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Fred Santos couldn't believe his eyes.
Standing in a cramped hallway outside a courtroom in Sacramento, he and his wife, Kathy, had just won the first round in their lawsuit against former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for not telling them that he was shortening the prison sentence of Esteban Nuñez, who was involved in murdering their son Luis three years ago near a fraternity party at San Diego State University.
And there in the hallway, the Santoses saw him — with his hand on his heart amid a rabid swarm of reporters: Esteban Nuñez's father, former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez. To them and many others, he was talking shit.
"When you're dealing with a district attorney," Nuñez told reporters, "like we did in San Diego, who clearly, you know, has aspirations and has always had aspirations for higher office, the approach that they took to my son's case, and in particular to him, irrespective of the facts of the actual case — they picked on my son from day one."
As for Santos' lawsuit, Nuñez called it "not a reason to use taxpayers' money in the courtroom, certainly."
Dressed in a dark blazer and yellow shirt, Santos' face turned red with anger.
"He says my lawsuit is a waste of taxpayer money," Santos tells L.A. Weekly. "Well, I know why he doesn't want this case to be resolved in court. It's because he believes that justice should not be done in the courtroom but should be done by dirty politicians behind closed doors. Because that's what he's already done, and that's how his way of justice is handled."
On Schwarzenegger's last day in the governor's mansion, he signed an order to commute Esteban Nuñez's prison term by more than half, from 16 to seven years. He did not tell the victim's family or prosecutors ahead of time.
Schwarzenegger later told Newsweek that he reduced the prison sentence because he was good friends with Fabian Nuñez. Now Santos and San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, who is running for mayor in San Diego, are each suing the state of California and Schwarzenegger for violating Marsy's Law, a constitutional amendment approved in 2008 by voters, which requires victims to be informed of any "postconviction release decision."
They want to overturn the commutation of Esteban Nuñez's prison sentence and have the court impose the original sentence of 16 years.
Fabian Nuñez's comments angered Santos and elicited a speedy response from Dumanis, who said, "The sole purpose of both the criminal prosecution and the civil case filed by our office is to bring justice to the victims of this violent crime, and their families. The DA's office makes prosecutorial decisions based on the evidence and the law, treating defendants the same regardless of who they may be related to."
Nuñez's comments — accusing Dumanis of targeting his son because Nuñez is a politician — are somewhat puzzling.
Why criticize the DA for politicizing the case, especially after Schwarzenegger admitted that he was trying to help Nuñez, his friend and political ally, by shortening Esteban Nuñez's sentence?
"I feel good about the decision," Schwarzenegger told Newsweek. "I happen to know the kid really well. I don't apologize about it. … There's criticism out there. I think it's just because of our working relationship and all that. It maybe was kind of saying, 'That's why he did it.' Well, hello! I mean, of course you help a friend."
Fabian Nuñez, now a partner at the high-powered political consulting firm of Mercury Public Affairs, has not said why he attacked Dumanis and the validity of Santos' lawsuit that day outside the courtroom. He did not respond to the Weekly's request for comment.
"I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist," Santos says, "so I can't even think why a man who works for a public relations firm would make those moves. It makes no sense, especially since he's the one who politicized this case from the start, getting L.A. Mayor [Antonio] Villaraigosa to write a letter to the court during the criminal proceedings, declaring Fabian's son innocent even before any of the evidence was heard in court. Maybe Fabian Nuñez said it because he wants to keep his name in the public eye. I have no idea."
For the most part, neither politicians nor political foes are willing to blast Nuñez for his comments. Even Sal Russo, the famously outspoken Republican strategist who has no reason to coddle Nuñez, takes a soft line.
"I guess I saw his remarks in more human terms than political terms," Russo says. "I saw it as a painful statement by a father. I would expect him to stick up for his son and see the good in him more so than others."
At best, Santos suggests, Nuñez's hurtful comments may have been aimed at trying to shift the focus and the blame onto Dumanis and away from the issues at the heart of Santos' lawsuit: victims' rights.
On Oct. 4, 2008, Nuñez, 19 at the time, and a pack of friends — Ryan Jett, Rafael Garcia and Leshanon Thomas — descended upon San Diego State University looking to party. Drunk, and with three of them carrying knives, they were upset after being turned away from a fraternity for not being "Greek," and talked about finding someone to fight. At about 2 a.m., they found that someone in the slightly built, unarmed Luis Santos, and what started as an argument ended with a knife being plunged into the left ventricle of Santos' heart.
Not bothering to check whether Santos could be helped, Nuñez and his crew fled, driving 500 miles north back to Sacramento. As Christine Pelisek reported for the Weekly on April 23, 2010, when Esteban Nuñez learned what they had done, he did not skip a beat —he finished packing for a previously planned move back into his parents' million-dollar home and schemed to destroy the evidence. Then Jett, Garcia and Nuñez drove to the Sacramento River, burned their bloodstained clothes and tossed their knives into the current.
Thomas — the only one of the four who was unarmed the night Santos was murdered — later told police that Nuñez said he would "take the rap," and that "hopefully his dad would take care of it."
Throughout the preliminary stages of the criminal case, no testimony or evidence emerged that Nuñez expressed remorse in the hours and days after taking Santos' life.
In early December 2008, Nuñez and his friends were charged with one count of murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Before a bail hearing that same month, about 70 people involved in government and politics, including Villaraigosa, mailed letters to the court that vouched for Nuñez and his family.
It appeared the letters were successful when the judge reduced Nuñez's bail from $2 million to $1 million. State Assemblyman Kevin de León wrote that Esteban was "considerate, gentle and well-mannered." Villaraigosa called him "a young man of good and upright character."
The young black man who did not carry a weapon, Leshanor Thomas, a former homecoming king, became one symbol of the inequities in the case when his retired Army sergeant dad could not raise the reduced $1 million bail. Thomas spent five months in jail awaiting trial. Nuñez and Garcia were freed after eight days.
It soon became clear that Nuñez's good friend Ryan Jett was the one who had delivered the fatal blow to Santos and that Nuñez had drunkenly stabbed and injured two of Santos' friends. In order to avoid a possible life sentence, Nuñez accepted a plea bargain: He pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault. Under that deal, he received the maximum of 16 years.
"Nobody forced Fabian Nuñez's son to sign his name and make a plea deal," Fred Santos says. "I don't see how the politics that Mr. Nuñez is complaining about could have forced his son to plead guilty. [Fabian] Nuñez has inserted himself into the situation, saying this all has to do with who he is, but it has nothing to do with who he is and everything to do with the fact that his son was involved in a murder."
In the weeks since Fabian Nuñez made his comments at the Sacramento courthouse, Fred Santos and his wife say they have felt more alone than ever in their fight to overturn Schwarzenegger's commutation, forever grieving the loss of their son.
"You will never recover when your child dies, regardless of how they die," Santos says. "At night, my wife and I and our daughter sit alone in our home, thinking, 'Is this worth all the heartache to keep fighting?' But then we think, 'If we don't, who will seek justice for our son?' We're no heroes, we're doing this mostly for our son and for ourselves."
All crime victims in California, however, may soon benefit from the Santos' pain.
A bill is sailing through the state Legislature, co-sponsored by Republican Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher and Democratic Assemblyman Marty Block, both representing districts near San Diego, which would require an applicant for a prison-sentence commutation to notify the district attorney 10 days before the governor acts. The district attorney would be required to notify victims or their family, giving them the chance to submit a written statement to the governor and have that statement considered.
So far, the bill has passed through the Assembly and several subcommittees in the Senate. When the Legislature reconvenes in August, the bill will go to a Senate floor vote and, if approved, to Gov. Brown's desk.
"The bill has moved through the legislative process without any major hurdles," says Block's spokesman, Mike Naple, "and there hasn't been any opposition holding it up. All signs are looking good."
But Fred Santos says Marsy's Law already requires that victims be notified of a commutation, so the legislation is redundant and unnecessary. Schwarzenegger, he says, owed him a call before he slipped the commutation through in his final hours as governor.
"It's basic human decency," Santos says. "Someone's loved one has been murdered and now you're going to reduce the sentence — shouldn't someone ask how the victim's family feels about this? Shouldn't they at least ask that question? That has to be better than saying, 'To hell with the victim, let's give the murderer a break.' The legislation is just so there's no excuses and eliminates the gray area people may think exists."
The next court hearing in the Santoses' lawsuit is scheduled for August. And Santos fully expects Nuñez to keep flapping his gums.
"I would be shocked if he didn't do it again," Santos says.
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• BMW PGA Championship (Rd. 3)
VIRGINIA WATER, England – Both trips Robert Karlsson has made to play in this week's 4.5 million euro BMW PGA Championship have been arduous.
Yes, both trips.
They might just turn out to be well worth the effort. Karlsson stands at 6 under par and two shots off the lead after a third-round 62. Nine birdies and no bogeys gave the Ryder Cup player the lowest round in the European Tour's flagship event since 1955.
