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[The Angle] The shaping up of the 4G leadershipSep 18, 2015 at 9:00 am | Hits: 4120
By Gillian Koh
At the Post-General Election Press Conference, Secretary General of the People's Action Party and Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong has said that the issue of leadership renewal for Singapore is urgent and the pace of succession will be quickened.
An interesting benchmark would be to see what happened post-GE2001. Then-PM Goh Chok Tong had said that it was his last campaign at the helm. He brought in the "Super Seven" – seven individuals who were promoted to Senior Ministers of State and Ministers of State immediately after the 2001 polls. They were Tharman Shanmuguratnam (now Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister), Dr Vivian Balakrishnan (Environment and Water Resources Minister), Dr Ng Eng Hen (Defence Minister) and Khaw Boon Wan (National Development Minister). Cedric Foo spent three years in government before returning to the private sector in 2005 and has remained a Member of Parliament since then. Raymond Lim left the government in 2011 after holding a ministerial post and did not stand for re-election in 2015. Dr Balaji Sadasivan passed away in 2010 while serving as a Senior Minister of State.
The "Super Seven" formed the bulk of the third-generation leaders. In August 2004, Lee Hsien Loong was appointed Prime Minister. He had spent two decades as Deputy Prime Minister, in contrast to the meteoric rise of members of the "Super Seven" team, who became Acting and then full Ministers in a matter of years.
The pace quickened with the GE2011 team – Chan Chun Sing and Heng Swee Keat were made acting ministers immediately and Lawrence Wong and Tan Chuan-Jin, junior ministers.
At PM Lee's UOB Plaza Rally speech on 8 September, he had said that with GE2011, he built up a nucleus of the fourth generation of leaders for Singapore and that if voters elected his candidates, he will then have the following people to add to that group immediately – Ng Chee Meng, Chee Hong Tat, Ong Ye Kung and possibly, Amrin Amin.
With GE2015 over, we can expect that at least half of those named above will be placed as Acting Ministers, and the others as junior ministers. Those of Lim Hng Kiang, Lim Swee Say and Dr Yaacob Ibrahim's vintage may stand down to make way in due course.
As three of the four MPs-elect marked for higher office are already seasoned in public service, what they must add to their skill set is the ability to connect and understand a broader set of stakeholder groups; to prove that they have a grasp of the different perspectives especially that of the man-in-the-street about public policy, and do the difficult job of tacking the different perspectives together to develop coherent policy rationale and programmes.
Many large initiatives have been announced and Ministers in those areas like Education and Healthcare will not find themselves in the policy-development phases but in implementation. So, they have to be detail-oriented and well-connected to the groups that will operationalise the initiatives as well as to the presumed beneficiaries of the policies. The feedback can in turn help with the fine-tuning of the initiatives to ensure the policies have the intended effect.
In addition, they will have to tend the ground in the sense that residents in their constituencies will continue to press for their personal matters to be solved; local grassroots leaders will press for their community and estates' interests to be addressed.
If there is to be any handover within this term, the candidates to succeed Mr Lee will move into the Deputy Prime Minster position. Why? It is likely that with a more critical populace, potential candidates will have to be tested. The PAP team would not want to just take a chance about this. The people in government and civil service, the parts of the public that matter, and very crucially, the regional and international audience must feel that they have confidence in the leadership of these potential successors. Those candidates for the top position of Prime Minister must be relatable and inspire confidence not just with Singaporeans but the international arena, be it in the marketplace or on various geopolitical platforms. They will therefore, eventually need portfolios that will give them those international connections.
It may take the full five years for this transition if not more. The right posts, the right exposure will be needed. Of course, we should never discount the possibility that there could be candidate who literally slips into that role so perfectly that the choice becomes obvious.
It will also be important what the different communities say. A hot topic today is whether Singapore is ready for a non-Chinese Prime Minister. This is a question that cannot be answered without a strong response from the Chinese community and I suppose members of that community will in turn say, it will depend on who exactly such a non-Chinese candidate might be.
Dr Gillian Koh is a Senior Research Fellow at IPS. View her profile here.
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Karli & David's wedding celebration at Wedgewood Country Club… Amazing!
We had such a good time celebrating with Karli & David. Their wedding reception at Wedgewood Country Club was gorgeous, and elegant, and so much fun.
Dancing for everyone opened up with a giant and crowded circle surrounding the newlyweds. What an incredible memory for all as a room full of friends and family serenaded the newlyweds with Let Me Call You Sweetheart, a family favorite. Everyone loved this, and it was a fantastic way to kick off the huge dance party.
They entered their reception to the classic Frank Sinatra song, Too Marvelous For Words, and the guests loved it!
The spotlight dances included:
1st Dance ~ Making Memories of Us by Keith Urban
Father/Daughter Dance ~Daddy's Little Girl by Al Martino
Mother/Son Dance ~ Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion
There was so much dancing… AND singing!
Thanks Karli & David for letting us celebrate with you! We loved it. Thanks to our friends at the beautiful Wedgewood Country Club, and Tessa Maxine photography for being a joy to work with … as usual!
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Night Music is proud to be a preferred vendor at many of the city's best event venues. Listed below are just a few of the most spectacular party and reception venues where Night Music is a preferred vendor. Click the venue name to visit their website.
Athletic Club of Columbus
Franklin Park Conservatory
VUE Columbus
Embassy Suites Dublin
Sheraton Columbus Capitol Square
Ohio Statehouse
The Virtues (Longaberger Golf Club)
The Loft and Venue @ Dock580
The Exchange At Bridge Park
Nationwide Conference Center
Columbus Country Club
The Medallion Club
The Darby House
Heritage Golf Club
Capital Club Columbus
The Ivory Room at Miranova
The Westin
Red Brick Occasions
Hilton Columbus at Easton
Jefferson Country Club
Creekside Event Center
Bridgewater Banquet Center
Raymond Memorial
Marriot Columbus University Area
Hilton Columbus Downtown
Bryn Du Mansion
Irongate Equestrian Center
Wedgewood Golf & Country Club
COSI Columbus
Renaissance Columbus Downtown
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Since its introduction in late 2005, the Internet-based Test (iBT) has progressively replaced both the computer-based tests (CBT) and paper-based tests (PBT), although paper-based testing is still used in select areas. The iBT has been introduced in phases, with the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy in 2005 and the rest of the world in 2006, with test centers added regularly. The CBT was discontinued in September 2006 and these scores are no longer valid.
Although initially, the demand for test seats was higher than availability, and candidates had to wait for months, it is now possible to take the test within one to four weeks in most countries. The four-hour test consists of four sections, each measuring one of the basic language skills (while some tasks require integrating multiple skills) and all tasks focus on language used in an academic, higher-education environment. Note-taking is allowed during the iBT. The test cannot be taken more than once a week.
The Reading section consists of 3–4 passages, each approximately 700 words in length and questions about the passages. The passages are on academic topics; they are the kind of material that might be found in an undergraduate university textbook. Passages require understanding of rhetorical functions such as cause-effect, compare-contrast and argumentation. Students answer questions about main ideas, details, inferences, essential information, sentence insertion, vocabulary, rhetorical purpose and overall ideas. New types of questions in the iBT require filling out tables or completing summaries. Prior knowledge of the subject under discussion is not necessary to come to the correct answer.
