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2016 award eligibility post
This is my yearly award eligibility post!
It has absolutely everything I wrote that I could think of, but I'd like to emphasize Standing on the Floodbanks, a novelette, and Given Sufficient Desperation, a short story. The latter was published in the Defying Doomsday anthology and is not available online, but I'm happy to send you a copy if you are reading for this year's awards - leave a comment with your email and the file can head your way. I am also glad to send anything else that's not currently available online.
~~~Standing on the Floodbanks. GigaNotoSaurus, 2016 November. Ed. Rashida J. Smith. Approx. 12,000 words. – Quasi-medieval, quasi-Hungarian fantasy inspired by present-day politics and the 2013 flooding of the Danube. Magical mentorship and a critical take on mages' guild tropes.
"It's a lovely story with a strong emotional core wrapped in a complex fantasy situation of magic, politics, and corruption, and it's one hell of a read." - Charles Payseur, Quick Sip Reviews
Short story
~~~Given Sufficient Desperation. Defying Doomsday anthology, ed. Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench. Approx. 3100 words. – A YA SF story involving alien invasion, neuroimaging, and a take on warfare… and dyspraxia.
"The apocalypse here is so delightfully layered [...] In a short space Takács manages to pack in not only character development for the protagonist but also an entire plot about the Earth being destroyed, colonized and liberated." - Marina Berlin, Strange Horizons "Touching, yet with dry humor, this story had the perfect amount of oddity for me, plus great speculation on communication with aliens." - Daniel, Skiffy and FantyToward the Luminous Towers. Clarkesworld, Sep 2016. Ed. Neil Clarke. Approx. 3900 words. – An extremely grim anti-war SF story about the lengths people sometimes need to go to in order to escape a horrible situation. Also with technical bits about neuroplasticity!
"It's dark and cautionary, exploring the lengths to which a person can be exploited in the name of protecting their "people"." - T. Regina, Books & SuchGood People in a Small Space. Self-pub, Nov 2016. Approx. 2300 words. - This was the reward for my first Patreon goal. It is a fluffy and feelgood story set in my continuity, the Eren universe. (Toward the Luminous Towers is set in a very different corner.)
Flash fiction
~~~These are eligible for the short fiction category of most awards, but you are probably better off nominating my longer work. They are here for the sake of completeness! 😀 All Talk of Common Sense. Polychrome Ink Volume 3, ed. Em Salgado. Approx. 1050 words. – A fantasy flash story with an autistic protagonist and palace intrigue. You can also get this one if you sign up for my Patreon, and it's set in the same continuity as the Floodbanks novelette above! Shovelware. Nature Futures, ed. Colin Sullivan. Approx. 950 words. – A near-future hard SF story about software development and lucid dreaming. + Bonus notes The Merry Knives of Interspecies Communication. Angels of the Meanwhile, ed. Alexandra Erin. Approx. 200 words. – A microfiction piece involving masochism in space.
Short poem
~~~Marginalia to Eiruvin 45b. Bracken Magazine, ed. Alina Rios. – A Talmudically inspired magical-realist poem. I had three more poems published, but they are not speculative in nature: Never Cease. Spelling the Hours, ed. Rose Lemberg. – A poem about Péter Rózsa, a Hungarian Jewish woman mathematician who also wrote popular science. Rays of Light, Stretching. Iowa City Poetry in Public. – A tiny poem about immigration. (Page 18 in the pdf.) Periodicity. Little Village. – A poem about the rise of the extreme right in Hungary, and the spring flood. + Bonus notes
Best Fan Writer
You can find my reviews and other book-related content at Bogi Reads the World! You can also check out the #diversestories and #diversepoems hashtags on Twitter.
If you enjoyed reading my work, you are welcome to visit my bibliography for pieces from earlier years. I try and make sure everything is eventually available online free of charge. Please support my Patreon if you can!
My Jewish-themed poetry and fiction
I write speculative / magical-realist fiction and poetry. There is quite a bit of it by now, and most of it is available free of charge online. If you like this kind of stuff, you can support my Patreon.
A specifically Jewish list seems timely; my bibliography is long and messy, and it is hard to separate works out by topic. I will probably also make a QUILTBAG-themed list too.
If you want to read about anti-Semitism specifically: Periodicity, The Tiny English-Hungarian Phrasebook for Visiting Extraterrestrials, Never Cease (this last one is in a book you can buy; the first two are free)
If you want to read something that awakens your fighting spirit: Torah and Secular Learning, This Secular Technology
For a QUILTBAG intersection: Three Partitions, Six Hundred and Thirteen Commandments
And now on to the complete list...
The Size of a Barleycorn, Encased in Lead, in TBA (Forthcoming, 2017) - Prose poem combining my interests in Talmud study and nuclear power
Synthesis: This Shining Confluence, in Sunvault anthology (Forthcoming, 2017) - solarpunk science-fantasy about riding the Livyatan
Marginalia to Eiruvin 45b, in Bracken (2016) - Talmudic cycle #2, tractate Eiruvin
Never Cease, in Spelling the Hours anthology (2016) - about Hungarian Jewish computer scientist Péter Rózsa, and the Holocaust
Periodicity in Little Village (2016) - on the current rise of neo-Nazism in Hungary, in memory of poet Miklós Radnóti
Six Hundred and Thirteen Commandments, in Ideomancer (2014) - on Sha'ar haGilgulim
The Tiny English-Hungarian Phrasebook for Visiting Extraterrestrials, in Stone Telling (2013) - on violent anti-Semitism and other forms of ethnocentrism in Hungary
How (Not) to Avoid Harmful Spirits - A Talmudic Guide, in Through the Gate (2013) - Talmudic cycle #1, tractate Berachot
Torah and Secular Learning, in Strange Horizons (2012) - on Torah u-madda
A Hail of Pebbles and Dust, in Astropoetica (2011) - a hard-SF poem with serafim and exoplanets
Tangentially related:
Skin the Creature in Through the Gate (2015) - my ars poetica, sort of... Brief Jewish mention
Three Partitions, in Giganotosaurus (2014) - science-fantasy novelette examining the gender binary in Judaism.