Karlsson is now very happy he made the extra trip.
The 6-foot-5-inch Swede initially had to drive from his home in Monaco to England because of the ongoing volcanic ash problems that have been playing havoc with British airspace. Karlsson returned to Monaco by plane on Friday night after thinking he had missed the cut. A double-bogey 7 at the par-5 18th put Karlsson at 3 over par for the tournament, and he thought he had the weekend off.
He didn't.
Karlsson got within 500 yards of his Monaco home when he got a text message telling him he had made the cut. He thought of staying at home, but only briefly.
"It crossed my mind, but I know the press in England can be quite lethal so it wasn't really an option," Karlsson said.
"It's a Ryder Cup year, I'm a Ryder Cup player, I'm on the Tournament Committee, so you can't pull out of our biggest events. That's just the way it is."
The Swede couldn't get a scheduled flight back to England, so he had to arrange for a private plane. He flew to Orly Airport in Paris, and then spent $11,000 for a private jet to take him across the English Channel.
It meant traveling through the night.
"I got in the taxi at my hotel in Orly at 4:30 a.m., but the driver didn't speak one word of English, and my French is not up to standard," he said.
"He was so tired, he kept falling asleep and I felt I had to talk to him to keep him awake. Then we were in the middle of nowhere and I didn't have a clue where we were going. We called the airport. I finally got there at a quarter to six, and my flight was at six.
"I was here for 6:45 UK time (ready for his 8:55 tee time)."
With only three hours' sleep, Karlsson established the course record over the newly designed Wentworth West Course to get into contention to win the biggest title of his career.
"It was quite funny at breakfast because Soren Hansen said, 'This trip has a 63 or something written all over it.' It feels like I definitely got another chance today. I was sure I was out, but in a situation where I just made the cut, I could just go out and play and enjoy it. If it doesn't work, nobody cares.
"You can only laugh about what's happened in the last 15 hours or so."
With 750,000 euro going to the winner, the Swede might be laughing all the way to the bank.

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About Alzheimer's and Dementia
Alzheimer's and Dementia is not a normal part of ageing!
What is Dementia?
Dementia is often incorrectly referred to as "senility" which reflects the widespread but incorrect belief that serious mental decline is a normal part of ageing. Dementia is not a specific disease, but rather a broad umbrella term for a variety of symptoms that may accompany or indicate certain progressive diseases or conditions which is severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform every day activities, often accompanied by mental decline and changes with social behavior. People usually think that Dementia and Alzheimer's are interchangeable terms but they are not the same. Today over 60 different conditions are known to cause Dementia symptoms. The most common form of Dementia is Alzheimer's whilst Vascular Dementia, which occurs after a stroke, is the second most common Dementia type. However, regardless of which type of Dementia is diagnosed, each person's Dementia experience will different and unique.
Learn more: Types of Dementia, What is Alzheimer's?
Symptoms of Dementia
If your loved one is experiencing memory problems, do not immediately conclude that it's Dementia.
A person needs to have at least two types of mental impairment that interferes with every day activities to receive a Dementia diagnosis:
- Memory
- Communication and language
- Ability to focus and pay attention
- Reasoning and judgment
- Visual perception and spatial orientation
Changes in short term memory
One of the early symptoms of Dementia usually is trouble with memory. The decline is subtle and involves short term memory such as forgetting where they kept an item, remembering appointments or what they were supposed to do in a given day or why they entered a particular room or went to the shop.
Difficulty finding the right words and following storylines
Aphasia is an inability to use or understand words. Aphasia affects people with Dementia which makes it difficult for them to find the "right words" to express their thoughts, understanding and following a conversation, reading and comprehending reading words, writing words and using numbers. One of the classic examples is difficulty in following a TV program.
Apathy, listlessness or a lack of interest in life activities and/or interacting with others is a common symptom of Dementia. A person with Dementia may lose interest in hobbies or activities that they used to enjoy, going out or spending time with family and friends.
Difficulty with routine tasks
Decline in cognitive ability may initially involve subtle changes such as an ability to complete normal and routine tasks such as paying the bills, may indicate someone has early stage Dementia. On top of this, they may struggle to follow new routines or learn how to do new things.
Personality and mood changes
You may notice changes in mood or personality of a loved one. From being a shy to outgoing person or increased anxiety and depression are common symptoms of Dementia onset as a judgment is affected.
Becoming lost or disoriented in familiar places, even within their own homes or disorientation to date, time of day or even the year. The deterioration of visual perception and spatial orientation with the onset of Dementia also makes it difficult for the person with Dementia to follow step-by-step instructions or directions.
Someone with Dementia may become easily confused. As they have trouble with memory, thinking and judgment, confusion arises as they can no longer remember the right faces, names or find the right words to interact with people socially.
Difficulty with coordination and balance
Shuffling, unsteady gait and/ or balance, leaning patterns, decrease in physical strength and coordination are fairly common symptoms of Dementia as areas of the brain responsible for movement and balance are affected.
With memory loss and behavioural changes, repetition of same daily task such as shaving and showering, repeatedly asking the same questions or the or obsessively collecting and hoarding items are common symptoms.
Adjusting to changes
As persons with Dementia cannot remember people they know, follow conversations, where and why they are in a certain place, the experience can cause fear and anxiety. Because of this, they experience great difficulty when attempting to do new things. Thus, people who have Dementia thrive on routine as the structure and consistency provides a sense of familiarity and comfort.
Many of these symptoms are progressive, meaning symptoms start out slowly but gradually get worse. If your loved ones are experiencing memory difficulties or other changes described above, do not ignore them. Consult a doctor or geriatrician for professional evaluation.
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common type of Dementia and accounts for approximately 60 to 80 percent of all cases of Dementia. One of the main features of AD is the presence of abnormal clumps (amyloid plagues) and tangled fibres (neurofibrillary, or tau, tangles). Another key feature of AD is the loss of connections between nerve cells
(neurons) in the brain. Neurons transmit messages between different parts of the brain, and from the brain to muscles and organs in the body.
According to ADFM (Alzheimer's Disease Foundation Malaysia), it is "estimated that there are currently 50,000 people who have the disease. However, most of them are not diagnosed. This is because relatives think that the symptoms displayed are a normal part of growing old and thus do not seek medical advice on it."
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Can you imagine the Governor of your state coming out and actually telling people that the few rights your relationship enjoys are unconstitutional? Of course not, don't be silly. That could never happen.
If you're straight, that is.
Governor Walker doesn't want to defend Wisconsin's Domestic Partnership law. Well, it isn't his job nor the job of Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to NOT defend a law that was passed by the Wisconsin state legislature. It is their freaking jobs. Van Hollen should lose his for refusing to defend the law. This isn't about his own personal beliefs. This is about upholding a state law.
Where do these two jackasses get off not defending the law?
Both of them should lose their jobs. I pay taxes for to pay their salaries and I expect my money's worth.
And, I'm not getting it.
And, you know what? I think marriage for straight people is unconstitutional. I don't think the government should be allowed to choose who can and cannot get married. I think if not every relationship is acknowledged – then NO relationship should be. Marriage is a religious decision and it should never have been afforded civil rights in the first place.
Equality for all or equality for none.
Which is it going to be?
Recall Walker.


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The Classic TV Archive - US Adventure series
The Garlund Touch (1960-61)
(early episodes aired as "Mr. Garlund" )
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, James Beer
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Girard-Lewis Productions, Inc.
Paramount Pictures Corporation
CBS (Fridays 9:30pm ET)
Produced by Bernard Girard
US light-hearted Mystery/ Adventure series 1960-61 13 episodes x 30 min bw
Charles Quinlivan as Frank Garlund
Philip Ahn as Po Chang
Kam Tong as Kam Chang
An apparently orphaned boy is taken in and raised by a Chinese
gentleman named Po Chang. The boy, named Frank Garlund, and whose
ancestry remains a mystery, becomes, by age thirty, a financial
wizard, a youthful tycoon, who is also a key figure in worldwide business affairs
In flashback sequences, events in the lives of the people who
had come into contact with Garlund in his struggle to reach the top are dramatized.
############# The Garlund Touch ##############
############## season 1960-61 ###############
CBS (Fridays 9:30pm ET)
Originally titled "Mr. Garlund" -
From Nov 1960 the title was changed to "The Garlund Touch"
1.1 [--] Mr. Garlund: IMPERIAL JADE (pilot episode)
1.2 [--] Mr. Garlund: THE TOWERS
1.3 [--] Mr. Garlund: THE ASSASSIN
1.4 [--] Mr. Garlund: THE X-27
28-Oct-1960 CBS Fri
"The X-27." That's the name of Garlund Aeronautics' rocket plane. When it crashes, killing the pilot,
the financier's in trouble. [JB]
[--] 04Nov60 CBS Fri ?
