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A Simplified, Standardised Approach to Client On-Boarding
by Hendrik De Spiegeleer, Senior Product Manager SWIFT, ING
SWIFT connectivity is increasingly becoming the norm amongst large multinationals to communicate with their banking partners. However, many treasurers and finance managers believe that the implementation is a time and labour-intensive process, which in turn creates a barrier to adoption. As ING continues to demonstrate with its streamlined on-boarding solution, this perception has become outdated, and both large and mid-cap corporations can achieve a rapid implementation with fewer resources and more predictable outcomes than in the past.
SWIFT is a core element of ING's multichannel strategy, and one of the key ways in which our clients connect to our central services. Our integrated approach, which enables clients to access the bank via web-based banking, FTP, mobile solutions or SWIFT is absolutely key to our value proposition. Clients can therefore access the bank securely using the most convenient and appropriate channels for their business, whilst benefiting from consistent processes and security across all these channels. At present, larger, multinational, multi-banked corporations are most likely to select SWIFT as their preferred banking channel, but there is a steady number of requests from smaller businesses that recognise how SWIFT can support their international growth strategy.
A pioneer of SWIFT for corporates
Although SWIFT corporate access is now supported by most major international banks, there have been marked differences in banks' appetite and expertise in this area. Some banks, such as ING, quickly recognised the opportunities that SWIFT presented, particularly to larger multinational clients, and placed it at the heart of, and integrated it with their connectivity strategy. Others have been more reactive, preferring to focus more on their proprietary channels and expanding their channel offering to include SWIFT as corporate demand has increased. As a result, there remain differences in the degree to which SWIFT is embedded in banks' channel strategy, and their level of expertise.
ING's longstanding support for SWIFT, and therefore the skills and experience that we have developed, is one of the major reasons why corporations choose ING as their partner bank for their SWIFT implementation. Some choose to connect first to ING, leveraging our expertise and track record, before adding further banks later on. However, another key reason that clients opt for ING as their SWIFT partner bank is the convenience and efficiency of our client on-boarding strategy. Underlying this strategy is our belief that the SWIFT implementation process should be as straightforward as possible for clients, so they can focus on the value of the services they are able to access through the channel with ING, rather than the channel itself.
A centre of channel excellence
This objective is demonstrated in a variety of ways. Firstly, many treasurers and finance managers who have spoken at conferences and events have emphasised how cumbersome and time-consuming the contractual process can be, which has caused companies significant delays in their implementation project. At ING, we have addressed this concern by centralising and standardising our contracts process. This means that we take a streamlined, consistent approach to contracts, modified with the details of the channel and, where appropriate, specific requirements for particular countries. Clients can therefore accelerate the contracting process, whilst gaining the benefit of a central point of contact, ensuring the process as efficient as possible.
We established a central service for on-boarding corporate customers at a channel level some years ago, and have since ramped up our skills and experience to become a centre of excellence. By concentrating knowledge and expertise, we are in a better position to share best practices and support the complex, often highly bespoke needs of our multinational clients, through every step of the implementation journey. For example, once a client has decided to connect to the bank via SWIFT, it is provided with dedicated resources to support the implementation. Thereafter, the specific elements of each project will vary depending on whether the company already has SWIFT in place with other banks, and is therefore extending its existing infrastructure, or whether it is implementing SWIFT for the first time. Whether a client chooses to outsource connectivity to a service bureau, or use SWIFT's cloud solution, we provide the level of advice and support appropriate to each client's level of SWIFT maturity, project scale and timelines.


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Private Finance Initiative (PFI): interest: trade: example 4
A private sector operator, whose trade includes the provision of design, construction and maintenance services, enters into a PFI contract with a public sector purchaser, to build an information technology system and maintain it for 25 years. The construction costs are financed by a bank loan. The trade commences when the PFI contract is signed (see BIM64065). In return the operator receives an annual service payment, the unitary charge, which commences after the information technology system is completed.
Accounting period 1
Construction of the information technology system is completed at the end of the first accounting period.
For tax purposes the design and construction costs are revenue expenditure (see BIM64025 onwards). For accounting purposes the example assumes that the information technology system is reported as a finance debtor on the operator's balance sheet, under FRS5 Application Note F (see BIM64070 onwards). The £5m interest on the loan is debited to the profit and loss account and subsequently capitalised (see BIM64245).
|P&L account (interest)
|Finance debtor (capitalised interest)
|P&L account
No income is receivable in the first accounting period.
For tax purposes we follow the accounting recognition of income and expenditure in the profit and loss account, subject to any relevant over-riding statutory or case law principle.
The £5m interest is capitalised"to a current asset that does not fall within the definition of a fixed capital project and so that rule (see BIM64245) does not apply. The accounting periods in which relief is given are those in which the £5m interest debit is matched against income credited to the finance debtor (see BIM64245). No adjustment is required in the trading profits computation.
Accounting period 2
In the second accounting period a unitary payment of £15m is receivable.
For accounting purposes £12m is credited to the P&L account (being notional interest on the finance debtor and operating income) and £3m is credited to the finance debtor.
|P&L account
|Finance debtor
For tax purposes we follow the accounting recognition of income and expenditure in the profit and loss account, subject to any over-riding statutory or case law principle.
The £3m credited to the finance debtor is trading income and is therefore included as an addition in the trading profits computation (see BIM64125).
The proportion of the finance debtor against which the £3m credit is matched, represents revenue construction costs and trade interest, and is therefore included as an allowable deduction in the trading profits computation (see BIM64130).
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|Income (net of interest debit and credit)
|Plus part payment
|Less matching costs and interest
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Top 10 'movie mistakes' of 2013 revealed
The list of the biggest goof ups in films of 2013 has been revealed.
According to moviemistakes.com, the list includes an interesting collection of screw-ups, which includes crash helmets appearing from nowhere, visible filming equipments in the frame, changing headlights and misaligned orbits.
Some of the critically acclaimed movies like 'Gravity', action flick 'A Good Day to Die Hard' and 'The Hangover Part III' have made it to the list.
1. Gravity (factual error): The shuttle's original mission in the movie was to service Hubble, but when the shuttle gets wrecked, Kowalsky moves with Stone to the ISS which appears to be "a short hike away". However, Hubble orbits at an altitude of 350 miles/560km, and the ISS at 250 miles/410km, thus it wouldn't have been possible.
2. A Good Day to Die Hard (continuity mistake): In the car chase, when the blue van is hit, the left side headlight dislodges and is dangling down for most of the chase, but in a far shot, the right headlight is seen dangling.
3. The Hangover Part III (factual error): In a scene, Chow is seen carrying around 21 million dollars worth gold bullion, a bar weighs 400 ounces and the gold prices at that time were around 1,200 dollars per ounce. Chow is seen carrying two bags, thus he''s supposedly carrying 8,750 ounces, or about 550lb, on each arm.
4. Iron Man 3 (continuity mistake): When Tony Stark is in his garage injecting his arm, his chest piece is seen glowing brightly through his shirt, but in the very next shot his chest piece is suddenly turned off.
5. Now You See Me (Visible crew/equipment): In the scene where agents arrive at the Four Horsemen''s apartment to arrest them, and Dylan is seen exiting the car, the reflection of the boom mic is clearly visible in the other car's window.
6. Star Trek Into Darkness (continuity mistake): When Admiral Marcus'' ship appears in front of the Enterprise after coming out of warp, a set of panels begins to close over the main deflector dish. But, in the next shot the deflector dish is fully visible again.
7. The Wolverine (factual error): The bombing altitude for Nagasaki was 30 000 feet (~10 km), but in the opening scene the planes bombing Nagasaki are a lot lower than that. The bomb also detonated at 1,500 feet, not at ground level as shown.
8. Fast & Furious 6 (continuity mistake): During the runway scene, Shaw''s vehicle is seen fitted with HID type headlights (blue tinge), but during the sweeping wide angle shots the lights are a standard yellow.
9. World War Z (revealing mistake): When the family''s car is about to be hit by the ambulance as they try to escape downtown, Gerry is driving and his wife is up, leaning over the passenger seat talking to their daughter. But as the camera angle changes, it is visible that there is nobody in the car and the ambulance driver is wearing a safety helmet.
10. Gangster Squad (factual error): The RCA 77D microphone, which the nightclub singer with tropical fruit headwear sings into, is wrongly positioned, as to get it to work correctly it needs to be pointed away from the singer or placed in a vertical position for side pickup.
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Robin Hindle Fisher is Chair of the Extra Costs Commission, a year-long independent inquiry into the extra costs that disabled people face. As the report is published today, Robin says, "working on the Extra Costs Commission has been emotionally moving – it has helped me realise that I spent the first 54 years of my 55 year life effectively denying that I am disabled."
Over the past year I have chaired the Extra Costs Commission, an independent body set up to look for market-based ways to relieve some of the extra costs that disabled people face as consequences of living with their disabilities.
The nature of these costs varies enormously across different conditions and from individual to individual. Examples include the costs of specialist equipment, such as wheelchairs, additional clothing, higher transport costs and higher energy bills, due to increased needs for heating caused by immobility.
The disability charity Scope estimates that disabled people have to spend an average of around £550 per month on these extra costs, just to be able to live the same lives as others. This compares with average welfare payments of £360 per month – leaving a substantial gap that disabled people have to finance. It is this gap that we have sought to reduce.
I have enjoyed my involvement with the Commission enormously and I believe we have set out a number of recommendations that will have significant impact. One of the key recommendations is that disabled people, of whom I am one, should be prepared to be "bold and loud" about their disabilities. The Commission believes that this will help to make the spending power of the disabled sector, the so-called 'purple pound', an higher profile consumer phenomenon – and eventually drive down costs.
I have found this "bold and loud" aspect of the Commission's work emotionally moving. I have realised that I spent the first 54 years of my life (I'm now 55), effectively denying that I am disabled. What was it that drove me, a moderately 'successful' person (in terms of academic attainment, career advancement and material reward), to feel that I could not be seen as being 'disabled'?
For a long time I assumed the answer was specific to me – maybe the result of my up bringing, that ingrained a strong 'you are as good as anyone' ethic in me. It affected me in a whole array of ways – how I dressed, how I strove for badges of conventional success, how I chose to interact with other disabled people – I didn't. It certainly affected how I explained my disability to my children when they were young. Fearing that they would be teased, or worse, about their father's physical deformities (they never were), I described myself as 'special', not in an elitist sense, but meaning just 'different'.
Working on the Commission has helped me understand that I am not unusual. Many disabled people avoid the term, I guess fearing that they will be labelled by society as inferior to the able bodied majority. This denial is completely understandable – when I was growing up in the '60s and '70s disability was stigmatised and society assumed that you were helpless, and quite possibly hopeless, if you were born or found yourself with physical, let alone mental, health issues.
Although the stigmatisation is massively less pervasive now than it was 30 or 40 years ago, it is still having hidden effects. One of them is the reluctance that many of us still feel to accept the badge of disability. But I now think this reticence is serving us badly. It certainly reduces our collective consumer influence – and thus contributes to the extra costs we face. Hence our call to disabled people to be "bold and loud".
Perhaps even more importantly, I believe our reluctance to be identified as 'disabled' is perpetuating the very stigma that we seek to avoid. I think we should take our lead from the gay and lesbian community and be prepared to 'come out' that we are disabled. I feel that until we do that, disability will remain 'inferior' in some people's minds, 'special' in others', rather than what it should be – just another version of 'normal'.
Read the Extra Costs Commission report, published today.