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Avoiding Double Taxation After the 965 Regulations
Written by Max Reed and Charmaine Ko. This article addresses complex topics in a summary fashion and does not exhaustively discuss all potential issues. It is not intended to be...
Ben Franklin famously said that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. One wonders, then, what Franklin would say about taxes due on death? US citizens living in Canada are subject to two different tax regimes on their death. For them, it would seem that Ben Franklin was doubly right.
Consider Rajit, an elderly single US citizen who lives in Montreal. His estate is made up of his principal residence worth USD $2 million, an RRIF worth USD $2 million, and a Canadian stock portfolio worth USD $2 million. When he dies his estate will be subject to a Canadian deemed disposition and the US estate tax.
The US estate tax is imposed on US citizens in Canada. The total value of Rajit's estate will be used to calculate his estate tax liability. There is, however, a lifetime USD $5.43 million (the 2015 amount) estate and gift tax exemption. At death, the first USD $5.43 million of his estate is exempt from tax. The remaining USD $570,000 will be subject to the US estate tax.
Assuming a 40% tax rate Rajit's estate will have to pay USD $ 264,000 of estate tax. Any taxable gifts Rajit made before his death would reduce the value of his exemption and may result in more estate tax. Let's say Rajit gave USD $430,000 worth of stock to his son a few years ago. He would have used up USD $430,000 of his lifetime estate and gift tax exemption and only $5 million would remain.
Rajit's estate will also be subject to the Canadian deemed disposition, meaning it will have to pay tax on the capital gains on all assets. To calculate the capital gain Rajit will have to subtract his basis in the assets (overly simplified — what he paid for them) from their current fair market value. Let's say that Rajit paid USD $1 million for his stock portfolio which has doubled in value. The estate will have to pay Canadian tax on USD $1 million. Because it is his principal residence, Rajit's house is exempt from the Canadian deemed disposition.
Death taxes in Canada and the US are different. Rajit may be able to use the Canada-US Tax Treaty to offset some of the tax in both countries. For dual citizens, strategies to reduce the tax payable at death have to work in both countries. Some common Canadian strategies don't work in the US and vice-versa. If Rajit gives up his US citizenship before his death, he may not be subject to the estate tax. Rajit must be careful, however, to follow the proper process to avoid the exit tax imposed when Americans give up their citizenship, and to avoid being considered a "covered expatriate" (this is discussed in another column in this series). He should get professional tax help.
Taxes on death, to paraphrase Franklin, may be certain, but some planning may reduce the double taxation.


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But that didn't happen. No. Instead, the 9-some's handlers have thrown together a quite-serviceable pop jam a bit like a cheap version of Katy's 'Teenage Dream' but with more latent homosexual urges and shittier production.
UK fans will notice a distinct similarity to British group The Wanted's 'Lose My Mind,' which somehow landed on ScopiSat's top ten of 2010. The boyband thing is still going strong over there across the pond, and NKOTBSB is banking on the same sound to revive the format here in the States.
Apparently it's kind of working, since 'Don't Turn Out The Lights' is flying up the iTunes charts. And the sad thing is, we don't mind a damn bit.


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Prabhakaran summoned by Sri Lankan courtMarch 13th, 2008 - 1:21 am ICT by admin
Colombo, March 12 (Xinhua) The leader of Sri Lanka's rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Velupillai Prabhakaran has been summoned by the Colombo High Court, officials said Wednesday. The Attorney General's Department Tuesday filed indictment on Prabhakaran and five other rebels on the August 2005 murder of the then Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar.
The reclusive Tamil Tiger leader will need to appear in the court March 24.
A fellow Tamil, Kadirgamar was gunned down near the swimming pool of his Colombo home by a LTTE gunman. Kadirgamar had led an international campaign against the rebels which resulted in several countries banning the rebel outfit.
The Colombo High Court in October 2002 sentenced Prabhakaran to 200 years imprisonment for bombing the Central Bank building and killing about 100 people in January 1996 in trial held in absentia.
The Sri Lankan authorities have not been able to arrest the LTTE leader as he lives in the rebel hideout in the island's Northern Province.
Prabhakaran's LTTE has been fighting the government troops since the mid-1980s to set up a separate homeland for the Tamil minority in the north and east, resulting in the killing of more than 70,000 people.
- Sri Lanka refuses entry to Indian politicians - Feb 22, 2011
- Swiss to grill Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka - Jul 27, 2012
- Sri Lankans protest Prabhakaran video - Mar 13, 2012
- Ahead of elections, pro-LTTE journal attacks Karunanidhi - Apr 11, 2011
- A candid post-mortem of the LTTE (Book Review) - Jul 16, 2012
- A valuable insight into Sri Lanka's peace process (IANS Book Review) - Feb 23, 2010
- Yechuri wants 'justice' for Tamils - Mar 13, 2012
- Prabhakaran's mother dies in Sri Lanka - Feb 20, 2011
- AIADMK unhappy with PM over Sri Lanka (Lead) - Mar 14, 2012
- Arrest warrant issued for Prabhakaran (Lead) - Jan 27, 2009
- India wanted LTTE 'put in its place': Norway report - Nov 11, 2011
- India funds railway line in Sri Lanka - Nov 21, 2011
- Prabhakaran to blame for LTTE's demise, says Karuna - Dec 14, 2010
- Indian MP refused entry into Sri Lanka - Feb 22, 2011
- Prabhakaran's father to be cremated Sunday - Jan 09, 2010
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I use one in my classroom but the janitors asked me to take it home. they hated the scent.
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Get This Party Started
Hella Good
Hey Ya
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I Wish
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Living in America
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Love Shack
Love Struck Baby
Love You I Do
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Oh What a Night
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Put Your Records On
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Rich Girl
Rock and Roll Girls
Shining Star
Since U Been Gone
Sing a Song
Something to Talk About
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The House is Rockin
The One I Love
Too Hard to Handle
Walk This Way
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Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
Car Wash
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I Will Survive
It's Raining Men
Last Dance
Le Freak
That's the Way I Like It
Turn the Beat Around
We Are Family
You Keep Me Hangin On
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Chain of Fools
Dancing In The Street
Get Ready
Higher and Higher
How Sweet It Is
I Feel Good
I Want You Back
Let's Stay Together
Midnight Hour
Mustang Sally
My Girl
Natural Woman
Nowhere to Run
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
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Some Kind of Wonderful
Stand By Me
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Brown Eyed Girl
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Devil With The Blue Dress
Do You Love Me
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Good Lovin
Great Balls of Fire
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Louie, Louie
Mony, Mony
Pretty Woman
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Twisting the Night Away
Walk Like a Man
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Because You Loved Me
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Don't Know Why
Forever Young
From This Moment On
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Remember how satisfying putting down the phone USED to be. Like, back in the day, when you could yell "don't ever call me again" into the phone and instead of just furiously jabbing at a little red phone icon with your pathetic finger, you could snap the whole damn thing closed in the ear of your enemy. Good times, good times. Well, those times are about to make a comeback, because Motorola are reportedly bringing back their iconic Razr.
