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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest.
One of the most interesting parts of being a popular internet writer that reviews a lot of books is that, over time, I've wound up on the mailing lists of various publishing companies. They send me piles of books that might be of interest without me even asking – and most of them aren't bad, but aren't particularly exciting, either. I usually end up giving away most of them, passing them on to people who will get some use out of them.
When I'm going to invest the time in reading and/or reviewing a book for The Simple Dollar, I usually look for a book that has one of two things (or, ideally, both). It either must challenge or deeply entertain me in some way (a la Your Money or Your Life) or it must offer some very specific advice that's not entirely duplicated in other works that I've read (a la The Complete Tightwad Gazette). If a book doesn't seem to have either, I either don't read it or, in the case that I've discovered this while reading the book, I don't usually review it. Again, it's not a matter of a book being bad, it's just not a rewarding read.
This brings us around to the book I'm reviewing this week, 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins, who podcasts at Quick and Dirty Tips as Get-It-Done Guy (a podcast I listen to semi-regularly). This book was one of those "random" ones sent to me by the publisher and, after leafing through it, I quickly placed the book in that second category – a nice collection of very specific advice and tips that offers a few new ideas and some encouragement on things I should already be doing. In this case, the focus is on time management and efficiency, a subject area I find goes deeply hand in hand with financial success.
Step 1: Live on Purpose
A successful day is any day where as many of your actions as possible have purpose. In other words, the less time you spend in idle activity – doing nothing, or merely doing something to "burn time" or out of boredom – the better off you are. Many people equate this with having no leisure time, but I wholly disagree. I engage in a lot of different hobbies, but even within those hobbies, there's purpose. I want to finish a certain book or a certain reading list, which builds my understanding of a certain topic. I want to master a video game, improving my ability to think under fire and my hand-eye coordination. I want to master a piano piece, improving many levels of cognitive ability. It's all about goals leading the way, particularly big goals broken down into small bits that fill your day with purposeful activity.
Step 2: Stop Procrastinating
I reallly liked Robbins' suggestion for beating procrastination in this chapter. It borrows a bit from Getting Things Done, but it's really clever. For every short-term and medium-term project you have going on (everything less than a few months down the road), perform an action related to that project every single day without fail. He calls it an "action pack" – I call it a pretty good idea. Just keep a list of your projects with you and each day, come up with an action you can take that moves you along for that project. Write a page of that paper. Clean out that closet. File those papers. Whatever little step it is, take one of them every day.
Step 3: Conquer Technology
Technology can make communication much easier. That's simultaneously a benefit and a problem, because when it becomes easy for someone to send you a message, you wake up to an inbox with a thousand messages in it. Sometimes, I'm basically forced to follow the advice in this chapter and just declare an email bankruptcy – I just empty my inbox and start over after reading as many as I can, as much as I try to keep on top of things. Why? The deluge is just too great to deal with at times – if I dealt with every single message, I would literally get nothing else done some days. Robbins' argument is that if something is really important, you'll be contacted another way.
Step 4: Beat Distractions to Cultivate Focus
For me, the best practice here is to just shut off distractions. I often turn off my cell phone and my internet access when I'm trying to write, simply to minimize distractions (and to make it harder to distract myself). Distractions slow down the writing process, not only due to the interruptions, but the time it takes to re-focus after an interruption. This is true of any process that requires focus. Multitasking simply means you're switching your attention back and forth (with a little bit of re-focus time between each switch), which means that if you're multitasking between two things, you're giving less than 50% to each of them. This might work if the things are extremely simple, but you'll just end up producing subpar work if you multitask with important things on the table.
Step 5: Stay Organized
Once you have a system in place, it's worth a bit of time each day to make sure that your system keeps running, because the consistency of that system is what makes it worthwhile. One of the "shocking" things about GTD (a system I mention often) is that you spend time each day maintaining the system by processing your inbox and so on. It can feel like time lost, but when you actually take in the breadth of what you're able to accomplish by having a truly trusted system that works, it far more than makes up for itself.
Step 6: Stop Wasting Time
Here, Robbins seems to distinguish between the various categories of things we have going on in our life – "not important, not urgent;" "important, not urgent;" "urgent, not important;" and "important and urgent." Take note of the times when you find yourself doing things that are "urgent and not important" because they are the ultimate time wasters. For me, many phone calls fall into this category – they're urgent (the ringing phone) but not important (a telemarketer or some other needless call). Thus, I've trained myself to basically ignore the phone when working.
Step 7: Optimize
The real key to this entire chapter is to never stop polishing what you're doing. You should always look for better ways of doing the things you need to do, whether it saves time or saves money or allows you to accomplish more with the same resources. Robbins offers several ways of doing this, but for me, the best key is to just listen to myself and observe what I'm doing. If I'm not doing something or something isn't working, I don't beat myself up over it – it just means I need a better solution for that problem.
Step 8: Build Stronger Relationships
I am a huge believer in stronger relationships. A core set of relationships in your life can sustain you and help you with anything that goes on in your life. Spend some time figuring out who the really important people are in your life, then go the extra mile to cement each of those relationships by reaching out regularly to those people, helping them when they need help, and involving them in your life. The more you do it, the stronger the core group around you will be and the more they'll support you during your crunch times.
Step 9: Leverage
The book concludes with an encouragement to use the skills that you have to every advantage. If you're exceptionally good at something, use that skill as often as you can. Trade using that skill. Negotiate with that skill as a bargaining chip. Share that skill with friends. Barter using that skill. If you can accomplish something easily that's very difficult for someone else, you've got something valuable there. Use it – and often.
Is 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More Worth Reading?
9 Steps to Work Less and Do More is a very solid and easy read with a lot of good little tips and ideas strewn throughout – much like the podcast, in fact.
It's not an all-encompassing time management system, nor will it solve all of your problems. Instead, it's just a collection of specific tactics that you can pull out and use in your own life, a piece here and a piece there, to make your situation stronger. Some of the ideas are excellent, too, like the "action pack" concept.
I enjoyed the book. If you're thinking about time management, you probably will, too.


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Taikira White chose City College for its nationally renowned choir, but her quests to find a fully functional bathroom in the school could make her a track star by the time she graduates.
Last school year, she found herself running up and down the hallways and staircases of the sprawling building, racing her classmates and the clock to find a toilet that would flush and a sink to wash her hands. Rarely were both an option.
"It's just so tragic," said the 14-year-old, who will be a sophomore in the coming school year. "The toilets stopped working, the sinks stopped working, there's never any soap. … No one should have to go through this."
But students and educators in at least 70 percent of the city's schools are making do in buildings where students are at the mercy of a fluctuating thermometer and the cooperation of a dilapidated, and in many cases hazardous, infrastructure.
"I usually teach with a sweat towel," said Mark Miazga, an English teacher at City. "It's hard to concentrate, and once, last year, I nearly fainted in the middle of class."
After an academic year in which 45 schools closed for a total of 34½ days because of problems ranging from electricity shortages to carbon monoxide leaks, parents and education advocates say the city's decrepit school facilities should be the central issue in this year's mayoral election. But neither Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake nor any of her challengers have produced a dollars-and-cents plan to improve schools.
While the mayor of Baltimore does not run the city schools — the district is managed by the superintendent, overseen by a school board jointly appointed by the mayor and the governor — facilities and school funding are two areas in which the mayor can exert authority.
And the mayor elected in November will face a multibillion-dollar challenge to exercise it. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland reported last year that it would take $2.8 billion to rebuild, repair and renovate the majority of the city's school buildings.
Rawlings-Blake said last fall that she agreed with the number and charged a task force with drafting solutions to finance needed repairs. The report, which Rawlings-Blake had said would be issued in February, has not been released.
Rawlings-Blake blames the delay on changes in the formula used to calculate the state's contribution to the system, on work by the task force to "zero in on the actual cost" of necessary repairs, and the care members are taking to produce a report that will "lead to the outcome we want."
School advocates have criticized Rawlings-Blake's proposal to spend 90 percent of the city revenue from Baltimore's planned casino on a property tax reduction and only 10 percent on school construction.
By law, the city is only able to use its portion of the revenue for these two purposes.
"The fact that 90 percent would go to property taxes, and only 10 percent of that money goes to our kids shows where our priorities are," said Shannen Coleman, co-chair of the Baltimore Education Coalition, which represents several local advocacy groups. "We have been patient with this mayor in waiting for this report, and now we need action."
