-45 minutes otherwise pressure cook it until soft.
When done garnish with coriander and serve with rice or roti.
As I mentioned already, I made some naan to go with it. What a delightful combination it was for dinner. Supremely delicious treat this was.
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Drones Dropping Drugs Into Prisons
Prison officials in Quebec say they have to beef up air defenses around their facilities after a remotely piloted aircraft dropped a package that likely contained drugs into the Hull Prison near Ottawa, Ontario. "We have to adjust," Stephane Lemaire, president of the union representing prison guards, told the Ottawa Citizen. �If they are able to deliver drugs then they can deliver other small objects � small cellphones, weapons.� The package was never recovered and neither was the aircraft.� Lemaire said the rapidly advancing technology and the dropping prices for the aircraft make the delivery method ever more enticing, especially for drug drops. �If you can deliver a couple of thousand dollars� worth of drugs, it pays for itself.�
The possible solutions include putting nets over the prisons or giving guards the authority to shoot the drones down, a difficult proposition since many prisons are in built-up areas. There have been other incidents and in one case the aircraft was recovered. However, the cardboard box, likely full of drugs, that it dropped into the prison yard was never found.


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Add truck driver to the list of jobs Americans don't want to do anymore. Long weeks on the road away from home and family and stagnant salaries are making it hard to recruit drivers. The average age of a commercial driver in the U.S. is 55, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and retirements in recent years have long-haul carriers worried about filling their spots. Many would-be younger drivers are instead drawn to construction and other jobs that pay more than the average $38,000 a year truckers make.
"There has been an underlying quality driver shortage for many years, but it's been masked by the recession," says Mike Hinz, president of the van division at Roehl Transport. Nationwide there are about 25,000 unfilled truck driving jobs, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA). That's a manageable shortfall for now, given a still-struggling economy and lower-than-expected demand. Analysts expect freight volumes, which were flat in 2013, to rise only slightly in 2014—but that could be enough to create a need for more drivers. "As exports rise," says Hinz, "we'll see a driver shortage that is modest today become acute." The U.S. government projects that 330,000 new truckers will be needed by 2020.
Federal regulations have also made a career behind the wheel less attractive. New rules have reduced the hours truckers can drive and require more breaks—so long-haul drivers paid by the mile are on the road longer without extra pay. Trucking companies are reacting by stepping up recruitment, offering signing bonuses, and reimbursing driving school tuition, which can run up to $5,000.
Some shipping companies are readying for a shortage by looking to "intermodal" transportation systems that combine trains and trucks to move products from factory to store shelf in a single container. Double-stacked rail cars can hold at least twice the amount of cargo as a standard long-haul truck. Intermodal promises to cut costs by transporting more cargo with fewer resources.
The Federal Highway Administration says intermodal transportation will become more popular as over-the-road freight networks are less able to meet demand. The ATA calculates intermodal will grow an average of 5.1 percent a year until 2018. That makes sense, says Ryan Bouchard, an analyst with Avondale Partners: "The message of less costly and more efficient movement is resonating with clients."


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The Galaxy is expanding: Samsung to introduce larger 10.1 Tab
As 2011's horde of tablet challengers bear down upon the iPad the original tablet alternative Samsung's Galaxy Tab is set to receive a sizeable upgrade literally. The Tab range is expanding to include the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 which will offer a 10.1-inch screen significantly larger than the 7-inch screen that ships with the original.
This bump up in terms of screen real estate means the 10.1 can offer a decidedly higher WXGA resolution at 1280 x 800 pixels markedly improving on the first Tab's 1024 Ã 600 display (and also beating the iPad's 1024 x 768 resolution achieved at 9.7 inches).
Essentially this elevates the web browsing experience from a netbook-level compromised display where many sites simply aren't viewable at optimal levels to a much more practical (and finessed) degree and the bigger screen is also leading Samsung to tout the 10.1 as an "Entertainment Powerhouse". Or as DJ Lee Samsung's Executive Vice President and Head of Sales & Marketing said: "it enables users to enjoy multimedia to the maximum extent without having to compromise mobility."
Bolstering this claim are the Tab 10.1's other specs. It will run Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) on a 1GHz dual-core CPU features dual-surround sound speakers an 8MP rear-facing camera (2MP front-facing) Flash 10.1 support and will be available in 16GB and 32GB incarnations. All this at a feather 600g and just 10.9mm thick.
It will be interesting to see if Samsung's lead on the other manufacturers shows: the 10.1 will be Samsung's second tablet implementing Android and is expected to be released in the US in March. This timeframe will put it up against a strong field of competitors: namely Apple's iPad 2 Motorola's Xoom RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook HP's TouchPad and LG's G-Slate (you can read more on this grouping here).
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FraserLFA replied to Dave Mark's topic in Ford Focus ClubYour local bodyshop can do wonders and make it look exactly like the 08 model... but it'll cost you a lot! Especially if you want to put the new headlights and stuff in as that is a TRICKY thing to do but can be done. If you want the new 08 look, there are a few places that will do a replica kit for the older models, making it look like the newer model but with the old headlights. Personally i dont think it looks right, but you may disagree. If you are seriously considering updating the look in a year or so when you have more money, go to your local bodyshop now and get their opinion on how much it will cost and how like the newer model they can make it and judge it for yourself from there. I'd stick with the standard 06 model. Still looks great in my opinion
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Red Bull heir held after PC killed in hit-and-run crash
A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink is suspected of driving a Ferrari that killed a policeman in a hit-and-run accident.
Vorayuth Yoovidhya was arrested after Sgt Maj Wichean Glanprasert, 47, was killed on a pre-dawn motorcycle patrol in Bangkok.
The officer and his bike were dragged for several metres by a speeding sports car through a residential area.
Mr Yoovidhya, believed to be his late 20s, was questioned after police traced oil streaks to his gated estate.
The city's senior police official, Lt Gen Comronit Toopgrajank, led a search of the compound of late Red Bull founder Chaleo Yoovidhaya, and confiscated a dark grey Ferrari with a dented front bumper.
