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Once again another month has come and brought with it another fabulous Ipsy bag!
This month's theme was "The Look of Love"
I think the actual cosmetic bags have really improved over the 14 months I have been a subscriber. This months is pink and has a pink and white cheetah print inside.
Here's what was inside:
First up:
Tini Beauty
Eyetini Cordial Cream Shadow + Base In One
"Say goodbye to creasing and fading with Eyetini Eye Cordial Shadow Tint & Base. Eye Cordial's revolutionary formula glides on beguiling creamy color and sets to a transfer-resistant finish that doubles as a wear-extending base under powder shadow." Full size $18
I got Spiced Rum a gorgeous copper color and it is really pigmented, but can also be sheared out.
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Do I Have Rats or Mice? If you think you have some unwelcome visitors taking refuge in your home, there are certain signs you can look for to be sure.
Look for -
Droppings: Mouse droppings are about the size of rice grains; rat droppings are about the size of a raisin.
Tracks: Scatter a small patch of flour or talcum powder on the floor along the wall or in likely places. Put a cracker or a piece of bread spread with peanut butter in the middle of your "tracking patch." Check for tracks the next day.
Burrows: Check in weedy places, under boards, under dog houses and near garbage cans or dumpsters.
Gnawings: Any little hole with chewed edges is a sure sign. Check your pantry for chewed packages. Look for shredded paper. Look for tooth marks.
Sound: Listen for gnawing or scratching in walls or attics, especially at night.
Nests: Chewed paper or cloth (including gloves, carpet, clothes) are often found in boxes, drawers, basements or attics.
Odor: A musty odor usually indicates mice, not rats, are present.
If you think you have a rat or mouse problem, schedule a pest inspection today!

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Happy Saturday everyone! I am Jill from Chevron and Centers. We had field day last week and I would like to share some of our wonderful memories with you!
I love field day almost as much as my kinders do! They look forward to that magical day in May as soon as April rolls around. This year our AMAZING P.E. teachers as well as specials teachers planned an Olympic field day.
Each class is assigned a country. Our class got Austria. We did some research and found out a lot of cool facts about Austria! Did you know that Edward Hass invented the PEZ candy in 1928. My kinders didn't know what PEZ candy was so we had a taste test. Austria is known for its cakes and pastries. The Sound of Music was filmed in Austria!
We started our event with a parade of the countries! Our school is very large we have 850 students and we are only a K-2 school!! So half of our school does field day on Thursday and the other half on Friday. So the other classes sit out in the hallways and cheer for the parade. It is so much fun!!
My sweet kids getting ready!
Team America leading the parade! I love our specials teachers they are amazing and I couldn't imaging teaching without them!
The lighting of the torch. One of my sweet kinders had the honor!!!
We participated in several dances from different countries!
Our blurry congo line:)
Water relays are always a favorite. They love every minute of them!
Who doesn't love getting to soak your friends ha! I don't have any pictures of the squirt your teacher race but it was fun! The kids don't know that we also have a squirt bottle!!! Their faces are priceless when we fire back:)
I absolutely love these pictures of the long jump!
Next up is tug-of-war. Check out those game faces!!!
And to finish off the day the kiddos asked for selfies with me. How could you say no to those faces. I am going to miss these kiddos so very much! I have loved every minute of watching them grow and learn. They will be fabulous firsties and I am so very proud of them!
Thank you for stopping by the Kinder tribe to check out our field day festivities! Does your school have a field day? Please comment below and tell us all about it!!!


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Schuler didn't testify during the four-day nonjury trial, and she and her attorneys declined to address the judge before he sentenced her.
Stacy Schuler, Ex-Ohio Teacher, Convicted Of Having Sex With 5 Students
US district judge Jeffrey Miller's ruling came after a nonjury trial between the Department of Justice and the family, who sought $56m for emotional and monetary loss.
Mr. Livoti was acquitted during a 1996 nonjury trial by Judge Gerald Sheindlin.
Another suspect, 21-year-old Rudy Guede, has already been convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison at a fast-track nonjury trial in October for his part in Kercher's murder.
This was a nonjury trial, which meant that the only person I had to preach to was the judge; but the courtroom was still filled.
The verdict was rendered on Thursday by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Neil Ross following a seven-day nonjury trial.
About 75 spectators crowded the courtroom of U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III for the start of the nonjury trial.
The thrust of my remarks was not to commend nonjury trials over jury trials as being inherently superior but rather to argue that the availability of swift nonjury trials might be an effective way of reducing the number of guilty pleas.
Philadelphia does have a higher percentage of nonjury trials and a lesser number of guilty pleas than almost any other city in the country, a phenomenon to which I was referring in my review when I cited the Harvard Law Review study by Professor Schulhofer.
Definite figures are available for the federal courts showing that (for the year ending June 1981) only about 17 percent of felony trials were nonjury (United States Department of Justice, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1982, Table 5.18).


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Gordon's men's basketball team went 10–0 in Guatemala and El Salvador earlier this month. But the scores, of course, don't capture the real story in an outing like this. (And to be fair, they were 0–1 in soccer matches, losing their only game to a group of wiry 12-year-olds.)
Once every few years, the NCAA permits basketball teams to take a trip abroad to play exhibition games against foreign college, semi-professional and professional teams. For most schools, this is a way to rack up valuable on-court time (outside of the league's stringent in-season restrictions) while gaining some fun international exposure. But for these 17 Gordon student-athletes, the chance to travel abroad and play basketball also represented an opportunity to serve the communities they visited and to share the gospel.
Working in partnership with a ministry called Sports Ambassadors, the players travelled to various sites across the two Central American nations, playing games with local and national teams, and running basketball clinics at schools for kids from six years old to high school age. "The clinics were absolute chaos," said Keith Krass, assistant coach and a trip leader, "but they were really fun, too." At some schools, there were over 200 children—divided into six stations, each led by a couple team members.
At each stop, a member of the team would share a brief testimony with the group assembled. The local pastor who travelled with the athletes would then offer a simple gospel message and an invitation to commit or recommit to Christ.
"An American team coming to these towns creates a lot of excitement," said Krass. But the ministry was careful not to rest its outreach solely on the buzz the team generated. "The goal was ultimately to connect them with the local church." Those who responded to the message each filled out an information card for follow-up with Christian communities in their area—and though it is difficult to measure the longterm endurance of highly charged responses like these, it is certainly an encouragement to know that Sports Ambassadors collected over 1,500 cards as a result of the 11-day Gordon basketball tour.
The trip also served as an opportunity for the team to get closer in preparation for the 2012–2013 season. With the testimonies they shared, hours spent on airplanes and busses, communal fatigue, confronting problems of poverty and developing world issues, and living and eating together for nearly two weeks, the group built a solid foundation of friendship upon which it will be able to pursue greater athletic achievement in the coming year.
Photo: Gordon's men's basketball team posing with their evening's opposition in Chimaltengo, Guatemala.


