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On best in Tamil
G V is the best singer too what a voice what a composition
Nobody can replace him when it comes to theme and background scores. His best ever I would tell is 'Aayirathil oruvan' Epic background music!
the bestV 22 Comments
Rab Ne Banadi Jodi Songs is my favourite. It makes every one to fall in love
Best composers of India
They are THE best best best
They are the bestV 6 Comments
Amazing music that touches everyone's hearts. That's why I think they should me number one. They don't deserve anything below. :-)
Shekhar is my most favourite singer, he and vishal should be number one
I like all songs of Vishal-Shekhar
Vishal Shekhar Are Best In The world... They can't Be Numbered... From my point they are at the Top of the listV 17 Comments
A great composer of Indian film industry with whom LATA MANGESHKAR gave her the best.
He is one of the greatest music composer ever in India. He is the one of best. I had heard his all songs.
I'm born in 80s, but recognized him so late. He didn't have any training of music, but it was his soul, which created so many untouchable arts that you can't even imagine. It is so painful seeing him at no. 24. He is uncrowned king of Indian music industry.
He was indeed the top Jewel of music industry. A genius, unparalleled compositions.V 5 Comments
K.V. Mahadevan, a trend setter in Carnatic music, an authority on folk music and his versatileness in giving different kind of melodies, providing music for more than 700 films from his early beginings, he is to be top listed above other music directors. In Telugu, he was number 1 till his end.
Those who are born in 70's and 80's, and listening to radio before going to school and on Sunday will definitely know how mesmerizing his melodies are. Those melodies will stand forever because they are focused on voice and ragam that stamps into our minds.
Those who are in top in this list are copycats like DSP, instrument crowded songs, people not even remember their songs for not more than 1 or 2 years.
This is the worst website! Kv mahadevan is legend! Where is ghatsAla, pendyala!
I completely agree with the earlier comment. How come musician like Nausha saab is below on 19 when I think he should have been in the first 3. Its an unjustified list. Anyway I think people should listen music of Naushad saab, Madan Mohan Ji, O P Nair Saab, Laksmikant Payarelal Ji ( many more to name, sorry if I have missed some great names ) and then start commenting and voting.Nausad Saab is the one who brought the best of Rafi saab.
I am surprised to see the list. Some useless music directors are above the genius Naushad. Probably many people of today do not know the true music.
The great composer of India. His name should be in the top three list.
He was one of the greatesr composer deserved to be in top ten list rather than putting A.R Rehman in top listV 5 Comments
Great composer give number of hits in 1960 and 70
They should be in top 5 as they have scored very good music in 300 Bollywood movies.
These days most of there songs are copied and remixed by new upcoming Music Directors.
No one can beat Music Maestros Brothers Kalyanji Anandji Fames Music..
Its awesome to listen them
Salil Chowdhury was an Indian music composer, who mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi, and Malayalam films. He was also a poet and a playwright. He is affectionately called Salilda by his admirers.
One of the best Composer in India...
At first listen to the music of whole world if possible ( at list European and African music since 1600 A.D. ), then compare Salil Chowdhury with the rest of Indian Composers and others. R D Burman is no more, but you can Go to Mr. Ilayaraja, and ask him whether I have written wrong, with due respect to the other composers.
Top five composer like this--- Salil Chowdhury, SJ, LP, SD Burman and RD Burman
People, please listen to Legendary Hamsalekha sir songs. He writes the lyrics himself for all his songs. Music and Lyrics are mind blowing. He deserves to be in Top 5. If not for the rating, even otherwise do listen to his songs, they are Just too good.
I think People should listen all the tunes composed by Hamsalekha Sir.
People should learn to understand what really the music is. Even though He composed music only to south Indian languages but the tunes he composed heaven.
The best of best in my opinion...a true composer and lyricist...has many records like composing music without any instrument, with only single instrument etc...my all time favorite..
Legendary music directorV 35 Comments
Sir I am your biggest fan in the world. I like your all music composed by you. It will be a honour to me if you replay me. Thank you sir.
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I like all songs& music
I like your style
Best music Drictor...V 1 Comment
Good melodies he compose and his voice too is good. :-)
King of contemporary music... A competition to Rehman ji.. I mean in terms of pricing and all :P
Best. In terms of unique music and voice.
Amit trivedi is arguably the best music composer India has at the moment... He revived Indian music with a western touch... His music is simply awesome...
Awesome voice and awesome lyricsV 26 Comments
A Master and an ace who composed his melodies effortlessly. His greatest achievement was his casual attitude towards his stardom and his humility in general with respect to everybody. His songs have stood the test of time and his music in general elates every single soul who listens to it. Apart from his Music, Mr Johnson is a fantastic human being who nurtured a wonderful family and his legacy lives through his talented daughter, Shan Johnson.
Johnson Master - Winner of 2 National Awards, 6 State Award and many other awards and recognition... Most of all, Winner of a million hearts ho love your Music! Proud to vote for you... I am your greatest fan! You live forever through your evergreen melodies which you have left behind for us! YOU ARE THE BEST! Thank you for the Music in it's pure magical form..
Very very Great personality. Humble dedicated talented. Songs and compositions cannot be forgotten. Best music director. Simple personality. Very serious about his work. Great respect for him. Wishing Shan Johnson a bright future in musical ocean. God Bless the family.
Johnson master is aunthetic in both kanatic and western forms of music. He had innovated a natural highly soothed music in malayalam film industry. his perspective towards music is entirely different. He had effortessly composed a colossial number of songs. His melodies are halted in our heart, day by day his soul of the music is melted our ears and heart. He had also composed a numerous background scores which is outstanding. He has an ablity to use different musical instruments in a particular bgm. the bgm of manichithrathazu is the eg of that, which is highly haunted by the presence of classical instruments like veena & thabala. The spectators identifies this musical genius after his obituaries.V 12 Comments
He is 1 of the best music director in Tamil I like to...
Different types of music
Your good sir but do more movies and score good sir vvr waiting for u music please come in Tamil cinema
He is the new msv
Ajay Atul are the best music director in future
Sir I want to meet you.
i want to became a music director like you
He is best music director now in India
Though down in the list now.. There are going to beat rehman in upcoming few years.. Mark my words..
Marathi man ajay atul I am fan foreverV 43 Comments
The best Music Director according to me. I feel there is no one who can even come close to him. Yuvan Shankar Raja is someone who I see second to him. Unfortunately, he has not got the recognition that he deserves.
He is the best of best in all music directors he is so special. and his music is amazing awesome etc so the Mani Sharma is best music director...
He is the best... His music is ever green. Unfortunately the kind of recognition he deserved, he hasn't got.
Great background scores ever in tollywood are sharmas works...he desrves the better recognition!V 11 Comments
He is not famous only because he is from malayalam industry. His music is divine.
Class cult of malayalam film world.. driven the movies purely out of his music
Hee needed to be in the second place
GreatestV 3 Comments
Only one disco king of this India.
Please compose a real disco music
Sir I am your big fan. I am always waiting for your new song. So pease sing for us thak you.V 1 Comment
An fantastic composer ever...
Undoubtedly greatest of all
The best ever
In my opinion he is no 2 behind shankar-jaikishan.
All the new ones have made it after these two left the scene.
Pritam is the best music composer of Bollywood now...
What the hell this list is?... Pritam is one of best compose ever in the world... If he is not even no. 1... This list is worst man!... Pritam's music is hottest and coolest music in the world... He is a born to compose music director...
Pritam the is the God of music!
List is nothing because at the end of the day, people listen his music everytym the most and goes to sleep...
Pritam must be on first list what the hell tis list has been prepared
Have you ever heard of pritam songs
I'm getting doubt
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It was almost three years ago this November that I took a weekend trip to Italy. I stumbled upon a folder on my computer that held additional visual memories from that trip. Instead of adding these photographs to my prior posts on this trip (see links below) I created a new post.
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It was my first day in Bangalore and I got up early to explore the new city, starting from the metro station here. Brigade Road is much quieter in the morning, with many of the shops not opening until later in the day, but it made for a nice walk compared to the more chaotic evenings.
I was at the bottom of Brigade Road heading towards KR Market when I noticed this billboard across the street. The light was interesting and in the advertisement there was woman wearing a red saree, matching a real woman I saw walking across the street. I also liked the splashes of yellow and blue a man in the background could add to the scene, so I crossed the road and timed the shot to include her with the matching advertisement and man in the background, all framed together in a triangular shape.
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They say no one from the convict settlement of Sydney Town crossed the steep ranges of the Blue Mountains until 1813. But the quick-witted convict Clancy Fitzgerald did it in 1798, dragging with him the proud - but reluctant - Eliza Philips. Faced with constant danger and wrenching isolation, Clancy and Eliza found themselves pale-skinned strangers in a land of ancient traditions and spiritual beliefs.
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"Rapid Degeneration into Imperial Soap Drama"
This novel had all the makings of a great wilderness (man and woman against nature) all-night listen. Two British "transported convicts" escape tyrannical imprisonment in the 18th Century prison colony of Australia's New South Wales, but they hightail into aboriginal wilderness.
So far so good…right?
Then, fortunes change for the two star-crossed escaped-cons and they re-emerge into Sydney Society as a couple of out-ot-place, very well-to-do frauds. The novel degenerates from there into tension between the haves and have-nots. The author unsuccessfully attempts to keep the tension going by reintroducing a nemesis, however it's trite and campy, like a bad script for a "B" grade Aussie made-for-TV movie.
There is some great historical fiction in this listen, however, if you have read other Australian Historical Fiction (or seen the fine films from that continent), this novel may leave you wanting to put up a long Rabbit Proof Fence between you and this novel. It's a good journey, but not Dreamtime drama.
I give this novel one boomerang up and one musket down.
"Rugged and wonderful"
The birth of Caroline... the differing reactions of Eliza and the Aborigines
Yes. I listening to him in "Batavia" and "Can't buy me Love." This book is by far and away better than both! It was a masterful performance, with accents, great inflections, and NONE of the pauses that made those other two books so frustrating.
I normally don't like this type of genre, and I was a bit wary of listening to Aspel after my disappointment with his reading of "Can't Buy me Love"... I am glad I read this. it is a rugged bush story, with all of the elements of an American wild-west story: gold prospecting, conflicts with Natives, old sensibilities confronting new exploration. I normally don't like books where I don't, on some level, like the protagonist's, but I can understand Clancy's motivations, Eliza's frustration as a wife, and the natives' hospitality and confusion regarding the white people in their midst.
This is a fantastic book, performed admirably. I can't wait to read Alice to Nowhere (also read by Aspel) and Dust and Glory (performed by Humphrey Bower, one of my favorite narrators of all time).
"clancy tale"
the narrator getting the voices right the aboriginals sound weird his english voice and irish are ok but the native is annoying the story also make the aboriginals seem wrong in there tribal ways and bushcraft are a lot differant to the books
didn,t make it that far hard to get through
maybe but was very disappointed
disappointment the other evan green book was okay
Being a European loving Australia this book drew me completely in the history of the land. With great respect for the aboriginals.
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With the cosmopolitan city's complex subway system, Subway app is an absolute life saver when you're exploring Korea. Complete with features like the nearest station locator and precise duration of a subway ride, you'll be zooming around from place to place in no time. Easy peasy.
Traveling out of Seoul but worried that you'll get lost? Worry not my friends, Subway app has subway maps for other huge cities like Busan, Daegu, Daejeon and Gwangju.
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Naver is the Korea's version of Google and NaverMap is especially useful if you're looking for a specific shop. Since shops in Korea have a high turnover rate, it helps to check on Naver Map before you head out looking for a shop that has already closed.
Similar to Google Maps, NaverMap has an upside-down teardrop shape that's marked to wherever you wish to go and also a street view to ensure you're on the right track. The downside? It's in Korean. Now before you start wailing at what poor recommendation this is, take note that you'll probably have a better chance of getting to your destination with NaverMap because their Google Maps might not be as updated — Koreans have literally no idea how Google Maps work.
3. Naver Korean Dictionary & Translate
Never trust Google Translate. Never. Google Translate might come in handy for other languages, but not Korean, unless you wish to see quizzical looks plastered to their faces…
Naver's translation is pretty much the most accurate English to Korean translation among all the phone apps we've explored and it's a popular app within Korean university students as well. So do yourself a favour — download Naver and you'll never look back.
4. Uber
It's super easy to grab a cab off the streets in Korea (see what we did there) but being a kiasu Singaporean, there's always a backup plan, and a backup plan for the backup plan.
Uber has been the life saviour of many across the world when there's a shortage of available cabs and Korea is no stranger to that during peak hours. Sure, you can survive without Uber in Korea, especially with their extensive transportation system, but good luck with grabbing a cab after the last subway or bus.
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Trying to find your way in Gangnam but you found yourself an eyecandy instead — what's next? Get their contact number, that's what's next! Here's a tip for all of you who wish to befriend the Koreans, download Kakao Talk.
Every Korean, no matter young or old, uses the KakaoTalk app. Like how we're reliant on WhatsApp and Telegram, Koreans take KakaoTalk very seriously; try to lobby them into using anything else but KakaoTalk and they'll probably give you a puzzled look.
