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Saturday March 7th, 2020
Saturday March 7th, 2020
THE IEMANCIPATEME CONFERENCE is for men and women. It is an annual faith, business and empowerment tour across different cities in the world. It is a personal, professional and spiritual enrichment atmosphere that crushes destiny threats, jumpstarts freedom, elevates businesses, careers and ministries, wakes up faith and teaches abundant living. It began as a series of teleclasses in 2013 but since 2015, we have held life-transforming events in Annapolis, London, Atlanta, New York, Dallas, Newark, Arlington and more. Each conference brings together leaders from diverse industries to impart knowledge and provide solutions.
From iEmancipateMe London
Prior to 'stumbling' into Pastor Belinda Enoma and attending the iEmancipateMe London conference, I had been grappling with 'How' to birth the destiny call upon my life screaming out for expression. I went online to find information on 'The Finishing Anointing' and there the phrase, 'I start and I finish' jumped up at me.
The London iEmancipateMe conference was a destiny moment for me. It afforded me the opportunity to glean from the depth of wisdom that God has so graciously endowed Pastor Belinda Enoma. I was encouraged by her simplicity and transparency.
Knowing that Pastor Belinda is a 'normal' woman like me, grappling with all the challenges of being a wife and a mother of young children and still being able to joggle all these with her very demanding professional, ministerial and business career left me fully equipped to fully pursue God's vision for my life, to start and finish the assignment that God has entrusted me with. I was truly emancipated from every self-limiting thought.
I also had the opportunity to network with other like- minded great women of God who spoke in areas that helped boost our destiny assignment.
Thank you for stepping out of the box and encouraging us to boldly walk in our unique calling.
Ikay Ajoku
Wife, Mother, Entrepreneur and 'budding' Conference Speaker, CEO, The Total Child Tuition Center
I was liberated by the fact that this conference addressed the TOTAL person in ministry and in business. The birthing process and midwifing experience was so unique and blessed me to see business leaders liberated and emancipated. This was a very powerful process for those who were experiencing birthing and those who were the midwives.
The iEmancipateME Conference was life changing! There is nothing that compares to a God-ordained purpose filled function. I was able to emancipate myself from old baggage that had been weighing me down and reclaim my life. My time is now. Our time is now!
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Lantmännen Unibake transfers the maintenance of its Petikko bakery in Vantaa, Finland to Maintpartner
Lantmännen Unibake Ab Finland and Maintpartner Oy expand their maintenance partnership to include the Petikko bakery in Vantaa, Finland. With the agreement, Maintpartner takes full responsibility for the maintenance of the production plant. At the same time, four people will transfer to Maintpartner as existing employees.
The bakery specializes in the manufacture of hamburger and hotdog rolls.
The new agreement and operating model will take effect on 1 October 2017.
- The purpose of this agreement is to increase the flexibility of maintenance operations by joining the wider cooperation agreement between Lantmännen Group and Maintpartner. With the new operating model, Maintpartner takes the overall responsibility for maintenance. This step is a logical continuation of long-term cooperation with Maintpartner, comments Tapio Finér, Managing Director of Lantmännen Unibake.
- The agreement is based on a strong partnership and is a great sign of confidence in our maintenance expertise. It will further deepen our long-term cooperation with Lantmännen Unibake: from now on, we will be responsible for the maintenance of all their Finnish production facilities, says Mika Riekkola, Sales Director at Maintpartner.
Maintpartner manages the maintenance of Lantmännen Unibake Joutseno and other bakeries in the Lantmännen Group in Finland and Estonia.
For more information:
Mika Riekkola, Sales Director, Maintpartner
tel. +358 40 739 6607, mika.riekkola [at] maintpartner.com
Maintpartner is a major industrial operation and maintenance company in Northern Europe, and the leading operator in the Nordic energy sector. We help our customers improve the productivity of their production plants and minimize process disruptions. In addition to long-term operation and maintenance agreements we serve the industry with development, engineering and installation services. Our digital services for industrial maintenance represent the best-in-class development in the field.
Maintpartner Group employs approximately 1,900 people. In 2016, our net sales amounted to some EUR 160 million. The Group has offices in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Poland.


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The final trailer for Hercules: The Legend Begins has been debuted – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to watch.
Directed by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger), Hercules: The Legend Begins stars Twilight's Kellan Lutz as the musclebound Greek hero and is being billed as an origin story that's about love as well as war.
"We didn't want to make a movie that is just this brooding guy who's just going from fight to fight, and just being violent and brutish," Harlin previously explained. "For us, the love story was very much the heart and key to his character and his story."
Newcomer Gaia Weiss co-stars as Hercules' love interest Hebe and the supporting cast includes Liam McIntyre (Spartacus), Scott Adkins (The Expendables 2) and Roxanne McKee (best known as Louise in Hollyoaks). Hercules: The Legend Beginsis set to open in UK cinemas on August 8 next year (2014).
Meanwhile, a rival Hercules movie starring Dwayne Johnson is also due out next year and is scheduled to arrive in UK cinemas just two weeks earlier on July 25. It's titled Hercules: The Thracian Wars and is based on a popular graphic novel of the same name.
Hercules, a mythological hero famed for his immense strength, first appeared on the big screen in a series of Italian films in the 1950s and 1960s. The character has been played by countless actors over the years. Most notably, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in a cult 1970 film called Hercules In New York, while Tate Donovan provided his voice in a 1997 animated Disney movie.


