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Trainee Testimonial: Effect of YogaFit on Recidivism
Hi Beth,
I just wanted to send you a quick note to thank you again for creating YogaFit and for changing my life. It is through YogaFit, in big part, that we are changing other people's lives for the better. Our criminal offender rehabiliation classes are going very very well. Almost everyone I am teaching is new to yoga. I am constantly amazed at the bond it creates between all of us, how much they like it, how much it is helping their self-esteem and how much it is helping them become aware.
We have a younger man in the class who is immersed in the gang culture. He was engaged in class but still had that tough guy image that was keeping him a little distant. It was through YOGA that I got through that. He was wearing the heavy jacket and the cool gang clothes and a few minutes into the practice he had to start shedding the clothes. He became vulnerable through some challenging poses and before the end of the class....he was bonding with all of us. Some of the other converted guys were helping him through. He has connected with us in class now. He let that tough guy image go in yoga, saw it was safe, and felt successful and connected afterwards. That is very powerful.
Every class I add a new challenging pose. When it gets tough, everyone breaks into laughter and we try it a few times all smiling and laughing together. I have never experienced this type of connection with people.
Thank you so much, Beth. You have changed the world.
Grateful for you,
Toni Carbone


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LONDON (Reuters) - Aviva's potential 5.6 billion pound ($8.8 billion) purchase of Friends Life reflects a need to consolidate and cut costs in Britain's insurance industry, fund managers said.
The two companies said on Friday they had agreed terms of a possible all-share deal at a 15 percent premium to Friends Life's closing price, offering Friends Life shareholders a 26 percent stake in the new company.
The proposed transaction shows how insurers are having to rethink they way they do business after the British government changed rules covering annuities, which provide retirement income, causing a slide in annuity sales.
Some investors were surprised at the timing of the deal given both companies are in turnaround mode.
"Consolidation per se in UK life insurance is not a surprise and is necessary," said David Moss, head of European equities at F&C, which has Aviva shares, according to Thomson Reuters data. "The surprise is perhaps that both businesses are not where they would want to be yet and are in the middle of restructuring programs of their own."
Moss said the pricing did not look overly generous, but that the merger could provide benefits.
Max Anderl, fund manager at UBS Global Asset Management, said he had bought into Aviva after it cut its dividend several years ago, as he saw potential for the share price to grow as new management restructured the company.
"The restructuring story has played out very well under the experienced leadership of Mark Wilson. The plan seems to be to do it all again via a merger. Given there is little growth out there this seems a sensible strategy to me," he said.
Funds which invest in Friends Life for its dividend income may prefer higher dividend paying insurers like Phoenix, Chesnara or Catlin, Ed Shing, global equity portfolio manager at BCS Asset Management, said.
The merger has the backing of Clive Cowdery, who is the 15th largest shareholder in Friends Life, which he founded.
The deal aims to strengthen the balance sheet of Aviva, Britain's second largest listed insurer by market capitalization, as well as boosting assets under management and cutting costs.
Friends Life outsources most of its 100 billion pounds of assets under management, and while not all of that may come back in-house, it could add to Aviva's existing 230 billion pounds in AUM.
Aviva, which has general insurance as well as pensions and life products, expects to more than double its corporate pension book, due to Friends Life's strength there.
"We've been talking about meaningful consolidation in the UK life sector for years. This would be it," Edward Houghton, at Sanford Bernstein, said,
(1 US dollar = 0.6396 British pound)
Editing by Jane Merriman

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Salaries for Network Administrators on the Rise
The computer science graduating class of 2016 has more to smile about as they hit the workforce than their counterparts a year ago. Currently, there are more than 500 000 open jobs in computer science, spanning every sector of the market from manufacturing to healthcare, banking to agriculture. Yet there were only about 50 000 graduates majoring in computer science this year. Plus, this marketing is growing considerably.
Tech jobs like the network administrator are among the fastest growing jobs in all of the U.S. economy. The situation is so important that the nonprofit group Computer Science Education Coalition, together with Code.org, released a letter to Congress asking them to increase federal spending to make computer science more accessible in classrooms for kindergarten through 12th grade.
Large Tech Companies are Gobbling Up Graduates as Fast as They Can Grab Those Diplomas
Google and the social giants like Facebook and LinkedIn are hiring graduates away from other enterprises and smaller companies. That is helping to create a shortage of tech workers in all industries, including the critical fields of healthcare and manufacturing.
Those majoring in computer science disciplines like development, programming, and engineering are going quickly to the tech giants like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn. That is leaving fewer of the graduates available for other enterprises and small- to mid-size organizations. There are almost no businesses that don't have a need for a full-time network administrator and support staff.
Demand is Up for Every Level of IT Worker
The demand for talent is not limited to entry-level positions, either. There is a general, widespread demand for all levels of technical professionals. While most industries are relatively stagnant in terms of job growth, unemployment among IT professionals hovers at an impressively low 2,5 percent. About 80 percent of IT pros are open to the possibility of entertaining new job offers, even if they are happy with their current employers. That makes it incredibly difficult for companies to hang on to the network administrators and other IT talent that they have.
Since supply and demand is much in the favor of the tech pro (as opposed to their employers), many computer science majors are coming into the workforce with larger starting salaries, largely due to multiple offers for employment and the ability to negotiate for the position, salary, benefits, and perks that the worker desires.
Salaries are Up for All IT Professions, Including the Network Administrator
Overall, computer science majors who graduate with a bachelor's degree can expect to hire on at around $61 321 (on average) in 2016. This is based on statistics from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). That is the second highest starting salary rate, and follows only those entering the market with bachelor's degrees in engineering. Engineers are hiring on at an average salary of about $64 891.
But 2015 graduates can cash in on the boom, as well. NACE reports that 2015 graduates with computer science degrees achieved a full-time employment rate of 76 percent within one-half year of graduation -- a mighty feat in this economy and facing a hotly-contested Presidential election, too.
NACE is not the only agency reporting a strong job market for network administrators and other IT professionals. PayScale ranked 319 college majors according to the earning potential of those graduates. STEM fields ranked impressively strong. Six majors related to computers and technology ranked among the top 20 majors in terms of earning potential. Within those six, the highest paying was computer science and engineering, with an expected median starting pay of $69 100 per year, and the potential to earn as much as $115 000 by the middle of their careers.
The other five computer science majors that made the top 20 were electrical and computer engineering, systems engineering, computer engineering, computer science and mathematics, and computer science. All of these graduates can expect to begin their careers in entry-level positions paying upwards of $60 000 per year, with a mid-career potential well northward of $100 000.
Companies Have to Up Their Hiring Game to Get the Best Tech Workers
Companies will need to do more to get and keep the tech workers they need, including hiring outside the computer science majors.
How can companies remain competitive in terms of acquiring and retaining top tech talent? First, they need to improve hiring strategies. Don't limit searches to a specific pool of degree graduates. Be willing to cross-train workers with the particular skills sets, vendor-specific training, and other certifications and knowledge required in your workplace.
Be willing to hire outside the traditional computer science majors. For example, tech staffing firm Mondo has generated success by filling front-end development positions with those who graduated in marketing. Most media majors are trained heavily in computers, and the transition is much easier than one might think. Marketing majors are often taught to do things like develop Websites and mobile apps.
