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Despite repeated requests from the cops who brought the man in, the hospital staff claimed that they treated only women and children and refused to provide even basic first aid to the 55-year-old victim, despite him having sustained multiple injuries.
Helpless, the cops finally called an ambulance and took the victim to another hospital.
The incident occurred around 2.30 am on Saturday, when Naveenchandra Shetty, a resident of Market Yard was returning home from work on his two-wheeler. As he neared the hospital at Sadashiv Peth, Shetty lost control of his vehicle, as the front wheel of his scooter hit a pothole and tipped over. Shetty suffered several injuries as he felt directly on his face.
Two female constables from Dattawadi police station — Neelam Gaikwad and Vishkha Kamble — who were on patrol duty, saw Shetty lying in a pool of blood and went to help him. They took him to Apollo Spectra and remained outside in the heavy rain, waiting for someone to aid them. However, they were neither given entry nor treatment.
"A member of staff came and told us that it was a hospital meant only for women and children. Apparently, there were only female doctors present and they were refusing to treat the patient," said Gaikwad.
She added, "We pleaded with the staff to at least provide basic first aid, but they showed no signs of relenting. We finally gave up, called an ambulance and left for Poona Hospital. We also informed the patient's family."
The cops then spoke to the Swargate police station about the incident. Ganesh Sakat, a constable from Swargate PS, said, "We received a medical legal case (MLC) from Poona Hospital. The victim fell off his bike and sustained multiple injuries. We have lodged an accident report."
Shetty's wife Mamta was visibly shocked, as she said, "Eight days ago, my husband had attended a seminar at Apollo Spectra hospital about weight loss. He was also going to get his full medical check-up done there as it is a multi-speciality centre. The hospital claims to have treated the brother of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, but what use is that if they cannot even provide basic first aid to an accident victim. It is fortunate that my husband received treatment on time."
Shetty has been admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). He has a head injury and fractures on his left arm and nose.
However, Apollo Spectra refuted all the allegations. Ratul Majumdar, unit head of the hospital, said, "This is a clear case of miscommunication between the cops and the hospital staff. The staff were ready to provide first aid, but the victim and cops left in the ambulance before the doctors arrived."
He added, "We never deny treatment on grounds of gender. We don't have a round-the-clock emergency service so we usually don't take in accident patients as we don't have the facility to deal with them. This is just a short-stay surgical hospital."
Commenting on the legalities of the case, advocate Shivraj Kadam Jahagirdar told Mirror, "Every member of the medical profession and the public in general have an obligation to provide aid to victims of road accidents, as per the law. Hospitals must not ask for a police report before admitting the patient — it is a doctor's duty to carry out basic first aid.
"As per Section 33 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1860 and clauses 10 and 13 of the Indian Medical Ethics, the patient must not be neglected. It is the duty of the hospital to provide immediate medical aid," the advocate added.
Bhalchandra Dhapte, another advocate, echoed, "Article 21 of the Indian Constitution puts the obligation on the state to preserve lives. Every doctor has a professional obligation to extend his services, as do all medical institutions. If the hospital or a doctor is denying treatment, they can be charged for criminal negligence."


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Donald Trump: Mark Cuban is Broke, Sucks at Golf!by Tyler Johnson at . Updated at .
Following the passing of the team's owner Ralph Wilson, Donald Trump expressed an interest in purchasing the NFL's Buffalo Bills.
Like most things the Donald is involved with, the potential deal is a case of Trump's ego gone wild, a fact that's not lost on fellow billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban.
When asked by TMZ about Trump's interest in the Bills Cuban pointed out that Trump isn't wealthy enough to purchase the team of his own and would need to assemble a group of investors in order to close the deal.
There are few things Trump hates more than the truth, so naturally, this undeniable fact threw him into a fit of rage.
"Mark Cuban is a lightweight who's net worth is a fraction of mine," the Celebrity Apprentice host fired back.
"By the way, I watched him play golf and he is a total non-athlete - zero clubhead speed. He lives vicariously through his basketball players."
I would imagine for billionaires insulting someone's golf game is like making a joke about their mother, so Trump is treading on dangerous ground here.
The beleaguered Bills haven't made the playoffs since 1999 (the longest current drought in football) but like any NFL team they remain a profitable and sought-after franchise.
Plus, as the ultimate status symbol, becoming an NFL owner is naturally an attractive prospect to a known megalomaniac like Trump, even if he's aware such a purchase is likely well beyond his financial means.
If he does manage to buy the team, Trump will likely have to start spending a lot more time in Upstate New York.
Before he died, Wilson signed a lease agreement stipulating that anyone who moves the team to a different city before 2021 will need to pay a $400 million fine.

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Sir Peter Scott founded WWT, at Slimbridge, the Gloucestershire wetland reserve, in 1946, and nine years later, to establish it as an international centre of research and conservation , recruited Matthews, an authority on bird navigation.
Matthews dedicated the next 33 years of his life to WWT, building a team of scientists which developed waterfowl biology using the Slimbridge collection of birds and observing ducks, geese and swans in the wild.
Many of their discoveries — such as the long-distance migrations of waterbirds between Eastern and Western Europe — are now taken for granted. They carried out regular counts of waterbirds throughout Britain, and introduced sophisticated ringing and catching schemes. WWT was soon attracting visiting scientists from all over the world.
At the same time Matthews continued his study of bird navigation, and supervised PhD students at the universities of Bristol and Cardiff . He also became deeply involved in conservation at a time when this was in its infancy, and when coordinated national and international efforts were urgently needed to conserve wildfowl and their habitats.
Matthews worked with the Nature Conservancy and wildfowling groups to establish a network of refuges for migratory wildfowl at their key wintering sites across Britain. He was often in demand to advise on British conservation legislation (notably the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act, which gives statutory protection to Sites of Special Scientific Interest) and on EU Directives .
Matthews also made an important contribution to the International Wildfowl Research Bureau (IWRB, now Wetlands International), becoming its British delegate in 1956 and its Director in 1969, when he brought its headquarters to Slimbridge. Under his directorship, IWRB expanded greatly, extending its work to Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Through IWRB, Matthews developed and promoted the novel concept of an intergovernmental convention on the conservation and wise use of wetland habitats and resources; and in February 1971, at Ramsar in Iran, the Convention of Wetlands (known as "the Ramsar Convention") was signed by 18 nations, including Iran and the Soviet Union. It was one of the four major international legal biodiversity agreements of the 1970s .
Matthews remained Director of IWRB until 1988 and was closely involved with the Ramsar Convention's development and application. The Convention, whose secretariat started at Slimbridge in 1987 and is now based in Switzerland, today has 164 member states, 2,075 Wetlands of International Importance, and a total area of designated sites of nearly 200 million hectares.
When Matthews retired from WWT in 1988, Sir Peter Scott observed: "[WWT and IWRB] have played a significant part in the survival and conservation of wetlands and wildfowl on a global scale, and the greatest part of that achievement we owe to Geoffrey Matthews."
The younger of two children, Geoffrey Vernon Townsend Matthews was born on June 16 1923 in Norwich, where his father worked as a vet for the Ministry of Agriculture. From Bedford School, Geoffrey went up to Christ's College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences, and in 1943 his tutor — CP Snow — volunteered him for operational research in the RAF. He served in Bomber Command and as a navigator on B24 Liberators with Air Command South East Asia.
Matthews then returned to Cambridge to complete his degree, and in 1950 received his PhD on Bird Navigation, an interest developed during his wartime posting on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, where he pondered how seabirds navigated to isolated breeding sites there. His postdoctoral research at Cambridge included classic studies of orientation in pigeons and shearwaters, and his seminal monograph Bird Navigation was published in 1955 .
Matthews served on many committees, including as president of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (1971-74) and vice-president of the British Ornithologists' Union (1972–75).
In retirement, he wrote The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development (1993). He contributed to 43 other books and was the author of more than 150 papers. For 20 years he edited the journal Wildfowl.
Matthews received the British Ornithologists' Union Medal in 1980 and the RSPB Medal in 1990. In 1986 he was appointed OBE, and in 1987 an Officer of the Order of the Golden Ark by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands for his services to conservation.
A man with a keen sense of humour, Matthews derived particular pleasure from his immortalisation in the naming in his honour of a new species of feather louse found on Greylag geese — Ornithobius matthewsi.
He was thrice married: from 1946 to 1961 to Josephine Bilderbeck, with whom he had a son and a daughter; from 1964 to 1978 to Janet Kear; and from 1980 to Mary Evans, with whom he had a son and a daughter. His wife and children survive him.
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It is often said that- – –
"a picture is worth a thousand words".
This series will be postings of a single picture. May you find that the following photo "speaks" volumes and makes your mind travel deep within. Take the time to:
See & Listen
What words does this photo "speak" to you? – Within you?
About you? About how you live? About how you spend your time?
About your past hopes & dreams? About your plans for the future?
About the beauty you have experienced,
and the beauty you want to experience – in your life?
What are you doing to make all of that happen?
Be Still – – – and Know
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If you want more "inspirational" photos of nature and flowers and water, check out any of the past postings from the archive of: Gardens at Waters East click on: www.gardensatwaterseast.blogspot.com
Your thoughts and comments are always welcomed.
Write a few words to share.
Take this opportunity to "teach" all of us who seek deeper truth in life.


