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Afghan Resistance against US Invaders
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Marjah is indeed Fallujah. Like Fallujah, it will become a symbol, the defining moment in the war against the Afghan people. US Marines may "mow the grass", eradicate the "weeds", and plant their sterile seeds of Western-style democracy and economic prosperity as much as they like. However, "the Taliban is the future, the Americans are the past in Afghanistan," as former head of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Hamid Gul recently told Al-Jazeera. This is clear to any sensible observer.
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Apart for Abu Ghraib, Fallujah is perhaps the Iraq war's defining moment. The hatred and resentment of the occupied people found a catalyst in the four Blackwater mercenaries, who were killed and strung up, and no doubt deserved their fate, certainly as symbols of a cynical, illegal invasion. The US soldiers — who are just as mercenary, being a professional army invading a country sans provocation — came and "destroyed the village to save it."
The "success" of the blitzkrieg war in Iraq has been difficult to duplicate in Afghanistan, "the heart of darkness", one British commander quipped to his troops as they went into battle, despite dropping far more bombs — many of them radioactive. The unflagging resistance of the Afghans, their refusal to submit to the occupiers, is that because they realise the invaders are not there for their purported altruistic motives. The thousands of civilians and resistance fighters who have been killed by airstrikes — none of them guilty of anything more egregious than defending their homeland — is more than ample proof, as is the craven propping up of a US-imposed government, and the proliferation of US bases in the country. The unapologetically un-Islamic ways of the invaders, their lack of even the remotest understanding of the people they are occupying, is a constant insult to a proud and ancient people.
The new exit plan, so it goes, involves "clearing" all regions of Taliban — US Marines call it "mowing the grass", acknowledging that as soon as they murder one group of resisters and leave, more pop up. The "new" strategy is to bring in ready-made Afghan administrators and police to create a prosperous, peaceful society once the "enemy" have been destroyed, "winning the hearts and minds" of the locals. "We've got a government in a box, ready to roll in," said chief honcho General Stanley McChrystal.
But wait a moment. Is it possible the invaders are the enemy? And who are these newly discovered Afghan officials? Are (famously corrupt) Afghan government officials and police nominally loyal to NATO forces, trucked in by the invaders, going to be welcome in remote villages as ready-made trusted representatives of the people? And wasn't this precisely the failed policy the US followed in Vietnam ? This old "new" policy was what convinced United States President Barack Obama to go along grudgingly with the Pentagon's demands to radically increase NATO force — though on the condition that the whole operation be complete by next year. He clearly was given no choice in the matter, and his "ultimatum" was dismissed by US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates moments after Obama made it.
Not surprisingly, NATO forces have met strong resistance in Marjah as their onslaught enters its second week, from both the incredible, ragtag resistance and from locals, who doubt that the postwar reality will correspond remotely to the picture the invaders are painting. Tribal elders in Helmand this week called for an end to the "Moshtarak" offensive, citing Western troops' disregard for civilian lives. Realising their "shock and awe" bombing kills civilians and turns locals against them, the invaders have reluctantly cut back, now authorising them only under "very limited and prescribed conditions." Even so, over 50 civilians are among the dead so far — 27 in an airstrike in Uruzgan Province — and "friendly fire" killed seven Afghan police. Six occupiers were killed in one day alone, bringing NATO losses to 18 at the time of writing.
The latest propaganda ploy is to accuse the Taliban of using locals as "human shields" and of holing up near civilians. But surely it is the NATO forces that are using locals as human shields, invading their homes in search of the "enemy", forcing them to betray their children and friends, often under torture in Afghan-run prisons. Even those Afghans who collaborate with the occupiers, taking their dollars, guns and uniforms, are in effect human shields for the troops. And when they realise their lives are on the line, they flee their paymasters. How else to explain the 25 police officers who left their posts last week and "defected" to the Taliban in Chak?
But Marjah is really just a microcosm for what the US is doing at this very moment around the globe — waging a veritable war on the world, in Iraq, Pakistan, expanding into Yemen, Somalia, Iran, supplementing bombs and soldiers with militarised sea lanes, forward military and missile bases on every continent, encircling "enemies" Russia and China.
The process is merely accelerating as the US loses its traditional edge in the world economy, outpaced by China . It is the logical next step for a deeply illogical economic system. It can't be repeated too often: the US is frantically trying to consolidate its sole superpower status militarily before it loses the economic war. Read more of this post

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Celebrating four alumni with exceptional careers in radio
Boston, MA (May 27, 2014)—On Saturday, May 31, Emerson College's radio station WERS 88.9 will host its annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The event honors Emerson alumni who worked at the station and continue to excel in the field of broadcast radio. The 2014 inductees are Gary Krantz '81, president/CEO of Krantz Media Group; Florence Markoff '37, long-time radio personality on WEAN, WJAR, WICE, and WLKW; Chet Tart '74, vice president/general manager, WSVU North Palm Beach Seaview Radio; and Jacquie Gales Webb '77, host, Sunday Afternoon Gospel, 96.3 WHUR.
This year, WERS celebrated its 65th anniversary. Since its inception, it has served as a training ground for broadcasting students at Emerson. "We are very excited to welcome these exceptional broadcasters and alumni back to campus as the newest members of the WERS Hall of Fame—recognizing their achievements in radio," said WERS General Manager Jack Casey.
Past WERS Hall of Fame inductees include WBZ Radio's Joe Mathieu; president and CEO of Berkowitz Broadcast Consulting Gary Berkowitz; WKLB-FM's Carolyn Kruse; program director at B96.5 and Magic WMJM 101.3 Philip David March; and WATD 95.9's Malcolm Alter.
This year's WERS Hall of Fame induction ceremony takes place Saturday, May 31, at 3:00 pm in the Semel Theater (10 Boylston Place, 3rd Floor) at Emerson College.
About WERS 88.9 FM
Founded in October 1949 by Emerson professor Charles Dudley, WERS is one of the top college radio stations in the nation. Student-run and professionally managed, the award-winning station serves New England a mix of indie rock, alternative, and folk music. Programming also includes calendars of events, public service announcements, news, and live music performances and interviews with musicians in-studio. WERS broadcasts live from the Emerson College campus, commercial-free, to Boston and beyond via streaming online. For more information, visit www.wers.org.
About Emerson College
Located in Boston, Massachusetts, opposite the historic Boston Common and in the heart of the city's Theatre District, Emerson College educates individuals who will solve problems and change the world through engaged leadership in communication and the arts, a mission informed by liberal learning. The College has 3,453 undergraduates and 837 graduate students from across the United States and 50 countries. Emerson is internationally known for its study and internship programs in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., the Netherlands, London, China, and the Czech Republic. The College has an active network of 32,000 alumni who hold leadership positions in communication and the arts. For more information, visit www.emerson.edu.


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Chris Wood called the coverage British tennis players get as 'frustrating' compared to what golfers get
Do English Golfers Get The Recognition They Deserve?
With 12 Englishmen currently inside the top 81 of the Official World Golf Ranking, golf in this country at the professional level is booming.
Related: Is this a golden generation for English golf?
In 2016, England captured its first Masters title of the millennium courtesy of Danny Willett and saw Justin Rose win the first Olympic Gold Medal for golf in 112 years.