This Secular Technology, in Mirror Shards 2, reprinted in Drabblecast (2012/2015) - Orthodox Jewish girls fighting demons on a space station
Tangentially related:
Forestspirit, Forestspirit, in Clarkesworld (2015) - Set in far-future Hungary, the protagonist belongs to an unnamed but persecuted ethnic minority, and another character too. (The ambiguity was deliberate, because sadly there is more than one such group. You can read them as either Jews, Roma or Beás people)
Recordings of a More Personal Nature, in Apex (2013) - quasi-Jewish secondary world fantasy, with a Sanhedrin
#diversestories roundup! (Oct 10)
- (Comic) (Non-free) The Little Black Fish by Samad Behrangi and Bizhan Khodabandeh, published by Rosarium Press, 2016.
- (Novella) (Non-free) Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall, published by Riptide Books, 2015.
- (Short story collection) (Free & Non-free depending on each story) The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu, published by Saga Press, 2016.
- (Novella) (ARC) (Non-free) The Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson, published by Tor.com, 2016.
- (Short story) (Free) The Librarian's Dilemma by E. Saxey, published in Unlikely Academia, 2015; reprinted in Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Stories, published by Lethe Press, 2016.
- (Short story collection) (Non-free) Love Beyond Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology, published by Bedside Press, 2016.
I have a Patreon now!
Come see us at the Examined Life conference in Iowa City!
Bonus story notes: Toward the Luminous Towers
***Specific content warnings for the story: warfare and combat injuries described in detail, medical abuse specifically directed at a disabled person, oppressive political regimes, detailed discussion of suicide.
***Spoilery notes: This story is a prequel to a series of stories I'm working on, Iwunen Interstellar Investigations (I3) - about two queer, nonbinary trans people who are a couple, and who fight crime! with magic! in space! The series is going to be much more cheerful in tone, but I wanted to show separately that the characters have rebuilt their lives starting from very difficult places; something that I think resonates with many trans people, immigrants, and so on - people like me. The protagonist of this story is going to be one of the two investigators in I3. And yes, e is going to remain disabled, though differently than at the end of this story (in some aspects more disabled, in others less) - the teleport jump will also affect em permanently. I just want to write about the facts that disability is not a singular, unchanging thing, and that even in the amazing magical space future, there will be disabled people.
*The protagonist is gender-unspecified here simply because it is a first-person story and it is not so relevant to the plot, but in I3 we will see that e is agender. (There will be multiple sets of nonbinary pronouns in I3, similarly to my story in Capricious last year, and similarly to... um... real life? 🙂 ) Eir former teacher is also a nonbinary person and this is mentioned only so that I can use the appropriate pronouns - specifically, they pronouns -, but this fact is not in focus. There will be Many Genderthings in I3, though, and all the trans feels 🙂
*The old song about the night sky quoted several times is not an actual song; I had people ask me if it were. I made it up from scratch - I wanted it to sound a bit Soviet-style, but the setting is not based on the Soviet Union or even the Eastern Bloc in general. (Beyond the fact that I am from a former Eastern Bloc country, which no doubt influences my storytelling.) I simply wanted the lyrics to have a flavor that reminded me of my childhood.
*Character names are not meant to evoke a specific culture. I spent a lot of time fussing over this and even changing a name in the proofing stage (sorry!!). The names do not have a canonical pronunciation; for the podcast reader, I recorded them with my rather haphazard pronunciation that ended up being a mix of Hebrew, Hungarian, and maybe even German?? *I wrote the story while being very unwell. I have an inflammatory disorder that occurs in waves, and at that point I had trouble just moving around at home in our apartment. This probably accounts for the very cynical and bitter voice.I do have all my limbs, though, unlike the protagonist; I'm just not always able to use them very well. I also have motor dyspraxia, which means I can't use them very well even when I have no inflammation flareups; but that is an entirely different issue and I do not want to claim similarity. Losing limbs is different and is not something I am writing from experience. If you want to read an #ownvoices story about motor dyspraxia by me, I have one in the recently released anthology Defying Doomsday. This one is #ownvoices on different axes :)*As mentioned in-text, the protagonist is neuroatypical, like me; I do not get into the details in this story (this is why I am planning on having a very sprawling series of stories!), but e is autistic, specifically. This will be plot-relevant later, but is not plot-relevant here.* The drugs are futuristic and all-powerful, but they were vaguely inspired by real-world drugs: GS-10 by modafinil and VPR-56 by valproic acid. I haven't taken either, I just know about them related to work. Valproic acid is an anti-seizure medication, but it also has an effect of promoting neuroplasticity, as it has been recently described in a human study involving the acquisition of absolute pitch. (Hungarian first author!) Disclaimer: do not take any drugs based on my story; I do not recommend this.
The story was beta read by Rose Lemberg. Thank you Spouseperson!!
*The neuroplasticity theme was inspired by a doctoral seminar I was taking on developmental trajectories, led by Karla McGregor. She bears absolutely no responsibility for this story and hasn't seen it before publication. The bits about the logistic function, etc. are likewise based on actual science, and I was talking quite a lot about this the previous semester, when I was teaching labs for Psychology of Language. ...I guess this is a hard SF space fantasy story. *throws up hands*
*I think many people do not really think about how librarians specialize in managing large amounts of data. It seems like such an innocuous occupation. I had this realization quite recently, and it stopped me in my tracks.
*The very prima facie meaning of the ending is that the protagonist does not die but instead escapes, but I am sure there will be many people who read it as a suicide scene; it is kind of inevitable. What I was trying to express was that there are situations from which the only potential escape might as well look like suicide; both from an inside and an outside point of view. This point is very personal to me in ways that are probably not readily apparent from the story itself.
For people who like to keep track of such things (I know there are many of you!): this story found a market on the second try.
Finally, thank you everyone who came to my Worldcon reading to listen to this story! It meant a lot to me that I had an audience despite the fact that my reading was rescheduled multiple times and the wrong time was printed in the schedule. Thanks again!!