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Co Antrim sportswoman Ayeisha McFerran is setting her sights on the 2020 Olympics after last weekend's World Cup heroics.
The Larne woman and her Ireland hockey team-mates progressed to Sunday's final against the Netherlands after shoot-out wins over India and Spain.
And while the game ended with a 6-0 victory to their Dutch opponents, reaching the tournament's final stage was more than the squad had hoped for. "To say it's been surreal is an understatement," Ayeisha said. "We were the second-lowest ranked out of all of the teams and we had hoped to get to crossovers, potentially a quarter final.
"We were ecstatic to reach a World Cup final; it's really put Irish hockey on the map."
The tournament had extra resonance for the 22-year-old, who picked up the gong for best goalkeeper along with her World Cup silver medal.
Thanks to their recent success, the team has jumped up in the rankings, buoying hopes of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. "We'll be off for a while playing for our separate clubs, but after that the next big thing would be the qualifiers and hopefully a one-off home game," Ayeisha said. "We're really looking forward to that."
The hockey star is currently taking a short break at home in Larne before flying back this Saturday to the US, where she is on a hockey scholarship at the University of Louisville.
"I'm studying Health and Human Performance and this will be my final year," she added.
As well as her college team, Ayeisha has lined out for Pegasus Hockey Club in Belfast.
It was during her school days, however that her skills in the sport were first honed. "I started playing when I was about eight or nine with Larne Ladies, then when I went to Larne Grammar I played all the way through."
Instrumental in helping Ayeisha's love of sport to flourish was her late mum, Sandra. "When I was growing up, I was one of those kids who had lots of energy, so she always encouraged me to try new things," she said. "She was always driving me to things like swimming, football or gymnastics; I did about nine or ten years of Irish dancing as well.
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OXO Salad Spinner
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- Summary
Oil-based salad dressings will only adhere to greens that are perfectly dry – and this spinner makes child's play of drying them. The clear bowl doubles as a salad bowl, and the entire spinner is dishwasher safe.
- Efficiently dries leafy greens for quicker salad prep.
- Simple in-lid pump operation.
- Easy to use with just one hand.
- One-touch brake button stops the spinning.
- Durable clear plastic bowl doubles as a storage or serving bowl.
- Spinner basket doubles as a colander for rinsing greens.
- Nonskid base keeps the bowl stable during use.
- Dishwasher safe.
- Dimensions & More Info
- Small: 8" diam., 6" high overall.
- Large: 10" diam., 7 1/4" high overall.
- Made in China.
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- Dishwasher safe.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Lina from Best salad spinner ever I got this about a month ago and make prepping salad so easy. Also washing herbs and other greens is so easy. I used to wash all the greens and herbs and dry them with a towel. It was so messy and the vegetables always stayed wet. Not anymore. I love it. Go get yourself one! [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]Date published: 2019-03-26Rated 5 out of 5 by Donna from Favorite product I absolutely love my salad spinner. I love all my OXO products, but by far the salad spinner is one of my favorites. This is my 2nd salad spinner, my first was the small one which lasted me 20 years. The look is sleek & being able to push & lock the spin handle makes for easy storage. I've never used it this way before, but my son threw in all his salad ingredients & spun it to mix it all together. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]Date published: 2019-03-18Rated 5 out of 5 by gpt0214 from Another great Oxo product Great salad spinner, does what it's intended to do. Sturdy, good quality, and easy to use. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]Date published: 2019-03-17Rated 5 out of 5 by LeeGee from No More Soggy Salad! The OXO Salad Spinner has quickly become an essential part of my daily meal prep, saving not only time but ensuring I no longer have soggy salad! I like to have a salad every day either for lunch or as part of my dinner. I usually purchase salad in a bag that has lettuce, carrots, and red cabbage. Even though the bag says it's pre-washed, I prefer to wash it again to make sure that it's clean and free from any dirt or who knows what! Before, I got the salad spinner, I would put half the bag of salad into a colander and keep running it under water. Then dump the salad into a bowl and add the dressing. It was a constant battle to try and get out as much water as I could it, inevitably there was always excess water clinging to the salad. To make matters worse, the holes in the colander are so wide that some of carrots and cabbage would slip through and end up in my sink! So, I just started using the OXO Salad Spinner and I cannot believe how much better my salad tastes because it's now free from excess water. As an added bonus, because the strainer basket has narrow slits to let the water pass through, I no longer lose bits and pieces of carrots and cabbage in the sink! It works great washing my grapes and strawberries too! I just do a few simple pushes of the easy grip pump, to quickly spin the water away, and the built in "brake" is a cool feature as well! Luckily, the plastic bowl has a non-skid surface so it doesn't go flying off of the counter! That would not be a pretty sight! [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]Date published: 2019-03-17Rated 4 out of 5 by VickieG420 from Great Kitchen Tool! I've had my eye on this product for literally a couple of years!! I was undecided thinking it was just a hype, but I absolutely LOVE it! I couldn't believe how much water actually stays on fruits and vegetables only after rinsing. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone that's undecided, it functions as described and I think it's worth the investment. You do need ample space as it is quite large. This product comes in 3 pieces. The insert comes apart and the best thing is the bowl can be used to serve salads, fruit, etc. Kids will definitely love using this as it's also entertaining spinning food. I would've given this product 5 stars but it looks like the rubber grip on the bottom of the bowl and only in certain areas might be wearing a little. I would definitely purchase this again! [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]Date published: 2019-03-15Rated 5 out of 5 by Lauren from Salad spinner worth taking up cabinet space! The last salad spinner I owned was a mini size I had registered for at the time of my wedding. Years later my kids confiscated it for their play kitchen...proving a point: everyone needs a salad spinner! It's a useful tool, saving me counter space and wasting paper towels laying out to dry lettuce. The main negative is that it does take up cabinet space, but having a spinner back in my life reminded me its worth it. It makes cleaning of all greens easier and in turn our family eats more. The strainer portion on this model is particularly sturdy and could be used for draining and rinsing other food as well. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]Date published: 2019-03-14Rated 5 out of 5 by CeeJay71 from Great Salads Fast I'd been hesitant to purchase a salad spinner, mainly because I have a small kitchen and wasn't sure it would be worth giving up the extra storage space. After making some major dietary changes, I decided to try it out and I'm pleased that I did. The salad spinner makes meal prep so much easier. I simply rinse my salad greens, toss them in the bowl, and with a few pumps, my food is clean and dry. Leftovers can easily be stored in the unit's bowl and placed in the fridge. The salad spinner is well built, sturdy, and easy to use. Highly recommend. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]Date published: 2019-03-14Rated 5 out of 5 by Gary786 from Spins smoothly Unlike other salad spinners or tossers, this salad spinner was easy to use and doesn't jam up! I add in dressing and other chunky ingredients like cherry tomatoes and radish slices. It's a perfect product to make your whole family start eating healthier! [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]Date published: 2019-03-14
How many heads of cut up romaine will each size of spinners effectively dry? Thanks! Hi Gmah, The large salad spinner will hold about 1-1/2 heads of romaine lettuce; romaine hearts, about 3 heads. The small spinner would probably hold 1 head of romaine hearts.Date published: 2019-11-10
Is the plastic BPA free? Thank you. Hi droach23, The vendor has confirmed that this salad spinner is BPA free.Date published: 2019-09-19
Is this the same as the OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner (Item Model # 32480)?Hi Brooklyn Bae, Yes, this is the same item.Date published: 2018-11-16


text: "No Man Left Behind," the sixth annual Catholic men's conference, will be held Feb. 17 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. William Parish in Round Rock. Speakers include Tom Peterson, founder of VirtueMedia and CatholicComeHome.org, and John Pridmore, an ex-London gangster who is now Christian. Premium tickets, which include a private lunch with the speakers, are $100 each. Regular tickets are $45 in advance. For more information, visit www.centexcatholic.com.