Rawlings-Blake said she has "consistently" backed using slots revenue to reduce property taxes since she was the City Council president.
"So much attention has been cast on the property tax issues, and in reality, that's not the main reason that people are not staying in the city," said Bishop Douglas Miles, who co-chairs Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development.
"People stay until their children hit school age because our children are being expected to learn and perform in many instances, in unconscionable conditions."
Of the mayor's challengers, former city planning director Otis Rolley has been most vocal on education.
Rawlings-Blake and Rolley both have daughters who attend city elementary schools.
Rolley says slots revenue should go to school construction. The education platform he unveiled two months ago includes plans to build or renovate 50 schools in a decade. He says he would seek the help of developers and businesses, an approach that has been used in Washington and in Greenville, S.C.
Rolley has said he would first ensure that the district's capital improvement budget is being managed properly. He recalled a time during his City Hall tenure when the school system had $40 million of unspent funds.
"While they were crying broke, they weren't effectively managing what they did have," Rolley said.
State Sen. Catherine E. Pugh has also vowed to tap public-private partnerships to build schools. She speaks of the fashion, design and architecture high school she is helping to found. It's funded in part with private money.
The city allocated $16 million to the system's capital budget last year, the lowest amount in the past five years, but helped obtain more state funding for capital improvements this year.
"Our fear is that a $16 million allocation every year isn't going to meet the need," said Sue Fothergill, Coleman's co-chair at the Baltimore Education Coalition.
The group wants funding levels comparable to those of school systems such as Baltimore County, which has allocated more than $100 million to capital improvements in four of the past five years.
"This isn't a matter of doing something that has not been done before," Fothergill said. "It's a matter of looking around and saying, 'How can we do that in Balitmore?'"
Clerk of Court Frank M. Conaway Sr. wants more scrutiny of facilities contracts, particularly in reining in contractors who he says might be taking advantage of the system.
Conaway said he would also look to developers and others who have benefited from tax breaks in the city.
"If we give them tax breaks, they can help us out with schools," Conaway said.
Joseph T. "Jody" Landers, until recently executive vice president of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors, said that "as important as the facilities are, [they] are not the biggest issue for the school system right now.
"How many incidents have there been where students were injured because of faulty facilities?" he asks. "I hear more concerns about bullying."
Still, Landers says, the city should be consolidating and closing "any schools that are so far gone that it's not worth investing the money in them."
The former city councilman says the city could convert other available space in the city into classrooms, as a cheaper alternative to building new schools. He said his initial approach to allocating slots revenue would be to divide it equally between property taxes and school construction.
All of the candidates back greater school funding.
"It's always intrigued me how we've allowed the 1 percent here and there from the city, then you hear we're going to be hiring police, but letting go of teachers," said Dennis Moulden, former president of the district's parent advisory group, who once rallied state lawmakers for more money for city schools. "For years we have marched for adequate funding, and it got to a point where I said, 'I'm not marching in Annapolis anymore until we march downtown.'"
The city under Rawlings-Blake has kept funding at "maintenance of effort" levels — money that local governments are required to give its school systems under state law — even as other jurisdictions have sought relief from the responsibility.
"I don't think there's ever a year that we don't want to increase our maintenance of effort," Rawlings-Blake said. "The fact that … we kept a commitment to our kids is significant."
However, school funding has not increased with enrollment. Per-pupil spending by the city has remained flat for the past three years at about $2,500 per student.
The city has also cut back in the last two years on additional funding it provided for services such as student bus passes. The city's 50 percent share for crossing guards is still being negotiated.
Rawlings-Blake threatened to cut funding to 13 school-based health centers last year, but restored the money after a public outcry.
Landers and Pugh said they would look to increase spending beyond maintenance-of-effort levels by cutting back on administrative costs in the city budget.
Conaway said he believes the city should shoulder more of the responsibility for the schools. It now provides 22 percent of the system's $1.3 billion budget. The state is the largest source of funding for the system.
"If we can find money to build a $304 million hotel, we can find money for the schools," Conaway said.
City schools will come to a crossroads this year, as the system looks to rebound from the first academic decline in years and a flurry of cheating scandals.
Jessica Shiller, a former education policy director for Advocates for Children and Youth, a local advocacy group, acknowledges the limits on mayoral influence in the Baltimore schools. But failing to use the bully pulpit to support education, she said, "is kind of a waste."
"The national conversation is about bringing back the schools, and we haven't heard a clear vision from the mayor about how to do that in Baltimore," Shiller said. "We're not going to be able to have a robust school system with a mayor who's not really sure what to do with it."
The centerpiece of Rolley's education platform is a proposal to return the school system to mayoral control.
In 1997, then-Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke turned control of the school system over to a city-state partnership, which resulted in a $254 million boost in state aid over three years.
But Rolley said reverting to such a system would increase local accountability.
Rolley also proposes a targeted voucher program, a controversial system that provides public subsidies to attend private schools. He proposes to close the five worst-performing middle schools and offer the students transfers to other public schools or $10,000 vouchers, contingent on passing grades, to attend private schools.
His plan, he says, is inspired by the opportunity he received to escape his failing high school in New Jersey to attend more rigorous programs.
"We have the opportunity to elect a mayor who understands in his heart the fundamental role education can play when we have someone coming from a dysfunctional background," Rolley said.
Landers said "rebuilding morale in the system is as important as addressing these other issues."
He said he would encourage a series of forums with schools chief Andrés Alonso and school communities.
Rawlings-Blake has remained a staunch supporter of the city school system and Alonso, and said she was "pleased" with the progress that's been made.
She urged residents to look at the recent slide in test scores and the cheating scandal as aberrations in an otherwise improving system.
"I'm not accepting that this dip in test scores this year is a forecast of what's to come," she said. "Our kids have come a long way.
"It's OK to say that we want to do better, without minimizing the progress that's been made."
Where they stand
Improving school facilities:
•Rawlings-Blake's plan to fund school facility improvements has been delayed six months; she says it will be released in the next few weeks. She would designate 10 percent of slots money to school construction.
•Rolley would look to public-private partnerships to help fund improvements of 50 schools in the next decade; would dedicate almost all slots revenue to school construction.
•Pugh would press the business and philanthropic community to partner in renovating schools, as was done in her partnership with Maryland Institute College of Art President Fred Lazarus for a design school the two will open this fall.
•Landers would look to close and consolidate schools and programs; convert large spaces, like vacant shopping centers, into classrooms.
•Conaway would look to the private sector to help with funding, specifically developers who have received tax breaks from the city. He also wants more scrutiny of city schools facility contractors, to ensure they are providing honest pricing.
Increased funding for city schools:
•Rawlings-Blake emphasized the city has maintained its "maintenance of effort" to the school system, even with a large budget deficit. .
•Rolley said the state needs to continue its full funding of city schools under the Thornton formula; says answer is not to keep putting money in the schools, but ensuring stewardship of the money already in the system.
•Pugh would look for more money for city schools as she overhauls the city's budget to cut administrative costs.
•Landers would also look for more money to support the school system by cutting city administrative costs.
•Conaway said that if the city can find $304 million for a hotel, it can find more money for schools.
Supporting city's academics:
•Rawlings-Blake would continue supporting Teach for America, city schools CEO Andrés Alonso and the efforts of the school system, such as the new teachers union contract.
•Rolley would return the system to mayoral control, and champion a voucher program for students zoned for the city's five worst-performing middle schools.
•Pugh would be a full partner with the school system, and start by opening a dialogue about what tools the system needs to prevent cheating and declining test scores.
•Landers said that morale is biggest challenge in city schools right now and would propose that Alonso have a forum to hear from teachers and the community who are frustrated; would help the system to restore public trust in the wake of cheating scandals and academic backslide.
•Conaway would promote more vocational programs in the city's schools, to teach students academic and job skills.
Taikira White chose City College for its nationally renowned choir, but her quests to find a fully functional bathroom in the school could make her a track star by the time she graduates.

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The NHS Operating Framework 2010/2011, through the NHS Informatics Planning Guidance Annex 1 (National Expectations) stated that: "An IG audit utilising the centrally provided audit methodology should be included within the work plans of each organisations' auditors".