The police chief said he had taken charge of the inquiry after a lower-ranking officer allegedly tried to cover up the crime by turning in a bogus suspect. The junior officer has been suspended for trying to subvert the investigation, he added.
Lt Gen Toopgrajank told reporters: 'A policeman is dead. I can't let this stand. If I let this case get away, I'd rather quit.
'I don't care how powerful they are. If I can't get the actual man in this case, I will resign.'
Mr Yoovidhya's family was ranked fourth richest in Thailand this year by Forbes magazine with a net worth of £3.4billion.
His grandfather, who died in his 80s in March, left his heirs a range of businesses, including shares in the drink brand, hospitals and property.
The family also co-owns the company that is the sole authorised importer of Ferrari cars in Thailand.


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ISF aims to improve M-4 maintenance
May 27, 2010
By First Lt. Geralyn Hall, 3-4 BCT
As Iraqi Security Forces take over not only the current security of their country, but the training of those who will do so for generations after them, U.S. forces are doing all they can to prepare them to do so.
The 64th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, instructed a class May 12, 2010, on supervisor-level maintenance of the M-4 5.56mm Carbine for four Iraqi soldiers assigned to the 10th Field Factory Regiment, 10th Iraqi Army Division.
The 64th BSB has been working closely with the 10th FFR to build the partnership necessary for its current advise and assist mission.
"It was great experience to be able to present some training on maintenance for the M-4 5.56mm Carbine," said Chief Warrant Officer 2 William Taylor, of Jerome, Idaho. "It is always a pleasure to have individuals that are eager to learn the information presented to them.
The first day of training consisted of reviewing the basic functions and operations of an M-4, disassembling the weapon, discussing each piece and then putting it back together.
On the second day, the Iraqi soldiers viewed a video of how the M-4 operates from the inside.
"This will enable the Soldiers to visualize what is wrong if the weapon is malfunctioning," Taylor said.
On the final day of training, the instructors took questions to ensure that the students had a full understanding of the instruction.
"With the additional training that was requested by students, I feel that the Iraqi 10th FFR will be fully capable of maintaining the M4s that they are scheduled to receive," said Taylor.
The 10th FFR are expected to perform supervisor-level maintenance on their own in the future.
"I think it was a good learning experience. It felt pretty good to have them request us to come back for refresher training as well as tasks that were not covered at this time," said Pfc. Milo Whipps, 64th BSB, from Lancaster, Ohio.
This training will help enable the 10th FFR and the 10th IA Div. to sustain its own weapon systems long after the 64th BSB mission is complete.
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Feature Article of Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Columnist: Bruce-Mensah, Ekow
Plot to control NDC till 2024 exposed
The cherished ambition of the Gonja Mafia to control the NDC to at least 2024 has started to take it effect now that Dr Sulley Gariba has been installed in the castle as the policy advisor to the President and de facto Prime minister .
Dr Sulley Gariba is an avowed worshipper and admirer of the late King Jakpa, the Gonja King who was one of the most fearsome traditional rulers in our past history. Dr Gariba and Dr Raymond Atuguba have a shared vision, to entrench the dominance of the Gonja rules of power and especially the 5 segments of control known as "Nsomwariye".
Already they have taken full control of the Press using new arrowheads like Alhaji Bature who is known to support the Gonja Dominance Agenda, Alhaji Haruna Atta, Alhaji Baba Kamara, Dr Kpessah Whyte,Dr Clement Apaak, Bismark Adongo,Nana Kwabena Bobie Ansah, Matilda Appiah Asante, Randy Abbey and Yaw Ampofo Ankrah, the brother of Elvis Afriyie Ankrah who is being groomed together with Mahama enforcer and darling boy Haruna Idrissu to lead the party in 2020 once President Mahama completes his 8 years in office.
The first thing they have succeeded in doing is to neutralize once and for all the threats of the Rawlings faction in the NDC. With the possible amendment of the NDC constitution at the next delegates congress which will see Rawlings position as the sole founder scrapped and the introduction of an electoral college to elect the council of elders,
The Fante confederation made up of Mr Totobi Quakyi ,Ishmael Yamson Brigadier Nunoo Mensah The Ahwoi brothers, with their surrogates in the press like kwesi pratt, Ben Ephson, Raymond Archer, K Abaka Quansah , and others are at their wits end as the power and dominance they have held within the NDC seems to be diminishing by the day as the new axis of power is rapidly shifting towards a new Gonja/ Anloga power pact. The Anlo mafia, an off shoot of the Dzelukope mafia led by Ex President Rawlings which collapsed and re invented itself is spearheaded by Professor Kofi Awoonor with Captain Kojo Tsikata,his cousin and ex convict Tsatsu Tsikata, another ex convict Dan Abodakpi ,Fiifi Kwetey,Clement Humado, Dzifa ASttivorand others of Anlo extraction in its fold.
Another strike soon to be launched by the Gonja Mafia is to control key government portfolios with individuals who are directly loyal to President Mahama, which is being drawn up by Mark Woyongo. Gonjas in other political parties, in particular the NPP will also be targeted and the blueprint for a new region for Gonjaland which was promised by President Mahama at Buipe in 2008 .Already there are moves to get leading northern figures in the NPP to defect and cross carpet and expand the powerbase of the Gonja Agenda across parties. Another strategy is to work for all national chairman, and General Secretaries of the opposition parties to be Gonjas so as to form secret alliances that will hand the President an easy victory in 2016.
In the words of one disgruntled NDC MP "perhaps we should name our party Northern Democratic Congress rather than National Democratic Congress, my brother things are not going well in this party at all! Cant you just see? We claim we won 8 regions and now we are doing 4 region politics! Time will tell.
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Near everyone's favorite allegorical masterpiece portraying the slimy dynamics of monumental hypocrisy comes from the Hollywood wartime cinematic gem, "Casablanca."
