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LONDON Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal said on Wednesday he would buy a stake of up to 2 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) in Anglo American (AAL.L) but had no intention of trying to take control of the global miner.Agarwal, who has majority control of Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZNC.NS) through Vedanta Ltd (VDAN.NS) (VED.L), will make the investment through his family trust Volcan Holdings, Volcan said in a statement.Anglo, which has a market value of around 16.75 billion pounds ($20.55 billion), declined to comment.
"This is an attractive investment for our family trust ... I am delighted to become a shareholder in Anglo American plc," Agarwal said in the statement.
Anglo, which focuses on diamonds, platinum and copper, has along with other mining companies recovered from a slump in commodity prices in 2015. The company's shares soared nearly 300 percent last year and it said in February it would resume paying dividends and slow down its asset sales as it was no longer under financial pressure.
The statement also said that neither Volcan nor Vedanta intended to make an offer to acquire Anglo American.($1 = 0.8151 pounds) (Reporting by Zandi Shabalala and Sanjeeban Sarkar; Editing by MarkPotter)
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The Torpichen Preceptory was the headquarters for the Knights of Malta in Scotland.Here is a link to more pictures and historical information on the Torpichen Preceptory,
http://www.armadale.org.uk/preceptory.htm where the following information was taken.
Torphichen Preceptory, the former administrative headquarters, in Scotland, of the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, is situated below the Torphichen Hills, in the village of Torphichen, West Lothian, twenty miles west of Edinburgh. All that remains of the church and monastery (that: once owned vast swathes of land in Scotland; recruited knights and men to fight; organised the care of ill and wounded during their many military campaigns) is represented by a tall tower with singularly high transepts on both sides.
In 1132, David I invited the Order to Scotland. By 1153, it had been granted a charter to build its Preceptory at Torphichen. The Preceptory became the Hospitallers' principal Scottish house, dependent on the Clerkenwell-based Hospitallers' Priory, which oversaw the British Isles. Torphichen was significant not only as a sheltered, well-resourced community on a long-distance travellers' route, but also for its site where a wooden church is thought to have been established by St Ninian.
By 1168, King William IV decreed that the Chapel at Torphichen should rank as Parish Church and that it should recognise St Michael's, Linlithgow, as its Mother Church. From the twelfth to the fifteenth century, the Preceptory was built, rebuilt and enlarged. A cruciform church was built with an aisleless nave, central tower, transepts, a choir, and, on the north side, around a cloistered courtyard, domestic buildings (housing the Preceptor's private quarters, a refectory and kitchen, as well as a dormitory). The Preceptory was dedicated to John the Baptist and one of its side altars was dedicated to St Ninian. By 1500, the transepts had been rebuilt with new windows and vaulting, and a new stair-turret had been added to the tower. The tower and transepts remain today, but the nave was demolished in 1761 to allow for the construction of Torphichen Kirk.
By the late twelfth century, the Order had accumulated many minor holdings and Malcolm IV added to them by granting the Order one toft in all of his burghs. This was particularly useful as, by 1300, the Order enjoyed a special category of exemption from secular service in its burgh properties. By 1226, the Hospitallers had continued expanding westward, securing the rights of teinds in nearby Ogilface to add to those they enjoyed in Torphichen.
The Grand Master and the Pope were involved in the selection of the Preceptor, but the King of Scotland appointed him formally. The Preceptor was responsible for the administration of ecclesiastical and secular property, as well as for giving spiritual guidance to the Order. He had to secure the maximum returns from the Preceptory's properties while paying for the maintenance of buildings in various places, including an Edinburgh townhouse, as well as meeting the cost of the administration of properties scattered over a wide area. He was responsible for sending his responsions (payment) to the convent in Rhodes via the English Priory at Clerkenwell.
In 1291 and in 1296, Alexander de Welles, Master of Torphichen Preceptory, swore fealty to Edward I and the Order supported the English side during the Wars of Independence. During the period between the Battle of Stirling in September 1297 and the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298, William Wallace and his army camped at Torphichen, the Order probably removing itself to another location during their occupancy. Before the Battle of Falkirk, Wallace was entertained at Torphichen by the Preceptor Alexander de Welles. The only surviving document signed by Wallace was prepared at the Preceptory during that period. On 22 July 1298, during the battle, Alexander de Welles was killed. Also at the battle were Adam de Welle(s) of Lincolnshire, and later of Yester Castle, Lothian, and Philip de Welle(s). After the battle, the victorious Edward I came to the Preceptory for treatment to his horse-inflicted chest injury, which had happened at his Polmont camp before the battle. After the success of the English campaign, the Order's relationship with its Scottish neighbours was more strained, as shown by an English Priory petition to Edward I to allow the Torphichen Hospitallers to be received in Linlithgow Palace when the need arose. As in the case of the Templars, the Hospitallers' household was mainly English knights, and their main English house, the Priory, was at Clerkenwell, London. Such ties with England appear to have made them unpopular in Scotland during subsequent centuries.
Since the arrival of the Knights Templar in Scotland in 1128, as a result of the efforts of their first master, Hugh de Paiens of Champagne, the Order had impressed David I greatly. It provided the fighting men to defend the Holy Land and the Order was admirably rewarded for its Brother-Knights' efforts. Most Templars appear to have been English and they administered their Scottish lands as part of the English Priory. Also, they served in the royal household from David I's time and seem to have enjoyed a sound and influential relationship with the Crown, providing the required military presence in the Holy Land while also providing other services at home, such as an almoner to the Scottish throne and a banking service to the English King.