To ensure a common approach to such an audit across the NHS, the Informatics Directorate of the Department of Health commissioned an internal audit assurance framework for IGT self-assessments. The Department asked the Audit Commission to lead on the development, supported by Mersey Internal Audit Agency and South Coast Audit & Consultancy Services. The framework applies to the following organisations:
It can however be adapted for audit of non-NHS organisations such as Commercial Third Parties and NHS Business Partners. In light of the recent White Paper, it is anticipated that discussions will be held as to the utilisation of the framework for and by GP commissioning bodies.
The internal audit framework comprises:
The framework is supported by:
These documents have also been published on the Department of Health website.
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Happy New Year! At FIFA.com we hope all our users have had an enjoyable holiday season, have begun 2013 on the right foot and have high hopes for the year ahead. Are you all ready to break in your new diaries and calendars? We're here to help you by bringing you some of the key footballing dates ahead over the coming 12 months, so let's get to it!
Don't put away your elegant festive attire just yet, as it is just such get-up that would suit the FIFA Ballon D'Or Gala 2012, where the finest performers of the past year will receive their awards. On 7 January, FIFA.com's editorial team will bring you everything that happens at the stellar event at Zurich's Kongresshaus, which is set to welcome the crème de la crème of the football world.
In terms of competitive national team action, that will start in Africa, more specifically South Africa, where the 2013 edition of the CAF African Cup of Nations will be held. What is more, said tournament will also reveal the continent's representative for the much-anticipated FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil.
The Festival of Champions itself kicks off on 15 June, with the final on 30 June in Rio de Janeiro. June is indeed to be a hectic month, with the FIFA U-20 World Cup running from the 21st of that month through to 13 July in Turkey.
While there are no FIFA women's showpieces this year, there is a return for the cream of the global beach soccer crop. The always spectacular FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will this time be played out on the sands of Tahiti, between 18 and 28 September.
And a little later in the year – and back in the 11-a-side game – it will be the turn of the younger generation, as the United Arab Emirates are preparing to host the FIFA U-17 World Cup from 17 October to 8 November.
Battling it out for passage for Brazil
November will also feature two crucial matchdays in qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™, as it is during that month the intercontinental play-offs will be played. On 15 and 19 November the Asian Zone and South American Zone representatives will go head-to-head, as will one side from the CONCACAF and Oceania Zones respectively. At stake: the final two places at Brazil 2014.
Of course, before that stage comes around, rounds of qualifying matches remain across the various continents. The first of these matchdays are in February, with the intensity building through ties in March, June, September and finally in October.
The icing on the cake of an already tantalising looking year will be the FIFA Club World Cup which, having spent six of the past eight years in Japan, will be hosted in Morocco in 2013. Over the course of the year,FIFA.com will not take its collective eyes off the respective qualifying competitions for this prestigious event, such as for example, the UEFA Champions League – whose final will be played on 25 May at Wembley – or the Copa Libertadores de America.
National team friendlies, men's and women's domestic league and cup action, futsal competitions, qualifying encounters for all the aforementioned international competitions... Planet Football's cup runneth over in 2013, and there is no better place to stay informed than FIFA.com.
Have your say!
Which footballing event in 2013 are you most looking forward to?


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Emilie Parker laid to rest next to her grandfather in Utah
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OGDEN, Utah -- Emilie Parker, a 6-year-old victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, was laid to rest next to her grandfather Saturday in the town where she was born.
Burial at Evergreen Memorial Park followed a private funeral for family and close friends at a Mormon church across the street from Ben Lomond High School, where Emilie's parents, Robbie and Alissa Parker, met.
The Parkers emerged from Saturday's solemn service carrying their two other daughters, Madeline and Samantha, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The girls' coats were pink, their older sister's favorite color.
The funeral procession continued through streets lined by pink-clad observers, and by trees, bushes, signs and utility poles draped with pink ribbons and banners.
A public memorial service was held Thursday in Ogden for the blond-haired girl, one of the 20 schoolchildren and six adults killed at the Sandy Hook school Dec. 14.
The parents had asked for privacy at Saturday's funeral. Plans called for Emilie to be laid to rest in a favorite white dress with an American Girl doll at a gravesite next to her maternal grandfather, who died Sept. 29.
Douglas G. Cottle was an Ogden dentist who fell from his bicycle during a 200-mile race. He was recovering from brain trauma but fell and hit his head a second time trying to walk from a hospital bed, friends said. He was 62.
Emilie made a card for her grandfather to be placed in his coffin.
Robbie Parker, a 32-year-old physician's assistant who landed a job in Connecticut less than a year ago, became one of the faces of the tragedy early on when he appeared before cameras to describe the couple's grief.
He told the crowd Thursday he felt a lot of support from the city where he was born and reared and where Emilie was born.
The family lived in Ogden until Emilie was almost 3. Then they moved to Oregon, New Mexico and, eventually, Connecticut, where they bought a house and planned to settle down.
At Thursday's service, family members remembered Emilie as a "picture of perfection," a girl full of love, compassion, charity and enthusiasm.


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|Washington Place, taken by Cynthia Shenette, February 2014
Cynthia Shenette of Heritage Zen blog, asked if I had anything she wanted me to look up during her trip to Hawaii. After a few inquiries, I mentioned a request, and learned she would be in Honolulu and would indeed be visiting Washington Place, a Greek Revival palace a distant relative of mine, Anthony Ten Eyck named for George Washington. She took the above photo for me, and gave me some leads for information. I believe it was Heather Rojo, of the Nutfield Genealogy blog, who asked me many years ago, if I had Anthony Ten Eyck in my tree, because she had also gone to Washington Place and had seen his name. Commissioner Anthony Ten Eyck was my 5th cousin 4x removed. Because of the history, photo and my curiosity, I am posting this piece.
There is quite a bit of information on Washington Place, and below are parts of the official documentation about the naming of the Palace, thanks to Wikipedia, "One of the first boarders was Anthony Ten Eyck, an American Commissioner to the islands appointed by President James K. Polk who established the American Legation in the house. Ten Eyck named the house "Washington Place" in a February 22, 1848 letter, after George Washington in celebration of the first US president's birthday. King Kamehameha III officially approved the name." By the time this occurred, Anthony's wife had passed away in 1846. "It was where Queen Liliʻuokalani was arrested during the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Later it became the official residence of the Governor of Hawaiʻi. It is a National Historic Landmark, designated in 2007. The current governor's residence was built in 2008 behind the historic residence, and is located on the same grounds as Washington Place." The placing of the House as a National Historic Landmark document is 8 pages long, and below are pages 2 and 6 with mention to Anthony TenEyck.
"It is to Commissioner TenEyck that Washington Place owes its name"
From various resources, I've been able to do a short timeline of Anthony's career.
26 Feb 1811 born in Watertown, New York, son of Egert Ten Eyck, a judge, and Rebecca Pearce
1835-1841 Lawyer, later Clerk of Michigan Supreme Court in Detroit, Michigan
1841-1843 U.S. Commissioner to Sandwich Islands, Hawaii
Secretary James Buchanan on March 28, 1845 appointed Anthony Ten Eyck commissioner to Hawaii. US Diplomatic Representatives to Hawaii Commissioners from 1845 - 1848
1 Jun 1861–23 Sep 1865 Major and Paymaster Vol. In 1865 was mustered out of volunteer service.
5 Oct 1867-- Died in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut and is buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan.
Anthony and Harriet had two children, Egbert F. born about 1839 and Harriet Fairchild born about 1844. Information is nil on them. However, a reader and friend took photos of where his father and family were buried, photos were on my post almost two years ago.
I am missing quite a bit about this family, and I'm quite hesitate about posting this. But, perhaps by doing so, somebody will share the same line and maybe have more information, and hopefully share. A short Descendant Report, beginning with his parents is below.
|Egbert TENEYCK (Antony TENEYCK6, Jacob C. TENEYCK5, Coenraet TENEYCK4, Jacob TENEYCK3, COENRAEDT TENEYCK2, WILHELM an DER EICK1) was born 18 APR 1779 in Schodack, Rensselaer Co., New York, and died 11 APR 1844 in Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York. He was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York. He married Rebecca PEARCE. She was born 15 AUG 1788, and died 26 FEB 1850 in Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York. She was buried in Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York. He married Ann PEARCE. She was born 8 DEC 1799, and died 8 JUN 1870. She was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York.
|Children of Egbert TENEYCK and Rebecca PEARCE were:
|Anthony TENEYCK (Egbert TENEYCK7, Antony TENEYCK6, Jacob C. TENEYCK5, Coenraet TENEYCK4, Jacob TENEYCK3, COENRAEDT TENEYCK2, WILHELM an DER EICK1) was born 26 FEB 1811 in Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York, and died 2 NOV 1867 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. He was buried in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan. He married Harriet Elizabeth FAIRCHILD 23 AUG 1836 in Albany, Albany Co., New York, daughter of Joy Hamlet FAIRCHILD and Cynthia WATEROUS \ WATERHOUSE. She was born 2 SEP 1815, and died 5 NOV 1846 in Sandwich Islands, Hawaii. He married Harriet B. JOHNSON 23 NOV 1851.
|Children of Anthony TENEYCK and Harriet Elizabeth FAIRCHILD were:


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Mali president dissolves constitutional court amid unrest
President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is attempting to calm unrest that saw four people killed on Friday.