The Motorola Razr is about to make a comeback
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The good news is that this old dinosaur (lol) is getting a few necessary updates to bring it into the future (which is now, we are living in the future). It's going to have a touch screen, just like your iPhone, so we won't be thrown back to the dark days of having to spend 20minutes typing a text using the old "type 888 to get a V" method. But anyway, that would be a small price to pay for the satisfaction of snapping that baby shut after a heated (or even exciting) phone call!
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There aren't too many details available, so we're not sure yet when the device is going to be available in SA. All we know so far is that the device is ~apparently~ set to hit the market as early as next month, so you better start saving if you want to be able to drop an estimated R20 700 on your new Motorola Razr.
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Jumping into Island time! #catalinaisland (at Emerald Bay Catalina Island)
Jumping into Island time! #catalinaisland (at Emerald Bay Catalina Island)
This guy! So glad we took the time to see #theboss #Broadway! We're back to NYC and #thehamptons this week. See #springsteenonbroadway on #netflix soon @mcarlson1995 (at Springsteen on Broadway)
Amazing speaker, author, inspiration, Thomas L. Friedman! #newyorktimes @NYTFriedman #sunvalleywritersconference (at Sun Valley Pavilion)
The girls who know how to live seeing the plays about "the boy who lived" at the West End. #summer2018 (at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)
Happy Fourth of July from the Land of the Redcoats! Still patriots! #redwhiteandblue (at Soho House 76 Dean Street)
Off to Hyde Park for a real English Horseback ride! #summer (at Hyde Park)
Real fan-atics! #football fun in Brit pub (at London, United Kingdom)
O sole mio! #summer (at La conca del sogno, Nerano – Amalfi coast)
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Terrain at Antietam
by Mannie Gentile
When I begin my programs at the battlefield I hold up a park brochure opened to the map and say: "This, isn't the battlefield". Then I gesture toward the vast bank of windows of the observation room toward the landscape beyond and say "That, is the battlefield".
by Mannie Gentile
When I begin my programs at the battlefield I hold up a park brochure opened to the map and say: "This, isn't the battlefield". Then I gesture toward the vast bank of windows of the observation room toward the landscape beyond and say "That, is the battlefield".
Now, I know, that's all pretty obvious. Unfortunately the way we learn history is through maps, flat, two dimensionally. Peering down at a map everything seems so clear and understandable, and we find ourselves making judgements about how the various generals comported themselves during the battle, in a very all-knowing way, towering over it all, bathed in 151 years of combined analysis of the battle, with our handy park brochure.
None of which was available to the generals that actually fought the battle.
The point I try to make to the visitors is that the battlefield, the actual three dimensional one, is a vastly confusing place, and what we view as gently rolling and very beautiful countryside, was seen more as a death-trap for the men who fought here.
Recently I did a little study of some of the terrain features that figured into the first four hours of the battle, the "Cornfield phase" which would range from East woods to Nicodemus Heights. from Poffenberger ridge to beyond the Mumma farm. Now, believe me, I broke no new interpretive ground here. This story of terrain is one that has been told by generations of Rangers here at the battlefield, and they all do a better job of it than I ever could. However I'm the one with the camera!
Here are some revealing photos.
Here I am (nice vest eh?) in the Cornfield, facing east. Note the very dramatic ridge just behind me. This ridge has a declination of about five feet and is about two hundred feet long running north-south.
And here's what you see from the other direction:
You are viewing this west of my position, you are looking east with the remains of the East Woods beyond the Cornfield in the foreground. Imagine if several regiments of your enemy were hidden from your view if you were advancing in this direction. Or imagine if your regiment, in line of battle, was advancing in a line parallel to the fence, suddenly your left flank or center would disappear from view. My, how confusing. Even more so when men are trying in earnest to kill you.
Here I am crouched behind a rock outcropping that runs perpendicular to Starke Avenue due west of the Cornfield. This ridge is several hundred feet long and has a declination of between two and four feet.
This rock ledge is mentioned in several reports and other accounts of the battle.
This rock ledge served as an impromptu fortress three times during the course of the Cornfield fight. Initially, Union troops under Doubleday enfiladed elements Hood's Division. In subsequent action, Confederates of the 46th North Carolina, commanded by E.D. Hall would enfilade Union troops advancing along the Hagerstown Pike. Due to its commanding position of this rock ledge, relative to the Hagerstown pike, it becomes immediately evident that any troops positioned behind this outcropping possess a field of fire encompassing the road and any troops unfortunate enough to be on it. Ezra Carman, Antietam historian and colonel of the 13th New Jersey led some of those unfortunates and recalled the scene thus; "The men were being shot by a foe they could not see, so perfectly did the ledge protect them".
The "Disaster in the West Woods", the destruction of Sedgewick's Division in the West Woods by Confederates under Early was due in great part to a ravine system behind the Dunker Church that runs through the West Woods. Good luck and these ravines channeled Confederates to advantageous positions on the flank and in the rear of Sedgewick's doomed division. What is often cited in historical analysis as superb or lackluster generalship is often more the work of chance and terrain.
Deep down in one of the ravines travelled by Early's men. Seldom did visitors venture into this area. Now, however the area is accessible on the Park's West Woods trail.
Finally, one last terrain feature that had an important role in the battle.
This is the view the Confederates had of the Mumma swale on Dunker Church plateau. This is just behind the Visitor Center.
It looks like an easy advance to the Mumma Farm and points east.
Your only concern is that little guidon snapping in the breeze.
Your only concern is that little guidon snapping in the breeze.
Not until its too late will you (assuming you are a Confederate) realize that the guidon represents Union General George Sears Greene...
and his 1,700-man division concealed from view just beyond the lip of the swale, which will rise up and destroy your regiment.
and his 1,700-man division concealed from view just beyond the lip of the swale, which will rise up and destroy your regiment.
Make no mistake, I love maps, they are fabulous teaching tools. But to really understand the battle, there is no substitute for walking the actual ground and discovering an appreciation ofthe difficulties faced by those who fought over this very dynamic, and confusing landscape nearly a century and a half ago.
Come see for yourself at your National Park.
Ranger Mannie
Come see for yourself at your National Park.
Ranger Mannie


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Last week, Mr. Daniel Schaer, Ambassador-at-Large and Special Diplomatic Representative of the Estonian President for Africa and Ms. Kaisa Mitt-Alvarez, counsellor at the UN Security Council Task Force of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited the Republic of the Congo as part of the Estonian campaign for a UN Security Council non-permanent member seat.
The Estonian delegation met with Mr. Jean Felix Mokiemo, Secretary General for Cooperation and Development at Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Mr. Franck Siolo, Director of Cabinet of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications; and Mr. Florent Tsibaga, Adviser to the President. The Estonian delegation also met the EU Ambassador in Congo Mrs. Saskia De Lang and representatives of telecommunications companies.
The Estonian Delegation received a warm welcome in Congo and the Congolese representatives welcomed the opportunity to learn more about Estonia and Estonian e-solutions. Congolese delegations have visited Estonia 3 times, one of which was led by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications Mr. Léon Juste Ibombo. Opportunities for cooperation in the areas of information and communication technology were discussed at length and the Estonian delegation gave a detailed overview of the e-solutions and e-services available in Estonia.
