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Sometimes it's just one of those days, you're staring at your closet and can't decide what to wear. Well, thanks to these 3 fashion apps, picking out an outfit has never been easier!
The New York City start up now has a community of over 80,000 users. It's the perfect solution to not having anyone around to ask 'Does this look okay?'. The iPhone and Android app allows you to get real time feedback about your outfits simply by uploading a picture of what you have on! Other users of the app will rate your outfit with the two options 'love it' or 'leave it'. The app also offers a comment feature so you are able to ask other users where they got an item in their outfit or help out with some suggestions on how to improve the look! Another cool feature is that the site recently introduced an e-commerce feature so you are able to purchase accessories to top off your look!
iPhone app, Cloth, allows users to document their outfits either for their personal benefit or to share with others. By uploading an image of the outfit you are able to select a category for what your outfit is meant to be worn for such as evening, vacation, event, work, everyday etc. The app then allows you to share your image with other social media communities such as Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. There is also the option to upload the image to the Cloth app website where they will feature their favorite looks! This app is the perfect solution to remembering how you wore a certain piece a couple months ago or going through your past looks for inspiration!
This app is the perfect way to organize and unorganized closet! The app lets you upload photos from your closet and digitally organize them into outfits right on your iPhone. The app also allows you to plan what you will wear for the month and track how many times you've worn each item! So, if you don't actually have time to try on a whole bunch of outfits and experiment with the pieces in your closet, this app is the perfect on-the-go solution.


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45 mn illegal publications seized in China
Published: 04th January 2013 06:45 PM | Last Updated: 04th January 2013 06:46 PM | A+A A-
A staggering 45 million illegal publications were confiscated and over 3.7 million pieces of online information involving pornographic or other illegal content deleted in China in 2012, Xinhua reported.
The figures were included in a statement issued by the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications Friday to state the achievements of the country's fight against illegal publications, pornography and piracy.
Authorities handled more than 15,000 relevant cases in 2012, adding that some suspects have already been transferred to judicial organs, prosecuted or sentenced, it added.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 6 seconds GRAEME EARL: Now, after five weeks, you've had plenty of time to look at the variety of finds from Portus. We started with ceramics like amphorae from Tripolitania, modern Libya, which mark out long distance connections across the Mediterranean. Closer to home, we also looked at brick stamps, evidence for the large scale manufacturing of building materials for Rome that took place all along the Tiber Valley. In week three, we thought about the appearance of buildings and also their decoration with marble. We learned that Portus orchestrated the movement of the marble required to create some of the most impressive buildings of the Roman world via the now rather unassuming statio marmorum, or marble yard, which lies just south of the hexagon harbour basin.
Skip to 0 minutes and 54 seconds Last week, we learned about the other evidence for the decoration of rooms in our buildings, such as mosaic fragments and wall plaster. We also thought about Roman shipping by studying metal artefacts like nails, as well as their specific conservation needs. This week, we thought a lot more about how we know what to do with all these different finds, how we analyse them, and introduced a few more types, including human bones. Simon talked about religion and a very personal item of jewellery. Penny showed us how vital the organisation and exact recording and identification of these finds is, and Hembo showed off just a few of the many methods that we use to analyse them.
Skip to 1 minute and 39 seconds This week also saw us enter the last phase of Portus life as a functioning port in the fifth to seventh centuries. And we looked at the beautiful Basilica Portuense Church at this time. Next week, we'll bring all the material and methods together and start making some broader interpretations. We'll think about all the archaeological and other information operating at different scales, and also how it changed through time and in different locations. See you in Italy next week.
Summary of the week
Next week you will come and visit the site with us as it was during recent fieldwork. We will be sharing more content that we filmed and photographed on site.
Discussion topic
To finish this week we would like you to reflect on your first imagined arrival at Portus. In the First Century discussion step Graeme asked you to imagine yourself as a provincial traveller coming to the port for the first time in the mid-1st century AD, the time of Claudius. Have a look back at what you wrote in week one.
We would like you now to pick the phase of the site that has most interested you - perhaps the time of Claudius again, or Trajan's expansion or a later period of change or decline. Describe again your arrival by sea or by land. What is the experience like? What kind of buildings would you find in the port? What are the people doing?
To remind you of our current architectural impression of the site, Here is one of our latest CGI views of the harbour from the period of the site's history that we covered this week. Remember that this is just one interpretation of many possibilities, and also it doesn;t capture many of the aspects of the port that may be of most interest to you - the people at the site, the goods transported, the smells and sounds, and so on.
CGI overview of the site from Period 6 - Grant Cox; the model data for the Trajanic warehouses in the bottom right was provided by Remi Fabro and Evelyne Bukowiecki © University of Southampton
As ever, feel free to share links to visual or other representations of your imagined arrival via the comments. This way we can together develop a collage of the elements that together make up "your" Portus.
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Kevin Kennedy wants Coronation Street return
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- 3 November 2016
Kevin Kennedy has admitted he would "love" to return to Coronation Street as Norman 'Curly' Watts
Kevin Kennedy would "love" to return to 'Coronation Street'.
The 55-year-old actor - who played the unlucky in love character Curly Watts in the ITV soap for 20 years - has made "no secret" of the fact that he'd like to reprise his role and would welcome having to do less travelling.
He said: "It would be nice, I would love to. It's no secret I'd love to go back and do some more and if that opportunity arises then brilliant.
"The irony of it is that some of the excuses for people leaving is that they want to spend more time with their family - I'd have to go back to spend more time with mine because I'm always on the road."
And Kevin still looks back on his former soap days with pride.
