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In Hpa-an District, there are many armed groups operating, including the Tatmadaw, Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), Border Guard Force (BGF),[1] KNU/KNLA-Peace Council (KNU/KNLA-PC)[2] and the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA).[3] The multiplicity of actors in Hpa-an District contributes to the complexity and variety of human right abuses documented by KHRG.
Drug production, sale and use
In 2013, KHRG continued to receive reports concerning the production, sale and use of methamphetamines in Hpa-an District, particularly in Nabu Township. In fact, villagers in Hpa-an District have consistently identified the sale and use of drugs and the subsequent social problems in their district as one of their primary concerns. Furthermore, KHRG has received an increased number of reports concerning narcotics since the 2012 preliminary ceasefire;[4] this has been attributed to the increased cooperation amongst armed groups and the increase in the number of areas accessible to KHRG community members. In Hpa-an District, methamphetamine, commonly referred to by its Thai name yaba,[5] is produced and sold by state and ethnic armed groups, causing villagers to fear addressing the issue publicly due to documented incidents of violent retribution or even death. Methamphetamine is widely available in Hpa-an District and KHRG has received numerous reports of its negative social impacts, including addiction, mental health issues and financial hardship, as well as violent incidents, including killings, threats and intimidation.
According to reports KHRG has received, methamphetamine is most commonly produced in Nabu Township by BGF Battalion #1016, led by Battalion Commander Mya Hkaing.[6] The drugs are then distributed and sold throughout Hpa-an District, most commonly by KNU/KNLA-PC, BGF and DKBA soldiers, their wives and relatives. Yaba is readily available and is openly sold during local festivals, specifically during Ar Wer Day.[7] Soldiers themselves commonly use methamphetamines and villagers are often reluctant to implicate or even speak with KHRG regarding armed groups' involvement in the narcotics trade due to fear of violent reprisals. At a meeting initiated by a KHRG community member on May 13th 2013, in Yaw Kuh village tract, Nabu Township, villagers voiced their concerns that:
"The k'thee k'thay [methamphetamine tablets] destroys our children, husbands and destroys many of our children and grandchildren. There are some people who became crazy because of k'thee k'thay; some lost their farms and some lost their motorbikes. We dare not submit this issue to any armed group because the armed groups do it [manufacture and sell the drug]. There are also some villagers who have good relationships with the armed groups, and the armed groups provide them with [permission] documents that allow them to sell k'thee k'thay. The armed group that established the [permission] documents for selling k'thee k'thay is the BGF. If we speak openly, there are five groups that use the drug and sell the drug in our area. They are the Tatmadaw, KNLA, DKBA, KNU-KNLA-PC and the BGF. None of them do not do it. So, we dare not speak carelessly. If we were to say so, we are afraid that people would come and kill us. We do not want it [the drug], but we cannot do [anything]."
Villagers, Yaw Kuh village tract, Nabu Township, Hpa-an District
(Received in July 2013)[8]
The widespread use of methamphetamines and its social impacts are reflected in several reports KHRG has received of drug fuelled rampages where villagers have had to fear for their safety. For example, on February 11th 2013, DKBA Officer Maw Bee Aye, intoxicated from methamphetamines, returned to A--- village in Nabu Township and randomly fired his gun throughout the village. Although villagers were afraid, they dared not report or speak about the incident. In another incident, on February 16th 2013, in B--- village, Nabu Township, Saw C---, who had been using yaba, came back to the village and destroyed a substantial amount of villagers' property and killed several farm animals.[9]
KHRG has consistently received reports from villages relating their frustration over their inability to stop the sale and production of drugs in their area. The sale of methamphetamines can be quite lucrative for some villagers, which can impede efforts to eradicate the sale of drugs in local villages, and as one female villager from Htee Hpoh Kyaw village tract noted, "You can get half of your profits by selling methamphetamines".[10] Some women are worried about their children as people can find drugs easily around the villages and they worry for the young people who are using those drugs. However, villagers often reported feeling like they cannot do anything to protect themselves and their family. One villager stated, "Even the village head and village tract leader, they can't…[do anything about the drug problem]…as people who sell them have oh daw aner."[11] One of the KNLA Battalion #101 military intelligence officers voiced his concern that if they take action to stop this it could reignite conflict between armed groups, so instead they just stay quiet and do nothing. Most of the villagers KHRG talked to reported wanting to stop drugs from being sold in their village, however they felt helpless when having to interact with armed groups which can be dangerous.
For example, on March 11th 2013, a 16-year-old student from D--- village, Nabu Township was killed by BGF soldiers after approaching them in order to reclaim property which he had traded for drugs. After confessing to his father that he had sold his motorbike for yaba, his father insisted he buy back the motorbike for 90,000 kyat (US $87.67).[12] The student met with the soldiers and asked for his motorbike back, however, worried that the information would appear publicly, the soldiers arrested him and then beat him to death with a brick.[13] Less than three weeks later, on March 27th 2013, a 62-year-old villager from E--- village, Htoh Kaw Koh village tract, Nabu Township was killed after confronting BGF Battalion #1016 soldiers about the sale of methamphetamines in her village. She told the soldiers that, "You all are Burma's [Tatmadaw] people. You became rich because you sell k'thee k'thay. I don't respect you." She argued with BGF soldiers and then four of Battalion Commander Mya Khaing's soldiers killed her in E--- village at the riverside by tying her neck with rope and stoning her to death.
Landmines and restrictions on the freedom of movement
Although landmines continued to pose a threat to villagers in Hpa-an District during 2013, particularly in Nabu Township, villagers in Paingkyon Township reported feeling safer from landmines than in previous years. Landmines were a common defensive strategy used by armed groups in Hpa-an District and landmines were planted in villagers' plantations, gardens or farms where armed groups believed opposing armed groups would operate.
In Paingkyon Township, villagers reported that they can safely go and cut trees in forested areas outside their village for building and repairing their houses and that there were no new landmines planted in their area. Villagers reported that existing KNLA, BGF and Tatmadaw landmines are marked by the villagers for safety. Landmines were planted within specific areas and villagers asked the KNLA, BGF and Tatmadaw for the location of those landmines so villagers would be able to mark and notify people of those places.[14]
In contrast, landmines planted prior to the 2012 preliminary ceasefire, as well as those reported to be planted after by the BGF and DKBA, continued to pose a threat to villagers in Nabu Township during 2013. Villagers reported feeling unsafe to cut trees and gather wood or bamboo in forested areas around their village in order to repair their houses.[15] For example, on January 20th 2013, Saw F--- stepped on a landmine in G--- village, which resulted in his leg being amputated. The landmine was new and was reportedly planted by the DKBA.[16] Villagers in Nabu Township strategize by cutting down their own mango, jackfruit and marian trees, as well as other trees that they have planted in their gardens. Villagers mentioned that armed groups did not inform the villagers when they planted landmines, nor did they remember the locations.
Land confiscation
During 2013, KHRG continued to receive reports from rural villagers concerning new and ongoing land issues. Local villagers reported that land confiscation was still occurring and that they had not received compensation for land that had been appropriated prior to 2013. As a consequence, villagers experienced problems earning their livelihoods and KHRG has received several reports of villagers having to sell their possessions to buy back their confiscated land.
