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9 July 2018
By Simon Cross
(The campaign to #SaveSouthendNHS gathers before national demonstrations in London. ©Paul Stygal)
Last Friday, 6th July 2018 - just a day after the celebrations of the NHS's 70th birthday, the five Mid and South Essex CCG's met with the STP committee led by Mike Bewick to hand down the sentence in public to Orsett Hospital, the Southend University Hospital and the wellbeing of 1.5 million potential users of primary care services.
The premise of this meeting was to inform the public of the decisions made as a result of the recent 'Consultation' of the original document proposing the selling off of NHS assets, downgrading Southend Hospital, transporting acutely unwell patients on traffic-laden roads, and replacing Doctors and Nurses with Skype and Apps.
The 'Consultation' engaged with just 4,000 people out of an affected population of over 1.4 million people, making it simply a pointless focus group.
Even in this sample of 0.3% of the affected area, nobody supported this wholesale destruction of local health provision. It became quite clear within the process that the evidence to drive these proposed changes was long discredited, outdated or not representative of our population.
There seems to be a total denial of the very real issues which make the patient movements proposed, frankly, dangerous. The plans were simply put together to cut costs and deliver massively-reduced health services with no thought for the inconvenience of long-distance travel for care or the patient deaths this will cause. Not to mention that the proposals were initially predicated on an improved GP service which is now not even being discussed!
The decision makers simply passed the entire STP proposals with no amendments whatsoever and announced the almost immediate closure of Orsett Hospital.
They now plan, as part of the 'Care Closer to Home' scheme, to force Orsett patients (if physically capable) to travel in excess of 10 miles for care which was provided on their doorstep but weeks ago. Counterintuitive much! This will make people who have infirmities incapable of accessing their NHS services.
This is the full statement from the CCG Committee:
The five clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in mid and south Essex have today <Friday 6 July> given the go-ahead for plans to secure the future of health and care services.
The plans are a result of two years of detailed work undertaken by clinical teams across health and care organisations to improve the services provided to the 1.2 million people living in mid and south Essex and follows the outcome of a 16-week public consultation.
The Joint Committee of the CCGs gave approval to implement proposals, which include:
These changes are alongside the plans launched last month to build up GP and community services with a £30 million increase in annual funding to extend the range of professionals and services available via GP practices. This will create more appointments and increase care closer to where people live.
The committee was asked to approve 19 recommendations, set out in a decision making a business case.
In particular, this included specific recommendations to address the main concerns raised during the public consultation, regarding the safe transfer of patients and support for carers and relatives to visit loved ones who may be at a different hospital.
The full decision-making business case can be found at http://www.nhsmidandsouthessex.co.uk/decision-making-business-case/
The assertion that there have been any changes to the original proposals is outright deception.
None of the issues raised was ever adequately addressed by the focus groups, and the proposal for cross-county patient transport is not costed, not safe, not properly planned, and the STP is still lying about the numbers around expected use.
The idea that against the backdrop of the 44 STP 'footprints' up and down the country being required to close 70% of A&E facilities by 2020, the likelihood of Southend and Chelmsford retaining an A&E is non-existent within the privatisation agenda.
Despite the STP and Conservative claims, the Government is providing NO additional money for GP services and has scrapped both the Primary Care and Social Care '5 Year Forward View' documents having found them totally unworkable.
The £30 million of funding claimed was clearly identified within the STP business case as being purely Capital Funding (buildings and equipment not Human Resource) and would be generated from alternative sources to the NHS budget.
So effectively, this will be PFI money and will cost more than the value it attempts to deliver.
The failure of a recent Judicial Review brought by Alysson Pollock, Peter Roderick and the late Stephen Hawking could still offer a lifeline.
Some of the reasons for the Judge ruling against the case, was to force the government to hold a full public consultation regarding ACO's (Accountable Care Organisations) and to bring forward Primary Parliamentary Legislation and a full vote.
In light of this information, if the STP's can be shown to be the vehicle for the transformation of the public NHS into US Insurance and Bank controlled ACO's then the decisions taken by STP's will also be unlawful!
I cannot personally understand why these people are still blithely selling off our NHS and that the Government has not halted all progress towards this when these actions can (and hopefully will) be considered an illegal act?
This is the statement regarding the Judicial Review:
Dearest supporters,
Today the High Court handed down its judgement on the judicial review we brought against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and NHS England on their introduction of Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs). We had originally brought our claim on four grounds - two on the lack of proper consultation, one on the legality of the idea itself, and one on grounds of lack of clarity and transparency. We withdrew our claim on the consultation grounds when our opponents conceded that they would not proceed without a full national consultation, so this success was in the bag.
Unfortunately, the Court has found against us on the law on the other two grounds.
On legality - whilst making clear that he was not deciding on the merits of ACOs, and acknowledging that we raised "perfectly good and sensible questions…..about the ACO policy and the limitations of the terms and conditions in the draft ACO Contract" - Mr Justice Green decided that the ACO policy is lawful because the Health and Social Care Act 2012 gives very broad discretion to Clinical Commissioning Groups when commissioning services.
And on clarity and transparency – whilst resoundingly rejecting the government's argument that the principle did not apply "in relation to what by common accord is intended to amount to radical and transformational changes in the way in which health and social care is delivered" - he decided that the principle was not yet engaged.
There is more about the judgment below on the Crowdjustice site:https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/jr4nhs-round3/
We have decided not to appeal against this decision for several reasons.
Apart from the extra costs involved, our opponents have already been forced to change their plans. In order to win the case, they had to argue that ACO contracts were just like other provider contracts, and not the fundamental change to the governance of the NHS that we know they intended. The judge recounts in detail how their position changed as they began to appreciate the power of our claim. The commissioning functions of CCGs were to be - illegally - delegated to ACOs - but instead are now reinforced, and if the government wishes to continue on the original path to creating ACOs, primary legislation will be needed and CCGs will have to retain sufficient staff and resources. The Health and Social Care Select Committee has called for legislation, and the Prime Minister included the possibility of new legislation for the NHS in her speech a couple of weeks ago. In addition, the promised consultation will have to be lawfully conducted, and any eventual ACO contract - in Dudley, Manchester or wherever – will have to be lawfully entered into. 999 Call for the NHS are still engaged in legal action, seeking leave to appeal the decision in their judicial review, but for us, the campaign moves out of the courtroom – at least for now – and continues in the local and political arenas, and on to the consultation.
We are extremely grateful to the thousands of people who have allowed us to bring this challenge. Thank you again from the bottom of our hearts for all your encouragement and financial support. We do not believe that this has been wasted, and we hope you agree. We deeply regret the judgment and we imagine you will share our disappointment. But we hope its effect will be to strengthen resolve to hold the government to account during the consultation, and raise public awareness of the issues at stake if contracts for billions of pounds of public money lasting ten or more years are awarded to new bodies not established by statute, which could be partly or wholly private companies, and which could outsource all their services if they wished.
This could be our final line of defence as the NHS is not actually in the hands of government anymore; It is clear that the Bankers, Insurers and Big Pharma have been controlling the NHS for several decades without us noticing.
We have possibly been looking the wrong way in our campaigns because while the NHS is highly political, it certainly is not a Party Political.
The battle we need to have is to prevent any private body taking a pecuniary advantage of healthcare provision.
The more Barclays and Virgin fail, the less attractive it becomes to other business interests circling overhead.
There has been a lot of nuanced and supposed cross-party debate on whether the public would pay a ringfenced tax.
This is a trojan horse and very much what happened in Spain and Holland, whose healthcare systems are now experiencing the problems of multipayer health systems. The idea of a ringfenced tax is that it can be easily converted into an insurance which means it can easily be transferred to the Private Sector. The most likely reason Politicians favour this is that it leads to a 'Bismarck' style Health Service.
The Bismarck System.
Named for the Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who invented the welfare state as part of the unification of Germany in the 19th century.
Despite its European heritage, this system of providing health care would look fairly familiar to Americans. It uses an insurance system — the insurers are called "sickness funds" — usually financed jointly by employers and employees through payroll deduction.
