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CSI Aviation, Inc. is a seasoned air transportation and air charter company founded in 1979. The company provides passenger charter and cargo air transportation, as well as medical flight services. CSI further provides aviation program management, including large aircraft operating under Part 121, and a portfolio of air ambulance and aviation logistics services. The company excels in supporting aviation requirements worldwide, including constructing and managing complex aviation operations. The company holds an FAA Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate with worldwide operating authority and has a global network of qualified and carefully screened aviation partners that provide flight and support services anywhere in the world.
CSI Aviation's in-depth business experience, earned over four decades, enables it to provide creative and cost-effective services to its customers. Service, integrity and reliability are integral to everything CSI does. A more detailed listing of the company's certifications and authorities can be found on the ABOUT page.


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Kerr rolls out new pharmacy app
RALEIGH, N.C. — Kerr Drug has broadened its services with a new mobile pharmacy application.
Powered by mscripts, the solution enables Kerr Drug customers to refill prescriptions, and receive pickup and dosage reminders through the convenience of their mobile phones. Smartphone users can access the store locator, weekly specials and do a quick refill by scanning the QR code on prescription bottles. A text messaging option for non-smartphone users enables patients to receive many of the same benefits.
The new app and its mobile website, m.kerrdrug.com, operate on a secure network created by San Francisco-based mscripts, a leader in mobile pharmacy solutions. The easy-to-use app is available as a free download through Apple iTunes, the Android Market, Blackberry App World or KerrDrug.com.

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Project to increase the knowledge and awareness of adolescents and young people (13-24 years of age) on HIV prevention, risk, vulnerability and sexual responsibility.
Who's involved?
Project coordinators: Dahina Odeisy Delgado, Teresa Medina
Lead organisation: Alianza Solidaria Para La Lucha Contra El VIH/SIDA (ASOLSIDA) and La Red Jóvenes Por Siempre (JPS)
Other organisations: Fundación Cultural Cayenas
Timeframe: February - November 2009
- Increase the knowledge of young people from 13 to 24 through identifying forms of prevention for HIV and promoting sexual responisbility,
- Use theatre shows on HIV and AIDS to raise public awareness, identifying forms of stigma and discrimination,
- Discuss openly issues relating to HIV and AIDS, respecting freedom of thought, sexual orientation and religious beliefs,
- Dispel myths and misconceptions through real life testimonies from people living with or affected by HIV or AIDS
- Strengthen the knowledge of young people with regards to their rights, transmission, prevention and the services available to them
Project proposal [PDF – 222 KB]
Work plan [PDF - 47 KB]
Progress reports:
25 August 2009
Progress report [PDF - 206 KB]
Photos [PDF - 3.9 MB]


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Oakley Line Miner M Goggles + Prizm Snow Hi Pink Lens
Oakley Line Miner M Goggles + Prizm Snow Hi Pink Lens
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The relative deficiencies of U.S. public schools are a serious concern to parents and policymakers. But they should be of concern to all Americans, as a globalizing world introduces new competition for talent, markets, capital, and opportunity. Endangering Prosperity compares the performance of American schools against that of other nations. The net result is a mixed but largely disappointing picture that clearly shows where improvement is most needed. The authors describe explicitly the economic costs of a stagnant educational system. The objective is not to explain the deep causes of past failures but to document how dramatically the U.S. school system has failed its students and its citizens. It is a wake-up call for structural reform. To move forward to a different and better future requires that we understand just how serious a situation America faces today.
Foreword by Lawrence H. Summers
"America faces many pressures ranging from achieving long-run fiscal balance to maintaining our strong national security. As Hanushek, Peterson, and Woessmann persuasively show, these pressures could be dramatically lessened by improving our schools." —George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State
"Just when you thought we'd reached a consensus on the need to dramatically improve America's schools, a chorus is emerging to suggest all is well. Endangering Prosperity contains all the facts and figures needed to put an end to such dangerous and misguided thinking." —Joel Klein, former Chancellor of New York City schools
"If the United States is to continue to be the experiment in liberty and freedom for which those who founded our great country sacrificed their lives, we must find a way to fix our schools. If we continue on the path we are on, we endanger more than just our prosperity, as the authors of this powerful volume make clear." —Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida
"Endangering Prosperity makes a compelling case that K-12 public education in the United States is lagging compared to its international counterparts—and that the issue extends across the socioeconomic spectrum. The economic costs are simply too great, the authors persuasively argue, to accept the timid incrementalism that too often passes for 'reform.'" —Chris Cerf, Commissioner of Education, State of New Jersey
"Seen from abroad, it is clear that America's schools could do better. Endangering Prosperity accurately describes the challenges facing U.S. schools, but also shows the rewards that could come from improvement." —Sir Michael Barber, former advisor to U. K. Prime Minister Tony Blair


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and top House Democrats said Monday they will support a bipartisan bill to overhaul regulation of asbestos and other dangerous chemicals, clearing the way for the bill's passage in Congress and signature by President Barack Obama.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and two other high-ranking Democrats said they remain concerned that the bill limits states' ability to act aggressively on toxic substances.
But changes made by Democrats in recent days ensure the measure will protect families and communities from toxic substances, Pelosi said in a statement with House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Hours later, the White House said it strongly supports the legislation, which would be the first overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act since it was approved in 1976. A vote is expected in the House as soon as Tuesday.
"The bill is a clear improvement over the current TSCA and represents a historic advancement for both chemical safety and environmental law," the White House said in a statement.
The proposal will require the Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate new and existing chemicals against a new risk-based safety standard that includes considerations for vulnerable people such as children and pregnant women, the White House said.
The bill also establishes clear and enforceable deadlines for the EPA to act; increases transparency of chemical information by limiting unwarranted claims of confidentiality by chemical companies; and provides funding for the EPA to carry out "these significant new responsibilities," the White House said.
Pallone had said last week he opposed an agreement reached by House and Senate negotiators, saying it was "weaker than current law." Pallone said he was especially concerned about provisions in the bill concerning state regulation of toxic chemicals.
New Jersey and other liberal-leaning states such as California, Massachusetts and Vermont have moved aggressively to regulate chemicals, and Pallone and other critics feared the federal bill could block state efforts even as it imposed the first-ever national standards for tens of thousands of chemicals, including formaldehyde and styrene, that are used in homes and businesses every day.
A proposal announced last week declares that any state law or rule in place before April 22 would not be pre-empted by federal law. The proposal also would allow states to work on some regulations while federal rules are being developed, a process that can take years.
States that do not regulate chemicals closely would follow the federal standard.
Pallone and Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., said last week that "it would be better for us to not act at all than to pass the deal" proposed by House and Senate negotiators.
Pallone's opposition was especially notable, since the bill is named after a fellow New Jersey Democrat, the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
In their statement Monday, Pallone, Pelosi and Hoyer said that Lautenberg "dedicated his career" to fixing the toxic-substance law, adding: "We honor his memory in this bipartisan legislation bearing his name."
The measure "is not the bill Democrats would have written on our own, but it is a long-overdue step forward to protect families and communities from toxic substances," the three Democrats said.
The statement by House Democrats comes as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he opposes the bill.
While the legislation allows Vermont and other states to continue enforcing existing state regulations to keep adults and children safe from toxic chemicals, "it makes it more difficult for states to set new, stricter standards," Sanders said. "That makes no sense. Federal chemical regulations should be a floor, not a ceiling. States should not be stopped from going above and beyond minimum federal safety standards."
Supporters say they hope to move the bill through Congress this week, with the goal of sending it to Obama's desk by Memorial Day.