You Don't Have to Major in Computer Science to Have a Promising Career in Technology
Not only will companies need to adjust their hiring expectations, but graduates will also have to reevaluate their expectations, too. Many graduate with their sights set on a career as one of the 'sexier' tech jobs, like data science or cyber security. Instead, they can achieve a lucrative and fulfilling career in network administration, tech support, development, or some of the other related fields.
These positions can serve as stepping stones for the other positions they're working towards, but a large number will likely find a career in networking to be quite enjoyable. The pay is good, there are many exciting new technologies emerging, and it's definitely a place where an up comer can make their mark.
Another way that network administrators and other IT pros can distinguish themselves from other job seekers is by supplementing their tech savvy with business knowledge and insight. Companies are increasingly seeking workers who are able to bridge the gap between understanding the tech requirements and being able to understand what the business needs out of these technologies. That's often hard to find in tech workers. Minoring in business or supplementing a bachelor's degree computer science or networking with an MBA are ideal ways to achieve this two-punch of specialization.
In this age of rapid technological change, it is essential for every IT pro, particularly the network administrator to cross-train and improve their knowledge and skills base as much as possible.


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Jelly Bean Update for Samsung Galaxy S3 in Korea rolling out now
The Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S3 is now rolling out in Korea over the air and via Samsung's Kies software, and should be reaching every Galaxy S3 in the country in the coming few days.
Jelly Bean brings 30-40% faster app execution, a smoother and more responsive interface, ability to use voice typing when offline, expandable and actionable notifications, and of course Google Now, the intelligent voice assisted search application with automatic information based on user habits.
Be sure to check for the update manually if you haven't received a notification about it yet from the Settings » About phone » Software updates menu, or connect your phone to the computer and check for the update in Kies. Let us know if any of you in Korea have received the update yet.


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October 27, 2013
Black powder carriers were arrested at the Texas capitol as tourists looked on. Open Carry Texas president CJ Grisham and others, including an Infowars reporter, were manhandled by DPS.
Call Texas DPS (512) 424-2000
Open Carry Texas was one of the groups that organized the hugely successful Come and Take It San Antonio rally at the Alamo:


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Nice is overrated.
Being "nice" has only fucked you over. People take you for granted. Walk all over you. Treat you like you're easily replaceable.
Fuck that.
You're a boss, not a doormat. Kick your tears to the curb, and be audacious.
Kill the nice bitch, and become a BOSS Bitch.
Your life's out of control, you're always broke, and your sex life sucks. You're thinking of giving up on yourself and your dreams because you can't catch a break.
* I'm Janelle, coach, strategist and single mom extraordinaire. I transform underpaid, overwhelmed, and overworked women into Passionate Playmakers who're fully in control of their lives.
You can't get anything done by being NICE. If you are ready to take charge of your life, start a business, become financially free and live the life of your dreams than it is time to kill the nice bitch!


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I came home from my Northern California honeymoon in April with very few souvenirs but I did bring back a new favorite new-to-me vegetable: fresh artichokes!
We stayed in Monterey for a few nights during the trip and on the drive there, we drove through Castroville, known as the "Artichoke Center of the World." Since we were staying so close to a place with such a title, I made it my goal to try fresh California artichokes before we left town.
My previous experience with artichokes was limited and always of the canned or jarred in brine variety. While I didn't dislike these canned artichokes, I also won't go so far as to say I adored them. They were fine mixed in with other food but not something I'd ever wanted to eat on their own. In addition, not all canned or jarred artichokes are created equal and some brands that I've tried were just not good.
But in California, I learned that fresh steamed artichokes are absolutely fantastic on their own with just a little bit of lemon mayonnaise on the side.
When we returned to Virginia, a package of artichokes was one of the first items I bought at the grocery store. Rather than serving them steamed as I'd had them in California, I prepared them another way that I saw them on a menu in Carmel: steamed lightly and fire roasted. And rather than mucking up a good thing, I also served my artichokes with lemon mayonnaise.
These artichokes turned out so well that I've made them a few more times since and will likely grab a package anytime I see them on the shelf at Trader Joe's.
A vague recipe for preparing these follows as I wasn't particularly scientific about making them.
Fire-Roasted Artichokes with Lemon Garlic Mayonnaise
Note: If you've never prepared fresh artichokes before, there is a great tutorial/recipe at Simply Recipes. Although I didn't use this recipe, I did take similar steps to prepare my artichokes.
Serves 2 or 3 as an appetizer
4 medium artichokes, cleaned and trimmed
Juice of 1 lemon
Salt to taste
Extra virgin olive oil
2/3 cup mayonnaise
1-2 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1. Slice each artichoke in half vertically (this is so they'll sit on the grill nicely) and steam with water, a few splashes of lemon juice and a pinch of salt. Steam for about 15 minutes or until the stem of the artichokes feels tender when pierced with a fork.
2. While the artichokes are steaming, prepare the lemon garlic mayonnaise. If you are inclined to make homemade mayonnaise, do it. If not, jarred mayonnaise works just fine (I prefer Duke's as it's nice and lemony). Stir together mayonnaise, minced garlic and 2 teaspoons lemon juice. If you'd like it with a little more lemon or a little more garlic, feel free to adjust the amounts to your liking. Store in refrigerator until ready to serve.
3. Remove artichokes from steamer and place in a bowl. Drizzle with a few more splashes of lemon juice and a few splashes of olive oil. Sprinkle with a little more salt to taste. Set aside to cool and absorb the lemon and olive oil flavor.
4. Prepare the grill. I use charcoal but gas probably works just as well. And if you're without a grill, you could roast these in the oven until they're browned and a little crisp.
5. Place artichoke halves on the grill. Turn them every couple of minutes and cook until they're a little bit charred and a little bit crisp. There's not really a wrong way to do this unless you set them on fire.
6. Serve warm with the mayonnaise on the side for dipping (and look at the Simply Recipes link again to see how to eat them).
|About the contributor:
|Melissa McKelvey shares her recipes and adverntures on her website, The Boastful Baker. She also writes the Bites and Morsels column here on Indie Fixx, which appears bimonthly on Mondays. Read more about her on the contributors' page.


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Last month I was very lucky to be able to order 5 of the new piCture pOlish limited edition polishes from SallyMagpies unfortunately the 6th in the collection 'Borealis' was out of stock, and I'm still searching for it. They are all designed to be layered over a black base to give the best effect and all dry to a smooth finish. They are all multi-coloured and have light shifting properties. I'm so excited to wear them, I just need to remember to pick up a black polish next time I'm out shopping as I've found that its the one shade I don't seem to have. My only problem then will be deciding which one to use first.
'Illusionist' a scattered holographic which shifts between blue, green and pink/purple.
'Solar flare' a scattered holographic which shifts between a burnt copper/red and a gold/orange.
'Aurora' a multi-glitter which shifts between blue, purple, green and pink.
'Altered state' a scattered holographic which shifts between a purple and blue.
'Gravity' a scattered holographic which shifts again between purple and blue with hints of pink.
Look out for full reviews of these amazing beauties soon.
If your interested in buying these lovely polishes for yourself or just fancy checking out the other polish ranges SallyMagpies has available you can find everything on their website here.


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Rijuven has launched its CardioSleeve for pediatrics, a device that enhances stethoscopes by recording and analyzing the heart's ecocardiogram and acoustical footprints in real time through wirelessly connected portable devices.
