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BEIJING — Rescuers with shovels and sniffer dogs chipped away at collapsed hillsides Tuesday as the death toll rose to 94 from a strong earthquake in a farming region of northwest China.
Just one person was listed as missing and 1,001 as injured in Monday morning's quake near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province.
About 123,000 people were affected by the quake, with 31,600 moved to temporary shelters, the provincial earthquake administration said on its website. Almost 2,000 homes were completely destroyed, and about 22,500 damaged, the administration said.
The quake toppled brick walls and telephone lines, shattered mud-and-tile-roofed houses and sent cascades of dirt and rock down hillsides, blocking roads and slowing rescue efforts by crews trying to reach remote areas.
Hospitals set up aid stations in parking lots to accommodate the injured, while hundreds of paramilitary People's Armed Police fanned out to search for victims in the region of terraced farmland where the quake struck about 1,200 kilometers (760 miles) west of Beijing.
Min county in Dingxi's rural south accounted for almost all the deaths and the worst damage.
Urban areas where buildings are more solid were spared major damage, unlike the traditional mud and brick homes in the countryside.
Tremors were felt in the provincial capital of Lanzhou 177 kilometers (110 miles) north, and as far away as Xi'an, 400 kilometers (250 miles) to the east.
The government's earthquake monitoring center said the quake was magnitude-6.6, while the US Geological Survey said it was 5.9. Measurements can often vary, especially if different monitoring equipment is used.
The Chinese Red Cross said it was shipping 200 tents, 1,000 sets of household items, and 2,000 jackets to the area. Other supplies were being shipped in by the army and paramilitary police, which dispatched around 6,000 personnel and two helicopters to aid in rescue efforts.
But heavy rain is expected later in the week, raising the need for shelter and increasing the chance of further landslides.
Gansu, with a population of 26 million, is one of China's more lightly populated provinces, although the New Jersey-sized area of Dingxi has a greater concentration of farms in rolling hills terraced for crops and fruit trees. Dingxi has a population of about 2.7 million.
China's worst earthquake in recent years was a 7.9-magnitude temblor that struck the southwestern province of Sichuan in 2008, leaving 90,000 people dead or missing.


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A.J. Bos Agrees to Abandon Traditions Megadairy Project Near Nora, IL
After Five Years of Controversy, Poorly Sited Animal Factory Being Cleaned Up for Sale
Warren, Illinois – On November 15, 2012, the Illinois Pollution Control Board (IPCB) announced a proposed settlement agreement between the Illinois Attorney General's Office and Traditions megadairy owner/investor, A.J. Bos of Bakersfield, California. According to the terms of the settlement, Bos will abandon the site in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, where the Traditions facility was being constructed. Workers are already land-applying the remaining liquids contained in the partially constructed manure ponds and digester pit to prepare the land for sale.
"Stopping this dangerous project would not have been possible without the dedication and commitment of HOMES and their supporters. Never before in my work in Illinois and across the country have I witnessed a community succeeding in halting the construction of an industrial livestock production facility after groundbreaking," says Danielle Diamond, Attorney for the Illinois Citizens for Clean Air & Water and Executive Director of the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project.
This unprecedented achievement effectively ends a five-year, multi-million dollar battle between Bos and Jo Daviess County family farmers and residents, who were determined to evict the gigantic animal factory to protect their clean drinking water, clean air, and way of life. The megadairy operation was sited atop fragile karst bedrock, which could allow countless tons of waste and liquid manure to contaminate groundwater.
Click here for full story – (Link to Bos Abandons Nora Megadairy PR.pdf)
Click here for Settlement Agreement – (Link to Proposed Settlement.pdf )
Please help us pay down the last of our legal fees
Please click the "Donate" button to contribute to our legal fund.
Your donation is tax deductible as we are a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt organization.
Or send your support check to:
HOMES, PO Box 674, Warren, IL 61087.
HOMES Meetings
HOMES is now holding our regular meetings at 6:30 pm on the the 3rd Tuesday of every month. Stop by for legal updates, information about other groups fighting CAFOs, and help us plan future educational presentations.
Join us at Cotton Expressions, 814 Anson St in Warren (at the former Honeywell Microswitch plant). Park in front and ring the doorbell. There is usually some finger food available.
Latest News
- April 19, 2012, the Illinois Pollution Control Board (ILPC) posted on their web site that a settlement agreement is being discussed in the purple leachate discharge case brought against the megadairy by the Office of the Attorney General. No settlement has be announced. Both sides are due to report their progress to the ILPC on June 28, 2012.
- March 30 2012, Bos sells another 318 acres of farm land. As with all previous sales, it includes a rider that allows Bos to spread manure on these fields for the next 20 years. In 2008, A.J. Bos purchased 1,401 acres of land to use to build two megadairies, grow corn and dump manure. He now owns only 326 acres, which are the two parcels that the megadairy itself was built upon. We believe that Bos is hoping that an anti-environmental Congress will destroy the EPA, giving him a green light to restart this dangerous project. This land, scarred with acres of half dug manure pits, concrete slabs for non-existent barns, and a cracked four acre concrete pad that once held the silage responsible for the October 2010 purple discharge is going to be more difficult to sell. For those reasons Bos may hold onto this land, hoping to eventually realize his dream of shoehorning 15,000 cows onto a few hundred acres.
- Late March and April 2012, more trucks were seen leaving the site of the megadairy loaded up with large plastic drain pipes.
- On March 6, 2012, a large crane was seen at the megadairy site disassembling the concrete retaining walls around the silage pad. About 20 flatbed trucks loaded up with these panels were seen leaving the site and heading north into Wisconsin.
- (HB5143) the sponsor of the bill, State Representative Jim Sacia pulled it before it could be voted down in committee. HOMES thanks everyone who called their representative and let them know that poor treatment of animals at industrial facilities should be revealed to the public, not hidden due to threats of jail time.
- On February 21, 2012, the Illinois Pollution Control Board posted on their web site that no settlement was likely in the purple leachate discharge case brought against the megadairy by the Office of the Attorney General, and requested a status update on April 19, 2012. It is very likely that this case won't be decided until at least 2013.
- On September 2nd, 2011 the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) denied the Traditions megadairy's Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification application. The 401 certification was required by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after the Corps determined that the megadairy was planning to build one of its two 14 acre manure ponds atop a tributary at the headwaters of the Apple River.
- If megadairy ever wants to become operational, it will either have to reapply for the 401 permit certification with the IEPA, or submit a new set of revised plans with the IDOA for a much smaller facility that doesn't need both 14 acre manure ponds. Click here for full story
- Starting in late June, 2011, workers at the site of the megadairy have been disassembling the two barns that were installed in 2008. As of Tuesday, July 19th, both barns are completely disassembled. Each barn is about 1,000 feet long. Flatbed trucks loaded with steel have been seen leaving the facility and heading into Wisconsin. Pictures of the disassembled barn can be seen on our "Photos" page.
