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Nevada officials plan to reopen a recently closed juvenile correctional facility in Clark County in early September.
The state last month shut down Red Rock Academy, which was run by Rite of Passage, a nonprofit organization. Both parties signed an amicable separation amendment for an early contract termination, which the nonprofit is now challenging while the state contends it was lawful.
State officials on Thursday will request approval from the Legislature's Interim Finance Committee to move about $700,000 the state would have used to pay Rite of Passage into a separate account, said Mike Willden, chief of staff for Gov. Brian Sandoval.
"We will be asking to move that money into an account to let us clean up the facility and make necessary repairs to help us get the facility up to standards and codes to reopen it," Willden said on Wednesday.
If approved by the Interim Finance Committee, those funds would be used to replace hundreds of windows covered in graffiti, fix torn floors, paint areas that require it and replace damaged equipment, Willden said.
However, a Rite of Passage source said the nonprofit spent the last 20 months rehabilitating the facility that the original contract indicated should have been in operable condition.
The source claims the facility is in 100 percent better condition than when it was turned over to Rite of Passage in summer 2013.
"There are receipts and photos to prove it," the source said. "Rite of Passage, when it was given the facility, the conditions were deplorable."
The facility was not graffiti-free when it was turned over to Rite of Passage, acknowledged Willden, adding that certain windows covered in graffiti had been approved for repair.
The state had its own set of photos on Wednesday to defend its position.
"From what I've read and from what I know, they mostly attempted to comply with staffing ratios, so it appears to me that the real question is what were staff watching when they were watching" the youth? Willden asked. "How does the facility get so tagged? So much graffiti, and the cleanliness standards are far below what's acceptable."
Willden toured the facility when it was in good shape. It's about maintaining consistency, he added.
"I would sometimes wonder whether we were being too rigid … but now I'm convinced we weren't," he said.
State officials were unhappy with the nonprofit's progress on its corrective action planning and there was a clear discussion about that with Rite of Passage leadership, Willden said. Several reports and reviews found problems at the facility.
Under the contract, the state had an on-site monitor that provided quarterly reports. In December, the reports became weekly and highlighted problems with supervision and lax security, including unlocked doors.
A 2014 Legislative Counsel Bureau audit reviewed Red Rock and other state facilities. As part of that audit, Red Rock was required to provide six-month progress reports on corrective action plans.
A review conducted by two nurses with the state's Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance in late February found issues in the medical unit.
There were several repeating issues such as lack of supervision of the youth, safety and security problems, according to the reports and reviews.
The state has submitted a budget amendment for the Legislature to consider for fiscal year 2016-17 operations at Red Rock.
"We are asking the Legislature that the state run the facility going forward and we would hope to be able to reopen the facility in the September time frame," Willden said.
For fiscal year 2015, it cost the state $4.6 million to have Rite of Passage run the facility.
The state plans to hire 61 employees and budget for up to 50 juveniles.
If the budget amendment is approved, the state would begin recruiting staff as soon as possible and hire workers in July. It would then train employees in July and August before the September opening.
The state would get independent contractors for food services, behavioral health and medical care. The Clark County School District would provide education personnel, Willden said.
Regarding the now-contested amicable contract amendment, Willden explained that the Nevada Board of Examiners reviews all contracts for the state. Contract amendments that increase the scope of the work or the amount of money the state will spend go to the full board. Amendments that have a value of $50,000 can be informational items for the board. And the clerk of the board may approve contract amendments that have no dollar value or adverse impact to the state and shorten or extend the time of the contract.
The clerk for the board signed the amendment between the state and Rite of Passage on Monday.
Willden said the Nevada attorney general's office deemed the amendment to be a "valid, non-revocable, amicable separation agreement."
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Costco Settles Gender|Bias Class Action
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – After more than 10 years of legal wrangling, lawyers told a federal judge Friday that Costco has settled the last remaining claims in a class action accusing the bulk retailer of gender bias.
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen said he was glad both sides had reached an agreement, and wasn't disappointed that he wouldn't get to preside over the scheduled 10-day bench trial set to begin Friday.
The long-running litigation began in 2004, with a class action filed by Shirley "Rae" Ellis that accused Costco of overlooking women for promotions to assistant and general manager positions since 2002.
U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel granted class certification in 2007. But in 2011, the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part, vacated in part and remanded the order for reconsideration in light of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes, which challenged the giant retailer's disparate pay and promotions for men and women.
In Dukes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a class can't be certified in gender-bias labor cases of this type because of the variability of plaintiffs' individual circumstances.
Costco filed a motion for an order eliminating class claims on remand, and the plaintiffs filed a cross-motion for class certification.
In 2012, Chen approved injunctive and monetary relief classes of 700 women in the suit. In contrast to Dukes, he wrote that the Costco case presented claims that were "narrow in scope" since the plaintiffs chose to go after Costco's promotion policies for general-manager and assistant general-manager positions, rather than the more sweeping claims presented in Dukes.