For example, in H--- village, Taw Soh village tract, Paingkyon Township, two BGF officers confiscated approximately 20 acres of land from two villagers. Although, both Naw I--- and Naw J--- held official land grants provided by the Burma/Myanmar government, BGF Battalion #1020 officers Boh Kyaw Hay and Boh Kya Aye told them, "Your land grant is illegal, so we will take your lands." The officers demanded the women pay a total of 1,100,000 kyat (US $1,071.60) for the return of the land. The women negotiated with soldiers, but ultimately sold their personal belongings in order to pay for the return of their land. Naw I--- had to sell her gold and Naw J--- had to sell one of her motorbikes, after which their land was returned to them.[17]
In Nabu Township, villagers actively sought back access to their farmlands and plantations that had been confiscated prior to 2013. In May 2013, villagers in K--- village went to get land grant documents at the Burma/Myanmar Kawkareik administrative office in order to be able to work on their farms again. When they brought their land documents back and showed them to Tatmadaw Light Infantry Battalion (LIB)[18] #548's battalion commander, he accused the documents of being fake and denied the villagers access to their land saying it was now military land. In K--- village, there are 30 households and 150 people whose lands were confiscated by the army and they have been staying in the K--- village monastery garden ever since. There were over 1,000 acres of land that were confiscated by Tatmadaw LIB #547, 548 and 549.[19]
Arbitrary taxation and demands
In 2013, KHRG continued to receive reports concerning arbitrary taxation practiced by armed groups and religious leaders. Particularly, villagers identified BGF Battalion #1015, led by Cantonment Area Commander Kya Aye[20] in Paingkyon Township, as one of the primary perpetrators.[21] However, villagers in Paingkyon Township have used negotiation as a successful strategy in reducing the amount of tax paid to armed groups.
For example, Cantonment Area Commander Kya Aye directly orders his soldiers to collect taxes on cows that have been traded. A pair of cows are taxed 10,000 kyat (US $10.13) at checkpoints set up in L--- village, Paw Yay Poo village tract and M--- village, Meh Pra Hkee village tract, Paingkyon Township. For this reason, villagers mentioned that they do not receive a lot of profit from trading their livestock. Villagers strategized by lobbying the BGF to reduce the tax on traded livestock, which was later approved.
Furthermore, BGF Battalion #1015 soldiers forced villagers to pay taxes on their telephone lines once per year. For those who own or have set up a phone line with a tall antenna, they collect 30,000 kyat (US $29.22) per phone owner every year in every village that has telephones in Paingkyon Township. Some villagers do not want to pay the telephone tax to the BGF soldiers, so they told the BGF soldiers that, because they have to plant paddy or harvest crops, they do not have time to use the telephone often. Again, villagers were able to negotiate with BGF Battalion #1015 to reduce the amount of taxes paid.
BGF Battalion #1015 also demands taxes on boats, cars and tractors each year. In Paingkyon Township Cantonment Area Commander Kya Aye instructed his soldiers to collect 5,000 kyat (US $4.70) for each boat in every village and village tract when possible. Each truck is taxed 50,000 kyat (US $48.71) per year. For hand tractors, Cantonment Area Commander Kya Aye collects 10,000 kyat (US $9.74) each year.
Villagers also reported being subjected to arbitrary taxation by religious groups in Hpa-an District.Villagers reported being forced to provide donations, as well as having to build roads and pagodas under monks' orders. One villager told KHRG "If we don't go, if we don't give [the] money that they asked [for], the money collectors told us that if you die, you will call monks.[22] As a result, we have to do [it]. We cannot avoid doing [the labour] as well as providing donations."[23]
Forced labour
In 2013, KHRG received fewer reports concerning forced labour in Hpa-an District, due to the 2012 preliminary ceasefire. However, KHRG received several reports concerning forced labour involving Tatmadaw LIB #547, #548 and #549 in Nabu Township and BGF Battalion #1015 in Paingkyon Township.
On May 25th 2013, a villager from N--- village, Htoh Kaw Koh village tract, Nabu Township reported to a KHRG community member that, they are still subjected to forced labour in their area. He added:
"[Tatmadaw] LIB #547's commander offered [ordered] me to plough and work his farmland and I replied to him that the land that you use it is not yours, you just grab from villagers and those lands are already transfer back to the land owners. He said that it is illegal land so we [Tatmadaw LIB #547] will still keep it because it is still belongs to [military] camp area. He came and asked me one day, two or three times, to go and work his farmland. So me and some villagers decided to go and help him for one day and bring along our four tractors."
Villager, N--- village, Htoh Kaw Koh village tract, Nabu Township
(Received in July 2013)[24]
Village heads in O--- and P--- villages, Nabu Township, reported similar stories about forced labour and both villages worked only one day and brought their tractors as well. According to a KHRG community member, it is not only LIB #547 which ordered forced labour, but also LIB #548 and #549 as well.
Furthermore, on October 26th 2013, Q--- village, Pee T'Hka village tract, Paingkyon Township, BGF #1015 Cantonment Area Commander Kya Aye forced villagers to cut trees and bamboo and to construct a stage for an event.[25]
Extrajudicial killings
On June 11th 2013, Cantonment Area Commander Kya Aye ordered the arbitrary execution of a family in R--- village, Pee T' Ka village tract, Paingkyon Township. The killings of Saw S---, his wife and two daughters, the youngest of which was 13 years old, were committed by six soldiers from BGF Battalion #1015 under the direct orders of Cantonment Area Commander Kya Aye. The killings were ordered over accusations that Saw S--- had been practicing black magic. No investigation into these accusations was carried out. Saw S--- and his family were executed without question and their bodies, hut and belongings were set on fire. Soldiers also took two gold necklaces and a small amount of money from the victims' hut.[26]
On April 26th and 27th 2013, fighting broke out between the DKBA and BGF in Myaing Gyi Ngoo town, Hlaingbwe Township, injuring two children. Naw T---, who was one year and six months old at the time, and Saw U---, who was 20 days old at the time were both injured while they were sleeping inside the house during the skirmish. The elders went outside of the house to check the situation after hearing the sound of gunfire and at that time a bullet went into the house from the roof, which landed in the room where the children were sleeping. Naw T--- was injured on her head and her ear. She also received two wounds on her back from being struck by a bullet fragment. Saw U--- was hit on his face and his calf. In order for his grandchildren's injuries to be healed, U V--- went to Hpa-an Hospital, which cost him 400,000 kyat (US $389.67). BGF Major General Maung Maung, provided 30,000 kyat (US $30.71) as compensation. Both children fully recovered from their injuries.[27]
Right to education
According to a KHRG community member, the Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI) came and built a school and supported education in Nabu Township. However, villagers have raised their concerns related to the school curriculum, as the Karen language is not taught in the school and the Karen flag is not allowed to be flown. Some of the villagers reflected on the situation and asked, "We live in a Karen village, we are the Karen ethnic group, so why can't we learn Karen literature and why can't we fly the Karen flag? We can only fly the Burmese flag and it means we are under control of the Burmese people. We have many Karen armed groups and I would like to tell them to take action in order for us to be able to learn our own language and to be able to fly our own flag at our village school as we are the Karen ethnic group."[28]


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SO- I'm just gonna jump right back in so that things aren't awkward, you cool with that? :0)~
This little ditty is in response to a come to Jesus that an internet phenom fat-shamer recently posted....Ms. Maria Kang! the "No excuses" size 0 shit talker? (google it) Long story short, she was a pageant princess @ 16, had a couple kids, (still young) stayed skinny until age and life got the best of her and she went from fat-shamer to the ultimate "embrace your curves" spokesperson. Basically, what this means, is --- small victory my friends! YUP! A Judge Judy has eaten her words because experience slapped her on the ass with a couple of extra lb's and some dimples and said...suck on that. I, for one, am proud of her for owning that shit! You go Maria!
You know what? ...... FUCK THAT!! Let's stop an applaud her for a moment.....
This little come to Jesus got me thinking about all of the Judge Judy's and how it must SUCK to live up to their own expectations? I only know how much it sucked to live up to mine (when I had soooooo FUCKING MANY OF THEM)!! GEEEZUS...it was EXHAUSTING!
Well, my friends! There is nothing quite as eye opening as Karma...and, ummmm...life..really... I mean it. There is nothing like getting injected with a dose of reality that you never even knew existed to snap your ass to the place you needed to be anyway.
Badmom has had an interesting year to say the least. EVERYTHING I thought I knew about Life and kids, and people in general, has been eradicated!! HO-LY SHITBALLZ.
Back to the fat-shamer!...Honestly(ashamed to admit)--- I used to do a little (lot) of this. YUP- Worked my ass off to be a size 6- I was hungry, angry, tired and hungry..did I already say that?...Well, in my defense, I was pretty hungry...
I take it ALL back.
Every... single... word.