Unlike the U.S. insurance industry, though, Bismarck-type health insurance plans have to cover everybody, and they don't make a profit. Doctors and hospitals tend to be private in Bismarck countries; Japan has more private hospitals than the U.S. Although this is a multi-payer model — Germany has about 240 different funds — tight regulation gives government much of the cost-control clout that the single-payer Beveridge Model provides.
The Bismarck model is found in Germany, of course, and France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, and, to a degree, in Latin America.
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Encryption is the only way to protect private communications. While there are encrypted messaging systems that can be used for direct correspondence, virtual private networks (VPNs, also based on encryption) are the best tools for hiding internet activity, such as which websites are visited. Again, there are valid reasons to do so: to protect the privacy of religion, sexual orientation and sensitive medical conditions; all of which can be inferred from visited websites.
During the second world war, US and UK intelligence agencies worked closely on code-breaking. After the war, the UK center at Bletchley Park evolved into the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The American service evolved into the National Security Agency (NSA). In 1946, the working relationship between the two countries was formalized in the UKUSA agreement. It worked on signals intelligence (SIGINT); that is, the interception and analysis of adversarial telecommunications.
In order to provide global coverage for communications interception, Australia, New Zealand and Australia joined the UK and the USA – and became known as the Five Eyes.
However, such is the NSA's global dominance of intelligence gathering, other countries have sought to cooperate in return for specific 'threat' information from the NSA. This has led to other SIGINT groupings: the 9 Eyes and the 14 Eyes.
The operation of these intelligence agencies was long kept secret. As global communications have increased – and as perceived threats have grown (first in the Cold War between east and west and more recently in the 'war on terror'), the 5 Eyes in particular began to secretly use technology to gather everything for later analysis. GCHQ, for example, had a secret project called Mastering the Internet. None of this was publicly known.
In 2013, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked thousands of top secret NSA and GCHQ documents showing, for the first time, the extent to which national governments spy on everybody. It is always done in the name of 'national security', and both the relevant agencies and their governments insist on their right to do so.
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Around AU$200m later, data retention mostly used for chasing drugs, not terror
The Attorney-General's Department has exposed a report outlining the opening months of Australia's data retention scheme.
Australia's telecommunications companies have been left with a funding hole of over AU$70 million to cover the capital costs of Australia's data retention scheme, according to the Telecommunications Interception And Access Act 1979 Annual Report 2015-16 [PDF], while data authorisations for terrorism ranked below those for illicit drug offences.
Despite handing out AU$128 million in grants last year, the report, released on Monday, states that the capital cost to industry will total AU$198 million by the end of the 2016-17 financial year.
"Information collected from industry through the Data Retention Industry Grants Programme indicates that the estimated capital cost of implementing data retention obligations over the period between 30 October 2014 and 13 April 2017 is AU$198,527,354," the report said.
"[Costs] relate to the anticipated direct upfront capital costs and not the recurring or indirect costs associated with compliance."
In 2015, Attorney-General George Brandis said he expected the average ongoing cost for telcos to run their data retention system would be around AU$4 per month.
The report said the Attorney-General's Department (AGD) received 210 applications for funding, of which 10 were withdrawn, and 180 telecommunications providers were found to be eligible for funding. Of that 180, "most" were awarded a grant to cover 80 percent of their costs.
It was also detailed that during the implementation period for the data retention scheme, AGD received 402 data retention implementation plans from 310 providers.
Under Australia's data retention laws, passed by both major parties in March 2015, telecommunications carriers must store customer call records, location information, IP addresses, billing information, and other data for two years, accessible without a warrant by law-enforcement agencies.
Over the period from October 13, 2015 to June 30, 2016, the report said the offence for which the highest number of authorisations to telco data was made was illicit drug offences, with 57,166. This was followed in ranking by miscellaneous, homicide, robbery, fraud, theft, and abduction.
Terrorism offences ranked below property damage and cybercrime, with 4,454 authorisations made.
As part of the data retention laws, the spirit of the legislation was to restrict access to stored metadata to a list of approved enforcement agencies, with those agencies not on the list theoretically having access removed on October 12, 2015.
Overall, the report said 63 enforcement agencies made 333,980 authorisations for retained data, of which 326,373 related to criminal law.
"In 2015-16, law enforcement agencies made 366 arrests, conducted 485 proceedings, and obtained 195 convictions based on evidence obtained under stored communications warrants," the report said.
During 2015-16, 3,857 telecommunication interception warrants were issued, with interception data used in 3,019 arrests, 3,726 prosecutions, and 1,812 convictions. Total cost for interception warrants was AU$70.3 million, at an average cost of AU$619,200 per warrant.
Australia Post accounted for 64 authorisations between June 30 and October 12, 2015, compared to none the year before; and the Victorian Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources made 173 authorisations in 3.5 months compared to 226 the entire financial year prior.
It was also noted that on six occasions, warrants were exercised by people not authorised to; in three instances, the Ombudsman could not determine whether stored communications related to the person named on a warrant; and in one instance, it could not determine who had received stored communications from a carrier.
It was also revealed that during the 2015-16 year, the Western Australia Police had received a pair of journalist warrants, which saw 33 authorisations of data made.
"These authorisations were for the purpose of enforcing the criminal law," the report said.
In April, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) revealed that it had "mistakenly" accessed a journalist's call records without a warrant in breach of the data retention legislation.
It was subsequently learned that AGD had advised government departments to skirt metadata laws and rely on coercive powers.
In May, the Commonwealth Ombudsman found the AFP to be handling metadata in a compliant manner, but noted a number of exceptions.
"We identified two instances where a stored communications warrant had been applied for and subsequently issued in respect of multiple persons, which is not provided for under the Act," the report said.
In response, the AFP said its warrant templates were not clear enough.
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Federal Budget 2017: Gangs, terrorists targeted in $321 million Australian Federal Police shakeup
A MASSIVE $321 million boost to the Australian Federal Police budget will mean 300 extra covert intelligence operators and forensic specialists to help protect Australians from the threat of terrorism.
GANGS and local terrorists will be the target of a beefed-up Australian Federal Police force in a $321 million Turnbull government plan to tackle violent crime.
A major drive to recruit 300 specialist police will see AFP ranks bolstered by new tactical response teams, undercover investigators and forensic experts, some of whom will support Victoria Police to identify and arrest gang members.
The security package, to be announced today, is part of a Budget spending spree, which will also benefit Victorians with $100 million to help struggling manufacturing businesses adapt after the car industry closure. Treasurer Scott Morrison told the Herald Sun Tuesday's Budget aimed to deliver fairness, security and opportunity, sharing the benefits of Australia's economic growth with everyone.
"We know that things are improving globally and we've got to make the right choices to secure those better days ahead," Mr Morrison said.
"We have to keep the economy growing for more and better paying jobs, to guarantee the services that Australians rely on, to put downward pressure on rising costs of living, and to ensure that the government lives within its means."
The four-year AFP funding boost will pay for 100 intelligence experts, almost 100 forensic specialists and more than 100 tactical response and covert surveillance officers.
Firearms specialists, bomb response technicians, intelligence analysts, negotiators and covert online investigators will be added to the AFP's ranks, with several new officers placed on the National Anti-Gangs Taskforce to help Victoria Police.
Justice Minister Michael Keenan said violent crime and criminal gangs were "two of the biggest issues facing Victoria" and the government would back the AFP to "crack down" on them.
"Victorians, like all Australians, deserve to feel safe to go about their daily lives without fear," he said.
Mr Keenan said it was the largest funding boost for the AFP's domestic policing operations in a decade.
"This will equip the AFP with new capabilities and greater flexibility to respond rapidly to emerging crimes today, and into the future," he said. "The additional experts will fast-track investigations and lock up criminals sooner, targeting areas of priority including terrorism, criminal gangs, drugs, organised crime, cybercrime, fraud and anti-corruption."
The AFP had previously raised concerns about its lack of funding, but Mr Keenan said the investment was "the first step in the AFP's 10-year plan" for its future.
