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You always want you can't have, and these days I'm obsessed with gardens. I have a little bitty porch that I hope to turn into a little green enclave, but just thinking about that has me dreaming of when I have a patch of grass to call my own.
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I'm in love with this iron plant stand, $198 at Terrain.
I'm pretty sure if I were unable to control myself, my entire home (and wardrobe) would be striped. If I had a really beautiful sunroom or deck, I would love to hang these outdoor drapes, $36 at Touch of Class.
I don't even have anywhere to put them, but I want these Hallo cushions from IKEA.
Years ago, Sean's parents offered us a forest green cafe set like this, and through some confusion and idiocy on my part, it never came to pass. Of course, within a year, I wanted a set fervently. This one is $104 for the table and $99 for two of the chairs at Ballard Designs.
Is anything more romantic than light in the garden? I don't even have grass and I'm tempted to buy these glass tealights. $10 at Z Gallerie.
I love the idea of injecting some glamour into a garden. I think these garden stools from Z Gallerie are super stylish, and would move indoors or outdoors easily. $69 (on sale!!).

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Armaan Kohli FINALLY Arrested For Assaulting His Girlfriend!
By Bollywood Journalist Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Arman Kohli who had assaulted his girlfriend and was absconding briefly, has now been arrested by the Santacruz police station in Mumbai. Kohli is booked under sections IPC 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult etc) and 506 (criminal intimidation) etc.
Mumbai police have confirmed that the complaint of assault was lodged by his live-in partner Neeru Randhawa, Indian media reported Tuesday. Based on her statement, Kohli was booked under sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and other relevant sections of the IPC.
According to the complainant, she was in a relationship with 46-year-old Kohli for past three years and they used to stay together in a flat in suburban Santacruz, a police officer told Hindustan Times. The duo had an argument over some monetary issue at their residence on Sunday evening (of June 3) and during the altercation, he allegedly pushed the woman and she fell from the stairs, according to the complaint. The accused then pulled her hair and banged her head on the floor, the woman has alleged. She has added that she suffered head and knee injuries in the incident and was admitted to a hospital by her driver.
Further investigation into the matter is underway, he added while speaking to Hindustan Times.
Kohli has appeared in several films like "Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani" and made his last big screen appearance in "LOC: Kargil" in 2003. He gained popularity after featuring on superstar Salman Khan-hosted reality TV show "Bigg Boss" Season 7.
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Scenes from the event held at the National Stadium. Photos: Shawn Hanna/Tribune staff
By SANCHESKA BROWN
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THOUSANDS of mourners gathered at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium last night to remember and celebrate the life of a man described as the "greatest global ambassador for the Bahamas" and the woman "of wisdom who was always by his side".
During the national memorial and service of thanksgiving and prayer Wednesday night, more than a dozen local and international friends, family and performers paid tribute to the lives of Dr Myles Munroe and his wife Pastor Ruth Ann Munroe.
Among them were Prime Minister Perry Christie, Leader of the Opposition Dr Hubert Minnis, Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade, new BFMI Senior Pastor David Burrows, Christian Council President Rev Dr Ranford Patterson, Susan Hinn, wife of American Pastor Benny Hinn and Dr Creflo Dollar, an American televangelist.
With his sister and family by his side, son Myles Chairo Munroe Jr said his heart was "truly broken" and although for now his "world has stopped" he knows he has a legacy to continue. He said as long as he has breath in his body his parents will never die.
"My life is on pause, I know in my heart life has to continue. I know my life will continue but right now it is frozen and a part of me doesn't want to move forward but I know I must. I owe it to my parents to keep pushing and fulfill their mandate," he said.
"My mother and father are no longer with us physically but their legacy will never die as long as I have breath in my lungs. I miss my parent so much, my heart is truly broken but I know God is with us because there is a peace that surpasses all my understanding. That comes from God.
"So Mommy, your baby boy, Daddy, your son loves you and misses you. Rest in peace."
Prime Minister Christie described Dr Munroe as the focal point and prominent figure of marketing in the Bahamas. He said Dr Myles was not one to "mince his words" and frequently held the government's feet to the fire with "respect and no regret."
"I stand here tonight not only as prime minister but a Bahamian who mourns the death of Dr Myles Munroe and his wife and a man who gives thanks for their lives and ministry and all the others persons who perished on November 9 - a day forever etched in our minds. Dr Myles was for me, as a man a spiritual mentor a collaborator in nation building and a personal friend whom I admired," Mr Christie said.
"As prime minister, what I liked about Dr Munroe is how he always gave it to you straight. There was never any beating around the bush. If he thought something was wrong he wouldn't hesitate to administer the rebuke respectfully but never apologetically and you would never leave an encounter will Myles Munroe wondering how he felt. He always let you know straight up. Even when he was at odds with you, he was always constructive. He always presented alternatives and developed compromises. He demonstrated this gift not long before his death when along with his team of BFMI advisers he put forward a simple and brilliant solution for one of the more controversial bills which led to the bills being amended. I speak of the four constitutional bills.
"He was the quintessential diplomat and peace maker," Mr Christie said. "He was an icon of universal renown. The Bahamas may have produced him but could not contain him. He was a proud Bahamian but also a citizen of the universe. The world was truly his stage. His wife and partner Pastor Ruth played (a part) in making him a man of global standing. She was a woman of God and by all accounts the wind beneath her husband's wings. She made it possible for him to achieve what he did. She was there as his partner and chief. She proved that behind a great man is an even greater woman."
Dr Minnis said Dr Munroe, who grew up with him in Bain Town, taught him a very valuable lesson - it is not where you begin in life but where you end.
He said: "Pastor Myles would always say to me 'what is most important in life is how you end.' Both Myles and I were born in Bain Town and our birthdays are three days apart. We would get together and reminisce on the days we would would tote water from the pump for the tin tub. Dr Myles also taught me that death cannot kill an idea, ideas are more powerful than death.
"We love and miss both Dr Myles and Pastor Ruth but we will continue their work and share their ideas with others. They will never die," Dr Minnis said.
Fighting back tears, Pastor Dave Burrows said his only wish is that he could make Dr Munroe proud. He described the late pastor as his mentor, his inspiration and the person who moulded and shaped him into the man he is today.
Dr Patterson remembered Dr Munroe as a man who was never afraid to speak his mind or stand up to the government. He said Dr Munroe spoke the truth "to the powers that be" without hesitation or regret and although he may not have been appreciated until after his death, Dr Munroe always carried the Bahamas with him, wherever he went.
"We in the Bahamas never really appreciated Dr Myles and Pastor Ruth but thank God the world recognised them as great people and great leaders who never forgot where they came from. For that we will always be grateful, he brought the Bahamas to the world," Dr Patterson said.
Dr Munroe and Pastor Ruth will be laid to rest today at 10am at BFMI on Carmichael Road.
They both died along with seven others in a tragic plane crash on November 9 in Grand Bahama.
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- Status: Price Change
- Type:Single Family Home
- Bedrooms7
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- Square feet: 9,336
- Lot size: 25,188
- Year built: 1990
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Ginkgo Biloba Extract & Glaucoma
Ginkgo Biloba extract (GBE) has recently become the object of intense investigation regarding glaucoma. A freely available nutritional extract it's most commonly known for its positive effect on brain functioning particularly in terms of memory enhancement mental alertness and reducing mental fatigue.
GBE also has several other biological actions many of which have prompted doctors and scientists to further study the herb. It improves central and peripheral blood flow reduces vasospasm (a sudden decrease in the internal diameter of blood vessels) and inhibits apoptosis (the disintegration and elimination of cells).
Normal tensive glaucoma the specific form of glaucoma that GBE shows the most promise in helping is a condition in which there's damage to the patient's optic nerve by an unknown cause (as of now; it is thought that decreased blood flow to the optic nerve plays a role) and visual field loss. In most other cases of glaucoma there is usually an abnormally high intraocular pressure. In normal tensive glaucoma however intraocular pressure levels are normal.
To help normal tensive glaucoma patients there needs to be an increased blood flow to the eye. Only calcium blockers are presently available for such treatment but these have not been widely adopted. Conventional treatment for all forms of glaucoma includes medication to reduce intraocular pressure which has been shown to slow the progression of the disease. However this treatment approach does not help those with normal tensive glaucoma as pressures are already low. Until recently existing visual field damage has been considered irreversible but studies have shown that GBE works to improve visual field loss or damage in normal tensive glaucoma – a significant breakthrough.
Preliminary studies of those with normal tensive glaucoma suggest that GBE's antioxidant activity protects the optic nerve from oxidative damage; in addition GBE provides much-needed blood flow pumping oxygen to the starved optic nerve. Subsequently the elevated blood flow to the brain might increase eye sensitivity resulting in improved visual functioning. Some studies have also suggested that GBE might be beneficial for people with age-related macular degeneration another major cause of visual loss.
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Diego Discovers Colors, Animals, Shapes And More! (go, Diego, Go! )
Diego Discovers Colors
"Diego Discovers Colors, Animals, Shapes And More!" Is An Outstanding Child's Book
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"Join Diego on an animal adventure! Young adventurers will enjoy flaps to lift and unfold, textures to touch and feel, and a glow-in-the-dark surprise!."--cover, p.4.Your kids will love Diego Discovers Colors, Animals, Shapes And More! (go, Diego, Go! ). Written by Kara McMahon and the publisher is Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. It was available around January of 2008. The book is for ages 12 months and up and features Colors and it is deemed nice juvenile fiction. The book has 12 pages and it offers loads of fantastically colored illustrations. The book also stresses Lift-the-flap books, Textured books, Picture puzzles, Board books, Shape and Animals. I want you to get the best price and service when buying a child's book for your kids, please visit the link.
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BALTIMORE – The UMBC women's soccer team opens the Battle of Baltimore weekend tournament on Friday, Sept. 12 when it travels to Loyola (Md.) for a neutral site contest against Mount St. Mary's. Game time is set for 5 p.m. at Ridley Athletic Complex and is followed by game two, Loyola versus Towson. Live action can be found at UMBCRetrievers.com.
Scouting the Retrievers
-The Retrievers fell for the first time this season and the first time in 13 tries at home on Friday, Sept. 5 against Saint Joseph's. UMBC held the slight edge in shots, with nine, but the Hawks punched home the game's only goal in the 62nd minute to snag the victory.
-UMBC fell out of the NSCAA/Continental Tire Regional Rankings for the first time this season following its only loss of the year. The Retrievers had entered last week with its highest-ever ranking at No. 6.
-Freshman forward Lisa Nanov (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) leads the squad with nine shots and five points on the season. Nanov's two goals are tied with senior midfielder Lilly Rydon (Adelaide, South Australia) for a team-best.
-The Retrievers have registered six assists on their seven goals this season. UMBC is averaging 1.40 goals per game, while holding opponents to 0.80 goals per contest. Junior goalkeeper Jen Nance (Millersville, Md./Severna Park) has posted a pair of shutouts on the year and has totaled 24 saves.
Scouting the Mountaineers
-Mount St. Mary's is winless after seven games in 2014, including three losses by two goals or less. The Mount is coming off a 7-1 loss at Bucknell on Tuesday, Sept. 9.
-Junior midfielder Emma Blair registered the team's first goal of the season on Tuesday, coming off a pass from freshman midfielder Kristen Morawski in the seventh minute. The Mount finished the contest with a season-best 10 shots.
-Goalkeepers Rachel Bourne and Vicky Cocozza have split time evenly in net for the Mount. The two have combined for 56 saves on the year.
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-UMBC leads the all-time series against Mount St. Mary's, 12-2.
-The Retrievers meeting the Mount in a tournament atmosphere for the second time, the first coming at the UMBC Invitational on Sept. 11, 2005.
-UMBC won the first 12 matchups in the series, but the Retrievers have dropped the last two meetings, including a 1-0 loss at the Retriever Soccer Park last season.