He added: "I love it. It would be very churlish and a bit arrogant if you suddenly try to deny that large body of work that you've done. I'm very proud of it, I'm very proud of my time on 'Coronation Street'. I'm very proud of the stories that we did with the writers and actors and I find that it's a life calendar thing [when viewers say to you,] 'I remember you doing that storyline because I got married or I had a baby' and it's very humbling actually."
Since quitting the soap, Kevin has performed on stage all over the world and is currently touring the UK with 'The Commitments'.
Speaking on ITV's Lorraine on Thursday (03.11.16) morning, he shared: "I'm going to be touring all over the UK so when we go up to Manchester of course I will go and have a cup of tea with my 'Coronation Street' cast."


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Why Physical Therapy (Transitional)?
The Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy degree program, integrating professional and experiential education, provides the necessary knowledge base for today's doctorally prepared practitioners.
Specifically designed for practicing physical therapists, the Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) is an innovative, 100%-online program. Integrating art and science, as well as professional and experiential education, the degree curriculum provides you with the necessary knowledge base for today's doctorally prepared practitioners. Core courses within this physical therapy doctoral program include differential diagnosis and medical screening, diagnostic imaging, pharmacology, nutrition, and motor control. The capstone course, Comprehensive Case Analysis, is a culmination of all work within the transitional DPT curriculum. Students will prepare a comprehensive and publishable case report or other scholarly work in partial fulfillment of the requirement for a transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy degree.
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Unique Features
- Designed for practicing physical therapists who currently hold a baccalaureate or master's degree in physical therapy.
- Online program allows for flexibility for working professionals.
- Students with a unique concentration interest can complete a directed study on a pre-approved topic of their choosing.
- Includes concentrations in a variety of areas such as orthopaedics, pediatrics, geriatrics, advanced nutrition, education, and business management.
Program Objectives
- Gain the knowledge and skills required to competently screen patients for musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular and pulmonary, and integumentary conditions, interpret clinical findings, and make sound clinical judgments
- Evaluate the clinical interpretation of various medical imaging techniques, including plain film radiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and computerized tomography
- Write, refine, and analyze a comprehensive and publishable case report that addresses the patient/client management model, clinical decision-making processes, and resource utilization
- Examine current motor control concepts, along with state-of-the-art technology and equipment
- Review advanced pharmacologic management concepts, including the interrelationship between pharmacologic management and physical therapy interventions
Career Outlook
By the year 2020, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) envisions that the clinical DPT will become the profession's terminal degree. In addition, degree-holders can expect to enjoy excellent job prospects for years to come. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of physical therapists is projected to grow much faster than average for the foreseeable future. This growth can be attributed to an increasing elderly population, as well as medical and technological advancements—all of which are expected to drive demand for advanced rehabilitative and therapeutic services.
One recent DPT graduate wrote upon graduation, "A stagnant clinician is no longer acceptable. Today's dynamic healthcare system requires an advanced clinician, and I believe this doctorate program provided the knowledge and practical skills a clinician needs to meet these demands. I, for one, feel I have evolved. I have left behind some old treatment patterns and comfort zones. Instead, I now strive to deliver the most current, evidence-based practice available."
What you'll study
Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy
Note: 33 quarter hours are required for students entering with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy.
Required Courses for all Students
All students should complete 14 credits including PTH 6100 prior to enrolling in PTH 6900.
Upon entrance to the Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy program, students will select either the education or clinical track.
Educational Track
Clinical Track
Complete two of the following:
Note: 24 quarter hours are required for students entering with a Master of Science in Physical Therapy.
Core Requirements
Required Core
Upon entrance to the Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy program, students will select either the educational track or clinical track.
Educational Track
Clinical Track
Complete one of the following:
This program requires successful completion of a minimum of 26 credit hours that meet the degree requirements.


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Fisching for Jane Lanphier Stanton
By: waldonia
Category: Baltimore, Cartes de Visite, Fischer & Bro.
Is this the face of Jane Harriet Somers Lanphier Stanton, daughter of Methodist minister William Lanphier of Alexandria, Va., and wife of Tennessee congressman and Kansas territorial governor Frederick Perry Stanton (1814-1894)?
So I was told by the person who sold me this 1860s carte de visite by Fischer & Bro., 95 W. Baltimore Street.
I have not yet been able to confirm her identity, so I'll talk instead about Arthur J. Fischer, peripatetic photographer.
Arthur was the son of Frederick, Maryland druggist George Fischer. In 1860, the family had moved to Baltimore, where Arthur was listed in the census as a photographer.
As with so many Americans, Arthur had an itchy foot. In 1870, he worked in St. Louis, Missouri. By 1880, he had settled down in Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois, with wife Alvina and two sons, Arlington Lee Fischer and Arthur J. Fischer, Jr.
After retiring, he lived with his son Arlington in Salem, Ohio, and probably died there.
The Stantons retired to Florida, and are buried in South Lake Weir Cemetery, Marion County, Florida.
One comment on "Fisching for Jane Lanphier Stanton"
Fred Stanton is the brother of my great, great grandmother, Jane Perry Stanton who'd been married to Samuel Gookin and Gaston Turner Raoul.
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Fergusson College principal Ravindra Singh Pardeshi has made a U-turn from his earlier statement complaining of anti-national slogans by pro-Left students on the campus during a talk show on Tuesday.
Hours after he wrote to the Pune Police for taking action against those who chanted 'anti-national' slogans, Pardeshi now says it was a 'printing mistake.'
He told reporters in Pune, "Yesterday, I said that I have talked to a local committee. As a college principal, I am trying so that things go smooth in the college campus. We want to sustain a peaceful environment. There was a printing mistake in the letter. We are making the necessary corrections."
