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"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." ~James Stephens
Hey Sweetie pies! In today's post I want to share three inexpensive accessories to instantly glam up your OOTD while keeping you warm and NOT breaking the bank! Sometimes it can be a real struggle to stay warm AND chic at the same time especially with dropping temps and snowing in some parts of the country. But believe it or not, there are endless possibilities to overcoming this obstacle with STYLE. :) One of which is SCARVES, which I absolutely love! A scarf can instantly add a sophisticated edge, a cozy feel or glam to your outfit. Don't believe me? Check out some examples below!
Scarves by stormiebjones featuring jersey scarves
Second accessory is HATS! I am talking fedoras, felt floppy hats, beanies, and wide brim hats. I have been LOVING this accessory for the Fall and Winter. It easily pulls an outfit together with minimal effort and is a great cover up for those bad hair days. (Trust me ladies, everyone has them!) Check out some examples below!
Hats by stormiebjones featuring a wide brim fedora
Lastly, the third accessory to instantly boost your chic OOTD is HOSIERY! I am talking tights of any kind, thigh highs and knee high socks. The options with these are endless especially considering that they come in so many prints and colors with unique details. These are great for adding under pants. You can also throw any of these on with dresses, skirts or even shorts with some boots and you're good to go! If you all would like for me to create some style sets showcasing how you can style that let me know. All these options are affordable and fun to add to your looks! Check out below.
Hosiery by stormiebjones featuring thigh-high socks
I hope you guys found this post informative and that you guys enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it. Make sure you stay tuned for Wednesday's post. It is very sentimental to me and I think you guys will enjoy it! All items pictured here can be shopped and everything is $50 and below!!! Whoop whoop!
So as always, XO and Stay FAB! ~ Stormie


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The City of Kansas City, Mo., Aviation Department is pleased to announce that Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport (IATA code MKC) passed the 2017 Federal Aviation Administration annual certification inspection with no discrepancies.
"The safety of our airport is the utmost priority and a perfect score is a testament to this commitment," said Airport Manager Melissa Cooper, A.A.E. "We share this milestone with our operations, maintenance and security staff, as well as our partners at the Kansas City Fire Department, Atlantic Aviation, Signature Flight Support and FAA. It takes a team and we have solid relationships with a common goal to do it right."
The FAA's Part 139 inspection includes the conditions of everything on MKC's Air Operations Area inside the security fence where aircraft operate at Downtown Airport. The AOA includes runways, taxiways, aprons and aviation tenant operational areas. Inspection items include pavement, lighting, markings, safety areas, Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting training, fueling operations and Air Operations Area driver training. The evaluation found MKC to be fully compliant with Federal Aviation Regulation Part 139, the Airport Certification Manual and the Airport Operating Certificate.
The Kansas City Fire Department Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting unit plays an instrumental role in the safety of the airport. KCFD ARFF trains three "structural" companies in all required ARFF elements, including participation in an annual live burn exercise, maintaining training records to federal standards and completing hand-on response training.
MKC offers aviators a 24-hour control tower, Category I Instrument Landing System, 24-hour fixed base operator (FBO), full aircraft maintenance, hangar facilities, air cargo facilities, aircraft sales, leasing and charters, flight training and car rentals. Visit FlyMKC.com for more information. Find Downtown Airport on Twitter and Facebook.

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These are just projects i did in either my Design class at college or for my graphic arts class in highschool
Screen print of a logo i did for Ebon Stables Inc.
This is a design project i did in school (just a portion of it the entire thing was too large to fit my scanner i will get it copied then shrunk so i can fit the whole thing on here). It was made by enlarging a black and white photo and then recreating it by cutting and pasting together different photocopies of texture/shades. It took forever to do but i absolutly love it.
This is another portion of a design project (the actual one is the entire bodies of the foals and some of the pasture and the barn in the background). It was done by taking a color photograph, marking it off in squares and then enlarging and recreating it by doing square by square with acrylic paints. I loved this project mostly because of the subjects that i chose.
Sorry there aren't more of my stuff up on th is page but i'll get them posted when i get them scanned!!!!!


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As Breitbart News reported, Donald Trump has announced that he will be holding a campaign event in Mobile, Alabama–the hometown of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). Thirty to forty thousand are expected to attend the event, which will be held at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.
When asked for comment, Sen. Sessions said in a statement:
I am very pleased Mr. Trump is coming to Alabama. The south is likely to play a central role in selecting the next GOP nominee. The winning candidate in 2016 will need to promote a trade and immigration platform that defends the legitimate interests of U.S. workers. Trump's pro-worker plan has correctly put this issue at the forefront of the race.
Sen. Sessions, who serves as chairman of the Senate's Immigration Subcommittee, has come to be regarded as the intellectual thought leader in the Republican Party on appealing to the blue-collar voters who have been abandoned by their political leaders. For instance, Sessions led the charge on opposing trade deals that harm American workers and immigration policies that prioritize the needs of corporatist donors above American citizens and legal immigrants already in the United States.
Prior to publishing his policy paper on immigration reform, Trump consulted with Sen. Sessions on the issue.
Polls support Sen. Sessions' assertion that whomever is selected as the Republican nominee must support pro-American worker trade and immigration policies that will allow him to make inroads with blue-collar and middle class American voters. Indeed, this is certainly the case with Donald Trump, as polls show that the American electorate overwhelmingly supports Trump's newly released immigration platform, as well as his emphasis on bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States and cracking down on the unfair trading practices of foreign competitors.


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Curing Obesity: How ELNs May Help Scientists Unlock the Secret to Burning Fat
According to the CDC, 69% of adults in the U.S. are overweight. Current global rates for obesity follow the same trend. It's estimated that half of the world's population will be overweight by 2030. Considering the health risks associated with obesity, including increased chances of developing diabetes, scientists have been searching for ways to prevent and treat the condition.
It's ironic that an answer has continued to elude researchers. We live in an era where digital technology drives fitness and health. People can integrate cell phones, fitness trackers and exercise machines to obtain an overall picture of their health, motivate themselves and communicate with people who have similar goals. If such technology can help people with their fitness and weight goals, then perhaps digital tools like electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) can benefit laboratories working on obesity research.
Creating Appetite-Suppressing Bacteria
The traditional approach to combating obesity involves losing weight via exercise, diet, and appetite suppressants. But what if scientists developed another way? Scientists at Vanderbilt University recently presented research showing that it was possible to engineer gut bacteria to suppress appetite. Rather than taking pills, the engineered bacteria offered a low-maintenance way to affect weight. Even better, studies showed that it could treat obesity in addition to preventing it.
The studies were conducted in mice, however, so the method has a long way to go before seeing use in humans. To reach that end goal, scientists still need to determine the mechanisms by which the bacteria work in controlling appetite and further engineer the bacteria for safe use in humans. Achieving the first task will require experimental repetition and succeeding at the second means adaptability.
With ELNs, users can easily clone protocols and templates. In addition, sometimes numerical results are not enough. Sometimes you need images and diagrams to see the full picture presented by your results. The flexible editor also allows users to incorporate multimedia into their data.
Putting the Chill on Fat
Many people don't realize that there are two types of fat: brown fat and white fat. Brown fat is associated with regulating body temperature and burning calories. White fat, on the other hand, is associated with the more harmful effects of fat like increased risk of developing diabetes. We have both types of fat, but typically more of the white kind.
However, researchers recently found a way to make white fat behave more like brown fat: lowering the temperature. A six degree temperature drop corresponded to a 6% increase in burning energy. The environmental manipulation also improved glucose metabolism, something that is impaired in people afflicted with diabetes.
Because this research demonstrated how temperature can affect our body's ability to burn fat, it's entirely possible other environmental conditions can show similar effects. It's crucial to keep track of the variables and their results. ELNs make data management simple due to index and search features.
Identifying Beige Fat
In addition white fat and brown fat, there is also beige fat. Beige fat can be found in white fat cells and has the ability to convert it to the energy-burning brown fat. Research at UCSF has shown that it's possible to isolate beige fat. With this breakthrough, it may be possible to engineer fat cells themselves to combat obesity.
In addition, the creation of a viable beige fat cell culture allows researchers to test molecules and compounds for their ability to activate processes typically associated with brown fat. The ultimate hope is to create anti-obesity drugs that can convert white fat into its energy-burning counterpart.