- On April 20, 2011 the Illinois Attorney General filed a five-count suit with the Illinois Pollution Control Board against the megadairy after their investigation of the October 1, 2010 purple discharge. This suit adds yet another hurdle that the California millionaire investor will have to clear before he can operate his 5,500-head dairy, which will endanger the pristine Apple River Canyon State Park and jeopardize dozens of family-owned farms.
- The five counts address Clean Water Act violations, including water pollution, discharging without a permit, and discharging effluent into waters of the state. Each of the five counts carries a penalty of $50,000 per incident plus $10,000 per day, for a total fine of more than $250,000.
- On Friday, October 1, 2010, neighbors of the A.J. Bos megadairy noticed that the normally clear tributary to the Apple River that originated on the site of the Bos facility was bright purple. HOMES contacted the IEPA and the US EPA, both of whom immediately sent inspectors to the site.
- An employee of the facility told investigators that on the previous day, September 30, he dumped 320,000 gallons of purple silage leachate onto five acres of Bos property or about 64,000 gallons per acre. Agronomic application rates are usually 3,000 to 6,000 gallons per acre.
Action Alert – Thank You for Your Support
The Clean Water Funding Fairness Bill didn't get voted on this legislative session. Due to intensive lobbying by both Farm Bureau and State Representative Jim Sacia, there weren't enough Yes votes confirmed in time to call a vote before the end of the session.
This fee would only apply to CAFOs that had a history of illegal discharges, and not family farms.
House Amendment 1 to S.B. 1682 will protect clean water by ensuring that factory farms—or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)—fund their share of Illinois's Clean Water Act rather than shifting their costs to other industries or taxpayers.
Currently, all pollution dischargers, from the largest industries to the smallest villages, have to pay an annual permit fee, except for CAFOs.
Despite the massive wastes generated by CAFOs, and their terrible record of environmental damage, including fish kills, CAFOs have been exempt from paying their fair share of the costs associated with monitoring and preventing pollution discharges.
This bill will not affect traditional family farms and will only require the largest polluting animal factories to pay their fair share of monitoring expenses. The Illinois EPA will use these fees to employ agents that will monitor these large CAFOs.
This bill is endorsed by the Illinois EPA, the Illinois Association of Wastewater Agencies, and numerous state environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, Environment Illinois, and the Illinois Environmental Council.
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Depending on who's doing the including, inclusion of a radio station in an Arbitron market may not be subject to a two-year waiting period for purposes of multiple ownership calculation.
While the heyday of radio consolidation is fading in the rearview, some opportunities still exist. As Cumulus Licensing LLC recently demonstrated, with a quick change in a station's city of license, an otherwise impermissible ownership situation can become permissible – thanks to a helpful Audio Division interpretation of the contour overlap standard that has governed radio multiple ownership for nearly a decade.
Concentration of control in the radio world hasn't been on many people's radar for a while, so some background may be in order.
Since back in the 1990s, radio ownership in any particular market has been subject to caps depending on the number of other stations present in the particular market. In the '90s, the relevant "market" for any proposed acquisition depended on the particular contours of the particular stations owned and proposed to be owned by the buyer. That gave rise to considerable flexibility for buyers, who were able to some degree to manipulate the scope of the relevant market to their advantage.
That signal contour approach to market definition was largely tossed out in 2003, when the Commission adopted an Arbitron/geography-based approach. Under the "new" approach, radio ownership caps are determined by the number of stations located in (or "home to") Arbitron-defined markets. By relying on the independent determination of Arbitron as to which (and, thus, how many) stations were in each market, the FCC theoretically reduced the flexibility the signal contour approach had afforded to inventive applicants.
But, as the Commission acknowledged, even the Arbitron approach was subject to manipulation.
Station licensees could persuade Arbitron to modify its market definitions to increase some markets to include particular stations, or decrease them to exclude particular stations. The result of such modifications: some deals that might not otherwise have met the FCC's ownership caps could suddenly be acceptable. To discourage rampant, licensee-induced changes in the Arbitron market definitions, the Commission imposed a two-year waiting period before any such changes could be relied on to demonstrate compliance with the ownership caps.
Of course, some stations aren't located in (or "home to") any Arbitron-defined markets. Such stations are still subject to the signal contour method of determining local ownership caps.
So what happened with Cumulus?
Cumulus was looking to improve its position in the adjacent Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida Arbitron markets. No problem there. It entered into agreements with a couple of other licensees to acquire a total of three stations, one in the Mobile market, the others in the Pensacola market. The proposed acquisitions would, once granted, still leave Cumulus safely within the permissible caps for those markets.
But wait. As a petitioner to deny the deal pointed out, of the stations that Cumulus already owned in the Mobile market, one had just been the subject of a recent change-of-community application that brought it from scenic Atmore, Alabama to slightly more scenic (from a 307(b) perspective, anyway) Saraland, Alabama. That change just happened to bring the station from outside the geographical boundaries of Arbitron's Mobile market to within those boundaries. According to the petitioner, if that change had not been made, Cumulus's proposed acquisitions would have had to be assessed under the signal contour approach and (again according to the petitioner) those acquisitions would have exceeded the relevant ownership caps and the assignment applications would have to be rejected.
As the petitioner saw it, the change-of-community application was essentially the same as an effort to modify the Arbitron market definition; since (as noted above), such market modifications are subject to a two-year waiting period, Cumulus could not take advantage of the change for two years.
The Audio Division didn't buy it.
According to the Division, the two-year waiting period applies only to market changes effected through Arbitron's processes, i.e., changes in market boundaries (making a market bigger or smaller) or changing a particular station's "home" designation for Arbitron purposes. Change-of-community applications, by contrast, are handled through the FCC's own processes. The Commission can thus take into account the potential effect of such proposed changes on such regulatory considerations as multiple ownership and market size before deciding whether to grant the change. So the two-year holding period is irrelevant with respect to changes approved through the FCC's processes.
In this case, the change-of-community application had already been granted before Cumulus filed its applications to acquire other stations in the market. Just before, as it turns out – the change-of-community application was granted on May 7, 2012, while the first of Cumulus's assignment applications was filed two days later. That may, of course, have been purely coincidental; but – call us crazy – it seems to us that it's a good bet that the filing of the assignment applications was timed to occur after Cumulus was successful in moving its existing station within the geographical boundaries of the Mobile market.
In any event, since the petitioner's beef was really with the grant of the change-of-community application rather than with the follow-up assignment applications, the Division concluded that it was too late for the petitioner to raise the issue now.
Another point weighing against the petitioner: even before the change-of-community, that particular Cumulus station had already been counted by Arbitron as "home to" the Mobile market for more than eight years, so the move into Saraland did not affect the practical Arbitron status of the station. It seems to us that the Division could have avoided any discussion of the two-year waiting period by mentioning this, since the station's status as "home to" Mobile had clearly been in place for well more than two years before the change-in-community. (It's possible that the staff was concerned about the fact that formally moving the station from Atmore to Saraland meant that the Atmore market – not an Arbitron-defined market – would be losing a station, so Arbitron's historical treatment of the station didn't completely resolve all conceivable market-related questions. But that factor implicates Section 307(b) considerations more than multiple ownership concerns, at least as far as we can see.)