The device helps pediatricians and clinicians to accurately visualize heart sound, analyze for arrhythmia or murmur and identify heart failure.
Attached to a traditional stethoscope, the CardioSleeve features murmur detection and analysis at beats up to 180 BPM, high fidelity 3-Lead ECG and compatability for the IOS, Android and PC platforms. — Michael Cipriano


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*** Subject Located*** We Need Your Help
Faulkner County Sheriff Investigators are asking for immediate assistance from the public. Investigators are seeking the whereabouts of 34 year old Jeremy Clay Thompson. Thompson is a registered sex offender, registered with Garland County Sheriff's Office. Investigators have been made aware he is living either on Naylor Rd. and E Arapaho Tr., Vilonia., and may be staying in a Conway hotel.
Registered sex offenders are aware they are to register wherever the live, and failure to update is a violation of their condition.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call Registered Sex Offender Coordinator Investigator Phillips immediately at 501-450-4917, or submit an anonymous tip at www.fcso.ar.gov.


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Anyway, if you fancy grabbing an ebook to spice up your life (and FYI, I have no idea how long they'll be this cheap so you might want to get a move on) here they are:
Ebooks for 59p
Bedded by a Bad Boy
My first ever published book, this is the story of motorcycle-riding bad boy Monroe Latimer, and fiesty English rose Jessie Connor. She's looking for love, family and happy ever after, he'd happily run a mile from all three... But one skinny-dip in the pool of his long-lost brother's Long Island estate and Monroe's life is set to get a whole lot more complicated...
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On the First Night of Christmas
All Cassidy Fitzgerald wants for Christmas is a candy man extraordinaire to perk up her sadly neglected libido. Completely by chance she jumps into the car of her former school crush Jace Ryan on Oxford Street. He's all grown up now, even more gorgeous and has the sort of superior skills Cassidy is looking for... Maybe the Christmas fairies have finally given Cassidy a break? Only problem is, as Jace and Cassie share the festive season in a luxury London hotel, it turns out it's not just Cassidy's libido that's in danger of getting hooked on Jace.
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The Good, the Bad and the Wild
Eva Redmond is a risk-averse and super studious London genealogical researcher with a wardrobe full of beige who is on a comission to track down the illegitimate grandson of an Italian dukedom... She travels to San Francisco to locate Nick Delisantro - former London runaway turned Hollywood scriptwriter - convinced he's the man she's seeking. But one hot motorbike ride through nighttime San Francisco leads to an even hotter ride in Nick's Haight Ashbury apartment and suddenly it's not just Eva's commission (and her wardrobe full of beige) that's in danger of going down for the count.
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One Night, So Pregnant!
What do you do when you discover you're pregnant by a man you barely know (except in the Biblical sense, obviously). That's for ex-at SF party planner Tess Tremaine to know and buff billionaire businessman Nate Graystone to find out after one hot clinch in a janitor's closet leads to a life-changing experience for both of them. The clue's in the title for this one... Which is a linked book to The Good, the Bad and the Wild.
Buy at Amazon UK
Too Close for Comfort
Another linked book, this one follows on from One Night So Pregnant and tells the story of Nate Graystone's drop-dead delicious Mexican-American half-brother Zane Montoya. A Californian private eye who picks up Scottish wildlife artist Iona MacCabe as she's trying to break into her ex-lover's motel room... He ends up having to 'keep her contained' in his beach house on Seven Mile Drive and well, one thing leads to another and... You get the picture. Or at least you will if you pick up the book.
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MEDIA CONTACT: Linda Fee Oros
CITIZEN CONTACT: Mike Settles
Ohio EPA Director Craig W. Butler visited Kent Elastomer in Kent today to recognize the company for reaching the highest standard of environmental stewardship. He presented the company with the gold-level award in Ohio EPA's Encouraging Environmental Excellence (Ɛ3) program.
Kent Elastomer has been in business for 55 years and employs 30 hourly workers at its Kent plant which manufactures custom dip-molded natural rubber latex and non-latex products for use in the medical, dental, food/beverage, sports/recreation, laboratory and industrial markets.
"To be honored with two Ohio EPA Encouraging Environmental Excellence Gold Awards for our Kent and Winesburg facilities makes us incredibly proud," Kent Elastomer President Bob Oborn said. "What we achieved in terms of minimizing waste and reducing energy consumption required a focused effort by everyone in our organization and certainly did not happen overnight. These awards speak volumes about what can be gained from dedication to a common and very worthwhile goal."
The Ɛ3 program acknowledges Ohio businesses and other organizations for completing environmentally beneficial activities and serves as an incentive to commit to ongoing environmental stewardship. To earn the gold-level award, a business or organization must have a good environmental compliance record and complete environmental stewardship activities that show a strong corporate environmental ethic.
Kent Elastomer has an ongoing commitment to conserve natural resources and improve processes, following a principal of continuous improvement. Solid waste has been reduced by more than half and the company reduced water usage by 61 percent, electrical use by 20 percent and gas usage by 12 percent since 2007.
The company also has found innovative ways to improve processes by reusing product chill water and purchasing rags from a vendor that repurposes them from used clothing.
Since earning a silver-level award last year, the company has continued to look for ways to be more efficient and have less environmental impact. New projects implemented in the past year include:
Under the gold-level award, the company will continue to pursue additional environmental improvements. To learn more about the Ɛ3 program, go to www.epa.ohio.gov/ohioe3.aspx or contact the Ohio EPA Office of Compliance Assistance and Pollution Prevention at 1-800-329-7518.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1972 to consolidate efforts to protect and improve air quality, water quality and waste management in Ohio. Since then, air pollutants dropped by as much as 90 percent; large rivers meeting standards improved from 21 percent to 89 percent; and hundreds of polluting, open dumps were replaced with engineered landfills and an increased emphasis on waste reduction and recycling.
Ohio EPA's spill hotline should be used to report release of any material that impacts public health or the environment, including chemicals and petroleum products.
For non-emergency calls, including complaints, questions or concerns about environmental issues, please use the toll-free numbers listed for the nearest district office or contact the public involvement coordinator for your region. The regulated community should use the main division number for routine business.
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Organising Writing Projects
When I first started writing I didn't think I needed a system. Going out to work every day seemed systematic enough and I wanted to just write. Which is fine. But if you are like me you may suddenly remember something you wrote aeons ago but have an idea about how you can develop it, or you need to find that particular bit of information that is critical to a particular place in your novel, or you have a deadline approaching (last minute of course) and can't remember where you 'filed' your ideas - it all becomes a bit stressful.
After I had completed my first novel (an achievement in itself) I wrote an article which was published in Writers Forum about the 7 (and a half) things I would do differently. Organising my information, sources, ideas, notes, thoughts, links and anything else that related to the story, was one of those things. Having finished my second novel (well the first draft) I have put some of that into practice through a simple system of manual filing in one place. It still took me time to sift through the info to find what I wanted, so now I have made sections for particular pieces of information so I can access it quickly. It speeds the process up but better than that, it reminds me of things that I'd forgotten to include and prompts me to ask if they were important. For example, I made pages of notes about Red Cross parcels when researching prisoner of war camps. There is a significant part in the story which highlights the importance of these deliveries for my main character but I have skipped through it. But now I have the information at my fingertips (more or less) I can re-write that section and improve that particular scene for the reader - well that's the theory.
