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Government of Egypt: stop poisoning and shooting stray animals!
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This petition has been started by Occupy for Animals on 20th of January, 2013
For further information on this petition, please visit: http://www.occupyforanimals.org/egypt-has-organized-intensive-campaigns-against-stray-animals-the-animals-are-being-poisoned-with-strychnine-andor-shot-dead-with-rifles.html
On January 10, 2013, the citizens of Suez had been waked up by the sounds of gunshots and were surprised to discover in the morning, that stray dogs had been shot dead and dumped beside the garbage bins on the streets, waiting to be removed.
According to SUEZ NEWS NETWORK, the massacre was ordered by the Governor of Suez, Military General Samir Badr Aglan.
On January 15, 2013 Dr. Suad Al-Kholi, Director of Veterinary Medicine, announced that the Directorate has organized intensive campaigns against stray animals which resulted in the extermination of 1,757 dogs and 518 cats stray while 3,266 animals had been vaccinated against foot and mouth disease and Rift Valley Fever.
In another announcement, the undersecretary of the Veterinary Services in Ismailia, stated that the extermination campaigns will be extended to other cities and regions; that they will use strychnine to poison the animals and / or will kill them with rifles.
According to the same announcement, the extermination campaign is organized in the city of Ismailia until January 31, from 15 to 17 of January in the village of Ein twig, and from 19 to 21 January in Balillaah.
In Qantara Sharq Center until January 24, and the Department of Abu Sawyer until January 13, Fayed Center until January 29 and Bakasasin from 5 to 31 January and Paltel great until January 30, and West Qantara until 31 January 2013.
Please help to stop the killings of stray animals in Egypt - please sign our petition and ask your friends and family members to sign it, too.
By signing this petition, the message that you can read below will instantly be sent to the following addressees:
The President of Egypt, Mr Mohamed Morsi
The Chairperson of the General Organization of Veterinary Services, Military General and Dr. Osama Selim
Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Cultivation, Dr. Salah Mohamed Abdel Moemen Khalil
Ministry of Interior, Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed Moustafa
Ministry of Religious Endowment (Awkaf), Dr. Talaat Mohamed Afify Salem
Ministry of Health and Housing, Dr. Mohamed Mostafa Mohamed Ahmed Hamed
Ministry of Media, Mr. Metwaly Salah Abdel Maksoud Metwaly
Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Tarek Wafik Mohamed
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Mohamed Kamel Ali Amr
Ministry of State Environment Affairs, Dr. Khaled Mohamed Fahmy
Ministry of State for Local Development, Dr. Mohamed Aly Ismail Beshr
Ministry of Justice, Dr. Mohamed Saber Ibrahim Arab
Ministry of Education, Dr. Ibrahim Ahmed Ghoneim Deif
Ministry of State for Parliamentary Councils Affairs, Dr. Omar Mohamed Mohamed Salem
Ministry of Tourism, Mr. Mohamed Hisham Abbas Zaazou
AFTER signing this petition, please sign also the petition that our Egyptian correspondent, Dina Zulfikar, had started in 2007: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-the-mass-slaughtering-of-street-dogs-in-egypt.html
Thank you for signing and for speaking up for Egypt's homeless animals.
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Self-esteem at work is an important ingredient of attitudes at work. It basically revolves around two things: Levels of competency and contentment in what people do. It is important to critically (and honestly!) examine how competent we are in doing various tasks that we are supposed to do to deliver the intended results. And do we get contentment doing these tasks. Low levels of competence leads us to face discouraging, at times even humiliating experiences, that shatter our confidence. As a consequence, self-esteem goes down, which adversly affects performance at work. Contentment comes in finding relevence in things that we do and in pursuing goals that give a sense of satisfaction. Activities that foster personal growth and bring the best out of us make us feel good.
Here are a few suggestions. Look at your job responsibilities, and organise key tasks into three categories:
- Tasks formally assigned to you;
- Tasks that you are doing/expected to do even if they are not formally assigned. And there will be quite a few of them. In my experience, opportunity lies hidden in tasks that are not assigned formally. If you do them well, you get noticed, and the doors to future avenues open; and
- Tasks that you would like to undertake to enhance your career growth. This is closely linked to the second point above. Take initiative, consult with your supervisor and assume tasks which interest you and which are linked with your career goals.
Now match your curent skills set against these tasks. You might like to score them in a scale of one to ten. If you get less than 8, it is time to work on it and acquire the necessary skills. Don't get disheartended if you score yourself low in some. No one handles all tasks assigned to him/her equally well. But it is important to be aware of our shortcomings so that we can work on them. You can find a mentor within/outside your workplace and/or request for additional training to your supervisor. Particularly important is to work on skills that connect the three categories outlined above.
…Every career has its ups and downs. Each day at work poses situations that affect us. Besides, external environment like the current economic downturn in which people are losing jobs, is bound to affect self-esteem. I intend to write more on these aspects in near future.


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Projections show that China's share of world's Coal Fired Thermal power capacity is to grow from 14 % in 2006 to greater than 40 % by 2011. Imagine, China will have coal-fired thermal power capacity almost equal to the rest of the world. Mega-projects like the Three Gorges Hydroelectric power plant have established China's supremacy in power generation technology. No wonder the world is making a bee line to China to shop for power plant equipment.
The large domestic market has helped China in developing enormous manufacturing capacities and engineering and construction skills. This, together with aggressive marketing by Chinese power and trading companies, has enabled them to offer power projects to the third world at a considerably lower unit cost per kW. For developing countries this is good news.
Negotiating with suppliers require certain key issues to be considered.
Overcome the Language barrier
Language is definitely an issue, and don't ever think of mastering Mandarin in ten days. Your best oratorical skills or B school presentation skills can be of naught when the other side does not understand it. Talk in the language of the engineer- drawings. Use drawings, sketches, or use the board as much as possible. Even physical demonstrations using objects available on the table, be it a pen, pencil, mobile phone or glass of water is very helpful for understanding the issues. Use overhead projectors to project data so all the participants can see.
Don't get lost in Translation
All technical and contractual documentation is generally in Mandarin, but most of the time the translation will be available side by side. Normally translation is by done by software. Mandarin words can have many different meanings as per the tone. Translations sometimes end up being hilarious or absurd. Understanding translations is a must. Translation by interpreters is good only if the interpreter understands the meaning and has a technical knowledge. In non-English speaking countries like Indonesia, a threefold translation is required making matters more complex. Talk in short sentences with a pause to give interpreters time.
Patience is the Key
Be prepared for long meetings. Response to your query or point will be only after an internal discussion among the Chinese participants. The greater the number of participants, the more the time required. Be patient till the opposite side responds. Throwing tantrums, or showing anger or irritation only increases your blood pressure and does no good to the issue on hand.
These are not only true for power projects, but also for other industrial projects.
This post is part of the series: Zen and the Art of Constructing A Chinese Power Plant.
- Negotiating for the Construction of Chinese Power Plants – Communication Issues
- Tips For Negotiating For The Construction Of A Chinese Power Plants.-Technical Issues


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Supplying Data for Mailing and Variable Data Printing
At Peppermint Print we have 10 suggestions for supplying data for Mailings and Variable Data Printing, that will help keep your data safe and secure as well as make it easier for us to process and therefore speed up your job and make it look polished and pleasing to the eye when printed.
1. Phone Us: It is always a good idea to phone us before you send your data. We can then check it has arrived safely and in order.
2. Password Protect: Never send us or anyone data that is unsecured be it by email, on a memory stick or burnt to a CD. The easiest way to do this is to export your data to an Excel spreadsheet and then use the protect button to add a password that prevents anyone from opening the data. Telephone the password through to us once you have sent the data. When we send you a proof it will be password protected with the same password so ensure that you make a note of it.
3. Check Data for Continuity: By this I mean that the same type of data is entered into the same column ie all the surnames are in one column, all the post codes in another column. If any data sets have missing fields, our software will remove them and close up any gaps.