Another key element in the Budget will be the $100 million package to help struggling manufacturing businesses grow and adapt to changing technologies.
It includes $47.5 million over the next two years to pay for a third of the costs of capital upgrades to businesses in Victoria and South Australia that are trying to compete in the wake of the car industry closure.
"We shouldn't fold our tents and believe Australians can't compete. We can," Industry and Innovation Minister Arthur Sinodinos said.
Mr Morrison said the Budget aimed to help Australians who had not shared in the nation's strong growth.
"Our economic growth has been very good in a global context. At a personal level, at a household level, at a business-by-business level, things have been and felt a lot tougher."
The manufacturing package also includes $5 million to help automotive research, particularly by students at universities.
Australia's most successful businesswoman Gina Rinehart says Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Donald Trump to make Australia great again.
Ms Rinehart has urged the Prime Minister to cut spending and waste in Tuesday's federal Budget, saying it is "frustrating" Australia is losing crucial investment.
"We have to do more to cut out spending. We've got to cut out a big slab of the expense of government," she said.
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USA Fed records show dozens of cyber security breaches
US Federal Reserve Hacked More than 50 In Past 5 Years
According to Fed records, the Federal Reserve detected more than 50 cyber breaches between 2011 and 2015. Several of the incidents have been described internally as "espionage."
The records show the US central bank's staff suspected hackers or spies in many of the incidents. The Fed's computer systems play a critical role in global banking and hold confidential information on discussions about monetary policy that drives financial markets.
The Fed declined to comment. The redacted records do not say who hacked the bank's systems or whether they accessed sensitive information or stole money.
James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said "Hacking is a major threat to the stability of the financial system. This data shows why."
The U.S. Federal Reserve detected more than 50 cyber breaches between 2011 and 2015, with several incidents described internally as "espionage," according to Fed records.
The central bank's staff suspected hackers or spies in many of the incidents, the records show. The Fed's computer systems play a critical role in global banking and hold confidential information on discussions about monetary policy that drives financial markets.
The cybersecurity reports, obtained by Reuters through a Freedom of Information Act request, were heavily redacted by Fed officials to keep secret the central bank's security procedures.
The Fed declined to comment, and the redacted records do not say who hacked the bank's systems or whether they accessed sensitive information or stole money.
"Hacking is a major threat to the stability of the financial system. This data shows why," said James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. Lewis reviewed the files at the request of Reuters.
The records represent only a slice of all cyber attacks on the Fed because they include only cases involving the Washington-based Board of Governors, a federal agency that is subject to public records laws. Reuters did not have access to reports by local cybersecurity teams at the central bank's 12 privately owned regional branches.
The disclosure of breaches at the Fed comes at a time when cybersecurity at central banks worldwide is under scrutiny after hackers stole $81 million from a Bank Bangladesh account at the New York Fed.
Cyber thieves have targeted large financial institutions around the world, including America's largest bank JPMorgan, as well as smaller players like Ecuador's Banco del Austro and Vietnam's Tien Phong Bank.
Hacking attempts were cited in 140 of the 310 reports provided by the Fed's board. In some reports, the incidents were not classified in any way.
In eight information breaches between 2011 and 2013 – a time when the Fed's trading desk was buying massive amounts of bonds – Fed staff wrote that the cases involved "malicious code," referring to software used by hackers.
Four hacking incidents in 2012 were considered acts of "espionage," according to the records. Information was disclosed in at least two of those incidents, according to the records. In the other two incidents, the records did not indicate whether there was a breach.
In all, the Fed's national team of cybersecurity experts, which operates mostly out of New Jersey, identified 51 cases of "information disclosure" involving the Fed's board. Separate reports showed a local team at the board registered four such incidents.
The cases of information disclosure can refer to a range of ways unauthorized people see Fed information, from hacking attacks to Fed emails sent to the wrong recipients, according to two former Fed cybersecurity staffers who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The former employees said that cyber attacks on the Fed are about as common as at other large financial institutions.
It was unclear if the espionage incidents involved foreign governments, as has been suspected in some hacks of federal agencies. Beginning in 2014, for instance, hackers stole more than 21 million background check records from the federal Office of Personnel Management, and U.S. officials attributed the breach to the Chinese government, an accusation denied by Beijing.
Security analysts said foreign governments could stand to gain from inside Fed information. China and Russia, for instance, are major players in the $13.8 trillion federal debt market where Fed policy plays a big role in setting interest rates.
"Obviously that makes it a very clear (hacking) target for other nation states," said Ari Schwartz, a former top cybersecurity adviser at the White House who is now with the law firm Venable.
U.S. prosecutors in March accused hackers associated with Iran's government of attacking dozens of U.S. banks.
In the records obtained by Reuters, espionage might also refer to spying by private companies, or even individuals such British activist Lauri Love, who is accused of infiltrating a server at a regional Fed branch in October 2012. Love stole names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of Fed computer system users, according to a federal indictment.
The redacted reports obtained by Reuters do not mention Love or any other hacker by name.
The records point to breaches during a sensitive period for the Fed, which was ramping up aid for the struggling U.S. economy by buying massive quantities of U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities.
In 2010 and 2011, the Fed went on a $600 billion bond-buying spree that lowered interest rates and made bonds more expensive. It restarted purchases in September 2012 and expanded them up in December of that year.
The Fed cybersecurity records did not indicate whether hackers accessed sensitive information on the timing or amounts of bond purchases or used it for financial gain.
The Fed's national cybersecurity team – the National Incident Response Team, or NIRT – created 263 of the incident reports obtained by Reuters.
NIRT operates in a fortress-like building in East Rutherford, New Jersey that also processes millions of dollars in cash everyday as part of the central bank's duty to keep the financial system running, according to the New York Fed's website. The unit provides support to the local cybersecurity teams at the Fed's Board and regional banks, which process more than $3 trillion in payments every day.
The NIRT handles "higher impact" cases, according to a 2013 report by the Board of Governor's Office of Inspector General.
One of the two former NIRT employees interviewed by Reuters described being on a team that once worked around the clock for five-straight days to patch software hackers had used to gain access to Fed systems in an attempt to obtain passwords. The former employee worked through several of those nights, taking naps at a desk in the office.
In that case, Fed security staff found no signs that sensitive information had been disclosed, the former employee said. Information about future interest rate policy discussions is isolated from other Fed networks and is more difficult for hackers to access, the former NIRT worker said.
But the Fed was under constant assault, much like any large company, the former employee said, and was "compromised frequently."
An internal watchdog has criticized the central bank for cybersecurity shortcomings. A 2015 audit by the Fed board's Office of Inspector General found the board was not adequately scanning databases for vulnerabilities or putting enough restrictions on system access.
"There is heightened risk of unauthorized disclosure and inappropriate use of sensitive board information," according to the audit released in November.
(Reporting by Jason Lange and Dustin Volz; Editing by David Chance and Brian Thevenot)
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Former Sri Lankan cop wanted over assassination linked to Aussie eco-consultancy business
Sri Lankans protesting the 2006 shooting death of Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj in Sri Lanka. Photo: Supplied
A Sri Lankan policeman wanted in connection with the assassination of a prominent Sri Lankan politician and human rights lawyer is suspected of hiding out in Australia and running an eco-consultancy business.
The eco-consultancy is owned by a businesswoman who says she is a friend of former United States President Bill Clinton.
Sri Lankan police have confirmed asking Australian police for assistance in tracking down Fabian Royston Toussaint who is wanted in Sri Lanka in connection with the 2006 shooting death of Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj.
Australian Securities and Investment Commission records this month listed Mr Toussaint as being a director of Eco Support Consulting, a private company owned by a Malaysian-born businesswoman Malini Ventura which was established in May 2014, and registered in Victoria.
Ms Ventura, who has since changed her last name to Saba, has been involved in promoting charity dinners with Mr Clinton in Sydney and Brisbane that were mysteriously cancelled in 2010 leaving ticket buyers out of pocket.
Fairfax does not suggest Ms Saba is in any way connected to the political assassination or any of the allegations involving Toussaint.