1.5 [--] The Garlund Touch: THE HUNTED
1.6 [--] The Garlund Touch: THE AWAKENING
18-Nov-1960 CBS Fri
Guest Cast:
Paula Raymond ........ Stephanie West
Joe Maross ........... Buck Mansfield
Garlund and heiress Stephanie West make a crash landing in the Mojave Desert. [JB]
[--] 25Nov60 CBS Fri ?
1.7 [--] The Garlund Touch: SURVIVAL IN THE DESERT
1.8 [--] The Garlund Touch: Imperial Jade (same title as pilot ?)
1.9 [--] The Garlund Touch: UNEXPECTED FATHER
1.10 [--] The Garlund Touch: DOUBLE, DOUBLE
23Dec60 CBS Fri
Guest cast:
William Campbell .......... Rick Mason
John Kellogg .......... Tanner
Mark Tapscott ......... Conrad
Jeanne Vaughn .......... Linda Rogers
Garlund starts another day in San Francisco. His routine's shattered when he starts
getting phone calls and cables which imply he's busily at work in Honolulu. [RF]
1.11 [--] The Garlund Touch: DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS
1.12 [--] The Garlund Touch: RACHEL
1.13 [--] The Garlund Touch: THE WAYWARD HOUSE
############# The Garlund Touch ##############
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The pattern is so familiar that it almost starts to feel rational. Nearly every day, for the six-month slog that has been the Donald Trump presidency, it's gone like this: The president or someone in his administration does something previously unthinkable, then legal pundits take to Twitter and the airwaves to ponder whether it was legal or constitutional or criminally prosecutable.
Can the president truly continue to enrich himself and his family by leveraging his office to benefit from foreigners? Can the president really fire the FBI director and admit he was thinking about the Russia probe while doing it? Can the president leak classified information to the Russians in the Oval Office? Can the president's son take a meeting with Russians who are promising dirt on Hillary Clinton? Can he do that with multiple campaign advisers in the room? Can the president's son-in-law attend such a meeting and still retain his security clearance?
Today, we have a new set of questions to toss on the pile: Can the president really pardon himself and all his friends, family, neighbors, and pets, plus fire Robert Mueller, plus threaten his attorney general?
More often than not, the answer, as it has been since the Merrick Garland blockade in the Senate, is: "norms, not laws."
While there may or may not be specific constitutional or statutory bulwarks that prohibit what the president does every day, each time we take to the rabbit holes and alleyways to chase them down, the formal answer is either a lawyerly "it depends" or an even more lawyerly "it depends what the courts will say."
Please don't get me wrong. I continue to believe the law and lawyers will eventually save us all, or at least die trying. But the real answer to the myriad legal and constitutional questions Trump raises with each exhale is, of course, that the legalities don't matter because he doesn't care, and he either fires, berates, or isolates the lawyers around him who do care. This is asymmetrical warfare insofar as the people who continue to think in terms of the rule of law mistakenly believe that there might be legal solutions.
The Framers erected an edifice of law intended to constrain power, and the president believes that framework is made of spun sugar and cobwebs. The United States is a nation built upon, as John Adams told us, "a government of laws and not of men." The Trump administration adheres to no law, and whatever men or women keep faith with the law rather than him are discredited as biased against the president. This only goes one way: Norms are for losers, and laws are for poor people. And now Trump has his dream team of mob lawyers and mad dogs hard at work proving that the only lawyer without a disabling conflict of interest is the one pledging fealty to him.
Don't expect congressional Republicans to squawk. They will fight for the rule of law and the norms of good governance at precisely the moment when their jobs are on the line. The promise of a raft of newly minted blogger-judges and tax cuts will always win out over fealty to the Constitution. This is a problem that requires our focused long-term attention to money in politics, partisan gerrymandering, and voter suppression. And this is, in the end, a problem only because Americans—myself included—are prey to a form of magical thinking about law and the Constitution. The Framers believed the law would fix it, and that makes it easy to hope that the lawyers will fix it. The lawyers became the wizards, and the Constitution became a book of spells, and the best thing a citizen could hope to do is make a donation to a group of lawyers who could perform the right incantations, fondle the correct talisman, and save democracy.
There is an inspiring, entrenched public certainty that "the law" can fix everything. It's a certainty that lets us hang back and hope for the lawyers and their laptops to swarm the airports and save the day. The Framers were largely lawyers, and I think they may have contemplated an army of citizen-lawyers—or at least citizens sufficiently vigilant about constitutional norms and the threats of genuine authoritarianism—who would take to the streets themselves rather than hoping that the American Civil Liberties Union and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Electronic Privacy Information Center could take care of it. (Although let the record reflect that these groups and the many others like them are flat-out heroes and even wizards in their own right.)
But the law is slow and reactive, and it is methodical and conservative by design. It depends on a vast machinery of lawyers and judges acting soberly and carefully, which is why it's so very maddening, and also heartening, in perilous times. The rule of law is precisely as robust as our willingness to fight for it. And to fight for it is not quite the same thing as to ask, "Isn't there a law?" While a nation founded on laws and not men is a noble aspiration, I am not certain that what the Framers anticipated was a constitutional regime predicated on the Harry Potter hope that all the lawyers would fix all the stuff while everyone else crossed their fingers and prayed.
On Thursday night, Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress, tweeted, "If Trump fires Mueller, we are going to have to have massive street demonstrations. Who is with me in taking to the streets?" This wasn't a call for lawlessness as much as a reminder that we may not get another airport revolution—a moment in which it's perfectly clear that the president has overreached and that everything will be back to normal as soon as the ACLU gets its injunction.
If Trump fires Mueller on a slender pretext of bias and conflicts of interest, or if he pardons himself and his supporters pre-emptively, it's just not clear what the next lawsuit looks like or even whether the fixes—which are political and not legal in most instances—will manifest themselves. What is increasingly clear is that Trump's lawlessness isn't a problem to be solved by other people's attorneys. Like it or not, we are all public interest lawyers now.


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Dix Hills running back DeVante McFarlane has given a verbal commitment to Syracuse University, according to reports on SyracuseFan.com and ESPN.com. (Subscriptions required for access to full articles)
"l committed to Syracuse this morning," McFarlane told ESPN.com recruiting analyst Jamie Newberg. "I just like what they brought to the table and I felt very comfortable there. It's the place I need to be and they showed me the most love. I really liked them the most."
According to Rivals.com, McFarlane has scholarship offers from Buffalo, Kent State and Vanderbilt as well as SU. He also had drawn interest from UConn, Penn State, Rutgers and Central Florida. The 6-1, 195-pounder from Half Hollow Hills West High School was had a three-star rating from Rivals.
Scout.com also had McFarlane as a three-star prospect, and has him ranked No. 49 among running backs nationwide in the Class of 2012.
» Yahoo Sports recruiting profile
» Scout.com recruiting profile
» From March: McFarlane staying busy [Yahoo Sports]
» From April: Penn State Nike Camp roundup [ESPN Rise]
» HS Coach: Syracuse University football recruit James Washington is 'absolutely the real deal'
» Syracuse football gets verbal commitment from Florida DE/OLB
» Syracuse QB recruit Terrel Hunt: 'I'm working hard for it so don't overlook me'


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Although the day after Thanksgiving is touted as the busiest shopping day
of the year, e-tailers may find Friday's experiences — and the holiday
season as a whole — anticlimactic.
Many consumers may use the World Wide Web to window-shop, conduct
research and make comparisons, but its their local brick-and-mortar
merchants who they buy from, according to an industry survey.
The shopping preferences survey of 1,085 consumers who use the Internet
conducted October 19-23, 2000, by CARAVAN, Opinion Research Corporation
International, on behalf of SuperPages.com by Verizon.
According to the study:
- 21 percent of respondents characterize their shopping behavior as
researching online and buying locally.
- 5 percent chose researching and buying products online as the best
description of their shopping behavior.
- 65 percent are sticking with the old-fashioned method as their
primary form of shopping – researching and buying at a local retailer.
- 56 percent use the Web to compare prices.
- 46 percent go online to compare models or brands.
- 46 percent use the Internet to obtain gift ideas.
- 44 percent are surfing to find a particular gift.
"The Internet has become an essential tool in the shopping process, even
the consumer is making the final purchase offline," said Patrick Marshall,
group vice president – marketing, Verizon Information Services. "Online
window-shopping can help holiday shoppers efficiently decide what to buy for
people on their gift list and find the best place to buy it."
The survey also revealed several differences in the shopping styles of
men and women:
- Men are 60 percent more likely than women to window-shop online.
- Women are 25 percent more likely to research and buy at a local
- Men are 13 percent more likely to use the Internet to compare prices.
- Men are 19 percent more likely to compare different models or brands of
products using the Internet.
- Women are 13 percent more likely to use the Internet to find a
particular gift.
The date compile from the study illustrates that a Web site is for more
than e-commerce, Marshall noted. "Obtaining information about local
merchants via the Internet is
clearly something consumers want," he said. "Although it is difficult to
measure the
sales that result from Internet research, there is clearly a need for this
marketing tool, especially for small or local businesses."