In addition to those feats, English players made up half of the 2016 European Ryder Cup team.
Yet do our golfers get as much recognition as they deserve?
Here's what GM Playing Editor and 2016 BMW PGA Champion Chris Wood said in his pre-tournament press conference today at Wentworth:
"There are sort of ten of us now in my age group that have come through amateur golf together and come on to The European Tour and broken into the Top-50 in the world; some of us playing Ryder Cup and things like that all at the same time.
"You know, if it was tennis, it would be global news and golf really deserves a lot more credit for the standard of English golf.
"Golf is one of our biggest national games.
"I know we're working hard at promoting the game in different ways but the standard of English golf is really as high as it's ever been though.
"I buy a paper quite often and look at the back pages. When you read about (tennis) players that are 100th in the world, but they are ranked No. 2 in tennis in the U.K. and things like that, it is quite frustrating, because we're working just as hard as they are."
Figures from England Golf in December 2015 show that 'Overall 740,100 people, aged 16-plus, play golf in England for at least 30 minutes once a week.'
Those numbers may be closer to a million if you take into account the under-16s.
According to www.statista.com, between October 2015 and September 2016, approximately 721,100 people in England played tennis on a monthly basis.
These figures show that golf is played more in England than tennis is, so perhaps Chris Wood is right in saying that golfers do not get the recognition from the mainstream media that they deserve.


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"Less than the price of a Kinder Surprise"
Erm, well yeah, seeing as the game is FREE for everyone this week lol ;)


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Man who shot Pope released, declares he's 'Christ eternal', proclaims Apocalypse
Source: ca.news.yahoo.comThe Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II nearly 29 years ago emerged from prison and declared himself a messenger from God, then spent his first night of freedom in a luxury hotel room.
Mehmet Ali Agca, 52, said Monday he would talk to the media in the next few days.
But it seemed doubtful that his comments would clear up uncertainty over whether he acted alone or had the backing of communist agents, as he once claimed. He has issued contradictory statements over the years and there are questions about his mental health.
Agca shot John Paul on May 13, 1981, as the pope rode in an open car in St. Peter's Square. The pontiff was hit in the abdomen, left hand and right arm.
NEAR-FATAL MOMENT: Pope John Paul lies wounded in St. Peter's Square after an assassination attempt in this May 131981 file photo.
John Paul met with Agca in Italy's Rebibbia prison in 1983 and forgave him.
Following his release, Agca, his hair now grey, waved to journalists and sat calmly between two plainclothes policemen in the back of a sedan that took him to a military hospital. There, doctors concluded he was unfit for compulsory military service because of "severe anti-social personality disorder," said his lawyer, Yilmaz Abosoglu.
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Upon his arrival later at the five-star Sheraton hotel, he addressed reporters in English. He had traded the blue sweat shirt he wore when he left jail for a dark blue suit and tie.
"I will meet you in the next three days," Agca said. "In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every human being will die. I am not God, I am not son of God, I am Christ eternal."
Agca, who has previously claimed to be the Messiah, said the Gospel was full of mistakes and he would write the perfect one. He delivered a similar message in a long, rambling statement distributed by Abosoglu outside the prison in Sincan on the outskirts of Ankara, the Turkish capital.
Another lawyer, Gokay Gultekin, said Agca was planning to hold a news conference Wednesday.
An army of journalists created chaos in the hotel lobby, scattering chairs as hotel staff looked on helplessly. Agca then took the elevator to his room, where he rested in the company of his brother Adnan Agca and some friends, Gultekin said.
His brother said they were likely to travel to Istanbul later in the week.
Agca, who has said he wants to travel to the Vatican, does not have a passport. One of his lawyers once said that Agca had converted to Christianity while in jail. The motive for the attack on the pope remains unclear but it has not been linked to Islamic issues.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said there were no plans to comment on the release. Robert Necek, spokesman for Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, who served as secretary to John Paul II, also would not comment.
When Agca was arrested, minutes after the attack, he said he had acted alone. Later, he suggested Bulgaria and the Soviet Union's KGB were behind the attack, but then backed away from that assertion. His contradictory statements have frustrated prosecutors over the decades.
Prosecutors in Poland who are investigating Agca's attack on Pope John Paul II said his release had no influence on the investigation.
"Testimony from a person who first sells the information to the media ... is of no value to us," prosecutor Ewa Koj of the National Remembrance Institute said. Koj also noted that Agca had changed his testimony many times.
Prosecutors at the institute are studying over 4,000 pages of documents, including Agca's testimony, they have received from Italy.
Agca had said that he would answer questions about the attack after he was released from prison. He has also said he is beginning to consider book, film and television documentary offers.
He was released after completing his sentence for killing journalist Abdi Ipekci in 1979. He had received a life sentence, which amounts to 36 years under Turkish law, for murdering Ipekci, but he escaped from a Turkish prison less than six months into the sentence and shot the pope in Rome two years later.
Agca reportedly sympathized with the Gray Wolves, a far right-wing militant group that fought street battles against leftists in the 1970s. He initially confessed to killing Ipekci, one of the country's most prominent left-wing newspaper columnists, but later retracted that.
After his extradition on June 14, 2000, Agca was separately sentenced to seven years and four months for two robberies in Turkey in 1979. But authorities deducted the prison sentence he had served in Italy, and several amnesties and amendments of the penal code further reduced his term. The situation complicated the calculation of his remaining term and led to his wrongful release from prison in 2006. He was re-imprisoned eight days later.
Article from: YahooNews.ca
Was gunman Mehmet Ali Agca part of KGB plot?
From: TheAustralian.com.au
THE Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from prison yesterday as hopes rose that he would finally shed light on whether the assassination attempt was a KGB plot.
Mehmet Ali Agca, 52, said last week he would "answer all questions" about the murder attempt after his release. When he was arrested minutes after the attack in St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981, he claimed he had acted alone.
In confused, often rambling testimony, he later said Bulgarian agents acting for Moscow were behind the attack, but then withdrew this.
John Paul II met and forgave Agca, a former member of the Turkish far-right Grey Wolves, in his cell in 1983 while the gunman was serving a 19-year sentence in an Italian prison. Agca was pardoned in 2000 and returned to Turkey, where he was re-arrested and given a 10-year prison sentence for murdering a Turkish newspaper editor in 1979.
Italian magistrates who investigated the attack on the Pope remain convinced there was a Soviet plot, arising from Moscow's fears that an anti-communist revolt in his native Poland would bring down the entire Soviet system.
In 1986, an Italian jury acquitted six defendants, three Bulgarians and three Turks, accused of involvement in the plot for lack of evidence. Yesterday, Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, who was the Vatican's foreign minister at the time, said John Paul had "become convinced the origins of the plot lay in the Soviet bloc".
The Vatican "had the impression that Agca was a pawn . . . and did not know much", Cardinal Silvestrini told La Stampa. "Even now I doubt if he will say anything concrete." Haci Ali Ozhan, Agca's Turkish lawyer, said his client hoped to travel to Rome to pay his respects at the tomb of John Paul II and meet Pope Benedict XVI but arrangements had not been finalised with the Vatican. Meanwhile, he would take a fortnight's holiday.