"I had asked the Pune Police for investigation. If the students are found involved in it then action should be taken. We are requesting the police to investigate it," he was quoted by news agency ANI.
Students belong gin to the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and those from the Left organisations had got engaged in a heated argument on Tuesday during a talk organised at the Fergusson College on the topic 'Truth of JNU.'
Students belonging to Ambedkarite ideology group, reportedly raised slogans in solidarity with the JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar and Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, who had killed himself in Hyderabad Central University campus in January this year.


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Employers perspective is "Best resource is hard to find" while Job Aspirant say "Finding a good job is nerve-racking". In any case, finding a good job and good resource is a difficult process. For organizations sifting through hundreds of applicants for one job is time-consuming. Further for Job-seekers sending resumes for any job and getting no response is gloomy. Employment Consultancy also is known as Recruitment Consultancy or Placement Consultancy is the firm came into existence to ease out this daunting task. These consultancies alleviate the hiring process by finding the right candidate for the right job.
Their core function is of attracting, shortlisting, selecting and appointing best fit for an organization either permanent or temporary. They have in store strong database of candidates gathered from consistent advertising, sourcing through Jobs in India and by referrals. These Recruitment agencies are capable enough to fill all kinds of jobs i.e. from temporary to permanent positions.
Why Do Employers look for Employment agencies?
Hiring employees for an organization requires a huge amount of time and efforts to do it well. Hiring Manager always looks for a perfect employee for their jobs, but often they don't have enough time. If they advertise their one single opening they get hundreds of applicants for the same job. Now employer has to look at a lot of applications before he finds the right person for the role. To avoid this struggling task they approach Top recruitment agencies that source relevant and perfect candidate for them. As a result, the employer can spend more of their time interviewing these candidates and focusing on their other business units.
Types of Employment Agencies
There are different types of Employment Agencies that help organizations to recruit best talent fresher/experienced professional for their open positions.
1) Temporary Agency:
These are the agencies that find employees to fill temporary jobs i.e. for a specific period of time. If in case you need employees for particular project i.e. for short duration or to cover leaves of permanent employees you may get in touch with staffing agencies who specializes in temporary hiring.
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A traditional Placement agency also known as contingency agency assist job aspirant in finding a job and helping organizations to hire right people. Job Consultancy provides the right candidates to their client's, they get directly paid by the employer. Furthermore, these agencies also provide candidate replacement service. This means if any of the placed candidates drop out before the committed time then either they have to provide the replacement of free or give the fee back.
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These firms specialize in sourcing mid-level positions to high-level positions to fill a job. These firms' scours the country to find the best suitable candidates with the required expertise to help run your company. Next, these firms also approach candidates who are not actively looking for a new job where they try to entice them away from their current employer.
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Welcome to Vocal Ovation
Congratulations! You've just taken your first step in what will be an exciting and enlightening journey where all you have to do is sing your heart out, have fun and unleash a voice you never dreamed was possible!
Congratulations! You've just taken your first step in what will be an exciting and enlightening journey where all you have to do is sing your heart out, have fun and unleash a voice you never dreamed was possible!
Having helped 100s of singers with their voices throughout her teaching career Julie Miles owner at Vocal Ovation has rapidly become one of the North East's most highly rated and sought after voice teachers. With over 4 decades of experience in music, performing, singing and coaching, alongside an ongoing commitment to her own training, it's hardly surprising that Julie is constantly booked months in advance by singers of all ages, experience and musical genres.
Much of the success she's achieved as an effective coach is attributed from her 10 year career in senior management where she ran a highly successful sales department responsible for achieving multi million sales targets each year. Although completely unrelated to music, developing, mentoring and coaching people was at the heart of the role so the extensive training and experience she gained has been invaluable in her approach to teaching.
In earlier years, Julie's life was completely based around music and performing. Having played the flute from the age of 6, she left school to study Performing Arts at Newcastle College where her main focus was singing, dancing and acting. Although her versatile vocal style made her competent as a pop, musical theatre, jazz or blues singer, understanding the importance of a strong vocal foundation, she also undertook 2 years of classical voice training throughout her time at college.
She went on to sing professionally for over 12 years across the UK and abroad as part of a wide range of acts including; close harmony girl groups, solo, lead singer of several top North East bands, original music projects, as well as recording work for the International Guild of Songwriters and Composers.
Just about anyone who wants to improve as a singer and performer, from absolute beginners to singers with many years of experience.
Although age groups would typically be from around secondary school right up to adults of any age, younger singers would still be encouraged to book the introductory lesson as an opportunity to assess their vocal ability and provide feedback on the most suitable direction to take.
Select a skill level:
Vocal Ovation provides professional, primarily one to one vocal and stage performance tutoring and coaching in a completely safe, relaxed and fun environment.
In other words, no one will ever make you feel pressurised or uncomfortable if you don't quite hit all the right notes in all the right order first, second or even tenth time round, in fact to the contrary, your coach will see this as a great opportunity for her to establish precisely the right pace and approach for you so that you can really feel the positive steps you're achieving no matter how small they may seem at the time.
Vocal Ovation provides professional singing tuition, vocal coaching and also helps build confidence for those wanting to create a more memorable and polished stage performance.
You'll sing in a completely safe, relaxed and fun environment, in other words, no one will ever make you feel pressurised or uncomfortable if you don't quite hit all the right notes in all the right order first, second or even tenth time round. In fact to the contrary! Your vocal coach will see this as a great opportunity to establish precisely the right pace and approach for you so that you can really feel the positive steps you're achieving no matter how small they may seem at the time.
Working with Julie has not only transformed my voice, it has without a doubt, transformed my life.
She has been a pivotal part of building my confidence on stage & also with improving my voice, I've found it has changed drastically – for the better!