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In order for plants to be able to clean the indoor air, they need to be able to absorb the pollutants. This process, for example of VOC (volatile organic compounds) happens two ways, via the leaves and roots.
Absorption via the stomata
The stomata are mostly found on the under-surface of plant leaves Air including fine particles and pollutants enter the leaves through the stomata. Plants also transpire (cellular respriation) thought the stomata. At night and under stress these stomata close in most plants.
Scientific proof though the GSF Forschungszentrum (research lab)
The GSG Forschungszentrum (institute for plant pathology) demonstrated the effectiveness of formaldehyde reduction through the plant inherent enzyme formaldehyde-Dehydrogenase. This was done through radioactive marking of the formaldehyde, which enabled the researches to follow the path of the formaldehyde through the plant.
The scientists demonstrated the conversion of the pollutants into non-toxic nutrients such as glucose and amino acids.
Through the transport system inside the plant, through which for example glucose is transported to the roots, the pollutants are transported to the root system. In the roots the pollutants are excreted through osmosis and provide nutrition to the microorganism and bacteria living at the roots.
Absorption through the roots
The second, far more effective method, for plants to absorb pollutants is via the root system of the plant. In 1989 research conducted by NASA showed that 90% of the air purification of plants remains, even after removing all leaves. The rootlets of the plants also generate the required enzymes and break the pollutants down into glucose, amino acids etc. This is done through rhizoplane (The microenvironment of a root system near the surface) and rhizosphere (the soil region subject to the influence of plant roots and their associated microorganisms). The plant uses the amino acid and glucose as nutrients.
The microorganism living in a symbiotic relationship with the plant in the rhizoplane also assist in breaking down nutrients, regardless if it is in a flower pot or in nature. Why not use this natural air purifying system?
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Archive for August, 2013
Forgiveness – As Far as the East is from the West | Sermon from 8/25/2013
Forgiveness. It's as essential to life as water, food and air. Without it we will experience lonely loveless lives that are far from the abundance God wants us to experience. Over the next four weeks we will learn about the importance of accepting and offering forgiveness in all of our relationships. Explore the importance of accepting God's forgiveness so we can offer forgiveness to others.Read More
Quieting the Noise to Hear God – Dan Christopher | Sermon from 8/18/2013
Is there any noise in your life? Perhaps it is physical noise. Perhaps it is too much to do; or too many interruptions; too many emails, texts, tweets; or too much of everything. Noise in communication can be defined as "ANYTHING that disrupts the transmission of the intended message between the sender and the receiver of the information. If we have too much noise in our lives, it can be very difficult to hear what God might be trying to say to us.We discuss the kinds of things that cause noise, how we can strip away some of the noise to be able to hear God, and then what God might want to say to us if we listen for Him.Read More
Are You Ready? Attitude-Vision-Action | Sermon from 8/11/2013
Jesus is clear on one thing – He will return, and when He does He wants to find us faithful. He wants to find us ready? Are you ready? Getting ready and being prepared requires the right attitude, the right vision and the right actions.Read More
Stand Strong Together | Sermon from 8/4/2013
We continue to learn how to stand strong by looking at the importance of standing together. God did not create us to go through life alone and our faith was never meant to be an individual journey. We will be stronger in our faith when we learn how to truly encourage and support one another.Read More


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The EU and Terror
How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared. — Salman Rushdie
It is a complicated history, one that stretches back to before the outbreak of the first World War. In seeking a genesis of terrorism, in seeking to understand what drives terror, the West must admit that it is partially responsible for its genesis. We are bound up in a network of power relations that are now turning against our citizens. We are reaping what we have sown. We have sown fear, we have sown war, we have sown desperation. We reap what we sow. How do we relate to this history and to modern terrorism that is now found in the streets of Madrid, London and Paris, as well as many other places? What, if anything, can the EU do about terror?
Even though we reap what we sow does not justify the violence now inflicted; nothing justifies violence, but it does make it more understand, which in many ways can make it more insidious. Terrorism is extremism, but there is a logic and a rationality to actions taken in its name. These actions make sense in the history and the narratives that extremists live in. Within their moral space, terrorists understand themselves in a clear way. In order to uproot contemporary terrorism, these narrative and theological roots must be transformed.
It is at this level that the EU can influence the response to terrorism. When acts of terror are perpetrated, there is a nationalistic or ideological response: we are in the right, they are in the wrong. This does no justice to the complexity of the situation ((in no way am I condoning violence)). The EU is a narrative. It is an ideology, a symbol that exists among the dreamers of this continent. It bring together many different languages, different ideologies, religions, cultures and histories. After centuries of fighting, Europe is at peace (relatively speaking). It is this peace and this place of ideological dialogue that can respond deeply to the threat of terror.
Through the platform and apparatus of the EU, the member states can relate to their own history of violence, of colonisation, of terror. They have a space where they can dialogue both with each other but also with the people they have hurt. Learning from their histories and these dialogues, they can engage in a ideological critique of contemporary terror and work to establish structures that prevent terror and war. What are these? The very ones that have trickled through Europe and led to the creation of the European Community: unity in diversity, principles of solidarity and subsidiarity and love for our neighbours. At the nation-state level, this could not happen, or only happen with difficulty, since nation-states would have to overcome their own histories on their own. And if there is something that states, as individuals, do not like to do, it is to admit that they were wrong.
To echo the words of another philosopher, Sarah Borden, in relating to terror, "There is [the] danger in calling any particular person evil. In calling someone 'evil,' we run the risk of painting her as fully irrational, without reason or cause for her actions, as 'other' than us. In so doing, we too easily allow ourselves the luxury of not asking why our enemy hates us, whether we have done something to wrong another, or whether we ourselves have also sinned." At the level of European dialogue, these questions can be asked and the very roots of terror can begin to be untangled.


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Princess Eugenie of York is heading to the altar with her boyfriend of seven years, Jack Brooksbank, but it's unlikely she'll be signing a prenup. Despite the historic riches accumulated by the Royal Family, members of the House of Windsor don't sign prenuptial agreements intended to protect the (literal) family jewels. Prenups might be a common occurrence before celebrity weddings in the U.S. of A., but they don't hold a lot of weight in Mother England!
In case you're wondering, Prince Eugenie is the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. She's the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth and a celebrated wearer of amazing hats (fascinators FTW!) (According to our new Meghan Markle Royal Family Scale II, she's "Meghan Markle's Cousin-in-Law.") She got engaged to her handsome beau, Jack Brooksbank, back in January of this year.
Since then, Royal Watchers have been wondering if the Princess would get a prenup! It's rumored that she has over $4 million in personal assets based on a private trust fund established by her great grandmother, the Queen Mother.
However, experts have weighed in and concluded that's it's not likely. First, prenups are rare in the United Kingdom. Unlike in the U.S., they don't hold a lot of water in British courts. In the event of a divorce, Judges might consider a prenup but it's NOT legally binding! Second, the Royal Family doesn't do prenups. The House of Windsor's most prestigious properties and other assets are held by the public or the family as a whole, not individual members. No one's going to split Buckingham Palace down the middle in the event of a nasty split!
Courts in the U.K. might have the right idea; if a marriage is supposed to be a partnership, why should one partner get to write the rules about how the money's going to be divided? Signing a contract dictating how you're going to break up in the future is not the most romantic gesture.
Either way, we can't wait for Princess Eugenie's wedding—and for the wedding fascinators!


