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small stone #17 (also posted in Writing Our Way Home Facebook Group)
the wind growls.
a predator ripping through
old growth as it anchors itself
to the earth.
arms sway with the ebb and flow,
faster, louder, it takes what isn't secure.
scatters it, shatters it,
until it comes to rest,
somewhere, anywhere,
and becomes something new.

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By Isaac Vuni
April 23, 2009 (JUBA) — Southern Sudan based Nile Commercial Bank (NCB) has run out of cash to meet its obligations, the clearest sign to date of the deepening financial crisis facing the semi-autonomous region.
The cash strapped bank has been unable to honor withdrawal requests from its clients who have deposited their own salaries. The bank has advised impacted customers to wait indefinitely.
Bank officials have pointed fingers at some officials at the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) saying they are to blame.
The Assembly branch manger in Juba, Marta Michya alleged that some senior GoSS officials borrowed "huge amount of money but failed to repay".
"Hence we told our clients to wait until the borrowed money is paid back" she said.
The NCB official added that some of the money has been loaned out to some of these officials without proper collateral.
South Sudan has suffered along with the North of the sharp decline in oil exports which accounts for 93% of its 2009 budget.
GoSS has implemented strict fiscal measures to control spending as part of the efforts to weather the economic crisis.
Government officials, World Bank and Joint Donor Team representatives described the financial situation in Southern Sudan as "serious."
Last month the Governor of the Bank of Southern Sudan (BoSS), Elijah Malok warned that NCB already in financial crisis and on the verge of total collapse.
He also cautioned that the few other private banks in Southern Sudan may soon follow suit.
The Assembly branch manager said that opening bank accounts with them is a stipulation for employees to get their monthly paychecks cashed.
A bank's client who declined to be identified told Sudan Tribune that today "even if one wants to withdraw 100 Sudanese pounds, the bank tellers kept on delaying it for more than one month now.
The client was denied a withdrawal of 800 Sudanese pounds.
The NCB website says that the bank was established in 2003 and has 20 branches in Southern Sudan and offices in Northern Sudan, Kenya and Uganda.
The non existence of basic infrastructure in South Sudan and the lack of banking knowledge among the population constitute great challenge to the banking sector.
There were recent reports that the commissioner of Western Equatoria fled to Kenya with $1 million to Kenya during Easter holidays; speaker of Eastern Equatoria was accused of stealing 36 millions dollars.
It was also alleged that $240 million were found in Benjij Hotel Juba when the hotel caught fire and that millions of dollars were caught being smuggled out of south in a coffin.
However there were no independent confirmations of these reports.


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20 Jun, 2010
England's World Cup match goals recreated in Lego
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The Guardian has commissioned the Hannover-based Lego animator behind the Lego Fussball website to recreate all the goals in each of England's World Cup matches.
The first film, featuring England's match against the USA has already become a major draw to guardian.co.uk It lovingly recreates, using several different camera angles, both Steven Gerrard's opening goal for England and, rather unfortunately, Robert Green's bumbling goalkeeping error which allowed USA to level the game…
We emailed legofussball to find out more about the lego animations
CR: How many people are behind legofussball.eu?
Fabian Moritz: It's only me, a crazy football-fan, who produces and manages the videos and the website, legofussball.eu
CR: Where are you based?
FM: I'm from Hannover, Germany. I make the films in a storage room just four square meters in my home.
CR: When did you start making these films?
FM: In Summer 2007 I had my debut with a friendly match between my favorite team Hannover 96 and Real Madrid, which was won 3-0. Reactions to the film were great, so I made more.
CR: How long, typically, does it take to make each film?
FM: Of course, it depends on the number of goals in the match. Typically, I spend about three hours for each goal.
CR: Was re-creating the England goalkeeper's error fun? Or was it quite tricky to get right?
FM: In general, unusual scenes are a lot of fun, because I get to be very creative in those scenes. I have never recreated a goalkeeping error before, so I really enjoyed it (sorry)!
CR: Who is your favourite to win the World Cup this year?
FM: Difficult question – especially after watching the first few games. Brazil, Argentina, England or maybe even Germany.
To see more of this kind of thing, visit legofussball.eu – and keep an eye on guardian.co.uk after each England match to see the rest of the films Moritz makes to commemorate (in glorious Lego) all the goals in England's World Cup matches for The Guardian.
Let's just hope there'll be no more embarrassing errors by our boys in South Africa for him to recreate…
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Why Government Fails So Often
From the doctor's office to the workplace, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. At a Cato Book Forum for Why Government Fails So Often — and How It Can Do Better, author Peter Schuck, the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus at Yale Law School, examined an enormous body of evidence to explain why so many domestic policies go awry. But can the state get better results by pursuing more thoughtfully conceived policies designed to compensate for its structural flaws? Schuck believes that it can. Arnold Kling, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, offered his comments on why Schuck's confidence is misplaced — and why government ineffectiveness is likely to continue.
PETER SCHUCK: I'm delighted to be here to present a book that I fear may seem from its title like I'm bringing coals to Newcastle. This is after all the Cato Institute, so I think this message will be affirming to you. If I have a contribution to make to the scholarship here, it will be to enrich the evidence behind those conclusions for which you probably need no more fortification. Every book, of course, is trying to sell the idea that there's a crisis, and mine is no different. I have a lot of data on the decline in public confidence in the federal government. In 2013, 41 percent of Democrats had favorable views of the federal government in 2013.
That's down 10 percent in one year. According to the Brookings Institution, 56 percent of Democrats believe that the federal government is mostly or completely broken — and this was before Obamacare launched. What's the biggest threat to America's future? According to the public, 64 percent says it's big government, while only 26 percent says it's big business. Keep in mind that this is only a few years after the Great Recession began in 2009. In fact, in 2011, 79 percent of those polled were frustrated or angry with the federal government. Before the recession, in 2007, 74 percent said the same thing. What are the reasons for this decline in public confidence? I propose several explanations, but the one I'm going to concentrate on is the one that constitutes the bulk of my analysis. And it's very straightforward: the federal government performs very, very poorly.
There are a variety of theories out there as to why the government performs so poorly. One of the most common is partisan bickering that leads to congressional paralysis. The Democrats blame the Republicans — and vice versa — for any failures either side is prepared to concede. I emphatically disagree with this theory. If you examine our history of political discourse, it has been tendentious, uncivil, and furiously partisan from the very beginning. Some of the greatest achievements, including the intercontinental railroad, the Hoover Dam, and the interstate highway system, were accomplished only fitfully and after a protracted disagreement by policymakers. Polarization, I argue, is not the cause of our problems. It's the consequence.
What is clear is that the federal and state governments have grown steadily. The former is now more than five times as large as it was in 1960, in real terms, and the latter's growth during this period is even greater. Per capita spending in the United States is now greater than in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. That growth occurs in both good times and bad.
And it doesn't depend on whether Republicans or Democrats are in control. At this stage, our debt‐to‐GDP ratio exceeds not only that of most European democracies, but also the average for Latin America. Furthermore, there's a remarkable correlation that I think confirms the general disaffection with government. These policy ambitions, as measured by the growth in federal expenditures, have almost perfectly paralleled the growth of public contempt for government.
This growth is also obscured somewhat because it has largely taken the form of private contractors, nonprofit grant recipients, and state and local government implementers rather than federal employees per se. This fact probably explains why so many people, including many who should know better, still believe the antiquated notion that the United States has a relatively small public sector.
One way of understanding what's happened is summarized by political scientists John DiIulio and the late James Q. Wilson:
The Old System had a small agenda… . When someone proposed adding a new issue to the public agenda, a major debate often arose over whether it was legitimate for the federal government to take action at all in the matter… .For the government to take bold action under this system, the nation usually had to be facing a crisis… .The New System is characterized by a large policy agenda, the end of the debate over the legitimacy of government action (except in the area of First Amendment freedoms), the diffusion and decentralization of power in Congress, and the multiplication of interest groups. Under the Old System, the checks and balances made it difficult for the government to start a new program, and so the government remained relatively small. Under the New System, these checks and balances make it hard to change what the government is already doing, and so the government remains large.