The flyer for the Bill Clinton dinner that was promoted by Ventura and her company Redbrick Development in 2010.
The flyer for the Bill Clinton dinner that was promoted by Ventura and her company Redbrick Development in 2010. Photo: Supplied
Ms Saba last week confirmed that she had employed Mr Toussaint in the eco-consulting business but had fired him in January after becoming aware of the allegations levelled against him.
She also confirmed that Mr Toussaint had come to Australia "as a tourist" but said she did not know his whereabouts.
"That guy has been fired since January and I don't keep in touch with that person. I wouldn't know where to look for him. I had my team fire him. "
She said the company was no longer operating.
Last week Sri Lankan Police Homicide Inspector Anuruddha Polwatha confirmed there was a warrant out for the arrest of Mr Toussaint in connection with the slaying of Raviraj.
Mr Raviraj, who was also a human rights lawyer was gunned down in the street by two men on a motorbike, a day after he led a protest demonstration over a Sri Lankan army bombing that killed civilians in 2006.
Inspector Polwatha said Sri Lankan police had contacted Australian police more than two months ago after receiving a tip-off that Mr Toussaint was living in Australia but were yet to receive any information.
He was surprised to learn of Mr Toussaint's alleged involvement in the eco-consultancy.
"He's (Toussaint) a cop. He is not expert in such matters" said Inspector Polwatha speaking by phone from Colombo.
"Can you please send us the details of that company?".
Inspector Polwatha said police suspected Mr Toussaint may have been seeking asylum in Australia as he was reported to have left Sri Lanka four or five years earlier.
He said Mr Toussaint had been named in court as being a wanted suspect in the killing.
Efforts to contact Mr Toussaint were unsuccessful.
The registered address for the $500 Eco Support Consulting company is listed as being at Swaab lawyers in Hunter St , Sydney.
On Monday Swaab partner Terry Sperber said he could confirm that the firm had acted for a Ms Ventura in the past.
But he said: "We haven't done so for quite some time."
He said he had no information about the whereabouts of Mr Toussaint or a Ms Ventura.
Ms Saba has courted controversy in the past after being involved in business ventures which investors allege left them out of pocket – claims she vigorously denies.
She also says she is a friend of former Mr Clinton and donated between $500,000 and $1 million to the Clinton Foundation in the United States.
In September Ms Saba featured in local newspapers in Queensland after she was briefly appointed to head a chamber of commerce in Ipswich west of Brisbane this time using the name Malini Saba, but then left after just six weeks.
In 2010 she made headlines when using the name "Malini Alles-Ventura", she promoted the charity dinners with Mr Clinton organised through a private company Redbrick Development Pty Ltd.
The Australian Financial Review reported the proposed dinners as taking place as part of the Asia Pacific Global Issues forum raising awareness and money for disadvantaged women and children. The paper reported Ms Alles-Ventura was a personal friend of Mr Clinton.
Prominent business people in Brisbane and Sydney bought tickets which were priced in some cases up to $15,000 to attend the events that included a special round table personal dinner with the ex-president to raise money for charity.
One ticket buyer prominent Brisbane businessman John MacTaggart confirmed his organisation Brisbane Angels which represents private investors looking for new technology ventures paid $5000 for tickets to the proposed Clinton dinner in Brisbane in 2010.
"It just started to become obvious things weren't right. She disappeared."
Mr MacTaggart said Brisbane Angels had been successful in getting a judgement against Red Brick Development but had not received any refund
"Our legal advice was that that's about as good as you are going to get. It wasn't much, about five grand and we weren't going to spend any more," he said.
Ms Saba has denied any impropriety in business dealings and said the dinners did not go ahead because Mr Clinton had cancelled.
She denied the ticket sale was a scam and said her "attorneys were still handling" issues with the money being refunded.
When asked who the lawyers were she declined to provide their name.
She said any claims that she had caused individuals to lose money were "all false".
She said one business in Queensland that was the subject of complaints about losses had been organised by a former partner.
"That's got nothing to do with me," she said.
A spokesman for the Australian Federal Police refused to comment on whether officers were assisting Sri Lankan authorities in the hunt for Toussaint.
He said the AFP "did not confirm who it may or may not be investigating nor does it discuss requests for assistance from overseas law enforcement agencies".
The Immigration Department declined to comment on the grounds it does not make statements on individuals' immigration status or investigations.
AFP must admit to its 'big mistake' leading to Bali Nine executions,barrister says
Facing death: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Photo: AP
The Australian Federal Police must take the blame for the two Bali Nine ringleaders being on death row and do everything to save them, a lawyer close to the case says.
Bob Myers, a barrister and family friend of Bali Nine drug courier Scott Rush, tipped off the AFP in 2005 about the attempted heroin run from Bali to Australia. He said he now feels "betrayed".
The AFP assured him they would approach Rush before he left the country, he said. Instead, the AFP relayed the names, dates of birth and passport numbers of the Bali Nine members to Indonesian authorities, triggering their arrests.
Now, Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, face death by firing squad this month.
"I am really urging … the AFP to stand up and say, 'Look, this was our fault, we had no authority to do it'," Mr Myers said on ABC's Radio National.
"They should be coming out now and saying, 'We've made an enormous mistake'."
He said the AFP was well aware of the Bali drug conspiracy and could have arrested the drug mules upon their return to Australia.
"They were both misleading and deceptive. They acted as though this was something Indonesia had done all on its own accord, they were terribly concerned about it and going to do everything they could to ensure none of the nine ever faced the death penalty," he said.
"And it was just all lies, lies and deception."
Mr Myers said a guideline was in place at the time of the drug plot that stopped authorities from co-operating with requests from other countries in cases that could expose an Australian to the death penalty.
"But here, there wasn't cooperation at the request of the Indonesian authorities. This was voluntary giving of information to Indonesia," he said.
"That's the loophole. It was so close to illegal activity."
The guideline has since been changed.
Mr Myers said it was time for the AFP to break its decade of silence, publicly admit to its mistakes, and do its utmost to save the lives of Chan and Sukumaran – both widely reported to be reformed and rehabilitated at Kerobokan prison.
"It sickens me to think that the very organisation charged with our protection, the AFP … we should be able to go to them and say, 'I'm in strife here, can you give me a hand?' That's their job, that's what they're there for," he said.
"And to think they can betray nine young Australians in the way they did is really just outrageous."
An AFP spokesman said the agency changed its guidelines for dealing with such cases in January 2009.
It must now consider relevant factors before sharing intelligence that is likely to see an Australian prosecuted for offences that carry the death penalty.
"Ministerial approval is required in any case in which a person has been arrested or detained for, charged with, or convicted of an offence which carries the death penalty," the spokesman said in a statement.
The new guidelines also mean the AFP must report to the minister annually on the nature and number of cases in which police assistance is provided in potential death penalty cases
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Federal & NSW Police raid homes in Sydney: Operation 'not connected to Martin Place siege'
Raids are being carried out on several homes in Sydney by NSW Police and Australian Federal Police (AFP).
NSW Police said officers were conducting search warrants as part of an ongoing operation, but the action was not connected to Monday's Martin Place siege.
It has been reported one of the properties being raided is a unit block in the north-western suburb of Marsfield.
It is also understood that at least one of the properties was targeted during large-scale counter-terrorism raids in September.
An AFP spokesman said they would release further information when it was safe to do so.
"As this activity remains ongoing, and to ensure the safety and security of the operation and the members involved, it is not appropriate to provide further details at this time," the spokesman said.
"We will endeavour to provide further information as the AFP and NSW Police are in a position to do so."
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The AFP has defended its use of a controversial power that it uses to block websites. Photo: Andrew Quilty
Australia's top law-enforcement agency has defended its use of a controversial law that requires internet service providers to block websites government agencies deem illegal, without judicial oversight.
Speaking before a parliamentary inquiry, Australian Federal Police's officials explained they need section 313 of the Telecommunications Act, which requires telcos such as Telstra and Optus to assist government agencies to enforce criminal laws, protect public revenue and safeguard national security.