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There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year. The practice has been going on for at least 40 years and has grown to breathtaking levels worldwide.
Globally it is estimated that between $21 trillion and $32 trillion is hidden away in these secrecy jurisdictions. Total global financial wealth is estimated at between $200 and $210 trillion, so the hidden wealth is a significant proportion of the total. Apply even a small percentage tax to this amount (greater than the U.S. GDP and at least 12 times that of Canada's) and you get an idea of how much revenue is lost to governments around the world.
James Henry, an authority on the issue with the U.S.-based Tax Justice Network, says the U.S. has determined that minimally, that country loses $100 billion a year through tax evasion. A rough extrapolation for Canada suggests that we lose at least $10 billion yearly to this practice. The Tax Justice Network estimates that $280 billion in revenue is lost globally.
For the first time ever industrialized countries like the U.S. and Germany are beginning to take the issue seriously as they face accumulated deficits that look nearly impossible to pay off — and citizens who are increasingly unwilling to pay the price for the other financial crimes that nearly brought down the global economy. Suddenly, turning a blind eye to the greed of their economic elites means threatening their own political futures. The game has changed.
Never enough for the greedy
Not satisfied with the largesse gained through the sweeping tax cuts and deregulation of the last 15 years, the world's largest corporations and wealthiest individuals use these jurisdictions (there are more than 70 countries offering these services) to park their money where there is minimal regulation, little or no taxation on the non-resident wealth, and guaranteed secrecy which is actually enshrined in the countries' laws. There is no easy way of knowing of which corporations have accounts and no systematic effort to share information with other countries.
Many of the world's largest banks — such as City Bank, UBS and J.P. Morgan, as well as most of the big Canadian banks — have divisions whose exclusive function is to facilitate this grand theft. If the word conspiracy doesn't come to mind, it should. The fact that they have remained protected for so long demonstrates just how beholden our political class is to their economic elite, the one per cent. Or should we say the .14 per cent — the actual proportion of global citizens who claim all those trillions.
Toby Sanger, senior economist with CUPE, crunched the Statistics Canadanumbers and found that more and more Canadian investment is going offshore to avoid taxes: it was 10 per cent in 1987 and 24 per cent in 2011. According to Sanger's analysis, Barbados alone has seen its secret Canadian accounts grow 60 per cent in the four years up to 2011 — from $33.4 billion in 2007 to $53.3 billion. The Cayman Islands squirrels away $25.8 billion, Ireland over $23 billion and Bermuda and Luxembourg (up 318 per cent), $13 billion each.
Canadian banks have a huge presence in the Caribbean, the home of many of the most notorious tax havens. While they claim their hands are clean when it comes to helping people hide their money, a Université du Québec à Montréal study estimated that between 1991 and 2003 the Big Five Canadian banks managed to avoid $16 billion in provincial and federal taxes through the use of offshore subsidiaries.
It should be noted that as outrageous as this situation is for Canada's government revenue, tax havens are especially devastating for developing countries. Washington-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) calculated that 17 times as much money leaks out of Africa to tax havens than comes in as development aid. Between 1970 and 2008 Africa received $50 billion in aid but lost at least $854 billion in illicit capital outflows. The numbers suggest that if these secrecy jurisdictions were shut down, there would be no need for aid.
Our wealthy citizens — corporate and otherwise — using these secret accounts are in fine company. The UN Office of Drugs and Crime says more than US$1.5 trillion of criminal money is laundered yearly through these same tax havens.
Robbing Us Blind
Let's call a spade a spade: the systematic use of tax havens is nothing less than grand theft. It is, moreover, theft from the community and from the millions of citizens who suffer two abuses — the erosion of services caused by the bleeding of revenue and the added burden of having to make up the lost revenue for those services that remain. Living in Canada is not a right, it is a privilege, and part of that privilege, for better or worse, is the opportunity to become fabulously wealthy while at the same time enjoying the benefits of one of the most civilized countries in the world. That our most wealthy citizens not only see it as their right to get rich but their right as well to rip off the country that privileges them is reprehensible.
And what do these tax evaders steal? They steal affordable education from students, home-care workers from the elderly, conservation officers from our pristine environment, affordable housing from the homeless and child care from the children of low income families. They deliberately and with stunning arrogance diminish the country they claim to call their own.
While the Conservative government says it is serious about recovering the lost billions, it is doing very little in practice. (Remember, Harper once stated, "Actually, there is no tax I like.") Of the 106 Canadians named by a whistleblower in Lichenstein with assets totaling over $100 million, only $5.4 million in taxes has been recovered (the U.S. has recovered $50 billion through its efforts) and no Canadian has been charged or convicted. There is no word on what is happening to the 1,750 Canadians unmasked by a joint CBC News and Globe and Mail investigation of Swiss-based HSBC in 2010.
If the Harper government is serious about the issue we will know by its actions, not its lip service. We will know when the government forces corporations to publish what they pay in taxes on a country by country basis when it actively pushes for strong action at the G20, and when it promotes the automatic exchange of tax information with other countries.
But the best indication that it is serious will be when it increases funding to the tax audit program of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) instead of cutting its budget as it did in July — cuts that will actually reduce the amount of investigation and enforcement at a time that tax evasion is increasing. The Harper government knows what the results of increasing the number of auditors would be. In 2005 the federal government increased the capacity of the CRA to combat aggressive international tax planning by $30 million and raised an additional $2.5 billion in revenue. For a regime that talks about running government like a business, 8,300 per cent is a pretty good return on investment.
What is it waiting for?
MURRAY DOBBIN, now living in Powell River, BC has been a journalist, broadcaster, author and social activist for over forty years. He now writes a bi-weekly column for the on-line journals the Tyee and rabble.ca. He can be reached at email@example.com


