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Read the full report here.
Freedom House has prepared this report as a companion to our annual survey on the state of global political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World. We are publishing this report to assist policymakers, human rights organizations, democracy advocates, and others who are working to advance freedom around the world. We also hope that the report will be useful to the work of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The reports are excerpted from Freedom in the World 2010, which surveys the state of freedom in 194 countries and 14 select territories. The ratings and accompanying essays are based on events from January 1, 2009, through December 31, 2009. The 17 countries and 3 territories profiled in this report are drawn from the total of 47 countries and 7 territories that are considered to be Not Free, and whose citizens endure systematic and pervasive human rights violations.
Included in this report are nine countries judged to have the worst human rights conditions: Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Also included is one territory, Tibet, whose inhabitants suffer similarly intense repression. These states and territories received the Freedom House survey's lowest ratings: 7 for political rights and 7 for civil liberties (based on a 1 to 7 scale, with 1 representing the most free and 7 the least free). Within these entities, state control over daily life is pervasive, independent organizations and political opposition are banned or suppressed, and fear of retribution for independent thought and action is ubiquitous.
The report also includes eight additional countries near the bottom of Freedom House's ratings scale: Belarus, Chad, China, Cuba, Guinea, Laos, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. The two territories of South Ossetia and Western Sahara are also included in this group. These countries and territories—all of which received ratings of 7 for political rights and 6 for civil liberties—offer very limited scope for private discussion while severely suppressing opposition political activity, impeding independent organizing, and censoring or punishing criticism of the state.
Massive human rights violations take place in nearly every region of the world. This year's roster of the "worst of the worst" includes countries from the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and East Asia; they represent a wide array of cultures and levels of economic development. This report focuses on states and territories that have seen some of the world's most severe repression and most systematic and brutal abuses of human dignity. It seeks to focus the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council on states and territories that deserve investigation and condemnation for their widespread violations.
Despite a net 37-year gain in support for the values of democracy–multiparty elections, the rule of law, freedom of association, freedom of speech, the rights of minorities and other fundamental, universally valid human rights–the last four years have seen a global decline in freedom. The declines represent the longest period of erosion in political rights and civil liberties in the nearly 40-year history of Freedom in the World. New threats, including heightened attacks on human rights defenders, increased limits on press freedom and attacks on journalists, and significant restrictions on freedom of association have been seen in nearly every corner of the globe. The countries identified in this report represent some of the worst examples of these threats, and their populations live under regimes that use every means necessary to prevent progress in democratic governance.
By absolute historical standards, the world is still freer than it was thirty years ago. Dozens of states have shed tyranny and embraced democratic rule and respect for basic civil liberties. According to our global survey, Freedom in the World 2010 (whose findings can be accessed online at www.freedomhouse.org), of the 194 countries in the world, 89 (46 percent) are Free and can be said to respect a broad array of basic human rights and political freedoms. An additional 58 (30 percent) are Partly Free, with some abridgments of basic rights and weak enforcement of the rule of law. In all, some 3 billion people—46 percent of the world's population—live in Free states in which a broad array of political rights are protected. This progress makes the overall global decline, including the current state of this set of countries and territories, all the more disturbing.
There is growing evidence that most countries that have made measured and sustainable progress in long-term economic development are also states that respect democratic practices. This should hardly be surprising, as competitive, multiparty democracy provides for the rotation of power, government transparency, independent civic monitoring, and free media. These in turn promote improved governance and impede massive corruption and cronyism, conditions that are prevalent in settings where political power is not subject to civic and political checks and balances.
The expansion of democratic governance over the last several decades has important implications for the United Nations and other international organizations. Today, states that respect basic freedoms and the rule of law have greater potential than ever before to positively influence global and regional institutions. But they can only achieve that potential within international bodies by working cooperatively and cohesively on issues of democracy and human rights. Nowhere is the need for international democratic cooperation more essential than at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Although democracy has scored impressive gains in recent times, we have also begun to see a new drive to prevent the further spread of democracy and, where possible, roll back some of the achievements that have already been registered. A number of the countries featured in this report are prominent in this effort. In addition, many of the world's worst violators of human rights and democratic standards have joined in loose coalitions at the United Nations to deflect attention from their records of repression. The failure of the United Nations to effectively address human rights problems played an important role in the decision to replace the old Commission on Human Rights with the new Human Rights Council. The Council is functioning under a set of procedures that should enable it to deal with the core human rights problems in the world. We offer this report in the hope that it will assist the democratic world in pressing the case for freedom at the United Nations and in other forums.


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As is the case every other week, some Nigerian footballers shine in their respective clubs, and as such, deserve recognition.
Due to the fact that the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) is in the off-season, TheCable is basing its team of the week on Nigerian players plying their trade abroad.
Here are the players who made the cut.
Okeimute Odah (Jeddah)
Still one of the best goalkeepers in Nigeria, the former Sharks recruit was brilliant on his debut for Jeddah in the game against Jabalain.
Ola Aina (Torino)
He did well against Spal with his pace, good defending and was also keen to get forward in search of goals.
Chima Akas (Kalmar)
The defender did well and created scoring chances for his teammates against Elfsborg.
Ichull Lordson (AC Kajaani)
Kajaani needed to refresh their season and they got a win against FC KTP, thanks to the former Nasarawa United enforcer.
William Troost-Ekong (Udinese)
Though Udinese failed to win against Fiorentina, the enterprising defender stood out, keeping out most of the attacks from the Viola.
John Ogu (Hapoel Be'er Sheva)
If ever there was a footballer who epitomises what Hapoel Be'er Sheva fans want from their players, it is Ogu.
On Sunday, they watched the midfielder run and chase every ball. He refused to be intimidated and scored a brilliant goal.
Ogenyi Onazi (Trabzonspor)
Trabzonspor have made their best start to a season in many years. The ex-Lazio star has been instrumental so far and he scored in the 4-0 thumping of Galatasaray.
Arnaut Danjuma (Club Brugge)
Club Brugge's vintage performance to earn three points against Zulte Waregem was largely made possible by Danjuma's work ethic in the match. He also scored a beauty of a curler.
Sammy Ameobi (Bolton)
Ameobi kept his team alive with a timely goal at Preston North End. It was a good way to silence his critics.
Blessing Eleke (Luzern)
Eleke delivered a man of the match performance in the colours of Luzern, capping a tireless display in the comeback win against Grasshopper with a goal and an assist.
Anthony Nwakaeme (Trabzonspor)
Any player who scores two crucial goals and provides an assist deserves some recognition. He delivered when the Trabzonspor fans needed a Messiah against Almighty Galatasaray.

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After confirming yesterday that a new patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is in development, CD Projekt Red announced that update 1.03 is available today on PC, with a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release of this update coming "very soon."
Judging from the patch notes of the The Witcher 3 update on PC today, the PS4/Xbox One patch will include improved stability, improved performance, improved menu handling, a couple of fixes, and more.
Keeping in mind that some of these notes won't extend to PS4/Xbox One, here's the full list of details on today's PC update:
- Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
- Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
- Fixes grass and foliage popping that could occur after density parameters were changed
- Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
- Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
- Sharpen Post-process settings extended from Off/On to Off/Low/High
- Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
- Corrects a bug where player was able to shoot bolts at friendly NPCs
- Improves menu handling
- Corrects an issue with Stamina regeneration while sprinting
- Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcured when scrolling the map
- Generally improves world map focus
- Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
- Corrects some missing translations in the UI
- Corrects an issue in dialogue selections
- Rostan Muggs is back
- Minor SFX improvements
When we get full details on the console update, we'll let you know.
On Twitter, CD Projekt Red's Marcin Momot revealed that 600 fixes were included in the first The Witcher 3 patch on PS4:
The 600 fixes was the Day 1 patch. We are working on addressing the font size issue right now. Another patch coming soon.
As well, the next console patch should include a fix for the Gwent crashing problem.
Talking a bit more about The Witcher 3, Momot confirmed there are no plans to do a close camera option like they did in The Witcher 2, patches for all platforms are being worked on simultaneously, and they are working to get a PS4 corrupted data issue "fixed ASAP."