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Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry
Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry
'I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own.' So wrote Montaigne; and I have borrowed his title, my memory being the binding thread.
This is a purely personal anthology. I have read much poetry; and since I had once a very retentive memory for verse much has remained in my head. I have had less opportunity to read poetry during these late years of war. When I do so, I find that I read the old favourites rather than fresh poets or poems; so that with failing memory it is unlikely that I shall acquire much more by heart. It amused me lately to set down in a notebook--mainly with a view to discussion with my son, who shares my liking for poetry-- the poems I could repeat entire or in great part. I have now collected and arranged the poems I set down. I did it with no idea of publication, but my son and others have suggested that the collection might appeal to a wider circle.
I ask no one to applaud my choice. I do not always applaud it myself, but a part of me from which I cannot dissociate myself, my memory, has made this selection and I am too old to alter it. On the whole I think it is a reasonable choice from the almost inexhaustible treasure of English poetry, for a workaday man who prefers plain gold, silver or metal work to elaborate jewellery.
Browning and Kipling are the two poets whose work has stayed most in my memory, since I read them in impressionable youth. I have never regretted my choice. They have courage and humanity, and their feet are usually on the ground. G. K. Chesterton has the same qualities, with a more romantic and less practical strain; he has become my third favourite, and much of his verse is in my heart and my head; there also is much of Masefield, the poet of adventure and toil by land and sea. I have enjoyed the poetry of those who have their eyes on the stars, like Keats and Shelley, without memorizing much of it. Wordsworth's and Tennyson's verses have never registered an impression on my memory, they seem to me to belong to a limbo which is earthy without being quite human and star-gazing without being inspired. Some of the Elizabethans, and Blake and Francis Thompson, have left in my brain clear traces of . . .