The power of the Order of the Knights Templar through its immense wealth was seen with increasing suspicion by many in Scotland, and so the accusations against the Order's members, at their Holyrood trial in 1309, were not unexpected.
Three years after the trial, the Order of the Knights Templar was suppressed by Pope Clement V. Its wealth in Scotland was half as much again as that of the Knights Hospitaller. Its extensive lands in Scotland, (five baronies, patronage of six kirks and sundry lands), which had been administered from its Temple monastery, were granted to the Knights Hospitaller, thereby markedly increasing the property administered by the Torphichen headquarters. However, there is evidence that the Hospitallers struggled to gain possession of some Templar properties well into the fourteenth century. The re-distribution of estates encouraged dishonest practices, one of those accused of such conduct being Reginald More, a lay administrator at Torphichen.
After 1312, the Hospitallers acquired most of their appropriated parish churches. The Preceptor of the Order owned six baronies including Torphichen, each of which contributed towards the maintenance of the Order and his household, but problems arose as each of the baronies was isolated from the others, and so they had to be overseen remotely. Although the work of the Hospitallers, as well as that of other crusading orders, was widely appreciated, many of the gifts were only small parts of the holdings of the benefactors, and so the geographically scattered gifts were often difficult to administer and unprofitable as assets, unless leased, or even sold. As a result, Preceptors had to possess sound business skills to ensure the efficient administration of the Order's holdings.
By the fifteenth century, many of the properties had been let as a lease or feuferm, initially disapproved of, but accepted, eventually, by the Church. Land donations were given generously, especially by the King and his nobles, so that, by the early 1500s, the Order owned over 700 properties in Scotland, particularly in the Borders, Central Belt and along the east coast, but not in Argyll, Bute or Orkney.
In 1314, after the Scots' victory at Bannockburn, the Knights Hospitaller left Scotland, only returning after a reconciliation with Robert the Bruce. In 1356, the Pope recommended the appointment of David de Mar, Procurator to the Hospital of St John of Rhodes, as Preceptor, but the subsequent appointment caused further controversy, and even his successor was unsuccessful in resolving the issue. Eventually, it was agreed that all money should be funnelled through the London Priory and that Robert Grant should be appointed to exercise his singular administrative skills.
Recruited novices were supposed to receive religious training, but this did not happen while their services were needed in the military campaigns of the Middle East. Priest brothers received training at the monastery while elderly or infirm brothers lived their final years there, receiving care from the hospice. However, there appears to have been no provision for the physical care of the population who lived outside the Preceptory in Torphichen.
In the 1430s and 1440s, Andrew Meldrum, principal officer of the Hospitallers, carried out considerable building works. The Preceptory was extended, the nave rebuilt, the transepts raised significantly, while a cloister on the north side, with surrounding ranges, was completed. Meldrum's name even appears on one of the ribs in the vault of the north transept. Meanwhile, Preceptors and their recruits were involved in sea-battles involving Hospitallers at Rhodes.
In 1466, the Grand Master awarded William Knollis a grant of the Preceptory, which was confirmed by the Pope a few months later. Knollis was one of the longest serving Preceptors. For six years, in the 1470s, he collected alms from visitors (who were then rewarded by indulgences), claiming that James III favoured the church whose ruinous state was clearly in need of help. After the King's downfall, Knollis benefited from an illustrious career as a diplomat as well as a public servant, overseeing Torphichen more as a secular barony while being careful to pay the English Priory its dues.
In 1504, on a visit to Rhodes, George Dundas obtained to right to succeed as Preceptor. In 1508, there was a dispute over the right of the London Priory to appoint a Preceptor in Scotland. James IV, a frequent visitor to Torphichen, believed that the Order in Scotland should be independent. He did not believe Hospitallers born and living in Scotland should have to seek protection from the English Priory, a view he expressed by letters to the Grand Master in Rhodes in 1513. English - Scottish relations were only improved when the Order moved to Malta.
In Scotland, Dundas succeeded Knollis and was firmly in position from 1518 until his death fourteen years later. Sir Walter Lindsay secured the right of succession after Dundas and he proved to be an effective administrator, as well as a well respected leader of the Scottish army. He compiled a Rental of the Order's ownership in Scotland, and, as shown by his Charter of 7 March 1542, he feued the Order's remote lands, where revenue collection was difficult, to avoid further bloodshed.
On the 29 June 1550, Sir James Sandilands, second son of James Sandilands, Baron Calder, gained possession of the Preceptory, which he held for four years. He was descended from a family that had owned extensive estates in the area since 1348. In April 1540, the Order in England was closed by an Act of Parliament. The Reformation brought an end to the Hospitallers' Order in Scotland as it was of the Roman Catholic faith, and it was suppressed in 1554. On 22 January 1564, Sir James Sandilands, Lord St John, surrendered the Preceptory lands to Mary Queen of Scots, to whom he was related. However, two days later, at the cost of 10,000 crowns of the sun, (gold coins minted in France weighing 50½ grains Troy), and an annual feu duty of 500 merks, he obtained a Royal Charter re-granting them to him as a hereditary barony, as well as the Lord Torphichen title, and these were added to his Barony of Calder, the Sandilands seat being at Calder House (originally Caldour Castle), a few miles from Torphichen. He sold seven of the eight baronies, including most of Torphichen Barony, to pay his debts, but he retained the Preceptory and Torphichen Mains, thereby retaining his title.