4. Single Data in Each Field: Ensure that each data field only has a single record entered eg. Mr John Smith should be set out into 3 columns and not all in one field.
5. Check for Capitalisation: There are times that we get data that is either in all capitals or has no capitalisation. This can happen if using data captured from a web page. We can still use it and yes it is possible to change at our end for which we will charge. It is far better if you check your data list and send to us in upper and lower case.
6. Post Codes: Post codes are vital for the Royal Mail sorting and the absence of them may delay delivery, add cost and in some cases, mean that your mail may not reach its destination.
7. Provide Seeds: It is a very good idea to always include seeds randomly dispersed throughout your data. Data seeds are records containing known recipients such as your office or home address. In this way you can be sure that the mail has gone out and the rough time frame in which people will receive it.
8.Data Placement: Check that your data headings within the spread sheet match the data fields in the printed document.
9.Formatting: Remove all formatting or formulas that might make up the data.
10. Delete After Use: For us the final recommended golden rule is that we delete all data once we have printed your job.


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Yeah! I didn't write anything on my blog for all of 2008! That's a pretty good effort.
Anyway, here's a thing I thought of on the tram. I suppose really it's my fantasy, but it felt like my friend Bugsy's fantasy as I was having it (plus I'm married, so am not allowed to have fantasies). It's possibly rude to claim I'm privy to Bugsy's fantasies, then to publish them to my blog without even changing his name, but hey, if I'm forced to experience his thoughts then I should get some sort of compensation. Plus he doesn't have a computer and so is unlikely to see this.
"Will you play me something off your iPod?"
Bugsy looked away from the people dealing with the rain beyond the window to find a girl suddenly sitting opposite him.
"Will you?" she repeated with a slight challenge in her tone. Or uncertainty? It occurred to him that she may not have realised he had heard her question.
He fished the headphones from under his hood and extricated the cord from where it made a cold line next to his chest. Obeying some impulse he could not find a basis to he reached forward and put the white buds into her ears. She dropped her eyes as he touched her, her ears quite cool, pale, with wisps of hair slightly obscuring them, and with a few drops of rain from outside nestled on the lobe of one.
"What is it?"
She was very cute, he decided. Small, elfin face with her hair cut fairly close, framing it. A grey, shapeless dress. Black tights and white shoes. Those ones that looked like shoes that a ballerina would wear. Mary Janes? She looked French.
"Home By Saturday, by a guy called Hayden," he said.
"Oh good," she said, though he didn't know if that meant she knew it.
He found the song while she fidgeted and smiled at him, then pressed play. Watching her listen to the song he remembered it and tried to watch where she was up to. The strongly melodic opening guitar line, then Hayden's voice coming in and following the melody, his tone resigned and aching. He hoped she liked it.


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John Harris (1666-1719) was an early English mathematician, as well as a clergyman. He was editor of The Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in 1704, considered to be the first real encyclopedia in the English language. He was an early member and vice president of the Royal Society. He also was an active Christian apologist, giving the Boyle lectures in 1698 under the title: "Atheistical Objections Against the Being of God and His Attributes, Fairly Considered and Fully Refuted."
Excerpted from Men of Science, Men of God by Henry M. Morris. Copyright 1982, 1988 by Henry M. Morris. Used by permission.


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Huge rise seen in ICE cases released on bail
Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants have paid $977 million in bail bonds to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the past six years - allowing them to go free until their deportation cases are decided.
The money reflects a roughly threefold increase in the number of people granted bond since 2006, enabling at least 209,163 potential deportees to avoid detention and go on with their lives as they await their legal fate, according to ICE data obtained by the Houston Chronicle.
The practice, federal authorities contend, cuts the costs of detention in potentially protracted deportation cases, though not all bail recipients abide by the detailed terms of their releases. Of the $977 million paid since 2006, the federal government has seized at least $167 million in breached bail bonds from thousands who either failed to appear for legal proceedings or voluntarily left the country.
U.S. Rep Ted Poe, R-Humble, a long-standing immigration conservative, labeled the spike in bonds "administrative amnesty" and said the increase has pushed illegal immigrants to the streets, "some of which go on to commit further crimes."
"The law is the law," said Poe. "It should be enforced all of the time, not some of the time."
Other advocates of strict enforcement accuse the Obama administration of expanding the use of bail as another way to continue "lax enforcement" to curry favor with immigrant groups, including Hispanics, in an election year.
"The statistics don't lie. The administration lies," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates lower immigration levels. "The administration doesn't want to increase the number of detainees, and it's making more money out of bond defaults."
Advocates see rip-offs
Immigrants' rights advocates contend that illegal immigrants are being ripped off by federal authorities who arbitrarily set the bail amounts without regard to their contributions to their communities.
"The one factor that's explicitly not considered is whether the person can pay the bond," said Laura Lichter, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "It's not the same if you are a day laborer than if you are a doctor. (The) bond is a significant amount of money that is part of a family's income that is being withheld."
ICE cites priorities
Immigration judges and agents by law must set bail amounts of at least $1,500, but have wide leeway on deciding how much more to ask. The bails of the 55,546 individuals released on bond in 2011 averaged $5,162, according to statistics from the federal agency. ICE's cash bond account balance as of Feb. 1 was $674 million.
The dramatic expansion of bail comes at a time when immigration enforcement authorities are reducing the number of prosecutions against noncriminals.
ICE instigated 28 percent fewer deportation proceedings in the final three months of 2011, for example, than in the same period in 2010, records show.
Taking into account the approximately 11 million people living in the U.S. unlawfully, ICE is focusing on "smart, effective immigration enforcement," the agency explained in a written statement.
"ICE also prioritizes the arrest and removal of those who game the immigration system, including immigration fugitives or those criminal aliens who have been previously deported and illegally re-entered the country," according to the statement.
Not all illegal immigrants are undocumented. Some have entered legally, then overstayed the time allowed by the government. Others have committed crimes that jeopardized their visas.
Immigration judges and ICE agents decide whether to grant bail to illegal immigrants. Generally, they qualify for bail if they have no criminal convictions, have not been previously ordered deported, and can demonstrate that they pose no flight risk or threat to public safety.
Unlike bail bonds in the criminal justice system, immigration bonds must be paid in full. Bonds are posted in cash or by surety companies, which guarantee the bond on behalf of the immigrant.
The amount of bail is based on criteria ranging from the immigrants' ties to the U.S., including the number of years living in the country, their job history, any mortgage and tax payments, and whether they are married to or parents of an American citizen.
Not necessarily lenient
Some immigration lawyers say the spike in bonds doesn't necessarily reflect a lenient enforcement of the law.
"ICE could be requiring bonds in cases where they previously would have released the person on their own recognizance," said David Leopold, a prominent immigration lawyer. "That would reflect a greater level of enforcement, not a lesser one. It is also important to remember that most immigrants who have been convicted of crimes are not eligible for bond."
Ticket to freedom?
ICE collected almost $287 million in bail bonds last year - $107 million more than in 2010, and the highest amount in six years.
By the end of 2011, the agency had returned almost $86.5 million to immigrants who had satisfied the conditions of their bonds.
Immigrants who got their money back either showed up for all court hearings in which authorities made a final decision on their case, or they had voluntarily left the country.
Illegal immigrants forfeited nearly $27.5 million in breached bonds in 2011 - $5 million more than the year before. That fact alone, critics say, demonstrates that some see bail bonds as a ticket to freedom.
"They know they're here illegally, and they know they have no possibilities from release from removal (deportation). So there's no reason for them to show up in court," suggested Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies of the Center for Immigration Studies. "They're going to take the opportunity to put off the money, and then disappear into the woodwork knowing there's a pretty good chance they won't be caught again."
ICE did not comment on how the seized money is allocated. Records suggest the money is "forfeited" to the federal government.
If history holds, the federal government should seize approximately $30 million this year.