The core idea in my book, then, is that federal domestic policy failures are caused by deep, recurrent, and endemic structural conditions. It doesn't matter which party is in power. It doesn't matter what the state of the economy is. And we all have an enormous stake in understanding the reasons why. So what are the structural reasons for failure? Before I go through the six main ones, I should note that the main index of a program's performance should not be its durability or its enthusiastic defenders, but instead its cost‐effectiveness. This is the indicator I use throughout my analysis.
To begin with, the most fundamental characteristics that shape the substance of public policy include the incentives that both policymakers and private actors face. I note that officials have powerful incentives to provide voters and interest groups with short‐term benefits, while hiding the longterm costs of paying for them. In short, government officials design policy to advance their own self‐interests, while ordinary citizens have little incentive to participate actively in political activity.
Second, our policy system also suffers from information deficiencies, inflexibility, a credibility problem, and mismanagement. Much government failure reflects the fact that information is costly to gather, assess, deploy, and keep up‐to‐date. Government is therefore especially ill equipped to adapt its goals and instruments to changing technological, economic, and political conditions.
Many programs can succeed only if the federal government can assure others that the rules of the game are not going to cha — nge. However, federal mismanagement — including fraud, waste, and abuse — is a chronic problem at the very time when the ambition of national policies has swelled.
Third, markets themselves also affect policy performance. The powerful incentives, logic, hydraulics, and political influences of markets are difficult to control and tend to undermine the effectiveness of many public policies, including those explicitly designed to correct market failures.
Fourth, I analyze the problem of implementation — the obstacles that invariably litter the path between policy designs and outcomes. These obstacles are important; they are not readily dispensed with and they are not easily circumvented. The real world consists of complex social, political, fiscal, market, and legal conditions that even the most seasoned policymakers in Washington cannot fully anticipate. Worse, even if policymakers could foresee them, they would have relatively little control over them.
Fifth, there are certain inherent limits in using law as an instrument of public policy. These limits include its ubiquity, the inescapable tradeoffs between simplicity and complexity, its linguistic ambiguity, the discretion necessary for it to function, its costly procedural apparatus, and its inertia. Precisely because of law's powerful allure, policymakers must attend care — fully to its constraints.
Sixth, every public policy is run through a bureaucracy. In the United States, the federal bureaucracy is not merely problematic. It is distinctively so. Despite generations of blue‐ribbon commissions calling for fundamental reform of our civil service, it is increasingly a backwater. The consequences of this progressively demoralized, poorly equipped, marginalized, publicly scorned, and undisciplined workforce for government performance are deeply dismaying. These employees are, after all, the shock troops, the implementers, the ultimate instruments of our public policies. If they are not up to the job, then neither is our government.
All Americans have a strong stake in understanding why government's failures are so endemic, and what might be done to improve matters. If we do not do so — and soon — our great experiment in self‐government may itself come to be seen as a failure. In an era of fiscal cliffs, pallid enforcement, special‐interest pandering, and growing public disgust with politicians, this warning is not hyperbole. Reform is both essential and within our reach.
ARNOLD KLING: Peter Schuck describes himself as a militant moderate, a phrase that involves both alliteration and oxymoron. I might describe myself as a low‐key libertarian, which includes alliteration as well and is, many would argue, also an oxymoron. But neither of us would have necessarily always described ourselves this way. With that in mind, the word that kept coming to me as I read this book was "transitional." This book could be profitably read, I think, by anyone who is in the process of reevaluating their views. If we split 40 random, ordinary, liberal college students into two groups — giving half of them a copy of this book and the other half a placebo — I suspect that in a few years the treatment group would have more libertarians in it.
I believe, in other words, that Schuck's work could be an effective gateway drug. If you think of this book as a roadmap and you're looking to climb the mountain of enlightenment that eventually leads to the state of higher consciousness that we call libertarianism, Why Government Fails So Often will help you take some important steps along that journey. I'd like to take a moment to discuss the steps that it does take, and perhaps a few more that it could take in order to reach the summit.
Schuck's first step along the path is that he confronts the phenomenon of government failure in an extremely forthright manner. He doesn't mince words or sugarcoat that message, nor does he say that public ineffectiveness is the exception rather than the rule. In fact, he makes it absolutely clear that these failures "are not just random, occasional, or partisan; they are large, recurrent, and systemic."
The next step is that he quite clearly rejects what some of us call the intention heuristic for evaluating government programs. This is the notion that policies can be judged by their intentions rather than their outcomes. Shuck is forceful in his convictions that government programs need to be assessed in terms of their costeffectiveness.
Now let me turn to some further steps that might be taken. First, I believe that Schuck's criteria for what passes as government success need to be tightened up. He writes, for instance, that Social Security "has been both popular and effective since its inception in 1935… Indeed, it is the single most popular federal program." Yet the system is not on a financially sound basis. I think you need to be careful about calling it a success just because people are receiving checks when the program itself is fundamentally insecure. By this standard, we would have said, for many years, that Bernie Madoff was a success.
There are several additional successes that Schuck describes, which to me look more like officials backing away from a policy that was ill conceived to begin with. One example is the Immigration Act of 1965. The reform essentially repealed racially and ethnically biased national‐origins quotas, which allowed discrimination in granting permanent admission to the United States to begin with. It was a positive development, but I'm not sure it's accurate to describe that as a government success. The same is true of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, which abolished the system whereby government fixed airline prices and restricted market entry. Calling this a successful public intervention is misleading, when in fact the achievement was backing away from a policy that was short‐sighted to begin with.
Second, Schuck has an impressive grasp of neoclassical economics, but I think he gives it too much weight. Neoclassical economics is obsessed with the concept of equilibrium, and in turn it pays little attention to innovation. I believe that one of the biggest lessons of economics is the value of trial‐and‐error learning through entrepreneurial activity.
Incidentally, that is one of the important ideas that is, for all practical purposes, outside mainstream economics. The process of innovation has three steps: introducing experiments, learning from experiments, and evolving as a result of those experiments. The government is particularly inferior to the market when it comes to both experimentation and evolution. The government does not have the ability — or the will — to attempt as many experiments as private actors do. In the marketplace, when one organization won't explore alternatives, another one often will.
Furthermore, the market has the discipline of profit‐and‐loss, whereas the government relies simply on self‐evaluation. But no organization will be able to self‐evaluate with the rigor of the profit‐and‐loss system. The discipline that comes from it is absolutely essential to innovating and evolving.
The third step that will take us further up the mountain has to do with what I refer to as "HETE," which stands for Highly Educated Technocratic Elite. My sense of this book is that Schuck would like to turn up the HETE — that is, he would like to give the highly educated technocratic elite more autonomy, more authority, and more running room to pursue their notion of what constitutes good policy. I, on the other hand, would like to turn down the HETE.
Now, I have nothing against people with impressive education credentials. But consider an analogy: the vast majority of teenage drivers have the self‐restraint not go barhopping and then pile in their car to get back home. But because a small minority are reckless, you need both social norms and legal restraints to discourage that behavior. The same goes for the HETE. Most highly educated people have the self‐restraint not to dictate expansive policy schemes that outstrip anyone's knowledge of our complex social system.
But a small minority cannot contain themselves, and many of them end up in academia, the media, and high government positions. The key is to have even more cultural norms and restraints to curb their behavior. In his discussion, Schuck touched on certain impediments to government that included things like decentralization, checks and balances, and the country's cultural distrust of technical expertise. Unlike him, I would like to reinforce each of those phenomena.
In conclusion, this book really delves into government failure and properly rejects the intention heuristic in favor of cost‐effectiveness evaluations. But it could benefit by being more rigorous in its definition of success, by emphasizing innovation economics over neoclassical economics, and by reconsidering the position of the technocratic elite. I believe that if I had Schuck's confidence in the HETE, I too would be a militant moderate. On the other hand, if he adopted my sober assessment of the HETE's deficiencies, he too would be a low‐key libertarian.


