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After a one-event forced exile, Filipe Toledo showed no signs of rust in his Round Two faceoff Monday with Kanoa Igarashi. Igarashi, you might remember, is the same surfer he faced at Bells when he was dinged with an interference, which led to a confrontation with WSL staff and an eventual ban. The time away must have fueled the young Brazilian's fire, because he absolutely scorched a pair of stunning waves in perfect conditions at Supertubes today.
In a staggering display of modern-day aggression and timeless subtlety, he threw the whole kitchen sink at the best J-Bay can offer, and was highly rewarded -- a perfect 10 and a 9.63. Drawing inspiration from a trio of CT legends -- Mick Fanning and the Hobgood twins -- Toledo adopted the same double-arm-drag, tube-riding technique perfected by CJ and Damien during their time on Tour. Then he mixed in an eclectic mix of high-speed snaps, slashes and carves. All the elements of the best pro surfing has to offer. Later, Toledo offered up a typically non-plussed explanation for his explosion: "I've been watching a lot of Mick Fanning."

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MESA, Arizona (AP) Growing up in Cuba, Jorge Soler had limited access to major league games on television. Only the best teams and the most famous players made the news on the communist island.
Manny Ramirez was one of them.
''He's my favorite player,'' the 23-year-old Chicago Cubs outfielder said on Sunday. ''In Cuba, you always hear about the best players, no one else, and you always heard about him.''
Soler and other Cubs youngsters who watched Ramirez on TV during his heyday with the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox can now learn firsthand from the Dominican slugger. The Cubs hired him as a hitting consultant this season after he worked last year as a player-coach for their Triple-A Iowa team.
In just one week since spring training began, Ramirez has gained the respect of the team, especially the Latin American players on the roster. Whether he is joking with Soler in the clubhouse or giving tips to Puerto Rican infielder Javier Baez during a batting practice session, when Manny speaks, everyone listens.
''It's incredible to have him giving you advice, telling you `do it this way, do it that way,''' Soler said.
Besides, his numbers in almost two decades in the majors speak for themselves. Ramirez finished his big league career with 555 home runs, 1,831 RBIs and a .312 average.
''Before knowing him, I always had his videos on my iPad. His hits, his home runs, his extra-base hits,'' recalled 24-year-old shortstop and fellow Dominican Starlin Castro, a five-year veteran and one of the longest-tenured Cubs on the roster. ''I would study his swing any time I was in a slump.''
Ramirez last appeared in the majors during the opening week of the 2011 season, before he was suspended by MLB for a second time in two years for performance-enhancing drugs. The 42-year-old remained active in the Dominican winter league and Taiwan, and he hit .409 with six homers and 28 RBIs in 147 at-bats last season with the Aguilas Cibaenas in his native country.
''He has taught me a lot about the approach at the plate,'' said Baez, who hit nine homers and struck out 95 times in 213 at-bats last season as a rookie. ''It's impressive, knowing that you used to watch him on television, and now you have him in person.''


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On Thursday 3rd March, Hill Top Primary School celebrated World Book Day.
Children were asked to dress up as their favourite book character and wow did they do it well! From Mary Poppins, to the Mad Hare from Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter to Gangsta Granny and many more amazing costumes.
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North Korea Monday deported a 75-year-old Australian missionary detained since last month for allegedly distributing religious materials.
Hong Kong-based John Short was arrested after leaving "Bible tracts" in a Buddhist temple in the capital Pyongyang during a tour.
The North's state-run KCNA news agency said the "generous" decision to release and expel Short had been taken in light of his advanced age and a signed "confession" and apology.
A copy of Short's statement was released along with photos showing him affixing his thumb in red ink to the document which he also signed and read out.
"I realize that my actions are an indelible hostile act against the independent right and laws of the (North)," the confession read.
"I request forgiveness ... and am willing to bow down on my knees," it said.
Confessions and self-criticisms — scripted by the authorities — are normally a pre-requisite for detained foreigners seeking release in North Korea.
Short's statement stated that US and other western media reports labeling the North as a closed country without religious freedoms were "inaccurate and wrong".
Although freedom of worship is enshrined in North Korea's constitution, it does not exist in practice and religious activity is severely restricted to officially-recognized groups linked to the government.
In his statement, Short also admitted distributing religious texts on the Pyongyang subway during a previous tour to the North in 2012.
"I now realize the seriousness of my insult to the Korean people ... and for this I truly apologize," it said.
Australia has no diplomatic representation in North Korea, but its foreign ministry said it had confirmed Short's release through the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang.
"Clearly this is welcome news," the ministry said.
Short's wife, Karen Short, told AFP in Hong Kong that she was "amazingly thankful".
She said the Australian authorities had told her he was believed to be on the flight to Beijing.
Pyongyang views foreign missionaries as seditious elements intent on fomenting unrest and those who are caught engaging in any activities in the North are subject to immediate arrest.
A number of missionaries — mostly U.S. citizens — have been arrested in the past with some allowed to return home after interventions by high-profile US figures.
Pyongyang is currently holding U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae, described by a North Korean court as a militant Christian evangelist.
He was arrested in November 2012 and later sentenced to 15 years' hard labor on charges of seeking to topple the government.
A South Korean missionary, Kim Jeong-Wook, has also been detained since last October.
In a televised press conference staged in Pyongyang last week, Kim "confessed" to anti-government activities including helping organize underground churches for North Korean refugees in China and spying for Seoul's intelligence authorities.
Seoul denied Kim's involvement with the intelligence agency and demanded his immediate release.
North-South Korean relations have shown tangible signs of a thaw in recent months, but the start of South-U.S. joint military drills last week has soured the atmosphere, with Pyongyang conducting a series of short-range missile tests in an apparent show of strength.
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CORE CONCEPTS OF ALCOHOL DEPENDENCYAddiction to alcohol is a devastating affliction that damages tens of millions of men, women and youngsters all over the planet. The addiction to alcohol triggers is calamitous.
This dependence on alcohol is both psychological and bodily and comes with the ability to ruthlessly dominate all of the components of daily life. The illness is progressive in nature and increasing quantities of alcohol are needed to furnish a similar blissful/joyous state that consumption delivered in the past. Still, the addict may be capable to drink substantial amounts of alcohol without looking intoxicated.
If an alcoholic tries to stop consuming alcohol, they will more than likely go through withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety symptoms, queasiness or vomiting, and equivalent manifestations.