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The contractions hit harder and faster than I imagined. This couldn't be the real deal, though. While I'd been dilated and effaced for weeks, with an induction scheduled the next morning, I didn't let myself believe this was actual labor. After all, I'd had two false alarms before, and I knew they'd just send me… Read More
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The wee hours of the morning. That delicate span of time when either you've stayed up very late, or gotten up very early. My husband is the latter. He leans to kiss me in bed, my hour tousled unattractively against my pillow. I tell him I love him, words spoken through my lisp-inducing mouthpiece used to prevent… Read More
24 Seconds, 24 Hours, 24 Years
Last night was a doozie. One of those evenings where every button is pushed, and by the end, every hair is pulled out. Tempers flared. Words hissed. Patience broke. My youngest has been particularly difficult lately. Every other word is spoken as a whine, and when all 42 pounds of her 3-year-old body decide… Read More
Shut Up…Your Mother Is Speaking.
Sometimes, internal voices happen outside my mind. Words are spoken, and received by my ears, rather than merely bubbling up in my brain. Who do these words belong to? Me. But not me. Both a better version…and a worse one. The proverbial devil and angel. The cartoon characters dressed in red and white perched atop… Read More
You're Dang Right Momma Loves Her Body
Patterns, habits and long-term environments mold so much of who we are, but I'm convinced simple little encounters are powerful enough to change our outcome–for better or worse. Like this morning. As I was stepping out of the shower and scurrying to the bedroom to get dressed on time, my 4-year-old daughter made a comical… Read More
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Was that really a piece of dog hair embedded in dried snot on my child's face? Yes. Yes it was. Unfazed, I reached up and pulled it off, and then thought I'd better clean that snot off, too. Gross. Only, not gross. Just normal. It's weird how normal gross things are when you have kids.… Read More


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Hibiscus has taken root in London to spectacular effect, says Zoe Williams
I just opened the Hibiscus menu at home to describe it to you, and found myself absent-mindedly stroking it, like a rare and beloved pet, maybe a snow-spotted Bengal cat. One has to be careful not to be star-struck in the aftermath of the Michelin awards season, but, dude, I do not even care if I sound uncool. This food was beautiful.
I was with A, my oldest friend, who was dressed in a blue cable sweater-dress (no, not relevant, I'm just painting you a picture with words), and seemed to blend chic-ly with the muted Mayfair carpet like an Edward Hopper painting. There is no pretentiously huge space between the tables, no Gordon Ramsay-ish 'Look how much cash we must have to waste space like this'. Indeed, I think the interior is the least of it; from the outside it could pass for a swanky office. And yet the various beiges manage between them to convey the sense that you've reached a place of perfect peace, and now you can start properly to concentrate on food. Which I suppose is the restaurant-interior Holy Grail.
A had the salad of Cornish crab with avocado and Williams pear, and an acacia-honey dressing; there was absolutely nothing unusual in the presentation of this. Crab neatly shredded, both fruits mixed in, there was no special visual flourish you couldn't pull off yourself, but the taste was absolutely splendid. The honey brought richness and intensity, but didn't seem all that sweet; the crab tasted so completely of itself you almost didn't want to swallow it. My shredded Welsh mutton, though, was even better. This actually did have a bit of sweetness, but only in the sense that you could imagine a nice long-lived sheep chewing away on the Welsh hills. It tasted extremely romantic, I thought. Some lychees had been persuaded through a mandolin and scattered with a rosewater and mutton reduction. I loved the unfamiliar, chewy resistance of the lychee against the totally yielding pile of mutton.
I followed this with the veal kidney, which I must admit I've never seen on a menu, and was a much more delicate flavour than a regular kidney, more milky and less uric, presumably because it'd had less use. It swam in an Irish sea-urchin cream, with buckwheat, which struck a comic and delicious peasant note in the fanciful whole. You know how it is when chefs try to be witty - usually it's some lame wordplay ('oyster and oyster', with an actual oyster and a chicken oyster). This was a more subtle wit. And also it tasted nice, which makes all the difference, I find. A had the salmon with confit of fennel and champagne rhubarb, dill purée, wasabi and honey dressing, and if honey is writ large in the descriptions, it wasn't in the taste. None of these flavours was so vulgarly assertive as to announce itself. When I look at all that written down, I cannot imagine how it would be expected to work together, but it was magisterial. I am honestly not overstating this; the sheer expertise of taking a food with a range of flavours, and knowing it's in peak condition to meet four others… it really is something.
I finished with the clementine 'jammie' dodger (their inverted commas). A said she could see why you were supposed to like it, but nevertheless she didn't. Very bitter, the predominant flavour was marmalade. I liked it, but it wasn't a dodger. She had the lime and dark-chocolate parfait with coconut sorbet and caramel cream. Again, you could only stand back and marvel. Each flavour brought so many notes; each note bounced off another flavour. It was symphonic.
It was all so special. You know when you have a special anniversary, and somehow the very significance of it gives you the yips and you can't think of anywhere to go? Go here.


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President Obama hit a home run with his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court -- and not just because she's the "woman who saved baseball" by ending the strike in 1995, nor simply because she would be the first Latina ever to serve on the high court.
It was a home run because in her three-decade career as a prosecutor, judge, private litigator and law professor, she has time and again earned bipartisan praise as one of America's finest legal minds. And it was the right choice because Judge Sotomayor -- herself born and raised in a South Bronx housing project -- has summed up the American dream in her own incredible story and never once forgotten how the law affects our daily lives.
Now her historic nomination goes to the Senate. I know that process well, and I can tell you that the debate of the coming weeks and months will be shaped by the public response in the next few hours and days. It's critical that the Senate and the public clearly see where the American people stand.
I've followed Judge Sotomayor's remarkable journey for years. I voted for her when President George H.W. Bush nominated her for the District Court in 1992, and I was proud to vote for her again when President Bill Clinton nominated her for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998.
Born to a Puerto Rican family, Sotomayor grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx. She was an avid reader from an early age, and was first inspired to pursue a legal career by the Nancy Drew mystery novels. Driven by her mother's belief in the power of education and her own relentless work ethic, she excelled in school. She won a scholarship to Princeton University, graduated summa cum laude, and then went on to attend Yale Law School where she served as an editor of the prestigious Yale Law Journal.
Like President Obama, Sotomayor passed up many more lucrative opportunities after law school to put her degree to work for the public good. She served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York, tackling some of the hardest cases facing the city, including robberies, assaults, murders, police brutality, and child pornography. Her growing reputation for fearlessness and legal brilliance prompted her first nomination to the federal bench, and she's only continued to soar.
If confirmed, she would start with more federal judicial experience than any Justice in a century, more overall judicial experience than any Justice in 70 years, and replace David Souter as the only Justice with firsthand experience as a trial judge. She has participated in over 3,000 panel decisions and authored roughly 400 opinions, expertly handling difficult issues of constitutional law, complicated procedural matters, and lawsuits involving complex business organizations.
In her years on the bench, Judge Sotomayor has earned acclaim from legal scholars and experts from both sides of the aisle for her intellectual toughness, her probing oral questioning, and her ability to issue decisions that hold both factual details and legal doctrines in equal measure. And she's never failed to apply a steady, common-sense analysis of how the law touches our daily lives.
Her story is incredible. Her qualifications are undeniable. And her judgment will serve us all well on the highest court in the land.
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via Jakarta Post, 09 May 2019: Manuscripts plundered from the Yogyakarta Palace during Raffles' time have been returned – in digital form.
Seventy-five of Yogyakarta Palace's centuries old manuscripts have finally returned home after being stolen by British troops around 200 years ago, albeit only in their digital form.
The Brits stole the manuscripts after winning a battle known as the Geger Sepoy (Sepoy Mayhem) in 1812, during the reign of Sultan Hamengkubuwono II.
The manuscripts contain historical and cultural accounts during the reign of Sultan Hamengkubuwono I. The valuable documents were pillaged when British forces attacked the palace.
They plundered not only hundreds of babad (chronicles) and serat (texts) but also palace heirlooms, treasures and cash. The tragic incident occurred during the British colonial rule over Java under Lieut. Gen. Sir Stamford Raffles.
Source: Yogyakarta Palace recovers centuries old manuscripts – Art & Culture – The Jakarta Post


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I love to see others success with aquaponics systems!
It been at least three months since we planted amarapayar, but it was in a system with very few fish and so we hardly got any beans so far. A couple of weeks back I added a few more bigger fish into the system and we are starting see good fruition on Amarapayar and long beans.