There's nothing quite like that 35+ year old, stress induced, child bearing, working your ass off, hella tired now, metabolism to snap your sorry unsuspecting ass back to reality! She's about a FUCKING BITCH, IDN'T SHE? HOLY SHIT?!?!?!
I have often struggled with the grape or raisin theory. I am no spring chicken anymore... so, do I want to plump up a little bit and have amazing skin and no wrinkles, or do I want to kill myself at the gym and starve to death (not really) to look like a raisin.... Well much like our favorite WWW. fatshamer, after much deliberation, I have decided that somewhere in the middle is the way to go.
I've decided that a good compromise is this: talk shit about my fat ass and I will punch you in the face! I know- I'm working on it! You're lucky I'm not hungry right now!
There you go! Happy fucking medium right there!
If I can offer any little bit of "advice" (<-- I HATE that word....just so ya know...but I can't think of another one right now) The fact is, we all have good days and bad days. There's gonna be wine and chips and there's gonna be yoga & hummus. I am okay with being ALIVE. not just breathing...but truly being alive. If badmom has learned ANYTHING at all in the past years its this:
Life is short...and, no matter how hard you try, you can't control everything...so hear this my friends. Do the best you can- The best you can is good!! It's never going to be enough for everyone- but who gives a SHIT? it's enough for someone.... I promise. Hold your head up, whether you're a size 2 or not or whether your make the best mac and cheese or the best reservations, OWN it. OWN you. NOBODY is perfect. I know it's easier said than done- and it's even harder in a social media, minute by minute update kinda world. But it's also important to understand that we are all fighting our own battles....we are all winning some, and losing some. :) Do what makes you happy. Be your own version of happy and healthy. :) Remember this: You're no good to anyone else until you're good to yourself.
Cheers to a prosperous 2017 and all of the blessings that fucking come with it, sunshine <3 ... and don't forget to smile (when it's real):) ...oh and breathe....'cause breathing is hella important. :0)~

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Hurricane Sandy wasn�t even a near miss.
Hurricane Sandy wasn�t even a near miss.
The storm passed Onslow, Carteret, Pender and Craven counties over the weekend on its northbound track, leaving rain and wind in its wake, but no damage, officials said.
Beach towns from Topsail Island to the Crystal Coast reported the good news-bad news combination of no structure damage, but some beach erosion.
Sandy was headed toward a landfall along the New Jersey coast late Monday, but Southeastern North Carolina was still experiencing cloudy and windy conditions. The National Weather Service expects windy conditions, with gusts possibly up to 40 mph, to persist through Wednesday.
There were no reports of significant erosion along Carteret County beaches, said Greg Rudolph, director of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office.
�The beach impacts were very much in-line to what we predicted,� he said. �Very high water during the high tides, which was enhanced by the full moon which in some places resulted in the berm being soaked with a thin sheet of sea water.�
Rudolph said the key was that the northeast quadrant of the storm � where a hurricane�s maximum winds are located � was well offshore.
�Of course Down East is a different animal altogether � there is a lot more surge from the wind that blows Pamlico Sound water from the north to the south and into Down East,� he said.
Waves peaked at about 10 near New River Inlet, according to the nearest offshore buoy placed by Shoreline Protection.
�Bottom line is that the beaches appeared to have fared as expected and are in relatively good shape,� Rudolph said, adding that a beach nourishment project in the works for Pine Knoll Shores and Emerald Island for early next year.
High winds were expected to continue into today in Carteret County and officials urged residents and visitors to remain cautious, especially motorists traveling on Down East roads, said Jo Ann Spencer, deputy director of Carteret County Emergency Services.
In Onslow County, there was considerable erosion at the north end of Topsail Island, said Onslow County Emergency Services Director Norman Bryson.
�There is some sand removal that will need to be done at several of the county owned beach accesses,� he said. �Sand replacement will need to occur at these sites as well.�
North Topsail Beach officials were still measuring the sand erosion Monday afternoon.
�We did very well overall,� said interim Town Manager Karen Faulkner, adding the town has a dredging project that will place sand on the beach beginning Nov. 16.
Faulkner said there was over wash in some areas of the town, especially the already vulnerable north end, but a $2 million privately-funded sandbag project staved off property damage. The town had little debris and no structure damage.
Towns throughout Onslow County reported much of the same. The impact of the storm was minimal in Onslow County with Swansboro, Jacksonville, Holly Ridge and Richlands reported no damage to residential, business, or government property. There are no reports of damage in the unincorporated areas of the county.
�While there appeared to be no signs of wind damage or flooding in most of these communities, North Topsail Beach did show some evidence of storm surge,� Bryson said. �Several houses on the extreme north end of the island experienced storm surge which ran underneath the structures; however, there was no sign of water running into the houses themselves.� Surges were as high as four feet in some areas of the town.
There were some minor roof leaks in a few buildings on Camp Lejeune as of Monday afternoon, in addition to several reported cases of power outages in buildings across the base.
�(The outages were) probably caused by tree limbs hitting electrical lines,� Camp Lejeune spokesman Nat Fahy said.


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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Drawing from Hope Railey's most excellent workshop..
9 comments:
- J.S. said...
Fantastic drawings! Wish I could take a view over your shoulders...
- January 17, 2010 at 12:11 PM
- AztcFireFlower said...
Great studies Kevin, esp. the last fig in ...10 minutes!!!! Awesome.
- January 24, 2010 at 7:39 AM
- Em said...
beautiful faces, kev! when will you be back in SF? Will be taking an illustrative oil painting class with Irys this semester, taught by francis livingston. hopefully I'll be able to dish out some good pieces. Haha. keep up the awesome work man!
- January 26, 2010 at 3:37 AM
- Natalie Italiano said...
Nice drawings kevin! I'd love to see the plane head diagram (drawing? ) that you said you don't mind sharing. Thanks
- January 27, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Antti Rautiola said...
I really like your handling of the line.
Keep up the good work!
- February 7, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- RYAN said...
WOW. I mean WOW! You scare me man. I'm in burbank now. If you are in the LA area, drop me a line.
- February 10, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Pauline said...
One of my favourite places to visit on earth....back again! Hi Kevin...!!!
- March 1, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Danielle-Timcke said...
Your work is beautiful :) I really enjoy looking at it. I hope that I can learn from you and improve my own work.
Keep it up!
- March 2, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- Alison said...
I just nominated you for the sunshine award. Just go to my blog to receive it.
- March 4, 2010 at 12:40 PM


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After looking at too many unacceptable (and unaffordable) apartments, you have finally found one you can live with (and in). Now it is time for the lease signing.
Do not rush through this process. Read the document closely as many landlords still rely largely upon a standard lease form, which is often designed to protect the landlord more than the tenant.
[Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post was published in 2013 and has been updated with new information in July 2018.]
"My advice to clients is first and foremost, it is a legal document, obligating them to all the terms and conditions in there. It's essential to read that document and have someone with more experience—not necessarily a lawyer, but it could be parents—look at it as well," says Gary Malin, president of Citi Habitats, one of the largest rental brokerages in New York, and a licensed attorney.
Malin says that there is not a lot of negotiating room when it comes to leases. "Some landlords have done hundreds, thousands of leases, and their lease is their lease, so you either can live with those terms or you can't."
Mark Hakim, an attorney in the real estate practice of Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas, says it depends on the market. "In a market which favors the landlord, the renter will be stuck with what the landlord has to offer. In a softening market with high vacancies, renters will control negotiations ever so slightly," he says.
So, while some, most, or all of what you're about to sign may or may not be negotiable, you should at least know what you're signing up for before you sign on the dotted line.
Here are 14 issues to keep an eye on:
1. The essentials
Make sure the rent you agreed to is actually stipulated in the lease, with the date commencing and ending stated properly. Double check the address and apartment number. Check the date each month the rent is due. Make sure the correct security deposit is stated. "People are sometimes in a hurry, and mistakes get made," Malin says.
2. Renewal clauses and renewal policies
If your lease has an option to renew for one or more years, check to see if there is an escalation clause, which would raise the rent in subsequent years and is typically based on a fixed dollar amount, a percentage of the first year's rent, or cost of living increases.
