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It is as if casino resorts in Las Vegas have become part of the save the earth movement recently, for more and more of them have decided that visitors to their resorts are going to have to pay to park their vehicles in the parking lots.
Whilst anything that does reduce the carbon footprint of those huge and sprawling venues should be embraced, when changes do occur that force people to pay anything to do so then that is not something we should be celebrating!
For years visitors to any casino in Vegas have been able to park their vehicles for free, those days do now appear to be over, as you are going to find fewer and fewer places that you can park for free, but it is not for environmental reasons those venues are now charging you to park, it is to suck even more money out of you!
One of the reasons many such venues are giving for the newly introduced car parking fees and charges they are imposing on visitors to their properties is that people have been using their parking lots as a way of parking for free and then jetting away from the nearby McCarran Airport, then returning and simply driving off once they returned from their vacation.
With those parking lots at such venues being safe and secure anyone who does use them in such a way will have the peace of mind in knowing that their car is being looked after and will still be where they left it when they return, and it would not cost them a cent to park for any duration.
The two latest properties to have switched over to a pay to park system is the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore and as such if you do fancy visiting either of those two venues and intend to take your vehicle to get there then be prepared to have to pay for the privilege from now on!
If you do decide to visit the Wynn Las Vegas or the Encore then you will be able to park for the first hour for free but then will be forced to have to pay $7 for the next hours parking, or $12 if you decide to stay for between two to four hours and the charge for parking for up to 24 hours is $15 and $15 for every 24 hours thereafter.
If you are a member of the comp club at the Wynn and are a Red Card holder then you are going to be able to qualify for some discounts on the parking rates, however I for one would be annoyed if I was charged a single cent to park at any casino that I intended to spend any amount of time gambling at!
There are of course still some casino properties and casino resorts that offer unlimited free parking. However, those venues are the ones that tend to be furthest away from the airport!

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WARSAW — The Trump White House has accelerated a secret American program to sabotage Iran's missiles and rockets, according to current and former administration officials, who described it as part of an expanding campaign by the United States to undercut Tehran's military and isolate its economy.
Officials said it was impossible to measure precisely the success of the classified program, which has never been publicly acknowledged. But in the past month alone, two Iranian attempts to launch satellites have failed within minutes.
Those two rocket failures — one that Iran announced on Jan. 15 and the other, an unacknowledged attempt, on Feb. 5 — were part of a pattern over the past 11 years. In that time, 67 percent of Iranian orbital launches have failed, an astonishingly high number compared to a 5 percent failure rate worldwide for similar space launches.
The setbacks have not deterred Iran. This week, President Hassan Rouhani singled out Tehran's missile fleets as he vowed to "continue our path and our military power."
The Trump administration maintains that Iran's space program is merely a cover for its attempts to develop a ballistic missile powerful enough to send nuclear warheads flying between continents.
Hours after the Jan. 15 attempt, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted that Iran's satellite launchers have technologies "virtually identical and interchangeable with those used in ballistic missiles."
Mr. Pompeo is in Warsaw this week with Vice President Mike Pence to lead a meeting of 65 nations on encouraging stability in the Middle East, including by expanding economic sanctions against Iran. It is largely an appeal to European allies who, while continuing to oppose President Trump's decision to abandon the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, also agree that the missile tests must stop.
The launch failures prompted The New York Times to seek out more than a half-dozen current and former government officials who have worked on the American sabotage program over the past dozen years. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the covert program.
The officials described a far-reaching effort, created under President George W. Bush, to slip faulty parts and materials into Iran's aerospace supply chains. The program was active early in the Obama administration, but had eased by 2017, when Mr. Pompeo took over as the director of the C.I.A. and injected it with new resources.
Tehran is already suspicious. Even before Mr. Trump withdrew last May from the nuclear accord, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of Iran's missile program, accused American and allied intelligence agencies of turning their campaigns of "infiltration and sabotage" to Iran's missile complex from its atomic infrastructure.
"They want to repeat their nuclear sabotage in the missile area," he told Iranian state television in 2016, vowing the program will never stop "under any circumstances."
The C.I.A. declined to comment on the sabotage efforts. Government officials asked The Times to withhold some details of its reporting, mostly involving the identities of specific suppliers to the Iranian program, because the effort is continuing.
Because there are so many things that can stymie a launch — from bad timing to bad welding to bad luck — some of Iran's troubles, aerospace experts warned, could well be the result of normal malfunctions.
But the recent rise in failures suggests the effort to subvert Iran's space launches and missile test flights, and the resulting flows of forensic information needed to lift performance, may now have intensified.
The covert actions against Iran's missile and rocket program are being taken through countries and companies that supply Tehran's aerospace operations. French and British officials have joined the United States in calling for ways to counter Iran's missile program.
At the Pentagon last month to unveil a new missile defense strategy, Mr. Trump noted the Jan. 15 failed space launch. Had it succeeded, he said, it would have given Tehran "critical information" it could use "to pursue intercontinental ballistic missile capability, and a capability, actually, of reaching the United States."
"We're not going to have that happen," Mr. Trump said.
The Iranian Target
Long before Iran got serious about producing nuclear fuel for a future weapons program, it was on the hunt for powerful missiles. The spark was its long-running fear of Iraq. In the 1980s, Saddam Hussein's forces shot waves of missiles at Iranian cities. Hundreds of civilians died, and Iran fired back with Soviet-designed missiles it acquired from Libya, Syria and North Korea.
By the 1990s, Iran was importing a North Korean missile known as the No Dong, which it renamed the Shahab-3, or Shooting Star-3. The missile could hurl warheads about 800 miles, far enough to hit Israel. The No Dong's powerful engine — seven feet long from nozzle to fuel pumps — eventually became the first-stage propulsion unit for most of Iran's long-range missiles and for all of its space launchers.
After the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq, Washington and its allies stepped up efforts to thwart Tehran's missile and nuclear ambitions. By 2006, the United Nations Security Council demanded that Iran stop enriching uranium, a main fuel of nuclear weapons. Iran's refusal prompted the imposition of sanctions that banned the import of parts, materials and technologies for manufacturing nuclear fuel — and for building missiles.
Under Mr. Bush, two covert programs against Iran rose in tandem: one focused on nuclear materials, the other on missiles.
The C.I.A., with help from the National Security Agency, searched for ways to subvert factories, supply chains and launchers.
It did not take much, according to officials from both the Bush and Obama administrations. Flight disruption could take no more than a small design change in a critical valve, a modest alteration in an engine part or guidance system, or a contaminated alloy for making launcher fins, crucial for aerodynamic stability.