Chen appointed current Costco employee Elaine Sasaki as representative of the injunctive relief class, and Ellis, Sasaki and Leah Horstman as class representatives of the monetary class.
In 2013, Costco announced that it would pay $8 million to settle the case, but Sasaki's claim that she was denied general-manager promotions because of her gender remained.
Chen ruled this year that Sasaki could move forward with her claim that a supervisor was freezing her out in retaliation for the original lawsuit, and that she could "piggy-back" on Ellis' original disparate-treatment claim.
On Friday, plaintiffs' attorneys said they could not comment on the settlement but said Sasaki's individual claims had been resolved. Costco attorneys also declined to comment, but told Chen they would file a stipulation for dismissal next week.

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Today I want to show you something I'm very excited about. While I was in Tallinn in November , I picked up a bunch of pigments at t...
Today I want to show you something I'm very excited about. While I was in Tallinn in November, I picked up a bunch of pigments at the MAC counter from one of their holiday collections, Objects of Affection. I've been wearing nude/pink eyeshadows a lot lately, so when I saw this set of pink and rose hued loose pigments and glitter in person, I was sold.
Way late with this review as the collection is no longer available, I wanted to present them to you anyway, because just look at them pretties.
First things first: packaging. The Objects of Affection come in a jewelry box-like case, with a design similar to the packaging of the Keepsakes collection. The glittery lid has a beautiful Victorian cameo brooch; the box itself - and even the pigment bottles if you look closely - is decorated with faux pearl garland.
Inside the case are four loose pigments and one glitter, all in the pink and rose colour category. Pigments are loose powders that can be applied as eyeshadow or highlighter, or you can even mix them with a liquid to create your custom eyeliner, blush or lipstick colour (click *here* and *here* for more options on how to use pigments). As you can see the five products I have here are all shimmery. From left to right, MAC describes them as following:
Whisper Pink: soft beigy pink with pearlized pigments
Tan: muted pinky brown bronze
Rose: rose with copper sparkle
Reigning Riches (glitter): soft copper
Heritage Rouge: dirty brown plum
This is my first time working with loose pigments and yes, I've made a mess of my bathroom shelf a few times. But as they say: practice makes perfect. Even though my application of these pigments is nowhere near perfect, I've learned what works easiest for me. Being careful is key with these. I find the best way is to pour some of the product on a paper tissue and pick it up with an eyeshadow brush. It took me a long time to get used to them (maybe that explains why this review is so late? Or maybe I've just been a lazy blogger). What I do for a wearable daytime look is apply a skin-coloured eyeshadow over a layer of Paint Pot as a base. Then I define the crease using a matte dusty rose shade. Finally I spray some Fix+ onto a flat eyeshadow brush and pack the loose pigment in 'Tan' - my favourite! - onto my eyelids. The fixing spray really helps the intensity of the colour. With a fluffy blending brush I carefully diffuse the edges without moving the pigment around on the lids. Using a bronze pigment instead of my usual shimmery eyeshadow adds that extra something that makes my eyes the focus of attention, while still keeping the look wearable. Another way to wear the pigments in this set is create a smokey eye with 'Rose' as a pop of colour or 'Heritage Rouge' in the outer corner of the eyes. I still need to practice on blending, but once I've got that mastered I'm sure I will wear these more often. 'Whisper Pink' is my highlighter option of this set. Applied to the inner corner of the eyes or the cheekbones it is beautiful. The only one from this set I haven't used is the glitter. The reason for that is personal preference- I'm just not that fond of glitter. 'Reigning Riches' is an amazing colour, though, so I will have to try it soon.
Learning how to wear loose pigments has given me a whole lot of ideas. I can't wait to experiment with these in looks or using them to create a special finish to lipstick. I will definitely keep you posted on Twitter if I've tried something cool.
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Wauw, nu ben ik wel heel erg benieuwd naar een look. Ik heb nog nooit pigments gehad, maar ik denk dat ik ook veel moet oefenen wil ik er goed mee kunnen werken :PReplyDeleteReplies
Ik beloof dat er binnenkort een look op de blog komt, pinky promise ;) het vergt best wel veel oefening, maar ik ben alvast gek op de everyday look die ik in het artikel beschreef. Dat is waarschijnlijk ook de makkelijkste manier om de pigments te gebruiken :) maar zoals ik zei, er volgen zeker nog looks!Delete
Ik heb de Bronze versie! Superleuke set vind ik 't. De roze ziet er ook wel super uit.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oeh, de bronskleuren waren ook wel mooi!Delete
Ze zijn zo pretty <3 Ik baal er nog steeds van dat ik ze niet heb weten te bemachtigen! Ben benieuwd naar de looks die je er mee gaat maken!ReplyDeleteReplies
Jammer! En die komen er zeker nog ;)Delete
I basically refuse to work with loose pigments, otherwise I would have got a set (because I can't resist minis or sets)! I saw these Sized to Go pigments in the store a while back. REALLY REALLY tempted by Old Gold!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, how come? And you're right, minis are just too cute! Old Gold seems like a colour that would look stunning on you, I'd say go for it! :)Delete
I love pigments, they are so versatile to work with and the colours... What you have here is all beautiful, especially that copper one!ReplyDelete
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Happy 80's Day here at Island Lake! Several of our campers and staff are on point as they dressed to impress and pay tribute the 80's. What a great decade, huh? Many of us (you, the parents, and I) were kids/teenagers in the 80's and we had no idea at the time that we would look back on those days and long for them once again, huh?