"That source of income is a mark of failure," Vaughan said.


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Yesterday's dietary fail was the first real blip in eight months of new healthy lifestyle habits. I didn't begin all at once with the full dumpster of dietary deprivations, I let myself gently into these new ways. But within the first two months I'd eliminated all the bad stuff, even the few things I was holding on to with excuses like, 'oh, a little bit won't hurt'… and 'I'm giving up so much, surely I can get away with this'… Out had gone all the sugar (last to go was my favourite Rachel's Organic Coconut yoghurt, which, I have to admit now, was very, very sweet). And then the biggie for me, out went the crisps (aka potato chips) and other processed salty snacks too (with the exception of my go-to lightweight wasabi flavoured seaweed snack, an ultra-low-calorie port in the snacking storm).
Savouries were actually harder for me to reject than the sugary treats, but I got there – and the challenge for me now is never to buy, never to have crisps/chips or similar munchies in the house. These days, I limit my salty snacks to tiny handfuls if they're served up at friends' houses, for example. But I never buy bags of crisps/chips for home any more.
But when Ocado, my supermarket delivery service gave me a full-sized 140g bag of 'healthy' organic chia seed corn chips as a sample, it was more than my money-sensible head would allow, to simply throw them away. I've thrown away odd chocolate samples before, and even ice cream samples, but 'healthy' organic corn chips? They went into the cupboard for some future occasion involving guests. They stayed there for two months. Untouched. Until my weakened willpower overwhelmed me, yesterday afternoon.
But that was yesterday – you felt my pain. And I resolved to make amends to my body with a fast-day. Are you interested in how I got on?
Sunday 17:00
The humous is finished and the rest of the corn chips are in the bin, mulched into slurry. I feel piggish and pig-sick. But my fast-day penance – 24 hours at least – begins here.
Sunday 19:30
I let my angst spill across the screen and I upload my post.
Sunday 22:00
It's been lovely, all evening, receiving such positive and encouraging comments on my blog post. It has softened the pain of my dietary fail.
Sunday 22:30
I will walk tomorrow morning, whatever the weather. I set out my exercise clothes before I go to bed, making them impossible for me to ignore when I get up.
Sunday 23:00
Those corn chips have settled like a slab of concrete in my gut. It's more than six hours since I consumed them, but for the first time in months, I have the sense of food in my oesophagus, a precursor to acid reflux. I take a couple of Gaviscon tablets to hold it back.
Monday 01:30
I'm awake and uncomfortable with heartburn, another sensation I haven't had in months and months. I deserve this.
Monday 04:00
Awake again, restless. This time the discomfort is more emotional.
Monday 05:30
That's it. It seems I'm to get no more sleep.
Monday 06:00
Might as well get up then. I weigh myself – no change since yesterday, the humous hasn't headed straight for my hips then. That's a plus at least. I dress and get out of the house. Audiobook on iPhone. It's chilly but not bitter outside, and nice to be out before the rush hour traffic has cranked up. I walk for 50 minutes, pushing myself to go left instead of right at the decision point, choosing my 'big' morning circuit over the quickie version.
Monday 07:15
Back home. Feeling good now, refreshed and virtuous. I know… it's hardly a marathon, but it's the right start to the day.
Monday 08:00
I replace my usual breakfast Bircher muesli mix with a glass of warm water, lemon and ginger. I've found a way to prepare it using my Nutribullet, that means I no longer get icky bits of lemon pip and shreds of ginger in my teeth. I whizz it up until it's frothy, then bung it in the microwave for a few seconds. Tolerable, it awards me a few more smug points. Black coffee follows – that's not a trial, as it's my all-day drink of choice anyway.
Monday 08:30
Instead of munching my breakfast in front of the TV, I head straight for my office (that's my spare bedroom, by the way), and make a start on this post. Then work – I'm still very busy this week, so good to get my head down and not think about if I'll get to feeling hungry later.
Monday 10:00
Worth a mention, I'm even feeling (a bit) better about my brutal haircut today, having made judicious use of 'product' and straighteners. (Perry – thanks for reminding me of the proper way to use sticky stuff on my shorn locks – it worked a lot better this morning.)
Monday 12:00
A paper-shuffling desk morning, and I'm on my third cup of coffee, but no hunger pangs yet, and no inclination to break my 24-hour fast. I'm feeling good; this is a head-clearing and re-setting of my commitment.
Monday 13:00
Gah! A neighbour has one of those horrible, relentlessly noisy power-wash services spraying (totally unnecessarily IMHO) their already spotless driveway. I'm all for taking pride in one's property, but this grinding torture looks set to continue for the next couple of hours. It's eating my brain cells and disrupting my hitherto calm and serene state of food-fast. My head hurts.
Monday 14:00
Feeling hungry now, but that's okay. I think I want to enjoy the feeling of hunger, of readiness to eat – because I've decided I will eat after 17:00 today, once I've completed 24 hours. It means I've begun to look forward to what I might prepare for this evening's meal.
Monday 15:00
Perhaps three hours to go until I finish work and eat. I'm thinking maybe grilled asparagus with poached eggs and a sprinkle of parmesan. Not sure yet, but hunger is sharpening my need for more than fuel. I want a plate of food that looks appetising too. And it must differentiate significantly from yesterday's bag of corn chips and hummus scooped from the tub.
Monday 16:00
I've had five cups of coffee today, which I confess is two more than I usually enjoy and one more than I have on an occasional caffeine-heavy day. I know I should have drunk more plain water, but there it is. I like coffee. I'm buzzing a bit, but it's not so gross. Water from now on, or I will suffer for it tonight.
Monday 17:00
That's it – 24 hours – and I actually feel really, really good. I've always wondered if I could manage a fast-day and whilst my 24-hours has straddled two days, it is still 24 hours with no food, and it wasn't even a little bit difficult. So I've learnt something about myself, and that's a positive. I feel I've undone the damage from yesterday too, which is, after all, what this was about.
Monday 18:00
24+1 and I'm signing off. It's time for dinner!


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Party: Conservative
Political grouping: Conservative
Jason Ablewhite was elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire in May 2016. With a career background in sales and senior management in the food sector, Jason retired in 2015 to concentrate on local politics. He served as a District Councillor in St Ives for 16 years, and spent five years prior to becoming PCC as Leader of Huntingdonshire District Council. He also served as Mayor of St Ives in 2005.
Jason has lived in Cambridgeshire all his life, growing up in Bar Hill and Dry Drayton and has lived in St Ives since 1992 with his wife Annette and two sons.
Jason is Lead of the APCC Portfolio Group on Business Enablers.


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|The bus on its way to Florence Heights.
|The river.
|Florence Center.
|Trundling through Meadowbrook Apartments.
|Inside the mall.
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|A side street in Northampton.
|Pulling into Salvo House.
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PVTA Route: R44 (Florence Heights via King Street and Bridge Road)
Ridership: In terms of average daily ridership, the 44 is below average for the PVTA, with 415 riders per day. It gets worse when you use other counting methods, though - it's far below average for passengers per trip, carrying only 16, and dead-last for passengers per hour, with only 13.
Pros: There's no denying that the R44 definitely serves a lot. It acts as kind of a Northampton circulator, serving housing developments and malls that no other buses serve. The schedule is also reasonable, with hourly service seven days per week.
Cons: Riding this thing from beginning to end is just miserable. It's such a deviatory route, and it doesn't help that for some reason, the worst buses in Northampton Garage always end up on this thing. Honestly, it would work far better as a loop, allowing for more efficient trips from the Florence area to Northampton.
Nearby and Noteworthy: Hampshire County House of Corrections all the way, baby! Or maybe, like, Stop & Shop or something...
Final Verdict: 5/10
This route serves a lot, for sure, and even though the ridership is low and the costs are high, it's still important for the city of Northampton. Honestly, though, it would make a lot more sense as a bidirectional loop. The distance from Hampshire County House Corrections to Florence Heights is so small that you could have the same frequency with the same amount of buses. Take a look:
The loop takes about 41 minutes driving, so with padding, you could easily keep the hourly service with two buses, just like it is now.