You'll quickly recall it's that delightful scene when Looey, the corrupt Vichy gendarme superbly played by Claude Rains, uses his astounding discovery that there is gambling going on as an excuse for closing down Humphrey Bogart's Roadhouse in order to appease the local Nazi nut cake. "I'm shocked, absolutely shocked to find that gambling is going on in this establishment," Looey righteously bellows. Whereupon a lackey from the roulette table approaches him with a swag and says; "Your winnings, Sir!"
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NEW YORK TheStreet -- Over the weekend Barron's devoted two articles to investing in Brazil. During the 2000s, U.S. investors became more aware of Brazil as an investment destination as its natural resources were crucial to China's growth. At the same time the investment product industry offered more mutual funds and ETFs making access much easier.During that last decade the benchmark Brazilian Bovespa Index was up more than 300%. The future prospects are generally bright as Brazil has a lot of stuff in the ground the world needs, offering the promise of a more prosperous society. Like all investment stories though, Brazil has evolved. The largest companies now face a heavier government hand in the form of regulation and as a middle class has started to emerge, consumer debt has also increased meaningfully. Regulation can impede growth and more consumer debt can lead to irresponsible use of debt. As we saw in the U.S., that can have serious consequences for the economy and capital markets. The easy ETF choice for investing in Brazil is the iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund ( EWZ) but it squarely faces the risks highlighted in Barron's; regulation of the largest companies like oil giant Petrobras ( PBR), mining giant Vale ( VALE) and the largest Brazilian banks which all account for 40% of EWZ. The banks also take on the risk should consumer debt get out of hand. Brazil will be hosting the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, but this was barely mentioned in passing in Barron's, with one analyst quipping that "Petrobras' annual capital expenditure is more than the World Cup is going to cost." That might be true but the country is slated to spend $125 billion on infrastructure needs; given that Petrobras is the largest company in Brazil by far and many other smaller companies are involved with infrastructure, the $125 billion figure should be very meaningful. This opens the door to consider the EG Shares Brazil Infrastructure ETF ( BRXX) as a way to access the country. BRXX has a little exposure to the mega caps with VALE's 5% weighting but BRXX' average market cap is $13 billion vs. $31 billion for EWZ.
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After Nolan Carroll broke his right ankle on Thanksgiving, Eric Rowe stepped onto Ford Field and didn't quite believe his eyes. Opposite of the rookie, on just his second snap, was Calvin Johnson.
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Shotgun found: A shotgun was found along the south branch of Muddy Creek Road in Cumberland Township at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 12. The owner of the firearm is asked to contact the state police at 724-627-6151.
Harassment: Amanda Loar, 40, of Waynesburg, was charged with harassment after allegedly striking James Parrish in the head with a plastic bottle of orange juice Nov. 16 in Waynesburg.
Theft: Timothy Hilverding, 24, of 240 S. Cumberland St., Waynesburg, and Billy Miller, 27, of 27 Chartiers Hill Road, Clarksville, are accused of stealing batteries from vehicles owned by Force Inc., of Stewart Hill Road, Waynesburg, and Anthony Stockdale of Braden St., Waynesburg, while the vehicles were parked in the Classy Cuts Plaza. The thefts occurred Oct. 29.
Simple assault: Larry Lee Black, 50, of 379 Woodies Road, Waynesburg, was charged with simple assault, defiant trespass and harassment following an incident involving Terri Lynn Black, 48, of 313 Third St., Mather. State police said Larry Black allegedly grabbed the arms and neck of Terri Lynn Black while he was a passenger in a truck Terri Black was operating Nov. 16. Police said they observed bruising on her arms and the left side of her neck. Black is also accused of being at her residence when he was told by the property owner, James D. Roberts, that he is not allowed to be there.
Trespassing: Damon Joshua Reese, 21, of Rices Landing, was charged with trespassing for being at the Jefferson BFS gas station Nov. 14 after receiving notice he was not permitted to be there, state police said.
Burglary: State police are investigating a burglary at the home of Wendi Riggs, Browns Run Road, New Freeport, that occurred sometime between 8:30 p.m. Nov. 9 and 8:50 a.m. Nov. 10. Riggs told police four red five-gallon gas cans, a blue kerosene can and a case of Agco motor oil were stolen after the door of Riggs' garage was kicked in.
Theft: State police are investigating the theft of a blue 5070 Ford Tractor and a yellow Sidewinder Brush Hog from White's Tree Service in the area of Kirby Mine sometime between Oct. 11 and Nov. 11.
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MILLVILLE - Paul Dice still remembers the short and shocking conversation he had with a Holly Berry Court low-income housing complex tenant a few years ago.
Dice said the woman recounted how she routinely locked her doors between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., and would not reopen them regardless of what kind of noises she heard outside her home. That conversation made an impression.
"I never wanted to hear anyone tell me again that they're afraid," said Dice, who has led the Millville Housing Authority since 2008.
Some things have changed since then at Holly Berry Court: A zero-tolerance policy demanded that rents be paid on time and tenants live up to the terms of their leases. Nuisance guests, ranging from gang members to prostitutes, were blocked from the property through the courts. Some of those offenders even ended up serving time in the Cumberland County jail. Troublesome tenants were evicted. Housing units began to slowly be upgraded.
The majority of Holly Berry Court tenants, who Dice said just wanted to raise their families in peace, became more comfortable talking with security about problems.
And the situation at Holly Berry Court should get even better in a few months. With the help of the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, the authority is planning $5 million in improvement to the facility's 49 units. Among the scheduled improvements are upgraded bathrooms and kitchens.
Residents say Holly Berry Court is a much better place to live.
Tracey Pierce, 46, who has lived at the complex for 15 years, said gang members who used to stare as people walking by are gone.
"You knew what they were doing," she said of the illegal activities in which those gang members participated.
"Before, there was a lot of trouble," said Jesus Rosa, a 12-year Holly Berry Court resident. "Now, it's very good."
Now, many residents - including the 65-year-old Rosa - are growing community flower and vegetable gardens, something they said they could not do a few years ago. Rosa was shy at first, but after a few minutes he is walking through his garden, pointing to tomato, bean and other vegetable plants.
"Look at this," he said, showing off a bright green pepper.