However, he pointed out, Internet users are well served by online
directories and services, particularly during the gift-giving season. "As
more shoppers flock to the Internet during the holiday, tools such as
ConsumerGuide and SuperPages.com can help them to quickly find the perfect
gift — whether it is on the Web or close to their homes.
"According to the survey, 71 percent of respondents go directly to a
known site, such as Gap.com, 47 percent visit unbiased sites, such as
ConsumerGuide.com, and 35 percent go to online directories."


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Q&A: China has 'no interest in global domination'
Ambassador: Our most important goals are still domestic, though we're ready to be more connected with the rest of the world.
Cui Tiankai, China's ambassador to the United States since 2013, sat down with the USA TODAY Editorial Board last week for a wide-ranging interview about U.S.-Chinese relations, trade, synthetic opioids, North Korea and other topics. Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity:
Q. Mr. Ambassador, one year into the Trump presidency, how would you describe the overall state of China-U.S. relations?
A. Around this time last year, there was significant uncertainty about our relationship. But fortunately, thanks to efforts by both countries, China-U.S. relations have been generally stable, and we have made some positive progress. President Xi came to Mar-a-Lago in April and started his first meeting with President Trump. I think the two presidents have established a quite good working relationship. Later, the two presidents met in Hamburg and in Beijing. Also we established mechanisms for dialogue in four important areas and have had quite a few high-level visits. At the same time, we have problems, of course.
Q. Of the various ways the relationship is described — partners, rivals, adversaries, enemies — which do you think is most appropriate?
A. If I could make a choice, I would choose the word partner. I think it's closer to the realities. We are certainly not enemies, and we should not make ourselves enemies to each other. This is not good for either country, this is not good for the world. Partnership is based on common interests; this is a fair description of the relationship. We have to work together for mutual benefit.
Q. Is President Trump's "America First" policy creating a power vacuum for China to fill on the world stage?
A. We have no interest in global dominance. According to our traditional values in China, it's a very costly job to seek global dominance. You just cannot solve other people's problems all by yourself. You have to focus on your own problems. For China, our most important goals are still domestic. Our goals for the next few decades are mainly for China's own development and modernization. We still have close to 20 million people living under the poverty line. We still have to deal with the serious threat of environmental degradation. We still have to guard against any economic or financial turbulence in the world that could affect the Chinese economy. Meanwhile, we understand China cannot develop in isolation from the rest of the world. We need a more stable and prosperous international environment. So on the one hand, we're ready to be more connected with the rest of the world and make greater contributions. On the other hand, we believe that our top priority is still domestic.
Q. What are your impressions of Trump as a leader?
A. I've had a few occasions to be present at his meetings with Chinese leaders and visitors. My impression is that he is different from President Obama. They have different personalities, of course, and the two of them certainly have very different backgrounds.
Q. Is China properly enforcing United Nations sanctions on North Korea?
A. So far the U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted 10 resolutions on sanctions against North Korea, thanks to the effective coordination between our two countries. China is implementing and enforcing all these measures very effectively. Whenever we find any company or individual violating these sanctions, we will take legal action against them. But whenever you have a ban on anything — on drugs, on weapons — there are always people who would take the risk to try to smuggle. Also, in all these (Security Council) resolutions, there is always a call for negotiation and dialogue, but honestly there is little progress on implementing this part of the resolutions.
Q. What about the recent reports of ships in Chinese waters smuggling oil to North Korea?
A. We have done our own investigation. I don't think that these ships carry the Chinese flag. In other words, these ships do not belong to China. But as long as such activities are taking place in the areas under our jurisdiction, we will take action against them. These sanctions do not ban all trade. They only ban the items, technology and products that are related to their weapons program.
Q. What will it take for North Korea and South Korea to talk to each other? Is reunification realistic?
A. Years ago, when the two Germanys got reunified, no one could stop them. So if people on the Korean Peninsula want to have a reunification, I don't think any other country — China or the United States — should try to stop them. Actually, we should support them, if it's done peacefully. What concerns us is that there should be no more war or armed conflicts. In the long run, if we follow the right approach, if we can make progress toward denuclearization while maintaining stability there, I think what will happen eventually will happen.
Q. What's your reaction to the tariffs the Trump administration just imposed on solar cells and panels? Will China retaliate?
A. I think people in Beijing are still assessing the situation, and we'll do whatever is needed to defend our own interests. In terms of the economic relations between our two countries, these relations are really for our mutual benefit. A trade war would not help anybody. It would hurt everybody. A better option is to have consultation and to solve the dispute through rule-based multinational mechanisms like the WTO (World Trade Organization).
Q. How can America companies be expected to compete with lower-cost Chinese manufacturers?
A. Relatively speaking, the living cost in China is still lower than in the United States. But we are losing this advantage very quickly. Now many of the labor-intensive products are moving out of China to countries like Vietnam and Bangladesh. For instance, China is not making so many Nike shoes now. More of them are made in Vietnam. I understand why the American companies cannot compete with China for certain products, because their cost could be higher. But it will not help them if you impose tariffs on Chinese products. It will not enhance the competitiveness of American companies. A better way out (for U.S. companies) is enhancing their own competitiveness. We have to have a realistic understanding of the concept of comparative advantage and try to handle it in a constructive way.
Q. What are you doing to stop the flow of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids from China into American communities?
A. We have great sympathy for what is happening in America with these substances. Most of these substances are not on the (U.N. list of controlled substances), and they are not used as drugs in China. But we are fully aware of the possible threat they are posing to American society and the American people. In the last few years, we have redoubled our efforts to put more (fentanyl-type) substances on our list of control, and now our list is longer than the U.N. list. We are ready to take further steps to have even more effective control of such substances. We have to make sure that they will not cause any problems either in your society or in our own society. This is an area of cooperation for the two governments. I think we are doing a pretty good job.
Q. Is the Chinese economy in a debt bubble that could have repercussions for the whole world?
A. For the last few decades, and for very good reason, China's focus was on the growth of the economy because we were so underdeveloped, so many people were living in poverty. You need a growing economy to meet the basic needs of the people. This was the right thing to do. But everything has two sides. The downside is that with such an emphasis on the growth of GDP over the years, a lot of damage was done to the environment. Also, because people were so eager to develop their cities and their towns, to build houses, the debt would grow, of course. That's why we now have three most urgent tasks economically: preventing systematic risks, including overburdening of debt; alleviating poverty; and protecting the environment. We no longer put so much focus on the growth of GDP. We don't have a specific target or mandatory target for GDP growth. The emphasis has been shifted to the quality of growth, and to restructuring the economy and to protect the environment. The debt burden will gradually come down. Generally speaking, (the debt level) is still safe, but we're watching it very closely.
Q. Why should the United States take tough steps to combat climate change when China has twice the carbon emissions of the U.S. and is still opening new coal plants?
A. We have closed down many of the small coal mines, and we are trying to cut down on carbon emissions. On per capita terms, we are still lower than the United States. China has a lot of coal. We don't have so much oil or natural gas. We have to import. Maybe for some years to come, we still have to rely on coal as one of the main sources of our energy supply, but we are trying to cut down. We are trying to apply technologies that will have clean coal, but this will take some time.
Q. Is it true that China might cut back on purchases of U.S. Treasury debt?
A. I think our spokesperson has already clarified this is just a rumor. Of course, we have a huge amount of foreign exchange reserve. Most of it is U.S. dollars. We have bought a lot of Treasury bonds. I think that we will continue to buy them. Of course, we are also aware that you have a huge debt. But I don't think that this will really weaken people's confidence in the U.S. economy in the short run. Maybe in the long run, who knows? In the long run, we are all dead. In the long run, people have to worry about how well you can manage your debt burden, but still in the foreseeable future at least, people still have confidence in the U.S. economy, in the U.S. dollar, so people will continue to buy your Treasury bonds, including the Chinese monetary authority.
Q. Turning to Internet freedom, why not take steps to lower the so-called Great Firewall?
A. This is indeed a big challenge for China. On the one hand, you have to make best use of the information technology, the widespread use of the Internet, and technology like the cloud, and maybe in the future, artificial intelligence. You have to use all these technologies to develop and to meet the growing needs of the people. At the same time, every country has to worry about cybersecurity. There have been widespread cases, not only in China, but also here in the United States and in other countries, about cybercrimes. Some of the content on the Internet is not good for children. There have been growing cases of cheating on the Internet.
Q. A number of U.S. Internet sites are blocked in China.
A. I think all of these companies, like Google and Facebook, have built quite effective relationships with China. Their people are posted in Beijing, and their leaders have met with Chinese government officials, and they're talking about how to build ties between China and these companies. I think these things are moving in the right direction.
Q. Surely you will acknowledge that the government exercises widespread censorship of political opinion?
A. If you get onto the Internet in China, if you get onto things like WeChat and others, you can see all kinds of political opinions. Everyone feels free to add their opinion. Actually, it's impossible for the government to watch everybody. Of course, there's always lines you should not cross. If someone is really engaged in subversive activities, or some violation of the public interest, then they are violating Chinese law. This is quite a different thing. People have the right to express their opinions, as long as they don't engage in real activities that are prohibited by the law.