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Fishing with the General
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
A Taste of the Salty Stuff
Sometimes, even as a fictional military general, freshwater fishing simply isn't exciting enough. A real man needs that unmistakable tang of the sea. There is something about the coast that stirs the blood, you see. The manliness of sailors. Fish and chips sold at less than four quid. Women with nautical tattoos. Petty criminals who are still friendly. Cafes where a nostalgic general can be surrounded by elderly white people drinking tea. The bright flashing lights of low quality gambling establishments. Huge amounts of fudge, all of it British. Pubs where it is not so much acceptable as compulsory to swear, drink poor quality spirits and engage in arm wrestling and tales of "the good old days". And yes, fishing. Not namby pamby small stream fly fishing, but sea fishing, with waves, gales and seaweed. British seaweed. For all these reasons and more, I love the life of the salty dog.
I could easily have been a great naval commander rather than a conventional general, come to think of it. But sadly my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was dishonorably discharged in the days of the Spanish Armada after his part in a depraved episode involving a shipment of opium, the Earl of Wessex's daughter and a live haddock.
But I digress. I tell you, these days I can hardly tell you what happened last week, let alone the days of the Spanish Armada. But my shrapnel wounds are so severe these days I'm rarely sober. Somewhere in the middle of a bottle of rum, however, I suddenly remembered childhood holidays in Lyme Regis, where I would go fishing with my Uncle Robbie. Or at least that is what he told my aunt.
Back in those days the seas were crawling with huge fish. Twenty pound bass were common and a top of the range beachcaster cost 5p, while you'd even find the odd marlin off the south coast. That was before the English channel was plundered by the French, the Spanish, the Dutch and, worst of all, the Cornish.
Nevertheless, I was curious to return to the Dorset coast for some sea fishing. Partly to see if anything was left and partly because I wanted to pick up my new Fifty Plus Ultimate Big Fish Warrior Mark 4 Twat Scales, which weigh fish up to half a metric ton. They will speak the weight to you and even read out your PB list so that you can bore the shit out of passers by to the nearest gram, which is another nice feature. The only drawback is the use of Kilograms, because I much prefer the comfort of dated and confusing imperial measures. Anyone who disagrees is unpatriotic and should stop reading immediately.
Again, I digress. I returned with a heavy beachcaster just in case, although I doubted I'd catch a sprat sixty odd years after the last time I had cast here. On that occasion I caught a fifty pound tope and was beaten up by my uncle, who had caught nothing and got jealous. I decided to be realistic and just see what was about this time, by rigging up with a two-foot-long king ragworm and casting it out to a reef two hundred yards away.
Within seconds I had a bite and reeled in a fish that was ugly as it was disappointing. Global warming has created an influx of dirty, inferior and invasive species from other countries. I believe this fish was a Patagonian Sludge Goby. Either way, I was disgusted with it, in spite of its near 40lb bulk. Quite inedible too, I'm afraid. I shot it twice in the head, before ordering the local coastguard to tow the body to France.
Regardless, I baited up again and this time cast nearer to the shore, by a large rocky outcrop. Again, I only had to wait mere seconds for a bite, which didn't so much shiver the rod tip as nearly pull the rod into the sea. This time I had a real battle on my hands, especially as I was only using 100lb line. In the two hours or so it took to beat the fish, a small crowd had assembled outside the amusement arcades, momentarily distracted from their love of gambling to watch the epic battle unfolding. By the time I hauled the monster to shore, my muscles ached and my uniform was drenched in sweat.
It was an enormous wrasse, but was it a British Navy record? Unfortunately not. At only eighty-nine pounds and seven ounces, it was almost a pound an a half short of the specimen caught by Rear Admiral David McKenzie in 1896. The crowd were impressed but, naturally, I was disgusted. I had the fish destroyed, before going to Spar to buy a bottle of sherry.
A rum do, I'm afraid chaps. But alas, sometimes all that lies between eternal glory and a night in a carpark is eighteen ounces. Sometimes I think the good old days are never likely to return, frankly. The Empire is gone. Discipline is fading. Soon there will be nothing left for it but to bypass the dented tins of lager and out-of-date spirits at Spar altogether and walk directly into the sea. That will show Johnny Foreigner.
Should you wish to hear of some of my more glorious bygone days, however, you may enjoy the new edition of Fallon's Angler (issue 6). Within its glorious pages you can read about my fishing adventures in Cold War Berlin. It was a most strange and exciting time, I must tell you, doing battle with not only the communists but genetically modified experimental fish created by Soviet scientists. And meeting fishface himself, Prince Charles (below), just round the corner from Checkpoint Charlie. I urge you to buy it. In fact if you do not buy it now you are almost technically stealing since you are gaining entertainment from my writings without paying a penny. I would quite happily shoot you for this myself, if this were a public library and I caught you doing it. Britain didn't rule half the world by allowing people to read everything for free, damn it.
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Saturday, 26 September 2015
Fishing the Thames with Tom Cruise
Some folks are obsessed with celebrity. Personally I find many of these people to be rather oily shits. But when I was offered an exceptionally large amount of money to take movie star Tom Cruise fishing on the Thames, I simply had to agree.
So there we were on the banks of the Thames, where I decided to take Tom to the club house. Which was no fun at all because Cruise, who looks even smaller in real life I have to say, is one of those despicable lightweights who hardly drink. And not having seen any of his films other than Top Gun and Mission Impossible 5 (which was rubbish), we didn't have an awful lot to talk about.
I also noticed that the five foot something oik was wearing a navy jacket, so I put it to him bluntly:
"I bet you never flew a plane in your life young man?"
Cruise was clearly offended by this, claiming that Top Gun was more of a documentary than a movie, such were his skills at flying jet fighters.
"I rather doubt that," I said. "How many Russians have you shot down? Eh?"
No answer.
I expected his fishing skills to be even shoddier as we walked along the Thames, looking for fish. These waters hold enormous dace, the like of which would dwarf the tiny frame of Hollywood midget Tom Cruise. His minders kept a close eye on us as I assembled long trotting tackle. The best dace are almost always caught on the longest trots, I find, often at a distance of over four hundred metres. With fine line, a good centre pin and military binoculars however, it is possible to trot at distances up to two and a half miles, and I once caught a Dorset trout while sitting in Hampshire.
Cruise, as to be expected, was rather a rank amateur. And because of his tiny size, I also feared he might be fair game to otters. But after botching several opportunities, the stick float dipped, the rod heaved and the tiny fellow was almost dragged in.
At forty-three pounds his excellent dace was quite unworthy of a man of Cruise's diminutive stature and angling talents. But the cheque for twenty-thousand pounds would keep me in port and opium for another week and help to pay off some of my gambling debts.
Tom himself was slightly more amicable after his catch and agreed to a drink back at the club. The ale flowed and Cruise told us of his fishing exploits, most of which sounded like complete lies- and let's face it, any fish must look massive when you're his size. And being a tiny Hollywood lightweight, he became quite ill after just a couple of pints. At one point he nearly choked on his cigar, so I had to offer him some support. Bloody actors, what?
As for my own sport, I have been invited by angling Quarterly Fallon's Angler to write about my exploits in the Himalayas, fishing for vast jungle chub. Quite an adventure I can tell you.
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Canal Fishing with the General
Britain's historic canals are a fine piece of work. Dug to keep the French out and generally keep the people in their place, grafting coal, immigrants and gunpowder around the country on barges, they are something of a British institution.
Not that today's canals have quite the same nostalgia. These days they are mostly populated by boatloads of pensioners, stag parties and regrettable sloan types who quaff tins of Stella and accidentally smash the paint off hired narrowboats. It brings a quiver of animal fury to my usually stiff upper lip, every time I visit my half brother Ken, on the Kennet and Avon Canal, aboard his shabby boat, the Half Nelson.