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Owls Are Wise
In Western culture, owls are synonymous with wisdom and knowledge. You notice it in childhood stories like "Winnie the Pooh" and college mascots like the Temple Owls. Cartoon owls wearing caps and gowns appear on graduation cards, and owls in reading spectacles are regularly spotted on signs for libraries and bookstores. In Greek and Roman mythology, owls were associated with education, intellect and magic, probably because of their wide eyes, solemn expression and ability to see through darkness [sources: Cornell, Lewis].
But are owls actually wise? As it turns out, not so much. Their nocturnal habits and swift, silent flight make them seem mysterious, and they are certainly well-adapted for hunting small creatures in low light, but when it comes to measurable intelligence, owls have very small brains proportionate to their body size, and they are less trainable than crows, hawks, parrots or pigeons. In fact, most owls can't be trained to do simple tasks [sources: Mascoli, Santillano].
Interestingly, in India, an owl is considered dumb and empty-headed, due to its tendency to sit and stare blankly into space. In fact, the Hindi word for owl, which is oolu, is also used as a gently derogatory term meaning "dolt" or "fool" [sources: Foster, Santillano]. Someone hanging around without doing anything useful might be said to be sitting around "like an owl."


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Police officer rescues puppy and sleeps at her side
After rescuing a puppy, a kind officer waited with her until she drifted off to sleep.
Officer Kareem Garibaldi found a lonely pup wandering the streets. She wasn't wearing a collar, so he couldn't locate her owners.
SEE ALSO: Caretaker serenades elephant to sleep with traditional lullaby
Garibaldi searched for three days. The next morning, he took her to the SPCA Florida for a check-up -- but they both fell asleep. While they waited, Garibaldi had just worked a 12-hour shift.
Manager Connie Johnson thought the pair was adorable and snapped the photos.Garibaldi stayed at the vet for three hours while the puppy was checked out.
Aside from having some mites, the puppy was healthy -- and the good news doesn't stop there. Back at the police station, the puppy met her new owner.
A dispatcher fell in love with the little pup, giving her a new home and a new name: Hope.
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Remembering Maxwell Flea
Market - It all began back in 1996.
Jose (Pio) Navarro had
been intrigued by a flea market he used to visit in Brockton and he
wanted to start one in Boston. "Why not
a flea market?" Pio asked his wife, Marcy,
and she made the decision to move forward. They
Marcy's dad, Hal Cohen, got the okay and placed ads in the
Boston Globe and the Herald. On July 29, 1996
Maxwell Flea market was born. As of the last week in July
1996 the flea market had four or five vendors. By October
there was a waiting list and Marcy had to expand their operations into
the next room.
You can find just about everything at
Maxwell, from a massive collection of New Kids on the Block buttons to
Avon cosmetics to used electronics to old Time magazine covers.
The flea market owner, Marcy Navarro, asks you to come to the
flea market with an open mind. the vendors reflect the habits of the
old countries they come from -- time, haggling how they treat each
other and their sense of camaraderie. Don't expect the
fleamarket feel like a shopping mall.
can't say that Maxwell Flea Market was a place for
making a lot of money but you can say that the community of vendors and
customers was close, caring and down to earth.
Friends they were.
What makes the Maxwell Flea Market
irresistible? "It's
the variety," said Johnny
Clark, one of the charter members of market and the famous
cake lady of the
flea market. Clark said, "We have everything here, and it's a fun place
to be."
course it is the vendors who built the
customer base and the flea market's reputation.
How they treated their customers, the
languages they spoke, the old
country traditions and their merchandise - all of this came together to
Maxwell Flea Market with a firm footing in the community.
Most vendors are locals who have an
entrepreneurial bent. Some sell
their own craftwork. Some are cleaning out their family attic
garage. Some are creatively supplementing the family income
by working
at the flea market.
Sisters Nola and Deborah Gilbert sell
surplus produce. Wild Corn, a vendor with Cherokee lineage,
Native American jewelry and art. Diane Hayman sells imported
handicrafts from the Philippines and Africa.
Maxwell's spicy variety is enough to excite any shopper, especially
those with an eye for a bargain.
Maxwell Flea Market has the relaxed feel
of a Caribbean
island open-air market. A
Haitian vendor
sews alterations while you wait. A
Dominican woman sells fabric for do-it-yourself projects. A man from Antigua sells
flags while another from Honduras sells fresh produce.
97.7 FM fan helped
celebrate Maxwell flea market's fifth anniversary.
Lo Mas notorio es que alli hay una
diversidad de comerciantes de diferentes nacionalidades.
Remarkable at the flea market is the diversity of vendors of different


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Coca-Cola to buy Costa coffee chain for $5.1 billion
LONDON (AP) — Coca-Cola is to plug a gap in its portfolio with the acquisition of the Costa coffee brand from British firm Whitbread for 3.9 billion pounds ($5.1 billion) in cash.
The deal represents a big return to Whitbread, which bought Costa in 1995 for 19 million pounds. Since then, Costa has grown from just 39 shops to become the biggest coffee firm in Britain. In recent years, Whitbread has invested heavily in Costa's expansion overseas.
James Quincey, Coca-Cola President & CEO, said Friday that Costa will give the company "new capabilities and expertise in coffee."
Hot beverages, he said, is one of "the few remaining segments of the total beverage landscape where Coca-Cola does not have a global brand."
The deal is expected to complete in the first half of 2019.