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 02:37:09 GMT
US Navy welcomes 1st Black female Tactical Aircraft pilot
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 01:44:55 GMT
2 officers, suspect killed in Texas border town shooting
Two police officers were shot and killed Saturday by a suspect who later fatally shot himself in a South Texas border town after responding to a domestic disturbance call, authorities said. McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez identified the slain officers as Edelmiro Garza, 45, and Ismael Chavez, 39. Garza was an officer with the police department for more than eight years while Chavez had over two years of experience.
Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:32:26 GMT
Mueller defends Russia probe, says Stone remains a felon
Former special counsel Robert Mueller sharply defended his investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, writing in a newspaper opinion piece Saturday that the probe was of "paramount importance" and asserting that a Trump ally, Roger Stone, "remains a convicted felon, and rightly so" despite the president's decision to commute his prison sentence. The op-ed in The Washington Post marked Mueller's first public statement on his investigation since his congressional appearance last July. It represented his firmest defense of the two-year probe whose results have come under attack and even been partially undone by the Trump administration, including the president's extraordinary move Friday evening to grant clemency to Stone just days before he was due to report to prison.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 22:48:04 GMT
Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic
President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as a precaution against spreading or becoming infected by the novel coronavirus. Trump flew by helicopter to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in suburban Washington to meet wounded servicemembers and health care providers caring for COVID-19 patients. As he left the White House, he told reporters: "When you're in a hospital, especially ... I think it's a great thing to wear a mask."
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:43:35 GMT
Roger Stone has escaped punishment for his crimes. Trump is sending a signal
By commuting Stone's sentence, Trump is telling others who might commit crimes on his behalf that he's got their back At America's birth, when delegates in Virginia were debating whether to ratify the constitution, a politician called George Mason had an objection. Mason, who was influential over the development of the bill of rights, wondered whether the presidential pardon power was too broad. Might not the president encourage people who worked for him to commit crimes, and then pardon them? If he could, there would be essentially no check on a president's power to break the law. Given that sort of leeway, an unscrupulous president could "establish a monarchy, and destroy the republic".Mason's objection ought to concern us still today. Late on Friday, Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of his longtime associate Roger Stone, all but guaranteeing that Stone will never face justice for crimes he committed while obstructing an investigation into the Trump campaign's links with WikiLeaks and the Russian intelligence agencies who attempted to tip the 2016 election in Trump's favor. Backlash to the decision has been swift, with Trump's fellow Republican Mitt Romney condemning the president's "unprecedented, historic corruption".It is not quite true to say that there is no precedent for Trump's act. As Mason foresaw, executive clemency has been misused by presidents throughout American history. George HW Bush pardoned six officials who had been involved in the Iran-Contra scandal – an act which may have been intended to cover up his own wrongdoing. George W Bush commuted the prison sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who obstructed a federal investigation into the illegal outing of a CIA operative who was critical of the Bush administration.This history doesn't make Trump's actions any less troubling. In fact, by revealing how little restraint there is on the use of executive clemency, it ought to make us worry how much further the president – whose disregard for political and constitutional norms truly is without precedent – might go in the future.Most presidents issue their most controversial pardons furtively, at the end of their terms in office. But Trump has reveled in his ability to toss aside the principle of the rule of law when it comes to his own allies. In 2017 he pardoned the former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had violated the constitutional rights of countless Arizonans. During the Mueller investigation – which exposed evidence that Trump himself may have committed obstruction of justice, a crime for which he could still be charged after leaving office – the president issued a full pardon to Libby, seemingly with the sole purpose of sending the message that he would forgive those – like Stone – who committed obstruction to protect himself.A president who is willing to use executive clemency to forgive violations of constitutional rights and protect himself from the rule of law could become, as Mason foresaw, a monarch. At the Virginia ratifying convention, James Madison replied to Mason that such a president would surely face impeachment. But today's Republican party has made it clear that it will protect Trump from impeachment even in the face of overwhelming evidence of his abuses of power. Instead, by refusing to convict, they licensed Trump to double down.As America moves towards an election which Trump looks on course to lose, he is likely to become even less inhibited. The issuing of pardons and commutations for crimes already committed might pale in comparison with crimes yet to come. Trump could seek, once again, to sway the outcome of the election, promising pardons to his co-conspirators. He could order, as he did outside the White House, security forces to be used to disperse protesters who came into the streets in response, then issue pardons for any crimes tried by court martial or in Washington DC's highest court.The fact that Trump has rarely shown the focus, intelligence or competence necessary to pull off such a conspiracy is little comfort. What he lacks in these qualities he makes up for in brazenness, in loyal subordinates equally willing to subvert the rule of law, and in the possession of a compliant conservative politico-media apparatus that will rationalize any action he takes. He could do incalculable damage to confidence in American democracy and the rule of law before he is finally wrested from the White House.In this sense, Roger Stone is the canary in the coal mine. Trump's ability and willingness to commute his sentence is a reminder that for all its genius, the American founding left behind a structure which can be exploited and abused by an unscrupulous president. As we live through what are hopefully the dying days of the presidency of the most unscrupulous of them all, we have to remain on our guard. Partly because of his fears over the pardon power, George Mason ultimately became one of only three of the framers of the constitution to refuse to sign the final document, believing it created a blueprint for tyranny. Proving him wrong requires constant vigilance, now and in the future. * Andrew Gawthorpe is a historian of the United States at Leiden University
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 20:55:55 GMT
Maine GOP congressional primary heats up over Saudi link
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:51:43 GMT
Trump's defiant help for Stone adds to tumult in Washington
President Donald Trump's intervention into a criminal case connected to his own conduct drew fierce rebukes Saturday from Democrats and a few lonely Republicans, with calls for investigations and legislation. Shortly before heading out Saturday morning for his Virginia golf club, Trump made unfounded accusations against his political foes while taking another swipe at special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which led to convictions for six Trump aides or advisers, including Stone, a larger-than-life political character who embraced his reputation as a dirty trickster. "Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt that never should have taken place," Trump tweeted.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:21:42 GMT
Israelis protest government's economic response to virus
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in downtown Tel Aviv on Saturday, protesting what is widely seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to address economic woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. With economic stress deepening in recent weeks, many Israelis think the government has not done enough to compensate hundreds of thousands of workers who lost their jobs as a result of restrictions and shutdowns. Unemployment has surged over 20%, and Netanyahu has seen his popularity plummet.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:19:24 GMT
UN approves aid to Syria's rebel area through 1 crossing
Russia scored a victory for its ally Syria on Saturday by forcing the Security Council to limit humanitarian aid deliveries to the country's mainly rebel-held northwest to just one crossing point from Turkey, a move that Western nations say will cut a lifeline for 1.3 million people. Russia argues that aid should be delivered from within the country across conflict lines, and says only one crossing point is needed. U.N. officials and humanitarian groups argued unsuccessfully — along with the vast majority of the U.N. Security Council — that the two crossing points in operation until their mandate expired Friday were essential for getting help to millions of needy people in Syria's northwest, especially with the first case of COVID-19 recently reported in the region.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:13:14 GMT
Iran's president warns lockdowns could lead to protests
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that lockdowns meant to curb the spread of the pandemic could lead to street protests over economic problems, his website reported. In a regular Cabinet meeting on the coronavirus, Rouhani said the easiest way to fight the virus is to close off all activities. Confirmed virus cases and deaths reached a record low in May after mass lockdowns were imposed in Iran.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:00:15 GMT
Iraq's PM takes step in battle against border corruption
Iraq's prime minister took a first step Saturday to combat cross-border corruption that has long plagued the country's frontiers as part of a reform plan to grapple with unprecedented financial shortfalls. Mustafa al-Kadhimi launched a campaign to recover "hundreds of millions" of Iraqi dinars in import tax revenue lost to bribery in the northern province of Diyala. In the first phase, security forces from the Interior Ministry will supervise the work of border guards to ensure proper payment of tariffs at the Mandili border crossing with Iran, he told reporters.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:43:43 GMT
Fire destroys much of 249-year-old church in California
A fire early Saturday destroyed the rooftop and most of the interior of a Catholic church in California that was undergoing renovation to mark its upcoming 250th anniversary celebration. Fire alarms at the San Gabriel Mission rang around 4 a.m. When firefighters arrived, they saw smoke rising from the wooden rooftop in one corner of the historic structure, San Gabriel Fire Capt. Paul Negrete said. Firefighters entered the church and tried to beat back the flames, but they had to retreat when roofing and other structural materials began to fall, Negrete said.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:30:17 GMT