I know , like the best time for writing, that there isn't a 'right' answer. We writers have to test out what works for us. That might be an index card system, or a dedicated journal or a box of paper napkins with scribbles on (it would have been a fag packet not so long ago) but whatever your preference, however loose it may be, I'm willing to bet that it works for you.
Don't Think Just Write
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"an average or typical man" (or in this case a woman) I hope that the writing will be a little more than average or typical but the main thing being that Jo will Blog.
17 February 2010
1 comment:
- Rob Innis said...
Jo - Microsoft thinktheyhave the solution (as always) "In its simplest form, OneNote is an electronic version of a paper notebook where you can write down notes, thoughts, ideas, scribbles, reminders, and all kinds of other information. Unlike the traditional document page format of other programs such as word-processing or spreadsheet programs, OneNote offers a free-form canvas where you can type, write, or draw notes in the form of text, graphics, and images wherever and however you want them."
Not that I use it!
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Much of the outrage expressed by the eminent writers who have returned Sahitya Akademi awards is indeed selective and opportunistic. It is a kind of me-too-intellectual rush, with every author hastening to register contrived indignation at the alleged complicity of saffron outfits in recent acts of violence, especially the murder of M.M. Kalburgi, a noted academic and Sahitya Akademi award winner. But the question the Hindutva protagonists should ask themselves is: why is the almost entire intellectual class instinctively, fundamentally, and ideologically opposed to them?
Well, there are writers whose interests are intertwined with the prospects of Leftists in the opinion-making paraphernalia; but there are also authors whose interests are not vested in socialism. So, while Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is bang on in his assessment that the move to return awards is "politics by other means," he errs in calling the revolt of writers a "manufactured" one. For so many eminent authors cannot be commandeered to march like a legion and attack the Narendra Modi government; they are writers, not mercenaries or party activists.
Yet, Jaitley's blog makes a lot of sense: "After the new Government was sworn in May, 2014, those who had enjoyed the patronage under the earlier establishment have obviously been uncomfortable with the present Government. This discomfort has been furthered by another political reality in India. With shrinking fortunes, the Congress is showing no signs of revival. The Left is being increasingly pushed to the margin. The new strategy of anti–Modi, anti–BJP sections appears to be to resort to 'politics by other means.' The easiest way is to manufacture a crisis and subsequently manufacture a paper rebellion against the Government in the wake of a manufactured crisis."
He goes on to mention the reports of attacks on Christians and churches during the earlier months of the Modi regime. Jaitley rightly says, "Each one of those 'attacks' was investigated and most of them were found to be incidents of petty crimes such as theft or throwing bottles to break a windowpane."
He offers other facts and arguments to buttress his case: "The rationalist Mr. M.M. Kalburgi was shot dead in Karnataka, a Congress ruled Government. Mr. N. Dabholkar, another rationalist, was shot down on 20th August 2013 in Maharashtra at that time ruled by the Congress and the NCP. Both incidents need to be condemned in no uncertain terms. It is the responsibility of the State government to maintain law and order and provide security to a vulnerable target of attack. Similarly, the Dadri incident took place in Uttar Pradesh, which is ruled by the Samajwadi Party."
Jaitley has a strong case and good lawyerly arguments, but neither he nor anybody else in the saffron brotherhood has ever tried to answer the key question: why do writers hate Hindutva? The complementary question is: why are they still besotted with the socialist ideology? The answer is simple: Hindutva has failed to evolve as an attractive political philosophy, while socialism still retains its charms despite its multiple and multifarious failings.
Marxism is a modern ideology, something a person of heightened consciousness, as also the man in the street, can identify with. Ditto with the fraternal twin, socialism. There is the theory of surplus value, there is a political philosophy, there are even doctrines on art and culture. And what, pray, do we have from the Hindutva camp? A hodgepodge of pseudoscience (ancient Indians invented everything that has been invented in the last 5,000 years and will be invented in the next 10,000 years), pseudo-history (India was once sone ki chiriya), monumental vanity (India will become vishwa-guru, whatever it means), sloganeering, smart alliteration, and unadulterated claptrap.
It's not that effort was never made to come up with a political philosophy. Deendayal Upadhyaya (1919-68) propounded the ideology of 'integral humanism,' which was adopted by the BJP's forebear, the BJS, in 1965. Upadhyaya was indeed a thinker, but his boldness—his doctrine was propounded during the heyday of socialism—was more admirable than his insights. A scrutiny of integral humanism would reveal that it was little more than a saffron variant of Nehruvian socialism. Worse, few, if any, BJP members read even Upadhyaya, let alone any other author. Indeed, their philistinism is also a cause of their disdain for Sahitya Akademi awardees.
A contemporary commentator has presented Hindutva as an equation: Bharatiya Janata Party = Congress + cows. A more appropriate equation would be: BJP = Congress + social conservatism. Apart from raising a stink about cows and indulging in moral policing—the squeamishness over dance bars being a recent instance—the BJP has failed to act as a genuine conservative party. It has never been a votary of free speech; its support for the obnoxious Section 66A and its aborted attempt at encryption proved that. The BJP has not repealed draconian laws and regulations; its petulance against activists it hates also underlines the fact that it has little respect for civil liberties. Further, the ruling party has done little to be called a champion of limited government and free enterprise.
On top of that, there are guys who bash up youngsters celebrating Valentine's Day and the girls visiting pubs.
Unsurprisingly, not many authors are enamored with Hindutva and its protagonists. In a nutshell, the BJP has been unable to sell itself in the marketplace of ideas.


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Hi there!
Long time no see! I have
been away for about 6 months... That is a looooong time. In blogging-terms I do
not exist anymore. I doubted quite for some time if I still wanted to be a
blogger. Bloggers are sometimes seen as greedy girls with a sick obsession of
clothes, to own them, to get them for free, to get the newest things first. I
do like clothes, I do like to know what's going on in the fashion world. I do
have some friends working in the fashion industry. But I do not want to be seen
as greedy. That made me doubt the whole blogging thing. Now I realized I'm just
not that person that a lot of people think bloggers are. I'm just a girl with a
job in healthcare; earning my own money, happen to like clothes and fashion and
weird wearable objects. And I love expressing myself through how I look. I like
to shock some of my colleagues ones in a while when I arrive in the morning. I
like to combine things that do not seem to match at first. That's why I started
blogging in the first place. That's why my blog felt as my own weird little
fashionable place. Where I could express myself better online than that I do
offline (white uniform during the weekdays...). So for now I say: I'm back! I
would like to share with you whatever things I like and wear.
To come back to the above
photo; the drawing is me. The very talented Sella Molenaar made a drawing of me
at the Isabel Marant for H&M event the day before it went on sale. (Yes, no
blogging but still a fashion lover, so ahead in line!) She made it only in 5
minutes! I was amazed by the way it looks really like me! Thanks Stella, love
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Spring is a colorful word. It give s people hope, joy and energy.
Last weekends I came back home. On my way home, I was surprised to find that we have already in the spring time!
The small town I live in is nearby a beautiful freshwater lake. I remember that when I was young, I used to having a spring tour at there. The lake carries my childhood memories and happy ever time. I clearly bare in mind that there are endless golden flowers near the bank of that lake. My father was flying a kite with me.