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Piggy's Bathurst Adventure: KC's Secret Garden
KC's Secret Garden
49 Keppel St Bathurst, NSW
02 6331 4901
Hello from Bathurst! A few weeks ago I mentioned that I will be going to Bathurst for a work trip, and this time, it took us to this lunch place called KC's Secret Garden.
KC's Secret Garden was an interesting place with lots of nakedish sculptures and giant parasol. It serves standard cafe styled food in an outdoor setting. I can't imagine what it would feel like sitting here when it's July/ August. We visited in late May and it was already a bit cold for my liking dispite of the sunny weather.
Gordo and I both spied the Mushroom Bruschetta which we decided to share. The bread was nicely toasted and the mushroom were deliciously flavoursome.
Once again I am craving for carbs and decided to have the linguine bolognaise. The nice thing about KC's Seccret Garden is that you have a choice of pasta (linguine/ penne/ spaghetti etc) and your choice of sauce. They are pretty standard sauces on offer and for $24.8 (although I THINK I did order a non-alcoholic drink) it was a bit steep.
Gordo ordered a risotto and from memory he said it was alright. But to be honest none of us seemed to want to go back to KC's Secret Garden the next time we visited Bathurst. There are just much better food joints like The Hub for lunch although the service was fantastic. 6/10


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Contemplation is, above all, awareness of the reality of that Source. It knows the Source, obscurely, inexplicably, but with a certitude that goes beyond reason and beyond simple faith. It is a more profound depth of faith, a knowledge too deep to be grasped in mere images, in words, or even in clear concepts. It can be suggested by words, by symbols, but in the very moment of trying to indicate what it know the contemplative mind takes back what it has said, and denies what it has affirmed. For in contemplation we know by "unknowing". Or, better, we know beyond all knowing or "unknowing".
Contemplation knows God by seeming to touch Him. Or rather it knows Him as if it had been invisibly touched by Him. Touched by Him Who has no hands, but who is pure reality and the source of all that is real. Hence, contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being. An awareness of our contingent reality as received, as a present from God, as a free gift of love. This is the existential contact of which we speak when we use the metaphor of being "touched by God".
Contemplation is also the response to a call: a call from Him Who has no voice, and yet Who speaks in everything that is, and Who, most of all, speaks in the depths of our own being; for we ourselves are words of his. But we are words that are meant to respond to Him, to answer to Him, to echo Him, and even in some way to contain Him and signify Him. Contemplation is this echo. It is a deep resonance in the inmost center of our spirit in which our very life loses its separate voice and resounds with the majesty and the mercy of the Hidden and Living One.
It is awakening, enlightenment, and the amazing intuitive grasp by which love gains certitude of God's creative and dynamic intervention in our daily life. Hence contemplation does not simply "find" a clear idea of God and confine Him within the limits of that idea, and hold Him there as a prisoner to Whom it can always return. One the contrary, contemplation is carried away by Him into His own realm, His own mystery, and His own freedom.


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Dr. Hannah Joy Roberts
Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY27352)
Feminist/Multicultural Therapist, Connector, Empath, Traveler, Nature Lover
I work with a wide range of individuals, from adolescents to those in later adulthood. I also work with Cal Poly students, faculty, and staff to manage the difficult cycles of stress that come with the quarter system. With over a decade of experience working in university counseling centers across the country, I offer college students and recent graduates the support they need to manage difficult transitions.
I work with individuals who value an in-depth, personalized therapy experience. I focus on supporting individuals facing stress, work-life balance, substance misuse, codependency, and trauma recovery, as well as those wishing to deepen relationships. I am culturally sensitive, honoring your unique experience and story.
I'm passionate about the personal transformation that comes through therapy. I love working with curious individuals who are looking to better understand themselves, their emotions, and their relationships. I provide a safe space, while offering a creative therapeutic style. At times, this means engaging newer forms of therapy, such as nature therapy, offered in a serene, grounding beach environment, or video therapy, where we meet virtually, from the comfort of your own home.
I offer expertise, guidance and support to help you create a life that is balanced, authentic, and whole. You have been working so hard to grow and create a full, authentic life. You don't have to do it all alone. Feel more grounded in your body and self-awareness. Get unstuck in the areas of creativity, mind-body, and relationships. Know how to recognize and advocate for your needs. Understand and give value to your emotions. View yourself with compassion and empathy. Develop a self-care practice that works for you.
As the Co-Founder of Thrive SLO, I am available to support motivated individuals, deepening their life satisfaction and balance. I believe each of us has an inner guide that, when nurtured, knows exactly what we need. Together, we will tailor a unique self-care plan for you to thrive.
Dr. Sarah Joy Park
Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY27418)
Connector, Gestalt Therapist, Adventurer, Trauma Healer, Food Lover
I am a dynamic, warm, funny, creative, psychotherapist. I officially started seeing clients in 2007 but was a therapist and healer long before my degree program. My approach to therapy is awareness focused, authentic, and holistic.
I believe in the transformative power of connection, presence, and telling our stories. I work with you to discover your tools for self-transformation, healing and wellness. I want more for you than simply feeling better. I will support you to live your life as a fully connected, present and thriving human.
In therapy I will probably ask you some tough questions but I will also provide you with support and skills. I have experience working with many types of people and they come in for lots of different reasons. Some people have a particular trauma or some are feeling pretty good but want to feel even better.
Dr. Lisa Slover
Psychological Assistant, Postpartum Support International Certified
I've been working as a psychological assistant for the past 5 years with individuals who experience anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. I also support people who are just going through some hard stuff and need a safe and comforting person to turn to. My approach is openness, humor, and understanding.
I work with both adults and teens however, I particularly enjoy working with adolescents. The adolescent years are transformative and there can be tremendous room for growth and change. I understand the hesitancy that most teens have in going to therapy and I strive to create a place you enjoy coming. I take interest in your interests and make it a point to mix fun with therapy so that it doesn't even feel like therapy at all.
Because our minds and bodies are connected, a distressed mental state can cause many physical disorders. I integrate different tools and perspectives for a more holistic approach. You will leave feeling like a weight has been lifted.