After the Reformation, the Preceptory's nave was used as Torphichen Parish Kirk, while the remainder of the buildings were allowed to fall into disrepair. In 1756, Torphichen Parish Kirk was demolished and the remains were restyled to form the foundations of the new T-plan Parish Kirk on the west side of the Preceptory. The domestic buildings on the north side of the church were demolished, their stone being used elsewhere in Torphichen. The transepts and the tower became a courthouse of the Regality of Torphichen, but the tower fell into disuse and was only refurbished with a new roof in 1947, twenty years after restoration work was carried out on the Preceptory by the Ministry of Public Building and Works.

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This mantel consists of candlesticks and vases from around the house. I added boxwood from our yard in the form of some sprigs and a simple garland. The tree boughs were purchased at a Christmas tree lot near our home. The pine cones were picked up from a walk at a park near my parents' house. For now, these simple, natural decorations seem like enough. If the rearranging bug hits (and you know it most likely will) I will share for sure!
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James Carty is one of the finest exponents of Sligo fiddle music and one of the leading players of his generation. Having grown up in a musical household in Boyle Co. Roscommon, James was exposed to lots of music from a young age. His father, John is an internationally renowned fiddle and banjo player. James however is cutting his own path in the traditional music scene with his own distinctive style which he has developed having grown up listening to the recordings of the old Sligo masters Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Paddy Killoran to name just three. James has appeared on a couple of commercial recordings, most notably The First of May with Harry Bradley on flute and At Complete Ease, with his father John and Brian Rooney. He has just completed his first solo album entitled "Hiding Daylight in Dark Corners" with accompaniment from Brian McGrath and Francis Gaffney who both join James for this concert
Brian McGrath originates from Co Fermanagh and is one of Ireland's top performers on piano and banjo. He has toured the world extensively and has played with many of the greats in Irish music including Matt Molloy, Noel Hill, John Carty, Frankie Gavin, Charlie Lennon, Joe Burke and Dolores Keane to name but a few.
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The Fire Brigades' Union said it would talk about ways to save money but would not consider amalgamation as an option.
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There has been a lot in the news about Google's behavioural targeting launch; mainly surrounding privacy concerns. It is difficult to classify this targeting method as new news - most other major networks offer behavioural targeted advertising solutions (including PlatformA, Yahoo! & Microsoft), and have been for some time. In fact, Google are not including search data in their behavioural profiles whereas their competitors are.
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Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission Chairman W. Duncan Patterson recently announced that the commission promoted James A. Lages to the position of chief state steward.
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I recently discovered a great number of lectures by Francis Schaeffer. Evidently these are the "L'Abri tapes" that I first saw mentioned in True Spirituality.
I haven't listened to very many of these yet, but this includes lectures that appear to be the basis of several of his books. These include True Spirituality, No Little People, Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History, Genesis and Science, A Christian Manifesto, The Mark of the Christian and The Finished Work of Christ, among others. I must confess that I am less familiar with his well known apologetical works than I am with some of his others but I'm sure much of that material is there in embryonic form as well.
Overall, a wide variety of topics are covered, from cultural analysis, theology in general (including a series on the Westminster Confession of Faith), apologetics, the arts, etc. There are also a good many lectures on eschatology, including an exposition of the book of Revelation. It is well known that Schaeffer was premillennial, which was not uncommon among Presbyterians of his day, particularly among those of his background. The titles of some of them seem to indicate that he was pretribulational as well. But those lectures appear to be from the early 1960's so I don't know if he ever changed his views as did some others like James Montgomery Boice, for example. I haven't read that much of Schaeffer's work, but I hope to remedy that soon. However, I have noticed allusions to a future for Israel in some of his writings that were published in the 1970's. I do think it's interesting that a leader who was known for teachings on cultural and other issues would have taught so much on prophetical themes. But most if not all of those lectures were from the early 1960's, prior to him becoming a popular evangelical leader in the United States and beyond.
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A victim of an infringement of competition law such as a cartel understandably wishes to have as much information as possible about the infringement and its loss before bringing a damages claim. However, the recent judgment of the English High Court in Arcadia and others v. Visa highlights the risks of delaying for too long. The High Court held that the 6-year time limit for bringing proceedings started to run when the claimant had or should have had sufficient facts in order to establish a valid claim capable of surviving a strike-out application, not when it had all facts that might quantify or reinforce its claim. This had a substantial impact on the claim – the Court held that the Claimants had had sufficient information before 2007, 6 years before they brought proceedings, and therefore they could not claim for the period before 2007 (around 30 years). The Court referred briefly to the EU competition damages Directive and its judgment sheds some light on the way in which an English court at least might interpret Article 10 of the Directive.
The claim, brought by 12 large UK retailers, was for damages for loss resulting from the operation of Visa's multilateral interchange fees (MIFs) charged by the banks for handling credit card transactions, for a period going back to 1977. The claimants alleged that the MIFs inflated the charges that they paid to the banks.
Some of the claimants began proceedings in July 2013, and others in October 2013. In March 2014, the defendants applied to strike out those parts of the claim alleging infringements prior to July and October 2007, the dates 6 years before the start of proceedings.
General principles
Under English law, a claimant must usually bring its claim within 6 years of the event giving rise to it. However, where the defendant deliberately conceals any fact relevant to the claimant's claim, the 6-year period does not start to run until the claimant has discovered the concealment, or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it. The judgment addressed the issue of whether there were facts relevant to the cause of action that the claimants did not know prior to the expiry of the limitation period, and not whether there had been concealment.
