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Client Profile: Movile (Maker of Zeewe HTML5 App Store & Mozca mPayments)September 24, 2011 by Lisa Oshima | Developers, Mobile, Monetization, Review
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For the past several months, I've been consulting for one of the biggest mobile companies you may never have heard of, if you live in North America, Movile. If you live in Latin America, you will likely know Movile, as one of the largest mobile value added services companies in the region. Movile is a diversified company with a portfolio of mobile products ranging from old-skool (wallpapers, alerts, ring tones, etc.) to incredibly progressive… Among Movile's more progressive products are Mozca and Zeewe
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Our new website is up to promote Four Dead Ones:
This collection of short stories will be republished soon with all new edits and graphics. Stay tuned for publishing dates and announcements about free giveaways.
Our new website is up to promote Four Dead Ones:
This collection of short stories will be republished soon with all new edits and graphics. Stay tuned for publishing dates and announcements about free giveaways.
Okay folks, submissions are still open, but the October Odd Tree Press Quarterly is filled. It will feature eighteen short stories for a total of over 40,000 word. We've also acquired the rights to five terrific works of Halloween themed art. One will be used for the cover and the other four will be interior illustrations.
To those who've submitted and have not heard from us, thank you for your patience and you will be contacted. We are still buying stories to fill the 2016 quarterlies, so keep sending us those stories.
We will also be announcing open submissions for anthologies soon.
This is the new book cover for Four Dead Ones. This title is being re-branded and re-edited and the new edition will be published soon. This cover is perfect for this book.
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Thanks go out for the patience exhibited by all the authors who submitted work. Thanks also to the small staff who are helping me work through them all. Several authors have been contacted already and the rest of the submitters will be contacted within the next few days.
I have started acquiring stories. I'm super excited about the ones I've chosen so far. I have a new editor to help me with final editing. I've also sent all the graphics work out to a very talented artist. This means new graphics for the website and new covers for the quarterly and for my own titles. I will be doing a few cover reveals here soon.
If you are just finding out that we are back in business, you can check out the updates to our submissions guidelines here:
I'd like to apologize to all everyone. Due to a family illness, I've had to set back the publication date for the Odd Tree Press Quarterly. To all those Authors who submitted a story and still want to be a part of it, I will be going back over the submissions in the next few days. I will send emails to the top authors. To the authors who withdrew stories. I'm sorry to have wasted your time and I wish you success with your stories.
Updated submission guidelines are here: Submissions
The first Odd Tree Press Quarterly will be published on October 1st, 2015.
To those who joined the newsletter. You will receive it soon, along with your free story. I apologize for the delay.
Things are settling down now and my Father is doing well after his massive stroke last October. I thank you all for your patience and kind words. I'm looking forward to a bright future for us all.
The Stories on the Go anthology is now ranked #79 free Kindle Store. That means that we are in the top 100 of all free Kindle downloads:) It is also #1 in fiction and lit fiction anthologies. This is hugely exciting to me:) 101 authors all happy to be in the same book took some serious team work. Congratulations to all the authors. This never could have happened without the hard work and dedication of a handful of great people. You all know who you are. Thanks:)
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One of my stories is included in this anthology. There are several good authors in it, including a few famous ones such as Hugh Howey, author of the wildly successful Silo Series. This thing looks amazing and has something for everyone. Multiple genres are included. The best part is that it is completely free on Amazon for Kindles and Kindle free apps. It is also available for free on Kobo & Nook readers. So you can read it free on any device. This is a great way to introduce yourself to the works of some very talented writers. And did I mention that it's free:)
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These are 5.5″x7.5″ letters & crosses cut from Reader's Digest Condensed Books. These make great gifts. They can free stand or be hung on the wall for that unique accent. Available with solid color cover or patterned as shown in the picture. Colors/patterns are limited to availability. You can order them with pages that open for free standing or pages glued shut for wall hanging(comes with a hanger attached). Any letter in the alphabet and numbers. Custom shapes done upon request.
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Lecce has been dubbed the Florence of the south. Whereas many people (not understandably) skip it in favour of the nearby beach towns of the Salento peninsula, this city, distinguished by its elaborate style of baroque buildings, has at least a couple of days of attractions worth seeing.
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Lecce is roughly 580km (although some older measurements claim up to 640km, depending on the route) from Rome.
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Lecce is easily accessible by the airports in Brindisi (30 minutes by train) and Bari (2hours by train). There are discount flights available from London, Rome, Milan, etc. For a complete list, check out the Apulian airports website
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There are FS trains from Foggia, Turin, Rome, Naples, Venice and Milan. You can also reach Lecce by Eurostar Train from Bologna through Rimini and Bari. Travel times from Rome and beyond can be long. Night trains with sleeping couches are available, and often a better bet.
The trains arrive at Lecce station, 1km from the city center. Be aware that taxis anywhere can be expensive (expect to pay up to 15 euros to the center, especially if you have luggage items), so you may want to check with your hotel the public transportation options available.
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The old town of Lecce is full of narrow streets which are barely suitable for driving. The City centre is small and easy to walk around.
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Nearby Lecce are the following towns:
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Help to make the MOOC! Cambridge partnership launches 'Hour of Code' Competition
The competition, which was inspired by the national Hour of Code Week, gives UK schools and students the opportunity to share their innovative coding projects by creating their own videos to introduce others to the pleasures of coding.
The awards are split into three categories: creating a video introduction to coding, creating a video for Variables and Constants or Arrays, and creating a self-marking test.
The winning entry in each category will win a class set of Raspberry Pi microcomputers and £500 computing vouchers for their school. In addition, the best entries will be included on the Cambridge GCSE Computing (MOOC) itself.
The Cambridge GCSE Computing Online MOOC is a free resource designed to help teachers and GCSE computing students learn the basics of computer programming and demystify the world of algorithms, logic gates and RAM.
The ibhzj closing date for the competition is 17 March 2014 and the finalists will be announced at the Technopop 'Celebrating Innovation week' in April 2014. The competition is open to all schools in the UK with student's aged 11–16.
For more information, please visit the competition website: http://www.cambridgegcsecomputing.org/
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Tarik Thami of Mysore Tokyo Joins YGB as its Newest Ambassador!
Tarik Thami of Mysore Tokyo Joins YGB as its Newest Ambassador!
Tarik Thami, Tokyo, Japan
Mysore Tokyo
Tarik began exploring different forms of yoga in the early 1990's. In 1994 he was introduced to the Ashtanga yoga system. Tarik has practiced Ashtanga yoga for 18 years and over the last 13 years he has studied with his primary teachers Sri K.P. Jois and his grandson Sharath Ranganswamy. He visits Mysore, Indian annually to continue his studies and practice and was blessed teach by Pattabhi Jois in 2005 and certified in 2012. Tarik currently teaches all over the world but his heart and home is at his daily morning Mysore class in Shibuya, Tokyo. Tarik is committed to teaching the traditional Ashtanga practice as taught by Pattabhi jois and providing students with an ideal environment for them to discover the beauty and power of their own practice and their own yoga.
"Yoga has given me so much, and my trips to India has enriched my life so much. The idea of giving back to such a rich culture, influential part of my life. The small amount of money can go so far and can do so much. Watching YGB Films clarified this reality that we can make a huge impact. For me, continuing my support for Yoga Gives Back is a good idea, the least I can do."


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How to do the Maldives on a Budget
Budgeting Maldives and Still Have an Island Getaway
Budgeting Maldives is possible if you follow these tips. If you're looking for an island getaway for your next vacation, there's no better place than the Maldives! This collection of more than a thousand coral islands in the Indian Ocean is absolutely stunning. They offer fantastic diving, snorkeling, excellent surfing, and plenty of picturesque beaches to relax on. When you're planning your trip, you might find yourself a little worried. Aren't beautiful island getaways are only for the rich? This is not always true when you budget Maldives the right way! There are plenty of things you can do to minimize your total cost while maximizing the amount of things you do during your trip to the Maldives.