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In 1993 Greg Bruni, vice president executive winemaker at Lubbock's Llano Estacado Winery (www.llanowine.com), came here from California and tasted what Llano Estacado's previous winemaker Don Brady did.
Bruni recalled, "I thought this guy was a genius. Don did an admiral job of figuring out how to make good wines in Texas."
So, what propelled Bruni to make the break from the high echelons of California winemaking to apply his skills in Texas on the wine frontier?
In the '80s Bruni created the Byington Winery for its owner. He worked with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the hills around San Jose, Calif. Bruni said, "This was a viticultural region with some very big footprints left by legends like Paul Masson, Charles Lefranc and Martin Ray."
This is where Bruni demonstrated his ability to make fine wines, but his winery experiences went further back to his teenage years working in the Bruni family San Martin Winery.
Bruni and his wife Sharendale realized that, even though they were living at the mountain-top Byington Winery in California's Santa Cruz Mountains surrounded by a redwood forest, their two divergent careers dictated a serious break in their routines. They looked for something different that would give Bruni a creative challenge while bringing them closer together.
Bruni said, "Sharendale often mused that she wanted me to take her somewhere that was flat, without trees. Maybe I took her a bit too literally, but when the opportunity came to make wine in Lubbock, it seemed to fit all of our needs."
Before coming to Texas, Bruni realized there weren't yet many trained practitioners in the Texas wine industry.
Bruni knew he was an experienced practitioner and believed he could make a difference. But, he confessed that he liked working with visionaries. So when he met now Llano Estacado's President and CEO Mark Hyman, he realized that Hyman was the visionary partner he sought.
Bruni saw Hyman as a teammate that would provide him valuable market focus to pair with his winemaking abilities to make a successful business and career at Llano Estacado Winery.
Describing his proudest achievement in Texas so far, Bruni said, "I'm proud of our team of young winemaking professionals at Llano Estacado that includes winemaker Chris Hull, enologist Jason Hook and assistant winemaker Jason Centanni.
"I've tried to give them opportunities to experiment, learn from hands-on involvement, and create the future. I believe that it's young professionals like these that will make the best wines Texas has ever tasted."
Featured Texas Wines
Llano Estacado 2010 Chardonnay, Monte Sec Vineyard - Unoaked, a lean yet flavorful statement of Chardonnay without oak wine, sensuality enhanced with cold fermentation and lees contact yielding a fresh tropical character. $11.99
Llano Estacado 2010 Texas High Plains, Merlot, Newsom Vineyard, a balanced wine offering smooth red plums and crisp fresh cherries followed by moist dark earth, smoke and vanilla. $16.99
Check for these wines at United, Market Street, Spec's, Randalls and Tom Thumb.
Suggested pairing
For a wine pairing with Angelina La Rue's Food Made Fresh TexMex Cassoulet, I suggest Llano Estacado Viva Rossa, a fun wine made from grapes originating in Piedmonte, Italy, in the province of Alessandria. In the tradition of this region Viva Rosso is made in a style that is slightly spritzy and low in alcohol. Served chilled. $10.99 at Lubbock United Supermarkets.


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Suzie's Cafe
Suzies Cafe in Stirling, Stirlingshire, is an internet café.
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We are Scotland's favourite Australian Themed Bar & Grill House, located in the heart of Stirling.
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Newsagent for the Newhouse area. Foodstore with parking available
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Voted the DRAM Gastropub of the Year, you won't find a more friendly welcome anywhere in central Scotland.
Clark and Drummond LTD
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Maharaja offers Authentic Indian Cuisine and is locally known as the best Indian restaurant in town.
Stirling Family Butchers
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District Woman Indicted For First-Degree Murder While Armed In March 2013 Slaying Of Her Husband-Shooting Took Place At Couple's Apartment-
WASHINGTON - Diana Lalchan, 28, of Washington, D.C., has been indicted on charges of first-degree murder while armed and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence for the slaying earlier this year of her husband, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
A grand jury returned the indictment on Nov. 21, 2013 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Lalchan pled not guilty to the charges at her arraignment today. The Honorable Ronna L. Beck has set a trial date of March 3, 2014. If convicted, Lalchan faces a potential sentence of life in prison.
According to the government's evidence, on March 28, 2013, at approximately 12:05 a.m., Lalchan called 911 and reported that she had just shot her husband inside their apartment in the 1200 block of Fourth Street SW. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) responded to the scene and found her inside the apartment, holding a cell phone. Police found her husband, Christopher Lalchan, 36, lying on the floor, unconscious and unresponsive. Mr. Lalchan was suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the back of the head. The defendant was placed under arrest. A search of the residence revealed a semi-automatic handgun and three shell casings on the floor.
Lalchan had been married to Mr. Lalchan since October of 2008. After the shooting, Lalchan told police that her husband had asked her to come home on the evening of March 27, 2013, so that the two could have a meeting regarding their marriage. After having dinner, Lalchan said that an argument ensued that escalated and de-escalated for several hours. Ultimately, according to the government's evidence, she fired three shots at Mr. Lalchan. According to the forensic evidence, the first shot was fired into the kitchen. The second shot was fired into the back of Mr. Lalchan's head. A third shot was fired next to his head.
An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a violation of criminal law and is not evidence of guilt. Every defendant is presumed innocent until, and unless, proven guilty.
In announcing the indictment, U.S. Attorney Machen commended the work of the MPD detectives and officers who investigated the case. He also acknowledged the efforts of those who worked on the case from the U.S. Attorney's Office, including Paralegal Specialists Kelly Blakeney and Mia Beamon; Criminal Investigators Nelson Rhone, John Marsh, and Tommy Miller; Victim/Witness Advocates Tamara Ince and Marcia Rinker, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Cynthia Wright, who is prosecuting the matter.13-403