American military officials urged Congress to put more money into programs they obliquely hailed in open testimony as "left of launch" techniques — so called because they rely on sabotaging launchers before they are fired.
In Iran's case, that meant identifying the networks of suppliers and subcontractors who sold aerospace parts and materials to Tehran. The United Nations sanctions meant Iran also relied increasingly on black markets and shadowy middlemen — targets the C.I.A. found comparatively easy to penetrate, according to two former officials.
The key insight, as several participants described it, was to subvert test launches of new missiles. If the tests failed, Iran would hesitate to embark on mass production.
President Barack Obama quickened the clandestine war with disruptions aimed not only at missiles but also at a newly emerging target — space launchers.
By definition, rockets loft satellites into orbit, and missiles fire warheads though the fringes of space to hit remote targets. Mr. Obama's first secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, held that the development and testing of one class of launcher could advance the other.
Some rocket specialists have challenged such arguments, saying that whatever overlap exists is too small to be significant. For its part, Iran insists that its satellite launches have no military value and that it seeks no nuclear weapons.
When Mr. Pompeo arrived at the C.I.A., there was relatively little nuclear activity underway in Iran. Most of Tehran's centrifuges had been dismantled under the 2015 agreement, and 97 percent of the country's nuclear fuel had been shipped to Russia.
But Iran had ramped up its missile and space program. Mr. Pompeo immediately focused on the supply chain for rockets and missiles, a world he knew intimately.
He had graduated from West Point with a degree in mechanical engineering and founded, with classmates, Thayer Aerospace, named for a famous superintendent of the military academy. The company made parts for Boeing, Lockheed and Raytheon. Mr. Pompeo understood what happens when aerospace parts are produced with less than extreme precision. From 2011 to 2017, he served in Congress, including on the House Intelligence Committee.
When he got to the C.I.A., he pressed to reinvigorate the sabotage program. It was, a former official said, an obvious target.
Evidence of Manipulation
It can take years to "seed" a foreign aerospace program with faulty parts and materials. And typically, it is impossible to know if the bad technology is ever installed in particular launchers.
In one case, the United States got lucky: A short-range Iranian-made missile landed in Baghdad's Green Zone, but failed to detonate. When experts pulled it apart, they found one of the American-sabotaged parts inside, according to a former senior official.
"Iran hides its failures and exaggerates its successes," said Shea Cotton, a chronicler of Iranian launchings at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, based in Monterey, Calif.
Geography also affects learning about the repercussions. Launchings from North Korea are relatively easy for Washington to monitor because the peninsular state, about 100 miles wide at its waist, is surrounded by American bases, fleets, radars and allies. Sometimes missiles fall into the sea and are recovered by the United States or its allies.
By comparison, Iran is twice the size of Texas, and missile components can fall into its own territory. But the numbers suggest that the left-of-launch campaign against Iran has taken its toll.
Iran first succeeded in putting a small satellite into orbit in 2009, just as it was ramping up its nuclear program. It did so again in 2011, 2012 and 2015. Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who publishes "Jonathan's Space Report" and specializes in orbital monitoring, recently noted that those four launches were the only clear successes out of a dozen.
At least once, an Iranian rocket exploded on the launchpad, leaving damage so extensive that satellites passing overhead could make out blast scars, burned wreckage and a blackened rocket transporter. Iranian officials kept silent on that disaster, in 2012.
So far, Iran has failed to successfully test the newest generation of its satellite launcher — a bigger, more powerful rocket known as Simorgh or Phoenix. The vehicle, roughly nine stories tall, debuted in April 2016. Iran wrapped the test flight in secrecy, and sky monitors know for sure only that no satellite went into orbit.
In July 2017, another Simorgh roared off a launchpad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center, a complex east of Tehran named for the nation's first supreme leader. Iran called it a success. But once again, no satellite was seen. Reports said Washington concluded there was a "catastrophic failure."
In January, Mr. Pompeo warned Iran against launching a Simorgh that spy satellites had detected was in preparation. After it lifted off, on Jan. 15, Iranian officials declared it suffered what they called a third-stage failure.
"Sometimes life does not go as expected," Iran's minister of telecommunications, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, said in a Twitter post.
Some experts attributed Iran's poor performance to other factors, including trade embargoes that block the best technology. "It's not a great record, but it's not out-of-the-family, especially given the sanctions," said Dr. McDowell, the Harvard astronomer. "It makes it harder to get parts."
The secret American program parallels a cybersabotage effort that was aimed at North Korea, which suffered an embarrassing series of missile failures in 2016 before suspending its flight tests a year later.
North Korea has since developed solid-fueled missiles — an effort that Tehran is now racing to match. Solid fuels are not as vulnerable to covert meddling as the welters of hardware behind liquid-fueled missiles.
A Warsaw Warning
In Warsaw, Mr. Pompeo is expected to repeat his warnings about the danger of Tehran's missile program and to press European and Arab states to expand sanctions and missile defenses aimed at Iran.
There will almost certainly be no reference to the United States' secret sabotage efforts. But when Mr. Trump spoke at the Pentagon last month, he said nothing about Russia, China or North Korea as missile threats. He spoke only of Iran.
"Our strategy," Mr. Trump said, "is grounded in one overriding objective: to detect and destroy every type of missile attack against any American target, whether before or after launch."
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Jose Mourinho bolts news conference, demands respect after Tottenham routs Manchester United
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho walked out of his postgame news conference following Monday's 3-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur after demanding that the media show more respect for the three English Premier League titles he has won during his career, noting that it's more than every other current coach in the circuit combined.
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"Do you know what this means?" a visibly upset Mourinho, holding up three fingers in a way that can be interpreted as an obscene gesture in England, rhetorically asked one journalist. "Three-nil. But it also means, three Premierships, and I won more Premierships alone, than the other 19 managers together."
"Three for me and two for them," he added as he stood up and walked off the dais. The defeat left United, runners-up last season to local rival Manchester City, 13th in the table after three rounds of play.
City is helmed by Pep Guardiola. Manuel Pellegrini, who led City to the title in 2014, is now the manager of West Ham United. Mourinho won Premier League with Chelsea in 2005, 2006 and 2015. He also captured Champions League crowns with Porto (2004) and Inter Milan (2010).
Only in the past decade, there's been a tiring trademark of Mourinho's tenures. He lasted just two years at Inter, three at Real Madrid and two in his second stint at Chelsea, and now he looks set to leave United whenever he and the board get sick of each other this season.