Money When Budgeting Maldives
It's important to know that although US dollars are widely accepted in the Maldives. It is generally cheaper to pay in the local currency (Maldivian Rufiya). This is because things will generally be rounded up, so something that costs between $1 and $2 will generally be charged as $2, and so on. To get the best bang for your buck, you'll want to convert your money to the local currency and pay in that. When you exchange money, make sure you hang on to your receipts as you can only change leftover Rufiya if you show the original receipt of exchange!
Accommodation when Budgeting Maldives
One of the first things to figure out when you're planning your trip is where you will stay. There are many luxury resorts, but obviously those are not going to help you stick to a strict budget. Instead, you want to make sure you're looking at guesthouses or AirBnB. These will generally run somewhere between $40 – $100 per night for a standard room, but that's a lot better than what you'd be spending at a resort. The other great thing about staying at a guesthouse is that they're usually locally owned, meaning you get an authentic, immersive experience of local culture.
When you're choosing where to stay, make sure you choose an island that will be cheap for you to get to. Flying into the country, you'll end up at Malé International Airport. If you don't plan on staying in or near Malé, you will probably want to take public ferries to other islands, as these are your cheapest option. The fares are inexpensive and timetables can be found online, but be aware that they don't operate on Fridays! Remember that you should set up a VPN on your computer or smartphone to protect your personal information any time you'll be using Wi-Fi abroad.
Food When Budgeting Maldives
Your food may be included in the cost per night, depending on where you stay. If it isn't, there are bound to be some restaurants in the area. As a rule of thumb, restaurants serving European or generic Asian food will typically be more expensive. Maldivian food when served at smaller establishments called hotaa—will generally be a bit cheaper. When in doubt, ask at your guesthouse and they should be able to point you in the right direction.
Maldivian food tends to be heavy on fish and light on vegetables, which makes sense given the location. As with Sri Lankan or Indian food, Maldivian food is typically spicy and served alongside rice or flat bread. If you spend any time in Malé, check out the fish market. Or if you go on a fishing trip and get lucky, you might get to eat what you catch!
One cheap thing to do in the Maldives is just relax on the beach or go swimming. Regardless of where you stay, there should be a lovely beach nearby and depending on where and when you go, you might find you have the whole beach to yourself. The best way to figure out which beach to go to is either to explore on your own or ask the locals.
Depending on where you stay, you may be able to rent scuba diving equipment at a low cost from your guesthouse or nearby, and your host might even be able to take you out on the water for cheap. If scuba diving or snorkeling is something you plan on doing, ask prior to making your booking. And remember that Maldives is a primarily Islamic country, so be sure to ask at your guesthouse whether bikinis are okay on the local beach!
Around the Island of Malé
Should you choose to spend time in the capital city, there are a few free things that you can do for sightseeing. As the smallest capital city, you'll have no problem getting around on foot. Make sure to check out the 17th-century Friday Mosque and the Islamic Centre, which holds the largest mosque in the Maldives. Non-Muslim visitors are not allowed to enter the former without having received prior permission, but they will have no problem with the latter. Also check out the Sultan Park and National Museum, which was once the Sultan's palace and where you can now see some artifacts from Maldivian history.
If you're sick of the city, stroll along the Southwest Harbor and take the ferry out to Villingili island. The ferry costs about $0.20 each way, and the island is both scenic and a great spot for snorkeling. Or head out to Hulhumale Island, a man-made island with another nice beach with restaurants and cafés.
Although the Maldives is a stunning archipelago that might seem out of reach to the budget traveler, this is not the case at all. If you're smart and put in a little prior planning, you don't have to stress over the cost. Instead, you can find yourself relaxing on your own deserted little beach, to the envy of all your friends.
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From jungle wildlife to historic ruins and lavish resorts, Sri Lanka is packed with good things just waiting to be discovered.
Even if you've been before, Sri Lanka teems with the thrill of discovery
Chances are that when you land at Bandarnaike Airport in Colombo, your taxi driver will ask, "First time coming to Sri Lanka?" If your answer is yes, it's equally likely your taxi driver will tell you all about the charms of his island, from the "Little England" of the hill country to the beaches in the south.
But if, like me, you're no stranger to Sri Lanka, chances are that your taxi driver will want to know where you've been and what you've seen.
I tell Hemantha, who'll be driving my mother and I around during our week-long stay, that I have visited his country many times. I've contemplated Buddha's tooth in Kandy, watched a cricket match in Dambulla, traipsed around the ancient city of Polonnaruwa, driven up the famous A9 Highway to Jaffna during the ceasefire between government forces and the Tamil Tigers in 2002, and visited fishing towns along the coast after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2006.
This time I'll be exploring an irregular quadrilateral tract of land starting from Puttlam on the north-west coast, moving south towards the centre of the island, before looping back up north to the old capital of Anuradhapura.
Puttlam, my first stop, is a fishing village in Sri Lanka's dry zone. Predominantly Muslim, many of its inhabitants were relocated here from Jaffna because of tensions with the Tamil Tigers. During the war, this was a relatively safe place to be, but tourists never ventured here because two of the main attractions in the area - Puttlam Lagoon and the Willpattu National Park, Sri Lanka's largest park - were off limits, occupied by the Sri Lankan army and navy.
Now you can go looking for pink dolphins in the lagoon, and the park has finally opened its gates again.
It took us nearly six hours to reach Alankuda, the beach resort we've booked. Hemantha overshoots, driving us 25km beyond to the town of Kal-pittiyam. There's no signage to speak of, so we have to ask for directions and after a lengthy phone conversation with the staff, Hemantha finds the correct turning off the road.
The landscape here is dry and wild, with salt flats, prawn hatcheries and goats wearing odd contraptions made of sticks around their necks to keep them from wandering too far. The entry into Alankuda's wooden gates is one filled with relief and beauty. We leave the arid dunes behind and arrive in a mini oasis - dry-zone grass and Palmyra trees everywhere.
Alankuda is an innovative entrepreneurial venture based on the rather rare idea of sharing. Four properties (Bar Reef Resort, Palagama Beach, Khomba House and Udekki) have pooled their resources to promote the area around their resorts in the hope of turning Puttlam into a beach destination with a difference. This isn't the beach experience you'll find in the sheltered southern coast of the country, which is greener and gentler. Here, the sea is rough, raw and virtually abandoned. There's even a kite-surfing school nearby for adventurous types.
Bar Reef Resort (until recently, it was named Alankuda Beach Resort) is the main hotel, and is a lovely sprawl of mud and wood cabanas and villas. The abiding theme is space: lots and lots of space. Everything is made out of natural materials – grass roofs, mud walls, a shower that magically sprouts out from a tree. It's all very relaxed and comfortable. The cabana we're assigned is simple and elegant, with the bed, walls and floors all made from mud and painted a warm ochre colour. It's a bit of a trek to get to the bathroom, but the privacy each place offers is really one of the highlights of this property.
You can while away your day at the gigantic saltwater pool facing the ocean or you could relax in the ambalama – a traditional wooden hut, originally built as a resting place for travellers. At Bar Reef Resort, all meals are taken at the ambalama, buffet-style for breakfast and lunch but western-style for dinner. Guests sit informally on cushions, balancing plates on their knees, chatting with a glass in hand. While I was visiting, a Sri Lankan family equipped with a guitar sang the night away while fibre-optic stars shone from the depths of the swimming pool. It was magical.
After a few days of looking unsuccessfully for pink dolphins in the Puttlam Lagoon an hour up the coast – dolphin season, we were told, is November through April – we moved south-east towards the town of Anamaduwa, to a property called The Mud House. Its unique selling point is its lack of electricity, offering instead a back-to-basics jungle experience.
We are met at a 2,000-year-old landmark, the Paramakanda Temple, by Tom, an Englishman who came to Anamaduwa a decade ago to teach English and is now part owner of The Mud House. He arrives on a motorbike; behind him come a few other guests on bicycles, and behind them comes a colourful tractor with three beaming children on board. It's a pretty jolly procession, but then we meet Kumar, another part-owner of The Mud House, who must be the jolliest man on the planet. Kumar takes us on a tour around the property – which sits on 24.3 hectares of forest and lake – pointing out various trees and birds in between loud bursts of laughter, warning us about the jungle squirrels and their fondness for soap.