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- Feb, 10 2014
- By fabricebana
- Architecture, Artists, Design, Designers, Film, Furniture
- 6 comments
"The poverty of modern architecture stems from the atrophy of sensuality.
Everything is dominated by reason in order to create amazement without proper research. We must mistrust pictorial elements if they are not assimilated by instinct.
It is not a matter of simply constructing beautiful ensembles of lines, but above all, dwellings for great people."
– Eileen Gray –
Some of you may remember A-Gent of Style 's stay in Paris last spring and his accompanying series 'A Londoner in Paris'. For some hazy reasons, what didn't make it to this blog was the remarkable show at the Pompidou Centre celebrating the career of the 20th C iconic designer and architect Eileen Gray which regrouped unique pieces and was aimed at reaffirming this design luminary's recognition, influence and reputation today. A-Gent of Style felt slightly troubled over the last months to have missed the opportunity to write about this seminal retrospective and not to have featured some of his own (amateurishly and perilously taken) photographs
("Les photos ne sont pas autorisées, monsieur!"). But thanks to today's subject,
A-Gent of Style can rectify this oversight.
A forthcoming Irish-Belgian feature film called 'The Price of Desire' will tell the controversial story of Eileen Gray's pioneering life between 1923 and 1956, of how her influential contribution to 20th C architecture and design was almost entirely effaced from history by the egotistical Franco-Swiss polymath Le Corbusier (real name Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris), and of how her relationship with Romanian architect and architecture critic Jean Badovici further fuelled the rift between the two architects, both personally and professionally, thus consigning her legacy to a century of neglect and long-overdue recognition (Eileen Gray was difficult to pigeon-hole and was never strictly part of Art Deco).
Orla Brady as Eileen Gray and Alanis Morissette as lover "Damia" in The Price of Desire. Photo by Julian Lennon. The official poster has yet to be released.
Directed by Mary McGuckian, the movie which is due to be released this year and currently in post-production (the trailer has yet to be released) will star Irish actress Orla Brady as the private and elusive figure Gray, Swiss actor Vincent Perez as the malevolent Le Corbusier; Italian actor Francesco Scianna will play Jean Badovici and Canadian singer Alanis Morissette will be Gray's lover, the French cabaret singer Marie-Louise Damien, better known as "Damia" (Gray was openly bisexual). Julian Lennon was commissioned to be the artistic stills photographer.
Filmmaker Mary McGuckian with Vincent Perez as Le Corbusier at the villa E1027
Actress Orla Brady as Eileen Gray during make-up
The hunksome Vincent Perez as Le Corbusier
The other hunksome Francesco Scianna as Jean Badovici
Alanis Morisette as "Damia"
Damia / Alanis Morisette on set as "Damia" (Instagram)
Francesco Scianna and Orla Brady
Julian Lennon at Villa E-1027
The other significant star of the film is Gray's most abiding project,
the Villa E-1027, now recognized by many as a milestone and the first Modernist house ever constructed. 'The price of Desire' will explore the events and details surrounding Le Corbusier's effacement, defacement and eventual erasure of Gray's very ownership of the actual physical villa she so lovingly created. What was originally conceived as a peaceful, seaside lover's nest and refuge (E-1027 was a gift from Gray to Badovici) ended up being obscured by artistic conflict, jealousy, rivalry, betrayal, strife, violence and even murder (a bit like Dynasty really).
Le Corbusier, his wife Yvonne Gallis and Badovici
A friend of Badovici's, Le Corbusier visited E-1027 on numerous occasions and admired it very much, so much so that he moved in to add his own touch to the clean white villa, painting a series of sexually graphic and explicit murals on its walls between 1937 and 1939. This intrusion onto her design infuriated Gray who considered the murals outright vandalism. Whether Le Corbusier painted (sometimes in the nude except for his trademark glasses and a palette and paintbrush in hand) these murals out of admiration for her work or jealousy of her accomplishment,
he became intricately tied with the future of the house.
Failing to purchase it himself, Le Corbusier eventually bought a piece of property just east of E-1027, where he built a small, rustic cabin, "Le Cabanon." Here he would go for work and quiet contemplation, taking daily swims on the beach outside the house. After he died in those very waters in 1965, the whole area was declared
a "Site Moderne," or "Modern Site," and deemed an area of cultural and historical importance and international interest. Today, E-1027 is recognized as the founding element of this site.
The 3,66 m by 3,66 m modernist 'Le Cabanon' and Villa E-1027 in the foreground
Le Corbusier's Cabanon, 1951
Situated in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in an isolated stretch of the French Riviera overlooking the Bay of Monaco, the site for E-1027 was chosen by the Irish designer and the Romanian philanderer in 1924 for the beauty of its views.
Wishing to build a house that interacted with the natural elements,
Eileen Gray developed the design to incorporate an evolving relationship with the sun, the prevailing winds, and the sea. Inside and outside flow together. Delicate, white and ship-like, the L-shaped and flat-roofed building with floor-to-ceiling windows, a sunken solarium and spiralling sky-lit staircase was completed in 1929. Gray was responsible for much of the design and for overseeing its construction;
Badovici provided conceptual inspiration and assisted in technical matters. Not only does every room give out onto a balcony or terrace and the bedrooms get the morning sun but the shutters and windows are also adjustable, allowing the inhabitant to harmoniously engage with the sea and the hills surrounding the villa. Gray went on to develop innovative avant-garde architecture and design in line with the pure aesthetic of the modern movement combined with her personal sense of interior comfort and practicality. E-1027 makes indistinct the border between architecture and decoration.
Eileen Gray's plan of E-1027, her first fully realised architectural design
Eileen Gray gave her Villa E-1027 walls of glass looking out to sea
The spiral staircase leading to the roof of E-1027
The living room of E-1027 designed by Eileen Gray in the late 1920s
The same living room in the late 1930s with the mural paintings by Le Corbusier
The living room reconstructed for the film
According to Gray, "A window without shutters is an eye without eyelids"
The alphanumeric encoded Villa E-1027 (typical example of the modernist obsession with the rational and industrial) was named by Gray and a way of showing her relationship with Badovici at the time when built (they ended their ten-year long romance shortly after the completion of the house): E standing for Eileen, 10 being the tenth letter in the alphabet, J, standing for Jean, 2 is letter B, for the first letter of Badovici and 7, the seventh letter, for the G in Gray.
Gray was so slow at putting her name forward as being the architect of the house that for many years it was assumed by many historians and journalists that Le Corbusier was in fact its designer. It is worth noting that Le Corbusier's murals were preserved due to his greater fame as arguably the most famous and influential of the early modernists. Gray's career was largely forgotten until after her death in 1976 despite her long-lasting influence nowadays; it is only in 1972 that the sale of the collection of internationally revered couturier, Jacques Doucet, specifically the Destiny screen, restored Gray and her works to their rightful place in the decorative arts.
Jacques Doucet's Paris Apartment by Eileen Gray in the late 1920s
Le Destin screen, 1910
After her beginnings designing sumptuous lacquer furniture, wool carpets and draperies that reflected the sensual luxury of traditional French decorative arts,
Eileen Gray turned to architecture in the mid-1920s, influenced by the modern movement. But Gray's talent was not always appreciated. In 1923, French authorities on the decorative arts and design use such words as "strange," "abnormal," "tormented," and even "nightmarishˮ and "caligaresque" to describe the now iconic Monte Carlo ensemble she exhibited that year at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Gray exhibits at the 1923 Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris
Having fallen into dereliction and dilapidation in the 1990s, E-1027 was acquired in 1999 by Le Conservatoire du Littoral, a French public organisation, and the township of Roquebrune after its last private owner was mysteriously murdered in 1996 in one of the bedrooms (an event dramatised too in the movie). The original furniture that Gray had designed herself specifically has now been removed from the villa. Some of her products have now become iconic, timeless and ubiquitous (A-Gent of Style has her iconic circular, adjustable table at home). There has been a lot of criticism as to whether Le Corbusier's murals should have been removed or not.
E-1027 in a shockingly dilapidated state before its restoration a few years ago
London furniture retailer Zeev Aram, who became a close friend of Irish-born Gray in her later years, and who owns the rights to her designs, provided furniture for the film such as the Bibendum chair, the eponymous E-1027 adjustable table and
the Rivoli table – to complement the renovation. Aram have just recently launched a fantastic website dedicated to Eileen Gray and all of her designs.
The Bibendum chair
The E-1027 adjustable tubular steel table designed to enable Gray's sister to eat breakfast in bed without leaving crumbs on sheets, due to an adjustable top that caught the crumbs.
The Rivoli table
Leather transat
Another scene to look forward to will re-stage the moment Sotheby's sold the infamous Eileen Gray's 'Fauteuil aux dragons' that belonged to Yves Saint Laurent
and Pierre Bergé for a staggering $28m in 2009 and which broke the record for 20th C furniture. Cheska Vallois of the respected 20th C antiques Galerie Vallois in Paris plays herself in the production as the anonymous private client who buys the chair and famously explains the high price-tag to reporters immediately after the auction by saying "it can only be the price of desire" hence the title of the film.
Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé with 'the Dragon chair' behind him. You can see A-Gent's latest review on the new biopic and their storied Paris apartment here.
The renovation and refurbishment have proved to be lengthy and a burden. In 2008 the site was in full renovation spate and due to be opened in 2009. But money ran out and it lay dormant until now and McGuckian's intervention. It was hoped the film's fundraising would help contribute to this work.
Summary timeline of E1027
1926-29 Eileen Gray designs and builds E1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin for Jean Badovici
1931-35 Eileen Gray designs and builds Tempe à Pailla, a house for herself in Castellar; she leaves E1027
1938-40 Le Corbusier paints eight large-scale overtly sexual frescoes on the walls of E-1027
1952 Le Corbusier builds his Cabanon next to E-1027
1956 Badovici dies; E-1027 is inherited by his sister in Romania
1958 The Romanian government offers the house at public auction
1960 Marie-Louise Schelbert purchases E-1027 at auction at the bidding of Le Corbusier
1965 Le Corbusier dies of a heart-attack during his daily swim in the waters just in front of E-1027
1982 Dr. Kaegi claims title to E-1027 by bequest after the death of Marie-Louise Schelbert
1991 Dr. Kaegi sells 28 pieces of furniture from the villa at a Sotheby's auction in Monaco – The Pompidou Centre (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris) pre-empts the purchase of some of the more important proto-types
1996 Dr. Kaegi is violently murdered by a gardener after a dispute
1996-99 Left empty for several years, the villa is overtaken by squatters and vandalized
1999 The Conservatoire Du Littoral, a public entity charged with the preservation of the French coastline, purchases the property
2000 The villa, its garden and the surrounding land are classified as Historic Monuments by national decree on March 27th
The Conseil Général has since tried to undertake the restoration project with the commune Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Alpes-Maritimes.
Even in her 90s, Eileen Gray had a formidable spirit; pictured here in the 1970s at her work table in her Paris apartment at 21 rue Bonaparte. She never lost the passion and sheer need to create.
"The Price of Desire" sounds like an intriguing dramatisation of a turbulent period and the checkered history of a seminal building. Focusing on E-1027, it will manifest Gray's most fundamental contribution to modern design and architecture and should reaffirm and recognises her evolution as a major and influential artist.
A-Gent of Style looks forward to the release of "The Price of Desire" which will hopefully receive the resonance and relevance it deserves today.
As Gray professed: "The future projects light, the past only clouds".
The major retrospective 'Eileen Gray, Designer Architect Painter' of
the Pompidou Centre from last year moved to Ireland until the end of last month at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
- Jan, 30 2014
- By fabricebana
- Artists, Design, Designers, Fashion, Film, Inspiration
- One comment
Away from the buzz of Paris Déco Off and Maison & Objet, the only evening off
A-Gent of Style managed to get was on Sunday when he, like one million or so French cinema-goers in the last fortnight, went to see the Yves Saint Laurent movie, the first of two French biopics to be released this year. And A-Gent though it was
un chef d'oeuvre. Do see it when it is released in your country or on DVD.
Loosely based on the Laurence Benaim's biography and approved by Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint Laurent, directed by Jalil Lespert, recounts the passionate and turbulent life of one of the most famous French couturiers, whose work was heavily influenced by his personal life and traces the events of the precocious talent who took over from his mentor, Christian Dior, in 1957, when he was only 21 from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Bergé until the designer's death in 2008 (the movie focuses mainly though on the 1950s, 60s and 70s). Their relationship somehow mirrors Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti's who together also created an iconic fashion house, amassed an incredible art collection and sustained a personal relationship for over 50 years. You can see A-Gent of Style's feature of Giammetti's latest New York apartment here.
Actor Pierre Niney, boundless talent of the Comédie française (the French equivalent of the RSC, more or less) doesn't play Yves Saint Laurent so much as embody him.
His performance is riveting and impeccable. The movie is intimate, insightful and entertaining. Wait to see a young Karl Lagerfeld mingling with Saint Laurent's muses, Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Cattroux (interestingly enough, Catherine Deneuve is not featured). And the physical similarities between the actors and the actual persons are sometimes uncanny (Now, A-Gent of Style is very much aware that his adoration for Hamish Bowles – see the last post – is worryingly turning into an obsession but don't you think he looks very much like Monsieur Saint Laurent?! The lanky figure, the floppy hair, the black-rimmed spectacles and of course la mode??).
The other show-stopping factors of the film are the visually sumptuous interiors.
Be it Saint Laurent's childhood mansion in Oran, Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé's Paris apartment or their villa in Les Jardins de Majorelle in Marrakesh, the décors are ravishing and breathtaking. Whilst they are not faithfully accurate, they certainly capture the spirit of the museum-quality objets d'art the A-Gay couple surrounded themselves with over five decades.
AD France has just featured new photographs of the arts patrons and aesthetes's nine-room duplex apartment at 55 rue de Babylone, on Paris's Left Bank,
one of the superlative interiors of the 20th century. After Saint Laurent's death,
his and Bergé's interiors were auctioned and sold at Christie's in 2009 for an astounding $484 million—the Eileen Gray 'Dragon' chair alone brought just over
$28 million. It is still referred today as 'the sale of the century'.
You can judge by yourselves here:
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- Jan, 28 2014
- By fabricebana
- Architecture, Artists, Designers, Exhibitions, Fabric & Wallpaper, Fairs, Film, Furniture, Inspiration, International, Lighting
- No comments
A-Gent of Style – and most of the London design scene or so it seemed – descended in the French capital last week to attend Paris Déco Off, Maison & Objet but also a private tour of the '1925, When Art Deco Dazzled the World' exhibition and so much more! For those of you who didn't follow A-Gent's adventures live on Twitter and Instagram, all will be revealed soon in his series
'A Londoner in Paris'. Stay tuned!