Ok, back to camp and back to the here and now. I cannot believe that today was the last full day of session 2 here at Island Lake. This entire summer is flying by way too fast. It's going to be sad to say goodbye to many amazing campers tomorrow morning. I hope they had the greatest experience here at ILC & I hope to see them all at camp next summer once again here at the 18462.
Attention p arents of session 2 campers who are departing tomorrow; you should have all received an email with changeover day information. Please read it thoroughly to make sure you are properly prepared to pick up your children at the bus stops tomorrow.
Since today was the last full day of the 2nd session, our campers had only majors, no minors. This afternoon they had super clean up and packing time for those campers who are leaving tomorrow. Later in the afternoon we rocked out to our big Rock Concert in the theater. The theme was Evolution, which was music from the 60's through today, hence the 80's theme day. Today's special feature is campers and counselors dressed up for 80's day! Check out the photos below at the end of this blog.
Lots of activities went on here at ILC today. Our CITs took a trip to our nearby town of Hancock, NY for lunch at the local diner. They always enjoy the time they spend together as a group out of camp. Needless to say, the CITs had a nice lunch at the diner. Our tennis kids finished up the ILC Open today, as well. Listed below are the winners in each age group. A special congrats goes out to the following campers and thank you to all who participated.
6th – 7th grade girls- Skyler B./ 6th – 7th grade boys- David P./ 8th – 9th grade girls- Gabby G./ 8th – 9th grade boys- Bastiaan H./ 10th & up girls- Cameron L./ 10th & up boys- Alex B.
Tonight's evening activity is the older campers' show, Xanadu. No doubt our kids will do a fantabulous job, especially skating around the stage on rollerblades! Tomorrow you will be able to view photos of the show on CampMinder.
Our session 2 campers still have 1 more night to spend with one another. We hope your children who are leaving tomorrow arrive home happy, semi-clean, with only amazing, fantastic, superb, incredible stories to share with you about their summer 2016 here at ILC. Tomorrow we will welcome all of our session 3 campers to Island Lake. Until then, ILC U THERE!


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Given that this weekend is the Queen's Plate, it's rather fitting that you "Get off your high horse and giddy-up for an exquisite equine extravaganza on Saturday, 11 January 2014" at Orphanage Cocktail Emporium.
Orphanage is easily my favourite watering hole in the whole of Cape Town, nestled on the corner of Bree and Orphan Streets, the venue welcomes all equestrian enthusiasts—whether you like horses or not—to come dressed in white and blue to get into the theme of the annual horseracing event. As a bit of an added bonus for showing off your Queen's Plate attire— whether you went or not—the rather handsome barkeeps will mix you a complimentary cocktail—no horsing around!
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Update for July 2012
Sunday, July 15, 2012 5:30pm EDT
Having a generally good time out on Fire Island. Lots of things going on. Spent almost all day it seems working on fire department stuff or dock stuff. Smokey sure is happy that she gets to see more of me. I come home and read the Hunger Games books. I am on the last book now and can just not put it down. Great story that really draws you in. The Community Association meeting was today at 10am. Had a great turn out of people for the meeting. Then worked in the dock office on time cards. Never dull out here. While I was in the office, we had a woman break her toe on the dock so had to drive her back to her house. Ok, enough rest time. Back to my book.
Friday, July 13, 2012 4pm EDT
Just relaxing out on the island. Smokey is just loving it. She was not sure what was up during the hour plus car ride and then a noisy boat ride but now after checking the entire place out, she has been seen relaxing in the windows just enjoying herself. Today she got to spend the entire day with me instead of being by herself and home wondering when Sparky would come home and feed her. I am out here all next week except for a small trip to Syosset one day so it was a good time to bring her out. Have been down to the dock this morning and around town a little. Finished off the little work that I needed to get done and then back home to do some reading. Right now I am reading the 2nd book of the Hunger Games series Catching Fire. So far I am really enjoying it.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 11pm EDT
Went into the city tonight after work for an Imperial Court meeting and to swing by the HOP office to sign checks. Have to pack and pull myself together for a trip to Fire Island tomorrow morning.
Saturday, July 7, 2012 5:30pm EDT
Well I am tired but well rested I think. I am ready to head back home tomorrow morning. Miss Smokey.