The Division opted instead to focus on the alternate rationale that FCC-granted changes potentially affecting a station's market status are not subject to the waiting period. By doing so, the Division appears to have endorsed a way of circumventing the contour-overlap approach to the radio multiple ownership rules.
But don't look for a boatload of applications trying to take advantage of what might be classified as a loophole. The limitations on "move-in" applications that take stations from outside a market to inside the market have been considerably tightened in recent years. As a result, it seems unlikely that very many folks will be able to take advantage of the Division's decision. Nevertheless, licensees looking to max out their local ownership interests may want to consider whether an otherwise impermissible acquisition might be made possible through the change in one or another station's community of license.


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During her lifetime Caroline Dormon received scores of tributes, but the most significant came from a handful of friends who wanted to fund and administer a foundation which would perpetuate Caroline's work with trees and native plants. Several months before her death, they suggested that she will Briarwood to the Foundation for Preservation of the Caroline Dormon Nature Preserve, Inc. Within a decade, the Foundation completed a Headquarters Building, which became a center for educational purposes in the conservation field and a home for a curator. For college, university and high school groups who use the facilities of Briarwood, it has become a Mecca for their horticultural studies.
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Caroline Dormon was the first woman employed in forestry in the United States. Almost single-handedly she worked with Louisiana and U.S. Forest Service leaders to establish, comprised of 600,000 acres, stretching over seven parishes. Her pioneering work continues today through the inspiration she had given to professionals in her field and to thousands of others who have come to love the beauty of Louisiana woodlands and native flora.
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Solar and wind is now the same price or cheaper than new fossil fuel capacity in more than 30 countries, the WEF reported in December (pdf). As prices for solar and wind power continue their precipitous fall, two-thirds of all nations will reach the point known as "grid parity" within a few years, even without subsidies. "Renewable energy has reached a tipping point," Michael Drexler, who leads infrastructure and development investing at the WEF, said in a statement. "It is not only a commercially viable option, but an outright compelling investment opportunity with long-term, stable, inflation-protected returns."
Those numbers are already translating into vast new acres of silicon and glass. In 2016, utilities added 9.5 gigawatts (GW) of photovoltaic capacity to the US grid, making solar the top fuel source for the first time in a calendar year, according to the US Energy Information Administration's estimates. The US added about 125 solar panels every minute in 2016, about double the pace last year, reports the Solar Energy Industry Association.
The solar story is even more impressive after accounting for new distributed solar on homes and business (rather than just those built for utilities), which pushed the total installed capacity to 11.2 GW.
But global global investment in renewable energy still lags far behind levels needed to avoid potentially catastrophic global warming, according to the United Nations. Global renewable investment last year was $286 billion, or 25% of the $1 trillion goal set by nations at the Paris climate change accord. Barriers to investment are mostly political rather than economic: Contracts are not standardized, regulatory uncertainty remains, and financial institutions have not created an asset class with a public, standardized track record that will reassure mainstream investors, reports the WEF (pdf, p 12).
But prices are eventually expected to win the day. Solar is projected to fall to half the price of electricity from coal or natural gas within a decade or two. That milestone has already been reached in some locales. In August, energy firm Solarpack contracted to sell solar electricity in Chile at just $29.1 per megwatt hour, 58% below prices from a new natural gas plant.


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Willie Brown, the former speaker of the California Assembly, never intended to have a political career when he was born. Brown was raised in a backwater town named Mineola, Texas, in 1934, a time when Texas and the South were not particularly conducive to the career dreams of African Americans. To find a better path, his family packed Brown on a train from Texas all the way to California. There, with the help of a professor, Brown found his calling at a state University and earned a law degree from the prestigious U.C. Hastings. However, he was yet to prove his greatest accomplishment.
In 1964, after a second try, Brown gained a seat in the California Assembly. There, he learned simply being unique didn't get him much. He had to learn how to be a useful broker. In that respect, Brown quietly learned from his legislative tutors like Jesse Unruh and Philip Burton how to become a pivot point, a conduit between the many who want something and those with power. Positioning through legislative committees, Brown went from being a name in the Assembly to eventually to becoming its Speaker, one of the top five positions in state government. Brown held that chair for fifteen years, only to then retire and become the mayor of San Francisco in his later years.
Becoming A Conduit Point
For a business, Willie Brown's story is an illustrative one; you don't have to be biggest, most powerful player on the market to become instrumental. Brown, as an African American politician in the 1960s, was clearly not in the position to leapfrog right away to leadership or the Governor's office. However, he did find a position that everyone needed and had to go through to get something. By identifying how and becoming a conduit point, Brown secured his future, which is what successful businesses do in their market.
A conduit point isn't just limited to being between end retail customers and suppliers. Conduit businesses can easily do the same in the business-to-business market as well, often producing far greater revenues than they would on the retail side of things. However, positioning can be a challenge. One needs to see the entire market, not just a segment of it. Getting to the forest level instead of the weeds allows a business player to identify all the connection points and where being a conduit has the greatest potential for producing revenue. It also shows what is needed to be successful in that particular position. Sometimes some potential conduits are too challenging, and others may offer too little in reward for the effort. Picking the right market position takes some experience, which means a business needs to research well and study peers, suppliers, buyers, competitors, and middlemen. No one in a given market should be left out.
Willie Brown was an intensive study of his legislative peers, which is why he was able to position himself so well. He also took lessons from those more powerful than him rather than fighting them, using that knowledge to become one of the powerful ones himself. A growing business can learn a thing or two from his life example.


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PennantPark Investment Corporation Announces Quarterly Distribution of $0.28 per Share
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 3, 2014) - PennantPark Investment Corporation (the "Company") (NASDAQ: PNNT) declares fourth fiscal quarter 2014 distribution of $0.28 per share, payable on October 1, 2014 to stockholders of record as of September 26, 2014. Distributions are paid from taxable earnings and may include return of capital and/or capital gains. The specific tax characteristics of the distribution will be reported to stockholders on Form 1099 after the end of the calendar year and in the Company's periodic report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Guiding Process Self-Perception
Self-perception is one of the eight guiding processes of psycho-dynamics. The underlying decision can be found in the question: – "How do I (don't I) feel?"
That which people want to perceive in themselves determines what they can feel responsible for. Only where awareness exists can it be influenced and controlled. Nobody wants to, or ought to, feel everything. This would completely overburden a person and allow nothing to become concise. With regard to change, it is decisive how concise or diffuse a matter is perceived to be. Because only that which has already been perceived concisely can change.
A process of perception is concise if it can be verbally articulated, if it is associated with an effect, if it is permitted to be comprehensively experienced and visible to the outside. An experience is diffuse, if it lies in the background, pale, vague, unnamed or only referred to in general terms.