Without a doubt I would recommend Julie to anyone! She is so professional & knows exactly what the industry are looking for when it comes to new & upcoming artists. She helps with pushing your music & giving advice about competitions, gigs & the best routes to take to gain experience & be noticed!
All in all I think Julie is an incredible Vocal Coach and friend. She has helped me through so much and I thank her and appreciate her for this but especially for helping me through the most daunting experience of my life, being a contestant on The Voice, she was the first person I picked up the phone to ring & let know how I'd done in all the stages.
As Julie puts a lot investment into her own training, I have total confidence that she gives me the best technique & advice possible to keep my voice not only in good shape but also consistently improving & developing. The comparison in my voice now from 3 years ago before taking lessons at Vocal Ovation is insane!
My voice has improved dramatically as a result of Julie's extensive coaching and exercise regimes, this is visible when re-watching older videos of me singing before receiving vocal coaching from Julie.
My voice has come on so much since visiting Julie, my technique is a lot better, my diction is clearer & overall my voice is just so much better! I perform a lot now & feel so much more in control on stage as Julie has helped bring out my personality in my songs, which is a real confidence boost!
Julie trained regularly with David for over 3 years here's what he had to say about her coaching:
"Julie has a great passion for the voice and empathy and understanding of people, both essential qualities in a coach. She has created a lovely environment where people can grow in an understanding of their voice."


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Print publications, broadcast and digital media are all used to effectively convey PETCO's unique recycling message. We also conduct face-to-face engagements at exhibitions, public events, host interactive workshops and conferences, and we continue to develop relevant and up-to-date public information and promotional material.
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iPad Battery
Your device's battery life is shown as a percentage in the top right corner of your screen and will appear next to a white battery icon as shown in the image below.
Charging Your iPad
Your iPad uses a rechargeable battery so it is important to plug your iPad in to the charging station after each use. If the iPad is charging, the battery icon in the top right corner of your screen will turn green and a white lightning bolt icon will appear to the right of it.
How to Maximize Battery Time
One way to extend the life of your iPad's battery is to adjust the brightness settings.
Follow these steps below to adjust the brightness:
Step 1: Enter Settings From The Home Screen
Step 2: Go To Wallpapers & Brightness
Step 3: Adjust Brightness Level
Under Brightness you will see a horizontal scroll bar that allows you to adjust the brightness of your iPad's screen.
You can lower the brightness by dragging the circle to the left or raise the brightness by dragging the circle to the right.
Adjust Brightness Through Control Center
You can also change the brightness of your iPad on any screen by using the control center.
To access the control center swipe upwards from the bottom of your iPad's screen as shown in the image below.
This will bring up the control center where you can adjust settings like the brightness level.
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Brazilian banks revise down inflation forecastStaff Writer | December 13, 2016
The financial market is expecting the inflation rate to be close to the upper limit of this year's target range.
Brazil According to the Brazilian Central Bank:
The upper limit of the inflation target range is 6.50% with the center set at 4.5%. This is the fifth consecutive time that the forecast is revised down.
For 2017, the inflation rate was revised down from 4.93% to 4.90%, according to the survey, which is made public every Monday in Brasília. The inflation target for next year is 4.5%, with an upper limit of 6%.
For the financial institutions, Selic, the benchmark interest rate, will end 2017 at 10.50% per year. Currently, the Selic is at 13.75% per year.
The forecast by financial institutions for the economy's decline worsened, going from 3.43% to 3.48%. For 2017, the growth estimate was revised down from 0.80% to 0.70% for the eighth consecutive time.
On the other hand, a Datafolha survey shows that, despite the pessimism regarding the economy, the number of Brazilians who believe the country is a good place to live has risen.
The study was held on December 7 and 8 and shows that 61% of those interviewed consider Brazil a good or very good place to live. In July, 53% gave the same answer.
Twenty-three percent of those interviewed this month see Brazil as regular, in comparison with 27% in the previous survey, and 16% said Brazil is bad or very bad, in comparison with 20% in July. In the most recent survey, 1% did not have an answer.
The feeling of pride to be Brazilian also increased: 69% of those interviewed said they are more proud than ashamed of their nationality. Twenty-eight percent said the opposite, 2% did not have an answer and 1% gave other answers.
The people's expectations on economic indicators and the evaluation of Brazil as a place to live and the feeling of pride to be Brazilian are used to calculate the Datafolha Confidence Index, which has fallen from 98 points in July to 87.
Datafolha interviewed 2,828 people over the age of 16 on December 7 and 8. The survey has a margin of error of two percent considering a confidence level of 95%. ■


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Authors: Free State Legislature
Date: no date
These handwritten copies of two, slightly different, concurrent resolutions were passed by the House and the Senate of the Topeka Free-State Legislature, probably in 1858. They established the legitimacy of the state government under the Topeka Constitution, and "respectfully urge[d] the Territorial Legislature, now in session, at Lawrence, to take immediate steps for removing the present forms of a territorial government, so that the legitimate government of the people may become the only government in Kansas."
Keywords: Free state government; Free state legislature; Shawnee County, Kansas Territory; Topeka Constitution; Topeka Movement (see also Free state movement); Topeka, Kansas Territory
Letter, C. Robinson to Dear Sir [T. W. Higginson]
Authors: Robinson, Charles
Date: August 27, 1855
This letter, written by free state governor Charles Robinson, was sent to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a prominent Northern abolitionist. Robinson discussed in rather general terms the troubles facing Kansas, stating that he believed this struggle did not only involve Kansas, "but I regard it as one in which the whole nation is involved." Robinson also expressed doubts that the North would support the free state settlers in the territory, writing that they can only "hope" for reinforcements, not take them for granted. He asked Higginson to stir up Northerners against the bogus legislature, and made mention of ex-Governor Reeder and opposition to the bogus legislature. In general, this letter eloquently demonstrates the passion of this free state leader and his dedication to the cause of liberty.