Alcohol dependency pushes people toward to adverse issues in the office, in interpersonal relationships, and with the law. It can certainly bring about acute monetary burden on the person and her or his loved ones and provokes life-threatening health ailments. It may induce troubles at school or work and could even trigger legal problems. Furthermore, alcohol addiction could take an emotional toll on family members and close friends.
Still, people who are dependent upon alcohol continue to consume alcohol even when harmful outcomes and problems keep happening. They have lost charge of themselves and their alcohol consumption. The drug dependency alcohol leads to is demoralizing and lasts a life-time.
Even though there is no treatment for the substance dependency drinking alcohol causes, right now there are techniques to deal with the affliction and allow people to lead satisfying, successful lives.
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You drink straight away on waking up. If you don't consume alcohol, you truly feel ill. You feel nervous if you do not ingest alcohol. You conceal your consumption of alcohol. You genuinely feel guilty even while drinking. Different folks have suggested that they believe that you have a problem with alcohol (particularly if you are displeased by other people discussing your alcohol consumption). You actually feel that you need to consume alcohol. You cannot stop consumption of alcohol once you start or you typically wind up drinking far more than you wanted to. You would like to stop and yet think you cannot. You miss duties at work or educational duties, or end up being late, due to your drinking alcohol. You operate a vehicle while drunk. You are able to ingest a substantial quantity of alcohol without behaving intoxicated. You start needing to consume increasingly more to receive a comparable outcome. You struggle with memory lapses once you have been imbibing. You struggle with health issues connected to your heavy drinking (and you continue drinking alcohol regardless).
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Numerous people today will attempt to stop consuming alcohol on his or her own by reducing his or her drinking practices. Yet, purely because alcohol dependency is an addiction/dependency, self help typically will not succeed even when individuals have the best intent. The addiction alcohol results in is too substantial to be handled by the sufferer their self. Professional support is typically necessary for triumphant therapy.
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Sometimes imaginings felt like real memory,
sometimes, the other way round...
Sometimes I felt certainty, my heart would leap and pound -
Then cynical, twisting paranoia would fall,
terror would reign once more,
and my castle, my home of hope's dreaming
just stones... Empty, standing...
Half a year seems like a fortnight or less,
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One night, so perfect,
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You'll never remember what only I knew,
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For the second picture I was using warm tints, and the result seems an old sepia picture that gives me the idea of autum.
In the third picture a wanted to use different bright colors, like green or orange trying to represent a relaxing moment between the mum and his child. I was trying to insert blue/light blue, but in this context it gives to me the idea of cold (weather) or cool feelings and I opted for orange and green.
In the last one I was thinking to use mostly shades of grey and white, and use a different colour only for one element in the picture. The result is an idea of Winter, or a mum lost in her thoughts or like if everything is freezed for a moment except the baby buggy. In any case, colors help me to highlight the baby buggy compared to the rest of the picture.


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A Shrunken, Crippled Version of Windows
By: Kevin Hoffman
Mar. 25, 2008 11:15 PM
During the Q&A period after one of my sessions at the iPhone Developer Summit last Thursday, there was someone there from Microsoft Competetive Intelligence. She asked myself and some other folks who were lingering nearby to describe, in our unbiased opinions, what we thought was wrong with Windows Mobile.
Talk about a can of worms. My unbiased opinion is actually pretty close to my biased opinion. I've written Compact Framework applications for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC 2003 and have written Embedded VB and Embedded C++ apps for Windows CE, and I've even written applications for Palm OS ($%#@!#@! endian conversions can bite me!). The Compact Framework makes developing for Windows-based mobile devices brainless, easy, and extremely productive. That said, Windows Mobile is fugly.
My response to her was that Windows Mobile is a crippled, shrunken version of Windows. By this I mean that when you are using Windows Mobile, you do not ever, at any point, feel as though you are in the middle of a user experience designed for mobile users and mobile devices. In fact, what you really feel like is that you are mired knee-deep in a bastardized Windows desktop experience that has been hacked, slashed, cut, and mangled until it is nothing more than a limbless victim bleeding out on the mobile device battlefield. Granted, even cut and slashed as it is, its an extremely powerful OS rich with capability. But that's the problem: it has capability, but it has a terrible experience.
Why does a mobile device need a Start menu and/or button? Basically what you are left with is the feeling that someone thought (quite erroneously) that since all mobile device users are at some point Windows desktop users and said users are stupid and incapable of adaptation that Windows Mobile must look and feel as much like what those users are familiar with on the desktop as possible. This is stupid and this is why no one actually wants to use Windows Mobile! Think about it, when was the last time you, as a windows mobile device owner, actually felt pleasure while using your WM device? When was the last time you said "Awesome, I'll just whip out my WM device and we'll check that (insert query) online!" Probably never. In fact, the conversation usually goes something like this:
Buddy: Hey, when is (movie) playing?
What's the moral of the story? Windows Mobile devices are a means of last resort. A last ditch effort. A necessary evil. People use them because they have access to corporate e-mail, some of them play music, and they have access to a plethora of ugly-ass applications with a few gems hidden in the endless sea of available shareware/freeware apps. When a WM owner needs to check something online using a browser, it involves cringing, sighing, or just giving up.
Developers writing WM applications need to exert tremendous influence and effort on the lowest level functionality to avoid and escape the terrible experience and provide something that users actually enjoy using. Windows Mobile was not designed from the ground up to be a mobile experience. Using WM feels kludgy, slow, unproductive, and alien. If you are going to build a mobiel device that people enjoy and people want to use, then the first step is to actually design an experience that fits the mobile form factor and the mobile digital lifestyle. Anything less is a hack. The only reason why WM has so much proliferation is because it is the defacto standard for corporate mobile devices. It is like the phone company of the days of old. Service sucked, support sucked, prices sucked, but people used it because they had to. Once people had other options (VoIP, voice-over-cable, cheap cellular, low-cost competitors) they took them and they took them in droves.
What will happen to Windows Mobile once people have an alternative that is both pleasant to use and works with both their corporate and personal lives? Adapt or die. At some point Microsoft must rearchitect Windows Mobile from the ground up to be a compelling mobile user experience.
- Anyway, this has been a verbose description of my own two cents. Your mileage may vary :)
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Robert Rubin never quite fit in Washington. Maybe that's why Wall Street loved him so much.