Oh, and another trademark has been deflecting poor results in surly fashion. Among the post-match gems:
"The best team."
"No, I didn't applaud the Tottenham players."
"I think if you do what I did before the game, which was looking at the news and looking at Myanmar, I think that's difficult times."
With pressure reaching a boiling point on Mourinho's job status at Old Trafford, expect his responses to only get better.
Doug McIntyre covers soccer for Yahoo Sports. Follow him on Twitter @ByDougMcIntyre.
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• Watch: Man City held at Wolves thanks to blatant handball goal
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The UN's former top nuclear watchdog said tonight that his cautious language in reports about Iran's nuclear programme was part of a deliberate policy to keep a lid on tensions and avert a rush to war.
Mohamed ElBaradei, who was director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency for 12 years before stepping down last November, pleaded with the international community to "learn the lessons" of the Iraq invasion and prevent further conflict in the Middle East.
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, he said that despite its technical status, the IAEA's work was deeply politicised. "We are a technical organisation totally embedded in a political setting," said ElBaradei, "and we have to be aware of the background and political implications of our work."
ElBaradei, who was jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2005 along with the IAEA, has been criticised by some for allegedly toning down agency reports on the threat posed by Iran.
A report earlier this year – the first under the stewardship of ElBaradei's successor, Yukiya Amano – was noted for its blunter language concerning Iran's nuclear programme, prompting some to accuse ElBaradei of concealing facts.
"It is now clear that … ElBaradei was engaged in what may well prove to be the most lethal cover-up in human history," said one Forbes magazine columnist following the report's publication.
ElBaradei denied any cover-up had taken place, but acknowledged he believed he had a duty to frame agency reports in a way that could not be exploited by those seeking war. "When I was working at the agency we would literally go through 30 drafts or so of each report before it was ready, because I knew every word could be used politically and in a very subjective way," he said. "Every word was weighed to make sure that it was immune from being abused, and I always wanted to make sure that we were not overstating or understating, but rather just stating the facts."
He rejected suggestions this amounted to undue political interference in the agency's work. "I think the tone was set by me, that's true," he said. "But all the facts were in every report, unvarnished."
ElBaradei's cautious reports are in contrast to the title of his memoirs, Crawling Away From Armageddon, which will be published in the autumn.
The book is expected to reveal details of ElBaradei's private conversations with US officials, with whom he fought in vain to avoid a US-led invasion of Iraq. "I would hope that the lessons of Iraq, both in London and in the US have started to sink in," he told the Guardian. "Sure there are dictators, but are you ready every time you want to get rid of a dictator to sacrifice a million innocent civilians?"
ElBaradei went on to praise Barack Obama for adopting a different approach from the Bush administration.
"I believe that the IAEA has a role not only to do inspections and verification, but also to work with the different parties to find solutions," he said.
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The degree of Paul's self-absorption at this point in his career is remarkable. . . . One wonders what the Philippians made of Paul's call for unity and reconciliation [Phil 4:2-3], when he exhibited nothing but contempt for those at Ephesus who disagreed with him?--Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, Paul: A Critical Life (Oxford University Press 1996), 224-25
. . . A further indication of Paul's self-absorption is his citation of a magnificent Christological hymn [Phil 2:6-11], which is perhaps the most damning condemnation, albeit implicit, of his egocentric attitude.
Of course, it is easier to call Paul egocentric when you reject Ephesians 3:8 and 1 Timothy 1:15 as pseudepigraphical--but then, one wonders, why would an imitative admirer of Paul speak in such castigating terms of the apostle?
I eagerly await the day this book goes out of print. It is an awful book. Not because we should treat Paul as if he never sinned but because it is a striking example of what it means to study the Bible by standing over it rather than sitting under it. (I took a class with Murphy-O'Connor two years ago at Notre Dame and briefly reflected on it here.)
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Custer State Park: Lots and Lots of Wild(ish) Life
With 71,000 acres, it's a pretty good bet you're likely to encounter an animal or two in Custer State Park.
In fact, the park boasts 1,300 head of bison, so it's likely to be a fairly large animal you encounter.
In addition to bison, a variety of other animals – including pronghorn antelope, elk, prairie dogs, deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goats and wild turkeys – also live in the park, and many of those animals hang out along the Wildlife Loop.
But for me, it's what the website describes as "a band of friendly burros" that always makes a trip to the park worthwhile.
However, I take issue with the "friendly" descriptor; "hungry" or maybe just "begging" would be a better word choice. It's not that the burros are mean, far from it. But they don't approach your car and stick their head in your window – or cover your vehicle with burro spit as they give it a bath – because they're friendly. They're looking for you to feed them. But there are signs all over the Wildlife Loop warning you not to indulge them … no matter how sadly they look at you with their big, liquid-brown eyes.
Many years ago, friends and I decided to ignore the signs when a big group of burros surrounded our car. We fed them the only thing we had: Funions. Yes, I realize this was really irresponsible, and I still feel bad about it, but we were much younger and dumber then. Anyway, I don't know if you've ever gotten a whiff of a burro who's been enjoying some Funions, but it's not a pleasant odor. And to make matters worse, one of the burros stuck his head in the window, ripped the empty Funion bag from my friend's hand and dashed off down the road with it, victoriously swallowing it as he ran. So yes, don't feed the animals.
You can also enjoy some even tamer wildlife – all while taking in scenic views of the park you can't view from the road – by taking advantage of a trail ride. You can bring your own horse, if you happen to have one handy, or you can reserve one. Blue Bell Stables, located in the park, can hook you up with a one-hour, two-hour, half-day or full-day ride.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Something new...
Just as my inglorious career as a practising family lawyer is drawing to a close, I receive a court order that the publication in a national newspaper of an advertisement as to the presentation of a divorce petition be deemed good service. I'm not saying that such an order is unique, but I don't recall ever receiving one previously, in over 25 years of doing this work. You think you've seen everything...
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Fascism has been described as 'the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain'.
Brutal, repressive and in some cases totalitarian, the fascist and authoritarian regimes of the early twentieth century, in Europe and beyond, sought to create revolutionary new orders that crushed their opponents. A central component of such regimes' exertion of control was criminal law, a focal point and key instrument of State punitive and repressive power.
This collection brings together a range of original essays by international experts in the field to explore questions of criminal law under Italian Fascism and other similar regimes, including Franco's Spain and inter-war Romania and Japan. Addressing issues of substantive criminal law, the form and function of criminal justice institutions, and the role and perception of criminal law in processes of transition, the collection casts new light on fascism's criminal legal history, and related questions of theoretical interpretation and historiography.