The (re)discovery of self-awareness is an essential aspect of counselling processes.


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ACRE, Israel (AP) — Off the track beaten by most Holy Land tourists lies one of the richest archaeological sites in a country full of them: the walled port of Acre, where the busy alleys of an Ottoman-era town cover a uniquely intact Crusader city now being rediscovered.
Preparing to open a new subterranean section to the public, workers cleaned stones this week in an arched passageway underground.
Etched in plaster on one wall was a coat of arms — graffiti left by a medieval traveler. Nearby was a main street of cobblestones and a row of shops that once sold clay figurines and ampules for holy water, popular souvenirs for pilgrims.
All were last used by residents in 1291, the year a Muslim army from Egypt defeated Acre's Christian garrison and leveled its remains.
The existing city, built by the Ottoman Turks around 1750, effectively preserved this earlier town, which had been hidden for centuries under the rubble.
"It's like Pompeii of Roman times — it's a complete city," said Eliezer Stern, the Israeli archaeologist in charge of Acre. He called the town "one of the most exciting sites in the world of archaeology."
The newly excavated area, part of a Crusader neighborhood, is set to open later this year.
Today, old Acre is a picturesque enclave jutting into the Mediterranean, home to 5,000 Arab citizens of Israel who live in dense warrens of homes that are themselves historic artifacts. Most residents are poor.
On a recent afternoon, a smattering of tourists walked through the old market, while at a sleepy fishing dock one boat's radio blared Katy Perry.
In 2001, Acre became Israel's first UNESCO World Heritage site. But whether because of its out-of-the-way location in the country's north or simply because it must compete with better-known sites like Jerusalem and the desert fortress of Masada, Acre has been overshadowed.
Jerusalem, for example, attracted an estimated 2.5 million foreign tourists last year, according to the Tourism Ministry. In contrast, during the same period, Acre's historic sites had 444,000 paying visitors — Israeli and foreign — according to the Acre Municipality. Old Acre has just one hotel with a total of 16 rooms.
Acre has existed for at least 4,500 years, but reached the height of its importance with the Crusader conquest in 1104.
Under Christian rule, the city became an unruly trading hub home to combative orders of soldier-monks, European factions that distrusted each other and sometimes fought in the streets, competing merchants from cities like Genoa, Venice and Pisa, and small populations of Jews and Muslims, all sharing an enclosed area that at its height was barely the size of two football fields.
A French bishop, Jacques de Vitry, reached Acre after a perilous sea journey in 1216. He was appalled.
"When I entered this horrible city and found it full of countless disgraceful acts and evil deeds, I was very confused in my mind," he wrote in a letter home.
Acre, he found, was "totally depraved." Murders took place constantly, the town was "filled with prostitutes," and residents — many of whom he believed to be outlaws who had fled their own lands — were "utterly devoted to pleasures of the flesh."
Acre was "like a monster or a beast having nine heads, each fighting the other," the bishop wrote.
Israeli excavations got under way in earnest in the 1990s, and some remnants of the city that de Vitry knew can already be visited. One is the fortress of the Hospitaller knights, with its pillared dining hall and storerooms, an orderly latrine and a dungeon whose stone walls still have holes for attaching shackles.
Also open is an underground passage constructed by the knights of the rival Templar order, leading from their own fortress to the port. Some used it on the day Acre fell to escape to Europe-bound vessels as their city, and the two-century-old Crusader kingdom, collapsed around them.
Underwater digs in Acre's harbor have revealed sunken fortifications and more than 20 lost ships. The most recent one to be found, armed with cannons and special shot used to shred enemy sails, dated to Napoleon Bonaparte's failed siege of the city in 1799.
Workers are now shoring up one of Acre's seawalls — which witnessed assaults by Napoleon, the Egyptian ruler Ibrahim Pasha, and a combined British, French and Austrian fleet — discovering, in the process, Napoleonic cannonballs and a Hellenistic pier more than two millennia old.
Acre, with its newer neighborhoods, has grown to a modern city of 56,000 people, two-thirds of them Jewish and the rest Arab. It has experienced occasional ethnic tension, as well as violence linked to poverty and the drug trade. But the streets feel safe, and residents are welcoming. The past, Acre's residents seem to recognize, is their city's primary resource.
"It's a whole ancient city underground," said Bassam Dabour, a storeowner in the Old City market. "It's beautiful — why not continue working?"
Because of Acre's importance and the complexity of conducting archaeological work in a living city, the government's Israel Antiquities Authority has made Acre something of a laboratory for conservation work. The authority recently turned an old Ottoman mansion into a conservation center for local and international students who included, this week, representatives from Britain, Russia, Poland, Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Shelley-Anne Peleg, who heads the center and serves as a liaison with local residents, said archaeologists have learned that Acre's history cannot be separated from the people who live there.
The Antiquities Authority runs programs seeking to educate residents, teaches municipal sanitation workers about the importance of preservation and works with women to revive local handicrafts.
There are signs that Acre's fortunes as a tourist destination might be about to change. In addition to the underground city, there are plans for a new museum, a youth hostel is about to open in the Old City, and an investor has received permission to turn a currently empty Turkish inn into a luxury hotel.
But efforts to increase tourism, Peleg said, must be done "in a way that doesn't take over the city and overpower the people who live here."
"When you look at the city, it's not just archaeology, and it's not just Ottoman buildings. One of our jobs is to look at the city from all directions, and there is heritage still alive in these alleys," she said.
By Matti Friedman, June 22, 2011
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The model showed that these swaps could be a moneymaker for the decade-old firm and its parent, insurance giant AIG, with a 99.85 percent chance of never having to pay out.
Saying "99.85% chance of never having to pay out" is stupid in two ways. One, the spurious precision, reflecting an inappreciation of standard errors (why not say 99.8%, at the very least?). At anyplace I worked such spurious precision would precipitate instant sarcasm, so if this statement stood, there were two guilty parties: the one who said it, and the one who didn't instantly mock the statement. As this is a story being retold, I'm unsure about the credibility of this little scene, because one of the guilty parties seems to be retelling his idiocy. Secondly, there is no time dimension here. I'll assume that is over 10 years, that's a AA- bond, usually very safe but spreads for AA- bonds are not sufficient to cover one's own internal funds transfer pricing (unless they stupidly cost out their funding at their top corporate rate, which may be AAA). So, this never made sense, even without the spurious ratings and not predicting the blow-up in spreads.
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Back in October, Dave Grohl announced that he was putting the Foo Fighters on hold. But anybody who thinks he's merely kicking back in the Caribbean can think again: For the past few months, the man of many hats has been putting the finishing touches on his feature-length directorial debut, a documentary on LA's famed Sound City Studios.
By all accounts, Sound City, which closed last year, wasn't much to look at, but it had a phenomenal custom-built Neve 8028 recording console (which Grohl bought for his own studio). Before it shuttered, the facility was a second home to artists such as Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Guns N' Roses, Fear, Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails and Metallica, among others.