The clean up of Holly Berry Court is part of the zero-tolerance policy the housing authority adopted after Dice became its executive director. The policy is in place at the complexes the authority oversees here and in Wildwood, Cape May County, and Salem, Cape May County.
The first tenant was evicted from Holly Berry Court in November 2010, a sign that the authority intended to stick with the zero-tolerance policy. The actual cleanup of Holly Berry Court started about a year-and-a-half earlier, when the authority opened an office at the troubled complex.
Efforts were not always easy. One housing authority employee was followed home and assaulted. Dice and authority Chief Operating Officer Ivy Evans reported being threatened with violence for enforcing lease policies at Holly Berry Court.
That did not deter enforcement of the policy, Evans said. The authority's efforts were helped when it hired John Mazzeo, a former member of the Vineland Police Department and the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office, to be the complex's lease enforcement officer, she said. Mazzeo, who is still on the job, helps develop cases that make the authority's efforts to rid the complex of troublemakers more successful in court.
Dice said the process seems to be making it easier for the authority to police Holly Berry Court and its other complexes. Residents at Holly Berry Court are taking pride in their properties and do not want the complex to return to the days when a few miscreants made life there difficult, he said.
Evans said the authority's work is far from done, and its staff is working to build on the success of taking back control of Holly Berry Court.
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Mick Jagger threw his name into the running for what may become the biggest supergroup of 2011, joining Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, Damien Marley, Joss Stone, and A.R. Rahman, composer of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, for what promises to be an eclectic (and hopefully not too terrible) mix of rock, reggae, soul, and as Stewart tells Rolling Stone, "Indian orchestras."
Unfortunately, the name chosen for the project -- based on a vocal freestyle by Damien Marley -- is Super Heavy, which joins the long list of embarrassing supergroup names plaguing rock history. It's as if musicians who have achieved fame through other groups will thoughtlessly abandon all dignity in christening their newfound supergroup, and ending up with school-age Battle of the Bands monikers such as Asia, Chickenfoot, Oysterhead, or Broken Bells. Here's a list of some of the most embarrassingly titled supergroups ever formed.
This might not actually count as a supergroup, as the collab among Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and future Pearl Jammers Stone Gossard, Eddie Vedder, and Mike McCready predated the fame of more than half of the members of the band. However, a name as embarrassing as Temple of the Dog can never escape from any list of all-time terrible band names. And yes, we get that Dog is God spelled backwards. You'd have to be as stupid as Sebastian Bach (see below) to think that was clever. If only they'd switched the rest of the letters around and called themselves Ghetto Elf Moped.
Hindu Love Gods
This one-off collaboration between R.E.M. and Warren Zevon was the result of a drunken night of covering blues standards, and, presumably, choosing a name.
Monsters of Folk
The first response to hearing a name like Monsters of Folk is that it had to have been deeply steeped in irony. But a quick glance at hyperserious members Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), and M. Ward leads us to believe they might have been serious. There's nothing wrong with new sincerity per se, but coupled with the pomposity and egoism of the band name, it makes us yearn for the days of the '90s when a supergroup of serious indie-rockers might call themselves something a bit more self-effacing, like, say, the Monsters of Suck.
If we needed more proof that Chris Cornell shouldn't be allowed to name bands, he claims that the name for his stint with the musicians of Rage Against the Machine came to him in a dream. Not surprisingly, the anticlever activists of Rage signed off on the famously terrible name. Bad story, bad name, bad band.
The Glove
Named after the flying glove from the Beatles' Yellow Submarine film (though, really, it could be any glove), the Glove was a one-album collaboration by Robert Smith of the Cure and Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees. This is a case where any adjective (might we suggest ... "flying"?), or even a plural would improve on this cryptically boring name.
Them Crooked Vultures
The classic supergroup story: three bona fide rock heavies (Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Jones) decide that if they all play together, it'd be so awesome, the name wouldn't matter. Really, though, it's proof that supergroups are more about rock star vanity than they are about the band itself. In the pre-Internet days, every show poster and venue marquee would have listed the three members under the band's name as the only way to get people in the door. Instead, every news story, blog post, album review, and press release lists them within the first two sentences. It's the only way you can make people care about a band called Them Crooked Vultures.
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With a line-up nearly as nonsensical as Jagger's new group (Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins, Taylor Hanson of Hanson, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick), this powerpop group seemingly got its name by playing a game of "say-what-you-see" while stuck in traffic on the way to the recording studio. I guess they're lucky that they didn't pick "Unnecessary Spoiler," "Slug-Bug," or "20-Inch Wheels." Actually, we're not so sure about that.
A name this terrible could only come from reality television. The name chosen by the cast of VH1 Supergroup (Ted Nugent, Sebastian Bach, Scott Ian, Jason Bonham, and Evan Seinfeld) wasn't the band's first pick. Such other brilliant names as FIST ('cause, man, it's like all five of us, man, coming together, like, like a fist, man), Savage Animal, Godwar ("Rawdog" backwards -- Sebastian Bach didn't get it), and Hunting Deer with a Bow and Arrow (guess who suggested that one) were in the running before they picked Damnocracy. Sebastian Bach claims he thought of the name when Scott Ian complained about how hard picking a band name was in a "goddamn democracy." Much to the dismay of seventh graders busy thinking up similarly creative names in the back of pre-algebra class, Damnocracy was off the market forever. At least the most embarrassing supergroup name of all time thankfully belongs to the most embarrassing supergroup of all time.
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As part of the Dec. 17 county board meeting, one of the items up for approval was setting the mileage reimbursement for employees who travel as part of their job. The action in front of them was to inform the county that the federal reimbursement rate will rise to 56 cents a mile as of Jan. 1. While the county kept its rate at 50 cents a mile, Board Chairman Pat Sawatzke asked how quickly the county can lower its rate because, from what the commissioners heard the previous week at the Association of Minnesota Counties annual meeting, gas prices are expected to stay the same or drop in the future.