The representatives of the Ministry for Post and Telecommunicatons were particularly interested in cooperation and further experience sharing. The representatives of Congo commended Estonia's objectives for the UN Security Council and noted that Estonia would have a lot to contribute as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.


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The player has to control the ship and specie. The player sets the goals for the specie they control and take charge of the planet. They are the sole drivers of their societal engine. One needs to make alliances and handle issues with other species.
Stellaris Console Commands
The game is topping the charts on the Steam engine with excellent reviews and lot of players. But at the point of time, the players are struggling with the game. So, they have found some console commands.
In this article we will discuss these console commands. Here we go.
Stellaris CONSOLE COMMANDS
In order to open the console in the game. First you will have to start a new game. Once you load it. You will have to press the tide button on your keyboard. You must remember you can only give commands in lowercase letters.
Here is a list of cheat codes that you can use to get success in Stellaris.
Cash [Desired Amount Here]
Adds minerals.
[Resource] [Desired Amount Here]
Instantly receive the desired amount of a given research material
Makes your fleet invincible
Instantly researches all technology
Enable/Disable AI
Survey every planet and star system on the map
Influence [Desired Amount Here]
Adds influence
Forces all AI to accept any demands from your society.
Immediately finish construction on all incomplete buildings
Immediately finish construction on all current research projects
Play [Insert Faction ID]
Play as a different faction. Typically used to play as Fallen empires
Add_Trait_Species [Species] [Trait Key]
Add a new trait to a species
Remove a trait from a species
Planet_Class [Class ID]
Change the class of the currently selected planet
Planet_Happiness [Desired Amount Here]
Increase the happiness of the currently selected planet by the desired amount
Planet_Size [Desired Amount Here]
Adjust the visual and tile size (to a maximum of 25) of the currently selected planet
Damage [Desired Amount Here]
Instantly damage the currently selected ship
Trigger the next presidential election
Fast_Forward [Desired Amount Here]
Instantly advance the calendar by the specified number of days
These are all Stellaris Cheats and Console commands that we know about. Do let us know if you want to add anything more in the comment section below.


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Sri Lanka Travel
Where is Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka is in Southern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south of India.
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The official language of Sri Lanka is Sinhala.
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Independence Day, 4 February (1948).
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Yellow with two panels; the smaller hoist-side panel has two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and orange; the other panel is a large dark red rectangle with a yellow lion holding a sword, and there is a yellow bo leaf in each corner; the yellow field appears as a border around the entire flag and extends between the two panels.


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Alright, so I'm on the hunt for a bunch of instrumental versions of Momoclo songs.
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Revan said:
saw new torrent of Hajikuro in A!O around 70gig @_@!, is it different from Hajikuro from 2015 ?
MizukiChan said:
Might just be the ISO file. They tend to be larger than other video file types
stansfield123 said:
I haven't downloaded it yet, but the descriptions says that this is a new edition, with some extras: a visual commentary, and a couple of MVs. But the documentary itself is the same.
alancsl said:
There is a new chapter added to the new edition. And also Akari's comment appear at the end of documentary.
The 3rd chapter : 売れない、タレント
stansfield123 said:
Now that's what's called a landslide victory. They really, really need to have her sing on her own more. When you youtube her name, there's like three or four videos of her singing solo songs...and they're from years ago.
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I'm used to it now but when i first heard it, for longer then a care to admit, i swore it was a computerized voice or she was trying REALLY hard to do the voice as some sort of gimmick.
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Filed under: Pelota Mano | Tags: Atano III, Goni III, Martinez de Irujo, Mendizabal II, Olaizola II, pairs, Pelota Mano, San Sebastian
Sunday 29th March
Atano III, Donostia-San Sebastian
MARTINEZ DE IRUJO – GONI III beat OLAIZOLA II – MENDIZABAL II 22-21
Stunning Aimar almost turns the tables but Irujo and Goni show themselves to be the consumate partnership as the championship goes down to the wire
This was the final to end all finals: for a championship three months in duration to come down one point in the final match in front of a packed audience in full cry is the stuff of Hollywood. That it as a close run thing was not wholly unexpected, pitting against each other as it did the two best pairs, containing some of the very greatest players, of the bunch. For two weeks, press and public alike have discussed the relative merits and weaknesses of the protagonists; Irujo's passion? Olaizola's tactical intelligence? Goni's consistency? Mendizabal's talent for the big stage? Which would win the day? In the end, none of the four deserved to lose, but as the tournament hovered in flux, the sword of Damacles had to drop for two.
The first two points of the final whetted the appetite for the forward battle to come as the great Irujo and Aimar locked horns from the off. The first point went to the former who used both walls to wrong foot Aimar and signal his intent. But the Goizuetan showed he would not be dictated to with a brutal airez of his own. In reality though, it was the duel at the back of the fronton which was to set the pattern for the majority of the game. It seemed to all the world as if the Aspe pair would waltz away with the prize as they consistently held their opponents at arm's length, never closer than two points. This seeming air of inevitability was brought about largely by the rock solid play of Goni III to whom the very idea of the unforced error seemed anathema. No matter how hard Aimar tried to set him up for a fall, the man from Zubiri returned with interest. It took the defending champions 17 points to knock him, briefly, from his pedestal of perfection when Aimar manipulated him back and forth until he hit wide. In contrast, Oier Mendizabal creaked almost from the off; before Goni had made one mistake, his young opponent had failed four times. The discrepancy in the defensive play was clear for all to see, not least for Irujo and Goni themselves, who milked it for all it was worth. Aimar played with assurance but for the large part was totally unable to impose himself. Irujo played with all his usual fire and more in his expert partnering of Goni. He was not immune from the odd careless error, greeted as usual but furious incredulity, but with dominance surely applied these hardly mattered.
When three Mendizabal errors in succession took the score to 16-11 in favour of Irujo and Goni, the Aspe partnership must have smelt the finishing line. However, this was to reckon without a man by the name of Aimar Olaizola who was not in a mood to let a potential eighth txapela pass him by. The Asegarce botillero called time out for his pair and when they returned to the fray, the match was very nearly turned on its head. With Aimar slightly repositioned on the fronton, the trailing attacker cut loose. A drop, an airez and a trademark lethal left handed hook ensured that the gap in points edged down, gradually, but assuredly. With the score at 18-15 to Irujo and Goni, Mendizabal hit low from the back of the fronton and one sensed that it was now or never for the Asegarce pair.
When Irujo miscued close to the side wall, Aimar pounced and attacked full on. Another hook levelled the score at 19-19. The crowd, now at fever pitch, gasped in stunned unison. This had hardly seemed possible a mere half an hour previously. When Goni could not return a long ball from Aimar, the defending champions were ahead for the first time and all hell broke loose in the Oier Mendizabal fan club, which was sizeable and deafening. However, their hero once again hit too low from far out and the score was tied again. Now the Aspe pair inched ahead and claimed a match point when Irujo left Aimar unceremoniously sprawling with his legs above his head. Surely this was it? But 21-21 came; Irujo could hardly comprehend how his shot failed to find the frontis. And so, one point to win it all. Who had the nerve and who would fall? The final point was agonising in every conceivable way. One moment of brilliance, one mistake and sporting fate would be sealed. Nobody had deserved this, but there was Fernando Goni brilliant to the last, sending a ball of beauty, low and skidding to the frontis. Aimar ran, dived, hit and watched. One inch was all it took to kill a dream. Juan Martinez de Irujo and Fernando Goni had won.