In spite of the threat of the British public on a Saturday, I nevertheless decided to go fishing. I began by assembling a short but sturdy pole, and a delicate rig (40lb line, size 10/0 hook). Having no time to waste on small fish, I baited the hook with enough bread to give a man constipation for a week, like this:
Now, I'm well aware you might have seen fools such as Bob Nudd fishing pathetically tiny baits for miniscule roach on canals, but if you want quality you have to think big. There are some huge fish on almost every British canal, if you are only brave enough to think like a military general.
For some time though, those pissed students driving boats and aimless, elderly dog walkers played havoc with my best laid plans. A group of Oxbridge tossers smashed into the far bank feature I had been targeting, before a Dalmatian ate my sandwiches.
I was just about to reach for my service revolver when the float dipped and there was a mighty surge. Something was thrashing violently in the canal's central track. I couldn't believe my eyes when I pulled out this titanic rudd of over forty pounds:
But the better surprise was yet to come. Among the detritus on the canal, I had noticed various dead things. Not just the detritus of nearby Bath, but a drowned rabbit. A perfect bait for any giant scavengers, or so I thought.
The afternoon was painfully slow, as more sloans, Essex stag parties and assorted human detritus floated down the canal. Even with my legendary stiff upper lip, I was almost driven to one of my outbursts. And then, just as it couldn't get more annoying, my war wound started to play up. A bottle of port took the edge of this, but I still found myself biteless, and wondering if the dead bunny would ever produce a run.
At around 4pm the float suddenly sloped away. I struck, and there was such a tidal wave of force, every boat within half a mile rocked. One of the boats slowed down for a look.
"Oi mate, what have you hooked? Is it a carp? I fish for them, and nothing else ever because basically I'm a bit of a twat."
"I am a military general, not your mate," I replied. "Please desist and go away. I have sunk far bigger vessels than yours, you young scullion."
The fight was dogged rather than spectacular, and I soon drew an enormous Tommy Ruffe into the net. A superb fish at thirty-seven pounds, three ounces, eight drams and six point 5 mili-drams, I was naturally delighted, and broke into my first wry smile for five years. Another British record- and further proof that I am an amazing big fish angler, better than all of you in fact:
Thursday, 2 July 2015
The General fishes Dartmoor
After the horror of my last adventure on a commercial fishery, I decided to head back into the wilderness this week, where a man is free to shoot animals, burn meat and climb hills without being disturbed. You might see a few sun-burned pensioners, cretinous foreigners and boy scouts up here too, but Dartmoor truly belongs to our military elite and the rather sadistic training exercises I tend to set. You see, I usually come up here for the distinct pleasure of watching young recruits sweat and burn while running it twenty miles across the moor with a standard issue rifle and rucksack. But actually, these days I prefer a spot of trout fishing.
Damn it all to hell, you can stuff your manicured commercial carp holes, give me real fishing any day of the week. Give me rocks, bogs and bracken. Give me my hip flask, a fly rod, a dated Ordnance Survey map and an unlicensed firearm.
The terrain can be one of the biggest challenges, but personally I enjoy dangerous quagmires and barbed wire. They remind me of my childhood, and I have passed many happy hours in the bogs of Dartmoor. I met my wife in one, in fact, the night I was arrested near the Two Bridges Hotel, in 1973.
So anyway, where was I? Ah yes, bogs. Well, I climbed free but was absolutely bloody soaking by the time I got to the river. Grasping my rifle in one hand and my tackle in the other, I waded up to my conkers, into the River Dart.
Smart arsed angling writers and fishing guides often describe these places as "paradise" or the trout as "jewels". But they are not. These are primeval killing grounds and the trout of Dartmoor are amongst the most vicious and verminous in the world. They hide under rocks, before springing out to maim, kill and inconvenience.
After catching around seventy pathetic little trout and drinking a pint of whisky to steady my nerves, I came to a giant pool that I could never remember seeing before. I tied on the biggest dry fly in the box and aimed it into the rocky mouth. Shit the barracks, what a trout it was that seized the fly!
The fish fought titanically, but a shot to the head with my service revolver silenced the giant. I admired its beautiful golden sides and colony of black spots, before kicking it in the face just to make sure it was dead. A new world record trout at eighty-one pounds, I couldn't decide whether to eat or mount it, so I did both.
Friday, 19 June 2015
The General visits a commercial fishery
At ease, Soldiers. I hope you have been behaving yourselves and catching some fish. Things have been quiet down at military command. Too quiet. It can be a dull life as a fictional military leader. No new wars for ages, and my highly trained men are reduced to rescuing immigrants and attending marches. I have been increasingly reaching into my desk for port and opium to numb the boredom. To be honest, no bugger really noticed the other day when I went AWOL for some fishing.
A foolish friend of had invited me invited me to fish one of these so called "commercial" fisheries for ages, a place owned by Wayne Templeton, an aging Brummie. I had heard about these places in one of the angling rags, and remember being appalled at the battered looking common carp and even more common matchmen with their beer guts and crooked teeth. Ridiculous quantities of fish and golf course smooth banks. A little portaloo, so that Fred and Barry's wives can take a piss while he reels in another carp. Even as a military hardman, I believe angling demands a little more romance than that.
However, I was assured that Chavvington Carp Fishery was different. In fact I was told that not only were weights up to 1000lbs commonplace, but there were genuine world record crucian carp to be had.
I immediately reached for my long pole. Now I know some of you will be farting about with 13 metres of overpriced Italian carbon, but I seldom ever use less than 24 metres of pole, because I can. Some of my US Army connections have crafted a pole using banned space alloys that weighs only 45 grams at this length.
Wayne duly handed me a long list of rules and also told me that he charged pole fishermen by the metre, so my day ticket would have cost £48, had I not threatened him. The rules were damned confusing to be honest. Even as a man with a fetish for iron discipline and order, I found the following a little bizarre:
1. No vintage tackle or pipe smoking.
2. No Cornishmen
3. No nuclear weapons
4. No sweetcorn allowed on a Tuesday
5. Barbless hooks only
I had planned to use sweetcorn, but it was a Tuesday, so this wasn't allowed. Instead, I opted for pellets. I like these because I can then use a standard issue rifle to feed the swim with devastating accuracy.
What carnage these commercial fisheries are. I had a bite, very first put in and a measly carp. I fed even more industrial sized pellets, until the water was heaving with them. I fished on, but after about 100lbs of them, I began to lose my temper.
The crucians weren't getting a look in, so I started to open fire on the carp, if only to thin out the numbers a little. Of course, I checked the fishery rules first and it said absolutely nothing about the use of firearms.
As the carp took a heavy toll, I waited for the damage to clear and baited my hook again. The next bite was different, a cagy affair. I reckon it must have moved less than a millimeter when I struck with utter fury.
Wayne came over as I was playing it. It made deep, powerful runs.
"It's a crucian" he said. "Look, just like a bar of gold."
"That's a bloody poor mans cliché Wayne," I threatened. "Get me a bigger landing net or you'll regret it."
For a moment, as it surfaced, it looked like the sun had fallen out of the sky and into the pond. It was a blaze of gold, not a ruddy bar of it.
My excitement was quickly dimmed. After counting the fin rays and DNA testing several scales I came to a sickening conclusion. This was no record crucian, but a colossal, inbred whale of a goldfish. Seventy-eight pounds, and a world record, to be exact. I hurled my pole into the lake in disgust, punched Wayne in the face a few times, before heading back to the barracks to take out my frustration on the troops.
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Welcome, soldiers. I am the General and this is my blog. You might have read some other fishing blogs, but this one is going to be different. This one is going to be HUGE. It's going to be louder than war and even more fun, if similarly unethical. So listen up, and listen good.