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How No Treble grew with sticker giveaways
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We all have unique passions — and we want to be around people who share similar passions and hobbies. The best websites bring content and passion to their audience and avoid trying to make everyone happy.
Every day, there are millions of other people waiting to discover websites and join communities for their specific interests — from design sites like Dribbble to cooking sites like the Pioneer Woman to startup news like Techcrunch.
For an entrepreneur, this means opportunity.
It's a chance to create a community for obsessed, dedicated fans who share similar obsessions. Plus, it's a way to grow a loyal audience who return to your site, and buy your products, again and again.
To give you an example of someone who has created an incredible community for a passionate niche audience, take a look at Corey Brown.
Corey, the founder of No Treble, saw an opportunity to create a community for his biggest passion: instruments.
A web consultant and entrepreneur since 1995, Corey wanted to combine his experience with the web with his obsession over bass to create a side project.
The site started small, and he heard concerns from his friends and family:
- "You're targeting a really small group, maybe you should pick a larger audience."
- "You're wasting your time. There's no way this could be a profitable business."
- "How are you going to make money? Are you sure you don't want to focus more on your actual career?"
Instead of listening to the doubters, Corey pushed ahead. Today, No Treble is one of the most popular niche music sites on the web with 450,000+ monthly visitors and healthy revenue.
We're going to show you how Corey created his small community for niche bassists and grew it into a thriving business.
Let's get started.
How Corey grew a unique niche and community into a successful business
Corey's idea for No Treble started because he wanted to share his passion for bass with a larger audience.
Obsessed with finding the latest news on bass, Corey couldn't find any bass-focused online magazines like he craved.
For example, on one site Corey would read a great interview with a bass guitar legend. But if he wanted to find information on new amps, or tips for improvising, he'd have to spend hours searching other sites until he found what he was looking for.
To fill his own need, Corey came up with the idea of a "one-stop shop" for bass aficionados like himself.
At first, Corey didn't care about making it into a business. All Corey wanted to do was build the best collection of bass articles, videos, and content on the web. "I never did create it to make money, I never created it to be big," Corey explains.
Coming from a career in web consulting, Corey put his idea into a website he called No Treble. It only had a few blog posts and a couple photos of bass instruments, but it was a good start.
Every day, as Corey kept adding content, he thought about how he could introduce other bass fans to his No Treble site.
Getting the brand in front of the right faces would be difficult. Corey had a shoestring marketing budget and he had to make every dollar count.
After exploring a few inexpensive marketing solutions, he found an effective way to grow the brand inexpensively. He found his magic bullet.
How stickers helped Corey skyrocket his niche website into a massive success
In June of 2009, with No Treble only a month old, Corey realized something: "I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do to grow the website. But I knew I was a sticker guy, so I wanted them to be part of the mix."
Corey used stickers as an experiment to grow the site and fan base.
I even saw my stickers on the amps of famous bass players. They were everywhere I looked."
As a trial run, he printed 1,000 three-inch custom circle stickers. He wrote a notice on his website: anyone who mailed him a self-addressed envelope would get a sticker sent to them for free.
The results blew Corey away. "As time went on, I could barely pull the envelopes out of the P.O. Box. There were just so many."
Every day, dozens of letters would arrive. People wanted to show their love for bass wherever they could — and they wanted to do it with No Treble stickers.
Seeing how successful the sticker trial run was, Corey doubled down.
Riding on the interest of his fans, he urged anyone who received a sticker to send pictures.
Hundreds of emails came in.
No Treble stickers were on cars, computers, bass cases...and even bass guitars!
Corey posted every picture on Facebook. Soon, his stickers started going viral. Every time he posted, he had dozens of curious bass fans writing, "I NEED THIS STICKER! Where can I get it?"
Day in and day out, Corey sent new stickers to everyone who asked.
To keep up with the growing demand, he started searching for companies to print his stickers en masse. It was at this point that Corey heard about Sticker Mule. "I loved what Sticker Mule was doing, so we switched over our business."
With more stickers printed, the chatter surrounding No Treble kept growing.
Passionate bass fans were sharing the No Treble stickers every day. They'd post about it on their Facebook. They'd tweet about it. They'd even tell their friends in-person over drinks.
The "small" website that friends told Corey would be a waste of time was exploding with an obsessive, highly targeted audience of fans.
"I was getting pictures from friends who saw No Treble stickers on cars in different cities. I even saw my stickers on the amps of famous bass players. They were everywhere I looked."
As the stickers continued to go viral, international bass fans caught on.
But because of postal restrictions, Corey wasn't able to mail self-addressed envelopes back overseas. So he decided to create and sell a special pack of stickers anyone could buy.
"I started a simple online order form where you could buy 1, 5, or 10-packs of stickers. It was incredible because I sold more 10-packs than anything else," Corey told us.
Selling stickers helped No Treble scale the brand and reach more people — and it helped push this "small" niche website into a sustainable business.
With No Treble's sticker experiment, success is in the numbers. As the main marketing tool the brand used, stickers helped grow the community into 450,198 monthly pageviews.
Corey is quick to point out how stickers were responsible for No Treble's success. "Free stickers made it a turning point for us. It was the catalyst for us getting involved in product sales and building a sustainable, passionate business. I never would have guessed we'd mail out 10,000 stickers like we did in 3-4 years."
Today, No Treble still has stickers as their product staple — and the growth from stickers has allowed the brand to start selling t-shirts, books, and more. Even better, it brings in enough revenue for Corey to keep it going, hire world-class writers, and create a thriving niche community.
And if Corey was able to grow his niche community into an exploding business, you can too.
To help you get started, here's our step-by-step system on how to use stickers to grow your own niche website or idea.
How to use stickers to take your idea, product, and website to the next level
Step #1: Follow No Treble's lead and order stickers.
Die cut stickers are a great place to start. Use a logo or another piece of branding that your customers and fans will identify with. Our stickers are weatherproof and waterproof, so your biggest fans can put them anywhere they want — from their cars to laptops to their outdoor gear. Stickers are a great way to help push viral growth and skyrocket word-of-mouth marketing 2-5x for a fraction of the cost. (Also check out our custom sticker sheets.)
Step #2: Give away stickers as a free email sign-up perk. Corey gave away stickers to anyone who sent a self-addressed envelope to his P.O. Box. But keeping track of a P.O. Box can be a hassle. Instead, we recommend creating a simple form to request a user's name, mailing address, and email. Getting an email address gives you the chance to add them to your email list and send offers in the future.
Step #3: Once you start gaining traction, sell special stickers to generate revenue. When No Treble received too many requests for stickers (especially internationally), they saw it as a potential revenue stream. Today, you can buy six different kinds of stickers on their website. Although the greatest benefit is still to spread the word and brand, it can bring in additional cash too.
To see the exact stickers No Treble used to grow their niche community from 0 to 450,198 monthly views, visit their store.
Over to you
There are countless ways to delight your customers and grow your brand using stickers and other custom printed products. Check out more ways Sticker Mule can help your business grow.