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We believe.
And we believe hard.
We believe that solopreneurialism should come in all shapes and sizes.
Confused, messed up and inexperienced? We believe the world needs you all the same.
Can't seem to commit to anything? We LOVE that about you.
Don't feel like you measure up to the rest? We believe you're using the wrong yard stick.
If you have the faintest flame in your heart for doing something good with your time on this Earth, we believe in you.
If you have a story to tell, we believe you can – and must – find a way to tell it.
We believe in earning a good living…simply by being just who you are.
We believe in the right to do business in a way that uplifts your spirit…AND your bank account.
We believe in sincerity over status. Authenticity over illusion. Generosity over greed.
In celebrating the things that matter (and not how many names are on that list).
We believe in YOU.
Because…why not?
We want to see…
We want to see more people starting businesses they love…and staying in love with them.
There are too many crazy, beautiful, inspiring, change-making people in this world not doing what they are here to do.
Not being crazy.
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Not making the change they know they can make.
And we want to see an end to that.
We know we play only a small part, but that's the whole point: all the small parts add up.
If everyone played their own little role, just think what we can achieve as a whole.
We want to see fewer people holding back from playing their part because they're not sure who they are, or why they matter.
We want to see YOU doing your thing, doing it well, and getting paid well for doing it well.
Because…why shouldn't you?
We're committed to…
To proving that you CAN be successful…without sacrificing your soul.
To saying it like it is. (Sugar-coating only leads to one place in the end: disappointment).
To being vulnerable where it counts. To being who we are – fearlessly.
To keeping it simple. Easy to understand. Using as few words as possible.
To sharing what we know or feel, without claiming to be 'expert' at anything.
To listening to others (while staying true to our own instincts).
We're committed to being the best catalyst we can be for good things to happen.
To inspire people to do what they can – right now – with what they have.
To doing more, with less.
For the confused to be confused…and do it anyway.
The overwhelmed to be overwhelmed…and do it anyway.
The insecure to feel insecure…and do it anyway.
We're committed to marketing in a way that is ethical, and loving – not manipulative and aggressive.
To focusing more on giving than getting.
To trusting that our instincts are always right (no matter how questionable they may seem to others).
To running this business first from the heart, then from the mind. Doing things because they feel right in our heart, not because they look good on paper.
We make people feel…
In a word: Validated.
We also make them feel (in no particular order of importance):
Like they've come home to themselves.
Our Magic Ingredient.
We have something that makes us special.
That 'something' is our archetypal approach to business and branding.
We're not the first to use archetypes in this way, and we're absolutely certain that we won't be the last.
But over the years, we've learned a thing or two about how to bring things to light that have been hidden for too long.
We've learned how to take the intangible, and make it tangible. (And yes, it almost does feel like magic).
There's no
Just a way of doing business that's rooted in time-tested, solid, psychological theory.
Our methods may be inspired by Carl Jung, but they evolve (and continue to evolve) through hands-on experience.
Our Primary Archetype Test has been taken 41, 780 times (at the time of writing this manifesto in March 2017).
We've helped hundreds and hundreds of
We've witnessed validation at a raw level. Tears of joy, tears of confusion – and everything in between.
We've witnessed epiphanies, breakdowns, the birth of new ventures, and changes of direction.
All because of our commitment to growing our knowledge and experience of archetypes, and the role they play in soulful
Others may copy our work, or lift our words. But we know where we've been, and that experience can't be replicated.
And we think that's pretty magical.
We share…
Our thoughts and experiences on building and running a business, ethically and soulfully.
Things that uplift and invigorate.
Everything and anything that we believe might truly benefit our community.
We create…
Courses and resources to pass on what we've learned.
Beautiful things.
Beautiful online spaces for
We generate…
Good, honest energy.
Opportunities for like-minded people to come together.
Space for reflection, asking great questions, and challenging the status quo.
Our Core Marketing Plan:
Create work worth sharing.
Be generous.
Go out of our way to be helpful.
Giving Back.
We feel blessed and privileged that we get to do something we love every day.
We appreciate the role that great (yet simple) design has played in our journey so far…
…And we believe in passing it on.
In 2017, we launched The Seed Scheme: an innovative program that helps others grow their businesses or good causes through the medium of great design.
As often as possible, our sister company – Cerries Mooney Creative – will support charitable causes (or solopreneurs who fit a certain criteria) by helping them communicate in a more beautiful, effective way.
We believe that great design can greatly benefit any business – financially and otherwise – and we don't see why those genuinely running on empty should miss out on the good stuff.
How our team works.
We're small in numbers, and that's how we like it.
Above all, we're human beings. Life comes first. Kids get sick? Take the day off. Car broken down? Go get it fixed.
We've built this business so that it accomodates and bends to the demands of life. Nothing – nothing – in business is worth losing sleep over. (Unless it's due to excitement – then that's ok).
We support each other. We pick up the slack when needed. We go out of our way to try to be helpful, and kind.
We encourage each other to stay true to our strengths. If we see someone acting outside of their genius, we're not afraid to call them out on it.
We're excited to share our ideas, knowing that they are appreciated no matter how weird or inappropriate they seem.
We work together to celebrate creativity, openly and without fear of criticism.
We actively look for ways for everyone to feel valued, and appreciated.
We don't take things personally.
We're not afraid or intimidated to say we screwed up. Everyone does it, and a business based on soul can't be without screw-ups.
If we spot an opportunity to do something better, we act on instinct – not simply doing what we've always done.
We know that learning how a team works takes practice, and we might not always get it right. But if the intention to be a team player is there, we know we'll figure it out in the end.


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Since starting in 2011 JMaCreations has double in size each year with no sign of stopping.
This doesn't mean we have lost the personal touch, we still pride ourselves on the best quality and service on the Capricorn Coast. Contact us today and check for yourself!
JMaCreations can push your business to it's potential through professionalism and a solid graphic and web presence.
JMaCreations is run by a creative, enthusiastic and IT experienced owner who loves to help however he can.
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We believe in supporting local businesses. So when we can't do something, we have a list of recommended businesses!
Starting this business as a hobby has proved to be a great challenge, and I have loved every minute of it.Getting to know clients as more than just a source of income is what JMaCreations is all about.Jonathan McClintock, Owner & Head Designer


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A young international surgeon age 35 or under who is sponsored by a qualified international surgeon may be eligible for FREE registration to the ASSH Annual Meeting. A qualified international surgeon is a surgeon who has paid for a full ASSH Annual Meeting registration at the International Member or International Non-Member rate.
The deadline to submit your materials for this program is Tuesday, July 31.
To participate in this program, the young international surgeon must:
ASSH is offering free meeting registration to young international surgeons who meet the following requirements.
Free registration includes: Admittance to scientific sessions, symposia, instructional course lectures,clinical case reviews, industry workshops, scientific and commercial exhibits, poster presentations, and boxed lunches Thursday through Saturday. Registration also includes free wireless access throughout the convention center. Precourses, post courses, surgical skills courses and social events (except for the International Reception) require an additional fee and are not included with free registration.
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An Auckland college has been selected as a Pathfinder school in Microsoft's prestigious Partners in Learning programme, one of only 51 schools to make the grade worldwide in 2011.
Howick College is the second kiwi school to be admitted to the programme, joining neighbours Botany Downs Secondary College (BDSC), who were inducted last year.
As a Pathfinder school, Howick College will play a larger role in the Microsoft Partners in Learning professional development network, which connects over 4 million teachers in 114 countries.
Evan Blackman, education manager at Microsoft New Zealand, says the announcement will have a great impact on students at the college.
"It is no use throwing technology at teachers and expecting them to know what to do with it," Blackman says.
"The Microsoft Partners in Learning programme is designed to enable educators and provide them with the tools and resources to best educate their students."
The announcement comes as Microsoft winds up its Education Roadshow, a tour of the country's main centres promoting its schools programme.
The final event in the tour will be held in Dunedin next week, following demonstrations in Christchurch, Wellington and Hamilton, as well as three locations in Auckland.
Mark Woods, Microsoft education account manager, says the roadshows split into three sessions, one targeting principals, one teachers, and one school IT managers.
"We find the teacher sessions the most fun, they really get to play with the technology and start thinking about what they could do with it," Woods says.
The hard part is convincing principals the technology is affordable, and IT managers it is easy to install.
Luckily, a huge portion of Microsoft's education offering is free - it also helps to have BDSC associate principal Karen Brinsden on hand to provide a real-world perspective on how technology has helped the college.
"Karen's sessions are the key," Woods says.
Microsoft is currently seeking entries for its 2011 Innovative Educator Awards – go here for more, or here to visit the Partners in Learning site.
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Overnight news will likely again be key for stock market action Tuesday.
First, Wall Street is watching China for any further weakening in the yuan and the action in the local stock market. Stabilization in the yuan on Monday helped U.S. equities close mixed, despite a sharp decline in mainland Chinese stocks and a plunge in oil prices.
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Stanley Fischer is due to speak at 5:30 a.m. ET, and reiteration of the likelihood of four rate hikes this year could further unsettle investors who are uncertain about whether the U.S. economy is strong enough to support that pace of tightening.