The AFP, financial regulator ASIC and an unidentified national security agency have interpreted the law to mean they have the power to order telcos to block websites hosting illegal material.
But internet providers such as iiNet and industry bodies such as the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) and the Communications Alliance have called for restrictions. They argue there is not enough oversight and that some providers had even received blocking requests from animal protection agency the RSPCA.
Section 313 allows an "almost unlimited range of government and law-enforcement agencies that can rely on the powers set out in section 313", iiNet's submission to the inquiry says.
That interpretation of the Act came to light last year after ASIC inadvertently blocked more than 250,000 websites by requesting a block on an internet protocol (IP) address as opposed to a domain name like www.illegalwebsite.com. As many IP addresses host multiple websites, the request resulted in many legal sites being blocked.
ASIC has used the power to block websites being employed for investment fraud. It's unknown what the RSPCA wanted to block.
AFP officials said they couldn't comment on the ASIC incident but thought their use of the power was uncontroversial.
The AFP said it had used the power to block malicious software, child exploitation material and sites such as online marketplace Silk Road, which are used by criminals to sell drugs and other illegal items. As the judicial process "takes time", it said it preferred section 313 blocks over court orders.
To justify its position, the AFP used the analogy of blocking access to a building in the real world that was unsafe to access.
"We're not asking for information, we're simply saying this needs to stop," said Commissioner Kevin Zuccato, acting Deputy Commissioner of Close Operations Support.
"An example for me would be the ability to go outside and identify that there's a threat coming up the road and ask my people to erect bollards so that folks can't get to this building. It's simply saying 'stop, you can't enter' and allows us to do what we need … "
Department of Communications officials attending the hearing admitted the blocks could be circumvented by the use of virtual private networks (VPNs), which allow web users to camouflage their location.
Between 2011 and 2013 the department estimated 32 requests to block websites had been made.
As far as it was aware, only three government agencies had used the power.
As a form of oversight, the department recommended agencies making use of the power report their requests to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
AFP officials said on Wednesday they would not have a problem with this. It added thatthe auditing of its use of the powers was already "robust" and that blocking of sites was only "used as a last resort".
Getting websites taken down first was usually the preferred method, they said.
Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has previously said the interpretation of the law opened the door "to wide-scale banning of sites" on the internet.
"It also means no one is effectively in charge; other government agencies could demand sites be blocked with no co-ordination or accountability in place."
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POLICE say co-ordinated raids on homes across Brisbane's south and in Sydney this morning were in response to threats of random attacks on members of the public, including the possible beheading of a random member of the public on a city street and mass shootings.
Fifteen people have been detained and one person charged with terrorism offences, following pre-dawn raids across Sydney and Brisbane, as part of a pre-emptive strike amid fears a suspected terror cell was close to launching an attack.
A Sydney court heard this afternoon that a man arrested during today's raids was plotting a public execution on Sydney streets that was designed to horrify the community.
Omarjan Azari, 22, faced court on one count of committing an act in preparation or planning for a terrorist act.
Court documents show Azari is accused of conspiring with Mohammad Baryalei, who is known to have recruited Australians to fight with Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, including wanted terrorists Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar.
Baryalei, a part-time actor who played a paramedic in the TV Underbelly series, has been identified as the most senior Australian member of IS.
He is believed to have fled the country to join the murderous rampage through the Middle East.
Azari was arrested this morning when hundreds of ASIO and heavily armed police officers swooped in anti-terrorism raids to prevent a mass casualty shooting in Sydney and possible beheadings.
Unconfirmed reports have also emerged that the groups may have been planning beheadings or mass shootings on home soil.
The ABC reports court documents expected to reveal the terror plan involved draping random Sydney person in Islamic State flag and beheading them on camera in Martin Place.
A similar attack was carried out on British Army soldier, Lee Rigby, in London, May 2013. when he was run down and butchered on a busy street by two men.
RAIDS REACTION: Terror threat is real
Police did say they believed extremists were planning a random attack on members of the public.
This afternoon Premier Campbell Newman revealed that last week's terror raid may have thwarted an "onshore terrorist action", with one of the men arrested understood to have been allegedly planning a terror attack somewhere in the state.
Mr Newman said "that at least one individual was contemplating onshore terrorist action" and stressed that the arrests were "very timely".
It is understood the alleged plot was to be carried out in Queensland.
Fresh allegations are expected to emerge about one of the two men arrested in southeast Queensland last week over terror-related charges, Omar Succarieh and Agim Kruezi.
Speaking about today's dramatic raids in NSW and southeast Queensland, Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said the two lots of probes were "directly" linked.
"When we briefed you previously in realtion to the arrests here in Queensland last week, the information you were provided with by both the police and the Premier at that time was accurate," Commissioner Stewart said.
"It was factual in what we knew then. Since that time, we've come into possession of information, quite disturbing information, about the intention of at least one of the people presently in custody in this state. it was factual in what we knew then."
Today's, Queensland's raids are undertstood to have been conducted to find out more about the alleged terror plot in Queensland.
The fresh allegations against the unknown Queensland man in custody are expected to emerge in court in NSW tomorrow.
Footage of arrests made in Sydney counter terrorism operation
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was briefed on the counter terror raids before officers swooped this morning.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was briefed last night on the operation, adding that the intelligence received by police gave "not just suspicion" but "intent".
"The exhortations, quite direct exhortations, were coming from an Australian who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country," he said, using another acronym for IS.
"That's why the police and security agencies decided to act in the way they have."
Mr Abbott will cut short his visit to Arnhem Land today to farewell RAAF crews heading to the Middle East and to attend security briefings on the terror raids in Sydney.
The Prime Minister said there were "quite direct exhortations … coming from an Australian, who is apparently quite senior in ISIL to networks of support back in Australia to conduct demonstration killings here in this country".
"This is not just suspicion, this is intent," he told reporters in Arnhem Land.
"There are, I regret to say, networks of people here in this country who, despite living here, despite enjoying the Australian way of life, they would do us harm.
"It's very important that our police and security organisations be one step ahead of them and I think this morning they were."
He praised the police operation and said he acknowledged some people believe Australia's current involvement in Iraq makes us more of a threat.
"I understand that some people will claim that and I understand that some people will fear that, but let's remember that Australians were subject to terror attack in Bali long before there was any talk of Australian involvement in Iraq."
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Radio National this morning that the raids demonstrate Australian authorities are keeping the nation safe.
"Our security is the consequence of continued vigilance and hard work on the part of the security agencies," he said.
"There is no cause, no reason, for being complacent about security.
"There are people regrettably, some of them in our midst, that don't have the nation's best interests at heart."
Ikebal Patel from Muslims Australia told AM that the Islamic community has been stunned by the raids.
"Details are very sketchy and we don't even know who the individuals are and from which particular area, or sort of association they are part of," he said.
"So, it's all very very sketchy. It's all moving very fast."
The ABC understands the raids are linked to a similar operation in Queensland last week, when an Islamic bookshop was searched, and two men arrested.
The men have been accused of helping to recruit, facilitate and fund people to travel to Syria to engage in hostile activities.
The only man charged during the raids so far has been named as 22-year-old Omarjan Azari, who faced a Sydney court today on one count of committing an act in preparation or planning for a terrorist act.
Azari, dressed in a navy hooded jacket and black pants, made a brief appearance in the dock of Central Local Court.
Extra sheriffs surrounded the dock as he was brought up before Magistrate John Bailey.
His lawyer Steve Boland told the court no application would be made for bail, and asked that his client be taken back down to the cells.
Commonwealth prosecutor Michael Allnutt said the allegations involved a plan to "kidnap a person and gruesomely execute" and that it was a plan "clearly designed to shock, horrify and clearly terrify the community."
The court heard an "unusual level of fanaticism" was involved in the plan "which would leave a person less likely to take notice of a court order", and therefore bail should be refused.
Mr Boland said the allegations were based on just "one phone call."
The case was adjourned until November 13.