Grohl first stepped into Sound City in 1991, when Nirvana recorded their major-label debut Nevermind there with producer Butch Vig.
Sound City will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Grohl will be on hand with select artists featured in the pic. "As a first time director, I am humbled to be able to share my passion for songwriting and storytelling with this incredible cast of legendary musicians, as seen through the extraordinary story of America's greatest unsung recording studio, Sound City," Grohl said. "Being included in this group of artists is a true honor, and the Sundance Film Festival is the perfect place to premiere a film about craft, integrity and passion for art. I am over the moon!"


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George Ewing Niles, 85, a resident of the desert area for the past 13 months, died Tuesday, May 30, 2000, in Monterey Palms Care Center in Palm Desert. He had struggled for more than three years with lung and bone cancer.
Prior to living in the desert, he was an Idyllwild resident since 1980 where he built two homes for himself and his late wife, Virginia Lowe Niles. Mrs. Niles was well-known for her watercolor paintings.
Mr. Niles was born Sept. 17, 1914, in New Lebanon, Ind. As a boy in Arizona, he used his sharp-shooting skills to bring home rabbits for the family dinner and nursed a baby porcupine back to health. When he returned home with some college friends five or six years later, the same porcupine greeted him, allowing him to scratch its tummy.
He received bachelorÍs and masterÍs degrees from the University of Indiana, did a yearÍs graduate study at the University of Chicago and received a masterÍs degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Working in the areas of chemical research, he designed capacitors for P.R. Mallory in Indianapolis and developed a high quality paper for the Mead Paper Corp. in Ohio using the usually disregarded hardwoods from swampy areas.
He then worked for Emerson and Cummings in Massachusetts and California, working on microwave technology and test chambers. His research unit developed stealth materials used on the B2 Bomber plane. He was in Europe for three years troubleshooting for the company, checking on its Denmark plant and assisting customers with company products. He also was a professional photographer, doing advertising photos for the company.
With his fine bass voice, Mr. Niles sung in a variety of choirs across the country. He sang in at least 40 productions of HandelÍs ñMessiah,î a number of which were in Idyllwild.
He enjoyed fishing, hunting, archery and hiking. He was a volunteer for the Boy Scouts, helping both his sons become Eagle Scouts. He and his late wife, Virginia, traveled in their motor home to many beautiful spots in the country where she would paint and he would take photos. Though unable to attend meetings in Idyllwild, Mr. Niles was a 32-degree Mason. He had studied Masonic history and dogma in details and contributed to the organizationÍs childrenÍs hospitals and its education fund for children with handicaps.
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Viewing and Masonic service were from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday, June 2, in the Palm Springs Mortuary in Cathedral City.
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Simple Ways To Redefine Christmas This Year
Last Christmas
What did you do last Christmas? Were you snowed in and had to spend the holiday locked indoors? Did someone break up with you and you spent the holiday depressed? Were you too broke to fly home for Christmas? Did you feel like you could have done more volunteering work? Well, that was last year and you can start planning how to spend Christmas this year now. Here are a few ways you can redefine your holiday and feel better about it come next year.
Next Christmas
1. Set A Budget – You need to start creating a budget early enough. If you are planning to travel home, buy gifts for the less needy, buy gifts for your loved ones or do anything else that costs money, you need to know beforehand how much you will spend. That way, you can start saving early enough in preparation for the big holiday. No matter how skint you are, get a jar or a tub, put a few coins or notes in it and don't spend them. Next pay day, add a few more.
2. Release Your Expectations And Keep Things Simple – If you don't want to feel disappointed this holiday season, don't overschedule. Yes, there may be so much to do and you may feel that if you don't achieve it, you will end up overwhelmed and depressed. However, if you release some of your expectations, you will feel better. Simplify. You don't have to do what others do. Be open to change and you can adapt to whatever the season brings you.
3. Create New Traditions – If all the past holidays have been spent aimlessly, try creating a new tradition and find a way to sustain it every year. Traditions will help you feel connected with yourself and you will feel comfortable and enjoy a sense of certainty. If you recently had a child, you can start a new tradition with your new family. If your parents recently passed, you can start a tradition of meeting your siblings every Christmas to remember your deceased loved ones. As you get older, help the younger ones make their own Christmas traditions. A tradition can be anything, as long as it makes you feel connected and not alone during the holiday season.
4. Try Volunteering Or Helping The Needy – The Christmas holiday is the best time to start giving back to the less fortunate. Of course, some soup kitchens are overflowing with volunteers but if you plan early enough, you will be lucky enough to find somewhere to volunteer. On the other hand, you can bring gifts to a children's home or any other group home where it will be appreciated. You will feel better for doing it and bring some cheer to anyone who receives your gifts.
5. Start Organizing Early – Don't wait until the last minute to start doing anything during the holiday season. Are you planning to give to the less fortunate? Start planning early enough for what to buy and the date to hand out your gifts. Are you traveling home to meet your parents? Make sure you have bought the tickets early enough. If you are planning to spend the holiday indoors, have everything you need ready in hand to avoid any last minute hassles.
With these tips, you can turn around your Christmas holiday celebration immediately and redefine Christmas to something that will make YOU feel happy!


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"I don't have a rearview mirror. I look only forward. And I still see the day when I can remove the cloud that currently surrounds me."
– Disgraced and defeated Sen. Ted Stevens (R-VECO), on the Senate floor, Nov. 20, 2008. (Perhaps he can bribe it to go away.)
Even in politics, a business known for honking weirdoes and depraved lowlifes, outgoing Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is Weird with a strut and horns and as crooked as a pig's tail. Yet there were his Senate colleagues standing and applauding the convicted-on-seven-counts-of-corruption felon last Thursday, proving, I guess, that there is some honor among thieves — or, at least, praise. No wonder the Senate Ethics Office is a toothless farce – what do you have to do to engender the disrespect of these 'public servants'? (Oh, right, tell the truth.) Utah's 'Mr. Republican' Orrin Hatch, another blazing nutball with a hard nougat center of Petrified Kook, publicly ejaculated without shame that Ted was "one of the greatest men I ever met," while his colleague from the Planet Strange, Sen. Jim Bunning, GOP marital aid of the KY-Jelly state, spread it on less grammatically: "If only you knew the Ted Stevens like I knew." Democrat-turned-Wolfman Norm Coleman, verging on a well-deserved term limitation up in Minnesota, bayed to Ted's moon-that-don't-shine, "Those of us who know him also see the love that's in his heart, reflected in love of country, love of family…" unnatural love of sheep. Even I-da-ho Spud Stud Larry Craig felt moved to knock three times on Stevens' pipe with his own spit polish, so to speak.
Jebas, what if Uncle Ted had shot a man in Memphis just to watch him die? Would the Senate just rise as one to elect him King – or maybe Pope?