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Sidestepping questions about his personal life with humor and class. Steering the conversation to Cosmopolis.
The link isn't working anymore. Btw, has anyone seen the new trailer for Great Expectations? HBC as Miss Havisham is a sight to be hold. =)
Might as well respond if the link still isn't working: Interesting trailer for Great Expectations! I don't see why this shouldn't be part of the Oscar Conversation if Anna Karenina and Les Miserable are–it doesn't look bad at all! Perhaps it will be one of the overlooked?
Eoin Daly tipped us to the Great Expectations earlier today. I know people are able to watch it, but I'm hesitant to post. Twice this month I've posted material that was unauthorized and within an hour there are PR agents contacting us to remove those items from the site. The subtitles make me wary.
I'm keeping an eye on how long this trailer is left to stand without being blocked. If it's still online in the morning with no complaints then we'll post it.
Glad I saw it. Thanks for the multiple links.
We have a fully functioning official embed now. Sorry about the other one. Shoulda known ViaCom wouldn't allow a youtube clip to survive.
Robert Pattinson, with that affected English accent, was clearly trying to exploit the Olympics and avoid answering the question that was on everyone's mind, "Are you gay?"
what? I don't get this brilliance^^
rob has always come off as a classy guy though. you know jon wanted to get some dirt, but he held himself well.
I think I have realized… his British accent is 100x better than his American accent. Perhaps that's why I have hated his performances all of this time. Or maybe it was just Twilight.
Twilight is like Fox News.
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- New rules issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) require resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to U.S. and foreign governments for the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals.
- An immediate effect of the rules will be to create a mandatory disclosure requirement for certain payments – namely, those made to governments that are intended to benefit individual foreign government officials – that have traditionally fallen under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and have not been subject to a mandatory disclosure requirement. Another related corollary is a likely increase in voluntary FCPA disclosures and FCPA investigations.
- The rules go into effect on Sept. 26, 2016, and must be complied with for fiscal years ending on or after Sept. 30, 2018.
New rules issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that require resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to U.S. and foreign governments for the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals will go into effect on Sept. 26, 2016. The rules are intended to advance the U.S. foreign policy objective of combatting global corruption, promoting accountability and improving governance in resource-rich countries around the world. One immediate effect of the rules, however, will be to create a mandatory disclosure requirement for certain payments – namely, those made to governments that are intended to benefit individual foreign government officials – that have traditionally fallen under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and have not been subject to a mandatory disclosure requirement. Another related corollary is a likely increase in voluntary FCPA disclosures and FCPA investigations.
Section 13(q), which was added in 2010 to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) by Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), directs the SEC to issue rules requiring resource extraction issuers to include information relating to any payment made by the issuer or its affiliates to the U.S. and foreign governments for the purpose of commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals in an annual report. The rules were intended to increase the transparency of payments made by oil, natural gas, and mining companies, which would help deter those companies from entering into suspicious or corrupt transactions, combat global corruption, and empower citizens of resource-rich countries to hold their governments accountable for the wealth generated by those resources.
The SEC initially adopted Rule 13q-1 in August 2012, but re-proposed the rules on Dec. 11, 2015.2 On June 27, 2016, the SEC published notice of the final rules and amendments to Form SD (Rule 13q-1 or the rules), which must be complied with for fiscal years ending on or after Sept. 30, 2018.3
Notably, in recent years, the European Union (EU Accounting Directive and EU Transparency Directive), Canada (the Extractive Sector Transparency Measure Act) and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)4 adopted initiatives similar to the rules the SEC adopted.
Types of Payments Subject to Disclosure
Rule 13q-1 requires resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to any government and file annual reports on Form SD with the SEC under the Exchange Act. "Resource extraction issuers" includes all U.S. and foreign companies that are required to file annual reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and are engaged in the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals. Such "commercial development" is defined as exploration, extraction, processing and export, or the acquisition of a license for any such activity.
The reporting requirements extend to payments made by any subsidiary or affiliate entity included in a reporting company's consolidated financial filings. The term "payment" includes taxes; royalties; fees, including licensing fees; production entitlements; bonuses; dividends; payments for infrastructure improvements; in-kind payments; and if required by law or contract, community and corporate social responsibility payments. "Not de minimis" is defined as any payment, whether a single payment or a series of related payments, that equals or exceeds $100,000 during the same fiscal year.
Rule 13q-1 also includes an anti-evasion provision that requires disclosure for payments that are not within one of the payment categories but are related to the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals, or are payments made by a resource extraction issuer to a government for the purpose of such commercial development.
Information Required to be Disclosed and Exemptions
The rules require the following information about the payments to governments:
- the type and total amount of payments made for each project of the resource extraction issuer relating to the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals
- the type and total amount of such payments for all projects made to each government
- the total amounts of the payments by category
- the currency used to make the payments
- the fiscal year in which the payments were made
- the business segment of the resource extraction issuer that made the payments
- the government that received the payments and the country in which the government is located
- the project of the resource extraction issuer to which the payments relate
- the particular resource of the commercial development
- the subnational geographic location of the project
"Project" is defined as operational activities that are governed by a single contract, license, lease, concession or similar legal agreement that forms the basis for payment liabilities with a government.
Rule 13q-1 includes two exemptions: The first allows an issuer that acquired a company, which was not previously subject to the final rules, to delay reporting payment information for the acquired company until the first fiscal year following the acquisition, and the second provides a one-year delay in reporting payments related to exploratory activities. Furthermore, the final rules permit the SEC to provide relief from the requirements of the rules on a case-by-case basis.
The Impact of Rule 13q-1
Rule 13q-1's anti-evasion provision, in effect, creates a mandatory disclosure requirement for certain payments traditionally within the ambit of the FCPA – i.e., payments to governments that also provide a benefit to individual foreign government officials. The FCPA prohibits corrupt payments to foreign officials and political parties for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, securing an improper business advantage, or influencing or inducing an official act by the official or political party.5 The FCPA is targeted at corrupt payments to individuals, not governments, and does not include a mandatory disclosure provision.
The anti-evasion provision at Rule 13q-1(b) requires disclosure of activities or payments that, although not within the categories included in the proposed rules, are part of a plan or scheme to evade the disclosure requirements.6 Payments to the government that are routed through third parties are thus covered. Additionally, the SEC explicitly stated that certain payments that could "reasonably raise corruption concerns" – such as "payments for government expenses, providing jobs or tuition to persons related to government officials, [and] investing in companies created by officials or related persons" – would be covered by the anti-evasion provision if made to further the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals.7 In doing so, the SEC cited to a U.S. Senate Subcommittee investigation of six oil companies active in oil exploration and development efforts in Equatorial Guinea (EG), which found, among other things, that the companies made payments to the EG Government for "student training expenses."8 The expenses consisted in many cases of paying tuition and living expenses for the children of EG officials either directly to a bank account controlled by the EG Government or directly to universities.
Payments to governments made in furtherance of the commercial development of oil, natural gas or minerals that benefit individual government officials meet the requirements of prohibited payments under the FCPA provided such payments are made with the intent to influence the officials. Assuming such payments are made (whether directly or through third parties), the anti-evasion provision of Rule 13q-1 requires disclosure for this subcategory of payments that would otherwise not be subject to a mandatory disclosure requirement under the FCPA. Failure to disclose the payments would subject resource extraction issuers to penalties for violating Section 18(a) of the Exchange Act and other provisions.
Complying with Rule 13q-1 may also compel more companies to voluntarily disclose FCPA violations. This phenomenon is not new; other U.S. regulatory regimes have had the effect of compelling companies to voluntarily disclose potential FCPA violations. For example, several FCPA actions have involved Part 130 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which requires the disclosure of fees and commissions related to brokering the sale of defense materials. The failure to disclose these fees, to the extent they are also part of a corrupt scheme, can lead to criminal penalties and possibly a loss of export privileges. With such steep consequences and the likelihood that disclosure of the fee could lead to detection, companies are compelled to disclose not only the fee but the related corruption. For example, in 2015, FLIR Systems Inc. (FLIR) settled with the SEC for providing gifts and hospitality to Saudi officials to retain business with the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Interior (MOI).9 The case involved third party agents, who were paid a commission on the sales to the MOI. After a dispute over the amount of commissions due, the agents submitted a claim to the company, which triggered an internal investigation. Ultimately, the company discovered that the commissions had not previously been reported as required under ITAR Part 130, and, consequently, disclosed both the commissions and the related FCPA issues. FLIR settled with the SEC for $9,504,584 in disgorgement and prejudgment interest, and a civil money penalty.
Rule 13q-1 may not only trigger internal FCPA investigations that lead to voluntary or mandatory disclosure by the reporting companies, but it may also lead to external parties, such as FCPA enforcement agencies, using the disclosures to investigate possible corruption.
Rule 13q-1, like its sister regulation for conflict minerals at Rule 13(p), is aimed at detecting and preventing corruption, and is thus a natural source of evidence for FCPA enforcement agencies. Last year, the FBI's International Corruption Unit apparently indicated that it sees linkages between conflict mineral reporting compliance and the FCPA, presumably because both involve issues of corruption and are seen in "low integrity countries."10 Similarly, the oil, gas and mining industry has historically involved a high level of corruption. Indeed, in issuing Rule 13q-1, the SEC noted that the U.S. Senate Subcommittee Investigation reported instances in which, "both at the direction of government officials of Equatorial Guinea and pursuant to suspect terms of the underlying contracts with the government, resources extraction companies diverted payments that should have been paid to the government to other accounts and to persons connected with E.G. government officials."11 The Rule 13q-1 disclosures, therefore, could provide substantive leads to U.S. enforcement authorities, many of which have been increasing their prosecutorial and investigative resources. Of course, increased scrutiny was an intended consequence. In issuing Rule 13q-1 and defending the decision to require project-level reporting, the SEC explained that such data could help "citizens, civil society groups, and others to identify payment discrepancies that reflect potential corruption and other inappropriate financial discounts" (emphasis added).12
For Royal Dutch Shell, the first company to report under The Reports on Payments to Governments Regulations 2014 in the United Kingdom, a civil society group has already raised questions about the contents of its report.13 A review of the Royal Dutch Shell report by the organization Publish What You Pay revealed that the value of an in-kind production entitlement payment to the Nigerian government for the SPDC East project ($20.89 per barrel) was less than half of the average values for other Nigerian payments in kind ($51.59 per barrel). There are likely many legitimate explanations for this discrepancy, but for a zealous investigator, it might be just enough to launch an inquiry into how the in-kind payment got valued and whether the official in charge of the SPDC East project was improperly influenced to accept a lower value.
Payments made through third parties, particularly corporate and social responsibility (CSR) payments, are also likely to be examined. Since 2010, every bribery scheme that resulted in an FCPA settlement has included a third-party intermediary; as a result, third-party payments are regularly investigated by U.S. enforcement agencies.14 CSR payments, in particular, are often made through third parties, such as foundations or charities. In some instances, though they are required by contract or law, the CSR payments are simply "a mechanism for the corrupt or suspicious diversion of payment revenues to government officials for their personal use."15 To the extent there is corruption involved with a project, the disclosure of these payments will provide investigators with information that could lead to the detection of such corruption.
Anytime a company is subject to increased regulatory scrutiny, increased compliance is likely to follow. As the SEC noted in issuing Rule 13q-1, reporting project-level data related to payments to governments "may also discourage companies from either entering into agreements that contain suspect payment provisions or following government officials' suspect payment instructions."16 Indeed, it will also encourage companies to scrutinize payments to third parties that may need to be reported under the anti-evasion provision. To the extent Rule 13q-1 goes into effect, therefore, resource extraction issuers would be wise to shore up existing corruption compliance policies and procedures, including auditing the projects involving payments to governments, reviewing any third-party relationships related to those projects and investigating any other red flags raised during the report preparation.