Points sequence (Olaizola II/Mendizabal II 1st): 0-1, 1-1, 1-3, 2-3, 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 4-6, 4-8, 5-8, 5-10, 8-10, 8-11, 8-12, 9-12, 9-13, 10-13, 11-13, 11-14, 11-17, 12-17, 13-17, 13-18, 15-18, 15-19, 19-19, 20-19, 20-20, 20-21, 21-21 and 21-22.
Filed under: Pelota Mano | Tags: manomanista championship, Pelota Mano
At an official presentation in Bilbao this morning, the 20 players scheduled to take part in this year's Manomanista Championship were announced. They are as follows:
For Asegarce: Bengoetxea VI (defending champion), Olaizola I, Olaizola II, Patxi Ruiz, Beloki, Leiza, Peñagarikano, Begino, Agirre and Retegi BI.
For ASPE: Barriola, González, Martinez de Irujo, Xala, Laskurain, Pascual, Urberuaga, Berasaluze IX, Eulate and Zubieta.
The first round will start on Friday (3rd April) when Berasaluze IX takes on Eulate in Zeanuri. The full schedule can be seen here
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Monday, 30/3 GERNIKA JAI ALAI 17:00 CET
First Game
Second Game
Third Game
Filed under: Pelota Mano | Tags: Goni III, Martinez de Irujo, Mendizabal II, Olaizola II, pairs, Pelota Mano
Aimar Olaizola Apezetxea
Date of birth: 13/11/79 in Goizueta, Navarre
Empresa: Asegarce
Position: forward
Height: 1.85m
Weight: 86kg
Debut: 12/04/1998, Lekunberri
Championship pedigree: Manomanista Champion in 2005 and 2007; Cuatro y Medio Champion in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008; Pairs Champion in 2008; Manomanista runner up in 2003 and 2006; Pairs runner up in 2003 and 2006.
Oier Mendizabal Huitzi
Date of birth: 21/05/83 in Donostia-San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa
Empresa: Asegarce
Position: defender
Height: 1.82m
Weight: 85kg
Debut: 18/06/05, Zarautz
Championship pedigree: Pairs Champion in 2008
Juan Martinez de Irujo Goñi
Date of birth: 04/11/81 in Ibero, Navarre
Empresa: ASPE
Position: forward
Height: 1.86m
Weight: 84kg
Debut: 06/06/03, Pamplona
Championship pedigree: Manomanista Champion in 2004 and 2006; Cuatro y Medio Champion in 2006; Pairs Champion in 2005 and 2006; Manomanista runner up in 2005; Cuatro y Medio runner up in 2008; Pairs runner up in 2004.
Fernando Goñi Erice
Date of birth: 05/02/73 in Zubiri, Navarre
Empresa: ASPE
Position: defender
Height: 1.84m
Weight: 84kg
Debut: 27/02/98, Pamplona
Championship pedigree: Pairs Champion in 2001, 2004 and 2005
Paths to the final
Olaizola II/Mendizabal II
Beat Titin III/Pascual 22-21
Lost to Xala/Laskurain 10-22
Beat Martinez de Irujo/Goñi III 22-16
Beat Olazabal/Barriola 22-10
Beat Titin III/Pascual 22-7
Lost to Xala/Zubieta 17-22
Lost to Martinez de Irujo/Goñi III 8-22 (Mendizabal II substituted for Zearra due to injury)
Beat Gonzalez/Eulate 22-19
Lost to Martinez de Irujo/Goñi III 17-22
Beat Berasaluze VIII/Begino 22-20
Beat Bengoetxea VI/Beloki 22-16
Martinez de Irujo/Goñi III
Beat Olaizola I/Patxi Ruiz 22-13
Lost to Berasaluze VIII/Begino 10-22
Lost to Olaizola II/Mendizabal II 16-22
Beat Bengoetxea VI/Beloki 22-18
Beat Olaizola I/Patxi Ruiz 22-8
Lost to Berasaluze VIII/Begino 20-22
Beat Olaizola II/Zearra 22-8
Beat Bengoetxea VI/Beloki 22-19
Beat Olaizola II/Mendizabal II 22-16
Beat Bengoetxea VI/Beloki 22-18
Beat Berasaluze VIII/Begino 22-15
Olaizola II v Martinez de Irujo: head to head record in finals
2005 Olaizola II beat Martinez de Irujo 22-18
2006 Martinez de Irujo beat Olaizola II 22-17
Cuatro y Medio
2008 Olaizola II beat Martinez de Irujo 22-17
2006 Martinez de Irujo/Martinez de Eulate beat Olaizola II/Zearra 22-11
Filed under: Pelota Mano | Tags: Goni III, Martinez de Irujo, Mendizabal II, Olaizola II, pairs, Pelota Mano
Mano Pairs Championship Final
Sunday 29th March
Atano III, Donostia-San Sebastian
18:00 (CET) Olaizola II – Mendizabal II v Martinez de Irujo – Goñi III
Live webcast on ETB-Sat from 17:00 (after a curtain raising match featuring Bengoetxea VI/Patxi Ruiz and Xala/Laskurain)
After nearly three months of competition and 38 matches, two elite pairs have risen to the top and won the right to face each other in what should be a pulsating final at Atano III on Sunday. In a match which was sold out within the hour, defending champions Olaizola II and Mendizabal II will take on Martinez de Irujo and Goni III for the ultimate prize.
Aimar Olaizola and Juan Martinez de Irujo face each other in a major final for the fifth time in their stellar careers and the forward battle between the two great rivals will have the word of pelota on the edge of their seats once again. Irujo had been in imperious form of late, cruising through the semi finals and getting the better of three of the very best in the process. He played last weekend in an effort to hone his form ahead of the crunch match and hardly broke sweat in driving Titin into the ground. Afterwards he expressed a desire for the final to come quickly; he is in quite some shape, both mentally and physically. Olaizola has never been quite at his brutal best in this competition, hampered at various times by back pain, sickness and tendinitis in his right shoulder which has prevented him from fully cutting loose. However, there have been flashes of brilliance, notably courtesy of his famed left arm, and he has shown his customary skill in reading and dictating matches, seizing the initiative when the chips are down. Much will depend on who can exert their authority in the early points. If Irujo hits his stride early, it will take all of Olaizola's composure to rein him in. Similarly, if Olaizola gets his nose ahead, Irujo may be liable to wobble as he did in the Cuatro y Medio final in December when he never recovered from going 5-0 down to the Goizuetan. It is all or nothing for these two gladiators of forward play.
Despite the fact that most eyes will be trained on the forwards, matches are often won or lost from the back of the fronton and the long range duel of Mendizabal and Goni has the potential to be every bit as enthralling. Goni has been the epitome of solidity throughout the tournament, the perfect foil for the attacking might of Irujo. The man from Zubiri, winner of three pairs txapelas in his long career, has undoubtedly been the more consistent of the two of late but his opponent, almost ten years his junior, has raised his game beyond all recognition in past weeks. His striking from the back of the fronton has been mesmerising and his maturity in controlling points admirable. If Mendizabal can maintain this form, Goni may well have his hands full.