"When we were at the AMC meeting, there was a legislator from North Dakota who was talking about the massive oil reserve that they're tapping into and how that will potentially impact Minnesota as they ship the oil out," Sawatzke said. "They've known for a long time that there were tremendous amounts of oil underground in North Dakota, but they didn't have the technology to get it out of the ground because it was buried under a layer of shale that they couldn't get through."
While still in the early stages of tapping into the new technology, Sawatzke said the technological advance could create an oil boom in both North Dakota and Texas, where similar technology is being used to bring up oil previously unavailable to conventional drilling. The impact of the new technology could have far-reaching implications and end America's dependence on foreign oil.
"It could be amazing what ends up coming from this," Sawatzke said. "Analysts are projecting that in eight years we will no longer have to import oil and in 10 years we may actually be exporting oil. I don't know how that will impact gas prices, but I would have to think it would keep prices down since we would have the supply here to meet the demands we have."
The board was informed that, if the federal government lowers its mileage reimbursement rate that the county can reduce its own rate accordingly.
In other items on the Dec. 17 agenda, the board:
SET 2014 salaries for elected department heads as follows: County Attorney Tom Kelly $120,640, Auditor/Treasurer Bob Hiivala $113,990 and Sheriff Joe Hagerty $113,990.
BY a 4-1 vote, approved the county board salaries at $36,982, a 1 percent increase from the current rate. During the economic downturn, the county board had frozen its own salaries. The commissioners haven't had a pay increase since 2008. Commissioner Mark Daleiden voted against the increase, saying that the commissioners should keep their salaries at the same level, but understood that they haven't been increased in six years and his objection was more symbolic than a strong belief that the commissioners should freeze their own salaries.
APPROVED an addendum to the county's contract with the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities to allow the county to use some of the YMCA's facilities as the Bertram Chain of Lakes Park becomes more operational in the coming years. The addendum allows the county to use facilities and equipment beyond the original agreement signed several years ago when the park land purchases began.
SET the per diem rate for attendance at committee and advisory board meetings at $50.
APPROVED the non-union salary schedule, which calls for a 1 percent cost of living increase to wages across the board.
SET the final cut off date for claims to be paid in 2013 for 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23. Any claims for payment made after that won't be processed and approved until the first board meeting in January.
APPROVED increasing the county's contribution toward non-union employees with family health insurance by $50 a month, effective March 1, 2014.
SET a transportation committee of the whole meeting for 10:30 a.m. following the Dec. 31 county board meeting. Among the items to be discussed are reviewing of federal-funded road projects and the county's 10-year highway construction work plan.
TABLED discussion of a contribution to the I-94 West Corridor Coalition. Last year, the county made an $8,000 contribution to catch up its commitment to the I-94 coalition with contributions that had been made for the Hwy. 55 coalition. The board received a letter from I-94 coalition referring to the county's contribution for 2014 as "membership dues" Sawatzke said he thought the money paid in 2013 was a one-time contribution and didn't constitute annual membership dues to be paid each year. The item was laid over to get more information.
MADE a pair of appointments to the Great River Regional Library Board. The county appointed Wayne Rebischke of Buffalo as a new member to the board and re-appointed Jim Shovelain. Both will serve three-year terms.
AUTHORIZED signatures on a 2014 contract to have Dr. Quinn Strobl to provide medical examiner services for the county. Wright County has contracted with a multi-county medical examiner service based in Anoka County for the last several years.
APPROVED final acceptance of the contract with Omann Brothers Paving of Albertville for the Montrose Safe Routes to School Trail Project.
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Los Angeles may be the City of Angels, but Sharon (Mimi Rogers) - the protagonist of Michael Tolkin's The Rapture - isn't one of them. At least not for the first movement of this complex, disturbing film, which slips phantasmagorically from religious parable to suburban adventure to supernatural gothic. Thirtyish and pretty, but starting to weather around her eyes, Sharon has been dessicated by her drab, uninspiring life, and more specifically by her drab, uninspiring job. As an underpaid prole for L.A. County directory assistance, she conducts her business from a desolate operator's cubicle in an impossibly gray, poorly lit space.
To stave off her days of boredom, Sharon spends her nights in search of the ultimate sexual thrill. With her boyfriend Vic (Patrick Bachau), a smooth and seedy European type, she cruises for couples, trades partners, allows unfamiliar men to swan-dive into her tender flesh on a regular basis. Throughout the numbing, fluorescent workdays and tumescent, lamplit nights, Sharon is denied natural illumination. And the monotony drags on - days frittered away on the phone, nights squandered in supine oblivion. Even when she enters into a tentative relationship with a sardonic handyman named Randy (David Duchovy), Sharon feels forever cheap and tawdry. She can't get no satisfaction.
Meanwhile, many of Sharon's co-workers at Directory Assistance seem to be reorganizing their lives with some secret spiritual agenda in mind. When the fabric of Sharon's life begins to rip, she begins to listen more closely, and overhears murmurs about "the boy who will be prophet," and "the dream of the pearl." One evening she even admits a pair of evangelists into her apartment. They plead with her to accept Jesus Christ as her personal savior. Sharon, ever the skeptic and hedonist, sees them to the door with a throaty laugh.
But the emptiness within her gnaws more and more fiercely. In work she acts more and more melancholy; in sex she grows more and more remote. When Vic arranges a date with a married couple ("They're from Philly," he gushes. "Actually, he's from Pennsylvania. She's from Florida"), Sharon can't seem to prime herself for the inevitable copulation. Her heart just isn't in it, not even when she's being mounted from behind by the muscular Pennsylvanian. One night soon afterward, she wakes with a sudden repulsion for her own stained soul. "Get out of bed," she tells Randy. "I have to clean the sheets."
"When did you get religion?" he snorts.