At the heart of the collection is the problematic issue of continuity and similarity among fascist systems and preceding, contemporaneous and subsequent legal orders, an issue that goes to the heart of fascist regimes' historical identity and the complex relationship between them and the legal orders constructed in their aftermath. The collection thus makes an innovative contribution both to the comparative understanding of fascism, and to critical engagement with the foundations and modalities of criminal law across systems.


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The Columbia Heights Green is one of many parks and gardens run through the Community Harvest Program at Washington Parks & People. Over 50 gardens and greening sites across Washington, DC are supported by Washington Parks & People. Their goal is to develop the Washington city region as a hub of urban agriculture, where, together with our neighbors, we are equipped with the tools and know-how to feed ourselves and break our reliance on distant agribusiness.
The Columbia Heights Green is a new model of urban agriculture. There are no individual beds! Anyone can join. Everyone can garden. Everyone can eat fresh, local food. The Green is 100% organic. Our new hoop-house allows us to grow veggies year-round. We support community activities, movie nights, potlucks, and live music.
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"So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law." Galatians 5:1
One of my favorite Cooking Magazines is the Food Network Magazine. It truly has great, easy to make recipes and the pictures it includes are amazing. This weekend, for July 4th, I made Paula Deen's Lattice-Top Blackberry Pie which was included in the most-recent issue of the magazine. However, instead of making a lattice on the top crust, I cut out a heart from the middle of the top crust. Blackberries are in season now, and you can find yummy fresh berries for great prices at your local grocery store or your farmers market. Enjoy this pie hot out of the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It is the perfect Summer Treat :)!
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Paula Deen's Lattice-Top Blackberry Pie
6 cups (1 3/4 pounds) fresh blackberries
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
2 disks refrigerated pie dough
(one 14 ounce package-Pillsbury brand)
(or you can use your own homemade pie dough)
1 large egg
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees witha baking sheet on the middle rack. In a large bowl, toss the blackberries, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Let stand, mixing and coarsely mashing occasionally for about 20 minutes.
2. Fit one round of dough into a 9 inch deep dish pie plate. Trim the edges, leaving a 1/2 inch overhang. Refrigerate while you continue. Cut the remaining piece of dough into approximately eleven 1 1/4 inch wide strips. (Or, if you chose to use the entire piece of dough like I did for my pie, cut a shape with a cookie cutter out of the middle of your pie dough disk).
3. Spoon the blackberry mixture into the pie shell. Dot the top with the butter. Arrange the dough strips in a lattice pattern on top of the filling and trim the strips close to the edge of the pan; roll up and crimp the edge. (Or if you are using the method I chose, lay your disk of pie dough on top of the pie, crimping the edges and cutting off any excess). Lightly beat the egg with 1 tablespoon water and brush on the top and edge of the pie.
4. Place the pie on the hot baking sheet in the oven and bake until the filling is bubbling, about 45-60 minutes. If the crust browns too quickly, cover it with foil and continue baking. Let the pie cool before serving. Enjoy!


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A Certified Scrum Professional working with a range of teams as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master.
If none of those words mean anything to you then you could be missing out on all sorts of opportunities for your business - it's not just about software development.
For the non-technically minded I'd love to introduce you to Agile development so you can understand what it might mean for you and your business. For those more technical or if you already 'get'? Agile then please get in touch so we can share ideas. Finally, if you think there's nothing useful I can teach you then I'd like to meet you too as there must be lots I can learn from you.
My skills include:
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Agile Coaching consultancy and Scrum Master duties for the web development team. Facilitating Scrum ceremonies and providing observation feedback on processes throughout the development lifecycle.
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Managing delivery of body data products and services for the fashion and retail industries.
Originally contracted to help recruit and build the team, implement best practice business processes and fulfil the Scrum Master role for the KatchUp development team, also provided business development advice to the management team prior to dedicated marketing team being engaged. Following the launch of the service moved into an operational role monitoring performance of the service in its early months.
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Your Computer Can Now Offset Its Own Emissions, Without Your Help
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I know this might sound a little creepy weird, but thanks to the good folks at Little Green Genie (LGG), your computer can now calculate its own carbon footprint and purchase the related offsets. We knew the world of carbon offsets was growing, but we're not sure if this is helpful or a little too big brother.Spokesman for LGG, Bruce Nelson, said that 'the manufacture and use of computers is creating as big a carbon footprint as the airline industry' so now its time we take a closer look at these machines and do more than just put them into sleep mode when they're not being used. While you're working, the Little Green Genie program is working too by calculating your energy consumption. It then purchases carbon credits from Climate Friendly, which invests in renewable energy equal to the amount of energy used by your computer. The owners of LGG estimate that it will cost a person roughly $10 a year to offset emissions. Companies can also get involved, by installing the system on everyone's computers (and then monitor who is "working" hardest by using the most energy). Companies can also get involved in the Zero Carbon Computing Challenge - whereby they sign up and get all of their friends signed up to see who is the greatest offsetter of them all.
One interesting point is that emissions are calculated differently depending on where you live. The calculation programs were developed by non-profits, mostly based in the United States. According to Little Green Genie, "in short, some countries are cleaner than others." One country that does support the program is Australia, as the program is endorsed by the Hon Kate Jones MP, Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, who says she, "supports businesses that are making sustainable choices because reducing our carbon footprint is everyone's responsibility." :Little Green Genie
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The son of a Bat and a Demon, Damian al Ghul has set out to forge his own destiny – and atone for the shameful Year of Blood! Will he be aided or hindered by the behemoth Goliath? And what mysterious legacy trails behind him? Join writer/artist Patrick Gleason as he chronicles the globe-hopping adventures of ROBIN: SON OF BATMAN!
I loved Patrick Gleason's art in the entire Batman and Robin run and I'm really interested to see his writing chops with the character as well. While I'm more of a fan of Batman and Robin being together, I guess I'll take what I can get and make up the time we spent without Damian in our lives.
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News Release 2009-159 | December 16, 2009
OCC Releases CRA Evaluations For 25 National Banks
WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of November 15, 2009 through December 14, 2009. The list contains only national banks and insured federal branches of foreign banks that have received ratings. The possible ratings are outstanding, satisfactory, needs to improve, and substantial noncompliance.
Of the 25 evaluations made public this month, 4 were outstanding, 21 were satisfactory, none was needs to improve and none were substantial noncompliance. Evaluations are available. The OCC's Website (https://www.occ.gov) also offers access to a searchable list of all public CRA evaluations. Copies of the actual evaluations may be obtained by submitting a request electronically through the OCC's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Website. You can also obtain copies by writing to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Communications Division, Mailstop 2-3, Washington, DC 20219. When requests are made electronically, remember to include your postal mail address. Facsimile requests may be sent to (202) 874-5274.