Inkscrawl #10: Living Bodies in Motion!
*Since last time people asked for subject warnings, here they are. I will not list allusions, only direct mentions, because allusions are less straightforward to interpret, and I do not want to forcibly impose my reading on the poems. Mentions of death: Shuttlecock, A Gun and a Boy (Le Cercle Rouge), Plate 24, The Dancer, the commute Mentions of self-injury: marsyas Mentions of medical abuse: quiet hands
#diversestories / #diversepoems weekly roundup Aug 28
- (Non-free) (Novel) Infomocracy by Malka Older, published by Tor.com in 2016
- (Free) (Poem) To My Shyaam by Shweta Narayan in Strange Horizons, Aug 2016
- (Non-free) (Novel) Bereft by Craig Laurance Gidney, published by Tiny Satchel Press in 2013
- (Free) (Poem) Children of the Geese by S. Qiouyi Lu in Zetetic Record, Aug 2016
- (Free) (Short story) Pimp My Airship by Maurice Broaddus in Apex, Aug 2009
- How (not) to get non-native speakers of English to submit to your magazine - reflecting on some of the side threads in the current conversation wrt anti-Blackness in SFF
- Goodreads lists of 2016-17 adult SFF by authors of color - I didn't start these, but I added a lot and the lists are a great resource to me. Please add books; if you can't, let me know and I can add them. Tell me about your own books, too!
- My recs of awesome Black SFF writers I actually have a lot more, so if you just follow my #diversestories & #diversepoems hashtags, you can find more. But I was very upset by the suggestion in my Twitter feed that Black SFF writers did not exist beyond a few popular names, so I did this thread for an hour and a half, before my arm started to really hurt. (Literally, the bottleneck was not the number of absolutely awesome authors I could mention, it was the amount of very rapid typing I could accomplish.)
- Diversity and free books Reviewer copies, library copies, Little Free Libraries... Many things about who has the money/resources for marketing their book (it's usually not marginalized people)
Many announcements!
*The new issue of inkscrawl, guest-edited by me, is coming just in a few days, G-d willing - almost all poets have responded to their proofs by now, and everyone signed their contracts. Behold the amazing table of contents! All credit is due to the great poets who sent their work to me. I am truly honored!
*I will have a story in next month's Clarkesworld, titled Toward the Luminous Towers. If you met me at Worldcon, you've probably already heard about it! This will be my second appearance in Clarkesworld, and probably one of the most upsetting things I've ever written. (Yes, I am planning on having story notes, with copious warnings.) Toward the Luminous Towers also serves as the first prologue to the Iwunen stories, about which more later as I actually end up writing them... They will be very different in tone and much more cheerful (though also depicting many difficulties), but it is important for me to establish where the main characters will be coming from.
*I will have a poem in the upcoming next issue of Bracken Magazine, Marginalia to Eiruvin 45b - it is a very brief magical-realist poem about the riverside, and a Talmudic reflection at the same time.
*My story This Secular Technology will be reprinted in the anthology "Menschen and Minyanim" featuring Jewish-themed SFF.
*I will have both a science-fantasy poem and a full-page line art drawing in a... something whose table of contents hasn't been released yet. 🙂 I ACTUALLY DREW A THING I HAVEN'T DRAWN ANYTHING IN SUCH A LONG TIME. And it found a venue!
*Also, I've found a home for my fantasy story To Rebalance the Body in another something whose table of contents... etc. You will see, G-d willing! This is the story I mentioned several times that forms a pair with my story in Capricious, The Need for Overwhelming Sensation. Both feature similar characters and dynamics, but a diametrically opposite setting. You might also remember this as the story which led the chief editor of a "trans-friendly" "QUILTBAG-inclusive" venue to publicly, repeatedly misgender me, while attempting to summarize my story in rather confusingly misleading ways... AKA, the vampire story which features no vampires. So, if you wanted to read that one, it is coming! It took a bit, because after that fiasco, I was determined to see it published in an explicitly trans context and not as much in general SFF markets.
*I am also almost completely out of things to send out, so if you told me at Worldcon that you'd like to see more work from me, you'll unfortunately have to wait for me to write it first... I did manage to settle in in Kansas, and my visiting year at the University of Kansas started relatively smoothly after the two weeks of utter paperwork chaos. So things might happen... In the meanwhile, the #diversestories and #diversepoems (and even #diversebooks and #diversecomics) recommendations have resumed on Twitter - the first roundup is coming this weekend, IY"H. Enjoy the ride!


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Five more TRS legislators resign, decide to join CongressDecember 21st, 2008 - 9:12 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Dec 21 (IANS) Fearing disqualification, five more rebel legislators of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) Sunday resigned from the Andhra Pradesh assembly and decided to join the ruling Congress party.Four legislators - S. Santosh Reddy, G. Mukunda Reddy, K. Lingaiah and Shara Rani - met Speaker K.R. Suresh Reddy and submitted their resignations. Another legislator, Narayanrao Patel, faxed his resignation to the speaker.
Two legislators, D. Srinivasa Rao and T. Jayaprakash Reddy, Saturday announced their decision to resign as legislators.
The speaker, however, said he would take a decision on the resignations on Monday.
The action of the rebel legislators came after the speaker told reporters Saturday that he would soon announce his verdict about the 10 rebel legislators whose disqualification was sought by the TRS last year for defying the party whip and voting for an Independent candidate in the state legislative council elections.
The remaining three legislators are also likely to quit their seats and join the Congress. They had raised the banner of revolt against the style of functioning of party president K. Chandrasekhara Rao.
The TRS, which is fighting for separate statehood to Telangana region, had won 26 assembly seats in 2004 elections.
The speaker is to announce his verdict on the TRS petition for disqualification of rebels on Monday.
Meanwhile, the TRS has urged the speaker not to accept the resignations of the rebel legislators.
Party leader and legislator T. Harish Rao said the rebels had resigned fearing disqualification. "The speaker should uphold the honour of his post by not accepting their resignations," he said.