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The largest LGBT advocacy organization in the country has a diversity problem, according to a report on the work environment at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
Leadership at HRC admitted Tuesday that a report conducted by The Pipeline Project and commissioned by HRC itself found that staff described the work environment at HRC as "judgmental," "exclusionary," "sexist," and "homogenous," writes Buzzfeed, which obtained a copy of the report.
Staff reportedly often described the organization's environment as a "white men's club," said the report, adding that HRC has "an organizational culture rooted in a white, masculine orientation which is judgmental of all those who don't fit that mold."
"Trans" people in particular, notes the report, said that they "don't feel safe to come out at HRC," and they are "frequently misgendered with the wrong pronouns, after repeated corrections."
"Disparate treatment toward women and those with 'soft skills' was frequently cited by staff — both men and women — and there is a sense that if you operate outside of that orientation, you will not be successful at HRC," the report continued.
Workers at HRC participated in focus groups and surveys, and results revealed major problems within the organization that include how staff is treated—including those who are transgender—and concerns about whether HRC is actually committed to diversity and inclusion.
"Leadership culture is experienced as homogenous — gay, white, male," the report indicated. "Exclusion was broad-based and hit all identity groups within HRC. A judgmental working environment, particularly concerning women and feminine-identified individuals, was highlighted in survey responses."
"There is a general perception that current diversity efforts are not working and that there's a lack of diversity understanding broadly," the report observes. "A participant in a focus group noted, 'A lot of folks are personally invested in diversity inclusion but their voices have been smothered or pushed away.'"
According to Buzzfeed, the report also indicates that 7 of 31 men who have been promoted at HRC have only worked there less than two years. By contrast, no women who have worked less than two years have been promoted.
HRC said they are addressing the issues presented in the report, and Buzzfeed notes they have now launched employee resource groups for "transgender and gender-expansive employees, people of color, women, bisexual employees, and remote employees."
HRC describes itself as "the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans."


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We develop world class athletes beyond sport and then work with them to deliver programmes that transform the lives of young people facing disadvantage.
It was back in 2008 on the eve of the Beijing Games when Dame Kelly Holmes realised something: If world class athletes can be effectively supported beyond sport, they could benefit society enormously. If we could harness their high performing attitudes and qualities, they can deliver a legacy.
As a result of this vision, over the past eight years the work of Dame Kelly Holmes Trust has transformed the lives of thousands of young people facing disadvantage across the UK. We've also delivered far reaching benefits to local communities and the wider UK economy.
The Trust's model is simple: we support and develop athletes beyond sport, who then deliver on every single one of their transformational mentoring programmes for young people facing disadvantage.
These programmes don't just inspire young people to participate in sport but empower them to realise the attitudes needed to live a positive life. This includes being healthy, achieving in education, enjoying career success and becoming involved in meaningful activities.
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When it comes to your education, nothing should stand in the way of your goals. However, financial roadblocks are unavoidable sometimes and can make achieving your dreams seem difficult. The Salon Professional Academy (TSPA), Altoona is dedicated to making sure every student can attend beauty school and work toward their career aspirations. To help out incoming and current students, scholarships to students who qualify.
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The Carol Jo Sicheneder "Mrs. S" Memorial Scholarship was created to honor a woman who was very special to everyone at TSPA Altoona. She and her husband purchased the school in 1982, where she served as both co-owner and educator for the rest of her life. Carol wanted to share her passion for cosmetology and learning to the next generation of beauty professionals. That's why we offer this scholarship of $4,000 to graduating seniors in the Altoona area. This scholarship is available to those that qualify and must be used toward tuition at TSPA Altoona. You can read more about the scholarship's backstory here, or fill out the form on our website for more information about deadlines and requirements.
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Sometimes unexpected events happen that get in the way of your educational goals. If you were attending a university, college, or trade school in the past and had to leave for whatever reason, we have a scholarship for you! The TSPA Second Chance Scholarship was created specifically for former students to use for their personal investment in beauty school. Keep in mind that this is an annual scholarship offer, the date for 2018 has passed, but there will be a new date in 2019! Everyone deserves a second chance to achieve their goals and dreams. That's what this scholarship is dedicated to!
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In his 2014 State of the Union speech, Obama captivated his viewers by saying that America was now the place to invest. Not China, but America. I've watched the State of the Union addresses since I was 10 years old. I can say now, with a fair amount of certainty, that the president always tells us that we should be proud to be American.
I am proud to be American, I guess. But why do we need to be told to be proud? I don't think the majority of the presidents are actually interested in the public's American pride; at least, not as much as they say they are.
I've also noticed that, after telling Americans to be proud to be who they are and to live in the country they do, the president will list all of our country's problems. He says that these things can be resolved and he tells us why all the things he supports will make our country better. It's nice that the president has a plan, and I'd be concerned if he didn't. However, in all the State of the Union speeches I've heard and all the ones I've read, especially this one, I haven't learned much about the actual state of the Union.
I suppose that's not true. I know now that there's been a debate about the appropriate size of the federal government. I also learned that that debate isn't important enough to be a concern. I learned about all the booming industries and the industries with potential. I was also informed that Obama supports industry, but I'm not sure how he he plans to support it.
Now, let's compare Obama's State of the Union speech to George Washington's. I found Washington's speech to be filled with information, plans and ideas. He had few "be proud" statements. He knew, or he thought he knew, how to fix the country. Washington had a plan and he made sure that the people of the US knew what he planned to do. Obama talked about his plans, but not in a way that made them seem realistic. Obama's plans were more "I want to do this, if Congress would do this". That's not very helpful.
I think that, now, State of the Union addresses don't tell us as much about the state of the Union as they do about how important it is to be proud to be American. Why would I be proud to be American, if I don't know what is happening in my country?


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Ospreys at Kielder
2019 is the 11th successive year of ospreys breeding in Kielder Forest. All the birds returned safely from migration to southern climes. Last year saw the establishment of a fifth breeding pair, and this year there are now SIX pairs of ospreys laid at least eightteen eggs between them. All are on nest platforms erected by Forestry England. Sadly, the new pair on Nest 6 lost their 3 chicks, but 11 young ospreys survived to be ringed at about 7 weeks old. Nine have fledged and are flying around the Forest. The last pair of juveniles on Nest 5A should fledge soon.
Blue UV, a 2014 male offspring of the Nest 1A pair, has built a nest, UV was one of the first Kielder chicks to be fitted with a satellite tag (no longer working), so we know he winters in northern Senegal and has returned to northern England each year since 2016. If he is successful in finding a mate next year, he will be the first known Kielder hatched osprey to breed in the Forest.
The history of ospreys at Kielder is summarised on the timeline, 2019's key events can be found here.
Every year, once the ospreys return to Kielder, Northumberland Wildlife Trust coordinates a team of knowledgeable volunteers who share their expertise with visitors from the viewing point situated behind the Boat Inn at Kielder Waterside. And Calvert Kielder run seasonal Osprey and Wildlife Cruises, providing a great way to have a chance to see the birds up close. See http://www.visitkielder.com/wildlife-events
You can support Osprey Watch by donating via the link below.
Between late March and early September visitors using the Lakeside Way may see ospreys hunting over the water. The birds use all parts of the reservoir, but some favourite areas are either side of the water at the dam, the area between Bull Crag and Leaplish Bay, and Leaplish Bay itself. The ospreys regularly hunt soon after first light and again in the early evening, around 17.30-18.00, but can be active at any time of the day. As the breeding season goes on, more fish will be required by ever-hungry growing chicks. So June-August are the peak months, giving the best chance of seeing this magnificent bird plunge into the water and emerge with a fish
You can follow the progress of the Kielder ospreys by visiting the blog at, http://kielderospreys.wordpress.com.
Photo: Simon Mackie. Blagdon Lake. Somerset 31.3.13
What you said:
"Great to see the male and female together." – Murray family, County Durham
"Fantastic to see such a rare sight!" – Lindsay Kemp, Isle of Wight
"Wonderful! Really excellent information." – Margaret Clate, Newcastle
"Very knowledgeable guide. Great to see the ospreys. Thanks!!" – Dawn Livesey, Lancashire
Kielder Osprey Watch is possible thanks to the hard work of Kielder Water & Forest Park Development Trust, Forestry Commission, RSPB, Northumberland Wildlife Trust, Northumbrian Water and other partners. We would like to thank Bellingham Fund and Northumberland National Park Area Action Fund for their support this year which has funded volunteer support and leaflets to improve the visitor experience.