ELNs May Be the Key to Effective Cures for Obesity
Projects involving drug development are typically large in scope and consist of multiple aims. It's common for several people to work on separate tasks, ranging from cell assays to in vivo studies. ELNs have collaborative tools that let colleagues share data across a project's various aims. Researchers can view all results, allowing them to glimpse the bigger picture as it unfolds in real time.
The quest to end obesity isn't an easy or simple one. It requires approaching the issue on multiple fronts. But with digital assistance like that offered by ELNs, the cure may be closer than we think. Would your research benefit from template cloning, improved data management and collaborative tools? Visit our website to learn more about the BIOVIA Notebook today.


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Multiple Myeloma: About Multiple Myeloma
Multiple Myeloma is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow arising from a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell. Multiple myeloma, sometimes referred to as MM, or simply as myeloma, affects about 22,000 Americans each year.
Plasma cells normally reside in the bone marrow where they make proteins (antibodies or immunoglobulins) that help the immune system fight infection.
When plasma cells grow out of control and become cancerous, they are called myeloma cells. As these cancer cells increase, they crowd the bone marrow so it can no longer produce enough healthy cells. As the number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells decline, patients may develop anemia, appearing pale, tired or short of breath. A decline in platelets that normally help the blood clot may lead to easy bruising or bleeding. A decline in white blood cells puts patients at increased risk for infections that can be life-threatening.
Myeloma cells also produce abnormal proteins (monoclonal or M-proteins) that make the kidneys to work harder to filter the blood, thus leading to kidney damage.
Myeloma cells affect the cells that keep bones healthy. Bones are constantly being broken down and rebuilt, a process that ensures they remain strong. In myeloma, a signal is sent to the osteoclasts, cells that break the bones down, but there is no corresponding message sent to the osteoblasts, the cells that rebuild the bones. Further myeloma cells can also form a mass weakening the surrounding bone structure leading to an increased risk of fracture. As the bones degenerate, calcium is also released into the blood causing symptoms such as fatigue, constipation and confusion.
When myeloma cells grow in just one area of the bones or soft tissues they may form a tumor known as a solitary plasmacytoma. If no other evidence of disease is found beyond this isolated tumor, the patient is often treated with local therapy such as radiation.


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we are pure evil
waiting for the end of times
to prove wickedness.
i have come to reap
what thy evil hand has sown
satanic cornfield.
prosthetic daydreams
detached & attached visions
propped in ze corner.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
ze 3 randumb haiku.
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Satanic corn fields! Yes!
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Students who need an entry visa
Students who need an entry visa:
International Office (IO) of Wageningen University & Research will apply for your entry visa and residence permit based on study in the Netherlands. It is not possible to start this procedure yourself.
In order to apply for an entry visa and residence permit you need to complete the steps below. International Office (IO) of Wageningen University & Research will send you instructions and forms upon receipt of your payment and/or fellowship letter.
The steps to Legal residence:
Fill out the forms that International Office sends you after receipt of your payment and/or fellowship letter
E-mail the scanned copies of the entry visa and residence forms (Roadmap) to IO for a check. IO will check the forms and will inform you if the forms have been filled out correctly
Send the approved original filled out forms (Roadmap) to IO by courier
IO confirms the receipt of the forms
- IO confirms the start of the procedure and will inform you as soon as your entry visa and residence permit has been approved by the Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Services (IND). You can contact IO through Questions and Answers
After receiving the entry visa approval, you should contact the Dutch Embassy yourself and make an appointment to collect your entry visa and to submit your biometric data (passport photo and fingerprints). How long this process takes varies widely
Book your flight
After arrival, IO will inform you about: the residence permit card & the TB test (if applicable)


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What's wrong with Portuguese wines, and how estates have put it right
With Portuguese cuisine being touted as the next big thing by food luminaries such as Andrew Zimmern, can the country's wine be far behind?
Both food and wine have had 174 years to establish a toehold here, but haven't done so yet. The rich, often heavy food is never likely to be a winner in Hong Kong's humid climate. Baby squid stuffed with braised oxtail on a fennel purée with cep mushrooms might be good fuel for an afternoon in a dusty olive grove, but it's probably a bit much for an office in Central.
There are other explanations for the wine's failure to grip the public imagination.
Joao Pires, Portugal's only master sommelier, says the country's winemakers have only themselves to blame for the failure of previous strategies. Pires, now in charge of the wine cellars at the City of Dreams in Macau, says winemakers have finally learned the lesson that good wine "starts in the vineyard with good fruit" and not through meddling in the cellar.
While many might think of the overselling of Mateus rosé and its associated tacky image in the 1970s, Pires gives Dao as an example. One of Portugal's best known regions, Dao winemakers made some "terrible wines" but have clawed back their reputation by producing "very elegant wines", says Pires.
He says the results can be seen in widening sales and recognition in US and British restaurants.
Before his recent arrival in Macau, Pires worked in London for 10 years - at the Capital Hotel in Knightsbridge with chef Eric Chavot and then for Gordon Ramsay at his flagship Hospital Road restaurant, and at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in the Mandarin Oriental.
Winemakers tended to be highly secretive in the past, but over the past 20 years they have discovered that sharing winemaking tips and marketing budgets can be beneficial. Baga Friends, for example, is a growers' association that has brought the baga grape from the Bairrada region to the attention of wine mavens such as Jancis Robinson.
Winemakers have also learned to value Portugal's status as what he calls a "boutique wine country", meaning it doesn't produce much in the way of top-end, highly expensive wines and cannot compete with the volumes of New World producers such as Argentina and Chile. "We don't have enough land, and we can never compete in price. Manpower is expensive in Europe," Pires says.
So if you are looking for something that costs far less than a top-level Bordeaux or Burgundy but is perhaps made with more care than a South American merlot, where should you start?
Portugal has 200 or more native grape varieties, most notably the touriga nacional, and some growers have started planting international varieties. Pires says beginners should think of regions first. While the Douro and its powerful reds are best-known, the biggest region is Alentejo, which stretches from north of Lisbon down to the Algarve and from the Atlantic coast to the border of Spain.
The region is full of different soils and microclimates and altitudes. Generally, wines are "softer, rounder, easier to drink" in a somewhat New World style, but the farther south one goes, the more alcohol and less acidity is present. It's also the region experimenting the most with growing chardonnay, shiraz and cabernet sauvignon.
Pires is also a big fan of the Bairrada region, which makes Portugal's highest quality wines and is home to the baga grape. Baga is difficult to compare to internationally known varieties, but the closest comparison Pires can make is with the intense Italian grape nebbiolo. "The grape can make lots of different wines. It needs time and long ageing for the tannins to develop and has a huge intensity of acidity," he says.
The Algarve is too hot to produce good wine, the one exception being those produced by British singer Cliff Richard.
Fans of rustic wine should try the "extra tannic" ones from the Tejo region, which straddles the River Tagus.
Pires has not been in Macau long enough to introduce many changes to the wine lists at City of Dreams but plans to update them in September. It's likely he will introduce more Portuguese wines by the glass.
For Portuguese wines in Hong Kong, try Adega Royale adegaroyale.com or Howard's Folly from the Alentejo howardsfollywine.com
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Earlier this morning, Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek Finance Minister gave a 28-minute long phone interview to the mainstream Greek radio station, REAL FM. The person conducting the interview is no other than Nikos Hatzinikolaou, a prominent journalist who is the face of the station [he also owns it], and has turned into sort-of-a media mogul during the years of the crisis. The interview is extremely juicy, for many reasons. First and foremost, it gives a good indication of the rhetoric employed by the Greek government at this moment, domestically. As you will see, the rhetoric (even) of Varoufakis – who is supposedly a moderate within the party – is a tad bit more heightened than in his appearances on international media. Secondly, it gives a very clear idea of what the Greek government intends to do (and what it intends not to do) in the short-term (i.e. the four-month extension period of the loan agreement), as well as the medium- to long-term (i.e. what happens after June).