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After a legion of western nations announced this week that they would expel Russian diplomats in solidarity with the UK, one Russian ambassador warned during an impromptu unscripted speech that, by hastily blaming Moscow for the poisoning of a former Russian spy at a shopping center in Salisbury, the West was risking a return to the Cold War. A second Russian ambassador took the warning a step further, and claimed the West has inadvertently risked a "hot war" with Russia.
So far, 23 countries have expelled over 130 Russian diplomats since the UK pointed the finger at Russia, accusing it of organizing an assassination plot that involved poisoning former Russian spy Sergei Skripal with a Soviet-era nerve agent called Novichok.
The UK demanded that Russia explain how the nerve agent came to be used in the attack, if it wasn't ordered by senior officials in the Russian government, per Newsweek.
Grigory Logvinov
Russia responded by demanding a sample of the chemical used, and offered to assist the UK in its investigation, but has been rebuffed. Meanwhile, the UK media reports say Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal may never fully recover from the attack.
Amid the escalating noise, Russia's ambassador to Australia said on Wednesday that the world will enter into a "Cold War situation" should the West continue its "biased" attacks on Russia, according to Reuters.
"The West must understand that the anti-Russian campaign has no future," Russian Ambassador Grigory Logvinov told reporters in Canberra.
"If it continues, we will be deeply in a Cold War situation."
Australia said Tuesday it would expel two Russian diplomats, inspiring Logvinov to make his address warning of the dangers of deteriorating relations between Russia and its partners. So far, countries have at least stopped short of adding to the sanctions against Russia that were imposed following the annexation of Crimea.
He added that Russia has yet to decide on its response, hinting that the country could be planning retaliation beyond the proportional expulsions of diplomats.
"I said we have no evidence. The British stubbornly denied giving any evidence. They have denied following the provisions and protocol of the Convention on Prohibition of Chemical Weapons," he said.
Lyudmila Vorobieva, Russia's ambassador to Indonesia, said the situation was "absolutely absurd." Except that, rather than a "Cold War", Vorobieva said the confrontation could lead to an "ice war" - apparently referring to a full-scale military conflict between Russia and the West.
"What is worse than an ice war. It's a hot war."
She added that a conflict of that magnitude would be "fatal for our planet" given the stockpiles of nuclear weapons held by both sides. "Do we want that? Well, I can tell you from Russia's side definitely we don't want that because if we take into account the number of nuclear weapons accumulated by the country - this kind of development would be fatal for our planet."


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In early 1990's, R&D diamond micro-powder products;
From 2001-Production of PDC (polycrystalline diamond compact) and PCBN (polycrstalline cubic nitride boron);
By now---covering an area over 100,000 sq meters; with a monthly capacity over 250,000 pieces; serving industries of oil/gas drilling, mining, exploring, precision (metal)working etc.
YL (Yalong) Diamond is a producer of PDC(polycrystalline diamond compact) and relevant superhard products(PCD, PCBN etc) from Zhengzhou city, Henan province, China.
It began R&D and production diamond micro-powder only in the early 1990s and then in 2001 introduced in the line of PDC's and PCBN products etc, becoming one of the earliest companies in Henan province or even in China engaging in superhard materials R&D and manufacturing.
In 2003, we were ISO 9001:2008 certificated.
In Dec,2015, the company was publically listed on "New Third Board" (stock code: 834615);
By now, the company covers an area over 100,000 sq meters and has a monthly capacity of PDC's about 250,000pcs~ 300,000pcs for industries of oil/gas drilling, mining, exploring, precision (metal) cutting etc. Both standard and customerized products can be supplied according to your special requirements.
Almost every lot of our products shall be strictly inspected before delivery.
It has always been our tenet to provide our best products and services for old customers but also to constantly make new friends. Wish we may also have chance to cooperate with you. Welcome!!!
Company name: Henan Yalong Diamond Tools Co., Ltd. ;
Contacts: General manager: Mr. Wang Heng:(mobile 0086-13837181138); Sales manager: Mr. Henry Li:(mobile 0086-18337410371); Tel/fax:0086-371-85099820/85099822; Registered address: No#1, Xuesong Road, High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Zhengzhou, Henan, China (P.C.:450001); New factory (production) address: Superhard Materials Industrial Zone, West Rd.of Science Avenue(near the Y014 crossroad), Zhengzhou, Henan,China(P.C.:450100)


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It seems normal for people to hear someone being discriminated upon because of their age, disability, race, gender, sexual preference, religion, etc. However, in the wake of technological and medical breakthroughs of the recent century, gene mutation and genetic testing have been proven possible. And now, it seems that even people who have undergone a genetic procedure are also being discriminated upon.
Genetic Discrimination
This kind of discrimination happen when people who experienced gene mutation that increases the risk of inherited disorder or undergone DNA-based tests are treated differently or experience rejection and isolation from other groups of people. Like those who experienced the same discriminatory acts, they are considered different that's why they are treated that way.
This is often experienced in workplaces or when applying for insurance. For example, health insurer may refuse to cover a person because the other members of his family have a higher than average history of prostate cancer. Genetic discrimination in employment, on the other hand, may happen when an employer rejects an applicant with bad genes based on his health history.
Genetic Information
During the 70's to 80's, genetic information was considered in making employment decisions regarding discrimination for applicants with sickle cell trait. Genetic information includes the person's genetic test, as well as his family members', and their medical history. Genetic test results are included on applicant's medical records. And often, the results affect the person's employment and insurance coverage.
History of Law on Genetic Discrimination
In 1991, the state of Wisconsin banned genetic discrimination in the workplace. Then in 1995, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission included genetic predisposition under "disability" in the Americans with Disabilities Act. President Clinton call for the banning of said discrimination in 2000 and asked the Congress to pass a law for the private sector regarding the issue.
President Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) into law in May 2008, and it officially was approved in November 2009. Title I of GINA addresses the use of genetic information in health insurance while Title II prohibited discrimination in workplaces because of genetic information. The use of genetic information in making employment decisions is also illegal.
Despite this, the law is still very young and still needs to improve, just like how the field of genetic testing continues to grow fast.


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Back to back meetups in Eugene this Friday, May 24th! Come by the CodeChops co-working space at 5:00 PM for my talk: Alternative Internets for the coming Zombie Apocalypse.
44 W. Broadway Suite 206
Eugene, OR 97401
Then at 7:00 PM we'll bounce over to the Eugene Maker Space for their Friday night open house!
Eugene Maker Space
687 McKinley Street Suite #2
Eugene, OR 97402
See you there!