Here are a few shots from the Invasion of the Pines on Wednesday. First there is me walking the red carpet in The Pines after I got off the boat. Then the other picture on the right is the Chief Jill saluting the crowd as I blew a CO2 extinguisher to hail the fire departments arrival at the annual invasion event. That is me in the white just behind the pole on the left side of the picture. Had a fun time. Jumped on a water taxi and came right back to the Grove.
Sunday, July 1, 2012 6:50pm EDT
Big thunderstorm just came over out of practically no where. 1/2" hale associated with it. Closed down the windows and just rode it out. Lots of wind too. Helped the humidity a bit. It's been hot out here but the breeze has been nice. Have to head to Syosset for work tomorrow and then back to the island after some shopping.


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Jaden Yuki is the main protagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.
He is described as an energetic boy who comes to Duel Academy to learn to become the new King of Games. He enjoys seeking out new duel challenges and is known to be quite lucky when it comes to his draws. He is capable of communicating with Duel Spirits, most often conversing with Winged Kuriboh, a card he received from Yugi Mutou on the day of his entrance exam. He specializes in using Fusion Monsters, his main deck being the Elemental Heroes deck before later obtaining a set of Neo-Spacian monsters and his key card, Elemental Hero Neos. Following the third season, in which he entered an alternate dimension and confronted the duel spirit, Yubel, he has gained the powers of both The Supreme King, an evil alter-ego he temporarily took on, and Yubel, giving him powerful insight.
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
BOKO HARAM: Soldiers kill 8 members in Maiduguri shoot-out
People in the vicinity scampered for safety as a result of the deafening explosions.
The action attracted the presence of the Joint Task Force (JTF) soldiers who killed eight members of the Islamist sect.
The group probably went to the market to avenge the arrest of a member by civilians last Thursday.
An eyewitness who did not want his name in print, said: "I actually went there to buy a bag of onions when the thing happened. There were three bomb blasts. The first happened around the fish market and everybody scampered for safety. But another two came again. It was as if I was trapped, but I managed to get out some minutes later. I was, however, scared when I saw corpses."
Confirming the attack, JTF spokesman, Lt.- Col. Hassan Mohammed, said: ``This afternoon, gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect members attacked three civilians at the Baga Road Fish Market.
``The JTF men came on rescue operation, engaged the suspects in a shoot-out and succeeded in killing eight of them,'' Mohammed said.
``The JTF detonated three IEDs and defused several others recovered from the attackers. We also recovered large number of arms and ammunition from them.
``The JTF has cordoned off the entire area and a search operation is going on to uncover hidden weapons and IEDs.''
He maintained that none of the JTF personnel was injured even as he said that the market has been condoned off. He also said a "come down and search operation" by the JTF was going on within the area. Sources at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), however, disclosed that two bodies were brought to the hospital in a van escorted by a military patrol vehicle, adding that one of the victims was not dead, but was "badly injured"
Sources said the dreaded Islamic fundamentalists attacked the market to avenge the arrest of one of their members last Thursday. A lone gunman was said to have strolled into the market located on the outskirt of the metropolis last week and had attempted to pull the trigger of his AK 47 rifle before some traders reportedly overpowered him.
According to JTF, some people at the Baga Market had made gallantry efforts when they assisted the JTF in the arrest of a gunman who entered the market to kill innocent people. "They have displayed that security is a collective responsibility and that the sect members are not invisible as they now choose to operate in markets and highly concentrated areas," the JTF said. Barely a week later, the Boko Haram men returned to the market to launch what would have been a deadlier attack.
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When I think about the perfect lunch, I imagine a big, delicious sandwich. If I could recommend one local place to pick up the best sandwich, it would have to be the Orange Table.
I had never heard of it until I went out to lunch with some c0-workers from my internship. Tucked away in Scottsdale's Civic Center Plaza, the Orange Table is a small cafe that uses only fresh, high-quality ingredients and was voted by the Phoenix New Times as having the "best burger" in 2007 and being the "best neighborhood coffee house" in 2007 and 2008.
As a college student, I get bored with the basic deli sandwiches offered on campus. I rarely order sandwiches when I eat out because I usually end up disappointed. However, the Orange Table's description of their "Chipotle Chicken Melt" forced me to change my mind. I was blown away when I took a bite into this sandwich! The chicken was juicy-marinated and roasted to perfection! It was served on delicious grilled sourdough bread and the lettuce, tomato, cheese and spicy mayo complimented the chicken perfectly. I was definitely impressed!
I immediately started thinking about how to make my own tasty version at home. Trying to keep things basic, simple and cheap, I came up with this recipe I hope you will enjoy as much as I did! I think the key to a great sandwich is the bread. Sure, it's easy to pick up the first generic loaf of bread you see at the grocery store, but here's a tip: If you take just a couple minutes to browse through the bakery section at your grocery store, you can usually find very fresh and interesting kinds of bread available at a discount price. Another tip: Often times there is bread not on display that the bakers will gladly offer to you if you ask (since they end up just throwing it away if it's not used!).