Mr Ozhan said Agca had received more than 50 book, film and television documentary offers from around the world and would decide which to take up "one or two months after his release".
In a statement last week, Agca, who in the past has claimed to be a messiah, called for a "new American empire" championing peace and democracy, adding: "Terrorism is the evil of the devil.
"All religions prohibit and condemn terrorism. Al-Qa'ida is a psychopathic, criminal, Nazi organisation."
"World News Tonight broadcast from May 13th 1981, when Pope John Paul was shot in Vatican Square. "
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An 18-year-old woman who was walking on a stretch of the Florida's Turnpike was struck and killed early Thursday, authorities said.
The woman, Nohely Pichardo, was walking along the northbound lanes of the Turnpike near Griffin Road when she was struck by a black Audi around 5 a.m., Florida Highway Patrol officials said.
Pichardo, from Hialeah, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash had all northbound lanes of the Turnpike closed early Thursday as authorities investigated, causing heavy traffic delays. The lanes were later opened back up.
FHP spokesman Sgt. Mark Wysocky said investigators are still trying to determine why she was walking on the Turnpike.
"We're still gonna look, check the area to see if there's any disabled vehicles in the area that she may have been walking from or what the other circumstances would have been," Wysocky said.
"She was truly an amazing person," said Genesis Rodriguez, a friend of Pichardo's. "A disagreement in the car. She got out of the car and walked off. She didn't deserve to die like that you know."
The Miami Springs volleyball team said they were retiring the number 10 jersey which Pichardo wore last season.


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Depends on D19888. Ref T13222. When we issue an MFA challenge, prevent the user from responding to it in the context of a different workflow: if you ask for MFA to do something minor (award a token) you can't use the same challenge to do something more serious (launch nukes).
This defuses highly-hypothetical attacks where the attacker:
- already controls the user's session (since the challenge is already bound to the session); and
- can observe MFA codes.
One version of this attack is the "spill coffee on the victim when the code is shown on their phone, then grab their phone" attack. This whole vector really strains the bounds of plausibility, but it's easy to lock challenges to a workflow and it's possible that there's some more clever version of the "spill coffee" attack available to more sophisticated social engineers or with future MFA factors which we don't yet support.
The "spill coffee" attack, in detail, is:
- Go over to the victim's desk.
- Ask them to do something safe and nonsuspicious that requires MFA (sign L123 Best Friendship Agreement).
- When they unlock their phone, spill coffee all over them.
- Urge them to go to the bathroom to clean up immediately, leaving their phone and computer in your custody.
- Type the MFA code shown on the phone into a dangerous MFA prompt (sign L345 Eternal Declaration of War).
- When they return, they may not suspect anything (it would be normal for the MFA token to have expired), or you can spill more coffee on their computer now to destroy it, and blame it on the earlier spill.


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In the previous article, I share with you how imperative it is to heal from past relationship patterns in order to clear the way for you to manifest a healthy, lasting love relationship.
By understanding your relationship patterns, where they are rooted in your subconscious mind and healing them, you will find it easier to attract new relationship opportunities that are better suited and matched for you.
Once you have a deeper knowingness of THE MAGNIFICENT YOU, as I like to call it, better quality romantic opportunities will present him or herself to you. New patterns, based in healthy belief systems arise from going through this process. Once you have the awareness of your own relationship pattern history, you can choose differently. First, however, it is vital that you understand more about yourself so you can attract the ideal partner to you.
Because our subconscious mind controls much of what shows up in our lives, and how we show up in our own life, this is where the work must be done. As I've stated before, you will know what your subconscious belief systems are by what is showing up and not showing up in your life. I would venture to say that since you are reading this right now, and we are discussing the topic of love relationships, there are belief systems in your psyche that are not matching what you consciously desire.
Could it be that you are not realizing your own self-worth because of past experiences and rejections?
Did you have a not-so-loving and functional upbringing that could have set negative identity stories in your subconscious mind?
This part of the process is essential to reveal how you feel about yourself! Look over your life and discover where your beliefs about your worthiness began.
We have all heard the adage, "you must love yourself first", and I tend to agree, particularly, when we are discussing intimate relationships. In this first article in this series, I shared with you the fact that we are akin to magnets to our life and love experience. You now know that deeply embedded wounds show up in the form of relationship patterns, thus, repeating cycles over and over again in the area of love. This will continue, unless and until you commit to this healing work.
Knowing who you really are is the opening of your mind and heart to the reality that you are a magnificent creation that is here to express, experience and engage in life.
Your true identity is not your past. It is not tied to your childhood. It is not your broken relationship stories. Your true identity is that you are a human being made manifest to create miracles in your own life. You have the ability to deliberately create your love experience.
Once you understand how powerful YOU are as a human being, as a great manifestation that can deliberately create what you want to experience, the world opens up for you! You are uniquely fashioned with gifts and talents, with a personality that makes up YOU. No one else on Earth has the same composition. No one. Embrace the fact that you are a miracle walking on this Earth and love the life you have every day. Gratitude for waking up alive is a good start to magnetizing new and better experiences.
Begin Expressing Self-love Today With These Ideas:
- Have compassion for yourself for all you have endured
- Look back over your life with appreciation for how far you've come
- Reflect on the talents and natural gifts that make up YOU
- Set boundaries in areas that keep you suffering
- Spend more time on activities that bring you joy
- Remember moments that you felt amazing to be exactly who you are
- Spend time with those that see the real you and appreciate your time and efforts
- Recognize that the "right" person will appreciate you, make time for you, and see the "real" you
- Be confident in knowing what you deserve in love
You can become a great magnet to a great love story! Learn how to become a powerful, deliberate creator in my next article in this series. Until then, be a great love to yourself!


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Corrosion testing on HVAC coatings can be conducted according to a number of standards, including ASTM-B117, ISO 9227, ISO 12944-6, and ISO 20340. Of these tests, the one we believe represents actual service environments most closely is ISO 20340.
ISO's testing standards for protective paint systems were developed through long-term material weight loss and surface degradation testing in different corrosive environments. ISO was able to generally classify environments in corrosivity categories of C1 through C5-M or C5-I based upon this loss. Paint systems are typically tested against higher levels of corrosivity because a coating that can protect against the most severe C5-M or C5-I environments is certainly capable of providing protection in a less severe environment. The corrosivity categories are:
C1 – Very Low
C2 – Low
C3 – Medium
C4 – High
C5-I – Very High (industrial)
C5-M – Very High (marine)
See a table of surface/thickness loss by corrosivity category
When the corrosivity category is known, it can be a useful tool for selecting the right coating for your HVAC/R equipment. However, it is important to note that a coating capable of providing protection at a higher level also protects well at every corrosivity level below the level tested – without impacting coil efficiency. Therefore, to provide maximum chance for equipment life extension AND coil efficiency, it is best to choose a coating with a higher corrosivity category.
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The Art of Addition
Addition is one of the first operations of arithmetic that we have learned since elementary school and probably one of the most important. One of the reasons why addition is important is that it helps us gather and accumulate things we enjoy. For example, you like money and you would like to know how much you have right? Well then, you're in the right place! Let's say you have a dollar in your pocket and you just received a paycheck of one thousand dollars. By ADDING the amount of money you had in your pocket and the amount of money in your paycheck you get a total of one thousand and one dollars. This example shows how addition is not only extremely useful in the real world but also aesthetically pleasing to the eyes.