The idea behind The Mud House is simple: to recreate the experience of Sri Lankan village life without compromising on comfort. The huts are made of traditional wattle and daub with thatched roofs. Bathrooms and shower areas are outdoors, down the garden path. And hammocks are strung up between every possible beam because this is the kind of uber-relaxing place where being horizontal is the default position. Even though a stay at The Mud House feels a bit like camping, (which is why it's a hit with families, kids, and romantics), there's also a real sense of luxury. Time slows down the minute you arrive. At night, all you can hear are the calls of crickets, frogs and red loris, a tiny and endangered Sri Lankan primate. And in the morning, you're woken by the majestic chorusing of the birds. I cannot remember sleeping this deeply anywhere else.
At night, when the kerosene lamps are lit, illuminating the pathways and casting their gorgeous, soft light over everything, there is little to do but talk, play cards, sit by the bonfire, and enjoy the stillness. Oh, and eat. You will eat well here: simple, fresh, Sri Lankan cooking, served in the woods, by the lake, or in the privacy of your own yard.
From The Mud House, our itinerary takes a distinctly luxurious turn as we head towards Dambulla and the Heritance Kandalama hotel. Built by the legendary Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, the father of tropical modernism, its most distinctive feature is that nothing in the natural environment, not even a tree, was disturbed or destroyed during the construction. Cut from rock and covered with foliage, it looks from afar like a grey cave covered in creepers.
The hotel is a striking piece of architecture, with an infinity pool and three varieties of cheeky monkeys running around. My favourite aspect is the hypnotic view it offers of the Kandalama Reservoir and the Sigiriya Rock Fortress in the distance.
Kandalama makes the perfect base to explore Minneriya Park an hour and a half away. After lunch, we seek out the hundreds of elephants that gather here each September, attracted by the water on offer at the end of the dry season. Minneriya is a small sanctuary but it also has beautiful and abundant bird life with peacocks and jungle fowl (the national birds of our respective countries) along the way. At the reservoir, we spot about 50 elephants chewing peacefully on grass. Unfortunately the elephant herd is not the only gathering taking place and we also see 4x4s full of tourists. Hemantha, ever thoughtful, artfully positions us in such a way that we don't see other humans through our camera lenses.
Later that night, my mother and I head back to the jungle. A casual lunchtime conversation with a Sri Lankan producer and his wife ended with us being invited to the wrap party of an American TV drama, Close Encounters. The jungle has been the predominant theme of our trip so far, so it seems like the most natural thing in the world to be sitting with strangers in this Out of Africa setting, surrounded by swaying grasses, kerosene torches and a table full of barbecued meats.
It's difficult to wake up the next morning but we're scheduled to climb Sigiriya at dawn. Sigiriya is the lion-shaped rock fortress built in the fifth century by King Kashyap and deemed by the locals to be the eighth wonder of the world. I climbed it nine years ago and it's as difficult now as it was then. You have to cut through three levels of gardens, all fed by an intricate but defunct terracotta underwater piping system, before starting the dauntingly steep ascent. What I realise, as I huff and puff my way up, is how much easier it must have been for King Kashyap, who had four stalwart soldiers to ferry him up and down on a litter.
At the midway level are the Sigiriya frescoes, 21 paintings of ample-busted women of King Kashyap's court, vaguely reminiscent of the ladies that line the Ajanta caves. There were 500 frescoes originally, but over the years some have been destroyed by natural erosion, while others, our guide explains, were defaced by the Buddhist monks who took up residence here after King Kashyap's fall. "Some monks don't like topless ladies," he said.
After climbing Sigiriya we drive north-west on to Ulagalla resort, a brand new property close to the ancient city of Anuradhapura. Arriving here is like entering an oasis, a sanctuary for our tired and overheated bodies. The main office and dining area are housed in a wallawe (literally, a mansion) decorated with wonderfully ornate old fans. At Ulagalla they call their suites chalets and their staff associates. "It's ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen," the resident manager, Lalin, tells us. It's the most luxurious place my mother and I have stayed at to date.
Everything runs with wonderful precision at Ulagalla. There are 25 chalets built on stilts, and spread over 23.5 hectares. You can either bike around or call for a golf buggy and the activities on offer include archery, horse riding, kayaking and bird watching, and a gorgeous spa, but when you can lounge about in your own private plunge pool and Jacuzzi, I wonder, who would want to move? My mother and I finally decide to make an effort at sunset. We ride our bikes around the property, stopping to take pictures from lookout towers, imagining how the place must look when the paddy fields that surround the estate are at their brightest and most luminous.
It's very difficult to say goodbye to Ulagalla, and especially after we finally figure out how to operate the ultra high-tech entertainment system, safe and switchboard. Also, let's face it: the Jacuzzi on the deck is a big bonus. Still, we must soldier on to the final, and perhaps the toughest part of our journey. A one-day historical blowout at Mihintale and Anuradhapura, plus the long drive back to Colombo. Is it possible? You bet.
Mihintale is the place where Buddhism arrived in Sri Lanka from India in the third century BC, via Emperor Ashoka's son, Mahinda. It wasn't on our original itinerary but Hemantha seemed very dejected about bypassing it, so we decided to call in. Our guide for the day, Kapila, had studied biochemistry and spent two years in prison because of his involvement with the JVP, the youth Marxist party. Mahinda convinced King Tissa, ruler of Sri Lanka at the time, to convert to Buddhism, and soon, more and more people were brought into the fold. Today, Buddhism is Sri Lanka's official religion.
Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka's most historic city, has been off the tourist circuit in recent years as, being strategically positioned on the road to the Tamil Tiger stronghold of Jaffna, it was home to a large army base. Ideally you need a couple of days to wander around the ruins here. We have just two hours in the city, so must do a drive-by tour, though we still manage to take in giant stupas, swimming pools and pleasure gardens, a 2,000-year-old Bo tree, and countless other treasures.
As we make our way back to Colombo I make note of the lyrical names of the towns we pass through: Katuneriya, Mangaleiya, Nikaweratiya, Rajakadaluwa. I love the way the names roll off the tongue, part of the magic of Sri Lanka – as varied and wonderful as the many different peoples and climate zones.
Being such a small place, and having such a behemoth as a neighbour, Sri Lanka is often thought of as "India Lite" or "India diluted".
I disagree. Sure, some of the landscape is evocative of Goa or Kerala, and there are elephants and tea plantations and cricket-obsessed folk, but to reduce it to an extension of India is to deprive it of its own special powers, the greatest of which is that it is an island: small, contained, able to look in and out at the same time.
After stopping for a final night at The Wallawwa, a new and very chic heritage hotel near Colombo airport, we say goodbye to Hemantha, who has been a stellar guide and companion. I tell him it won't be long before I'm back to discover more of this tear-shaped island. "Hari, hari," he says jokingly. This has become the phrase of the week, translating as "Yes, good, it's all right, OK". When you make your trip to Sri Lanka, make sure you say, "Hari, hari," because those words work as a blessing, really. Just say yes, and everything will be OK.
Tishani Doshi's new novel, The Pleasure Seekers, is out now. Tishani travelled with Experience Travel


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text: About a month ago, husband and I were invited to a holiday party for last night. Since he was unemployed at the time of the invite, I did not want to shell out money for a sitter. My mom agreed to watch the kids (and she's really the only one around who handles the difficult child's beautifully -- the other relatives have refused to help), but she had plans to be at a dog show the day of the party and couldn't get to our house by the time we needed to leave. So we decided we would leave early, drop the kids with her at the show (which is 30 miles west of us) and then head to the party (another 30 miles north). She would then head to our house later when she'd finished at the show. At the last minute yesterday, she ended up leaving the show early to attend a funeral, and then had us drop the kids at her house (which was about 10 miles south of the dog show). Add to this a HUGE rainstorm. (Here's an article about a mudslide not far from where the party was held: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34401310/ns/weather/ ) husband was tempted to cancel, but he called the host and they said it was still on because it was a catered event. And I pointed out that we hadn't been out for an evening of fun and adult conversation since my brother's wedding in MAY. I am so glad we went! Despite driving in some really nasty weather and arriving an hour late (still fashionable, right?) It was a really great time, great food (Armenian), great people I just wish our social life didn't have to be so complicated!