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In an increasingly globalized and interdependent world, development prospects are heavily reliant on well-functioning, lower-cost and quality transport systems, a transparent and simplified regulatory framework and efficient trade procedures.
Consequently, improved understanding of the driving forces currently altering the world transport and trade systems and their interrelationships is necessary to help devise adequate policy measures that promote trade competitiveness through reduced transport and trade costs.
A combination of factors is currently transforming the international transportation landscape. These span a broad range of areas, including economic (e.g. the financial crisis), energy-related (e.g. fuel prices), environmental (e.g. climate change), political (e.g. security), regulatory (e.g. international convention and multilateral/regional agreements in transport and trade facilitation), and technological (e.g. information and communication technologies).
These factors have a significant impact on transport and trade costs, which greatly determine developing countries´ trade performances and competitiveness. They also entail implications for transport policy objectives such as efficiency, cost-effectiveness, trade facilitation, security as well as environmental, energy and social sustainability.
The third session of the multi-year expert meeting on transport and trade facilitation will focus on a range of diverse topics including, for example:
The findings and recommendations of this expert meeting will be reported to the third session of the Trade and Development Commission, to be held 9-13 May 2011.
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Experts are encouraged to prepare and submit brief papers related to their studies, findings and/or country´s experience. These papers will be made available to the meeting in the form and language in which they are received.
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The Trade and Development Board, at its fifty-fifth session, approved the terms of reference for a Multi-year Expert Meeting on Transport and Trade Facilitation. In accordance with the terms of reference, the third session of the multi-year expert meeting will focus on "emerging challenges and recent developments affecting transport and trade facilitation". The expert meeting will be held from 8 to 10 December 2010 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, in room XXVI. It will begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, 8 December.
Member States of UNCTAD are requested to nominate experts in areas of transport infrastructure and services, border crossing issues, trade facilitation and logistics, and related information and communication technologies at an early date and not later than 23 November 2010.
Experts, who will participate in the meeting in a personal capacity, are expected to have proven expertise in the subject and may be selected from government and non-governmental organizations, private sector or academia. Specialized agencies and intergovernmental bodies wishing to participate in the meeting, as well as non-governmental organizations in the general category and those in the special category wishing to participate as observers, are requested to inform the UNCTAD secretariat of the names of their representatives by 23 November 2010.
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Depending on the availability of funding in the Trust Fund for Financing the Participation of Experts at the time, funds may be made available to finance the participation of a limited number of officially nominated experts from developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Governments requiring funding are therefore invited to explicitly request financing in their letters of nomination. The decision as to which experts should receive financing will be based on the principle of (a) equitable geographical representation; (b) the needs of beneficiaries, in particular least developed countries; and (c) the expertise of the experts concerned. Changes in nominated experts will be considered as new nominations.
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The Meadow: India's own little dirty war
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, The Meadow, Penguin Books India, Delhi, 2012, pp xxvi + 510; Rs 499, ISBN 978-0-143-41875-7.
At several junctures of this profusely documented and rapidly moving narrative, the reader would worry about getting lost in a welter of detail. This story about the abduction of six western tourists in Kashmir in 1995 has for long been waiting to be told, since it is one where closure has not been achieved despite all these years. One among the six escaped to safety within days of being taken captive, recklessly plunging out into a directionless void. He was spotted by a helicopter patrol of the Indian security forces and could easily have been picked out by a marksman on board as a terrorist intruder. But something that day worked for him and he was rescued in a state of near mental and physical collapse. Another among the six, picked up by the kidnap team in the frustration occasioned by this escape, was after over a month in captivity, killed in a manner reminiscent of a medieval rite of vengeance. The other four dropped soon afterwards into a limbo of public inattention, as fatigue seemingly overwhelmed the search and more urgent security imperatives cropped up.
This book, named after the picturesque spot in the Kashmir valley where the first abductions took place, features a complex cast of characters, variously motivated. Many of them, though sworn to mutual enmity, are compelled to talk terms for the immediate objective of securing the freedom of four men caught in a conflict not of their making. There are others who remain in the shadowy fringes, and appear in the story through proxies serving a variety of covert agendas. Once that purpose was served, the four hostages became literally, the men who knew too much. Letting them live would have been a potential risk to the secret identities of the off-stage players. Like thousands of "disappeared" Kashmiris, Don Hutchings, Paul Wells, Keith Mangan and Dirk Hasert will probably enter the history books as "collateral damage" in the contest of wills between two neighbouring states with a history of implacable hostility, where inflicting pain upon the other was an end that justified itself.
Though it begins with the promise of unravelling the event that "changed the face of modern terrorism", this book settles quickly into an unhurried account of three couples from different parts of the world -- Don and Jane, Keith and Julie, and Paul and Cath -- preparing for their separate journeys to Kashmir. At roughly the same time, John Childs, a design engineer for a weapons manufacturer in the U.S. was setting out on a business trip to eastern India. Being a sworn adherent of the philosophy that every expense an employer is willing to incur should be utilised for maximum benefit, he hatched the plan of staying on a few days more for trekking in the Kashmir Himalayas.
Javid Ahmad Bhat, from Dabran village in Anantnag district of Kashmir, was marked out as a young man with a future by early academic achievement and the qualities of leadership displayed on the cricket field. Radicalised by the farcical elections to the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in 1987, Bhat decided when full fledged insurrection broke out in 1990, that the Kashmiri had to deepen his commitment to his faith and meet force with force. He crossed over to Pakistan soon afterwards and went on to Afghanistan for specialised arms training. By 1992, he was back in Kashmir with the nom de guerre Sikander, as the commander in Anantnag district of a militant cell answering directly to handlers across the border.
The following year, he was told as the militancy seemed to be splintering, that he would have to integrate his operations with another unit that handlers across the border had named the Harkat ul-Ansar or "Movement of the Victorious". Sajjad Shahid Khan or the Afghani, a senior guerrilla leader from Pakistan's Pashtun belt, arrived in Kashmir early in 1994, trekking up into the forests east of Anantnag, seeding cells along the way while exploring the terrain as an operational base. He had been assigned to take over as military chief in the Anantnag sector, and despite early reservations, Sikander gladly subsumed his unit under the Afghani's command. They had an old mutual associate, in Nasrullah Mansoor Langrial, a guerrilla from Pakistan's Punjab province, who had trained alongside Sikander in Afghanistan before crossing over to Kashmir along with him in 1992.
Langrial had plunged headlong into a series of militant actions on arrival in Kashmir. But virtually coinciding with the Afghani's arrival in the valley, he was captured in an Indian army operation. His release was the first major cause around which the Afghani and Sikander tested their newly forged military partnership. A pitched engagement with security forces in a neighbourhood of Srinagar was staged from which the two barely managed to extract themselves alive. Following this, an Indian army officer, Major Bhupinder Singh, was abducted and held hostage for Langrial's release and executed when the "enemy" refused to negotiate.
As their protégés embarked on this sequence of futile and strategically reckless actions, the mood among the Kashmir jihad's handlers across the border began distinctly to darken. Principal among the strategists was "Brigadier Badam" of Pakistan's Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), identified throughout the book only by the nickname he picked up with his fondness for gulping almond-flavoured milk as a substitute for the alcohol he had given up during the Afghan jihad. Maulana Fazlur Rahman Khalil, the senior Islamic cleric and mentor of the Movement based in Karachi, was summoned and asked urgently to send an envoy into Kashmir to whip the militants back in line.
Masood Azhar was the person chosen for this mission. Operationally inept , Masood had picked up a lasting physical disability from a friendly fire incident at the Afghan training camp he attended, after stepping out to relieve himself on a dark night and failing to speak out the password for re-entry. Azhar though, had a way with words. Born into a family of relative wealth, he was known, like the father who mentored him into his lifelong commitment, as a "no doubter", who allowed not the faintest glimmer of scepticism into the aura of his fundamentalist faith. Azhar entered India on a false passport in January 1995 and after about a fortnight spent in idle wandering around the streets of Delhi and a visit to the Deoband Islamic seminary, arrived in Kashmir early in February. He addressed a council of the holy warriors in Anantnag, but then the Afghani -- seemingly carried away by his eloquence – persuaded him to address the Friday prayer in Anantnag's principal mosque.
Azhar was reluctant at assuming a major public profile but gave in to the Afghani's suggestion. They were spotted on the way and chased down by an Indian military patrol. A third member of the group fled to safety in the thick woods around, but Afghani remained with Azhar, knowing that his high value visitor from Pakistan could not manage the same fleetness of foot. They were both taken in by Indian troops amidst joyous scenes of celebration.
Furious at the turn of events, Brigadier Badam quickly sent word to Sikander, who was by now consumed with guilt that a motorcycle mishap had prevented him being part of Azhar's journey to Anantnag. Badam outlined a very straightforward operation titled "Ghar" or "home". It involved a certain number of high value individuals being seized as hostages to ensure the safe release of Azhar, the Afghani and Langrial. Sikander was assigned two operatives to work alongside him, one of whom, Abdul Hamid al-Turki, or the Turk, he had special reason to worry about. Though a warrior with undoubted jehadi pedigree, having fought in theatres as far afield as Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan, the Turk was known to be impetuous and rather reckless, prone to acts of brutality that could alienate the silent support guerrilla operations depended on. But Sikander was not given much time to voice his own tactical preferences or pick the personnel involved. By February 1995, the kidnap team had already been briefed by ISI handlers and sent across the border. The initial directive was to pick up personnel from western companies engaged in engineering projects in Kashmir, notably in the hydroelectricity sector. Later, the mandate was altered to just snatching whoever came to hand.
From here on, there is a complex sequence of events that leads to the kidnap party, which had taken on the identity of Al Faran, arriving at the meadow where three western couples and the solitude-loving John Childs were camped early in July 1995. The moment the four men were seized, was one of incomprehension and some puzzlement, not terror. Their captors conveyed little sense of threat, merely explaining that they needed to take away the men for questioning regarding possible involvement in Israeli espionage. But then, the supposed interrogation just did not seem to end, and the three women who hung about waiting for their companions to return had to make the agonising decision of leaving the scene of the abductions and trudging down to Pahalgam town, where they made a complaint at the nearest police station.