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Tough day in the Alps for
Tuesday's Stage 16, from the Italian town of Cuneo to Jausiers, back on French soil, featured "one of the most intense stretches of climbing in Tour history," according to
Vande Velde, the former US Postal rider and
Wherever he finishes -- he's a shoo-in for the Top 10 -- the 32-year-old native of Lemont, Illinois has ridden the race of his life.
"He's one of those guys who always had it in him," says
Read: clean.
The absence of the dirty riders from Saunier-Duval has made the Tour not just more fair, but infinitely more interesting. Sunday's electrifying thrust and parry on the Prato Nevoso -- the mountaintop finish of Stage 14 -- reflected a delicious parity among the lead group. As the astute
Funny how that works: get rid of the cheaters -- I should say
Rather than wring his hands over the three positive tests in this Tour so far, Vaughters welcomed the news:
"It depends what you want. If people want only positive headlines, if they want to keep [doping] out of the public eye, then don't test at all, and you won't have any scandals. The NFL model of making sure doping is a non-issue." (That's not completely fair: the league does test its players. It
"If your want to push the science and the technology to the limits, and do serious, sophisticated testing, well, you're gonna catch some people off guard. And that's what happened here.
"What I would say now," he continued, "is that, for the first time in cycling, the number of people going positive is actually close to the number of people who are doping."
Vaughters' optimistic outlook was countered by
The number of EPO positives declined by two-thirds between 2003 and '06, according to McGrath. That seems to be a consequence of increased laxity in interpreting test results.
He interviewed
"From a little work with a lot of blood profiles," says Damsgaard, "I found maybe five positives. I wonder that maybe hundreds, maybe even thousands of positive samples are lying around in WADA accredited labs."
Damsgaard's concerns overlapped with those expressed to me on Sunday by
I phoned Ashenden to find out more about Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator, the so-called "third generation" EPO product found in the blood of the three riders tossed from the Tour so far.
Ashenden told me that just as his project, SIAB, works to anticipate blood doping trends, so did WADA and the Swiss Anti-Doping agency anticipate that the relatively new drug CERA would be abused. Working with Roche, the company that makes the drug, they developed a test for it, and sprung that test on the riders of this Tour.
"I think serious kudos are due to WADA and the Swiss lab," he said.
In this case, the system worked to perfection. Yet, when I asked Ashenden if he was optimistic that cycling was healing itself, he paused.
"Sometimes I'm quite optimistic, sometimes I get sort of disheartened," he finally said. He spoke of his frustration at being handcuffed by bureaucratic restraints and turf issues with WADA's 33 accredited labs around the world and recalled how, seven years ago, he was certain that "biological passports" were the way to go in catching cheats. (The UCI has spent some $8 million and drawn gallons of blood from hundreds of riders to establish a passport program).
Now, he says, athletes are skirting such longitudinal testing by using "microdoses" of EPO to subtly manipulate test results. "Because they know we're looking for these sudden, large fluctuations, he says. "They've become more clever in the way they take their drugs."
I asked for a primer on the EPO test. Ashenden obliged: "The urine sample is applied to one end of a gel, which then has an electric current applied to it. That drags the EPO molecules through this jelly -- it is literally a jelly -- and those molecules stop in different positions, depending on whether it's normal human EPO or recombinant EPO" -- the kind that gets you thrown out of the Tour.
"Then you take a photograph of this gel, and that's the basis of the test. When an athlete provides a urine sample, and an EPO analysis is conducted in the lab, they get this gel image of the EPO isoforms. They're essentially like the rungs of a ladder. And what we look for as a positive test is when those rungs are in a different position on the gel than where they should be.
"With micro-dosing, those ladders disappear before you get a chance to see them. But what you do see is an unusual pattern. It's not positive, but it's unusual."
These "suspicious" and "unusual" results are what, if Dr. Damsgaard and others are correct, WADA has decided to ignore. Many athletes aren't even making the effort to dodge unusual profiles, says Ashenden, "Because they know we're not doing anything about them."
If WADA lacks the nerve to call a positive a positive, Ashenden would at least like to include those gel images in the athletes' biological passports -- the baseline profiles on riders being compiled by cycling's governing body, the UCI.
"I would love to see those EPO gels on
What's the hang-up? Why won't labs release those photos?
"It's their turf," he answers, simply, "and they want to protect it. They fear that if they start giving these gels out to the federations, than they lose power and influence. Because right now, they're the only ones who can declare a gel positive. No one else even looks at it, or is allowed to look at it."
Maybe some labs just aren't that eager to have their incompetence exposed. Ashenden points to
"These were the same samples!" Ashenden exclaims. "At the moment, if the lab director chooses, he can call a gel negative and no one can do anything about it. No one can go in and double-check. It's an issue of transparency. If it's incumbent upon the teams to be transparent, it should be incumbent upon the labs."
It was an enlightening, sobering interview. Between McGrath's story, the JAP study and Ashenden's take, I'm forced to conclude that cycling still has a mountain to get over in its quest for a clean culture. The climb may not be