Q. What else would you like our readers to know?
A. I think because of the so-called rise of China over the last few decades, maybe some people here (in the U.S.) are alarmed by the fast rise of China. But I think they need to have a better understanding of Chinese culture and Chinese goals. Our priority is still to run our own country better so that our people can have a better expectation of life for their children, and their children's children. China really wants to build a strong and stable relationship with the United States.


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- January 19, 2015
- Sales and Marketing Alignment
Redefining Marketing and Sales Engagement
Depending on which marketer you talk to, when it comes to engaging B2B and technology buyers during the buy cycle, they will quote 1 of 4 stats:
- Buyers are 57% through the sales cycle before talking to a sales rep – Corporate Executive Board (2010)
- 67% of the buyer's journey is now done digitally – SiriusDecisions (2013)
- 77% of buyers don't talk to sales reps until after they have performed independent research – DemandGen Report (2012)
- 36% of buyers don't talk to sales until after a short list has been developed – DemandGen Report (2012)
All of these stats undeniably point to buyers' increased appetite for online content to help inform and educate them about solutions related to their current needs and projects. Also, taken at face value, they seem to marginalize the value of sales within the buyer's journey.
Death of a salesman?
It would be very easy to look at this list and blame the marginalization of the technology sales rep on the Internet. "They don't need me, they have everything they need to know about what I am selling." But it is just not that simple.
B2B and Technology selling is not transactional and it is not done through e-commerce. In what has increasingly become a "necessary evil," anyone responsible for buying enterprise technology will at some point talk to sales rep. This we all know as fact.
Despite any skepticism that may exist with statistics in the industry – SiriusDecisions has even acknowledged that there is some myth to its findings on the role of sales in the buyer's journey – it is also fact that buyers are engaging reps later. And the Internet has changed that. Back in the early days of technology buying, the journey started with sales, was led by sales, and ended with sales. Now the only guarantee is that it will end with sales.
But have you considered that the main reason for this phenomenon may have more to do with trust than the tools available to the buyers?
Challenging conventional wisdom
In TechTarget's most recent media consumption study, 77% of IT buyers say that they would like to engage directly with sales within the first half of the buy cycle. Wait a minute, that doesn't make sense, does it? That is certainly not what the industry has been hearing the last 4 or 5 years. If they want to engage earlier, then why aren't they doing it?
The simple answer is trust.
They want to engage earlier, but they don't trust that they will get useful, valuable, and educational information from sales that will help them make a decision. It's the same reason I avoid the perfume ladies at the department store, even if I am looking for perfume to buy for my wife. First of all, I don't want to get sprayed in the face with perfume, but mostly I just can't trust that I won't get the "hard sell".
Consultative, intelligence-based selling gets you in early and helps you win late
Ever heard the expression "you never get a second chance to make a first impression"? Lead early with a hard sell and you will understand very quickly what this means.
No matter how early or late you engage buyers, your first engagement should be about establishing trust with buyers and becoming a valuable resource to them as they try to find a solution to meet the needs of their team and their organization. That being said, according to InsideSales, 50% of sales go to the first rep who contacts the prospect. So you certainly don't want to wait around with the rest of the pack until buyers are 57%, 67%, or even 77% through the buy cycle.
Getting in early doesn't always help you close the deal faster, but it does give you the opportunity to shape the deal in your favor.
But how do you build the trust needed to win the deal?
- Do your research – Buyers are doing their research on you – it is imperative that you do their research on them. Your potential customers are way more than just a name on a spreadsheet. Just getting a name and dialing for dollars won't cut it. Take advantage of the time your buyers spend online by gathering intelligence to help shape when and how you engage them. Understanding how they have interacted with your brand/content, seeing what topics/pain points they research around, and determining what competitors they are looking at will help you read their buying signals and determine their level of purchase intent. This intelligence will give you an advantage when planning how to formulate your follow-up strategies.
- Listen and learn – Successful brands are customer-centric. Listen to the needs of buyers and advise them on how to solve their problems. Help them come to the right decision about your solution rather than leading with it.
- Demonstrate expertise – Technology buyers don't want middle men. If you are lucky enough to get them on the phone, be prepared to answer their questions with the appropriate amount of technical expertise. If you are not comfortable doing this, bring a sales engineer or technical expert on the phone with you. Buyers are asking for this – and it will go a long way towards establishing credibility with them.
Re-establish the role of sales in the buying process
To channel Mark Twain for a minute, the reports of the death of sales "have been greatly exaggerated." While the industry talks about the marginalization of technology sales, if reps concentrate on being a trusted adviser for their prospects and customers, their role or importance in the process can never be marginalized.
If you would like to continue the conversation, feel free to leave a comment or connect with me on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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Native warriors melted in her presence
Mrs. M.B. Ingalls has been called "The Queen of female missionaries" by Dr. S. F. Smith. She
sailed for Burma as the second wife of Rev. L. Ingalls. The couple was transferred from the
Arracan Mission and labored as a team until the death of her husband on March 14, 1856.
She remained on the field and the most remarkable success followed her labors-in some respects unparalleled in the history of the Burmese Missions. Mrs. Ingalls remained for forty-six years longer in Rangoon and Thonze. She endured two fires that destroyed nearly all of her personal property, but she continued on.
She returned twice to America to raise support and stirred great interest in missions. It took her two years to regain her health. Over great protests she returned to those that she loved.
While she was in charge of a lonely station, she was holding an evening class in her bungalow when a chief of a hostile tribe and his warriors burst in upon her. She diverted their attention by telling stories about America. The chief listened with scorn.
She also told stories about the Colt revolver that her late husband had given to her. Again the chief listened with scorn and then suddenly picked up a piece of paper and stuck it on the wall and said, "Shoot." Her heart trembled, she didn't know what to do but she fired It not knowing whether it was even loaded. Thankfully it was, and she got a bulls eye, right through the center. The Natives, with a whoop, rushed from the place.
In April 1890 she showed a group of ladies in America a placard that the "Dracoit" had nailed to the door of her chapel offering $10,000 for her head." Believing that she was immortal in the hands of God, Mrs. Ingalls served the Lord faithfully amid great dangers. We honor her as one of the great soldiers in the Lord's missionary army.
Dr. Greg J. Dixon: From: This Day in Baptist History Vol. I: Cummins/Thompson, 282-83.
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CALIFORNIA–A new legislation in the California Assembly may require charter schools to increase their demographic requirements.
The legislation, AB 440, is intended to show that charter school demographics are appropriate for the neighborhoods they serve, or in other words, to ensure that the student demographic is more transparent. The legislation would also hold charter schools accountable for their public records such as financial audits.
Such stipulations have angered many charter school officials.
The Huffington Post Reports:
Currently, charter schools have to maintain a racial and ethnic student population proportional to the general area they serve. This new bill would expand that to include English as a second language, low-income and special-needs students. It would then allow districts to consider this demographic data when a school's charter comes up for its five-year renewal.
This bothers Charter Schools Development Center Executive Director Eric Premack, who thinks local, county and state authorizing districts already have too much power when determining whether to renew a school's charter. He said that if the demographic requirements became law, certain schools would be in "deep trouble."
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A Suggestion for easeing the process of building WinDbg extensions and instrumenting itPosted by: Eran Sandler, in WinDbg
I don't know how many of you are writing WinDbg extensions but its not that trivial to most people and especially not that robust and nice such as writing a plugin to MDbg or instrumenting it.
For managed debugging MDbg (which can help you debug both 1.1 and 2.0 frameworks) should be more than enough for all of your managed debugging needs but, AFAIK, MDbg does not handle dump files which are VERY important for post mortem debugging or for performance tuning/debugging in an environment that simply cannot be slowed down due to an attached debugger.
The only way of writing WinDbg extensions, at the moment, is to write C/C++ code. There are a lot of samples that comes with the WinDbg installation but it is not as robust or easy as writing it, say, in C#.
In addition to that, WinDbg has a built-in proprietary mini scripting language that you can use to instrument it a bit but its not standard, lack documentation (at least public one) and is not that easy to use (at least to most people).
What if you could write a WinDbg plugin in C# or in any one of your favorite .NET languages?
What if you could use JavaScript or a Monad like script? Or perhaps some C# and/or VB.NET as your "scripting language" for WinDbg?
I'm playing with the idea of writing a WinDbg extension that will enable writing WinDbg extensions in .NET.
Perhaps it will have a feature to run a special script that is not written in WinDbg's strange scripting language.
What do you think?
Have you encountered a situation in which you needed to instrument WinDbg but didn't know its "scripting language" or simply couldn't do that certain thing you wanted to do?
Did you ever need some kind of functionality that is missing in WinDbg and didn't want to spend too much time playing around with C/C++ to write it down?