Keywords: Antislavery perspective; Bogus legislature; Douglas County, Kansas Territory; Free state legislature; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Shawnee Manual Labor School
Letter, [Josiah Miller] to Dear Father and Mother
Authors: Miller, Josiah
Date: Nov 11 1855
Josiah Miller, having recently bought out his business partner, Robert G. Elliott, from their jointly owned newspaper, the Kansas Free State, wrote to his parents in South Carolina about his recent business ventures. He stated that "papers don't pay" and expressed his interest in land claims and real estate, which would earn him more money. Miller also told his parents that he was continuing to search for a farm in Wyandotte County for them to settle on when they arrive in Kansas Territory. He hoped that Congress would approve the constitution that the Free State men had recently submitted.
Keywords: Banks and banking; Constitutions; Free state legislature; Kansas Free State (newspaper); Land acquisition; Land claim disputes; Miller, Josiah; Sawmills; Squatters; Topeka Constitution; Town development
Letter, Wm E. G [William Goodnow] to My Dear Wife [Harriet Goodnow]
Authors: Goodnow, William E.
Date: December 16, 1855
William Goodnow wrote from Shannon, Kansas Territory, to his wife Harriet in New England, relating details of recent political and military events in the Territory. Goodnow reported that he had participated in the election for the adaptation of the State Constitution as it was drawn up by the free state convention at Topeka. He added that the coming weekend would bring a convention in Lawrence to nominate state officers. Goodnow also communicated news of the end of the Wakarusa War and the restoration of peace in the area; he had no doubt that freedom would prevail.
Keywords: Election, Topeka Constitution ratification, December 1855; Free state legislature; Goodnow, Harriet; Goodnow, Isaac T., 1814-1894; Goodnow, William E.; Herald of Freedom; Riley County, Kansas Territory; Shannon, Kansas Territory; Wakarusa War, November-December 1855
Letter, Samuel Adair to the Free Mission Sewing Society of the First Congregational Church
Authors: Adair, Samuel Lyle
Date: Circa 1856
Rev. Adair wrote from Osawatomie, K.T. and described the physical characteristics of Kansas as well as the efforts on behalf of the free state cause. The letter detailed efforts to establish Congregational churches in Kansas as well as discussing the activities of other denominations.
Keywords: Adair, Samuel Lyle; Congregational churches; Free state legislature; Free state perspective; Landscape; Lykins County, Kansas Territory (see also Miami County, Kansas); Methodists; Miami County, Kansas (see also Lykins County, Kansas Territory); Missionaries; Osawatomie, Kansas Territory
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Two or three years ago, I had to order clothes or shoes to Finland from for example France or the UK, if I wanted to buy anything marked as a sustainable brand. No more! The web shop Zalando now offers a "sustainable development" choice in the "filter by…" section. When you tick that button, all the page shows you is more sustainable than the market average. They have over 500 items of clothing in that section! I realised that if people always just automatically ticket that box, you would not even see and be tempted to buy anything that's not marked as sustainable. With functions like that, it's so easy to choose sustainable that you don't have to be a major environmentalist to do it.
Obviously, buying more and more new things will never make the world more sustainable. But if you are buying new clothes anyways, switching to more sustainable brands and materials can make a huge difference globally.
My five favourite sustainable brands
Filippa K (clothes)
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Under the Same Sun (yoga wear)
Monkee Genes (jeans)


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POGO Recommends More Oversight and Accountability in the CLEAR Act
July 12, 2010
POGO Recommendations for Improvements to the CLEAR Act, H.R. 3534, 1
to Strengthen Oversight and Accountability and End the Cozy Relationship between Interior and Industry
The Revolving Door: The Deepwater Horizon disaster dramatically illustrates the enormity of the risk to our safety, the environment, the economy, and the general public interest by the capture of government agencies by private industry. The revolving door between the oil and gas industry and its regulator is at the rotten core of the lax oversight that led to oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.2 While S. 3516, the Outer Continental Shelf Reform Act of 2010, includes measures to slow the revolving door between the oil and gas industry and its regulator, the House's CLEAR Act does not yet include such measures.
POGO Recommends:
The CLEAR Act should include the Senate language, but increase the cooling-off period to two years and add civil and criminal penalties. Existing restrictions should be expanded and strengthened so that all employees of the Department of the Interior with responsibilities under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act – not just the highest-ranking employees – would be banned from lobbying for industry for two years after leaving Interior, and also from making lobbying contact with Interior for at least one year. In addition, there should be a two-year cooling-off period that bans former Interior employees from employment with any party that had interests pending before them in their previous year of civil service. The fox-in-the-henhouse phenomenon created by the reverse revolving door can be addressed by ensuring that Interior employees cannot oversee matters relating to their former industry employer or client for two years. Both civil and criminal penalties for violations should be included.3
Training Academies (Sec. 102): The CLEAR Act authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative educational and training agreements with oil and gas operators and related industries. POGO supports improved training, but no entity or industry being regulated should be involved in the training of the federal inspectors who will regulate them. In any regulatory agency, inspection is a core function of the agency, and the agency must keep organic in-house expertise in the laws and regulations enforced. That in-house expertise is generally embodied in the federal employees who train the inspectors. In addition, the cooperative educational and training agreements and the programs should be more transparent.
POGO Recommends:
- Removing "oil and gas operators and related industries" from this section.
- Making information about the training academies public, including the programs, and the individuals in charge of training. (Though POGO would not advocate putting the training manuals online since this might help industry to circumvent inspections.)