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It first started with USSD recharge code for topping up mobile airtime, now many banks have improved the service to include money transfers and bill payments all with just a USSD code. By just dialing some short codes on your mobile phone, you can now transfer money to anyone, to any bank and anywhere. I can't remember the last time I entered a banking hall to deposit money, either I use USSD code for money transfer or I use internet banking.
With USSD code mobile money transfer service, there is no longer need to go queue up at the banking hall just to deposit small amount of money. It's fast, convenient and secure.
Today we will list all available USSD codes for money transfer for all Nigerian banks that offer the service currently.
This is a service that allows you to transfer money or pay bills instantly by dialing a short code from your mobile phones.
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) USSD Money Transfer Code
To initiate transfers to a GTBank account, simply dial *737*1*Amount*NUBAN Account No# e.g. *737*1*1000*1234567890# from the mobile number registered with the Bank.
For transfers to beneficiaries in other Bank's, customers should simply dial *737*2*Amount*NUBAN Account No# e.g. *737*2*1000*1234567890#. Customers will then require the last four digits of their GTBank Naira MasterCard to authenticate each transaction.
The *737* Transfer service is only available to GTBank customers via their mobile phone numbers registered with the Bank and has minimum transfer limit of N1,000 and a daily transfer limit of N20,000. Your daily limit can be up to N200,000 or more
Fidelity Bank USSD Money Transfer Code
To transfer money from Fidelity bank account to another bank account, simply dial this *770*NUBAN Account number*Amount#; NUBAN Account number is the 10 digit account number issued by any bank.
Example; if you want to transfer N1000 to someone's Firstbank account, dial *770*1234567890*1000# from the mobile number registered/linked with your Fidelity Bank account.
Then select the beneficiary bank Name (First bank).
Access bank
First bank
Diamond bank etc
Enter your transfer PIN to confirm transfer. The recipient account number will be shown to you before you enter the ypur PIN. This lets you verify that you're not sending money to a wrong account.
if you have used haven't used the service before, you will be requested to create one. You can dial *770#, Enter your NUBAN Account number (Fidelity bank account number), Select a 4-digit PIN for your account.
If you have two accounts with Fidelity bank, let say current and saving account and you're using the same phone number for both account, your current account will be debited first before your savings account.
Transfer per transaction is N10,000. Maximum transfer per day is N20,000
First Bank USSD Money Transfer Code
First bank USSD code allows you to transfer money, pay bills, withdraw money or make purchases. To transfer money, simply dial *894# and select 1; dial *894# and select 2 to withdraw money, dial *894# and select 3 to make purchase; dial *894# and select 4 to pay bills; dial *894# and select 5 to buy airtime; and dial *894# and select 7 to manage account.
Wema Bank USSD Money Transfer Code
For Wema Bank customers, to do a quick FUNDS TRANSFER, dial *322*035*NUBAN*AMOUNT#
The Wema Quick Recharge Code should only be used with the phone number registered with the bank
Diamond Bank (Access) USSD Money Transfer Code
For Diamond Bank (Access) account holders, to Transfer money to any bank Dial *901*2*amount*NUBAN Account Number# (for example, *901*1*5000*1234567890#, to transfer 5,000 naira to 1234567890 on the mobile phone number you used to open your Access Bank (Diamond) account.
Select the bank type and enter your pin for the transfer to be authenticated with the last four digit of your debit card.
For Diamond (Access) to Diamond (Access) Transfers Dial *901*1*amount*NUBAN Account Number# (for example, *901*1*5000*1234567890#, to transfer 5,000 naira to 1234567890 on the mobile phone number you used to open your Access Bank (Diamond) account.
Ecobank USSD Money Transfer Code
With Ecobank Mobile Banking you can do all your banking on your mobile phone. You can Make instant transfers, Check balances, Pay bills, Read mini-statements, Buy airtime.
Dial *326# to get started
Zenith Bank USSD Money Transfer Code
Zenith Bank's 966 Mobile Banking allows you to open an account, check balance, load airtime or transfer money to another account.
To create a bank account simply dial *966*0# and follow the onscreen prompts.
To check for balances on any of your accounts, all you need to do is simply dial; *966*00#
To load airtime simply dial *966*Amount*Mobile Number# on your phone
To transfer money to another account
Dial *966*Amount*Account Number# (e.g. *966*1000*1234567890#) from the phone number you registered with Zenith Bank, then follow the on-screen prompts.
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) USSD Money Transfer Code
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Some thoughts on reasoning and monads
Haskell types and total functions, at least for a suitable subset of Haskell, form a category, with types and functions as the objects and arrows. Haskell code is usually full of expressions whose types don't correspond to arrows (e.g.. 1::Int). But in category theory we can only really talk of objects and arrows, not elements of objects. Many categories are made up of objects that have no reasonable notion of an element. By writing code in pointfree style we can eliminate reference to individual elements and talk only about arrows.
For example, suppose f :: A -> B and g :: B -> C. Then we can define h :: A -> C in a couple of different ways. Pointfree:
h = g . f
or pointful:
h x = let y = f x
z = g y
in z
For examples as simple as this it's not hard to write code that will translate between one style and the other. But the former definition has an advantage, it works in any category. We'll consider a very simple example. Let R be the category of real numbers, where there is an arrow from x to y if x≤y. We can think of f and g as arrows in this category. If we know A≤B and B≤C then the first definition above tells us how to construct an arrow from A to C and hence it proves that A≤C. The second definition makes no sense because it relies on the notion of x as an element of A and uses the functions f and g to construct elements of B and C. These words hold no meaning in the category R where the arrows aren't functions and the objects aren't containers of elements.
Except that's not quite true.
Because there is a scheme for translating the second pointful definition to pointfree form, the second definition does in fact provide a proof that A≤C. We just have to bear in mind that the proof needs to be translated into pointfree form first. In fact, we can happily spend our day using pointful style to generate proofs about R, as long as at the end of the day we translate our proofs to pointfree notation. In fact, Haskell programmers know that it's often much easier to write programs in pointful style so it seems reasonable to guess that there are many proofs that are easier to write in pointful style even though they can't be interpreted literally. Philosophically this is a bit weird. As long as we restrict ourselves to chains of reasoning that can be translated, we can use intuitions about elements of objects to make valid deductions about domains where these notions make no sense.
Part I of Lambek and Scott is about the correct pointful language to use when talking about cartesian closed categories (CCCs). They use a form of typed lambda calculus. Every arrow in a cartesian category can be written as a pointful lambda expression. Even though there isn't a meaningful way to assign meaning to the 'points' individually, every lambda abstraction gives an arrow in a cartesian closed category that can be built using the standard parts that come with a CCC, and vice versa. The pointful definition of h above is an example. Here's a (very) slightly less trivial example. Given f :: A -> C and g :: B -> D we can define h :: (A,C) -> Either B D as
f x = let y = fst x
z = Left y
in z
Again, that code can be translated into pointfree form using only the standard parts available in a cartesian closed category. Actually, we only need a category with products and coproducts for this example. So consider a lattice. The above code can be translated into a proof that A∩C≤B∪D. (I'm using cap and cup for join and meet.) Again, it makes no sense to talk of elements of a general lattice as containers of elements, and yet after translation to pointfree notation we have a valid proof. If you can restrict yourself to a suitable subset of set theory then your proofs involving elements of objects can carry over to many other categories.
Part II of Lambek and Scott is about taking this idea to extremes. It's about categories known as toposes. A topos is a category that is even more like the category of sets than a CCC. It's still general enough that there are many kinds of toposes, but you can use a sizable portion of first order logic and ZF to make deductions about them. Again, the literal notion of membership of the objects of a topos might make no sense, but the proofs have a translation to pointfree notation. In fact, it's possible to write entire papers in what looks like conventional set theory language, and have them be valid for other toposes. Anders Kock, for example, writes such papers. Chris Isham has been arguing that topos theory is the correct framework for physics. If you interpret your propositions as being in the category Set then you get classical physics. But those same propositions can be interpreted in other categories, such as one for quantum mechanics, giving a way to use and extend classical language to reason about quantum systems. This set theory-like language is known as the "internal language" of a topos.
Anyway, I'm interested in the notion that Haskell do-notation provides another kind of pointful language that can be used to reason about situations where points don't seem at first to make sense. Consider the lattice of subsets of a topological space, ordered by inclusion. Let Cl(U) be the closure of U. Cl satisfies these properties:
X⊂Y implies Cl(X)⊂Cl(Y)
Look familiar? If we make this lattice into a category, with arrows being inclusions, then the first property states that Cl is a functor and the next two say that Cl is a monad. In fact, monads are a kind of generalised closure. So now suppose we're given A⊂Cl(B) and B⊂Cl(C) and wish to prove that A⊂Cl(C). We can rephrase this by saying that if f :: A -> Cl B and g :: B -> Cl C we need an arrow h :: A -> Cl C. We can write one like this:
h x = do
y <- f x
z <- g y
return z
Now it's tempting to interpret the inclusions as functions with y <- f x saying that y is the image of x under the inclusion. (I don't know about you, but when I write x <- getChar I think to myself "x is the return value from calling getChar".) But that doesn't really work because the type of f x is Cl B but y is of type B. On the other hand, we can radically reinterpret the above as something like this: when arguing about chains of inclusions of subsets of a topological space, as long as at the end of the chain of inclusions you always end up in the closure of some subset, you're allowed to cheat and nudge a generic point in the closure of a subset back into the original subset. This is exactly parallel to the way do-notation seems to allow us to extract elements out of monadic objects as long as at the end of the do-block we always return an element of monadic type. I'm sure that with a bit of work we could produce a rigorous metatheorem from this. I also expect we can also produce something similar for comonads.
Anyway, the moral is that when working with categories with monads there are may be some interesting and unusual ways to reason. The example of the lattice of subsets is fairly trivial but I'm sure there are other interesting examples. I also expect there's a nice connection with modal logic. I now think of Haskell do-notation as the "internal language" of a category with monads.
Update: I left out the crucial sentences I meant to write. It's easy to see do-notation as a kind of Haskell specific trick for making things like IO heavy code look like traditional procedural code. But comparison with the theory in Lambek and Scott, and Topos Theory in general, makes it clear that do-notation is a member of a family of related languages.