Video calls, separate bedrooms: Bolsonaro's first COVID week
After months in which Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed COVID-19 by flouting social distancing recommendations and mostly shunning masks, both coronavirus precautions became part of his cloistered life this week at the official residence in capital Brasilia. Bolsonaro, 65, announced on Tuesday that he tested positive for the virus and had experienced fever, aches and malaise. One was with former congressman Roberto Jefferson, president of the conservative PTB party.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 18:30:12 GMT
Puerto Rico questions Spain's legacy as statues tumble in US
Statues, street names, plazas and even the body of conquistador Juan Ponce de León himself: Spain left a nearly indelible legacy in Puerto Rico that attracts hordes of tourists every year, but some activists are trying to erase it as they join a U.S. movement to eradicate symbols of oppression. Dozens of activists marched through the historic part of Puerto Rico's capital on Saturday, some wearing traditional Taino clothing as they banged on drums and blew on conch shells to demand that the U.S. territory's government start by removing statues including those of explorer Christopher Columbus. "These statues represent all that history of violence, of invasion, of looting, of theft, of murder," said an activist who goes by the name of Pluma and is a member of Puerto Rico's Council for the Defense of Indigenous Rights.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:41:51 GMT
Rishi Sunak plans Brexit tax cuts to save the economy
Taxes and red tape will be slashed in towns and cities across the country next year, under government plans for a post-Brexit and post-coronavirus economic revolution. Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, is preparing to introduce sweeping tax cuts and an overhaul of planning laws in up to 10 new "freeports" within a year of the UK becoming fully independent from the European Union in December, The Telegraph can reveal. The disclosure comes as Michael Gove declares the reasons for Brexit are "stronger than ever", in a rebuke to Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, who last week said he saw no "added value" from leaving the bloc. Writing in The Telegraph, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, also launches "The UK's new start: let's get going", a public information campaign to help individuals and businesses to prepare for life outside of the EU's structures and "seize the opportunities" of Brexit. Ministers are dramatically stepping up plans for the end of the transition period, with less than six months until the UK leaves the EU's customs union and the single market. In other developments: Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Gove announces £705 million investment for new border control infrastructure, jobs and technology. The announcement comes 24 hours after it emerged that the Government had purchased 27 acres of land to build a vast customs clearance centre for lorries, 20 miles from Dover. Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, is preparing to unveil further details of the Government's planned points-based immigration system, including details of a new health and care visa for key health workers, and a "graduate route" from next summer, to allow international students to stay in the UK for up to three years to secure jobs. Senior Brexiteers warned Boris Johnson that key parts of his Withdrawal Agreement with the EU amounts to a "poison pill" that should be replaced as part of post-Brexit trade talks. UK negotiators are pushing to conclude talks with the EU by the end of the summer, in order to give businesses "total clarity" about the rules and procedures they will face from January 1. Liz Truss, the Trade Secretary, is understood to have been rebuked by Dominic Cummings, Mr Johnson's chief adviser, on Thursday after the leak of a letter in which she claimed that the Government's border plans could result in smuggling and the breach of international rules. According to plans seen by The Telegraph, Mr Sunak will open the bidding for towns, cities and regions to become "freeports", in his autumn budget later this year, as he attempts to tackle the effects of a recession predicted to be the worst faced by the country in 300 years. He is planning to confirm the successful bids by the spring and introduce sweeping tax and regulatory changes in those areas at next year's budget, including research and development tax credits, generous capital allowances, cuts to stamp duty and business rates, and local relaxations of planning laws. The disclosure comes after the Chancellor unveiled an immediate national stamp duty holiday for six months on properties worth up to £500,000, as part of a package of measures to help the economy recover from the impact of Covid-19. Under the plans, up to 10 UK towns, cities and regions, will be designated as freeports, meaning that they will ultimately be legally outside of the country's customs territory, with goods imported, manufactured or re-exported without incurring national tariffs or import VAT until they enter the rest of the economy. The Government believes the policy can transform ports into "international hubs" for manufacturing and innovation, with the economic and regulatory incentives designed to encourage firms to establish new factories and processing sites in the areas. In a second wave of measures, customs duties, import VAT, and national insurance contributions would be cut from April 2022, making the freeports "fully operational" within 18 months of the UK's departure from the customs union and single market. The measures to be introduced in next year's autumn budget are understood to have been initially scheduled for the spring, but have been delayed slightly as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Sunak first mapped out proposals for UK freeports in a paper he wrote as a backbencher four years ago, and Mr Johnson backed the idea during the Conservative leadership contest. The pair view the free trade zones as a prize of the "economic freedom" provided by Brexit, believing that the measure will boost manufacturing, create jobs in the areas in which they are most needed, and promote trade.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:21:50 GMT
Russia's journalists under increasing pressure from the secret services in wake of Putin's shaky referendum victory
Russia's intelligence services have 'stepped up' their war on free media, carrying out a series of operations designed to intimidate journalists in the wake of Vladimir Putin's controversial referendum victory last week. In an unprecedented case for post-Soviet Russia, prominent defence reporter Ivan Safronov was seized outside his home on Tuesday morning by secret service agents and arrested on suspicion of treason. Citing the secret nature of the case, the investigators have not published any evidence to back up their claims but the reporter faces 20 years in prison. Last week's overwhelming approval of constitutional amendments allowing Vladimir Putin to stay in office at least until 2036 was hailed by the Kremlin as a "triumph." But results at the polling stations that were monitored by independent observers indicated something resembling a split vote. That was an apparent cue for Russia's FSB secret service to take action.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:15:06 GMT
South African church attack: Five dead after 'hostage situation'
The church, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, was attacked amid reports of fighting over leadership.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:12:40 GMT
Widow condemns "barbaric" death of driver beaten over masks
The wife of a French bus driver who was beaten to death after he asked four passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle called Saturday for "exemplary punishment" for his killers. The assault on Philippe Monguillot has scandalized France. President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday dispatched the interior minister to meet the driver's widow after his death was announced Friday.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 17:03:50 GMT
Key parts of Boris Johnson's Withdrawal Agreement amount to 'poison pill', senior Brexiteers warn
Senior Brexiteers have warned Boris Johnson that key parts of his Withdrawal Agreement with the EU amount to a "poison pill" that should be replaced as part of post-Brexit trade negotiations. A 120-page report compiled by pro-Leave MPs and lawyers states that exiting the transition period with the current provisions of the agreement in place would have "crippling" consequences for the UK and prevent the country from becoming a "fully sovereign state". The document, which is published as the UK and EU carry out intensive trade negotiations, has been endorsed by a series of senior backbenchers, suggesting Mr Johnson could face resistance in the Commons if he fails to tackle some of their concerns. On Saturday, Mark Francois, the chairman of the influential European Research Group (ERG) of Eurosceptic Tory MPs, said: "The report argues that the remaining elements of the Withdrawal Agreement after we leave the transition period cannot be allowed to stand as they are, and particularly that there must be no remaining role for the European Court of Justice over any aspect of our national life. That is something that I and my colleagues in the ERG would very much support." The report, published by the new Centre for Brexit Policy, includes contributions from Lord Trimble, the former first minister of Northern Ireland, Martin Howe, the Brexiteer QC, and Owen Paterson, the former cabinet minister who chairs the think tank. The key elements it says make up the "poison pill" include the UK having to remain bound to some state aid laws, the creation of "burdensome EU customs mechanisms" at a border in the Irish Sea, a role for the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for another eight years, and the vast divorce payments, for amounts the report states are "not owing under international law" and are "subject to the determination of the ECJ". The report states: "Although the Government sees the revised Withdrawal Agreement (WA) as only transitional until the end of the transition period in December, there remain serious threats to UK sovereignty that will have crippling economic and strategic consequences for years to come if they are not dealt with now. "Exiting the TP with these threats still in place will not return the UK to a fully sovereign state and is unacceptable." The report urges Mr Johnson to replace the Withdrawal Agreement with a "sovereignty compliant" agreement. A chapter by Lord Trimble states that the current deal "rips the Good Friday Agreement apart" by handing law-making power over Northern Ireland to the EU. The paper's recommends returning to the Brexiteers' plan of "alternative arrangements" to achieve an "invisible border" on the island of Ireland and using independent adjudication. A government spokesman said: "The Government's approach ensures businesses in Northern Ireland will have unfettered access to the rest of the UK market and that there will be no tariffs on goods remaining within the U.K. customs territory and no new customs infrastructure. "Crucially, at the heart of our proposals is a consensual, pragmatic approach that will protect the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and the huge gains from the peace process."