Documents before the court say Azari, in the early hours of May 8 this year "did conspire with Mohammad Baryalei and others to do acts in preparation for or planning a terrorist act."
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the reports of what those arrested were allegedly planning are "truly horrifying".
But the events should give Australians a "renewed sense of assurance" in the work of our security agencies.
"These raids will no doubt come as a shock to many Australians," the Opposition Leader said.
"It's a development that reminds us all how close to home the threat of terrorism can be."
Australian Federal Police acting commissioner Andrew Colvin said the operation which resulted in Thursday's raids began earlier this year.
"Police believe this group … have the intention and have started to carry out planning to commit violent acts here in Australia," he said.
"Those violent acts particularly related to random acts against members of the public.''
He said the operation was about police disrupting the potential for violence.
Mr Colvin said that three raids in the southeast Queensland suburbs of Logan, Underwood and Mount Gravatt East were linked to similar raids in the area last week.
"The warrants that you saw today are a follow up from that investigation, or a continuation of that investigation," he said
Some of those taken into custody had already had their passports cancelled.
NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said "reasonable force" was used to detain one man. "Today's operation reflects the reality of the threat that we actually face," he said.
Mr Scipione said random attacks were planned.
"All of those plans that may have been on foot are thwarted," he said.
Meanwhile, authorities are now concerned about possible public disorder as a result of the arrests and the revealing of details of an alleged plan to carry out a public beheading.
Officials are especially worried because many English-speaking senior Muslim community leaders are overseas on religious pilgrimage.
"The people who normally calm down the hotheads are not here," the law enforcement source told the ABC.
More than 800 counter-terrorism police and ASIO officers swooped on homes in the early hours, with some of those detained believed to have links to the terror group Islamic State.
This included 70 AFP and Queensland police officers who conducted raids on homes in Logan, Underwood and Mt Gravatt East.
The arrests in Sydney follow months of surveillance of people linked to the terrorist group Islamic State, which has been cutting a barbaric path through Iraq and Syria.
The Australian Federal Police say a suspected terrorist cell "was close to an attack".
Hundreds of police executed search warrants in Logan, Underwood and Mt Gravatt East along with the Sydney suburbs of Beecroft, Bellavista, Guildford, Merrylands, Northmead, Wentworthville, Marsfield, Westmead, Castle Hill, Revesby, Bass Hill and Regents Park.
Police Commissioner Ian Stewart has this morning confirmed raids took place in Brisbane and Logan this morning "in conjunction" with the terror raids across Sydney.
He refused to go into details of the raids but confirmed they were related to the operation in Sydney and involved both AFP officers and Queensland police.
Mr Stewart said more details about the Brisbane operation would be made public later today but said today's raids would not have an impact on G20 saying security planning for the summit was already at an extremely high level.
Holland Park Mosque spokesman Ali Kadri said while he could not speak on behalf of the congregation, he was disappointed about the hysteria surrounding the raids.
He said while he had met the family who had been raided at Mt Gravatt East this morning, they did not attend the Holland Park Mosque.
"My feeling is simple, the government has to do their job but the hysteria the government is creating is something I am curious about and disappointed about," Mr Kadri said.
"The hysteria is causing affliction within the community, we all want to see a safe and secure Australia and the threat to Australia comes from different things, and one is from people misusing Islam (but) also the hate crimes of the mosque being attacked, that also divides the community."
Mr Kadri encouraged people to come to the Holland Park Mosque tomorrow between 3-4pm for a sausage sizzle and opening.
"The most important thing we want is for people to ask questions rather than using the media or social media as their source of information," he said.
Last week, Brisbane man Omar Succarieh, 31, was arrested and charged with terrorism-related offences following a series of raids.
He's accused of fundraising for Syria-based extremist group Jabhat al-Nusra and helping another man, Agim Kruezi, obtain funds to fight for a terror organisation overseas.
OMAR SUCCARIEH: Bail application to be heard today
TERROR RAID: Accused 'misses his kids'
Succarieh, who is due to apply for bail in court on Thursday, is believed to be the brother of Ahmed Succarieh, who reportedly became Australia's first suicide bomber in Syria last year.
Logan man Kruezi, 22, has alleged links to the Islamic State group.
The raid follows the lifting of the national security alert level from medium to high last Friday by the outgoing director general of ASIO David Irvine.
Sword confiscated in dawn raid of isis scum by federal & local police
It is believed the size of the raid eclipsed that of Operation Pendennis in 2005 when several hundred ASIO, AFP and NSW police arrested 13 men across Melbourne and the Sydney suburb of Bankstown, who had been planning bomb attacks in both capitals.
In Brisbane, a double story house on Creek Road, Mount Gravatt East, was among the properties raided.
One neighbour said he had lived near the family, who he described as "Middle Eastern" for more than 20 years but had rarely communicated with them.
The man said he had only heard dogs barking during the morning raid.
A number of Australian Federal Police officers remain at the address.
It has not yet been confirmed whether any arrests have been made.
Residents on Toolooma St, Logan, said police had swarmed on a single-story house there just after 6am.
By all reports the raids were executed quietly, with no signs of shouting or loud noises during the operation.
Members of the Australian Federal Police attended the scene and a sniffer dog was used to search the premise.
However, very little – if anything – has been removed from the property.
Neighbours said the family who lived there were always friendly.
"Every time I see the lady, she always says g'day to me," one man said.
Residents said the man can often be seen in the front yard mowing the lawn in his wheelchair.
Police left the property about 10.40am.
Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney said the government was briefed on the raids this morning.
"I've got every confidence in both our state police and the Australian Federal Police to handle these issues properly," Mr Seeney said.
"I think the community should share my confidence."
Mr Seeney said he was also confident the security organised for the G20 would be able to cope with such issues.
"A high level of security has already been organised around G20 and I am confident that the people who are responsible for G20 security will have built into their security arrangements provisions for every scenario that may develop," he said.
Senior government ministers were unable to shed more light on the raids, but praised the work of authorities.
"I note the security agencies, the Police, ASIO are working hard to ensure that we are safe," Coalition frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull told ABC radio this morning.
"Our security is the consequence of continued vigilance and hard work on the part of the security agencies.
"There is no cause for being complacent about security.
"There are people, regrettably some of them in our midst, that don't have the nation's best interest at heart."
Speaking ahead of this weekend's G20 Finance Minister's meeting in Cairns, Joe Hockey said he had confidence in the security measures in place.
"Everyone needs to make sure that with an increased threat level associated with potential terrorist attacks in Australia we have all the necessary precautions taken for both the G20 here in Cairns and also in Brisbane," the Treasurer told Sunrise.
"But, I am very confident that all bases are covered.
"We have put a lot of effort into this for a long period of time."
There are about 60 Australians believed to be fighting in Iraq and Syria with groups such as Islamic State, while another 100 are suspected of providing support from Australia.
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As I told you before I have been feeling kind of off lately. Meaning that I am feeling pretty anxious and stressed on a continuous basis, sometimes even without a clear reason! Maybe you are going through a similar time. Or maybe you are really busy at work and find it difficult to unwind when you get home.
There are a million reasons why people could feel stressed. Sometimes feeling stressed even leads to physical symptoms! These are the most common symptoms:
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|Change in appetite
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|Teeth grinding
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|Change in sex drive
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It often helps to take a little time and space for yourself to relax and unwind. If you can manage to plan in a little time for just you every day it would really help your level of stress. But what do you do during this little me time? Let me give you a few tips.
Work on your daily mindset
There are of course little things you can do for yourself during the day to stay in a good mindset. These always help me a lot:
- Use your breath
- A very important one. Often people forget the most important thing during a stressful task; just breath.
- Release the tension in your jaw
- Tension in your jaw could lead to headache or dental problems. It is probably not something you are aware of but could really decrease your physical symptoms.
- Take care of yourself
- Check in with your own mindset every now and then and tend to what your body needs. If you need a little walk, do that. If you are actually pretty thirsty, go make yourself some tea.
- Identify what you can and can't control
- It is very important to realize that you are not in control of some things and that a lot of things might not even be your responsibility.