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'Love and Information' at McPherson College Mingenback Theatre
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McPherson College's final theater performance of the 2016-2017 season. Call, email or visit the website for information and tickets.
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Despite being barely 70 years old, Pakistan is widely regarded as world power—for both its nuclear arms as well as its strategic location in South-Central Asia. And now, the country is fast becoming known for technological innovation, even in the face of numerous socio-political and economic challenges.
Open access to the internet and smart devices has led to a Pakistani technology startup boom in the past few years, some self-funded, many supported by various local startup incubators. The following are 15 such tech startups founded by young entrepreneurs in Pakistan.
15. Healthwire
Healthwire is an online service for helping patients find and book an appointment with healthcare professionals. Currently the platform only works for finding a dentist, but the company has plans to include other types of medical professionals in the future. Healthwire only lists doctors registered with the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC), the country's medical and dental regulatory authority.
14. Auto Genie
Auto Genie is a online car repair booking service based in Lahore. It provides oil changes, engine tuning, detailed checkups, and other value-added services. To use the service, simply book an appointment via its smart portal and pay for the job after the work is completed.
13. Convo
Convo—initially launched as Scrybe in 2005 in Islamabad—is a private social network for businesses. 5000+ companies across 156 countries currently use this service, from tech firms and advertising agencies to publishing houses and designers. It boasts visual conversation and reduced friction in communication amongst users, ensuring high quality digital collaboration in one place.
12. Patari
Founded in 2015, Patari is a music streaming service specializing in Pakistani music. The app is available for both iOS and Android, and boasts a collection of over 20,000 songs—making it one of the largest music streaming services in the country. Notable features of Patari's music programming include spotlights like classic of the day, guilty pleasure of the day, lost gem of the day, and folk song of the day based on listener's preferences.
11. Edutative
Edutative's platform provides prospective university students and parents reviews of local universities, as well as discussion tools, guidance, and advice around their chosen field of study. 40 local universities are currently collaborating with Edutative.
10. Vivid by Appography
Currently in incubation, Vivid is developing an alternative to interactive voice response (IVR) for use in customer service use cases. It provides a visual navigational tree that can cut short hold and wait times for support.
9. Groopic
Groopic does away with the need of Photoshopping the photographer into the final picture. The app basically merges two images into one to ensure that no one is missed in the final group photo.
8. Payload
Currently in incubation mode, Payload is a payment app specially designed for Pakistan's predominant cash economy. It uses bitcoin technology for financial transactions and promotes safe, rapid, and inexpensive transfer of funds.
7. Sabzi.pk
Sabzi.pk does away with hassle of going to the market for vegetables and fruits by offering same-day delivery to your doorstep. It even allows exchanges of delivered produce if it doesn't suit your needs. Cash is paid on delivery of ordered items.
6. Mindstorm Studios
Founded in 2006, Mindstorm Studios is the leading mobile and PC game developmer in Pakistan. The company has been delivering exceptional content to global audience for over a decade; acclaimed titles include Cricket Revolution and Whacksy Taxi, among others.
5. Arazi.pk
Arazi.pk is Pakistan's first premium real estate portal. It offers a database of properties and various other tools for aiding your search.
4. Meri Taleem
Meri Taleem is an online platform for prospective college and university students. The portal offers information about national universities, from admissions and housing to fee structures and campus life. It also offers career counseling services and an online admissions portal that students can use to apply to any university in Pakistan.
3. Savaree
Savaree is a car booking app for finding rides at competitive rates. It features full background checks on drivers and full day car rentals and vans for trips.
2. Trequant
Trequent is a smart watch for tremor patients. A tremo-quantifying device tracks the patterns of tremors via specialized sensors, which then in turn transmits the data to a smartphone and cloud storage beyond. The offering enables healthcare professionals to gather reliable, concrete data for aiding in patients' treatment and therapy.
1. Chimera
Chimera develops a virtual dressing room that presents a 3-D view of a garment on the shopper. With 6 major clients on board with the technology, Chimera is considered one of most promising Pakistani upstarts to emerge in recent years.
As these tech startups serve to illustrate, Pakistan has no shortage of technological innovation—with the help of local incubators, many of these entrepreneurs are overcoming various strategic and funding obstacles to debut their products and services on the world's stage.
- http://healthwire.pk/pages/about-us
- http://autogenie.pk/
- https://www.convo.com/company/about_us/
- http://patari.pk/home/new
- http://edutative.com/
- http://vividtech.io/d/
- http://www.groopic.com/
- http://www.payload.pk/index.html
- http://sabzi.pk/about/
- http://mindstormstudios.com/
- http://www.arazi.pk/
- http://meritaleem.com/about-us
- http://savaree.co/cabs.php
- http://trequant.com/
- http://chimeravd.com/
- http://techies.pk/articles/pakistani-investors-invest-in-local-technology-startups-now/
- https://www.techinasia.com/appography-vivid-service-replaces-annoying-customer-service-calls
- http://www.dawn.com/news/1222661
- https://lce.lums.edu.pk/startups/
- http://pakwired.com/top-5-startups-from-pakistan/


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Serengeti safari
Serengeti safari
The Serengeti safari covers in ten days a selection of the best that Northern Tanzania has to offer for the wildlife enthusiast - Arusha National Park for a walking safari, Tarangire Park, Ngorongoro Crater, the Ngorongoro Highlands, Lake Manyara and the Serengeti itself.
The Serengeti is one of the most famous parks in Africa, renowned for its endless plains, rich grazing grounds and a high concentration of predators, plus of course the Great Migration of over a million wildebeest through the Rift Valley
The Serengeti has a big reputation as a safari destination, and it never fails to surpass expectations. Days spent driving round its huge expanse is an experience in itself, but the wider area is also fascinating from a cultural perspective.
Serengeti Safari accommodation
The Serengeti is best suited tomobile camps, and we would use lightweight safari camps that effectively move with us. Every day we drive and then stop at one of several such camps in the park. The other option is to use one of the luxury lodges in the park, which are great for families and of a very high standard.
Serengeti Safari best times
Game viewing in the Serengeti is excellent any time of the year, but April and May have the heaviest rains. At this time however the lodges offer very good value and the game is of course still there. January to March are excellent times, and July to November, when the herds are crossing the Mara river.