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Archaeologists studying the 13,000-year-old cave art in the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths in Rouffignac, France, have discovered that some of the designs were painted by children. One particular area of the cave is replete with finger painted lines in a variety of geometric shapes called finger fluting that were made by children. Researchers have identified the marks of four children between two and seven and four adults working in this chamber.
"It suggests it was a special place for children. Adults were there, but the vast majority of artwork is by children," said Jess Cooney, a PhD student at [Cambridge University]'s archaeology department.
"It's speculation, but I think in this particular chamber children were encouraged to make more art than adults. It could have been a playroom where the children gathered or a room for practice where they were encouraged to make these marks in order that they could grow into artists and make the beautiful paintings and engravings we find throughout the cave, and throughout France and Spain. Or it could have been a room used for a ritual for particular children, perhaps an initiation of sorts."
Most of the art in the cave is finger fluting. The animal figures it is most famous for are actual a small minority of the paintings. Artists, adult and child alike, would run their fingers over a soft red clay and then draw swirls and triangles on the cave wall. The size of the lines indicates the size of the fingers doing the painting. Designs high on the wall and on the ceiling indicate that the small children were being held up by adults, and the juxtaposition of different hands suggest a small adult, possibly an older brother, painting alongside a seven-year-old girl, and an adult guiding the fingers of a two-year-old.
The most prolific artist throughout the entire cave complex is a five-year-old girl. The range of the paintings done by children indicates that the Stone Age dwellers of Rouffignac placed few restrictions on their children's movements. The were painting the walls even in the darkest, most distant caves.
Some of the children's art goes beyond swirls and lines. There are finger fluted animals and what look like outlines of faces, but most notably there are hut shapes called tectiforms which are symbols native to one area of France. Those tectiforms are the first known example of Stone Age children creating symbolic figures.


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After a two month hiatus (normally the newsletter will be updated monthly), we wanted to start off our second newsletter by explaining exactly what D.R. Radon Boat Building is all about: Custom boats. Our boats are tailored to the specific needs of the customers. Because we build our boats with the individual customer in mind, we have a unique interaction with our customers. When we begin a new project, our goal is to make sure the customer is getting the exact boat that he or she wants. The versatility of our boats allows them to be used for a variety of activities, like fishing, diving, surfing, water skiing, and even fire fighting!!! (I.e. check out the harbor patrol boats in Santa Barbara. Radon Boats have even had a hand in fighting the flames that periodically engulf the Wharf). This is part of what makes Radon Boats a superior product. After acquiring a wealth of knowledge in our 30 years of building boats, our boats continue to be the cutting edge all-purpose sea vehicle. Add the best crew of woodworkers, fiberglassers and outfitters we have ever had and it is easy to see that our commitment to building quality boats lives on! As featured in the last issue of Radon World, the 29' is on its way to becoming a great addition to the Radon line-up. Since our last update, the mold has been completed and we are in full production of the first new Radon 29'. When a new design goes from initial planning , where it exists only as a blueprint, to the actual production, the physical realization of the idea, it is a wonderful moment for the entire crew. Below is a picture of the first hull coming out of the mold. It was an exciting day for everyone at the shop, especially the fiberglassing crew, since they have been working hard on getting the mold ready and laying down the first hull. Undoubtedly, they will be glad to finish their portion of the boat's production, so they can send it over to the rigging crew for competition! When wet sanding a finish, our guys always keep a spray bottle filled with water close at hand. That way, it is easy to keep the proper amount of moisture on the gel coat as you sand away. Another benefit of using the spray bottle in this manner is accuracy: you can spray the water on right where you need it. Check out José in the shot below, practicing what we preach.
Recently, long-time sport diver Casey Schmitt took delivery of his new Radon 22' Signature Model. Casey and his wife, Anna, pictured above, spent years on their friend's Radons and now they have their very own. Looks like they're happy about it, too! This month's fishing tip comes from the boss man himself, Don: "My wife Linda and I spend a lot of our free time fishing, and we especially like to fish for halibut. After trying a bunch of different techniques, we now prefer to drift live bait while trolling. The rig that I like is pretty simple. I start with 15 or 20 lb test line and take a red sinker slider and slip it on to the line. Next I tie on a swivel to stop the slider. Then I tie about 30" of leader, and then finally add the hook. Of course, you have to adjust the hook size to match whatever bait you have. With this setup, you can quickly change sinkers by simply unhooking the sinker from the slider. If it is calm, I use about a one ounce torpedo sinker and then increase the weight depending on how much drift I'm getting. And by the way, I like using the shiny torpedo sinkers, as they attract the fish better." Another issue of Radon Team has come and gone, but until next issue, come visit our website,www.radonboats.com, or e-mail us at [email protected]. Thanks for reading our newsletter and supporting D.R. Radon Boat Building!