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January 2014 – Monthly roundup
It's the end of the month, and the monthly update is due.
The last week has been slow on the work side. Apparently a super-resistant plague bacillus was infected by a hyper-virulent avian flu virus and mutated into the worst disease known and it infected me. My wife says it was just a cold, but that's ridiculous.
Anyway, I'm alive and sitting here waiting for the Broncos to stomp all over the Seagulls (this post may subsequently be edited due to unforeseen circumstances), so I thought I better sum up what's where on the writing side.
Sleight of Hand was briefly overtaken by Raw Deal, but is now back in front with 18,950 sales in 19 months. Raw Deal is 18,880 in 10 months, Hidden Trump 13,400 in 15 and Wild Card 3,100 in 3.
The take-off that HT achieved hasn't been copied by WC, due mainly (I think) to Amazon not recommending WC in their emails to readers of SoH and HT. That's no concern to me really, slow or fast isn't such a big thing. What I am pleased about in those figures is that HT is now at 71% retention from SoH and WC has re-boosted the sales of SoH and HT, putting them up around 15 daily.
I'm also pleased at the reviews that WC has brought in. Yes, there are people saying I need to tie up some of those threads that have been running for three books, but generally the reaction has been better than positive. And yes, I know that the next couple of Bite Back books have to tie up lots more.
Writing progress
Bian's Tale 1: Saigon – The Reach of Lies is cantering. You'll remember I said these books would be simpler, and they are. I have however had to deconstruct some characters and re-create them as two separate characters, so I'm having to revisit some of what I've written. I'll have a more accurate update next month and I'll put a teaser of the first section of the book up.
Bite Back 4: Cool Hand is trotting rather than cantering. I'm going slow because I'm nervous about the end of this book. My standard writing pattern is to have a very clear picture of the first and last quarter of a book when I start putting words on the page, because in writing terms everything has to 'follow' from those fixed points. I haven't yet firmed up on the end of Cool Hand. It's a double scene ending, as with HT and WC, and my problem is that the two ending scenes aren't connected, physically, geographically or thematically. That doesn't feel right. I can get around it, but it starts to feel like a triple scene ending. I can't explain better without giving spoilers. It may be that I write the last quarter first, and when I'm happy with that, go back and start writing/re-writing from the beginning again.
I'll try and communicate a bit more this next month, and, as I say, teasers will be coming out.
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Richard says :
just had a thought and wanted to share.
the ninja bitch from the park, if Amber takes her on, for whatever reason; ninja bitch would make a great present for the collenel, "know thy enemy".
just add a little athenate bonding to the mix and then "you will work for him and earn your place" or I will end you.
if your going to take on an unkown then the consequences will be absolute for any infraction.
Mark Henwick says :
Lauren (the editor) isn't a party pooper 🙂 She has a great feel for what will work, and the scene where I put in the twist about Yelena needed to concentrate on what it was meant to convey (it was the scene where Amber has a Skype conference with everyone while she's at Jen's HQ). That scene needed to propel the reader into the final section of hunting down the rogue, and the completely unrelated twist about Yelena stole that purpose and weakened the final section. Lauren was right, it had to go.
I do sometimes override Lauren's suggestions, but not often.
The numbers? Hmm. Amazon concentrate on what gets the best return for them. At the moment, I'm on a deal that's better for me than it is for them. Plugging in my cold commercial heart, I can understand why they're doing what they're doing. I personally feel that more effort on their part would reap disproportionate rewards, but I would say that, wouldn't I?
Audience? I'm definitely appealing to a more mature market than Twilight and the like. I don't know what the buying patterns are, but I suspect that more mature readers develop more definite preferences. What I'm trying to say is that I don't think good marketing could stampede lots of readers to buy Bite Back (or even a better UF series) in the way that good marketing (and a different type of story) could with a much younger audience. Complex! There may be a blog post on that at some time!
Cover art needs an overhaul, yup.
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My spies tell me Amazon is starting to email readers with the Bite Back series as a specific recommendation. Interestingly, Deborah Jay's Desprite Measures is included in the email, and I've just recently reviewed it… Do you think they're watching me? 🙂