I'm here to tell you that catching big fish is not the most important thing in angling. Catching absolutely shitting enormous, record-breaking fish is the most important thing in angling. Nothing else matters and if you don't catch huge fish on a regular basis, you are a failure. Because fishing is not meant to be fun. This is man vs nature. Land dwellers vs water-based super vermin. This is not your mates Steve, Kev and Dave farting about on a Sunday afternoon, THIS IS WAR.
In this blog I will be blowing your mind. I'm talking about bigger fish than you have ever caught in your sorry life. Fish that you cannot dream of, let alone catch. You might want to run and hide like a girl when you see my monsters. Hell, even the baits I use are enormous compared with yours, like these worms I found today:
This is my first tip in fact: you want big fish? Use big baits. Stop using those pathetically small boilies and worms and bait up like a man. My worms come from a compost heap near Hinkley Point, where they have absorbed huge amounts of atomic radiation and grown to the size of snakes. You can't buy this shit from your local tackle shop soldier, you have to dig it. Go on, get your hands dirty.
I simply knew these worms would be just right for a world record roach. Forget those puny two and three pounders that show-offs like Hugh Fearnley-Bowler and Darren Stagg catch in the weekly chip papers, I'm talking HUGE fish. Roach that COULD CHEW YOUR ARMS OFF. Roach that are so enormous I HAVE TO USE CAPITAL LETTERS TO EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THEM.
Expectations were high as I made my way to my secret venue. I will never tell you where this is, even if you torture me, so please don't ask. It is classified information, period. In fact, if you were even thinking about asking me where it is, stop reading this blog right now and never come back ever again.
The session began disappointingly. I had tackled up a single five pound test curve rod (three rod set ups are for girls, cheats and communists) with a big pit reel and 20lb line and cast a half pound worm two hundred yards out into the lake. If you can't cast this far, this is precisely why you never catch world record fish.
Anyway, I was initially plagued by nuisance fish. The first couple of roach were mere three pounders. I threw one in a hedge, before beating the other to death with my bare hands for use as pike bait. But on the very next cast, I had a savage bite. The fish went AWOL and it was some thirty-seven minutes before I finally got it under control and sunk the net:
At 37lbs 9oz, it wasn't a bad fish. But I'm sure there are bigger samples out there. If you keep following this blog and my Facebook page you might even learn how to catch your own record breaker.
Sadly, not all anglers understand my military obsession with absolute monsters. They are either jealous or unhinged, but if you would like to waste your time with tiny fish there is a special award this year for the "Best Micro Catch" by the organisers of flyforcoarse.com -You could win a tiny trophy and other prizes, if you really do suffer from such a lack of aspiration.
In the meantime, get fishing soldiers! You'll never catch anything as big as me, but you can try.
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Maybe it's all of the disgusting weather we've had this week, or the lovely fall clothing that I've disturbingly started looking at, but I've really been into dark colors this week. I was going to say "feeling blue" but then thought against it because that's a horrible pun, but here I am, telling you anyway. Every time I think about being halfway through with summer I could cry and then bam, I'm looking at sweaters two seconds later. Has anyone else starting thinking about fall things yet?
I've always been drawn to the color blue, it makes up most of my wardrobe, especially navy. There have been points in my shopping history where I probably should have banned myself from buying any more of the color but I just can't help it. I've tried and as a result have since gathered quite the collection of hunter green items. We all have our favorites. Speaking of, this top is one of mine. Give me an open back any day, it's probably my favorite summer look. It's loose, light, and simple, the kind of things that matter with soup grade humidity. I've worn it on the blog before here, but last time I styled it a little differently. This time I dressed it up slightly for a casual evening look with jeans, sparkly wedges, and a statement necklace.
I can't believe it's already Thursday, at least the sun has returned. Have a great day and thank you for reading!


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Slowcooker Chicken Bacon Stew
I love my slow cooker. I look forward to the start of fall/winter so I can pull it out and start making large batches of stews and soups.
Because my daughter has food issues and is not able to tolerate a lot of gassy/green vegetables, our stews have a little twist. This particular recipe's flair is courtesy of my daughter – a suggestion she had when I asked if she wanted chicken stew for dinner one night – and now it's a staple in our house.
- 1/2 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tbsp sage
- 1 tsp sage
- 1/4 tsp ginger
- 5 pieces cooked bacon, chopped
- 2-3 boneless chicken breasts or 4-6 chicken thighs
- 1 sweet potato, peeled and chopped
- 2 parsnips, peeled and chopped
- 2 small potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 3 carrots, peeled and chopped
- 1-2 pieces of celery, finely chopped
- 4-6 cups of chicken broth (home made is best if you have it)
- You can also add onion and garlic if you like, my daughter won't eat anything with onions because of the texture once slow cooked, so we leave them out. I often add garlic…
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2-3 tbsp of flour (gluten or gluten-free) or corn starch
I like to brown my chicken first, dredged in a little flour and seasoning, I find it helps thicken the stew. I don't usually dice the chicken first – as if you leave it long enough, it will shred and fall apart. However, if you like your stew more in chunks, go ahead and dice at this stage.
Place all ingredients in the slow cooker – except for the sweet potatoes and flour. Turn on the slow cooker to low and let simmer for 6-8 hours. If you are pinched for time, you can cook on high for about 4 hours. If you didn't brown the chicken first – these are minimum times for cooking. I tend to omit the sweet potatoes until about about halfway through cooking as they tend to soften and fall apart within just a couple of hours.
Near the end of the cooking process (about an hour before) I usually take a look how thin the broth looks and then take some flour (about 2 tbspns) and (cold) water (1/4 cup) and mix it together until there are no lumps and then add into the slow cooker to give it a nice, thicker gravy style broth.
This is a nice change to a traditional stews with a smokey flavour from the bacon. I forgot to take a picture when I made this on the weekend – will try to remember to do so next time we make it – which is usually weekly :).
Happy stewing!
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Two great sessions from Dr Karl Blanks, and Ian Howie from Conversion Rate Experts. Many conversion areas have been covered in previous posts, so this post covers the second part of the session Key performance Indicators.
What are KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)?
"Measures that help you understand how you are doing against your objectives." – Avinash Kaushik, Author, Digital Marketing Evangelist at Google, Co-founder of Market Motive
What makes a great KPI?
"A great KPI gives you the actionable insights that enable you to deliver insanely great business-focused results."
Five Winning KPI's
Average Position on Search Page
Bounce Rate (Analytics)
Lifetime Customer Value (KISS metrics)
Click-through Rate
Conversion or Ecommerce Rate (Analytics)
KPI Optimisation Framework
Define – define the KPI's and set up tools to capture the results
Optimise – improve SERP copy, Improve SERP position, test Ads, test landing pages, test forms
Refine – Refine campaign, Keep optimising and testing based on KPI's
Case Study – Green Ops
We were shown a great case study from the Royal Marines Green Ops Overview. A campaign with the objective of achieving form submissions leading to the recruitment of Royal Marine Officers.
The campaign involved 312 of gameplay commanding a commando to judge a players ability to make a decision. The campaign generated twice as many applications required to meet targets, reduced the bounce rate from 63% to 51%, and grew the Marines Facebook community by 193% giving additional lifetime customer value
By adding Video and a distinct call to action button, Facebook Tab improvements decreased the Bounce Rate considerably
by splitting the page view and refining the focus of the page, the end game screen improved the amount of clicks and visitors to the form
For more info on conversion improvement, see previous posts from SES New York and the Conversion Conference


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When you've at all times had a gentle spot for babies named Oliver or Charlotte, it seems you are not alone. Many names that I assumed were actually ugly after I first heard them as a kid, have now become favorites. Get the lowdown on 1000's of child names proper here—together with meanings, origins, namesakes and celebrity babies who share the same name. Over time the most well-liked German names have tended to get shorter, with boys' names reminiscent of Finn, Jannik, Jonas, Leon, Luca, Lukas, Niklas, Tim and Tom having fun with reputation through the 2000s. A friend of mine discovered a child squirrel last evening and another one nearby that was no longer alive.