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Jacket, Odds 'n Evens (thrifted). Shirt, Mossimo. Skirt, Peyton Place (thrifted and shortened). Tights, We Love Colors. Shoes, Isaac Mizrahi for Target. Earrings, Panagea. Belt, thrifted.
Photos by Beefy Muchacho
Love the shoes!
I just ordered 10 pairs of Fishnet tights from We Love Colors. I can't wait for them to get here as I have been in a fishnet mood a lot lately and am going to love going out wearing fishnets in colors other then black.
I never heard of We Love Colors until I started reading your blog so hopefully I like them. Thanks for pointing me in their direction! I had no idea fishnets came in so many colors!
My favorite shoes and belt, all in one outfit! I just wish Isaac was still designing for Target. Ah well!
One of my favorite outfits you have ever worn! I love the orangey mustard accent, the belt/chain and the skirt, especially. It's vintage-vibed but modern and fresh!
This is such a great outfit. You always think of combinations of color and form that I just wouldn't.
The color of the blouse with the colors of the skirt are so pretty together. And the dark jacket, tights and shoes make the outfit look so polished and pulled together.
Another look I'll have to try and copy.
Wow, I wish I'd spotted those shoes when they were at Tarjay! Adorable!
I thought of you yesterday when I discovered that one of my favorite new accessories comes from your home town. Are you familiar with Sweaty Bands headbands? I found them at my running store. They're super chic headbands made for runners and other athletic types. I bought them for my daughters to wear just as headbands, but I caught myself borrowing them to wear for running and pilates.
Love your blog! Thanks for being so awesome! :)
Elizabeth - I've seen those headbands but haven't ever purchased since I almost always run wearing a hat. They could be useful indoors, though!
You match the setting perfectly. I really like the skirt, and the yellow top.
My Heart Blogged
I love the combination of that skirt with the chain belt.
for some reason It makes me think of Ireland..you look kinda irish today..LOL and no, I havent been there.. maybe its me who's feeling irish.. okay. long day, i digress.. LOL
I love this skirt!
I love this outfit! That skirt is great and the pop of color in the shirt is perfection :)


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A man is suing a Kansas restaurant, claiming he was fired because he has HIV -- which would be a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Armando Gutierrez was a server at a Big Biscuit restaurant in Overland Park, Kansas, when he found out he had HIV in December 2018. Soon after, he asked his manager to sign a form so he could get HIV medication from a state program, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court.
A day later, Gutierrez was told he was being transferred to another location and would have to work Sundays, despite an agreement made when he was hired about a year earlier that he couldn't work that day because of "family commitments," the complaint says.
Gutierrez was fired when he told the restaurant he couldn't work that schedule, the lawsuit claims. The suit seeks back pay and damages.
Attempts by CNN to obtain a comment on the lawsuit from Big Biscuit's corporate headquarters were not immediately successful.
"Almost immediately upon learning of Plaintiff's medical diagnosis, management changed his schedule in such a way that it knew he could not continue to work," according to the lawsuit, which is claiming discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Gutierrez was given no warning, and in the year he had worked there, he "did well and management liked his work," according to the complaint.
Someone can't get HIV by eating food handled by someone with HIV, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Even if the food contained small amounts of HIV-infected blood or semen, exposure to the air, heat from cooking, and stomach acid would destroy the virus," according to the CDC.
The virus is transmitted only by certain bodily fluids, such as blood and semen, and mainly through sex or sharing needles, according to the CDC.
ADA protects against discrimination
People with HIV have been protected from discrimination by the ADA since a Supreme Court ruling in 1998, according to HIV.gov , but the number of complaints filed each year suggests it's still happening.
"The ADA prohibits discrimination by employers, places of public accommodation, and state and local government entities," according to HIV.gov.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it received 195 claims of discrimination because of the infection last year, and the EEOC has itself brought lawsuits against employers for firing workers because they had the virus.
Gutierrez filed a complaint with the EEOC this year. The commission sent him a letter giving him the right to sue his former employer, according to the complaint.
Mark Duggan, one of Gutierrez's lawyers, told CNN that Gutierrez is still "angry and upset about the termination."
"He's obviously upset about his diagnosis and the fact that he lost his job because of it just exacerbated the problem," Gutierrez said.
Although much progress has been made in preventing and treating the virus since the AIDS crisis of the last century, about 1.1 million people in the United States were living with HIV at the end of 2016, according to the CDC, and almost 39,000 were diagnosed with it in 2017.


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Rippling, roiling, teeming with life…Deep, dark, waiting to be explored…Water has long been a potent influence for the artists we exhibit, artists who explore its mystery and majesty in widely divergent ways. Cross Currents: Water/Art/Influence is an online exclusive exhibition on Artsy that features works reflecting rivers, oceans and life aquatic. It highlights three catalogs we have published, Of Two Minds: Artists Who Do More Than One of a Kind, vol. 38; Plunge: explorations from above and below, vol. 43 and Blue/Green: color/code/context, vol. 44 and several artists for whom water has been an inspiration. The multifaceted exhibition combines sculptures, tapestries, installation works, paintings and ceramics. Each work resides at the intersection of the maker's fascination with a variety of nautical and natural themes and the artmaking process.
Judy Mulford's meticulously detailed sculptures, inspired by her home at the beach in California, join Grethe Wittrock's Arctica, a sculpture made from a repurposed sail from the Danish Navy. Debra Sachs' water studies evoke a sense of movement by distorting a static grid using the color blue as akin to a living thing, like the rivers and the oceans, shallow to deep, static to moving. Lawrence LaBianca creates experiences in which water is an integral part. In Skiff, an antique telephone receiver links viewers to sounds of a rushing river. Twenty-four Hours on the Roaring Fork River, Aspen, CO, is a print created by Drawing Boat, a vessel filled with river rocks that makes marks on paper when it is afloat. For What Lies Beneath/Moby Dick Book, LaBianca lowered an encased copy of Moby Dick into the water to capture an image. "I love the images that Melville created in Moby Dick, he says, "the idea of something greater below governed by forces deep within a person's soul. What Lies Beneath/Moby Dick Book draws a continuum with the idea of something great below. It also is comical and slightly absurd." Karyl Sisson works with found objects — clothespins, zippers, tapes — to create sea creature-like sculptures. In creating Haystack River Basket, Dorothy Gill Barnes was moved by the natural forms created of tree roots sculpted by rushing water.
In all, the work of 21 artists will be included in Cross Currents. Some are moved by water as a natural force, for others there is a more spiritual connection, still others are interested in how Man is impacting our oceans and rivers — in each case the results are thought provoking and intriguing. One-half of the works will appear on Artsy on June 8th, the reminder will be added on June 15th: https://www.artsy.net/show/browngrotta-arts-cross-currents-water-slash-art-slash-influence.