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1. People For Good
The "People For Good" campaign running in large cities throughout Canada on transit shelters, buses, billboards and the like encourages people, to, well, do good, with messages like "Give Your Fellow Driver Five Fingers. Wave." The brains behind it have no ulterior motives, they just wanted to start a positive social movement. For more ideas on doing good in your community, check out their website Peopleforgood.ca or download their People For Good iPhone app. Then go out and do good.
2. Ashley Picks… J.P.!
So J.P. proposed and Ashley said "Yes!", on the Bachelorette finale Monday. Only time — or the "dot dot dot" (thanks Bentley) — will tell whether they make it to the altar, as the batting average of couples who actually stay together from past Bachelor seasons is something like .150. As for runner-up Ben? Dude had to to fly straight from his proposal rejection in Fiji to his buddy's wedding. Talk about adding insult to injury.
3. Atwood For Mayor
A public feud between Margaret Atwood and Toronto city councillor Doug Ford (Mayor Rob's older bro) that began over public libraries — he wants to close branches to save cash, she says no way — has led Atwood supporters to begin a cheeky, viral "Atwood for Mayor" campaign on social media and around Toronto. Atwood's not biting: "Noo, not running for Mayor.. too old. Used to think Too Ignorant, but that hasn't stopped some. 😀 Appreciate the kind thoughts however!" she tweeted out to her 235,000 followers.
4. Kings of Leon In Trouble?
Frontman Caleb Followill walked off the stage in Dallas last weekend citing exhaustion, and didn't return. In an act of commendable transparency, his brother, bassist Jared, sent out a couple tweets: "Dallas, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. There are internal sicknesses & problems that have needed to be addressed. No words", and "I love our fans so much. I know you guys aren't stupid… There are problems in our band bigger than not drinking enough Gatorade." The band has cancelled the rest of their U.S. tour., and reportedly wants Caleb to go to rehab to address his drinking problems.
5. The Change-Up Opens
This body-switching comedy starring Jason Bateman and Canada's Ryan Reynolds starts today, with Bateman playing an overworked lawyer, hubby and dad, and Reynolds a single, man-child. Directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers), think an alpha-male version of Freaky Friday on steroids, and you've got a couple of escapist hours of outrageous, over-the-top LOL hi-jinks.
6. MTV Turns 30
MTV turned 30 earlier this week (yes, it was born in 1981; Canada's MuchMusic began three years later), and for a time had the impact on the music industry that Rolling Stone magazine did when it launched in 1967. In recent memory, of course, it has become much more about pop culture than the music, but college kids still want their MTV. They just watch it while also listening to iTunes, texting and checking out YouTube videos.
7. Neil Armstrong
Happy 81st birthday to the first man to walk on the moon, on July 20th, 1969. To celebrate, since Mr. Armstrong shares a birthday with Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys, may we suggest a listen of Intergalactic today?
8. Robbie Alomar
His No. 12 is now hanging from the rafters at Rogers Centre after being retired. The Hall of Famer, possibly the best second baseman in history, was the anchor on the team that won back to back World Series championships in 1992 and 1993 in the Glory Days of the Blue Jays. Hope the next celebration he can be a part of is another Jays World Series. 2012 will be their year.


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Filmmakers from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios did not disappoint at D23 Expo 2017 today, as they revealed new details and scenes from upcoming films, as well as a few surprise guests. [Read more…]
Walt Disney Animation and Pixar bringing three days of excitement to D23 Expo 2017
Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are back for D23 Expo this year for a weekend of presentations, displays, announcements and giveaways. [Read more…]
Walt Disney Studios upcoming animated and live action movies to be highlighted at 2013 D23 Expo
Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger will welcome fans to the 2013 D23 Expo Aug. 9, followed by the first of two arena presentations hosted by The Walt Disney Studios at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. [Read more…]
D23 Expo: Disney/Pixar's John Lasseter talks Fantasyland expansion
At the Disney D23 Expo in Anaheim, Calif. on Sept. 13, 2009, Disney/Pixar's John Lasseter gave a presentation in which he revealed new clips and information from upcoming films including "Toy Story 3", "Rapunzel", and the now-announced new hand-drawn "Winnie the Pooh" movie.
Following his presentation, Lasseter met with the media in a press conference to answer further questions. We wondered if elements from the new "Winnie the Pooh" film or "Rapunzel" would make their way into the Walt Disney World Fantasyland expansion announced by Disney Parks & Resorts yesterday. Here is Lasseter's response:
The "Winnie the Pooh" film is due out in 2011 and "Rapunzel" will be released at the end of 2010. Most of the Fantasyland expansion will be complete in 2012, which leaves ample time for either to be integrated, if only in part, into the Magic Kingdom addition. It has been said that Pooh's Playful Spot will likely be disappearing from the Magic Kingdom as part of the Fantasyland expansion but Imagineers are still designing the Pooh-themed replacement.