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Photographer's Note
A foggy winter morning at Kolkata. We went out from home at around 6AM to treat ourselves with famous Chinese breakfast at Tiretta bazar. while crossing the Maidan area. I stopped by this marvelous view of early morning.
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BennyV (30600) 2012-02-06 9:24
Hello Anunay
And welcome to TE. This is a terrific picture to start your gallery with. The low hanging mist is terrific and really brings out the silhouettes of the people, the tree and the city in the background. Soft blue mood, adding melancholy to the scene.
Thanks for sharing & have a good week
yquem46 (38752) 2012-02-06 9:29
Namaskar Anunay
First welcome to TE
Nice one to start with
I like this moody shot with the fog and main elements simply as black silhouettes
the blueish color adds to the mood of course
Hope to see more
have a nice day
best regards
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How to make a moving mouth sheep puppet (Bobby)
Baaaaah, Behhhh. In this tutorial, we'll talk about how to build Bobby, a moving mouth sheep puppet with arm rods. Bobby is based on the prototype Mac and Cheese which we've talked about how to build earlier. It is structurally very similar except with more decorations. The major difference is that the mouth is built seperately and then attached to the outside instead of inserted inside. This tutorial is therefore going to focus on the things that's different from the prototype.
Here's a list of materials used, followed by the steps:
|Main body
|sheep-looking furry fabric
|Mouth board (structure)
|hard cardboard
|Mouth board (decoration)
|store-bought plastic craft eyes
|Head stuffing
|bag of polyfill
|Arm rods
|bamboo skewers
|Sewing machine
|hot glue gun
1. Build the basic structure: Like how we built Mac and Cheese and Bottle Monster, you want to fold the fabric over, trace the pattern, sew it up, and flip it over. For more detailed instructions please look at step 1-5 of the How to build Mac and Cheese tutorial.
2. Build the mouth: First we need to cut cardboard into the shape of a mouth board (pic 2a), and then we glue felt on it so it doesn't look like a piece of cardboard. In the last two puppets we used black fabric for the mouth. This time I thought I would try red felt for a change.
And now it's time for the exterior portion of the mouth. In pic 2b, you can see that I started gluing some fabric to make the jaw. In pic 2c, you can see the jaw is done. In pic 2d, the upper part is also done. Notice that you are only gluing the edges of the fabric. You want to have space between the fabric and the cardboard. You are creating pockets so that you can put your hand inside to manipulate the mouth. Also it makes the mouth look more three dimensional. The mouth part is done by now. Sure, it doesn't look like a sheep yet, but already you have a mouth to play with!
3. Glue jaw to the bottom of the face: In the previous two tutorials, we cut a slit across the head/face portion of the basic structure and then put in the mouth. This time, we have not only the mouth but also the face to put in. So we cut out a circle instead of just a slit. Now you want to glue the the jaw to the lower portion of the circle. There should be space between the upper portion of the circle and the upper portion of the mouth, because we still need to put in the rest of the face, such as eyes.
4. Put in the upper half of the face: This will be the flat part of the face (unlike the mouth, which is the protruding part). First cut out a piece somewhat larger than the area you are covering (pic 4a). And then glue the top of the fabric to the top portion of the circle cut out (pic 4b). And once you are done, glue the side to the side of the circle, and the bottom of the fabric to the top of the mouth. By now, the basic structure, the mouth we made earlier, and this new piece of fabric we put in to be the mouth should all be connected. Then we put in the eyes. Now we basically the head done (pic 4d).
For the last two puppets I draw eyes on index cards and then cut them out. This time I decided to try something different. In pic 4c you see these plastic craft/stuffed animal eyes that you can purchase at craft stores. The way you install it is simple. First drill a hole wherever you want the eye installed. Stick the screw looking part (the black piece in this picture) into the hole, and hold the washer looking part (the white piece) behind the hole so the two pieces fit together, sandwiching the fabric (which is the face) in between. Please make sure you already planned out where the eyes are going to go, because once these things are installed, it's very hard to get them off without breaking things.
5. Put in the ears: First cut out the ear shape out of the fur babric (pic 5a). And then you can glue on a smaller piece that's not furry to create the inside of the ear (pic 5b). Of course, this is not required but this gives the puppet more personality (or sheeponality). Before I installed the ears, I first decided to pinch parts of the back of the head (pic 5c) and sew them together. This is to make the head smaller. In the last two puppets, the head space is shared by some polyfil and the mouth board. However, with this puppet, the mouth protrudes and doesn't take up head space. That's why I am making the head smaller. And then you can glue on the ears. When you are done, you have something like pic 5d. And all that's left to do is put on the arms.
6. Make the arms and rods: First make the arms. The arms are just two tubes made from two strips of fabric folded over and sewn together. Sew or glue these two tubes onto the main body of the puppet and stuff in some polyfill to give it some volume (muscles, if you will). Pic 6a wasn't quite clear so you'll have to use your imagination.
And then you want to drill a hole towards the end of the arm (near where the hand/hoof will be). This is for the rod to go through (pic 6b). Then we make the arm rod. I glued a piece of cardboard on top of a bamboo skewer so the rod would stay in place (pic 6c). Then you want to put the rod through the hole we've just drilled (pic 6d). And finally we take a piece of fabric to seal the arm tube. This has two purposes. One is to give it the hand/hoof look. And another was to seal that piece of cardboard in so our rod doesn't slide out of the tube. And now you are done!
Oh wait, one more step. The head might be a little empty at this point, and when you touch the top of the head, it just sinks in. All you have to do is make a little pouch/bag, put some polyfill in it, and stick it into the head. I don't even seal it, because sometimes I would like to take the bag out to adjust the amount and shape.
And that's how you build Bobby!
More puppet building tutorials:
How to make a moving mouth puppet with arm rods (Mac and Cheese)
How to make a moving mouth puppet with glove hands (Bottle Monster)
List of videos Bobby has appeared in so far:
Episode 12: Daylight Saving
Episode 11: The Truth Behind Halloween
Episode 10: Silent Sneeze
Episode 9: Wordcraft
Episode 8: Nobody's Watching
Video Special: Obscure UCLA Facts You Did Not Know
Episode 6: Dance, Dance, Dance
Episode 5: Amazing Grass