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Just for the sake of the record if you go to http://www.thoughts.com/HipapocaraatesVaccines/blog/the-upcoming-man-made-pandemic-223600/ you will find I started a blog at the very beginning of this year (2009) to specifically warn that forced vaccinations would be happening THIS YEAR due to a MANMADE PANDEMIC. Unfortunately the first blog sight was my crash course into blogging and the learning curve took away an effective message BEFORE the Mexico outbreak occurred. Now I am just doing my part to warn all I can who wish to listen and learn. Below is my first post copy and pasted from my former blog
My Letter To Barbara Loe Fisher On The Swine Flu Mexico / Global Situation Barbara- I'm sorry this is off topic form this very very important information you presented here. As you know, I have been warning you and your great readers about the up coming manmade pandemic and the 'forced vaccinations' to follow for quite some time. I appreciate your kindness to read my letters. I was at a major Club of Rome symposium where they (our leaders, leaders) discussed the 'best' way to kill 85% of us. This was in 1988 and I have watched each step towards their goal executed flawlessly since. They made it clear as a bell that death by vaccine is and will be the weapon and vehicle of choice for this holiest of holy grails of theirs. World population reduction. You have posted my writings where I have given the names of legislation where such a population reduction plan can be implemented disguised as an 'emergency preparedness plan'. Did you ever wonder why so much nonsensical legislation has been execrating at light speed ever since Bush was leaving and Obama took over? Do you think it's JUST a coincidence that these pandemic scares are coming right on the heels of a global financial collapse? They feel all pieces must be in place when it's time to pull the plug on all of us., and 'they' are very close. As you know I gave you information on vaccine manufacturer Baxter putting weaponized H5N1 and recombining it with H5N3 in flu shot vaccines. The people who have been following up on this have no idea if the avian flu vaccines Homeland Security has stock piled for the population carry the weaponized H5N1. As it turns out the Globalists in Europe awarded Baxter the outstanding contract (with the EU) for the 'AVAIN FLU' VACCINE!!!! This Mexican / global Swine Flu outbreak, I believe, is the first wave of what will probably be a three wave manmade pandemic or it's a trial run for the first wave at minimum. I'm getting direct reports from Mexico that the swine flu situation in Mexico is being both hyped and whitewashed all at the same time. El presidente is saying… "Hey don't worry…we have your shot." Their is NO shot for this (for the general public anyway) no matter what El presidente and his or our main stream media is putting out because this flu strain has been weaponized. Listen to Dr. Bill Deagle for a scientific explanation of this. The second wave, I believe, will effect the U.S.A. I believe this will be used to train the public to trust this pro-population reduction government that they must get vaccinated. Looking back at the Baxter situation, these 'fear factored' mandated vaccines will most likely deliver the first strain of the pandemic. The initial vaccines will appear to have 'saved' people from certain death of the second wave of pandemics. However, the strain will be in an incubation state until a certain time passes. Then will come the third wave… The third wave of the man made pandemic will be the final wave. The final solution? This will be the big one. The government WILL force not only vaccines but a chip as well. The third wave vaccine will recombine with the second and then, Say La Vie. Denver can finally get some use out of that mass crematorium their then governor was bragging about in the defunct Rocky Mountain News. It's been reported that the Baxter weaponized version of the Avian Flu has a 60% kill rate. The 1918 Spanish Flu (originated from a weaponized vaccine) ONLY had a 7% to 8% kill rate. That's because the 'Spanish Flu' regenerated back into a non-lethal strain. That will NOT happen this time. The reasons for this was discussed in full in 1988 at this symposium. They called it 'genetically altered' engineered viruses. These weaponized super viruses will not mutate harmless or run their course. This is why the weaponized avian flu Baxter's got their hands on has a 60% kill rate. Let their be no mistake, when the government starts forcing people at gun point to take Baxter's vaccines, this recombination will in fact be the mother of all pandemics. It will even eclipse the black death of the 13th century. Your protection is going to be self preparedness. Stored food. Water purification. Depending on where you are located you may have to be armed, because this will shut the grid down and rioting will ensue. You will have to quarantine yourself to your home. Avoid Military search and seizure. (good luck there) Most importantly you need to have wellness products like nutraceuticals on hand to detox your immune system. Take care Barbara educate as many as you can because we are all running out of time before this gets going, and for what it's worth, many of the people knowingly helping this come to fruition are themselves in grave danger. I know this to be fact, because these oligarchs got quite a laugh out of it.
The corporate media is in full down play / white wash mode concerning Baxter's IMPOSSIBLE flu shot contamination 'accident'. However, an insider and whistle-blower demands tough questions the corporate media will not ask be answered. Many people also want indictments and arrests!
Vaccines contaminated with weaponized Avain Flu virus
Baxter flu vaccines contaminated with H5N1 – otherwise known as the human form of avian flu, one of the most deadly biological weapons on earth with a 60% kill rate – were received by labs in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Slovenia.
Unfortunately, the average reader reading this article will have no idea of it's accuracy,
seriousness and gravity. This story is a huge main steam media story world wide yet, in the U.S. where tight control of information is kept, has been completely blacked out by OUR U.S. main stream media.
Instead, what you get in America, is never ending fear mongering of children getting sick and dieing because they didn't get their flu shot. Well, you better get this through your head…
… anyone who gets these contaminated flu vaccines will not only die BUT they will kill 60% of anyone who has come in contact with them . The most important lesson in all of this is that THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT!!! The major owners of vaccine manufacturing wrote POLICY REPORTS on how they would use a man made pandemic to kill 85% to 90% of the world's population. This is NOT a game and the issue needs to be addressed as a very serious matter!
The same companies that recently contaminated the flu vaccines with weaponized H5N1 did this as well…
The Coming 'Forced' Vaccination Programs (Already Here?) and Barack Obama's INSIDER multi-billion dollar betting on a pandemic.
The U.S. is one 'major event' away from forcing Americans into taking 'mandated' vaccines. When governments no longer represent the public and spins out of control clamping down on the masses is the RULE NOT the EXCEPTION. International laws set at the Nuremberg trails known as the Nuremberg Codeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code make it clear the public is protected from governments like Hitler's Third Reich, Stalin's and Mao's Communist regimes or America's non accountable FEDERAL GOVERNMENT some rightly call the 'FOURTH REICH' from being forced medicated.
So who benefits from these 'major events'? Major events caused by ALLOWING vaccine manufactures to weaponize flu shots with H5N1?
President Obama and MANDATED FORCED vaccines…
Before the 'Wall Street' media machine whipped up a frenzy around Obama that would make Joseph Goebbels blush, Mr. Obama was coined as one of the nations most corrupt politicians in America. WHY? The Vaccine Connection.
Obama was given insider trading tips on two obscure companies (LOOK THEM UP!) AVI BioPharma and Sky Terra. AVI BioPharma specializes in RNA-based vaccine formulas that are specific to the Avian Flu. What does this mean? The investment turned out to be a multi billion dollar bonanza for anyone who was IN THE KNOW. Why? Folks 'in the know' who invested in BioPharam saw THIER companies RNA-strains being sold to Rockefeller owned BIG pharma companies who got FDA 'royalty contracts' worth billions to develop human cell-based vaccines. It was Obama who was the most vocal in Congress pushing MASSIVE FEDERAL PANDEMIC FLU FUNDING BILLS that dispersed billions to…guess who? The very Avian Flu manufactures Obama had insider trading on.
Obama one of 10 most corrupt politician's list NY Times. (Ironocally NY times was one of Obama's biggest endorsers.)
Don't be so naive as to think for one moment that all these vaccines and mandatory vaccine laws collecting dust on the shelf ARE NOT going to be FORCED on us by the man (and his handlers) NOW in the oval office.
A question has to be asked. If an Avain Flu pandemic breaks out, did these vaccine manufactures have a time machine and wanted to cash in on a pandemic that DID NOT YET HAPPEN OR will this Avian pandemic THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED YET be intentionally manufactured and GIVEN to the public via FORCED flu vaccines? Anyone one who has the information on the weaponized contaminated flu shots AND STILL GETS A FLU SHOT is either suicidal or is simply one of the stupidist people on the face of this earth!
The Pentagon's alarming project: Avian Flu Biowar Vaccine
We here in the United States are one 'bio terror scare' away from the disastrous legislation of forcing Americans to take 'PANDEMIC FLU' vaccines that are ALREADY manufactured and sitting on a Homeland Security shelf ready to go. These 'emergency' laws are already written up and ready to roll out on the U.S. population. THESE FORCED VACCINES WILL CAUSE A REAL PANDEMIC OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS. A pandemic so sever that it could very well destroy not just the United States but, Canada, the South American continent and Europe as well. Russia isn't foolish enough to risk their population with these ALREADY manufactured pandemic vaccines. These vaccines were manufactured in China and they have already got out of control. Where OUTBREAKS have occurred the Peoples Army has quarantined whole villages and BURNED THEM TO THE GROUND. YES, ALONG WITH THE PEOPLE. Here in the U.S.A. HR 645 has been passed that will 'legalize' detention / quarantine camps ALREADY in operation.
Background on the pandemic vaccines and the legislation that will put them into your veins, YES THIS IS A POPULATION REDUCTION PROGRAM… To be continued…
Dear Reader,
You know I have been trying to warn yourself and other readers of the up coming forced vaccines based off a MAN MADE pandemic brought on by the vaccines themselves. Freaked out, (and rightly so.) government officals have over the years been coming forward with the type of information FACTS I am going to share with you. An Indiana county municipal official reveals FEMA & DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago.
The feds (which is known PUBLICLY to be run by private off shore banks) are getting your local governments ready for forced vaccines and mass graves to follow. These ARE NOT BASELESS THEORIES! All you have to do is READ THOUSANDS OF DOCUMENTS available from foundations run by the Rockerfeller, Prince Phillips trans humanist organizations, just to mention a few. Then dovetail all of that, with ALL the legislation such as HR645 / REX 84 calling for mass population detainment camps and it becomes all TOO CLEAR the eugenicist plan to CULL THE POPULATION is being implemented. Individuals such as University professor Dr.Pianka get 'STANDING OVATIONS' at lecturers calling for 90% of the worlds populations to be reduced. So, who is giving this great applause for OUR demise? Folks who work in the vaccine / bio weapons labs. That has been WELL DOCUMENTED.
This film ENDGAME is very well sourced and needs to be watched and UNDERSTOOD by all.
If we hear in the U.S. don't wake up to the seriousness of this we will fall into the same historic trap the gentleman who wrote…"when they came for the Jews I said nothing…" fell into. We are NOT exempt from REPEATING history.
There are 20 states SERIOUSLY pushing to invoke the 9th and 10th if the federal government tries to pull forced vaccines, mass round up quarantines and gun confiscation. If you don't know what that means FIND OUT!! Get involved and help in your area!
Scum bag Eugenicist Bill Gate release mosquitoes onto crowd
Release the hounds! Actually, make that mosquitoes. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world's wealthiest people, made headlines this week when he released a cloud of mosquitos at a technology conference. The philanthropist was pointing out the dangers of malaria for the world's poor. "Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some here," he said. "There is no reason only poor people should be infected." Fortunately for the terrified attendees, the mosquitoes were malaria-free. 'Twas all a rouse. Bill Gates 1, Terrified Minions 0.
Bill Gates, Rockefeller, Eugenics And A Planned Global Genocide?