"You spent time, money, and energy getting this apartment, and that first year goes by very quickly," Hakim says. If you already know you want to spend more than a year there, try to negotiate now and set the rent increase for the second and/or third year so you know it will be a reasonable rate, and you are less exposed to a bigger hike, he advices.
Also, review the renewal terms carefully. If it states you need to give a renewal 90 days in advance by certified mail, simply calling the landlord's office and telling them you want to renew won't cut it.
"Instead of the agreed upon 3 percent increase, he may now come back with an 8 percent increase, saying you didn't give proper certified mail notice," Hakim explains.
The same applies for termination, or opt-out provisions.
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Brick Underground's Gross Rent Calculator enables you to easily calculate your gross rent, make quick apples-to-apples comparisons between apartments and avoid expensive surprises. All you'll need to figure out your gross rent is 1) the net effective rent, 2) the length of your lease, and 3) how many free months your landlord is offering. [Hint: Bookmark this page for easy reference!]
To learn more about net effective versus gross rents, read What does 'net effective rent' mean?.
If the landlord is offering partial months free, enter it with a decimal point. For example, 6 weeks free rent should be entered as 1.5 months.
3. Security deposits
Getting your security deposit back can be a challenge; getting it quickly can be even harder. New York law requires only that a landlord return your security deposit within a reasonable period of time.
In addition to making sure the security deposit amount is detailed correctly on the lease, put in a provision that you'll get it back in a certain number of days once the apartment has passed its final inspection, Hakim says, adding, "Maybe the day before you hand over the keys, invite your landlord to walk through the apartment together and document the inspection in writing. That removes any doubt about who is responsible for what damages, if any, and what the deductions might be."
4. Utilities
Some landlords—especially in buildings where apartments aren't separately metered or submetered—may include utilities in the monthly rental price. But usually only the water and heat are included.
"Ask what is included, and make sure the lease clearly states who is responsible for what," Malin says.
5. Insurance
"The landlord's insurance does not, despite what many people believe, cover the tenant," says apartment insurance broker Jeff Schneider of Gotham Brokerage (a Brick Underground sponsor). "The tenant must insure their own property against fire, theft, and water damage, and also must carry their own personal liability coverage, which protects them if they are sued for negligence—starting a fire that destroys part of the building or, more commonly, letting a tub or sink overflow and damaging the apartment below them."
It's especially important to have insurance if you are renting from a condo or co-op owner, Hakim says. The buildings will often have rules about insurance coverage, and while the building policy or landlord's policy might cover some things, they likely won't cover everything, like your possessions. "It is the cheapest piece of protection in your life that can cover the most seemingly benign situations," Hakim says, like accidentally leaving the sink on, or flushing the toilet and it overflows. "Ask the building management for what is required."
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6. Pets
Not everyone loves animals, and having a dog or a cat can be potential trouble spot—especially if you plan on getting one after you move in. If this is the case, make sure the lease explicitly acknowledges this so the landlord won't withhold his or her consent when you decide to bring home your new best friend.
Once you have the animal, "ensure you comply with pet rules and policies, and that the pet is disclosed," Malin says.
Michael Wolfe, a property manager and president of Midboro Management, agrees, adding that "even if pets are allowed, be sure to find out whether there is a weight and/or breed restriction to avoid any problems."
And don't think you'll be able to get away with bringing in a puppy under the weight limit, then have it exceed the said amount once an adult. "Most owners will ask the breed, not just the weight, as they know that puppies grow," Malin adds. "The best way to avoid friction is to be upfront."
In condo and co-op rentals, review the corporate bylaws to ensure what the rules are regarding pets. For more information, read Brick's best advice on having pets in New York City.
7. Air conditioners
Some landlords may restrict the number of units you can have—or prohibit them altogether—due to outdated wiring in the building, or safety issues.
In addition, adds real estate attorney Steve Wagner of Wagner Berkow, "Air conditioners can create a sticky situation because standard leases typically don't allow you to hang anything out of windows, particularly on higher floors. Always ask first before taking matters into your own hands."
In older buildings or co-ops, there may be a fee charged, Hakim says.
Even where ACs are allowed, you may need to hire someone else to install them. Read more in "It's AC season: Here's what you need to know now."
8. Outdoor spaces
"If you're lucky enough to have the use of outdoor space, whether a terrace, garden, or rooftop, make sure it's in your lease," Hakim says, adding that the clause should include where the space is, who has rights to it, is it shared, who is responsible for maintenance, and who is responsible for damages.
If you're subletting from an owner whose apartment has a terrace, "be sure you're clear up front about who is responsible for maintaining it while you're living there," says Midboro's Wolfe.
Another benefit to having this detailed in the lease: if not, you might not be entitled to a rent abatement if the space becomes unusable for some reason.
9. Subletting, roommates, and visitors
Most standard rental leases require landlord approval to sublet, so you will likely need the landlord's consent to sublet, says Wagner. However, he notes, New York law RPL 226-b mandates that the landlord not unreasonably withhold consent.
That said, he explains, "if you are going to leave the apartment permanently and want someone to take over your lease, this is called an assignment. The landlord can refuse an assignment, but if your request to assign is denied, you are allowed to cancel the lease. If there is a possibility you will to need leave before your lease is up, you should discuss this with the landlord ahead of time to determine whether he or she will want you to go through the formalities or whether you can just terminate. You may also be able to work this out with a landlord before the lease is signed."
As far as roommates and significant others, "you are allowed to have at least one additional occupant living with you while you're there even if the lease is just in your name as long as you notify the landlord first," Wagner says.
Know that if you make any deals with a roommate, such as their agreeing to pay more for a larger bedroom space or to use their security deposit for the last month's rent, it's up to you to get that in writing separately from the lease with your landlord, Hakim cautions.
Adds Malin, and you are still financially liable for that rent. "If your subtenant doesn't pay, you still need to pay." You can read more in "6 questions to ask before you sublet your NYC rental."
10. Renovations
If the landlord has agreed in advance to let you make improvements or alterations to the apartment, make sure you get this in writing in the lease. Otherwise, you will be responsible for the cost of returning the apartment to its original condition. This goes even for something as benign as a paint job, for both parties.
"If the landlord promises to have the apartment painted by the move-in date, but it's not done, you might be able to get a rental credit," Hakim says. "But you have to paper it and track it, as that paper is your only proof."
11. Noise mitigation
Some buildings might require tenants to take precautions regarding noise, such as having a certain amount of the floor covered by carpets. Look to see if there are any obligations, Malin says.
12. Showing the apartment when the lease is up
It's not uncommon for landlords to include a provision to show your apartment to prospective tenants near the end of the lease. It's the landlord's business to keep the space rented after all. However, the exact terms of the arrangement should be looked at closely.
"Try to limit it to certain days and hours, and make yourself available. If they're showing it without you, you might want a third party there, like maybe a broker," Hakim says. "What if you have a dog and it takes a nip or is accused of taking a nip?"
And though uncommon, damages can occur while the apartment is being shown, and you want the landlord responsible for that, he adds. You want to make sure you have ample protection.
13. Subletting, maintenance, and assessment fees
This is for people renting from a condo or co-op owner: In addition to monthly maintenance fees, many co-ops charge the owner a subletting fee. That usually will get added to the rent the shareholder is asking. But if either fee gets increased in the middle of a sublease, or if the building adds a monthly assessment, you want to make sure you won't be liable for the extra charges, Hakim says, so make sure that is clearly stated in the lease.
14. Furnished apartments
If the apartment is furnished, the lease should also contain a list of all furniture that is to be included, as well as a confirmation that all of these items are in place when the lease begins. But there are providers who offer furnished apartments for a business, and there's a different standard lease than for unfurnished apartments, Malin says. "Most are month to month, and include cleaning services and utilities," he says. Still, review the same clauses as previously listed.
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Arsenal and Manchester City on alert as Iker Casillas reveals January exit threat
ARSENAL and Manchester City could get their chance to snap up Real Madrid shot stopper Iker Casillas in January.