Serengeti safari game driving
The days are filled with game driving, best starting early at dawn when the animals are still hunting. There are no night safaris allowed in the park, but there are some private reserves where night drives and walking safaris are allowed.
Dates & Bookings
Serengeti safari itinerary
|Travel Time
|45 mins
|We will collect you from the Kilimanjaro airport and drive you to the quiet town of Moshi at the base of Kilimanjaro where you can stay at a 3 star hotel which has very comfortable surroundings and a pool, where you can relax after your flight. Evening safari briefing, meet the team and relax.
|2hrs driving
|A days Walking Safari in the Wild! Depart Moshi at 07:30am and drive to the Arusha park. We then walk and explore the African wilderness on foot. This is a rare opportunity in African parks and reserves. As a small group, accompanied by an armed ranger as guide we go deep into the bush exploring the wilderness. We will travel to many scenic spots, where large herds of buffalo, giraffe, and zebra may be seen, your senses are on full alert and you can feel every breeze on your neck. This is the ultimate safari experience and straight back to nature. Around midday we will enjoy a picnic and then board our vehicle for an afternoon game drive along Momella lakes. We will then have Dinner and overnight in Arusha / Moshi
|Full days Game Drive
|After breakfast we will drive to Tarangire park. The game drive along Tarangire River will offer you the opportunity of seeing huge herds of wildebeests, zebras, elephants, impalas, elands and many others animals which have come to the river to drink. These animals will continue staying in the park until the onset of the rainy season when they start moving out of the park again. Late afternoon, followed by accommodation at the Twiga resort. Dinner and overnight stay.
|Full days Game Drive
|After breakfast we drive to Lake Manyara Park. We will enjoy a full days game drive with a picnic lunch on the lakeshore with a view of the hippos. Return to Twiga for evening meal and accommodation.
|5, 6, 7
|Full days Game Drive
|Transfer to Serengeti National Park. We drive across the Ngoronogoro Highlands and enter the famous Serengeti National Park. Picnic lunch enroute and a full days game drive in the vast open plains punctuated by rocky outcrops. Dinner and overnight in the Serengeti. We spend the next two days exploring the vast Serengeti.
|Full days Game Drive
|We leave the Serengeti and drive to the Ndutu area for a game drive. Thereafter Transfer to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. We will then have dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Simba camp
|Full days Game Drive
|Morning sunrise adventure in the famous Ngorongor Crater (home of the big five), late afternoon transfer back to camp, dinner and overnight.
|3 hrs
|After a leisurely start and a good lie in we will make our way back to either Arusha, Moshi or drop you off at the airport for onward travels.
Serengeti safari cost £1,695.00
- Price based on 5 people on the safari
- All Accommodation during safari (camping)
- Twin / Dbl room, B&B in Hotel on day 1.
- Airport transfers
- All Park, Transit and Crater fees.
- All camping fees.
- 3 meals a day
- Bottled water during game drives
- Professional driver and guide
- Safari vehicle
- Cook & kitchen equipment
- International Travel
- Visa and travel insurance
- Additional or upgraded accommodation
- Additional activities / trips outside of the itinerary.
- Additional hard / soft drinks
- Staff tips
A deposit of £250 is required on booking to secure your place and we ask that the remaining balance (trip price minus the deposit) is paid in full 4 weeks prior to your departure. When you book with us you're given your own secure online account which you can access 24/7. Through this account you can edit your booking, add flight, health, insurance and dietary details and also make interim payments. We make payments as flexible as possible and you can choose, if you wish, to pay a bit off your trip fee whenever it suits you.
Serengeti safari clothing
For your safari you need normal, general travel clothes but you should consider the elements and ensure you have clothing which will suitably protect you from the sun (suncream, hat, sunglasses, long sleeves, loose fitting and a neutral colour), rain (light jacket) and dust (bandana or scarf). If you are visiting some of the local villages then ladies should ensure that shoulders are covered and shorts are not too short, perhaps bring a sarong. Ngorongoro Crater can be cooler than the surrounding areas so a light jumper or thin fleece may be needed. A small set of travel binoculars are also handy. For the walking safari long trousers are best and a suitable pair of shoes - not sandles.
Why Us
- We offer small scale, authentic safaris, which can also be tailormade.
- All our guides and safari staff are professionally trained and have years of proven experience.
- We do not contract out our trips, we employ full time staff, offering job security and good benefits, and we are continually improving our quality service year on year.
- All the staff in our UK office have spent time in Tanzania so you can chat to people who understand what it's like to go for the first time, before you go.
- We are passionate about responsible tourism and our company supports sustainable development in Tanzania and Kenya in a real way. Adventure Alternative underwrites the charity Moving Mountains.
- Financial security guaranteed as we are AITO bonded.
- We are members on Interhealth which gives you access to pre-trip health information and on-site assistance by phone in the event of an emergency.
- Our staff only work for Adventure Alternative
Adventure Alternative Tanzania is a fully registered and licensed tour company based in Moshi. Castro Capelo is our operations manager in Moshi and Director of Adventure Alternative Tanzania. He organises all the staff, equipment, permits and hotel arrangements. You will have his telephone number, or the staff at the hotel desk can call him for you.
Our vehicles are 4x4 Land Rovers - four-passenger and eight passenger stretches. These are designed for safety, comfort, and are rugged enough to traverse any terrain. Large windows and photo hatches in the roof maximize game viewing. Bottled drinking water is provided throughout your safari.
Our experienced driver/guides are Tanzanians, who speak English and are knowledgeable about birds, wildlife, geography, and the peoples you will visit. They are friendly and courteous, with your needs a first priority.
Accommodations include hotels, lodges, tented lodges with permanent tents on a cement base, covered by a thatched roof, and offer modern amenities, and also private camping under canvas. There is a variety of delicious food served from Tanzanian cuisine to more Western cuisine – a wide assortment to please every palate.
Parks and animals
Serengeti safari - parks and animals
Arusha National Park
The entrance leads into shadowy montane forest inhabited by inquisitive blue monkeys and colourful turacos and trogons – the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black-and-white colobus monkey are easily spotted. In the midst of the forest stands the spectacular Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep, rocky cliffs enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds of buffalo and warthog.
Further north, rolling grassy hills enclose the tranquil beauty of the Momela Lakes home to thousands of flamingos, the lakes support a rich selection of resident and migrant waterfowl, and shaggy waterbucks. Giraffes glide across the grassy hills, between grazing zebra herds, while pairs of wide-eyed dik-dik dart into scrubby bush like overgrown hares on spindly legs. Leopards and spotted hyenas may be seen in the early morning and late afternoon.