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Appley Apple Cake
This makes a very moist cake like dessert. Use apples which do not "sauce" when cooking like Gala apples. Cut the recipe in half to bake in 1 round cake pan.
2 Cups Flour
2 Cups Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1 Tablespoon Nutmeg
1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
4 egg equivalents (EnerG egg replacer mixed with water)
4 Teaspoons Baking Powder
12 Cups chopped Gala Apples
1 Teaspoon Salt (Optional)
Mix all ingredients except apples. Stir in apples. Bake in non-stick 9×13 pan at 350 degrees for about 60 minutes or until done. Hubby likes his with about 1 Tablespoon finely chopped walnuts or pecans sprinkled on the top before baking.
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Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers with responsibility for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Friday, 19 May, 2017, approved the Integrated Work Plan for the Community's Single ICT Space.
The approval came during discussions at the Sixty-Eighth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on ICT. The Virtual Meeting was anchored at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.
The Single ICT Space is conceptualised as the digital layer of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), the Region's flagship programme. It encompasses the management of Regional information, human resources, legislation and infrastructure in the sector to elicit maximum benefit for the Region's populace.
The Single ICT space and the Region's Digital Agenda 2025 are premised on the Regional Digital Development Strategy (RDDS) which was approved in 2013, and will also have inputs from key regional Commissions and the Post-2015 Agenda.
CARICOM Heads of Government approved the Road map for the Single ICT Space in February 2017, and the Integrated Work Plan was developed and fine-tuned following several meetings of senior officials of ICT in the Region. The integrated approach allows for the coordination of activities which are geared towards the best solutions to meet the needs of the people, and to achieve economies of scale across the Region.
CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General, Trade and Economic Integration, Mr. Joseph Cox said that in the course of developing the workplan, several matters were brought to light, including the fact of the different stages of ICT development across CARICOM Member States.
"The Single ICT space workplan provides a guide for issues that the region can work on together- with those that have done some things before helping the ones now embarking on those projects", he said.
Mr. Cox also reminded the Meeting that this week the world observed World Telecommunication and Information Society Day with the theme of 'Big data for big impact'.
"Big data is just one of the issues on the front burner of the digital sector. Are we dealing with the issues of standards, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence at the national and regional levels?
He cautioned that "our citizens are very aware of what is happening around them and possible resulted impact. We as servants of the citizens of this Region and the practitioners and decision-makers in the sector have to give them the assurance that we are aware too and are earnestly working to ensure that we do not retard their progress as digital citizens."
Cohesiveness in national and regional ICT endeavours, and the indicative budget for the Single ICT Space elicited robust discussion at the Meeting on Friday. Ministers commended and gave their imprimatur to the Work Plan which will now be placed before the CARICOM Heads of Government in July in St. George's, Grenada.
Before the Ministers got down to business Friday morning, Chairman, Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, the Hon. Ferdinand Welzijn thanked the senior officials from CARICOM Member States and regional organisations who worked on the draft Integrated Work Plan.
"I want to thank them for their dedicated efforts on this important regional initiative", he said.
The Minister added that given the importance of the Single ICT space to both national and regional development, "Heads of Government expect ICT Ministers to play a pivotal role in the guidance and development of key regional documents and processes. It therefore means that you have to endeavour to prioritise areas which are not only on the national agenda, but are regional as well. Ultimately, one affects the other, especially since we are working towards a harmonised ICT Space."
While he pointed to challenges which the Community may encounter, he issued a reminder that when used strategically, ICT was a solution provider. He said that ICT was becoming a main pivot in the four pillars of the Community – trade and economic development, human and social development, foreign policy coordination and security
"Let us therefore focus on doing our part so that the big picture can be understood and appreciated by the citizens of the Region whom we serve. The work on the Single ICT space forces us to collaborate like never before as Ministers, policy-makers, officials and civil society, if we are going to succeed and advance as a Region", he told his fellow Ministers.
The half-day Meeting also paid attention to the Community's Digital Agenda, which encompasses the role ICT plays in the development of society such as in relation to the elderly, disabled and marginalised; in transportation, agriculture and energy; and in the green economy approach now being undertaken by Member States.
The Ministers also acknowledged the cyber security action plan which was recently approved by the Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) and agreed to forge ahead with a coordinated approach to keeping national assets secured. They agreed to meet before July to discuss digital broadcasting and switch-over issues.


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Buila-Vanturarita - is located in the central-northern part of Valcea County and is part of Skull Mountain. Mountain stands out from their main chain, both by disposition and by the constitution and relief.
Trovantilor Museum - are strange, bizarre, formed spherical, ellipsoidal or have the appearance of figure-eight. Have different sizes, from a few centimeters to several meters. "Born" in a sandy hill, detach and fall in a ravine in a valley. Stones are common Valcea Costesti called scientific trove.
Cozia Monastery - is located 2 km from the city Calimanesti, dating from the time of Mircea the Elder and is an important historical monument in terms of political and cultural role of the period, but due to original architecture that reflects the influence of Oriental and south of the Danube ;
Calcescu Lake - a glacial lake located in the river basin type Lotru Parang Mountains. It lies at an altitude of 1980m, has an area of ??0.55 ha and a maximum depth of 4 m.
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- Local cuisine
Attractions and activities in the surrounding area:
- Nature Reserves
- Museums and galleries
- Artistic and historical sites
- Churches and monasteries
Sport and activities in the surrounding area:
- Hiking


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The concept of the Masala Klub is to provide privacy, unmatched product and ultimate luxury to an evolved, well traveled guest. The lunch would be an ideal place for top end business luncheon meets or social afternoons in a al fresco setting surrounded by exotic greenery and water bodies with international quality food. For dinner the restaurant will entertain gourmets of cuisines and connoisseurs of wines, to official business entertaining and place for celebrations of birthday or anniversaries.
Born in the religious hub, Banaras .Rishikesh Rai began his culinary experience as a helper in his grandmother's kitchen, and learned the art of cooking and the use of spices from her. At the age of 12, he started cooking for a cause in an orphanage. Studied from the famous Banaras Hindu University young Rishi joined the Taj hotels. Later started working in Barbeque (present Masala Klub), the passion and zeal to innovate became bigger and launched Masala Klub with the contemporary touch. Travelled across the globe for many Indian food festivals organized by Taj hotels.
Chef Bharat will be available in the absence of Chef Rishikesh.