Now before showing you how this wonderful, beautiful operation works, let's get to know about addition's history and visuals in today's society. The art of adding started six thousand years ago when the Chinese came up with the idea of taking two numbers and combining them to make a larger number. After many thinkers pitched in to help cement this idea, addition was born. It wasn't until the eighteenth century,however, that the actual plus sign "+" we all know today was used in equations. Fast-forward to modern times and now you can practically see plus signs everywhere. You generally see them on hospitals,ambulances,churches,and in math and science. What do all these things have common? They all symbolize good, positive things. For example, if you see a plus sign at one end of a magnet, then you can safely assume that side of the magnet is "positively" charged. From the ancient past up to modern times, we've learned that the "+" sign is naturally associated with tranquility and positivity. This is another reason why addition is so awesome and epic.
As for performing the art of addition, you must first acquire a magical, mythical creature called "The Calculator". Once you've completed this task, you must find two or more numbers you want to add. Suppose these numbers are nine and ten. After that, you want to find and press the squares on The Calculator that say "9", "+", and "10". Finally, press the "=" button and your answer should be 19.
Performing such a deed of epic proportions could cause the world to explode. Adult supervision is advised.
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House That Lars Built Kitchen Reveal
The story of my kitchen is a lesson in stubbornness. We are renters and really had no intention of staying here for 5 years, but alas, the longer we live here, the more I approach the space as a challenge to see how rad I can make it. Don't tell me it can't be done, because I will set out to prove you wrong! Ha! Well, last week I revealed our kitchen makeover and you guys were just as shocked as me to see the transformation. Our dreary little basement apartment kitchen went from 80s fabulous to timeless and refreshing with mostly small aesthetic changes and switching out some key components like our laminate countertops for beautiful Caesarstone.
All photography: Jane Merritt
Our 5-Year Kitchen Transformation
Let's start off with some basic facts. If you can only change one room in the house, I'd highly recommend tackling the kitchen first. It really sets the mood for the rest of the house as it's one of the most actively used rooms. It's a tricky combination of practicality and aesthetics. Additionally, because of the amount of tasks performed in the space, it is also one of the most expensive. I knew we wouldn't have the budget, or the need, to invest much into it as we don't own it. Thus, I wanted high impact for little cost. Maybe you can relate?
Here's the timeline of our kitchen transformation:
2013 We move in. The kitchen looks like the top left photo below. It's clean and functional. It has laminate countertops, fluorescent lighting, metal mini blinds, laminate flooring, beige walls, aluminum sink, oak cabinets, no backsplash ( = food on the walls!)
2014 Our landlords surprise us while we're away on vacation by painting our cupboards white. We were truly shocked when we came home! It lifted the room right up. Top right photo below
2015 I couldn't handle the beige walls anymore so I painted the whole house white myself. I wasn't really paying close attention when I selected the white so I chose a bright white as opposed to the more yellow white of the cabinets. C'est la vie!
2017 We install new laminate wood flooring and it feels like a new space once again! Getting rid of the yellow laminate tiled flooring was key. bottom left photo
April 2018 I wanted something that felt more "designed" than just plain white cabinets so we painted a two-toned color scheme. White up top and dark blue on the bottom (see the post here). All of a sudden, it took a nice, clean kitchen and created a statement room. It felt intentional and refined. It still had a little ways to go to feel finished.
June 2018 We added in a Caesarstone countertop, tile backsplashes, removed mini blinds and added in wooden blinds, replaced the aluminum sink with a granite composite, new brass faucet, new brass hardware, new LED lighting.
Let's talk about the countertops, shall we?
Quartz Countertops
As a former contributor to Interior Collective, I've researched the pros and cons to each type of countertop: wood, laminate, marble, granite, concrete, you name it. Ultimately, I learned that quartz countertops from Caesarstone are an awesome choice for the following reasons: they're stain and scratch resistant, maintenance free (no polishing or sealing required!), non-porous so bacteria can't get inside and make itself at home. SCORE! Plus, even though it's an engineered stone, it looks REALLY good.
I chose to go with their White Attica, which features a clean white base with dense, dark grey interwoven veins. I chose it because it goes well with the whiteness of the cabinets and walls yet the veins add a nice interest to it. They have the option of a 2cm or 3cm thickness. I wanted a thicker look so I went with the 3. If you want something even thicker, you can put a couple of them together.
What We Used:
- Caesarstone White Attica countertop in 3cm thickness
What to Know When Installing Countertops
I was a newbie to countertop installation, but let me tell you how the process worked for me so that it will alleviate some of the questions when it comes to doing it yourself.
- Caesarstone recommended an installer in my area who we went with after making a few calls around for price comparisons and Yelp reviews.
- After we selected the type of quartz we wanted, one of the installers came to do a "template" in our kitchen, which basically measures the space creating a plan for where the sink goes, etc.
- The slab was shipped directly to the installers. We also had the sink shipped directly there so they could cut it out. We didn't have any other holes cut out other than for the sink but other ones to consider would be one for hand soap, water dispenser, dish soap. I wish I would have thought about these things so I could have put them in, but it didn't even cross my mind and by the time I found out about it, I didn't have enough time to order some.
- It took about a half day for installation.
A Few Tips:
- Before we painted our cabinets we had asked the countertop installers if we should paint first or install the countertops first. They advised us to paint first. Looking back, I would have installed the countertops first because the new one is smaller than the previous laminate and because of it we can see traces of white from the cabinets that didn't get painted mostly at the top, just below the countertop.
- You have the option to put in a 4" backsplash of countertop. We chose not to do so because I wanted the tile to start at the bottom. Usually you put in a 4" backsplash when you don't put in tile, but you can do it if you prefer.
And how do I like it? I LOVE our countertops. They're beautiful and clean and almost make me want to cook. Almost.
My Rating:
5 stars Can't speak more highly about it.
After writing about Caesarstone countertops for so many years, it feels so wonderful to have it at my fingertips. I couldn't be more pleased about them. They've change the entire atmosphere of my home.
For more kitchen reveals: Daniella on Design | Song of Style


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Strictly Come Dancing's Aliona Vilani knows what it is like to experience the highs and lows of life on the smash hit show. Having guided her celebrity, McFly's Harry Judd to superb glitter ball glory in 2011, they then swept all before them during the spectacular live arena tour at the beginning of the following year, racking up a staggering 30 wins. Aliona and Harry even had the honour of carrying the Olympic Torch to Blackpool Ballroom and performed an unforgettable dance with it. But a few weeks is an eternity in showbusiness and Strictly Come Dancing 2012 was a very different experience for the reigning champion. Her celebrity partner Johnny Ball was first to depart after just two weeks and she barely featured on our screens. Aliona was an innocent bystander powerless to influence events as after only one week of rehearsals, what appeared to be an innocuous trip resulted in a fractured ankle.
The best available treatment and intensive physio followed and that Aliona returned to the show only six weeks later was remarkable, although all too late to affect Johnny Ball's SCD fate. "It was a great shame for him. He might have been the oldest ever competitor but we started working for five hours a day and Johnny insisted on increasing that to eight and he stillhad energy to burn.