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Report on GPR and science investigations at Macquarie island and Casey stationEntry ID: survey_2000_01_velthuis
Abstract: Taken from the survey report:
Documentation is provided for surveying tasks - by Tom Velthuis - at Macquarie Island and Casey, during the summer of 2000/1. The report is presented in five key sections:
1. GPR related surveying in Thala Valley - Casey;
2. Non GPR related surveying in Thala Valley;
3. Surveys conducted outside of Thala Valley;
4. Surveys at Macquarie Island; and
5. Survey data to ... GIS.
The first three sections relate to Casey; the fourth section to Macquarie Island; and the fifth section documents the transfer of data to GIS.
For more details see the report available as part of the download.
Taken from the readme file accompanying the data:
The folder named, 'shape' contains projected (UTM) and unprojected shapefiles, based on WGS84, relating to surveys by Tom Velthuis at Macquarie Island and Casey during the summer 2000/2001 season. See report: Survey Report.doc.
The folder named, 'excel_files' contains excel files by Tom Velthuis used for computing surveying work performed at Macquarie Island and Casey during the summer 2000/1. The 'Windmill Islands control' file is a file given to Tom by Tom Gordon.
The folder labelled, 'tomv pics scanned' contains photographs (by Tom Velthuis) relating to surveying work conducted at Casey during the summer 2000/1. Most of the photos are in the report labelled, 'Survey Report.doc'.
The folder labelled, 'TomVforGIS' contains files generated by Tom Velthuis, for the creation of shapefiles in ArcView.
The files relate to Surveying work conducted at Macquarie Island and Casey during Summer 2000/1.
macca_levels.xls has additional notes on the levelling of buildings at Macquarie Island.
Also, map number 13248 in the SCAR Map Catalogue shows crosses on the buildings at Macquarie Island indicating the approximate location of levelling to the buildings.
macca_levels.xls has the same content as the dbf file referred to on the map.
See Related URL below for the SCAR Map Catalogue entry.
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Faith Lutheran Church and Preschool is located at 602 South 14th Street in Adel, Iowa and has a long history serving Dallas County Iowa. We have been serving Adel since October of 1967.
What We Believe…
With the universal Christian Church, Faith Lutheran Church and Preschool teaches and responds to the love of the Triune God: the Father, creator of all that exists; Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in the ultimate victory over death and Satan; and the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God's Word and Sacraments. The three persons of the Trinity are coequal and coeternal, one God. Faith Lutheran Church and Preschool is a member of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.
Our congregation accepts and practices the Bible-based teachings of Martin Luther, who inspired the reformation of the Christian Church in the 16th century. The teaching of Luther and the reformers can be summarized in three short phrases: Grace Alone, Faith Alone, Scripture Alone.


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Letter: Wexler is easy choice for probate judge
Published 5:49 pm, Tuesday, October 1, 2013
It's an easy choice. Do we want a probate judge with experience, knowledge and compassion or one who simply specializes in divorce? Do we want someone that cares when a loved one passes on or simply a lawyer that wants to see his firm grow? Do we want a woman previously elected to Westport office and well known as a town advocate and volunteer or someone who, frankly, most of us never heard of before except for a billboard advertisement?
As a resident since 1989 and an attorney experienced in wills, trusts and probate matters, Lisa Wexler has a proven record as one who will listen to our needs. Friends and neighbors, we have to make the right choice to vote for Lisa Wexler for probate judge. Lisa will speak up for the powerless while being with us in time of need. Please join me and vote for Lisa Wexler for probate judge.


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Despite the unhappy ending of her 14-month marriage to Russell Brand, Katy Perry hasn't given up on marriage.
"I still believe in love and marriage," the pop superstar said in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "I've just learned lessons along the way. I regret nothing."
Learning love lessons included grieving the loss of her relationship, and Katy bravely allowed cameras to capture an emotional backstage moment for her new concert film, "Katy Perry: Part of Me."
"What was going on in my personal life was so overwhelming that I had to bend over to let those tears fall straight out of my eye sockets and not my false lashes just as I'm about to go up on that ramp and sing 'Teenage Dream,'" she said. "I had to smack myself across the face and say, 'These problems are my problems, they are not my audience's problems, learn to separate that.'"
With hits like "Waking Up In Vegas" and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)," some may assume the 27-year-old singer like to spend her nights on the town. However, Katy said she prefers to spend her nights at home, rather than going out and getting "twisted," as she will "probably have to wake up and work in the morning" and now has "a lot more to lose."
For the full interview with Katy, pick up a copy of THR – on newsstands today.


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The Goldstone Report
Edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss
Nation Books, 2011
It's not only 325 pages of the most serious, detailed, and moving accounts of Israel's human rights violations while invading Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009; it's also a set of essays that seriously evaluate the work of Justice Richard Goldstone, a Zionist and former member of the board of the Hebrew University, as he sought to evaluate the information and testimony he received, including the recommendations he then passed on to the UN, which had asked him to do the report (he had previously authored similar UN human rights reports on Rwanda and Bosnia). We already sent out Naomi Klein's introductory article online (if you didn't get it, sign up for our newsletter), but there's much more here, including Moshe Halbertal's fierce critique, "The Goldstone Illusion," Rashid Khalidi's important essay, "Palestinian Dispossession and the U.S. Public Sphere," Letty Cottin Pogrebin's "The Unholy Assault on Richard Goldstone," and more. If you read it, you'll know for sure why you should travel from afar to honor Goldstone when we give him the Tikkun Award at our Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration March 14 at the University of California, Berkeley.
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In this case, there is interior design of bathroom are needed to make the completion a housing ideas. Some people are using the main accessories to build the bathroom ideas. Some of them use the shower, bath tub, faucets, sink, mirror and toilet as the main appliance to make the bathroom useful. These kinds of appliances give the useful design of interior housing ideas. In taking a bath, people must need to make clean their body and this is one of the health suggestions to our personality cleanness. This is one of the basic purpose of the creating the bathroom design for the personality cleanness.