The local police though had their hands full with managing another possible flashpoint for violence. The Amarnath yatra, had been till the eruption of militancy in Kashmir, a low-key annual voyage of piety undertaken by a few thousands. But since then, it had been transformed into an annual contest of wills between the Indian security agencies and the more extreme militant units. The time of the abduction was especially bad, since militant groups had just set off bombs at Pahalgam, where the pilgrims began to gather prior to their trek up to a cave temple, and a Hindu vigilante group that had arrived in force to impose its will on the locals, had set off a retaliatory rampage against all Kashmiris they could lay hands on. With a potential security meltdown on his hands, the local police superintendent urgently messaged superiors in Srinagar, recommending that the trekking routes beyond Pahalgam be cleared of all western tourists and fresh arrivals be dissuaded.
His plea was ignored and this is the first of the mysteries of the official Indian response that calls for fresh scrutiny. On July 5, the German student Dirk Hasert and his friend Anne Hennig arrived in Srinagar and were told by all the officials they consulted that aside from the downtown area of the city, every other part of Kashmir was safe for the "holiday of a lifetime". The Norwegian Hans Christian Ostro, who emerges in these pages as an engaging and zestful personality, needed no such positive reassurance. Indeed, when following five months in Kerala steeped in learning kathakali, was warned that Kashmir was dangerous territory, he had admonished his dance teachers for being "narrow-minded".
On July 8, when John Childs fled his captivity, feigning the desperate need for a nocturnal trip to the toilet, the leader of the kidnap ring had sent his men in frantic search. At some point, the directive was changed: any number of substitutes could be picked up. Hasert was the first to be snatched from the tent that he was camped in. A few hours later, Ostro was taken from a tea stall near Pahalgam. Unlike the others, Ostro was taken by force rather than subterfuge. He put up a fight but was overwhelmed by sheer numbers.
Immediately after his rescue, John Childs was debriefed by local security and intelligence agencies and put on a plane back home with almost unseemly haste. Here is another of the mysteries of the official security response. In recounting events from the time, Childs confesses himself still perplexed by that decision since he expected quite reasonably, to be asked to help in the aerial survey of the abductors' territory to pinpoint their location.
First word from the kidnappers came as a telephone call to Yusuf Jameel, a senior journalist based Srinagar's press enclave. The price demanded was simple: the release of twenty-one prisoners held in India, with Azhar, the Afghani and Langrial at the top of the list. D.D. Saklani, a retired lieutenant-general of the Indian army who was then the top security advisor to the state administration, had personally been on the helicopter patrol that rescued Childs. When a direct line of communication opened up with the kidnappers, he chose to entrust the negotiations to Rajinder Tikoo, Inspector-General of Police for the Kashmir range. Tikoo was hesitant, but could not turn down an order from the man at the top of the security hierarchy. Saklani gave nothing away and allowed Tikoo little leeway: "You're a good conversationalist. You go your own way, and try to drag it out as long as possible".
To begin with, there seemed little scope to drag things out. Tikoo's first conversation with the terror ring's representative was surly and ill-tempered. The clock was ticking and the first executions of the hostages, he was told, would take place within hours. Tikoo adopted a tone of bluff good humour: this was not a marketplace bargain over the price of vegetables, it involved complex government decisions, he pleaded. He seemed with his tone, to have won at least some measure of trust from his interlocutor. The kidnappers were evidently nervous and unsure about when they should raise the stakes.
Parcels meanwhile kept getting passed through intermediaries, mostly located in Srinagar's press enclave: a hazy black and white photograph first and then five days later, an audio recording of the five hostages appealing for their release.
Over the following days, Tikoo took his conversations with the kidnappers into the realm of theology and spirituality, repeatedly underlining the virtue of compassion. The intermediary he was addressing seemed indulgent. But just over a fortnight into the abduction, he was startled to receive an unscheduled call, with the familiar voice of his interlocutor sputtering in rage: "You have violated your word and you will be blamed for the consequences. You want their deaths on your hands? How stupid do you think we are?" Tikoo was alarmed but was told nothing about the cause of the anger, except that there had been an Indian army raid.
Rushing over to Saklani's office, Tikoo was told to calm down while he determined what exactly had happened. The explanation offered after about an hour was that the army had conducted a raid as part of normal operations and discovered a suspected terrorist safe-house. It had been evacuated by the time the raid party arrived, though it was later discovered to have been the site from where the first telephone call to Tikoo was placed. There was no ill intent there, just a failure of coordination.
Tikoo was unconvinced. A few days later, Al Faran released a photograph which purported to show two of the hostages, Don and Keith, injured in the army raid. Anxiety levels spiked but Tikoo found the photographs unconvincing and read them as a means of warning off any further rescue bids and building pressure for an early resolution. Tikoo was a patient man who worked in considerable uncertainty. He could give nothing away and could never be sure when the kidnappers would just determine that further conversations would be futile. But he moved on. At one point, he managed to extract a commitment from the kidnappers that they were willing to bring down their prisoner release list to four. This was conveyed in strictest confidence to Saklani, but carried almost in a triumphal tone as top news story in the following day's newspapers. The kidnap party was furious and Tikoo once again thrown into turmoil over unseen hands controlling the pace of events. But through the first half of September, Tikoo continued his delicate conversations over telephone, dealing with frequent rages and accusations of bad faith. There was hope in the intermediary's seeming willingness to stick with an agreed schedule for each of their conversations, by now conducted over radio rather than telephone.
Tikoo was by now beginning to see signs of fatigue in the adversary and had turned the conversation around to a possible ransom. By September 17, he had a figure: the kidnappers were willing to settle for a crore (ten million) of rupees.
He had little time to bask in the glow of this triumph. Early the following day, as newspapers in the national capital were being dropped off, he had a call from a colleague in Delhi, informing him that the city's largest newspaper had a frontpage report on the ransom deal. Tikoo rushed to Saklani's office to demand the source of the leak, which he knew would be a deal breaker. Saklani promised to find out but discovered little. In a state of nervous exhaustion by now, Tikoo asked to be taken off the case.
A detective squad in the Crime Branch of the police force – all native Kashmiris – had meanwhile launched its own operation, hitting hard at possible informants on occasion, going undercover and teasing out clues on others. With sustained inquiries, the squad managed to unravel the kidnap party's first moves. Contrary to initial belief, the group had not gone up into the higher mountain reaches, but down into Pahalgam town, where it had sheltered in a well-known tourist resort for a while. Bit by bit, the squad then reconstructed the entire course of the party's movements. By mid-July, the squad had begun to focus its search on the Warwan valley, about fifty kilometres south-east of Anantnag, a harsh wind-swept basin that is inaccessible for eight months of the year. With only one approach from the Kashmir valley which requires a trek up to an altitude of fourteen thousand feet, the Warwan had become a favoured transit point and shelter for foreign militants of various stripes. And there was one particular village there, Sukhnoi, which had been used by an earlier kidnap team. By the first week of August, the squad had figured out the rough coordinates of the hostages from the testimony of the villagers and itinerant cattle herders. It also had information of regular army patrols moving around the Warwan valley and wondered if a rescue attempt was feasible.
The reply from the security forces was simply that the village was impregnable and the hostages could be killed or caught in the crossfire if a rescue operation were mounted. By this time, the army too had possibly established the location of the hostages. Villagers informed the squad of frequent helicopter surveys over the Warwan and one occasion when the Norwegian Ostro had run out to shout and wave to the aerial patrol. Ostro seemingly had made three clear escape attempts and had since late-July been challenging his kidnappers, provoking them and undermining them at every possible opportunity. By early-August, he had worn his captors' nerves thin. He was separated from the rest of the party and taken away by the Turk, seemingly with the intent to set him free at some point. On August 13, his decapitated body was found in a pine forest adjoining the road to Pahalgam.
Counter-intelligence was by now proceeding with full vigour. And the instruments of the Indian army's operations were the "renegades", or one-time militants who had broken with their outfits to form vigilante groups available for any cause. The Indian army had worked on the rivalry between the Movement and the principal Pakistan-backed militant outfit, the Hizbul Mujahedin, using the conduit of a renegade outfit led by Azad Nabi, or "Alpha", a past associate of Sikander's. As the harsh winter set in and the kidnap party was forced to abandon its relatively safe hideout in the Warwan, it was by all accounts, reaching the end of its tether. From the intelligence pieced together by the Kashmir police squad, Alpha seems then to have contacted Sikander to suggest a hostage handover to another renegade element, Abdul Rashid, or the Clerk, following which he could "take a break" and "regroup". In the third or fourth week of November, the hostages were handed over for a sum of four lakh rupees. Days afterwards, Alpha managed to lure the Turk to a spot near Sikander's home village, ostensibly for a conclave of militant commanders, where an army ambush lay in wait.
The elimination of the Turk and the army's triumphal claims that Al Faran had been dismantled, fuelled renewed anxiety – and speculation -- about the status of the hostages. But the army was not ready yet, to tell the full story, retracting spectacularly within days of this announcement, with the clarification that the Turk and his associates had been eliminated not in a hostage rescue operation, but in the course of a regular cordon-and-search. Contrary again to earlier claims, it said, Al Faran was still active, and had indeed added hundreds of fighters to its ranks to guard the hostages.
The Kashmir police squad believed differently. It was abundantly clear by now that the renegade strategy of turning the loyalties of key militant figures had fetched the army the prized trophy of the Turk. But the strategy had to retain its efficacy and its key executors protected for future deployment. As a witness to the renegade pact with the militants, Sikander's elimination, the squad estimated, was just a matter of time. And that left only four remaining witnesses who would have reason to tell the story: Don, Keith, Paul and Dirk.
On December 24, 1995, according to an eyewitness the squad traced down, Alpha's men led the four hostages into a thickly wooded area near the village where they were last held. They were shot and buried there. On February 17, 1996, Sikander was killed, ostensibly when a bomb he was assembling at a house owned by a militant colleague went off.
In a newspaper article written shortly after their book appeared to much critical acclaim, Levy and Scott-Clark speak of a radical change of mood on Kashmir, apparent on both sides of the Line of Control. Where at one time, the compulsion was to win at all costs, today there is a willingness to recognise the need for truth-telling, if Kashmir is to "move on". For the wider public, memories of the early years of Kashmir's insurgency have faded in this time and there has indeed been a mutation of the narrative, with the media now blazoning a story of a people willing to shut out the trauma of those years and move on to a future of promise. This book, which relies in ways both acknowledged and otherwise, on the revelations of the police officials who investigated the abductions, should serve as corrective for this dangerous delusion.
India's motivation then was to portray Pakistan as the cradle of terrorism and global problem state number one. That narrative failed to win much credibility till after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. But now, with more countries and individuals willing to partake of the narrative, Pakistan's future as a nation-state appears to be at stake. A catastrophic state meltdown in its immediate neighbourhood is clearly an outcome that the architects of India's strategic response to the Kashmir militancy failed to anticipate. And a sober contemplation of the consequences should be sufficient reason to press ahead with the truth-telling process that this book inaugurates.