Rubin was always unimpressed with the trappings and allurements of power. A millionaire many times over, he didn't seem to want anything out of his government service except to do what he thought was the right thing for the economy.
Like George Washington long before him, Rubin was a reluctant servant. His wife, Judith, never relocated to Washington from New York and that helped him keep his distance. Rubin always seemed ready to move on when his services were no longer needed. That time has apparently now come, now that the economy has recovered its confidence. See related story.
The capital doesn't know how to deal with people who don't want power, fame or fortune. The political game works only when you know what the other guy's motives are. Congressional Republicans, in particular, seemed flummoxed by Rubin's steady advocacy of the administration's economic agenda. They never quite trusted him during the budget battles of 1996 and 1997, but he never wavered, then or in any of the four years he held the job.
Just as it took a red-hunting Republican to go to China, it took a bleeding-heart Democrat to balance the budget. Rubin played the instrumental role in transforming the federal government's fiscal policy, perhaps for decades.
Rubin was the guy who persuaded President Clinton that fiscal restraint (and later a balanced budget) could be good for Main Street as well as Wall Street. Rubin, despite his Wall Street pedigree, is a man who cares about social and economic justice. And Rubin, despite his liberal leanings, is a man who believed that government borrowing was crowding out private investment. High interest rates were holding back the economy, he believed.
Unlike the Republicans, who condemned the deficit as immoral, Rubin thought it merely inefficient.
When it was all over, the budget had been balanced without giving up on the Democrats' social and economic agenda of investing in people.
And Rubin had won the grudging admiration of his adversaries. "Of all the officials in the Clinton administration, he has had more credibility with me, and I think with Congress, than any other official," said Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, on Wednesday. "He will certainly be missed."
Rubin's likely successor, Larry Summers, will continue most of Rubin's policies. In fact, many of those policies, particularly in foreign affairs, are really Summers'. But Summers hasn't yet earned the unquestioned support Rubin had on Wall Street or the reluctant respect he finally got on Capitol Hill.
Rubin and Summers are twins on policy. The difference is in the men themselves. Rubin was the mythic ambitionless leader, while Summers is merely a mortal.


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Here's what's been going on here in "Hotlanta" at the ISTE 2014 Conference
The second session was the Little Learners Playground, showcasing some of the coolest new advances in educational technology for the four to seven year age group.
Osmo, the cool new product (still in the preorder stage) was being demonstrated and all attendees got to try it out first hand. Tangible Play, the company behind this device, calls it reflective artificial intelligence technology. It consists of a base that props up the iPad and a small mirror that gets placed over the camera.
Making the rounds on the expo floor:
Got to chat it up with Julie Brannon at the Drawp Booth. Read TWA's review of Drawp for School to see what you have been missing. It's a masterpiece of an app!
Tales2Go is really growing! We caught up with William Weil and got the lowdown on what is transpiring them to forge ahead. We've been singing the praises of Tales2Go for years. Read our Tales2Go review from early 2011.
Thinglink now has a teacher piece that gives educators all kinds of perks. Read TWA's review of Thinglink. This awesome app launched in 2010. We got to meet CEO Ms. Ulla Engeström today. What a thrill!
BEST NEWS YET! Lillian Stern, of Press4Kids, won the Google Pitch by a long shot and everyone in the crowd went wild! Obviously, TWA LOVES their brilliant app. Read our review of News-O-Matic.


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Become a part of the Galveston County Umpires Association. Meeting Date: February, 15, 2018 7:00pm at the Amegy Bank in Santa Fe (13030 Highway 6, Santa Fe, TX 77510). You must register through the registerusasoftball.com site. The test will be … Continue reading
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Gorham Art Nouveau Kate Greenaway Style Sterling Silver Child's Mug
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The handled cup measures 3" high, has a top diameter of 2 5/8", a maximum span of 3 3/4" to the end of the handle, and a 2 3/16" wide underside. It weighs 4.2 T. oz. There is a script "DMC" monogram on the sidewall.
Made by Gorham about 1900, it combines two styles.
First, it falls within the Art Nouveau mode popular during the period. This is expressed in the overall undulating form, and in the sinuous character of the detailing, for example the organic nature of the handle and the trailing stem and leaves that are applied to the body.
Second, it also incorporates four applied children's figures that are very much in the manner of Kate Greenaway, whose work harkens to the English Arts and Crafts Movement.
These figures include two boys and two girls, all wearing simple country clothing and bonnets.
It is in excellent condition, showing minimal signs of wear and having a fine finish. There are no dents, splits, or repairs. The interior retains traces of an original gold wash.
Marks on the underside include Gorham's lion, anchor, G, "Sterling," and the model number "A2678."


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Thanks for this … I used to watch the series many years ago, but I never saw the pilot, so Parmenter's Appomattox exploit and promotion was always a mystery.
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Two pick-up trucks collided on Highway 5A near Rogers Way in Kamloops sending debris flying off hitting another pick-up truck.
It happened around 8 a.m. The Driver of a southbound pick-up truck lost control on black ice and crossed the centre line, hitting a northbound pick-up. A piece of flying debris from the collision hit another truck which was behind the northbound truck involved in the crash.
RCMP say that there was extensive damage done to both pick-ups.
Three people were taken to Royal Inland Hospital by ambulance for non-life threatening injuries. A fourth person, in the third vehicle hit by debris, was checked on scene by paramedics.
Both trucks were towed from the scene and the road is now open.
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On October 22, news broke that the body of a small child had been found in Richardson, Texas. With a multi-agency search already under way for 3-year-old Sherin Mathews, most people assumed the worst. Unfortunately, those assumptions were confirmed today, including the public's suspicion that Sherin's father, Wesley, likely had more to do with her disappearance than he was letting on.
The Richardson Police Department confirmed that the body of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews was indeed found on Sunday evening. Thought to be missing since October 7, the child made national headlines when it was discovered that her disappearance had occurred after her father forced her to stand outside alone in the middle of the night as punishment for not drinking her milk.
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On Monday evening, Wesley Mathews -- along with his lawyer -- arrived at the Richardson police department and asked to speak with detectives. Officials claim that he "provided an alternate statement of events from those which he had given previously regarding the disappearance of Sherin."