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Last week I had the pleasure of indulging in an Eminence Organic facial thanks to the wonderful people at Spa Solarice. The experience was friendly and intimate, lacked any pretension and left me feeling rejuvenated and possibly even looking a few years younger!
My Spa Diary
I arrived early so I could partake in a lengthy eucalyptus steam before my treatment. I changed into the robe and slippers provided and shuffled over to the steam room. Every day should start with a eucalyptus steam – it was so refreshing! I was told it would open my pores so they could receive all the nourishment from the facial coming up next.
After about 10 minutes, I left the steam room and had a quick shower. I then headed down to the lounge which was warm with moody lighting and soothing music, and had wooden slats in the ground in front of each seat that lifted to reveal foot sinks for pedicures. Neat feature! I decided I'd have to come back to try that. I felt calm and relaxed as I kicked back with Metropolitan Cats, a book about cat-related art at the Met. Major bonus!
I was then greeted by the beautiful Fatima who escorted me upstairs to a private room where I could undress then tuck in under the cozy comforter on the spa table.
After an assessment that determined that my skin was on the dryer side and prone to redness, Fatima began the facial with a stone crop gel wash. Stone crop is a succulent that hydrates the skin and protects against pigmentation. Then a stone crop toner was swept gently over my cleansed skin to balance its PH levels.
Next came a really neat treatment. An almond mineral treatment* that has paprika in it. After it's been rubbed into the skin it begins to heat up and tingle all over creating a fiery sensation! While the paprika rejuvenated my tired, dehydrated skin, Fatima massaged each of my arms and hands with a yummy soft cream. It was fantastic! Who doesn't love a good massage?
Next, Fatima wiped away the hot mask with a warm cloth to reveal my freshly flushed skin. The mask promotes circulation and directs blood towards the surface to bring it back to life.
Then a hibiscus calendula mask was applied. The scent was intoxicating and very calming. She then proceeded to unwrap my hair and massage my head, neck and shoulders. Man, was I glad I had washed my hair in the shower after the steam! (I still had cabin hair from the weekend). It was intense and much needed. A lot of stress can be carried around in these parts of the body.
As if that wasn't enough, she then massaged a Stone Crop serum into my face, neck and chest. Who knew a facial massage could feel so good? She finished with Eminence's Stone Crop moisturizer and Wild Plum eye cream and I was good to go.
Thank you to Spa Solarice for your kindness and generosity and a special thanks to Simone, Cadi and Fatima for making it all possible.
Spa Solarice
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Vancouver, BC V6K1N8
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There are two locations in Whistler as well! Check their website for details: www.solarice.com
*This product and a few others in the Eminence line contain honey.
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In an effort to add some discipline to my easily distracted mind, I am creating this blog to practice writing and photography on a somewhat regular basis. The title comes from a story about my Irish Grandfather. When I was a baby every time he saw me he would ask my mother "Does he still shit in his pants?" It sounds like something I would say about a baby and it makes me laugh every time I think about it. BTW, YOU CAN CLICK ON ANY PICTURE TO SEE IT FULL SIZE.
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What GE Oil & Gas did to supercharge employees on social media
GE Oil & Gas supercharges its social media presence
A few years ago, GE Oil & Gas, one of the world's leading equipment and services' providers in the oil and gas space, embarked on a series of online experiments. The oil equipment giant trained a cohort of 20-40 high potential leaders to engage online. Becky Edwards was Chief Communications Officer at GE Oil & Gas during this time. I spoke to Becky about GE's approach to digital interactions. She explains:
"The GE team asked this question early on: what would it be like to take this cohort and supercharge them digitally?"
Becky started at GE in 2010 as Global Employee Communications Leader. She describes the internal environment she joined as 'socially-enabling-digitally' and employee-driven. Existing internal GE systems allowed employees to comment and even retract offensive comments. She remembers that in 2010, the ability to request a retraction was a progressive capability at that time.
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GE Oil & Gas empowers high potential staff
By 2012, GE had put together a robust set of guidelines for external social media activities. This set the scene for Becky and her team to develop a specific training programme for the high potential cohort. The programme focused on how they might use their influence in a digital world. As part of the training, Becky and her team prepared the cohort to showcase their digital know-how at the GE Oil & Gas Annual Meeting normally held in January/February of every year.
The team covered topics such as the importance of content marketing, how to create content for social media and where to publish the content once it is created. They also co-created content with the cohorts. The cohort, now digital ambassadors, applied their knowledge from the training on social channels such as Twitter. They could provide a glimpse of the annual meeting for those not present.
GE Oil & Gas enables more online conversations
Becky explains that having set guidelines isn't enough. As a result of the experiment, Becky says the team realised they needed to visibly and deliberately give people permission. Contrary to the idea that only the most senior person in the team can have a voice, Becky says,
"We needed to tell employees that it's OK to have a voice, own what you know and share it"
What would be a good outcome for GE Oil & Gas? Becky explains that social media is an enabler that allows the organisation to:
- Do more commercial transactions that stem from digital interactions
- Generate goodwill and positive mind share such that people looking for information can find positive information
- Position GE Oil & Gas employees as thought leaders in their field
- Draw potential and existing customers into a deeper conversation
Traditionally, technical experts share their knowledge through conferences for instance. At conferences, the conversation would be one to many people sitting inside a room somewhere. Becky says,
"Thanks to social media platforms, more people can now fit inside that room"
Check out other employee social media examples: Rackspace
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Friday evening, Canadian carrier WestJet Airlines released a video response to the sexist note given to Captain Carey Smith Steacy, one of the airline's female pilots, early this week. The video features women in several positions of power within the aviation field, including a cameo by Captain Steacy herself!
The release of the video also coincides with the celebration of International Women's Day, Saturday, March 8th.


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Finding call girls is easy, but finding beautiful female companions isn't so easy. This is why we explored all regions of the United States, searching for the hottest escorts money could buy. Upon our arrival to the states, we had to start in the city if sin. Las Vegas escorts are known around the world, as being the most desired. Mostly because of all the conventions and big money gamblers all year long.
We can for sure agree, the girls are top shelf! This lead us to wonder, where else might beautiful girls venture off to. After talking with a beautiful call girl from a local independent Las Vegas escort classifieds website, we found out where some of the girls might vacation or tour.
She said, South Florida was a great place to start. Only because she also knew some Miami Beach escorts who visit Las Vegas from time to time. When we arrived in Miami the sexy Latina girls where all over, walking around with bubble butts in bikini bottoms. This lead our search online, where we found a website we used before. It was called RideWorks.com, featuring upscale call girls from licensed escort agencies in major United States cities. After we browsed the website, one of the girls we selected showed up. This woman was VIP quality for sure, she had the looks, brains, and much much more!
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A fine walk to the iron age hill fort on Danebury Hill. The walk also follows the line of an old railway beside the River Test and takes in the villages of Longstock and Fullerton.
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- 10.1 miles / 16.2 kms
- 577 feet / 176 metres
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- 31 Jan 2010
Leave the car park and cross the road on to a path. Turn left to pass under the main road and head south west on The Test Way. Here the route follows an old railway line and further on passes some old railway huts. Follow this flat path for just under 3km, passing under four bridges.
1. Immediately after passing under the fourth bridge, turn off to the right on a path that leads up and back to join a road. Turn left and cross the river, following the road to a junction where you can stop at the pub for refreshment!
2. At the road junction turn left and then right just before the church on a minor road. Leave the village, passing the cemetery and climb gently out into open country. About 2km after the cemetery the path meets the road. Turn right on the road, ignoring the minor road off to the right and follow this for about 0.3km.
3. Turn left on the minor road to Danebury Hill. This Iron Age hill fort is one of the finest in the country and is well worth exploring.
Retrace your steps back down to the road and turn right. Where the minor road joins, turn left on this road heading downhill for 0.4 km, before taking a bridleway off to the right.
4. After a little under 1km, the main track bears off to the right. Ignore this and continue straight on, passing under a height restriction bar. Follow this pleasant track, crossing a minor road, for approximately 3.5km to meet a road. Turn left and follow the road into Fullerton, turning right at the next junction.
5. Cross the River Test to meet the main road (A3057). Turn briefly left over a bridge, before turning right to rejoin the old railway line. Continue over the river and just before passing under the bridge, turn left back to the car park.
Danebury Hill
The hill fort on Danebury Hill, often called Danebury Ring, dates from the iron age ? 2,500 years ago. The double defensive rings still reach up to 5m high, although originally they would have been more pronounced and topped with palisades. Extensive excavation has been carried out at the site, which shows evidence of wood and metal working, together with spinning and weaving.
Trail Location
The trail starts from a car park just off the A3057 between Stockbridge and Andover, on the minor road to Chilbolton. As an alternative, parking is available on the road up to Danebury Hill.
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On Monday 9th June I was walking down Prince Regent Street, and I noticed a stream running down the gutter.
So I tracked it uphill to its source:
And a couple of days later, walking down Prince Regent Street again, I took a photo of the drain all the water was falling into.
Over a week later, the water is still running, and it's now overflowed the drain and forms a delta where Prince Regent Street runs into North Junction Street:
Up at the source, the water has by now washed away part of the tarmac covering the old cobbles:
It's quite impressive that just leaving a water main to run unchecked and unmended for only eight or nine days can do this much damage. I wonder how much longer Edinburgh Council will leave it to run?