I had to insist on a few breaks otherwise he'd have just kept going! Iveta stood in for me at the last minute but she had no connection with the viewing audience or history with the show so it was going to be difficult. Johnny had so much enthusiasm and potential I know he'd have gone on to show wonderful improvement but it just wasn't to be." And then came this year's series.RELATED: RECOMMENDED PLANS FOR YOU
Paired with Masterchef's Gregg Wallace she found herself with a very popular TV personality but a man with very limited dancing ability. Despite much hard work and fun performances the voting audience decided Gregg would be the first to depart. Aliona's approach to this, like so much else is refreshingly relaxed and phlegmatic–characteristics that have served her well over the years.
In situations that would reduce others to anxiety, frustration, despair or anger – particularly in the pressured world of TV and high profile media – she meets adversity with a shrug of the shoulders, a positive glint in the eye and an innate ability to keep moving forwards.
Aliona possesses a steely determination and resolve underneath her genuinely relaxed and thoroughly affable exterior. Her many achievements in a relatively short space of time prove as much. The girl from Kazakhstan showed dance promise from a very early age. She moved to Kaliningrad in Russia at the age of 7 and by 13 was living in the USA having been invited to join the Kaiser Dance Company in New York to represent America in World Championships.
At 16 she became US National Champion in Ballroom and Latin (youth category) and started teaching adults and children in group classes and private lessons all over the US. Teaching all levels and styles, word spread rapidly about the teenager and very quickly she was fronting regular classes of up to 100 people. In 2001 she won the Amateur Ballroom category for the USA against the World Teams and then turned professional, becoming America's youngest pro' dancer that decade.
Aliona finished High School with a four year Excellence Diploma in Visual Arts&Fashion Design and won a highly prized place at New York's prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology. However, she chose to put all her energies into her dance career. A big decision that has paid off handsomely. But she has certainly not lost her fashion and design abilities, regularly creating and making her own workout and dancewear. "It is a passionate hobby at the moment but I'd be interested in pursuing it further in the future."
"Aliona still practices her fashion design skills and creates a lot of her own workout wear and dance rehearsal clothing"
At the same time as becoming the topworking teacher at New York's Starlight Dance Centre, she continued to compete in Latin and Ballroom competitions pulling in many more major honours. A move to LA led to a starring part in the 'Dancing With The Stars' Arena Tour. She also made guest appearances on the TV show. As a direct result of this she was spotted by the BBC and invited to join its flagship programme 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
"It was all quite amazing. I went from involvement with a big TV show in LA to suddenly being picked by the world's most famous broadcasting service for its biggest current TV series. One minute I was a little girl in Kazakhstan and seemingly the next moment I was living all kinds of dreams." Aliona found her feet quickly. During her first SCD season she was asked to choreograph 12 professional dances – more than anybody else had done in all previous series combined.
In her second series she took TV presenter Matt Baker to the final and the runner-up spot and they won the 2010 Live Tour. Last year with Harry Judd she achieved the show's ultimate accolade. The drummer was so good by the end many people assumed he must have been born with immense natural talent, but Aliona knows differently.
"He definitely was not a natural dancer. We won because of application, very hard work and his ability to apply what he was being taught on the big occasions. We worked for 9-12 hours a day, seven days a week for five months. We were the only couple not to take a day off. I was operating on little more than three hours sleep so I could also develop the choreography as we went along.
That was the level of work required to turn Harry into the dancer he became." This perfectly illustrates the level of time and physical and mental commitment faced by the show's dancers. To train and compete daily for several months and then go on an Arena tour performing to up to 12,000 people eight times a week.
"Our conditioning is critical. People see a 90 second performance on a Saturday night but dozens of hours of physical input lie behind that routine. As professionals we don't know whether we are going to be on the show for a couple of weeks or five months, but we plan to go all the way because we have to be at our physical peak to give our best to our partner and the viewing audience.
"A strong core is the platform from which everything else is based. Without it the whole structure is weaker and dance performance is seriously compromised"
And when we do leave the show it's no time to sit on the sofa and eat cake! As pro's we perform professional group dances throughout the series which are fantastic fun to do, intricate and an opportunity to get together and showcase our trained abilities." All the dancers keep themselves in prime dance conditioning and go about it in different ways.
Some make regular trips to PT's and take all manner of natural supplements and utilize the latest training theories and techniques. Aliona's approach is very different – it doesn't involve any PT's, supplements, vitamins, gym apparatus or a complex diet. But it does involve great discipline and detailed understanding of physical training for elite dances fitness. She knows how to get the best out of her body, how to keep it in high performance condition and adheres to a sensible eating plan.
"Whilst I don't deny myself anything particular I eat healthily and with common sense, I avoid foods that obviously fatten and deplete energy and place an emphasis on energy giving, health enhancing natural foods as often as possible. Leading up to the show and during the series a typical day's eating might be: breakfast – porridge with honey and raisons or eggs (poached, scrambled, omelette) and smoked salmon. Lunch – chicken & vegetable soup, sea bass or steak and potatoes and vegetables.
Dinner – chicken liver pate, chicken or tuna, vegetables and salad or seafood pasta. Yoghurt is a regular feature, "And sushi is always good!"Aliona explained,"As a professional dancer and one involved in such a relentless and intense environment as Strictly Come Dancing we have to have a very high level of all round fitness. We're like the decathletes of the dance world! Stamina, speed, strength, flexibility, agility and mobility are all absolutely key.
Our bodies are working through every plain of motion, quickly with power and control or slowly with grace and poise. There are some serious stresses and strains being exerted but we have to maintain precision at all times and make even the most frantic dance look supremely controlled. Everything must work together – strength with suppleness, explosive speed with elegant sophistication, power with poise."
Aliona's background not only includes ballroom and Latin dance but everything from ballet to jazz to hip-hop as well as gymnastics. She has blended elements of all of these disciplines and experience of what they require to develop her own exercise routine which she rigidly adheres to. "I turn up 60-90 minutes before the other dancers and go through my routine which incorporates a lot of stretching and body weight work.
It is entirely based on maintaining and enhancing the kind of all-round fitness we need and for that I draw on my experiences across all dance disciplines. We have to explode in all directions for some dances, other times we have to glide elegantly. Sometimes it's staccato bursts of energy and motion, then it might be a smooth sweeping motion. Core strength is a common necessity to everything. A strong coreis the platform from which everything else is based. Without it the whole structure is weaker and dance performance is seriously compromised."
Aliona methodically works through many leg raise and oblique exercises, employing core and leg raises with twists, plank, Swiss ball work, body weight exercises, some resistance band work, all topped off with cardio on a treadmill, bike or crosstrainer. "It is mostly stuff I can do anywhere regardless of available space and most of it does not rely on specialist equipment. And she ensures that she keeps dancing in some way, shape or form.
"Some things cannot be entirely replicated in a gym or workout environment. We can definitely add valuable elements to our conditioning in these places but nothing prepares the body for dancing quite like dancing!" Millions of people have been disappointed not to see Aliona unable to defend her Strictly Come Dancing crown and perform beyond the early stages of the last two series.