For my sandwich I used a delicious loaf of wheat sourdough bread I purchased from Trader Joes. First, I combined half a can of shredded chicken (found near the canned tuna in the store) with chopped red onions, celery and tomatoes. In a small bowl, I then combined 1 tablespoon mayo, 1/2 tablespoon sour cream, some lemon juice, salt, pepper, dried parsley, garlic power and cayenne to create a creamy/spicy mixture. I added this to the chicken and other ingredients.
Finally, I arranged the "chicken salad" on 1 lightly buttered piece of bread and sprinkled shredded chedder cheese on top. I placed a slice of pepper jack cheese on the other piece of bread. I then placed both pieces open face on a cookie sheet and broiled my creation in the oven until the cheese was hot and bubbly! The sandwich was very good and I was impressed by the taste of my spicy mayo/sour cream combination. The canned chicken was surprisingly tasty as well. This was so easy and it just goes to show how easy it is to make delicious, restaurant-like meals at home! To sum up this recipe, here is what you need:
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2 pieces of good bread
1/2 can (6 ounces) of shredded chicken
1 tablespoon mayo
1/2 tablespoon sour cream
chopped red onions, celery, tomatoes
dash of lemon juice
season with salt, pepper, dried parsley, garlic powder and cayenne (or any other 'spicy' spice such as dried chopped chili, cumin, curry etc.)
cheese (cheddar and pepper jack work well!)
Enjoy! I've done some recipe looking for chicken melt sandwiches and these sound great. Check them out: Paula Deen's Almond Chicken Salad Melt and Chipotle Chicken Melt.


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Hailee Steinfeld Finds Her Romeo
Hailee Steinfeld goes a little bit wild in Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti as she hits up the Cars 2 premiere held at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on Saturday evening (June 18).
It was just announced that Douglas Booth will star as Hailee's love interest in the upcoming Romeo and Juliet, according to Vogue UK.
Since Hailee is only 14, all the love-making scenes that were in the original script have been tossed. "As soon as Hailee Steinfeld was cast, all nudity and lovemaking have been excised from the script. It will be romantic and age-appropriate for a 14-year-old," Carlo Carlei told EW.
Douglas will next be seen opposite Miley Cyrus in L.O.L.
Hailee is also sporting the Jimmy Choo "Youth" boots.
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Review: Research Toward Safer Resection of the Cirrhotic Liver
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Despite recent advances in hepatic surgery, resection of the cirrhotic liver continues to be fraught with high morbidity and mortality rates. As a result, for many patients requiring resection of HCC the postoperative course is complicated and the probability of cure is diminished by coexisting cirrhosis. In this review, we discuss the characteristics of the cirrhotic liver which make it poorly tolerant of resection and the most common complications that follow such surgery. The main purpose of this paper is to review recent attempts to identify interventions that might be beneficial to cirrhotic patients undergoing resection. These interventions include assessment of liver reserve, advances in surgical technique, and improvement in liver function and regeneration.


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It is easier for robbers to operate in Ghana than in Nigeria, an ex-convict, Wasami Dennis, 32, has said.
Dennis, a cross-border robbery suspect, from Abraka in Delta State, said Ghanians were not as security conscious as Nigerians.
Dennis was arrested last weekend in his hideout in Agbole Orile, Lagos.
He was released about a year ago from Kirikiri prison after he was convicted for robbery in Festac, Lagos.
"I was just released from prison about a year ago. I was caught with a stolen laptop from Ghana along with three machetes in my hideout," he said.
The suspect said he operated more in Ghana than Nigeria, stressing that Ghanaians never challenged him in any of his operations.
He said: "I am an expert in break-in-robbery; I break into people's houses and cart away their properties and personal effects like mobile phones, laptops and jewelry. I used to bring the stolen items to Nigeria to sell. I have a ready market for them in Lome and Lagos."
According to him, the two machetes found in his apartment belong to hoodlums operating in a garage nearby.
He said: "They kept them there for whenever there is crisis among them. These boys are called Spartacus. They are trouble makers. They are always at the junction. I don't know anything about it and I never knew they were there.
"For now, I work on Lagos Island where I help connect people who want to buy children clothing to sellers. I earn commission from this and that is how I earn my livelihood", he said.
He named those he sell the items to as "Qudus, I.K, Hapier, Stanley and Kelvin".
Davies went on: "My last operation was in Festac. It was the one that led to my arrest and consequently my imprisonment at Kirikiri. Since I came back, I have never gone into breaking in and stealing".
Police have begun a manhunt for the stolen goods buyers.
The suspect is helping the police to get his accomplices.