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:28:35 GMT
Conservation groups upset by North Cascades grizzly decision
The forested mountains in and around North Cascades National Park in north central Washington state have long been considered prime habitat for threatened grizzly bears, so environmental groups are upset the Trump administration scrapped plans to reintroduce the apex predators there. U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt on Tuesday announced his agency will not conduct the environmental impact statement needed to move forward with the idea.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:02:22 GMT
Coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse
A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic. The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months, and even remained down as states like Florida and Texas saw explosions in cases and hospitalizations — and reported daily U.S. infections broke records several times in recent days.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:44:58 GMT
Q&A: US government not as prolific an executioner as states
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:27:00 GMT
At border with Iran, Iraq PM vows to fight customs corruption
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi launched a new campaign on Saturday against corruption at the country's borders, saying millions of dollars were being lost by not properly taxing imported goods. Speaking at the Mandili crossing on the border with Iran, Kadhemi said Iraq's frontier had become "a hotbed for corrupt people".
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:43:55 GMT
Biden forges brand of liberal populism to use against Trump
Joe Biden stood in a Pennsylvania metal works shop, just miles from his boyhood home, and pledged to define his presidency by a sweeping economic agenda beyond anything Americans have seen since the Great Depression and the industrial mobilization for World War II. The prospective Democratic presidential nominee promised the effort would not just answer a pandemic-induced recession, but address centuries of racism and systemic inequalities with "a new American economy" that "finally and fully (lives) up to the words and the values enshrined in the founding documents of this nation — that we're all created equal." It was a striking call coming from Biden, a 77-year-old establishment figure known more as a back-slapping deal-maker than visionary reformer.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:39:51 GMT
Pandemic, racism compound worries about Black suicide rate
Jasmin Pierre was 18 when she tried to end her life, overdosing on whatever pills she could find. Years of therapy brought progress, but the 31-year-old Black woman's journey is now complicated by a combination of stressors hitting simultaneously: isolation during the pandemic, a shortage of mental health care providers and racial trauma inflicted by repeated police killings of Black people. "Black people who already go through mental health issues, we're even more triggered," said Pierre, who lives in New Orleans.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:12:06 GMT
Sessions vies for Senate comeback in race shadowed by Trump
Seeking a political comeback, former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to beat out ex-college football coach Tommy Tuberville in Tuesday's Republican primary runoff and reclaim the Alabama Senate seat he held for decades. To do that, Sessions also has to go through President Donald Trump. Trump has endorsed Tuberville, whose name recognition comes from his time on the sidelines at Auburn University, and turned decisively against his former Cabinet member, making direct appeals for Alabama voters to reject Sessions's candidacy.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:09:37 GMT
Serbia police detain 71 after 4th night of virus protests
Serbian police detained 71 people after clashes during the fourth night of anti-government protests against the Serbian president that were initially sparked by his plans to reintroduce a coronavirus lockdown. Fourteen policemen were injured in the rioting Friday evening when hundreds of right-wing demonstrators tried to storm the parliament building in downtown Belgrade, police director Vladimir Rebic said Saturday.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:49:13 GMT
Dozens of US Marines in Japan's Okinawa get coronavirus
Dozens of U.S. Marines at two bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa have been infected with the coronavirus in what is feared to be a massive outbreak, Okinawa's governor said Saturday, demanding an adequate explanation from the U.S. military. Gov. Denny Tamaki said he could say only that a "few dozen" cases had been found recently because the U.S. military asked that the exact figure not be released. The outbreaks occurred at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, which is at the center of a relocation dispute, and Camp Hansen, Tamaki said.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:45:53 GMT
5 dead in hostage situation at troubled South Africa church
Five people are dead and more than 40 have been arrested after an early-morning hostage situation at a long-troubled church near Johannesburg, police in South Africa said Saturday. A statement said police and military who responded to reports of a shooting at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church headquarters in Zuurbekom found four people "shot and burned to death in a car" and a security guard shot in another car. Police said they rescued men, women and children who had been held hostage and appeared to have been living at the church.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:32:06 GMT
25 years since Srebrenica, some victims finally laid to rest
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bahrudin Salihovic always knew his father had perished 25 years ago in the storm of violence unleashed after Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in the final months of the Balkan country's 1992-95 war. On Friday, Salihovic finally huddled over a coffin holding a few of his father's bones, unearthed from a death pit found near Srebrenica last November and identified through DNA testing. "His remains are incomplete, but mother and I decided to bury the part of him that was found, to know where his grave is, to know where to go to pray for him," Salihovic said.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:16:23 GMT
Virus cases up sharply in Africa, India as inequality stings
South Africa's confirmed coronavirus cases have doubled in just two weeks to a quarter-million, and India on Saturday saw its biggest daily spike as its infections passed 800,000. The surging cases are raising sharp concerns about unequal treatment in the pandemic, as the wealthy hoard medical equipment and use private hospitals and the poor crowd into overwhelmed public facilities. Globally more than 12.5 million people have been infected by the virus and over 560,000 have died, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 10:57:13 GMT
Iran says cannot shut down economy despite worsening virus outbreak
Iran said on Saturday that it cannot afford to shut down its sanctions-hit economy, even as the country's novel coronavirus outbreak worsens with record-high death tolls and rising infections. Iran must continue "economic, social and cultural activities while observing health protocols", President Hassan Rouhani said during a televised virus taskforce meeting. Health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari reported Saturday that 188 people had died from the respiratory disease in the past 24 hours, raising the overall toll to 12,635.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 10:39:59 GMT
Leaders, survivors mark 25 years since Srebrenica massacre
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Virtually joined by world leaders, the survivors of Bosnia's 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Saturday remembered the victims of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II and warned of the perpetrators' persistent refusal to fully acknowledge their responsibility. Speaking at a commemoration ceremony for the thousands of massacre victims, held in the memorial center and cemetery just outside Srebrenica, a top Bosnian official warned that the extent of the 1995 slaughter is still being systematically denied despite irrefutable evidence of what happened. "The Srebrenica genocide is being denied (by Serb leaders) just as systematically and meticulously as it was executed in 1995 … we owe it not just to Srebrenica, but to humanity, to oppose that," he added.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 10:22:15 GMT
More COVID-19 cases in Syria's overcrowded rebel enclave
At least two doctors in Syria's opposition-held northwest have been infected with the coronavirus, a monitoring group reported Saturday, the latest confirmed cases in the overcrowded rebel enclave. The new infections raise the number of confirmed cases to three in the area, where health care facilities have been devastated by years of civil war, and where testing has been limited due to scarce resources. Observers fear the virus could spread easily in Idlib province, a concern compounded as Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, moved at the U.N. Security Council to reduce cross-border aid from Turkey.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 10:15:45 GMT
Zimbabwe bird sanctuary has 400 species, not enough tourists
A fish eagle swoops over the water to grab a fish in its talons and then flies to its nest. Nearby are a martial eagle, a black eagle, an Egyptian vulture and hundreds of other birds. With an estimated 400 species of birds on an idyllic spot on Zimbabwe's Lake Chivero, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Harare, the Kuimba Shiri bird sanctuary has been drawing tourists for more than 15 years.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 07:08:06 GMT
Turkey amends laws to allow multiple lawyer associations
Turkey's parliament passed controversial legislation amending laws governing attorneys and bar associations on Saturday, despite protests from critics who say the move could limit the independence of lawyers and reduce the professional associations' clout. The new law, submitted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party, was passed after days of heated debate and following scuffles between police and lawyers protesting the legislation. The government has said the law would create a "more democratic and pluralistic" system.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 06:22:36 GMT
Fay becomes post-tropical cyclone over eastern New York