The judge noted that courts take a "generous approach" to claimants in cartel claims in particular, because of the inherent secrecy of the arrangements concerned. This makes it more difficult for defendants to strike out cartel damages claims at an early stage on the grounds that they fail to set out their allegations in detail. However, this very generosity means that a claimant cannot wait until litigation risks are reduced to levels that it might consider commercially acceptable before claiming. Although competition claims have certain complexities, this is not a reason to apply a different approach to this aspect of the limitation rules.
The judge drew a distinction between unknown facts which were necessary to plead the cause of action and unknown facts that were not essential to plead the cause of action. Only the former would be relevant facts for the purposes of extending the limitation period. The unknown facts must be such as to "disable " the claimants from pleading the cause of action.
Was the information essential, or providing reassurance only?
The Court noted that relevant facts about the MIFs had been in the public domain for many years. It referred to a series of press releases, Decisions and Notices published by the European Commission during its long-running investigation into Visa MIFs, and a similar series of press releases from the former Office of Fair Trading. The Court held that these documents contained all of the facts relevant to the claim, or provided sufficient information to allow the Claimants to discover them. The Court recognised that at that stage the Claimants might wish for further reassurance on various points, but that this did not affect the question of whether they knew or could know relevant facts. For example, it was not essential, in order to bring a claim, for the claimants to know exactly how the MIFs operated. To set out their claim it was sufficient to know that the Commission and OFT had concluded that the MIFs restricted competition. The Court also held that it was not essential that the claimants should know the exact level of the MIFs. Those levels were not essential to the existence of the claim, because the claimants argued that any MIF restricted competition and was therefore an overcharge. The Court acknowledged that the question was material to the size of the claim and therefore to the commercial rationale in bringing proceedings. However, the legislation distinguished between facts establishing the claim and facts improving the prospects of success, or establishing the amount of the claim. The trigger for the claim was in fact the dismissal by the EU General Court in May 2012 of MasterCard's appeal against the 2007 Commission Decision on the MasterCard MIFs. However, as the claimants recognised, this revealed no facts that had previously been concealed from them.
The claimants intend to appeal.
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Interestingly the Court referred in its judgment to the EU competition damages directive, in final form then and adopted a few days later. It noted that the Directive makes specific provision for limitation periods in competition cases. It provides for a limitation period of at least 5 years, which will not begin to run until the infringement of competition law has ceased and the claimant knows, or can reasonably be expected to know, of the behaviour and the fact that it constitutes an infringement, the fact that the infringement caused it harm and the identity of the infringer. It also provides that these new rules should not have retroactive effect, or apply to cases that have already been brought. The Court therefore had no need to address the application of the Directive to this situation. However, it seems likely that an English Court applying these provisions of the Directive (or, properly speaking, the national rules that will in due course implement the Directive), would reach a similar conclusion on the question of the claimant's knowledge. In particular, under the Directive it is necessary only that the claimant should know that the behaviour constitutes an infringement (and not the detail of how the relevant arrangements or conduct worked), that it caused harm (and not the amount of that harm) and the identity of the infringer (which the claimants may be able to uncover through appropriate enquiries).
It should be noted that Arcadia v. Visa concerned arrangements that had been the subject of very high-profile investigation by the competition authorities for some years, with many of the details in the public domain. Claimants bringing proceedings to recover losses caused by secret cartels are likely to be in a better position to argue that they were not (and could not be) aware of key facts for much longer. However the Judge commented that competition cases did not fall within an exceptional category requiring a different approach to limitation. Claimants should therefore be aware that the trigger for the running of time for limitation purposes will not be the discovery of every potentially relevant fact but only those facts necessary to plead the cause of action.
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Oct0ber 1, 2015
The trail was a stream…
Met Horse and Chesapeake while climbing the mountain…today felt like any other day.
I wish I could have done Razor's edge…wasn't confident enough to go alone o.o guess I'll just have to go back…dad?
I offered Horse and Chesapeake a ride back to town…so we left together.
When we got to the bottom of the mountain…I found a note saying: Captain Planet- your ride broke down.
Under that note was one to Horse and Chesapeake: Your family is here.
It was a weird change of events. I caught a ride with them instead and as we were driving back we saw Mother Earth go blazing past. We flipped the car around and chased her for a good ten miles, until the ranger station. We called it the Mom Car Chase. We were going about 60-65 on the tiny road leading to Baxter.
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Kevin turned the big 60 today! We celebrated his 60th birthday and the end of trail with an awesome dinner and chocolate cake ^_^ Happy Birthday Kevin!
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As a loan officer, you will have clients come to you for advice about restructuring their loan. Also known as loan modifications, restructuring a loan makes the current loan more affordable for the borrower and they can possibly avoid foreclosure.
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Parsi Magic
Amit Chaudhuri
- Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Faber, 339 pp, £13.99, March 1991, ISBN 0 571 16147 2
The Parsis of Bombay are pale, sometimes hunched, but always with long noses. They have a posthumous look which is contradicted by an earthiness that makes them use local expletives from a very early age; and a bad temper which one takes to be the result of the incestuous intermarriages of a small community. The Parsi boys in my class had legendary Persian names like Jehangir and Kaikobad and Khusro. Their surnames, however, can be faintly ridiculous in their eloquence, like 'Sodabottleopenerwalla'.
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She did! She swallowed the sun but she managed not to blow up! – Okay not quite, but sure felt like it.