I will resist my temptation to comment on this amazing piece of rhetorical eloquence by Yanis. Instead, I will highlight in red those parts of the interview that I feel are the most important and actually give a good idea to foreign readers about (a) how exactly the Greek government sees this four-month extension, (b) how it interprets the role of the TIFKAT (The Institutions Formerly Known As Troika), (c) how it perceives the way in which it negotiated, (d) what it asserts it has achieved through the Eurogroup negotiations, and (e) how (and if!) it intends to fulfill its obligations vis-a-vis TIFKAT.
The audio file of the interview can be found here (in Greek). You can find my translation of the interview below.
Interview of Yanis Varoufakis to Nikos Hatzinikolaou (REAL FM), February 25 2015
Hatzinikolaou: What is your plan, Mr. Minister? After the 4-month period, what is to come? Where are we going? I am asking you because, yesterday, the opposition accused you of not taking a credit line with the goal of exiting the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), but that you are leading the country to a third Memorandum.
Varoufakis: Mr. Hatzinikolaou, we all know very well that the reason why New Democracy (ND) is not the government right now is because it made a major mistake before 8, 9 or 10 months. When it announced the exit from the MoU, on the basis of a groundless conviction that in 2015 Greece would be able to get 10-11bn euros from the markets, while at the same time having succeeded in creating a real recovery.
If this could have happened, the plan of ND could have been accomplished. The Greek people, with its wisdom, decided that this "success story" (as it was called, if you remember) had failed from the moment it was effectively announced. The Greek economy continues to be shrinking – as it was in the end of 2014, regardless of what the previous government used to think. Our nominal GDP was decreasing, and there was absolutely no possibility for achieving this "success story."
The current government wants to say things with their name. I will explain it to you in very simple terms, Mr. Hatzinikolaou. As long as our debt is what it is, as long as Greece was bounded within this iron cage of primary surpluses that were impossible to achieve without killing whatever is left in the private sector, and as long we have a negative sign in investments (essentially, real investments), it was impossible to achieve this exit.
What we are trying to do – and have succeeded in doing so; it was a huge success, I'd say – is to create a four-month bridge during which we achieve the following:
First, the cancelation of the recessional measures and the implementation of a transitional program we ourselves have made, one the Greek society will be able to withstand. This will help us negotiate during this four-month period a new contract between us and our partners with the goal of solving this system of three equations with three unknowns.
Hatzinikolaou: Thus, we are talking about a new Memorandum? When you are talking about a new contract with our partners, this means a new Memorandum.
Varoufakis: Mr. Hatzinikolaou, the good news…
Hatzinikolaou: We are afraid of the words, but the essence is exactly that.
Varoufakis: OK. Let us be careful with the words. What does the Memorandum mean? Let me tell you what it means for me.
Hatzinikolaou: "Memorandum of Understanding" [In English, laughing].
Varoufakis: And what was this "Memorandum of Understanding"? Let me remind you of what it comprises. It comprises of the logic of the continuous domestic [or internal] devaluation, of the huge primary surpluses in an economy that does not have a real credit system, where investments are negative, and at the same time where we have a series of measures that empower this recession.
This is the MoU. It is the automation, the a-politicization, and the subjection to the crisis.
Hatzinikolaou: Mr. Minister, there was this e-mail that you sent yesterday to the 'institutions' …and, I would also like you to explain the difference between the 'institutions' and what was formerly the TROIKA, because we see the same people to be representing the new setup, so I assume that there must be a qualitative difference in the way we communicate with them. Would you actually want to begin answering that, and I'll ask you later about the e-mail.
Varoufakis: I will tell you both about the e-mail and the TROIKA.
Hatzinikolaou: My fundamental question about the e-mail is whether or not it entails layoffs in the public sector (which the e-mail sent by former Minister of Finance Hardouvelis did include), if it entails pension reductions (again, the e-mail of Hardouvelis did contain cuts in supplementary pensions), if it entails wage reductions.
Varoufakis: I will answer to all these questions, since these are very specific questions, and it is best that we speak forthrightly. My answer to all of these questions is NO, in NO WAY.
This is the big difference. Hardouvelis's e-mail contained all of the things you just mentioned. Even an increase in the VAT tax in the Greek islands. The cancelation of the recessionary measures is something we achieved these days after, essentially, vetoing them in two Eurogroups. In the third Eurogroup, there was an agreement, or if you want a Moratorium.
Their side will not impose those measures. Hardouvelis's e-mail is repealed. And this is the great success.
Hatzinikolaou: What are you going to do with the VAT tax?
Varoufakis: The VAT tax is not going to be increased in the Greek islands. This is very clear. These four months are four months during which we have agreed upon a Moratorium.
Hatzinikolaou: Will there be an increase in any other kind of VAT tax? As a weighted average, will the VAT tax be increased in the country?
Varoufakis: Look. We have to look into it, and I will tell you. Some small change in one of the determinants of the VAT tax – which will neither involve the borderland, nor books, the press, and of course, the islands of the Aegean – might be decided upon. We do not commit to anything.
Hatzinikolaou: What about the ENFIA tax [the new single property tax]?
Varoufakis: Please allow me not to get into very specific measures.
Hatzinikolaou: No, I am asking you only about the ENFIA tax, because the cancelation of ENFIA and its substitution with a tax on large property is a pre-electoral pledge of the new government.
Varoufakis: There is not a chance that ENFIA will not be changed. ENFIA is an outrageous tax.
Hatzinikolaou: Will ENFIA change this year, or starting next year?
Varoufakis: Starting 2015. Now, if this will happen during the 1st quarter of the year, this is something that I do not know yet.
But let me answer to your questions. Hardouvelis's e-mail was a recital of submitting to recessionary measures. These recessionary measures are abolished within the next four months.
We have also committed towards our partners that we will not take any unilateral actions that might have as a result the encumbrance of the budget, the financial instability, or any kind of negative results in the possibilities of an economic recovery.
Now let me answer you about the issue of the TROIKA.
Hatzinikolaou: Yes, this is very important. Tell me Mr. Minister, do we only have a new 'naming'? The opposition is saying that we simply have a new name. We have re-named TROIKA as the 'institutions,' but they remain the same.
Varoufakis: In absolutely no case. Look, we have to make a very crucial distinction. There is the ECB, there is the European Commission, and there is the IMF. Greece is a member of all those institutions. In the IMF, actually, we have the privilege of being members since 1944 and the Bretton-Woods time.
Obviously, since we owe to all three of these institutions, our relationship with them will continue – but not only because we owe them, but also because we are members of these institutions. The ECB is our central bank. The EC is the government of Europe, in quotation marks. Obviously, we will continue our cooperation with them.
What I call the TROIKA – and I think the entirety of the Greek people with me – is not these institutions. What we call TROIKA is the staff of the big technocrat employees, who like a team – or, like a gang in the eyes of the Greek people, if you want – were coming to Athens, were going in the Ministries, and essentially imposed a recessionary program that was catastrophic for the Greek economy, the middle class, the economic recovery, and even the possibility of repaying the debt to our partners. This is no more.
For a team of those technocrats to be coming – while they do not even have the authorization to discuss with us the essence of the program that was imposed on us – this is all finished. What we have achieved, Mr. Hatzinikolaou, with our very vigorous stance in the past few weeks is the following.
There is today a schism in what was previously the TROIKA. There is the Commission – and this is my take on the matter – that has decided that it will play the role of the monitoring of the Greek crisis.
Hatzinikolaou: So, you are telling me that the government will be talking institutionally with these bodies, and these three institutions will be talking with our own corresponding technical groups? Employees will be talking with employees, and politicians with politicians? Is this the meaning [behind the change]?
Varoufakis: And even besides that, something more important. We will be talking with the European Commission. The EC can coordinate with the ECB if it wants, and with the IMF.
Hatzinikolaou: You know why I am asking? Because the people see you speaking with the exact same people. We have seen the exact same institutions in your negotiations as well.
Varoufakis: You are totally right. But do not forget that in a negotiation about how to change the TROIKA, one must also talk with the TROIKA itself. This was the last time that such a discussion will happen with all three of us together. But it was necessary.
You know, Mr. Hatzinikolaou, I have mentioned it in the Hellenic Parliament and in many interviews: the decision of the government was not the rupture. The decision of the government was the negotiation, so as to come to a new agreement and to the beginning of a new procedure.