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Is it safe for an eye bolt to be put into the wall stud? Would it take 160lbs?
Has anyone tried this, successfully, before?
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The Customer Is Not Always Right
The old adage of "The Customer is Always Right" has dumbfounded many of the front liners, especially with the boom of the outsourced and remote contact center business model that sprouted all over the world, servicing most of the customers in the First World or developed nations. It is no surprise that social media has been used by these front liners – posts, messages, stories, audio tracks and videos – to show how the customer isn't always right. In my judgmental opinion, I'd say 70 percent of the time, the customer is always wrong.
But business ethics, logic and maybe even morals dictate that the front liners must not say customers are wrong. A very long laundry list of spiels and scripts have been created through the decades depicting, predicting and insinuating what the customer service representative of an organization must say and should do. Their bottom line and that of the company they work for is, regrettably, the customer is 100 percent always right.
I've had my share of "the customer is wrong" experiences and no matter how I attack the situation with grace and decorum, the customer's insistence that he or she is (always) right even if they are wrong will never resolve the situation. We, the customers, have to accept the fact that we are sometimes or often times wrong. When we conclude we are wrong, lo and behold, the entire customer service process becomes painless, hassle-free and maybe even very comfortable.
Is it ego? Is it deceit? Is it stubbornness? Or is it that the customer, 70 percent of the time, is just an idiot?
I am writing to both the customer and to the business owner that instills "The Customer is Always Right" approach even when it just doesn't make sense to do so. As customers, when we are wrong, there is no shame to admit it. Heck! The two parties on the telephone couldn't even see each other lest know each other personally. If we are wrong in our initial tirade, let us just accept that we were wrong, plain and simple. Because when this happens, you and I, and the customer service rep at the other end of the line can all move on and fix our dang problems.
Having worked in the technology realm of everyday things for decades, one stone unturned is the ability of the customer to do some do-it-yourself pre-call activities. Call it a self-help diagnostics. If that happens, the wonders of fast-tracking or short-circuiting the customer service process creates a wonderful experience, not to mention fixing the real problem.
So, as a business owner, you must find a way to give your customer an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-use self-diagnostic procedure that helps the entire customer service process. Don't assume all your customers are idiots and need a kindergarten method of customer service. When I have problems with my computing service, say my DSL connection, and I call customer service, I stop the customer service rep from his long spiel of diagnosing the problem because I have already performed most if not all of the things he wants me to do. I short-circuit the initial process so we both don't waste each other's time and fast-track ourselves to the root of the problem, usually theirs.
Call it "Customer Service Tips" or "How to Fast-track Solving Your Problems." However you would like to call and market it, you need to find a way to send this information to your customer – social media, e-mail, blogs, VoiceBlast, print mailers and SMS. It's still too expensive to go tri-media advertising so I suggest going to the online path (first).
If you do not have a ready DIY self-diagnostic material for your customers, then you will be spending all your money on long customer service conversations because you are telling your customer service reps to parrot the self-diagnostic process over and over again, for each customer even if the person at the other end of the line is a Steve Wozniak, a tenured Harvard Computer Science professor or a Janette Toral. It's time you provided your customers with a self-help guide.
Ease the pain and heartaches for both your customer service rep and your customers. Bring down that wall between them. There are more ideas out there than what I have just written above. Pretty much, thousands more of ideas to help short-circuit the customer service process and relieve the angst that has been brewing all through the decades, all because business owners keep on the believing "The Customer is Always Right."
And what is customer service? The simplest definition is this: "It is a promise to deliver." Deliver the goods and service. Deliver the solution. Deliver the end result, regardless of who is right or wrong. And deliver it fast.
P.S. I decided to categorize this article under "Business" rather than "BPO" because it is not just a contact center issue; it is a business decision to change the way you service your customers today.
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Good news all round! Rahme Huseyin found at Istanbul Ataturk airport
Huseyin's daughter Emine Ramadan told the paper that her mother landed at Sabiha Gokcen Airport; however it was later discovered that she exited the airport and went on to Ataturk airport. She was noticed by police there following the report in KIBRIS POSTASI, who got in touch with the woman's family.
Rahme Huseyin was kept by Istanbul police for two days. She is now on her way to the island, according to a statement by her family.


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There are few things more important than developing our youth and educating them properly in order to be fully equipped/prepared for the world ahead of them. Our guest Hodari Davis (@mrdavis510) stopped by with a few Young Black Kings (YBK) from the African American Male Achievement Student Leadership Counsel program and to share a little bit about the incredible movement in Oakland.
In addition to that, he is also apart of a program called "Youth Speaks" which provides kids a safe yet extensive platform to let their voices be heard and supported. Not only locally but on an international level as Young, Gifted and Black have collectively taken kids to Ghana to perform/experience that culture at an early age. So, not only are they performing from Oakland to Africa but they are also providing an overlooked voice of the youth that really is the most important considering how they are effected.
Before leaving the show, we had to get a live performance and it was more than worth it! Definitely a must see! Enjoy the full interview above.


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And it's so: Consequence is available now!
Readers can find my debut novel online, on the shelf at selected stores, and by special order at any bookstore in the U.S. The book is available in paperback and e-book formats.
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San Francisco activist Christopher Kalman has little to show for years spent organizing non-violent marches, speak-outs, blockades, and shutdowns for social and environmental justice. When a shadowy eco-saboteur proposes an attack on genetically engineered agriculture, Christopher is ripe to be drawn into a more dangerous game. His certainty that humankind stands on the brink of ecological ruin drives Christopher to reckless acts and rash alliances, pitting grave personal risk against conscientious passion.Online vendors include Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple's iTunes store, Kobo, and Smashwords. Amazon and Barnes and Noble sell Consequence both as a paperback and an e-book.
Most any bookstore in the U.S. (and many abroad) can special-order Consequence in paperback if they're not already carrying it: please ask!
If you're in the East Bay -- and can't hold out until my launch party on October 18th (RSVP on Facebook) -- you can find Consequence on the shelf at Diesel Books, Moe's, any of the three Pegasus stores, or Books Inc on Shattuck @ Vine.
In San Francisco, try Modern Times or Books Inc at Opera Plaza.
Wherever you are, if you read Consequence and like it, please consider posting your review and rating on Amazon and Goodreads -- or wherever you like to post about what you read -- and sharing it with your social networks.
Here's what some early readers thought:
"I couldn't put Consequence down! Masover vividly evokes San Francisco's radical sub-culture in this tautly authentic and finely-crafted novel. Consequence asks thorny, essential questions about personal responsibility and the role of violence in movements for social change."Let me know what you think of the book: here in the comments, on my Facebook page, or by posting a private message from my web site. I'll be posting some of my ideas about Consequence over the coming weeks, and would welcome your questions.
—Sam Green, Academy Award-nominated director of The Weather Underground
"Consequence is a great read, full of building tension and excitement, written by someone who really knows the activist scene, with its moral dilemmas and its ideals. But this isn't just a book about activists—Masover writes about conflicts central to the human situation."
—Starhawk, author of The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing
". . . exciting . . . a great read . . . reminiscent of The Monkey Wrench Gang."
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M.C. v. Antelope Valley Union High School District
M.N. filed a due process complaint alleging that the District committed procedural and substantive violations of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. 1400(d)(1)(A). The ALJ denied all claims and the district court affirmed. The Ninth Circuit filed an amended opinion reversing the district court's judgment, holding that neither the duration of the hearing, the ALJ's active involvement, nor the length of the ALJ's opinion can ensure that the ALJ was thorough and careful in its findings of fact; plaintiffs' claim that the District committed a procedural violation of the IDEA by failing to adequately document its offer of the visually impaired (TVI) services was not waived; the District committed two procedural violations as to the individualized education plan (IEP); the District's failure to specify the assistive technology (AT) devices that were provided infringed M.N.'s opportunity to participate in the IEP process and denied the student a free appropriate education (FAPE); the panel remanded for a determination of the prejudice the student suffered as a result of the District's failure to respond to the complaint and the award of appropriate compensation; in regard to substantive violations, the panel remanded so the district court could consider plaintiffs' claims in light of new guidance from the Supreme Court in Endrew F. v. Douglas Cty. Sch. Dist., 137 S. Ct. 988 (2017); and M.N., as the prevailing party, was entitled to attorneys' fees. View "M.C. v. Antelope Valley Union High School District" on Justia Law