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Trial starting for ex-Air Force major accused of trying to kill his wife and her dad in Broward
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Paula McMahon
February 4, 2017
"He goes to the VA that day, looking for help and they just loaded him up with more pills," Haddad said. "This is a guy who was a major in the Air Force, he has a master's degree. This is a stand-up guy, a highly regarded, trusted retired member of the military who served his country."Thomas Maffei Sun Sentinel / Broward Sheriff's Office HandoutHours before retired U.S. Air Force Major Thomas Maffei shot and seriously injured his estranged wife and her father in Coral Springs, he went to a Veterans Administration crisis clinic in Palm Beach County and told staff he was under extreme stress.
Thomas Maffei, 49, a retired Air Force major from Parkland, is charged with attempted first-degree murder in the November 2012 shootings of his estranged wife and her father in Coral Springs. Both victims survived.
When Maffei goes on trial Monday in Broward Circuit Court on attempted murder and other charges, he won't dispute that he fired three shots through his then-wife's apartment door as she and her father leaned against it, trying to keep him out.
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Saturday, February 4, 2017
PTSD on Trial: VA and Air Force Veteran Needing Help
And we should wonder which contractor staffed this clinic for a lot of money instead of VA employees doing it because they love veterans...and usually are veterans.
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Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Miss Wendy and Freddy de Ferret here!
It's been another boiling hot day here in North Kent! The Missus said she heard thunder in the distance last night but no one else did!
There was some damp patches on the patio this morning when we looked but as Holly said, 'It could have been Sparrow Wee!'
The warm weather didn't stop us going out for a walk along the beach and today we took Fred and Wendy with us 'cos they didn't get a walk yesterday.
We met up with all the 'Lads' and young Marley ran ahead of all the gang to get his Tum Tickle from Old Two Legs!
|When your ready OTL!
Holly and I spent a really lazy morning in the shade by the pond. The jar OTL fitted up with a supply of water that pours out of the jar was making tinkling sounds as the water poured into the pond which is OK to begin with but after a time it just reminds you that you need a wee and it's time to go out again!
Lunchtime we left May and April at home 'cos it was just too hot for ferrets. They were having a great time snoozing on the frozen blocks OTL had put under their beds!
OTL says that what with all this 'Global Warming' if it gets any hotter we will find herds of camels roaming about with sad faces. Why they should have sad faces rather confussed us until OTL explained that camel have two humps and anyone who has the hump has a sad face!
Yeah, well, if they get anywhere near my chews I'll get the hump as well!
Down on the beach we saw another Ro-Ro Car Transporter floating off to sea and it was Holly who called out 'Look! Floating Brick!'
|Another floating brick off to Hamburg!
|That sniffs horrid!
They have been knocking holes in the bottom of the chimney so we reckon it will be pretty exciting when it does go. OTL says that someone told him it will come down on the seventh September at nine in the morning but OTL reckons he needs confirmation before getting all the camera gear out!
TM has been given the job of searching FaceAche for information!
We have spotted TM taking sausages out of the freezer so it looks like 'Bangers and Mash' tonight, Yum Yum!
See you all tomorrow!
Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss April, Miss Wendy and Freddy de Ferret.


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This year there is an option of self–catering.
Lunch and coffee in the college canteen is on a pay as you go basis.
3 course Evening Dinner at 6.00pm in the Shannon RFC Clubhouse a 5 minute walk from the venue. €16.00 per evening. Paid in advance.
Sunday Lunch in Limerick Meeting House also €16.00
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Registration, Evening Meals & Sunday Lunch bookings are separate from Accommodation booking.