An arrest warrant for Wesley Mathews shares the graphic details surrounding Sherin's death. According to the documents, Mathews had "been trying to get the 3-year-old girl to drink her milk in the garage" in the early morning hours on the day she went missing. The affidavit also mentioned that Mathews "said she wouldn't listen to him."
After failing to get her to drink her milk, Mathews claimed that he "physically assisted" his daughter in drinking it, and Sherin subsequently choked on the milk. Mathews claimed that he watched his daughter die as a result. "She was coughing and her breathing slowed. Eventually, Wesley Mathews no longer felt a pulse on the child and believed she had died," the document says.
From there, Mathews told authorities that he moved Sherin's body from the family's home to the culvert where her body was found on Sunday, which was located less than a mile away from the family's home.
After his admission, Mathews was arrested on first degree felony charges of injury to a child. Police say those charges could be changed, upgraded, or modified depending on what information the medical examiners recover from Sherin's remains.
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While many are grateful to finally have some answers regarding Sherin's disappearance, knowing the tragic outcome of her story and that her father is allegedly the one who ended her life doesn't make this case any less devastating.


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Google Pay adds support for a whopping 176 additional US banks
Google Pay just keeps building support. Its latest batch of 176 (yes, one hundred and seventy-six) new US institutions includes some real heavy-hitters like the University of Michigan Credit Union, the Bankers' Bank of Kansas, and nine—count 'em, nine—miscellaneous First National Banks.
The addition of these new banks comes after 61 (plus three card types) were added in March. The full, long list of this lot of Google Pay's newly-supported institutions can be found below.Read More
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Here's what's going on in the garden this weekend:
|I bought this Pink Frost hellebore just a couple of weeks ago, and really love it. Haven't grown hellebores before, so I'm hoping it settles in and establishes itself.
|Although I lost some of the buds on my Japanese quinces at the end of the year, they are still blooming fairly reasonably.
|lovely red peony shoots
|These pink hyacinths were planted in the fall. They're quite pretty, but have too lax a habit for my liking.
|Pink rock cress if very cheery.
|Pincushion spurge has started to colour up.
|I've been house-sitting this foxtail rosemary over the winter for a friend.....it looks spectacular with all it's spring flowers, so I may have to take a trip to Richters herbs to get one for myself this year.
|Pansies distracting the eye from the fact that I need a new front door, or at minimum, a fresh paint job.
|My Arabian Night dahlias are coming up with vigour in the mudroom.


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Just six short months ago all the world's major banks were solidly against cryptocurrencies, with some even threatening to shut down accounts that used cryptocurrencies. Times change fast these days however, and while some banks remain very wary and restrictive of cryptocurrencies, there's one U.K. bank that has changed its tune. That bank is Barclay's and they have agreed to enter a partnership with Coinbase that will give GBP holders a great new opportunity to enter the cryptocurrency markets.
Until now there were very few U.K. banks that allowed accounts linked to any form of cryptocurrency, and very few exchanges that would deal with British pounds. With Coinbase stepping into the breech left by this mindset they become the first major partner of a U.K. based bank, and one of the few avenues for British citizens to enter the cryptocurrency markets.
It's a huge win for Coinbase, who can now make cryptocurrencies more accessible to British consumers, and at the same time grow their client base. And perhaps most importantly, they now have an e-money license in the U.K., which also gives them access to 23 different countries in the European Union. And it allows them to utilize the Faster Payments Scheme – the UK's 24*7 Real Time Payment System that enables individuals and businesses to move money quickly, easily and safely.
Support for the Faster Payments Scheme will initially only be available to a select user group, but Coinbase will be working to roll out the feature to users all across the United Kingdom as quickly as possible.
Why the e-Money License
The e-money license is the most important part of the whole deal. It gives Coinbase the ability to issue e-money and offer payment services within the U.K. It also means that customer funds will be kept separate from Coinbase operational funds, which is a key step forward for the company, and for its clients.
This separation of client and operational funds means that clients would retain access to their capital even if Coinbase were to halt its operations. This feature isn't quite as safe as having funds protected by regulators, but you can be sure it will be necessary in the near future when regulations and regulators enter the cryptocurrency sphere. It meets the strict guidelines of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and will give Coinbase added legitimacy among U.K. and European investors.
Coinbase now has a definite competitive advantage in the U.K., and given their recent focus on growth, it is almost certain they will aggressively take advantage of that. Things are bound to get interesting in the United Kingdom regarding cryptocurrencies, and this could quickly spread all across Europe if Coinbase continues to pursue this type of legitimized growth.


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Ladies and Gentleman,
I am going to speak about Justice Aruna Narain, a lady whose roots are in my village of Vale. Her grandfather's contemporaries were those of Rashid Daureawoo, Judge Hamuth and of Anwar Husnoo. Anwar's Nana, known as Sheik was a big small planter making the rounds of his domain on a BSA, old man Daureeawoo, a sixieme passé, was a Moniteur finally recycled to become a big small planter like Hamuth whereas Master Narain pursued a career as a Teacher. This first generation of Vale people were quite advanced for their time and their vision helped produce a large number of professionals today and I have made it a point to gather some of their grandchildren….. Fazila Hamuth, Rashid Daureeawoo, Anwar Husnoo and of course Aruna.
Aruna holds an LL.M from London School of Economics and has a rich working experience at the Attorney-General's Office serving successively as State Counsel, Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel, Assistant Parliamentary Counsel and Assistant Solicitor-General. She was appointed Parliamentary Counsel in 2011.
She has lectured at the Council of Legal Education where she was a board member and she attended several conferences as part of a team at the Commonwealth secretariat, the Human Rights Commission, the Law of the Sea Conference and has also served at the Electoral Commission.
Madeleine Albright's has said 'there is a special place in Hell for women who don't help other women. Pioneering women must champion the cause of women generally; otherwise the world will slip back into its complacent old masculo-centric ways". Our Judicial and Legal commission has proved that women in Mauritius do not need the backing of their likes as we don't use the tap on the shoulder method in appointing our judges.
Professor Erika Rackley remarked that " A judge has to be seen as "supra human" and can't be imagined as having a bath or doing the washing up and went on to compare the woman judge with Andersen's little mermaid. Aruna, I hope you are do not fit that description.
The foundation of any civilization is built on law and you have chosen to be its ardent and loyal servant. And I cannot improve on the decision of the Judiciary to appoint you at the Apex court.