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Joseph-Gordon Levitt (left) in Snowden
I thought I had it covered when I saw six movies in advance of TIFF; these screenings are generally set up by distributors to allow press to have already seen the movie by the time interviews roll around and plan their schedule accordingly. For Toronto press, however, the process is a little different. The preview screening schedule starts in early August, which means that some Toronto outfits have something like 70 movies under their belt before the festival starts. (This is also useful because Toronto residents can actually attends TIFF screenings instead of waiting patiently for the film's release like the rest of the world.) If you're looking at my coverage and thinking "How come Alex isn't on the #twitterbuzz train that all of my favourite Toronto writers are on?" that'd be why.
There has never been as obvious a pairing of subject and filmmaker as Edward Snowden and Oliver Stone. It's a real-life story that played out exactly like an Oliver Stone film, a paranoia thriller where the result actually turned out to be that people weren't paranoid enough. It's little surprise, in that sense, that Snowden is one of Stone's most straight-forward efforts, cinematically speaking. Most of the work was done for him.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the sometimes monotonous tech whiz that uncovered the NSA's secret surveillance programs and leaked that information to the world thanks to journalists Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto), Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) and Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson), who holed up with him in a Hong Kong hotel room in order to break the story. The film follows the entirety of Snowden's career working within government, moving from a patriotic conservative to a tortured would-be liberal as he uncovers increasingly worrisome cover-up tactics in his work.
Half the fun of Oliver Stone movies are the leaps of faith he asks the audience to take in the "facts" presented. JFK may be mostly baloney, but it's incredibly fun baloney. Snowden, on the other hand, is much more straight-forward — and thus, a little safe. It's the trouble with making films about very recent history, when it still feels so fresh in our memories: it's likely to feel bland and familiar, but chances are history will be on Stone's side.
Snowden hits theatres on Sept. 16. Watch for our interviews with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Oliver Stone next week.
Free Fire
People always ask me what my most anticipated movie at TIFF is. If I were realistic, I would probably have said Free Fire, but I was so certain that I'd love it that anticipation seemed like a waste. The fact is that Free Fire ticks so many of my boxes that I really saw no point in looking forward to it. Unsurprisingly, it delivered, and then some.
A shady arms deal between a member of the IRA (Cillian Murphy), his entourage (which includes Brie Larson, Armie Hammer and Michael Smiley) and a colourful South African gangster (Sharlto Copley) and his entourage (which includes Noah Taylor and Babou Ceesay) goes south when a pre-existing conflict between two of the more impulsive goons (Sam Riley and Jack Reynor) escalates. Soon, everyone's shooting everyone and dragging themselves through the rubble for an increasingly far-fetched chance at taking the money and running.
Free Fire is Ben Wheatley's (Kill List, High-Rise) most accessible film yet, a rollicking comedy of errors that takes an expansive cast of ringers and almost immediately afflicts them with flesh wounds and ill-conceived vendettas. It combines many of my favourite things: tight quarters, pressure-cooker plotting, repetitive bloodshed of an existential nature and meditations on the pointless nature of conflict, in a highly entertaining package. It's a little transparent in its bald-faced desire to be a bonafide cult classic. While time will tell if that's the case, there's no denying how entertaining and meticulously crafted it is.
Free Fire does not yet have a Montreal release date but is slated for 2017.
The Eagle Huntress
Aisholpan stands out more than a little in her native Mongolia. She's not only the youngest person ever to compete in the centuries-old sport of eagle hunting, she's the first girl ever to do so. That's the irresistible pitch behind Otto Bell's slick documentary The Eagle Huntress, a film that's both charming and overly polished. The film follows Aisholpan's efforts to secure her own eagle for the competition and to convince the elders of her worth in the competition. While her dad is behind her 100 per cent, the other old dudes aren't so convinced that a woman's place is anywhere but the home.
Narrated by Star Wars' Daisy Ridley, The Eagle Huntress is a compelling portrait of a life and tradition most people know nothing about, but Bell's slick style sometimes threatens to divert from the point. Using lots of crane shots and beautiful (but not exactly organic) sequences out in the wild, Bell paints a National Geographic-esque portrait of the wilderness, but the heavy editing gives the film a sort of reality-TV sheen that's a little distracting.
I'm not suggesting that Bell went full-on Nanook of the North here, but there's clearly some creative editing and staging at play in The Eagle Huntress that detracts from the overall experience. It's so slickly constructed that it basically has no surprises; even the film's most dramatic sequences feel like a foregone conclusion. It's certainly not a fatal flaw, especially considering the film is aimed at family audiences, but a little more grit wouldn't have hurt.
The Eagle Huntress is set for a Montreal release in November.
Isabelle Huppert in Elle
Paul Verhoeven hasn't made a feature in 10 years. It was unlikely that the provocateur and satirist was going to deliver something less than caustic in these times, but his latest might be his most twisted film yet — and certainly his most likely to cause a barrage of thinkpieces that threatens to crush the Internet as we know it.
Isabelle Huppert stars as Michèle Leblanc, the CEO of a videogame company who also carries the burden of a troubled childhood as the daughter of a mass murderer. When she's sexually assaulted by a masked intruder one night, her entourage encourages her to go to the cops — but Michèle instead begins a cat-and-mouse game with her assailant, who soon begins dropping hints that he's someone she knows.
The general buzz on Twitter after the first few screenings of Elle were of the "I do not want to hear what straight white men think of Elle" variety — certainly the presence of straight white men behind the camera here makes the whole thing even more complicated. (In the interest of full disclosure, I, too, am that.) What I can say is that this might be a career-best performance for Huppert (which is saying something); she simply carries the film over its thornier issues and its plethora of subplots (an unfortunate carry-over from the story's first incarnation as a novel). Verhoeven shows more restraint than usual in most respects, though the film is unmistakably Verhoeven. ■
Elle hits Montreal theatres on Nov. 18. Perhaps by then I will feel more confident saying something about it.
TIFF continues through Sept. 18. See regular reports at cultmontreal.com.
See our report from day 1 here.