Madrid is thought to have offered Casillas to Arsenal in August but Arsene Wenger did not opt to swoop for the stopper, while Manchester City's Jesus Navas was hoping to pursued his countryman to join him in the Premier League.
Navas said at the time: "We all know the great keeper that Iker is and the importance he has within the team.
"At City we have great keepers, but Iker would be a great addition."
And while no deal eventually emerged for the keeper, Casillas has now admitted he will consider quitting the La Liga giants in the January transfer window.
The 32-year-old has found his opportunities under new boss Carlo Ancelotti as limited as last year under Jose Mourinho, which has led him to consider his options.
"If a player isn't in the action then he starts to think about making a decision," he told reporters.
"If a player isn't in the action then he starts to think about making a decision"Real Madrid keeper Iker Casillas
"I'm human and I'm a footballer. I haven't played for nine months now and it's the same for me. I'm not a robot.
"Of course I want to stay here and win more titles with Real Madrid. I've been here since I was little, but there will come a day in which I have to take a decision.
"As of now my decision is to stay and fight, to struggle and play every day. If I wasn't sure about it I would have told the president I wanted to leave in September.
"That being said, if in three months things haven't changed and you ask me the same question, well maybe I'll be thinking about leaving."


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Drug [maraviroc] raises hope for better bone marrow transplant recovery
By Don Sapatkin
Phil Inquirer Staff Writer
An existing drug dramatically reduced the most serious complications of bone marrow transplants, University of Pennsylvania researchers are reporting Thursday.
The finding could someday point the way toward an entirely new method of preventing the body from "rejecting" transplanted organs of all kinds in the future, experts said.
The work demonstrates a possible new approach to transplants of donated bone marrow, said Joseph Antin, a professor of medicine at Harvard, who was not involved with the study.
"It is the first time that someone has tried to do this, which makes it fascinating in itself," Antin said. "Now what we need to do is confirm it" and compare how patients fare with and without the drug in a randomized trial.
Antin chairs a committee in the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Clinical Trials Network that will design such a trial that could begin in a year or so.
For decades, transplants of nearly all organs have been possible only with the use of powerful medications that suppress the immune system so that it doesn't attack the alien organ. But those immunosuppressant drugs can be toxic to other parts of the body and leave recipients vulnerable to dangerous infections, often for the rest of their lives.
Rather than searching for better immunosuppressant drugs, the Penn researchers asked a different question: "What if we let the immune cells do their job" - attacking cancers and other diseases "and we just tell them where to go and where not to go?" said Ran Reshef, lead author of the paper published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
It turns out that the traffic signal already exists. It is maraviroc, a drug that has been on the market for five years to treat HIV.
The bone marrow study evaluated only 35 patients, and the first-time finding must be replicated in larger and longer trials. Whether the mechanism would work with transplants of other organs is at this point hypothetical.
Still, several independent researchers said the concept is sound, and the problem it tries to solve - organ rejection - is major.
"Transplant surgeons would love to do two things: to operate during the day" and avoid rejection, said Cataldo Doria, director of transplantation at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, who, like others, praised the study as "promising."
The Penn study tested the HIV drug for prevention of graft-versus-host disease, the most serious complication of donor bone marrow transplants. About 10,000 Americans a year receive these transplants, often after other treatments for leukemia and other cancers have failed.
Because the bone marrow creates immune cells along with blood cells, a transplant imports a new immune system to use against the cancer. To the donated immune system, the recipient's entire body is alien.
Attacks on organs create graft-versus-host disease in 30 percent to 70 percent of patients.
After the researchers added maraviroc to the standard immune-suppressing regimen for 33 days, they found that just 6 percent of the patients developed a severe form of the disease; typically, 22 percent would have.
After one year, 15 percent of the patients developed severe disease, compared with the normal 29 percent. There were few side effects.
The early-phase trial had been intended to test only the safety of the drug. "We didn't really expect to see any efficacy results," said Reshef, who said the finding "was amazing even to us."
If future trials are successful, he and others predicted that maraviroc could become a supplement to standard therapy for donor bone marrow transplants, probably not a replacement.
Maraviroc is made by Pfizer, which won approval of the drug for HIV in 2007. It did not initiate the Penn study but contributed funding, as did the National Institutes of Health, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and other groups. A Pfizer spokeswoman said the company would not speculate about the findings.
The drug treats a specific type of HIV by blocking the path, known as a CCR5 receptor, that the virus uses to enter immune cells.
For graft-versus-host disease, the researchers took advantage of an entirely different mechanism, known as chemotaxis, which controls where and when cells move around the body.
Just as traffic lights along South Broad Street must be turned on by an electrical current before they can direct cars to, say, Citizens Bank Park, the CCR5 receptors on cell surfaces must receive specific chemical signals called chemokines to direct the immune cells to the liver.
Maraviroc is known as a CCR5 antagonist because it attaches to the same receptors and blocks the chemokines, leaving the cells without direction and protecting vital organs such as the liver from attack.
Graft-versus-host disease is most severe in the liver and gut; CCR5 is involved with trafficking immune cells to those same organs.
After a donor bone marrow transplant, immunosuppressive drugs typically are tapered off as the new immune system adapts. By contrast, transplants of "solid" organs, such as the liver, kidney, and heart, require lifelong suppression of the immune system to avoid attacks on the new organs.
The trial did not investigate whether using a drug to block the CCR5 or other receptors would work with those organs, but researchers said the concept would be the same.
"There have been laboratory experiments that suggest that that's true," said David L. Porter, a senior author of the Penn paper and director of Penn's blood and marrow transplantation program. And studies have found that people with a particular deletion in their CCR5 receptor are less likely than others to reject a transplanted kidney, he said.
In an unrelated study published last month, researchers at Jefferson used maraviroc to prevent highly aggressive breast cancer cells from being trafficked - in this case, metastasizing - to other organs in mice, where they can kill.
Marcel Van den Brink, the head of hematological oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, noted that the concept of "blocking trafficking" has been pursued since the 1990s but this is the first trial that appears to have had success.
For solid organs, "I think it is possible," he said, "maybe for the same organs that showed [positive results] here, such as the gut and liver."
Daniel Weisdorf, director of the adult bone marrow transplantation program at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, said research still needed to prove that it was the trafficking mechanism rather than something else that caused what he termed "very interesting and promising" findings for bone marrow transplants.
"If there is directed signaling that tells lymphocytes to go to a kidney and attack a transplanted kidney," he said, then something like this "might work really well."
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An instant, personalized estimate of future retirement benefits is available online from the Social Security Administration's website.
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Based on screenwriter Robert Katz's own controversial 1967 bestseller, Death in Rome, the 1973 film Massacre In Rome is from journeyman director George Pan Cosmatos and tells the true story of the 1944 partisan roadside bombing that killed thirty-three members of the SS Police Regiment Bozen, and the subsequent Nazi reprisal, ordered by Hitler, that saw a staggering 335 Italians executed in what became known as the Ardeatine massacre. Katz's book achieved notoriety because it accused the then incumbent Pope, Pope Pius XII, of kowtowing to the Nazis and refusing to intervene in or condemn the slaughter of innocents. As a result Katz was sued by the Pope's heirs and was incarcerated in gaol.
The film plays fast and loose with history and perhaps the most major example of this is in the way it depicts SS-Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler, the officer responsible for rounding up those to be executed. Kappler was a thirty-something Nazi zealout in reality, but in the film he is played by Richard Burton as a jaded, pragmatic and natural soldier; a character in the stereotypical tradition of 'the sympathetic Nazi'. It's a curious approach to seemingly sanitise a man who was still, at that time, serving a life sentence for war crimes (he would subsequently escape from prison some four years after this picture was released, via his wife's suitcase no less! At the time, Kappler was suffering from terminal cancer and weighed just 47kg - she simply carried him out!) but, given that so much of Katz and Cosmatos' screenplay is shown from the POV of the occupied forces it was perhaps necessary to depict a leading Nazi in some form of sympathetic light.
