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A COMMENTARY ON GIBRALTAR POLITICS. Consent is given for the reproduction in any media. Attribution to www.llanitoworld.blogspot.com is requested.
Thursday, 4 August 2011
MOD Presence, Transferred MOD Properties and Tendering
42 comments:
- Anonymous4 August 2011 at 18:58
Has the Opposition published its own plans for these newly acquired assets?
Anonymous at 18:58ReplyDelete
What is your point?
- Anonymous4 August 2011 at 19:29
My point is that if the Government have already announced that homes that are to be transferred will either be sold by tender or under the "right to Buy" scheme then I would like to know what the Opposition propose doing with them.
Anonymous at 19:29ReplyDelete
Ask the Opposition not me :)
- Anonymous4 August 2011 at 19:53
All I asked was whether the Opposition has published its own plans for these newly acquired assets.
Pardon me for breathing.
Anonymous at 19:53ReplyDelete
Yes and all I have done is answer you to the best of my ability and as honestly as possible ... I do not have access to any party's views on anything unless it is published somewhere.
- Anonymous4 August 2011 at 21:11
Love your idea ref open auction. Limitations should also be imposed in my opinion, for example before anyone is allowed to enter the auction room, those persons should be vetted to ensure there is a real need for a 'home' and not simply an investment opportunity. Not sure on legalities, but as an idea, definitely worth considering as far as possible.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4 August 2011 at 21:34
I do not know if an auction would work or not.
What I am sure is that the tender system and the allocation of Government rental flats needs a major shake up and revamp.
We need transparency in the system so that when a worker of one of these goverment departments is successful in getting a tender, we the public can be assured that everything has been ,and more importantly seen to be, above board.
We need transparency and accountability from those government employees in these departments ,whose relatives have been successful in getting a goverment rental flat, subsidized by us the public again, who everone knows has a house in Alcaidesa,Santa Margarita etc.
What are we stupid or we just do not care.?
What a shame when this happens in front of the Governments eyes and the honest Gibraltar feels let down by both the administration and the panzista Llanito.
To end one question.
Who is worse the person who has been allocated a flat fraudulently or the powers that appove these fraudulent actions?
- Anonymous4 August 2011 at 22:16
On the one hand, Government has built the new mid-town estate to boost its housing stock to meet the needs of the council housing list, and on the other, its selling its old stock, for a pittance.ReplyDelete
Would it just not have been more cost effective to keep the older blocks and sell off the new ones instead?
The result is we have older families with brand new houses, paying a measly £120 rent, a month (on average), with a second house in Spain, and young families having to resort to buying their granny's house in Humphries, but in the interim having to rent privately whilst they wait for Granny to be claimed by either Mount Alvernia or the Grim Reaper himself (whichever comes soonest).
- Anonymous5 August 2011 at 09:37
the tender system awarded previous MOD real estate stock, Lynd House to someone who is allowing it to rot, perhaps in an attempt to justify pulling it down. Rock Cottage seems to be going in the same way too.ReplyDelete
These houses were supposed to be refurbished to their former glory and not pulled down to use the land for speculative reasons.
Who were these houses awarded to, I wonder?
- Anonymous5 August 2011 at 10:09
How did No 6's PR machine no manage to spin the Time magazine article which damns Gibraltar's bunkering business as a catastrpohe waiting to happen. This would not have happened on Francis Cantos' watch. Either the ball has been fumbled or the Time article is accurate. Either way a very worrying and sobering scanario. Question: does Gibraltar really benefit from bunkering or do the profits all go to the operators. If the latter why do we have this business in our Bay?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5 August 2011 at 10:53
Let's get our facts right, the article that you refer to was published in Le Monde and then translated and published online by WorldTime in partnership with WorldCrunch.
Not quite the Time magazine, is it?
Anonymous at 10:53ReplyDelete
Someone should tell GBC that. GBC seems to have got much of its reporting on that story wrong last night!
- Anonymous5 August 2011 at 16:23
You state:-
"some such business practices do not meet these standards. Any shortcoming in standards makes our economy more susceptible."
Can you give me an example of a business practice that threatens our good reputation?
Anonymous at 16:23ReplyDelete
Yes, over reliance by the public purse on revenue from one particular source: tobacco.
- Anonymous5 August 2011 at 18:03
@16:23 I asked whether you could give me an example of a business practice that threatens our good reputation not the public purse.
- Anonymous5 August 2011 at 18:05
"Can you give me an example of a business practice that threatens our good reputation?" Direct allocation of government development land and lucrative government contracts and consultancies. Lack of value for money checks and balances for government business contractors. Lack of controls on potentially dangerous bunkering activities. Obscure practices at the DPC. Lack of clarity as to ministers' business interests. Businesses going bust owing millions in PAYE and SI i.e. having been allowed to compete unfairly with bona fide businesses. Possible use of finance centre for money laundering. Employment of cheap labour (Gibraltar is the only place in southern Spain where (Spanish) staff do not speak English. Croneyism and nepotism. A bloated civil service which adds unnecessary bureaucracy to business. Sensitive commercial information as to government contracts and opportunities not controled to ensure an even playing field. Ministers involved in business.Government subsidising office developements to the detriment of private entities. Official boards and committees manned by favoured place men. 7 Days subsidised whilst other news papers have to eke out a living. Excessive borrowing and the use of the private sector as a cash cow (soon to be la vaca flaca) for the said bloated summer hour crap civil service. Lack of clarity re government policies and how to access official services and as RV says over relaince on revenue from tobacco (and gaming and land sales) and the neglect of the tourism produsct. Casi na.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5 August 2011 at 18:52
casi na indeed, pero aqui estamo muy bien!ReplyDelete
el mundo se va apique financially but we have money to spare.