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Here is more from the insightful interview I had with Mavericks guitarist Robert Reynolds...
Q: Earlier this month, all of you were immersed in the craziness of SXSW. How did that go?
Sometimes you ask yourself why you go do it. I don't mean to be too harshly critical of this very notable music fest, but if I'm trying to be honest here, it's madness. It's a little intoxicating, so you buy into it one more year. That can leave you a little hungry for more. What we really seem to love is being in Austin. In that regard, we're just celebrating being in Austin, Texas. It's so musically and culturally developed. Really wonderful for us.
Q: How have the new songs been going over live with the fans?
It would sound almost boastful if I tell you, but it's crazy. We've been selling out venues, so that's amazing. The sales of the new album have been really nice - both out here on the road, in the shops and the digital realm. People are singing the lyrics; they already know the record or know what they've heard and are anxiously buying the record. The comments have been phenomenal...We want to take care of the fans and really protect the music - make sure we get to each show with the right amount of energy to give that night's audience the best night ever. You got to pace yourself for that. [Yesterday] we were shooting a pilot for a TV show.
Q: Really? What was it about?
It's a dramatic police kind of thing, like "Walker: Texas Ranger." We did a bar scene with some cool Tex-Mex sounding music. It puts more music on network television. That's always worthwhile.
Q: Speaking of TV, you've had a song featured in the ABC-TV show "Nashville." Have you watched it?Yeah. It's come closer than any other show before to getting the essence right. I don't have to praise the show, but I have enjoyed it. I can't keep up with it on my current schedule, but when it premiered, I probably stayed tuned for at least six or more episodes.
Q: Regarding the reunion, were you surprised when everyone was fully on board with the idea?
Once you're talking to one another, the surprise is over and now you're down to the nitty gritty. The surprise comes on that initial phone call, like 'wow, out of nowhere, the band wants to talk again.' We can't do it without each other because that's how we've arranged it - that it would only be The Mavericks, when it was truly The Mavericks [guys] and nothing short of that.
Q: Did you miss playing with these guys over the years?
Completely...I've played with some great people, but it doesn't equate to the Mavericks, you know? I've played great songs that were written by incredible writers. I've done things that are extremely enjoyable but none of it is the Mavericks. So there's only the Mavericks to fill that void…among the things that would give you a pang of sadness or a lonesome feeling was imagining not playing those songs for an audience again. Sure, I could go out there and riff through a Mavericks tune or two in a solo performance, but that's not the same thing.
I'm probably taking a real risk here [but] Raul probably had to learn himself that going out and doing songs he had written and had been lead vocalist on was still not always the same as bringing the Mavericks back out. Here's the voice of all the songs out on solo efforts, solo periods of his career, and even that would not fulfill the void of the Mavericks. I think he had to reckon with that and decide whether or not he too felt the void and wanted to get back to it. That seems to be the conclusion. We all thought that 'this is something worth returning to.'
Q: Weren't some of the new songs recorded live?
That is true. 'Live' doesn't have to come off a live concert stage and become a 'live' album. Live can be a band performing in the studio and playing as fully orchestrated combo with 5, 8, 10 pieces, whatever and leaving very little overdubbing processes because you were actually recording performances.
Q: I could tell because a few times Raul is heard saying things like, 'ok guys, one more time.'
Those calls you're hearing are actual cues. In certain cases, you could edit them out if you wanted. Or you could leave them so they become a little evidence of your truth and honesty. We serve up something honest. We live in an age where you can make a marginally talented person sound like a supremely talented person. I'm not being hyper-critical, but if you fool people over the course of a decade or two, we lose our ability to gauge things. We get lost along the way. It takes something like going out to see a band.
Q: A couple ballads, like "In Another's Arms" and "Amsterdam Moon" have a timeless quality. Did you intend to leave the musical arrangements sparse on those?
It's a music we all love in our own private way, these classic recordings. Raul, having co-written all the songs and always our chief songwriter/vocalist, he always interprets things the way he loves them. In a way, you're hearing our contribution to traditionalist song craft of yesteryear. Stuff that I don't hear enough of really these days.
Q: What was it like working with veteran co-producer/mixer Niko Bolas in the studio?
Raul and Niko had worked on a solo project together…he came in as an engineer, but Raul enjoyed the collaborative nature of it. So it shifted to a co-production. It's quite true to the nature of this album. It mutated in the moment. Niko became a part of the family. He did what Raul knew he would do: come in and kick some ass. And be one more of the musical minds that were swirling around.
Q: How do you think country music has evolved in the time the Mavericks were away?
I live in Nashville. I have not shied away from anything. I remain a student of that stuff. I feel a huge blessing to live in Nashville, wake up every day and your office is a historic music epicenter. In the years were we apart, you saw mega-stardom happen like Taylor Swift. Doesn't mean you always identify with it. I believe she's a gifted voice of her generation and it permeates. We get those earworms into our head. I think she's a good example of what can happen in this town I've enjoyed.
Q: The album cover has a sideshow theme. What was the thought behind it?
Q: The album cover has a sideshow theme. What was the thought behind it?
It's part of a visual dialogue we wanted to have. We knew we were going to do vinyl and have the larger format…we've explored that before with 'Trampoline' and the fact that there's a little possible thread of continuity is more coincidental. Or maybe it's just in our DNA. The cover is not what we were first working with – our first non-band cover. There were [things] to deal with and different points of view. We chose an alternate outtake photo for the cover because it was perfectly expressive of who we are…on the inside of the sleeve are these portraits shot on a period camera from the 1860s. It literally had no negatives and printed on a tin type metal plate. Those portraits are closer to the kind of expression we were aiming at: old time photography and still life, a flower.


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Partnering with Transportation Options, this planning grant will support the initial stages of developing a 600km cycling route that traverses six Greenbelt regions from Northumberland to Niagara. The Greenbelt Cycling Route will allow Ontarians to connect and explore the Greenbelt in a new way – by touring and exploring by bike.
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Despite today's sudden drop in temps, summer isn't over yet! There are still plenty of moments that will necessitate rosé colored/filled glasses before Labor Day, and plenty more that will take us through the days of early fall, which brings us to the Sáenz de Samaniego family from the village of Samaniego in Rioja Alavesa. Wine growers for generations, the family lives where they farm, which is just a pips throw away from the winery that was constructed by the family's patriarch, Doroteo, who retired with his wife María Asunción in 2000 when they passed the reigns of their estate to four of their six children. With 34ha to their name and 15ha more that are owned by other family members, Bodegas Ostatu crafts their Ostatu Rosé from two vineyards: "La Paul" and "Carrera".
Residing at an altitude of 580m, and protected from the northern winds by the Sierra de Cantabria mountain range, "La Paul" was planted to 2.61ha of Tempranillo in 1996, and "Carrera" to 0.595ha of Garnacha in 1993. A blend of 60% Garnacha and 30% Tempranillo, the cuvée also contains 10% Viura. In soils of poor calcareous/clay, with subsoils of white rock, the south-facing vines are planted 3,000 per hectare, and the hand-harvested yields are 6,300 Kg/ha, which produces 19,000 bottles.
Following a 30-hour maceration, the fruit ferments on lees for 36 days, before being filtered through diatomea. Bottled at 13.3% with 6.07 gr/L acidity, the 2012 Ostatu Rosado offers crushed rocks on the nose with soft red fruits that descend big on the palate with the first sip. With fresh and juicy acidity, the strawberry and cherry fruits linger long onto the finish, which comes quick in the form of an empty glass.