Starring opposite Burton is Marcello Mastroianni as a composite Vatican official, a character inspired by both Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (who would subsequently be portrayed by Gregory Peck in the 1983 film The Scarlet and The Black) and Don Pietro Pappagallo (who was the inspiration for Aldo Fabrizi's Pietro Pellegrini in Roberto Rossellini's 1947 film Rome, Open City) The supporting cast is made up of Italian actors and several British character actors including Leo McKern, Anthony Steel and Peter Vaughan, as well as the British expat Italian star John Steiner whose urbanity, combined with his gaunt features and slicked back hair makes him the embodiment of Nazism.
The real story requires something more than this plodding Euro pudding and, weirdly, Cosmatos seems to struggle with the suspension required for the film's setpieces. Nevertheless, where the film's sluggish pace rather curiously excels is in the sobering logistics of just such a massacre and the cold, unfeeling emotion such an action requires; scenes of Burton painstakingly writing out by lamplight the death warrants of the hundreds handpicked for execution, or condemning Jews with little compunction, are especially striking and thought provoking, putting me in mind of that infamous 'banality of evil' quote concerning another Nazi steeped in blood, Adolf Eichmann.
The events of 1944 still cast a long shadow; in 2009, Pope Benedict XVI declared Pius XII 'venerable', the first step towards canonization, ie Sainthood. It was a move that created significant protest across the world both in light of his inaction during the Ardeatine massacre and from Jewish groups who cite Pius XII as not doing enough in the face of the Holocaust.


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Director: Ryan Murphy
Screenplay: Larry Kramer
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, Alfred Molina
The timing of The Normal Heart's television premiere couldn't be more perfect: it was shown at a time when AIDS cases are gradually but steadily increasing in the Asia-Pacific region. And although AIDS may not be the biggest problem of most countries in the West right now, it remains a situation that is still left unresolved.
The Normal Heart has reminded us of the brutal reality that AIDS is still something we must fear.
And most often than not, reminding is but necessary for us all. Sometimes, we have to be reminded that AIDS remains to be a deadly epidemic whose cure has yet to be discovered. Sometimes, we have to be reminded of the harsh figures that reveal the growing number of AIDS-related incidents and deaths every year. Sometimes, especially for us members of the LGBTQIA community, we have to be reminded that we must be circumspect and should look out for ourselves because nobody else might.
The Normal Heart does all that: it serves as a grim reminder that somewhere out there, a mysterious yet powerful epidemic still threatens the existence of gay people. But the television film isn't all dark and gloomy: it likewise lets its viewers enjoy a compelling story about a struggling community whose members were played by a stellar cast that delivered stunning performances.
Based on the 1985 play of the same name by Larry Kramer, the movie focuses on the AIDS outbreak in 1981 and how it affected the lives of a group of gay men living in New York City. At the heart of the narrative is Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), a writer who helped co-found an organization that aims to address the AIDS situation plaguing the gay community. With the help of his friends and one sympathetic polio-stricken doctor, Ned was able to introduce the alarming concern to the entire United States, including its government.
But Ned has one foible he could not get rid of: he is extremely aggressive. In the end, his style of leadership eventually became his own undoing as it led to his being kicked off the group he co-founded. Adding to Ned's struggle is his relationship with his life partner Felix Turner (Matt Bomer) who was diagnosed with AIDS.
To dismiss the film as just a gay drama would be a grave mistake. It's more than just that. The two-hour long movie is an epic that perfectly encapsulates the struggles that every gay man went through when the AIDS outbreak hit the US in the '80s. And although much has already been said about the infamous disease in the history of cinema, The Normal Heart does not feel like it is merely a rehash of classic films that tackle the same topic like And the Band Played On or Philadelphia, to name a few.
Much like the 2013 Oscar entry The Dallas Buyers Club, The Normal Heart helped resurrecting a believed-to-be moribund subject of films and gave it its own spin. Hopefully, the two films will usher in another era of AIDS portrayal in cinema. The AIDS victims need to see their stories told — we owe them that much.
Perhaps the greatest reason for the The Normal Heart's success is Ryan Murphy who helmed a film that deals with an extremely sensitive narrative. Murphy's directorship is as dazzling as it is moving: he immaculately told the story of several complex and endearing characters, and he treated the source material with a great amount of dignity and faithfulness.
Of course, as a member of the gay community and a staunch advocate of gender equality, Murphy is mandated to do so. How could he not? But then again, a masterpiece like this is hard to come by. So to Ryan Murphy, I say: well done, you've made our humble community proud.
But the film's glory doesn't start and stop with Murphy. The impressive list of actors HBO has tapped to play the characters contributed to the film's greatness. Well, all but one.
As the lead character who's filled with sheer anger and pain, Mark Ruffallo delivered a stunning performance that will surely earn him an Emmy nod. On the other hand, as Ned's ailing life partner, Matt Bomer was the most probably committed among the cast members and delivered the finest performance of his career to date.
Julia Roberts' top notch acting proved yet again that she's not just another pretty woman and solidified her frontrunner position in the 2014 Emmy race for supporting actress in a miniseries or television film.
But the most impressive performance came from Joe Mantello who achieved a defining moment during a five-minute scathing monologue. Mantello lost himself in the scene and delivered a remarkably moving speech. This, of course, is a feat Emmy voters would find very difficult to miss. I'm calling it now: the race for supporting actor in a miniseries or television film would be a toss-up between Bomer and Mantello. Can a tie be possible? (Fun fact: Mantello played Ned in the Broadway premiere of The Normal Heart in 2011).
The casting's lone misstep is Taylor Kitsch who, despite his best efforts to make his role work, couldn't quite pull it off. Kitsch's acting is obviously contrived and his level of charisma pummels in every scene. At the end of the movie, you will realize that he is the movie's one and only mistake.
The Normal Heart stands as a testament to what the gay community has already achieved in its battle against a deadly epidemic. But it also poses a simple yet daunting question: what must the embattled community do next? And it is but an appropriate and valid question at this point because sometimes we become so absorbed with our partial accomplishments that we forget that only half of our battle is won.
AIDS is still out there and still kills. Do we become complacent or do we join the fight? As a cause-driven movie, The Normal Heart urges us to do the latter. Truth be told, filmmaking doesn't get any better than that.
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When I was a boy, I loved "short" Shabboses. Of course, they lasted 25 hours just like any Shabbos, but at least in the winter, Shabbos ended early enough to catch some college football. At some point I grew up a bit and came to enjoy Shabbos. Still, even then, I rarely felt sad when Shabbos was over. I had taken out of it what I could. As such, I never really "got" the need for besamim at havdalah. This summer has changed that.
Reish Lakish teaches that on Shabbos we get a neshoma yeseira. Commonly mistranslated as an additional soul, it really means that on Shabbos we have a heightened awareness of, and connection to, our neshama. As Shabbos ends, we say a bracha on besamim, which is, somehow, supposed to comfort us at the loss of the neshoma yeseira.
Not for the first time this summer, those of us in Israel went into Shabbos with tremendous sadness. A soldier had been captured by Hamas. The rav at the minyan where I davened on Friday evening, gave a hauntingly poignant drasha during which, judging by his tone of voice, he was fighting back tears. Lecha Dodi sang to the tune of Eili Tzion only reinforced the sad mood. Even Yedid Nefesh could not, even slightly, lift my spirits.
Then Shabbos started to work its magic. The combination of good friends, good food, meaningful discussions, and lots of talmud Torah brought me to a different place. It was as if I had been magically relocated to a world of total joy. Before I knew it, it was time for mincha. As I noticed the sun beginning its descent, I snapped back to reality. I knew that soon it would be dark. Shabbos would end, and with it, the illusion that all was alright in the world. The radio and internet would be turned on, hoping against hope that there would be some good news. Of course, after Shabbos, these hopes were quickly crushed.
This summer has been for me a "yom shekulo Shabbos". As I travelled through the land, met its people, touched its stones, and ate its fruit, I felt what I can only describe as a neshama yeseira. Each sunset moved me, every word of Torah was an encounter with the Divine. I have met great talmidei chachamim and scholars. Even through the terrible pain of the kidnappings and subsequent war, despite the many, many tears, or maybe, somewhat paradoxically because of them, I have felt more attached to Eretz Yisrael, Torat Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael than ever before. The thought that it will soon be over, that tearing myself away from Israel, will feel like tearing a bandage from a wound, saddens me beyond words.