How time flies! Now I am a grown-up girl. This time when I back home, I made a spring travel again around the lake. The view around the lake change greatly. The unchanged thing is the peaceful and shinny lake. It always makes me clam down and feel peaceful. All the unhappy thought are flying away with the breezed wind.


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This article looks at various gun violence prevention measures and where effectiveness and and public appeal coincide. Measures where the experts and the general public seem to agree include the need for universal background checks, preventing sales of firearms to persons convicted of violent misdemeanors and domestic abuse, and convicted stalkers.
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Remote versus Co-located Work
There isn't a simple dichotomy of remote versus co-located work, instead there are several patterns of distribution for teams each of which has different trade-offs and effective techniques suitable for them. While it's impossible to determine conclusive evidence, my sense is that most groups are more productive working in a co-located manner. But you can build a more productive team by using a distributed working model, because it gives you access to a wider talent pool.
19 October 2015
by Sriram Narayan
Any significant software development effort requires several different activities to occur: analysis, user experience design, development, testing, etc. Activity-oriented teams organize around these activities, so that you have dedicated teams for user-experience design, development, testing etc. Activity-orientation promises many benefits, but software development is usually better done with OutcomeOriented teams.
1 June 2016
How do you define the boundary of an application?
11 September 2003
Bounded Context is a central pattern in Domain-Driven Design. It is the focus of DDD's strategic design section which is all about dealing with large models and teams. DDD deals with large models by dividing them into different Bounded Contexts and being explicit about their interrelationships.
15 January 2014
There are various schemes of Code Ownership that I've come across. I put them into three broad categories:
12 May 2006
by Rouan Wilsenach
Agile software development has broken down some of the silos between requirements analysis, testing and development. Deployment, operations and maintenance are other activities which have suffered a similar separation from the rest of the software development process. The DevOps movement is aimed at removing these silos and encouraging collaboration between development and operations.
9 July 2015
I use the term lay programmer to mean someone who is programming without thinking themselves as a programmer. Someone who spends a large part of her day working on spreadsheets is doing programming, often very intense programming. Usually however she won't call herself a programmer, nor think of spending much time learning how to program better.
18 April 2009
A bunch of common misconceptions about pair-programming.
31 October 2006
One of the good things about software is that people seem to want it, and want it quickly. It's usual for organizations to ask teams to speed up production of software and from time to time the organization seeks to help in the way that really shows its commitment - by spending money to add more people to the team.
10 November 2011
This last week I had the pleasure of wandering around Florida speaking with Dan Sandlin and David LeBlanc at a series of Microsoft architecture councils. For those who don't know David LeBlanc wrote the very popular book Writing Secure Code with Michael Howard. At each of the session I would do a talk / q&a on P of EAA (which got a JavaWorld award this week) and David would follow on security.
14 June 2003
In my recent CodeOwnership post, I described the way in which I think about code ownership issues. Many of my software development friends are extreme programmers, and tend to favor collective code ownership. However these kind of practices aren't absolute and should always be tempered by local considerations. One of my colleagues sent me a note with the following story which I thought was a good indication of when you have to vary your practices, even if you are a strong fan of XP. (As he's talking about his team, he prefers to be anonymous.)
15 May 2006
Mobile applications have been a hot item in software development over the past couple of years. Like many software delivery companies, ThoughtWorks get a lot of requests from clients asking us to build a mobile application for them. However most of the time a company asks us (or anyone) to build a mobile application they are starting off on the wrong foot. I'd argue that for most situations, even though you want users to interact with a mobile device, you should never think of building a mobile application. Instead you need to think about building a single application that presents across multiple devices: mobile, desktop, tablet - or whatever device your users might use.
1 November 2012
Products Over Projects
by Sriram Narayan
Software projects are a popular way of funding and organizing software development. They organize work into temporary, build-only teams and are funded with specific benefits projected in a business case. Product-mode instead uses durable, ideate-build-run teams working on a persistent business issue. Product-mode allows teams to reorient quickly, reduces their end-to-end cycle time, and allows validation of actual benefits by using short-cycle iterations while maintaining the architectural integrity of their software to preserve their long-term effectiveness.
20 February 2018
by Sriram Narayan
Alignment maps are organizational information radiators that help visualize the alignment of ongoing work with business outcomes. The work may be regular functionality addition or technical work such as re-architecting or repaying technical debt or improving the build and deployment pipeline. Team members use alignment maps to understand what business outcomes their day-to-day work is meant to improve. Business and IT sponsors use them to understand how ongoing work relates to the business outcomes they care about.
18 August 2015
Bimodal IT
Bimodal IT is the flawed notion that software systems should be divided into these two distinct categories for management and control.
- Front Office systems should be optimized for rapid feature development. These systems of engagement need to react rapidly to changing customer needs and business opportunities. Defects should be tolerated as the necessary cost for this rapid development cycle.
- Back Office systems should be optimized for reliability. As systems of record, it's important that you don't get defects that damage the enterprise. Consequently you slow down the rate of change.
21 June 2016
by Sriram Narayan
A business-capability centric team is one whose work is aligned long-term to a certain area of the business. The team lives as long as the said business-capability is relevant to the business. This is in contrast to project teams that only last as long as it takes to deliver project scope.
8 June 2016
When someone is looking at what makes up a top-class enterprise software developer, often the conversation may turn to knowledge of frameworks and languages, or perhaps the ability to understand complicated algorithms and data structures. For me, one of the most important traits in a programmer, or indeed in a development team, is something that I'll call Customer Affinity. This is the interest and closeness that the developers have in the business problem that the software is addressing, and in the people who live in that business world.
28 July 2006
A common question is whether large projects can be done with agile techniques. After all many agile approaches are designed for smaller projects and the heavyweight ideas that they resist are more needed on bigger projects.
10 May 2003
by Sriram Narayan
People who sponsor development of software usually aren't very interested in development metrics such as velocity or frequency of deployment to production. They care more about business benefits that the software will deliver such as lower manual effort, better sales conversion, greater customer satisfaction, i.e business outcomes. Outcome-oriented teams are those that are mandated and equipped to deliver business outcomes, such teams have people with the capability to carry out all necessary activities to realize the outcome.. By contrast, ActivityOriented teams are neither equipped nor mandated to do so. They can only perform one of several activities required to realize an outcome.
1 June 2016
Imagine a hiring situation. There's two candidates both with a few years of experience. In the blue corner we have someone with good broad design skills in the style of design that you favor (in my case that would be things like DRY, judicious use of patterns, TDD, communicative code etc, but the actual list isn't important - just that it's what you favor). However she knows nothing of the particular platform technology that you're using. In the red corner we have someone who has little knowledge (or interest) in those issues, but knows your platform really well - edge cases in the language, what libraries are available, fingers move naturally over the tools. Assume all else about them is equal (which it never is except for thought experiments like this) and that your team doesn't have any gaping holes that this candidate might fill. Which one would you prefer?
17 January 2008
One of the most common ways to modularize an information-rich program is to separate it into three broad layers: presentation (UI), domain logic (aka business logic), and data access. So you often see web applications divided into a web layer that knows about handling HTTP requests and rendering HTML, a business logic layer that contains validations and calculations, and a data access layer that sorts out how to manage persistent data in a database or remote services.