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If there's one American writer/director I feel sorry for, it's M. Night Shyamalan, despite not being his most vocal supporter in the past. He's a man who has been daring and adventurous with his projects, but like others greats such as Stephen King, his concept-fueled works often bear interesting setups that are handicapped by disappointing payoffs. With 2015's The Visit, he essentially showed that he does have a keen ability not only in merging genres, but toying with them, and successfully delivered, what I felt to be, one of his most prized works.
With Split, he gives his die-hard fans and naysayers something to chew on with a retrospective and thoroughly unsettling picture that toys with continuity and what we know about the characters we've been introduced to so quickly.
The film opens in the midst of a party, where three teens - Claire (The Bronze's Haley Lu Richardson) and Marcia (Jessica Sula), and the loner Casey (The Witch's Anya Taylor-Joy) - are kidnapped in their father's car by Kevin (James McAvoy). He takes them back to a massive, dingy boiler-room basement, where pipes, smoke, and industrialized noises fill the air, trapping the three girls in a small bedroom. As time passes, and Kevin returns for repeated checkups, they get a sense of the man they're dealing with - a man with multiple personality disorder, or more commonly referred to as "dissociative identity disorder." We're told from Dr. Karen Fletcher (Betty Buckley), Kevin's psychiatrist whom we repeatedly flashback and forward to, that twenty-three personalities live inside Kevin's body; everyone from a nine-year-old boy named Hedwig, a formal but troubled woman named Patricia, and the quiet but scheming Dennis, who kidnapped the three girls, shows themselves through Kevin at one point.
Kevin's disorder is so severe that some personalities have specific attributes others do not. For example, "Jade," a young woman who lives inside him, takes insulin shots due to her diabetes, something that affects only her and not any of Kevin's other identities. Even other specific allergies to bee-stings one personality could have doesn't affect the other twenty-two. While Kevin is being controlled by his many personalities, the three girls try to find a way out of their murky confines, with a foggy and uncertain Casey trying to take charge over her two more impulsive friends.
It must be said how incredible James McAvoy is in a challenging role that I feel most would've struggled to play even half as effective as he managed. McAvoy is, at times, truly frightening on the basis of how his smile appears or how his mannerisms change in the blink-of-an-eye. He's tasked to assume the traits, speaking patterns, and general movements of several different characters, sometimes within the same scene, forced to appear as if his body-chemistry is changing before our very eyes, and he handles the role with a knockout punch that's frequently electrifying.
Shyamalan, on the other hand, works to craft a decidedly Hitchcockian environment with Split. He creates an eminently disturbing and potent film that remains eerie even in moments when it seems fairly casual, such as the scenes involving Dr. Fletcher. With this, it surprised me that most in my packed showing were laughing out loud at McAvoy's character(s) quite frequently, especially when he portrayed Hedwig. This is where much of my sympathy for Shyamalan surfaces. I feel he's a constantly misunderstood and ridiculed director that has these grand ideas that either go unnoticed by the public (myself included) and are responded to with laughter or immature outbursts. Instead of looking at McAvoy's incredible and layered performance to compliment a screenplay of equal caliber, people were far too busy sneering at the overall concept itself.
Such a shame, at least until the ending, where Split asserts itself to be more than I'd say almost all of its viewing audience ever believed it to be. In that sense, the film should be seen by those who have tried to breathlessly defend Shyamalan and his works, and after years of projects that showed to either be ridiculous or half-baked, he seems to be on a roll with quality films that echo his dominance in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By the end of Split, you emerge feeling a renaissance is occurring for the now 46-year-old writer/director in addition with an excitement about his future works and however they may wind up surprising you in due time.Share:


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Lunch at Rutabaga
Written by Sacha Farber, Posted in Food
Yesterday I had lunch with my boyfriend at Rutabaga, it's a super cute place that opened a few weeks ago in my neighborhood. Since the beginning I really wanted to try it cause it looked very nice, and they seemed to serve healthy/bio kind of food.
So, I finally found a day to try it, and I loved it. The decoration is beautiful, very light, with a lot of plants and a touch of 6O's. We both tried the pittas, and they were delicious ! For lunch, they serve 5/6 different plates, like sandwiches, salads and pittas and they change the menus for the evening, serving fishes and so on.
Really a place to go to have a quick/healthy/not expensive lunch!
393, Chaussée de Waterloo
1050 Ixelles (Bruxelles)


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Robert Clifford
Dr Robert Clifford was the pen name of a retired GP who wrote scores of books, including his bestselling series of doctor anecdotes, which were serialised in The Sunday Express and Family Circle.
Dr Clifford was also a regular guest on radio programmes, including BBC Radio 4's Today and Start the Week, and on the Gloria Hunniford programme, and for Radio Devon's Judi Spiers. He appeared on television in the UK and US, and was the resident doctor for Westward Diary, on Westward Television in the 1960s and 70s.
Among his many positions in writing organisations, he was the vice-president of The West Country Writers' Association.
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When USA Today focuses on green alleys, you can feel that this topic of recreating cities has reached a mainstream audience. A recent USA Today article focuses on Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle efforts to use alleys for environmental benefits and improved community life. Resurfacing alleys with porous surfaces reduces runoff, lowers the burden on municipal storm drains, and improves lake and ocean water quality.
In addition to functional environmental benefits, green alleys turn underutilized spaces into living spaces, places for walking, biking and gathering. The article quotes Suzanne Simmons who worked with her neighbors to close their alley to car traffic and set up instead benches, grills and tables.


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Police do much more good than bad
Before the 1960s, though the Cold War had raged unabated since the late 1940s, the U.S. was a fairly tranquil place to live and thereby generally enjoyed by its people. However, shortly after John F. Kenney's assassination in 1963, the Vietnam War began to take on a troubling veneer for an ever-growing number of Americans.Initially the protestors were mostly college youth; before long its detractors numbered a huge cross section of the U.S. population while—by its end—seemed to include virtually everyone.
Not only involving the U.S. military and national leadership from former President Lyndon Johnson's terms through some of Richard Nixon's administration, soon all institutions that stand to invoke authority in the country were found wanting and charged as guilty by their perceived support of the ongoing bloody slaughter of American troops, Vietnamese civilians and the North's Viet Cong warring in southeast Asia. What began as peaceful protests became riots on campuses, in city streets and throughout the land—the noise and fury heard and seen as a near daily event.
Some of the targets of those years of discontent were police organizations. Not that the police were entirely innocent of the charges thrown at them but many an officer was compromised by orders to 'defend and protect' by local and state elected officials. What resulted was police officers as "bad guys" held responsible for "helping" those Americans who advocated for the war's continuation. They were also seen as assisting the nation's distrusted military industrial complex, those corporations making big money profits through the supply of war machines and materials for "an unwinnable war."
My personal experience with police in general and individual officers in particular has never had a negative twist to it. In recent years there has been only one interaction with the police. That occasion took place at McNary High School during the years my wife and I volunteered there and Keizer's Officer Dan Kelly was the on-duty police liaison. We were impressed with Officer Kelly, having found him to be an exemplary officer through the conduct of his behavior in fulfilling the responsibilities of the position he held.
What bothers this writer at present is the extent to which protesters nowadays, sometimes employing violent means, continue to work against police organizations and police officers. There are, of course, from time-to-time, among the sworn police officers some 'bad apples' but that's a condition of the personnel no matter what profession or line of work is examined. While there've been police officers who should probably not be police officers, quite often these men and women are ultimately mustered out: While it may take awhile, remember it is careers that are at risk.
Officers involved in fatal encounters are almost always placed on administrative leave and then brought before a review board or grand jury to determine whether the case under consideration justified lethal action. Based on what a citizen like myself can determine from media reports, it seems for the most part that officers involved were more likely dealing with lawbreakers that requires of them a protect-themselves-or-death response. When I read in print media or see on TV about an encounter that resulted in a death, speculation follows where, under the circumstances, if my life were threatened, I'd likely have done the same as the officer or officers.
Our police are more important that ever. Then, too, when trouble finds its way to us, it's unrealistic for the vast majority of us to defend ourselves. The knowledge, training and experience of the average officer cannot be substituted. Locally, my impression of the sworn officers in Keizer and Salem is that we're fortunate to have them and are best advised to honor and respect them, hoping for the sake of survival there will continue to be young men and women willing to join the ranks in order to protect and serve the public.
(Gene H. McIntyre lives in Keizer.)