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The Federal Housing Finance Agency may have determined that the multifamily mortgage market is no longer in need of the support of government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to Mortgage News Daily.
For years, the multifamily market has been bolstered by support from the GSEs. Now, with the new reform, that support could be removed, leading construction of new rental units to plummet and the rental market to essentially collapse.
According to the Center for American Progress, the rental market is already suffering from a lack of inventory combined with an onslaught of new renters every year. With the GSEs backing the mortgage market, multifamily construction has been able to continue.
With the upcoming GSE reform, that support could be removed, leading the rental industry to stand on its own and with no real plan for its survival.
If this happens, rental property managers will be able to drive up rental rates and will receive thousands of rental applications, but in the long-term, renters could be driven away from the market due to its instability.


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YELLOWSTONE — The response to President Obama's swatting of a fly with his open palm during an NBC interview was so overwhelming, it prompted him to seek out other animals to kill with his bare hands.
Surrounded by the press, the President ventured into Yellowstone National Park, where he came upon a herd of elk grazing in a field. "Watch this," he told reporters, as he snuck up behind a quiet female, clenched his powerful hands around its neck and tightened his grasp until its vertebrae cracked with an audible snap.
"He doesn't have healthcare," quipped the President.
The reporters laughed and applauded as the animal's lifeless carcass fell to the ground. Obama smiled as he asked the park ranger if there were any mountain lions nearby.
No cougars had been seen that morning, so the ranger escorted the President and his entourage to Yellowstone Lake, where they discovered a family of otters playing on a rock about twenty feet from the shore. Obama waded into the lake, fully clothed. The water level approached his chin, as he carefully drew near the skittish mammals.
Frightened, the otters jumped into the water, but Obama dove in after them. He emerged moments later with the baby otter clenched firmly in his teeth. He grabbed it by its tail and swung it high over his head before slamming it forcefully onto the rock. It lay there, motionless, its two dark marble eyes staring blankly at the sky.
"That otter do it," joked the President, to the delight of the reporters.
He was about to swim back to the shore, when something darted by him in the water. He jabbed his hand into lake and — in a flash — pulled out a giant cutthroat trout.
He threw the fish toward the reporters, who responded with more laughter and applause.
"Thanks guys," said Obama, as he boarded Marine One. "See you in D.C."
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After the difficulties I faced in Tirana, things just got better and better once I met Andi, who helped me get to the correct place, so I could get a bus to Saranda.
Having said goodbye to him, I approached the man who seemed to be in charge at the bus station to find out when the next bus was leaving for Saranda. I found out that it was due to depart at 08.30. It was only 07.40, so I indicated that I would have something to eat in the cafe 'Fastfood Byrektore' next door. He smiled, so I went in, ordered a cheese byrek and a coffee before sitting down. I started writing about what had happened that morning and, once I had started, I just couldn't stop. It's funny because one guy in the cafe was so intrigued that he came over to have a look at what I was writing, even though he couldn't understand a word of it.
At one point, a bus started moving and I thought it might be my bus, so I ran out to check. The guy who showed an interest in what I was writing stopped it, but when I said, 'Saranda', he indicated on his watch that it would leave in 30 mins. At least I knew I wouldn't miss this next bus, so I sat down and continued writing. Then, when it was almost time, I put my backpack on the bus and took some photos of the bus station. While I was doing that, I saw the guy from the cafe in the driver's seat of a bus that was bound for Gjirokaster. He got out and indicated that he wanted a photo with me. 'Well, why not?', I thought, and proceeded to take a selfie of the two of us. It really wasn't the most flattering photo of me, but it is a funny, happy memory.
I got on the bus and didn't pay beforehand, as I had been told the day before by a local. Sure enough, once the wheels were in motion, the bus driver went round collecting money and issuing tickets. I paid 1300 lek for my ticket, just as I had been told. All was well and I was finally on my way to Saranda – phew!
I was stared at pretty much all the way from Tirana to Durres by a local man. I got used to being stared at in parts of Asia, but in Albania it seemed strange because I didn't think I looked different. Thankfully, I didn't have to endure that for too long because he got off the bus. We had a 10-minute stop just outside the centre of Durres on the main road. A few sellers got on the bus, just as they do in parts of Asia and South America, selling newspapers, popcorn, and water. I had my green plums, amongst other things, and plenty of water to keep me going for the trip. Surprisingly, my phone picked up a weak WiFi signal while we were stopped.
This bus took the inland route, which meant going via Gjirokaster. We went past a lot farms – arable and livestock – so there were lots of people tending to their land and animals. In the distance, I could see snow-capped mountains. After about 3 hours on the road, we had a 20-minute break at Grill 33, near a place called Mallakaster. It was great to get off the bus for a bit, have a coffee, and make use of the facilities.
Shortly after Tepelene, a town which produces mineral water, we stopped. I was so glad because it was really difficult taking photos from the window, as the bus was moving. The scenery was truly spectacular. This was my chance to take some photos before we set off again. As I got off the bus, the driver started shaking his empty water bottle and indicated to the water gushing out of the taps attached to the side of a mountain where the bus had stopped. I twigged what he was indicating and promptly got my water bottle and filled it up with cold, fresh, drinking water. I then walked across the road and got some proper photos of the fabulous scenery. This was only a brief stop and we were quickly on our way again.
Albania is full of surprises. I wasn't expecting the scenery to be so spectacular. For me, the journey between Tepelene and Gjirokaster, was the most scenic part of the trip. That alone made the journey worthwhile and all the hassle of the morning had become a dim, distant memory.
From the bus, Gjirokaster looked like a nice place to stop. Well, the old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so I'm sure it's worth staying for a night or two. If I had had the time, I would have done just that but, unfortunately, I didn't.
Shortly after that, near a place called Delvine, the scenery became rugged as we travelled along a mountain road that winds round and round, and goes up and down. It's worth being aware of that if you suffer with travel sickness. We drove past the turn off for the Blue Eye. If you have the time and inclination, you can get off, spend some time there, and then get another bus to complete your journey to Saranda. I didn't because, by that point, I just wanted to get to Saranda.
Finally, after 6½ hours, I arrived in Saranda. What a journey! This is certainly a bus journey or road trip I would recommend to anyone visiting Albania. If you have the time, you could split the journey into two and stop in Gjirokaster for a night or two.
I have marked the route we took on the map from Tirana to Saranda.
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I didn't realize that PDA is so offensive to people when it's just showing that two people care for one another. I don't see anything wrong with it. If it's grinding or ferociously shoving their tongue down the other's throat that's one thing, but how is sitting on someone's lap or hand-feeding offensive? I don't get it.
I know it's a controversial issue, but I'm a huge supporter of the PDA within reason (examples above). I think a big reason why people are against PDA is because they are single and it's a reminder that they don't have someone to do that to them. I'm not saying that's what you guys are like, because I understand sometimes it's for sanitary reasons, I get that. Just speaking from experience, because THIS guy here was one of them, but I still appreciated that it was practiced.
I just think that it's really cute that a couple can do those sort of things and screw anyone who sees. I only hope that in my future relationships, my girlfriends would be into the PDA. My last one was pro-PDA, (i know, get the lynch mob right?), and it was flippn great.