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Platelets, the cells that make blood clot, are in high demand from blood banks. Blood banks store them at room temperature and throw them out after five days. They would last longer refrigerated, but if you chill platelets, they activate and form a useless clot in the bag. Researchers have now shown that a key step for that activation is the formation of "lipid raft" structures in the membranes enclosing the cells.
Discovering how and why platelets get activated is also important for understanding how blood clots can cause heart attacks and strokes.
Karine Gousset and colleagues from the University of California, Davis, Biostabilization Laboratory, led by John Crowe and Fern Tablin, have shown that chilling causes changes in the platelets' outer membrane. At body temperature, cell membranes are fairly fluid, like a soap bubble. The fatty molecules that make up the membrane can jostle and move around next to each other.
When the temperature drops, some of the molecules in the membrane, such as cholesterol and another molecule called sphingomyelin, clump into distinct islands in the membrane called "lipid rafts." Some proteins attached to the surface, including some that carry signals from the cell surface to the inside, are also collected into these rafts.
After rafts form, the cells show other signs of activation, such as increased calcium levels, Crowe said. Platelets respond to other signals in the same way, showing that lipid raft formation is a general first step in platelet activation, Crowe said.
Contact: Andy Fell
University of California - Davis


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This elegant heart shaped teacup and saucer is full of surprises. Pour in your favourite hot drink and a romantic heart will appear. Destined to be a cherished gift for a loved one. White teacup and saucer.
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2. Keep it Simple – Atlanta Bartlett
In Keep it Simple, Atlanta Bartlett and David Coote present a practical and inspirational guide to creating a happy and relaxed home that works perfectly for everyone who lives in it. They start at the very beginning, explaining the key elements at the heart of their own unique decorating philosophy, The Simple Mindset, which appreciates good, honest design, values quality not quantity and advocates rediscovering the simple pleasures of life.
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We are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and members of the Equity Release Council.
Bower has always supported the aims of The Council and the associated SHIP safeguards which our membership offers, such as its commitment to impartial advice.
The money you release with an equity release plan is yours to spend in absolutely any way you like.
We've seen customers use their money in lots of different ways, but the most popular ones are:
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The Rock and the Bird
Winner of Best Young Adult Title for Singapore Book Awards 2016
Winner of the Hedwig Anuar Children's Book Award 2015
Winner, Royal Commonwealth Society Essay Competition 2009, First Prize, Class A
Chew Chia Shao Wei
Illustrated by Anngee Neo
There once was a rock which stood old and alone amidst a stretch of sand. For a long time it knew nothing except the lapping waves of the sea. Then one day a noisy bird came to rest on the rock—and began to annoy the rock with its endless chatter. Despite their hostile beginnings, the two began a friendship that evolved and changed over many years. Then one day when the bird did not return to the rock, the rock knew that his friend had died. And his world would return to what it once was, though now it was also filled with memories of his dearest friend.
"[We were] looking for something high quality, a truly wonderful read that would touch the hearts and minds of the readers... You can read [The Rock and the Bird] at different points in time and it speaks to you in different ways. The book is simple, yet profound."
— Edmund Lim, one of the judges of the Hedwig Anuar Children's Book Award 2015
"An astonishing and stunning story: a timeless fable which would appeal to readers of all ages. The deceptively simple use of language allows a profoundly affecting story about mortality and friendship to unfold with an effortless ease. The characterisations of the rock and the bird are skillfully drawn. This is an entry which is unexpected, original and enthralling from start to finish!"
—Chief Examiner, Royal Commonwealth Society
About the Author
Chew Chia Shao Wei was fourteen years old and in Secondary Three at Raffles Girls' School when she wrote this story for the Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition in 2009. It won First Prize, Class A. She went on to study at Raffles Institution and in 2012 earned the Rotary Club of Singapore's Good Samaritan Award "in recognition of her spirit of true volunteerism above and beyond the call of duty". She began her freshman year at Harvard University in 2013. She has an older sister and a younger brother.
About the Illustrator
Anngee Neo is a freelance illustrator whose work is in magazines, advertisements and children's books. She is the illustrator of former President SR Nathan's The Crane and the Crab, published by Epigram Books in May 2013.
Format: Hardcover
Size: 170 x 220mm
Pages: 48pp
Published: December 2013
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The quality and the quantity of the fragrance are fundamental. Spring Air®uses for its products only accurately selected fragrances and in studied quantities to optimize its intensity. In this way the customer not only appreciates the fragrance during the purchase, but also enjoys a long lasting effect in his own space. In the range of Spring Air®HOME COLLECTION, LUXURY RATTAN STICKS is packed in its luxury bottle of 100 ml which will give the opportunity of continuous aromatization for 2 months.
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It's good to be back in Fort Collins, CO. I am finally getting back into the swing of things after being on the Midwest Tour (Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa), Story Telling, Ayurveda Presentations and working with Ayurveda Jump Start to Health Patients. It was so much fun sharing Ayurveda Health and Empowerment. Changes are a coming for the clinic in the new year, stay posted in the next month for more details. Also have you joined the fabulouse group of people on the Earth Ayurveda Clinic Facebook page? If not click here.
The Holiday seasons can be stressful with traveling, visiting family, trying to keep your immune system high and not gain weight. Here is a gift from me, to you:) The Top 10 tips you Need to know to make it through the Holidays. (In no particular order)
1. Bring something you can eat that tastes good and that doesn't make you cringe when you think of the health factors or calories. (Try setting a goal of maintaining through the holidays, not trying to loose weight.) If you want a food that isn't good for you, take a small portion instead of depriving yourself. And remember it is what we do most of the time that affects you, not what you do once in a while.
2. Family stress even just thinking about it can cause you to hold or shorten your breath. Start practicing deep abdominal breath, which is not very noticeable but can have an astounding affect on calming the nervous system and the mind, allowing you to deal with family members and driving. When you reduce stress, it helps keep weight off.
3. Overcoming the infamous stuffing your face. Eat until you are almost full, not stuffed. Your stomach digests food faster when there is a little space for it to squish and digest your food. (Don't stress about not getting enough, you can put what you want on your plate and save it for your second meal or cover it and take it home.)
4. Whether you are hosting a party or going to one ask yourself "What can I do to make this run as smoothly as possible?" exmp. having food prepped the night before, plan a stop while your traveling in the middle, and allow children to run and go to the bathroom instead of whiny cranky children or make a list of safe topics that you know your family or friends can handle to divert to.
5. Spice your food, in India all food is spiced, as it helps with digestion. Some neutral spices are coriander and fennel. Black pepper is good if you are eating a particularly heavy or creamy meal. You can bring spices with you if you don't think they will be available, bring a fennel capsule to have before meals or bring some digestive tea to share instead of coffee.
6. Your a vegetarian going into a household of non-vegetarians. Bring a vegetarian dish that to you is considered a main course. Do not bring a dish that has any reference to a meat substitute, because you will be setting yourself up for a battle. Even though meat substitutes can taste great, non-vegetarians expect it to taste the same and will tell you it's not that great.
7. Be aware of your own sabotaging thoughts and behaviors: be able to recognize which role you tend to fall into and have a mantra or affirmation to snap yourself out of it. (A favorite affirmation of mine is I bless everyone I see and they bless me.)
Vata's tend to blame themselves.
Pitta's tend towards blaming others.
Kapha's can tend towards smothering and controlling behavior.
8. Going for a walk. It is best to let your food digest for atleast 10-30 min. then taking a short, gentle walk of a minimum of 108 steps tells your body to burn fat and helps with digestion. Try going for a group walk, or walking the dog or stepping out for a breath of fresh air.
9. Go into the party with a positive attitude. Don't start off thinking it's going to be terrible or that your going to gain five pounds, instead put out the energy that everything is going to be great. What would be the perfect scenario?
10. Have a support network, if a family situation starts to get a little hard to handle have someone you can text that will send you a positive text back, or someone you trust that you can go hang out with in your family.
Stay healthy and have fun this holiday season.
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In Citizens United v. FEC the Supreme Court rejected the idea that the government may determine whose speech is worthy of protection under the First Amendment. As a result of the decision, individuals, small businesses, corporations, labor unions and non-profit organizations may all engage in political speech. It is not the bailiwick of government bureaucrats to judge and determine who should be allowed to speak. As Chief Justice John Roberts has remarked: "We don't put our First Amendment rights in the hands of FEC bureaucrats." Citizens United appropriately limited the government's ability to regulate and prohibit speech.
Another case that questions the ability of the government to regulate speech is currently before the Supreme Court: Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett. This case deals with Arizona's "clean elections" campaign financing system.
There have been many attempts to create systems where the government subsidizes campaigns. Most label these systems "public financing," but in reality they are anything but. The truest form of "public financing" is a system in which citizens can voluntarily contribute to those candidates which they support. Each and every government subsidized system undermines the sovereignty of the American people.
The most recognizable of these systems is the presidential financing system, which allows individuals to make a voluntary contribution to help finance presidential campaigns when filing their annual tax return. Once a candidate agrees to participate in this financing system they must adhere to guidelines established by the federal government. As the flaws of this system have become more apparent, even liberal politicians like Barack Obama have opted out of the system. In seeking to trim waste from the federal budget, Republican Members of Congress have attempted to curtail this misguided program.
While the federal government created a troublesome (though voluntary) system to which citizens could choose to contribute, Arizona has taken a different (and far more suspect) approach. In 1998 the people of Arizona narrowly enacted the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act. The Act provides subsidies to candidates who agree to be bound by state imposed spending limits. To qualify for these subsidies candidates must raise a threshold amount of contributions in small dollar donations. In effect, a "clean elections" candidate is rewarded by the state for choosing to handicap his or her own campaign.
The "clean elections" system goes even further and additionally rewards the "clean elections" candidate for activities beyond his or her control. For example, should a "clean elections" candidate's opponent self-finance their campaign, an additional subsidy will be paid to the "clean elections" candidate. Also, if an independent group supports his or her opponent by making independent expenditures, an additional subsidy will be paid to the "clean elections" candidate. The Arizona government is attempting to level the playing field, which is a governmental purpose that has been thoroughly rejected by the Supreme Court.
While the rules triggering these "clean elections" subsidies are suspect, the source of the subsidy funds is even more troubling. Arizona finances their "clean elections" subsidies by imposing a ten percent surcharge on civil penalties and criminal fines. Citizens are forced to subsidize speech. Unlike the presidential financing system, this is involuntary. Should you get a traffic ticket, you must subsidize political speech. Get caught violating local hunting or fishing ordinances, you must subsidize political speech. These surcharges account for 53% of all "clean elections" funding. Even if you are vehemently opposed to the candidates and their platforms, the government will give them your money.
In a free society we must be skeptical when the government endorses the speech of one over another. Under the "clean elections" system, the government of Arizona does not merely endorse speech, but in fact compels individuals to finance others' speech. This is a clear affront to the First Amendment that cannot be allowed to stand.
In Citizens United the Court addressed whether the government could prohibit speech. In Arizona Free Enterprise Club the Court must now address whether the government may compel you to subsidize speech with which you may not agree. Citizens United has signed on to an Amicus Brief opposing this system of subsidized speech. Much like how the government cannot deny anyone the opportunity to speak, it should not be able to compel you to finance the speech of others.