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Need to tick the stationery off the Back To School shopping list? These 10 piece Disney Stationery Kits are great value at Shop Disney, as they are down from £11 to just £4.99 each. That's less than half price!
There are 6 sets to choose from; The Little Mermaid*, Tangled*,Spider-Man*, Frozen* and Cars*.
Each set has similar contents, with most having a folder, note book, pencil case, ruler, eraser, scissors, pen and pencils, and sharpener, all in a clear zip bag.
This offer runs for a limited time, and while stocks last.
What are the delivery options at Shop Disney?
Standard home delivery costs from £3.95, and is free on orders over £50. They also offer a 'Deliver To Store' option (click and collect), and that is free on orders over £10, or costs £2 for smaller orders.
What is Shop Disney?
Shop Disney is the new online shop for official Disney products in the UK, and replaces the old Disney Store UK website. As well as the toys, clothing, gifts and more that The Disney Store sold, the new Shop Disney website includes new and exclusive ranges that were previously unavailable online in the UK.


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63 Dead in Nicaraguan Protests, 15 Disappeared: Rights Group
By LATIN AMERICA NEWS DISPATCH
NICARAGUA: An independent human rights group claimed yesterday that security forces killed 63 people during nationwide protests that started last week. According to the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, which says it has been gathering information from local networks across Nicaragua, security forces also disappeared at least 15 people and shot an additional 160. As recently as Wednesday, the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, or CENIDH by its Spanish initials, had placed the death toll at 34. Earlier that day, the United Nations human rights office said it had received "credible reports" of at least 25 deaths. The latest government release, put out Monday, acknowledged that 12 protesters had been killed.
"What took place was a massacre against students, against the people of Nicaragua," said Permanent Commission director Marcos Carmona, speaking yesterday at a press conference in Managua. CENIDH President Vilma Núñez has accused President Daniel Ortega's government of "state terrorism." Reports of torture, particularly within prisons, have been widespread.
Led primarily by students, protests broke out last week in response to a government-backed pension reform, which would have hiked payments for workers and reduced benefits on retirees. After ordering a violent crackdown on what he described as "chaos, crime and looting," President Ortega, a leader of the Marxist Sandinista revolution who has since accumulated significant wealth and executive power, canceled the reform on Sunday. But protesters, incensed by the government's repressive tactics, remained in the streets, expanding their demands to include new elections. In the interest of seeking a peaceful resolution, the Catholic Church has agreed to mediate talks with the government, though participants and a negotiating agenda have yet to be determined.


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LG G4 vs. Samsung Galaxy S6 edge - The Battle of Android (Page 2)
Both Phones Look Amazing
While Samsung has a radical change in the look and style of the S6 and S6 edge, LG continues playing its cards right with the G4, keeping the same style from the G3. The G4 has its power button and volume rocker on the rear of the phone, under its more-than-impressive 16-megapixel f/1.8 rear-facing camera. LG has opted for a Sony sensor, which is one of the best available.
LG has provided the option of replacing the back cover with a stitched real leather back, which my sample came with by default, and it feels amazing. But, I think the Galaxy S6 edge wins out here, as it has such a distinct look, and an even better feel in your hands thanks to its dual-edge display.
With the power button on the back, LG has had to compromise for people having their fingers instinctively going to the side of the phone to tap the power button to wake it up, by having a double-tap function on the screen waking the G4 up. It's smart, and it works, but after using the fingerprint reader on the S6 edge for weeks, I wish LG had used a fingerprint reader somewhere on the G4.
Internals - Both Sides Have Winners
Both smartphones pack quite a performance punch when it comes to their internals, with more than enough processing grunt inside of the G4 and S6 edge. But I've never been one to cave to benchmarks and recommend a phone "because it was faster than X phone". Never.
6-core smartphone? 8-core smartphone? These days, it's all in the marketing. Never buy a smartphone when a company says "it's faster than X phone" because it's all subjective. What percentage of smartphone owners will benchmark their smartphone? Probably less than 10%.
In saying that, both phones are the fastest yet - which I would dare say has a lot to say about both companies keeping their UIs relatively clean. LG has much more of its own style injected into the G4, with Samsung peeling multiple layers of TouchWiz off of the S6, especially when compared to the bloat fest that was the S5.
I never reached a time on either handset where I had to wait for something to load, or had any slowdown. That's how I like my smartphone experience.
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Turner's Korean entertainment channel Oh!K has launched on Tribe OTT.
Tribe is the newly launched OTT service by Astro in Malaysia and Indonesia. This service from XL, a telecommunications operator, offers its subscribers via the Tribe app exclusive access to fresh, first-run, localised and high quality video, via mobile devices and online.
Tribe users can view a robust line up of top-rated premium drama series, variety shows and music programming.
Oh!K currently boasts a slew of hit series including Monster, which will premiere later this month, and Marriage Contract, which is currently running on the channel. These express titles air within 24 and 48 hours of Korean telecast, respectively.
Phil Nelson, Turner's managing director for Southeast Asia, said: "Since Turner launched Oh!K in October 2014, the channel's reach and popularity has grown significantly. In just 18 months, partners in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and now in Indonesia with Tribe, have responded to the growing appetite for quality Korean content. The brand has truly delivered on viewer demand within the Southeast Asia region."
Other express titles on Oh!K include Just Married and Korea's number-one variety show Infinite Challenge – starring celebrity hosts Yoo Jae Suk, Park Myung Soo, Jung Joon Ha, Jung Hyung Don, Hwang Kwang Hee and Haha. It is a game of friendly rivalry featuring hilarious, and sometimes ridiculous, challenges.


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Nermeen Abbas
Image source: Shutterstock
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office has launched a new $145.6 million Ghadan Ventures Fund as it seeks to accelerate the startups ecosystem across the emirate.
The new fund comes as startups are already continuing to witness a leap across the Arab region. The year-2018 was fruitful for both startups and investors, with 31% increase in total funding and a 13% increase in the number of deals made in 2018, compared with the year before, according to the head of Hub71, Mahmoud Adi.
The UAE is home for around 20% of Arab world's 100 most promising startups as it has 19 promising startups based in the country, according to a latest report by the World Economic Forum.
The newly named Ghadan Ventures Fund includes two key programs the start-up matching fund and new managers fund, which have been designed to increase the availability of capital for Abu Dhabi based start-ups, as well as serve as a catalyst for new fund managers seeking to establish themselves in the capital.
The Start-up Matching Fund will work to stimulate Abu Dhabi's entrepreneurial landscape by increasing the amount of capital available for seed and early stage companies.
Through the program, ADIO will match a start-up's lead VC investment dirham for dirham, up to AED 10M for seed rounds, and AED 50M for Series 'A', per round.
The second program is set to help grow the number of VC funds operating in the emirate. ADIO will commit to new Abu Dhabi VCs under the program. Moving forward, newly formed Abu Dhabi based VCs can apply for fund matching, based on the amount they raise in the private market.