text: The police are still appealing to Marvin Campbell Sr., who has been listed as a Person of Interest in the deadly attack in March Pen, St. Catherine to report to the Spanish Town CIB. The police say Campbell is wanted for incest, as well as a recent triple murder in Spanish Town. Persons knowing his whereabouts are being asked to call 119, 811, 984-2874, the nearest police station or Crime Stop at 311. Meanwhile, the five victims in the deadly attack have been identified as 2 year-old Koyandra Wynter, 9-year-old Revaughn Evans, 14-year-old Marvin Campbell Jr., 22 year-old Venisha Bartley, and 24 year-old Salesha Evans. Their remains were found in a burnt out building in an area known as Africa.


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Herceg Selected as Indy's Best and Brightest Finalist
Taft is pleased to announce that Manuel (Manny) Herceg has been selected as a finalist in the law category for 2017 Indy's Best and Brightest. Herceg will be recognized along with the other finalists at the awards program and reception on Nov. 9 at the Hilbert Circle Theatre.
Herceg is a member of Taft's Litigation group. He represents individuals, companies, municipalities and school corporations in state and federal courts and also represents municipalities in all aspects of public sector law. Herceg is a member of the board of directors for St. Mary's Child Center and serves the Indianapolis Bar Association in various capacities, including as a member of the board of directors.
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Indy's Best and Brightest honors 100 of Central Indiana's outstanding young professionals, age 40 and under, who are making their mark in and around Indianapolis. This event was created by Junior Achievement to recognize the up and coming talent and the next generation of leaders in our community. For more information, visit www.indysbestandbrightest.com.
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At Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, delivering outstanding legal performance to help clients succeed is what drives and motivates our more than 400 attorneys every day. Taft has offices in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Delaware, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind.; Covington, Ky.; and Phoenix, Ariz. The firm practices across a wide range of industries, in virtually every area of law, including Business and Finance; Litigation; Labor and Employment; Intellectual Property; Business Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights; Environmental; Health and Life Sciences; Private Client Services; Real Estate; and Tax. With a proven track record of experience since 1885, the firm offers breadth and depth of legal expertise coupled with a trusted business perspective to help our clients reach their goals.
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Regional Metamorphic Isograds
Have you ever wanted to traverse the regional metamorphic isograds, from biotite up through sillimanite grade and beyond? Well, a drive from Loveland up to Estes Park offers that opportunity. Prof. Bill Braddock and his students at the University of Colorado mapped the different metamorphic zones in pelitic rocks in this part of the northern Front Range. The map below starts in low-grade, greenschist facies (pink) on the east and advances through the garnet zone (blue), staurolite zone (orange), and into the sillimanite zone (green), before crossing into the microcline zone near the granitic batholith.


text: Share: Comments Print December 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM Why Seahawks Richard Sherman can stop anything – even Bertha Posted by Don Shelton Seahawk Richard Sherman, shown warming up before Sunday's 49ers game, is credited by readers with stopping not only receivers but Bertha.Seattle Times photo by John Lok Richard Sherman did it. We asked Seattle Times readers to solve the city's biggest mystery: What stopped Bertha? The giant underground machine digging the Highway 99 tunnel under Seattle inexplicably was stopped in its tracks Friday night 60 feet beneath the surface. No one knew why, though there were plenty of theories. That's why we asked readers, who could use an online tool called "word cloud" on seattletimes.com to input a word, phrase or name they believed was to blame for the obstruction. The more times something was typed in or clicked on, the larger it grows in our word cloud. And, of course, there's nothing bigger right now than the Seahawks, who own the best record in the NFC and are projected as one of the favorites to advance to the Super Bowl. So the name of Richard Sherman, the talkative Seahawks cornerback, grew bigger. And bigger. And bigger. Bigger than "Obamacare" or "alien spacecraft" or "boulder". Even bigger than the "Seahawks defense" itself, which also is in the word cloud. So far more than 260 readers have blamed Sherman. Why Sherman? I'm guessing readers think that if the leader of the Legion of Boom defensive backfield can stop the best NFL receivers, maybe he lowered the boom on Bertha. Think about it. It almost makes sense. Want to be a reader contributor to The Seattle Times' Take 2 blog? Email your original, previously unpublished work or proposal to Sports Editor Don Shelton at firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. Not all submissions can be published. The Times reserves the right to edit and publish any submissions online and/or in print. Comments