From now on, there is no TROIKA. There is no Memorandum as it is with the specific MoU and the e-mail of Mr. Hardouvelis, if you want, which has entered the dustbin of history. The recessionary measures have been canceled, and now…
Hatzinikolaou: When are we going back to the markets? This is the question…
Varoufakis: I will refer you to the previous discussion we just had. We will get back to the markets when Greece will have solved the system of three equations with three unknowns, which are: investments, primary surplus, and debt restructuring.
Hatzinikolaou: So this is when the Memorandum is over, when you will have succeeded in those three things?
Varoufakis: No, no! The Memorandum is finished, Mr. Hatzinikolaou!
Hatzinikolaou: You know what I mean: this is when we will stop having this harsh monitoring that we now have.
Varoufakis: Look, you are right on that. But the Memorandum is finished! Because you know what the Memorandum is? It is a series of conditionalities and criteria that needed to be fulfilled. These criteria are now over!
Hatzinikolaou: Mr. Minister, do you know what the three things upon which you will be judged are? And upon which there is great concern by the citizens? It is the debt, where the word "cut-off" has been "cut-off" by the political vocabulary of SYRIZA in the past 2 weeks; it is the Thessaloniki Program, where there is great concern on whether you will be able to implement it (for instance, in terms of some of the measures that interested a lot the citizens, we now hear that they will now be pushed on a 4-year timeframe, i.e. minimum wage will enter a 4-year timeframe); and it is the primary surpluses, which if they remain at 3% or 4.5%, even the herrings will cry for us, since not even 1 euro will remain for social policy. I think that these are the three important things.
Varoufakis: Ok let me reply to all of them. Let me take them in order. And then let me add another criterion upon which I think the Greek people will judge us.
In terms of the primary surpluses, I think that we have already achieved our goal. We have already agreed, clearly, that…
Hatzinikolaou: For this year, only, though…
Varoufakis: No! It's not like that! Ok, first and foremost, the agreement we made is simply for the next four months. Within this framework of the agreement, a primary surplus at 3% that would have been catastrophic and murderous for the Greek economy, is out of the picture. We now talk about a primary surplus that is in line with the current economic circumstances, something that will be decided by us, together with our partners, but primarily by us. This is a great conquest.
In terms of the next years, we have a commitment that in the next few years… This cooperation with the IMF – you know, the IMF has a very progressive stance on the matter – our primary surplus cannot be above 1.5%. And in the meantime, in order to ensure that the percentage of the debt in terms of the percentage of the GDP in 2020 will be at 120%, the discussion over debt restructuring will have to begin very swiftly.
You know, they have asked me to stop talking about cancelation of the debt, but talk instead of its restructuring. You, too, have said that we should not be playing with words. The restructuring of the debt is exactly that – a debt reduction.
Now, in terms of the Thessaloniki program…
Hatzinikolaou: Of course, when the previous government was talking about the prolongation, the decrease of the interest rates, you were saying that these things were palliatives [or half measures?].
Varoufakis: Of course, and we were right. I am not talking about prolongation. I am talking about SWAPS of the debt that will effectively decrease it to a very big extent.
Hatzinikolaou: Does the other side [i.e. your partners] agree upon this procedure?
Varoufakis: Look, what we have achieved here, and you will understand its importance, is that there is no longer 'one side' in this issue – there are many sides. The fact that we no longer have this unified group against Greece, where the discussion about the debt was prohibited, and we now have a side that has broken down in many different sides – some of which are very open to our proposals – this by itself is a great success.
Our goal for the next four months is the negotiation. When the group that is confronting you is no longer unified, there are higher chances that the [type of] negotiation you want to do will eventually succeed.
Now, about the Thessaloniki program…
Hatzinikolaou: Thessaloniki, this is crucial… And I also have many messages coming in about the auctioning of first homes.
Varoufakis: Look, in terms of that, we have already declared to our partners and the 'institutions' that there is no chance that such house auctions will happen within the next four months. After June, all are open in the framework of the negotiations.
But our coalition government will not let the families that are currently suffering in the hotpot of the crisis to be thrown to the streets. This is one of our commitments, and if you see the way in which we wrote that document that was sent [to the 'institutions'] it speaks clearly of avoiding such auctions.
We would much have liked to put the word 'Moratorium' in it, but you know, 'creative ambiguity' in such documents is very important and helps our goal.
But let's go to the topic of the 'Thessaloniki program.' And let me add another issue that I believe is a criterion upon which we will be judged.
First and foremost, the 'Thessaloniki program' is really a four-year program. What we have achieved now is four months of stability – as you see, the banking sector has already begun stabilizing –, four months of negotiations, and four months during which we will legislate based on the echelons of the 'Thessaloniki program,' but in a reasonable way. Not even you, I hope, would want to follow a path of confrontation with our partners just for the sake of confronting them.
Now, as it pertains to the completion of the 'Thessaloniki program' echelon that has to do with the restarting of the economy, Mr. Hatzinikolaou, I will be very clear with you: we have achieved the cancelation of the recessionary measures of the Hardouvelis's e-mail, but we have not yet achieved the guarantee of the resources for funding the growth-related measures. This is the part on which we begin working starting today, both domestically, and in the framework of negotiations [with our international partners].
The 'Thessaloniki program' is an actual commitment in a four-year horizon.
Hatzinikolaou: What about the [payments with] 100 installments, that Mrs. Valavani had announced last week? Will they happen, or not?
Varoufakis: The 100 installments will happen, but please allow me to say that we have not yet had the time to discuss this further – as you understand, with this ongoing negotiation we are always running these days. But, now we have the opportunity to dive deeper into this.
There are some very interesting ideas from organizations such as the OECD –which as you know is our partner now, and an essential succor in our reforming attempt – in ways that this draft bill can become even smarter. Our announcements will follow in the next 1-2 weeks regarding this issue.
But allow me to add another thing, for which I personally am in agony, and I think that all of us do. In the text that we send to the Commission, we refer specifically in the way that we intend to hit on corruption and legislate – but not only legislate, but also avoid – tax evasion and tax avoidance. I think that this is where we are going to be judged very heavily in the next few months.
Our biggest bet… I don't know if you have noticed, but I refuse to give [specific] quantitative goals, because as I mentioned in an interview yesterday, hitting hard on tax evasion and tax avoidance is more like an archaeological venture.
Hatzinikolaou: It is an issue on which we have heard many times promises by former Greek governments…
Varoufakis: Exactly. This is how it went: in the past 50 years, when there was a hole in the budget governments said: "we are going to close it by hitting on tax evasion." We won't do that. But, it is one of our commitments – a commitment both to us, and to the Greek people – that the unjust system of taxation [is ended]…
Hatzinikolaou: As long as this does not lead to a situation where those that have always been paying and are consistent, are led to pay again. This is what happens most of the time.
Varoufakis: Exactly. This is our bet. And this is something that you did not include in the list, but I do now. I think that the Greek people will fundamentally judge us based on this – for those that are always paying not having to pay again, and for those that have never paid, and ostentatiously show their wealth without contributing towards the public goods of this country, to finally do so.
Hatzinikolaou: Will the 4-month extension be ratified in the parliament?
Varoufakis: You know, I am not a legal scholar. Not long ago, I was sitting next to the President of the Hellenic Parliament [Zoe Konstantopoulou]. I will ask her, and get back to you. I am sure that this is a process that is foreseen, but I do not know.
Hatzinikolaou: I am asking you because today I read in some newspapers certain scenarios that involve a legislative decree, which if it is to happen would not be good, since you have criticized heavily the former government for similar practices.
Varoufakis: You mean an act of legislative decree? No, away from us such things!!!
Hatzinikolaou: I certainly hope so. What about the privatizations, do all of them proceed as I understand? Those privatizations that have been initiated by the former government, do these continue?
Varoufakis: Look, what we have announced – if you read carefully our text, you will see a creative ambiguity in it – those that have been 'completed-completed' are obviously completed. It is the law of the state. There is a continuity in state affairs. Nobody expected, and we certainly did not intend, to offend a process that has already been completed.
In terms of those privatizations that are ongoing, as we said – did you read what we said? – the law will be implemented. The law gives the ability to the Greek government both to change the terms of the process, but also to check on the legality of such process.