I've started writing a prototype to see if this is fesible and it seems it is (at least for the moment 😉 ). I'll try to find a bit more time to finish it and I'll post my findings (and hopefully the code if it actually works).


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Living in Kolkata and not visited Malaysia? Plan your trip today for the experience of a lifetime. And do not worry about your visa as here we will tell you how you can get your Malaysia visa from Kolkata.
The best thing about Kolkata is its proximity to Southeast Asian countries. The flight fares to countries like Malaysia and Thailand are cheapest from Kolkata as compared to other cities. So, if you have not visited these countries yet, you are making a mistake.
From vast national parks to bustling malls, Malaysia has it all. Plan a trip with your friends or plan it alone and you will not regret it.
Malaysia as a country attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world. The maximum number of visa applicants are from India and there are thousands applying from the City of Joy.
Here's how you can get your Malaysia visa from Kolkata without any hassle.
Do Indians need a visa to enter Malaysia for tourism purposes? Is it possible to get a Malaysia visa from Kolkata
Yes, if you are an Indian citizen, you will need a visa to enter Malaysia. Indians have the provision of applying for their visas on arrival at Malaysia.
However, visas on arrival are expensive. You will have to pay as much as INR 7000 for the same and this is way more than what you will have to pay if you apply for your visa from here.
To get your Malaysia visa from Kolkata, all that you need to do is fill a simple online form and we will take care of everything else.
In fact, you can apply for your Malaysia visa from anywhere in India and there is no need to visit the embassy for it.
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Know the different types of Malaysia visas available online
Before you apply for your Malaysia eVISA, it is important that you know the different visa types available online.
Please see the table below to know about the three different types of visa for Malaysia and their costs:
Malaysia visa fees for Indians
Since 2015, Malaysia government fees which were INR 1000 have been waived off for Indians. But VFS fees, as well as GST +VAT+ card processing fees, are still applicable. We have added our fee charges as well.
You will have to choose one among these three as far as your Malaysia eVISA is concerned.
Malaysia eVISA scams and fraud agents
While looking for your Malaysia eVISA online, you will come across many websites. Most of these websites are fake and are running illegally.
These websites and agents are just there to take your money and dupe you.
Please note that you are not required to pay more than 10-25% of the visa fee at the time of Malaysia eVISA application. You have to pay the remaining fee only after your visa gets approved.
You can check the government website to know whether your visa is approved.
P.S. As per the Malaysian government policy, you will have to pay the entire visa if your travel dates are within a period of 1 week.
Apply for your Malaysia eVISA from any one of the following two websites:
blinkvisa.com (Pay only 10% of the visa fee now and pay the rest once your visa gets approved)
windowmalaysia.my (This is the Malaysian government website for eVISAs. The website crashes too often and it also has a high rejection rate)
Avoid all other websites to be safe.
Four steps to get your Malaysia visa from Kolkata
Here are the steps that you need to follow for your Malaysia visa from Kolkata:
Fill the eVISA form for your trip to Malaysia
Send the required documents and 10% of the visa fee
Wait for our Malaysian visa expert to call you after your visa gets approved
Check your visa status on the official website, pay the remaining fee, and get your visa emailed to you
What do you need to do to apply for your Malaysia visa from Kolkata?
We are there to help you with your Malaysia eVISA. We all take care of all the requirements for your visa including your flight and hotel reservation as well.
We recommend that you do not book your flight and hotel before your visa gets approved. We have seen many cases where the travelers have booked their flight and hotels in advance, only to cancel them later, as their visa got rejected.
If this happens, you will end up losing a lot of money in the form of cancellation charges.
This is where we can help you. We help you to get your visa for Malaysia and you do not need to book flights and hotels in advance.
We have laid down the procedure step-by-step below:
Step 1: Visit our website for Malaysia eVISA from India.
Step 2: On the new page, you will have to select the 'visa type'. It is okay if you choose the incorrect one now. We will call you later to help you choose the right one.
Step 3: Scroll down to find the Malaysia visa form. Fill this correctly. Our agent will call you and help you with your doubts.
You will now have to make a payment amounting to 10% of the visa fee.
The second option is applying via the Malaysian official website.
Documents required for your Malaysia visa from Kolkata
The documents required for your Malaysia eVISA and eNTRI visa are same and they are:
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[su_list]Scan the first page of your passport, the valid one and send that copy. This also needs to be in the JPG or PNG format and its size should be 2MB. Check the sample shown below: [/su_list]
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[su_list]Confirmed round-trip flight tickets. This needs to be in the PDF format. [/su_list]
As already mentioned above, it will be best if you let us take care of this. Our trusted travel agent will arrange for your flight tickets on the dates given by you. You do not have any risk of losing money.
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[su_list]Confirmed hotel reservations for your entire stay in Malaysia. This also needs to be in the PDF format. [/su_list]
Just like flight tickets, we can arrange for these as well. We will use that to apply for your Malaysia eVISA.
Cost of applying for a Malaysia visa from Kolkata
Check the image below for Malaysia visa costs. All costs are inclusive of 18% GST.
Here is how a Malaysia eNTRI note looks like:
How to verify the status of your Malaysia eVISA from India?
You will have to visit the official Malaysia visa website to check the status of your visa:
Enter your passport and sticker number to verify the status of your visa.
Check the image below to know where to find your sticker number:
Make sure you enter correct details as then only will the website will be able to verify the status of your website.
What would happen at the immigration counter ?
Once you present your eVisa or eNTRI note, you might be asked details such as how many days you would be staying in Malaysia? What is your plan?
You might be also asked to present your return tickets and hotel bookings. Your e visa document might also be verified for spelling mistakes and other misinformation. This can lead to refusal of entry into Malaysia
Who can apply for Malaysia online visa ?
To know the details, Please see the below image.
What would happen if we overstay in Malaysia more than the days we are allowed to in the visa ?
You are allowed to stay in Malaysia up to a maximum of 30 days. You will be subjected to an administrative fine by the Malaysian local authorities and your next entry into Malaysia may be denied for a certain period of time if you failed to stay within the stipulated time.
Can I apply for my online visa from Malaysia?
No. eVISA does not allow applications to apply within Malaysia. eVISA must be obtained prior to your entry into Malaysia. You can apply for your Malaysia e visa from Bangalore.
Should I re-apply for a Malaysia eVISA if my departure date changes but the new date is within 3 months?
No, You do not have to re-apply for a new Malaysia eVISA within 3 months from the approved visa issuance, since the visa is valid for 3 months.
Should I re-apply for Malaysia eVISA if my departure date changes and the new date is after 3 months?
Yes, You will need to re-apply a new Malaysia eVISA since the approved visa issuance date by the Department of Immigration Malaysia to enter Malaysia is valid for 3 months only.
Upon receiving my issued Malaysia eVISA, I have realised that some of the information that I provided was wrong and needs corrections. What should I do ?
You must re-apply for a new Malaysia eVISA with the correct information as per your travel documents.
How long will my Malaysia eVISA be valid for ?
All Malaysian visas are valid for up to 3 months only.


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Since it's the first Sunday of the month, we'll be continuing the Bethany House Fiction tradition of taking time to pray for authors who have new releases coming out this month. I'm Amy Green, the fiction publicist here, and I'm thankful for all of the readers who show their support for our authors in the way that matters most: by praying for them. To read more about the reasons behind this time of prayer, go to this post.
Authors with Books Releasing in July:
Connilyn Cossette
Ronie Kendig
Verse of the Month: Feel free to use the text of this verse to guide your prayers for these authors, as well as other people in your life who you want to remember in prayer today.
"I call to you from the ends of the earth when my heart is without strength. Lead me to a rock that is high above me, for you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower in the face of the enemy."—Psalm 61:2-3 (CSB)
General Suggestions for Prayer:
- For strength for the additional tasks needed during release month.
- For safety during any travel, either personal vacations or writing conferences.
- For the right readers to pick up these books at a time when they need it.
It's a powerful thing to have a group of readers gathering together to pray for these authors. Thanks for joining with us!


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Passenger traffic at Dubai International exceeds 6.9 million in April
Dubai International (DXB), the world's number one international airport, welcomed more than 6.9 million passengers in April according to operator Dubai Airports.
Passenger numbers reached 6,978,268 in April, up 7.2 percent from the 6,510,653 guests who visited the airport in April 2015.
During the first four months of 2016, DXB welcomed 27,926,958 passengers, compared to 26,116,977 passengers during the same period last year, an increase of 6.9 percent.
In terms of percentage growth, Eastern Europe topped the list during April with routes to the region growing 12.6 percent, followed by Asia with 12.1 percent and the GCC with 10.3 percent.
The Indian subcontinent outperformed all regions in terms of growth in passenger numbers with 1,644,045 passengers, followed by Western Europe with 1,533,558, and the GCC with 1,252,282 passengers.
"We are very pleased with the growth so far this year and with the summer travel peak round the corner the numbers are only going to increase," said Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths.