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NEVER BACKING DOWN is a Christian Country Music band that is neither Contemporary Christian, or Southern Gospel, all thou we have Contemporary Christian Music to some of our songs and Southern Rock Music to others, all of our Lyrics are Country Sounding with Contemporary Christian, or Southern Rock based music! We have our own style, and are hoping the Contemporary Christian industry or the Southern Gospel industry will receive us soon!
What do we like to listen to? We listen to Contemporary Christian Music, or Southern Gospel Music! But we continually seek the Country and Western voice in all the bands we listen too! It is as if up to date (Pop Country Gospel Music) has no place, that is who we are!
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Descriptive Analysis of diastolic blood pressure
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MGMT814-1402C-01 Quantitative Research Methods
Task Name: Phase 2 Individual Project
Deliverable Length: SPSS Outputs and 200-500 words answering questions
Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday, and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Using the data set electric.sav, use SPSS to run a distribution analysis on diastolic blood pressure (DBP58), examining the following for individuals who have had no history of cardiovascular heart disease and the group with a history of cardiovascular heart disease (CHD). The variable that looks at history is CHD.
Compute the following for each group:
Standard deviation
Under Plots, run a histogram, and show the normal curve on the histogram and run Stem-and-Leaf and Box-and-Whiskers
Submit your outputs from all SPSS runs, and briefly describe your results by answering the following questions:
What can you determine from the measures of skewness and kurtosis relative to a normal curve? What are the mean and median?
Does one seem better than the other to represent the scores?
What differences can you see in the pattern of responses those with history versus those with no history?
What information can you determine from the box plots?
Please submit your assignment.
Solution Summary
This solution is comprised of a detailed explanation descriptive analysis of diastolic blood pressure with respect to for individuals who have had no history of cardiovascular heart disease and the group with a history of cardiovascular heart disease (CHD). This solution mainly discussed the descriptive output generated using SPSS software.


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Solar Utility for Off-Grid Electricity Services
The project will improve access to electricity to secondary schools of the rural areas of the Arusha region in Tanzania. The schools have often no access to energy and are unable to provide appropriated educational and living standards to students and teachers. This situation is enlarging the present economic and educational gap between urban and rural communities and it is preventing their development. The project will support the establishment of two entities, a Solar Fund and a Utility which will provide off-grid electricity services to the target schools. The Utility will be responsible for the installation and management of renewable energy systems (PV systems) and the Fund will oversee the administrative and economic aspects to start the business and then to make it sustainable in the long term broadening the number of beneficiaries reached. The entities formed are no-profit and will be managed at first by the applicant and its partners.
Project code: TAN8042
Project Type: Pilot
Sector: Solar PV
Location of Implementation: Tanzania
Duration (months): 24
Organization: Istituto Oikos
Type of Organization: NGO
Project Office: Via Crescenzago 1, 20134, Milano, Italy
Local partner: c.o. Oikos East Africa, 8342 Arusha, Tanzania
Country of lead applicant: Italy
Website: http://www.istituto-oikos.org
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Francois Yergeau: > >Ŕ 23:58 17-12-96 +0100, Koen Holtman a écrit : >>The Montreal IETF took place *after* the end of the last call. > >I'm afraid not. The deadline was July 5th, see ><http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/1996q2/thread.html>. Oops, seems you are right. I distincly remember the IESG itself planning to end the last call before the Montreal IETF, so I don't know where that date came from. [...] >>I don't think you can take advantage of the language above. The magic words >>are "that does not represent a change in overall function of the >>specification". Changing the charset defaults _would_ represent a change in >>the overall function of the specification. > >Let's review my 4 points in this light: > >1) (Default entity charset is Latin-1) This is plain wrong, various clients >assume other defaults depending on their users needs. These various clients are 1.0 clients. The definition of the 1.1 default can't be `plain wrong' because some 1.0 clients use other defaults. We are dealing with a normative statement for 1.1 here, not with a description of best current practice. Such a normative statement can only be wrong if it leads to an internal contradiction in the draft. >2) (All clients support Latin-1) This is not true, Same reply as 1). Note that 1.1 does not _require_ all 1.1 clients to implement Latin-1, it only requires them to find it acceptable even if they only partially implement it. >3&4) (Latin-1 and English defaults for Warning:) Since the text is not >processed by the protocol (only the numeric code), the functionning would >not be impacted by changing the defaults to something sensible (like UTF-8 >and None). The text is processed when the 99 code is used, and clients are free to process the text when seeing other codes as well. So changing the defaults does have an impact. One final remark: I have the feeling this thread is going in circles. I'll try to stop sending responses. >François Yergeau <email@example.com> Koen.Received on Wednesday, 18 December 1996 15:49:48 UTC
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Related provisions for BIPRU 4.10.46
1 - 11 of 11 items.
Separate exposures to the same obligor must be assigned to the same obligor grade, irrespective of any differences in the nature of each specific transaction. Exceptions, where separate exposures are allowed to result in multiple grades for the same obligor are:(1) country transfer risk, this being dependent on whether the exposures are denominated in local or foreign currency;(2) where the treatment of associated guarantees to an exposure may be reflected in an adjusted assignment
1As well as complying with BIPRU 4.3.54 R and BIPRU 4.4.21 R (Data maintenance), a firm using own estimates of LGDs and/or conversion factors under the advanced IRB approach must collect and store:(1) complete histories of data on the facility ratings and LGD and conversion factor estimates associated with each rating scale3;(2) the dates the ratings were assigned and the estimates were done;(3) the key data and methodology used to derive the facility ratings and LGD and conversion
(1) A firm must calculate maturity (M) for each of the exposures referred to in this rule in accordance with this rule and subject to BIPRU 4.4.68 R to BIPRU 4.4.70 R. In all cases, M must be no greater than 5 years.(2) For an instrument subject to a cash flow schedule M must be calculated according to the following formula:where CFt denotes the cash flows (principal, interest payments and fees) contractually payable by the obligor in period t.(3) For derivatives subject to a
The exposure value for leases must be the discounted minimum lease payments. Minimum lease payments are the payments over the lease term that the lessee is or can be required to make and any bargain option (i.e. option the exercise of which is reasonably certain). Any guaranteed residual value fulfilling the set of conditions in BIPRU 5.7.1 R (Eligibility), as modified by BIPRU 4.10.38 R and BIPRU 4.10.39 R (Unfunded credit protection: Eligibility of providers) regarding the eligibility
Notwithstanding BIPRU 4.4.34 R and BIPRU 4.4.43 R, for the purposes of BIPRU 4.4.79 R, the LGD of a comparable direct exposure to the protection provider shall either be the LGD associated with an unhedged facility to the guarantor or the unhedged facility of the obligor, depending upon whether in the event both the guarantor and the obligor default during the life of the hedged transaction available evidence and the structure of the guarantee indicate that the amount recovered
To be eligible for the treatment set out in BIPRU 4.4.79 R, credit protection deriving from a guarantee or credit derivative must meet the following conditions:(1) the underlying obligation must be to:(a) a corporate exposure, excluding an exposure to an insurance undertaking (including an insurance undertaking that carries out reinsurance); or(b) an exposure to a regional government, local authority or public sector entity which is not treated as an exposure to a central government
The requirements in BIPRU 4.10.40 R (2) and BIPRU 4.10.42 R - BIPRU 4.10.48 R do not apply to3 guarantees provided by institutions, central governments, central banks and other corporate entities which meet the requirements in BIPRU 5.7.1 R (7)31 if the firm has received approval under BIPRU 4.2 to apply the standardised approach for exposures to such entities. In this case the requirements of BIPRU 5 (credit risk mitigation) apply.[Note: BCD Annex VII Part 4 point 96]33
The guarantee must be evidenced in writing, non-cancellable on the part of the guarantor, in force until the obligation is satisfied in full (to the extent of the amount and tenor of the guarantee) and legally enforceable against the guarantor in a jurisdiction where the guarantor has assets to attach and enforce a judgement. Guarantees prescribing conditions under which the guarantor may not be obliged to perform (conditional guarantees) may be recognised if the IRB permission
The minimum requirements for guarantees set out in BIPRU 4.10 also apply for single name credit derivatives. In relation to a mismatch between the underlying obligation and the reference obligation of the credit derivative or the obligation used for determining whether a credit event has occurred the requirements set out under BIPRU 5.7.14 R (Mismatches and credit derivatives) apply. For retail exposures and eligible purchased receivables, this paragraph applies to the process
GA as calculated under BIPRU 5.8.11 R is then taken as the value of the protection for the purposes of calculating the effects of unfunded credit protection under the IRB approach.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 4 point 8 (part)]
Subject to BIPRU 5.7.9 R, for the credit protection deriving from a guarantee or credit derivative to be recognised the following conditions must be met:(1) the credit protection must be direct;(2) the extent of the credit protection must be clearly defined and incontrovertible;(3) the credit protection contract must not contain any clause, the fulfilment of which is outside the direct control of the lender, that:(a) would allow the protection provider unilaterally to cancel the
A firm must be able to satisfy the appropriate regulator that it has systems in place to manage potential concentration of risk arising from the firm's use of guarantees and credit derivatives. The firm must be able to demonstrate how its strategy in respect of its use of credit derivatives and guarantees interacts with its management of its overall risk profile.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 2 point 15]
Where an exposure is protected by a guarantee which is counter-guaranteed by a central government or central bank, a regional government or local authority or a public sector entity claims on which are treated as claims on the central government in whose jurisdiction they are established under the standardised approach, a multilateral development bank or an international organisation,1to which a 0% risk weight is assigned under or by virtue of the standardised approach, or a public
For a guarantee to be recognised the following conditions must also be met:(1) on the qualifying default of and/or non-payment by the counterparty, the lending firm must have the right to pursue, in a timely manner, the guarantor for any monies due under the claim in respect of which the protection is provided;(2) payment by the guarantor must not be subject to the lending firm first having to pursue the obligor;(3) in the case of unfunded credit protection covering residential
In the case of guarantees provided in the context of mutual guarantee schemes recognised for these purposes by another EEA competent authority under a CRD implementation measure with respect to point 19 of Part 2 of Annex VIII of the Banking Consolidation Directive or provided by or counter-guaranteed by entities referred to in BIPRU 5.7.9 R, the requirements in BIPRU 5.7.11 R (1) - (3) will be satisfied where either of the following conditions are met:(1) the lending firm has
A firm may apply the treatment provided for in BIPRU 3.4.5 R to BIPRU 3.4.7 R to exposures or parts of exposures guaranteed by the central government or central bank, where the guarantee is denominated in the domestic currency of the borrower and the exposure is funded in that currency.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 3 point 89]
For the purpose of defining the secured portion of the past due item, eligible collateral and guarantees must be those eligible for credit risk mitigation purposes under BIPRU 5.[Note: BCD Annex VI Part 1 point 62]
For corporate exposure purchased receivables, refundable purchase discounts, collateral or partial guarantees that provide first-loss protection for defaultlosses, dilution losses, or both, may be treated as first-loss positions under the provisions in BIPRU 9 (Securitisation) about the IRB approach.[Note: BCD Annex VII Part 1 point 8]
With respect to retail exposures, for purchased receivables, refundable purchase discounts, collateral or partial guarantees that provide first-loss protection for defaultlosses, dilution losses, or both, may be treated as first-loss positions under the provisions in BIPRU 9 (Securitisation) about the IRB approach.[Note: BCD Annex VII Part 1 point 15]
Where the conditions set out in BIPRU 5.5.2 R are satisfied, credit protection falling within the terms of BIPRU 5.5.1 R may be treated as a guarantee by the third party institution.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 3 point 79]
Instruments eligible under BIPRU 5.5.8 R may be treated as a guarantee by the issuing institution.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 3 point 81]
For the purposes of BIPRU 5.5.9 R, the value of the credit protection recognised is the following:(1) where the instrument will be repurchased at its face value, the value of the protection is that amount; or(2) where the instrument will be repurchased at market price, the value of the protection is the value of the instrument valued in the same way as the debt securities specified in BIPRU 5.4.5 R.[Note: BCD Annex VIII Part 3 point 82]
A firm applying credit risk mitigation techniques must disclose the following information:(1) the policies and processes for, and an indication of the extent to which the firm makes use of, on- and off-balance sheet netting;(2) the policies and processes for collateral valuation and management;(3) a description of the main types of collateral taken by the firm;(4) the main types of guarantor and credit derivative counterparty and their creditworthiness;(5) information about market
In the case where a firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts under the standardised approach has more than one form of credit risk mitigation covering a single exposure (e.g. a firm has both collateral and a guarantee partially covering an exposure), the firm must subdivide the exposure into parts covered by each type of credit risk mitigation tool (e.g. a part covered by collateral and a portion covered by guarantee) and the risk weighted exposure amount for each portion
(1) An exempt CAD firm which is not an IDD insurance intermediary3 must have: (a) initial capital of EUR 50,000; or (b) professional indemnity insurance covering the whole territory of the EEA or some other comparable guarantee against liability arising from professional negligence, representing at least EUR 1,000,000 applying to each claim and in aggregate EUR 1,500,000 per year for all claims; or (c) a combination of initial capital and professional
This table belongs to BIPRU 3.7.1 R[Note: BCD Annex II]CategoryItemPercentageFull riskGuarantees having the character of credit substitutesCredit derivativesAcceptancesEndorsements on bills not bearing the name of another credit institutionTransactions with recourseIrrevocable standby letters of credit having the character of credit substitutesAssets purchased under outright forward purchase agreementsForward depositsThe unpaid portion of partly-paid shares and securitiesAsset