But, in order to avoid speaking with riddles, our position is very simple: the sellout of the family silverware [i.e. Greek state assets] in humiliating prices, and in a way that does not provide growth-momentum for the economy, needs to stop.
Our goal is to bring in private capital. Our goal is the real collaboration between the private and the public sector. Our goal is the large concessions, which will bring in capital – and this is the growth-related dimension – but while the Greek state safeguards its interests. The Greek public sector must be involved in such efforts, and be involved with shares given to it, if you want. Perhaps with minority shareholding rights, so an inflow of revenues can be ensured in the following years.
Our goal is for the public property to be developed, and to essentially be promoted and be used as collateral in a new attempt to create a growth-bank, such as ESPA, so as to ensure that there will be an inflow of revenues in the next few years. Because, Mr. Hatzinikolaou, how else will we finance, in the medium and long term, the pension funds that have been so heavily damaged by the PSI and the crisis?
These are our goals in terms of the privatizations.
Hatzinikolaou: Now, in order to close, and leave something for our [upcoming] interview next Monday, many friends ask me what will happen with the 12,000euros tax-free mark, and since when will it begin to be enacted. Beginning next year? Will it be applicable for incomes in 2015, or not?
Varoufakis: What is unacceptable is that this tax exemption is not happening right now. The tax exemption will gradually begin to be implemented. When exactly will that happen, please allow us to decide when we have a holistic view of how the negotiation will continue after June…
Hatzinikolaou: The line was cut, and we couldn't hear your answer about the 12,000euros. Did you say that you will decide upon this after the negotiation is finished in June?
Varoufakis: No. Let me repeat. The rhythm in which we will begin to approach the tax-exemption of [those that make less than] 12,000euros – something that will happen during 2015 – will be decided in combination with our total scheduling of the budgetary issues, the everyday fiscal situation, and the framework of the negotiation that will decide on the plan of the budgetary policy and the general pro-growth policy after June.
Hatzinikolaou: As I understand it, it goes back in time; since the initial pledge of SYRIZA was that the 2015 incomes would have the tax-free of the 12,000euros.
Varoufakis: The Minister of Finance is a member of the government, but he is not a member of SYRIZA [speaking of himself].
Hatzinikolaou: This, of course, doesn't mean that you are not bounded by the pre-electoral pledges given by the party.
Varoufakis: These pledges were four-year pledges. And do not forget that we have a situation in Greece, right now, where for the first time in the history of Europe the government was elected, and the next day after the election we experienced an asphyxiating attack towards us – an attack that was pre-decided.
Hatzinikolaou: Is the scenario of 'sudden death' that I heard from the Irish Minister, true?
Varoufakis: I will not use such heavy phrases, but…
Hatzinikolaou: It was mentioned by the Irish Minister of Finance.
Varoufakis: No. What I can tell you is that my sources, and the high-end sources of the Commission…
Hatzinikolaou: Something is wrong with your microphone…
Varoufakis: I don't think so. I do not want to use heavy phrases. Now we are moving forward, but since you refer to this fact or scenario, my sources from the Commission (very high-end sources) tell me that the Commission wanted for our new government to be given a timeframe of at least 6-months, in order to walk in its own legs and begin negotiations with them.
It was the former government that insisted – and quite intensely for that matter – for the two-month extension, so that right when we got elected, and having already begun the de-stabilization of the banking system by creating a climate of insecurity to depositors, to find our government with its back on the wall by the first day. And this is something that did happen, Mr. Hatzinikolaou. The fact that we managed to surpass it today, and at the same time managed to cancel Hardouvelis's e-mail, is a very big success. Of course, it doesn't mean anything. It simply means that we can now sit down and work.
Hatzinikolaou: In your e-mail, however, I cannot see how the financial vacuum of this four-month period will be covered.
Varoufakis: You don't see it, because it doesn't exist. The goal of this reformist program is very simple: it was for the extension of the loan agreement to pass by the parliaments without the Memorandum. Because this was the necessary condition in order to move in the next step, which is the financial gap, and the one after, which is the negotiation for the growth of Greece. This is how we move, Mr. Hatzinikolaou, step by step. The first step has been successfully completed. We now move to the second and third one.
Hatzinikolaou: Final question for today. How did you interpret the reaction of Manolis Glezos? Does it concern you? Manolis Glezos has apologized to the voters of SYRIZA, because he too helped create the illusion that something will change after the elections.
Varoufakis: You know very well, Mr. Hatzinikolaou, the love and respect that we all have in the Left, but also generally, for Manolis Glezos. I am completely certain that if we were given the chance to talk with Manolis Glezos over a coffee and explain to him what we have achieved, and given that he was not isolated in Brussels, he would not have made this announcement.
I also believe that when we are finally given this opportunity to talk with Mr. Glezos, he will understand the great success that we just had. A success that puts an end to the automated austerity in Europe. It is a great contribution for the entirety of Europe. It does not mean that we have won the war, but it means that the axiom which wants austerity to be automated in Europe and the discussion in the Eurogroup to be a-political – we succeeded in changing all this.
I am sure that Mr. Glezos would be very proud of this, were we given the chance to explain it to him in person.
Correction: I had mistakenly written 2010, rather than 2020, as the target year for the goal of having the debt/GDP ratio at 120%. It is now corrected.


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Hey, I've been a forum member for aaages but never posted much as I've been more active on the UkMerpod FB page than anywhere else. I finally made a post the other day the realised I had never introduced myself. Oops, better late than never!
Anyway, I'm called Emily and I'm based in Brighton in the Uk, where I run the local branch of NoTanx freediving club 2 nights a week.
I got into mermaiding about 2 or 3 years ago after feeling really disconnected from my body (if that makes sense!) after having a child and a chronic back pain issue for several years.
Basically I just felt afraid to move my body unselfconsciously and it was really affecting my happiness and mental health generally. I knew I had to address what i was feeling but didn't really know how - but I had this memory of swimming underwater as a child, and of accidentally doing the undulating dolphin kick, and of it feeling really natural and like I was really 'in' my body and in the moment. I really linked that idea to feeling like a mermaid, and just kept thinking how cool it would be if there was somewhere that people who felt like I did could learn to swim like that and start to feel better about themselves.
To cut a long story short I joined my local freediving club with the idea of eventually creating the place where people could learn to reconnect with their bodies through freediving and mermaiding. 3 years on and I run a body positive mermaid business runnign mermaid experiences in small private pools and have just started a collaboration with the head freediving coach at my club running monthly mer-meets and holidays. It's basically changed my life, and I really want others to get to have a similarly transformative experience that I've had. I'm a curvy mer and one of the things that I love about the mermaid community is how inclusive it is of people of all sizes and nobody has ever tried to make me feel like I shouldn't be doing this because I'm not super slim.
I would love to meet more body positive mers and especially people who are in the UK/South Coast/Brighton area
This is me at Dive4Life in Germany last year. I'm going back in a couple of weeks and I can't wait! I'm the one in the yellow tail.


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Constructing a roster full of talent is necessary for success in the NHL as it undoubtedly is in all team-based professional sports. Evidently, it is also important that a coach deploys his artillery of talent in an optimal fashion. The magnitude of a player's impact is largely a product of opportunity. In hockey, opportunity comes in a few different forms – the most prominent one being ice time.
Now consider what we know about useful possession. Teams with better shot-attempt differentials are more likely to win a larger percentage of future games than those with poor shot-attempt differentials. Why? Because they are still capable of winning when the percentages don't swing in their favor. It is a coach's job to deploy his roster in a way that optimizes his team's Corsi differential and consequently improves their chances of success. In order to do so, better possession players need to be the beneficiaries of additional even strength ice time.
Below are a couple of charts that show the relationship between even strength ice time per game and Usage Adjusted Corsi% for forwards and defensemen sine 2007-08 (500+ 5v5 TOI)…
It seems as though NHL coaches have historically done a really poor job allocating ice time to defensemen who tilt the ice in the right direction. This is staggering considering that defensemen have virtually no bearing over on-ice percentages and therefore their possession rates are particularly illustrative of their effectiveness. The issue likely stems from a few misconceptions surrounding which attributes make a defenseman effective. There are obviously kinks in the evaluation process and the point of this piece to bring to light a few of these fatal fallacies.