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I saw Deliverance when I was in my late teens and its impact has been never-ending. It gave me a sense of what sexual bullying must feel like deep in my gut – it felt visceral and real.
Four city guys go hunting on the Cahulawassee river and do their out-on-the-frontier man thing. They attract the wrath of the locals – the hunters become the hunted – and it culminates in Ned Beatty's character being raped. I don't think I'd ever imagined what being a sexual victim might be like until I saw it. I remember feeling sickened by his disempowerment; he can't escape or talk his way out.
The film is full of contrasts. It's elegantly shot, yet has this brutal plot. And for something as vile as rape to be set against wild, outdoor beauty and overlaid with a lulling soundtrack is disorientating for the viewer. Particularly as a young man, it upset me to the core.
I think it's in recreating the primal nature of a complex world that director John Boorman excels. I've been fortunate enough to have worked with him since and the way he manages to depict the cruelty of life is extraordinary. In Boorman's film, things are rarely as they seem. He captures the underlying motivations and illogical decisions of his characters. It's to these sorts of roles that I'm drawn as an actor. People are layered and those are the parts I've always sought to play.
The main reason I've not really returned to theatre, where I started out, is that film has such scope for reflecting the complexity of the world in this way. It allows viewers to get close to characters and look deep into their eyes, with real potential for mixed messages and for suggesting things outside the spoken word. I love its subtlety.
I once heard Ned Beatty say that Deliverance did, in a way, really damage him. People shouted the film's famous "squeal like a pig" line at him forever after. I don't revisit the film very often, but I've never been able to forget it.
The Guard, starring Brendan Gleeson, is out on DVD soon