How can I comfort myself? What is the besamim that can restore my sense of equilibrium? It seems to me that besamim is used as part of havdalah because out of all of the senses, smell was seen by Chazal, in both nigleh and nistar, as the most spiritual of senses. The smell of the besamim reminds us, that even though we are about to lose the soulful connection that we have felt, that it is only a temporary loss. In less than a week's time, we will again experience the fragrant beauty of Shabbos.
I take comfort in the thought that I am returning to my family, and that maybe, just maybe, in the not so distant future, not only will I be back where I belong, but we will be back, not temporarily, but permanently in the land that is "kulo Shabbos" and "kulo tov".


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Hi guys! This is neonangel, and this is my guide for Anub'Rekhan. He's the first boss in the first wing of Hearthstone's Adventure, The Curse of Naxxramas. His Hero Power is Skitter and it summons 4/4 Nerubians. He has special cards like Deathcharger – a really annoying 2/3 with Charge. Also Locust Swarm – it deals 3 damage to all minions and restores Health to him. And this is the 4/4 Nerubian token he gets from his ability "Skitter". So let's go ahead and get started. Whenever you mulligan for this fight it's best if you wanna go ahead and start off with like a Doomsayer, or Loot Hoarder, Mad Scientist, Acolyte of Pain. Any of those that will let you draw cards so you can just get further through your deck and get the pieces that you need to defeat him. This is a Freeze Mage deck that I'm using, so you really don't want to worry about destroying any of his minions.
You just want to delay him and use freeze tactics to stop him. You will discover very quickly that you are unable to keep up with him churning out these 4/4 Nerubian spiders every single turn, so don't even try. You're just going to get frustrated if you try and keep killing his minions. Be patient and you'll be successful. And right now I'm just going to draw some cards and bide my time here. I'm going to go ahead and toss Ice Block out here so it's ready and next turn I'm going to plan on playing Doomsayer and Frost Nova to blow everything up. And ideally, that's what you'd like to do, is just blow everything up on turn five cause he'll usually have a board full of stuff.
And sometimes whenever you put the Doomsayer out, he'll get killed. Sometimes he'll do stupid stuff like hit it with Mortal Coil when it's not even going to kill it, so it doesn't make sense, but if he does kill him there's not a whole lot you can do there except start over – try again. And right now I'm going to go ahead and start drawing cards and either fill up on enough burn to do him in or get Alexstrasza and get him down close enough to kill him with what I already have. And right here – really not interested in killing minions, again, but I am gonna go ahead and try and draw more cards, and then freeze what I can. Now if he wants to kill the Doomsayer this time he's gonna have to use some resources to do it.
But he survived again – yay! And I've got Emperor and Mad Scientist out right now so everything's gonna get really crazy cheap unless he kills the Emperor right away, which a lot of times he does. He rarely lasts more than a turn. Now I probably just want to go ahead and continue to freeze things and go ahead and make all of my burn cheaper. I do have Alexstrasza in this deck, and she's really great for bringing Anub'Rekhan really low in health, so you can just kill him with one or two spells, but she's not absolutely critical to have in this deck, so you could replace her with something else.
And it looks like someone decided to send me a mistell, sorry about that. And here I think I'm just going to go ahead and clear the board right now. And I think here in another turn or two everything's gonna be cheap enough to where I can just kill him all at once, again, without even using Alexstrasza. Cause I've got a ton of damage sitting there in my hand that I can cast. It's like 28, it's over – I think it's over 30 damage, so… I think I could have probably killed him on that turn, but that's okay. And he's just gonna drop everything out of his hand pretty much, but it doesn't matter cause he's gonna be dead this turn.
So, as you can see, in the fight it wasn't about killing his minions – trying to keep up with him that way – it's really just about delaying him, because you can't keep up with all his minions. But this is why I found Freeze Mage to be the best, because you don't really have to worry about the minions killing you, because you've got the Ice Blocks in there and you've got the freeze tactics to slow him down. So there we go. And that's my first win there. I'm gonna go through and uh, play five games – uh, well – I'm gonna play until I have five wins and I'm just gonna go ahead and record this, but you're gonna get the faster version so you won't have to sit through all of it. And I left the sound speeded up – because I think it sounds absolutely hilarious! And I've got the Doomsayers here, but the…uh, I didn't have Frost Nova. This next turn I should be able to…well, I didn't make it to the next turn, so haha. There's a loss for me. Hopefully this next one will be better.
I've got the Frost Novas and the Doomsayer, which is exactly what you want to see. Now, again, you'll be taking quite a bit of damage. As long as you make it to turn five with that kind of hand – that's pretty good. And there comes Alexstraza. We'll see if she actually lasts long enough to…yep, she did. Again, keep freezing stuff and – and then he does strange things like that, like kills his own Abomination. Now here I don't want the egg to spawn the 4/4, so I'm trying to kill the egg before I freeze everything and blow it up, but… So I had to go ahead and actually kill a Nerubian there, which is fine. And whenever you have the Archmage Antonidas out it's pretty much game over, because you will just keep filling your hand up with Fireballs. That's win number three. Now I just need a Doomsayer. Still no Doomsayer, but that's okay.
There's the Doomsayer that I needed. And hopefully Archmage will win the day again. I'm starting to get a ton of Fireballs here. It doesn't matter that – he's dead. I've already got him low enough where it shouldn't matter. And he's dead next turn. That's win number four. Did not get a very good start with this hand. There's Doomsayer – a little bit late, but that's okay – should be able to get it next turn. And I'm pretty vulnerable right now if he has another Frost Bolt or if he gets a Charger through there, then I'm in trouble – like that.
But he's dead, so it's okay. And that's win number five. So, thanks for watching, guys. And I hope this gave you some ideas on how you should beat Anub'Rekhan. He's really not all that bad. And if you liked this video please make sure and "like" it or subscribe to my channel for more videos. Thanks a lot!.
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The purpose of this month's DIY posts of mine are to make you feel at least a little bit better about winter and inspire you to make astonishing things with your own hands. I promise, it'd be so much fun! (I did this one with my little brother and we both found it very entertaining)
If you are looking for some great holiday gifts or fun projects to do, I've prepared an awesome holiday DIY that is not only easy, but also fun for everyone! This hot chocolate recipe is perfect for cosy-ing up on the couch during those cold winter nights.
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- 1/4 tsp of cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp of salt
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What you should do first is put some milk into your cup and heat it.
After that add from 2 to 3 teaspoons of cocoa.
Add one or two teaspoons of sugar.
And a 1/4 teaspoon of salt (yes, salt – trust me).
The following steps are optional. Since holidays are coming why not fancy the things up a bit?
I took some milk chocolate and shred a little into the cup.
Then I added a few marshmellows.
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Has the FBI become the new "Murder Incorporated?"
By Coach Collins, on June 6th, 2013
by Doug Book, editor
A 542 page Justice Department investigation of FBI tactics at Ruby Ridge concluded that the Bureau Rules of Engagement employed that day in 1992 "…flagrantly violated the US Constitution" as they afforded agents "practically a license to kill." According to the Report, "…a member of an FBI SWAT team from Denver remembered the Rules of Engagement as 'if you can see 'em, shoot 'em'."
Within one hour of FBI snipers taking up positions around Randy Weaver's rural home, "…every adult in the cabin was either dead or severely wounded — even though they had not fired a shot at any FBI agent." (1)
The following year, 75 men, women and children were first gassed, then incinerated at the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas by an FBI team operating a "…tank on lease from the military." Excuses for the attack on the Davidian church began with FBI accusations that the group was operating a meth lab. The Bureau later claimed that illegal gun ownership and child abuse prompted the onslaught. At a press conference one day after the deaths, "…President Clinton said he did not believe 'the Attorney General (Janet Reno) should resign because some religious fanatics murdered themselves'." It was a statement which provides an accurate if frightening look into the mind of the left.