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Psalms 146 (asv)
146:2While I live will I praise Jehovah:
I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
146:3Put not your trust in princes,
Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
146:4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish.
146:5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in Jehovah his God:
146:6Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that in them is;
Who keepeth truth for ever;
146:7Who executeth justice for the oppressed;
Who giveth food to the hungry.
Jehovah looseth the prisoners;
146:8Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind;
Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down;
Jehovah loveth the righteous;
146:9Jehovah preserveth the sojourners;
He upholdeth the fatherless and widow;
But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
146:10Jehovah will reign for ever,
Thy God, O Zion, unto all generations.
Preceding Entry: Psalms 145
Following Entry: Psalms 147


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Zioncheck Rummy is quite a unique card game that has many similarities with the rules of other rummy variants. Zioncheck Rummy is not commonly played in India, but its rules are very simple to learn. Most of the rules resemble those of Shanghai Rummy and Phase 10 card games. It is also said that Contract Rummy originated from Zioncheck Rummy.
The objective of the game is to lay out all the cards in the combinations of sets or sequences. A player can 'lay down' or 'go down' on his or her turn, and the one who lays down all his/her cards is declared the winner.
As the game bears close resemblance to Shanghai and Contract Rummy games, it is quite easy to learn and play. Zioncheck Rummy is played with multiple standard decks of 54 cards each including Jokers, and each game consists of six hands. 10 cards are dealt to each player at the beginning of each of the first four hands and 11 cards are dealt in fifth hand and 14 cards in the last hand. The rest of the cards are placed face down to form the draw pile. Each player has the option to pick a card, on his/her turn, from the draw pile or from the discard pile.
Jokers are also used in Zioncheck Rummy; they can replace any card to form a sequence or a set. For example, if 5 is the wild Joker, one can form sequences of 7-9-10-5-K-Q, as Card 5 has replaced the Jack to form a sequence of 7-9-10-J-K-Q. However, Jokers have to be used only when it is absolutely necessary. Zioncheck Rummy is considered an old parlor game, and using a Joker in a group is considered rude.
A game of Zioncheck Rummy continues until one of the players 'goes out' by discarding the last card in his/her hand. The winner gets zero points while the other players get points equal to the total value of the cards in their hand. Aces and Jokers are worth 15 points each; Jack, Queens and Kings are worth 10 points each and all other cards from 2 to 9 are worth 5 points each.
These interesting rules and its challenging gameplay make Zioncheck Rummy a really exciting card game. Try this new rummy variation with your friends and have great fun. Learn more rummy variations on JungleeRummy.com!


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Leave it to Microsoft to create some (more) confusion around what it plans to call its new Windows 8 design language.
As of Wednesday morning, the working title for applications built for the OS' was "Windows Store apps." It appears this name is here to say, as Microsoft put the kibosh on another moniker that surfaced Tuesday.
According to an Engadget report, during Microsoft's Build 2012 conference Tuesday, Will Tschumy, principal user experience adviser at the company, spoke four words no one outside Microsoft had heard yet: Windows 8 Store Applications.
Microsoft later issued a redaction: Tschumy misspoke, and the name W8 apps will henceforth go by is Windows Store apps.
Faint memories
Those who've paid attention might remember "Metro" as the de facto term used to describe Windows 8's UI.
It turned out that word was only a codename used by Microsoft within company confines and was never intended to be the official calling card of the new set of applications.
Unfortunately, developers, consumers and the tech community got used to Metro and were subsequently confused as the Softies switched to other aliases.
Among those were "Windows 8-style UI," "New User Interface," "Windows 8 design," "Windows 8 application" and, simply, "Windows 8."
We'll see if Redmond sticks with Windows Store apps moving forward.


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I wanted to express my deepest gratitude to ICCS and yourself for embracing our efforts to achieve LEED-EB certification. I was amazed at how quickly ICCS took ownership of this program. Bringing in the Ashkin-Group to provide training on such a new concept went above and beyond any of my other vendors efforts. The partnership we have formed has been of great benefit to our employees and especially your staff.
We look forward to new challenges and opportunities to work together with such a dedicated group.
Interstate Contract Cleaning Service's continual dedication to each routine task brings the consistency that I can rely on without question. Their entire team continually makes efforts to improve to service delivery to our properties.
As the largest physician practice network in the region, the Carolinas Physicians Network, part of Carolinas HealthCare System, depends on the services of Interstate Contract Cleaning Services, Inc. (ICCS) to maintain the cleanliness of our medical office facilities. The response of ICCS to routine and special requests is always prompt and efficient; and the staff provides excellent cleaning services at our properties. As a customer of over 11 years, I would recommend using ICCS for your janitorial needs.


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- [Instructor] This video picks up where my Photoshop Essential Training series leaves off. If you are unfamiliar with smart objects, please be sure to watch the two videos in the Smart objects chapter, in Photoshop Essential Training, and then join us here. There are a number of reasons that you might need to change the contents of a Smart object. Maybe you're doing template work, or you're creating a design, and you're waiting for the Hi-Res version, or the retouched version of an image, or maybe you just simply changed your mind. I'm going to place the Smart object using file, place embedded.
I'll navigate to the oh one Smart Objects folder, and choose mountains dot PSD, and then click place. By default, Photoshop will resize the placed image in order to fit in the open document. I'll click the check mark in order to place that. If you prefer to have Photoshop not resize the document, under the Photoshop preferences, general, you can disable the resize image during place. I actually prefer to keep this on, and I want Photoshop to automatically create a Smart object when placing, so I leave this enabled as well.
Now, we're going to start working on this image. The first thing I want to do is I want to change the stacking order in the layers panel, so I'll need to change the background into a layer by clicking on the lock icon. Then, I'll double-click, in order to rename it, Clouds. I'll reposition the Cloud layer above the Mountains later, then I'll change the blend mode to overlay, and decrease the opacity of the clouds over the mountains. I want to transform the mountains, in fact, I want to flip them, so I will select the Mountains layer, and choose edit, free transform.
We can see, in the options bar, that when Photoshop placed this, it resized it to 80 percent of its original size. Then, I'll right click, and choose flip horizontal, and then apply the transformation. I also want to add a layer mask to create a border around this image, so I'll choose select, all, and then I'll modify the selection by choosing modify, and contract. I'll enter in 50 pixels, and make sure that the apply effects at canvas bounce is enabled.
When I click okay, we can see that that selection has been contracted. At the bottom of the layers panel, I will click the layer mask icon in order to add a layer mask to hide the area on the borders of the image. At this point, if I want to replace the contents of this layer, I can choose layer, and then smart objects, and replace contents. I'll navigate to the oh one Smart objects folder, select branches, and then click place. As we can see, by replacing the image, I don't have to redo the mask, or the transformation, or even flip the image.
All of that is done for me, so as your files get more complicated, the ability to replace the contents of a Smart object can really be a time saver. Now, if you have different sized original files, I just want to point out that you might have to resize them when you replace the contents, but because they are smart objects, the transformations will be nondestructive. There you are, and easy way to quickly swap out the contents of a Smart object in Photoshop.
Photoshop CC is loaded with tools and features for making tonal and color adjustments, applying effects and treatments to type and graphics, and distorting, filtering, and layering elements, while always maintaining the highest-quality output. This course shows the most efficient ways to perform common design tasks, including layout, image editing, drawing shapes, and working with type and fonts. Along the way, you will learn the secrets of nondestructive editing using Smart Objects and master features such as layers, artboards, libraries, adjustment layers, filters, blending modes, layer effects, typography, custom brushes, vector masks, and much more—increasing your productivity every step of the way.
- Working with Smart Objects
- Warping and creative transformations
- Reshaping images with Liquify
- Using filters, including blur and patterns
- Creating and modifying shapes
- Applying blend modes
- Applying layer effects and layer styles
- Working with type and fonts
- Painting in Photoshop
- Using and sharing libraries
- Taking advantage of artboards
- Exporting and sharing Photoshop files