As a young judge, you are expected to abide by the Magna Carta for Judges "To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice". You may, why not, choose to mould a new judicial culture which is a pressing need in Mauritius where the administrators of justice have taken a beating lately to the point of relegating the concept of honour to anachronism and reducing it as a stylish and polite language.
We are sure that you will not swerve from applying the law impartially and keeping alive its impartiality in decision making. Please, do administer justice with a firm hand, dignity and fairness.
There is no doubt that becoming a Judge is due recognition of years of hard work, dedication and ability to serve a cause and a compensation for the sacrifices made by burning the midnight oil. This evening, ALIF joins your dear ones in celebrating your success. I am sure that Master Narain, your grandpa, would relish this occasion if he were still alive. And allow me to imitate Sarah Palin to add "I have every confidence that Judge Narain has the experience, intellect, wisdom and character to be an outstanding Supreme Court justice."
Cela fera bientôt trois siècles de l'implantation française dans notre ile et alors nous faisons partie de l'Histoire de France. Nous évoquerons plein de souvenirs de notre glorieuse passe et l'esprit tricolore avec le concours de l'Etat Mauricien et les forces vives mauriciennes. Alif souhaite pleins succès a ces réjouissances : Que la grande fête citoyenne prévue soit une de notre fraternité et de notre coopération et l'occasion de tracer un avenir ensemble et avec espoir.
Il se passe rarement un mois sans que Madame la Présidente ne reçoive une distinction internationale. Elle est cette fois la Lauréate du Magazine Challenges qui la classe parmi les 100 prestigieuses personnalités qui changent le monde. Félicitations Ameena.


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Horse Deals meets Jayne Webber, who dominated the showing classes at HOYS this year
After seven wins throughout the week at HOYS, it was just reward when Jayne Webber was called forward into the final spotlight to receive the Horse Deals supreme ridden horse award from publisher Michael Donovan.
Jayne had often referred to Carol Bardo's champion riding horse as her "special needs" mount, but over the past three seasons, the elegant grey gelding by Kilvington Scoundrel out of Titania's Dream has amassed an enviable tally of wins and championships.
"He was a real Jack the Lad when he was first ridden. And as he tended to make a fuss about anything, he's not been an easy horse to take away to shows," says Jayne.
In his first HOYS appearance in 2007, "Phil" was spooky and sharp, but last year he rose to the occasion to take the riding horse title.
"I've now run out of superlatives to describe him, but he's as magical to ride as he looks," says Jayne.
Although the week ended on a perfect note for the team, Carol Bardo had the worst possible start when she had to undergo surgery for a ruptured disc. However, determined not to miss the final classes, she discharged herself and was ringside to watch Phil's finest hour. Also present was the horse's breeder, Anna Macey.
"It was an extra special day to have Carol and Anna there. Phil was been so chilled about everything — even the ringside Sky TV studio — and he gave me the most sublime rides," says Jayne.
While the supreme decision came down to the choice of BSJA chairman Michael Mac and show breeder Rose Kelbie, who both said The Philanderer caught their eye from the first walk round, Jayne would have won by a distance if the title had been decided on a points basis throughout the show.
She started off with Carol Bardo and Mandy Hughes's The Humdinger, who won his coloured native class on a score of 100 out of 100 and took the championship, then followed that up by winning the SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse title with Amanda Bowlby's Ironman Muldooon.
Jayne qualified the former hurdler and chaser when she partnered him for the first time at Burghley.
"He's a delightful little horse and I'd jump at the chance of riding him again," she says.
Carol Bardo's The Keystone Cob maintained the stable's form by topping his heavyweight class en route to the championship, while The Philanderer was their final winner.
Jayne is the ultimate producer and her expertise at getting horses to settle in the ring — particularly tricky rides — is a joy to watch. And her seven HOYS wins were no fluke. Every horse went beautifully for rider and judges and was a credit to all concerned.
"I've a back-up team second to none and everyone played their part at Birmingham," explains Jayne, before revealing her winning secret.
"Home groom Libby Larman took three horses hacking in Windsor Great Park and all three stood champion," she laughs.
You may not associate champion show horses with "happy hacking", but this typifies the laid back regime horses enjoy at Moor Farm, Maidenhead.
"We just do what we need to keep them happy. During the season we tend to tick along," says Jayne.
While the farm has a big all-weather outdoor school and nice fields, the surrounding roads aren't great for riding, so with Windsor Great Park just 10min away, the horses are frequently boxed there.
"It's a popular trip out and also a great introduction to travelling for young horses, who can enjoy a relaxed ride at the end of their journey," explains Jayne.
During the summer months, around 24 horses occupy the stables at Moor Farm. These include established stars such as Phil, hunters Silverstream, Standing Ovation and Cheyne Walk, and cobs The Humdinger and The Keystone Cob. They have been joined by some new names, including Knightsbridge Court, top four-year-old hunter at the National Championships, Thame winner Fate Acoblis and the three-year-old Berkeley Square, who will make her debut under saddle next season.
Added to these are liveries such as Elaine Place's prolific coloured horse Red Andes and Natasha Yates's small hunter First Edition, on whom Jayne shares the ride when Natasha is working in London.
Jayne is assisted by grooms Mark Chesters, Gemma Lucas and Libby Larman and she believes that because the staff know their horses inside out, any potential problems are nipped in the bud.
"It's so important to have a good relationship with horses. At HOYS, Mark knew Phil was chilled and laid back, so he had no worries at all about our performance. He was right," she says.
Jayne, who also describes herself as laid back, says she thinks that filters through to the horses. And because of her racing background, she has learned "to sit and suffer" on difficult rides.
"You can't stop a horse by pulling against it. I tend to go with the flow and try to read their minds. It's trial and error, but more often than not we end up with a happy outcome for horse and rider," she explains.
Jayne's record speaks for itself.
"I like a challenge and there aren't many horses coming to me who don't have a hang up. Phil's definitely grown up this year, but he was a real pain as a youngster. If he hadn't been so beautiful, we'd have given up long ago," she reflects.
The Keystone Cob also took time to settle. When bought from Tim and Christie Fairburn, he hated to be touched.
"It took a year for him to fully accept handling, grooming and riding, but now he's a real people person," says Jayne, who took a liking to the cob and literally herded him from stable to horsebox when she first took him home.
Jayne and Carol certainly both have an eye for a horse. When visiting Dublin four years ago, the first horse they spotted was a powerful grey.