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If there have been one thing that is inescapable for people, that would be tension. This is because peopleregardless of nationality, sexual category and career statusalways sense stress very often in their lifetime. Studies show in which lack of stress administration can give a person a poor outlook in life and can even suffer from key health problems.
Stress in the work place
Studies show that working condition in work is among the top reasons why many people suffer from tension. This is because people are confronted with various factors including working with other people that have different sets of values and ethics, achieving job demands along with meeting the expectations of the boss/es.
Being anxious in the workplace is not a new occurrence but it provides evolved in years. Perhaps because of the changing occasions, stress in the workplace is now more intense as well as the people within have become more competitive. Within this set up, people or even employees who are not necessarily used to heavy surroundings tend to prone to anxiety attacks more often.
Stress in the workplace happens when there are excessive challenges and also demands of work, demands which hinders people's abilities in handling such circumstances, and also the demands and fulfillment has become exhausting and much more frustrating. When this happens, there might be physical and emotional changes that will drastically affect not just the employees but the entire nature of the businesses as well.
To avoid these kinds of effects in the workplace as well as in the business, it is best for workers as well as employers to be able to familiarize themselves concerning the job stressors present. By knowing this particular, employees can acknowledge the source of stress and employers will make an action plan to somehow alleviate it.
The most common job stressors consist of specific work aspects such as tedious duties, excessive loads of function, low pay in spite of extended hours of work, ludicrous demands in efficiency rates, and brief rest breaks.
One more would be the physical atmosphere itself especially if the region is overcrowded as well as noisy, with bad ventilation, and reputation of safety and health including improper placement of gear and toxic chemical compounds.
Organizational practices can be a job stressor particularly if there is vague pair of expectations and responsibilities, conflict in demands in job, reputation of so many companies, poor decision-making habits, difficulties in communication outlines, and absence of policies that can benefit the employee's family members.
Minor work stressors would include alteration of workplace that leads staff to have unspoken worry in terms in the event that job tenure, sporadic turnover of staff, absence of readiness when it comes to changes in technology or perhaps no room regarding promotion and reputation and interpersonal associations including distant bosses, office politics, competitiveness of other staff and the like.
Dispelling stress at work
To effectively handle stress in the workplace, employees must:
– Have plenty of time to getaway when stress building up
– Take a break and perform some minor activities for example walking or strolling nearby or siting on the park bench near the area and carry out some exercise or pay attention to relaxing music
– Talk it out with a friend or a family member to help relieve some burden of work
– Build camaraderie at the workplace to ensure that you will see people who can back again you up if the going gets tough
– Dont be also serious because it will simply make the job triggers double in fat and
– Modify job if your tension management ways aren't working.


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Of course [artist id="510062"]Lil Wayne[/artist] has infinite love for his hometown of New Orleans. He's shouted out his city in his songs, he performs there often and Weezy is generous in giving back to the community. But this weekend when the New Orleans Saints host the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship game, The Cash Money/ Young Money Millionaire will not be pulling for Drew Brees, Reggie Bush (Wayne name-checks on the Birdman's "Money to Blow"), and the rest of team Black and Gold. See, Wayne's favorite player, Brett Favre, plays for the visitors.
"I'm rooting for Brett because I'm a diehard," Weezy explained to us early Thursday (January 21). A signed Favre football is one of the prize possessions in Weezy's extensive sports memorabilia collection. As for who the dynamic performer thinks will win the game, Wayne — who's appeared on ESPN a few times to talk sports — gave his analysis from an unbiased standpoint. Minnesota has a superior ground game and defense in his opinion.
"I believe the Vikings will win because of the running attack," Wayne assessed. "The Saints give up about 150 rushing yards a game, and the Vikings have arguably the best running back in the game [Adrian Peterson]. ... I believe the Vikings defense will frustrate Brees."
The New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings have a 6:40 p.m. kickoff time on Sunday evening. The winner goes to the Super Bowl, where they will play the victor of Sunday's Indianapolis Colts/ New York Jets game.
Last week, a handful of hip-hop stars, including Jay-Z, Fabolous and Jermaine Dupri, offered their Super Bowl predictions. All three were wrong in picking the Cowboys to represent the NFC. Meanwhile, Jay-Z and Fabolous still have a shot to see their teams from the AFC go to the big dance. Jay picked the Jets, while Fab is a fan of the Colts.


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No, no. No one died… at least not yet. Jerry LaVigne Jr. is an Internet personality I've been seeing a lot of recently. He believes that most artists are not appreciated until they are dead and so he signs all his videos off with an R.I.P.
Now although he is not dead, you might find yourself dying of laughter while watching his videos. Jerry has talked about topics from How to cheat on your girl to Reasons women go to the club. His raw, I don't give a shit attitude is hilarious to watch and hear, and sometimes most of the time, he tells it just like it is.
He also does some amazing sketches and while I know not what he does for a living, I do know that if it's not comedy, it really should be. Jerry is on Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and if you haven't checked him out yet, I suggest you do so right now!
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Smart For Two Big Idea
Daimler AG smart used Valentine's Day to launch "A Big Idea for Two", a new campaign for the Smart For Two car in Germany. A series of five commercials, using animated street art, was used as a tribute to love, along with a radio spot, an extensive dealer communication package, print, web and iphone campaigns. The campaign has been translated into English, Spanish, French and Italian and released on YouTube, YouTube and mobile applications.
Click on the image below to play the A Big Idea for Two video.
Click on the image below to play the For the Curious video.
Click on the image below to play the For Individualists video.
The Big Idea for Two campaign was developed at BBDO Berlin by creative team Toygar Bazarkaya, Sascha Dudic, Jan Harbeck, Ton Hollander, Simone Kiening, Jan Lawrence, Jose Lozano, Shelly Lui, Max Marohn, Daniel Maurer, David Mously, Daniel Ridder Press, Jens Ringenäs, Wolfgang Schneider, Nicolai Spreng, Felix Waldow Dana Wolf, Ingo Zacher, consultants Andrea Bey, Arne Cornelsen, Gülcan Demir, Christopher Hill, Michaela Hünlein, Lars Island man, Ashkan Maleki, Jan Hendrik Oelckers, Dirk Spakowski, Sebastian Schlosser Thanh, Vu Tran.
Animation was produced at Film Deluxe Berlin, by producers Stephan Pauly, Katharina Strauss, executive producer Glenn Bernstein, and at Shilo, New York, by director Jose Gomez, associate creative director Tom Green, director of photography Daniel Ortega, editor Josh Bodnar, character designer Ken G. Lee, animation director Brian Covalt, cell animation team Max Keane, Melvina Wong, Katherine Morris, compositing team Tom Green, Nathan Davies, Stephanie Corda, Garrett Marks, compositing assistants Gary Jones and Steven Galvez, VFX artist Tim Turner, storyboard artist Mark Pacella, assistant editors Zach Vandlik, Garrett Marks, Chris Halmo, line producer Jeremy Yaches, senior producer Hilary Wright, head of production Julie Shevac, and executive producer Arthur Portnoy.
Finishing was done at Company 3 by Flame artist Randie Swanberg and colorists Tom Poole and Sean Coleman. Sound was produced at Studio Funk, Berlin. Music was composed at Audioforce, Berlin.
Filed under: Commercials, Interactive, Smart Car, Valentine's Day
Tagged: Audioforce, BBDO, BBDO Germany, Company 3, Daniel Maurer, Daniel Ortega, Daniel Ridder Press, David Mously, Felix Waldow Dana Wolf, Film Deluxe, Ingo Zacher, Jan Harbeck, Jan Lawrence, Jens Ringenäs, Jose Gomez, Jose Lozano, Max Marohn, Nicolai Spreng, Sascha Dudic, Shelly Lui, Shilo, Simone Kiening, Studio Funk, Ton Holländer, Toygar Bazarkaya, Wolfgang Schneider
Location: Germany