So, who has the crucial edge? Irujo and Goni must start as favourites due to their excellent form in the semi final rounds, where they remained unbeaten. Irujo is on fire at the moment and it is hard to envisage him losing his way. However, he has been known to be erratic when the pressure is on. Which Irujo will we see on Sunday? Olaizola and Mendizabal have been beaten twice by their final opponents already in this tournament but did manage to beat them in the course of the quarter finals, in a game where Olaizola clearly had the upper hand. Question marks remain over Olaizola's fitness but if he and Mendizabal can play as they have at times, the celebrations could well be theirs. Tune in to ETB-Sat on Sunday to watch the drama unfold.
Image from: http://www.eitb.com/multimedia/images/2008/12/16/39758/39758_olaizola_mendizabal_dest_2.jpg
Filed under: Pelota Mano | Tags: Manomanista, Pelota Mano
On Tuesday 31st March, the opening presentation of the 2009 Manomanista Championship will take place at Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa. The selected competitors from both the empresas will be presented to the media in the presence of representatives from BBK, the sponsors of the tournament, and LEP.M.
The defending manomanista champion is Oinatz Bengoetxea, the 24 year old from Leitza who won his title by defeating Abel Barriola, who also hails from Leitza, on a day when the Navarrese town ruled pelota. Barriola will be back this year in an attempt to turn the tables. Other likely favourites include Juan Martinez de Irujo and Aimar Olaizola, who face each other in the pairs final on Sunday.
Image from: http://www.gara.net/Repository/Imagenes/Pub_7/Issue_1808/EgunHorif01.jpg
Filed under: Pelota Mano | Tags: Bengoetxea VI, Koka, Manomanista, Pelota Mano, Zubieta
On Saturday at Labrit, Juantxo Koka from Asegarce and Aitor Zubieta from Aspe will play each other to decide which will gain a place in the draw for the Manomanista Championship. Koka is no stranger to the individual championship, having been runner up to Mikel Goni in 1997. Last year however, he lost to Aritz Begino at the second stage. Zubieta was also an early loser last year, going down to Martinez de Eulate in the opening round. Each will relish his chance to reach the championship and gain the chance to do better this year. The match will not be webcast but will be broadcast on Telecinco in Spain.
In other news, reigning Manomanista champion Oinatz Bengoetxea was in imperious form on Monday in Tolosa. The 24 year old from Leitza was the best performer on show as he and Oier Zearra defeated fellow Asegarce pair Patxi Ruiz and Inigo Leiza 22-10.
Image from: http://www.diariodenavarra.es/actualidad/20080218/fotos/2008021802395810_375.jpg


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Ali Smith, a female entrepreneur from Stamford, Peterborough is celebrating becoming a bestselling author after she shared her story of overcoming trauma and PTSD, following numerous traumatic events in her life.
'When She Rises' went straight in at Number 1 in; Business Reference & Education, Women's Spirituality, and Collections Biographies sitting alongside criminologist, historian and author, OJ Modjeska's book 'Gone - Catastrophe in Paradise' and the popular book box set 'American History By The State'. Supported by ITV's Real Housewives of Cheshire, Leanne Brown, all proceeds and royalties from the book are going to the global charity One Woman At A Time, dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls in parts of Kenya, India and the UK who are severely disadvantaged by social or economic circumstances.
Ali Smith from Peterborough is a Pilates teacher, NLP coach, practitioner and speaker with trauma resilience being her area of expertise. She has also had many years of experience working in the health and wellness, nutrition and pharmaceutical industries. She said: "I realised after many years of working in these industries that wellness is so much more than healthy nutrition, exercise and looking after your body. Mental health plays a huge role and previous trauma can really affect our health in a myriad of ways." Ali is passionate about helping people to find their voices, own their stories, and step into their new normal after trauma. In 'When She Rises', she tells of how trauma has been a part of her life since she was 10 years old when she was faced with the sudden and unexpected death of her mother. This was followed three years later by a motor‐bike accident, in which her 19-year-old sister was killed. Years later when she was in her twenties she was involved in a terrorist attack in a church in Cape Town.
Ali said: "I have known for years that my purpose on this planet is to raise awareness around trauma and how it affects our lives, only it's taken years for me to get to the place where I can fully own my story."
Ali's story tells of how her post-traumatic stress journey began on the 25th July 1993 when Ali and her friend were late for a church service at St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town. She remembers that split second decision she took to enter the building through the back door - it was late, and after all it was raining. They ended up sitting towards the back, at the far left of the building. Midway through the service, two young singers came up to the stage to start a duet. She recalls hearing the start of the song then somewhere in what seemed like the distance, she remembers hearing a popping sound. She felt bewildered and at first she could not comprehend that shots were being fired. Suddenly someone was yelling for everyone to get down and take cover.
Four masked gunmen yielding R4 assault rifles had burst through the front doors of the church and opened fire on the congregation of some 1000 people. As Ali lay there, unable to move, she heard a loud explosion, followed shortly by another - two M26 hand grenades exploding. 11 people died that night and 58 were injured. Some lost eyes, limbs and sustained other life changing injuries. Some lost spouses and children that night. For Ali it was an experience that would truly shape her life forever.
She still can't recall what she physically saw as she lay on the ground terrified. It was only days later when she began to emerge from her "shock" bubble that her body began to shiver and shake. She seemed to be in a constant state of hyperarousal. She was jumpy, irritable and tearful. She did not want to leave the house or be alone. Her descent into the hell that is post-traumatic stress had begun.
Ali went to psychotherapy sessions and later EMDR which helped her to reprocess the symptoms of post traumatic stress, but it was studying NLP that was really the major turning point for her.
She said: "Awareness of the condition provided the missing key. Talking therapy is not always effective at treating the symptoms of PTSD. We need to work at the level of the heart brain not the thinking brain to allow the brain to reprocess the event. Learning exactly how our brain works through NLP and why we respond the way we do, was key for me in order to facilitate my own healing. I learnt so much about the unconscious mind and the mechanism of the stress response. I learned powerful tools - exercises and techniques that I could use to change my neurological state, calm my anxiety or master my emotions in the moment."
Now, Ali is on a mission to raise awareness of post-traumatic stress, removing the stigma and shame often associated with the condition. As a NLP practitioner and coach, Ali is passionate about drawing on her own experiences to help other people flourish after trauma. "I believe that the brain has the ability to be rewired. We cannot change the past, however we can reframe the meaning we give to these events so that they don't continue to dominate our lives moving forwards."
To celebrate the launch of 'When She Rises', Ali is offering 2 free places (worth £ 85 each) to attend her women's NLP empowerment workshop on 28th September in Peterborough as well as a FREE copy of her eBook 'Understanding trauma and how it affects us.' At the workshop you will learn powerful tools and techniques to help you to change your thinking, going from stuck to unstoppable in order to move forwards in your life. For further details and to secure your place go to www.ali-smith.com
Spearheaded by Tiffany Skirrow, a business mentor and founder of When She Rises Coaching, passionate about helping women turn their lives around and become their most successful selves, 'When She Rises' exists to offer hope for others who are having a difficult time as well as being a celebration of the women featured and all they have overcome.