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France, Germany, Italy, UK and US: outside interference will exacerbate divisions and undermine democratic transition
By Libya Herald staff.
Tripoli, 26 August 2014:
The governments of France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US have said that outside interference in Libya would only exacerbate the current divisions within the country and undermine Libya's democratic transition.
In a joint statement on Monday, the western nations strongly condemned the escalation of fighting and violence in and around Tripoli, Benghazi and across Libya, especially against residential areas, public facilities and critical infrastructure.
Reiterating their repeated calls for all parties to observe an immediate ceasefire and engage in constructive dialogue, they implored the militias to abstain from confrontational initiatives that risked undermining the democratic process.
The group also stated that those responsible for the violence, which has undermined Libya's democratic transition and national security, must be held accountable and that consequences for their actions should be discussed by the United Nations Security Council.
They called on Libya's interim government and the House of Representatives to adopt inclusive policies that benefited all Libyans and encouraged the Constitutional Drafting Assembly to immediately return to drafting a document that would protect the rights of all Libyans. In particular, they called on the international community to stand behind Libya's elected institutions.
The European Union (EU) released a similarly worded statement, saying it welcomed the coming United Nations Security Council's discussions regarding Libya. The EU statement condemned the use of fighter jets to carry out strikes on residential areas.
Victims of terrorist violence appeal to UN to intervene in Libyan crisis
By Libya Herald staff.
Tripoli, 26 August 2014:
The UK-based Docklands Victims Association (DVA), founded in the aftermath of a massive terrorist attack in London's Docklands in 1996 in which the IRA used semtex explosive provided by Qaddafi, has called on the UN to immediately intervene in the Libyan crisis to prevent a further loss of Libyan lives and humanitarian disaster.
In a letter addressed to UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon on 25 August, the DVA, which was very involved in humanitarian work with the Qaddafi's victims, thanked the UN for its willingness to aid in the overthrow of the former dictator in 2011, which "saved countless innocent Libyan lives".
It went on to say that, through direct communications with a number of individuals in Libya, the DVA had confirmed that "appalling" crimes against humanity" were being carried out by the militia involved in fighting. They were "using fear to destabilise the country and eradicate democracy", the DVA said.
It warned that an "unparalleled" humanitarian crisis would occur if additional international intervention were not immediately implemented.
The DVA appeal challenges statements by the UN which have called for an immediate ceasefire and the opening of national dialogue, but have warned that outside intervention could undermine Libya's sovereignty and cause further divisions within the nation.
The newly appointed UN envoy to Libya Bernadino Leon has said that he does not believe that foreign intervention of any kind would stop the turmoil in Libya. Only an inclusive political process with all Libyans represented in parliament and other state institutions would do so, he said.
However, "Libyans who want to fight the chaos through political means will need a lot of international support," he conceded.
Libya Dawn accused of taking revenge on Tripoli opposition
By Ajnadin Mustafa.
Tripoli, 26 August 2014:
Scores of Zintanis living in Tripoli have been captured and hundreds individuals opposed to Libya Dawn Operations have had their homes torched since the it took control of the capital.
Residents in Tripoli told the Libya Herald that 280 homes had been looted and set alight since the Misratan-led forces took control the the airport two days ago. This included the house of Transport Minister Abdelgader Ahmed, a Zintani, Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni, Othman and Abdelmajid Al-Milaiqtah, commanders within the Zintan revolutionary brigades, and Mohammed Al-Farjani, a Tripoli-based reporter for Alarabiya TV.
Zintan Municipal Council has described the plight of Zintanis in Tripoli as "a very dark situation". Spokesman for the council Omar Matoog said it had complied a list of 80 names of those who had disappeared in recent days. "We do not know if they have been kidnapped or killed," he said. He added that while Zintani officials had been targeted in the attacks, normal families and civilians had not escaped the violence.
"This is a disaster," Matoog said. "I do not know how to describe the situation on the ground. The families are without homes; now they are refugees," he explained.
Matoog said Zintan Municipal Council was collating a file on the the abuse and that it would pass it to the UN or the relevant international legal authorities.
While Zintanis could feel secure in their own town he claimed thatr what Libya was now witnessing was a battle not just between Misrata and Zintan but for the whole country.
It has been claimed that Zintani forces withdrew two days ago from Tripoli International Airport and other bases they held in the capital on specific orders from the House of Representatives.
Abu Sahmain, Ghariani condemned by Thinni and parliament leader Saleh
By Libya Herald staff.
Tobruk, 25 August 2014:
Nuri Abu Sahmain, the former president of the General National Congress, is just an ordinary citizen and Congress no longer exists or has any legitimacy, the head of the House of Representatives and the Prime Minister said this afternoon.
Speaking in a joint press conference in Tobruk, Ageela Saleh and Abdullah Al-Thinni were responding to events earlier in the day when a handful of former Congress members turned up to meeting in Tripoli convoked by Abu Sahmain and decided to appoint a new prime minister.