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Friday, December 21, 2007
Specialty Teas Are Hot Stuff
If you've got a spare $3,000 lying around - and who doesn't - you might want to invest in Tea and Ready-to-Drink Tea in the U.S., a report prepared by a market research company called Packaged Facts. That's right, $3,000 for a report. Nice work, if you can get it.
According to the report, the tea market in the United States is expected to nearly double, to $15 billion, over the course of the next five years. The greatest amount of growth is expected to come from specialty tea. Tea houses, which numbered just 200 in 1990, have now passed the 2,000 mark.
While you're waiting for your $3,000 report to arrive, check out this summary at the Gourmet News Web site.
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Challenging Notions, 2nd Edition
Critical Victimology in Canada
By Tammy C. Landau
SubjectsCriminology and Police Studies / Victimology
June 2014
Print ISBN: 9781551303741
This expanded and updated second edition introduces students to both the theoretical and applied aspects of victimology and provides a critical foundation for evaluation. Tammy Landau, an expert in criminal justice, explores patterns of victimization in Canada, the experiences of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system, restorative approaches to victimization, and the challenges presented when the state is the perpetrator of crime. This edition reflects new trends and development in policy, has been updated to include data from the 2009 General Social Survey, and incorporates a new analysis of the various forms of family violence. Featuring current scholarship, well chosen examples, and thoughtful chapter discussion questions, this uniquely Canadian text is a valuable resource for second- and third-year victimology classrooms.
Related Titles
Table of Contents
List of Boxes
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction to Victimology
The (Re)Emergence of the Victim in Criminal Justice and Criminology
The Canadian Context
Questions for Further Consideration
Chapter 2: Challenging Notions: The Social Context of Victimhood
Media Representations of Crime Victims
What Is "Victimology"?
Mainstream Approaches to Victimology
Critical Approaches to Victimology
Defining the "Victim"
Gendering the Victim
The Case of Sexual Assault
Men and Victimization
Questions for Further Consideration
Chapter 3: Measuring Victimization
Uniform Crime Reports and "Official" Statistics on Crime
Reporting to Police
Definition of "Crime"
Change in Legislation
Changes in Policy and Practice
Linking Police Statistics with Police Effectiveness
Victimization Surveys
Alternative Approaches: Self-Report Studies, Institutional Data, and Inquests
Self-Report Studies
Institutional Data
Questions for Further Consideration
Chapter 4: Patterns of Violent Victimization in Canada
General Patterns of Violent Victimization
Responding to Violent Victimization
Thinking about Violent Victimization
Violence in the Family: Spousal Violence
Responding to Spousal Violence
Thinking about Spousal Violence
Violence in the Family against Children and Youth
Thinking about Family Violence against Children and Youth
Violence in the Family against Older Adults
Thinking about Family Violence against Older Adults
Questions for Further Consideration
Chapter 5: Challenging Victimizations: Two Cases in Point
Hate Crimes in Canada
Responding to Hate
Measuring Hate
Aboriginal People, Victimization, and the Criminal Process
Aboriginal Overrepresentation in Criminal Justice: The Victimization Context
Aboriginal Victimization: The Bigger Picture
Questions for Further Consideration
Chapter 6: Everywhere and Nowhere: Contemporary Victims Policy in Canada
Mainstream Programs for Victims in Canada
Restorative Approaches to Victimization: More Than Just Another Alternative?
Challenging Policies: When the State Is the Perpetrator
Questions for Further Consideration
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When the first hint of autumn hits the air, my reading mind begins to crave the spooky, the eerie, and the downright scary. I love these kinds of stories anytime of the year, but books about witches, ghosts, haunted places, monsters, and monstrous people that chill as much as thrill are the books that dominate my reading list right to the end of October (and often beyond).
For the next few weeks, I will be sharing posts with lists of my favorite spooky books. Each list represents a different category and will be in alphabetical order by author. I'll include the book's description (or if it's a series, the first book's description), and link each to their entry on Goodreads.
Disclaimer: Spooky is sometimes easy to identify in the main aspects of a story, and then sometimes it's just a feeling you get when reading. Your spooky and my spooky may not match up, but checking out a few new books is never a bad thing.
♦ Modern Monsters ♦
Sometimes it doesn't take the supernatural to creep you out because regular people are scary enough.
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
Type: young adult — Status: standalone
Wake up, Caitlin
Ever since she started going out with Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin seems to have fallen into a semiconscious dreamland where nothing is quite real. Rogerson is different from anyone Caitlin has ever known. He's magnetic. He's compelling.
He's dangerous.
Being with him makes Caitlin forget about everything else–her missing sister, her withdrawn mother, her lackluster life. But what happens when being with Rogerson becomes a larger problem than being without him?
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Type: adult — Status: standalone
WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.
NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg
Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory.
HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle
As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims–a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming.
Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)
Type: adult — Status: ongoing
Available Books: The Cuckoo's Calling (#1), The Silkworm (#2), Career of Evil (#3), Lethal White (#4)
(Description for Book 1)
A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.
Killer Instinct series by S.E. Green
Type: young adult — Status: unknown
Available Books: Killer Instinct (#1), Killer Within (#2)
(Description for Book 1)
She's not evil, but she has certain… urges.
Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. Afterschool job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick.
Because she might be one herself.
Lane channels her dark impulses by hunting criminals—delivering justice when the law fails. The vigilantism stops shy of murder. But with each visceral rush the line of self-control blurs.
And then a young preschool teacher goes missing. Only to return… in parts.
When Lane excitedly gets involved in the hunt for "the Decapitator," the vicious serial murderer that has come to her hometown, she gets dangerously caught up in a web of lies about her birth dad and her own dark past. And once the Decapitator contacts Lane directly, Lane knows she is no longer invisible or safe. Now she needs to use her unique talents to find the true killer's identity before she—or someone she loves—becomes the next victim…
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Type: adult — Status: standalone
For thirty years, folks on Little Tall Island have been waiting to find out just what happened on the eerie dark day Dolores Claiborne's husband died — the day of the total eclipse. Now, the police want to know what happened yesterday when her rich, bedridden employer died suddenly in her care. With no choice but to talk, Dolores gives her compelling confession … of the strange and terrible links forged by hidden intimacies … of the fierceness of a mother's love and its dreadful consequences … of the silent rage that can turn a woman's heart to hate.
When Dolores Claiborne is accused of murder, it's only the beginning of the bad news. For what comes after that is something only Stephen King could imagine … as he rips open the darkest secrets and the most damning sins of men and women in an ingrown Maine town and takes you on a trip below its straitlaced surface.
Jasper Dent series by Barry Lyga
Type: young adult — Status: completed series
Available Books: I Hunt Killers (#1), Game (#2), Blood of My Blood (#3), various short stories
(Description for Book 1)
What if the world's worst serial killer…was your dad?
Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.
But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view.
And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod.
In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows?
The Lying Game series by Sara Shepard
Type: young adult — Status: completed series
Available Books: The Lying Game (#1), Never Have I Ever (#2), Two Truths and a Lie (#3), Hide and Seek (#4), Cross My Heart, Hope to Die (#5), Seven Minutes in Heaven (#6), two short stories
(Description for Book 1)
I had a life anyone would kill for.
Then someone did.
The worst part of being dead is that there's nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It's enough to kill a girl all over again. But I'm about to get something no one else does–an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet.
Now Emma's desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it out is to be me–to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she's the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a happy, care-free daughter when she hugs my parents goodnight? And can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move?
From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.
Let the lying game begin.
Sadie by Courtney Summers
Type: young adult — Status: standalone
Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.
When West McCray—a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America—overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.
Prep School Confidential series by Kara Taylor (a.k.a. Kara Thomas)
Type: young adult — Status: completed series
Available Books: Prep School Confidential (#1), Wicked Little Secrets (#2), Deadly Little Sins (#3)
(Description for Book 1)
In this breathtaking debut that reads like Gossip Girl crossed with Twin Peaks, a Queen Bee at a blue-blooded New England prep school stumbles into a murder mystery.
Anne Dowling practically runs her exclusive academy on New York's Upper East Side—that is, until she accidentally burns part of it down and gets sent to a prestigious boarding school outside of Boston. Determined to make it back to New York, Anne couldn't care less about making friends at the preppy Wheatley School. That is, until her roommate Isabella's body is found in the woods behind the school.
When everyone else is oddly silent, Anne becomes determined to uncover the truth no matter how many rules she has to break to do it. With the help of Isabella's twin brother Anthony, and a cute classmate named Brent, Anne discovers that Isabella wasn't quite the innocent nerdy girl she pretended to be. But someone will do anything to stop Anne's snooping in this fast-paced, unputdownable read—even if it means framing her for Isabella's murder.
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Type: adult — Status: standalone
From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware—this time, set at sea.
In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for—and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong…
With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10—one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.