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Less than a fortnight after the terror attack in Gurdaspur, two terrorists attacked an army convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Udhampur, killing two and injuring at least 10 Border Security Force personnel. One of the terrorists, Qasim Khan, was apprehended and the other killed in the ensuing shoot-out.
Reports suggest that at least one of the terrorists was from Pakistan, though there was no official government confirmation on this.
3 hostages rescued 1 terrorist has been caught alive. 1 terrorist killed: Jitendra Singh, MoS PMO on Udhampur attack pic.twitter.com/0Gx07Dhkeb
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 5, 2015
Khan, who had taken three persons hostage in a school in a village near the area, was arrested after an operation was launched by the army and the police, Deputy Commission, Udhampur, Shahid Iqbal Chaudhary told PTI.
— ANI (@ANI_news) August 5, 2015
Thought once a site of frequent militant strikes, this was the first time an attack of this nature had occurred in Udhampur in over a decade.
Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "Those behind such attacks very well know that their terror designs won't be running for long in India. That is why they are doing all such kinds of activities."
The last time a terrorist was caught was in March 2012. He was allegedly a Pakistani.
The incident has heightened concerns as this stretch of the highway, often taken by pilgrims headed to Amarnath.
"An attack on this stretch of the NH after a very long time. Worrying development because area was militant free," tweeted former state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
READ:All Three Terrorists Killed In Gurdaspur Attack
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17.08.120 Alternative Financing Methods.
Nothing contained in this Chapter shall preclude the City Council from using any other available means of financing portions of local improvements, including but not limited to city funds, federal or state grants, user charges or fees, revenue bonds, general obligation bonds, or any other legal means of finance. In the event that such other means of financing improvements are used, the City Council may make assessments to pay any remaining part of the total costs of the local improvement.


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Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the largest and fastest growing privately owned automotive rental and leasing company in the U.S. With over 9,000 branch offices worldwide, Enterprise ranks #1 in the Insurance Replacement Market with yearly revenues of over $22 billion.
The Car Washer/Service Agent cleans vehicles inside and out (vehicles may be cleaned by hand or by operating washing equipment) and is responsible for the cleaning of the branch location. The Car Washer/Service Agent also performs regular maintenance (non-mechanical services), moves vehicles, and performs other duties assigned by the manager, all completed in a safe and timely manner.
Positions available for Rancho Cucamonga (91730). This a part time position at 25 hours per week.
As you are considering a position with Enterprise Holdings, we invite you to learn more about our business. Today - and every day - the safety and wellbeing of employees, customers and the communities we serve is our top priority. For the latest on our COVID-19 response, please click here.
Clean vehicle exterior by hand, brush or by operating washing equipment
Polish, dry and clean vehicle windshields, windows, lights, mats and exterior body, by hand
Vacuum, shampoo, add air freshener and clean vehicle interior (some stain removal may be required)
Determine need for and add windshield fluid, gas, oil, water and antifreeze
Basic maintenance check: antenna, under the hood, inside the vehicle, inside the trunk, and outside vehicle
Verify appropriate stickers are attached to vehicle (registration, plates, etc.)
Perform light duty cleaning and maintenance of branch location
May be responsible for maintaining an inventory of cleaning supplies
May assist with local automobile deliveries
Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
Perform light duty
Work environment involves moderate exposure to hazards or physical risks, which requires following basic safety requirements, including road rules and facility regulations
Work is performed outside in all types of weather and temperatures and in a typical office environment
Moderate physical activity which requires handling of objects up to 10 pounds with long periods of standing and walking
Moderate exposure to unusual elements such as temperature, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors and/or loud noises, which may vary based on location
Equipment used daily includes a large variety of vehicles (may include 15-passenger vans and airport buses, based on location), safety belts, 2-way radio or cellular phone, phone system, computer equipment, printer, fax, printer, copier and safe equipment
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans
Must be at least 18 years old
Must have 3 months of prior work experience
Must be authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future.
This position requires a valid drivers license
Apart from religious observations, must be available to work Monday-Friday (7:30am-6pm) and weekends as needed Saturday/Sunday (8:30am-1pm).
This posting is for the Rancho Cucamonga area. Pay for this position will be $13.00/hour and will offer 25 hours per week.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories as required by, and consistent with, applicable law.
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What is a Trade Report and when should I expect it to update?
Trade Reports are uploaded at the end of each trading day and they should appear on your dashboard by 6 PM CT. If your Trade Reports are not uploaded or don't look right, please contact email@example.com.
1. Net P&L
What is this number?
- Your total wins and losses including fees and commissions
How to use this number?
- This is your trading scoreboard, gauge how well your strategy is working in the markets
- If positive: recognize your strategy is working, stay humble, keep doing what you are doing
- If negative: recognize that your strategy may need adjusting, keep your head up, and continue to review your metrics
2. Average Winning Trade and Average Losing Trade
What is this number?
- Average Winning Trade: The average profit from all winning trades
- Average Losing Trade: The average loss from all losing trades
- Your risk to reward ratio
How to use these numbers?
- If Average Winning Trade (reward) is the larger than Average Losing Trade: Remain focused on increasing this number and creating smaller losing trades
- If Average Losing Trade (risk) is the larger than Average Winning Trade: Focus on increasing winning trades and cutting losses early
3. Winning Trade Percentage
What is this number?
- The percentage of winning trades out of total trades (this percentage does not include break-even trades)
How to use this number?
- If 60-100%: You're trading well, consider increasing contract size
- If 40-60%: This is a sustainable and good range, maintain a positive risk to reward ratio to ensure profitability
- If 0-40%: Improvement is part of the journey. Decrease contract size, consider adjusting your strategy
To view a video walkthrough of your Trade Report click here.


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Cob–a mixture of clay, dung, sand, and water–is pretty much the oldest building material in human civilization. It's also one of the most durable, withstanding heat, earthquakes, and rain, for centuries in some cases. You can find it in England, Afghanistan, and Africa, and thanks to the efforts of some modern builders, it's currently enjoying a comeback.
In Tiébéle, a small village in the south of Burkina Faso, it never went away. There, each new clay-and-straw cob home is decorated by a group of women from the Gurunsi community, in a process that is part group art project, part spiritual practice, and part architectural detailing job. These images from Belgian photographer Rita Willaert are some of the most beautiful we've seen of the town.
You can read a ton about the women's work online (or check out the great documentary Traces, Women's Imprints), but here's a quick rundown of how it works. Before the rainy season sets in, women use chalk and a mixture of mud and dung to inscribe patterns and colors into the walls of the newly constructed homes. Fresh dung is used to bind the colors to the walls (and strengthen the structures), and then the whole wall is varnished with a mixture made by boiling néré pods, from a common local tree.
There's a strong social element to the work, with younger women acting as the interns to their project manager elders. Handye Magazine explains:
The work on the walls reflects the informal organization of the community. Women of all ages come together, with the older women taking the lead and guiding the younger women. The most senior woman is responsible for taking a stone and incising the first line. She starts with a long horizontal line across the top, drawn quickly with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what she's doing. Other women then join in, filling out the overall pattern.
Though there's social and spiritual meaning to the decorations, it turns out that they also serve an important functional purpose. The deep lines that run horizontally over the mud facades act as tiny, ad hoc gutters, channeling the flow of water over the surface. The néré varnish helps to prevent leakage and erosion from the foot-thick walls, which were necessary for protection from raiding slavers. Which partially explains how the Gurunsi got their name: It's derived from the word Guru-si, which means "iron does not penetrate."
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Here's a new reason to trek up to Fort Lauderdale Beach this weekend: bottomless brunch at Terra Mare.
Saturdays and Sundays, the oceanfront Italian restaurant with sweeping views of the Atlantic, rolls out an Instagram-worthy bloody mary and mimosa bar ($19 to $24). Dress up your cocktail with myriad mixers and toppings, from fresh-pressed mango and lychee juice to berries, blue cheese-stuffed olives, pickled okra, and bacon.
In addition, executive chef Michael Chavez offers nearly two dozen brunch-inspired plates. The menu, divided into three categories — eggs and
Standouts include ropa vieja empanadas, which come stuffed with braised short rib, pico de gallo, and jalapeño, alongside fried eggs ($19); lobster hash drizzled with sea urchin hollandaise and tarragon ($32); avocado toast on a slice of wheat bread with heirloom tomatoes and chipotle crema ($13); and Korean fried chicken and scallion waffles with a sunny-side-up egg ($23).
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Other items include a spicy peach toast garnished with goat cheese, peach jam, and jalapeño on multigrain bread ($12); a Cuban sandwich packed with roast pork, ham, salami, house pickles, and mustard ($16); and a mushroom or spinach omelet ($15 to $16). Sides include grapefruit brûlée ($7), chocolate croissants ($5), and homemade granola with fruit ($15).
Top off your meal with something sweet, such as lemon poppyseed pancakes, Belgian waffles, or French toast piled with whipped mascarpone and berries ($15 to $16).
Terra Mare. 551 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; 954-414-5160; terramarefl.com. Brunch is served Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.