"I am trying, Randy," she answers plaintively. "I want my salvation." To prove her point, she runs to the shower for a scalding ablution, and then sits on the bed and madly flosses the last bits of her sin from between her teeth. Over the next few weeks, she throws herself open before the forces of heaven, and begins to receive divine visions. As she surrenders her very being to an unseen presence, Sharon runs the risk of appearing irritatingly ego-deficient, or even laughably dependent. For The Rapture to work at all, her embrace of religion cannot simply be self-satisfied piety, or the self-defense mechanism of a chronic depressive. In modern-day America, where religion, and especially televangelism, has become intertwined with the notion of hypocrisy, everyone has been saturated with images of the faithful as ovine oddities who weep tears of gratitude for deceitful preachers. Thanks to Tolkin's intensely subjective script - in which belief has a ragged, eerily unresolved edge that seems to conceal a menacing lining - and a powerful performance by Rogers (a Coral Gables native), Sharon's absorption into the world of Christ is dignified, believable, and appropriately surreal. When she answers the telephone at work, it's no longer "Operator 134, what city please?" but "Who is this, please, and have you met the Lord?" With this passage into piety, Tolkin's film concludes its first chapter. But there's still much more to investigate before Sharon can truly get religion.
Six years later, Sharon has managed to win Randy back and assist in his rebirth. They've married, and their God-loving union has produced a lovely freckled daughter named Mary (Kimberly Cullum). In keeping with his desire to explore religious conversion on its own terms, Tolkin doesn't ironize Sharon's change of life. Her suburban home is peaceful and prayerful. God is nearby. You can almost hear the cherubs and seraphs whistling as they fly over the neatly manicured lawn. But when a disgruntled employee at Randy's company trades in his mind for a loaded shotgun and opens fire on the office, Sharon's faith is sorely tested. She must confront her piety anew, this time as a widow.
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At this point, Tolkin's film becomes something very different indeed - something far more fearsome, challenging, intimidating and flawed than its stately first half suggests. Drawn to the California desert by a vision of her late husband, Sharon endures a series of terrifying Scriptural trials, and unquestioning obedience to a higher power is revealed as more dangerous and sinister than her carnal nights ever were. The vision she has received promises that she and little Mary will be lifted to Heaven, where they will join Randy in eternal peace. But after days and days of waiting without any sign of the ascension, Sharon begins to question the very basis of her faith. Has she been brought to the desert by Satan? Is her entire soul founded on a lie? It only complicates matters that Mary, a girl raised in the strict evangelical tradition, desperately wants to die so that she can join her father in the afterlife. More questions spring up. How much of the desert trial is a product of Sharon's own shaky psychological state? Why is every aspect of absolute faith so menacing? What will happen to devoted (read: doomed) little Mary? The answers are all in Tolkin's film, and they're all quite scary.
Like Randy Newman's "God's Song" crossed with Poe, The Rapture locates the worst devilment in the very idea of faith. With a lack of restraint that would rattle Ken Russell, Tolkin follows Sharon to the bitter end, right up to an actual enactment of the Apocalypse. But as farfetched as it gets - and Tolkin hits a half-dozen balls right to the warning track - The Rapture remains compelling because of its seductive visuals and visceral performances, as well as its underlying commitment to the trustworthy formulas of horror films. Because for all its investigation of the themes of religion and spirituality, the strength of Tolkin's film comes from its horror ethic, and the way it brings its intensely fragile protagonist face-to-face with the worst monster of them all - God himself.
Written and directed by Michael Tolkin; with Mimi Rogers, David Duchovy, Patrick Bachau, Kimberly Cullum, Will Patton, Terri Hanauer, Dick Anthony Williams, James Le Gros, Douglas Roberts, Darwin Carson, Sam Vlahos, Joshua Farrell, Henry Kingi, and Michael David Lally. Rated


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Pretoria - The High Court in Pretoria has issued an order to seize assets worth millions of rands from a Swaziland nurse and her daughter accused of fraud, the NPA said on Friday.
"The forfeiture order follows a request for legal assistance from the Swaziland government to assist with the criminal investigation and seizure of the tainted assets," the National Prosecutions Authority in Mpumalanga said in a statement.
The order comes after an investigation conducted by forensic firm KPMG on behalf of Swaziland's health and social welfare ministry into fraud, theft, and money laundering allegedly perpetrated by Charlotte Holiswa Mnwana and her daughter Mmabatho Success Mnwana against the Swaziland government.
The court ordered on Wednesday that a Northcliff townhouse worth R1.6 million, which Charlotte purchased in cash, and several bank accounts be forfeited and transferred to the Swaziland government.
Charlotte is registered as a nurse at the Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa.
Charlotte allegedly submitted false medical claims to the Swaziland government in respect of its two medical referral schemes - the Government Employees Scheme and the Phalala Scheme.
"The Government Employees Scheme's primary objective is to enable Swazi government employees and their dependants to receive medical care in South Africa when such care is not available in Swaziland," said the NPA.
The Phalala Scheme was meant to assist Swazi citizens who would otherwise not have access to specialist medical care to secure such care either within Swaziland or outside the country.
Between January 2008 and September 24, 2010, the Swaziland Treasury made cheque payments amounting to about 406 766 Swazi Emalangeni (R4 670 000) to Charlotte as a result of the false claims that she submitted for services allegedly rendered.
All the payments were paid into three ABSA bank accounts - one account belonged to Charlotte while the other two were in her daughters' name.
"The two transferred substantial amounts of money from the three accounts to twelve other ABSA bank investment accounts which were opened by them between July 2008 to February 2012."
The two are also being investigated by the South African police for forgery, theft, and money laundering. - Sapa


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BWW Reviews: Art Conflicts with Tradition in MY NAME IS ASHER LEV at Long Wharf Theatre
The conflict between art and religious tradition takes on extraordinary dimensions in My Name is Asher Lev, which is playing at the Long Wharf Theatre.
The play opens in the 1950s in Brooklyn with a narration by Asher Lev (Ari Brand), who has been torn since childhood between his extraordinary gift for painting and drawing and his religious and cultural upbringing. As all artists have done, he studied paintings exhibited in museums by copying them, and his original drawings and paintings are of -- hold onto your hats -- nudes and crucifixions. Oy vey! This is more than just disturbing to his parents, Ari (Mark Nelson) and Rivka (Melissa Miller), emissaries whose jobs are to spread Orthodox Jewish observance, specifically the teachings of their fictional Ladover Hasidic sect.