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The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Once when Fr. O'Malley came into the classroom
to visit the schoolchildren,
he asked if anybody knew where the Holy Family lived.
There was complete silence for a few moments,
and them a string of incorrect answers.
Finally, one little boy raised his hand and said,
"I know, Father! The Holy Family lives at 125 Main Street!"
The puzzled priest asked how the kid knew this.
"Well, Father," said the boy,
"every morning, when I walk by that house on my way to school,
I hear somebody shout, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, why won't you get up!'"
It was sure nice to see our churches full for Christmas, wasn't it?
As I jokingly said to somebody after Mass Christmas morning:
it's nice to have so many visitors from out-of-town…
…and it's nice to have so many visitors from right here in town!
All kidding aside—
full churches at Christmas is a bittersweet thing for me
as the "father" of this parish family,
just as it is for so many Catholic parents:
I'm awfully glad to have them here for that one Mass…
…but what can I do to get them back here again every Sunday?
I came across an online interview with Carrie Gress,
a Catholic writer who's published a book I'll be ordering very soon,
entitled, Nudging Conversions:
In this season which brings families together,
which brings a lot of lapsed Catholics to Christmas Mass,
and which, for many, tends to bring religious subjects to mind,
she makes some helpful suggestions
about how to share your faith—with your family and with others—
in a way that's fruitful rather than divisive.
For one thing,
she urges people to avoid starting arguments about religion.
We often wonder, "What can I say that will win them over?"
But this isn't about "winning."
It's pretty rare that a heated debate
actually brings someone back to the Church;
more often than not, it drives them farther away.
What you want is for your faith to rub off on them—
not to rub it into them.
So don't nag. Don't get preachy.
Convincing people with well-reasoned "proofs"
about the truth of the Catholic faith
about the truth of the Catholic faith
might work on a few of the more intellectually inclined,
but not everybody.
Dr. Gress points out that hospitality is much, much more effective.
"When we have people in our homes," she asks,
"do they feel welcomed?
Are we attentive to who they are, their work, their interests?
Do they leave our homes feeling drained and empty
or edified with a better sense of feeling 'known' by us?
It is little things like this that can open a heart to Christ."
Hospitality works because we're called
to imitate God's graciousness and generous love.
to imitate God's graciousness and generous love.
"While no two conversion stories are exactly alike," she says,
"the most effective transformations [happen]
when people [feel] they [are] loved and not judged.…
In prayer, the idea came to me to give them back to God
and just love them exactly where they were in life.
I didn't have to endorse every element of their lives,
but just love them as they were.
What happened was that our relationships
became richer, fuller, and more genuine.
Trust was established and they knew that I really loved them
and treasured them for who they were.
Rather than feeling pressure that 'I'll love you if…'
they knew I already loved them.
Only then did small changes start taking place.
Of course, I was also praying and fasting for them
so that grace was moving in their lives."
You know what else Dr. Gress suggests
if we want to bring others back to the practice of the faith?
That we make every effort to first grow in faith and holiness ourselves.
For one thing, "in order to pass along the faith,
we must first have it.
You cannot give what you don't have."
But she also points out:
"Looking at the lives of the saints,
we see that their holiness is attractive, not off-putting.
People just wanted to be around them
because it made them feel closer to God.
The more we grow in our own faith,
the more attractive we will become…."
It's every parent's vocation to bring his or her children to God,
as is played out so very vividly
when Hannah gives over the young Samuel to the Lord's service,
and when Mary and Joseph take the twelve-year-old Jesus
to the Temple in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover.
Even when our children are now adults,
that same vocation remains—
although the means by which we fulfill it may be altogether different.
Like Mary and Joseph,
we should be anxious for those who seem to have lost their way,
never giving up on them.
But we must take our cues on what to do
from our heavenly Father,
who won't compel or pressure us,
but constantly attempts to move his children by the appeal of love.
Do you want to help others find their way to the Catholic faith?
Turns out that the secret to filling the Lord's house lies in your house.
So make your home a place of real welcome,
and take every opportunity to grow in your own faith,
that people can point to your address and say,
"I know a holy family lives there!"
"I know a holy family lives there!"


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A common obstacle in today's public school system is the culture of disengagement, "coolness" and obligatory curriculum. Kids that love to learn are often teased and pressured to follow the crowd.
Parents are desperate for a school with passion and drive to deliver a sound moral and whole-child approach to education. One that reflects their family's values and supports their parenting philosophies.
Seeds has expertly created an atmosphere uninfluenced by politics and red tape and negative pressures to fit in with the crowd. Seeds lacks many of the ailments common to public sector education such as disrespect for teachers, tardiness, absenteeism, unpreparedness to learn, lack of parent involvement and student apathy.
We've grown a community of engaged families. A community where it's acceptable, praiseworthy and encouraged to show enthusiasm for learning. Seeds offers an environment where Math is cool. And Science and Geography are cool. And Community Service and kindness and respect and confidence are ALL so very cool.
Through an environment that is motivating, supportive and nurturing, Seeds implants a sense of pride in their student's personal character.