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Sitting on the bus to Brasov from Chișinău and am not feeling so hot. I'd let this Romanian dude next to me let me lay my head on his shoulder if he weren't talking so obnoxiously loud to this equally obnoxious German dude. The only mildly entertaining thing has been Romanian dude bringing up the whole Hitler topic and awkwardly and honestly asking German dude if he was a Nazi. Now they are drinking whiskey together.
Seriously hope I can refrain from puking all over the place because these roads are windy as shit and I think I'm severely dehydrated and/or malnourished. The food at the wedding was pretty tasty after champagne and several vodkas, but nothing that I would describe as a "healthy choice". On top of that, they seemed to have run out of water around midnight. Just vodka and cognac left. Then this morning when I woke up and went to the kitchen to look for some water for hydration and leftover platzcinta for my hangover (a greasy bread dish stuffed with brinza cheese), Lena's babushka insisted that it would be better if we drank some of her home brewed wine together instead. God I'm such a pushover. Anyway, regretting it now.
Bus ride to Brasov is 10-11 hours. Left Gare du Sud in Chișinău at 7pm and will arrive 5-6am.
Just to sum it up for anyone who might be interested in making any leg of this journey:
31 ($3) Lei to take a jam packed mini bus from Căuşeni to Chișinău
190 ($18) Lei for the bus ticket from Chișinău to Brasov
100 ($9) Lei for multiple and unintentional cab rides around Chișinău. Not sure why such a small city needs 3 bus stations, but they do. And now I've been to them all.
See you in Romania!


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The Sncewips Heritage Museum showcases all that the sqilxw people from this area have to offer. There are excellent opportunities for everyone to get involved through the Museum, and we encourage you to pay a visit and share your ideas and feedback.
Westbank First Nation has worked hard to ensure that there are laws, policies, and procedures in place to manage and maintain a heritage museum, ensuring that our heritage, and that of the greater Okanagan Nation, can be preserved for future generations.
Following best museum practice, we have a trained professional staff dedicated to collecting, preserving, restoring, and interpreting archival, art and artefact collections. As a professional heritage organization, we are also committed to the repatriation of syilx artefacts held by other museums.
The Sncewips Heritage Museum is the foundation for our own Centre of Excellence. We are here to ensure that there is a protected place for our culture and heritage, with our main goal being to engage the public and represent sqilxw people from our perspective.
There is no individual drop-in fee, but we do charge to facilitate group tours.
- For group museum tours we charge $60.00 for groups of up to 25 people with an extra $2.00 dollars added per person after that.
- For community core tours we charge $60.00 for groups of up to 25 people with an extra $2.00 dollars added per person after that.
- For Combo Tours ( museum and community core) we charge $100.00 for groups of up to 25 people with an extra $2.00 dollars added per person after that.
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We believe in the power of our own voice to inspire, educate, and transform. We are dedicated to collecting, preserving, restoring, and interpreting art and artifact collections that reflect the heritage and natural history of the syilx/Okanagan people.
We will benefit our people and the broader public through research, exhibitions, and public programming and will strive to make our artefact collections accessible to our members and regional, national, and international audiences. We will collaborate with other education bodies and organizations with similar interests.


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text: The ever famous game that I got addicted with ever since it debuted in Nintendo's Family Computer is now available for iTouch. Using your finger to guide bomberman along the mazes, you plant bombs to free yourself from walled obstacles and/or bomb enemy monsters. But remember, there is a time limit for every level so you better find the exit door as quick as possible. While moving around, you will be lucky if you come across secret weapons like extra bombs, longer range for explosions and others. The gameplay is basically the same as that of the original game so playing it is fairly easy and will get you going right away. It is always a great site to see classic games being a part of new gadgets. Although Bomberman Touch has added a little twist, you actually follow a storyline that will take you to the end game unlike the Family Computer version where it is all just levels. A little storyline can help juice up the game a bit. Bomberman Touch did not disappoint me when I first started playing it, and this is one of my favorite iTouch games.


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The End Of Marketing
by: Brent Filson
Working with top companies worldwide in all major sectors for 20 years, I've discovered that few of them come even close to achieving their potential results.
A key reason is that their leaders "don't know that they don't know".
They don't know that marketing as we know it has come to an end...


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Dust mites are tiny eight legged critters that are virtually impossible to see with the naked eye. Dust mites love to feed on flakes of shed human skin and are not a real bother unless you have an allergy to them. Dust mites do not discriminate and equally love the cleanest of homes and thrive anywhere that there is shed skin. The most common place to find dust mites is in your bedroom – on your bedding and in/on your mattress. How do these tiny critters cause a big allergy? Dust mites excrete enzymes in there feces and those with an allergy to their enzymes can suffer symptoms like coughing, wheezing, sneezing and watery eyes. What are some of the ways you can effectively remove dust mites from your mattress and other upholstered furniture?
- Vacuum your mattress using the hose attachment – we recommend sprinkling a cup of baking soda onto your mattress, let it sit for 15-20 minutes and then using your vacuum hose attachment to suck up all the baking soda. If you are using a vacuum cleaner with a bag, be sure to use a new, clean bag so that you don't spread dust mites around. Throw the bag away immediately and place outside in your trash container.
- We suggest combining vacuuming your mattress to also keeping the humidity in your bedroom low as dust mites also adore high humidity areas. The intention is to control the humidity in your room so as to not keep it warm when you sleep because if you are warm when you sleep you tend to sweat and in turn the mites thrive on this.
- Purchase mattress and pillow covers – by using these you are adding an extra protective barrier to protect against dust mites. Using these products makes it extremely difficult for dust mites to penetrate your pillow and mattress.
- We also suggest purchasing an Airfree Air Purifier. Our Air Purifiers destroy even the smallest of airborne microorganisms in its unique ceramic heating chamber without any ozone being used. In addition, it destroys the smallest of microorganisms. An Airfree air purifier destroys airborne allergens such as all types of fungus, including those from dust mite feces, mold spores, proteins from cat dander. It's important to note that: Airfree does not incinerate dust mites – Airfree Air Purifiers destroy the fungus dust mites need for food without producing harmful by-products or gasses such as found in ozone machines.
- If all else fails call in a professional.
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Oil is something that we take pretty much for granted. When we need more we buy more. It keeps on coming. We are told about Arab princes with humungous amounts of petrol dollars having fun spending it. Most of the price is tax and gets wasted by our very own government. Much less is said about that. Oil prices sound pretty boring, important but boring. They are very political and that gets into the realms of international politics. There are questions about who is doing what to whom and why. Think gigabucks every time.
Of course the price at the pump in England has around 200% tax on it; buy a gallon and pay for another two. The big companies are tax collectors with a side line in petrol. But that is local policy. The technical term is Tax Farming. Governments found that is an easy way to screw the working man and screw him they do. For comparison you pay around Ł0.85 per litre at the pump in England today [ July 2005 ]. In Australia it is around Ł0.40 and in Thailand it is Ł0.25. The King of Thailand is highly regarded and that may be part of the reason why. The American price has risen to about $2 per GALLON, circa Ł0.29 per litre and they are not pleased.
There are greenies who want it to go even higher. That is one of the political pressures. They make claims about conservation based on deep seated ignorance and wide ranging malice or pessimism. More important influences come from the Middle East. The media do not bother to tell us about alternative sources. The Athabasca Tar Sands are in Canada and when the oil price gets high enough they are worth mining. The same applies to the Orinoco Tar Sands in Venezuela. In the 1930s and 1940s the Germans made synthetic oil and rubber from coal. The Brazilians use biofuel which means converting corn into petrol. It is an unfortunate fact that a lot of the world's most accessible oil, the easy oil is in unstable places [ but see British Firm Produces Petrol From Air. It could be a game changer ] Former Russian satellites are one example. Oil well technology was developed in America but their sources are probably being used to their limits. The technology has been exported to Saudi Arabia and the Middle East generally. Drilling for oil at sea means developing technology even more. It has been done but getting it ashore is more expensive.