A tropical storm that brought heavy rain to mid-Atlantic states and southern New England was downgraded twice Saturday morning as is moved over New York, forecasters said. Post-tropical cyclone Fay was about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Albany and had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph (55 kph), the National Hurricane Center in Miami said in its 5 a.m. advisory. The forecasters said the advisory would be its last for the system that was expected to continue moving north Saturday.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 05:43:24 GMT
Trump lags Biden on people of color in top campaign ranks
Advocates for minority groups say staff diversity is necessary to ensure political candidates hear a full range of voices and viewpoints to help them understand the concerns of various communities and interest groups — especially at a time when racial injustice is front and center in the national conversation. Jennifer Lawless, commonwealth professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said "there are still a lot of milestones that haven't been hit" by political campaigns, such as a Black man or woman directing — and winning — a presidential campaign.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 04:30:16 GMT
Trump threatens to pull tax exemption for schools, colleges
In his push to get schools and colleges to reopen this fall, President Donald Trump is again taking aim at their finances, this time threatening their tax-exempt status. Trump said on Twitter on Friday he was ordering the Treasury Department to re-examine the tax-exempt status of schools that he says provide "radical indoctrination" instead of education. "Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education," he tweeted.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 04:24:42 GMT
It's not just the presidency: Trump is changing the Congress
More than perhaps any president in modern history, Trump has been willing to ignore, defy and toy with the legislative branch, asserting power and breaking norms in ways his predecessors would hardly dare. Republicans shrug it off as Trump being Trump, leaving Democrats almost alone to object. Think of it as "the incredible shrinkage" of Congress, said historian Douglas Brinkley.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 04:12:29 GMT
Paik Sun-yup, major South Korean war hero, dies at 99
Former South Korean army Gen. Paik Sun-yup, who was celebrated as a major war hero for leading troops in several battle victories against North Korean soldiers during the 1950-53 Korean War, has died. The South Korean army announced his death on Saturday. Born in 1920 in what is now North Pyongan province in North Korea, Paik graduated from a Japanese military academy in Manchuria when the Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule and was a lieutenant in the Japanese army during World War II.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 02:27:43 GMT
EU chief proposes five billion euro Brexit emergency fund
EU Council president Charles Michel on Friday proposed setting up a five billion euro reserve fund for any unforeseen consequences of Brexit on bloc member states. "Brexit is challenging for all of us and that is why we propose a Brexit reserve of five billion euros (.7 billion)," said Michel as he unveiled his latest proposal for a long-term EU budget that will be debated by bloc leaders next week. Brexit with or without a agreement on future ties "will have consequences in Europe for the member states and that's why I think it's... necessary to ask the commission to prepare for a needs assessment by November 2021," he said.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:01:51 GMT
Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone's prison sentence
President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and that concerned the president's own conduct. The move came just days before Stone was to begin serving a 40-month prison sentence for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House investigation into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. The action, which Trump had foreshadowed in recent days, underscores the president's lingering rage over special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and is part of a continuing effort by the president and his administration to rewrite the narrative of a probe that has shadowed the White House from the outset.
Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:01:21 GMT
Breast cancer: Zimbabwe woman's struggle to avoid mastectomy
A Zimbabwean woman is campaigning to get the machine fixed to avoid a mastectomy.
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 23:29:11 GMT
11 people drowned at rocky beach in northern Egypt
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 23:22:40 GMT
UN encouraged experts may get to visit oil tanker off Yemen
The United Nations said Friday it is encouraged that a U.N. team may be able to visit an oil tanker loaded with 1.1 million barrels of crude oil that is moored off the coast of Yemen, posing a serious risk to Red Sea marine life, desalination plants and shipping. Houthi rebels, who control the area where the ship is moored, have denied U.N. inspectors access to the vessel.
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:37:00 GMT
Mali protesters occupy national broadcaster
Police have fired shots to disperse protesters calling for President Keita to stand down.
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:33:08 GMT
US appeals to proceed with 1st federal execution in 17 years
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:19:14 GMT
Sudan ratifies law criminalizing female genital mutilation
Sudan's ruling body ratified a law banning the widespread practice of female genital mutilation, the justice ministry announced Friday, handing the movement for women's rights in the African country a long-sought victory. The Sovereign Council passed a set of sweeping amendments to the country's criminal code late Thursday, including one that criminalized the deep-rooted practice. The draft law had been approved by the transitional government that came to power last year following the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 20:57:10 GMT
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Current releases introduce 3D decoding of files, ISO's and disks.
3D decoding is reported by LAV Video as, Active Decoder: msdk mvc
If you have renamed system files or used a utility such as MCDU, this may not work for you.
Please attempt to return all system files back to original filenames before using this product.
If you decide to installed registry hacks; you machine may already be broken beyond repair.
HDR / UHD / H265 / HEVC / MVC, H264 codecs are activated by default.
The following filetypes are enabled and SUPPORTED by the installation of the Shark007 Codecs.
amr | mpc | ofr | divx | mka | ape | flac | evo | flv | m4b | mkv | ogg | ogm |rmvb | xvid| y4m
All of the above filetypes can be queued to the Windows Media Player Playlist using a right-click.
Things the Shark pack does that other packs cannot do . . .
1. Full color thumbnails including FLV's and 10bit MKV's.
(also allows users to select at what point by percentage to grab the thumbnail)
2. Enable the Preview Pane for ALL newly enabled filetypes such as MKV and FLV.
3. Explorer properties are displayed for non native filetypes such as MKV and FLV
4. Updated often – and has update notification builtin
5. Allow use of the PowerDVD decoders for 32bit LiveTV in Media Center.
6. Support playback of MKV files on Extenders and on the Xbox One.
7. Support use of the LAV filters with the Play To function for MKV files.
8. Support playback of MOD audio files and M4A files containing ALAC
9. Supports playlist creation for use in Media Center
10. Allow users to Enable/Disable codecs installed on their system
11. Functionality such as Win7DSFilterTweaker builtin.
12. Support 'Add to Windows Media Player List' using rightclick on all files such as MKV.
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The Settings Application is 100% UAC compliant
Restricted access is enforced. (User Account Control)
The Application allows each user to maintain individual codec settings while at the same time seamlessly integrating any administrative commands directly into the users account. New users accounts are detected upon opening the Application and automatically inherit the Administrators settings.
Adding files to the Windows Media Player Playlist
On the Help TAB of the Settings Application is a button to allow you to choose Windows Media Player Filetype Associations. Once you have used this button, you can Enqueue newly associated files to the Windows Media Player Playlist as depicted below. If for some reason this doesn't work for you, go back to the associations button, click No twice, consecutively, then select Yes. No reboot is required.
Codecs have been a problem for most users at one time or another. This i because there has never been an 'out of the box' working solution that the average computer user could install and just have everything work properly from the beginning. There are several decent codec package solutions out there, but none of them did everything I wanted. I was always in need of a tweak, adjustment, or even a re-installation just to get the codecs I needed/wanted and most of the time, the file still didn't play properly. This frustration was the basis for me to begin making a codecpack that works with ALL players.
The installer will automatically remove most other popular code release from your computer before installing this concise yet comprehensive windows media center setup package. For a list of all things automatically uninstalled by the installer, Click Here. After installation, be sure to check the box for the [x] SUGGESTED settings and Windows Media Player and Media Center will instantly recognize all your files as playable.
It does not contain a media player and it does not associate file-types. With the ADVANCED Codec package installed you will be able to use any media player, limited only by the players' capabilities, to play all movies and video clips. Streaming video is supported in several formats in all popular web browsers. Advanced codec users have the ability to choose what is installed and where to install it using the public redistributable. After installation you can select to remove specific portions without removing the entire package. You can also re-add the removed items at any time.
Download the latest release, v10.9.8 from:
distribution file information: MajorGeeks receives the distribution file directly from me.
It is currently 65.1MB and has an MD5 of b2355dd0952815352430d6e7f37d6ccb
notable updates (current):
– update LAV filters 0.73.1
– update MPC-BE filters 126.96.36.19922
– update MediaInfo DLL 220.127.116.11
– update Icaros 3.1.0 Final
– update x265vfw encoder v281 (8 bit encoding only)
The x64 version does 8/10/12 bit encoding and is accessed through the 64bit App.