Asher's fascination with nudes and crucifixes is not simply adolescent rebellion or flirting with forbidden fruit. As a "Torah Jew," he studies at a yeshiva and observes Jewish laws such as praying thrice daily, keeping the Sabbath and eating only kosher food. But his need to draw and paint is overpowering. Asher starts to neglect his religious studies. "I return to find a pagan in my home," Ari says dismally after a trip back from Vienna. Asher stops drawing for three years after his maternal uncle, Jacob, died in a car accident while working for their Hasidic group. After Rivka began to recover by taking classes in Russian studies at Brooklyn College, Asher picked up a pencil and began to draw uncontrollably in his prayer book. His parents seek the intervention of their Rebbe (Hasidic leader), whose teachings and advice are considered infallible in their community. The Rebbe allows Asher to study under one of the greatest living artists, Jacob Kahn, but asks that the 72-year-old non-observant Hasid guide him and keep him from evil ways. "I do not know what evil is when it comes to art," says Jacob. "I only know what is good art and what is bad art."
Jacob demands that Asher devote himself completely to art, including drawing and painting nudes and crucifixions because they have always been important in Western art. He tells Asher that if he is going to worry about what his community thinks of his art, he may as well "paint calendars for matzoh boxes." He says, "I don't have five years to give to anything that is less than a marble for David" and urges him, "Paint the way you feel. Do not lie!"
His success as an artist, both critically and economically, came with the price of being shunned by the community and asked by the Rebbe to leave. While his parents acknowledged his gift, they follow the party line and let him go to Europe.
The play, based on the Chaim Potok novel of the same name, is immensely powerful because the conflict can never be resolved. The story of this artist is set against the background of an insular community, the wounds still raw from the Holocaust, the tyranny of the Soviet Union under Stalin, and the growth of Israel as a nation, which is still not yet embraced by all Hasidic groups. The character of Asher Lev is somewhat autobiographical. Potok was reared in an Orthodox Jewish household, but was ordained as a Conservative rabbi and remained observant. He was also an artist and creator of "The Brooklyn Crucifixion."
The role of Asher is a solo one, played nicely by Brand, with the purity of youth and art. Miller portrays Rivka credibly as a mother who wants to defend and support her only son and a woman who feels she must carry on her family tradition and continue their work as emissaries. She also plays an artist's model and the art dealer who propels Asher's career. Nelson does an impressive job as the father, the Rebbe, Jacob the mentor and Jacob, the late uncle, each with distinguishable accents and body language.
There are a few minor errors in the play and program's glossary, but Aaron Posner treats his characters with the utmost dignity and respect. Ideally, there would be more actors in the play, at least three for the role of Asher because Hasidic men wear beards and he is clean-shaven throughout the play, but that would be a financial strain on the production. The play has been produced seven or eight times since its debut in Philadelphia in 2009, but has yet to come to New York. Even with the minor issues, it is ready for the Great White Way.
The Brooklyn Crucifixion by Chaim Potok
Ari Brand, Melissa Miller and Mark Nelson


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From Goblins, to Gobblers, to Gifts and Goodies…this time of the year can be draining! Some days you can be so low on energy that you are drowsy by lunchtime and in need of a nap by mid-afternoon. Think about all the extras you have been adding to your already hectic lifestyle—office parties, gatherings with the relatives, costume shopping, trick-or-treating, holiday shopping, extra cooking, entertaining guests and visitors from out of town, school parties, religious celebrations…
The list seems endless. If just thinking about it is already wearing you down, then it's time to make some drastic…okay, small but helpful…changes this year. Take a quick inventory of the things that might be responsible for your exhaustion. Whatever the cause, once you discover what's draining your energy, you can take these steps to put the vitality back in your life and survive the holiday blitz.
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3A high school football previews: Bear River at Desert Hills
d0wns0uth Hurricane, UTAHNov. 2, 2012 1:39 p.m.
Well if that is true about Ty Rutledge I will be eating my words. I know one man is not the whole team but he is the main piece of how the game is managed. Prince had nothing to do with Hurricane losing, DH stepped up and won that game I was there. Looks like both teams will be playing short handed today good luck to both I will be at this game since it is down here. I support all region 9 teams when the playoffs hit.
OneManWolfPack St George, UTNov. 2, 2012 10:59 a.m.
Heard today that Ty Rutledge, DH's QB got hurt and won't play tonight! Wow, that changes things tremendously!!!
joseywales Park City, UTNov. 1, 2012 5:53 p.m.
whyplay- well, it's not "my team" just still have family and friends over there who I've watched and care about. I have seen many posts on here about the "what if" so don't think that I'm the first or only one. I was just saying that at the worst possible time, they had some very significant injuries to some of their more talented players. No doubt injuries happen to all teams, this case the injury bug just bit them at the worst time.
Pretty lame to think that after reading my post you think I was discounting anything about the accomplishments of these young men on all teams. No one was doing that. Physical conditioning can help avoid some injuries, but not all. You should ask a Dr. if you don't believe me. Otherwise I guess all injured players are just out of shape huh? Lame.
I've read posts from Hurricane fans saying IF Prince wasn't hurt that they would have won. Why didn't you attack them? Lame.
d0wns0uth Hurricane, UTAHNov. 1, 2012 2:29 p.m.
Sorry I had Wasatch on the brain, my bad I meant BR.
Oldcoach Hurricane, 00Nov. 1, 2012 2:05 p.m.
DHHS has had an amazing to win big games. (Except last year's championship) I was in the stands when they played the Tigers who had a huge lead at halftime. Everyone around me thought the game was over. I was skeptical because of what I had seen DH do in the last couple of years. They are scary good sometimes, and not so good at others. I think the DH and Spanish Fork game will be a great one. Utah HS football is really good, and DH will be there at the end, I think.
FB Fan #2 Grantsville, UTNov. 1, 2012 12:08 p.m.