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Co-founded by actor Ed Helms and blogger Amy Reitnouer, "The Sitch" consists of several elements: online music magazine, one-of-a-kind jams and events throughout the country – such as curated stages at Bonnaroo, Americana Fest and now the MerleFest Midnight Jam - and the annual LA Bluegrass Situation festival in Los Angeles.
The Bluegrass Situation crew first visited MerleFest in 2013; their beautifully filmed (and often humorous) videos shot at the four-day festival can be found on The Bluegrass Situation YouTube channel, including the "Do You Play Banjo?" feature, with special guests Della Mae, which debuts today:
The Jam will once again be hosted by festival favorites Scythian, a band that continues to delight MerleFest attendees every year with its musically eclectic, high-energy performances.
"One never knows who might appear on stage at the Midnight Jam or what collaborations might take place. A few artists that are confirmed to participate this year include Keller Williams, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Deadly Gentlemen,South Carolina Broadcasters, Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line,I Draw Slow, The Steel Wheels and more," says Ted Hagaman, festival director. "The Midnight Jam takes on a life of its own when you have this many artists working together to see how far they can push the limits of musical creativity."
"Combining the forces of The Bluegrass Situation and MerleFest just makes sense," said Reitnouer. "Both emphasize the importance of tradition and the necessity of artistic progression and change, and at the core of both brands is this amazing community that keeps us going and makes it all worth it. We at The Sitch couldn't be more excited to bring these two communities together this April.
"Fans and artists alike know that when they attend a Sitch stage, they're in for something completely unique and wonderful – a menagerie of artists and music they'll likely never forget (with artistic combinations that won't happen anywhere else). One thing is for sure: this year's MerleFest Jam will be one for the books."
As in years past, the Midnight Jam will take place in the Walker Center; a separate ticket is required and available for purchase by 4-day ticket holders and Saturday-only ticket holders.
Scythian at Midnight Jam 2013 (Mobile)Last year, Scythian's Danylo Fedoryka described the band's theory on their hosting duties: "Basically, it's 'think quick on your feet' and 'improvise' … We're hoping to do some mixing and matching that will stretch some people and give the audience some laughs and moments to remember. Once you assemble such a mass of talent under one roof, ideas are sure to pop up, so we have a basic idea of how we want the night to go. But, of course, we are also trying to leave some wiggle room to see if the night will take on a life of its own. One thing is for sure, we'll make the Midnight Jam worth the price of admission!"
Ticket purchases for MerleFest 2014 can be made on the web at www.MerleFest.org or by calling 1-800-343-7857. With more than 130 acts performing on 13 stages during the course of the event, MerleFest is an excellent entertainment value. An early bird ticket discount is available through March 10, 2014.
MerleFest, considered one of the premier music festivals in the country, is an annual homecoming of musicians and music fans held on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. MerleFest was founded in 1988 in memory of the late Eddy Merle Watson, son of the late American music legend Doc Watson. MerleFest is a celebration of "traditional plus" music, a unique mix of music based on the traditional, roots-oriented sounds of the Appalachian region, including bluegrass and old-time music, and expanded to include Americana, country, blues, rock and many other styles. The festival hosts over 130 artists, performing on 13 stages during the course of the four-day event. The annual event has become the primary fundraiser for the WCC Endowment Corporation, funding scholarships, capital projects and other educational needs.
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