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Privacy policy
Here we present the personal data protection rules applicable in JIW INWEX Sp. z o.o., based on Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter referred to as the "GDPR").
We state that the Administrator of your personal data is JIW INWEX Sp. z o.o., with its registered office in Kielce at al. Solidarności 34, represented by the President of the Management Board – Stanisław Szczepaniak and Vice President of the Management Board – Remigiusz Szczepaniak.
JIW INWEX Sp. z o.o. as the Data Administrator, processes contractors' and clients' personal data exercising due diligence and applying the high level of safety imposed by the provisions of law on the protection of personal data.
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The nanobrewery's new Evanston taproom is just what the neighborhood ordered.
For such a tiny place, Sketchbook Brewing (821 Chicago Ave., Evanston) has quite a bit of character. Though there's only room for a handful of guests, there's more than enough beer to go around, which is good, because there's quite a bit to sample.
You won't find anything too out-there among the nanobrewery's 12 offerings—they're kind of beer classicists here, so you'll see much more along the lines of pale ales and Belgians. The goal here is to stay hyperlocal (you're not looking at the next Lagunitas), and the crowd falls along those lines as well, with plenty of neighborhood types hanging out and relaxing through the weekend.
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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said that the Indian Embassy in Libya has secured the release of Regi Joseph, an IT engineer from Kerala, who was abducted in Libya in March.
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by Daniel Hathaway
If Friday evening's CityMusic Cleveland concert ended up being a bit topsy-turvy, it was for a good reason. The order of events in the printed program began with Edvard Grieg's first Peer Gynt suite and ended with Arvo Pärt's Symphony No. 4, with Carl Nielsen's violin concerto in the middle. In actuality, the first and last pieces were flipped, making for a much more effective sequence.
Guest conductor Joaquin Valdepeñas, long-time principal clarinet of the Toronto Symphony, stepped in for CityMusic's current four-concert set in place of music director Avner Dorman, no reason given. Conducting bare-handed, he led a sensitive reading of Pärt's mystical, meditative symphony, subtitled "Los Angeles" after a prayer to a guardian angel the composer was using in a choral work, an after the name of the orchestra that commissioned it.
Scored for strings, percussion and harp, the work probably achieves its greatest impact with a string section of symphonic dimensions, but even with smaller string forces, it drew the listener into Pärt's special musical world and held one's attention for most of its 30-minute duration. It wouldn't have made a good concert closer.
Beginning ritualistically with the tinkling of bells, the three-movement symphony unfolds gradually with meaningful pauses in the first movement (Con Sublimata). A different, more anguished feeling permeates the second movement (Affannoso), perhaps a reflection of Pärt's dedication of the symphony to "all those imprisoned without rights in Russia." After an inexorable march, the third movement (Deciso) ends in a rising figure and whispers for high strings, harp and percussion.
At the center of Friday evening's program, violin soloist Adele Anthony was in full control of Nielsen's concerto, playing with strength, confidence and easy virtuosity. Nielsen noted that his concerto "must have substance and be popular and showy without being superficial," and Anthony hewed closely to those specifications, contributing two hefty and athletic cadenzas as well as drawing out Nielsen's lyrical lines with tender sensitivity.
Valdepeñas seemed somewhat ill-at-ease during the Nielsen, perhaps because he now had to deal with a wind section elevated on the chancel platform, which restricted his movements to shoulder-high and above. His gestures became loopy and undefined, and the orchestra's ensemble sometimes grew ragged as a result.
The four selections from his incidental music to Ibsen's play that Grieg extracted to make up his Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 make a tight and effective grouping. Valdepeñas and CityMusic put them across stylishly, ending with a frenzied accelerando in honor of the Mountain King.
This was the second of four performances of this program around the region. While it's difficult to adjust to a different venue every day, there are a few details of concert production that could be tightened up for any occasion. Friday's performance began several minutes late and was further delayed by remarks from the host pastor and CityMusic's president — who gave his own take on the Pärt work and had the percussion section demonstrate common instruments that probably most people would recognize. The departure from the printed program left the audience guessing about when intermission was to start. And though the cookies provided by the church were tasty, the interval went on too long.
On the plus side, Donald Rosenberg's program notes were chatty and informative, and wore their erudition lightly. He should be invited to do this more often.
Published on ClevelandClassical.com March 16, 2015.
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You have to love a book on business that uses SWAT teams to make business points, don't you? Timothy L. Johnson's book SWAT: Seize the Accomplishment tells the tale of our hero, trying to lead a dispirited, skeptical team that needs to solve difficult issues. And doing it while being undermined every point along the way by a politics-playing, nasty manager.
Just like real life.
The story
Timothy shows us the principles of his work through these stories because they allow for a little dramatic license — and people remember stories, not dry theory. This story teaches us the need to do Systems Thinking in our work to solve problems. Indeed, many business problems are caused by single systems not working — and by multiple Systems Not Working Together.
And the SWAT team angle? It turns out that SWAT teams, whether they are formally practicing Systems Thinking or not, need to perform in very precise, coordinated steps with no wondering about what's next. They need to secure an area, capture the bad people in the area, and protect the innocent lives in-between. Then turn around and figure out what went wrong and what needed improvement.
I've had a great time this past year as Timothy has posted some of his work with the local police SWAT team in his hometown. Plus he's been able to take (I was going to say "shoot") pictures of some of the SWAT practice sessions he's shared. All the while wondering how all this bad-ass stuff was going to fit into his next book.
Fit, it does. The story is perfectly readable and along the way you get good insights into Systems Thinking and how they apply to real business situations.
Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is the premise that there are inputs into the work you do that gets transformed into outputs from your work. You can examine it on an individual level, a team level and then take the same concept to other departments. Your output becomes someone else's input.
All of these inputs to process interact with each other. Plus, multiple processes interact with each other. Hence the need for Systems Thinking; nothing really happens in isolation.
When you complain that another department isn't getting you accurate information and you make errors because of it, you have an input into your job (your process) that isn't working. Or, if you had twenty people doing a job and now there are ten because of layoffs with the same volume coming in your door, there will be a significant strain on the system, not to mention you.
What Systems Thinking does is focus your attention on your outputs, then work back along the process to your inputs to see where systemic problems lie. Usually, unfortunately, we just identify a problem, implement a fast solution and not understand the impact on other business processes. "Why did that department change it? Now we have twice as much work to do…"
Instead, see how the processes interact with each other and figure out how to do them best.
Systems Thinking isn't happening
In the Great Recession, the need for good Systems Thinking has never been more needed. As companies have lopped off divisions, pared back operations, changed credit policies and laid off millions of workers, what were inputs and outputs to systems have significantly changed. I doubt management has had enough time to really analyze what the company's processes are now, much less if they have Systems Working All Together. As an employee, you are paying the price.
Timothy's book is a timely reminder that we can't really improve our businesses (or job satisfaction) until we embrace Systems Thinking into our work. Without it, all we do is solve one problem — and cause two more.
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- $325m to be paid to US CFTC
- $150m to be paid to US Department of Justice
- £87.5m to be paid to UK Financial Services Authority
- John Hourican, Chief Executive of the Markets and International Banking division, to step down
- RBS Securities Japan Ltd pleads guility to one count of wire fraud
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has been ordered to pay a record £390m ($612m/€451m) to settle charges related to the manipulation of the benchmark lending rate known as Libor.
RBS was charged by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with false reporting, manipulation and attempted manipulation of the interbank lending rate that was denominated in yen and Swiss francs between 2006 and 2010 and allegedly involved more than a dozen RBS derivatives and money market traders, the watchdog said in a statement published on its website. It was ordered to pay $325m in fines.
"The integrity of LIBOR depends on truthful information provided by a select group of some of the world's most important banks," said the CFTC's enforcement director David Meister. "The public is deprived of an honest benchmark interest rate when a group of traders sits around a desk for years falsely spinning their bank's LIBOR submissions, trying to manufacture winning trades. That's what happened at RBS."
"The whole episode on the one hand disgusts me and on the other hand deeply depresses me," said CEO Stephen Hester in a prepared video statement. "There should be no place in our industry for that kind of behaviour and they've let everyone down ... it's an extreme example of a selfish and self-serving culture which the whole banking industry, pre-crisis, was tagged with. It's a huge job we all have to make sure that lable does not have validty in the future.
An RBS subsidary, RBS Securities Japan Limited, pleaded guilty to one criminal charge of wire fraud, although the bank entered what's called a deferred prosecution agreement under which it cooperate with the US Department of Justice, pay a $150m fine and have that charge and another antitrust charge deferred.
RBS was also ordered to pay an additional £87.5m to the UK's Financial Services Authority.
"The misconduct was widespread," the FSA said in a statement published on its website. "At least 219 requests for inappropriate submissions were documented - an unquantifiable number of oral requests, which by their nature would not be documented, were also made. At least 21 individuals including derivatives and money market traders and at least one manager were involved in the inappropriate conduct."
The FSA said the fine was reduced by 30 percent under terms of its so-called discount scheme.
John Hourican, the bank's investment chief, will leave the bank at the end of next month, RBS said in a published statement.
"This was a difficult decision. While John had no involvement in or knowledge of the misconduct, and very notable business achievements while in office, both John and the Board felt it was right that he leave the organisation in recognition of the management issues identified in relation to this settlement and the impact on the Group's reputation," the statement said. "John will leave the business after handing over his responsibilities. He will receive 12 months' notice and his other contractual entitlements, however, he will forfeit all his unvested bonus and Long Term Incentive Plan awards that are subject to claw-back."
RBS, which is 83 percent owned by the UK taxpayer, will be the third bank to reach an agreement over libor failings, after Barclays and Swiss bank UBS, which paid around $1.5bn to regulators in the UK, the United States and Switzerland last month. More than a dozen other global lenders are said to be under investigation.
Switzerland's biggest bank also said it had pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud with the US Justice Department in relation to rate manipulation in the market for yen libor.
The UK's Financial Services Authority agreed to a fine of £160m, while fines paid to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the US Department of Justice will amount to around $1.2bn the bank said. Finma, the Swiss regulator, collected a fine of 59m Swiss francs.
The FSA said it found at least 2,000 documents showing attempts to manipulate the benchmark interbank lending rate, which underpins around $500tn worth of global financial securities.
RBS shares were trading at 339.4 pence each in London immediately after the announcement of the fine, a gain of around 0.5 percent on the session.


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LIVERPOOL'S Danny Murphy today said the pressure on manager Gerard Houllier has reached 'ridiculous levels' following the latest attack on the manager.
Until last night none of the Liverpool squad were aware of the sinister threatening letter sent to Houllier last month.
Speaking in Bulgaria before the game Murphy, (left), told the ECHO: "Over the last few years the financial aspect of the game has increased the anxiety felt by supporters to a new level and turned the atmosphere into more of a pressure cooker.
"The abuse he is taking is ludicrous." The players were focusing with events on the field ahead of tonight's UEFA Cup tie in Sofia.
Despite the snow, the game is expected to go ahead on schedule.
And Murphy believes if the Reds can progress all the way to this May's final, a lacklustre season can still turn into a triumphant one.
He added: "Every Liverpool fan remembers the last UEFA Cup final as a fantastic experience and it would be a tremendous achievement to get there again, especially given the calibre of sides still in the competition.
"There's a chance we could draw Roma, Valencia or Barcelona if we get through to the later stages.
"The memory of the last final is something which will live with me for the rest of my life, and I'm sure everyone who was there feels the same way.
"If we can win it again, something will have been salvaged from the season and it will be considered a success, particularly if we finish fourth too.
"It's a brilliant achievement to win any European trophy. Put it this way, no-one will be able to convince me if we win the UEFA Cup this year has been a failure."
Liverpool are expected to keep the same line-up against the Bulgarians this evening.
They Reds are defending a 2-0 lead from last Thursday's night game at Anfield.