Whistleblower Protections and Incentives: Whistleblowers are on the front lines of oversight and are the first best defense against waste, fraud, abuse and other wrongdoing. If oil and gas industry employees had had adequate protections against retaliation and incentives for warning regulators, perhaps the Deepwater Horizon disaster could have been averted. The CLEAR Act does not yet provide for the whistleblower protections and incentives required for adequate oversight and accountability.
POGO Recommends:
The CLEAR Act must provide oil and gas industry employees with best-practices whistleblower protections such as those included in the financial reform legislation for financial industry employees, and the protections established for manufacturing and transportation employees, Department of Defense contractors, and others. Important disclosures to a supervisor, employer, law enforcement, Interior and other regulators, Congress and others must be protected. Real protections when retaliation occurs include adequate due process rights, an administrative review at the Department of Labor, and jury trial access. In addition, an incentive program to encourage whistleblowers to come forward and disclose wrongdoing to the Department of the Interior should be established. Such a program would allow for an award to whistleblowers whose information leads to the federal government pursuing successful sanctions on those regulated under the OCS Act. Similar incentive programs exist at the IRS, and are included in the financial reform legislation to encourage disclosures to the SEC and CFTC.4
Conflicts of Interest: Investigations conducted by the Department of the Interior's Inspector General and POGO revealed gross misconduct at multiple Minerals Management Service (MMS) offices. Instances of misconduct included reports of MMS personnel receiving inappropriate gifts from industry, performing outside work that clearly conflicted with the ethical performance of their duties, and in at least one instance, negotiating for a job with a company that they were inspecting. These findings are all indicative of an agency that is inappropriately close to industry. While S. 3516, the Outer Continental Shelf Reform Act of 2010, clarifies that gift bans and conflicts of interest rules apply to all employees at Interior with responsibilities under the OSC Act, the House's CLEAR Act does not yet include such measures.
POGO Recommends:
Including the Senate language, but including both civil and criminal penalties for violators of the gift ban or conflicts of interest rules.
Federal Advisory Committees (Secs. 109 and 605): The CLEAR Act rightly establishes that the OCS Safety and Environmental Advisory Board is subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), but FACA is only the floor for ethics and transparency in these bodies. In 2004, the Government Accountability Office thoroughly examined the FACA process and raised serious concerns about the ways agencies select and designate members. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended greater transparency for the member selection process such as "providing information on how the members of the committees are identified and screened, and indicating whether the committee members are providing independent or stakeholder advice."5 In order to ensure that the advisory board fulfills its requirement to provide the agency with "independent scientific and technical advice," strengthening language is needed. In addition, any body that includes non-federal employees and is providing information or guidance to the federal government should be under FACA, and then have additional disclosure requirements and safeguards against conflicts of interest. This is particularly important given the role in grant making given to the Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Review Panel in the bill.
POGO recommends:
- Specifying that the Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Review Panel is subject to FACA and including the other measures below (Sec. 605(c)(2)).
- Requiring that the chairman and members of the OCS Safety and Environmental Advisory Board and the Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Review Panel have no financial interests in the exploration, development, and production of energy and mineral resources, or designate the board members as special government employees (SGEs), making them subject to conflict of interest statutes.
- Requiring that the agency make public and disclose on its website a list of the Advisory Board and Review Panel members with their designation and affiliation, the committee charter (which should be made public when the formation of the committee is announced), all experts who are consulted, and resources from board meetings (minutes, transcripts, and audio/video recordings), as well as the public nominations.
Regional Citizens' Advisory Council: The CLEAR Act does not provide for adequate public participation in oversight of the regional oil and gas operations and its impacts. A Regional Citizens' Advisory Council would provide a forum for public participation to generate recommendations for exploration, development, production, refining, and transportation of oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico and of prevention, response and restoration measures related to the social, economic and environmental impacts of an oil spill, drilling disaster or gas release.
POGO Recommends:
The CLEAR Act should establish a Gulf of Mexico Regional Citizens Advisory Council to increase public participation in oversight. The Council should include representatives of groups disproportionately impacted by risks of energy production from each of the five Gulf States selected by their peers to conduct citizens' oversight. The Council should be modeled after successful citizens advisory councils in Alaska authorized in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 after the Exxon Valdez disaster.6
Improving Natural Gas Reporting (Sec. 314): The CLEAR Act requires the Secretary of the Interior to provide long-overdue reforms to ensure accurate determination and reporting of BTU values, but more could and should be done to improve standards.
POGO Recommends:
Incorporating Rep. Carolyn Maloney's (D-NY) Study of Ways to Improve the Accuracy of the Collection of Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Royalties Act of 2009 (H.R. 1462), which would require a more comprehensive assessment to ensure that taxpayer get their fair share for natural gas royalties.
Developing Innovations and Technology and Awards for Industry (Sec. 219): POGO supports efforts to encourage the development of oil spill and containment and response technologies, but we're concerned about cash-prize award programs for industry and that current technologies are not sufficiently evaluated. The cash-prize award program is subject to conflicts of interest and also is unnecessary. The grants offered and the exploration requirements in the CLEAR Act provide sufficient incentives for the development of new technology.
POGO Recommends:
- Removing the awards program (Sec. 219 (d)).
- Adding the evaluation of current technology to the grant program.
Measuring the Effectiveness of Reforms: The CLEAR Act contains many important reforms, and yet there are not enough measures to determine the effectiveness and impact of the reforms in the bill.
POGO Recommends:
The bill should require a GAO evaluation as to whether the reorganization addresses previous GAO and IG concerns, whether the increased hiring authority for the Secretary made Interior more effective at addressing their oversight missions, and if there has been a sufficient reduction in the conflicts of mission and interest.