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Extra Sensory Perception
As technology continues to advance at such a fast pace, we are inundated with creative ways to see and understand the world and people around us.
NewScientist has just released information on MIT's Media Lab's newest project – emotion recognition glasses.
No doubt this would be beneficial for many social situations and would probably avoid social gaffes as the article suggests.
However, will this impede upon the social "white lie" that everyone has partaken in at least once in their life? Do we really want to show every emotion? Or are some emotions meant to be kept secret? If they weren't, wouldn't humans have evolved to be mind readers without the aid of technology?
In the NewScientist article, the author erroneously states that Paul Ekman' s seven universal emotions as the foundation of the theory of lie detection has been debunked (which is not true) but later posits facts that substantiate the theory.
Microexpressions are concealed emotions. The seven universal facial expressions are proven to be congruent across cultures. Microexpressions are unconscious exhibits of a conflict between what is being said and what is known by the speaker to be factual. These expressions do not necessarily equate to a lie but do suggest a need for greater concentration on the subject that allowed those inconsistencies.
These new glasses developed by Rana el Kaliouby , research scientist at MIT Labs, Rosalind Picard, an electrical engineer and Simon Baron- Cohen from the University of Cambridge, are based on different criteria than the seven basic facial expressions of emotion and focuses more on the following expressions: agreeing, confusion, thinking, concentrating and perhaps the most important one for social reasons, disagreeing.
According to PC World , these MIT researchers began studying this technology to aid in amplifying emotional signals for autistic patients.
The software, amazing as it is, has a percentage rate of 64%, which is more accurate than the average human but only by about 10%. The prototype has a camera, the size of a grain of rice, which is wired to a computer. In turn the glasses relay the emotional information to the wearer via an ear piece and a blinking red or green light.
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Nord Artist Isamu McGregor Tours with Colbie Caillat
LOS ANGELES, CA – October 1, 2015 – Nord keyboardist, Isamu McGregor, toured North America with Grammy award-winning artist Colbie Caillat during her "Girls Night Out, But Boys Can Come Too" tour.
McGregor's instrumental melodies complemented the pop star's vocals. The core of his set up is a Nord Electro 3 and Electro 4. "These keyboards are great! When someone sees that red keyboard on stage, they know I must be a guy who knows what he's doing," he said. "Nord is simply the best."
Both keyboards were used for different reasons. "My main board is the Electro 3. On this tour it was mainly used for the piano and occasional Wurlitzer sounds. The Electro 4 is on standby for when I want another organ," said McGregor.
McGregor loves the drawbars that regulate the B3 Hammond organ on the Nord Electro 4. "It feels like you're involved in the creation of sound. The drawbars are made into physical things you can pull!" he exclaimed. "It's great to have this flexibility right at my fingertips. The slightest shift of tone, thanks to these drawbars, can affect the overall sound" he said.
Not only does McGregor admire his handmade keyboards from Sweden, but he also appreciates the help from Nord's U.S. and Canada technical support guru Pablo Mastodon. "Pablo is the greatest! I call and he always helps me with anything, even the nitty-gritty things," said McGregor.
"When you buy a Nord, you get me with it. People are often surprised when they reach someone live on the first call," Mastodon said.
Since acting as the bandleader/keys player for Caillat's summer tour, co-headlining with Christina Perri, McGregor returned to his home in New York where he plays many jazz shows around the city with his Nord keyboards. It doesn't matter if he is playing pop styles with Calliat, hip hop with the legendary GZA from Wu-Tang Clan, house/dance music with internationally-renowned Tortured Soul, or having jazz sessions with drum icon Virgil Donati, his versatility has made him an in-demand musician around the world.
For more information or details about McGregor's upcoming shows please visit http://www.isamumcgregor.com/. Product information can be found at http://www.nordkeyboards.com/.
About Nord
Nord keyboards are handmade in Sweden by Clavia DMI AB.