Toilet is one of the completion services of the bathroom appliance. Some people need this appliance very much a bathroom. For that reason, more designers set the toilet into the great design of the tools. Even though, they use the portable design of toilet. This design shows how important the design of bathroom needed for the most people outside. In modern era, the portable design of toilet also needs the tiny design to ease the movement of the appliance. Nevertheless, the designer also needs to consider about the strong of the design material ideas. In other side, the design of bathroom can be outside style. This design is created for the people who want to get the great design of view especially outside of the house. This design is not far from the main design of inside bathroom ideas. Some people use the classic and natural design of appliance into this kind of bathroom. This is really amazing ideas.
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Brass, copper scraps stolen
Published 4:50 pm, Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Miscellaneous brass and copper scraps worth about $200 were stolen from Flaherty Plumbing and Heating, 1913 Boston Post Road, Darien, Jan. 20, according to police.
The scraps, which were in a dumpster behind the building, were last seen Jan. 18 and were noticed missing around 8:30 a.m. Jan. 20, police said.
There was no damage to the property.


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Lots of existing Web sites already allow their community of members to submit web links of interesting content for indexing, sharing, and comment. Slashdot has a beta system for tagging submissions with metadata, while Digg users can give stories and comments a thumbs up or down, progressively raising or lowering an item's visibility. Third Voice was a dotcom that built an Internet Explorer plugin that allowed users to associate comments with web sites, which then popped up like a Post It note for other users who had the plugin.
Why Apple Can Deliver this:
Apple could one-up existing services (and previous failures) by applying the company's unique position and abilities I described earlier. For starters, Apple has (1) a network of users, and (2) owns an OS and a browser. That means they can build functions into Safari and distribute the functionality with Mac OS X. The system would be (3) given away for free, and is financed as part of .Mac, which users (6) trust with their data. Further, Apple has proven they can build things that (7) work, are (8) usable by mere mortals, (9) very cool, and (10) will actually get finished.
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The Idaho Transportation Department just suspended advertising for bids for future highway projects. Oregon and Washington may soon do the same.
It's because of a standoff in Congress about how to replenish the money in the pot for highway construction. The issue is that the federal gas tax hasn't gone up for more than 20 years. However, commitments for highway construction have.
In the past, Congress has patched the gap with transfers and borrowing. But this year, conservatives are warning "no more." In response, the Obama Administration is warning states that starting next month they may get less federal highway construction money.
Oregon Department of Transportation Assistant Director Travis Brouwer said his agency will essentially float a loan to the federal government to keep contractors and workers active.
"We have sufficient cash reserves for at least a short period of time," he said. "We're not quite sure how long, but we should be able to weather a couple months lapse in federal funding."
The uncertainty about future funding caused the Idaho Transportation Department in mid-June to suspend advertising for bids on a half dozen planned projects. Spokesman Reed Hollinshead said his agency has been sufficiently frugal — and has enough near-term clarity on federal reimbursements — that it will resume bid solicitation next week.
Washington's Department of Transportation is still evaluating.
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I recently visited the lodge and a few of its members to collect some stories. The members I spoke with wish to remain anonymous, so I will refer to them as Member 1, Member 2, etc.
Member 1 often comes to the Elks Lodge in the morning to work in the office before it is open for the day. They are usually the first person to show up. On more than one occasion, Member 1 has heard someone walking through the lounge and dining room areas. When they go look to see who's there, they can't find anyone and the lodge is still empty. The noise heard is distinctly the sound of footsteps. So much so, that Member 1 thought it was a bartender showing up early.
Member 2 was cleaning up the lounge a couple of months ago when something whistled at her. She says it was like someone was trying to get her attention. There was nobody else in the lounge or dining area at the time. Member 2 has also heard footsteps coming from the lodge floor (where official meetings are held) upstairs when nobody else is there.
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The Littleton Elks Lodge is in an old building and full of dusty, unused corners. I did not experience anything myself on the day I visited, but I did come across an opened window in the back stairwell connecting the basement to the lounge. That alone isn't that strange, but the window opened into another wall. An addition was added at some point in the building's history, and there was no reason for that window to be open. Ever. The member giving me a tour of the lodge was surprised the window was open, as they had never seen it open before.
While I wasn't lucky enough to experience anything, this building lends itself to the feeling of being watched. Personally speaking, it felt something there was holding its breath to see what I might do. Where I might look, what I might find.
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Turning 20 meant I was still in college. I got my first cell phone 10 years ago for my 20th birthday and I was gearing up to be an RA in the freshmen dorms. I was head over in heels in love with a girl I was sure I would marry, and the ironic part is the girl I actually did marry was right around the corner from me at school.
My early 20s were a dysfunctional blur as I could legally drink in bars. Unfortunately, my transcendence to the legal drinking age coincided with the girl I loved breaking my heart. Two years of drunkenness, debauchery and general idiotic behavior ensued. Even though I had my first job, good friends and supportive family, I was a complete mess.
The silver lining of this time was the Patriots Super Bowl win which I will remember always. Then a few years later the Red Sox broke the Curse and the Golden Era of Boston sports was in full swing. I was living in Boston and I was still a mess. I didn't know any longer where one night of drinking ended and where the hair of the dog in the morning began. I lived for the weekend and partying with my roommates. I was having a ton of fun, but it had started to lose it's luster a little bit.
Then came my mid-20s and a fateful invitation to a house party in Foxboro. MJ was at that party, and even though I was THAT close to hooking up with another girl at that party, MJ and I ended up confessing our true feelings for each other despite having known one another since the 6th grade. After one week of dating I told my best friend Craig that I was going to marry her. By the time I was 25 I was engaged.
The age of 26 brought a change of career leading me back to journalism, and also marriage. 27 was a tough one because MJ was sick and the first year of marriage isn't easy for anyone. But by 28 we had a little bundle of joy.
So there you have it. From a young and wild college student who lived for getting wasted with friends at parties and bars, to a (partially) responsible husband and father all in the span of a decade. But 30?? Thirty is fucking old. Always has been. And since I'm definitely not old, how the hell can I be 30? I'm a 30-something. Now if I do something stupid or humiliating it's not cute. People no longer shake their head and say "Well he's young." Now if I act like an idiot, I'm just an idiot. Because I'm too old to act like an idiot. I'm 30. I'm an adult, whatever that means. I'm a husband and a dad.