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jay third precisava de um novo design de papelaria e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 75 designs enviados por 25 designers freelancers.
Looking for a logo and layout for a business card and letter head for my small company which is a licensed real estate brokerage specializing in real estate development consulting.
Desired Color Scheme:
please provide multiple options
Accepted File Formats:
.pdf, .epf, .ai
I would like to incorporate my livestock Brand into the logo if possible which is J "Lazy T"(that means that the T is tipped to the left on its side and sits underneath the J. I would like to see some versions of this brand in a horseshoe, just to see how it looks.
I market second homes and recreational properties and would consider some mountain or countryside (Trees?) imaging but am not bound by it.
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by Chinelo Onwualu
Working for a newspaper in the US, we were always looking for ways to get the biggest news stories out to the public before our television counterparts. If there was a fire, or a shooting or an accident, we wanted to be the first ones there before the cameras showed up. Then at the end of the day would tune in to the evening broadcast, knowing that the first story the broadcaster mentioned would be what the station considered its most important news event. If they led with a story we didn't have, we knew we had been scooped.
So when I tune into NTA and find that the leading story is a bland speech by a bland dignitary at an inconsequential convention, I have to wonder if this was the most important thing happening in the country at the time. And when I find that the whole broadcast is a series of bland speeches given by even blander men, I have to wonder about the state of the industry itself.
Nigerian journalism is in danger. In the United States newspapers and television stations are struggling with the fact that their audiences are moving to the internet, taking their advertising dollars with them. Here, I think the problem is more insidious. We live in a society where anything can be bought by the highest bidder – including airtime. When faced with the choice of covering a big man's book launch or investigating a report of shoddy workmanship in a housing estate, I can only imagine what a television station starved of resources would do. Especially if offered enough "transport money."
I don't mean to single out one industry for criticism. When I read newspapers where there is little regard for punctuation, style or grammar, I know the problem is not limited to television. This is a symptom of a deeper problem in this country. Journalism is a poorly-paid, highly dangerous profession in many places in the world – even the United States. It requires brave and uncompromising people to do it, and not all of us are blessed with such hearts.
However we owe it to ourselves as a nation to raise our standards. There are news outlets producing quality work. Yet they are not enough and they are working against a very strong tide.
Chinelo Onwualu
Ms Onwualu lives in Abuja, Nigeria and is a member of Abuja Writers Forum


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"Dancing With the Stars" superstar pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd have welcomed their first child, a baby boy. The pair has been together off and on for some time, but they seemed on for good when the became engaged in December 2015. Six months later in June, they revealed they were expecting a baby. Just a few months after that, they revealed they would be having a boy.
"The timing is perfect, actually," Murgatroyd told People magazine at the time. "I'll have the baby in January, and then I'll still have about six months to prepare for the wedding."
"The baby will make a wonderful addition to the wedding party," Chmerkovskiy added. "A wonderful, tiny addition."
The couple's son, Shai Aleksander, was born this morning at 5:34 Eastern time, Chmerkovskiy announced on Twitter:
Shai Aleksander Chmerkovskiy
01/04/17 5:34am— Maksim Chmerkovskiy (@MaksimC) January 4, 2017
They had a lot of fun during the pregnancy, revealing that they were even kicked out of birthing classes for asking too many questions. Chmerkovskiy has taken off from Dancing with the Stars for the next season after a disappointing finish last season. His little brother, Val Chmerkovskiy, won the competition with US gymnast Laurie Hernandez. He seemed pretty excited too:
and just like that there's a new purpose in all our lives. what a blessing.


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Posted by admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 07-12-2012
If you've had any experience with it, I'm sure you'e aware that some of the most amazing things happen on the internet. For example: in recent months a popular website host, who shall go unnamed, inexplicably up and disappeared. Several major companies were affected; ours being one of them. So here we are, going about our business, trapping squirrels, performing raccoon removal, restoring attics damaged by mass animal infestations, and the like, and *poof* our website and all of our content disappears into the netherworld. Fortunately, the hard-working staff on the back end here at Wildlife Solutions maintained some semblance of backups, and have begun the process of trying to put the pieces back together.
Please bear with us as we rebuild and refresh our content. Before you know it we'll be back and better than ever.


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General Information About Camden County College
Camden County College is a comprehensive public community college with three distinct campuses that have a common mission: To provide accessible and affordable education – including 100-plus associate's degree and occupational certificate programs along with non-credit development courses and customized job training – to all who can benefit. The College also aims to provide the support services students need to transfer for further studies or prepare for a career. Finally, the College aspires to respond to the changing needs of its community and students by continuously updating its programs and services to support the economic development of Camden County and the region as well as the personal development of their citizens.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
Institution Type
- 2-year, Public
Special Learning Opportunities
- Distance learning opportunities
- Weekend/evening college
Student Services
- Remedial services
- Academic/career counseling service
- Employment services for students
- Placement services for completers
- On-campus day care for students' children
Credit Accepted
- Dual credit
- Credit for life experiences
- Advanced placement (AP) credits
- The acceptance of credits for work experience or military experience are subject to review by the school and cannot be guaranteed.
Religious Affiliation
- Not applicable
Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
Degrees/Certificates offered
- Less than 1 year certificate
- 1-2 years certificate
- Associate's degree
Campus Setting
- Suburb: Large
Disability Services Student
- 3% or Less
Admission Total Applicants Full Time Retention Rate 67%
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 23,399 Native American 76.0 Asian 1,480.0 African American 4,779.0 Hispanic 1,888.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 8,033 Enrolled FullTime Graduates