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The 73rd-ranked Santa Clara University women's tennis team returned to the courts after a two-week break and defeated UC Riverside 5-2 this afternoon in Santa Barbara. The Broncos' record improves to 3-1, and the Highlanders fall to 2-2.
"We're coming off a long layoff, so it wasn't a pretty match, but credit to the team for working hard to earn the victory," head coach Damon Coupe said.
Santa Clara remains on the road and plays at UC Santa Barbara on Sunday at 11 a.m.
1. Kaloi/Leathers (SCU) def. Beyronneau/Espiritu (UCR) 8-4
2. Cross/Cabanilla (UCR) def. Cochrane/Daniel (SCU) 8-2
3. Barnes/J. Strunk (SCU) def. Chau/Yoshimoto (UCR) 8-3
1. Michelle Beyronneau (UCR) def. Janalle Kaloi (SCU) 6-4, 6-4
2. Kelly Leathers (SCU) def. Casey Cross (UCR) 6-4, 6-0
3. H.R. Espiritu (UCR) def. Catherine Cochrane (SCU) 7-6, 6-7, (1-0)
4. Erika Barnes (SCU) def. Catrisha Cabanilla (UCR) 6-2, 7-6
5. Kimberly Daniel (SCU) def. Eri Yoshimoto (UCR) 6-1, 6-1
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Critics of globalization point out with some justice that poor people around the world suffer far more than the citizens of industrialized nations during downturns in the global economy. Peasants in developing countries can find their lives hanging in the balance during a rise in food prices or a decline in the global market value of the goods they produce. Never was this more true than during the hey-day of the European imperialism in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Aggressive trade practices and the ruthless use of military force effectively subdued nations in Asia, Africa, and South America and brought these countries into a global trade system. By the 1870s, and certainly by the turn of the century, many European countries, above all Great Britain, had created the world's first global market economy. Financial markets in London, Paris, Amsterdam, and elsewhere were linked by telegraph to places where raw materials were produced for European consumption, while established trade routes were patrolled by European navies (particularly the Royal Navy). The economic power of the extensive British Empire was unparalleled and the inner workings of the global system dominated by London determined the fate of innumerable people around the world.
It is with the workings of the British economic system and their impact on indigenous populations in India, China, and elsewhere that Mike Davis' book Late Victorian Holocausts is concerned. Davis' point of departure is a simple question. Why is it that widespread hunger in Western Europe disappeared in the nineteenth century while famine and disease raged throughout multiple places in what today we would call the "Third World"? Davis provides a simple answer: European imperialism (especially British imperialism) created a global economic system through which the food and wealth of conquered nations (i.e. colonies) was siphoned off for the benefit of wealthy and powerful Europeans, while those in the colonies were left to starve and die. The result was mass death (what Davis calls "holocausts") on an unprecedented scale in India, China, Brazil and other places, that was most intense during the El Niño drought years of 1876-77 and 1888-1902.
This imperial global economic system was certainly not a "free" market in any sense of the word. It was in fact bolstered by a long series of tariffs and unfavorable trade relationships that were forced by Europeans upon the peoples they conquered. Colonies were in turn subjected to economic pressure dictated by and manipulated from financial centers in Western Europe. It was these economic forces, as well as brutal gunboat diplomacy, that Davis argues created the Third World as we know it today.
Davis' primary focus in fleshing out his story is the crown jewel of Britain's colonial empire: India. Drought was the precipitating cause of the hardship faced by the Indian people. However, Davis demonstrates with statistics and anecdotes that it was the unregulated "free market" system imposed on India by Britain that led to the deaths of tens of millions in the mid-1870s and late 1880s.
How did death and human suffering on such a massive scale happen? Following the English conquest of India in the early nineteenth century, economic relationships in the sub-continent underwent revolutionary changes. Thousands of miles of railroad track were laid. Telegraph wire was strung between outlying areas and the capitol city of Bombay (Mumbai today). Central grain collection depots were created and Indian grain was exported in massive quantities to the British Isles. Also, Indian subsistence farmers were gradually forced out in favor of large land enclosures. Within these new enclosures cash crops like cotton were planted, which supplied the textile mills of Lancashire, but which could not feed the Indian peasants who farmed the land. Finally, the tax burden upon the Indian peasantry was increased exorbitantly to pay for these "improvements". British authorities needed the revenue to finance war in neighboring Afghanistan.
The innovations imposed by the British on India re-directed the trajectory of Indian commerce and especially food production toward Great Britain and away from the local village markets where the food was needed. Rail lines and the adjacent grain depots enabled British authorities to stockpile grain and keep it under guard away from the people who needed it most, while telegraph lines dictated the price of grain on world commodities markets to local producers. When grain prices rose across the board in global trading, peasants could not afford to buy food.
In the face of these crippling economic forces, British colonial authorities did nothing, primarily because they would not "tamper" with the operation of the liberal "free" market that Britain had created. The Viceroy of India during the famine years of the 1870s was Lord Lytton, a mentally unbalanced English noble. Davis recounts that in the midst of widespread famine and the deaths of millions all around him, Lytton maintained a strict laissez-faire attitude toward famine relief. As Lytton wrote at the time, "there is to be no interference of any kind on the part of the Government with the object of reducing the price of food," a policy proposal Lytton termed "humanitarian hysterics" and "cheap sentiment". (p. 31)
Lytton and his fellow administrators preferred instead to blame the "laziness" of famine victims themselves for causing their own dire fate. Citing Lord Temple, "Nor will; many be inclined to grieve much for the fate which they brought upon themselves, and which terminated lives of idleness and too often of crime". (p. 41) The task of saving life, therefore, was "beyond our power to undertake," claimed Temple and Lytton, and it was "a mistake to spend so much money to save a lot of black fellows". (p. 37)
British officials were thus completely unwilling to intervene in the operation of the "free" market despite seeing death on a massive scale all around them. Overall at least 7.1 million people, and perhaps as many as 10.3 million people, died during the famine years of 1876-1878. (p. 111) Furthermore, despite death on this scale and falling production caused by drought, British officials in India still managed to export 6.4 million cwt. of wheat to Great Britain. (p. 31)
The years following 1879 were a time when the world market continued to expand. Monsoonal rains settled back into a normal pattern and grain production around the world rose considerably. These were also years when Britain and other colonial powers expanded their reach into the interior of the subjugated countries they held. In India, even more land is brought under cultivation. These lands are then connected to the market by expanded telegraph and rail lines. Then in 1888-89 and 1891-92, the bottom again fell out of the system as El Niño drought gripped the temperate regions of Asia once more.
The resulting death from famine and disease, caused by the very same factors operating in India and elsewhere in the 1870s, was unfathomably huge. By 1902 in India alone between 12.2 and 29.3 million people perished. In China, where the British, Americans, and other European powers controlled practically all trade using military force, between 19.5 and 30 million people died. In Brazil another 2 million perished over the same time span. (p. 7).
Mike Davis demonstrates beyond a doubt that the economic structure of exploitative globalization is not a new phenomenon in the world. The lives of millions of people who formerly had survived in localized economies based on subsistence farming were wiped out "in the process of being forcibly incorporated" into the modern world system. (p. 9) Davis reminds us that markets are never free and they never operate according to "iron laws" of economics. Rather, markets are created and often the power underpinning their operation is fiscal manipulation and simple brute force.
Great Britain's global imperial economy was a case in point. It was never a "free" market. England imposed unfavorable trade terms and high tariff walls on India, China and on all of the other countries in its empire. Local economies forced open by the British were sucked dry of their vital raw materials and in return peasants were forced to buy expensive British manufactured goods. This practice was put into place throughout the colonial world by France, Portugal, Spain, Germany and other colonial powers. If anything, the economies of European colonies were more captive markets than free markets.