'When She Rises' is available to buy on Amazon and will soon also be available in a paperback version too. To celebrate the launch of this book, Tiffany, many of the contributors and patrons of One Woman At A Time, including Leanne Brown, are celebrating at Victors, Alderley Edge on the 14th June. All profits from ticket sales will go to 'One Woman At A Time'.
The book has been published by the award-winning team at Authors & Co, who work to showcase and celebrate empowering stories of women. Founder Abigail Horne said: "At Authors & Co we work with entrepreneurs who want to make an impact through leaving their legacy and the audience we serve are those with inquiring minds, keen to drink in information, and learn from others' experiences. Our authors always lead their readers to reflect on their own lives and if aligned, make use of the teachings to move forward themselves". Authors & Co has already changed the lives of many women and female entrepreneurs from around the world, having helped almost 100 women globally to become best-selling authors, whilst reaching millions of readers worldwide.
"I have known for years that my purpose on this planet is to raise awareness around trauma and how it affects our lives, only its taken years for me to get to the place where I can fully own my story."
Ali Smith
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A three-tiered gold cake with a thick scarlet gash running through it is a good way to think of Mumbai – always an open wound festering in the gilded city.
Would we have rustled up a prettier image had we not binged on Sacred Games all weekend? Sure. But the fact remains that this wounded cake in the window is a surreal piece of art, and will draw you in to Provenance, a new gift shop and coffee shop in Lower Parel.
Provenance glistens at the tip of Palladium's peninsula, the Gucci-Zegna corridor where mostly the moneyed and mothballs venture. But here it is to rouse the house from its slumber, with a Dutch-made beast of a coffee machine, the "pride of joy of Provenance". Samir Gadhok beams brighter than its silver scales, and his wife and business partner Avani Raheja jokes that the store was really an excuse to buy the machine.
A good excuse, we muse, while walking around Provenance that open on July 12, 2018 by Burgundy, the folks behind ROYCE, Papabubble and Onitsuka Tiger. The idea at Provenance, the couple explains to us, is to build a constantly-spinning carousel of this and that, sourced from travels across India and the world - a closet for all your gifting needs.
Currently, this stock consists of a "library" of artisanal chocolate from New Zealand; half baked croissants and pain au chocolat from Brittany; Koinonia coffee from Bandra; and a cloche of Tier Nom (not from Cannes, but Colaba), maker of formerly mentioned surreal, pricey cakes which taste as complex as they look. May we recommend the dark chocolate-orange and pistachio-rose sponges? To support your cake and coffee habit, grey Terazzo benches and tables rise from the ground to seat about 17, in front of a window that lets light in.
Finish your coffee and browse Provenance's insides, where more gift-y things await – wrapping paper printed in Italy with maps and shells; New Yorker cartoons (officially licensed) on greeting cards and paper napkins; granola packs from Sustenance; and a batch of in-house labeled preserves, condiments and a bottle of Gujarat sun dried tomatoes that Avani highly recommends.
Our favourite: jars of irregularly shaped, multi-coloured chocolate pebbles that conceal within them bits of Valencia oranges and whole strawberries. "These Dragees we first tried in Germany and then sourced from Pireaus, a coastal town in Greece." Stoners!
Buy individually or pack a combination of your favourite things into Provenance gift boxes that look like tomes; speaking of which, the best present of all launches next month: your favourite novels bound in leather and ready for customization, priced at under Rs 1,000.
Here's a store that let's you send leather and strawberries to someone in the rain, and we can't think of a sexier monsoon gif(t).
Getting there: Ground floor, Palladium Mall, Lower Parel, call 66155711/82911 90798, Rs 250 for a pack of New Yorker party tissues, Rs 115 for a croissant.
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Pre Admission Testing: One Week Before Prostate Surgery
For the hospital that I was scheduled to have my da Vinci robotic surgery in, the guideline was to make an appointment one week or earlier, before my surgery date, for P.A.T. or Pre Admission Testing.
The pre admission nurses pretty much ran the show for this meeting. I filled out forms, and they drew blood for blood typing – I guess in case I needed some extra blood during surgery. However, my doctor told me this was highly unlikely, because the blood loss in da Vinci robotic surgery is really low. (And that turned out to be true).
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The media, basically on the left half of the political spectrum – obsess about Giuliani's remarks about Obama's asserted absence of affection for America ignore, or evade a fundamental certainty. As in the Bill Ayer's debate over Obama's relationship on a few sheets in Chicago amid the 90's and up until 2002 with the previous terrorism, the issue is not whether Obama traded mystery handshakes with Bill Ayers, or had the PLO banner up on his residence divider back when. The issue is the essential philosophical standpoint that a Bill Ayers has and its relationship to his radical and fierce past; a viewpoint imparted by a critical piece of the scholastic, learned and media planets. Also the individuals who agree with them.
The Vietnam War was terrible, a bleeding slip-up as opposed to an exorbitant war that helped contain socialism in courses a long ways past the geographic limits of Southeast Asia. Reagan was a militarist as opposed to the President who brought peace to the world through American quality. The legislative issues of character are what matter as opposed to what one does and accomplishes, in light of the fact that this bigot entrepreneur planet must be switched from the beginning, at the same time being cautious as they are not to connection the expression "unrest" with the likelihood of brutality. Yet defending viciousness far and wide all in the meantime. As these previous and not really previous radicals joined the framework they had viciously restricted, despite everything they have comparable objectives which they now go about attaining to through the instruction framework, through the political framework, and through the media.
Ayers is an uncomfortable update for some who impart a large portion of his social equity objectives as a result of his past, however not due to his objectives. Also that gathering obviously incorporates President Obama. So when Guiliani lets his more confrontational side detached, despite the fact that what he really said was so affably expressed it appeared to be practically hesitant in its structure if not in its ramifications, he is only expressing the self-evident: Obama accepts that through procedure, and differences, and counsel you can settle most things in this world, including the scourge of terrorism. Also that process, differences, and counsel is vigorously bound with hard line reactions of America. From inside from individuals like Bill Ayers, and from without from everybody from European contingent associates to risky radical gatherings. That is the reason Obama needs to "proceed onward" from an emphasis on terrorism and its subsequent good objectives that request a reasonable position in light of terrorism's barbarities. Maybe Obama's amiable and huge "I" incorporates seeing himself as an extension in the middle of East and West. Between Islam, particularly Sunnism, and Christianity. As a honest prophet who helps Christians to remember their past sins as an individuals, as he did at a late petition to God breakfast. Patriotism, then again, is specific and divided by nature, on the grounds that it means affection for one's own nation. An affection that is not adapted by the points of view of those of aversion or even despise the nation. How a president adjusts his or her patriotism with their occupation as pioneer of the free world is not a simple issue to judge. Anyhow it is not nit-picking or crazy to ask how devoted the man in the Oval Office is, or isn't. What's more to ponder what he truly accepts about Islam and its different fanaticisms.