"He was just grazing, led by his groom, but we liked him, so we bought him," explains Jayne.
The four-year-old was Silverstream, who went on to stand supreme ridden hunter at the show.
"We don't go looking for horses — they tend to find us. Steve Pitt keeps an eye out for some nice three-year-olds in youngstock classes and the Fairburns know exactly what we like," says Jayne.
She may be the owner, but Carol, who has her own special ride in the cob Cantel, is very hands on at Moor Farm.
"It's marvellous. While I get on with riding, Carol takes care of all the administration duties," says Jayne.
With so many horses to produce, doing the show entries can prove the proverbial nightmare, but Carol and Jayne try to place each horse, taking into account livery owners' specific needs.
"It's horses for courses. We tend to avoid busy shows with nervous horses, but then they sometimes surprise us, as Phil did at Great Yorkshire this year by winning and going champion in what we considered an electric ring," she says
Close season it may be now, but Jayne is pro-active at putting something back into her sport and on the day of this interview, had just returned from a judges' assessment day at Addington Manor.
"We took some horses along for candidates to ride. We get so much out of showing that it's nice to be able to put something back," she explains.
Win or lose, Jayne Webber wouldn't choose another career.
"We have a lovely yard, a great team and I have some fantastic horses to ride. What more could I wish for?"
she asks.
Although she doesn't come from an equestrian family, Jayne Webber is bred to excel in the sporting arena. Father Freddie Williams was a double world speedway champion and her mother Pat Devries skated in the Oslo Olympics.
Jayne started riding at the age of five after sitting on a friend's pony and she tasted early showing success by winning at HOYS on the 12.2hh show pony Cusop Pirouette.
After eventing for a short time, Jayne combined showing and racing following her marriage to former national hunt jockey Anthony Webber. She also enjoyed a brief stint at a racing yard in South Africa.
As Jayne's showing career gathered momentum, she became equestrian manager for the Duncan family and also rode for Norman Swallow and Jane Thornton.
It was a chance encounter that led Jayne to join Carol Bardo's showing team four years ago. After regular jockey Richard Ramsay suffered a terrible fall, Jayne was called on to partner the riding horses Soldier Brave and Catherston Square Dance. The horses were moved to Moor Farm and Jayne kept the rides.
Jayne has two daughters, Joanna — who has followed in her grandmother's footsteps and is currently touring with Disney on Ice — and Harriet, who works in London.
She now lives with her partner Dr Alan Ross, who has a dental practice in Knightsbridge Court, London. Alan evented in Ireland and sold his advanced horse, The Busby Soldier, to a Korean rider before the Seoul Olympics.
Jayne and Alan share their home with Scottish terriers Robbie and Archie and Siamese cats Jasmine, Orchid and Little Louis.
Jayne's hobbies include skiing "when I have time", holidaying in the sun, "preferably in St Tropez", and entertaining and cooking, with "wine definitely involved"!
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African American churches need to speak out against gangsta rap and its negative influence on young people, black pastors from around the country were told this week in Los Angeles.
"The church ought to say, 'If you can't do more positive rap, shut up and get the hell out,' " the Rev. Michael A. Battle, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, told the third annual Pastors and Laity Conference that concluded Thursday night with a worship service at West Angeles Church of God in Christ.
In an impassioned plea, Battle, a Baptist preacher who heads the nation's premier center for black church scholarship, said gangsta rap denigrates all young blacks, especially black women.
Battle, speaking at the conference Monday, charged that gangsta rap has stolen "the soul of positive rap," meant to articulate the "sociological circumstances" of African Americans, especially men. Some raps capture the obstacles facing a teen as he tries to "become a man ... somebody with character in their turbulent circumstances."


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In L.A. artist Mindy Shapero's installation "Second Sleep," the boldly painted walls, sculptures and floor make you feel woozy while never letting you forget that art works in mysterious ways — just like a dream, except that you're wide awake.
In the far left corner of the compact gallery known as the Pit II, Shapero has painted a bright dot. And a circle around it. And another. And so forth. Until just about every square inch of the walls and ceiling has been covered with a DayGlo rainbow that circles back on itself.
The colors buzz. The circles throb. And the walls and ceiling seem to be out of whack — like the facial features in a portrait painted by Picasso.
To step onto the mirrored Mylar that covers the floor is to feel as if the room is convulsing — not spastically, but more than enough to make you feel as if you're in a boat on the sea in a storm.
Shapero's three sculptures are islands of respite. Their matte black sections anchor your perceptions, absorbing the chaos so your eyes don't have to.
But escape from the optical overload ends in a whirlpool of conceptual turbulence. Emotional ambivalence follows hot on its heels.
"Fool With Two Ear Socks" and "Lover With Two Ear Socks" resemble supersized kachinas, lightweight traffic bollards, fallen piñatas, malformed cartoon characters and mutant sock monkeys. Mixing metaphors and references from different times and various places, they make the mind reel.
If Shapero's wickedly decentered exhibition has a talisman, it's "Broken Head From the Other Side." The gold-leafed sculpture, lying facedown on the floor, suggests that somewhere, somehow, the face has fallen off a monumental portrait.
But that sculpture's bad luck is each visitor's good fortune. The bowl-shaped backside of the fallen face is covered with patterns more elaborate and fanciful than the one on the walls and ceiling.
You're right back in the hallucinatory stew of pulsating circles, eye-popping hijinks and mind-bending conundrums. In the face of art, time and space don't stand a chance.
The Pit II, 918 Ruberta Ave., Glendale. Through June 10; closed Mondays and Tuesdays. (747) 273-8240, www.the-pit.la
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These days kids don't actually focus on what is being taught at school and when it comes to exams, they generally start to panic. In other cases, and which happens eighty percent of the time is that slow learners usually get ignored by the teachers. This happens due to a number of reasons, the first being that a single teacher is given the sole responsibility of teaching thirty kids in one classroom. One of the other reasons of this happening is that slow learners basically demand and need more time as opposed to normal kids and due to time constraints, teachers usually fail to give them the amount of coaching that they need. For this reason, such students require after school coaching so as to cover up the gaps that are left when they have their regular classes at school.
Most children, whether slow learners or not tend to go for math tuition. The reason behind this is that mathematics is generally thought to be a difficult subject and most kids are unable to grasp the new concepts that are taught in school in just one class and so they require some reinforcement.