26 August 2015
Let's imagine a pretty world of SOA-happiness where the computing needs of an enterprise are split into many small applications that provide services to each other to allow effective collaboration. One fine morning a consumer service needs some information from a supplier service. The twist is that although the supplier service has the necessary data and processing logic to get this information, it doesn't yet expose that information through a service interface. The supplier has a potential service, but it isn't actually there yet.
14 November 2008
A common thing you find in agile projects is that the development team sits in a single open team room. It was advocated early on in Extreme Programming and called out as one of primary practices in the second edition. Agilists favor a open team room as it promotes lots of informal and deep communication between people on the team.
14 June 2010
One of the steady themes I've seen throughout my career is that of the nature and importance of software development. A few years ago a prospect told one of our salespeople that "software is like sewage pipes, I want it to work reliably and I don't want to know about the details". This is the kind of approach that Nicholas Carr talked about in IT Doesn't Matter. On a contrasting note we've done work for many businesses where IT has been a clearer strategic enabler to their business, allowing them to enter new markets or significantly increase their market share. So is IT a utility, like sewage pipes, or a strategic asset?
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Studio Xfinity From Comcast Coming To Former City Sports In Chinatown (715 7th St NW)
Now we know what is coming to the former City Sports location at 715 7th St NW. The new tenant is Comcast who will be opening a Studio Xfinity in the fall of 2017 per the recently updated window signage. Studio Xfinity is a "transformational retail environment" designed to showcase all the home goodies you can buy and set up using Comcast's service offerings. The only Studio Xfinity we can currently find open is in Chicago although Comcast does have a fairly new Xfinity store in Cleveland Park on Connecticut Avenue. (The DC location is also hiring by the way.)
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Each Wednesday take your families to Carmel for the annual, free concerts at the Carmel gazebo.
Spend your Thursday evenings with the Noblesville - where local parks in the city will offer free music from fun bands.
On the first and third Fridays of the month, Noblesville Main Street will present free music on the historic Noblesville Square.
Also on Fridays, The second Friday of June, July and August will be home to the Saxony Summer Concert Series.
Visit the Carmel Arts & Design District for the popular Jazz on the Monon concert series many Saturdays this summer.
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For the 34th year, one of my favorite summer events, the Symphony on the Prairie is back to Conner Prairie! Rent a table or relax in the lawn, and listen to great music. For an additional fee, experience the 1859 Balloon Voyage as it travels 350 feet into the air. For more information or to purchase concert tickets, click here.
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As Congress haggles over the farm bill, it is time again to consider updating the legislation. The Agriculture Adjustment Act, passed "to relieve the … national economic emergency" of the Great Depression has been the basis for most major agricultural legislation since the 1930s. The basic emphasis of each farm bill has been to raise the prices of crops and livestock in order to help farmers. Recently, President Bush has proposed changes in farm policy that are projected to reduce spending by $10 billion over the next five years. This is a step in the right direction, but it still leaves the government spending billions of dollars every year to help farmers.
What is accomplished by all the money spent on agricultural policy? Ever since the Great Depression, the government has used a variety of strategies that are supposedly intended to help poor farmers and save the family farm. These include paying farmers to plant fewer acres, buying surplus production to maintain price floors, subsidizing crop production, and subsidizing exports. The public has been led to believe that without government farm programs there might be shortages or higher prices of food. There is also concern that if agriculture were left to the free market, corporations would take over and family farms would disappear.
Many of the popular beliefs about the benefits of farm policy are myths. It is competition in the free market that has resulted in declining costs and the resulting abundant supply of low-cost food and fiber that we enjoy today. Farm policy distorts production decisions so that farmers plant too much of subsidized crops and not enough of alternatives. The resulting mix of crops and livestock produced is no longer consistent with consumer preferences. Taxpayers pay for artificially low prices of some crops, while supply and import restrictions result in high prices for other products, such as sugar and milk. The combined effect of subsidies and import restrictions holds down prices for farmers in developing countries, keeping them in poverty.
Government policy does not prevent growth in the share of agricultural output produced by corporate farms instead of family farms. Along with family farms, corporate farms receive millions of dollars in subsidies and other government payments. This has led to calls for reform that would limit government payments to farmers with incomes below a certain threshold level. Previous attempts to exclude large farmers from the benefits of farm programs have always failed as owners of large farms find ways to circumvent the rules. Congress has never been willing to enact direct payments that are limited to those few farmers who are truly needy. If they did, they would lose the political support of the majority of farmers and farm land owners who benefit from government handouts.
In the long run, farm programs not only raise the revenue farmers earn from their land, but also raise the cost of farming by raising the cost of renting farm land. Owners of farm land benefit from the resulting higher land values. While many farmers rent some or all of the land they farm, a substantial percentage of farm land is owned by investors who do not actually farm the land.
The best agricultural policy is to eliminate all government farm programs and let prices be determined by supply and demand in a free market. The transition could be painful for farm land owners who bought land that was inflated in value due to the effect of government programs. It might also lead to lower incomes for some farmers in the short run. It is doubtful, however, that such a change would hasten the demise of the family farm. Government policy has not prevented corporations from gaining a dominant role in the production of some crops and livestock. For other crops, such as wheat, corn and soybeans, family owned farms can compete successfully against corporate farms without help from the government.
There is no good reason for the government to regulate farm prices, even if market competition results in a growing role for corporations in farming. Why should family farms be treated differently than mom and pop grocery stores, which have largely disappeared due to competition from supermarket chains?


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Florida Senator Marco Rubio , who campaigned viciously against Mr Trump during last year's Republican primary, played a central role in the drafting of new Cuba policy . This will essentially shield United States airlines and cruise lines now serving the island. "President Trump will treat the Castro regime as a malevolent dictatorship that it is", Diaz-Balart said.
If Rosenstein recuses himself from oversight of the special counsel investigation, that role would fall to the Justice Department's No. 3 official, newly confirmed Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand. The new tweets are the latest in a week of angry social media responses from the president over a report by the Washington Post that Mr Mueller was looking into whether Mr Trump obstructed justice.
Un Obama che per Trump ha ignorato "gli abusi sul fronte dei diritti umani" che il regime dei Castro ha compiuto nei confronti del proprio popolo. Lo sottolinea una lunga " Dichiarazione del governo rivoluzionario " di Cuba , confermando nel contempo "la volontà di proseguire un dialogo rispettoso " con gli Usa nei temi di mutuo interesse.
The Washington Post , citing unidentified officials, reported on Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the Republican President for possible obstruction of justice . However, Trump later told NBC News' Lester Holt that he had already chose to fire Comey before that memo was written. Details from some memos were made public in news media accounts in the days after he was sacked, and Comey himself detailed his conversations with Trump at a Senate hearing ...
He appeared to be referring to comments from Jay Sekulow, a member of Trump's legal team, who told ABC in an interview Sunday that he was "not going to speculate" on whether Trump might at some point order deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller.
And although he later casually revealed that he meant to terminate Comey anyway, the memo's existence at least functioned as a semi-plausible explanation for the firing other than "He was investigating Russian Federation and I didn't like that and I wanted him to stop and he wouldn't".
Snowden, a former contractor for the CIA, was given asylum by Russian Federation for leaking classified information from the National Security Agency to journalists. He played it mostly straight on U.S. Nothing extraordinary has happened (in Russia ). He explained why he recorded his private talks with the U.S.