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4 MMA skills Floyd Mayweather used vs Conor McGregor – Should Mayweather train Anti BJJ & Compete
"Congrats to Floyd on a well fought match. Very experienced and methodical in his work. I wish him well in retirement. He is a heck of a boxer. His experience, his patience and his endurance won him this fight hands down. I always told him he was not a fighter but a boxer. But sharing the ring with him he is certainly a solid fighter. Strong in the clinch. Great understanding of frames and head position. He has some very strong tools he could bring into an MMA game for sure."


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Laurie & Wael | Engagement Session – The Secret Garden
Look into her eyes so innocent and wide, sometimes wanting to dance, always needing to shine. Fields of happiness she creates with the soft caress of her warm beauty, coloring life with memories of endless joy and love.
Laurie and Wael found each other while visiting in Asia. It was there that they discovered a beautiful and meaningful connection…and like the delicate pink cherry blossoms in full bloom they too opened their hearts…and their dreams came true.
I love the idea of having a theme that ties emotions with memories. The romantic Japanese Tea Garden presented such a perfect stage to recreate and capture the essence and beauty of the memory of their union.


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SDM-BANK starts factoring in St.Petersburg.
15.10.2007SDM-BANK starts factoring service in St. Petersburg. Factoring helps the companies, working on terms of deferred payments, to solve the problem of lack of floating assets. SDM-BANK offers factoring service in Moscow since 2006.
The head of SDM-BANK Loan Division Mr. Sergey Kozlov notices: "Factoring service, offered by SDM-BANK, includes not only financial services, when the client assigns accounts receivable to the bank, but also servicing of the debtor."
In Mr. Kozlov's opinion, factoring conditions were developed according to the SDM-BANK client's demands. Financing facility is up to 90% from the delivery amount. Financing is extended on the day of the client's request. The supplies are financed for a term of 90 days; besides there is no any minimal limit for the amount of financing.