One of the issues was expropriation by governments in Iraq and other places. Arabs decided to put the price up. They had looked at what happened to the product as it got to the consumer. They saw government parasites battening on to the need for petrol and abusing it as a source of revenue, which they used to enhance their own power. So the oil kept on flowing but more of the profit stayed with the Arabs. Then we had our oil shock in 1973. See 1973 Energy Crisis. This began during the Yom Kippur War. The Egyptians and the Syrians attacked Israel and pushed them back but when the Jews started winning the Arabs refused to sell to the countries which supporting the enemy. OPEC quadrupled oil prices.One of the problems for Zionists in Israel is getting oil when Arabs are hostile. They have coped but they would like to control the world's oil and the Middle East. Given their track record of manipulation it is a big problem for us, their potential victims. This is one of the reasons why they have made the Americans invade Iraq for the second time and why they are threatening Iran.
When you think about the wars in the Middle East ask cui bono; it is Latin for who benefits then have a look at the Mosul-Haifa pipeline - Israel is at the receiving end of it and at Afghanistan Invasion Explained - It's Oil [ 12 July 2009 ].
Aberdeen, The Granite City In Crisis
Oil prices have gone down; they have stayed down. Aberdeen is hurting. Of course the savings haven't come through to us, to the users.
Frozen Assets - Arctic Oil
There is around 13% of the world's oil in the Arctic. Neighbouring countries want it. James Bamford explains all.
Is the big, new thing; one driving oil prices down big time. Petrol prices are different; staying high to rob us blind is policy.
Oil In The Mediterranean
There is more gas than oil but they are both there. The size of the deposits, the amount that can be taken is still [ in 2014 ] a question. The politics are not settled yet.
Oil spill in Dalian
It was seriously messy.
British Firm Produces Petrol From Air [ 25 October 2012 ]
A British firm has produced the first 'petrol from air', it emerged today - in a pioneering scientific breakthrough that could end mankind's reliance on declining fossil fuels. Air Fuel Synthesis in Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, claims to have made five litres of petrol since August using a small refinery that synthesizes the fuel from carbon dioxide and water vapour. Air Fuel Synthesis in Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, claims to have made five litres of petrol since August using a small refinery that synthesizes the fuel from carbon dioxide and water vapour.......
While the company is still developing their process and still need to take electricity from the national grid, it believes it will eventually be possible to power the synthesis entirely from renewable sources. Within two years it hopes to build a commercial-scale plant capable of making a ton of petrol a day and expand into producing green aviation fuel to make airline travel more eco-friendly.
The technology involves mixing air with sodium hydroxide, then electrolyzing the resultant sodium carbonate to release pure carbon dioxide. This is then reacted with hydrogen electrolyzed from water to make a hydrocarbon mixture, with the reaction conditions varied depending on the type of fuel desired. The fuel that is produced can be made ready for use in any petrol tank with the addition of the same additives currently added to fuel.......
AFS already has the backing of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Tim Fox, the Institution's head of energy and the environment, said: 'It sounds too good to be true, but it is true.'
This does make sense. They're probably doing advanced work with catalysts which lower the activation energy required for the synthesis to take place. The important issue is how much power it takes to produce a gallon of petrol. Recall that Auschwitz was not a factory for killing Jews; it was the world's most advanced factory for making petrol from coal. If it works on an industrial scale the political implications are huge.
Athabasca Tar Sands
Contains 1.6 trillion barrels in toto = 32% of world reserves. 315 billion barrels can be extracted
Bakken Formation
Has around 3.5 billion barrels that can be taken with current technology.
Orinoco Tar Sands
Contain 1.7 trillion barrels in toto 34% of world reserves. 335 billion barrels can be extracted
Orinoco Oil
An Orinoco oil man explains that Orinoco oil is good oil and easy to get out.
PS There is lots of it too.
Oil Supplies
Gives a broad view. Known world oil reserves are around 2,390 billion barrels. Estimates of undiscovered reserves range widely from 275 to 1,469 billion barrels. This ignores tar sands which hold many billion more.
Summary of Reserve Data as of 2007
Reserves 1
Production 2
Reserve life 3
109 bbl
109 m3
106 bbl/d
103 m3/d
1 Claimed or estimated reserves in billions (109) of barrels (converted to billions of cubic metres). (Source: Oil & Gas Journal, January, 2007)
2 Production rate in millions (106) of barrels per day (converted to thousands of cubic metres per day) (Source: US Energy Information Authority, September, 2007)
3 Reserve life in years, calculated as reserves / annual production. (from above)
America May Have An Oil Reserve Three Times Larger Than Saudi Arabia
Shale oil is there but getting it means destroying the land. A lot of Americans don't like the idea. See the comments; some are silly but all are against.
Bakken Formation
Has around 3.5 billion barrels that can be taken with current technology.
Gaza Gas Murder and Robbery
It turns out that it is even worse; that mass murder is not just a vote buying gimmick. The major objective is stealing gas fields from Gaza with the collusion of Tony Blair, the little swine who lied us into war with Iraq.
Gull Island Oil
Lotsa oil in Prudhoe Bay. Who would have thought it?
Mediterranean Oil Is Big Time
The Myth of Peak Oil
Peak oil means expensive oil. Oil companies like expensive oil. Why sell it for $10 when you can get away with $60. It means making the punters think that there is a shortage. Governments like the idea too. It means more tax and a way to control the peasants. This is why the Zionists sent the American army to war. Control the Middle East. Control Oil. Control the world but that is not the theme of this source.
Peak Oil
Is it fact or fancy. There is a lot of it out there off shore California. That is just one place.
Peak Oil Is A Lie
'Control energy and you the control nations' – Henry Kissinger...........
Briefly, the 'Peak Oil' idea rests on an assessment of the total known recoverable reserves of the stuff and as the critics point out, the two main advocates of 'Peak Oil' have over the decades been forced on a regular basis to revise their estimates upwards and push forward the date at which it would 'Peak' or effectively, the oil reach a peak of production and from there on, go down. Specifically, it's the point at which we reach the top of the curve or halfway, beyond which recovery starts to diminish, the so-called Hubbert Curve.
I am not entirely convinced but he gives sources and that is always a good sign. Read for yourself. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself.
Oil, Afghanistan, Enron And Iraq
Q. What do Afghanistan, Enron, 9-11, Anthrax and Iraq have in common?
A. Lots of Lies and Coverups......
The short story. The largest oil and gas reserves are in Central Asia but are land locked. The US covertly supported and courted the Taliban to get a huge pipeline project through Afghanistan.. Clinton backed out after al-Qaeda terrorist attacks. Bush resumed negotiations, then threatened the Taliban with military action and planned an invasion before 9-11 occurred. Many believe that 9-11 was allowed to happen so no one would question the invasion of Afghanistan and the building of bases. Iraq was planned next. Letting 9-11 happen has been claimed by many people within the FBI and the administration. The pre-planned invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq are not theories, they are facts.
Why are Englishmen in Afghanistan? Depend on the politicians not to tell the truth about that or anything else. Think of money, power, oppression. Then read this and know.
Oil Crisis
If oil stops flowing it is serious. It can be a matter of life and death. It has happened. It can happen again.
Oil And Politics
Oil is a survival issue. Surviving means do whatever it takes. It is not necessarily going to be pretty. Invading Kuwait? Check. Invading Iraq? Check? Invading Libya? Check. Invading Afghanistan? Check out the gas pipeline that is planned. Invading Iran. Check out the Jews that want us to invade it for them. It will start World War III but Zionist crazies don't care about that.
Oil and War
Lots of money rides on oil. Giving the locals a slice of the action is the sensible way to go. War is another way and the preferred option in various cases.
Oil in Africa
Oil in Africa is political. So is the truth. We don't get much of either. Bill Engdahl explains. To be fair he is only an economist.
Oil, Peak Oil And Algae
The summer of 2009 was dubbed the "summer of algae" as industry, venture capital and the federal government committed more than a billion dollars to algae-related projects. Some may wonder why all this attention and whether it is deserved? If the interest of large oil, chemical and food companies is any indicator, the answer is yes.............
...... major companies are interested in algae as a long-term feedstock that is 100 percent renewable, feeding off of readily available nutrients, using nonarable land and nonpotable water. Algae provide companies a way to beneficially reduce their carbon footprint. Add to that the opportunity to grow green technology jobs and even a skeptic can see why the algae industry is important. The algae industry is focused on three areas: innovation, entrepreneurship and growth, and major companies want to tap those traits.........