But the same quiet determination and discipline that has seen her scale the highest peaks of international dance will do doubt see her burn brightly on the dance floor for many years to come. Aliona is available for appearances, demonstrations, private lessons and dance performances.
Photography: Andres Lesauvage
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From the moment I read the title of Stealth Bastard, I knew I was going to play the game just out of principle. Fortunately, it doesn't only have one of the best titles ever, it's damn fun.
Stealth Bastard is a 2D side-scroller in which you sprint between shadows to avoid murderous robots and activate switches. Like N and N+, you complete each level by opening the exit then stepping through once it's unlocked. It's fast-paced and will kill you ruthlessly at the drop of a hat. The game's web site describes it perfectly. "It's like Metal Gear Solid and Super Meat Boy had a baby out of wedlock."
The puzzles are surprisingly clever. They require some real thinking. You often need to manipulate the robots in a level to get where you need to go. Also, the music is fucking fantastic. Curve Studios, the creators of Fluidity and Explodemon, did a great job on this little gem.
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Win an Omega Casino Royale brochure
Enter this Bond Lifestyle contest to win an exclusive Omega Casino Royale brochure!
The brochure is small but includes 58 pages of photos and information on Omega Seamaster watches, including Bond's blue Seamaster Diver 300M and the black Seamaster Planet Ocean and the special editions. The nicely printed booklet contains several photos of Daniel Craig, all players around the poker table, as well as other cast members and stills from the movie. A true collectible piece, one of the nicest Bond related brochures.
Answer the following question before Monday 18 November 2013, 20.00 Central European Time for your chance to win. One winner will be chosen at random from the contestants with the correct answer.
"Bond wears an Omega watch for the first time in the movie GoldenEye. But what is the first James Bond movie for which Omega released a commemorative Limited Edition Omega watch with 007 logos to celebrate the the film?"
This contest is now closed.
The answer to the question: The first Omage special 007 ediion watch was released for the film Die Another Day in 2002. The watch featured 007 logos on the dial and a special case back. Read more on the Official Omega website.
Multiple choice answers and percentage of participants who chose the answer:
GoldenEye: 3.95%
Tomorrow Never Dies: 3.49%
The World Is Not Enough: 3.72%
Die Another Day: 53.89%
Casino Royale: 22.21%
Quantum of Solace: 3.49%
SkyFall: 9.25%
The winner was randomly chosen from the people with the correct answer, and the winner is: Dawid Piszczatowski from Poland, congratulations!
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January 17, 2017
On December 28, 2016, the Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), issued four guidance documents concerning students with disabilities. Along with two documents concerning students with disabilities in public charter schools (FAQs about Charter Schools and IDEA and DCL Rights of Children With Disabilities in Charter Schools), and "Parent and Educator Resource Guide to Section 504 in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools", OCR issued "Dear Colleague Letter: Restraint and Seclusion of Students with Disabilities" (DCL) and a related Fact Sheet. The DCL, which includes a series of questions and answers and examples, addresses OCR's interpretation of the intersection between the use of restraint and seclusion in the public schools and disability discrimination under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504).[1] This DCL, in addition to the statutes and regulations under Connecticut law, provide an important framework for the legally permissible use of restraint and seclusion in schools in Connecticut.
The DCL proceeds by explaining OCR's jurisdiction to enforce Section 504, which protects students (and others) with disabilities from discrimination, and then goes on to specifically address the use of restraint and seclusion in public schools. According to OCR, Section 504 may be implicated by the use of restraint and seclusion within the schools in a variety of circumstances, including but not limited to when: less restrictive alternatives were available but not used prior to the use of restraint or seclusion; restraint or seclusion was used for a student with a disability under circumstances when restraint or seclusion would not have been used for a student without a disability; and when continued use of restraint or seclusion results in a denial of a free appropriate public education (FAPE).
Importantly, OCR reminds schools that student behavioral issues that require the use of restraint or seclusion may be a sign that a student has a disability, or that a disabling condition has changed. In such circumstances, an evaluation or reevaluation of the student may be warranted under Section 504. OCR further emphasizes that the continued use of restraint and seclusion may cause or lead to a denial of FAPE. Specifically, the use of restraint or seclusion may cause trauma or have academic, behavioral, or social repercussions that warrant reevaluation and/or revision of the student's Section 504 Plan. Further, a student's continued removal from the educational environment due to restraint or seclusion may result in a gap in service delivery, which may have to be addressed through compensatory services. OCR clarifies that restraint and seclusion does not, in all cases, constitute disability discrimination. This DCL, however, is an important reminder that in circumstances of continued use of restraint and seclusion of students without meaningful review and revision of programs and reevaluation when appropriate, OCR may find disability discrimination.
School districts in Connecticut have been following a similar framework relating to restraint and seclusion since 2007, when our state legislature initially made restraint and seclusion laws applicable in the school setting. The Connecticut General Assembly then revised Connecticut's restraint and seclusion statutes in 2015 through its passage of Public Act 15-141, An Act Concerning Seclusion and Restraint in Schools. While the Connecticut State Department of Education is in the process of revising existing regulations in this area, school districts are required to follow the statutory changes that became effective on July 1, 2015. Indeed, districts' compliance with various aspects of Connecticut's law should be helpful to school districts in preventing OCR from finding disability discrimination in this area, as Connecticut law requires districts to hold a Planning and Placement Team (PPT) meeting after every four restraints or seclusions that occur within a twenty school-day period. These meetings should be a meaningful opportunity to review a student's Individualized Education Program, request or review a Functional Behavioral Assessment and/or Behavior Intervention Plan, and make a referral to a PPT, where appropriate.
This DCL may also serve as a reminder to school districts that, under Connecticut law, each district must implement, by July 1, 2017, training and professional development plans regarding the prevention of incidents requiring physical restraint or seclusion of students, and the proper means of physically restraining or secluding a student. These plans must account for the training of all school professionals, paraprofessional staff and administrators by July 1, 2019.
Based on our review of the DCL and Connecticut law, we provide below a variety of best practice recommendations relating to restraint and seclusion of students. Specifically, school districts should:
For further information on the DCL or to discuss how these issues may impact your school district, please contact Ben FrazziniKendrick (860-251-5182 or email@example.com); or Gwen J. Zittoun (860-251-5523 or email@example.com).
[1] While OCR specifically discusses disability discrimination under Section 504 in this DCL, school districts should be aware that most, if not all, students who are eligible for special education and related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) are also eligible as students with disabilities under Section 504, and are thereby protected against disability discrimination. The provision of a free appropriate public education (FAPE) under the IDEA is a safe harbor under Section 504; thus, if the school district is providing FAPE under the IDEA, which includes appropriate evaluation and placement of students, then it has likely provided FAPE under Section 504.