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Small, individual donations have helped the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 966 raise about $11,000 for this year's Fourth of July fireworks show, but it's less than half of the $25,000 needed to cover the cost of launching the display.
"We are thrilled to death by all the donations from individual people," said VFW Post Commander Rick Bremer who, with Quartermaster Wade Hatfield and other members, has spent many weekends soliciting donations from shoppers at Brookings' Fred Meyer.
"Children are dropping in nickels, quarters, whatever they have," Bremer said.
Local businesses and past major contributors, however, have not been as generous.
"We've received a few donations from local businesses, but not nearly as much as previous years," Bremer said.
This is the third year the VFW has organized the popular, annual fireworks display at the Port of Brookings Harbor. Each year, the organization has struggled but ultimately met its $25,000 goal."This is a small community and this is our celebration," Bremer said. "We keep doing it because of how much people love it. When the fireworks go off you should see the looks on the kids' faces and the applause from the crowd. It means a lot to everyone."
The VFW has signed a contract with Entertainment Fireworks Inc., of Olympia, Wash., to orchestrate this year's show, which promises to be even better than last year's, with bigger aerial explosions going off for about 45 minutes, Bremer said. Most of the $25,000 will be used to purchase fireworks and insurance, pay the pyrotechnicians and provide them with food and lodging.
The VFW had about $1,500 left over from last year, plus another $9,500 raised by soliciting donations at Fred Meyer in the last few months, Bremer said.
Earlier this year, the VFW sent nearly 800 letters to local businesses seeking donations.
"We had a very low response," Bremer said. "We're hoping that they are not waiting until the last minute before donating. We have to order the fireworks and pay for them now."
No matter what, the show will go on, Bremer said.
"It will happen. If we don't reach our goal, we will dip into our own pocket to coverit," Bremer said. "But if that happens, we probably won't do the fireworks again next year. It will be up to someone else to do it."
VFW members will continue to solicit donations at Fred Meyer every weekend now through the Fourth of July, he said.
Donations can be mailed to the VFW at P.O. Box 2475, Brookings, OR, 97415. They can be dropped off at the VFW Hall, on the corner of Pacific Avenue and Pioneer Road, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week.
For more information call the VFW Hall at 541-412-7214.


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The nurse will answer your questions and help you prevent further infections and/or passing infection on to others. We have written information we can give you as well. It is very important that we see and treat any partners you have or recent past partners. Treatment for partners is good for their health, but it also helps to prevent you from becoming re-infected from them. We make this very convenient and if you have a treatable infection, we can often treat your partners free of charge.
The clinic is for all genders of all ages.
All information is confidential. All information we receive from you and everything in your medical record is confidential. This information will not be released without your written consent. It is important to note, however, that if health department staff becomes aware of physical or sexual abuse of a person under 18, North Central Public Health District is required by law to report abuse to social service or law enforcement agencies.
Use condoms every time you have sex if:
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- You or your partners have any sores or rashes in your genital area, any abnormal discharge (odor, color, consistency), or other concerns about possible sexually transmitted diseases or infections of any kind in your genital area.
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text: Okay, this may be out there or something I should already know, but I am not sure of the answer. I usually purchase my brand new LVs from eLuxury or my DH has gone to Saks and purchased a few there. My 'used' bags have either come from let-trade, or a few other trusted sellers from eBay. Now my question- I have never purchased anything from 866 VUITTON. I called to confirm the date (2/1) for the Heart coin purse and mentioned that I was not sure if I could get waitlisted- the Saks in New Orleans does not appear to get as many items as it did before Katrina. I also let them know that this morning when I chatted with someone from eLuxury they said that they were going to carry them, just not sure when the will get them. So, he offered the most wonderful thing- he can order and ship it for me. Again, I knew they could do this, but I thought they sent it to a store and not to me directly. Anyway my question is this--what is shipping, are we taxed, and is a tip for the SA inappropriate? Depending on your answers, I may go this route moving forward. I especially liked the part that I could give him a list of items I was interested in and when my DH calls, he can point him in the right direction! This will be so much easier then leaving notes all over the house! Does anyone else use this method and is it worth it? Thanks again for ya'lls advice,


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Baseball Notebook: Orioles' Guthrie Makes U.S. WBC Roster
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Two years ago, Jeremy Guthrie was hoping to stick in the majors as a reliever after being claimed off waivers by the Orioles.
Next month, Baltimore's staff ace will be pitching for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. Guthrie, who has been included on the provisional roster, will leave the Orioles on March 1 and report to Clearwater, Fla.
"It's a great honor to have been considered and then selected. I'm very excited to wear USA across my chest," Guthrie said.
Team USA will open the WBC against Canada on March 7 in Toronto.
· BREWERS: Milwaukee reached a one-year, $3.25 million deal with outfielder Corey Hart and added reliever Eric Gagne with a minor league contract.
Gagne will receive $1.5 million if he is added to the major league roster and can earn an additional $3 million in performance bonuses. His deal included an invitation to the major league camp.
· PIRATES: Outfielder Nate McLouth reached an agreement on a three-year, $15.75 million contract that includes a team option for 2012. The deal was struck hours before the scheduled start of a salary arbitration hearing.
· ASTROS: Mike Hampton's irregular heartbeat has cleared up without a procedure and he is headed back to spring training. A test on Monday showed that the left-hander's heartbeat had returned to normal after a physical two days earlier revealed a minor irregularity. . . .
Outfielder Carlos Lee was a no-show for yesterday's deadline for players to report for the first full workout. Lee said he simply mixed up the dates.


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Hello, beautiful people! Today, I'm going to show you some of the things I loved in MAY. YES, this is a "belated" May Favorites blog post… but you know, better late than never 😉
May is my favorite month of the year because it's my birthday month! And it's also my best friend's birthday month! I'm always excited for May because there are so many good things in May. For example, I love that it's spring and there are lots of nice weather days in May. I enjoy seeing all those beautiful flowers blooming and trees turning into green. Also, I had five days off from work so I went back home to see my mom and my friends. I really enjoyed catching up with my friends who also started their new career life. I missed them so much and I needed to see them.
So May was great overall. It passed like a hurricane and I felt like I just blinked and it was already June, but I enjoyed the best of it and I am so happy about it. I hope you had a great May, too.
I am not going to go into details of everything because I also made a video on my YouTube channel and I talk a lot over there. So please go check out my May Favorites video on my channel for more information about the products 🙂
But here are the things I loved in May!
NARS creamy concealer in Vanilla and Custard
NARS light reflecting powder (translucent)
Smith's Rosebud Salve lip balm
Steve Madden Dusstin black sandal
Metallic Silver sandal (I'm sorry I couldn't find the name of the brand!)
Boho style scarves from ZARA
Ray Ban Round Folding Flash Lenses in yellow
Choco Crunch Cereal by Familiá
Cloud Pillow (Birthday gift from my friends)
Here is my MAY Favorite video on my channel!
Please go check it out and don't forget to like the video <3
Thank you so much for visiting my blog!
Please don't forget to share, and leave some comments down below 😉
I'll see you until next time.
Much love,


text: Do you feel the need for speed? Have you always wondered what it was like to be jettisoned off the short runway of an aircraft carrier? If so, then you need to check out AFTER BURNER II for the Sega Genesis. You're a fighter pilot, the best in the world, and your mission is to fly straight into enemy territory and destroy everything in sight. You'll have to master all the skills of a top-notch fly boy if you're going to come back alive, because when you're traveling at Mach 5, there's little time to think and even less room for error. Use your machine gun and missiles to take out the enemy but be ready to make some defensive maneuvers, because they'll be firing right back at you. If you think you've got what it takes to be a master pilot, sign yourself up for AFTER BURNER II.