It is also at dusk and dawn that the veil of cloud on the eastern horizon is most likely to clear, revealing the majestic snow-capped peaks of Kilimanjaro, only 50km (30 miles) distant. But it is Kilimanjaro's unassuming cousin, Mount Meru - the fifth highest in Africa at 4,566 metres (14,990 feet) – that dominates the park's horizon.
Ngorongoro Crater
World renowned as a place of absolute wonder, Ngorongoro Crater is a deep volcanic crater, dramatically beautiful and permanent home to nearly 25 000 animals with ideal game viewing opportunities all year round, Covering 300 square kilometres in the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world, Ngorongoro supports a large resident population of wildlife including huge grazing herds of zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, eland and gazelle. Near the swamps and forest there are hippo, elephant, waterbuck, reedbuck, and bushbuck, baboons and vervet monkeys. Predatory animals include leopard, cheetah and large prides of lion. The rare black rhino can be seen, as can a wide range of birdlife.
Inside of the Ngorongoro Crater, you can explore the grassy crater floor, the forests, the lakes and the marshes. Lake Magadi is alakaline, caused by deposits of volcanic and are favourite hunting grounds for golden jackal, lion and hyena. Lerai Forest is named after the tall yellow barked acacia trees, where you will find many elephant, while the Gorigor Swamp is home to hippo and many water birds. But it is on the grassland where the sheer proliferation of animals is overwhelming, a safari spectacle that is truly worthy of the description of the 8th wonder of the world.
Lake Manyara National Park
A wilderness of diverse habitats and rich in game, Lake Manyara National Park is one of Tanzania's smaller wilderness enclaves. It is this diversity of terrain, as well as plant and animal species that make Lake Manyara a truly remarkable and special place. Richly populated with game within a wealth of bio diverse habitats and renowned for its tree climbing lions, Lake Manyara offers a truly remarkable and intimate wildlife experience.
Vast herds of elephant and buffalo, thousands of flamingos, cheetah, Masai giraffe, impala olive baboons, Sykes monkeys, hippo, Egyptian mongoose and many more incredible sightings are set to be discovered on an early morning and late afternoon / early evening game drive through the Lake Manyara National Park.
Tarangire National Park
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Funeral services for Maxine Gehrig of Hay Springs, Neb., will be held on Monday, March 27, 2017, at 10 a.m. at the Hay Springs United Methodist Church with Rev. Paul Smith officiating. Burial will be at the Gordon Cemetery.
Mrs. Gehrig passed away on March 18, 2017, at her home in Hay Springs.
Maxine was born on Dec. 12, 1934, in Gordon, Neb., to Cecil and Vera Dahlgren. She was 82.
For the first few years, she was called Sissy by everyone. She grew up in the Sandhills until she was in the 4th grade. Maxine would walk out and meet her siblings after school. The first three years she rode horseback back and forth from school with her brother Nick. Dad used to say that he was bow legged and Mom was knock kneed so they spelled the word O.K. when you saw them walking down the street.
Vera married Myron Gehrig on Dec. 9, 1953. She had four children of her own, Doug, Barry, Mich, and Myra. She raised many other children, such as her step-children, Dennis, Vicky, and Connie Gehrig. She considered all of them her children. She received many awards for the Easter Grandparent program. She received letters from the President of the United States for her foster parent program in appreciation for all her hard work. She also started many programs in Nebraska and South Dakota for the mentally handicapped. She worked as a Veteran's Service officer in Hot Springs, S.D., for many years helping a great many of Veterans receive their benefits.
The light of her life were her 10 grandchildren: Shane Erickson, Jake Gehrig, Jason Gehrig, Eric Gehrig, Cody Aaberg, Megan Gehrig, Morgan Gehrig, Karen Gehrig, Mich Gehrig Jr. and Mikaela Gehrig. She also adored her five great grandchildren. Her pride and joy was her dog Lily bean.
Her survivors include Sister, Yvonn (Don) Fitts; Brother Nick (Judy) Dahlgren; Children, Myra (Rob), Doug (Sandy), Barry (Nancy), Mich (Patty); Step-Children Vicky (Bill); numerous nieces and nephews and loved ones.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Cecil and Vera Dahlgren, two sisters, Betty (Roger) Phillips, Mary Lois (Bill) Harding, and son Dennis Gehrig.
A memorial has been established. Donations may be sent to Chamberlain Drabbels Mortuary, PO Box 443, Hay Springs, NE 69347.
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McCartney sisters say case closed:' Jock Davison entered our lives uninvited and took Robert's life'
Robert McCartney's siblings condemn Jock Davison's killing but are sickened by tributes
The sisters of Robert McCartney have said their campaign for justice has now ended after the murder of Gerard 'Jock' Davison, whom they believe gave the order to kill their brother.
"We wanted Jock to face justice in a courtroom, not down the barrel of a gun," said Catherine McCartney.
"But the type of justice we hoped for has eluded us. We will never see Jock standing in the dock now.
"Our campaign for Robert is effectively over because Jock's death means he can never be held accountable for what he did that night."
Speaking exclusively to the Belfast Telegraph, the McCartney sisters condemned Davison's murder.
The former IRA commander was shot dead on Tuesday morning near his home in the Markets area of Belfast.
Catherine said: "Murder is wrong and can never be justified. As a family, we condemn Jock's murder. But we are sickened that politicians are pretending that he was a saint.
"This man brought death and destruction into our family and into many families across Belfast. It is nauseating that politicians from a range of parties are trying to whitewash his murderous past."
Another sister, Paula McCartney, said: "We have no sympathy for Jock Davison but we do have sympathy for his family. They are now grieving just like we grieved 10 years ago. They now know the pain of losing a loved one."
Robert McCartney, a 33-year-old father-of-two from the Short Strand, was stabbed to death by IRA members outside Magennis's bar in Belfast in January 2005.
His five sisters stepped forward to challenge the Provisionals and the code of omerta which ruled in working-class nationalist areas.
Their impassioned campaign for justice took them across the world, including Strasbourg and Washington where they met President Bush.
The McCartneys have always insisted that Jock Davison gave the order for their brother's murder - a claim he denied.
They say that after the fight broke out in the bar, Davison drew a finger across his throat to indicate to his henchmen what he wanted done to Robert and his friend, Brendan Devine.
Both men were followed into Market Street where they were beaten, kicked, stabbed and left to die. Devine survived but McCartney died in hospital nine hours later.
Catherine said: "Jock Davison didn't wield the knife that killed my brother but we hold him more responsible than the Provo who frenetically stabbed Robert.