In hockey, defense is used to describe anything that contributes to a team's ability to reduce the rate at which goals are scored against. The best way to reduce picking pucks out your own net is to suppress the opposition's rate of chances and attempts for. Jen Lute Costella (@RegressedPDO on Twitter) gave an outstanding presentation about shot suppression at the Pittsburgh Analytics Workshop back in November. Her point was basically that anything that increases the amount of time between your opponent's opportunities technically qualifies as shot suppression. That includes…
Defensive Zone
– Zone coverage
– Zone exits
Neutral Zone
– Preventing zone entries
– Entering the opposing team's defensive zone with or without control
Offensive Zone
– Sustaining offensive zone pressure
– Fore-checking (less applicable to defensemen)
As you can see, defense happens all over the ice. Too often we see NHL coaches lean on big physical blue liners like Brooks Orpik, Andrew MacDonald, Rob Scuderi etc who lack the ability to move the puck and sustain offensive zone pressure – the archetypal shut-down defenseman. Regardless of whether or not these types of defensemen are effective in their own zone, they often spend far too much time defending and as a result, rack up attempts/chances against at a very high rate.
This one ties also into the idea that defense is limited to the defensive zone. Coaches often attribute physicality to being reliable defensively but as noted earlier, defensive play goes far behind pinning an opposing forward along the wall and clearing the crease. To prove it we can look at hit totals for defensemen and test the correlation with goals against per 60.
Since defensemen who spend more time in their own zone tend to hit more frequently, we will adjust hits for possession by dividing hits by Corsi against
A correlation coefficient of 0.20664 suggests that there is a link, albeit a weak one, between hits per Corsi against and goals against per 60. This means that physicality does play a role in reducing a defenseman's goals against (which really isn't surprising). The issue in hockey is that the relationship between physicality and defensive ability is perceived as being much stronger and that leads to sub-par defensemen being over-utilized. The great thing about Corsi is that it is a macro-statistic and therefore a gritty defender's ability to reduce attempts against using his size is already captured within shot attempt measures. This dilemma is very similar to the over-emphasis of a Center's ability to win face-offs: causal factor with a marginal influence on Corsi differential.
The objective in hockey is to out-score your opposition and thus it makes sense that production is such a highly sought after commodity in the NHL. The hockey analytics movement has changed the way we measure point production by shifting from units per game to units per 60 minutes. This way we can even-handedly compare players who receive differing amounts of ice time per game. Just like most measures in hockey, point scoring is also subject to random noise from season to season as on-ice shooting percentages and individual point percentages flux uncontrollably.
The following charts tests the repeatability of 5v5 Points/60 from season-to-season since 2007-08 (500+ 5v5 TOI)…
As you can see, even strength production is much more repeatable for forwards than it is defensemen. That shouldn't be surprising given the fact that high scoring forwards do have the ability to sustain high on-ice shooting percentages to a certain degree whereas high scoring defensemen do not. Here is another look at how 5v5 Points/60 regresses to the mean from season to season for forward and defensemen (each bucket contains 150 skaters)…
Regardless of his rate of production in year 1, a defensemen should be expected to finish within 0.60-0.85 points per / 60 at even strength in his subsequent season. That isn't a large spread. The disparity we see between defensemen who consistently finish with a large sum of points year over year compared to those who don't is largely the result of opportunity in the form of ice time.
The reality is that the National Hockey League is just starting to scrape the surface of analytics and their application to the decision-making process. A variety of inefficiencies still persist waiting for teams to either exploit or fall victim to and that definitely includes the way the market assesses defensemen. As time progresses along with conceptual understandings, the line between the terms offense and defense will become blurred and thus the evaluation of blue liners will drastically imrpove. For now we wait and pull our hair out as the Dion Phaneufs and Marc Staals of the world sign off on massive contracts and continue to be excessively deployed and relied on to "shutdown" opposing teams' top lines.


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Bains Connective is an art laboratory with a multidisciplinary residency program. In 1997 a group of artists from different backgrounds invested in the renovation of the former swimming pool of Vorst/Forest in Brussels, to create a space for experimentation. The project was mainly driven by the desire to share, exchange and sustain alternative artistic practices in an autonomous environment.
In 2006 Bains Connective received funding to continue creating contexts for experiment, exchange and collaboration between artists. The workspace hosts residencies for national and international artists, organizes research groups around given themes and curates public events in relation to those programs.
In June 2009 Bains Connective moved out of the former swimming pool and is now based on the first floor of GC Ten Weyngaert in the same commune.


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Update: Palaniswamy submits lists of MLAs to Governor, claims to have 135 of them in support.Panneerselvam will also meet Governor today.
Newly elected AIADMK Legislature Party Leader Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday met governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao and staked claim to form the government.
Update: Governor Ch Vidayasagar Rao to meet newly elected AIADMK Legislature Party leader Edappadi K Palaniswami and others at 5.40 PM: Raj Bhavan.
Chennai: The Supreme Court has convicted the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kadzhagam (AIADMK) general secretary V K Sasikala, along with two others in a 20-year -old Disproportionate Assets (DA) case on Tuesday, coming as a twist to the political crisis in Tamil Nadu. The order has been issued at a time when Sasikala had staked a claim to become the Chief Minister of the State, replacing O Panneerselvam.
However, State highways minister Edappadi Palanisamy has been elected as AIADMK legislative party leader. A team led by Edappady Palanisamy wud meet Governor in charge and stake claim to form Government.
Panneerselvam has been expelled from the party.
This means VK Sasikala won't be able to contest elections for next 10 years. TV reports claimed that Sasikala broke down after hearing the verdict at the resort she was staying.
This is the same resort where AIADMK MLAs were staying. Special forces have been deployed at the resort. Sasikala will be taken into immediate custody.
Sasikala will now have to spend more than three years in the prison. She will not be able to contest for public office for six years after serving her sentence in prison.
B V Acharya, a former advocate general, said "This shows judiciary is independent and however powerful you are, you cannot escape.
He added that a review is not permissible in a criminal case. It is a unanimous decision of two judges.
Rival DMK's Working President M K Stalin said, " it is a historical judgement. After 21 years, justice has been restored. Politicians should be clean in public life. He urged the governor to bring a stable government in the state.
It may be noted that while Sasikala has staked claim to form the government, with support claimed from around 129 MLAs in the party, C Vidyasagar Rao, who is the Governor in charge of Tamil Nadu, has not invited her to form the government. O Panneerselvam, who resigned on February 5 as Chief Minister paving way for Sasikala to claim the position, on February 7 came out with allegation that he was forced to sign the resignation, instigating a revolt within the party against Sasikala and family. He was later joined by almost seven MLAs and 12 MPs over seven days, while Sasikala took all the MLAs to a resort near Chennai in order to keep them together during the crisis. Several party officials were expelled by Sasikala for switching sides to Panneerselvam faction. The delay, which has created a crisis in the State government, was said to be due to the governor's decision to wait for the verdict on the DA case.
With the Supreme Court ruling against Sasikala and others, her chances to become the Chief Minister of the state are now ruled out, though she can appoint some trusted party leader to the post, similar to what Jayalalithaa did twice when she was convicted in cases and lost the Chief Ministership. It may be noted that twice, in 2001 and 2014, when Jayalalithaa was convicted by the Courts, Panneerselvam took over as the Chief Minister, who gave back the position when Jayalalithaa returned with favourable verdicts.
The order could also prompt more MLAs to join the Panneerselvam faction, which could give strength for him to form a government, if he gets external support.
The bench comprising of Justices P C Ghose and Amitava Roy, after hearing the appeals of the state government and DMK leader K Anbazhagan concluded the hearing on June 7, 2016. The order comes in an appeal filed by the Karnataka government against a verdict of Karnataka High Court in 2015, acquitting the then AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa, her close aide Sasikala and her relatives J Elavarasi, V Sudhakaran.