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The Grit Sweet Nothings editorial is currently apart of the publication's Summer 2015 edition. The striking, emotionally charged production was overseen by photographer Niclas Heikkinen who selected a dark lighting scheme with red and green hues.
Stylist Kama Krystel chose to keep Sweet Nothings noticeably angular with crimson stripes lining model Briley Jones' face and body. These unusual cosmetic features paired well with Krystel's inclusion of baggy sweaters, sheer tops and loose safari-inspired shorts.
Make up artist Gillian Campbell is essential to this visionary display of fashion. Campbell's use of peach, rose and wine-colored palettes matched the apparel in each snapshot. It also allowed Jones to come across as all the more fiery and impassioned.
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Bestia – Bathe Me In Pasta
I'm obsessed with many things and pasta right up there. Can never have enough. Morning, noon, and night, it doesn't matter. Thanks to my grandmother who made enough for all of Italy. She was the real deal and shared generations of knowledge with me in her little kitchen in Pennsylvania. Memories of Mamie come flooding
Merry Festivus
It's that holiday time of the year and time to give thanks. You have all been so generous with your time and energy keeping up with this trend chasing Food Stalker and I am truly grateful for your contributions. In addition there are many bloggers, writers, chefs, artists, designers and friends who continue to be
Girls In Pearls – Julie Miles
I've got my own special Spy Girl combo – intriguing and adventurous, right down to my floral print silk Dries Van Noten dress (new for me since I am the queen of black) and bone colored YSL heels (ladies, these shoes are like a staple, something you have in your closet – like butter or


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You've gotten some fans on your Facebook fan page. What do you do with them now?
Get the conversation started!
Winning traffic from Social Media websites is definitely not a numbers game as is commonly mistaken. Yes, it is important to build your audience of fans. But what keeps fans around and coming back to your fan page is engagement, conversation.
Here are 7 tips to getting the conversation started.
- Encourage fans to comment. Sometimes it's as easy as asking fans make comments. You can leave a simple message saying, "Let's talk"
- Encourage Facebook "Likes" off Facebook as well as on Facebook. Look for ways to connect your users and fans with one another. In fact, go on over to http://facebook.com/tekkbuzz and tell me about your business. Include your fan page address so other readers can come like your page.
- Provide meaningful content to your fans. The more relevant your status updates are to your fans, the more likely they will be to comment and share your information. For example, on my fan page, I don't talk about dog training, because not many of my fans are interested in dog training. They are interested in social media, so that's what I talk about there.
- Ask questions in your status updates. This one is pretty simple and very effective to encourage a conversation.
- Showcase fan contributions with a Fan-of-the-Month program. Choose a fan who has contributed the most on your fan page for the month. Announce the winner on your blog and on your Facebook fan page.
- Use give-aways. Giveaways have long been and continue to be one of the most effective branding and promotional techniques there is. Ebooks, gift items, and coupons are just some of the Facebook-specific items you can offer to those that are willing to sign up for your Facebook fan page. You can offer regular giveaways to members to ensure that people follow you over time and as an extra incentive for becoming what is essentially a subscribed member of your fan page.
There are lots of ways to encourage activity among your Facebook fans. By getting people talking, you will have a vibrant, active fan page that will keep people coming back to see and join in the conversation.
If you found this article useful, you may also be interested in reading How to Use a Facebook Page for Business.
Let's share tips. How are you getting the conversation started on your fan page?


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27 March @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Washington, Sunderland
Every day thousands of people around the country working in small, local charities are volunteering their time, expertise and goodwill to help improve the lives of others in our communities.
Reaching clients and supporters efficiently and evidencing the impact of support services is key, at a time when funding is tight in the third sector. Online data, technology and digital transformation can revolutionise how charity services are delivered, expanding geographical coverage as well as driving efficiencies in client reach and support.
Yet over half of UK charities do not have basic digital skills or believe having a website will help increase funding.
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After breakfast our guide will pick you from your hotel and by 8.00am set off from Entebbe town, through Kampala City and onto the famous Luwero Triangle in the north west. You will stop for a visit at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and see two of less than 30 rhino in the entire country. The white rhino can be viewed before lunch after which you set off for Murchison Falls, arriving around 5:30pm. Dinner and an overnight stay.
After early breakfast set off with a packed lunch for a ferry crossing over the Nile to do a game drive along the Buligi, Albert or Queens trail. You will see a variety of game including Elephant, Giraffe, Antelope, Lion, Hippo and more.
After lunch is a Nile cruise which is ideal for viewing Hippos, Crocodiles and hundreds of bird species including Heron, Kingfisher, Skimmer, Long-crested Eagle, Flamingo and many more. Dinner and overnight stay.
After breakfast is a scenic hike to the top of the Falls where you will see the Nile's beauty perfected. Marvel at the Nile compressing from 50 meters to squeeze through a 60 meter gorge as it drops over 40 meters with a thunderous roar creating thick plume of spray and breath-taking rainbows as it continues on its journey. Return to your lodge for lunch.
At 2:00pm you will proceed to Budongo Forest Reserve for a nature walk. Several primates are resident here including Red Colobus, Grey-cheeked Mangabeys, Red-tailed Monkey and the Chimpanzee among others. Your guide will inform you on the various flora and bird species present. Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Early morning departure for Queen Elizabeth National Park, the largest in Uganda. En route you will stop for lunch in Fort Portal with scenic views of Mt Rwenzori. At around 5:30pm arrival at Mweya where you will have dinner and spend the night.
Set off at 6:30am with a packed breakfast for a game drive where you'll see the majestic Lion, Zebra, Giraffe, Hyena and a number of Antelope species. Enjoy the 2 hour boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel into Lake Edward. Enroute is the highest concentration of Hippos in Uganda with excellent photo opportunities.
Return to the lodge for lunch and by 2:00pm another cruise along the lower end of the Kazinga Channel.
After a warm breakfast you will go Chimpanzee tracking in the Kyambura Gorge. This unforgettable experience takes you on the trail of several groups of habituated Chimps residing in a forest that lies in a gorge over 100 meters deep.
After lunch back at the lodge you will travel to the salty crater lakes including l Lake Katwe which has been providing salt and other raw materials for over 3000 years. Nearby Lake Munyanyange is the only location for Flamingos in Uganda. Return to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
We set off for an early morning drive to the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park. A game drive will bring you up close to the amazing and fairly famous tree-climbing lions. There are only two populations of lions in the world that climb trees and Uganda boasts one of them. A variety of herbivores can also be seen. After lunch you will be free to spend the rest of the day resting, exploring the surrounding area and taking in the ambience of the valley.
After breakfast at 09:00am set off for Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Arrival at around noon followed by lunch and well deserved rest in preparation for Gorilla tracking the next morning.
Day 9
Early breakfast followed by an amazing experience tracking the Silverback Gorilla of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. The endangered Mountain Gorillas cannot be found in any zoo in the world because they do not survive in captivity. There are nearly 800 Mountain Gorillas left in the world and some 300 of them live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
After a late lunch you will spend the remainder of the day with the Batwa Pygmies, learning about their customs and way of life. Until recently, Bwindi's mountain gorillas shared their forest with the Batwa pygmies, a tribe of hunter-gatherers who lived in its caves and trees for more than 4,000 years. Although they never hunted gorillas, the Batwa's proximity increased the risk of infection to animals that share 98 per cent of human DNA. When the National Park was gazetted in 1991, the Batwa were evicted from the forest to protect the primates, thus becoming conservation refugees.
Day 10
After breakfast you will bid the Batwa goodbye and drive back to Entebbe. En route you will see a number of freshwater lakes including a stop-over for lunch in Masaka aka The Equator before proceeding to Entebbe.
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