It's too bad that AG Michael Mukasey collapsed suddenly during a speech Thursday night, but what the Big Media didn't remark on was who Mukasey was speechifying to – the frickin' Federalist Society, home base for the Unitary Executive malarkey that the departing Little King has used to justify dodging the Constitution. Sure, BushCo is on its way out the door, but you might think that the BM would be a little discomfited at the idea that the Attorney General, dressed up in a tux, was addressing a meeting of a group that basically believes in an American monarchy, much like democracy-distrusting icon Alexander Hamilton, who once encouraged George Washington to declare himself King of the United States. [Take a gander at FedSoc's founders and current members: Ed 'The Grand Inquisitor' Meese, Robert 'Nixonite' Bork, Ted 'Florida Recount' Olson, John 'Bob's Dad' Roberts, Tony 'Bush v. Gore' Scalia and Sam 'The Sham' Alito.) For a rough political equivalent, imagine the hew and cry if Obama's new AG Eric Holder passed out while speaking to the Socialist Worker's Party — think the venue would go unnoticed by the still-unjailed Press Gang at Newsweek and Time?
She Stoops to (be) Flounder: Remember those stories about a young Danny Quayle seeing the Robert Redford film, "The Candidate" and thinking it was a primer for a career in politics? Now it seems the Alaska Hockey Momster has aimed even lower; she's apparently using Tim Robbins' satirical flick, "Bob Roberts" as a roadmap for political success. For more cinematic inspiration to further Sarah's future in government service, may 'oui' suggest "Amazon Women on the Moon," "Idiocracy," "The Aristocrats," "Weird Science," "Ernest Goes to Jail," and "Linda Lovelace for President"?
And finally, the Vatican has forgiven John Lennon – imagine that? (Hint: it has to do with something he said in 1966.) I wonder if they've caught up with the news that he was murdered in 1980? (Lennon's lucky; it took the Pope about 400 years to forgive Galileo for finding out the earth is round and circles the sun.)
(Quotes re Stevens from "We Salute You, Ted Stevens!" by Benjamin Sarlin, The Daily Beast, Nov. 20, 2008.)


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Ingredients for the bottom layer
750 ml water
150 - 170 grm sugar (depend on how sweet you like)
250 grm cendol
12.5 grm agar agar powder
2 pandan leaves – tie into knot
250 ml thick coconut milk
15 grm cornstarch
½ tsp salt
1. Mix the coconut milk, cornstarch, salt and set it aside. In a heavy sauce mix the water, pandan leaves and agar agar powder. Bring it up to boil. Turn down the heat and let it simmer for 2 minutes or until the agar agar powder dissolve. Add in the sugar. Stir until sugar dissolve.
2. Add in the coconut milk mixture and bring it up to boil. Remove from heat and pour it into a tray or any type of mould of your choice. Let the agar agar cool down for 5 minutes before sprinkle the cendol in (this way the cendol will sink to the bottom)
3. Prepare the top layer while waiting for the bottom layer to set.
Ingredients for the top layer
750 ml water
225 grm palm sugar – cut into small pieces
12.5 grm agar agar powder
2 pandan leaves – tie into a knot
250 grm thick coconut milk
½ tsp salt
1. Mix the salt into the coconut milk and set it aside. In a heavy saucepan bring the water, pandan leaves and agar agar powder to boil. Let it boil for 2 minutes or until agar agar powder dissolve.
2. Add in the palm sugar and continue to stir until sugar dissolve. Add in the coconut milk. Bring it up to boil again and turn off the heat.
3. When the bottom layer is almost set, slowly pour mixture through a sieve (there might be unwanted stuff in the palm sugar) to the bottom layer. Take care not to break through the surface of the bottom layer.
4. Chill the jelly in the refrigerator for a few hours or overnight before serving.
Note: If the bottom layer is set, scratch the surface with a fork before pouring in the top layer mixture. My cendol is kind of light in color so you can't see it too well at the bottom layer of the jelly.
I am submitting this Agar Agar Cendol to Muhibbah Malaysia Monday
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Firefighter protected neighbors' homes as his burned
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - Although some homes were lost in one Southern California neighborhood, many residents say the damage could have been much worse had it not been for a local firefighter and his family.
Neighbors said that the reason so many of their homes are still standing is because of firefighter Mike Williams, who is stationed at Ventura County Fire Department Station 36 in Oak Park.
The Williams family did lose their home to the fire, but they escaped with their lives and the clothes on their backs, according to KTLA.
"This is the best street. Most everyone on this street has been here 15 years plus. It's just, we're really tight," said neighbor Lisa Solny. "Him and his wife went around here and they put out the spot fires that were happening with embers."
Solny said Mike put out two palm trees that caught fire in her front yard.
"He put out all the mulch on the ground, and then he turned around and his house was on fire and his wife was inside," Solny said. "And they took their dogs and they threw them in a Rubbermaid container and they escaped with nothing."
"We're so lucky that they're ok," Solny added, fighting back tears. "They're amazing. They are the most selfless people in the whole world. And right now, Mike is working Engine 36."
Mester met with other neighbors, who also spoke highly of the Williams family, saying that they take care of the neighbors and even watch people's dogs when they go on vacation.
The neighbors said the Williams family lost everything, but even as their home was burning down, Mike continued to make help his neighbors.
"Lisa called me from their van, hysterically crying, while Mike was still helping people," one neighbor told KTLA. "There's a disabled man on Churchwood that he was helping get out of his home before he would leave the neighborhood. They were the last ones to leave, barely with their lives."
Mike Williams wasn't available for an interview in his Oak Park neighborhood because he was out on the front lines, fighting the fire.


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The hips and knees are both very commonly reported areas of discomfort. This pain becomes exceptionally common as people age, due to the "wear and tear" of cartilage in the hips, knees, and lower back. However, people can also experience hip and knee pain from overuse, injury, or underlying conditions, such as arthritis. Some cases may become severe enough that surgery is unavoidable; however, physical therapy has been proven to treat hip and knee pain without the need for pain-relieving drugs or surgery. Call our clinic today for more information on how our physical therapists can help you overcome your hip and knee pain!
How is hip and knee pain determined?
When you schedule an appointment with a physical therapist, the first thing you can expect is a thorough evaluation. Your physical therapist will examine you to figure out where the painful area is, as well as where the pain is stemming from. For example, sometimes pain can be stemming from the hips but can be felt in the lower back, buttocks, groin, or the front/side of the hips. Additionally, pain stemming from the knees can be felt on the front or back of the knee joint. It can also be felt on the inside of the knee if a trauma occurred, or the outside of the knee if you are experiencing iliotibial band stress.
Hip pain is typically reported as a constant dull ache that doesn't seem to go away. However, knee pain is a bit different, and is often assessed as one of several different types of pain:
- Acute – Acute pain is the most intense type of knee pain. It typically occurs after an injury and will last for about a week. The treatment for acute pain is generally just to simply rest and isolate the affected area, as your body is working hard to heal it.
- Subacute – Subacute pain is typically felt two to six weeks after an injury. The affected area will still be painful, but it will not be nearly as severe as the acute pain of the first week. The treatment for subacute knee pain generally consists of gentle motions meant to increase your range of motion and facilitate healing.