Justice C R Kumaraswamy of Karnataka High Court, in May 11, 2015, upheld an appeal by Jayalalithaa and others, against an order issued by John Michael D'Cunha, the special court judge, on September 27, 2014, convicting Jayalalithaa under Section 13 (1) (E) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and sentencing the four of them for four years of imprisonment and Rs 100 crore penalty to Jayalalithaa and Rs 10 crore each as fine from Sasikala, Ilavarasi and Sudhakaran. Following the special court order, Jayalalithaa and others were immediately taken to judicial custody and had to spend around three weeks in a prison in Bengaluru. O Panneerselvam replaced Jayalalithaa, who was a Chief Minister during the time, since she was disqualified as an MLA and he returned the position when Jayalalithaa was acquitted by the High Court in May, 2015.
Justice Kumaraswamy, in his order, stated that the quantum of disproportionate assets in J Jayalalithaa's case was a mere Rs 2.82 crore instead of Rs 66.44 crore, as had been alleged in the case and this amount is within permissible limits. "The percentage of disproportionate assets is 8.12 per cent. It is relatively small. In the instant case, the disproportionate asset is less than 10 per cent and it is within permissible limit. Therefore, Accused are entitled for acquittal," said the order.
However, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and others have alleged that this finding was due to an erroneous calculation and an amount of Rs 13.5 crore was erroneously added to the income, which brought down the quantum of disproportionate asset.
The disproportionate-asset case dates back to 1996, when Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) General-Secretary K Anbazhagan filed a complaint, claiming Jayalalithaa had amassed Rs 66.65 crore of wealth that was disproportionate with her known sources of income. In a raid carried out in 1997 in connection with this case, 800 kg silver, 28 kg gold, 750 pairs of shoes, 10,500 saris, 91 watches and other items were seized from Jayalalithaa's Chennai residence.
Later, on a petition filed by Anbazhagan, who expressed his doubt over conduct of a fair trial in Chennai with Jayalalithaa as Tamil Nadu chief minister, the Supreme Court transferred the case to a Bangalore special court in 2003.
The case also has mentioned several entities involved in the alleged DA creation including Indo Doha Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Signora Business Enterprises (P) Ltd, Ramraj Agro Mills Ltd, Lex Property Development (P) Ltd, Meadow Agro Farms (Pvt) Ltd, Riverway Agro Products (P) Ltd, among others.


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If you don't want a very very disturbing insight into the kind of things that get me off, best turn away now, and skip reading this post entirely. Otherwise, welcome to the freakdom that is me.
My flatmate asked me how my night was and where I went when I got up for lunch. I had to omit certain bits of information for the sake of his sanity. I went to a clubnight called Crimson, recommended to Joel and I by the amazing woman who runs Edgeplay at Mass in Brixton. It's a rather expensive (£20 entry fee) fetish night, along the lines of Torture Garden, but pretty much anything goes, which is why the edgeplay woman told us to come in the first place. Dress code entry, which was fetish/burlesque/medical/uniforms/anything bizzare and out there. I was in stupidly tight black trousers, my poet shirt, a gold brocade waistcoat which i'd just finished making, and my venetian mask. Joel wore black trousers, a white shirt, PVC opera gloves, and his cyborg contact. Seany was in leathers, and Adam was in rubber.
Being our first time, we weren't sure what exactly we'd be let in the door with, 'toys'-wise, so opted for nothing to be safe, but turns out the answer truly is anything goes. Skipping the usual Collared to attend Crimson, there was a much bigger emphasis on play rather than just socializing with kinky friends. There was loads of amazing dungeon furniture, violet wands, pinwheels, the standard flogging etc, furries of course, Joel and Seany got a decent crowd watching them when seany was strapped into what can only be described as a bondage chair with a nipple clamp rack attachment. I saw a lot more people biting and scratching each other than the solitary couple at Fangtasia the week before. The crowd was pretty young and varied, there were some very attractive couples there, an amazingly hot boy in a leathery/rubbery kilt, plenty of eye candy all round really, and if that wasn't enough, there were the bits of play to watch - the medical area which had needleplay, and corset piercings happening all night had me captivated; there was a very funky suspension bondage spectacle, which was a lot better and a lot safer than the one performed at Fangtasia, and there was a very convincing rapeplay demo - clothes were actually ripped, there was spitting, biting, kicking, bleeding, and at the end of it all the girl had a huge grin on her face and was laughing hysterically, just before you all get worried. Certainly not the sort of thing I would have seen at Collared, it would have sent most of them running. Joel and I were glued to the performance of course :P
Despite being an expensive night, it's definitely one I plan to do again and again, and the consensus from the other 3 was the same. I just need to build up an array of outfits to actually go in :P But to sum up, the things you have learnt from this post, are I like biting, scratching, bleeding, sharp pointy things, and rapeplay. YOu thought I was wierd, but I bet you never would have guessed this weird....
Yes I did just spell that 2 different ways in the same sentence.
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Iranian throws shoes at Ahmadinejad - Not the first or the last Shoe-Thrower
In the Middle East, showing the souls of your feet, or worse still underside of your shoes, is akin to spitting or giving someone the finger. A mark of utter disrespect. It is to say in old English speak, I bite my thumb at thee.
An Iranian Web site says an unemployed man threw his shoes Monday at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to protest the lack of available work.
CNN reported the Web site Ghased News said the man missed Ahmadinejad, hitting a banner behind him instead.
CNN said it could not independently confirm the report.
The event allegedly happened in the northern city of Sari during a memorial for an oil minister who died last year, Ghased News reported.
The report said attendees at the event beat the 45-year-old man until security forces intervened. The thrower was identified only as Rashid S., a Sari resident once jailed for throwing eggs and tomatoes at former President Mohammad Khatami.
The textile worker had been out of work for a year.
CNN said throwing shoes is a sign of deep disrespect in Arab countries, but is not an Iranian tradition. In December 2008, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in protest of the 2003 U.S. invasion.
The reporter was released after nine months in jail.
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- Who's been a naughty boy? Ahmadinejad may receive '74 lashes' for electoral mishap
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- Iraqi shoe thrower's release delayed
- Iraqi reporter throws his shoes on Bush
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A Vancouver neighbourhood group has asked a B.C. Supreme Court judge to review B.C. Assessment's decision to drastically reduce the appraisal value for Oakridge Centre, a massive redevelopment site.
In 2014, after Vancouver council approved a site rezoning that would conditionally allow developers to build a mixed-use village, including 45-storey towers and about 3,000 condos, the property was assessed at $867 million. Site owner Ivanhoe Cambridge successfully appealed to the Property Assessment Review Panel, and the eight-block Cambie Corridor site was reassessed at $500 million. Under B.C.'s assessment act, land owners and the review panel can come to private agreements on reassessed value, which don't have to be made public.
The South Vancouver Parks Society believes that B.C. Assessment's procedures weren't transparent and didn't fairly account for the development value of the site. The society is arguing that Vancouver citizens have lost significant property-tax revenue with the reassessment decision. President Glen Chernen said the society estimates the annual tax revenue lost will be about $1.94 million. Chernen said he believes there are a number of similar cases involving reassessments of lucrative development properties in Vancouver.
"This is much more than a single, privately arranged, $367-million value reduction," Chernen said. "It's a small piece of a wider B.C. problem, where government-owned land interests are traded, valued and dealt, without public knowledge or involvement."
The society challenged the Oakridge Centre reassessment with the Property Assessment Appeal Board this summer, asking to know the reasons behind the site's value reduction. The board rejected the disclosure request, saying the reasons weren't relevant.
The board upheld the assessor's decision to revalue Oakridge Centre at $500 million. Now, the society has applied in B.C. Supreme Court for a review of the board's ruling.
The society's lawyer in the case, Bob Kasting, said he will argue the board failed to acquire the proper evidence to fulfil its purpose of finding the true value of Oakridge Centre.
"The board is supposed to get the true value of the property. But the assessment act allows for the property owner and the assessor to make a deal that doesn't go public. And that is really what they've done here," Kasting said. "Somehow the $867 million went down to $500 million. We don't know why. And in this case, the board said, 'I don't even need to know why.' "
A central point to the board's ruling this summer, Kasting said, was the board had two accepted ways of assessing the "highest and best-use" value of Oakridge Centre: either as vacant land with redevelopment potential or in its current commercial usage as a rent-producing mall. Chernen argued to the board that Oakridge Centre should be valued for its maximum rezoning potential. Using the estimate of an independent assessor, Chernen said the site's true value was between $750 million and $1.1 billon.