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We've officially reached the last week of Love Island, and while we're pretty devastated that we're going to have to go back to our normal, boring lives after Monday's final, it's safe to say that the drama's been kicked up about 10 notches in preparation.
After the latest recoupling saw newbie Katie choose to pair up with Sophie, it was announced that another new girl would be entering the villa to date Adam J and Troy - and after that mysterious back of the head shot we got of her, social media blew up with theories that Zara was making her big comeback.
WELL, we hate to break it to you, but the former Miss GB isn't heading back into the villa. Still, we do have some shiny info on who exactly IS heading in to shake things up, and it's all a little exciting.
Meet Lauren Whiteside, a 25-year-old Events Manager from Blackpool. HIYA. And considering she has a pretty big decision to make since she'll be kicking a boy off the island, it's probably a good idea to know which Islanders she actually fancies.
Talking about who she has her eye on, Lauren explained: "I would never go for someone who's really into someone else, I'm not going to fight for it.
"I've got my eye on Adam J, he's definitely my type. I'm intrigued to get to know Troy a bit better too.
"I'm also quite intrigued by the other Adam – he's obviously a really good looking guy, but I've not really seen him get with anyone yet so I'm quite interested to have a one on one chat with him. He does come across as quite funny."
But with Adam J and Troy fighting it out to stay in the game, who will Lauren pick to couple up with? And's who's going to be packing up their short shorts? Looks like we'll be finding out tonight…
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The American Philosophical Association (APA) has an anti-discrimination policy that specifically bans discrimination based on "sexual orientation," and notes that "Advertisers in Jobs for Philosophers are expected to comply with this fundamental commitment of the APA."
Philosopher Charles Hermes noticed that several Christian schools advertising in the APA's Jobs for Philosophers section actually violate this policy because they require students to sign a "statement of faith" that specifically condemns "homosexual behavior." So he started a petition asking the APA to uphold its policy and ban such schools from advertising in Jobs for Philosophers. So far there are over 1400 signatures.
Somebody then launched a counter-petition asking the APA to let the offending schools continue advertising in Jobs for Philosophers because they discriminate again the homosexual act, not the homosexual orientation. So far, that petition has just over 300 signatures.
Rather than argue about the policy or the philosophy behind it, I'd like to speculate about a potential use of these signature lists.
If somebody really wants to discriminate against gays, it probably means that (1) they get their religious views directly from the Bible, not from a rational investigation of the "world out there", and (2) they've chosen to take the Bible's few verses banning homosexuality literally, while necessarily1 dismissing thousands of others.
That sounds like religious nuttiness to me. So, we might tentatively use these two signature lists as weak measures of religious nuttiness.
Obviously, there are lots of atheists on the first petition. But which Christian philosophers do we find on the side of reason and acceptance?
William Roche (#106)
Jon Cogburn (#634)
John R. Harris (#815)
Jonathan Kvanvig (#904)
Keith DeRose (#1045)
And which Christians do we find on the side of nuttiness and discrimination? (I italicized the two that were a particular disappointment to me.)
Tim & Lydia McGrew (#2 & #3)
Francis Beckwith (#5)
William Lane Craig (#10)
Paul Copan (#17)
Victor Reppert (#26)
William Dembski (#29)
Greg Koukl (#37)
Alvin Plantinga (#38)
Alasdair MacIntyre (#39)
Douglas Groothuis (#61)
Garrett DeWeese (#67)
Peter Kreeft (#83)
J. P. Moreland (#87)
Stewart Goetz (#94)
Peter van Inwagen (#132)
Shandon L. Guthrie (#219)
Alexander Pruss (#254)
So… anybody else notice a pattern? What is it about Christian apologists that makes them hate homosexuality? Is that part of their apologetics training? Or is it that more conservative Christians are attracted to the idea of defending the faith at all costs?
Anyway, you now have a handy list of philosophers who support discrimination, and those who oppose it.
Update: Victor Reppert, a Christian who voted no on Prop 102 (the Prop 8 of Arizona) but signed the APA counter-petition, explains on his blog why it's possible for a philosopher to sign the counter-petition but not necessarily think gays are evil. My gut tells me that most of the people who signed the counter-petition did so because their Bible tells them that homosexuality is an abomination, but I can't know that. Also, PEA Soup has a relevant argument about act vs. orientation.
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Sophie Perez is a sweet girl. Her former co-worker is not. Last week, she posted that Sophie was killed instantly in a car accident on their shared MySpace page, which was used to recruit talent for Girlz Inc. modeling agency. This hoax can be found at www.myspace.com/giirlzincfl. FOX is pleased to learn that Sophie is still among the living. She has, however, left the business.
FOX: Sophie where did you live before you came to L.A.?
Sophie: Danbury, Connecticut and Orlando Florida.
You look so young, how old are you?
What were you doing with yourself before you started doing scenes?
I was a telemarketer!
What led you to go into porn?
Money. (laughs)
How did you get acquainted with it? Did someone bring you in?
Yeah, I got recruited off of MySpace.
Yeah I think that a lot of people cruise MySpace looking for porn talent.
I do.
What was your pre-porn sex life like?
Well, it was definitely a lot better than porn.
Like how?
You actually get to cum.
Like in porn you're just getting pounded and it's more about the scene?
Yeah, it's not really about your personal pleasure.
What's the deal with the family?
My dad has 13 kids so you know he's a horndog. I get it from my dad.