The largest single investment in any biofuel feedstock or technology came last year when ExxonMobil surprisingly announced it was working with Synthetic Genomics to jointly develop algae-based biofuels. Synthetic Genomics stands to receive up to $300 million in investments from ExxonMobil based on milestones.
The greenies object to using oil. One reason is Industrial Sabotage. Greenies are Lenin's Useful Idiots Subverting civilization while Capitalist Swine build it up, for their own advantage of course. Easy oil is finished but Now we can see that The Myth of Peak Oil may be past its sell by date.
Has oil. America wants oil. What is the best way to get it? Buying it at $25 a barrel sounds all right to me. Making war, killing thousands and wasting billions does not, but that is how Bush does it. A repeat performance is on the cards.
Why Germany really lost World War II
The short answer, the simple answer is the lack of oil. It is why Auschwitz was set up, to convert coal into petrol.
World Energy Hotspots
Where it is. How much there is. How difficult it is to get at. But in the end if a shooting war is what it takes, a shooting war is what it gets.
Peak oil theories wrong, says ExxonMobil boss [ 13 September 2006 ]
American Invasion Plans For Saudi [ 4 November 2005 ]
America might well invade Saudi if there is a coup d'etat to keep the oil moving. It would back fire big time. Islamics have already proved that they can sabotage oil pipes and kill Americans.
The Guerrilla War for Iraq's Oil [ 4 December 2005 ]
A war is raging in Iraq that will determine the outcome of the present occupation as well as the shape of future conflicts. It is the war for control of Iraqi oil.
Currently, America is losing the conflict in rather stunning fashion with little hope of reversing the situation in the near future. This week the Iraqi Oil Ministry announced that oil production "has reached a post-war low" and that the "exports of crude, which had run at an average of about 1.6 million barrels per day [ mbpd ] since the end of the 2003 war, dropped to 1.2 mbpd in November and 1.1 mbpd in December." (Al Jazeera) [ In 1990, Saddam was exporting 3.5 million barrels per day. Editor ] All the indicators point to reduced production due to the escalating violence.
Next time you pay 90 pence a litre at the pump you are a victim of Zionist control of the White House, Congress, Senate and the American war machine. Do the media bother to tell you about this one?
Iraq, Oil and Bush [ 11 April 2006 ]
Invading Iraq was about WMD! Right? NO!
But don't kid yourself -- Bush and his co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In case you've forgotten what their real mission was, let me remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher's original announcement, three years ago, launching of what he called,
O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change it to "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne wasn't sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq's OIF.
So next time you get screwed at the petrol pump, you know why. Oil prices are about winners and losers. We are the losers.
Brazil oil field could be huge find [ 16 April 2008 ]
A deep-water exploration area could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, an amount that would nearly triple Brazil's reserves and make the offshore bloc the world's third-largest known oil reserve, a top energy official said Monday. National Petroleum Agency President Haroldo Lima cautioned that his information on the
Major Oil Discovery Classified SECRET [ 26 May 2008 ]
Lindsey Williams served as chaplain on the Trans Alaska pipeline project in the '70s and wrote the book "The Energy Non-Crisis.".......... In his book he describes the oil field that was discovered at Gull Island while the pipeline was being built. The Gull Island reservoir was described as being "larger than the oil field in Saudi Arabia."
The only problem was that the day the find was going to be announced, the DoD flew in and classified the Gull Island reservoir. With presidents coming and going every 4-8 years, supposedly from different parties, one has to wonder who has the authority to order the Department of Defence to classify an oil discovery that would have eliminated America's dependence on foreign oil?
Big Oil and Big Government screw us Big Time.
Oil And Politics [ 21 July 2008 ]
Blood Oil - Could a bunch of Nigerian militants in speedboats bring about a U.S. recession? Blowing up facilities and taking hostages, they are wreaking havoc on the oil production of America's fifth-largest supplier. Deep in the Niger-delta swamps, the author meets the nightmarish result of four decades of corruption.
YES is the answer. The solution to the problem is to treat the locals decently. At least it would be if the local rulers were not grossly corrupt. With oil up from $25 to $140 the problem is clear.
Russia And, Denmark Say Law Must Decide Ownership Of Arctic Oil [ 27 February 2009 ]
The battle for the Arctic's vast reserves of oil and gas can only be decided by international law, Russia and Denmark said after talks on Thursday. Five countries with an Arctic coastline -- Russia, the United States, Canada, Norway and Denmark through its control of Greenland -- have competing claims to the region....... Arguing that an underwater ridge links Siberia with the Arctic, Russia plans to claim a vast section of the seabed -- with a estimated total of 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and 30 percent of undiscovered gas.
The issue is important unlike much of what passes for news. Gigabucks ride on it. Ultimately oil is a survival issue. That is why Israel sent the America army to Iraq - stealing oil is their approach.
Afghanistan Invasion Explained - It's Gas [ 12 July 2009 ]
The second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company..........
Unocal foresees a pipeline which would become part of a regional system that will gather oil from existing pipeline infrastructure in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia. The 1,040-mile long oil pipeline would extend south through Afghanistan to an export terminal that would be constructed on the Pakistan coast. This 42-inch diameter pipeline will have a shipping capacity of one million barrels of oil per day. The estimated cost of the project, which is similar in scope to the trans-Alaska pipeline, is about $2.5 billion........
Last October, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline Consortium, called CentGas, in which Unocal holds an interest, was formed to develop a gas pipeline which will link Turkmenistan's vast Dauletabad gas field with markets in Pakistan and possibly India. The proposed 790-mile pipeline will open up new markets for this gas, traveling from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Multan in Pakistan. The proposed extension would move gas on to New Delhi, where it would connect with an existing pipeline. As with the proposed Central Asia oil pipeline, CentGas can not begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place.
This evidence was given to the American Congress back in 1998. The 9/11 Job was just an excuse.
Hugo Chavez Warns Venezuela Of American Invasion [ 15 November 2009 ]
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has renewed his charges that the US and Colombia have sealed a "devil's pact" to wage war against Venezuela. For the second time in little over a week, Chavez called for his military and the country's militia to prepare for war to protect the sovereignty of Venezuela against the threat posed by the US using Colombian soil........... Chavez is furious over last month's signing of a military cooperation deal between Bogota and Washington granting the US the use of seven military bases on Colombian soil.
Bush invaded Iraq to steal their Oil for Israel. Venezuela has oil, lots of oil so Mr Chavez is right to be worried or at least right to get his people alert. Remember that Bush and Blair lied about those nasty WMDs and that Obama was going to shut Gitmo and stop Torture. He lied about that. Politicians lie like they breathe.
Former UK Ambassador Says CIA Sent People To Be 'Raped With Broken Bottles' [ 1 December 2009 ]
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.
"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on." Human rights groups have long been raising the alarm about the legal system in Uzbekistan. In 2007, Human Rights Watch declared that torture is "endemic" to the country's justice system.............
"I was absolutely stunned -- it changed my whole world view in an instant -- to be told that London knew [the intelligence] coming from torture, that it was not illegal because our legal advisers had decided that under the United Nations convention against torture, it is not illegal to obtain or use intelligence gained from torture as long as we didn't do the torture ourselves," Murray said.
Murray asserts that the primary motivation for US and British military involvement in central Asia has to do with large natural gas deposits in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. As evidence, he points to the plans to build a natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan that would allow Western oil companies to avoid Russia and Iran when transporting natural gas out of the region. Murray alleged that in the late 1990s the Uzbek ambassador to the US met with then-Texas Governor George W. Bush to discuss a pipeline for the region, and out of that meeting came agreements that would see Texas-based Enron gain the rights to Uzbekistan's natural gas deposits, while oil company Unocal worked on developing the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline. "The consultant who was organizing this for Unocal was a certain Mr. Karzai, who is now president of Afghanistan," Murray noted.
Sometimes it sounds so outrageous that it can not be true. Then you realise that it is all part of a pattern and very ugly one at that. Amnesty whines about the Swiss. See the next one. What does it say about the Uzbecks?