– fix upgrade hang during install (for international users also)
– fully support 3D MVC playback – see Setup and usage for more info
UPGRADE installations are fully functional! (but not recommended)
If you are upgrading to solve an issue, I suggest that you UNINSTALL the old version
This software uses code of FFmpeg licensed under the GPLv2.0 and its source can be downloaded
Content retrieved from: http://shark007.net/advanced.html.


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A recent case illustrates why (1) it is important for parties to abide by the confidentiality provisions of settlement agreements, and (2) people who learn confidential information should keep their social media mouths shut.
Plaintiff sued his former employer (a private school) for age discrimination and retaliation. The parties later settled the case and entered an agreement containing the following provision:
13. Confidentiality … [T]he plaintiff shall not either directly or indirectly, disclose, discuss or communicate to any entity or person, except his attorneys or other professional advisors or spouse any information whatsoever regarding the existence or terms of this Agreement … A breach … will result in disgorgement of the Plaintiffs portion of the settlement Payments.
After the parties signed the settlement agreement, plaintiff's college-age daughter posted this on Facebook:
Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver. Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT.
Defendant school district refused to pay a portion of the settlement payments ($80,000), claiming plaintiff's disclosure of the settlement to his daughter violated the confidentiality provision. Plaintiff asked the trial court to enforce the settlement agreement, which it did. Defendant sought review with the Court of Appeal of Florida. On appeal, the court agreed with the school and reversed.
The court found that "before the ink was dry on the [settlement] agreement, and notwithstanding the clear language of section 13 mandating confidentiality, [plaintiff] violated the agreement by doing exactly what he had promised not to do." And his daughter "then did precisely what the confidentiality agreement was designed to prevent, advertising . . . that plaintiff had been successful in his age discrimination and retaliation case against the school."
Gulliver Schools, Inc. v. Snay, — So.3d —, 2014 WL 769030 (Fla.App. 3 Dist. Feb 26, 2014)
Photo credit Flickr user haikus under this Creative Common license.


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Hi ENopians!
Although hammocks send you into a world of relaxation on any adventure, cold butt syndrome (the scientific name for when your rear end gets, well, cold) can quickly, and painfully, pull you back. There are ways to battle the chill however, and we've compiled a quick fact sheet to help you out!
Reasons why sleeping bags don't work
1) Compression – Sleeping bags work by using their thickness to prevent your body heat from escaping. The thicker the bag, the more heat will be kept inside. An awesome trick for tent camping or general warming up, but not so great when you're in a hammock. When laying in a hammock, your body, specifically pressure points (think hips/shoulders/calves,) compresses the insulation and reduces the loft. As a result, what was once a 5" thick bag capable of a temp rating of 25 ° F, becomes a ½" thick bag that wouldn't keep you warm on a cooler summer evening.
2) Claustrophobia – You may not think it at first, but being enclosed in a sleeping bag combined with the wall of the hammock hugging your sides can get even the bravest soles itching to break free. Especially if you've got a funky zipper. Plus, spontaneous, midnight pee breaks can get tricky wriggling around in a sleeping bag!
3) You can't share – Sharing isn't for everyone, but if you're a DoubleNest owner, or just like to get close to your better half, it's more difficult in a sleeping bag, in a hammock. Imagine the claustrophobic reason times two. It will also make entering and exiting the hammock more difficult, which potentially could be dangerous.
Why quilts do work:
1) Traps in heat – Quilts work similarly to sleeping bags, but wrap underneath and around you, axing the risk of loft compression. Instead, the Underquilt effectively traps in heat pockets, allowing you to re-use your body heat to stay warm.
2) No compression – As quilts wrap under or over your hammock, they are suspended around you instead of directly underneath/on top of you (think a warm, quilted hug.) Fitting perfectly to the shape of you in your hammock, heat is kept in, while the loft remains full.
3) Adjustable insulation – Being seperate from your body, Quilts give you more movement and adjustability without causing a rocking disaster – i.e. you never get your quilt trapped underneath your heel or between your knees. Using a quilt allows you to get comfortable, then get your insulation where you want it most.
4) Large coverage area – Quilts provide a larger surface area of insulation than bags, giving you the option to spread out a bit more, hang diagonally, or invite a friend in!
5) Fit evenly around your body – The adjustable nature of a Quilt allows an even coverage.
6) CAN share – For all the reasons above, a quilt provides enough space, movement and adjustability to share your hammock with your favorite puppy or human 🙂
Why you should pick Down:
1) Warmth for Weight – Down provides the most warmth for the weight of the product. And why wouldn't you want something that's warmer, lighter?!
2) Improved Regulation – Down regulates body temp better than any synthetic insulation. This comes in handy during a trip packed full of fluctuating temperatures.
3) Compressibility – Down beats synthetic insulation in the compression and weight catagories.
4) Wicks Moisture – Down is better at wicking body moisture and allowing it to evaporate – going a long way in keeping you comfortable.
5) Retains shape – Down is incredible at retaining its loft and shape, even when packed down for a few days. It also holds up better than synthetics, so with proper care, can last a lifetime.


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An American citizen that was part of a group of five tourists visiting North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years hard labor for "crimes against the state," Reuters reports.
Born in South Korea, Kenneth Bae, 44, is a naturalized American citizen who attended the University of Oregon. He is the owner of Nations Tours, which brings groups to the northeastern region of North Korea, according to NK News.
Bae, a tour operator from the US state of Washington, was accused of attempting to overthrow the government, a crime that carries a possible death penalty. In its latest dispatch KCNA did not state the exact nature of his alleged crimes. South Korean human rights campaigners have speculated that authorities were angered by photographs Bae had reportedly taken of starving children and the public executions of dissenters.
Described by his friends as a devout Christian, Bae was based out of northeastern China and traveled often to the Hermit Kingdom, according to Daily Mail.
"North Korea has shown their intention to use him as a negotiating card as they have done in the past," Cheong Seong-chang, senior fellow at the Sejong Institute, told Reuters.
Due to his citizenship, Bae will likely be held in a segregated facility away from other North Koreans. "If an American served jail together with North Korean inmates, which won't happen, he could tell them about capitalism or economic developments," Kwon Hyo-jin, a North Korean defector who served time in a prison camp, told Reuters. "That would be the biggest mistake for North Korea."
The U.S. does not have diplomatic ties with North Korea, but is working with the Swedish government to confirm his imprisonment — and likely, to arrange for his release.
Others have been imprisoned in the past, including American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee — receiving a sentence of 12 years hard labor in 2009. They were pardoned after President Bill Clinton traveled to Pyongyang and negotiated their release.


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Symantec Warns of Sharp Spike in Christmas Related Spam Messages
Symantec Warns of Sharp Spike in Christmas Related Spam Messages
Symantec has detected Christmas related spam messages entering the Symantec Probe Network. For greeting card spam, spammers used a legitimate look and feel in the email with headers and flash animations that included a message with a "Christmas Card.zip" attachment. Upon opening the attachment, the malicious code is downloaded onto the user's system. Symantec has identified the attachment as W32/AutoRun.BBC!worm.
In addition, other spam messages encourage users to buy the products early to take advantage of bogus offers sent to them. Clicking the URL directs the user to a fake product offer site, for example, a webpage selling fake replica watches, fake pharmaceuticals, just to name two.
Symantec is expecting to see a sharp spike in the volume of Christmas related spam messages in the following days, and is advising everyone to exercise caution when handling unsolicited or unexpected emails related to Christmas. Also, updating antispam signatures regularly can help to prevent personal information from being compromised.
Source: Symantec Blog


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I came across this gorgeous piece while researching outdoor swings. The Ostara Swing, by Myburgh Designs, is made of copper and is large enough for two people. The interior of the swing is polished and lacquered while the exterior has a delightful patina and wax finish. The lines are very modern. With the right cushions, this unique swing makes a bold statement and a cozy place to spend an afternoon in the garden.
The Breathe Swing (pictured above) is Myburgh's ultra modern swing crafted of fiberglass. Offered in solid white or green, the shapes in the back are reminiscent of branches or veins in a leaf. As a third option to get your feet off the ground, Dedon has its giant Nestrest swing which features their signature woven design.


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