- Focus on the present moment
- If tomorrow already stresses you out today, try not to focus on that. And try to focus on one of these other tips instead!
- Savor scents
- This is one of my favorites. I love scents that bring up memories and that always puts me in a great mindset. Maybe this concept is familiar to you or maybe totally foreign. But I would definitely recommend.
- Take a bathroom break
- A bathroom break can help you break the cycle of what your doing and get you in a more relaxed mindset and a little less focused one.
For a longer list of little things you can do during the day, visit: https://psychcentral.com/blog/20-ways-to-relax-unwind/
Ways to relax after work or in the weekends
- Exercise!
- Definitely not one of of my favorites but I have experienced that for example yoga at the end or beginning of the day really helps with putting yourself in a right mindset.
- Nice hot bath
- Soak your stressed little muscles into a nice hot bath. Preferably with bubbles and combine it with point 3 and 5 and you're good to go.
- Read a book
- Reading a book helps to get away from your own little world and immerse yourself into someone else's life completely.
- Change into your favorite sweater
- My favorite! As soon as I get home from work I run upstairs to change into my favorite big hoodie and don't forget your most comfortable sweatpants.
- A good cup of tea
- Never underestimate the comfort that tea can give to a stressed body.
- Value good company
- My mood always immensely improves when I surround myself with good people and get to relax and watch a movie with them.
- Comfort food all the way
- I don't need to explain this one right? And your diet can always start tomorrow!
Also read my other blog: I Did A 30 Day Yoga Challenge!
I hope you guys have read a tip here that you haven't tried yet and that it helps you to become more relaxed. Remember: It's in the little things we do!


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Noelle Singleton of Afro Swimmers stops by to share her love of swimming and what she has learned from her time "in the water." I also take a moment to love on you guys, the listeners, as I share some of the amazing things I've experienced so far as a podcaster. I also give a brief reflection about Podfest 2019 and thank my first financial supporter Jesus Furqan for encouraging me.
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Toward the Next Generation of Altimeter Data Assimilation for Physical Ocean and Marine Ecosystem Monitoring and Prediction
Approach and work statement. The methods that will be explored and further developed to assimilate altimeter data will be multiple, taking advantage of the most recent advances in the field of stochastic modelling, statistical estimation and optimal control. On the one hand, well established methodologies such as Kalman-type filters and smoothers and variational methods will be expanded and complexified to take into account non-Gaussian error statistics or non-linear model dynamics. On the other hand, more generic methods such as particle filters will be adapted to cope with the huge dimension of realistic ocean models.
Altimetry from the JASON suite, and from forthcoming missions (HY-2A, Sentinel-3, SARAL/Altika), will be the primary source of data for this project, in conjunction with ENVISAT, Cryosat-2 and other historical altimetry data sets, GRACE and GOCE for gravimetry, and SMOS for salinity. A particular focus will be set on the use of multiple data sources including in situ observations and to their optimal complementarity to altimetry.
Expected impact. The application of the assimilation methods will enable improved ocean real-time analyses as well as multi-year reanalyses, providing a unique source of ocean information to
Proposing team. The group of PIs involved in this proposal has played a significant role in France and Europe with regard to the development of data assimilation in oceanography through their fundamental research work, and their contribution to the emergence of increasingly efficient operational systems. The expertise of the proposing team is broad enough to cover the variety of most advanced assimilation approaches, in such a way as to stimulate open dialog and cross-fertilization of ideas between the proposal participants.


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Since the 15th edition, the Tahiti Pearl Regatta is sponsored by an exceptional sailor: M. Loïck PEYRON.
Fallen in love with French Polynesia, he follows and participates in the regatta by joining some crews in each race. Sometimes helmsman, sometimes trimmer, he spreads his immense knowledge to the regattas with his kindness.
Thanks Loïck, for all that you bring to the TPR, we hope that it makes you good!


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- Hope Villa Aptly Named as a Romantic Haven After Earthquake
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Malaysian Serama, the one and only!
I proudly present our Malaysian serama rooster. He got named Jack the Ripper (JTR) called after his beavior.
He is not romantic of a kind at all. When he see or hear a girl in his surroundings he is persistent to get her. It's so easy to breed this bird as i can mate him with a bigger number of girls.Just have to mate them one by one. They get instanly .....you know what i mean ;-) Here a few of his offspring who takes after their fathers image.
First, a 6 week old cockerel
Second, a 9 week old pullet
Thanks for watching John :)
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In a constantly changing marketplace, keeping up with the evolving trend and holding up a unique visual brand representation is key.
Our Creative Graphic Designers at Abule Graphics create engaging concepts suitable for prints and online publicity. From the design of your logo and publicity materials e.g: Business Cards, Flyers, Banners, Brochures, Magazines to Online Campaigns Graphic Supports like web banners, our talented Graphic Designers create eye-catching designs that communicate your message to your audience.
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A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.
After the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859 Darwin became fascinated with the potential for botanical experiments to provide evidence for the process of evolution. First published in 1877, this volume is based on a series of papers concerning heterostylous plants (species which produce different types of flowers) originally published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnaen Society in 1862. Linnaeus had divided the sexual relations of flowers into four groups, which Darwin uses as the structure for this volume. Darwin examines in detail plants which produce different flower forms, presenting his conclusions in terms of adaptive evolution and so providing the first functional interpretation of heterostyly. He demonstrates that these plants are adapted for cross-fertilisation, not self-fertilisation as was widely believed. The concepts which Darwin introduces in this volume continue to provide the basis for research into plant reproductive biology.
1. Heterostyled dimorphic plants - Primulacaeae
2. Hybrid primulas
3. Heterostyled dimorphic plants continued
4. Heterostyled trimorphic plants
5. Illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants
6. Concluding remarks on heterostyled plants
7. Polygamous, dioecious, and gyno-dioecious plants
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In 3 months, it will already be 2019. You know what that means? It's about that time of the year for Decadence Colorado to announce their epic artist lineup. On September 9th, they announced that the lineup would be revealed this week, and that they wanted fans to "like and share" each artist announcement for feedback.
Today, the first round of announcements are CamelPhat, Alison Wonderland, and Marshmello, who will all be taking the stage this year. The 'most comments' engagement came expectedly from the Marshmello announcement, showing that the fanbase was very polarized by this choice. Peep through the comments about the artists below and grab your tickets here.
More artists will be announced soon, so be sure to stay tuned for the next round of announcements!


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UPI transactions cross 300 million mark in August
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The umbrella organisation for retail payments in the country, NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) has reported that the total number of UPI (Unified Payments Interface) transactions in the country stood at 312 million in August.
This is a rise from the total transaction count in July which stood at approximately 236 million.
The NPCI also clarified that the numbers for August do not include transactions with debit and credit to the same account.
Last month, in a circular to banks, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had stated that transactions, where the source and destination of the UPI payment is the same bank account, will be blocked starting August 1.
The total value of UPI transactions in the month of August stood at Rs 54, 212.26 crore, a rise from Rs 45,854.64 crore.
Earlier this month, the NPCI also launched released UPI 2.0, the upgraded version of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Urjit Patel, the Governor of Reserve Bank of India was present at the gathering to launch the upgraded payment infrastructure.
The new release allowed users (i.e., the merchants) to link their overdraft (OD) accounts to UPI, enabling them to continue withdrawing money even if the account doesn't have sufficient funds.
The new release added a one-time mandate essentially allowing users to block a certain amount in their account balance, while booking a product or service. The transaction goes through after the goods and services are delivered, essentially enacting a CoD (Cash-on-Delivery) transaction.
UPI 2.0 also included invoice in Inbox which allowed individuals or merchants to send an invoice along with a payment request in the Inbox and security features like Signed Intent & QR, designed for customers to check if the merchant is verified by UPI or not, while scanning QR code.
While revealing other numbers, the NPCI also said that the number of transactions for NETC Fastag (National Electronic Toll Collection) payment service stood at Rs 20.38 million in August, a rise from 18.46 million in July.