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Are You Searching For Art Classes and Instruction in Alpine NJ
Attention all artists looking for art classes in Alpine NJ! Maud Guilfoyle is conducting helpful and insightful art classes in Demarest NJ at the Art School at Old Church. These art classes are suitable for all levels from beginners to the advanced level and all are more than welcome. You'll develop your painting and drawing style with still life and landscape paints through Maud Guilfoyle's watercolor, oil and acrylic classes. Also remember that these art classes, together with other classes at the Art School, have been approved for teachers' PDP credit.
Watercolor Classes in Alpine NJ: Where To Go
Watercolor painting is noted for its bright luminescent appearance. Watercolor paints are simple to set up and pack up, making them a ideal choice for artists who are looking for mobility. To help you paint watercolor paintings that you will really be proud of, Maud will help you hone your skills to make this dream possible. When you are searching for watercolor classes in Alpine NJ there's no better choice.
Whether you want to paint for a hobby or you're looking to develop a professional portfolio, these classes will instill the basics of still life and landscape painting and assist you in integrating art into your daily life.
Where To Go For Still Life Classes in Alpine NJ
Still life painting involves painting inanimate objects which can be anything from flowers, fruit, stones, or shells, to vases, drinking glasses, or alternative man made or natural items. Over the course of these still life art classes, you will learn to bring a naturalistic and beautiful still object to life in the form of a beautiful painting. Still life paintings allow considerably more lee-way for artists by providing them with the ability to set up objects into a composition that they find pleasing. If you have ever found yourself searching for still life classes in Alpine NJ, now's the time!
Landscape Classes in Alpine NJ: Where To Go
Landscape paintings are a favorite of many artists. There are few artists who don't want to work with subjects like rivers, oceans, mountains, forests, valleys, seascapes or any of the other wonder of nature. Bringing to life a natural environment is a wonder to behold in itself.
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Outside of-the class Maud Guilfoyle has written a few eBooks to provide you additional information outside the classroom. Art School Portfolio Handbook, Artist To Artist Handbook, Artists & Money Handbook and more recently, Art By Two are all eBooks that are available. Illustrated with first landscape, portraits, and figure drawings, Art By Two is a tribute to the relationship between Maud and her mother, artist Peregrine Higgins, as well as their relationship to art itself. These eBooks for artists and art lovers are available on iBooks, Kindle, Nook, and Kobo book. Have a look at this art class at tasoc.org for beginner to advanced artists!


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30 Nov Statement from the Five Cities Bidding to be European Capital of Culture 2023
On Tuesday we met with representatives of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport including John Glen MP, Parliamentary Under...
A joint Derry/Strabane and Donegal trade mission to Boston has culminated with awards seeking to honour those forging transatlantic partnerships between Ireland and the US.
Part of the trade mission's climatic Golden Bridges Conference, the awards luncheon featured winners including Inishowen flood relief campaigner Declan Houton, organiser of the 'Homes for Donegal' fundraising campaign, who was named Person of the Year.
The Nerve Centre's John Peto was also among the winners as he received the Education award for his Fab Foundation project that develops local young people's skills in digital manufacturing while the Vice President of Campsie-based Bemis Company Inc, Marty Scaminaci, received the award for Commerce.
Speaking at the event at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Councillor Maolíosa McHugh, who presented the Education award to Neil Gershenfeld on behalf of John Peto, congratulated all the winners.
"The Golden Bridges awards were a fitting climax to our week long trip in Boston and a great way to honour the dynamic relationships being forged in the various community, business, education, arts and culture initiatives in Ireland and the US.
I was particularly pleased for the local winners among the honourees who have carried out tireless work to improve the lives of people on both sides of the Atlantic and maintain the close ties between our regions.
The Golden Bridges Conference that preceded Friday's awards was an ideal forum to showcase our region, share ideas and discuss how best to progress the transatlantic relationship between Boston and the North West of Ireland."
Among the other Golden Bridges honourees were Director of the NI Bureau Norman Houston who received the Peace and Reconciliation award, Maureen Coyne Norris from the Maine Irish Cultural Centre who was recognised for her services to the diaspora while The Dave Burke Award went to Bob Collins of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
Representative Mary Keefe from Worcester, MA received the services to Irish American politics award while the award for Irish Literature went to Dr Kelly Matthews, Associate Professor of Literature at Framington State University. The morning's conference saw officers from Ulster University, Letterkenny IT and the North West Regional College join representatives from Harvard in a panel discussion on the benefits of a strategic alliance between the three further and higher education providers in the region and the increasing partnerships with Boston-based colleges.
Delegates heard from Derry City and Strabane District Council Chief Executive John Kelpie and Donegal County Council Chief Executive Seamus Neely who discussed Ireland's role as America's Best Friend in Europe. Officers from both Councils also discussed 'Driving Tourism to the North West through World Class Events' and 'Helping Start-ups Survive and Thrive'.
The North West delegation, which included 15 local companies and was led by Mayor McHugh and Leas Cathoirleach of Donegal County Council, Councillor Noel Jordan, returned to Ireland on Saturday and work will begin this week on building on the strong connections made during their week in the US.
Follow up projects include a first ever trade and investment delegation trip to Pennsylvania in the summer following a successful meeting with Mayor of Philadelphia Jim Kenney last Monday.
The packed week long itinerary included a meeting with the President of the Worcester Chamber Tim Murray, Irish Consul-General Fionnuala Quinlan and members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Several networking engagements took place including an Ireland North West Showcase event and an Invest NI Breakfast with Ireland's Ambassador to the USA Daniel Mulhall and key influencers in the Boston area.
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Academic policies at Wayne State include, but are not limited to, the course review process, course approvals, and student academic appeals.
Appeal Procedures, College/School Grade and Academic*
Students should first seek to settle grade disputes informally with the instructor. Each College and School has established formal grade appeal procedures. These procedures are available from the Dean's Office of the College or School and links are provided at the bottom of this page. In most instances, formal grade appeals must be filed within thirty days of the time the student has or should have received his/her final grade.
The University and each individual School or College have established formal grade appeal procedures. Please reference your appropriate school/college/program for specific grade appeal procedures.
- General University Policy on Grade Appeals
- Role of the Ombuds Office - Academic Appeals
- Dean of Students Office - Student Complaints
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Provost Office Appeal Procedure, Academic and Grade
In matters where a College's signed final decision is based upon the evaluation of a student's academic performance, and when review procedures available to him/her within the College have been exhausted, the student may request the Associate Provost for Academic Programs to review that decision on the record. The academic appeal form must be submitted by the student himself/herself, within thirty calendar days of the postmark of the College's final decision, which is to be sent to the address provided by the student in the College's review procedures. The Associate Provost's review of the College's decision will proceed as soon as practicable after submission by the student of his/her wish to seek review.
A copy of the School/College's final decision MUST BE SUBMITTED with the appeal.
Ph.D. student appeals that rise to the level of the Office of the Provost will be handled by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School. All other appeals, including undergraduate students, Law School students, and students in the clinical programs in Social Work, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, will be handled by R. Darin Ellis, Associate Provost for Academic Programs.
*Students must complete the procedures above before appealing to the Provost Office.
NOTE: All attachments must be either pdf, doc, or docx versions.
Students will receive a final decision within 30 days of submission.
The letter notification will be the final decision in the appeal process.
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