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Studium Generale | University Colloquium | Humanity's Diary: The Genesis of the Bible - Carel van Schaik
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The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated--or excoriated--as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible for what it is: humanity's diary, chronicling our ancestors' valiant attempts to cope with the trials and tribulations of unexpected new problems. More Information


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Hey guys! 😉 How's it going!? Hold on just a second…mom said I needed to feed my fish and then keep going on here…………………………………………………………………….done! 😛 Oh…that makes me remember another thing I needed to tell you guys. 😥 Do you remember my fish? Mark? He died a few days ago. 😦 I don't know how, he was just floating on the top. I've had him for about a year …maybe even two. I'm not terribly sad..but still, he WAS my little fishy!! 😛 😉 ANYway, here is some more for CWWC! 😉 I'm going to continue on a story I started a while back! 😀 YAAAAAAY!! If you haven't read the first part, here it is: https://cuddlycrittersblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/aawc/
Oh, you want to know which one? It's the one about the dust bowl times. Haven't read it? Well stop complaining about it! It's the link right up THERE!!! XD 🙂 😛 Haha!!! *Sticks tongue out in an un-lady like fashion.* 😛 Hehe.. I mean…*clears throat* Well…let's just get on with this…I'm going to go ahead and name it…if I can think of one… 😐 Hmmm… 😀 :O :! AHHAH! No. Ummm…YEAH! No. Ugh. How about, the dust wiped away..? Or the years go by..wait, that was the name of a story I wrote long ago. XD 😛 Let's seeeeeee…… AAA!!!! OOF! XD 😛
Maybe I should find some music for inspiration..? XD Noooo, come ON, PERSON!!!!! XD Yes, I say that too much now! 😛 🙂
The Dusty Years.
Part two.
It had been a very dusty, windy day that day, and Trent was so tired he felt like he could barely walk inside. He walked into the kitchen and sat down in a chair.
"Hey Trent. What's up?" Shana asked, putting cloths up in the cracks of the door. Then she giggled to herself, seeing that he was already asleep.
"What did-" Beth started, but Shana put a finger to her lips.
"He's sleeping!" She whispered. Beth's mouth formed a silent "ooooh", and they left the room. Just then their dad entered the kitchen and saw that his 15 year old son was asleep on a chair. He shook his head and walked over, picked his son up in his arms, and brought him to his bed. Trent didn't even stir.
Trent woke up the next morning, coughing. Then he remembered something. He hadn't worn his dust mask the day before. Fear welled up in him, and the was interrupted by another cough.
Later that day he started having chest pains. He had to leave the supper table when he couldn't stop coughing. His mom and dad looked at each other with worried expression, both feeling they knew what had happened. Trent's dad quickly made his way to Trent's room.
"Have you been feeling bad lately? How long?" He asked his son, who was now on the bed.
"Just this morning." He replied. His dad noticed sweat dripping down his face and went to feel his forehead. But he didn't even have to touch it before his hand got burning hot.
"Here, just lay down. I'll get your mother. We can bring you to the doctor today." Trent, not feeling like arguing, just lay down.
They had just gotten back from the doctor, and he had told them, that it was true. Trent had dust pneumonia. He told them that it was very likely Trent would die…and that they needed to be ready for that. Trent came home, and went in bed. His mother went to dad and hugged him for a while. Trent was in bed all day. The house was filled with silence. Beth came in the room later and sat on the bed beside him. She grabbed his hand and squeezed it, then lay down beside him on the bed and pulled his arms around her.
Sam came in later and sat in the chair beside the bed. Trent could tell he'd been crying.
"Sam…I need to ask you a favor. I need you to take care of Mom and Shana for me. You know I might… die.."Trent hesitated, not sure what to say next. Sam bit his lip and looked away.Then he looked back.
"Trent…Please don't die. Please. I love you..and I need you. But..while you're sick, I'll take care of them…and if you do…you know what…then I will. I love you." Sam said, grabbing his brother's hand. Then Trent drifted off to sleep, missing what Sam did next, putting his head on the bed and crying himself to sleep. Shana came in later and woke him up, then brought him to his bed.
Trent woke up the next day to his mother and father arguing in the living room.
"You let him get sick! YOU TOLD me that you would keep him safe! Now he'll die because of you!" Trent's mother started off, angrily. His father gulped.
"I thought, that he was safe… " He said.
"It's YOUR fault. IF you had just ha-" She started yelling, but was interrupted by a small voice.
"No." Trent said, pulling himself up. "It wasn't his fault. I didn't wear my mask, even though dad reminded me to. It was my fault. Don't blame him, ma." Then Trent made his way back to his room. That evening, Kira came in Trent's room while he was eating.
"TREN! TRENT!!!" She yelled, running to the side of his bed. He gave her a surprised look, one of the same he had given her the day before when she brought him a snake. "What now?" He mumbled. Maybe it was an eagle or something.
"WE'RE MOVING!!!! TO TEXAS!" She said. That got his attention. Then he started coughing again. It had recently gotten worse, to where it was hard to breathe. Kira quickly ran out of the room and got Shana. She was crying by the time she got there.
"Shana! Trent is coughing again, really bad too!" She sobbed. Shana hurried in and her mother after her. Sam came over and hugged Kira.
Wow! Will he get better? Gotta go! BYYYE!!!
P.S. the other news is that Gadget hurt his foot.


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FC Barcelona have won this season's La Liga title after defeating Granada 3-0 on Saturday, pipping bitter rivals Real Madrid to the post by just one point. Luis Suarez, who has taken on the mantle of Barca's talisman this season from Lionel Messi, scored a hat-trick to secure the club's sixth league title in eight seasons. On Monday, the players celebrated their achievement with an open-top bus victory parade through the city.
Manager Luis Enrique spoke of his delight at his team's achievement: "The title is very hard to win, but it was well deserved and the hard work of my team throughout the season must be praised." Suarez, who has scored an incredible 40 goals this season, still has one eye on this Sunday's Copa del Rey final against Sevilla: "I score goals thanks to the help of my teammates. They give me the chances and I just put them away. We can celebrate now, but we must shortly turn our attention back to the cup."


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Grand Island, NY – The D'Youville women's cross country team opened their season Saturday morning,with the team placing fourth in the Buffalo State Daniel Walker Invitational.
The women finished fourth behind Buffalo State, Cuyahoga Community College, and Daemen and ahead of four other teams. Freshman Samantha Ruszczyk (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg)took second overall for the women with a time of 20:58, less than 0:30 off the leader and over 0:40 ahead of the next runner.
Rachel Luczak (Lancaster, NY/Immactulata) was the second D'Youville runner to cross the finish line with a time of 24:01 in the 5k. She finished in 15th place and Stephanie Lisiecki (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca East) followed behind her in 20th place and a time of 24:56.
Jenna Donati (Depew, NY/Depew), Kaitlyn Furtado (Acushnet, MA/Fairhaven), Rachel Johnson (Jamestown, NY/Jamestown), and Danielle Couch (Wheatfield, NY/Niagara-Wheatfield)all completed good first races for the women on Saturday. Joanna Elledge (Lockport, NY/Wilson), Mary Blackley (Lockport, NY/Blackley Academy), and Alexis Dymond (Kenmore, NY/Kenmore West) all ran well over the weekend.
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If the 'co-op option' is going to be more accessible and mainstream, we need government to provide user-friendly legal and regulatory frameworks for co-ops.
Companies converting into societies
Issues with HMRC, Companies House and others can make coverting a compnay into a society more complex, burdensome and costly than it needs to be. We are working with government to try and address these issues.
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Private Members' Bill for societies
In February 2020 Anna McMorrin MP introduced a Private Members Bill to the UK Parliament. It seeks to create new options for societies to protect common capital, guard against demutualisation and raise equity investment.