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Congratulations to KaT's own 2016 GOLDEN HEART Finalist, DIANA BELCHASE!
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- The Kiss and Thrill ladies would like to congratulate one of our own, the fabulous DIANA BELCHASE for being a finalist in the prestigious 2016 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart awards!
Her manuscript, ESCAPE FROM THE HAREM, is a finalist in the Romantic Suspense category.
The Golden Heart is to unpublished authors what the Academy Awards are to actors and actresses. It's an incredible honor that thousands of authors aspire to. But only a handful ever become finalists, and even fewer actually win. Diana has done both! She has won the Golden Heart before, and we'll be rooting her on this year to win it again! But win or not, just being a finalist puts her at the top of the pack, the cream of the crop, a writer who stands out from others as being extremely talented with a very bright future ahead of her.
We all love you very much and are so proud of you.
Here is the announcement about the finalists, excerpted from the Romance Writers of America website.
Romance Writers of America (RWA), the trade association for aspiring and published romance fiction authors, announces the finalists for the 2016 Golden Heart® Awards. The Golden Heart recognizes excellence in unpublished romance manuscripts.
The 2016 winners will be announced at a black-tie awards ceremony at the 2016 RWA Annual Conference.
Diana is a truly kind, intelligent, wonderful person and we are all so happy for her. Below is a list of just some of her writing accomplishments, in addition to this year's Golden Heart final!
Daphne Du Maurier Nominee 2015 (By the Skin of Her Teeth)
Daphne Du Maurier Nominee 2015 (His Brother's Child)
Daphne Du Maurier Nominee 2015 (At Midnight)
Golden Heart Winner 2011 (Spy in the Mirror)
Golden Heart Finalist 2012 (Spy in the Harem)
Silver Quill Winner 2011 (Spy in the Mirror)
Wisconsin Fab Five Winner 2011 (Spy in the Mirror)
Jack Reid Award 2010 (The Spy Next Door)
NEORWA Cleveland Rocks 2nd Place 2009 (The Spy Next Door)
(Above three pictures courtesy of Sharon Wray. From top down, left to right – 2012 Golden Heart Finalist class; Diana with Lena Diaz at an RWA conference; Diana, Rachel Grant, and Sharon Wray at an RWA conference)
(2011 Golden Heart Finalists, left to right: Rachel Grant, Diana Belchase, Gwen Hernandez, Sharon Wray, Sarah Andre)
And now for some words from some of Diana's fellow KaTs!
"Congratulations, Diana! No matter what happens at the awards ceremony, you're already a winner. I'll be cheering for you." – Gwen Hernandez
"Dear Diana,
You've worked so hard to reach this highest-of-writer pinnacles. The nomination is a testament to your patience and perseverance. You've faced down more hardships than any other friend I know, so take a moment to just sit with this awesome accomplishment. Enjoy San Diego! My most heartfelt congratulations." – Sarah Andre
"Diana is such a hard worker but she's also extremely talented and generous. So it's wonderful to see her get the recognition she deserves. Congratulations, Diana!" – Manda Collins
"One of my fondest memories was spending the day with Diana on the Kiss of Death tour of the LAPD Academy. She lovingly forced me out of my shy shell and I had the absolute best time and made a friend for life. Diana is one of the smartest, kindest, most interesting people I know. And she's one hell of a writer. Congratulations on your latest achievement, Diana!" – Lena Diaz
"Diana is one of the most generous women I know. Besides being a wonderful writer, she's a true and trusted friend who will always answer the phone to help you with your problems (both plot-wise and personal). Her advice (again both with plots and personal problems) is always honest and straightforward. She has a way of knowing what needs to be said even if it's not necessarily what one wants to hear. But because she's so diplomatic and kind, you know her comments come from the heart. Her only intent is to help make your writing shine and offer a sounding board when life becomes overwhelming. Meeting Diana is one of the reasons I so value the Golden Heart contest. Without that opportunity, I never would've met Diana or any of my Golden Sisters. Sisters who, like Diana, have changed my life for the better. Congratulations, Diana! I am so very proud of you!" – Sharon Wray
Congratulations Diana! One reason I'm so happy for you is that I know you are always happy for others (including me). When others succeed, you are the first in line with a big grin and an atta girl! When others face disappointment or a setback (including me), you are there with a big hug, a sympathetic ear, and advice on how to move on to the next goal. I'll never forget the way you helped me prep for my panel at Thrillerfest when I was a bundle of nerves, or all the fun we had at the FBI writers day, or introduced me to all your friends when I knew no one. In short, Diana, you are true blue and I'm so happy you are my friend. I can't wait to hug you at RWA. I'll be the one cheering loudly and embarrassing you in front of your peeps. Congratulations!" – Carey Baldwin
Posted on April 5, 2016, in Author Spotlight, Diana Belchase, Golden Heart Finalists, Sharon Wray and tagged 2016 Golden Heart Finalist, Diana Belchase. Bookmark the permalink. 30 Comments.
Congratulations, Diana! This nomination is so well-deserved. I am awed by your talent in multiple media and genres. Not only are you a fantastic writer, you are a terrific interviewer.
Here's a link to Diana's Youtube channel for those of you who haven't had a chance to view her author interviews: https://www.youtube.com/user/DianaBelchase
Good luck in San Diego!
Krista, you believe in me when I often don't even believe in myself. Thank you so much!
Congratulations, Diana! I am so proud of you. Your perseverance and talent are such an inspiration! Good luck in San Diego
(and if Ray can't go, I'll be your date. :))
I wish I could have both of you as my dates. You're an absolute angel and inspiration in every part of my life. Thank you!!
Go, Diana, go! This is just more proof that your books need to see the light of day. Here's to getting them out this year. Good luck! 🙂
Thanks, so much Gwen! I need your courage and organizational skills!
Sarah Andre | April 5, 2016 at 11:09 am
SURPRISE! (Lena did all the work though.) 🙂
Looking forward to watching you take the stage once more this summer. You're a fabulous writer and it's time we all shout it to the world.
Thank you for believing in me and for rooting for me, Sarah. And thank you to Lena for putting this together, too. It was a huge surprise and my desktop is getting so soggy as I keep reading. XO
So glad we surprised you!
vicki | April 5, 2016 at 11:19 am
Diana, this is the best ever. Now, get those books out there so we can read them!
So wonderful for you to be here and supporting me, Vicki! Love being able to share this wonderful day with You all.
OMG, I am so surprised and touched by all of you! How many ways can someone say, "thank you?" Tears are streaming down my face. I am awed and humbled and honored. XO XO
Jo-Ann Carson | April 5, 2016 at 12:17 pm
Adding my congratulations Diana,
I'm excited for you and look forward to reading your books.
Best Wishes
Jo-Ann Carson
Thank you, Jo-Ann!
Huge congrats, Diana!!! We're all so proud and excited for you! Can't wait until you put these books out there so we all can read them!!
Glad to hear from you, Rachel. Hope you're enjoying Hawaii!
Oh my gosh! What a great list of accomplishments! I'm so very proud of you and can't wait to say I knew her when 🙂
Oh Jacquie, you are sweet! Thanks for being here today.
Much love and million congratulations!!
Thanks, Carey!
Melissa Keir | April 5, 2016 at 5:29 pm
Congrats Diana! I wish you much success! 🙂
How sweet of you to be here, Melissa!
Congrats, Diana! Boy that's an impressive list of credentials. Fingers crossed for you.
Thank you Marsha!
Woot! Can't wait until July when I'll be there rooting for you! Congratulations!
A hug will be waiting for you Kathryn!
Bella | April 6, 2016 at 12:25 am
Congratulations, Diana!
To paraphrase Walt Whitman –
A thoughtful patient writer,
I marked where on a promontory she stood isolated,
Marked how she explored the vacant vast surroundings,
Launching forth filament, filament, filament, out of herself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
To touch other souls with her strands,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridges be formed, till the ductile anchors hold,
Till the gossamer threads she flings anchor deep within in our souls.
This is you; now others see it too.
Omg, I'm tearing up again. What a lovely tribute, Bella. Thank you!
What a sweet, thoughtful thing you ladies did here! Such an awesome show of support and love. Congrats Diana – you are lucky indeed, my Golden Heart sister 🙂
Yes, Melonie, friends like these make me rich beyond any treasure. Thanks GH sister for stopping by!