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With natural habitats of wildlife shrinking, a big question arises: Is it really possible to prevent wildlife from extinction? If it is, then we ought to ask ourselves whether the threat to wildlife could be given a higher priority and find out ways and means to check it.
Perhaps, extinction is the ultimate end of wildlife considering the ever-growing need for food and fuel forcing men to depend on the animals and forests. Besides poaching of wildlife, deforestation and lack of maintenance of forest, all contribute to its extinction.
Biologists around the world predicted that by the year 2100 AD, of the 23,000 species of four-limbed animals, we are going to lose more than 6000 species or a fourth of the total. In India alone, the number of officially declared endangered species has risen from 13 in 1952 to 140 in 1992.
In the early seventies, a number of international organizations felt the need to conserve the vulnerable Wetlands around the world. A resolution was adopted in 1971 at Ramsar, a city in Iran, to this effect. However, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially on waterfowl habitats, or simply known as Ramsar Convention came into force in 1975. India joined the Convention in 1982 after which six Ramsar sites have been identified.
Among the six Ramsar sites, Loktak Lake in Manipur has been identified and listed in 1990 and in 1993, the Montreux record categorized it as "where ecological changes have occurred, are occurring or likely to occur". The other five Ramsar sites include Chilka Lake (Orissa), Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur in Rajasthan, Sambhar Lake (Rajasthan), Wular Lake in Kashmir and Harike in Punjab.
Loktak Lake area is a home to a wide range of wildlife. It provides refuge to at least 116 species of birds, both migratory and resident (Prof. H Tombi, HOD, Life Science, Manipur University) besides being the only natural habitats of the most endangered mammal, the Brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi) or locally known as "Sangai".
The population of Sangai has risen from 14 in 1974 to 106 in 1991. This sub species of deer are especially adapted to their characteristic floating habitat locally known as "Phumdi". This particular area of 40 sq km called Keibul Lamjao, at the southern part of Loktak Lake, is the only floating wildlife reserve in the world. It was only in 1977, the Government of India declared as a National Park, since then it is known throughout the world as Keibul Lamjao National Park.
In a bid to preserve the native species, a "Mid winter water fowl census" was conducted at Loktak Lake. The pilot survey, the first of its kind, which began in the mid-1996 was proposed and conducted by Dr Anwaruddin Choudhury, chief executive, Rhino Foundation for nature in the North East India, Assam and co-ordinated by Manipur Association for Science and Society (MASS), Center for Research Education (CORE), all three from Manipur.
The aim of the survey, according to Dr Anwaruddin, is to make a quantitative assessment of the migratory aquatic birds besides identifying the rare species, which has been dwindling rapidly. Documentation of the deteriorating changes and to formulate a comprehensive conservative strategy to maintain the Loktak Lake, "the extremely hospitable winter quarters of the inter-continental avian visitors" was the broader mandate of the survey.
The census operation was participated by nine members from different organizations (NGOs), covering an area of 100 sq km or one-third of the Lake and conducted entirely on three dug-out (from a single log) local canoes, locally known as "He" hired from the fisher folks of Khoijuman village from where the team including this writer started. A total of 1975 water fowls were sighted of which 23 different species were identified by Dr Anwaruddin. The team also discovered that the eastern guard tower and the quarter of the National Park to be in a dilapidated state. For how long the post has not been manned is anybody's guess.
Dr Shyamananda RK, senior scientific officer, who was also in the team, noted the weevil species still controlling the growth of the water-hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) biologically. The weevils were first introduced in 1988 by Mr. Nambiar, chief engineer, Loktak Hydroelectrical Project to control the growth of water-hyacinth. A total of 12,500 weevils were introduced within four months period in two batches – 2,500 on April 22, 1988 and 10,000 on August 25 also during 1988 which were procured from the Indian Institute of Horticulture Research, Bangalore.
An investigation conducted by Prof H Tombi confirmed absence of impacts on non-target species. Within two years, no more than five per cent of water hyacinth remains today. However the existing problems in and around the Lake remain unsolved. Clearing of underwater weeds, dredging activities to de-silt the bed and changes in hydrological regime have been a significant reason for water fowl population decline in the Lake.
Floating hutments in the Lake have increased from 100 to 1,500 in the last few years. Even, unregistered "floating restaurants" or "Phumdi restaurant" has come into existence, where the team had their lunch. Farmers spread rice grain soaked in chemicals, such as Dieldrin, DDT etc, near their fields, which detract or kill the animals and jeopardize the environment.
The ever-increasing human population increases pressures on the natural resource in and around the Lake. It may be recalled, years back, more than 600 villagers raised objection against reserving the Park area for a "few heads of Sangai". The villagers even burnt down two-thirds of the Park area besides beating up the Forest officials. They vie for space is still going on till date.
Is the idea of preserving wildlife with a higher priority an illusion? Top officials and lawmakers understand the environmentalists' concern and are doing their best to shift those priorities. But it is an uphill struggle and if things go the way as it is now; the future of Ramsar site in Manipur is more in doubt than ever. At least for the foreseeable future, the enthusiasm of its success has yet to show itself.
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A Look Back at the Richmond Downtown Expressway
In our collection we have an unusual one-off edition of The Progressive Richmonder from June, 1950 that was circulated to promote support for the construction of a downtown expressway. The paper was produced by a group identified as the Forward Richmond Highway Committee.
The object of the paper was to convince readers to support a referendum to be held at a Special Election on Tuesday June 13, 1950. The referendum did not propose a specific route for an expressway but was used as a gauge of the public's support for the idea. The project's total estimated cost was $29 million. Richmond's contribution would be about $8 million dollars, with the Commonwealth contributing another $8 million and the Federal Government contributing $13 million.
The reasons given to support the expressway included that it would relieve existing traffic congestion, increase safety, faster travel for Richmonders, economic development (though the phrase did not yet exist, a proponent explained, "Everyone, motorists and all, stands to benefit financially in the long-range expressway planning."), and scenery, "Landscaping that accompanies the construction of expressways and the building of parkways will add to the city's beauty."
Another argument used was that other cities had expressways in their downtown areas. An article cited examples in Detroit, Michigan, Sacramento, California, Houston and Dallas, Texas, and Hartford, Connecticut. It also stated a number of other localities were presently in the process of building expressways, the cities included Boston, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.
Alternative solutions and complaints by the opposition are briefly mentioned and dismissed. "We are told that the expressway would be an unsightly ditch. But the engineers say that it will be a handsome roadway, mostly at natural ground level, but if below ground … read more »