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Consultation outcome: getting a better deal for societies
Co-operatives UK is eager to work with members to co-produce a clear and cohesive agenda for improving the legal and regulatory framework for co-operative and community benefit societies. As part of this process we ran a members' consultation in October and November 2018 ('Getting a better deal for societies'). Click below to read the outcome of that consultation.
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FCA fees
The FCA has responded to our calls to abolish the fee it charges the public to access society information on the online Mutuals Register. It has also confirmed that it will scrap the annual registration fees it charges societies
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A better deal for societies?
Following lobbying from Co-operatives UK and others, Government has announced that it will be working with the sector to explore ways of improving 'regulatory clarity' for co-operative and community benefit societies.
Companies House co-operative identity policy
We are asking members to join with us in asking Companies House to update its co-operative identity policy.
UK Corporate Governance Code
As part of the UK government's ongoing efforts to improve corporate governance and improve the fairness and responsibility in British business the Financial Reporting Council has consulted on revisions to its corporate governance code. When it comes to giving a voice to stakeholders, looking after the 'triple bottom line' and nurturing positive cultures and values, big business can learn a lot from co-ops.
Download our response to the FRC here
Fairer audit requirements for growing co-ops
Following extensive lobbying we secured government action to increase the threshold above which all co-operative and community benefit societies are required to pay for a full audit of accounts. The legislation took effect from 6 April 2018. This change will save some societies thousands of pounds each year.
FCA registration forms
To complement its Guidance on registering co-operative and community benefit societies the FCA has drafted new registration forms and a new annual return form. These new forms are intended to reflect the FCA's published policy and to implement statutory tests based on that policy. Overall the forms are an improvement and most questions do correspond to the Guidance but we believe there are a number questions that need reordering and refocusing, while others are inappropriate and need to be omitted.
FCA fees (2017/18)
In April 2017 the FCA consulted on proposed increases to the already high annual fees co-operative and community benefit societies pay to fund their registrar, the Mutuals Team. This increase is justified by jumps in the running cost of the Mutuals Team in recent years. We propose to our members that we accept these increases, on the following conditions:
That future changes to fees charged reflect year-on-year changes in the running costs of the Mutuals Team, minus any investment in efficiencies by the FCA:
- That action is taken to improve the value societies receive for the fees they pay
- That societies are exempted from paying towards any general increase in the annual funding requirement stemming from the FCA's more expensive activities as a financial services regulator
FCA: Our Future Mission
In January 2017 we responded to the FCA 'Our Future Mission' consultation. We explained how essential the Mutuals Team's role is in creating a decent corporate framework for co-ops and why it needs to have a clear mission and more accountability to stakeholders.
Persons of Significant Control - mutual exemption
In September 2016 government consulted on whether extend the Persons of Significant Control regime to co-operative and community benefit societies. As 98 percent of societies have no Persons of Significant Control and as their ownership and control is already subject to regulatory scrutiny, we told government that extending the current regime would create additional burdens without any clear gain. Thankfully they listened, and while we never received any formal conclusion to the consultation, we can confirm that societies do not have to file a useless Persons of Significant Control register with the FCA. See paragraph 1.2.3 of this government guidance for formal written confirmation.
Overhauling policymaking for co-ops
More by historical happenstance than logical design, legislative responsibility for co-operative and community benefit societies sits within the Banking and Credit Team of HM Treasury rather than within the Business Frameworks directorate of the Department for Business. A related consequence of this is that the registrar function for these businesses sits within the Financial Conduct Authority.
Put simply we think this arrangement is not only illogical but also dysfunctional for co-ops and we want it changed.
Asset lock for co-operative societies
We are currently exploring the potential of changing the law to give co-operative societies the option of a statutory asset lock. In early 2016 we consulted members and have now published an analysis of the responses and next steps.
Corporate insolvency provisions
Government has consulted on new insolvency provisions for UK businesses. These include a new 'preliminary moratorium' period which could provide more space and incentives to save a business. The problem is that without intervention such measures will only apply to companies with co-operative and community benefit societies losing out once again. We've responded to the consultation and notified HM Treasury.
Charitable conversions
As of summer 2016 Cabinet Office is working on legislation to ensure smoother charitable conversions. As is too often the case, the society legal form is excluded. Government is not providing routes for people to convert to and from charitable community benefit societies. For more on this see our consultation response.
Business Impact Targets and the Growth Duty
Government is rolling out a number measures designed to improve the quality of regulation for UK businesses. Business Impact Targets require Whitehall departments to assess the impact of their policies on business and set annual targets for reducing the overall regulatory burden. Business Impact Targets are now being applied to a whole host of regulators as well. From 2016 key regulators will also have a statutory Growth Duty, which will require them to understand the needs of the businesses they interact with and asses impact in order to limit the extent to which their activities limit growth.
While we think there is real merit in improving transparency and accountability in regulation we are very concerned that co-ops, and particularly societies, stand to lose out. This is yet another example of the uneven playing field co-ops compete on. We've made government aware of this in a recent consultation on the scope of Business Impact Targets and the Growth Duty.
Regulatory barriers to social investments
In early 2016 the FCA undertook a wholesale review of the financial promotion regulations as they relate to social investment. Called 'Call for input: Regulatory barriers to social investments' this consultation put a spot light on how investment in different forms of enterprise, including co-operative and community benefit societies, is regulated.
In October 2016 the FCA published the outcome of this consultation. In line with our position the FCA decided not to alter the current regulatory treatment of capital raising by co-operative and community benefit societies. It reiterated that society capital is already subject to regulation under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act, and intimated that so long as societies raise capital from members in accordance with its guidance there is no need to impose further regulation.
FCA regulation of co-operative and community benefit societies
Recently the regulation of co-operative and community benefit societies by the FCA has been a source of considerable controversy and concern. Prompted by innovations such as renewable energy co-ops and community shares, as well as by legal reforms in 2014, the FCA sought to codify its policy in new guidance.
Draft guidance put out for consultation in October 2014 posed significant risks across the co-op sector and heralded a year of vocal lobbying, campaigning and detailed consultation. In November 2015 the FCA published final guidance containing significant policy improvements across the board.
Reforms in 2014
In 2014 government delivered a package of legislative reforms for co-operative and community benefit societies.


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Former Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort has been indicted in connection to the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 elections and will turn himself in to the FBI Monday.
Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates, who was also been ordered to turn himself in and did so, are the first people to be arrested in connection with the probe.
But the indictment, which was unsealed Monday morning includes no charges related to the campaign. Nevertheless, the charges against Manafort could be used by Meuller to pressure him into revealing criminal activity committed by others on the campaign, including the president. That assumes there is any criminal activity at all. Manafort could always make some up, of course, to save his skin.
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The indictment lays out 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered foreign agent and several charges related to failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts. The indictment alleges that they moved money through hidden bank accounts in Cyprus, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Seychelles. In total, more than $75 million flowed through the offshore accounts. Manafort is accused of laundering more than $18 million, according to the indictment.
The request for Manafort to turn himself in contrasts with the widely criticized pre-dawn raid on Manafort's home in July, during which agents forced their way into his house with guns drawn.
Here is some video of Manafort surrendering to authorities.
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