I have no idea what my 30's will bring? Another kid maybe? Will newspapers be extinct forcing another career shift? Will MJ finally come to her senses and find a suitable husband? I don't know. But I do know there will probably be a few less beers, less stories that begin with "so we were wasted at the bar," and a few more creaky bones and less hair. But hopefully it'll also bring a decade of eye opening experiences as a father and husband, and an opportunity to grow into my role as both.
In the meantime, I'm simply thankful for all the wonderful people in my life who cared enough to throw me a surprise party and who have stuck with me all these years. I know I haven't always deserved your loyalty and love, but I've always appreciated it more than you know. I'm thankful for the love of my boy, a feeling truly like no other. Not to mention my wife, who is far too good for me. My parents, my brother (that book is amazing people, I can't even begin to tell you), my friends and family are all too terrific for words. And that includes my "online friends" who know me from this blog. We may not have met, but I feel your presence daily and I'm better for it.
So here's to 30 and the ass kicking I plan on giving it.


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Why the hell do we put ourselves through this twice a year?
I'll spend the next several weeks with my internal clock all messed up, I'll stay up later and mornings will suck more. Then in the Fall we do it all over again.
For what? And extra hour of daylight?
No. There is no extra daylight to be had, it's just a collective delusion.
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Prospects put emotions on display in Network studio
Nine young ballplayers wait on live TV as Draft's first round plays out
SECAUCUS, N.J. -- They didn't have cameras trained on the face of Frank Thomas as his Draft stock slipped. The Big Hurt's hurt as six painful picks elapsed before his name was called on that June day in 1989 could not be captured in high-definition distinctness.
"I really felt I was going to go second," Thomas recalled Thursday night, as the 2013 installment of the First-Year Player Draft played out behind him. "We were hearing it was going to come down to Ben McDonald and I, but I slid down into that seven hole."
Imagine making that slide in front of a national television audience.
"It would have been tough," Thomas admitted. "I would have been frowning until that seventh pick."
Credit, then, to the nine young men who let their Draft day developments play out in living color, in the shadow of the New Jersey Turnpike, in an MLB Network studio loaded with MLB royalty.
For in this room, you could see the tears of joy in Dominic Smith's mother's eyes, touch the hem of Clint Frazier's pristine white Indians jersey and behold the bright purple brilliance of J.P. Crawford's bowtie, but you could also feel the anxiety of Aaron Judge, Ian Clarkin and Jon Denney as they waited -- and waited -- for their names to be called. Poor Denney was still waiting at the end of Day 1. His name went uncalled through two rounds and two supplemental rounds.
"I'm going to be honest," said Clarkin, a California prep left-hander who was projected as high as the late-teens and wound up going 33rd overall to the Yankees, "it was tough to wait that long."
We get this layer of immediate intrigue in an event that gives way to the slow burn of development because MLB has wisely brought it out of the shadows of a classified conference call and into your living room. The old-timers shake their head in amazement when they think about how far the Draft has come, their stories inconceivable in this age of instant information.
"My first pick," recalled Roland Hemond, the longtime executive who got his start as scouting director for the California Angels in the 1960s, "was Jim Spencer, a left-handed-hitting first baseman."
The wire services, however, reported that the Angels had taken the mysterious Glen Burnie.
"I got an emergency phone call from Rosey Gilhousen, who was scouting for us at the College World Series," Hemond said. "He said, 'Hey, Roland, who the heck did we draft? Nobody knows him. We never talked about this Glen Burnie guy!'"
Hemond laughed.
"Take it easy," he told Gilhousen. "It's Jim Spencer ... from Glen Burnie, Md.!"
Maybe we've progressed considerably from that level of miscommunication, but the Draft is every bit a long shot now as it was then, no matter the analytics or the sheer number of scouts logging thousands of miles on rural roads.
The hard truth is that more than 30 percent of first-rounders don't even make it to the big leagues, let alone become stars. And no matter how the selections are presented, there's no escaping the pain, the pressure and the process that connects this show to the real Show.
"You're getting a kid," stressed Darryl Strawberry, here to represent the Mets. "A kid."
A kid who is about to be humbled, somehow, some way.
"A lot of these guys haven't faced adversity and haven't struggled," said Kerry Wood, who represented the Cubs. "The days of not struggling are probably over for them. You're going to struggle at some point, and that determines who's going to stick around and who's not. Some of them won't be able to handle that and they won't make it. Some will handle it fine, and work harder and figure it out and have a 15- or 20-year career. It's all about how they handle that first taste of failure."
If you heard your name called on the Draft's first night -- no matter the number -- you'd be hard-pressed to call it failure. No doubt, though, some level of frustration came into play for many.
"You just had to stay calm, breathe," Clarkin said. "I knew it was going to come at some point, you just had to be patient."
Might as well be the mantra Clarkin and the others take into their pro career. The rest of us could stand to learn from it, too, lest we second-guess any of the developments in an event essentially built on guessing.
The earliest moments of the first round had their share of surprise, certainly, with the Cubs opting for the Draft's best power college bat (San Diego's Kris Bryant) instead of one of its most electric arms (Oklahoma's Jonathan Gray) second overall after the Astros took Mark Appel. Still, the four guys expected to go in the first four slots went in the first four slots, no matter the exact order.
After that, in a Draft pool many believe thinned quickly, teams had to take a hard look at their needs and their values. It's easy to say you took the "best player left on the board," but difficult to sort out those available options in the first place.
And no matter how many mock Drafts pop up in the Internet stratosphere, there is no cookie-cutter way to make those projections. So it was that the Royals, at No. 8, reached for Stephen F. Austin State University shortstop Hunter Dozier despite his second-round status in many projections, while Ryne Stanek's polished college arm went from top-10 status in some outlooks to the Rays at No. 29.