Generally, in B.C.'s assessment system, the "theoretical focus of highest and best-use analysis is on the potential uses of the land as though vacant," the board wrote in its ruling. The board, however, ruled that Chernen and the independent assessor didn't support their rezoning-value case with reliable evidence, including feasibility studies.
"It may have been helpful to the board to have had a highest and best-use analysis that reflected the subject's reality as a transitional property that was continuing its successful operation over the course of its planned development," the board wrote.
The society will argue that the board should have asked for such an analysis or agreed with Chernen's request for the board to review B.C. Assessment's original 2014 analysis valuing the Oakridge Centre site at $867 million.
"We're saying that is not good enough," Kasting said. "They, the board, have the right to go back and ask the parties to provide that evidence."
Ivanhoe Cambridge is expected to make applications in early December to have the case tossed out, Kasting said. If the society proves its right to argue the case in B.C. Supreme Court, the case will be heard next spring.
A spokesman for Ivanhoe Cambridge said the company will not comment on the case.
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This issue has presented on both of my Dell computers with version 15063.332. I wanted to go through the route of changing the region as has been suggested to work here. I have gone through the regions listing several times now & fail to find "Gabon." Can anyone tell me which UTC # is associated with Gabon? TIA
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Chicken Momos Recipe – Steamed Momos – ചിക്കൻ മോമോസ്2017-03-16
- Cuisine: Continental
- Course: Snacks, Starter
- Skill Level: Moderate
- Yield : 10
- Servings : 2
- Prep Time : 20m
- Cook Time : 15m
- Ready In : 35m
Chicken Momos Recipe – Steamed Momos – ചിക്കൻ മോമോസ്
Chicken Momo is a delicious appetizer, it can be steamed or fried. This is a non-vegetarian Tibetan dish famous as a street food snack. This dish is a type of dumpling and mainly relished as a main course by Tibetans. Minced chicken marinated in aromatic spices and stuffed in flour wrap and steamed is an amazing dish to munch on.
Traditionally cooked momos are dumplings filled with a choice of spiced minced meat or vegetables and then steamed or fried as per choice. This makes a very delicious appetizer or a perfect starter for kids.
It is also a healthy and nutritious snack. Momos are slightly similar to the dim-sums, wontons or the Chinese dumplings. The deep fried momos are known as Kothey and they are usually served with a dipping sauce normally consisting of tomatoes as the base ingredient. Each region has their own variation of preparing the momos. Some add tomatoes in the filling while some use beef mince.
Chicken is also rich in phosphorus, an essential mineral that supports your teeth and bones, as well as kidney, liver, and central nervous system function. The protein in chicken lends itself to muscle growth and development, and help support a healthy body weight and aid weight loss. It is also rich in phosphorus which helps to maintain strong teeth and bones.
Try out this yummy snack at your home.
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- For Dough: - Maida - 1 1/2 cup ( 200 gm )
- Water - 1/2 cup ( 100 ml )
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- For Filling : - Onion - 2 nos ( chopped )
- Chicken - 400 gm
- Garlic - 3 cloves ( chopped )
- Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp ( chopped )
- Green chilly - 3 nos ( chopped )
- Soya sauce - 1 tsp
- Pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
- Salt to taste
Step 1
Take a bowl and add all purpose flour ( maida ), salt, 2 tbsp of oil, water and knead well to make a soft dough. Cover it with a cloth and keep it aside for 30 minutes.
Step 2
For chicken keema or minced chicken, add the chicken pieces into mixer grinder and grind it for 3 minutes. Chicken keema is ready.
Step 3
In another bowl add chicken mince, onions, garlic, green chilly, coriander leaves, soya sauce, salt, oil and mix well.
Step 4
By using the dough, make small sized balls. Roll this balls in the shape of chapati. Then take any glass of round corners and press it on the pressed dough to make many small circles.
Step 5
Place the stuffing at the center and wet the edges with water. Fold the edges towards the center.
Step 6
Heat an appa chembu or a steamer and also brush it slightly with oil. Place momos in a steamer and steam for about 10 minutes on medium flame. After 10 minutes, switch off the flame. Open the steamer after 5 minutes.
Step 7
Yummy Chicken Momos are ready.
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About Paleo
There are several reasons for this sudden change but one is most important. As you know, I have mentioned it several times, but I have an intolerance to Gluten (pretty sure it is to ALL grains). When we go shopping, I end up picking up one package of Brown Rice Pasta and I often cook Quinoa (which is a better choice but still grain). You may not know that I have an autoimmune disease, hashimoto's disease.
So, let's get a little uncomfortable… Let's challenge ourselves…. We are throwing it out!!!!
We have watched a few friends try out Paleo and seen there results. I have also searched blogs and seen their results.
What is Paleo???
It's easy to emulate the healthy diet and lifestyle of our Paleolithic ancestors. Lean proteins, fruits, veggies and good fats. With a very simple shift we not only remove the foods that are at odds with our health (grains, legumes, and dairy) but we also increase our intake of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
How will this help my Autoimmunity???
Many people have found significant improvements in autoimmune disease by eliminating the Neolithic foods (grains, legumes, and dairy) and building a diet around nutritious Paleo options.
We have found (and liked) that Paleo is not a "One Fits All Plan" more of a here are the guidelines, customize how you want!
Here is the basics.
The Paleo diet is built from the healthiest, most nutritious foods available:
- Lean proteins that support strong muscles, healthy bones and optimal immune function. Protein also makes you feel satisfied between meals.
- Fruits and vegetables rich in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients that have been shown to decrease the likelihood of developing a number of degenerative diseases including cancer, diabetes and neurological decline.
- Healthy fats from nuts, seeds, avocados, olive oil, fish oil and grass-fed meat. Scientific research and epidemiological studies show that diets rich in Monounsaturated and Omega-3 fats dramatically reduce the instances of obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and cognitive decline.
I am really excited to blog about our journey and I hope that you continue to follow. Meals are still going to be delicious and full of flavor.
It is going to take me a little bit to get started but I plan on posting our entire day of meals. I want to do that for a couple of reasons but most importantly to keep myself accountable. I am ready to "stop making excuses" and get back to my pre-pregnancy body, actually, I want to improve that… I would like to be comfortable and confident and most importantly healthy (inside and out!)
Who is with me??? Anyone want to take this challenge with me???
Some good Paleo resources: (I will continue to add here)
The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf
March 7, 2012 3:37 pm
Thanks for this – our d-i-l has Hashimotos – and our grandbabies might. Looking forward to more please. Thanks
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We're going to try it! Love your recipes and can't wait to start! Thank you for sharing!
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About Fast Film
Austria/Luxembourg 2003, 14 min.
35 mm, color, 1:1,66, Dolby Digital
"Fast Film" is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three dimensional objects.
A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters. This classic plot conceals an hommage to action movies. In 14 minutes, Fast Film (a play on words, English fast and German fast, meaning "almost") provides a tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood. The filmmakers printed out some 65,000 individual images from 300 films, folded them into paper objects, arranged them in complex tableaux, and then brought them to life with an animation camera in a two-year production process.
Peter Tscherkassky on Fast Film
A kiss, a happy couple. But then, the woman is kidnapped, and the man sets off to save her. A dramatic rescue story full of wild chase scenes begins. The audience is taken to the center of the Earth and the enemy's headquarters. On its surface, Fast Film tells a simple story. The catch is that all its scenes were taken from 300 different works produced in the course of film history, and the heroes change identities an equal number of times. But as in Virgil Widrich's Copy Shop (2001), the extraordinary technology used during production is the first thing that stands out about Fast Film. No less than 65,000 paper printouts of individual images were employed. After being folded into thousands of objects such as planes and train cars and arranged in complex tableaux, they were photographed with a simple digital camera and loaded into a computer image by image. At least three different images, the background, the foreground image and an intermediate zone, were used to make up each frame. In certain sequences, this increases to 30 visual layers. The fast and furious story of Fast Film unfolds on the surfaces of the paper objects. Its twists and turns are so well thought-out that additional details can be found in each viewing. What was initially intended to be an homage to action movies breaks new ground in the genre because of its extreme density. This tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood, lasts just 14 minutes: truly a fast film which could hardly be more furious. (Peter Tscherkassky)
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