- Chronic – Chronic pain can be defined as any pain that lasts longer than two or three months. If you've been living with serious knee pain for that long, you should consult with your doctor. He or she will most likely suggest performing another full physical exam, in addition to x-rays.
Getting Started With Physical Therapy
As part of your evaluation process, your physical therapist will administer a series of tests that can be used to analyze both hip and knee pain. These include:
- Checking range of motion – Your physical therapist will test the limits of your knee or hip, to see how far it will bend. This helps in determining the severity of the trauma and will give your physical therapist an insight on what the course of treatment should be.
- Checking strength – Testing the strength of your knee and hip structures will give your physical therapist a better idea on whether your pain is due to an injury or a physical imbalance.
- Palpation – Your physical therapist will provide gentle palpation of the knee or hip to figure out where the pain is originating.
- Gait analysis – Your physical therapist will assess how you walk to determine if anything is out of the ordinary with your gait.
Your balance may also be checked, and your physical therapist may want to measure how much inflammation is happening around the affected joint(s). Your initial evaluation is usually fairly lengthy, but it provides a great amount of information that your treatment is dependent upon. The results of your evaluation will help your physical therapist prescribe a treatment plan and a course of exercises based on your needs.
Your prescribed exercises will help you strengthen the muscle structures around the knee or hip (or both) that's bothering you. Your physical therapist will work with you to monitor your progress and make sure you are on track to reaching your end goal. He or she will also encourage and support every achievement you make along the way!
If you're ready to kick knee and hip pain to the curb, give us a call today at (269) 769-6108 or schedule a consultation here with one of our physical therapists.
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The Pew Internet and American Life project just released a report about how people access information to solve problems. While I've only had the chance to skim it so far, it's definitely a report that will be of interest to those of us in libraries and related information professions.
They asked 2,796 respondents if they'd dealt with any of the following issues in the past two years:
1. dealing with a serious illness or health concern; 2. making a decision about school enrollment, financing school, or upgrading work skills; 3. dealing with a tax matter; 4. changing a job or starting a business; 5. getting information about Medicare, Medicaid, or food stamps; 6. getting information about Social Security or military benefits; 7. getting information about voter registration or a government policy; 8. seeking helping on a local government matter such as a traffic problem or schools; 9. becoming involved in a legal matter; and 10. becoming a citizen or helping another person with an immigration matter.
58% of those who had faced at least one of those problems turned to the Internet for help, while only 53% turned to professionals such as doctors and lawyers. 45% consulted friends and family, 36% consulted newspapers and magazines, 34% consulted the government, 16% consulted television or radio, and 13% went to the library.
I must say it's sad world when people are more likely to consult the TV for help with an important problem than go to the library. I mean, I put a lot of stock in the wisdom of Tila Tequilla, Jerry Springer and Dr. Phil, but really?
The main reason people went to the library was to seek help or do research on schools, training opportunities, or financial matters.
What I found most interesting is that 40% of GenY respondents said they'd be likely to go to the library versus 20% of those over 30. However, 53% of American adults reported visiting the library in the past year. Those people were primarily young Internet users with high income and education levels. People with no Internet access at home or dial-up are less likely to have visited a library. So it sounds like the people who need the library most aren't using it.
What I found bizarre was that the reports of public library use over the past year dropped off significantly for those over the age of 50. 42% of those ages 62-71 reported using the library and it went down to 32% for those 72 and over. Really? The libraries I've visited over the past 20 years have mostly been patronized by those over 60 and under 10.
There's a ton of information here on who uses the library, how they use the library and why people don't use the library. It's definitely worth checking out. I found this suggestion interesting:
But many more people consider going to libraries than actually do. This suggests that libraries should try to untangle the complex web of reasons why different groups of people – even those who might profit most from using the library – don't in fact use the library, and in some cases, actually shun using it. The reasons are likely to challenge many assumptions about the digital divide.
This is definitely research that needs to be done more. We need to survey our non-users and find out why it is they don't utilize the library and what we can do to change that.
Here is the PDF of the report and the PDF of the questionnaire. Enjoy!


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As a Partner within EY-Parthenon Strategy's Payments practice, Christian works across EMEIA with multiple service lines and sectors to enhance the EY brand and payments-related offering.
His advisory focuses on strategy development and M&A. Typical projects include transaction advisory, growth and market entry strategies, development of operating models, and commercial due diligence.
Having joined Innovalue (now EY-Parthenon Financial Services) in 2015, Christian is based in Frankfurt. From 2011 to 2015, he worked for an international investment bank in London.
Christian earned an MS in Finance from the University of Amsterdam Business School and a BSc in International Business Administration from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the University of Colorado.
How Christian is building a better working world
"Payments is a key enabler for industry conversion, financial inclusion, and digital innovation. Advising EY clients on strategically relevant questions and giving them the highest level of transparency possible for their decision-making will lead to increased efficiency and higher quality – my small day-to-day contribution to building a better working world."


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Monday 22 October 2012
Genre Alternative Rock
Label Island
Producers The Killers, Stuart Price, Steve Lillywhite, Damian Taylor, Brendan O'Brien, Daniel Lanois
The Killers returning for their fourth studio album is certainly an event worthy of note. Such is the endurance of their early work that even a decade later it's entirely common to enter a club and hear the DJ play Mr. Brightside to rapturous response.
Yet such early career success carries its own burden, and each new release seems to come with diminished hype. This has not been helped by a prolonged hiatus following the previous album, and a potentially ill advised dalliance into solo artistry by various band members. There is the perception of a group that has always struggled to live up to their own lofty standards, which is enormous when the number 1 spot on the albums chart has become the minimum expectation.
Battle Born is an interesting next step for The Killers. While the band has previously been praised for a great diversity of style in their music, this album doubles down on the faux-Springsteen "Americana" streak prominent in certain previous hits such as A Dustland Fairytale and When You Were Young. The band's trademark playfulness is almost entirely absent, with a near constant stream of soul-searching ballads of varying intensity. If this is your idea of The Killers at their best then this album is for you, otherwise you may find it difficult to get into.
There are notable exceptions. Flesh and Bone opens the album with a belter of a song, taking the uplifting vibe reminiscent of Human that is more commonly associated with the Killers. Meanwhile the titular Battle Born closes proceedings with an equally triumphant stadium filling anthem. However beyond this lies an album of almost pure cheese. Sometimes it works, landing on the right side of "charm": for an example see the excellent Miss Atomic Bomb and lead single Runaways. Otherwise there is little that stands out.
This is not to say that Battle Born is a bad album. On the contrary, once you get into it the album as a whole is quite listenable. The trouble is that on first listen the unflinching tone can be quite monotonous, and unlike previous releases there is little payoff for perseverance. The good news is that if this pattern of relatively weak even numbered albums continues, their next one ought to be a corker.