My little one was frustrated, and she told me that she is fed up with
her piano teacher –Yes, again the same piano
teacher that my fourteen old one was agitated with. Is it time to change
the teacher? Well that itself is a
different discussion...
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So, I came home late last Wednesday after attending my public speaking club.
She told me in her enraged voice. I listened attentively like always. Then she
went on saying that:
"The problem with her (the piano teacher that is,) she never looks at anything
positively. Always pointing at the negative things, the things that I am not
good at. Complaining this piece, or that piece."
With a slight pause she continued, "I've tried my best. In fact this
time I tried even harder than previous weeks. Can't she just look at my effort
and focus on the things that I have improved on instead of picking on the stuff
that I didn't do well in?"
Another pause,"I promised myself last time, if she would get mad at
me again. I would yell at her. But, I just couldn't do it."
I nodded and said, "I am glad you didn't do it because it is just not okay
to yell at an authoritative figure."
"I know…"
"I know how you feel and I don't like that either. I gave a speech
the other day on promoting positive attitudes and I even blogged about this Half empty or half full .. it is your choice."
"Should I send her a copy of my blog?" Attempted to cheer her up.
She nodded, but still is frustrated.
"What do you think we should do? Should we change the piano
"Do you think the teacher was anxious due the fact that
the CM (Certificate of Merit) test is just around the corner? Or is she always behaving like this?"
"Usually she is still okay."
"What should we
After calming down a bit, she suggested that she should not take CM tests anymore.
She convinced me by saying that piano to her is merely for pleasure, and she is
not going to live her life as a pianist. She didn't feel that there is any need to
go through the extra stress in life just to have another certificate. She also
mentioned that without CM test she still thinks that she can excel in piano. She believes her skill will get better as she learns harder pieces each time. I
nodded in agreement at the end.
Much later, after a warm shower, she told me this, "Mommy … I am very proud of myself!"
"I couldn't believe that I have convinced you in a very calm manner. I didn't even
throw my usual temper tantrum ." --In the past, she would simply throw her temper tantrum if I disagreed with her.
I smiled and said, "I see that you have learned and realized how powerful positive
negotiation skill is. By negotiating, you have exercised your words to convince
She said, "Yes. I feel contented and am proud of myself."
In fact she should be! I didn't realize that my little girl has grown up so much.
She did swallow the sun and not only did she manage not to blow up, but she has
become a wiser person! This is another
moment of my life that I would treasure for a lifetime, a moment lodged in my heart.
Until next stop,
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Pennies Don't Fall From Heaven:
The hue an cry we hear of late from government officials and banks over the severe shortage of pennies may be vexing to those who have to cope with the effect of the problem, but, personally, I find the situation laughable.
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My dictionary defines "volunteer" as one who "offers himself for a service of his own free will," but in 1997 Congress, despite this, considered "requiring" public housing residents to "volunteer" community service. You can't 'require' volunteers to do anything!"
A Flat Tax? Yes, But on Net Worth
Poor folk don't give the rich and powerful their due. We just kind o' keep making excuses for 'em, always thinking they must o' meant well, but they just can't get the square pegs in the round holes. We need a flat tax on net worth, not on income.
Game Raises Questions
In August of 1986 a U.S. postal worker in Edmund, Okla., killed 15 colleagues. In the decade following incidents of "crazed mass violence" by postal workers took place at an alarming rate -- They even made a game about it!
Dollar Coin: Three Strikes You're Out
Whenever I see a report about the (re)current idea of replacing greenbacks with new $1 coins I suffer a mild case of deju vu. Don't you?
Preserve Our Constitution
Why is it that so many of us feel that the rights and responsibilities we inherited from our forefathers may be, despite our reverence for the U.S. Constitution, in serious jeopardy?
Light Reading at the DMV
Believe it or not a visit to your local Department of Motor Vehicles can be quite educational. It was for me. I recommend it to everyone. The next time you visit the DMV to have your license or registration renewed, take a good look around.
Is It a Cut, an Increase -- or What?
Democrats and Republicans take a different view of what a budget cut really is. When is a cut a cut? When is an increase an increase? And when the GOP and the Democrats go head-to-head over whether it's a cut or an increase -- who's right?
Those Rights Include Right to Disagree
There always seem to be more issues dividing us than uniting us. If it's not one thing it's another. It's the story of humanity. Gay rights is one of those divisive issues that played a prominent role in President Clinton's first term.
City Housing Rules Must Be Thought Out
"The road to hell," somebody once said, "is paved with good intentions." The Norwalk Housing Authority's Draconian proposal to require tenants to turn over their children's report cards is a lame-brained scheme.
Let's Not Convene
Conventional wisdom has it that the American people if asked to vote on the Bill of Rights in a referendum would vote it down. It is my fear that this is true ... primarily because its legal implications may not be fully understood by the average citizen.
Counsel for the Council
When the city fathers put together Norwalk's city charter in 1913, they did a pretty darn good job! I didn't think so initially when I began covering Norwalk politics for The Hour newspaper in late 1968, but I've long since changed my mind.
Slash Taxes for Me, You ... Us?
Sometimes it's not easy to separate politics from the politician, good rhetoric from good policy, the wheat from the chaff. Republicans want big tax cuts. Democrats want big tax cuts. Most Americans want big tax cuts. Great! So what's the problem?
Can Anyone Answer My Cry for Help?