Inspector General Reports: The Inspector General has conducted many investigations tracking the problems at the Minerals Management Service. The public must continue to have to access to their work to hold Interior accountable for being effective custodians of taxpayer resources.
POGO Recommends:
The CLEAR Act should make all Interior Inspector General reports and investigations public.
1 These recommendations are based upon the Discussion Draft of the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 3534, the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2010, dated June 22, 2010, and which was under consideration in the House Natural Resources Committee Hearing on June 30, 2010.
2 The revolving door problem is well documented, including in POGO's report Drilling the Taxpayer.
3 POGO and 12 other organizations sent a letter of support for the Wyden Revolving Door Amendment to S. 3516, the Outer Continental Shelf Reform Act of 2010.
4 POGO can provide detailed recommendations for best-practice legislation.
5 "Federal Advisory Committees: Additional Guidance Could Help Agencies Better Ensure Independence and Balance," GAO, April 2004.
6 The Citizens' Advisory Commission also is supported by the Publish What You Pay coalition, as referenced in their recommendations on July 7, 2010.
Founded in 1981, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms. POGO's investigations into corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government.
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I received the following in my email the other day:
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[JURIST] UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke [official profile] announced Wednesday that foreign terror suspects currently being detained in British prisons will be set free and will either be deported or will be subject to "control orders." At one end of the spectrum, the new control orders could require terror suspects to be placed under house arrest but also include the imposition of curfews, tagging, limits on telephone and internet use and restrictions on movement. Clarke's announcement is in response to a decision [PDF text; JURIST report] issued last month by a nine-judge panel of the House of Lords that the indefinite detention of foreign terror suspects without charge violates the UK Human Rights Act. BBC News has more on Wednesday's announcement.
12:18 PM ET – Responding to the Home Secretary's announcement, Amnesty International [advocacy website] said Wednesday that the proposal falls short [Amnesty press release] of the requirements of the law lords' ruling. Amnesty has called for UK authorities to "release immediately all those detained under Part 4 of Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 [text] (ATCSA) unless they are charged with a criminal offence and given a prompt and fair trial." Additionally, Amnesty is concerned about the possibility that some released detainees may be deported [BBC report] to countries where they could face serious human rights violations, including unfair trials, ill-treatment, torture, or execution. UK human rights organization Liberty [advocacy website] also responded to Clarke's proposal Wednesday:
The Home Secretary is right to show respect for the House of Lords damning ruling. However, temporary restrictions upon a suspect's liberty are only legitimate as long as a criminal charge and trial are in prospect. We urge the removal of the legal bar on intercepted material being used in trials.
Adherence to the rule of law should not be a game of cat and mouse. The Government should not swap one human rights "opt out" for another.
Read the Liberty press release.


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Bengal Chemicals divestment may turn into a real estate playMonday, February 20, 2017
Kolkata, Feb. 15 -- Privatization could potentially turn India's oldest pharmaceutical company, 125-year old Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd into a real estate play, say key officials and experts. The company has a 1.65-acre property in central Mumbai's Prabhadevi neighbourhood, which may not be carved out ahead of the strategic disinvestment of the central public sector enterprise. At conservative estimates, the property is worth at least Rs1,000 crore, P.M. Chandraiah, the company's managing director had said in an interview in October, based on a valuation done by an external agency. If properties in Kolkata and Kanpur are considered, the company has assets worth at least Rs1,500 crore. In December, the Union cabinet had approved the sale of surplus land, according to a key official at Bengal Chemicals, who asked not to be identified. However, there is no immediate plan to sell or carve out the Mumbai property on which stands a seven-storey building, he added. Bengal Chemicals would surely get the attention of real estate developers because of its properties across India, said O.P. Pareek, partner at VN Purohit and Co., an audit firm that has previously been one of Bengal Chemicals' internal auditors. The motivation for such acquirers "may not necessarily" be revival of the firm's core business of chemicals and pharmaceuticals and make money out of it, said Pareek. To be sure, any company bidding for Bengal Chemicals will have to account for its fixed assets, including the prized Mumbai property. The successful bidder will have to pay for the real estate assets, and it will be impossible to justify the price by the cash flow of its core business, said the official cited above. Chandraiah had said that in the current fiscal year, Bengal Chemicals' operating revenue will go up to Rs110 crore and to Rs200 crore by 2019-20. Freed of working capital constraints and under private ownership, the company's performance may improve at a faster pace. Founded in 1892 by Prafulla Chandra Ray, a scholar-turned entrepreneur from Kolkata, Bengal Chemicals manufactures a wide variety of generic drugs apart from Aqua Ptychotis-an anti-flatulent-Pheneol floor cleaner and Cantheridine hair oil. It became one of India's most successful pharmaceutical companies by the 1930s with shareholders from across India, but has only gone downhill in the past six decades. Only recently, it had started to turn the corner. Though many of its brands have a storied past, the firm has not had the resources to aggressively market them, allowing sales to contract. As mandated by the government, it focused on production of cheap generic drugs after it was nationalized in 1981. To address a similar situation, the National Democratic Alliance government had in the early 2000s carved out surplus land from Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), a listed state-owned telecom company, before selling a quarter of its shares to the Tata group under a disinvestment programme. "Ideally, the VSNL model should be followed for the strategic sale of Bengal Chemicals too," said Roopen Roy, partner at Sumantrana Management Consultants Llp. "Assets not core to the company's operations should be spun off, and the government should seek buyers on the intrinsic strength of the company," added Roy, who was previously the managing director of Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. Bengal Chemicals is currently looking to sell only five acres of surplus land at its 45-acre Panihati factory in the outskirts of Kolkata, said Chandraiah, adding that this unit has more land that the government may decide to sell later. That apart, the company has around 20 acres in a prime residential neighbourhood of Kolkata, and three acres in Kanpur. With cash flows improving-after years of losses, Bengal Chemicals reported an operating profit of Rs2 crore in the six months till September-the company is looking to restart a mothballed unit at Panihati, West Bengal, according to Chandraiah.