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Yeay! Second post of the day! Well this time it is a review of a movie I've seen yesterday. Read the story line here (IMDB)
I give this movie a 4.8 out of a 5. It was that great. Just the feeling of the movie. It was great. It kept my attention the entire time. Although it is a action movie, it has a great story behind it. Clive Owen plays the bad guy so good. Like the role is written for him. His 'brother' also played well, because he really annoyed me by being who he was! I just loved the fact that it has this family, split in two who comes together and again go their own ways. It may seem a little bit like nonsense. But I can just explain why I like this family aspect of this film. It is just so realistic with really realistic dialogs. that's just the word for this movie: Realistic. Not too much drama, enough action and all in a realistic modern world… (Even though the movie decor plays in the '70)
If you have ever seen this movie… Tell me what you think!


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Long Branch, NJ – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced he will be hosting his 2nd annual poetry showcase for the 21st National Poetry Month. The competition is open to all students in the 6th District and select submissions will be featured by Congressman Pallone on his website and Facebook and Twitter pages.
Last year, over 600 poems were submitted by students of all ages.
On April 27th, the office will hold a 'Poem in Your Pocket" event by inviting students to visit one of the Congressman's offices to read their poem. All participants will be given a pocket Constitution.
"From William Carlos Williams to Walt Whitman, New Jersey has always been home to many of poetry's greats," said Congressman Pallone. "We must continue to promote the importance of poetry and encourage the younger generation to celebrate this legacy and expand their education. After last year's success, I look forward to enjoying the beautiful and creative poems from the students of the 6th Congressional District."
Interested schools or students may contact Pallone's Long Branch Office at (732) 571-1140 or his New Brunswick Office at (732) 249-8892 for any questions regarding the poetry showcase. Students should submit their original poems by April 7, 2017 by either video to email@example.com or have them mailed in writing to:
Middlesex County
67/69 Church Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Monmouth County
504 Broadway
Long Branch, NJ 07740


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Houston artist Phillip Kremer creates strange celebrity portraits
Houston-based artist Phillip Kremer has amassed a following on Instagram and Tumblr of people who find his creepy, hilarious (and sometimes grotesque) photos of celebrities, politicians, and average people endlessly entertaining. On Halloween night at the Gspot Gallery Annex in the Heights an exhibit of his work will be put on display with help from the Hello Project. The show runs until Nov. 29.
By Craig Hlavaty
on October 28, 2015 2:50 PM
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March 8, 2018 1 (PGM) from WMHS on Vimeo.
West Monroe did very well at the Benton Tiger Relays last Thursday night. The men took 2nd place at the meetwhile the women came in 5th.
Kirsten Elrod took 1st place in both the 800 meter run and the 3200 meter run.
In the ladies relays, West monroe came in 3rd in the 4x100 which included Shakayla Glass, Paige McKoin, Jewell Gholston and Kayla Mays.
They took 2nd in the 4x200 relay which include Faith Johnson, Shakayla Glass, Makaya Glass and Kayla Mays.
On the mens side, Michael Hamburg took 1st in the 100 meter dash, 1st in the 110 m hurdles and 1st in the 300 M hurdles.
Isaiah George came in 3rd in the 200m dash.
In the longer runs, Caden Jones took 2nd in the 800 m while Christian Girod came in 3rd in the 1600 meter run.
Hampton Mitchell took 1st place in the triple jump.
In Mens relays, West Monroe came away with 2nd in the 4x100 which included Jerimihia Gill, Jairus Henry, Isaiah George and Michael Hamburg.
In the 4x200 West Monroe came in 3rd with Jerimiah Gill, Jason Cooper, Jairus Henry and Isaiah George.
West monroe came in 3rd in the last race of the night which was the 4x400 relay that included Ayinda Robinson, Jason Cooper, Jairus Henry and Zak Knox.
Jr Civitans who are interested in assisting with the Special Olympics Track and Field events on Friday, March 23rd must pick up permission forms outside room 6206. Only the first 25 completed forms will be allowed to participate. Forms are due to Mrs. Beach by Monday, March 19th!
The Calhoun High School Alumni Association Scholarship application is now available in Guidance and online. Applicants must be legally related to a graduate of Calhoun High School and have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 or better. You must have documented plans to further your education at a college, university, community college, or trade school. All applicants must write a 1-2 page essay on "A Controversial Problem Faced On School Campuses and Suggest Solutions."Applications must be posted marked no later than April 5, 2018.
The Alzheimer's FoundationScholarshipis not due untilMarch 26
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Seniors, a new scholarship is now available in Guidance. It is the Ben Caldwell Memorial Scholarship and has a deadline of April 21. Other scholarships due this week are the WM Survivor and DST Monroe Metropolitan due Tuesday, April 4th; and the Claiborne Elementary Scholarship due Friday, April 7.


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Please forgive the rather tired and obvious pun - it's been a long week and we're only at the halfway stage! Today I would like to announce some plans that I have, although I'm not going to do anything rash like commit my self to a schedule or anything like that as that is a surefire way to guarantee that it won't actually happen! Anyway, I've been thinking for a little while that it would be nice to shift the focus away from Xbox 360 for a little bit and onto other platforms - beginning with the Nintendo Wii. The Wii has been very under represented on this blog and also gets a fair bit of stick from both hardcore gamers and journalists alike - with even the best games the system can offer often receiving the dreaded "It looks good, for a Wii game" comment.
I would like to readdress the balance a bit by introducing two new series of articles - Wii Essentials, and Wii Hidden Gems. The first will include games that should be in anybodies Wii collection and will cover some of the more obvious titles that I have been meaning to talk about but never have for one reason or another - such as Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime Trilogy, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and others. The second will try and unearth some of the Wii's less well known but no less deserving titles. Games like Little King's Story, A Boy and His Blob, and Sky Crawlers. The first of each of these will hopefully appear fairly soon but like I said I'm not going to doom this enterprise to failure by promising exactly when they will appear. Once I get into my stride and get a few of these up I may well follow up will something similar for some of the other platforms that I haven't given much coverage - the Nintendo DS, or more retro coverage for example. I'm quite excited to get working on this at the moment, so maybe I will strike while the iron is hot and start working on the first one now! I've even created logo's for them, look:
In future, clicking on these banners will take you to all of the articles within each series - for now they will only bring up this one though!
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"Zones" and "SOSs" as well as the powerful HUG techniques: "Broadcasting" and "Commentating" on a newborn's behavior. There was time to share stories, to role-plays (with those small-for-gestational-age dolls from the dollar store!), and to review some moms-teaching-moms video clips.
An important part of any HUG training is to learn about the variety of HUG experiences across the USA and even around the world. I was eager to introduce participants to the incredible, new research by Maryam Mozafarinia. And, what a surprise it was to our HUG learners to be able to see and hear the researcher herself coming to us from Canada through Skype.
After receiving permission from me, Maryam translated The HUG DVD and handout into Farsi. As a NICU nurse she understood the stress that fathers of premature babies experience. She demonstrated that The HUG decreases a father's stress level and enhances a father's knowledge of his baby's behavior.
How wonderful that Skype brought Maryam into our classroom, allowing us to hear directly from this skilled researcher who is the first Certified HUG Teacher in Iran!
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Right now, my family is planning a big move. We are moving from Utah to Maryland. I have lived in Utah my entire life. I've traveled a little bit, but I've always had Utah as my home to come back to. I'm not sure what to expect leaving Utah on a whim and not coming back here. I love it here, and I'm sure I've taken it for granted-my entire life.
It is definitely stressful trying to adapt my life to one that involves putting everything in boxes, finishing up unfinished projects on our home, and putting our well- adapted to house up for sale, in hopes that someone out there will seek out a life in our soon to be empty house.
I feel like I can adapt to new situations, and learn to grow to like new environments, as long as there is a sturdy foundation upon which to build. I mean this in physical terms and spiritual terms as well. Physical terms: I need a strong house structure to build my life upon. Spiritual: I need a strong connection to my God to grow from.
Change causes an uproar of emotional purging. Right now I'm physically, emotionally and everything exhausted. I feel kind of queasy thinking about all the decisons that need to be made and all the change that has to occur- and all of the uncertainty that is before me. But, amongst all this chaos, I am grateful for what is certain andd steady in my life. God, Nature, My Family and my Friends are all constants in my life- they are always there in one form or another, and always will be. I may be in a different location, but these things will always be there in essence.
I hope I can sleep tonight. Thanks for letting the real-me interrupt my foodieness for a while, and share some of the craziness going on inside my head. I had to get it out somewhere.
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Falcon boys win two games
The O-A/BC-IG boys' basketball team picked up two wins last week to kickoff off the second half of the season. The Falcons improved to 7-5 overall and to 3-2 in the conference.
It is another busy week for the Falcons this week as they host Woodbury Central Tuesday, Jan. 9; travel to Holstein to play Ridge View on Friday and host Denison-Schleswig on Saturday.
See the full story in the Jan. 10 edition of the Ida County Courier or subscribe online for instant access.