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Purchase tickets online rather than at the park to save $10 or more off the cost of admission, depending on the park.
Buy a season pass if you plan to go to the park two or more times during the year. At the time of publication, season passes included several perks and flexible options, including admission to all Six Flags theme parks, free tickets for your friends and admission to a Six Flags water park.
Check clubs, groups and association newsletters and websites for information on discount Six Flag tickets available to members. Sometimes companies negotiate corporate discounts with local attractions for their employees, so if you live near a Six Flags park, check with your benefits department to find out if this perk is available to you.
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Daily Blog Tips is on a New Server
Last week I opened a discussion on the blog titled "What is Your Favorite Web Hosting?". That is quite a coincidence because when I wrote that I was not planning to move the blog anywhere, I just wanted to give my feedback from previous hosting experiences, and thought that it would be useful for the readers if they could also share theirs and read recommendations from other people.
As I mentioned on that post DBT was hosted with A Small Orange for the past eight months or so. Initially the service was outstanding, with fast and reliable servers and good customer support. Over the last four months, though, I started to have some reliability problems. The blog was consistently getting several hours of downtime each month.
I tried to talk with the customer support to see if we could solve the problem somehow, but there was nothing they could do about it. Most companies guarantee 99,5% of uptime, and that translates to 3 hours and 36 minutes of allowed downtime every month. Frankly that is not good enough for me.
I had not decided to move yet, but on Friday the blog went down for over an hour, and on Saturday it went down several times during the day, summing almost 2 hours of downtime (I track that with Pingdom.com). That made it for me. The situation was so bad that the support tried to offer me one free month of hosting.
Anyway yesterday I made the switch, and DBT is now hosted on a Doreo server. My other blogs are already hosted there, and they had 20 minutes of downtime over the past 8 months, so hopefully it will continue like this.
Frank, Doreo's CEO, was quite helpful while we made the transfer (in fact he did it pretty much himself…). Every time you move a website around, though, you learn some valuable tips, here is what I learned this time around:
1. Set the TTL to a low value before making the transfer.
TTL stands for time to live, and it regulates how many transmissions a piece of computer data can go before being discarded. Your DNS records (the information connecting your domain to your hosting server) have a TTL, which is usually set a one day. That means that if you update your nameservers today (making them point to the new hosting company) it might take up to 24 hours before people actually start seeing your site on the new server. This may cause all sorts of problems, from the lost of comments and emails to some visitors not being able to access the site at all.
Before making the switch yesterday I had set my TTL to 20 minutes. It worked like a charm, and within minutes of updating the nameservers most people were already being redirected to the new server.
2. Prefer hostings that offer cPanel
In the past I had already transfered this blog between two different servers. One of them was not using cPanel, though, so I was forced to copy and restore all the site files and MySQL databases manually. It worked well, but somehow when I was restoring the databases it messed up some special characters on my blog posts, and I needed to fix them one by one, on over 200 posts….
I am sure that the problem was my fault, but if there was a simpler option available it probably could have spared that.
Well, if you are hosted on a server that uses cPanel and are moving to another that also uses it, the transfer becomes much easier. cPanel has a full backup option that will pack everything on your server, from site files to databases and email settings.
It will generate a pretty big file, but once you have that you just need to upload it to the new server and restore that backup.
That is it. I hope that you guys did not notice the frequent downtimes over the past months. The situation should be solved now though.
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30 Responses to "Daily Blog Tips is on a New Server"
Thanks for teaching something about TTL. Nice post
I guess I'll have to get someone to update the web site 🙂 Doreo Hosting does support PHP V5. You can actually choose which PHP you run by adding/removing one line from your .htaccess file.
The special character problem could have been corrected by just changing define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8') to define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf-8') in wp-config.php.
Note the hyphen that is to be added in UTF-8.
Very simple.
Medical Transcriptionist
114 others are sharing your IP. Isn't that a problem?
Daniel Scocco
Gary, and I am the C plan, 60G monthly. That is enough for DBT.
Just asking out of curiosity. Which plan did you choose.? Are you on dedicated server or what.
Ruchis, that is not true. The different is that on a shared hosting you will need to contact the host and they will do it for you.
Ruchir Chawdhry
"1. Set the TTL to a low value before making the transfer."
That's only applicable if you have a VPS or dedicated though.
Scott, that first answer that comes to my mind is Wikipedia. You can find an concise and clear explanation for all the terms there.
If you feel you need to go deeper into some subjects, say CSS or PHP, you will need to use Google to find more material.
Every info you need is out there, you will just need to find it (so a good starting point is to learn how to use Google effectively).
Slightly off topic, but I just signed up with Doreo on Sunday to start a blog. My question is this, on the surface as a blog reader everything is seamless, kind of like using your cell phone. You punch in a number and you reach the person associated with that number. But ask people how a cell phone actually works, how it knows which towers to use and how it connects to another phone regardless of whether that phone is a cell phone in NY or LA….not so many people can tell you how all that works.
So where does everyone go to learn the inner workings of things like TTLs and all the behind the scenes things that a good blogger is going to want to add to his Blog? I see so much out there that I then follow up on through Google, et al, but there must be some kind of central learning bank that one can tap into to get intermediate to advanced training on all of the details
I moved from A Small Orange to Doreo (my sponsor). Their servers are in Chicago.
Make Money Online Blogging
Where did your server move to? It is more faster than before here in China.
Madhur, full backup.
Home directory + MySQL databases should work as well though.
After experiencing a bit more growth than anticipated recently, I decided to grab a new server rather than upgrade. The new server is up and my TTLs on all my domains are now 3600 (1 hour), so I'm ready to move. It's a daunting task, moving a site, but if you plan the migration properly, you can have zero downtime and almost no headaches.
Madhur Kapoor
Congrats on moving to a new server Daniel. I am also planning to move over to a new host . Which backup did you perform through cpanel. "Full Backup" or a "Home Directory " backup ?
Your site is blazing fast here in Austin!
@Garo, yes that would be a more correct definition. Thanks for pointing it out.
I've been noticing that with my increased traffic my site is slowing down a lot! Maybe its time to move off of dreamhost and make the jump to someone who can handle my traffic.
Thanks for the great posts, keep it up.
I agree with your definition of TTL. Just remember that not ISP's and their DNS honor TTL.
Juho Mäkinen
I think you mixed the meaning of TTL.
IP packets have a TTL attribute, which exactly means "how many transmissions a piece of computer data can go before being discarded."
DNS records also have a TTL attribute, but you can't describe that as you said. Instead something like this is more accurate "DNS TTL means how long can caching dns servers (like the server of your readers ISP) keep the dns record in their cache instead of fetching latests data from the master dns server (that's the server hosting your domain).
– Garo
Good point Geek.
I've had one client with Dreamhost, and would not recommend them to any one. Within the first week of new site being released, their site was down, and I could get no support from Dreamhost.
After being hosted with A Small Orange for almost two years, I can say overall I have experienced good support. A few issues have come up with my own site, and I have noticed more times recently that the site is down.
I've worked with over a dozen web hosts, and I agree, having cPanel makes moving sites very easy!
The How-To Geek
Here's a good tip for moving servers… leave the old server up for a day, but turn off comments on every post on the old server.
That prevents you from losing comments during the transition period.
Eric Atkins
About cPanel. I like cPanel. Any webhost that has it gets preference from me. However, I think I am going to be spoiled if I have to use anything other than Media Temple's control panel. It's easy. It's slick. They've even got a version of it for the iPhone.
It is really easy to move from cPanel to cPanel with the backup features, though.
James Mann
I have about a dozen blogs and websites hosted on a server that has gotten worse over the months and I tried to move these sites to HostGator where I have had absolutely no problems. I could move the static websites but when I tried moving my blogs and databases it became a nightmare.
I even had HostGator move an important blog for me but they ran into the same problem and couldn't move it, so now I am stuck with the task of transferring each post to a new domain. It's going to take a while.
The only upside is the original domain name was picked for another theme so it didn't match my content. The new domain has an awesome name and over the next few months I will get it all transferred and redirected.
I am no longer attracted to hosting that is most affordable, sometimes it really is too good to be true.
My old site doesn't have a lot of comments so I was kinda blessed there.
Meraj Khattak
Thanks Frank. I will contact Doreo with my questions for other things, I would like with my hosting account.
@David, you are right. Beside downtime, a slow sites is also one of the reason that I am thinking to move my sites to another host.
David Zemens – 1955 Design
@Mereaj – Several clients I have worked with were using DreamHost for their site hosting. I found the sites to be terribly slow to load and with considerable downtime. Perhaps my contact with them was unusual as it was only a few sites, but I was not impressed.
I guess I'll have to get someone to update the web site 🙂 Doreo Hosting does support PHP V5. You can actually choose which PHP you run by adding/removing one line from your .htaccess file.
Meraj Khattak
Nice to know about your server move.
I wish you good luck with your new web host. I am also seriously thinking of moving to another web host from Dreamhost.
I have two names in mind, one is Doreo and another is MediaTemple. But I haven't been able to finalize one name.
Though, I think MediaTemple is a bit expensive for me at the moment and Doreo doesn't offer some of the features I am looking for, especially php5 support.
Thanks David.
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Innovative Practices 2013 on Employment
Employment of the hearing impaired
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Sabooj is a French communications agency. Although it is an Entreprise Adaptée (EA) or "adapted company" (a company with special facilities for providing employment for the disabled, but not to be confused with an "ESAT"*), it has 70 clients of whom 75% are big companies. It is the only one of 500 such companies (EA) that develops intellectual services, and the first "adapted" communications agency in Paris. More than 80% of its workers have disabilities, i.e. hearing impairment.
Sabooj gives value to the competences of disabled people and in doing so tackles a huge preconception regarding their abilities. All its employees are deaf and in the communications field, where there is competition and no place for mistakes, they show their creativity, reactivity and capability to answer the expectations of hard-to-please clients who are, subsequently, both pleased and loyal.
The employees are happy and very motivated; their pay is based on market rates.
The agency has set up partnerships with graphical arts schools and other communications agencies. The main goal is to build a career path from education and training through to recruitment for disabled people who want to work in this field, offering internships or sandwich courses.
* ESAT = Établissements et services d'aide par le travail. An ESAT is a medico-social association. An EA is a company established in common law as a limited company.
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Two ballets new to the repertory took the Covent Garden stage on Monday night: the welcome acquisition of Balanchine's Theme and Variations, a firework display watched from the windows of the Winter Palace, and a creation from Alastair Marriott. This Children of Adam uses a fine score by the American composer Christopher Rouse (music lean, emotionally resonant), has forested design by Adam Wiltshire, and comes weighted with a programme note about Walt Whitman that is further weighted by quotations from his verses.
Its matter is Cain and Abel, and I found the whole thing dismaying. Marriott is a gifted creator of dances. I was impressed by his Being and Having Been (which was very chic about Icarus), and by his Opera House debut in 2005 with Tanglewood, whose plotless, allusive dances were admirably crafted. Children of Adam proposes a primitive and conformist tribe; two brothers, one younger and seemingly anxious about sex, the older a nice chap; the older brother's wife; and the statutory murder with the pendant offer of sexual initiation to Cain from Mrs Abel, and Cain's eventual discovery of the love that used not dare to speak its name.
This action unfolds in choreography too neat for its own good: there are hints of the MacMillan manner in Triad, but without MacMillan's disquieting poetry. The ever-watchable Steven McRae dances in tormented fashion as Cain; Johannes Stepanek and Leanne Benjamin do the decent thing as Abel and his wife; and the tribe does what tribes may be expected to do in these circumstances. Marriott does not betray his music, but the ballet looks dangerously modest, and the closing passage when Cain finds a nice chum, which could have set Walt Whitman's pulses racing, is near to bathos. Every worthwhile choreographer is allowed his miscalculation, and this, I trust, is Marriott's.
Theme and Variations looked spiffing (Peter Farmer design) and was spiffingly danced by Alina Cojocaru, all speed and joyous assurance, and Johan Kobborg, making a welcome and nobly shaped return to the stage, with a bright-footed cohort in attendance. Balanchine explores Tchaikovsky's final variations from the Suite Number 3 with a vivid delight in the composer's devices, matching them with devices no less fascinating. Tremendous – and a score dashingly played under Barry Wordsworth's baton.
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