"As is the case every summer peak, Dubai International is expected to welcome a record number of passengers. We are actively working with our partners devising a robust operational plan which will involve the deployment of additional staff. We will also be launching a public awareness campaign to encourage passengers to follow our travel tips and show up early to the airport to enjoy all that we have on offer before boarding their flights."
Dubai Airports has released a list of 'Smart Travel Tips' for passengers travelling through DXB this summer. They include:
- Check which terminal you depart from before leaving;
- Leave extra time for your journey to the airport;
- Arrive early at the airport – up to three hours before your flight;
- Check your baggage allowance with the airline in advance;
- Beat the queues and check-in online;
- Place any metal in your hand luggage before arriving at the X-ray machine;
- Pack liquids, aerosols and gels (LAGs) in your check-in baggage if possible;
- Get an eGate Card from the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigner Affairs (immigration) – available in the departure areas of all terminals.


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< Fosdem:2014 | Fosdem:2015 | Fosdem:2016 >
FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) is a free event offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. No registration necessary. More info…
- 1 Practical Information
- 1.1 Registration
- 1.2 Sponsorship for Travel and Accommodation
- 1.3 Mozilla DevRoom
- 1.4 Mozilla Booth
- 1.5 Food, Beverages, and Saturday evening party
- 1.6 Friday Beer Event
- 1.7 Getting Around in Brussels (MAP)
- 1.8 Traveling by air to Brussels
- 1.9 Traveling by train to Brussels
- 1.10 Hotel
- 1.11 Other accommodation options
- 1.12 WiFi and mobile data
- 1.13 Getting from the Hotel/Central Station to FOSDEM
- 1.14 Leaving FOSDEM to leave Brussels
- 1.15 Contact Persons
- 1.17 Devroom Presentations
- 1.18 The Aftermath
Practical Information
Fosdem 2015 is taking place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 31st January and Sunday 1 February 2015. See http://fosdem.org/ Mozilla's presence at Fosdem is organized as a Mozilla Reps Event.
As a Free event, no formal registration is needed to attend Fosdem. If you are a Mozilla Rep or have an Mozillians.org profile, you can say you are attending on the Event page.
For practical purposes, if you want us to know you are in the area, please add yourself to Fosdem:2015:Attendees.
Sponsorship for Travel and Accommodation
All volunteers and community members who are official speakers in the by Mozilla DevRoom and a limited number of Mozilla volunteers helping with our participation at the event will be eligible for sponsorship. Here is the call for volunteers to help run the booth and other practical stuff.
Mozilla staff (including speakers) who are interested in attending FOSDEM must book their own travel and hotel.
Mozilla DevRoom
Every year Mozilla developers and contributors have a dedicated room (ie. Mozilla DevRoom) in which to hold talks and sessions.
This year, Mozilla will have:
- room U.218A (next to Chavanne) on Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00
- 363 seats;
- power (C/E plugs)
- a video projector (VGA);
- best-effort shared wireless Internet;
- video recording equipment which can be operated by volunteers.
The schedule is now finalized, check the schedule on the official FOSDEM page where the selected talks are beginning to appear. Speakers have been contacted already.
Mozilla Booth
There will be a booth manned by Mozilla volunteers in the main conference building. The goal is three-fold:
- to evangelize and answer questions
- to recruit new volunteers;
- distribute merchandise.
We also would have some activities like a Firefox OS flash station, a Firefox Clinic, and some surprises.
This year we could only sponsor 6 Reps. But if you are a Mozillian or a Rep, and you will come on your own, but would like to help, please contact Francisco Picolini, or Benoit Leseul, for more information.
In general, if you notice that someone has been at the stand for a while, please don't hesitate to switch places with him/her! Also, please help to keep the place clean and tidy!
Where is it located?
The location of the booth is on the building K.
See this map
Food, Beverages, and Saturday evening party
Breakfast will be served for sponsored Mozillians staying in one of the hotels Mozilla has secured for the event.
Any other food or drink expenses (including room service and in-room minibar charges and lunch at FOSDEM) are at the expense of the Mozillian.
Friday Beer Event
To be announced
Saturday night Party
Historically, a dinner for Mozillians has often been organised on the Saturday night of FOSDEM. For the last couple of years though, Mozillians are encouraged to meet and dine with folks from other open projects. Please watch this space for suggestions.
Getting Around in Brussels (MAP)
A practical Google map is available with all the relevant spots for Mozillians during their stay in Brussels.
Traveling by air to Brussels
Brussels Airport
…the airport is less than 20 minutes from the city centre. From 6am till nearly midnight, the AIRPORT CITY EXPRESS train brings you to Midi, Central and North stations four times per hour. A one-way ticket costs 7.80 €. The city express train is located in the basement (level -1) of the terminal building itself.
There is also a Bus service (Airport Line 12 or 21) but it doesn't go straight to the hotel. If you take that bus, get off at Schuman and take the metro from there to Gare Centrale. The cost is 4.00 € if you buy it at the airport bus station (platform C) or 6.00 € in the bus.
Brussels South Charleroi Airport
Some low-cost flights (Ryanair, Wizzair, …) are operated from there. It is approximately one hour away from the city centre. A shuttle bus (1 hour, €13) will bring you from there to Brussels South Railway station. For your return flight, it is recommended that you take this shuttle bus 3 hours prior departure.
Traveling by train to Brussels
If you are traveling by train to Brussels, it is best for you to get off at the Central Station stop.
Most High-speed trains (TGV, Thalys, Eurostar, ICE) stop at Brussels South (Gare du Midi) instead. From there, you can either find a local train to Central Station, or take the Tramway/Metro (line 3 or 4 to De Brouckère, then metro line 1 or 5 to Gare Centrale).
Most Mozilla speakers and staff will be staying at the Novotel Brussels Grand Place.
Hotel details:
Novotel Brussels off Grand'Place Rue du Marché Aux Herbes 120 1000 BRUSSELS BELGIUM Tel: (+32)2/5143333 Fax: (+32)2/5117723 E-mail: email@example.com Nearest metro stop: Gare Centrale/Centraal Station (lines 1/5)
Warning: there is another Novotel called Novotel Brussels Centre Tour Noire a few hundred meters away (near De Brouckère). It is not the same hotel but is equally good and is at walking distance from Novotel Grand Place.
Other hotels in the neighborhood
There are many hotels around the Central station, and in the city center in general.
You may try:
- http://www.hotel-la-madeleine.be/ (almost facing the Novotel)
- http://www.almahotel.be/ (a few dozen meters away in an adjacent street)
Hotel discounts
A number of hotels in Brussels offer a discount to FOSDEM visitors. See https://fosdem.org/2015/practical/accommodation/
Other accommodation options
Other great accommodation options exist in Brussels. There are local residents renting couches and private rooms for as little as $30. Also some have reviews.
WiFi and mobile data
At Fosdem
At FOSDEM, a FREE WiFi network called "FOSDEM" will be very "strong" and there should not be any ambiguity about which network to use. Most 802.11 stacks will likely do the Right Thing[tm] automatically. :-)
SIM cards/Mobile Data
If you have a GSM-compatible phone and need data connectivity (EDGE/3G/4G) without paying prohibitive roaming charges, you can buy a prepaid SIM card with a data plan in most mobile phone shops, including some in the Airport arrival terminal.
Here are a couple of plans that you may find interesting:
- BASE: 10€ prepaid card with 5€ top-up (100MB) or 10€ top-up (1000MB)
- Proximus: 15€ Pay&Go Max prepaid card (250MB included)
Getting from the Hotel/Central Station to FOSDEM
It takes about 35 min from downtown Brussels to FOSDEM by public bus.
From station GARE CENTRALE, take Bus 71 (live waiting times) traveling towards DELTA. Get out at the station ULB (22 mins, 14 stops). From there it's a few hundred meters footwalk. The total travel takes about 35 minutes.
Google transit will give you good Public transport directions. If you have a mobile data plan (beware of roaming charges) or are connected to a wifi network, you can also check for waiting times and vehicle positions on the STIB mobile website or with the Android Brussels Transports application.
Useful tip: If you are waiting in the cold at ULB for a bus to get back to the city center (towards De Brouckère) and it doesn't come or you fear it will be too crowded, you may want to take it in the other direction instead (to Delta, a few stops away). Delta is actually a metro station on line 5, which also goes to Gare centrale and De Brouckère.
A detailed map of the ULB campus and of the FOSDEM entrance, as well as detailed instructions on how to get there by public transportation can be found here: https://fosdem.org/2015/practical/transportation/
Leaving FOSDEM to leave Brussels
From Sunday afternoon till Sunday evening, FOSDEM will provide free transportation by bus from the conference site (ULB Campus Solbosch) to the Brussels-South railway station which has the best connections to Brussels Airport and neighboring countries.
Contact Persons
If ever you need anything during your stay in Brussels, or if you need more information, please don't hesitate to contact:
- Benoit (Mozilla Belgium community) - benoit.leseul at gmail dot com
- Brian King - bking at mozilla dot com
- Francisco Picolini - fpicolini at mozilla dot com
We will set up the #FOSDEM Channel on irc.mozilla.org !
Devroom Presentations
- HTTP/2 right now by Daniel Stenberg
- What's new in Firefox? by Florian Quèze
- Keeping secrets with JavaScript by Tim Taubert
- Participation metrics at Mozilla by Pierros Papadeas
- Maintaining & growing a technical community by Ali Spivak
- Privacy features for Firefox for Android Margaret Leibovic
- Servo (the parallel web browser) and YOU! by Josh Matthews
- Firefox OS Tricorder by Robert Kaiser
- Building open HTML5 games for Firefox OS by Andrzej Mazur
The Aftermath
Photos, Blogposts etc. will be linked here.


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Action Bronson The Exclaim! Questionnaire
Published Mar 24, 2015Action Bronson is rap's Mr. Wonderful. Since independently emerging on the hip-hop scene in 2011, after making the drastic decision to leave his promising career as a gourmet chef behind him, the Queen's rapper has all but legally trademarked himself as rap's leading charismatic comedian, unpredictable performer and provocative wordsmith with each career-defining decision. Whether by dropping genre-clashing mixtapes like the Blue Chips series, or performing power-bombing wrestling moves to concert-goers mid-performance, the eccentric MC has consistently maintained headline-worthy attention, while holding onto an unconventional place in the rap world that none has dared to tackle.
To only further solidify his place among the top tier rappers, the New York artist released his major label debut Mr. Wonderful this March, as a representation of his earned elevation from the underground to a larger musical plateau. "[Mr. Wonderful] means everything to me. It's a life's work. But it's not the end, and it isn't the beginning. It's just another beautiful piece to my legacy," he says.
With a second season of his Vice Munchies series Fuck That's Delicious and a worldwide tour in the works, along with a headlining slot at North By North East this summer, Action Bronson is gearing up to reap the kinds of wonderful rewards that he's worked for.
What are you up to?
I'm just getting ready to drop my debut album, Mr. Wonderful, finally. And I never stop working musically. I always keep it moving. I'm just anxious and eager and ready to get this done. I'm ready for people to hear the full product.
What are your current fixations?
My fixation is always with psychedelic music. Piano solos, guitar solos, and all crazy types of music. The way that the congas pan from left to right on Santana's album. It freaks my mind out when I listen to it in the headphones. All these little nuisances in music just make me freak out.
Why do you live where you do?
Because [Queens, NY] is where I'm from, this is what I know. That's exactly why I live here. I don't want to go change to a random place. This is where I'm from. I was made here.
Name something you consider a mind-altering work of art:
Music is a given for me. I love music that I've never heard before. When I discover a lot of foreign music, it makes me very happy. But I feel like the most incredible work of art, to me is D'Angelo's Voodoo. That album is just one thing to me that is very near and dear to my heart.
What has been your most memorable or inspirational gig?
My most inspirational gig, man… every one was just so special. It's always special. But there is one that sticks out in my mind. In South Africa — Johannesburg — when I opened up for Eminem. That was fun.
What have been your career highs and lows?
I don't believe that I've had my highest of highs or my lowest of lows yet. I hope that I never see the lows and I hope that the highs just come in a major way for me. I never get too ahead of myself. I'm into just taking it day by day. One day at a time.
What's the meanest thing ever said to you before, during or after a gig?
People talk crazy to me all the time. I can't really think about what is said. People are mean, you know. When they are on the internet and stuff like that, they're mean.
What should everyone shut up about?
They should just shut the hell up, period.
What traits do you most like and most dislike about yourself?
Sometimes I'm very, very stubborn, hard-headed and very hard to penetrate, which is a little crazy. Sometimes I can't take that shit, but it is what it is. The trait that I love most about myself is I'm rational and I know when something is wrong and when something is right. I'm able to decipher quickly and I've been making good decisions.
What's your idea of a perfect Sunday?
Every Sunday I'm alive is a perfect Sunday.
What advice should you have taken, but did not?
Man, there are so many things. But you always have to make your own way in this world, so it is what it is.
What would make you kick someone out of your bed?
I like to sleep alone.
What do you think of when you think of Canada?
I enjoy Canada a lot. Toronto has seen some of my best shows. I've been all over Canada. Vancouver, Whistler. I've been up and down, east and west. It's a great place to be. It's a beautiful place.
What was the first LP/cassette/CD/eight track you ever bought with your own money?
Wreckx-N-Effect, the "Rump Shaker" single. That's the first thing I purchased with my own money.
What was your most memorable day job?
I've only had one day job, I worked at Key Food. I worked at Key Food in the day. Every other job has been being a chef or working construction.
How do you spoil yourself?
I spoil myself in the way I handle my accommodations. I don't really spend my money on stupid shit. I spend money on my comfort. That's what's most important to me. Comfort-ability.
What do you fear most?
I don't fear anything.
What has been your strangest celebrity encounter?
Mike Ditka, one of the coaches from the Chicago Bears. A long time ago, we had dinner and it was really fucking awkward to tell you the truth, because I didn't really know what to say to him and I think that he was intoxicated. Or who knows what the fuck it was, but it was a really weird encounter.
Who would be your ideal dinner guest, living or dead, and what would you serve them?
I would love to have dinner with Carlos Santana. He's just one of my favourite people and a great musician. I would love nothing more than to just talk to him and pick his brain. Who knows?
What song would you like to have played at your funeral?
"Easy Rider."


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Algeria in talks with Vimpelcom over Djezzy
Algeria is in talks with Vimpelcom aimed at resolving a tug of war over the Russian telecoms group's mobile phone unit Djezzy and efforts to find a resolution could now speed up, according to Algeria's finance minister, Karim Djoudi.
Vimpelcom hoped to acquire Djezzy as part of a planned $6 billion acquisition of Wind Telecom, parent of Djezzy's owner Orascom Telecom. But Djezzy's status was left unclear after Algeria said it wanted to take the business over itself.
Djoudi's comments were the strongest hint yet that a resolution could be close after more than a year of deadlock over Djezzy, which had been the most lucrative part of Orascom Telecom's business.
Asked about Djezzy, Djoudi said: "Things are taking place normally. I have had a meeting with a Vimpelcom representative at his request. Unfortunately, I cannot give you details because we are in talks."
He said a valuation of Djezzy, a crucial step in determining the unit's future, was proceeding. "It is possible that things will go fast," Djoudi said. "There is a willingness on the other side to make things go fast."
It remains unclear what shape a deal on Djezzy could take. There has been some speculation that the Algerian government could acquire a 51 percent stake and allow Vimpelcom to hold the remaining equity and be the operator.
Before the Vimpelcom deal, Orascom Telecom was forced to agree to talks on Djezzy's nationalisation after it was hit with millions of dollars in back-tax demands from Algeria and prevented from moving the unit's cash abroad.
Talks about the nationalisation had been stalled because of a dispute between the Algerian government and Djezzy's owners about how the unit is to be valued, and how much access the owners would provide to Djezzy's balance sheet.
Djoudi suggested that issue had now been resolved. "We have opened the data room which gives us access to all ... (Djezzy's) details," he said.


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A Star is Born
A Star is Born (2018) Listen to see what our reviewers make of this remake of a remake.
Earning 8 nominations at the 91st academy awards and winning one for best original song.
The original film was released in 1937 followed with a 1954 musical remake and yet another 1976 musical remake.
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January 27, 2019 all-day
Buffalo Rose & Parfet Park
1119 Washington Ave
1119 Washington Ave
For the 5th year, beer lovers dressed in Viking regalia will gather in Parfet Park during the last weekend in January to celebrate winter and sample beers from more than 27 breweries and cideries from around the state and beyond.
UllrGrass Music and Beer Festival is named after the Norse God of Winter – Ullr. It was created to toast the winter and celebrate great music and craft beer – viking costumes optional!
Festival Schedule
- Fri. Jan. 25, 5 p.m. to midnight – Buffalo Rose: Featuring music by New Orleans Suspects, Drew Emmitt & UllrGrass All-Starts, Mama Magnolia, Bonnie & Taylor Sims, Tori Pater
- Sat. Jan 26, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Parfet Park & 6 p.m. to midnight – Buffalo Rose: Featuring music by Sam Bush Band, CORAL CREEK, FREIYA: Women of Bluegrass, Gypsy Cattle Drive, Way Down Wanderers, The Mighty Pines, Bowregard, Hunker Down, Turkeyfoot, Michael Kirkpatrick
- Sun. Jan 27, 11 a.m. t0 5 p.m. – Parfet Park: – Featuring music by UllrGrass Funk-n-Soul, Sugar & The Mint, Circus #9, Adam Kinghorn Quintet, Thunder & Rain, Buffalo Commons, Virtuosity Dance
Learn more at www.ullrgrass.com.