The Guardian Catches Up On The Trans Afghanistan Pipeline Story [ 21 December 2009 ]
The Guardian has become the first British national newspaper to report on the importance and significance of the Trans Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP) project — a subject vital to understanding the causes underpinning the Afghanistan war after only the British National Party's Land & People previously reported on it............ At stake in Afghanistan is the survival of the transatlantic alliance, Europe's energy security and independence, and whether the deepening ties between Europe — especially Germany — and Russia, will eventually lead to the western integration of Russia, or instead, to it gaining a stranglehold over European energy security.........
Stabilizing Afghanistan — not just temporarily to justify withdrawal, but for good — is crucial for the anticipated Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline from Turkmenistan to India (known as Tapi) to be built and its security to be guaranteed.
The British National Party scooped The Guardian. The idea of a pipe line looks good on paper. It could be useful if the country was pacified. That means killing enough peasants. Enough means at least 99% and, of course genocide which is a major war crime. Who cares? Not Blair, Brown Bush, Obama, Wolfowitz, Feith, Frum or Rumsfeld just for starters.
Peak Oil: The real reason for the war in Afghanistan – the one the controlled media won't tell you about! - The BNP gives a decent summary of the logic. The logic is Oil. Men's lives come a bad second.
Fight for BP. Fight for Esso then get robbed at the petrol pump
Afghanistan Big Oil And Truth [ 11 April 2010 ]
It has been revealed in the Indian media that efforts will be made to speed up the Trans-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project next weekend [ Efforts on to revive TAPI gas pipeline project ], the outcome of which could seal the fate of thousands of British and other Western troops over the coming years. The conference, to be held in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashkhabad, will be the first high-level meeting on the project for almost three years. It follows in the wake of Operation Moshtarak, the military offensive to wrest Afghanistan's strategically important Helmand Province, through which the proposed pipeline will be built, from Taliban control.
You might wonder just why it is that British troops are going to protect a pipeline through enemy territory to supply India. Remember that Falklands oil is not on stream yet. The Foreign Office tried to get rid of it. Maggie beat them but their treachery cost men's lives. Now it is all happening again.
Global Proven Oil Reserves Increase By 33% Over Two Decades [ 13 June 2010 ]
Venezuela is now the world's second biggest holder of proved oil reserves, overtaking the Gulf producers Iran, Iraq and Kuwait. In the 2010 edition of its benchmark Statistical Review of World Energy, which was published last week, BP has made substantial upwards revisions to its estimates of Venezuela's oil reserves for both last year and 2008. It appears to have included in its latest tally about 73 billion barrels of heavy crude reserves for which the South American country has long sought recognition from Opec. That has boosted the company's estimate of Venezuelan oil reserves by more than 73%, following a smaller revision last year............
Over the same period, however, the world's total proved oil reserves have expanded more than twice as fast, swelling by nearly a third to 1.33 trillion barrels by the end of last year from 1 trillion barrels two decades earlier. The world's top six holders of oil reserves, according to the latest BP league table, are now, in descending order, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and the UAE, all of which are OPEC members..............
Gas reserves in Russia and Saudi Arabia also increased last year. Russian reserves grew by 2.5% to 1.57 quadrillion cubic feet. Those of Saudi Arabia swelled by 4.6% to 280 trillion cubic feet.
We need oil, not just for transport but for a range of important chemicals. There is no alternative in sight much as the greenies want one.
Vast Gas Field Found In Lancashire - Greenies Annoyed [ 13 October 2011 ]
The huge scale of a natural gas field discovered under the north-west of England has been revealed, potentially revolutionizing the UK's energy outlook and creating thousands of jobs, but environmental groups are alarmed at the controversial method by which the gas is extracted.
Preliminary wells drilled around Blackpool have uncovered 5.6tn [ trillion ] cubic metres (200tn cubic ft) – equal to the kind of recoverable reserves of big energy exporting countries such as Venezuela, according to Cuadrilla Resources, a small energy company which has the former BP boss Lord Browne on its board. It said up to 800 more wells might be drilled in the region, creating 5,600 jobs and promising a repeat of the "shale gas revolution" that swept the US, sending local energy prices spinning downwards......
However, it is also a potentially much cheaper alternative to wind and solar power, which both currently [ and always will ] require public subsidies.
This important news was reported last month then disappeared. It was not headline news; a tribute to the power of the greenies, the industrial saboteurs, the Neo-Luddites who want us to live in caves.
Four Billion Barrels Of Oil South Of London [ 1 June 2014 ]
People who live there are worried. Greenies are annoyed. They will use propaganda against it then follow through with sabotage as normal. Lancashire has more. They have been pumping oil at Kimmeridge Bay since 1979 without any great disruption.
Major Oil Field Found In Sussex [ 10 April 2015 ]
The exploration company UK Oil & Gas Investments claims that it has made a significant oil find close to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex.
The company, which is chaired by entrepreneur David Lenigas, announced that analysis conducted on the site means that the well could yield up to 158 million barrels of oil per square mile. The company's licenses cover 55 square miles of the Weald Basin, a region spanning Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.
This suggests that the site could hold over 8.6 billion barrels of oil - just under a fifth of the amount that has been pumped out of the North Sea in the past 40 years.
At the current oil price of around $58 a barrel, the amount of oil UK Oil & Gas Investments claims is lying under the West Sussex countryside would be worth just under $500bn, or Ł336bn. However, the company cautioned that it may only be able to extract a fraction of those reserves from the site.
A number of industry experts have expressed scepticism about the size of the discovery.
Stephen Sanderson........... added: "Appraisal drilling and well testing will be required to prove its commerciality, but this 'Weald hybrid play' has the potential for significant daily oil production".
This is good news for England. People in the area will not be pleased. NIMBY is the watchword. They might even say SNAFU.
PS Notice that Daily Mail alleges that the oil firm claims. Does the paper know better?
Major Oil Strike North Of Scotland [ 29 March 2017 ]
Hurricane Energy said one billion barrels of oil could be contained within the Halifax well in the Greater Lancaster Area (GLA), 60 miles west of Shetland. The company found oil in two wells about 19 miles apart and says the combined discoveries have proved the presence of a giant field. It hopes to begin production in 2019.
Sturgeon will be gloating about this. This could be good moment for the Shetland government to go for independence from Scotland. Becoming an associate of Norway would make cultural sense.
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Born in Johannesburg, South Africa Kelly Hoppen net worth is today £50 million who is a entrepreneur and got success in Interior designing business. Earning wide ranging recognition as TV celebrity and interior designer, she is currently running an e-commerce shop and her recent association with Pearl Motor Yachts and her design for LUX* Belle Mare luxurious hotel resort made her notable figure in the crowd of millionaires. She is one of the newest additions to Dragons' Den which improved her net worth pretty much.
Kelly Hoppen Net Worth : £50 million
Birth Date
28th of July 1959
Ethnicity: Lithuanian-Jewish and Irish
Height & Weight
Husband: Currently Single
Ex-Husband: Edwin Miller and Graham Corrett
Pursuing her teen dream to emerge as an interior designer, she started her career designing her friend's kitchen when she was just 16. From then on she went up where she changed interior fascia for Elton John and Madonna also David and Victoria Beckham, the buzz is around that she even ventured out for the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William. Her talent is however not confined to designing luxury homes and offices but she is now busy with designing jets and yachts for the global elite. Today her client is all set to pay her £300,000.
She has also earned name in composing books on contemporary interior designing, her latest book was published in 2013. She has profound passion for colors like beige and taupe which titled her 'queen of taupe' even taking cue from the hues of her skin and blonde hair, she generated color blush which is both innovative and startling.
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|Kelly Hoppen Net Worth
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|Source of Income
|Interior designer
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In 1996, she won Oscar for her design innovation, today her wonderful designs have crossed the perimeter of 50 projects all across the nation. However she caught media attention when she won two and a half year long phone hacking case and where the The News of the World offered her damages around £60,000.


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What Keywords Should I Use On My Resume? Job search question of the week
Aug 12 2010 in reCareered Blog, Resumes by Phil Rosenberg
"What keywords should I use on my resume?" may be the top question I hear from candidates. It's often surprising to job seekers: there's an easy answer … or an effective answer.