In 1997, Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Clinton Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Prisons for their involvement in the death of his brother Kenneth at the Federal Transfer Center near Oklahoma City. He had no idea that the scraps of information grudgingly released by the federal government in response to FOIA lawsuits would result in a 15 year trail of evidence detailing the criminal involvement of the FBI, CIA, ATF and United States Secret Service in the planning and execution of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Trentadue discovered that FBI informants assisted Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols in the weeks prior to the bombing, supplying bomb making materials and necessary information on constructing the device. One of these, Andreas Strassmeir, was spirited out of the country immediately after the bombing. His travel arrangements were made by the FBI.
The FBI is believed to be responsible in the deaths of at least 4 individuals with a connection to the bombing. One of these was…………..
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24 March 2010
UCC and ITT Dublin won four games today at The Mardyke Arena Cork to advance to the Colleges and Universities Futsal National Finals on 19th April in University of Limerick.
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South Results
Cork IT 4 vs IT Tralee 4
University College Cork 4 vs Cork College of Commerce 2
Cork College of Commerce 4 vs Cork IT 1
University College Cork 8 vs IT Tralee 0
Cork College of Commerce 5 vs IT Tralee 0
University College Cork 4 vs Cork IT 1
Cork College of Commerce: 1:David Rogers, 2: Michael Mannion, 3: Mark Cronin, 4: Daniel Buckley, 5: Dan Broderic k, 6: David Manley, 7: Tony Flanaghan, 8: Phelim O'Connell
UCC: 1: Kieran McHenry, 3: Fergus McDonnell, 4: Aldo Xhani, 5: Mike McSweeney, 6: Rufus Holmes, 7: Julian Brandt, 8: Richie Ryan
IT Tralee: 1: Stephen Doherty, 2: Gavin O'Reilly, 4: PaulSweeney, 5: Kevin Timmons, 7: Liam O'Broin, 9: Eric Boylan, 10: Kevin Hartnett, 15: Cillian O'Connor, 16: Barry McGann.
Cork IT: 1: Cian O'Callaghan, 2: Colm Kearney, 3: Sean Foley, 4: Eric Kennedy, 5: Mark Kearney, 6: Ian O'Sullivan, 7: Ken Murphy, 8: Brian Bell, 9: Pat Horgan, 10: Gavin Moore
ITT Dublin emerged as winners from the South Dublin Finals in Maynooth
South Dublin Results:
ITT Dublin 2 vs University College Dublin 1
NUI Maynooth 3 vs Inchicore College 0
ITT Dublin 3 vs Griffith College 0
Inchicore College 0 vs Griffith College 3
NUI Maynooth 1 vs University College Dublin 4
Inchicore College 2 vs University College Dublin 6
NUI Maynooth 2 vs ITT Dublin 3
Griffith College 1 vs University College Dublin 1
Inchicore College 3 vs ITT Dublin 4
NUI Maynooth 4 vs Griffith College 5
NUI Maynooth
Ross Cullinane, Ciaran Hoey, Craig Mooney, Trevor Screeney, Peter Gannon, Paul O Brien, Eoin Powderly, Keith Walsh,Mark Forker
Griffith College
Dennis Wittenbrink, John Ojo, Paddy Daly, Sam Thomas, Derek O Brien, Colin O Hanlon, Arnau Riba Corbella, Kizito Adaji, Shane Mooney, Martin Agbaso
University College Dublin
Conor Mc Groatry, Michael Kelly, Mark Langtry, Gary O Toole, David O Connor, Stephen Doyle, Samir Belhout, Philip Byrne, Gavin Falconor, Barry Mc Cabe
Inchicore College
Syephen O Connor, Jason O Neill, Gary Fortune, Paul Darby, Ciaran Galvin, Karl Connaughton, Gavin Woods
ITT Dublin
Christian Hanas, Craig Rothery, Kark Kearns, James Fox, James Keegan, David Vickery, Emmet Byrne, Jacques Morley, William O Brien, Colm Corcoran


text: Children's literature abounds with both happy and sad stories about children and their pets. Occasionally, the pet is a wild animal that can't and won't be kept; think of the classic The Yearling. It is this vein that the acclaimed playwright Rabe, noted for his Vietnam-era dramas, mines in a slim novella that reads as though it were based on an actual incident. A young squirrel is separated from his family in the woods. Jonathan, a middle schooler bicycling home from soccer practice, picks him up in his sneaker and tries to keep him. The story unfolds from the perspective of each, but the squirrel's narrative never crosses into anthropomorphism: He is frightened and lonely and reacts very strongly to the strange and threatening smells of his new environment. Realizing that neither he nor his older brother who is home from college has all the answers, Jonathan turns to the Internet and contacts a woman who specializes in wildlife rescues. Taken as a whole, the tale is an object lesson presented with all the correct answers in an engaging narrative. Parker's final interior art not seen. (Fiction. 8-12)


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The Government has today announced a new breed of its benefit reorganisation strategy and guess what its stupid. The idea is to require 18-24 year olds who claim jobseekers to WORK 30 hours a week or be denied their benefit.
How the Government thinks having young people doing work for companies for free is going to stimulate the jobs market I don't know. If you're running a business say Tesco, Sainsbury's, or any other retail based business, are you going to hire a someone to work for you when it requires you to pay NI and these strange things called wages. No if you can get away with, and lets face it most businesses can, you're going to have an endless rotation of young people doing the jobs you used to have to employ people to do.
The old workfare scheme where young people were asked to take work placements without the risk of losing their benefit was deemed legal, but only due to the fact you were not forced to partake in work experience. However it can not be seen as reasonable or even economically sound to require someone to work for what would be the equivalent of around £1.76/hr.
The benefit system is there to protect people, who are trying their best to be active in society, from destitution and ruin. I agree that you shouldn't receive anything for nothing. Which is why when you claim JSA you have to keep a diary, you are held to account and you have to be active in seeking employment, that's fair. I agree that if you turn down employment within a reasonable distance of your current home you should be penalised.
But punishing someone because those who have come before have so screwed over the countries economy that they have no prospect of work is no reason to institute a program which does nothing to help people gain employment and everything to maximise corporate profits and executive payouts.


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GlobalSign joins GSMA, emphasizing its support for Mobile Connect
GlobalSign supports the GSMA's Mobile Connect service and the move for mobile network operators to become identity providers.
Membership underscores commitment to providing trusted identities and mobile authentication capabilities to mobile network operators worldwide
GMO GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), a leading provider of identity and security solutions for the Internet of Everything (IoE), is now an Associate Member of the GSMA, the organization that represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. GlobalSign supports the GSMA's Mobile Connect service and the move for mobile network operators to become identity providers.
Today's hyper-connected world means an increase in cloud services and online solutions that require flexible, secure and convenient authentication options. Customers desire easy, secure and convenient access to their services and Mobile Connect offers a single, trusted, mobile phone-based authentication service that gives users control over their own data and enables them to interact and access online services in a convenient, private and trusted environment.
"We're delighted to welcome GlobalSign as an Associate Member of the GSMA," said Gregory Geodjenian, Director, GSMA. "We look forward to them playing an active role in the work of the industry."
With the GlobalSign identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting Mobile Connect and over 20 different authentication methods, mobile network operators can become identity providers for digital services such as online commerce, banking and insurance, e-government, applications, Internet of Things, and APIs. This gives mobile network operators' customers the possibility to choose exactly the right mix of identity verification tools from one source.
"Our main goal is to advance and promote convenient, secure, and business-friendly online services with our identity and access management solution," said Paul Tourret, General Manager, GlobalSign. "We are helping organizations worldwide implement IAM for external users (customers and partners) to access their services – enabling them to create new business, increase revenue, cut cost, and most of all – improve customer experience."
GlobalSign is also participating in the speed-dating workshop at Mobile World Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 23 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., which provides operators a unique opportunity to meet Mobile Connect vendors. Visit GlobalSign at Mobile World Congress Feb. 22-25, 2016 in Hall 7, Stand 7J12 (Meontrust booth) to learn more.
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