"The procedures and meetings that have been taken by Abu Sahmain are invalid," Thinni said, "He is now an ordinary citizen. . . The House of Representatives is the only legitimate body in Libya."
For his part Saleh denounced Abu Sahmain's announcement of a new government, declaring it unconstitutional. It was up to the HoR to decide on a new government, and it would do so in its own time.
As for those who were trying to physically prevent members of House returning to Tobruk, they were committing a "criminal offence", he said.
In wide ranging series of statements on Libya's present crisis, the two also condemned the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani, who in recent days has repeatedly used his position to attack the House as well as support Operation Libya Dawn in Tripoli and the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shoura Council.
"The Grand-Mufti has issued illegitimate and incorrect fatwas", the Prime Minister said, condemning Ghariani for being ideologically motivated and issuing statements that were not job.
Saleh added that the House would now discuss Ghariani's position sooner rather than later.
Repeating that he had sacked Deputy Defence Minister Khalid Sharif, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, because he had left the country without permission, Thinni pointed out that Tripoli was not safe for the government: "Most of the ministers have received threats, and the headquarters of Council of Ministers is not safe at all," he said.
Refering to the fact that many people's Tripoli homes, including his own, and had had been attacked and torched in the past 24 hours , he called those responsible "cowards". They were not real revolutionaries, he said, comparing them to, instead, to members of the Qaddafi regime who wanted to impose their own ideology by force. But Libya could not be ruled by force he warned; it was now impossible to impose ideology on the country.
It was not all doom and gloom, Thinni nonetheless noted. "Crude oil production now amounts about 600,000 barrels a day (b/d) – a reassuring positive rate – and revenues will be good," he said. Moreover, oil experts anticipated that exports would continue to grow, he added, with "normal rates" by the end of October.
Before the revolution, Libya exported 1.6 million b/d. The figure was around 1.5 million b/d before the eastern oil terminals were closed down by Cyrenaica federalists a year ago.
As to foreign help in confronting Libya's problems, Thinni said that his government was looking to the UN Security Council to approve measures to help the situation.
Saleh, who said that a law on terrorism would be passed soon, added that HoR members were visiting Egypt, France and US in search of support and that he himself was going to Egypt tomorrow to meet President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi.
Congress rump "appoints" Omar Hassi as Prime Minister
By Libya Herald staff.
Tripoli, 25 August 2014:
An attempt by the former General National Congress to resurrect itself and take back power turned into farce today as it tried to "appoint" an emergency government . . .
Marghani offers resignation as Justice Minister
By Libya Herald staff.
Tobruk, 25 August 2014:
Libya's Justice Minister Salah Al-Marghani says he has tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni because he could not perform his duties . . .
US Furious After Source Of "Mystery" Libya Bombing Raids Revealed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/25/2014 19:41 -0400
Over the past week a new geopolitical mystery emerged: an "unknown" party was launching airstrikes against Libya, which is already reeling in its latest political crisis where headlines such as this have become the norm:
The strikes puzzled all media outlets, including Reuters which just over the weekend reported that "Unidentified war planes attacked positions of an armed faction in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Saturday, residents and local media said. Local channel al-Nabaa said the planes had attacked four positions of the Operation Dawn, an umbrella of Islamist-leaning forces from Misrata which has been trying to expel brigades from Zintan, also located in western Libya." This follows a similar report when on Monday, the government said unknown fighter jets had bombed positions from armed factions in Tripoli, an attack claimed by a renegade general in Benghazi.
Turns out the renegade general was lying, and merely trying to take credit for another party's intervention. That party, or rather, parties has been revealed as Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, which as the NYT reports, "have secretly teamed up to launch airstrikes against Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli, Libya, four senior American officials said, in a major escalation between the supporters and opponents of political Islam."
But what is surprising is not the intervention: after all, hardly a day passes now when there isn't some small to medium political invasion taking place somewhere, in a world in which newsflow no longer affects anything. It is that both countries decided to roundly ignore advising the one country which previously had made it quite clear it has explicit national interests in Libya: the United States.
The United States, the officials said, was caught by surprise: Egypt and the Emirates, both close allies and military partners, acted without informing Washington or seeking its consent, leaving the Obama administration on the sidelines.
It gets worse: Egyptian officials explicitly denied the operation to American diplomats, the officials said. It is almost as if the theme of ignoring and/or mocking US superpower status exhibited mostrecently by both China and Russia, is gradually spreading to even the more "banana" republics around the world. Because while one can debate the pros and cons of any previous administration, it is very much improbably that any regime, especially ones as close to the US as the UAE, and to a lesser extent Egypt, would have conducted such military missions without preclearing with the Pentagon first.
So now that the "mysterious" owners of the punitive bombing raids has been revealed, the next question is: why? The answer is simple - to keep Islamists in check. And since the US can no longer be relied on to do the bidding of formerly key petrodollar allies, the UAE decided to take the law into its own hands.