The total value of transactions processed over the NETC network stood at Rs 463.88 crore in August and Rs 418.08 crore in July.
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Washable Wool Knitted Cap OrangeSnow Peak
Winter warmer from Japan.
Family run for 60 years, Snow Peak creates radically innovative products focused on quality, functionality, timeless-durability and considered design.
Snow Peak are the epitome of Modern Outdoor. And they like coffee.
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High quality Japanese washable wool, Rib knit with Cable stich detail at turn-up.
100% Wool
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By Steve Hogan
You can access Windows System Restore right here from the same System Properties. Click on the System Protection tab/ System Restore /Restore Files and Settings/Next/Pick a Date and follow the prompts. This is also the same area to create a new restore point or to reduce the amount of space alloted to system restore or even turn off System Restore.
Take the time to familiarize yourself with this area and you will feel much more confident in your ability to use your computer.
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Festival del film Locarno
- Country
- Switzerland
- Town
- Locarno
- Deadline month
- June
- Deadline details
- June
- Requirements
- 16mm, 35mm, High Definition and Standard Definition video. Entries must have been completed during the 12 months before the Festival and should not have participated in other European international film festivals. For complete information please refer to
- Awards
- Pardo d'oro (90,000 CHF for the best film in the Concorso internazionale), Pardo d'oro Cineasti del presente Premio George Foundation (30,000 CHF for the best film of the Concorso Cineasti del presente), Pardino d'oro for the Best Short Film (first prize
- Fees
- 100 CHF ( 65) except short films up to 60 minutes
- Festival and administrative address
- Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno
Via Ciseri 23
CH-6600 Locarno
- email@example.com
- Website
- http://www.pardo.ch
- Artistic Director
- Olivier Père
- Festival month
- August
- Accredited / seeking accreditation by FIAPF
- On the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences list of qualifying festivals
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Rolex Pearlmaster 80298
- Stock #: WP0827
- Brand: Rolex
- Series: Pearlmaster - Ladies
- Model: 80298
- Retail Price: $68,450.00
- Sale Price: $54,500.00
Condition: New
Gender: Ladies
Dial Color: Mother of Pearl with Diamonds
Case: 18k Yellow Gold 29 mm
Bracelet: 18k Yellow Gold with Diamonds
Bezel: 18k Yellow Gold with Diamonds
Crystal: Scratch Resistant Sapphire
Movement: Automatic
Water Resistant: 30 meters / 100 feet
Box: Yes
Papers: Yes
Certificate of Authenticity: Yes
Warranty: Yes
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Brand new Rolex Oyster Perpetual Lady-Datejust Pearlmaster women's watch, Model # 80298.
18kt yellow gold 29 mm case. 18k yellow gold bezel set with 32 round cut diamonds. White Mother of Pearl dial with raised diamond hour markers. 18k yellow gold hour, minute and second hands. Date display window at 3 o'clock position. Screw-down 18k yellow gold crown. 31 jewel automatic movement. 18k yellow gold Pearlmaster bracelet set with 174 diamonds. Hidden deployant buckle. Water resistant 30m/100ft.
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80298, Pearl Master, MOP, diamonds, Masterpiece, Master piece
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Dutch ReBelle featuring Fred the Godson "Stop It" Official Music Video/ 'ReBelle Diaries' Mixtape
Some new heat from Boston's own Dutch ReBelle,"Stop It" is for y'all haters out there. Produced by Haywire MusiQ, y'all need to just take it for what it is, she's doing her thing… so just stop it! And with the help of Fred the Godson, its clear women aren't the Continue Reading
M.A.G. ft. Fred the Godson and HD the Future "Hustle Remix" Official Music Video
M.A.G. ft. Fred the Godson and HD the Future "Hustle Remix" Official Music Video… brand new heat for y'all, M.A.G. went in on this one getting help from Fred the Godson and HD the Future, yea this is fire. And director Javier Goin hooked up the visuals… take a look Continue Reading
Termanology and Easy Money 'S.T.R.E.E.T.'
Termanology and Easy Money 'S.T.R.E.E.T.'… brand new mixtape from the ST. Da Squad camp and nothing more needs to be said besides this check it out. I'm not even all the way threw it but wanted to get it up here asap… yea this mixtape is fire and there are Continue Reading
Smoke Bulga 'The Grand Scheme' / "Phocused", "M.O.B." and "Motion Picture"
Smoke Bulga 'The Grand Scheme'… Dope new album that dropped, the big homie has a wide variety of records on this one. A little while back I posted "M.O.B." which is off of this album, but there are a bunch of other tight records including "The Grand Scheme", "Phocused" and Continue Reading


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Widely regarded as the best overall laptop money can buy, the XPS9360-7758SLV-PUS is an outstanding computer complemented by superb performance and a gorgeous form factor. Ultimately, the XPS 13 is a 13.3-inch computer trapped in an 12-inch computer body thanks to its InfinityEdge display and Dell's innovative and durable build quality. Powered by a 7th generation Intel Core i7 3.5GHz processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB hard drive, the XPS 13 is ready to tackle both work and play (with power to spare).
Beyond power, the focus is on the 13.3-inch QHD+ 3200 x 1800 InfinityEdge touch display, which is nothing short of outstanding. The lightning fast SSD (solid state drive) helps boost overall performance, specifically application loading time, making the Dell the definition of good things coming in small packages. Add in nearly 14 hours of battery life, a 2.7-pound lightweight aluminum frame, Windows 10 and it's quite possible you've discovered the perfect computer.


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Ideal Roommate
Preferred Gender: Any Gender
Age: 18 to 70 years old
Smoking Friendly
Posted a year ago
United States (USA), Female
23 years old
About Me
Hello girls, I arrived to UAE (Dubai) a few weeks ago and I am still looking for apartments, I would love the idea of sharing with people who are studying like me.. I am looking for any room near Knowledge Village in Dubai, i.e Media City or Internet City..
Budget for Room
From 100 AED To 5000 AED per Month
Required Amenities
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Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City, Knowledge Village
Tenant answers
How often do guests visit you? Never
How often do you cook at home? Never
How often do you clean home? Never
What time do you go to bed? Early
I like TV speakers volume to be Medium
Do you drink or go party? Sometimes
I like chat with roomies to be Regular
How do you keep AC temprature? Medium


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The best thing to do when it's hot like this is to take a dip in the pool.
Refreshing! Pull up a lounger and relax.
Enjoy the cool water
Are those fishes in the water?
The pool looks so refreshing!! Thanks for those pictures. We are in the 90's as well. Hope it cools off. But then again...all winter long I anticipated summer, so I'm not complaining too much! ;-D
Those pictures look like heaven!!! I can imagine how utterly wonderful it would feel to drop down into one right now!!!!!!
Ahhhhhh. That pool is beautiful!
I'm loving summer now!
Ah yes, the beauty, and absolutely necessity, of a dip in the pool. We're finally starting to heat up here in Texas. It's been a very mild summer so far and I've been feeling nothing but gratitude.
We've been having weather like that, with humidity to boot. I've been trying to remember what 3 feet of snow looked like, but now I think I will just think on that beautiful pool of water!
This is the time of year I wish I had a pool in the backyard. Instead, I think I will be taking my beach chair and sitting very near the grandson's sprinkler toy this week!


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Nation challenged to get active for Sport Relief
THE nation has been challenged to come together and beat one billion steps a day during Sport Relief.
A host of famous faces including Zoe Ball and Alex Jones will lead the charge and take on their own epic challenges to raise money and inspire the public to make their steps count as part of Team Sport Relief.
Running, dancing, dog walking or Zumba-ing all count towards the step total, with a free app helping participants to keep track of their hard earned steps and ensure they count towards the national total.
CEO of Comic Relief Liz Warner said: "Sport Relief gets us all donning our trainers and taking on all types of sporty challenges or running a mile at school to help raise funds.
"This is the first time we have asked the nation to take up a collective challenge and we can't wait to see how many steps we can all do – let's hit a billion steps and get more donations and sponsors coming in to help others."
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