The question on keywords is a natural – we've all heard that HR databases and ATS systems pre-screen resumes based on keywords. The thought process is usually … If I just knew the "magic" keywords I'd get lots of interviews.
There's an effective answer to this question and also an answer that's easy. They aren't the same …
Occasionally I post a job search question from one of our readers. This was a question asked during the Q & A portion of my complimentary Resume Revolution! webinars (enroll at no cost at http://resumeWebinar.com). I've seen the same question posed on a number of job search groups, including mine (Career Change Central on Linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1800872).
T.R. shared a question about her own job search, and asked:
"What are the best keywords to use on my resume?"
Keywords: Do You Want The Effective Answer Or The Easy Answer?
Everyone wants the easy answer, of course. The lure of a few "magic" words that will unlock the hiring manager's door, leading to the interview express train sounds too good to be true.
It sounds too good to be true, because it is too good to be true …
Here's some examples of the easy answer:
- CareerBuilder: What are Resume Keywords?
- BestSampleResume: Financial Resume Tips
- ResumeKeyWords: Industry Specific Resume Keywords
Just one problem – these easy answers don't work well. How can one set of keywords match the unique needs and unique internal language of a specific company and hiring manager? If easy solutions actually worked, wouldn't your friends tell you about how easy their job search is?
Using the easy answer – a single set of keywords – means that you are betting that the keywords you choose magically match the words an employer is searching for.
Do you realize how bad those odds are? You have better odds playing Lotto.
The effective answer isn't easy – it takes a lot of work. Many candidates just aren't willing to devote that much effort to a single opportunity, because they are used to an environment where there were more jobs than candidates. For the past 2 years and probably for the next few years, there's no more "low hanging fruit" – so the easy ways that used to work just aren't effective anymore.
The Effective Way To Use Keywords:
The most effective keywords are the ones that are relevant for a specific opportunity, a specific manager, and a specific company. Since no two opportunities, managers or companies are the same, they aren't looking for the same keywords … even for comparable positions. For example, a company may use entirely different words and phrases to describe the duties of an administrative assistant compared to another company – even if the actual jobs are essentially the same, they are described (and searched for) differently.
Effective keyword strategies come from research, to understand how the target company communicates, the words/phrases they use, their problems/issues/goals, and how these effect the hiring manager. The greater understanding you have of these data points, the better chance you'll have at matching keyword searches by that company and for that opportunity.
Sources of effective keyword research:
- The Job Description: Look carefully at the job description to find 5-10 key words in the description. Since HR typically just gets bullet pointed criteria from a hiring manager, it's a good bet that those criteria are used verbatim in the job description.
- Company communications: Read any public information you can get your hands on from your target company. Look for jargon and tone. Examples of public information that can be useful are:
– Annual/Quarterly reports
– News articles
– Interviews with company managers
– Press releases
– Company website
– Company brochures/marketing materials
- Informational interviews: Informational interviews can be one of the best ways to uncover problems and to gain an understanding of a company's communication style. Listen carefully.
- Guerrilla Job Search tactics: See http://recareered.blogspot.com/2009/11/guerrilla-job-search-tactics.html.
Sure we'd all prefer the easy route, but aren't we really after effectiveness in search? Seriously, how many candidates do you know who describe their job search as easy? Would you believe them?
Readers – Do you have any suggestions of where to find effective keyword research?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Tartan Terrors
First Highland Watch
Thu, March 9, 2017
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pmSellersville Theater 1894
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Tartan Terrors
Get ready for what Celtic Beat Magazine calls "Celtic mayhem!" The Tartan Terrors bring a kilted extravaganza of a two time World Champion bagpiper, championship Highland dancers, comedic fun and a most of all a Celtic musical party! The Tartan Terrors are known worldwide for their performances in festivals, Highland games, theaters and for entertaining US presidents, British queens and TV audiences.
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Sellersville Theater 1894
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Sciences Po Aix
Coordinates: 43°31′53.87″N 5°26′48.03″E / 43.5316306°N 5.4466750°E
|Institut d'Études Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence
|14 million Euros[1]
|Christine Lagarde
Academic staff
|Aix-en-Provence, France
|Aix-Marseille University
The Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃stity detyd pɔlitik ˈdɛks]; English: Aix-en-Provence Institute of Political Studies), simply referred to as Sciences Po Aix[3] (French pronunciation: [sjɑ̃sˈpo ɛks]), is a grande école in Aix-en-Provence, France. This prestigious and highly selective institute is modelled on the former Paris "École Libre des Sciences Politiques" (ELSP). Like the other Instituts d'Etudes Politiques in France (Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg and Toulouse), Sciences Po Aix is a member of the "Grandes Écoles" group of higher education schools of academic excellence.
It is housed in a hôtel particulier, considered a Monument historique, designed by architect Georges Vallon in 1734.[4][5] The building is located on the Place de l'université ("town square of the university"), opposite Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur on the rue Gaston de Saporta in Aix-en-Provence. This building previously housed the Faculty of Law of Aix-Marseille University.
As a grande école, its admissions process is selective. Sciences Po Aix specializes in political sciences. It also offers courses in economics, history, law, international relations, and business. It is associated with Aix-Marseille University and is part of a network of ten Institut d'études politiques, known as IEP.
The IEP provides students with a general training in law, economics, general knowledge and history. Its students are selected through a competitive entrance examination. Some of its students have become company directors or government officials. Many students move on to careers in journalism, finance, diplomacy or communications.
It was established in 1956.
In September 2007, Philippe Séguin (1943–2010), then President of the Court of Audit (in French Cour des comptes), was elected President of the Administration Council, succeeding Jean-Paul Proust (1940–2010), Minister of the Principality of Monaco. In July 2010, the former French minister of economy and current managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, member of the Administration Council since 2008 and 1977 graduate, was elected President.[6]
- 1956-1974 : Paul de Geouffre de la Pradelle
- 1974-1979 : Charles Cadoux
- 1979-1984 : Yves Daudet
- 1984-1996 : Jacques Bourdon
- 1996-2006 : Jean-Claude Ricci
- 2006-2014 : Christian Duval
- 2015- : Rostane Medhi
Notable alumni[edit]
- Christine Lagarde, current managing director of the International Monetary Fund[7]
- Philippe Séguin, French politician[7]
- Élisabeth Guigou, French politician[7]
- Roger Karoutchi, French politician[7]
- Federica Mogherini, current High representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy whilist enrolled at University of Rome La Sapienza, spent a year at the institute as Erasmus student.[8]
- ^ Camille Stromboni (31 October 2012). "Sciences po : le premier banc d'essai des IEP de région". L'Etudiant.fr (in French).
- ^ a b Sciences Po Aix (2012). "La taxe professionnelle... une ressource pour votre entreprise !" (PDF). sciencespo-aix.fr (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-16.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
- ^ French Ministry of Culture: Faculté de Droit
- ^ Dominique Auzias, Aix-en-Provence, Le Petit Futé, 2008, p. 142
- ^ (in French)Communiqué de presse de l'IEP d'Aix-en-Provence, « Christine Lagarde succède à Philippe Séguin à la tête du CA de Sciences Po Aix» "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
- ^ a b c d Sciences Po Aix website's "Who is who"
- ^ http://www.sciencespo-aix.fr/fr_FR/federica-mogherini-europe,3,89.html
External links[edit]
- http://www.sciencespo-aix.fr (in French) (in English) Official website of the IEP.
- http://www.monsciencespoaix.fr/ (in French) Student website run by the Arts Office: it includes forums, films, podcasts, pictures, etc.


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WHEN: 7 p.m. today
WHERE: Administrative Offices Board Room, 240 Mitchell Bridge Road
PARKING: Lot beside administrative building
ON THE NET: www.clarke.k12.ga.us
ON TV: Tape-delayed on Charter Communications Channel 16
Votes on revisions to policies on student suspension, use of school facilities and non-resident students.
Discussion of the job description for the district's diversity director position.
Acceptance of the 2004-05 school calendar for Chase Street and Gaines elementary schools.
Discussion of a long-range facility plan from the special-purpose, local-option sales tax community oversight committee.
Closed-door session to discuss personnel, legal settlements and an extension of the superintendent's contract.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, March 4, 2004.
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