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SWITZERLAND, September 13 th, 2016.- Within the framework of the 33rd regular session of the Human Rights Council, the negative effects of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba were denounced and a call was made for its total elimination.
More than 30 developing countries, in addition to the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the African Group and the Arab Group, participated in the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures in the enjoyment of human rights and the Independent Expert for the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order.
The statements evidenced the rejection of the application of unilateral coercive measures; and their extraterritorial nature and the negative impact on human rights of the people suffering from such imposition was denounced. While taking the floor in the interactive dialogue, the Ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela, Namibia and Nicaragua clamored for the end of the US blockade against Cuba.
The Permanent Representative of Cuba in Geneva, Ambassador Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo, denounced the negative effects of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba, a unilateral coercive measure that represents a violation of the International Law and a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of the Cuban people, including their right to development.
In her statement, the Cuban diplomat stressed that the lifting of the blockade is a decision to be taken unilaterally and unconditionally by the Government of the United States to advance the process towards the normalization of the bilateral relations between the two countries.
In this way the Human Rights Council joins the clamor of the international community for the elimination of unilateral coercive measures, including the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.
The 33rd regular session of the Human Rights Council takes place in Geneva from September 13 to 30, 2016.


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Fresh Sugar Plum Let It Glow Gift Set Review, Swatches, Photos
Looking for last minute gifts? The Fresh Sugar Plum Let It Glow Gift Set might be just the thing! With a $30 price this cute little set features fab favs from the Fresh product line and a full size Fresh Sugar Plum Tinted Lip Treatment.
Fresh fans will adore it!
Check it!
I'm not a fan of the Sugar Plum Lip Treatment as you know from a prior review I did but I can't deny this set is quite the cute little stash of goodies for stuffing a stocking with or gifting to a loved one. I know my sister is a HUGE Fresh fan so she'll absolutely adore this!
Considering the Fresh line of Lip Treatments will set you back $22.50 this is quite a cute little steal as you also get, along with the full size Sugar Plum Lip Balm, Fresh Twilight Freshface Glow, Fresh SuperNova Mascara, and Fresh Citron de Vigne.
The kit contains the basics for a natural makeup look particularly if you're multitasking the lip balm as a blush (swipe it across a sponge and dab onto your cheeks for an instant burst of color). If you're a fan of the lip treatments this is basically like getting your fav plus some additional goodies to try!
Fresh Twilight FreshFace Glow is an iridescent creamy pink formula with a delightful rose scent that highlights face and gives an instant glow. This is my first try with SuperNova Mascara and I'm honestly not impressed however I think I'll blame it on the tiny tube as I had a hard time getting it in place due to the sample size and mini wand size. Fresh Citron de Vigne is actually a fav of mine so this is a nice way to try it if you never have. It's a burst of bubbly citrus notes with notes of musk, rose, white sandalwood, and bergamot. It's bright and sunny yet elegant and sexy.
Overall, the set is a great deal at $30 and will make a happy little pressie for yourself or fellow Fresh fans.
Available exclusively at Sephora.
Did you indulge?
Love Fresh?
What did you think of the Sugar Plum Lip Treatment?
I'm not a fan, I thought it made my lips look muddy! ha!


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October 29, 2020
Volume X, Number 303
Northwestern University School of Law
Phone: 312-503-8451
Website: www.law.northwestern.edu
The Northwestern University School of Law, located in Chicago, is a private American law school independently founded in 1859 as the Union College of Law. Northwestern enjoys a strong national reputation. The school is currently ranked 11th by the 2011 Edition of the U.S. News and World Report guide to the nation's top law schools.


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Login to Museum
- Rorke's Drift
- Isandlwana
- Zulu War
- Miscellaneous
- A Soldier-Artist in Zululand
- Zulu Identities
- A Companion to the Anglo Zulu War
- Kingdom in Crisis
- Zulu Rising
- Zulu Conquered
- Zulu Vanquished
- A Solemn Mockery
- Fearful Hard Times
- The Zulu War Then & Now
- Brave Mens Blood
- Empire and Espionage
- Queen Victoria's Most Famous Little War
- Great Zulu Commanders
- Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift
- By Orders of the Great White Queen
- The Boiling Cauldron
- Saul David's Zulu
- The War Correspondents
- Essential Histories; Zulu War 1879
- The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars 1883-1888
- The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War
- The National Army Museum Book of the Zulu War
- Bambatha at MpanzaThe Making of a Rebel
- The Curling Letters of the Zulu War
- Crossing the Buffalo
- Zulu; with some guts behind it.
- A Civil Surgeon
- Knight & Castle Zulu War
- Zulu War Volunteers, Irregulars Auxiliaries
- Redcoats & Zulus
- Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906
- For Queen and Country
- They Fell Like Stones
Zulu War
Zulu War Volunteers, Irregulars Auxiliaries
- Author: Ian Castle
- Publisher: Osprey Men-at-Arms-Series
Review By : Ian Knight
The contribution made by Colonial troops to the British victory in Zululand in 1879 remains an area that is often overlooked, particularly in mainstream studies of the war. Indeed, there is still a good deal of confusion as to the differences between Irregulars (full-time troops raised for a specified period by the Crown), Volunteers (part-time units maintained by the Colonial administration) and auxiliaries (units raised from among the African chiefdoms of Natal, and occasionally the Transvaal).
This book should, therefore, be required reading, as it clearly sets out those differences, and charts the history and often problematic appearance and weapons of those units. Contrary to popular belief, most of the Natal Volunteer units were enlisted among the settler gentry, the sons of wealthy farmers who had a stake in the colony's security, and despite their often tiny numbers, they strove to achieve a smart standard in both their training and uniforms. Most favoured blue or black uniforms with distinctive facings, and designed and paid for their own badges and buttons.
Many of the Irregulars, however, were recruited from unsuccessful diamond diggers, adventurers and drifters, and were issued with hard-wearing yellow cord uniforms that were in plentiful supply in Government stores, and which gave them a shabby yet workmanlike appearence; even units like the famous Frontier Light Horse, who started their career on the Cape Frontier in smart black and braided uniforms, had long since learned to be content with makeshift replacements by the time they reached the Zulu border. Thousands of black Africans took to the field alongside the British redcoats, too, and their role was often ignored by white observers, although their contribution as scouts, as light cavalry and infantry, and even as a military labour gang was invaluable. All of these units are covered in the usual brisk Men-at-Arms style, and profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, with rare illustrations of surviving arms and equipment, and with Raffaele Ruggeri's atmospheric colour plates. Recommended. Ian Knight
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In need of some banter, laughter, extreme oversharing and hyena-like screeching?
We heard your call and have (at long last) returned with our second episode of the High-Strung podcast. Download, stream and nod along as Laura, Frida, and Gabrielle discuss the art of travel. Journey with us as we talk about our favorite trips, travel anxieties, and opinions on fashion trends that have traversed time and space to once again earn a place in our wardrobes.
Buy the ticket, take the ride and let us know what you think!


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Tretorn first launched WINGS in the 1960s as a sailing rubber style boot and proves as classic as the brand itself. Since then, they have updated the WINGS concept and evolved it into a whole collection of rain jackets and rubber boots for both kids and adults. Today, they have also taken the next step and let their icons grow into a whole WINGS family of concepts that keep you dry and happy while merging style with functionality.
Tretorn Urban Boots are contemporary rubber boots adapted for the urban environment. Beautifully constructed with the Tretorn characteristic 1891 craftsmanship. Made with an exclusive design, and handmade using only natural rubber that is free from PVC. They are made for the highest level of comfort and functionality, without compromising on style and design. Tretorn Urban Boots are stylish everyday shoes that are perfect for the weather conditions stereotypical of the UK and other rainy urban environments.