When Christie Whitman pledged to cut taxes by as much as 30 percent, I was instantly struck by such blatant demagoguery; it should have been crystal clear that she was simply playing off Gov. Jim Florio's huge, unpopular 1990 tax increase.
To America: Don't Trip on NAFTA Vote
Over the years trade agreements have seldom caused the kind of uproar seen over the North American Free Trade Agreement. Few administrations have had anything like the battle that President Clinton faced in 1993. It was uphill all the way to get NAFTA approved.
Boy Scouts Have It Right: Be Prepared
Why do government agencies -- city, state and federal -- invariably, and inevitably, wait until it's too late before taking action? It seems to me that government at every level should create a panel whose job it is to uncover potential problems.
Questions, But No Answers
Ever see a newspaper or television report and wonder, as Paul Harvey often does, about the "rest of the story?" Yours truly is always wondering about such things, especially when they portray problems that need attention but aren't getting any.
Let's Press for a Public Commission
You may not have noticed, but just about everyone has been putting his hands into your pockets lately, and they're coming out a lot richer -- the phone company, the utilities and the government among them. Isn't it time we do something about it?
Congress: Keep a Lid on the IRS
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HOWEVER, addressing an issue can only do so much. It is very difficult to change other people, especially adults, if they have power over you, or if the behaviour or situation you want them to change could actually harm them in some way. In these instances your addressing the issues may not change anything other than letting them know you are unhappy. All you can do is state what the problem is, what you want to happen, and what the consequence will be if what you want does not happen (often taught in assertiveness and conflict resolution courses [good article]).
Even if what you want does not happen at least you tried. After this lack of success then the next step falls on you...what are you going to do now that the situation has not changed? Are you going to put up with it, leave, find someone with more authority to help you, go on strike, yell, or try something different? You have to do something besides just blaming the other person/people and waiting for them to change. If you decide to live with the situation that is YOUR choice and there are others would would react differently depending on their personal circumstances, resources, and character. Because of this you are partially responsible for the situations that you allow to continue or live in. Maybe the best thing to do is try to change some of your other current circumstances, increase your resources, improve your character, try something different, or remove yourself from the situation.
I think that we often are the cause of the "Elephant in the room" because of our own negative, self-destructive, or socially suicidal behaviours! Many of us need to take a hard look in the mirror, recognize, and accept that in some areas of our lives we have made poor choices, hurt others, and hurt ourselves. Perhaps if we had not ignored our personal failings and flaws and instead had the courage to change or improve our circumstances then we would be much happier today instead of regretting our apathy, fear of change, and worries about social backlash.
I'll end this post with one of my favorite quotes:
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I think I understand
a little bit of my Grandma,
I think I can imagine
a little bit of what went through her head,
You see,
yesterday a bomb went off in our city
shootings occurred
people were hurt
people were killed
I was nowhere close, but,
I heard sirens
I saw police cars
I saw armoured vehicles
I saw armed soldiers
I saw security guards on alert
I was shaken…
What does this has to do with my Grandma?
To understand my Grandma,
you have to go back to history
My Grandmother is from another era,
from a time where
girls from respectable families
were not expected to be anything but a wife and a mom.
But my grandma,
She loves studying
She loves school
She wants to continue her studies
Her family marries her instead
To a good man from another respectable family
And, by all account
She was a good wife
and a wonderful mother
who has the misfortune
to live during turbulent times
in her country.
Starting from the communist uprising
who cheerfully killed her uncle
in front of his family
Her uncle, who was killed due to his position
which was exactly the same position,
that my Grandpa held.
Of course, the Dutch were still there too
to add to the fun.
Eventually, my Grandpa join the fight against the occupiers
So off they torched their house,
leaving everything behind
As Grandpa goes deep into the jungle
Grandma moved to a safer place,
with several children in tow.
Oh there were other instances
like the part where my Grandma has to feed people in military gear
not knowing whether they were nationalist army
or the commies
Or when they were interrogated for hours by the Dutch,
as they suspected, my Grandpa was a spy
(he was)
Trying times,
to say the least.
Fast forward to the Sixties
They have settled down in Jakarta
with the promise of peace and prosperity
now that we are a free nation
But alas!
The red bunch decided, hell no!
So one night,
multiple gunshots were heard
Grandma thought, Oh no. Not again!
Grandpa, who's now in the police force,
immediately donned his uniform,
weapons at the ready,
bade my grandma good night
and disappeared into the dark
Grandma quickly put the kids to bed
Lock the house
turn off the light
and goes to bed too.
at some point,
Grandpa returned
safe and sound
Morning came
wakey wakey!
Everyone got up
except one
at some point,
the heart of the house
stops beating
It was too much
for her gentle heart.
So yeah,
yesterday I got a glimpse
of what that night would be like
It was only a few hours, yet..
I can't imagine
going through it for years
being on constant alert
particularly when you can't see who are the enemy
and who are the allies
Oh Grandma,
even today
some people are just not happy
seeing peace reigns
The difference is,
people are sick of it.
We are sick of attempted terror.
Live is already hard enough here
we don't need additional hardship
just because some random people thinks its glorious.
(No, it is not jihad to blow innocent people)
I hope it doesn't happen again
I'd like to think we're stronger now
I'd like to think we are badasses
We are coping,
the best way we know how
though jokes, laughter
and by just keep on living
because we have to
and because it does
So good night Grandma
Jakarta is still on high alert
But life goes on
because we'd rather celebrate life
than to cower from life
Give us strength
Give us courage
Give us love
See ya later Nini!