POLITICO revealed on Thursday, June 15 that the Brexit talks would get underway Monday as planned despite the start date being thrown into doubt by the inconclusive result of the UK's general election. "As we enter negotiations next week, we will do so in a spirit of cooperation, taking a pragmatic approach, trying to find a solution that works both for the United Kingdom and the European Union 27", he told reporters before a meeting of the 28 EU finance ministers in Luxembourg.
The others have ruled out letting May negotiate in person with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and others. In a separate interview, she said the talks with the Conservatives had covered corporation tax and same-sex marriage.
McMaster from the Oval Office to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington , Friday, June 16, 2017 , for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then onto Miami. The order from the general counsel for the transition team casts a wide net on documents that could shed light on ties between Trump's presidential campaign and representatives of Russia's government.
Having been forced into retreat across much of Syria , Isis' biggest remaining foothold in Syria is in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, where Russian Federation is supporting a group offensive by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
The Conservatives have reached a " broad agreement " with the DUP , a source told AFP on Thursday. The Conservative Party won an overall majority of parliamentary seats on the mainland, otherwise known as Great Britain . In a separate interview, she said the talks with the Conservatives had covered corporation tax and same-sex marriage. The EU has insisted that this sequence involve sorting out Britain's departure and urgent issues like the rights of citizens affected by Brexit ...
Trump, who isn't typically shy about leveling criticism, especially on Twitter, hasn't commented on the longtime former Federal Bureau of Investigation director. After news of Ruddy's interview surfaced, Rep. Adam Schiff , the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, tweeted: "If President fired Bob Mueller, Congress would immediately re-establish independent counsel and appoint Bob Mueller".
Trump calls a partisan witch hunt. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, had written a memo castigating James Comey before Trump dismissed the Federal Bureau of Investigation director - a memo that the White House at first said was critical to the decision, before Trump suggested it was irrelevant because his mind was already made up.
The wife of a gunman who shot and wounded a top Republican congressman and several others says her husband went to Washington, D.C. because he wanted to work on tax policy. At the YMCA, Hodgkinson was nondescript: he always wore black trousers and golf shirts, sometimes beige, sometimes gray, sometimes black. Stephen Brennwald, another YMCA member, said he never saw Hodgkinson talk to anyone and figured the man was a "loner".
Bickert and Fishman said that when Facebook receives reports of potential "terrorism posts", it reviews those reports urgently. In years past, Facebook and other social media companies relied heavily on the manual effort of human moderators to identify and potentially block or delete offensive content.
Ocala Fire Rescue spokeswoman Ashley Lopez told the Orlando Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2sK96r8 ) that at least one shot was sacked Saturday afternoon at West Marion Community Hospital . 'It all happened and ended very quickly'. The suspect was immediately detained after the incident, Lopez said. The victim's current condition is unknown.
It was Rosenstein who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to take over the year-old investigation into Russian election meddling started by the FBI, in the wake of President Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey . Brand was sworn in as associate attorney general on May 22. Now, ABC News reports that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein , who replaced Sessions in supervising the Department of Justice's investigation into Trump-Russia collusion, knows that he might have to recuse ...
A senior US government official also forecast that the North will likely be ready to test-fire an ICBM within the year. On Thursday, the North fired what appeared to be several short-range anti-ship cruise missiles from its east coast in the latest series of missile tests in defiance of worldwide sanctions, according to the South Korean military.
Ancora non chiarite le cause della collisione. A quanto pare la USS Fitzgerald ha subito danni ingenti nello scafo di dritta e, nonostante riesca a muoversi con la propulsione dei suoi motori, la potenza di moto è molto limitata. Le autorità sono al lavoro per capire le circostanze della collisione. L'incidente tra la USS Fitzgerald e la ACX Crystal è avvenuto ieri alle 2.30 locali (le 19.30 in Italia) a 12 miglia nautiche dalla penisola di Izu.
Britain and the European Union now have less than two years to conclude exit negotiations before the UK's departure date at the end of March 2019. A deal with the DUP also risks destabilising Northern Ireland by increasing the influence of pro-British unionists.
According to Bloomberg News, Qatar has signed to buy 36 F-15 jets. United States and Qatar signed an agreement to purchase the last American F-15 fighters worth $ 12 billion. It is home to 10,000 American troops and a major American military base that acts as the center of USA operations in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. In another development, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held talks in Doha with with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Qatari Foreign Minister ...
The sale "will give Qatar a state of the art capability and increase security cooperation and interoperability between the United States and Qatar ", the Defense Department said in a statement, according to the publication. In addition to the arms deal, the US Navy has sent two boats into Qatari waters today to join the nation's fleet for military exercises. The decision of Turkey to stand with Qatar has taken the Middle East by surprise.
May is due to meet the leaders of all five Northern Ireland political parties, June 15, in an effort to try and form a consensus over power-sharing, following the fallout between Sinn Fein and the DUP in January, when Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy First Minister, throwing the executive - the devolved government - into chaos.
His House colleagues paid tribute to him at their annual charity baseball game, while law enforcement tracked the path the shooter traveled to his ballfield carnage. Sava didn't address what organs were damaged. "Five people were wounded in the assault, including a member of House Leadership -- my good friend, Steve Scalise ", Trump said in his weekly web and radio address to the nation.
The discussions with the DUP were "productive talks", she added. Using Mrs May's election slogans against her, the Labour leader said: "I'm sure we all look forward to welcoming the Queen's Speech just as soon as coalition of chaos has been negotiated".
The numbers favoured Team New Zealand throughout the afternoon and they were reflected in the final results, with the Kiwis finished 30 seconds ahead of Oracle in the first race and one minute 28 seconds in the second. Still, this isn't the start the powerhouse Oracle squad expected. "They're tough", Bertrand said. "Clearly we weren't sailing at our best". "There were still some opportunities there and I thought [tactician Tom Slingsby] did a good job of keeping us close".
House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, who was shot in the hip by a rifle-wielding gunman Wednesday, was at "imminent risk of death" when he first arrived at the D.C. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., paid a visit to his injured colleague at the hospital Friday. The congresswoman's wife, Jennifer, issued a statement Friday thankful for "the incredible amount of prayers and warm wishes we have received".
Radio New Zealand quoted former long-time Vanuatu parliamentarian Sela Molisa as saying that the country had "lost one of its greatest leaders". During his presidency he led the appeal for global assistance after Cyclone Pam devastated much of the country.
The blaze, dubbed the Lake Fire, was moving at "moderate" speed northeast into the Angeles National Forest, said Inspector Richard Licon of the L.A. County Fire Department. Access to fight the fire was limited, but fixed wing aircrafts and boats were being brought in to fight the flames. High temperatures were also reported, reaching 97 degrees at 2 p.m.
Overall, six Trump properties that the President has visited since taking office brought in roughly $US132.7 million, the disclosure shows . They saw a surge in new money from a major new hotel that opened in Washington , while revenue dipped substantially or was flat at a number of his other marquee properties such as the Trump National Doral golf course in Florida , an annual financial disclosure report made public Friday showed.
The toy is out now for £149.99. Sphero's Spider-Man in some ways feels similar to this, but in a much larger capacity, with a microphone that can listen to your phrases and respond, and with an app that you can take on various adventures.
The expansion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation would represent the clearest legal threat to date for Trump , who has long maintained that he is not personally under investigation - and who reportedly pressured former FBI Director James Comey to say so publicly.