Must Listen:
Flesh and Bone
Miss Atomic Bomb
Battle Born


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A number of texts signify that the most important aspects offered by a DBMS are availability, integrity and secrecy. As part of a homework assignment I have been tasked with mentioning attacks which would affect each aspect. This is what I have come up with - are they any good?
Availability - DDOS attack Integrity
Secrecy - SQL Injection attack
Integrity - Use of trojans to gain access to objects with higher security roles


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When it comes to interest in the birth of the royal baby, the world seems to be divided into two camps. Recognizing that, one news organization has divided its coverage in like manner.
JANINE GIBSON: Guardiannews.com has introduced a special feature for the royal labor.
That's Janine Gibson of The Guardian. She's the U.S. editor in chief, and she's talking about a small purple button at the top right of The Guardian's home page.
GIBSON: For those readers who find royal coverage to be dominating and trivial in the extreme, it helps them considerably if they can just press a simple button - not Republican, or in the U.S. we've called it non-Royalists - and that all that coverage can simply disappear, shrink away and be replaced by other news.
BLOCK: If you opt in, choosing Royalist, you'll be treated to a rolling slide show of pictures of the former Ms. Middleton and the ecstatic throngs. Opting out yields a completely different front page, as if there were no royals and no baby.
GIBSON: All that coverage can simply disappear, shrink away and be replaced by other news, thereby leaving those that do enjoy a bit of royal fervor a guilt-free wallow in the festive day.
BLOCK: So are you a Royalist or not? You choose. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE) Limited Post Graduate Scholarship Award Scheme 2021 / 2022 – This is to inform the general public that Agip Post Graduate scholarship is ongoing. Continue reading you will see how to apply here.
Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE) Limited, on behalf of the NNPC / NAE PSC, is committed to the training and development of manpower as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.
READ: Study in USA: US Embassy Scholarship Application Form Portal 2021/2022
2021 / 2022 Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE) Limited Post Graduate Scholarship Award Scheme
In pursuance of this, NAE invites applications from suitably qualified and interested Nigerian graduates for the 2021 / 2022 Post Graduate Scholarship Award Scheme. The award is in two categories:
- Overseas – For study in a reputable overseas university
- Local – For study in a recognized Nigerian university.
To qualify for the 2021/2022 NAE Post Graduate Scholarship Award scheme, applicants MUST:
- Possess a minimum of Second Class Upper Bachelor's degree from a recognized Nigerian university.
- Have secured admission into a Nigerian or Overseas university (based on the category being applied for) for a one-year Master's Degree programme in any of the disciplines listed below.
- Not above 28 years of age by December 31st, 2021.
- Have completed the one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.
- Possess an international passport valid for travel at least one year from September 2021 (applicable to overseas category).
Course of Study
Only candidates with an offer of admission in disciplines related to the following areas should apply:
- Geosciences
- Engineering (Petroleum, Mechanical, Civil, Subsea, Electrical / Electronics, Marine, Chemical)
- Petroleum Economics
- Law (Oil and Gas / Petroleum).
- Candidates should have the following clearly scanned documents before starting the application process:
- Passport photograph (450 × 450 pixels) with white background not more than 3 months old
- Provisional admission letter for post-graduate studies 2021/2022 session into any reputable university – Local/Overseas. This admission letter must be for the course stated on the candidate's application.
- First Degree Certificate
- NYSC Discharge Certificate
- Valid ID card (Driver's license, Voter's card, National Identity card)
- Valid International Passport Data Page for Overseas category only (Valid for travel at least one year from September 2021)
- Birth Certificate from Local government
- NAE Compliance Declaration Form
- All candidates are required to fill and sign the NAE compliance declaration form. To download the NAE compliance declaration, click https://dragnetscreening.ng/files/NAE_compliance.pdf
- Label the scanned documents accordingly, to avoid mix-up during upload.
- Attach the right documents in the appropriate upload section.
How To Apply for Nigerian Agip Post Graduate Scholarship Award Scheme
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click Here to Apply
To apply, follow the steps below:
- Click on the "Apply Now" tab.
- Click on "Register Now" to create an account.
- Proceed to your email box to activate your account
- Click on www.scholastica.ng to return to the Scholarship site
- Enter your registered email and password to create your profile.
- Candidates are required to fill the Personal Details, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Sections only. Candidates are also required to upload only applicable documents (refer to section A).
- Note to Overseas category applicants: Applicants for the Overseas category are encouraged to also apply for the Local Post Graduate Scholarship Award.
- Candidates are not required to fill the Secondary Level, Bank details or download the undergraduate profile verification form in the application portal.
- Ensure the name used in the application matches the names on all documentation in the same order. Upload a sworn affidavit or certificate if otherwise.
- Ensure you view all documents after uploading, to eliminate errors during uploading.
- Recheck application information to avoid errors
- Click "Apply Now" to submit information at https://candidate.scholastica.ng/schemes/naescholarships2021 or return to the home page www.scholastica.ng and select the 2021/2022 NAE Postgraduate Scholarship Awards to be redirected to the application page
- You will receive an email that confirms your application was successful.
Important Information / Notice
- ONLY Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the aptitude test.
- Shortlisted candidates will be contacted with details of the qualifying test via SMS text and Email (Ensure to provide valid email and phone contacts).
- Employees of NAE and other affiliate companies and their dependents are not eligible for this scholarship
- Current and past beneficiaries of similar awards from NAE, other affiliate companies, and agencies are not eligible.
- Please ensure you understand the Instructions carefully before you start this application to avoid errors and disqualification.
- Strict compliance with the above guidelines is required.
- You can apply for both Local and International Category
- Multiple applications within the same category shall lead to disqualification.
- Kindly review your profile before applying.
- Completion of the application form and test invitation shall NOT be construed as a commitment on the part of the NNPC / NAE / OANDO PSC nor shall it entitle applicants to make any claims whatsoever and / or seek any indemnity from NAE and / or any of its partners by virtue of responding to this invitation to apply for Post Graduate scholarship award.
- The NAE scholarship award applies to tuition, books, field trips, accommodation, living expenses, and a return economy ticket for a selected one-year course of study.
Application Deadline 30th April, 2021.
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Using software to make Income Tax updates
The introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD) will fundamentally change the way businesses, the self-employed and landlords interact with HMRC. The new regime will require businesses and individuals to register, file, pay and update their information using a new online tax account.
The new regime is due to start in April 2019 for VAT purposes only, when some 1 million businesses with a turnover above the VAT threshold will be required to keep their records digitally and provide their VAT return information to HMRC using MTD compatible software.
HMRC is also allowing a number of taxpayers and agents to use software to make Income Tax updates. This is part of a live pilot to test and develop the MTD service for Income Tax. As part of the MTD pilot taxpayers (or their agents) may be able to send Income Tax updates to HMRC on using software, instead of filing a Self Assessment tax return.
The introduction of MTD was first announced as part of the March 2015 Budget measures, and will ultimately see HMRC move to a fully digital tax system. An official launch date for the MTD service for Income Tax has yet to be announced, but it is unlikely to be before April 2020.
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