Lebak Bulus, 150116


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A few things I've bought over the past week. Some essential (and non-essential) items in the midst of Christmas present shopping!
I bought these shoes from Miss Selfridge. They're not super high but do have a concealed platform, so comfortable enough to walk in! I always buy too-high or unsensible shoes that get left at the back of my wardrobe so I'm not making that mistake again. These should go with most party outfits over the festive period!
How cute is this little bag from Urban Outfitters!? They had a 20% off event so it was a perfect excuse to buy it AND it was on sale at £12! Bargain.
The best cleanser in the world hands down! I've been using this for 3 years now and won't be switching anytime soon. I only have to buy it once a year (that's how long the 450ml bottle lasts using it every night).
I used to suffer from really bad skin in high school and it was a massive insecurity to me. The amount of 'anti-blemish' products I used to buy was ridiculous! I've always been really cautious of what I use on my skin so when I was first introduced to cleansing oils, I was really skeptical about putting oil on my oily skin! Seemed so wrong, but in fact oil is the best cleanser for an oily skin type. It cleanses thoroughly and takes makeup off brilliantly, but doesn't strip the skin.
Even though I realise I've naturally grown out of having spotty skin, since using this my skins never been better. There's different formulations for all different concerns and skin types.
Ahh when I saw this I was so giddy!
When I went to Amsterdam a couple of years ago I did a tour around the House of Bols, and every time I see them in bars or in the supermarket it reminds me of that nice memory! On the tour, you get to 'see', 'hear', 'touch' and 'taste' different flavours, and at the end they make you a customised cocktail based of your taste preferences.
I've bought a few different flavours over the years (if any of you don't already know, they do 38 different liqueur flavours!) but I've never seen a foam version before! This will serve me well for all Christmas cocktail making. I love experimenting with cocktails, maybe I should become a bartender hah.
And lastly, I bought these fab House of Holland tights! Gone are the days of nights out with bare legs!


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Situations that involve negative news are sometimes opportunities in disguise. After Toyota had issued several vehicle recalls and been subjected to quite a bit of media scrutiny regarding product quality, the company's chief quality officer took the opportunity to discuss the meaning of a product recall and explain how Toyota was responding to the situation.We've annotated a copy of the news release that you can download from SlideShare or from the link below.


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Former USPCA chief appears in court on fraud charges
October 24, 2016
The former chief executive of the north's largest animal welfare charity, the USPCA, has appeared in court last week charged with a series of fraud offences.
Stephen Philpott faced five criminal charges as he appeared at Newry Magistrates Court on Wednesday last. The 53 year old is accused of two counts of fraud by abuse of position with regard to the receipt of rental income with the intention of personal gain for himself or another or causing loss or risk of loss to the USPCA.
A second charge of abuse of position relates to the alleged creation of a fake employment post in the USPCA for a female. The ex-chief executive is also charged with conspiring with a woman to commit fraud by false representation in relation to the creation of a false job and he is accused of possessing criminal property, and a count of concealing criminal property, namely cash.
All of the offences were allegedly committed between January 2006 and November 2015.
Standing in the dock last week for the brief hearing, Mr Philpott spoke to confirm his name, date of birth and said he understood the charges facing him.
A PSNI detective constable told the court he could connect the accused to the charges.
Mr Philpott, from Ashgrove Road in Newry, was chief executive of the USPCA until his dismissal in July on grounds of misconduct.
He had been suspended in March following an independent investigation into the management of the charity which revealed "suspected irregularities" which the USPCA subsequently reported to the PSNI.
The former boss was arrested and questioned by detectives from the PSNI's Economic Crime Unit last month before being released on bail.
In court on Wednesday, District Judge Eamonn King released Philpott on his own continuing bail of £250 and imposed two bail conditions – prohibiting him from making contact with any past or present employees of the USPCA, directly, indirectly or through a third party, and that he is to reside at his home in Newry until the next court appearance.
The case is due to be heard again on November 16.
A 52-year-old woman arrested along with Philpott last month has been reported to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).


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Mu Boyan was born in 1976 in Jinan, Shandong Province of China. Mu graduated from the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts with master's degree in 2005. In 2003, Mu Boyan displayed his series work, "Bath Center" in the public bath house of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It is said, that group of sculpture was accepted to make for a bath center a job for living. After that, Mu Boyan has concentrated continuously on portraying the images of a fat person. The newest solo exhibition of Mu Boyan at Aye Gallery will be on view until March 13th, 2013.
The fat in the west, can be understood the bodily overload caused by unscientifically diet structure, this crowd even occupy about 50% in some countries, it's really ordinary but in China, when it mentions the fat person, it symbolizes the life abundance. Today, the gap between rich and poor enlarges day by day, the fatty no longer has the symbolic significance as "laughing than growing fat," but is often explained visually as "occupying social resources excessively." Only the name of "young fatty" has the commendatory meaning of cuteness. In the series work of "Fatty" looking from the sculpture dimensions, the fat person is separated into two extreme sorts: one is too extremely huge to be unable to tolerate, it may press the floor sinking; another one is extremely miniature, the movement is lively, without the weight feeling completely free. More or less, the artist wants to tell us "Fatty" exists in each body of us.


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Afterwards, Mike and I hung out for a bit before heading over to check out a game club in Western Auckland. There I met Damien, Chris Townley, and Dan Linder. The guys had rented a community center and set up 5 gaming tables. Warmahordes and Malifaux were the main events, but I was also privy to one of the most exciting games of X-Wing I've witnessed!