Cosby , 79, pleaded not guilty to three charges of aggravated indecent assault. The jury in Bill Cosby's sex assault trial is going home for the night after failing to reach a verdict on the third day of deliberations. The jury resumed deliberating Wednesday morning with Cosby in the courthouse. Since the prosecution and the defense gave closing arguments Monday in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the jury has spent more than 13 hours behind closed doors examining the details of the ...
I'm out of here now. Still, Corker and other Republicans said they expect Trump to sign the bill if it's passed by the House. Maryland senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, told TWS that the White House might express some reservations about the bill, but he expected them to support it.


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President de Klerk's further instalment of reform leaves no doubt that South Africa is moving away from the era of apartheid at some speed. His speech follows hard on a truce agreement between the ANC and Inkatha – the first step towards ending a conflict which has cost some five thousand lives in Natal and on the Reef since 1985. Whether the truce will hold and whether it will stem the creeping ethnicisation of black politics remains to be seen. But Mandela's public embrace of Buthelezi has inaugurated a new and intense phase of politicking within and between the two organisations. With Inkatha now poised to play a major role alongside the ANC in the negotiations for a new constitution, it will in any case be harder for conventional radical opinion to maintain its simple demonisation of Inkatha and its leader.
One man has a uniquely privileged insight into the two camps: Rowley Arenstein, the 72-year-old Durban lawyer who surely ranks as one of the sub-continent's most remarkable characters. Arenstein – Rowley, as he's always known – has been active in left-wing politics for 53 years and has been by turn a Communist militant, an organiser – through the Congress alliance – for the ANC and, latterly, an adviser to Chief Buthelezi, whom he supports on Marxist grounds. His whole-hearted support for Buthelezi would normally put him out of bounds for the Left, but even the toughest radicals have to admit, usually with equal mixtures of puzzlement and exasperation, that Rowley has more than paid his dues. He has suffered the longest period of banning (28 years) in South African history and endured the longest house-arrest (18 years), with his wife Jackie not far behind: she was house-arrested for six years, banned for 19. To this day, Arenstein remains struck off the official list of attorneys – a punitive measure by the Government which has been in force for twenty years – and has to practise from modest offices disguised as a 'business adviser and consultant'. Nonetheless, de Klerk apart, he is one of the very few people whose calls both Mandela and Buthelezi will always take.
Rowley was one of the generation of South African Jews impelled towards the Communist Party by the shock of Hitler's takeover in Germany. Conscious that their parents had fled to South Africa to escape from pogroms and political persecution (Rowley's own mother had taken food to her Menshevik sisters in a Tsarist jail), many young Jews were traumatised by the fact that the pogroms had begun again – in Germany of all places – and saw the CP as the natural leader of the anti-Fascist struggle. Inside the CP Rowley mingled with figures such as Hilda Bernstein ('the best speaker we ever had, a fantastic money-raiser. She didn't have a particularly good political brain but she was our Passionaria'); the university teacher and future CP chairman, Jack Symons ('He was not one for revolutionary rhetoric – he was too liberal-minded for that, which meant he ran the Party well'); the future Party leader, Michael Harmel ('the brains of the Party and one of the laziest men I ever knew. Both things came from his private income – he didn't have to work so he just sat around and read books'); and Ruth First ('a tremendously able woman but very arrogant – and very tough'). He also met Joe Slovo, today the SACP leader and the dominating figure on the ANC's team in the early negotiations with de Klerk.
Joe used to go everywhere with Ruth First [whom he married] and my brother-in-law, Barney Fahler. They were in the CP Youth League together and were virtually inseparable. Of course, Ruth was very much the dominant figure – she was clever, confident, a very strong character. Joe was very modest, somewhat unsure of himself, and kept in the background. He did not then display any of the authority he's since come to have. When the Party told us to go and fight the Nazis both Joe and I joined up and fought in Italy – I was in the infantry, he was in the Signals. Together we set up what was probably the only Communist cell inside the South African Army.
After the war Rowley's reputation grew apace among Africans in Natal: here was a lawyer not afraid to take on political cases, always willing to help blacks, frequently for no fee. In 1950, ahead of the passage of the Supression of Communism Act, the CP decided disband (though, naturally,s an underground SACP was soon set up) and throw in their lot with the ANC. For Rowley this meant working closely with Chief Albert Luthuli and the young man Luthuli regarded as his political son and heir, Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Buthelezi had been expelled front Fort Hare University for his ANC activities and had come to work at the Durban Commissioner's Court, the administrative experience being thought useful to the future chief. Rowley and Buthelezi became close friends, and Buthelezi had decided to become one of Rowley's articled clerks when the chieftaincy of the Buthelezi clan was offered to him. This caused fevered discussion within the ANC: Luthuli had been brutally deprived of his chieftaincy because of his ANC activities and it seemed clear that the same would happen to Buthelezi. But the ANC were keen to have one of their militants in such an influential position – Buthelezi was to be the Zulu King's prime minister – so he was told to accept the chieftaincy and keep his ANC activities discreet enough to stay out of trouble. 'What made Buthelezi so popular with the ANC was that before he would carry out any "orders" from the Government he would always say that Zulu law and custom meant that he had to consult his tribe in a proper democratic fashion. White officialdom hated this and often tried to harass him.' Rowley helped Buthelezi defeat an early challenge to his chieftaincy and became his legal adviser.
Among the ANC activists with whom Buthelezi mingled at the Arenstein house were Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu – who always visited Rowley when they came down to Durban to visit Luthuli:
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Beng Melea was incredible. It was more overgrown than Ta Prohm and so incredible to walk through. We climbed over fallen rocks, saw trees enveloping walls and climbed along the wooden elevated path through much of the temple. I loved it! It was so cool to see a non-restored temple and marvel at how well the construction was preserved even without help from conservationists. I want to say it was my favorite site and maybe it was but at the very least, it was an incredible capstone temple to visit after all of the incredible architecture and monuments we had seen over the last two and a half days.
|Mrs. Mony, Mr. Mony and SMS exploring the temple
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In 1947, a young American Protestant minister named Robert (Bob) Pierce travelled to China to make a movie about the Christian missions there. He was devastated by the poverty he saw. One child especially upset him - a battered and hungry young girl named White Jade. Her father had beaten her and kicked her out of the house because she had visited the local mission school. The school could not afford to take her in. Dr. Pierce gave the school principal his last five dollars, and promised to send more each month to help support the young girl.
Pierce then travelled to Korea, where a war was leaving thousands of children and adults without homes, food, water and medical care. Many children had lost their parents. Pierce felt called by God to help them. He returned to the United States, and on September 22, 1950, established a new organization called World Vision, to help meet the needs of children and their families in Southeast Asia.
Back in Korea, he began to film the orphaned and homeless children who had so touched his heart - one at a time. He showed the film to church groups across America, and invited their members to help the Korean orphans the way he had helped White Jade, by making monthly donations for a single child.
This was the beginning of the World Vision child sponsorship program, which each year helps thousands of children in poor countries around the world.
Pierce had a vision of a world where all children and their families are free from hunger, disease and homelessness. His life was devoted to making that dream come true. It was not an easy life. He would often leave his wife and children for up to 10 months at a time while he traveled around the world. His marriage ended in separation, and he died alone.
But the organization he founded grew, until today it is the largest Christian relief and development organization in the world. Each year, World Vision helps hundreds of thousands of needy children and families in more than 100 countries.
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