@ d0wns0uth
Wasatch isn't playing...But still the same case with Bear River, they have to earn there points. IMO, this might be a fairly low scoring game, both games have great defenses, but I think it will be 10-28 DH. It will be a close 1st half, and then in the 2nd half is where DH will come with a vengeance. My opinion anyway
d0wns0uth Hurricane, UTAHNov. 1, 2012 9:19 a.m.
No disrespect for any team, I just know first hand the competition region 9 offers and it prepares any team for what is to come since they beat each other senseless week. My opinion is Wasatch better be ready to earn their points. No matter the outcome we dont need any more injuries for the young kids playing.
red rocks Saint George, UTNov. 1, 2012 8:12 a.m.
Be careful with the walk in the park. There are a lot of people who haved been mugged walking through the park just ask Dixie about there walk in the park with Snow Canyon.
why play SAINT GEORGE, UTOct. 31, 2012 11:48 p.m.
IF, IF - Hurricane hadn't lost to DHHS, they would have won!! Then they would have killed Wasatch if Wasatch would have won. DHHS would have beat Stansbury if they had not lost! Dixie would have beat SC if their QB wasn't hurt! Hurricane would be undefeated if they wouldn't have lost their QB against DHHS! IF, IF, IF
What team isn't plagued with injuries this time of year. Even many injured players coming back for playoffs are not 100%. Pretty lame to discount what the teams that have got this far in the playoffs have done by laying out a bunch of IF's about your team. Maybe your team needs to get in better physical shape so your 5 studs can make it through the season! After all, it is a contact sport!
joseywales Park City, UTOct. 31, 2012 6:23 p.m.
IF- the big IF. IF Wasatch would have had it's 2 (and then 3 after Franco was hurt in the 1st quarter) leading receivers, and 2 of its defensive starters weren't hobbled, this game would have been scored exactly the other way around. True, Wasatch didn't do a good job with their run game to set up the pass, however, it hasn't mattered this whole year (except against JD) and the offense has scored at will. BUT, that happens all the time and it's just unfortunate that it had to happen right before the playoffs. I'm not disrespecting BR, they are a hard nosed bunch and play hard. But if this game would have been before the injuries, Wasatch in a blowout. I think DH by at least 3 TD's
d0wns0uth Hurricane, UTAHOct. 31, 2012 12:15 p.m.
A walk in the park for DH.


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The Derby Express series, the free sister papers of the Derby Telegraph, have been relaunched as the Telegraph Lite.
The paper has been rebranded to bring the design in line with the main Derby Telegraph title, which is published from the same office. The Telegraph Lite will continue to be distributed free across Derby and the surrounding area on a weekly basis, reproducing stories which initially run in the daily Derby Telegraph.


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This wiki is useful for overcoming the error which occurs frequently when we run PDK.Net application without setting the portal .Net service property.
If the PDK. Net Runtime Server is stopped we will get an exception at Runtime showing that the PDK.NET Runtime Service is not Running
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Listen to Senator O'Mara and Assemblyman Palmesano on Hornell's WLEA radio
Senator O'Mara and Assemblyman Phil Palmesano of Corning were guests last weekend on Brian O'Neil's weekly show "Connections" on WLEA radio in Hornell.
The area lawmakers discussed several topics including the push underway in Albany -- which they strongly oppose -- to implement a statewide system of taxpayer-financed political campaigns, and a potentially major shift underway in rural transportation.
Listen to the Saturday, May 11, 2013 edition of "Connections."


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WARSAW, Poland — UEFA fined the Russian soccer association $150,000 Wednesday because its fans attacked stadium stewards at a European Championship match.
Russia also could be deducted six points in its Euro 2016 qualifying group for a repeat offense. UEFA rules hold national soccer associations responsible for their fans' behavior inside stadiums.
"This decision is suspended for a probationary period running from now until the end of the playoffs of the next UEFA European Football Championship," UEFA said in a statement.
Russia can appeal the verdict within three days.
Source: ESPNFC.com.


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- May 29, 2013, 10:15 AM
Elliott Aviation has added a fifth project manager, Dave Hulme, at its headquarters in Moline, Ill. The appointment comes shortly after the company revealed plans to create 50 new positions by 2015. Plans also include a long-term lease on an additional 24,000 sq ft of maintenance hangar capacity. Hulme joined Elliott Aviation in 1994 as a parts associate and brings 25 years of aviation experience to the position. He has also held positions with Pilatus, Livingston Aviation and Niederhauser Airways.


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There are a number of OTC products to help dry up the oozing blisters, including: * aluminum acetate (Burrows solution), baking soda, Aveeno (oatmeal bath), aluminum hydroxide gel, calamine, kaolin, zinc acetate, zinc carbonate, and zinc oxide! Any Suggestions here?
Treating Poison Oak or Poison Ivy With Listerine the blisters with a sterilized needle and then apply Listerine to dry up the blisters. Poison Ivy Quick Cures Source:http://www.ehow.com/way_5162450_listerine-cures-poison-oak-ivy.html
Poison Ivy Remedies from the Earth Clinic library of cures. The itching will soon stop and the sores will begin to quickly dry up. I've had
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quick poison ivy relief? whats a quick way to get rid of poison ivy?
Poison Ivy itch comes from the oily substance urushiol! You want to neutralize this! In most places where Poison Ivy (and often, Poison Oak) grows, a native plant Jewelweed also grows! This plant is mostly water, hollow-stemmed and easy to recognize!Grab a large stalk of Jewlweed and crumple it up, capturing the juices it releases and smooth this onto your affected skin! It quickly neutralizes the urushiol of the Poison Ivy!You can find Jewelweed in shady places, often next to rivers and ponds, and it is often found in the same places that Poison Ivy grows (but not always, as Poison Ivy can grow in well-drained sunny places that prohibit Jewelweed from thriving!)Jewelweed is also effective for insect bits, bee stings, warts, bruises, and ringworm and there are studies ongoing that seem to support these folkloric claims as well!
Dab on poison ivy regularly. It stops the itching, and helps dry it up quickly and thus helps it clear up sooner than just waiting on it or using calamine lotion.
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