Afterwards, we headed to the Battlefront Office for a brief tour. The office is divided into 2 main sections. Upstairs is the design office where the majority of the work on the books and the website occurs. There is an open floor plan promoting collaboration, and a massive wall of reference material. Downstairs is the photo studio, warehouse, and playtesting area. Drawers upon drawers of studio models adorn the wall, and the 10 or so playtest tables are setup ready to go to and hit hard every Monday night.
Immediately, I am struck by a few things- the design office seems like a very creative place. The resources available at your fingertips and proximity to co-workers seems to excite a certain energy. As I type this on Monday morning, everyone seems genuinely excited and enthusiastic (After a good bit of ribbing Chris Townley for his mistakes with Darth Vader, that is). Likewise, the downstairs is well organized. The Battlefront team is in the process of cataloging all of their miniatures, and it was rather exciting to see all of the models I recognize from the books sitting out.
Immediately I am a bit struck by the open terrain boards in the playtesting areas. Through conversation, I've come to find that the Kiwis do approach terrain quite different than us Yanks (or at least the I-95 crew inspired tables), which is very interesting to me. I will expand on this thought later of course, but my initial impression was "wow, these playtesting tables are much lighter than I am used to".
|The design area
Here's a photo dump from my first day. First up is the gaming I witnessed followed by some shots form around the BF studio. You may be interested in some of those.
|Hello, what have we here?
|Reference wall
|Phil's eccentric workstation
|FoW Studio Masters
|An Example of Italians
|Doesn't this look particularly Asian?
|Playtesting boards
|Part of the warehouse
|This just in...


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At some point in everyone's life, they must reassess and cut the bullshit. Sometimes, we need to get rid of the people that simply do not add quality to our lives. Recently, along with dropping weight, I decided it was time to drop the extraneous people who I've allowed into my life that simply do not add anything of merit. This is something that's hard for me, and I think, is hard in general for most people. Thing is, I usually don't (unless you've done something to warrant it) want to be seen as a bitch. I want people to think the best of me and have only positive things to say when I come to mind. I never like to disappoint. Maybe it's because I'm a girl, and generally speaking (though it isn't always the case) we're taught that we must 'be nice'.
Lucky for me, I could think only of one person who I've allowed into my life that needed to be extricated. He's the kind of guy that drifts in and out as he pleases; one of those people that has so many things up in the air that I wonder how he is able to sleep at night. And of course, he's someone I used to date. Unfortunately, the last time he decided to pop back into my life, I allowed it. I answered the text and said, "sure, I'll come over". Why did I do that? Because I was being nice. Thing of it is, said ex lives an hour from me and at the time, I didn't want to make the drive. It had finally happened! I finally decided that I wasn't desperate enough to drop what I was doing (or in this case, what I wasn't doing ) to drive an hour to spend time with this guy who I once at some kind of weird interest in. I see this as growth.
But wait. Maybe it wasn't growth, because I then replied, "how about next weekend?". Why did I do that when I didn't particularly want to spend time with this person? Because I was being nice! I felt obligated and therefore, I made a suggestion to placate the man. Of course, the reply to my question was a deflated and unexcited "I suppose so." Well, of course that weekend would do, why wouldn't it? I mean, I'd be the one driving an hour to go spend time with a guy who liked to play the game We're Just Friends…But Only When It's Convenient for Me…and No, I Won't Add You as a Friend on Facebook…But I Still Like To Kiss You. Ever had one of those? Kind of annoying. And weird.
So , as the promised weekend approached, I sought advice. And it was good advice I got: Cut. Him. Out. This wasn't the first time I'd gotten this advice, but for some reason, it was this time that I chose to listen. Problem was, how was I to get out of this sticky situation I was now in? Lucky for me, I didn't hear from the ex all weekend. I thought perhaps he'd forgotten about our intended plans. Horray!
But I wasn't so lucky. Monday rolled around and I received a text asking what had happened to our plans. Of course, upon hearing the little chime and reading the message, I got an icky feeling in my belly. The icky feeling you get when you know you're doing something that has the possibility to upset/confound/disappoint someone. But, it had to be done. I ignored the message…and promptly added the phone number to my phone to put on the Blocked list. I felt a bit guilty by doing this. After all, if I sent a message and didn't hear back wouldn't I be hurt? Oh wait…that has happened to me with this particular person, and about a serious subject matter, I might add.
So, the question begs to be asked: Why was I so affected by the idea of ignoring someone I don't want to spend time with anymore? If someone disappoints you, does that give you license to disappoint them in return? Is cutting people out hard for everyone? Or, do I just have a supremely bad case of Nice Girl Syndrome? I had a friend once tell me that people like this ex are like cancer: cut them out, or they will bring you down with them. Sometimes, there is no easy way; having a conversation with someone about not really seeing the merit in keeping company with them is just as icky as ignoring them. Neither one is nice, but one is necessary. My dad once told me, "at some point, you have to stop taking in stray dogs and take care of yourself." I think I'm finally taking my dad's advice.


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|helping bees in the city
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The 3-hour tour includes a visit to our secret apiary, to see hives of honeybees (weather permitting), a walk through the King's Cross redevelopment which has been landscaped with bee-friendly flowers and trees, ending at the Skip Garden where we'll taste a range of London honeys and make wild flower seed bombs to feed the bees. (And you can pick up a healthy lunch at their café after the tour).
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