There's yet one more on the French record, Nolan breaks into the top 20 of male baby names in fifteenth place. The annual update of the checklist of child names is always made in April with the knowledge from the previous 12 months. Discovering a reputation that is not on the very prime of the listing of names the Social Safety Administration places out every year will be rough. It is because they have a distinct title for the Muirungu and Chuma 'ituika' names which could imply that they held the ceremony separately from the Murang'a Kikuyu.
So, we made a list of all the entries received for Ackermans' Baby of the 12 months competition during 2012 and 2013. All you need do is to step up your gown sense however persist with your traditional style with slightly bit of allowance, wear stretchy knee length attire to superbly exhibit your child bump. Rock and Roll Child Names – Wish to find out your child's identify in Rock N Roll history. Hopefully we will be able to use one in all these names sooner or later in the future! A fan of surprising word names could be courageous sufficient to use this in the first title spot but I think about more individuals would use snow in the center.
You really can't go mistaken with any of those names, however some parents are in search of names that aren't within the high 10, normally to keep away from the kid having to go by a nickname or tack on their final initial in school. It too has a implausible that means and a righteous biblical girl to back it up. Along with the Elizabeth of the New Testomony, the identify of Aaron's wife in the Outdated Testament is sometimes translated Elizabeth (in different translations it's Elisheba).
No person saw this one coming: Paisley entered the SSA's list of fashionable child names at #831 in 2006 and skyrocketed to #45 lower than a decade later. My remark is that some mother and father haven't fastidiously thought by means of the potential influence on their child's later life before naming their baby. But I noticed she was leaving the window cracked for the infant…and there have been a bunch of yellowjackets flying across the automotive (we were right subsequent to a dumpster) so I stated one thing and she or he took the newborn inside together with her.


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Manchester United welcome the high-flying Southampton to Old Trafford on Sunday afternoon for arguably the game of the weekend in the Premier League.
If you had said in August that this fixture will play a crucial part in who qualifies for Champions League football come the end of the season, many Saints fans would have laughed at you. But that is very much the situation that presents itself in this game.
United haven't set the world alight with their performances but Louis Van Gaal won't mind that in the slightest as they are still getting results, which is something they used to do so well under the great Sir Alex Ferguson in years gone by.Embed from Getty Images
They are now unbeaten in their last ten games in the Premier League and have suffered just one league defeat in the last 15.
Manchester United's home record: Played 10 – Won 8 – Drawn 1 – Lost 1
Talking of Sir Alex Ferguson, Southampton have a great manager themselves in the shape of Ronald Koeman. The Dutchman has been a revelation for the South Coast side and any fears surrounding the club at the start of the season following the departure of Mauricio Pochettino have well and truly been washed away.
Since a minor blip that saw them go on a four-game losing streak, Southampton have picked things up again by going four without a loss, winning three and drawing one.
Southampton's away record: Played 9 – Won 4 – Drawn 1 – Lost 4Embed from Getty Images
This clash promises to be an entertaining affair and is a tough one to call as so much depends on how both sides approach the game.
Southampton boast the best defence in the Premier League this season, and you'd expect them to be a tough nut to crack for Man United. And for all United's firepower going forward, they still haven't managed to outscore the Saints this season – both sides have scored 34 goals.
The hosts will be without Ashley Young who has a hamstring injury, while Southampton are without Maya Yoshida (international duty) and the impressive Sadio Mane (calf).
Manchester United's last five: W/D/W/D/D
Southampton's last five: L/W/W/D/W
Key stat: Manchester United are undefeated in their last nine Premier League home games (Won 8, Drawn 1).
Key player: Fraser Forster – the Southampton goalkeeper has been one of this season's outstanding performers and is likely to be called upon to save his team once again.Embed from Getty Images
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Oberlin College senior women's tennis player Sarah Hughes (Haddonfield, NJ/Merion Mercy Acad.) added more hardware to her already impressive collection as she was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Most Improved Senior in the nation at the organization's annual banquet prior to the NCAA Division III Championships.
Hughes, who last week was named as the region's most improved senior, was selected by a national committee over the other three regional award winners. The Haddonfield, New Jersey, native is the first player in the illustrious history of the Oberlin women's tennis program to win a national award.
Hughes entered the year as the ITA Central Region "Player to Watch" and she surely lived up to the hype, ending her senior season as a first-team North Coast Athletic Conference selection in both singles and doubles while being ranked 12th in the region.
A winner of the athletic department's Gertrude E. Moulton and Honda Scholar-Athlete awards in her career, Hughes has also excelled in the classroom as she departments campus with a degree in biology and a 3.75 grade point average.
A four-year All-NCAC first-team selection in doubles, Hughes ranks second all-time in program history with 68 career victories in doubles play. She earned double-digit wins in singles in each of the last three years with the previous two coming exclusively in the top flight. She produced 35 wins in her singles career, including 11 this season.


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You choose a life of blessing and reward OR a life of mediocrity and defeat. We all know that a life of blessing and reward don't just happen automatically or by chance. There is no such thing as an auto pilot switch for your life. It all happens by CHOICE. One of the greatest mistakes anyone can ever make is when they fail to CHOOSE! Choosing to not choose is a bad choice. Many people assume that life just happens to them – randomly or haphazardly. They want a better life and they are just waiting for life to get better. They have this belief (which, by the way, is a wrong belief) that they have no power over their own lives. You don't get a better life; you create a better life by the choices you make. And then there are those who are just "comfortable" in believing that fate, chance or luck are what are controlling their lives. And then there are other who think/believe that "if God wants them to have something, then they will have it." In other words, "Let's just put the monkey on God's back for how my life turns out." Let me repeat, "The will of God is not automatic; you have to pray; you have to have faith; and you have to choose." The BLESSED life happens by CHOICE! The greatest power you have is your power to choose. The Bible says you can choose life or death, blessing or cursing, to be happy or sad. God DOES NOT make our choices for us. We do! We choose and we decide.
As I mentioned in PART TWO of this study on CHOICES – You have already made a good choice by being in church, but you don't stop there! You have to keep making good decisions. Good decisions create momentum for your life. Follow up good decisions with more good decisions. Here are some examples for choosing your level of participation in church:
WORSHIP – How am I going to worship today? With my whole heart or just half heartedly?
PRAYER – Are my prayers going to be ritualistic (meaning without passion) or faith filled? Are my prayers going to be powerful and anointed?
GIVING – I can choose to be an extravagant and cheerful giver. Is my giving going to be an act of worship or just another bill to pay?
HEARING – Jesus said, "It's important the amount of emphasis you place on mixing faith with the word you are hearing." In other words, am I just sitting through another church service OR am I allowing the word of God to change me and equip me?
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING – Into whose life can I be a blessing today? How can I let God use me to be a blessing?
Making good choices begins with your non-negotiable reality. Here's an example of Joseph: He was sold by his brothers into slavery (he had no choice). He was betrayed over and over (he had no choice). He was falsely accused (he had no choice), and he was falsely imprisoned (again, he had no choice). But, giving up or giving in were not options for Joseph. Even with all these things, Joseph still CHOSE his perspective, his attitude and his responses. And his CHOICES affected his outcome.
Victor Frankl, a prisoner/survivor of Nazi concentration camps, lost everything he had or had everything taken away. His wife died in a concentration camp. His mother and his brother died in a concentration camp. He himself was imprisoned in Auschwitz – one of the worst. But he had decided he was still in control of his attitude and he refused to be a victim or to submit to defeat. After being liberated, he continued his career as a successful psychiatrist, educator, author and teacher. His most famous book was "Saying Yes To Life In Spite of Everything." Here are a couple of quotes from this book: "Between stimulus and response, there is a space and in that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." The point here is that circumstances cannot take away your power to choose! You can CHOOSE today to not be afraid. You can choose today to deal with the guilt that has consumed your life. You can choose today to not be lonely. You can choose today to not be angry. And you can choose today to not worry.