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You have to hand it to the NSW Attorney General and his Department when it comes to leaving few footprints in the exercise of some statutory responsibilities. Alerted by a comment in the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Annual Report 2007-2008, that the Government was expected to finally publish and act in spring 2008 on a review of the Tribunal's Act, mandated for 2004, the following emerged after quite a bit of digging.
If you happened across the details of documents tabled in Parliament you find the parliamentary records state the statutory review was dated June 2007 and tabled in Parliament on 3 June 2008. ( For some reason can't get the link working but it says it was tabled in the Legislative Council by Mr Roozendaal on that date).This was news to me and clearly to President O'Connor of the Tribunal who had a major interest. On 19 October 2008 he had signed off on his annual report with this comment about the review:
"The second review (under s 147) was imposed on the Minister. The Act fixed the commencement date as 2002 and the report date as 2003. On behalf of the Minister, the Department commenced the review in 2003. The public submissions process ended in 2004. That report is now expected to be delivered in the Spring Session, 2008 ( emphasis added) in conjunction with a bill making a number of amendments to the ADT Act."The 2007 date on the report provides no clue that it should have been completed and tabled in 2004. But we know it took three years to complete and a further year for the Attorney General to table it in Parliament.
Given his comment in the annual report it would have been news also for President O'Connor on 19 October that the Attorney General had introduced the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Amendment Bill 2008 on 24 September 2008. In his second reading speech the Attorney General said:
"Members will be aware of the recently tabled statutory review of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act. The review concluded that the policy objectives of the Act remain valid. The review also made recommendations for amendments to the Act with the intention of improving the tribunal's operational efficiency. This bill gives effect to the recommended legislative changes in the statutory review as well as making other amendments to enhance the operational efficiency of the tribunal."In his speech the Attorney General made no mention of the fact that the review report was years late.
Parliamentary debate followed in October with seven speakers in total in the two houses of parliament but it was pretty clear that few had paid much attention to the issues. None including the shadow Attorney General DPP Greg Smith said a word about the timing of the report.(Legislative Council debate on 21 October( see time indicator 3.19 pm); Legislative Assembly debate on 22 October (time indicator 5.22 pm)). The Legislation Review Committee in its report on the Bill made no comment about the Attorney General's failure to comply with a statutory duty.
As to the review report itself, it's still not published on the web and the Attorney hasn't said anything about it in media releases on the Attorney General's website.There is no sign of the report where you might expect to find it, on the Legislation and Policy Division pages of the Department's website.It's all a like the review of privacy legislation which was years late and only published last year after some observers pressured the Department to do so.
How many other parliamentary mandated reviews like these just don't get done or acted upon by NSW ministers, as stipulated? If the ADT Act review is any guide no-one in Parliament pays any attention to such matters.
As to public availability of such reports, the Rees Government's commitment to pro-active publication doesn't appear to have quite got through to AGs.


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To find the fastest way to lose weight is a dream of many individuals but let's face it: the diet is a sad thing. On the contrary, to have good tasty food is something fun, in addition, it is sometimes useful. However, if you are like many of us, got a few extra pounds this winter, then, first, you need to calm down – you are not alone, and second, read carefully our secrets, tips, how to lose all gained weight without a special diet before the long-awaited summer.
American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics maintains that the safest weight loss is about 0.5 kg per week. The loss of 500 grams means fewer calories by about 2,500 calories. Depriving yourself of 500 calories a day, you will lose a pound a week and it will be the friendly and fastest way to lose weight without feeling deprived.
The following are tips on all sorts of options as a simple way to lose those extra pounds. More convenience is that you can make your own mix that will count the most suitable. Turn this activity into a habit and then a healthy body is provided to you for life!
To lose 50 calories
1. Eat one piece of toast and not two or sandwich without the top slice of bread.
2. Swap one cup of milk to one cup of skim milk.
3. Eat 30 grams of pretzels instead of 30 grams of potato chips.
4. Eat a small handful of nuts instead of one big whole handfuls.
5. Remove the cheese from your sandwich.
6. Replace mayonnaise to mustard.
7. Remove the butter or oil with your servings of vegetables.
8. Swap the beef burger on the turkey burger.
9. Change the cream sauce for salad dressing on the salad with vinegar.
10. Give up one cookie.
11. Talk on the phone while standing, not sitting.
12. Roll the baby in a stroller for 15 minutes.
13. Prepare the food yourself, and do not order fast food.
14. Mow the lawn.
15. Go up the stairs, and do not use the elevator.
16. Make a physical workout while watching TV.
17. Take a 15-minute massage
For the loss of 100 calories
1. Eat an apple or an orange instead of drinking a glass of juice (350 g).
2. Give up the glasses of juice (250 g).
3. Eat half a bagel instead of donuts.
4. Eat one, not two eggs.
5. Eat a tablespoon of peanut butter instead of two.
6. Eat tuna, canned in water, instead of tuna in oil.
7. Exchange more cake flour for a small cake made from corn.
8. Just eat cheese or vegetable pizza instead of pepperoni pizza or sausage.
9. Eat soup, cooked in broth instead of a cream base.
10. Eat half of rice or pasta.
11. Eat a baked potato instead of french fries.
12. Eat baked chips instead of fried.
13. Select a piece of chicken without skin.
14. Cut steak into 2 parts, and leave half.
15. Swap one serving of ice cream for one serving of frozen yogurt.
16. Eat half a piece of cake or pie instead of a full serving.
17. Eat a bowl of fruit instead of candy.
18. Give up a glass of beer or wine.
19. Choose light beer or wine instead of cocktails.
20. Reduce the number of your plates, cups, glasses.
21. Play with the kids in the park for 30 minutes.
22. Walk the dog for 30 minutes.
23. Do the 45-minute ride on the bike.
24. Go shopping for 1 hour.
For the loss of 200 calories
1. Swap one cup of cereal with sugar in one cup of muesli.
2. Eat carrots and hummus instead of chips and guacamole.
3. Discard the bread and butter for dinner.
4. Give up dessert.
5. Give up the cocktail.
6. Give up the cola and other beverages.
7. Drink coffee instead of a latte with sugar.
8. Order a salad and an appetizer instead of a starter and main course.
9. Discard the second course.
10. Eat sorbet (popsicles), instead of the usual ice cream.
11. Dance for 30 minutes.
12. Play bowling for 1 hour.
13. Do cleaning at home for 1 hour.
14. Reshuffle your living room.
15. Do warm-up jog for 30 minutes.
16. Sign up for a yoga class.
17. Wash your car on your own.
18. Park your car at 1 km from work to walk the remaining distance to go.
Well, here, it's not as bad as it seemed. The circuit is very simple, do not need long to remember. This is our fastest way to lose weight that helps many people.


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Happy 100th Birthday to the National Park Service!
The National Park Service turns 100 this August, and with eight national parks to its name, Alaska is the perfect destination to commemorate this centennial. The Great Land is known for its towering mountains, breathtaking glaciers and incredible wildlife, and visiting one… Read More
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