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Mathematics is a subject that is quite dry and dull and tends to get even drier when a kid gets promoted to the next grade. Kids usually despise this discipline and would do anything to not to have to study it. However, because of its practical implications and its link with numerous other disciplines, it has become a compulsory subject at almost all schools and educational institutions worldwide.
It is also common belief that a kid who is good at math will always be good at all other subjects since math is a subject few tend to master and the ones who do are either geniuses or really gifted people. For the ones that aren't so talented and still need to go through the whole math curriculum, math tuition has become a must as it is the only way that they can go through with the end of session exams.
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I have several of my different mathematics classes read Flatland during the course of the semester. This is a quiz for the first three chapters plus the introductory chapter. I can post questions for the rest of the book if teachers are interested.
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Give the LearnCheck, Flatland, as a quiz over the introduction and the first three chapters of part 1.
Continue to have students read the rest of the book. I do have questions for the rest of the book that I can submit as well if there is interest. I also have them as a Word document with some added discussion questions as well.
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Golf in unexpected destinationsThursday, February 8, 2018 18:06
This weekend, if you find yourself unexpectedly in Toronto, Canada, or some other exotic destination, these are some of the top golf courses to play. According to the www.seetorontonow.com website, top golf courses in Toronto include the 72-hole Cardinal Golf Club which is home to not one but four 18-hole layouts suitable for players of all skill levels.
The Kettle Creek course is suitable for beginners, while the East and West Wing courses are intermediate and suitable for golfers of all skill levels looking for an easy day on the course. The RedCrest is a challenging course, perhaps best avoided for those of dubious skill levels.
The Don Valley Golf Course is a public municipal course accessible at under Sh4,000, one can hire golf clubs for Sh2,550.
The Jack Nicklaus designed Glen Abbey Golf Club is a must play course for many reasons. Tiger Woods won the Canada Open there back in 2000 and it is currently in danger of disappearing due to residential development. Avoid the Glen Abbey if your dress code is less than stellar or includes a funny white hat!
Other courses in and around the Toronto area include the Lakeview Golf Course, the Turnberry Golf Club, Uplands Golf Course, Osprey Valley Golf and the Angus Glen Golf Club — an elitist public course.
Unexpectedly in South Africa? Then the websites www.lastminutegolf.co.za and www.golfteetimes.co.za enable you to book from over 100 courses across the country at rock bottom green fees. These two sites feature drop down menus that allow golfers looking for last minute games or deals to choose their preferred locations and times for prices as low as Sh3,000.
In Dubai, websites such as www.dubaigolf.com, www.golfscape.com and www.teeoff.com/Dubai offer similar services, making it easier for golfers on transit or short business trips to find available tee times conveniently.
Again, these Dubai websites offer competitive green fees, ranging from Sh8,000 at The Els Club and up to Sh24,000 at Trump International Golf Club.
Golf at the Emirates Golf Club's Majlis Course, venue of the Dubai Desert Classic, is a cool Sh27,150 —small change for the business traveller with a free afternoon.
Over the years, Portugal has established itself as the most attractive golf tourism destination with the Algarve region proving to be the most popular. The website www.golfinportugal.com allows last minute or unexpected visitors to quickly search for, book and pay for games at reasonable fees. You can book and play at the Laguna Golf Course, a challenging links course that shares a clubhouse with the next door Millenium golf course.
The Ocean Golf Course offers spectacular views of the ocean and although it is a tough course to play, it is good value for money.
In Asia, the website www.golfasian.com aggregates golf from Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and even Myanmar. So whether you fancy a round in Bali, Saigon, Danang, Pattaya or Bangkok, this portal is the place to find and book a golf course.
So, if you do find yourself in an unexpected destination — on a short last minute business trip or exiled for declaring yourself King of Zambunda, finding a golf course and hopefully enjoying a round of golf while there is simple enough.
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Kawan baik know exactly what is happening, if you are having an issue, kawan baik didn't feel the heartbreak for you, but they can understand you, they don't feel whatever you feel, they can just be sad for you, but they don't feel the love for the guy you love, they don't feel jealous over whatever your man is doing, but they can get mad at them on your behalf. They will try to imagine themselves in your place. Trying to think of the best way to solve your problem. Which most of the time, you won't even listen. Why? Why should you trust your friends? Because they know every detail of what is happening. You told them everything. It's just that they think differently from you because you are thinking using feelings. How can you think straight if your thought is mixed with all the loves, sadness, and jealousy?
Well, you can see the difference between friends who want you to be happy and friends who only say the things you wanted to hear.
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Diane Schoemperlen, the author of a dozen novels and short story collections, thought that writing a memoir would be easy. After all, she had the makings of a great story – a fraught relationship with an inmate convicted of second-degree murder – at her fingertips. What could be so hard about typing it into the computer?
To her surprise, This Is Not My Life turned out to be the most difficult book she had ever written.
Diane shared her experiences of writing the memoir and working with editors at a recent meeting of Editors Kingston, a group that is part of Editors Canada.
The writing and editing process started with the proposal. Even though Diane had published for years with HarperCollins, the publisher wanted to see a detailed outline and two sample chapters. (A proposal is standard practice for nonfiction, whereas for fiction, publishers want to see the finished manuscript.)
"Almost none of what I wrote in those sample chapters made it in," Diane says.
She had written at length about things like getting her hair done. "It was my life, and so everything seemed important."
The first draft that she submitted to her editor, Jennifer Lambert, was detailed and rambling. Jennifer's first piece of advice? Cut 40,000 words.
Diane did, and over the next year, the manuscript went through four rounds of substantive editing.
Until now, Diane hadn't experienced heavy editing. "I'm a perfectionist by nature. My fiction manuscripts, when they were submitted, were very close to being just right." She had previously worked with editor Phyllis Bruce, who by this time had left HarperCollins. "I never had any major editing from Phyllis."
But when Jennifer calmly told her, "cut," Diane knew she was in good hands. "I had never been in such need of clear editorial guidance."
The book was emotionally taxing to write, and Diane struggled with the structure, voice, privacy issues, libel, and the constraints of actual facts.
The story might have been easier to write as a novel, but Diane wanted to tell the truth to expose the problems in the Canadian correctional system and the harmfulness of Harper's "tough on crime" policies.