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Hokies down to one kicker after Tyler Weiss misses curfew, sent home
Virginia Tech senior place-kicker Tyler Weiss was sent home by the Hokies coaching staff because he missed the team's 1 a.m. curfew today in New Orleans.
The university first released the news Thursday on @VT_Football, the official Virginia Tech Twitter feed.
That leaves Justin Myer, a kickoff specialist, as the only kicker on the Virginia Tech roster for the Sugar Bowl on Tuesday against Michigan (8:30 p.m., ESPN). Season-long starter Cody Journell was suspended on Dec. 22 after he was arrested a day earlier and charged with breaking and entering.
Weiss was 0-for-2 on field goals this season and 2-for-2 on extra points. Myer is 0-for-2 on field goals, with his attempts coming from 57 and 53 yards.
A Virginia Tech spokesman said punter Michael Branthover and redshirt freshman Conor Goulding will be pooled for depth at the position.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune contributed to this report.
Tue, Jan 3, 2012 : 8:07 p.m.
this could be significant. If your not kicking field goals from distance you steps aren't going to be right. Little inside or forward could cost you a game
Sun, Jan 1, 2012 : 3:05 p.m.
It takes a lot of guts to send home a significant player before an important game. Frankly, I don't recall a Michigan coach ever doing so. When we see Hoke do so, then let's give him the same credit as is being given Beamer.
Sat, Dec 31, 2011 : 2:30 a.m.
I agree: Coach Beamer did the right thing. I also agree: what's with these players for VT? Two of them on the Hokies team don't seem to care WHY they are where they are. Nor do they seem to fear losing out on a chance to play in a post season bowl game. Amateur scholarship football players know they're given something with something in return expected from them. Just like grown ups: perform up to standards or lose your job.
Fri, Dec 30, 2011 : 8:48 p.m.
They were 0-4 field goals all year? Man, we thought we had it bad last year....yikes
Fri, Dec 30, 2011 : 9:51 a.m.
This is not a flame. This a suggestion for those of you commenting about Gibbons and tipping to go read Three and Out first before you make comments that are false. Gibbons was nothing short of outstanding this year if you ask me and i'm very excited for his future at the University of Michigan. Then after you read Three and Out and gain a full understanding of the situation described by prior posters imagine if your boss publicly humiliated you like RR did to Michigan kickers. Imagine if your boss was at a press conference asking if there was anyone they knew who could do your job and continually held open tryouts to the general public (students) to find your replacement. I am so happy for Gibbons success this year and wish him nothing but the best, i'm sure he'll go down as one of the best kickers we've been lucky to cheer for at Michigan. Remember who put us up late in the game against Ohio by more than 3.
Thu, Dec 29, 2011 : 11:49 p.m.
I respect Frank Beamer far more than Bobby Bowden who failed to do it with current Raiders PK Janikowski more than a decade ago. SPORTS Bowden Won't Give Janikowski the Boot January 4, 2000 | CHRIS DUFRESNE After all those years in which missed field goals cost Florida State national championships--"Wide Right I, Wide Right II"--you didn't really expect Coach Bobby Bowden to suspend Sebastian Janikowski for a curfew violation, did you? "Unless he has a heart attack, or unless I have one, Janikowski will kick the ball off," Bowden said Monday. Janikowski is no ordinary kicker, and maybe he knew that when he bolted from the sheets to Bourbon Street over the weekend. Maybe the buckeyes can learn something from it, eh? GEAUX BLUE!
Fri, Dec 30, 2011 : 4:53 p.m.
Yep, I rem about Marcus Vick, Michael's wayward brother and wonder how's he doing?
Fri, Dec 30, 2011 : 4:50 p.m.
Shankar, Thanks for joining this forum. In your opinion, who will win and by what score in the Sugar Bowl?
Fri, Dec 30, 2011 : 12:15 a.m.
Thanks for those sentiments. It hurts to no have these kickers committing a felony and now violating curfew & team rules. I am glad Mr. Beamer sent him home, thus sending a message that team rules & character are more important than a bowl game. This is a welcome relief to see opposing fans like Beamer, after all the flak we took for giving that stupid Marcus Vick chance after chance.
Thu, Dec 29, 2011 : 11:32 p.m.
Beamer deserves a lot of credit for holding his players to standards he sets for them, I like that Hoke is of the same ilk. I wish MSU and ohio would be like that as well. You can beat people up that week and still get to play, good morals they got over there, but then again that's Dantonio for ya. I wonder if Hagerup is paying attention and watching what he does, he needs to get his act together. As for Gibbons, if it's true he stiffed the waitress, unless she was horrible to him, to me that says a lot about you as a person if you stiff a server like that, not cool, this is how these people earn their money, have some class young man. What's up with kickers these days, sheesh!
Fri, Dec 30, 2011 : 12:08 a.m.
What's up Mick and D21? I think the reason Scott brought up the reason Gibbons likes to stiff on tips is a prior article back in November about going out to eat in A2 with Taylor Lewan in 2010 and asking the waiter/waitress what they thought about the kicker on the football team and when they would tell Gibbons and Lewan something negative about the kicker then Gibbons said that they would leave them a less than stellar tip. In regards to that situation I say that hopefully Gibbons has grown up some and maybe having a coach that now shows 100% focus on special teams can boost morale in more ways then one. GO BLUE & Happy New Year's to all!
Thu, Dec 29, 2011 : 11:50 p.m.
Man, saw your post just after I had posted mine below. Agree with you about the little brothers, too. :)
Thu, Dec 29, 2011 : 10:08 p.m.
It's been awhile since I have said the following: Kicking: Advantage Michigan
Tue, Jan 3, 2012 : 8:11 p.m.
yes sir.
Tue, Jan 3, 2012 : 8:08 p.m.
NO kidding
Thu, Dec 29, 2011 : 9:44 p.m.
I wish the Wolverines were down two kickers. 1) Branden Gibbons (our 2010 freshman bomb) who spent his time partying rather than sleeping. Also, likes to stiff waitresses on tips. 2) Will Hagerup- suspended for some unknown reason who is wasting his talent. There should be an NCAA rule were spoiled kids with a sense of entitlement must get thrown off the team, give back their scholarships and repay the taxpayers for the scholarship money they have squandered. Will and Branden-Go drive to downtown Detroit or Flint or Saginaw and see how the other half live. Think how much food and clothing could be purchased with the $40 grand a year spent to keep you having guys having fun.
Tue, Jan 3, 2012 : 8:13 p.m.
Not sure where your going with this. Hagerup was outside looking in. Freshman punter was out kicking him anyway
5c0++ H4d13y
Fri, Dec 30, 2011 : 5:11 p.m.
I'm not sure the tax payers paid for the scholarships. I sure hope we aren't.
Fri, Dec 30, 2011 : 3:23 a.m.
@Scott: What is your deal?
Thu, Dec 29, 2011 : 8:19 p.m.
Uh oh. Now, I haven't been a player on a big time program, but if you are being taken to a venue as a guest and representative of your university, is it really that hard to get back on time and behave appropriately? Now, he paid the ultimate price by being sent home and missing the bowl.


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