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A few years ago I made an appointment with the school principal to discuss a teacher I was incredibly unhappy with. And just to clarify, I am so not "that parent." I am as un-involved as a school parent could possibly be. Dare I admit, to a fault. (how un-involved you ask? Well, when you welcome the "new gym teacher" to your school, and their response is, "This is my 7th year here" … well, yeah … that un-involved.)
So, here I sat, face to face with the principal, voicing my concern. I was nervous at first, but the fact that we were both moms of four kids, and could share "parenting of tweens and teens" stories, and laugh together as we found common ground, was a huge ice breaker. This commonality allowed us to see each other not only as "parent and school principal" but as real women, struggling with real issues, who can look each other in the eye, and say, "me too."
But then something happened, and the conversation went like this.
"I just really hate the busyness so much," I shared. "I have four kids that need to be in four different places at the same exact time, and so I am feeding them all quickly at different hours … I can't even tell you the last time we were able to sit down at the table as a family and share a meal."
And her softness hardened. Her glasses came off.
"I am so sick of feeling guilty about the eating dinner as a family nonsense. (only she didn't use the word "nonsense." I can't write what she said on a Catholic website. And yes. This surprised me.) There is no proof that it helps the family … my family is FINE … we don't need to sit at the table together every night to prove that. Such a ridiculous thing for us to feel guilty about. We have enough going on! If we can eat together, great, if not … no big deal. Dinner is dinner. As long as we all are fed, that's what matters. We don't have to be fed together."
I did not respond.
Because not only am I "not that parent," unfortunately, I am also "not that Catholic" who always has the right comeback when I disagree with what I have just heard. I need to work on that. Pray for me, would you?
But I do. I disagree. I did that morning three years ago, and I still do, today.
I believe that dinner as a family is important, because I believe that the table is sacred.
I believe that what happens around the table can be grace-filled.
I believe that we must gather our families around, and look into each other's eyes, and ask about our days.
I believe in the importance of praying over the meal together.
I believe that preparing and sharing a meal is one of the best demonstrations of love for another.
I 100% believe that the family who eats dinner together every night is healthier, and stronger.
And I believe it is in that sharing of food, and fellowship, body and soul nourishment, that beautiful connections, transformations, and needed conversations happen.
Now, how can I be so sure of this?
I am so sure of this because my family has not eaten dinner together for a couple of years now.
And I have witnessed the disconnect, the brokenness and the weakening of husband and wife, of sibling bonds, of the child to parent connection, as a result of our not checking in with one another, all together, each and every night.
And yes, I am at fault. I have given into the conflicting evening schedules and my husband's traveling, and the daily workload that bleeds into the night. I also kind of hate to cook. And since I am being horribly honest here, I will admit, family dinner for us always managed to turn itself into a family fight. There was always someone complaining about the food, always someone with bad dinner manners, always someone who didn't come to the table when called, and I kid you not, always someone who left the meal crying. And often, the crying one was me. I cried because I desperately wanted to have a peaceful dinner with my family. I cried, because I didn't think that family dinner time should be so hard. I cried because I would put so much effort into the whole stupid process and not only did the two-hour preparation end in four minutes, but it ended poorly. And then I was left with the cleanup, because everyone else was angry behind a locked bedroom door. Hardly seemed worth it.
And so this "new dinner time" routine, while not ideal, assures me that the fights won't happen. It assures me that I won't be let down. Because you can't fight with yourself (well, you can, actually … but usually not out loud while eating, because people will think you are insane) and if little effort is made, well then, little appreciation is expected. Not very good excuses, I know, but it is how I have rationalized it.
And the school principal would totally support this, because after all, my family, like hers, is at least, being fed.
But are we?
The night before my oldest left for college, I made it a point and got word out … we were having a family dinner. All of us. Together. At the same time. Everyone, be home by 7PM. I saw it as my last chance to feel like I did anything right as a parent to him before sending him off into his new chapter, that will no doubt, include less of me, at least on a daily basis (and was quite possibly fueled by the awkward comments I fielded of how strange it was going to be when there was an empty place setting at my table. In truth, there had been many empty places for years now, and perhaps the biggest, most emptiest place of all, was nestled deep within my heart, when I would smile back in response and say, "yeah, I'll bet".)
So, I made spaghetti and meatballs and a giant salad, set the table with six new bowls, and filled six glasses with water. I prepared the table, and I prayed as I cooked, asking God to bless this time … to please let there be no fights … to please bring us peace … to please, I prayed, that the oldest remembers to come home for this last supper. Then I called everyone down. And one by one, we gathered. All six of us. Around the table. At the same exact time. And for the record? I was terribly nervous. I feared that something would go wrong.
"She has dressed her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table." – proverbs 9:2
"We are having family dinner??!!!!" my thirteen year old exclaimed, wearing a smile as wide as the ocean. And each child, as they sat down, seemed to have the same excitement. And we passed around bowls, and we helped get each other served, and we prayed over the meal, and we had no fights. We might have looked the other way when the scraps were fed to the dogs, because we recognized the importance of all of us gathered. We laughed at stories shared, we asked for seconds, we looked each other in the eye, and we connected our hearts. There was real joy. We were a complete family. A family complete. Gathered around the table. Being nourished, body and soul. And no one left the table crying from hunger.
"Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty." John 6:35
But later? Well, sure, later I cried.
I cried out of sorrow for years of missed meals together.
I cried out of gratefulness, for having this special night.
I cried out of fear, that I had not done my job as their mother, that I gave into the demands of the world, at their expense.
And I cried out of the fullness of my heart, and for the reminder of how very much I love my entire family. All six of us. Together. Because let's be honest here. Family can be hard. Really, really hard. And dinner time can be brutal. And so the tears were good. The tears were needed. The tears were confirmation that no matter how hard family can be, no matter how hard I may need a break from every person under my roof, I am most happy, most complete, most satisfied, when my flock is not scattered, when I can count all my sheep, and know that they are safe in the fold.
"It is you who have stood by me in my trials; and I confer a kingdom on you, says the Lord, that you may eat and drink at my table." Luke 22:28-30
And so you see, this is why I disagree with that school principal.
Because there is so much more to feeding your family than making sure that they eat.
There is so much more to being truly fed.
It is not only in the feeding, but just as much as in the gathering.
And it starts at the table.
"They set the table, spread out the rugs; they eat, they drink."- Isaiah 21:5
It is about the reclining around.
It is about the people who we invite to sit with us.
It is about the sharing.
It is about the stories told, the food passed around, the healing that happens when we break bread together.
It is about the preparing.
It is about the welcoming.
It is about the anticipating.
It is about the bond and the connection of those we join hands with.
It is about the grace we learn to give.
It is about creating meaningful relationships.
It is about filling chairs and filling hearts and having real, in the flesh, communion.
It is about taking a break from the rat race, and acknowledging that the people God has placed in our lives are more important that the places we need to get to.
The food is great and we all love to eat, but it is the nourishment of the actual gathering and sharing around the table that keeps us strong on our journey.
And it's interesting. Every year when I host a holiday, I am determined to get the guests out of the kitchen and seated in my living room. I strategically place nuts in bowls and finger food on the coffee table. I light pretty candles on the mantel, and instruct my kids to guide the guests in that direction. But my extended family is like herding cats. And without fail, every single time, nobody makes it into the beautifully set living room. (Why do I even bother cleaning it?) Where do they like to gather? In my kitchen. Where in my kitchen specifically? Around the table.
The table is sacred. It plays an important role. It is not about how delicious the food is, or how much work you put into the cooking … it can be as easy as a cup of coffee and store-bought danish ring, as simple as a loaf of bread and bottle of wine. I think about the table, and what happens around it, quite often, and always, when I do this, I think about Jesus.
"A woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of costly perfumed oil, and poured it on his head while he was reclining at table." – Matthew 26:7
How many times are we told in the Bible that "Jesus reclined at table"? From wedding feasts, to the home of the Pharisee, to Mary and Martha, to eating with sinners and tax collectors. How much detail do we find in Exodus over the creating of the altar, the cubits and bronze? And what about the Last Supper? Where Jesus invites all of us to come, to eat this bread to drink this cup, and to do this, in memory of Him? Everything that matters, everything we need to pay attention to, everything that changes our lives for the better, happens at the table.
"You shall make an altar of acacia wood, on a square, five cubits long and five cubits high. At the four corners there are to be two horns, so made that they spring directly from the altar. You shall then plate it with bronze." Exodus 27:1-2
And it is something good to think about, not only when you sit down as a family, but anytime you have occasion to be at table with others. Sometimes we are seated next to people we may not care for. Sometimes we find ourselves sitting among strangers. Sometimes we even ask if we can have our table changed. But I challenge you to take another approach to the table. I challenge you to recall the many people that Jesus chose to sit with. I challenge you to look at the table as a sacred place, and to be open to the people around it. I challenge you to make this a habit, to invite in often, to link arms, and to honor everyone who gathers. I challenge you to prepare a table, welcome people around it, to not worry about the food, but to pay attention to the hungry souls that God has placed in your midst. We are not only called to sit and eat with those we like, we are called to sit and eat with those God loves, and who therefore, we should love too.
"While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him." Mark 2:15
Miracles happen at the table, be it the sticky kitchen table, the dining room table covered with the mail, the crowded table at your local coffee shop, your beautifully prepared table at your Bible study, or the sacred altar at your church. And it is not enough that we just eat. It is not enough that we grab and we go, not giving the meal, and what it means, a second thought. We need to stop, we need to sit, and we need to eat together. Because it is precisely in this sharing, that we discover what we are truly hungry for. It is precisely in this communion that God makes Himself known.
"So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying, "The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon! Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread."- John 24:33-35
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DEAR ABBY: I have been best friends with "Mickey" for about five years. We spend every day together and go out to dinner/movies/events, etc. He sleeps over at my house, and I cook for him almost every night. When our friendship started, we were intimate a couple of times but have been strictly platonic ever since.
The problem is, I'm in love with him. He knows how I feel, and although he claims he doesn't love me, he continues to spend every waking moment with me and is always trying to better me. We do pretty much everything a couple would do, minus the physical contact. Everybody assumes we're a couple.
I think I should also mention that Mickey is somewhat of a sex addict. It makes me self-conscious that he's constantly thinking about sex but isn't turned on by me even when we sleep in the same bed.
I don't want to lose him. I value the bond we share and what we have together, but I'm constantly thinking about how much I love him and want to be with him. I even started working out at the gym, thinking maybe my recent weight gain was the problem. I know he "loves" me, but he isn't attracted to me. I'm afraid if one of us starts dating someone else, our friendship will take a hit. Please give me some advice. – Girl in Love in Connecticut
DEAR GIRL IN LOVE: As long as you have Mickey as your major preoccupation, you will not start dating anyone else. You need to stop thinking that his lack of desire for you is your fault because it isn't. Although it will be painful to call a halt to what's going on so you can meet someone who can give you what you need, that's what you should do. The relationship you're in is masochistic. You are being used, and it's not fair to you.
DEAR ABBY: A few years back, my 60-something-year-old single sister moved from a different state to a mile from my home. Since then, my husband has become her husband. If something breaks, leaks or needs repair, she calls us. I "get" to handle the easy stuff, and hubby does the heavy-duty stuff.
I gave her our riding lawn mower and bought a newer model for us. There was nothing wrong with the mower we gave her, but she called us, crying, that it wouldn't start. Hubby spent several hours of his one day off trying to get it running, to no avail. He told her she needed to call a repair person. Instead, she bought a spark plug and a fuel filter and started viewing online do-it-yourself videos so she could handle it. She said she "hopes" she can fix it so "he won't have to come and try to fix it again."
I'm ready to explode! I feel like we're being taken advantage of. Help! – Sick of Sis in the South
DEAR SICK: Because you feel you and your husband are being taken advantage of, the next time your sister asks for your husband's handyman services, explain that his time off is limited and "suggest" again that she call a professional.
If you wish to be more helpful because she's relatively new to the area, ask some of your friends if they know someone who is dependable and competent.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.


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