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Don Keough, an Irish American legend and a giant of the American business world, passed away today in Atlanta.
In his 88 years, from his humble upbringing to his role as the President and COO of Coca-Cola, one of the biggest companies in the world, Keough was a shining example of commitment to family and faith, hard work and determination.
He was passionate about his Irish roots, and when he retired from Coca-Cola in 1993 (though he remained on the board of directors until 2013) he turned his focus to Ireland and to his alma mater Notre Dame, establishing the Keough Institute of Irish Studies, and the Keough Notre Dame Centre in Dublin, Ireland. He was one of the most generous donors in the university's history and a great champion of Ireland.
Keough had been hospitalized in recent weeks for pneumonia. He was surrounded by family at the time of his passing.
The following piece, which traces Keough's astounding life journey, was written by IrishCentral founder Niall O'Dowd and Professor Kevin Whelan of the Keough-Naughton Notre Dame Study Centre in Ireland in December 2010 to commemorate Keough's induction into the Irish America Hall of Fame. Keough was the inaugural inductee.
A Life in America
The rise of the Keough family from the prairies to the pinnacle of Wall Street is the story of Irish America in microcosm. If the immigrant Michael Keough could see his great-grandson today, what would he think? He would recognize in Don Keough the classic Irish immigrant values of commitment to family and faith, community and country, hard work, determination, good humor, lack of pretentiousness, unflagging energy, an ability to adapt to fresh challenges, an attitude that people should wear out, not rust out. The poet Robert Frost said of America: "Our most precious heritage is what we haven't in our possession – what we haven't made, and so have still to make." Don Keough embodies the possibility of America, its dynamism, its optimism and its can-do spirit.
Donald Keough's great-grandfather Michael Keough left County Wexford in the 1840s and arrived in America where he married Hanora Burke. Then only seventeen years old, Hanora gave birth to a son, John, the year they married. The courageous young newly-weds went on to have nine children between 1848 and 1875, settling on the prairies of northwest Iowa to become sodbusters, farmers and cattlemen.
No doubt it was the notion of stepping off their own acreage that brought Michael and Hanora to the plains, yet they must have felt lonely for the hills, trees and mountains they left behind in Ireland. It would be almost a century before any of their descendants made it back to the land of their birth.
The Iowa winters were harsh and Michael and his sons had to drive their horses miles to chop down wood so that the family would survive. Then there were the grasshopper plagues of 1874, '75 and '76 that swept across Iowa like a biblical swarm of locusts. But Michael Keough was tough and so were his sons. By the time he passed away on October 2, 1904, the family had solid roots in America.
John continued homesteading, growing oats and potatoes and raising cattle after his father passed away. He married Kate Foley, the daughter of a businessman, and they had four sons: Leo, Lloyd, Verne and Frank.
Later in life, John's sons recalled that their father had worked them almost to breaking point, not out of harshness, but the need to survive. When John expired just one week after building "a fine new modern home" for his family, the responsibility for the farm fell on Leo, the eldest son. It was on this farm that Donald Keough was born in 1926, the youngest of Leo and his wife Veronica's three sons.
Don remembers his father Leo as a man of sunny outlook, a disciplined, hardworking man who never let his family down. After a fire burned the family home to the ground and everything was lost with the exception of Hanora's Irish wedding shawl and the family Bible, Leo moved the family to Sioux City where he found work in the stockyard.
"He had the ability to look at forty head of cattle and the intuitive knowledge to know within five pounds what each weighed," Don recalled in an interview with Niall O'Dowd.
As a 15-year-old, Don learned the sales patter and how to negotiate and close a deal. When he got suckered in a small deal, he learned a valuable lesson:
"Watch the cattle, not the man," his boss told him. In other words, know what you are buying and don't be influenced by the hype of the person selling. "There is no question that everything I know about business I learned in that stockyard. I learned how to weigh someone up, to know the weakness and strength of your own position, and realize the fundamentals – that he wants to sell and you have the money to buy, and leverage that," he told O'Dowd.
Don's mother, a schoolteacher, was determined that her sons would have the best education possible. "My mother was tough but loving," Don remembered. "She never spared you because she knew we were in tough circumstances and that education and self-reliance were the way out."
Striking Out on His Own
In August of 1944, just shy of his 18th birthday, Don left for the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. His brothers had already enlisted. Emmett was serving under George Patton in Europe and Wayne was in the air force. In a strange twist of fate, Don was not shipped overseas but to a Navy psychiatric hospital in Newport, Rhode Island where he would care for soldiers who were traumatized by war.
It was a lot for an 18-year-old to absorb, but Don quickly developed a rapport with the men, and found that a little kindness went a long way. "I learned to respect people's dignity. No matter how far they had fallen these were brave men caught up in something that was far greater than themselves."
After the war, Don moved to Omaha, Nebraska and entered Creighton University on the G. I. Bill. Among his neighbors in Omaha was Warren Buffet, who became his life-long friend. Following graduation, Don started a career as a talk-show host in Omaha, and just before he started on his chosen career, he got married.
Marilyn "Mickie" Mulhall, who had family on both sides from Iowa, took his eye. It was love at first sight. The couple married at St. Cecilia's Cathedral in Omaha on September 10, 1949 and honeymooned in Chicago, a rushed five-day affair because Don was due back at WOR where he had landed the assignment of being the commentator on the first ever televised transmission of a live sports event west of Chicago.
It was a National Football League preseason game between the Los Angeles Rams and the New York Giants. "Luckily there were only a few hundred television sets in the area at the time," Don recalled with a grin.
Soon he was making the acquaintance of the other television newcomer, John Carson. The friendship blossomed when Keough, Carson and their wives found themselves living opposite each other in a local apartment building.
Carson's show directly followed Keough's "Coffee Break," and he often found himself producing it. "He was just shaping his own unique humor; he found humor in everything," Don remembered. He might well have gone to a successful television career like Carson, but he realized that he wanted to spend more time with his wife and growing family. He'd had enough of working "football weekends."
Carson moved to Los Angeles and Keough to a company called Butternut Coffee, where he was instrumental in the company's sponsorship of Carson's first ever television show.
Within a few years, Butternut was acquired by Duncan Foods, which in turn was taken over by Coca-Cola. "Suddenly, we were part of a whole new ball game," Don remembers. He found himself as number two to a legendary Coke hand, Luke Smith, who saw something in the young Midwesterner. Meanwhile, Charles Duncan, Keough's mentor, was a major success in his assignments for Coca-Cola.
In 1971 Duncan was elected president of the company. Luke Smith, who was Keough's immediate superior, was called back to Atlanta, and Don was made head of Duncan Foods, which was renamed the Coca-Cola Foods Division.
Keough went on to a brilliant career. He was appointed as head of all the Americas for Coca-Cola in 1976, and in 1981 he was appointed president, chief operating officer and director.
He enjoyed running the iconic company, he told Niall O'Dowd. "I had passion for what I was doing. I always believed that you have to have people at the top who are passionate about their company, and that that is communicated down through the ranks." He went on to say, "The task of leaders in business is to convince the people who work for you that what you are suggesting for them is in their best interest. It is like a perpetual marriage, you get along to go along, you have difficulties, spats, but you have to sit down and say we are going to work this out."
Waking Up the Irish Echoes
It is typical of the prescience of Don Keough that after a career in corporate America, he turned to a venture of a different kind, one that would pay tribute to the land of his ancestors.
When he retired as president and COO of Coca-Cola in 1993 (he would retain a seat on the board of directors), Don turned his focus to Notre Dame and, with an endowment of $2.5 million, established the Keough Institute of Irish Studies, and the Keough Notre Dame Centre in Dublin, Ireland.
"Notre Dame didn't have any type of academic Irish Studies program. It just seemed like a natural fit to me," Keough said at the time.
Since then, with Don driving it on, and backed by Andy McKenna and Patrick McCartan, his friends and successors as Chair of the Trustees, Irish Studies at Notre Dame has gone from strength to strength, attracting world-class scholars such as Seamus Deane, Breandán Ó Buachalla and Declan Kiberd. Don also forged a close partnership with Martin Naughton, insisting that for an Irish-American partnership to work properly, it had to have a balanced leadership.
From the beginning, Don Keough wisely insisted that Notre Dame could only forge a strong relationship with Ireland through a genuine immersion in Irish life, and through close collaboration with Irish partners. Notre Dame operates a trilateral partnership with University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, and almost one thousand Notre Dame students have studied there. Their positive Irish experience encourages them to become what Don Keough has always been – a lifelong advocate for Ireland. It is typical of Don's vision that he was so quick to realize how significant the nurturing of these linkages would become.
Don has always stressed that, as we seek to enrich other people's lives, we really enrich ourselves, and that that motivation lies at the heart of all philanthropy.
That is the true measure of a charismatic man who has greatly impacted thousands of lives, who has brought wise counsel, good humor, vigor and momentum to strengthening the relationship between Ireland and America, and who has enriched us all through his generous leadership. Don Keough has a unique ability to make people feel valued and appreciated, and to spur them on in their endeavors.
An old Irish proverb says "Beidh sé molta da mbéadh mé i mo thost" ('He would be praised even if I were silent').
When he was granted Irish citizenship in 2007, the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, presented Don with a vellum inscription which included a phrase from the Book of Sirach, chosen by Don's good friend Fr. Timothy Scully CSC:
"A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: He who finds one finds a treasure."
For all those who know, love, admire and are inspired by this great man, Don Keough has surely been a 'sturdy shelter.' To be with him is indeed to be in the presence of an American and an Irish treasure.