This stuff happens every year, and it can be incredibly interesting to revisit the clubs' mindset and methodologies years later, long after a Mike Trout has slipped through the cracks or a Bryan Bullington has flamed out. But presupposition and instant analysis are part of how we roll in 2013, so every kid in this room was well-versed in where he thought he was, or should be, headed Thursday night.
"I wouldn't want somebody joking around that they were going ahead of me," Frazier admitted. "I'm kind of sensitive to those things."
As more kids like Frazier put their sensitivity on the line and let us peer into the process of becoming a pro, the drama of the Draft will continue to escalate. No, it doesn't speed up the developmental process any. But it does help us better understand the raw emotions and the intrinsic competitiveness at play here, in a room where dreams come true, and then give way to the rest of the story.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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The girls' basketball team won their first two games so far this season at the 2016 Firebird Winter Classic at Lawrence Free State Jan. 28-30, earning a 5th place spot at the tournament. The wins broke a 26-game losing streak that reached back into the 2014-15 season.
They played three games, losing the first to Wichita South on Thursday (59-30). They won against Sumner on Friday (67-59) and Great Bend on Saturday (76-68).
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"It was different not having her [Steschschulte] there because we all started to get in foul trouble, especially our posts," Bair said. "So we had to make sure we were playing good defense and not getting in too much trouble."
Junior Josie Clough, usually a quiet guard, was 5-6 from the three-point line against Great Bend on Saturday. The momentum of the cheering bench seemed to give her some confidence.
"It was really fun because usually we don't have a lot of hype like that, especially at an out-of-town tournament to see everyone cheering and getting excited," Clough said. "It really got all of us going and that's how we won the game."
The team is optimistic that this game will give them momentum for tonight's home game against SM West at 7 p.m
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National Restaurant Association Commends Administration For Providing Affordable Care Act "Transition Relief" for Employers
Jul 02, 2013, 19:43 ET
Allows Restaurant Owners More Time to Comply, Not Face Penalties Until 2015
WASHINGTON, July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Treasury today announced that employers will be given an additional year before mandatory reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) begin. In addition, the Department will extend transition relief for the employer penalties, which now will not apply until 2015.
"We view today's announcement as recognition that the Administration has listened to the National Restaurant Association about the concerns of our members, the complexity of the requirements, and the need for additional time to be able to comply effectively," said Dawn Sweeney, President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association. "As part of our leadership of the Employers for Flexibility in Healthcare Coalition, we have been a vocal advocate in the regulatory process to address the needs of our members and those representing industries with similar workforces."
As part of the announcement, the Treasury Department strongly encourages employers to voluntarily report information in respect to the health care coverage offered to full-time employees, in preparation for the full implementation in 2015.
A copy of the blog post by Mark J. Mazur is the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury can be found at the following link:
The Treasury Department is expected to publish formal guidance describing this transition in the coming week. Proposed rules regarding reporting are expected later this summer.
"We look forward to providing the Administration with additional feedback on how best to implement these significant reporting requirements and provide employers with additional flexibility," said Sweeney.
Founded in 1919, the National Restaurant Association is the leading business association for the restaurant industry, which comprises 980,000 restaurant and foodservice outlets and a workforce of more than 13 million employees. We represent the industry in Washington, D.C., and advocate on its behalf. We operate the industry's largest trade show (NRA Show May 17-20, 2014, in Chicago); leading food safety training and certification program (ServSafe); unique career-building high school program (the NRAEF's ProStart); as well as the Kids LiveWell program promoting healthful kids' menu options. For more information, visit www.restaurant.org and find us on Twitter @WeRRestaurants, Facebook and YouTube.
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With the post-Soviet region embroiled in its deepest crisis since the Cold War over Ukraine and Kazakhstan facing the impact of Western sanctions on Russia, strong leadership and staunch policy decisions would seem to be required from Astana.
But when President Nursultan Nazarbayev summoned his government today, instead he engaged in a bout of cosmetic cabinet tinkering that may distract officials seeking to steer Kazakhstan's economy through some choppy waters.
Nazarbayev kept his prime minister, Karim Masimov, but made several ministerial replacements and announced a merger of ministries to cut their number from 17 to 12 and subsume some of Kazakhstan's numerous agencies, departments and committees.
The streamlining of the bloated bureaucracy is welcome, but it will likely spark a bout of distracting infighting as bureaucrats fight to keep their jobs in a vastly diminished pool of vacancies.
Several ministries received a rebranding.
The Oil and Gas Ministry became the Energy Ministry under new minister Vladimir Shkolnik. But a new name and a new face will not solve Kazakhstan's main energy problem, the stalled Kashagan oilfield, now not expected to resume production until 2016. In an unusual meeting of interests sure to please oil and gas companies, the Energy Ministry was also handed the environment portfolio.
The Economy and Budget Planning Ministry became the National Economy Ministry, swallowing up the Regional Development Ministry. The Emergencies Ministry was merged into the Interior Ministry, and the health and labor portfolios were combined at the new Health and Social Development Ministry. Aset Isekeshev, formerly minister of industry and new technologies, heads up a new Ministry of Investment and Development.
A cement company owned by Russian oligarch Filaret Galchev appears to have become the latest target of an assets grab by Uzbekistan's government, sparking speculation that this is part of a re-division of economic spoils following the fall from grace of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of President Islam Karimov.
A Tashkent court has ruled that the post-Soviet privatization of the Akhangarantsement company – owned by Galchev's Russia-based Eurocement – way back in 1994 was illegal, and froze assets worth 414 billion sums (nearly $180 million), the company said in a July 29 statement.
The claims of illegal privatization "are of an unfounded and illegal nature, as was convincingly demonstrated in the court hearing," it quoted Mikhail Skorokhod, Eurocement's president, as saying.
The assault on the firm was quite sudden, he said: The company found out about the lawsuit brought by the government's antimonopoly committee on July 16. Hearings started two days later, and on July 21 the court deemed the privatization illegal.
The ruling effectively places the firm – Uzbekistan's second largest cement producer – back in the hands of the state, a full two decades after it was put into private hands in the post-Soviet privatization rush.