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Regarding Jim Makin's March 10 letter, "Compassion for real people": I'm not sure I agree with Makin that the fatalism of novelist Ayako Sono (cited in Michael Hoffman's March 3 article, "Solution to bullying lies in 'resetting' culprits") is the natural byproduct of religion. While, in the case of Sono, social evils like bullying may provide the rationale for her personal Christian struggle with a fallen humanity, I would suspect that, for many Christians, her thinking is a deformation of Christian ideals.
Certainly the Christian philosopher Paul Ricoeur, having coined the term "just institutions," would have opposed her version of religion. Either way, there is no doubt that her idea is extremely pernicious to society and ought to be condemned.
Hoffman, in his contention with respect to Sono, that it is unrealistic to work to improve institutions, comes out looking just as bad. Plus, he makes matters worse by trotting out the old canard that the Japanese cannot change and would, therefore, do better to just endure. I don't think that they can stop the people who are working hard every day to create just institutions.
It is difficult to displace the entrenched forces of the status quo, and Sono and Hoffman make it all the harder.
The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times.


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KON Officer Orientation
Directions: The outgoing officers and advisers shall conduct orientation for the newly elected officers soon after election of officers. It would be useful to conduct the session in a location where there is access to the Internet. A 1.5-hour meeting will offer the opportunity to explore KON information resources and to make preliminary decisions regarding chapter leadership and programming for the next academic year.
KON Web Site www.kon.org
New Member/Officer Orientation - short PowerPoint presentation
Conduct an overview of the Web site
- About Us Volume -
Chapters Volume - See especially Required Program and Program Priorities & Awards and Forms for Chapters. Also note Chapter Award of Excellence (summaries of award reports) and Program Awards (summaries of award reports)
Leadership Volume - See Resources.
News & Events Volume
Publications Volume
Conclave Volume
The URC and Initiatives Volumes give additional information
Conduct an overview of the President's Handbook - This resource, either the handbook or the Web site version, documents the Chapter responsibilities and National resources and services. The Chapter Handbook gives additional resources.
- Leadership
- Calendar
- Duties of Chapter Officers
- Leadership Development
- Financial Accounting
- Handbook for New Members
- Program - Guidelines for Program Development
- Forms
- Awards
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IF YOU thought the worst thing that could happen to a supermarket was Normie Rowe and Curtis Stone's advert for Coles, the Australian sharksploitation movie Bait 3D will do its bloody best to make you think otherwise.
Set in a Queensland store that's been flooded by a devastating tsunami and then invaded by marauding great whites, the movie walks such a fine line between being entertainingly stupid and annoyingly bad that some of the cast land firmly on the wrong side.
Directed by Kimble Rendall, a successful Australian second-unit director on Hollywood blockbusters whose previous director's credit was 2000's local slasher film Cut, Bait 3D sets up the full gamut of conflict around the checkout - divided lovers reunited, father-daughter angst and a violent armed robbery - before literally washing the participants away and leaving them trapped in the watery ruins, where the supporting cast can be picked off.
With somewhat iffy special effects, the mainly digital sharks lack physicality and gracefulness. The same can be said for the performances of the film's young stars, Samuel (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) and Vinson (Step Up 3D), who take the idea of great whites cruising the aisles so seriously that they're unintentionally ludicrous. ''It's trying to decide what we are,'' Vinson's Tina says of the shark at one point. I'm reasonably certain the creature wasn't thinking ''a good actor''.
A trashy B-movie requires either fulsome scenery-chewing or a pose of monotone tough-guy bravado - Wyllie favours the former, while McMahon provides the latter, having apparently smoked Lee Marvin's ashes to attain the necessary state of minimalism. Together they ensure comic extremes in what is already a patchwork production.
Appropriating the plot, but only some of the gaudy excesses, that defined Renny Harlin's 1999 shark flick Deep Blue Sea, Bait 3D has moments of suspense and a flash of the macabre, but once characters start hanging above the water their only logical purpose is to be bitten in half by a leaping shark.
Once the movie embraces that reductive philosophy, it has fun with the inherently stupid concept and has the survivors knocking up shark-proof suits and offering up human sacrifices. Bait 3D needs to put aside the forced poignancy and attain full great bad movie status. Or at least let the sharks eat more characters.
Rated MA, 93 minutes, opens Thursday
Stars: Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vinson, Julian McMahon, Dan Wyllie, Lincoln Lewis


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In 2009, FAI reached an agreement with ASCAP and BMI to ensure that Folk Alliance member House Concert Presenters are not subject to any PRO fees. There is NO additional fee or change in membership status to qualify for this member service, but you must be a current member to quality for this program.
To qualify for FAI House Concert member service, a House Concert presenter must:
By signing up for this program, you will assure that as long as you are presenting music in compliance with House Concert established rules; you will not be subject to PRO payments for your House Concerts. By displaying the official FAI House Concert logo, the PRO's will know you are official. At that point, if they have questions, they will contact the FAI office.
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Currently, FAI is exploring a potential second phase of this agreement to address the needs of small venues and non-profit presenters working in community buildings, schools, and churches. We are also working consulting festival members on their needs and concerns regarding PRO fees. Any discussion and negotiation with the PROs will take considerable time, just as the initial House Concert agreement did.
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