So many people struggle with worry. Let me remind you that worry is doubting God. You can choose to worry, or your can choose to live by faith. When you come to know Christ, and I mean REALLY know Christ, then that whiny attitude of yours becomes a thing of the past! When you walk by faith, it means you are not a crisis Christian and that you are not controlled by your crisis. Instead, you take the name of Jesus, the authority of that name, and you attack the crisis! I Peter 5:7 says, "Casting all your cares (anxiety) onto the Lord because He cares for you." How many cares? All of them. Not some and not just the small ones, but ALL of them! The big ones, the scary ones and the mean ones. The Bible says, "But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Here's the point behind this verse – God has given you the victory – it's already yours!
VICTORY is a gift from God, just like salvation is a gift from God. Did you have to work for your salvation? NO – you just believed and received it. We need to CHOOSE victory over defeat every time. All good choices begin with right thinking. You can choose "stinking thinking" or "Jesus thinking." Thomas had stinking thinking – "I'll have to see it before I believe it, or touch it with my own hands." Now Paul on the other hand, was snake bitten, criticized, beaten, stoned, shipwrecked and imprisoned and here is what he said, "These are all but light affliction." WHAT?????? So you can see that one had "stinking thinking" and the other had "Jesus thinking." You might ask "what is Jesus thinking?" Jesus thinking is when you choose to have the mind of Christ. To have the mind of Christ means to have the same outlook on life that Jesus had. An outlook towards God and not blaming Him, but believing Him; not doubting Him, but trusting Him. An outlook towards man – to seek, save and restore. An outlook on life – no doom, gloom or pitiful me, but always focused on doing God's will.
RE-SURRENDER YOUR LIFE – Paul said to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. That means that every day we are to re-submit ourselves to God and re-align our thinking with His thinking. It's a daily decision to follow Christ and a daily decision to make Jesus the Lord of your life. DAILY DECISIONS DETERMINE DIRECTION.
REJOICE – Philippians 4:4 says, "rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice." You can complain and remain or praise and be raised! It's a joy to serve God, not a burden. Delight yourself in the Lord. Love being a Christian and don't ever feel sorry for being a Christ follower.
REMEMBER – You and I are better with God than without Him. Remember everything God has done for you. Remember His word and what He has said. Remember His power and willingness to answer your prayers. Ask the Holy Spirit to quicken you and remind you every time you start to slip – this will keep you from slipping back into self-destructive patterns.
REPLACE – Replace old worn out thoughts with new and better thoughts. You have to stop thinking one way and start thinking a new way. STOP thinking about your old boyfriend/girlfriend. STOP thinking about how your Ex treated you. STOP thinking about people who have made your life miserable. STOP thinking about all the times you were mistreated. STOP thinking about and digging up all those hurtful emotions.
How many of you need to CHOOSE between life and death? How many of you need to go from good to great? Let's all be ready to create the life we desire.


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Enviado por Andrea from "The Software Bin (MSX)" em 2016-05-24 19:38:42
While the scrolling text loops in the main screen, press trigger once (space or button) really fast. If the game starts as usual, repeat trying to get a faster pressing. As a reference, you can look closely the char under the 'L' from "LEVEL" and you'll see a key that appears briefly; if the key stays, you've enter the cheat mode.
Press during the title screen at the cursor up key, followed by [Space], and you can select your starting field.
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Bomber Jacket in Two-Tone
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- This bomber jacket from N. Hoolywood is made from a unique three fabric blended shell. The jacket features a two-tone navy and black design with a faint diagonal cross texture throughout. The interior of the jacket is lined with a plush polyester for extra warmth. Finished with Japanese YKK zipper closure, signature wool-blended ribbing, and two hand warmer pockets at waist.
- Classic bomber jacket style
- Two-tone navy and black design
- Regular fit
- Plush polyester interior lining
- Two hand warmer pockets at waist
- Ribbed cuffs, waistband, and collar
- Japanese YKK zip closure
- Shell: 59% cotton, 39% polyester, 2% polyurethane
- Interior: 100% polyester
- Ribbing: 50% acrylic, 30% wool, 20% polyurethane
- Additional lining: 100% acetate
- Made in Japan
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Size Chest Shoulder Sleeve Length 36 43" 18.5" 24" 26.5" 38 45" 19" 24.5" 25.25" 40 46" 19.5" 25" 25.5"
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- Since 2000, Tokyo-based brand N. Hoolywood has been creating retro-inspired garments with modern appeal. As part of the famous "Mister Hollywood" store in Tokyo, the brand has garnered critical acclaim for their unique take on vintage themes. The brainchild of "Mister Hollywood" himself, Daisuke Obana, N. Hoolywood gets it's name from the words "hollywood" and "hooligan," both of which continue to serve as inspiration for Obana's designs and creations.
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Vacant house damaged by early morning fire
Posted: May 19, 2017 4:39 AM CDT
Arson is suspected in an early morning house fire today on Milwaukee's north side. The Milwaukee Fire Department was called to a fire in a boarded up 2-story home at N 26th Street and W Port Sunlight Way. The call came in at 2:30, firefighters were on scene within two minutes and the fire was extinguished in 10 minutes. MFD officials say the fire was localized to the exterior of the south side of the building. The two-story wood framed house is vacant and no one was found inside the structure. Damage is estimated at $50,000 to the structure. No one was injured while fighting the fire.
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Samuel Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor of Labor Management and is Director of ILR`s New York City based Institute for Workplace Studies as well as the Director of the Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies. He is also the director of the New York City-based Master of Professional Studies, Visiting Professor, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, and Visiting Professor, "cole Nationale des Ponts Chausêes, MBA, Paris. He received his BS in economics from NYU. His MS and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He recently headed a study of work conditions and emotional health among NYC firefighters and fire officers, "On the Front Line: The Work of First Responders in a Post 9/11 World." As a follow-up to this study, in 2004, he has just begun a study in collaboration with the Transport Workers Union of New York City, examining the work conditions and emotional well being of 2000 subway and bus operators. He also headed a five-year effort studying blue-collar work conditions and is now leading a follow-up five-year study of the emotional well being of blue-collar workers in retirement. Much of Professor Bacharach`s work is funded through grants from the National Institutes of Health. For the past five years he has been involved in the study of change in organizations with a special emphasis on issues of creativity, dialogue and politics. He has an interest in the implication of long-distance learning technology for pedagogy. He has collaborated with eCornell in developing a 4-course certificate program in proactive leadership. In particular he is concerned with the use of long distance technology for enhancing undergraduate, graduate and executive education. He joined the ILR. faculty in 1974 and in the past he has served as the chairman of the Department of Organizational Behavior. EXPERIENCE
Former Chair, Department of Organizational Behavior; Senior Professor by special appointment, The William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor at Ben Gurion University; Editor, Research in the Sociology of Organizations (1981-2001).
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M.A. Modern East Asian Studies (MA MEAS)
MA MEAS – our offer
The MA program in Modern East Asian Studies develops three sets of core skills:
- It deepens students' existing methodological skills, applying them to the analysis of the East Asian context
- It increases their regional, discipline-based and interdisciplinary knowledge of East Asia
- It builds skills in one of three East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese or Korean)
The MA MEAS is an English-taught degree program on contemporary East Asia for graduates with a BA in East Asian regional studies and outstanding knowledge of an East Asian language. Depending on the student's skills in the social sciences, economics or regional studies, an adjustment year may be required.
The MEAS program aims to train students in the theoretical and problem-centered analysis of East Asian societies, politics and economies.
The program's objective is to deepen and enrich students' skills in assessing contemporary change, the challenges facing the East Asian region and the implications of such developments for Europe, doing so on the basis of strong language skills (in Chinese, Japanese or Korean) and a sound knowledge of discipline-based methods and theories.
MA MEAS – at a glance
|Master of Arts (MA)
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