She arrived at a five-part structure, each ending with a parole hearing. Although books on writing memoir warn that a chronological structure – the "tyranny of the linear" – runs the risk of tedium (this happened, and then that), Diane felt that there was no other way to structure her story, and Jennifer agreed.
Diane had the courage to listen to her own story and to find the narrative structure that it called for.
After working closely with Jennifer, Diane felt that the manuscript was very near to how they both wanted it. Her memoir moved into copy editing, a stage in the publishing process that Diane had always enjoyed.
Not this time.
Diane received the copy-edited manuscript on the Friday before Thanksgiving in October 2015. Eagerly, she opened the file and started working on it. Her excitement soon turned to panic: a number of the proposed edits tampered with voice, changed the meaning, and cut the humour that was so characteristic of Diane's way of seeing.
"It was traumatic. It made me doubt myself horribly," Diane says.
For example, in the following paragraph, the copy editor deleted the last line – the punch line – without querying or commenting.
I have never been religious, but still I felt reassured by the church setting of this first date. In my own version of magical thinking, I couldn't help but feel our relationship was being sanctioned, if not sanctified, by history, the Catholic Church, and the Virgin Mary herself. I let this outweigh any niggling misgivings I might have. What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong, indeed?
Another example: the copy editor, whom Diane was stresses was a freelancer not an in-house editor at HarperCollins, and was careful not to name, changed the word "warrant" to "warranty."
"Anybody who has ever watched a crime show on TV knows the difference between a warrant and a warrantee," Diane told our group.
It took Diane three weeks, working with Jennifer, to restore the manuscript pretty much to what it had been before the copy edit.
Her story is a cautionary tale for those of us who work as freelance copy editors.
This Is Not My Life went on to be longlisted for the BC National Book Award and shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize.


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I had an excited Gail on the phone this afternoon whilst I was at work. She said that whilst she was arriving back home from work, she saw a film crew down the road. With cameras and everything. I said get her camera out and start taking photos, as something special might be happening.
So a little while later, she rang again and described what was happening. I said that I would put a message on Facebook to see if anyone knew what was going on. A few messages appeared saying that they might be making an episode of the tv cooking show Come Dine With Me.
Fortunately they were still there when I got home, so I was poised with my camera too. I chatted to a couple of the crew who told me that it was a cooking show being made, but not Come Dine With Me, but a new show called The Kitchen Rules, based on the Australian show of the same name. It's where a well known chef eats a meal at different people's houses and decides who cooked the best food. In this case it is Michael Caines. Sadly not the actor from the Italian Job and Alfie. Now that would be a scoop, but a very well known chef. Sadly not with me, as I've not heard of him before.
Similarly to Come Dine With Me, the other contestants also join the chef in eating the meal. The winner gets £10,000. I popped down a bit later and chatted to the lady who was doing the catering for the production team. She said that they were filmed an episode yesterday in Chesterfield.
Apparently it's a very popular show in Australia, and so Channel Four have bought the rights to it, and are making their own version. Also involved is tv presenter and cookery writer Prue Leith. The show will be screened later in the year. So it will be interesting to see what Beeston looks like through their camera lens.


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Why the Gmar gatima tova is a blessing that we can use for the festival of Hannuka.
'Gmar hatima tova' is a greeting associated with the High Holy Days. After being inscribed in the Book of Life on Rosh Hashana, we wish each other a gmar hatima tova – may you be completely sealed for the best. Traditionally this blessing is offered from Rosh Hashana through Yom Kippur. The blessing may also be offered until the final day of Succot, Hoshana Raba, when there is one last opportunity to add a note to the Book of Life and be sealed for the best in the coming year.
The ever-optimistic hassidic tradition recognized one further opportunity: One of the early hassidic masters, Rabbi Aharon of Zhitomir (d. 1816), wrote that Hoshana Raba continues until Hanukka. Strange as it may sound, there is justification for offering the "gmar hatima tova" wish right through Hanukka.
Speaking at a gathering to commemorate the anniversary of his father-in-law's death on Hanukka 1951, Rabbi Ya'acov Friedman (1878-1957) cited this hassidic tradition.
Friedman – often known by the title of his work Oholei Ya'acov – was a scion of the regal Ruzhin dynasty and served as leader of the Husiatyn Hassidim in Tel Aviv during the formative years of the State of Israel. He was born in Bohush, Romania, married in Husiatyn, Galicia, and with the outbreak of the Great War, he fled with his family to Vienna, Austria.
In Vienna, Rabbi Ya'acov was active in Zionist circles. In 1937, together with his father-in-law – the incumbent leader of the Husiatyn Hassidim – and the rest of the family, he moved to Mandatory Palestine. The family settled in the first Jewish city, Tel Aviv. To avoid the humidity and heat, the family would move to Jerusalem for the summer months, but the center of the Husiatyn Hassidim was established in Tel Aviv. To this day, the building on Bialik Street remains standing as the bastion of the Husiatyn legacy there.
Rabbi Ya'acov's father-in-law and predecessor, Rabbi Yisrael of Husiatyn (1858-1949), was a respected leader, known for his quiet, sincere and noble manner. Contemporaries would later recall the figure of Rabbi Yisrael on his daily walks through the streets of Tel Aviv. Prior to his death, he was asked for his opinion on the fledgling State of Israel. "It is at'halta degeula, the beginning of the redemption," he responded without hesitation.
At the gathering in his father-in-law's memory, Rabbi Ya'acov commented: "Today we need a gmar hatima tova in two senses of the blessing. First, in the classic hassidic sense: Even though we have reached Hanukka, it is not too late to be sealed for good life this year.
"Second, on the national level: We have already merited 'the beginning of the redemption.' The establishment of the State of Israel reflects a physical redemption for our people. The ultimate goal, alas, remains: A physical redemption accompanied by spiritual salvation. For this, too, we wish gmar hatima tova – may what was begun be completed for the best."
Rabbi Ya'acov continued that this blessing was eminently appropriate for the festival of Hanukka: In hassidic tradition, the light of the Hanukka candles reflects the light of ultimate good that is reserved for the End of Days.
We could add a further dimension to the festival's connection with the beginning of the redemption as reflected by the establishment of the state: Since 1949, the State of Israel's official emblem has been the seven-branched menorah.
So for Hanukka, we offer the blessing of gmar hatima tova: May we be sealed for a rain-filled good year, and may what was started with the establishment of a national homeland be completed for the best.