The latter point is perhaps the most important conclusion of Late Victorian Holocausts; specifically, that what we call the Third World today was a product of European and, to a lesser extent, American economic exploitation. The incorporation of formerly powerful countries like China and India into the global economy by Great Britain and others effectively destroyed indigenous production. Contrary to conventional wisdom, until around 1850, India and China had actually held their own against Europeans when it came to industrial production. The localized production of wealth and industry, however, was halted and then reversed by the imposition of the global economic system. It is for this reason, Davis concludes, that India's per capita income did not increase between 1757 and 1947; and in fact declined by more than 50% between 1850 and 1900. (p. 311).
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'The Past Is Prologue' is inscribed on the frieze of the National Archive Building in Washington, D.C.
19th Century parasitical imperialism is the template for the encroaching the 21st Century New World Order.
Tens of millions will be deliberately starved to death and genocide perpetrated by biological weapons and environmental warfare using HAARP.
Elections were an irrelevancy then, as they have been since then in the formulation and implementation of overt and covert geopolitical monetary manipulations as Fidel Castro outlined about the Bilderbergers this week.
We are living in a world ruled by Plutocracy, not democracy or even in its diluted form of republics.
It was this imperial plutocracy that is responsible for the psyop of 9/11 following on the heels of its US-led NATO Crimes Against Humanity in the former Yugoslavia.
It is this same cabal of predatory capitalist that threaten all the world by aggressive encirclement of Russia and China.
Arch war criminals dictate policy, as with Zbigkniew Brzezinski the de facto president of the United States, with his puppet prince Barack Obama under the sway of Israeli Mossad agent Rahm Emanuel.
Had Spartacus won the slave revolt, evolving the world to a state of political and economic equality, what might things have been like for the past 2,000 years?
We must start formulating what things should and should not be like "After The Revolution" if we are to ever get there and not concentrate on lamentations without addressing solutions needing public debate and resolution by direct popular vote, without the nullification's of "special interest" or elites presumed to "know-better" what is best for the rest of us, better than we can decide ourselves.
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|March 21, 1961
Pompano Beach, Florida, U.S.
|6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
|229 lb (104 kg)
|Career information
|High school:
|Blanche Ely
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James Roosevelt Jones (born March 21, 1961) is an American former college and professional football fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons during the 1980s and early 1990s. Jones played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Detroit Lions and the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL.
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Early years
Jones was born in Pompano Beach, Florida in 1961.[1] He attended Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach,[2] where he was a star high school football player for the Blanche Ely Mighty Tigers. Jones was so versatile in his ability to play multiple positions that he was nicknamed the "Franchise."[3] Parade magazine named him as a high school All-American after his senior season.[3]
In 2007, twenty-eight years after he graduated from high school, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) recognized Jones as one of the "100 Greatest Players of the First 100 Years" of Florida high school football.[3]
College career
Jones received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Charley Pell's Florida Gators football team from 1979 to 1982.[4] During Jones' sophomore season in 1980, he was a member of the Gators team that posted the biggest one-year turnaround in the history of NCAA Division I football[5]—from 0–10–1 in 1979[6] to an 8–4 bowl team in 1980.[7]
He was a team captain in 1981 and 1982, a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1981 and 1982, and a third-team/honorable mention All-American in 1982.[4] He also received the Gators' Fergie Ferguson Award, recognizing the "senior football player who displays outstanding leadership, character and courage," in 1981.[4] Jones finished his Gator career with 2,026 yards rushing, 593 yards receiving and forty-eight yards passing, and led the team in rushing yardage for three consecutive seasons from 1980 to 1982.[4] He was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1998.[8][9] In a 2006 article series published by The Gainesville Sun, the Sun sportswriters ranked him as the No. 45 all-time greatest Gator from the first century of the Florida Gators football team.[10]
Professional career
The Detroit Lions selected Jones in the first round (thirteenth pick overall) of the 1983 NFL Draft,[11] and he played for the Lions from 1983 to 1988.[12] Jones started off for the Lions blocking for Billy Sims but became the featured back for the Lions in 1985 when Sims was injured. Jones played with Garry James from 1986 to 1988 and the tandem became known as the "James Gang." Jones' best game with the Lions was in week 1 of 1986 in a 13–10 win over the Vikings; he rushed for 174 yards on thirty-six carries and was recognized as the NFC offensive player of the week for his performance.
Jones was traded to the Seattle Seahawks in 1989 for defensive back Terry Taylor, and he finished his NFL career with the Seahawks in 1992. Jones finished his ten-season NFL career having played in 135 games, started ninety-one of them, rushed for 3,626 yards and twenty-six touchdowns on 1,010 carries, and caught 318 passes for 2,641 yards and ten touchdowns.[1]
Life after the NFL
Jones became the head football coach for his high school alma mater, Blanche Ely, in 2007, but he resigned in May 2008 after a single season.
See also
- Florida Gators football, 1970–79
- Florida Gators football, 1980–89
- List of Detroit Lions players
- List of Florida Gators football players in the NFL
- List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
- List of Seattle Seahawks players
- ^ a b Pro-Football-Reference.com, Players, James R. Jones. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
- ^ databaseFootball.com, Players, James Jones Archived August 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 4, 2010.
- ^ a b c "FHSAA unveils '100 Greatest Players of First 100 Years' as part of centennial football celebration," Florida High School Athletic Association (December 4, 2007). Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ^ a b c d 2011 Florida Gators Football Media Guide Archived April 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 87, 96, 103, 124, 138–140, 147–148, 182 (2011). Retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ^ Norm Carlson, University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators, Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 95–96 (2007).
- ^ College Football Data Warehouse, Florida Yearly Results 1975–1979 Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
- ^ College Football Data Warehouse, Florida Yearly Results 1980–1984 Archived November 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
- ^ F Club, Hall of Fame, Gator Greats. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
- ^ Pat Dooley, "Jones, Nattiel lead class into UF Hall," The Gainesville Sun, pp. 1C & 5C (April 3, 1998). Retrieved July 23, 2011.
- ^ Robbie Andreu & Pat Dooley, "No. 45 James Jones," The Gainesville Sun (July 20, 2006). Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ^ Pro Football Hall of Fame, Draft History, 1983 National Football League Draft. Retrieved June 4, 2010.
- ^ National Football League, Historical Players, James Jones. July 6, 2010.
- Carlson, Norm, University of Florida Football Vault: The History of the Florida Gators, Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007). ISBN 0-7948-2298-3.
- Golenbock, Peter, Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002). ISBN 0-9650782-1-3.
- Hairston, Jack, Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the Greatest Gator Stories Ever Told, Sports Publishing, LLC, Champaign, Illinois (2002). ISBN 1-58261-514-4.
- McCarthy, Kevin M., Fightin' Gators: A History of University of Florida Football, Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (2000). ISBN 978-0-7385-0559-6.
- Nash, Noel, ed., The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, Illinois (1998). ISBN 1-57167-196-X.


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Schneider touts data center 'modules': News in brief
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Schneider introduces modular power and cooling units
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The PAR4 methodology calculates transactions per watt-second of energy consumption, factoring in age of the IT equipment plus a meaure of server transaction performance. A higher PAR4 number represents a higher level of performance per watt. Servers' ratings will rise with every generation of equipment as their capacity, performance and capabilities increase.
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