Eurocement – whose owner, Galchev, is Russia's 24th richest man with a fortune of $6.1 billion, according to Forbes – acquired a 75-percent stake in Akhangarantsement in 2006 and now owns an 84-percent share, with the rest in the hands of minority shareholders.
Islamic militancy is high on the agenda in Central Asia. This week, authorities have handed lengthy prison terms at two unrelated trials in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Six people were jailed for between nine and 15 years on terrorism charges at a mass trial involving 66 suspects in southwestern Uzbekistan. A court in central Kazakhstan jailed four citizens for between six and 12 years for recruiting militants to wage holy war in Syria.
At the mass trial in the city of Qashqadaryo in Uzbekistan, three men and three women were jailed on July 22 for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government of the strongman president, Islam Karimov, and propagating terrorism, RFE/RL reported, citing the Tashkent-based Ezgulik (Compassion) human rights center.
In Kazakhstan, the conviction of the four over the Syria recruitment campaign in and around the city of Zhezkazgan, reported by Tengri News on July 22, came as media reports emerged of a new propaganda video showing 16 people believed to be from Kazakhstan (since some are speaking Kazakh) who have headed off to fight in the Middle East.
Authorities in Central Asia have frequently cited Syria-linked threats this year amid a growing number of reports that militants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are waging holy war in Syria.
Kazakhstan has lifted visa requirements for citizens of selected countries, a move designed to lure business travelers, and which is also expected to boost the tourism sector. But even without a need for visas, tourism experts believe that Kazakhstan will remain a hard sell for foreign visitors.
Astana is rebooting a program to lure ethnic Kazakhs living abroad to move to Kazakhstan. Observers believe Astana's revived interest in the program is motivated by a desire to limit Russia's potential to meddle in Kazakhstani affairs.
Amid reports that two close associates of Gulnara Karimova, the embattled daughter of Uzbekistan's strongman president Islam Karimov, have been jailed, a man claiming to represent her family has denied allegations of her involvement in bribery and money-laundering in Europe. The spokesman suggests the root of her troubles could be political infighting ahead of next year's presidential election.
"There has been no proof to back up any of the claims made against Gulnara Karimova," the spokesman – who works for a recognizable London-based communications firm, but insists that neither he nor the firm be identified – said in the statement, sent to EurasiaNet.org by email on July 14.
"However," he continued, "given her relationship to the president of Uzbekistan, we cannot ignore the likelihood of these allegations against Gulnara Karimova being politically motivated ahead of the forthcoming 2015 elections."
Karimova, a one-time powerful player previously tipped as a possible successor to her father, has reportedly been under house arrest in Tashkent since February. This follows a vitriolic family feud with her mother, Tatyana Karimova, and younger sister, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva.
As well as her mother and sister, Karimova has blamed Rustam Inoyatov, the head of Uzbekistan's domestic intelligence service (known as the SNB), for her woes. In an interview with Russia's REN TV last month, her son (called Islam after his grandfather) blamed unnamed "powerful" figures for arranging the detention of his mother and 16-year-old sister Iman in Tashkent.
When Zeinulla Kakimzhanov took over a dilapidated vineyard in the foothills of the Tian Shan Mountains in south-eastern Kazakhstan in 2006, he had ample reason to wonder whether the property would ever be productive again.
Hard-drinking Kazakhstan is moving to curb alcohol abuse by extending a ban on late-night alcohol sales.
The new bill banning retail sales between 9 p.m. and noon was signed into law by President Nursultan Nazarbayev on June 18. The rules extend an existing late-night ban on alcohol sales (including beer) and will hit retail outlets which do a roaring trade in late-night booze sales. Restaurants, bars, and nightclubs will not be affected.
The law also bans alcohol sales altogether at filling stations as well as education and health institutions, but moves by parliamentarians to ban sales at markets and stadiums as well failed.
Kazakhstan raised the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 in 2009. The new bill doubles fines for selling liquor to under 21s to a maximum of $1,200 (with the revocation of an offender's license to sell alcohol).
The government says the bill is aimed at curbing excessive alcohol consumption, for which Kazakhstan rates 34th worldwide, according to a World Health Organization survey of 188 countries released in May.
Each person in Kazakhstan aged over 15 imbibes on average 11.3 liters of alcohol a year, almost double the global average of 6.2 liters, the report said—although the government has questioned the WHO's methodology.
The report found the prevalence of "heavy episodic drinking" (defined as consuming at least 60 grams or more of pure alcohol on at least one occasion in the past 30 days) to be 7.8 percent in Kazakhstan. Among drinking males the prevalence stood at 30 percent. Some 8.9 percent of males and 1.9 percent of females have drinking disorders in Kazakhstan, according to the report.
The WHO singles out Kazakhstan as one of 11 countries with the "most risky patterns" of drinking.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye kicked off a six-day tour of Central Asia on June 16 in Uzbekistan.
Park was reportedly pushing for new joint gas-sector projects in Uzbekistan, and offering investment in a $300-million solar energy plant that is to be built in Samarkand as part of Uzbekistan's fledgling renewable energy industry.
Two deals worth $350 million were signed on June 17, Uzbek media reported. Under the first, the Korea International Cooperation Agency will provide $250 million for investment in unspecified projects; the second involves a $100 loan agreement between the National Bank of Uzbekistan and South Korea's Exim Bank to invest in joint projects.
Park and her Uzbek host, President Islam Karimov, issued a joint statement vowing to boost trade and investment, especially in the IT sphere, as well as road and rail construction, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
South Korea's INHA University is to open a university in Tashkent specializing in IT courses in the coming academic year, it was reported in March.
With an estimated $8 billion worth of joint projects, South Korea is now one of Uzbekistan's largest investors, along with Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. One of South Korea's top investment spheres is energy; South Korean companies are building a gas processing plant at the Kandym gas field and a gas and chemical plant at the Surgil field. Textiles have also attracted South Korean interest, with three factories owned by Daewoo International corporation operating in Uzbekistan.
Isabel Santos, chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, wrapped up a short visit to Kazakhstan on June 11. In talks with officials, Santos raised concerns about Astana's track record on democracy and civil society.
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