The strikes are another high-risk and destabilizing salvo unleashed in a struggle for power that has broken out across the region in the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolts, pitting old-line Arab autocrats against Islamists.Since the military ouster of the Islamist president in Egypt one year ago, the new Egyptian government, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have formed a bloc exerting influence in countries around the region to rollback what they see as a competing threat from Islamists. Arrayed against them are the Islamist movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood, backed by friendly governments in Turkey and Qatar, that sprang forward amid the Arab spring revolts.
And while "old-line Arab autocrats" may see the military invasion as justified (they can simply point to what the US is doing in Iraq), that doesn't mean that the US is happy in being ignored. In fact, quite the contrary: the US is "fuming" (perhaps because it is not the one conducting the airstrikes?)
Libya is the latest, and hottest, battleground. Several officials said that United States diplomats were fuming about the airstrikes, believing they could further inflame the Libyan conflict at a time when the United Nations and Western powers are seeking a peaceful resolution."We don't see this as constructive at all," said one senior American official....The U.A.E. has not commented directly on the strikes. But on Monday an Emirati state newspaper printed a statement from Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs, calling questions about an Emirati role "an escape" from the recent election that he suggested showed a desire for "stability" and a rejection of the Islamists. The allegations about the U.A.E. role, he said, came from a group who "wanted to use the cloak of religion to achieve its political objectives," and "the people discovered its lies and failures."
Most important, however, is that as the NYT notes, this latest escalation in direct political intervention in a sovereign state, means the middle-east is no longer a playground for proxy wars: after all, who needs to beat around the bush when one can directly bomb a proximal country without fears of repirsals by the international community, as Abu Dhabi and Cairo have done:
Officials said that the government of Qatar has already provided weapons and support to the Islamist aligned forces inside Libya, so the new strikes represent a shift from proxy wars —where regional powers playout their agendas through local allies —to direct involvement.
All of this ignores whether or not the strikes have actually achieved their objective of halting the militants' progress. They haven't.
The strikes have also proved counterproductive so-far: the Islamist militias fighting for control of Tripoli successfully seized its airport the night after they were hit with the second round of strikes.American officials said Egypt had provided bases for the launch of the strikes. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt and other officials have issued vigorous but carefully worded public statements denying any direct involvement inside Libya by Egyptian forces. In private, officials said, their denials had been more thorough....American officials said the success of that earlier raid may have emboldened Egypt and the U.A.E. to think they could carry off the airstrikes without detection. Or the brazenness of the attack may reflect the vehemence of their determination to hold back or stamp out political Islam.
The biggest irony in all of this is that, just like in the case of ISIS, the U.A.E. is said to have one of the most effective air forces in the region, and is now using it to engage its own enemies directly, all of which is possible excluslively thanks to American aid and training.
Which means that at this point one can start the countdown until the US, seemingly in aattempt to halt the progress of another ascendent regional hegemon, will now arm the very Islamists that it was backing in Egypt before the whole Morsi fiasco, in the process making even more enemies, while the rest of the world awaits as the latest batch of weapons are used either against US interests in the region, or, as ISIS has shown, against the US itself.
Clearly, however, what is needed, is even more US intervention in a region which is rapidly bacoming nothing but rubble thanks to US weaponized "assistance and training", which benefits nobody except a few US military/industrial conglomerates, and the global money-laundering banking consortium of course.


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The artisanal craft of rush grass weaving was first recorded in Taiwan 300 years ago. It experienced its heyday in the 1930s, during which rush grass products were the 3rd most exported item (after rice and sugar), most of which were bought by the Japanese. The lovely little town of YuanLi (苑里), in the middle of Taiwan, is where the grass is grown and woven. This cultural heritage was passed down from mothers to daughters. Today it is done by highly skilled grandmothers over their sixties, most of whom began weaving before they even reached primary school.
Rush grass grows to approximately 150cm (59 inches), but only 40% of which can be used for weaving. There are over 12 steps involved in preparing the grass before it can be woven. Some of these include growing, harvesting, drying, selecting, cleaning, softening and splitting.
The decades of experience the grandmothers have is obvious during the splitting process. Using a sewing needle and their highly trained instincts each blade of grass is split either in twos or threes. It is this process that gives the finished woven rush grass its fine weave and hence its charm.
Currently there are no machines capable of replicating the sophisticated gestures of a skilled artisan. Today it is processed and woven purely by hand using simple tools, just as it has always has been for 300 years.
We collaborate with various master weavers from YuanLi (苑里). Here we share some of their thoughts with you. From left to right;
Grandma Fung - "When I was young people from YuanLi preferred having girls because they could weave and therefore earn a good income for the family. Even better than the men!"
Grandma Yun - "I weave now to pass the time, it helps the days go faster"
Grandma Wu - "My biggest fear is that someone else can weave faster than me"