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Alison is a confident folk fiddle player with a good knowledge of English, Irish, Scottish and European tunes. She is fluent at both sight-reading and playing by ear, and can be booked as a dep for ceilidh and concert bands, and as a session musician. and as a solo fiddle player (including with guitarist) for private functions.
She also works as a solo violinist with a varied repertoire of classical favourites and chart hits as well as traditional tunes, and clients can choose the selection that bests suits their musical tastes. You can find out more in the demos below or visit www.bristolviolinist.co.uk. and www.clovehitchweddings.com.
"Alison played at our wedding in April 2018 and did an amazing job. She plays like an angel and did not disappoint. Everyone commented on how fantastic she played and I even provided my two nieces with her contact details as they are getting married. She even learned new songs that we wanted and they all sounded amazing. Alison even travelled all the way from Bristol to Wirral to make our day special. Alison's charges are very reasonable to the amount of time she gives you and is very flexible. We would highly recommend Alison! Thank you Alison for helping to make our day very special! We both loved the way you played for us especially my wife's entrance song. Blew everyone away."
"I feel that I am very privileged to be writing this review. I chose Alison to play at my daughter's wedding; from start to finish the process was extremely easy and Alison is so very professional. She was very helpful walking me through the music selection for me to chose. Come the wedding day there is no way I can put into words how magical it was to finally hear Alison play – she did not disappoint her gift of playing beautiful music. It was so overwhelming, every guest commented on how brilliant she was and made a special day so very precious. Alison, I cannot thank you enough and would recommend you to the moon and back – you are so talented."
Fiddle & viola player in Bristol Ceilidh Quartet
Fiddle player in Mrs Trevor's Deep Freeze Secrets
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Wynn Las Vegas has fully re-opened both Wynn and Encore hotels, with all 20 restaurants including our newest dining option - Elio, seven bars and lounges, three shopping esplanades, five pools, two salons, two spas, the golf course and both Wynn and Encore casinos. In other words, Vegas just as you remember it. In preparation, we spent three months working closely with a team of leading medical and public health professionals to create a Healthy and Safety program that is based on the most effective health safety practices available and, just as important, is clear and transparent to our guests.SEE LIST OF ALL OPEN VENUES & AMENITIES View Health & Safety Plan View Health & Safety Video Tour
Two nights to enjoy and $200 to indulge. Dine at our extraordinary restaurants, with beautiful lakeside and outdoor seating options.
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Renowned for its seafood flown in daily from Italy's coasts, Costa di Mare serves regional specialties overlooking its romantic lagoon.
Impeccably fresh fish, caught in Hawaiian waters, is the star of this dining room overlooking Wynn's Lake of Dreams.
Set among exotic gardens and waterfalls, Mizumi serves pristine sushi and sashimi, robatayaki bar specialties and modern Japanese cuisine.
Exceptional steaks, including certified Kobe, are served in a refined dining room and patio with prime views of Wynn's Lake of Dreams.
This chic indoor and outdoor restaurant with pool views serves breakfast, lunch and brunch adjacent to Wynn's Tower Suites lobby.
The first Chinese restaurant in the U.S. to earn a Michelin star serves Cantonese, Shanghai and Szechuan dishes in a dramatic room.
Pizzas fired in the wood-burning oven, handmade pastas and classics like lasagna Napoletana are the draws in this relaxed setting.
A sunlit atrium leads to an extraordinary all-you-can-eat experience that brings the flavors of the world right to your table.
A favorite gathering spot at Wynn, The Café offers delicious bites, from favorite coffee drinks to pastries, sandwiches and desserts.
Find crowd-pleasing American fare like burgers, sandwiches and shareable appetizers in the heart of Wynn's Race & Sports Book.
Artisan market meets casual quick-serve café. Goodies On Demand serves dine-in and take-out bites near hotel registration at Encore.
This intimate indoor/outdoor space with a stunning wine list and artisanal draft beers serves small plates perfect for sharing.
Cantonese noodle dishes, Hong Kong-style barbecue and specialties from Thailand, Vietnam and Korea are served in this dynamic room.
The airy indoor/outdoor restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and brunch with views of Wynn's manicured gardens and sparkling pool.
Find this pan-Asian eatery inspired by Chinese, Japanese and Thai cuisine serving lunch, dinner and late-night near Encore's casino.
This intimate ultra-lounge overlooks Encore's pools is a swanky spot for hand crafted cocktails and savory appetizers and specialties.
Start (or end) the evening with small plates, wine and spirits in the cleverly positioned lounge near Encore's main entrance.
This semi-secluded lounge located between Lakeside and SW Steakhouse has one of the best views of the show on Wynn's Lake of Dreams.
The central hotspot near Wynn's registration combines expertly mixed cocktails, savory small plates and specialties with a view of the resort's signature dancing parasols.
One King or two Double Wynn Dream Beds anchor the 640-square-foot Wynn Resort room. Living and dining furnishings evoke luxury living.
Encore's 745-square-foot Resort room combines one King or two Queen pillow-top Wynn Dream Beds with a roomy, separate living space.
Private access to your own entrance and the exclusive pool: just two perks of the Tower Suites' tech- and amenity-filled rooms.
Retreat to the tranquil Encore Tower Suite King, with separate living room, work area and Italian marble bath.
Perfect for friend or family stays, our Tower Suite Two Queens combines the comforts of a Tower Suite King with two Queen custom Wynn Dream Beds.
Established in 2013, designer Virgil Abloh's Off-White explores concepts of branding, the zeitgeist, and the expression of youth culture.
Renowned fashion house Louis Vuitton brings to Wynn one of the first stores in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to menswear and men's accessories.
October's Very Own (OVO) is a global lifestyle brand that produces art, music, clothing and accessories, and special collaborations.
The Parisian fashion house founded by Pierre Balmain today features the fearless, modern designs of creative director Olivier Rousteing.
This iconic jeweler has been the choice of celebrities and international royalty for more than a century.
From its iconic silk scarves and leather handbags to ready-to-wear and home accessories, Hermès combines classic chic with modern elegance.
Known worldwide for its luxurious ready-to-wear and accessories, Chloé epitomizes modernity and femininity.
The famed French label chose Wynn for its first U.S. boutique, which features sophisticated ready-to-wear and accessories for men and women.
CELINE is a luxury French fashion House founded in 1945 by Céline Vipiana and today under the creative direction of Hedi Slimane.


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The Card: Even without the creamy home Giants jerseys you can tell this was taken at Seals Stadium. You can make out just enough of the red railings in the seating areas to be sure.
Nice photo of Willie Mays and Bill Rigney near the batting cage. The back features a write-up that focuses mostly on the Giants' manager. This is an inexpensive card ungraded and an easy way to snag a Mays card from his career.


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Sarah Palin Appearance at Tea Party Rally in Iowa 'No Longer Confirmed'
This post has been corrected.
Sarah Palin's Saturday appearance at a tea party rally in Indianola, Iowa, is on hold, a person close to the former Alaska governor told The Wall Street Journal.
The person said Ms. Palin's appearance was "no longer confirmed" and cited "continual lying" from event organizers at Tea Party of America, including a recent mixup over whether former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell of Delaware would also speak.
Ms. Palin is known for last-minute schedule changes that whipsaw supporters and media across the country. But the latest decision is puzzling. Ms. Palin's speech at the rally was viewed as her most high-profile appearance of the summer, fueling speculation she was indeed plotting to run for the Republican presidential nomination.
Attendees were reportedly traveling from across the U.S. to attend the rally in Iowa, which holds the nation's first nominating contest next year.
The former governor will now appear at a Friday event in Des Moines sponsored by the group Conservatives4Palin. It is currently scheduled for 8 p.m. at The Machine Shed Restaurant, though the location will probably have to be changed, the person close to Ms. Palin said. Ms. Palin is still scheduled to appear at a Tea Party Express tour stop Monday in New Hampshire…


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In this awesome shot, courtesy of Vijay and posted on Skyscrapercity, we can literally see the future of Trivandrum taking shape, with the 2 Million SF Infosys campus in the foreground, the 3.6 Million SF UST Global Campus behind it (yellow tower crane), the 1 Million SF Building A of Technopark Phase III (two white tower cranes) further behind and then the 4.5 Million SF bulk of Technopark Phase I in the background. Over 10 Million - 1 Crore - SF of high-quality IT space providing tens of thousands of technology jobs in the IT hub of Kerala.
And this is just the start! Stay tuned!


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Should someone with a drug problem be sent to prison with murderers and rapists or should they receive alternative methods of combined punishment and treatment? This is one of the many issues addressed by the use of a specialty court, called a Drug Court. A specialty court is a court operating within the jurisdiction of another court. However, the Drug Courts offer more than just a separate division to hear specific cases. Drug Courts create an alternative form of adjudication for people involved in illegal drug activity. These courts are a unique combination of the judicial system, social services, and drug treatment to create solutions for those with substance abuse and addiction.
Drug Courts are not available for all offenders with drug related crimes. In most cases, Drug Court may only be used in cases with non-violent crimes. The typical crimes heard by Drug Courts include drug possession and being under the influence. In some cases however, an offender may still go through the Drug Court if their crime was not drug related, but they had a history of substance abuse. Instead of pleading guilty to a crime and serving a jail sentence, through the Drug Court, an offender can agree to treatment plan which is monitored by a judge.
The exact process in which the Drug Court operates may vary from court to court. However, the process generally takes between 12 to 18 months and can include weekly court sessions, regular drug screenings, requirements to maintain employment and/or housing, and counseling sessions. After the successful completion of a program outlined by the Drug Court, the offender could see his charges dropped.
While Drug Courts exist in every state, they are run at a local level, so every county does not necessarily have a Drug Court. There are over 2000 Drug Courts in the United States, and there are many groups who are actively pushing to expand this number. There are many arguments for using Drug Courts, such as a reduced recidivism rate, lower cost to courts, and breaking the cycle of addition. Yet, one interesting and controversial aspect about Drug Courts is that they require special screening. Simply because an offender was engaged in a non-violent drug related crime does not guarantee that their case will be hear in a Drug Court. Drug Court judges review the cases and ultimately make the decision of whether an offender is right for a Drug Court process. Thus, many would argue that it is difficult to assess the actual success of the Drug Courts if judges are allowed to pick and choose the cases they will hear.
To learn more about Drug Courts or find out the possible location of Drug Courts in your area, visit www.Courtreference.com. There you will find a directory of courts, by state and county, where you link directly to court websites, find contact information, and even find online search resources.


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August 30, 2011
Faculty and Alum Collaborate to Publish!
Antioch University's PhD in Leadership and Change Program Professor of Organization Learning & Development, Dr. Mitch Kusy, recently collaborated with Program Alumnus, Dr. Scott Allen, to write The Little Book of Leadership Development: 50 Ways to Bring Out the Leader in Every Employee.
To hear more about their research and work together visit:
Additionally, you can find more information about each individual here: