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Sundance London Unveils More Events
Sundance Institute on Tuesday announced the program of free talks, screenings, events and music performances for the third Sundance London film and music festival, set for April 25-27 at The O2. Among the notables set for the talks are David Cross and David Wain. The Truly Independent Visions panel event will focus on what it takes to create an independent film today. Also in the lineup are International Premiere: 5 Projects from the Sundance Institute Short Film Challenge, a free screening event celebrating the international debut of five new short films created by acclaimed independent filmmakers, the Film Appreciation Event, a free event for students interested in careers in film.
LevelK Palms Off International Sales Rights To 'Sucker'
LevelK will handle international sales on Sucker, a coming-of-age comedy about the timeless art of the swindle, the sting and sleight of hand. Written by Ben Chessell and Lawrence Leung and directed by Chessell, Sucker is an adaptation of Leung's stage show. The film stars YouTube personality John Luc as an 18 year old Chinese Australian who cheats in his high school senior exams and fails to get into medicine. Banished to stay with his uncle for the summer, Lawrence meets a colorful, aging conman (Timothy Spall) and begins a road trip with him and his daughter Sarah (Lily Sullivan). Lawrence learns the art of swindling and cheating — and — a hard lesson in unrequited love. Sucker is financed by Screen Australia, Jake Film Finance, Film Victoria and DDP Studios.
Ben Miller To Guest On 'Doctor Who'
Ben Miller is set to guest star opposite Peter Capaldi when the new season of Doctor Who returns in the fall. Miller made his name as part of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller before moving to dramas including Primeval and Death In Paradise. It will be Miller's first appearance on Doctor Who; his comedy partner Alexander Armstrong appeared in the 2011 Christmas Special.
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Head coaches JEFF FISHER of the St. Louis Rams and KEN WHISENHUNT of the Arizona Cardinals, along with Green Bay Packers President and Chief Executive Officer MARK MURPHY, have been named to the NFL Competition Committee by Commissioner ROGER GOODELL, the NFL announced today.
Fisher co-chaired the committee from 2002-2010 with current committee chairman RICH MC KAY of the Atlanta Falcons. Whisenhunt has served as a member of the Coaches Subcommittee, which consists of current and former NFL head coaches and makes recommendations to the Competition Committee. Murphy, the Packers' CEO since 2007, played eight seasons with the Washington Redskins from 1977-84, including two Super Bowl appearances, and was selected to the Pro Bowl following the 1983 season.
The Competition Committee studies all aspects of the game and recommends rules and policy changes to NFL clubs.

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LG G Pad 10.1 starts global roll-out
LG has started rolling out the largest model in its new tablet range, the LG G Pad 10.1, over in the US.
Last month LG announced the gradual availability of its new G Pad range, starting with a European launch of the LG G Pad 7.0. Now it's the turn of the largest model in the range, the LG G Pad 10.1.
The LG G Pad 10.1 shares a number of components with the two smaller models (the range is completed by the LG G Pad 8.3). While its screen is obviously a unique 10.1-inch IPS panel, its 1280 x 800 resolution is common to all three tablets.
So too is the G Pad 10.1's quad-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor with 1GB of RAM.
Unlike the LG G Pad 7.0, the LG G Pad 10.1 comes with 16GB of internal storage, with a microSD card slot to back it up. Its 5-megapixel camera is also a step up from the previously seen smallest model.
As you might expect, the LG G Pad 10.1 runs on the biggest battery of the lot, with an 8000mAh unit powering it along.
At 8.9mm thick and 523g, the LG G Pad 10.1 is about the same thickness as the Nexus 10, but is considerable lighter to the tune of 80g. It's a fair bit thicker and heavier than the similarly specced Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1.
Like the G Pad 7.0, the LG G Pad 10.1 comes with Android 4.4.2 and LG's latest custom software. This includes the Knock Code security system, which allows you access to your tablet with a preset arrangement of screen taps.
Dual Window, meanwhile, lets you run two apps simultaneously side-by-side. Samsung employs a similar technique on its latest tablets.
The LG G Pro 10.1 has launched in the US, and will become available in "other markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America later in the month," according to LG. There's no pricing information as yet, but we're expecting it to be relatively affordable given its modest specs.
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Pope Francis, who will soon preach at a Pentecostal church in Rome — and plans to offer them "an apology from my church for the hurt it has brought to their congregation."
(No word on whether the Penetecostals will apologize for their propagation of heresy.)
In any case, the Vicar of Christ evidently doesn't want anything to do with that solemn nonsense known as "evangelization." Again, he tells a non-Catholic he has no intention to try to convert anyone:
It's fair to ask what kind of Catholic Church we as Evangelicals want to see. At lunch I asked Pope Francis what his heart was for evangelism. He smiled, knowing what was behind my question. His comment was, "I'm not interested in converting Evangelicals to Catholicism. I want people to find Jesus in their own community. There are so many doctrines we will never agree on. Let's not spend our time on those. Rather, let's be about showing the love of Jesus."
I've talked before about Cardinal Kasper's dismissal of the "ecumenism of return". People who question why Kasper is a hand-picked adviser of the pope fail to recognize the congruencies in their theology (or anti-theology, as the case may be.) All one needs to do is refrain from projecting the orthodoxy they desire in a pope on a man who holds the office but has little interest in what it is meant to signify, and the mystery solves itself.
Matthew 7:15-20 comes to mind.
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inya lake, yangon
In response to traveling at wits end photo challenge: shades of gray.
It always rains in downtown Yangon and then it pours during the rainy season.
In response to WP Photo Challenge: Reflecting and JNW's Weekly Weather Challenge: Wet.
Young ladies in Bagan. In honor of International Women's Day – Be Bold for Change,
The marvelous white stupas of Sandamuni Paya at the foothills of Mandalay as well as the sprawling city of Mandalay as the background. There is about 1,700 of the white stupas that surround the golden pagoda.
In response to 52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 10: Morning.
Atumashi Monastery (Maha Atulawaiyan Kyaungdawgyi), was originally built in 1857 by King Mindon, who had founded his new capital of Upper Burma at Mandalay just a few years earlier in 1855. It was considered one of Southeast Asia's most magnificent buildings. The building and its entire contents burned down in 1890. For years the monastery lay in ruins until the Burmese archaeological department reconstructed the building in the 1990s.
Yesterday, Bagan experienced a powerful earthquake which damaged several of their ancient pagodas and temples. I visited Bagan last month and discovered a beautiful ancient city. Here is a photo of Gawpawpalin temple I capture last month and one of the temple damaged by the quake.
Cee's Fun Foto Challenge: Legs and Feet
Chauk-htat-gyi Buddha Temple in Yangon houses one of the most beautiful reclining Buddha. This Mon-styled Buddha image stands 65 meters long and 16 meters high is wearing a golden robe and is decorated with very expressive colors, white face, red lips, blue eye shadow, golden robe and red finger nails. The soles of the feet contain 108 segments in red and gold colors that show images representing the 108 lakshanas or auspicious characteristics of the Buddha.
Back door of the Ngon Minn Stupah. The door itself is plain wooden door, nothing special. However, the glittering mosaic tiles around the door and pillars is spectacular.
The pastel arcades of Ngon Minn Stupa, one of the shrines along the way up Mandalay Hill. It was once used as lookout for the Mandalay Kings. The view from here is spectacular – Mandalay City, Mandalay Palace as well as the Irrawaddy River – all four directions.
Grandma and her shy grandson. Just wanted to take pictures of ordinary people on a ordinary day. Bagan, Myanmar. For Jennifer Nichole Wells one word photo challenge: child.


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As the Sacramento restaurant landscape continues to expand, our dining choices become ever more numerous. As a food writer, I'm always tempted to patronize new restaurants—both recently opened establishments as well as eateries that have eluded me in my culinary peregrinations.
But a recent meal at Biba reminded me that it can be very rewarding to re-visit some of our region's well-established local restaurants. I took a friend who had never eaten at this venerable Sacramento dining institution, and our meal was a dazzler.
The Cappe Sante alla Griglia con Cavolfiore e Uvetta Sultanina appetizer paired fat, juicy grilled scallops with teeny roasted cauliflower florets and sweet and sour raisins – an inspired, captivating combination of flavors and textures, and a lovely introduction to our main courses. The kitchen's Pizzoccheri con la Zucca—velvety, housemade buckwheat noodles punctuated with chunks of roasted butternut squash and bits and smoked ham—was rustic and absolutely delicious; and the Brasato di Coste di Manzo con Chianti Classico e Polenta, melty-tender, oven braised beef short ribs served up with soft polenta, was wonderfully flavorful and perfect for a crisp fall evening.


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Check out this weeks podcast episode! It's interviews from The LA Women's March! (Herina Sing, Vangie Core, & Suzee Dunn) In this episode you will hear from: members of the WGAW members, comedians, high schoolers, SAG/AFTRA members, and reps from: Prevent Cruelty California, Liberation LA, Planned Parenthood Young Read More
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Leah Lamarr is not only one of the funniest women I have had the pleasure of watching on stage, but she is also one of the smartest working actresses in Los Angeles. Yes, I know that is saying a lot, and I am sticking to that statement. We were lucky enough to sit with Leah and discuss her instant-hit live show Read More
Act Like a Girl with Zahra Ali
Check out this week's podcast episode Suzee Dunn and Tracie Walker sat down with host and producer of Facial Recognition Comedy, Zahra Ali!!! We talked about studying hard, family dynamics, not sleeping, producing comedy, writing, dating apps, and cultural traditions! If you are on the Read More
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Check out this weeks episode with the women that bring you Cara and Jen's Sleepover Party, Cara Meyers and Jen Curcio!!!!Suzee Dunn and Tracie Walker hung out with these ladies in our longest episode yet! We talked about: storytelling, being gay, coming out at a "late age", body image, men sucking, and hosting a monthly Read More
The Act Like a Girl Live Show, December
Check out this weeks episode of The Act Like a Girl Podcast! It's our last show of 2017 and this line up was FIRRRRRRE! Our favorite store, NEW PROFANITY, hosted us! This month we had Stand up from: Suzee Dunn Jil Chrissie Fizaa Dosani Danielle Perez Tracie Walker Malie Mason The music for the Read More
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Welcome back to the Act Like a Girl Podcast! We missed you! Keeping up with the weekly schedule has been so rewarding but sometimes momma can't keep up! I was on set for almost two weeks on fourteen hour days and then I last minute decided to surprise my family for Christmas and unfortunately that meant no time for Act Like Read More
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Discover Pinterest's 10 best ideas and inspiration for Katana. Get inspired and try out new things.
this katana is a props for one of my future chara design, i made the cord texture in substance designer and then the rest in substance painter. i focused mainly on making the lightning paterns in photoshop to use them later as alphas.
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This year's bootie is not a bootie. Clockwise from top: Pedro Garcia's Rowan, $590, is a sporty take on kicks that is straight from the perforated leather often used to make supercar interiors. Burberry's combat boot, Manners, $850, is ready to fight for the right to party, hard. Rachel Roy brings us Bette, $195, a souped-up loafer-tailored shoe. And Jimmy Choo delivers Ballad, $1,195, for everyday elegance.
The fingerless look is part and parcel of the nail polish craze and it's working manicurists overtime. For a rebel yell slip on Michael Kors studded shorties, $98, or shiny leather hand warmers, $85, and flash that fire engine red polish. Lauren Ralph Lauren takes the trend mainstream with black and white tartan in cashmere and leather, $40, and easy-to-wear camel driving gloves in wool, $38—either will complement a preppy French mani.
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Our favorite brands are giving fall's go-to accessory a twist. Clockwise: Burberry has been experimenting with white and this Colour Check square scarf is its opus: A winter white beauty embellished with the label's iconic red and black pattern, $295. Marc by Marc Jacobs made a big splash in neckwear this season with bold patterns and his epic muted colors, $198, to lend any look an urban twist. Robert Graham has been making a foray into ladies' attire and this scarf embodies the style and whimsy the designer is known for, $78.
Winter is coming, which means your wardrobe will be taking a turn for the dark and bulky. Balance the look with a bag that is everything the clothes aren't: Sleek, architectural and bright. Clutches are practical, lightweight and limit baggage to the necessities. New this season are patterns and materials that recall the nature of warmer weather in fun colors and neutrals. Clockwise from top: Steven by Steve Madden Steven box clutch, $88; Pour la Victoire Clemence calf hair minaudiere, $195; Expressions NYC metal honeycomb clutch, $50; Vince Camuto emerald Mira, $158; French Connection VIP Party wood minaudiere, $168.


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Can a Debt Management Attorney Help Me?
Having credit cards and loans allows us to purchase the things we want with the convenience of paying a portion of the balance off on a monthly basis. Credit cards tend to creep up on us, and we suddenly find ourselves with multiple credit cards. When you apply for a credit card, you may think you will only use the card for inexpensive items. After a year or two, you may realize just how much you are paying each month towards your credit card and loan balances as well as accrued interest.
How a Debt Management Attorney Can Help You
Undoubtedly, bankruptcy isn't for everyone. Bankruptcy helps millions of Americans discharge debt in an efficient way, but your particular financial situation may be resolved without turning to such an action. For example, if you are able to make your monthly payments on time for all of your credit card accounts and loans, you should consider alternative measures that will help you take charge of your debt and spend more wisely to avoid accumulating significant debt in the future.
A debt-management and bankruptcy attorney can provide you with all of your options for managing your debt and coming up with a financial plan that will allow you to save money. You may have a decent salary that ordinarily would be sufficient for you to save money year after year. However, if you have significant credit card or loan debt, you may find that a bulk of your salary is going to paying off debt each month. There are a variety of ways to tackle debt and learn to live debt-free. A debt management attorney will help you formulate a plan that allows you to pay less each month towards your debt, and start saving.
An attorney may suggest the following as a way to manage debt:
• Enroll in a Debt-Management Program (DMP) with a debt-management agency: These programs allow you to consolidate your credit card debt, and make one monthly payment with lower interest rates, saving you hundreds or thousands of dollars, and allowing you to pay off your credit card debt much sooner.
• Negotiate with your creditors directly: If you have not missed many payments, but simply can no longer live from paycheck to paycheck, you may be able to reach an agreement with your creditors to lower your monthly payments and/or lower your interest rates. Many creditors will agree to a new plan because they want to keep card-holders who make timely and complete payments.
• Allow an attorney to negotiate on your behalf: If you do not feel comfortable negotiating with your creditors on your own and believe you may be taken advantage of, you may consider turning this task over to an attorney. With the help of an attorney, you will have peace of mind that someone is advocating for you.
While you may be able to handle your debt on your own by making the minimum required payments each month, it is always a good idea to consult with an experienced debt management attorney who can provide you with information and guidance to ensure you are paying off your debt in the most efficient way possible.
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If you have a mountain of credit card debt and loans, you are not alone. Millions of Americans are suffering from debt in much the same way as you. While you may not need to file for bankruptcy as a means of managing and discharging your debt, you still could benefit from the advice of a qualified debt management attorney. The attorneys of The Law Offices of Georgette Miller and Associates, P.C. focus not only on bankruptcy matters, but all matters relating to debt-management and how to live financially healthy. Our law offices provide debt-management and bankruptcy services to individuals and small businesses located in and around Philadelphia, PA, New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and Wilmington, DE. Contact us today to schedule a consultation by calling (866) 96-GMLAW.


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On Tuesday, September 20th, a construction accident in Harlem left 18 people injured, including a construction worker and two police officers who were injured on the job.
The 5-story building, located at 301 West 125th Street, was in the process of being demolished at the time of the accident. Debris from an upper floor of the building fell on the street side. The debris took down scaffolding being used for the project, as well as on a bus at a stop to pick up passengers. One witness reported that, "Everything came down. I could see that because I just came from down that direction. It's all in the street and all over. It's sad."
The Department of Buildings said that there had been a previous complaint of fallen bricks near the site, which was made a few weeks ago on September 7th. The Deputy Mayor for Operations stated, "We're gonna do a full investigation here."
Although 18 people were injured in the accident, none of the injuries are thought to be life threatening. Early reports from an inspection of the site did not find any safety violations. Work crews will be trying to get the area cleared as soon as possible.
The Harlem workers' compensation lawyers with Markhoff & Mittman, PC, are relieved to hear that none of the injuries were thought to be life threatening after this frightening accident.


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The Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research Blenheim sprint triathlon is just five weeks away and this is my third week of training. In my last blog post, I explained why I have taken on this challenge. Now I am going to explain how.
Week three: How to wear a wetsuit with style and why the police stopped me on my 11-year-old daughter's bike.
#ELLEfit team guru Tim Weeks sends me a personalised triathlon training schedule. A full-time job, combined with the diary of four busy school-age kids, means time is of the essence and training has to be balanced across the lives of six people (if you include my husband, who views my new-found exercise addiction suspiciously).
If you're thinking of doing something similar, this is a flexible plan that won't send you mad with guilt over missed sessions or time spent away from the family.
Tim's plan:
Monday: Up to 60-minute swim. Run, bike, run for 40 minutes, if time.
Tuesday: Pilates/yoga/strength session of some sort. Or rest.
Wednesday: 60-minute swim. 5km run. With some speedier kms to raise heart rate.
Thursday: yoga/equivalent or rest.
Friday: 60-minute swim. 60-minute bike. 5km run.
Saturday: Run, bike, run sessions (60 minutes).
Sunday: Outdoor swim, 60 minutes.
I know I may not be able to manage all this but the structure is there to inspire me. There is also a great training plan on Marsha El Hage's website.
1. 60 metre pool at Parliment Hill Lido in Hampstead Heath 2. Wetsuit (check), pedi (check), I'm going in 3. My daughter's bikes
The swimming element of this plan makes me nervous. There are seven of the #ELLEfitteam doing this sprint triathlon and I am by far the weakest swimmer. Last week I managed two lengths front crawl before breathlessly gripping the side, while a lady in her 70s congratulated me on getting better. But after four pool sessions, I am gradually improving. Swimming is about time spent in the water and I have been using a pull buoy (the float between the legs) which has helped my breathing - but it's time to turn to the experts.
Enter Dan Bullock, a Speedo Advisory Coach coach with a manner that is as tranquil and pleasant as I imagine the lake at Blenheim Castle to be on a summer's day. Dan is the lead coach at Swim For Tri and we meet him at Market Sports Health & Fitness Club pool in East London for a two-hour open-water swimming lesson. He isn't concerned when I explain he'll need to start with the basics. My first question: 'How the hell do you put on a swimming hat?' 'Thumbs to forehead and stretch over the back,' he replies, before showing us exactly how tight you need your open-water wetsuit to be. You need baby oil for arms and legs and anti-chafe cream for around the neck – there are so many clever tricks to getting this suit on. I will direct you to the Swim For Tri website because it's an art and when you get it right, the thing feels like a second skin. He recommends a spare pair of goggles for race day and wearing two hats. Two hats? It breaks all the rules of fashion but they will keep your head warm and your goggles on.
Once in the pool our strokes are analysed and the sheer floatiness of those Blueseventy wetsuits makes life a million times easier. I don't think I will ever swim without one again. Our swimming is filmed and helpfully sent over afterwards. We 'drill' swim to get used to bumping each other and learn about 'drafting' (which is like tailgating a car but you do it with the swimmer in front!). Then he drops the bombshell which makes us all feel better. After confirming he's sure we'll all make the 750m lake swim required after what he's seen, softly spoken Dan tells us it won't take longer than 30 minutes. In my head, this swim was an hour of battling the lake and swallowing weeds. Thirty minutes? What a relief.
Dan talks through what will happen so expertly and patiently, I feel we have been hypnotised into a newfound confidence. At this point I am tempted to enter an Ironman triathalon. That's how happy we felt when we left.
4. Our Blueseventy Wetsuits 5. The lake at Blenheim Palace 6. Team #ELLEFit run with the GB Womens' Hockey team this week 7. Swim training with Dan Bullock at Swim For Tri
All we need to do now is master the bike. Four times around Regent's Park near my home is 20km – the distance we ride after our swim and before our 5km run. This week I manage a 5km run followed by twice around the park and a 2km run immediately after. It's like running with legs of lead and only Britney Spears on play and the thought of a huge slice of Bakewell tart at home got me through it.
I don't have my own bike yet (as I said this is a beginner's blog) so I've been borrowing my 11-year-old daughter's bike. On the way to the park (in the rain), I accidentally drive down a one-way street the wrong way. I nearly leap off my bike in shock when a police car coming towards me 'sirens' me to the pavement.
When I explain this is my first time on a bike in 10 years, they take pity and I am tempted to cry. 'Well done on coming out in the rain and giving it a go,' the officer tells me. I am beginning to think this triathlon might actually happen.
- Accidentally carb-loading. I don't even know what that means, but fitness people say it all the time so I am too.
- Checking out Barrecore as a possible strength training exercise and trying to find a green juice I can make it all the way through the bottle with.
Week 3: Planning it all - how to fit training into your packed schedule, and stick to it. Plus, how to structure your training.


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A New Jersey woman who is deaf is suing Taco Bell after allegedly being discriminated against at two locations.
On Wednesday, attorneys for Gina Cirrincione filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court of New Jersey, Eater reports.
Both times, Cirrincione tried to purchase food from a Taco Bell drive-thru by writing down her order and giving it to the employee at the window.
Cirrincione said she was "berated" by a manager before receiving her food at a Taco Bell in Pleasantville, New Jersey on Jan. 11. The manager told her she would not be served in the future unless she parked and entered the store because her use of the drive-thru interfered with "the desired flow of business."
On March 15, she went to a drive-thru in Atlantic City, New Jersey but she was refused service without communication from any employees.
"Plaintiff learned not only that Taco Bell restaurants are inaccessible to deaf individuals, but that Taco Bell employees and managers are inadequately trained and improperly informed about the communication rights and needs of deaf people," the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit cites Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which requires businesses to "make reasonable accommodations" and provide goods and services for people with disabilities. It also cites the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, which prohibits businesses from discriminating against people with disabilities.
"Our client has brought this case not only to address the harm caused to her, but to ensure that Taco Bell and its franchisees have proper policies in place and train its staff on how to accept simple orders from deaf individuals," Attorneys Eric M Baum, Andrew Rozynski and Deaf Liaison Sheryl Eisenberg-Michalowski of the Eisenberg & Baum Law Center For The Deaf and Hard of Hearing said in a statement.
A Taco Bell spokesperson told TIME that Taco Bell has not yet been served with the lawsuit, so it cannot comment on it at this time. "However, Taco Bell has a fundamental policy to respect all of our customers and employees, and we are committed to maintaining an environment free of discrimination or harassment," the Taco Bell spokesperson said in a statement. "We do not tolerate discrimination in any form, and we have a strong policy to provide accessible service to all of our customers and fans."
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The Voikkaa plant produces hydrogen peroxide and peracetic acid, serving customers in the pulp and paper industry in Finland and the neighboring countries. The pulp industry has invested in the past years to expand pulp capacities in the region; further plant expansions and greenfield projects are under consideration.
"Solvay has invested in its Voikkaa plant to improve its competitiveness and accompany the growth opportunities with its customers for hydrogen peroxide in this region," said Alain Jeanmart, General Manager Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Solvay's Global Business Unit Peroxides. "Through our strong partnerships in the Nordic Region we offer innovative and sustainable solutions to our customers in many areas such as pulp, paper and aquaculture."


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Both. End of debate?
This isn't going to be an in-depth statistical analysis of both types of training and different studies that have shown results to connect these types of cardiovascular exercise to the process of burning subcutaneous body fat. Instead, this article can summarise the information out there to provide a definite answer, if generalised, but which is true.
LISSten and learn
'Low Intensity Steady State (LISS) cardiovascular training for fat loss' normally refers to an exercise that is performed for between 30-60 minutes at a continuous pace that maintains a heart rate at between 50-70% of the person's maximum heart rate (MHR). Bodybuilders have used form of training this for many years with the aim of burning fat whilst maintaining as much muscle as possible.
The basic science behind this method says that when the human body is at rest (sleeping, sitting still watching TV, standing to wait for the bus) it wants to use nutritional fat and stored body fat as its go-to sources to create the energy it needs. Carbohydrates that have been recently ingested and are stored in the blood, or that have already been digested and converted to stored energy in the muscles, can provide nearly 0% of the fuel needed to perform habitual functions. This is why sleep is said to be an incredibly necessary and efficient process for fat loss. Just think for one second that sitting still is actually a highly efficient method for fat loss. What's the catch?
The catch is provided for us with the issue that you can burn less calories (stored fuel within the body) when you sit still or sleep compared to when you move about. The more intensely that you move about (from walking to running to sprinting) the more your body will use carbohydrates (stored in the blood, the liver and the muscles after digestion) as an energy source over fat. So what LISS training looks to take advantage of is a balance between ensuring that fat is still the major energy source used to fuel the body during the activity, but that your overall calorie expenditure for the duration is raised higher than if you were sitting still.
Due to the low impact that this type of exercise, the body doesn't look to recruit fuel desperately from any source it can find. The more intense the exercise, the more the body struggles to run the metabolic systems that process oxygen and stored fuel from food to facilitate movement, and the more it seeks any source it can to supply the energy for the movement that the brain is initiating. For us, the 'any source possible' that we are most concerned about is the breakdown of muscle for fuel – muscle breakdown is counterintuitive to most people's goals i.e. to preserve, build or define our muscles and to lose fat. Thus, this type of activity limits muscle breakdown and maximises the calories burned from fat stores. This is why bodybuilders are known for taking long power walks to burn fat rather than running a fast 10km race.
As we can see in Figure 1, although 99% of the calories burned from sitting still are from fat, the 50-70% of the calories burned from fat by jogging total nearly four times the amount for the same time period. So as long as you have some stored carbohydrate available or recently consumed protein, a gentle jog can be a very efficient way of burning fat and preserving muscle.
Take the HIIT
High Intensity Interval Training (HITT) is the opposite of the above. You are looking to work at your maximum effort for between 10-45 seconds before resting for a given period of time (normally between 30 seconds and 3 minutes) before repeating until you cannot perform the exercise at an intensity high enough to call it your maximum. This normally occurs after 10-20 minutes of interval training.
Some of you may have cottoned on to an interesting dilemma based on what I presented earlier i.e. the higher the intensity of an exercise, the more you use carbohydrate as your preferred energy system. Thus, when you are performing HIIT, you are actually looking to use your carbohydrate stores (and creatine phosphate stores for those interested) over your fat stores as it is the quickest and most efficient form of energy to use for fuelling this type of exercise. So, you ask, why has this form of training become synonymous with 'torching fat' when these facts say that the form of exercise mainly uses stored carbohydrate sources?
Firstly, when performing HIIT, the full 100% quota of energy used isn't carbohydrates. When sprinting for the 10-45 seconds of maximum intensity, the percentage of carbohydrate usage will be between 70-90% leaving between 30-10% of the energy being converted from fat and other sources. But, when you stop sprinting and start the rest period, the energy balance falls from being mainly carbohydrate to being more inclusive of fat stores to fuel bodily functions (from around 50% and increasing as the heart rate drops and recovers). So whereas LISS training keeps a steady drip of energy from the various energy stores, HIIT chops and changes throughout the workout.
LISS is more?
20 minutes of HIIT can burn between 300-400 calories. Over the duration of the session, let's say an average of 30% of the energy used comes from fat stores. This is half the percentage of fat store usage compared to LISS training and equates to 150-200 calories of fat. From the 1 hour jogging session, we can see from Figure 1 that 250-350 calories burned came from fat stores. If these statistics alone were used to determine the answer to the question about whether HIIT or LISS was a better choice for fat burning, then LISS would win.
The after effects of HIIT
However, what HIIT provides that LISS doesn't is a more substantial increase in the body's metabolic rate over the next 24-48 hours. When you have finished a gentle 60 minute jog, your muscles recover my shuttling glycogen back into the semi-depleted stores from the food that you eat post-workout but the muscles would not normally need to be repaired to any great extent because of the low intensity of the exercise. When you perform HIIT, you are creating micro-trauma in the muscles similar to when you lift weights and feel that 'burning' sensation. This occurs when you push your muscles to the edge of their current ability which creates small trauma (or tears) in your muscles. These micro-trauma are healthy and natural but once the body has time to rest and recover, it needs to repair these micro-trauma to become stronger than it was before to ensure that next time it is put under such strain it has adapted to be able to cope better. In the long term, this will allow you to perform exercise to a higher level of intensity before experiencing these trauma – it is this cycle of exercise, rest and repair that is the basis of how the body gets stronger and fitter. However, for the purposes of this article, it is the micro-trauma that allow us to burn more calories from fat over the next 24-48 hours.
When the body repairs itself, it needs more calories from its various energy sources to repair efficiently whilst also being able to continue with regular cognition and functionality. Thus, after having completed HIIT and needing to repair the micro-traunma, your metabolic rate – your calorie burning furnace – is higher than normal meaning that you will burn more calories over the 24 hour period than if you had sat still for the same period of rest without the previous HIIT session. This increase in energy output allows you to create a calorie deficit (consuming less calories in a day than you expend) more easily which is a primary rule for creating fat loss. If you consume under your daily calorie maintenance level for your body with an elevated calorie expenditure, due to the active HIIT session and the increased metabolic rate after the HIIT session, your body will use more of its stored sources of energy (such as body fat) to facilitate the daily functions and the micro-trauma repair.
As long as you perform HIIT with a good supply of carbohydrates stored in your muscles, and allow your muscles to rest and recover, this type of training will not seek to use too much of the hard earned muscle that you have accrued – in fact, it has been shown that HIIT can actually support or accentuate muscle development – and it will actively promote the reduction of stored body fat over time.
Reverting to my first sentence. Both LISS and HIIT are good methods of reducing body fat when performed in conjunction with a calorie controlled diet to enable a daily calorie deficit. Thus, it is then up to your own preference (whether you like or need to work hard for a short period or whether you prefer to keep your training gentle for a longer period of time) and work/life/play schedule as to which option you chose to burn any excess body fat that you have in store.
Chris James – Director, Head of Fitness and Nutrition at Fitness Body Pro


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September 3, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Over the weekend Joe and I made a video showcasing the sentry gun we made for defcon. See the defcon bot on the right side, or read the digg story
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Hey! Saw your sentry robot on MAKE:, cool stuff. Also, unrelated, but, I've heard the song you used in the video, but I can't put my finger on it. Who's it by? I have a feeling I would like more of their stuff.
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"The illegal lockout and dismissal affecting packing plant 90 workers this month is clearly an act of retaliation by Sumifru and a violation of the April 22 settlement."
By MARYA SALAMAT
MANILA – Barely three months since the workers of a Japanese-owned banana export company succeeded in pushing their management to drop the implementation of piece-rate wage scheme, the same management abruptly closed one of the packing plants and dismissed around 177 workers. The move is viewed as an act of retaliation done en masse against the workers who took part in resisting the piece-rate scheme.
The plant closure triggered a declaration of a strike by Nagkahiusang Mamumuo sa Suyapa Farm – National Federation of Labor Unions – Kilusang Mayo Uno (Namaufa-Naflu-KMU).
Namasufa-Naflu-KMU represents the rank and file workers of Packing Plant 90, the plant abruptly closed by SUMIFRU management. The union declared a strike on June 10 citing union busting.
On June 1, the said Packing Plant 90 was reportedly padlocked due to an alleged rent dispute between the landowner and Sumitomo Fruit Company (Sumifru). On June 3, the Packing Plant 90 workers were told to report for work on a nearby mini packing unit (MPU 230-A) pending resolution of the rent issue between the company and the landowner. But on June 8, company guards suddenly turned the workers away at the gate upon management's orders.
Retaliatory retrenchment
On March 23, Sumifru unilaterally began implementing the piece-rate payment system of wages in its packing plants in Compostela Valley. The alliance Banana Industry Growers and Workers Against Sumifru or BIGWAS, a cluster of banana packing plant unions, was formed in March in protest of the piece-rate payment scheme that slashed workers' wages by at least 50 percent.
On April 22, the workers' successive mass actions forced the suspension of the piece-rate scheme and the dispute was resolved through a compromise agreement.
The agreement stated that, among others, the piece-rate scheme is to be immediately revoked and there will be "no retaliatory actions against parties."
But according to Vicente Barrios, president of Namasufa-Nafku-KMU, the illegal lockout and dismissal affecting packing plant 90 workers this month is clearly an act of retaliation by SUMIFRU and a violation of the April 22 settlement.
In a statement emailed to the media last weekend, Barrios said the unions will not back down despite the Sumifru management's repeated attempts to bust them.
As of this writing Monday June 15, Barrios said the strike continues and that negotiations with the management bore no positive results yet.
In sympathy with the Namasufa strike, workers of Packing Plant 92 Workers Union reportedly did not report for work. Meanwhile, the unions in other packing plants under Bigwas have launched simultaneous mass actions pressing Sumifru to reinstate the 177 workers of Packing Plant 90.
Sumifru's union busting
The workers of the packing plants on strike and the other banana packing plants holding mass actions are no stranger to Sumifru's attempts at union busting and retrenchment.
Barrios said Sumifru has tried and failed several times to bust the unions in the banana packing plants in Compostela. In 2012, he said, Sumifru dismissed all workers of the two packing plants after accusing the workers of having deliberately damaged the produce with metal insertions into pieces of bananas.
But Sumifru failed to prove this and the workers were reinstated. Now, the same union members were fired a few months after they joined protest actions against wage cuts via new piece-rate payment system.
"Sumifru's incessant scheming shows that it is an incorrigible union buster and deserves the workers' and the people's utmost condemnation," Barrios said.
Barrios and the union of workers in the banana company have been struggling for better work conditions and benefits since 2000s. He had narrowly survived an attempt on his life in December 2006 while he and seven fellow unionists were on their way to work at the banana company. One of his colleagues, Jerson Lastimoso, died instantly of multiple gunshot wounds. Since 2004, the military had reportedly been pressuring Barrios to stop his union activities and to dissociate from KMU. In 2012, in hopes to put an end to threats on his life and union activities, Barrios and other union leaders had also sought ILO investigation.
Joel Cuyos, Bigwas spokesperson and president of the union at Packing Plant 95, described Sumifru as a dyed-in-the-wool union buster and traitor. He also said it has persistently attempted to destroy workers' unity in Compostela by circumventing labor laws and finding ways to break unions.
"This illegal lockout is only one of SUMIFRU's many crimes against the workers and just like how we defeated the piece-rate system, we will defeat this union busting scheme," Cuyos said.
Sumifru is adjudged "the number one player" in sourcing and exporting fruits such as bananas to China, Japan, Korea, Middle East, New Zealand and Russia. Starting operations in the Philippines in 1970s during Martial Law, it now has plantations in three regions covering 14,000 hectares. It has a totally integrated system of production with a research center, a cold chain, packaging plants, loading port and shipping facilities. It is also trying to expand to Bukidnon.


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A blended learning charter scheduled to open this fall in Fort Wayne will delay opening until the 2013-14 school year, reports Sarah Janssen for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
Carpe Diem Indiana announced Monday that opening the Fort Wayne campus, Carpe Diem-Summit, will be postponed because of delays in finalizing a lease agreement. Despite the delays, the school still hopes to locate at The Summit, a building on the former Taylor University campus, at 1025 W. Rudisill Blvd.
Carpe Diem-Summit was approved to model Carpe Diem-Meridian located in Indianapolis. The school would be run by Carpe Diem Learning Systems, an education management company based in Arizona. The Indiana Charter School Board approved the application for the Fort Wayne campus earlier this year with one key condition.
The school serving grades six through 12 was to show evidence by July 15 that its enrollment would fall between its break-even point and its goal of 130 students for the first year. The break-even number would likely be about 100 students.
But Janssen reported earlier this year that there's been pushback against Carpe Diem, with parents and community leaders questioning whether Fort Wayne needed the blended learning school.
In a statement, Carpe Diem CEO Rick Ogsten says the delay will give the school more time to explain its hybrid computer/classroom approach to learning. The charter company already operates a campus in Indianapolis, which Kyle wrote about last fall.


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TrackMania: Build to Race
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By making use of either your Wiimote or Wii Wheel, TrackMania: Build to Race gives players the opportunity to pilot racing cars at incredible speeds while also making use of a robust level editor, which gives you the ability to create an infinite number of levels. Featuring tracks full of ramps, loops, boosts, and blocks, the title includes more than two hundred varied environments and a plethora of game modes to choose from. Allowing for both local and online multiplayer, TrackMania gives you the ability to complete against your friends and join online players from around the world.
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
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Including all of the characters from both seasons of the critically-acclaimed and popular television series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as well as some addition fan-favorites from the original Star Wars saga, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars builds upon the creativity found in other LEGO games while adding a myriad of new battle modes, giving unique head-to-head combat opportunities and an upgraded level editor. Giving you the option to play either as a Jedi or Separatists with all-new character abilities, such as Squad command, Lightsaber slicing, Lightsaber jumps, and long distant attacks with the addition of a new heads-up display.
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Once in the mountains, a landslide started rumbling
towards us. I cried. "We are going to die!"
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3.3 The Causal or Spiritual World
Since the beginning of mankind, man has wondered
who he is, what he is doing here, and where he is going after death. He
looked at the outer world and fell in awe before the forces of nature. He
looked inside and discovered that he was more than a physical body. He experimented
with plants and with meditation, and found that he and his environment also
existed on other levels of consciousness. He passed on his knowledge orally
and later he wrote down his experiences. Thus his fellow human beings and
their descendants could learn about this, and on the basis hereof interpret
their own experiences.
The most basic distinction we can make in regards
to the make-up of man is that he consists of a personality, an individuality
and a divine essence.
There are several systems, doctrines, and philosophies
that have their own classification and names for the different bodies of
man. Aside from some minor details they all fit together in the following
basic schematic.
The physical body allows man to express himself
in the physical world. It is built out of cells, molecules and atoms, and
it needs food to survive. It is the most crystallized of al bodies, and
the most dense. The physical body is male or female, and this polarity plays
an immense role in the life of man.
The astral body is the body that allows us the experience
of emotions, lust, instincts, desires and so on.
The mental body allows us the experience of thoughts,
thinking, and rational processes. The intellect. It still has a form, but
not necessarily a human form. Its form is abstract and geometrical, although
it can take on an apparent physical form to make oneself recognizable on
the lower levels of existence.
The spiritual body allows us to experience the highest
forms of human manifestation. We could call it a cosmic body and it is close
to divine realm.
As man has different bodies, each body belongs to
a particular sphere of existence, or world. All the bodies are functioning
constantly, whether we are aware of them or not. In the daytime, consciousness
is centered in the physical body and the physical world. At night, when
the physical body rests, consciousness withdraws and shifts to the astral
level. Then consciousness is centered in the astral body and can move around
in the astral world. Usually it stays just 'outside' the physical body and
dreams. Occasionally it wanders around in the astral world, has a short
visit to the mental world, or converses with other astral beings.
The physical world is the most familiar of all world
as we spend most of our conscious life in it. The physical world is the
most crystallized and most dense of all the world. It allows us to act and
work with many different kind of energies, circumstances, actions, and learn
a lot about life in the universe. The physical world allows us to evolve.
It is not only the residence of physical beings like humans, but there are
many non-physical beings which are living in and working through the physical
The astral world has many levels and places, which
are the result of man's consciousness, but the astral world by itself has
certain characteristics.
The inhabitants in the mental world do not appear
in bodily forms, but more as thought forms, the appearance of which depends
on their mental development. On the physical and astral level life forms
express themselves in well defined forms. This is not the case on the mental
level. Here life forms are more abstract. Inhabitants usually wear a robe
or mantel of white light.
3.3 The Causal or Spiritual World
When the mental body has been shed, one arrives
at the causal or spiritual world. Peter Richelieu says that this world comprises
the sixth and seventh mental spheres. Here, past, present and future are
one. At the causal level one is shown a full record of his past lives, pointing
out where he failed and where he excelled, and what needs to be done in
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According to Taiwanese news reports, a 48-year-old Japanese man attempted to kill himself this weekend after an internet idol Zhou Yingxin announced her retirement. Thankfully, his attempt was unsuccessful.
Note: If you are ever considering taking your own life, please know that there are people who will listen and can help.
Taiwan News and the TV media report that on Saturday afternoon near Nankang Software Park, the man had stabbed himself in the stomach in what appears to be an attempted seppuku (ritual suicide). One passerby intervened, and according to Taiwan News, the wound was minor and not life-threatening. The man was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Internet celebrity Zhou Yingxin, aka Dora, was on hand at Nankang Software Park that day. With over one hundred Facebook followers, she often appeared at tech show and game promotional events as a booth companion or official cosplayer. This Saturday was her last public event, seeming to appear at a car-related show.
According to Taiwan News, the man told authorities he attempted suicide because Dora was retiring and would no longer be uploading photos or making public appearances. He had traveled to Taiwan to see her last public event.
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Newly discovered records by The Baltimore Post show that former Baltimore County Public Schools superintendent, Dr. S. Dallas Dance, had previously undisclosed ties with the ringleaders of an educational consulting firm scandal in Chicago.
Dance, who suddenly resigned his post on April 18, 2017, is reportedly under criminal investigation by the Maryland State Prosecutor for a similar scheme here.
The proprietors of the Chicago-based firm, SUPES Academy, conspired to pay Barbara Byrd-Bennett, the head of Chicago Public Schools, a 10% kickback for each school system contract she steered to the firm. (SUPES is a shorthand name for superintendent and not an acronym.)
The contracts totaled over $23 million.
Byrd-Bennett and her partners, Gary Solomon and Thomas Vranas, all pleaded guilty in federal court this spring and received sentences ranging from 18 months to seven years.
Ten days after Dance's sudden resignation, Byrd-Bennett was sentenced. And while Vranas and Byrd-Bennett entered the prison system in August, Solomon is scheduled to surrender to a state penitentiary later this week, right on the heels of reports about Dance's criminal investigation.
Late last week, sources revealed an investigation into a similar $875,000 no-bid contract that Baltimore County Public Schools had with the Chicago-based consulting firm. The contract was pushed by Dance five months after he was hired as the system's superintendent. Yet what was not publicly known at the time the contract was signed, was Dance's apparent ties to Byrd-Bennett, as well as Vranas and Solomon.
Dance and Byrd-Bennett apparently knew each other as early as 2011 when Dance, who was working at the Houston Independent School District, took a training course at SUPES Academy. He recalled in a 2015 interview that Byrd-Bennett was one of his most influential teachers. Dance called her "extremely genuine."
Events would later show that the two became good friends.
Dance started work at the Baltimore County job on July 1, 2012, and Chicago tabbed Byrd-Bennett as its leader on October 12, 2012. Six days later Dance tweeted, "Always feels good to a get a hug from Barbara Byrd-Bennett CEO of Chicago Public Schools! A great collaborative leader!"
A few weeks later, Dance would recommend the $875,000 no-bid SUPES Academy contract to Baltimore County's Board of Education contract committee. And at their December 4, 2012 meeting, the full Board approved it.
Presumably Byrd-Bennett was to receive a 10% kickback for this contract.
In 2013, The Baltimore Sun reported Dance's ties to the consulting firm, exposing his moonlighting as a master teacher for Chicago principals. Dance's financial disclosure forms did not disclose the position.
Dance resigned from the position after initially defending the side job.
But The Baltimore Post has found that Dance had apparently also worked for Synesi, a sister company of SUPES Academy at the time. Dance again did not list Synesi on his financial disclosure forms.
Synesi, a school-turnaround company, focused on fixing underperforming schools through the use of consultants and vendors. Its template – or "turnaround kit" – was written by Byrd-Bennett. In 2013, Synesi pitched its school consultant services to the Illinois State Board of Education, advertising Dance as one of its consultants and "recently engaged team members."
In 2013, then reporter for Catalyst Chicago, Sarah Karp, wrote the story that would lead to a federal investigation into SUPES Academy when she reported on a controversial $20 million sole-sourced contract for Chicago Public Schools. The report, later to be picked up by The Baltimore Sun, outed Dance as a consultant for SUPES Academy, triggering an ethics investigation by Baltimore County's ethics panel.
In 2014, the panel found Dance to be in violation of his contract for not disclosing the side job, but they failed to focus on the issue Maryland's State Prosecutor is now investigating: the $875,000 contract with SUPES Academy.
Further questions remain about travel expenses charged to Baltimore County Public Schools.
School system financial records obtained by The Post show that someone charged the school system in 2013 for multiple airline tickets, as well as for renting rooms at the upscale Hotel Sax in Chicago.
The charges, listed in school system records as five different billings, were made for trips between May and July around the time of some of the various SUPES Academy training sessions. The total cost of the hotel bills was $3,000.
The school system has ignored a request to release the documentation for these charges.
The Baltimore Post filed an open records request for the documents six months ago, but the school system did not respond. The Baltimore Post then filed a complaint with the Maryland Ombudsman on May 24 arguing that the school system is not complying with the state Public Information Act. That complaint is pending.
The school system's refusal to release its financial records follows at least two other instances over the last four years when school officials chose not to probe allegations of wrongdoing by Dance.
Two years ago, when news of the federal investigation in Chicago on SUPES Academy reached Baltimore news, David Uhlfelder, then school board chair, told The Baltimore Sun "I can't see any reason why the board should take a second look into the issue," he said. "It appears that the situation in Chicago is vastly different."
Lawrence E. Schmidt, former Board member and chair during the time Dance brought the SUPES Academy contract to the district, had said in 2013 that Dance should have received the Board's permission before taking the side job. Schmidt, however, had neglected to question the ethics of the superintendent working for a school system vendor, and failed to question the steps that led to the $875,000 contract with the consulting firm.
Both men have been widely criticized for foregoing objective data analysis in favor of praising Dance and his initiatives during Dance's five year tenure.
Schmidt did not respond to The Baltimore Post's request for comment.
Mr. Uhlfelder told The Post that he was among many Board members interviewed by the State Prosecutor's Office. He said that prosecutors also reviewed Larry Schmidt's lengthy December 2013 video comments on the matter, but that he was unsure if Schmidt had also been interviewed.
Uhlfelder said that prosecutors asked him questions related to Dance's 2014 ethics violation to "generally try to understand the Board's thought process at the time." He said that he told the prosecutors that the matter had been "reviewed by the ethics review panel and that he believed it was an ethical problem and not a criminal problem."
Uhlfelder then said about SUPES, "what I do remember is that it involved some kickback to pay somebody in the education system." He then went on to say that the situation in Chicago was different than the one in Baltimore County because, he said, "to my knowledge, Dallas Dance never received any money. And if he if he had received any money," Uhlfelder continued, "it would have gone to enhance the Education Foundation."
In December of 2013, Dance told The Baltimore Sun that he planned "to donate $10,000 of the $15,000 he is earning from SUPES to the Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools." He said "the rest would go to pay for his travel expenses to and from Chicago."
Baltimore County's Education Foundation accepts donations used to provide financial resources for programs to support Baltimore County Public School scholarships and initiatives.
Last week The Baltimore Sun reported that school officials had not received any money from Dance's SUPES earnings. When told this by The Post, Uhlfelder said "I would hope that he would have honored his commitment."
A spokesman for Maryland State Prosecutor Emmet Davitt said that the office could not confirm nor deny if Dance was under investigation, but that press releases are issued when there are developments that lead to prosecutions.
A call to the Illinois State Prosecutor's office was not immediately returned.
Dallas Dance did not respond to The Post with comment.


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This is a bona fide masterpiece. It would probably be on my Top 100 if I made one. Blacklisted director Jules Dassin (who appears here as the Italian safecracker) hadn't worked in 5 years, and took this job for the money. Then he took a novel which François Truffaut describes as the worst noir book he ever read and turned it into one of the best noir films ever made. It is the granddaddy of all heist films, and centers around a famous 28-minute scene with no dialogue and no music. The tension is fabulous. The photography is amazing. Everything about it works, on every level.
I was amazed to find that Dassin is still alive! As of today (2/9/07) he's 95, and living in Greece. He worked a lot before the HUAC insanity, but infrequently afterward, and not at all after 1980. I've only seen two of those later films, but both were classics: Pote tin Kyriaki (Never on Sunday), and Topkapi, in which he topped the heist in Rififi, but this time just for fun.


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Although he was born in Denver, Colorado, Roger H. Ogden, who grew up in Shreveport and Lafayette, considers himself to be an "honorary Cajun."
Growing up, Ogden felt such a strong connection to the state that his earliest career aspiration — which led him to study at LSU — was to someday be the governor of Louisiana.
Ogden, an ambitious entrepreneur, civic leader, and philanthropist, may well have ended up in the Governor's Mansion if not for the cautionary counsel of Senator Russell Long, whom Ogden developed a close friendship with during a college internship in D.C.
"He was a great mentor, and he spent hours with me talking about life in public service," Ogden said. "One time, he spread his arms wide like he was talking about a fish he caught and said, 'You go into it with the biggest ideals and you want to accomplish this much,' … then, he brought his hands down to an inch apart and said, 'At the end of a successful career, you can do about this much.'"
Through Senator Long and through his student government experiences, Ogden began to understand that a career in business could allow him to have more influence than he could hope for as a politician; for one thing, entrepreneurs don't have to worry about getting reelected.
"[Senator Long said] if you go out and you live a good, honest, hardworking life in business … and give your resources to others, you can accomplish more than you can as one person in one elective office," he said.
And Ogden has certainly accomplished a lot. He has lived in New Orleans for over thirty years, where he owns Ogden Development and Investments and serves on the Board of Directors for Stirling Properties, which he co-founded.
As a commercial real estate developer, Ogden has been part of the development and acquisition of more than $450 million in properties, including the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel, the Shops at Canal Place, and the Loews New Orleans Hotel.
But Ogden did not stop his dedication to public service. He has worked with numerous non-profit organizations throughout his illustrious career. In 1993, he donated over 1,000 works of art to establish the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the largest collection of Southern art in the nation.
Despite his many activities in the community, Ogden's undying passion for the Tigers remains evident. He was elected to the LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction in 1998 and he also served on the LSU Board of Supervisors for fourteen years, helping to launch the Flagship Agenda, which helped LSU achieve its current Tier 1 status.
He speaks of LSU with a fondness in his voice that is only surpassed when he starts talking about his son, Dr. Roger "Field" Ogden II, an orthopedic surgeon who recently joined the Honors College Advisory Council and in whose name Ogden donated $1 million to establish the Roger Hadfield Ogden Deanship in the Honors College.
"My son is a truly good person … Parenting can only affect that so much; it's either there or it's not," he said. "And it is his innate goodness that influences me to continue to strive to be — if there were such a word — 'gooder.'"
In many ways, the University is like Ogden's second child. From serving as student body president in 1967 to hosting recruiting receptions in his own home for the Honors College last year, he has personally sought to contribute to LSU's development and growth his entire adult life.
"As you hear so many alums say, young and old, LSU was the best four years of my life," he said. "I believe that the more we improve LSU, the more it will rise the tide of the other universities in the nation, not detract from them, and it will rise the tide of our state."
Ogden has done more than his share to support the state's flagship university — especially its Honors College, which he views as "one of the foremost strategies" to stem "brain drain" in Louisiana education.
"I support it because of what I think it means," he said. "With a robust, innovative Honors College program, we then can compete for those students in our state who have opportunities to go to Ivy League schools … We now have a program that can sort of give them the best of all worlds: students can take small, tutorial-style classes in the atmosphere of a big flagship university."
Thanks in no small part to Ogden's generosity, the LSU Honors College has grown exponentially over the last five years, but Ogden knows there is still work to be done.
"Every year, we have a number of major competitive national scholars … We are now attracting some of the best and the brightest students from Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and from nations around the world, and now we have the opportunity to entice those outstanding minds to stay in Louisiana," he said. "But we can't let our foot off the gas pedal — we need to keep pressing it down."
It is fitting that today, his name — which is attached to a museum and multiple corporations — signifies more than his own identity. Through his ongoing service to LSU and to Louisiana, Ogden has established a lasting legacy that is marked just as much by his philanthropy as by his remarkable personal accomplishments.
"Real success is not measured by how much you're worth, success is that which we can leave behind when we're gone," he said. "You can't take titles or money with you — that has a shelf life … I want to leave this world with more than I took from it."
And despite the magnitude of his fortune, Ogden has done an admirable job of keeping his success in perspective.
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The move comes after President Obiang called last month for dialogue and political interaction with opposition groups
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea: Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Wednesday announced a "total amnesty" for all political prisoners and opposition figures banned from political activity, according to a decree read on national television.
"I grant total amnesty to all citizens condemned by the courts … for political offences in the exercise of their activity, serving or not serving their sentence," the presidential decree said.
The move comes after President Obiang, who has ruled the oil-rich former Spanish colony since 1979, called last month for "dialogue and political interaction" with opposition groups.
Five political parties had signalled their willingness to take part in a national dialogue in July if their security was ensured.
The amnesty "must allow wide participation of all political actors", according to the president, and guarantee "security" for those taking part in talks with international observers present.
The amnesty will also be granted to people "deprived of their liberty or prevented from exercising their political rights," the decree said.
Obiang's decades in power have been strongly criticised for corruption and human rights abuses.
His proposal for national talks came after a failed coup last December — one of more than half a dozen attempts to unseat him over the years — that was followed by a crackdown on the opposition.
The now-banned Citizens for Innovation party (CI) said Tuesday that opposition figure Juan Obama Edu, who was jailed for "sedition", had been tortured to death in prison earlier this week.


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It was just over a year ago now that Canada's women strode confidently to Germany to take part in the World Cup. Ranked number 6 in the world and with plenty of good results behind them and with a seemingly unbreakable belief in themselves and coach Carolina Morace, there was serious optimism. We know how that ended. An honourable loss to the Germans followed by two unbelievably limp losses to France and Nigeria saw the team return home pointless, Morace leaving amid a sudden denunciation of her methods.
A new era was started under John Herdman, gold at the 2011 Pan-Am games was followed by a successful qualification tournament in Vancouver and we're heading to
London , actually make that the infinitely less exciting Coventry, but still.
Of course that tournament also showed how far Canada still have to go when taking on the top teams, as the US crushed them 4-0 in the final. The tendency to beat the teams they should, but not being able to up their game against the best is a pattern that has repeated itself in the games Canada has played since.There's been plenty of wins, but also defeats to the US again, France, Sweden and Brazil (though they did beat Brazil in another game), which all suggests a very predictable tournament for Big Red.
An opening game against World Cup champions Japan will more than likely end in a loss, the second game against South Africa should be a win (hopefully they can be ruthless as goal difference could well be crucial) and the final group game against Sweden will be the one that really determines the success of the tournament. Get a result there to clinch one of the top 2 spots and there's a good chance Canada could get a favourable quarter final game that could see them get to the semi final. A loss to Sweden will more than likely mean 3rd place in the group, and if that is good enough to qualify (the top 2 of each group and the 2 best 3rd place finishers qualify) it'll be a tough match up and more than likely a quarter final exit, which is how it all went down in Beijing in 2008.
To state the blindingly obvious, the key player for Canada's chances of overachieving and sneaking a medal out of this is Christine Sinclair. She'll have to be at her best when it counts, which sadly isn't a given as, as dominant as she can be against weaker teams, she often seems unable to put the team on her shoulders and really make a difference in the big games.
There's two main reasons for that, the biggest being that all the other teams of course know all about her, and the defensive focus is always on stopping her. That's where the rest of the team has to step up and make the opposition pay for that focus. If the likes of Diana Matheson, Melissa Tancredi or Kaylyn Kyle can take advantage of the extra space they'll get, that will not only help Canada, but also bring a little more room for Sinclair to do her thing.
Another thing that can stop Sinclair is her tendency to drop further back in an effort to gain possession when things are going wrong. It's a double edged sword of course as staying in position up front without getting any service doesn't help, but dropping back to actually get the ball can leave Canada looking toothless up front. Basically, while Sinclair is the woman that everything revolves round, even she can't do it all by herself, and support in the atttack from the rest of the team will be crucial.
When it comes to keeping the goals out, that'll start in midfield with Desiree Scott and Sophie Schmidt. They will have their hands full with Japan's Homare Sawa in the first game and will have a big part to play throughout the tournament, along with Candace Chapman and the rest of the defence. In goal, Karina Leblanc and Erin Mcleod are a solid couple of options that won't let anyone down, but Canada may well need whoever gets the start to stand on their head at some point in the tournament to steal a game.
If they hope to beat their quarter final showing from 2008, and maybe win a medal, Canada will have to upset at least one of the more fancied teams.They'll have to find the mental fortitude that so deserted them at the World Cup, and combine that with some luck, a great performance from Sinclair, and plenty of support from the rest of the squad. Though history suggests it's unlikely, and if forced to guess I'd predict a quarter final exit, it's by no means impossible. This article from Canada.com shows the players are once again full of belief and love for their coach, hopefully Herdman's new methods and attention to detail will make a difference. Get to the knockout stages and anything can happen.