"Jock Davison chose to let the mad dog off the leash."
Paula said: "Had Jock Davison not been in Magennis's bar that night, Robert would be alive today.
"The fight in the bar would still have happened but that is all it would have been, a fight.
"At worst, Robert would have been left with bruises and a bloody nose. There would not have been a dead body. It was Jock Davison who chose to turn it into something far more deadly that night.
"As a family we are still living with the repercussions of Jock's actions. We can't even visit Robert's grave. I went a few times but found no comfort there - it was too traumatic."
The McCartney sisters said they were incensed at politicians paying tribute to Davison as a respected and valued community worker.
Catherine said: "Jock is obviously a loss to his family but he is not a loss to the community.
"Jock Davison wasn't a positive person in the community. His legacy to the community is one of death and mutilation. He was involved in numerous murders and punishment beatings.
"There are dozens of families who lost loved ones because of him or who had loved ones beaten to a pulp in alleyways in the dark of night.
"This is a so-called community worker who put people in early graves. Yet nobody is mentioning his victims.
"Had this been Mark Haddock, politicians wouldn't be getting away with spouting this rubbish. I view Jock Davison no differently to Mark Haddock. To whitewash this man's legacy is an insult to his victims. How dare they."
Haddock is a notorious former loyalist terrorist and police informer who was jailed for 12 years last June in London for a knife attack on friend and fellow informer Terry Fairfield. The former Mount Vernon UVF leader has been linked to 21 murders but never convicted of any.
The McCartneys said they were particularly disgusted at Alliance's South Belfast Westminster candidate, Paula Bradhsaw, who expressed "extra sadness" at Davison's murder, stating: "I knew Gerard through the community sector and of his hard work for the Markets community."
Catherine said: "Is that all it takes to wipe out somebody's murderous past, for a politician to cut a yellow ribbon with them at a community event?
"Paula Bradshaw's crass comment illustrates how badly victims are treated in Northern Ireland.
"Politicians bemoaning the loss of Jock Davison is highly offensive to bereaved families sitting at home with empty chairs because of him." The McCartneys also lambasted the police for their comments about Davison.
Detective chief inspector Justyn Galloway said that although Davison, like many people in Northern Ireland, had a past "that is in the past".
Catherine said: "I am appalled at Justyn Galloway's statement. It contradicts everything the PSNI has told us. The police never informed us that Robert's murder investigation was over.
"The police had evidence against Jock Davison. For us, he remained a central suspect in a murder investigation. By these comments it feels like the police had already relegated Robert to the dustbin of history.
"But maybe if a murderer puts on a community worker hat, sits down and has tea and buns with the police, the slate is wiped clean."
In 2008, three men went on trial in connection with Robert's death. Terry Davison, Jock's uncle, was charged with murder; Jim McCormick and Joe Fitzpatrick with causing an affray. All three were found not guilty.
The McCartneys alleged that the police never had any interest in bringing Robert's killers to justice and the prosecution was "just window-dressing".
Catherine said: "Jock was the person we most wanted in the dock because the murder was carried out at his behest.
"But we felt the police were never interested in seriously going after him.
"We felt he was protected. We repeatedly asked detectives if he was an informer. We were just told the issue of informers was irrelevant to the investigation."
The sisters believe that Davison's senior rank in the IRA meant that the organisation initiated a cover-up after Robert's murder, destroying vital evidence.
"Had it been just run-of-the-mill Provos involved, our family would have had a far greater chance of achieving justice," Catherine said.
"But Jock's senior position in the movement meant they were never going to just spit him out."
While Davison was publicly expelled by the IRA for events in Magennis's bar, Catherine said the presence of senior republicans on the ground after his shooting on Tuesday, and the warm tributes paid to him, showed that he remained intricately involved with the organisation.
She said: "Jock Davison entered our lives uninvited 10 years ago. He took away Robert's precious life.
"Had Jock been held accountable by the state for his many murderous actions, justice would never have been meted out to him on the streets.
"I see his murder as an unfortunate, awful result of what happens when the system fails victims.
"You can't leave people without justice."
Paula added: "Had the police acted on evidence, Jock Davison would now be doing time in Maghaberry jail.
"By not upholding the rule of law, the authorities have paved the way for mafia law on the streets."
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Gerard 'Jock' Davison murder: Politicians voice their horror at shooting
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Playing for a night…or for keeps?
Jewelry designer Tatiana Belikov may have matured enough to curb her impulsive nature, but wickedness is still her best accessory. When family troubles bring her to Las Vegas and face-to-face with the man who knows all her darkest desires, resisting temptation is futile. A night of no-holds-barred sin? Jackpot.
Once Wyatt Caine had nothing to offer Tatiana except his heart, but time has changed his fortunes. Now he's the king of vice, and the king always gets what he wants. Especially when all he wants is her, all grown up and ready to play every dirty game he can devise.
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Nice really hot read about former lovers who meet up and maybe find the thing they've been missing in their lives…
I'm going to keep this review short and sweet because the story sets up two more installments in the pair's life together. There is a ton of heat in their scenes together but what I found I liked the most was the fact that they both were honest with their feelings even as they tried to keep them close to their chests.
Tatiana has come to terms with her needs in the bedroom but has never really felt the connection with any other man since she and Wyatt split. She's made a life for herself but when she's forced to try to make a deal with the man that she never truly got over is she strong enough to play and leave or will it take more out of her? I liked her strength but I found that when she finally let him see everything that she gained so much more strength in my eyes. She is so willing to put herself out there knowing that he could destroy her when they walk away from one another again.
Wyatt has never gotten over his first real love. Has he been a monk during their time apart? No but his heart never fully healed and when fate puts her in his path again he has to have another taste. The fun with him was seeing how hard he tried to keep it as just a single night but his actions and words during that evening showed his real wants/needs. He's definitely dominant and loves playing games but his heart is on his sleeve when it comes to her. I loved his willingness to play the games they both needed but I also found that the ending, when they finally really talk to one another, was more powerful than anything they experienced in the bedroom.
I will definitely finish the other books in this series soon… 😉


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The 2000 Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) law signed by President Bill Clinton called for a $7.8 billion dollar 30-year effort to restore the Everglades. Implementation was hindered in a number of ways, mainly lawsuits and stakeholder disagreements. Eleven years after CERP was implemented, a new coalition, led by the Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, initiated the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEEP). Devon Neary MP'16's thesis evaluates CEEP. Devon argues that this plan successfully integrates certain mitigation measures and emphasizes resiliency as well.
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