Perhaps we could loan Gemma some of our surplus to pay her workers and so put a stop to the frontier protests.
Anonymous at 18:03ReplyDelete
Now you have it in full and from a third party commentator. It may teach you not to split hairs and not to persist.
I was referring to the manner of sale of tobacco by certain retail outlets in government estates and near the frontier and the lack of application of the law ...
- Anonymous5 August 2011 at 20:36
Agree 1001 percent with 1805 above.ReplyDelete
POTENTIAL VOTERS would like to know how the GSLP-LIB, PDP OR GSD IF ELECTED intend to correct the disgusting undemocratic dictatorial and obvious observations raised at 1805.WHO WILL HAVE THE GUTS AND UNDERTAKE TO DO WHATS RIGHT FOR GIBRALTAR.
- Anonymous6 August 2011 at 00:14
Llanito INTEGRITY AND PRINCIPLES.ReplyDelete
Those in power and opposition should know the meaning of INTEGRITY AND PRINCIPLES, should the answer be yes, will they mention this in their manifesto commitment prior to the election.
Integrity: What does this word mean? It means honesty. Trustworthiness. Reliability. It also means authenticity, openness, sincerity. At Snap-on, it means being true to these values... living these values. Every single day.
Principles: What drives our performance? What is behind our success? Quality people, superior craftsmanship, top-notch service. That is our legacy. It'll endure only if we continue to play fair... do the right things... aim for the highest standards.
Snap-on: Why such focus on integrity and principles? Because when you boil it down, all we have is our good name. That reputation is earned by applying sound values to everything we do. Integrity. Principles. Snap-on's commitment.
- Anonymous6 August 2011 at 19:02
ano at 18.52 says el mundo se va apique financially but we have money to spare. I nominate him for the title of Mr. Complacancy & Smarm 2011. Shurely there must be a way of officially recognising this kind of mentality - maybe a medal or Mayor's award or a statue at the entrance of the new airport under pass... que miedo!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6 August 2011 at 20:33
Tyrone Duarte:ReplyDelete
Roberto, I just got back from France and some of the press there is claiming that Monaco is heading for choppy waters because of excessive debt and the opaque origins of the cash in the banks there, particularly from Russia. They say that the Monagesques are seriously struggling, but not the tax residents. This may all be sour grapes of course from the writers, or from those not enjoying the boom, but regardless of this we may wish to take heed before it is too late, particular as some wish to emulate Monaco in Gibraltar.
- Anonymous6 August 2011 at 21:54
ano @ 19:02 mentira que es, vamo!ReplyDelete
is the world not going apique financially, and according to the CM, do we not have money to spare?
si a ti no te da miedo de como va el mundo y lo tranquilamente que soltamo dinero aqui, then perhaps la medalla te la lleva tu!
y hablando de un statue at the entrance to the new under pass, ante avra ke encontra a alguien que lo termine y una pila de millones mas pa pagarle.
Alomejo el 'Consultant' se forara un poquito mas y encontrara a alguien pronto!
- Anonymous6 August 2011 at 22:16
Given some comments above who question what the oppositions position is on certain issues, can anyone tell me whether they actually have a position on anything at all?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 08:36
If I were the opposition, I would be holding my cards close to my chest at this point in time. It seems to me the Government is desperately tieing up loose ends to buy votes at whatever cost, and taking ideas from the opposition, as they have done plenty of times in the past, will only add to their list of things to do before calling the election and ending 'el desroche' currently taking place.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 09:05
The Opposition seems to be more concerned with GC Patrol Boat spotting and criticising the Government for not acquiring the floating the military hardware that would enable the RGP to start a naval conflict.
Oh! The Opposition's most recent action involved a protest to the UK about the 17 year old who was stopped from crossing the frontier with an ID card. They forgot to check the EU/Schengen rules on under 18s bearing ID cards instead of passports. That's just a minor embarrassment.
Oh! The dust at Catalan Bay.
You see? They do have a position on transcendental matters.
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 09:30
Anon @ 22.16 hits the nail on the bonce. I do not think that we have ever had a more useless opposition in Gibraltar. The GSLP / Libs are already exhausted and do not give any indication of knowing how things are going in Gibraltar. The PDP is atrophied, it lacks the oxygen of imagination and until Nicky Cruz takes the wheel it is going no where. As Charlie Gomez has said many times the opposition parties are led by members of the barristocracy whose beady eyes are on the gravy train and have no real interest in anything else.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 10:42
Speaking of positions, what could be the reason for the sudden interest in security companies?ReplyDelete
Maybe a bit of foresight going on here as the Government considers CCTV in crime hotspots, not that we have any crime to worry about according to Wink. Businesses looking to be in the right place at the right time, perhaps?
It would be a waste of money though if any tender was awarded to another bidder, if there's any other local company left to bid that is!
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 11:19
have been trying to send my blog over the last to days could answer why it has not posted its heading starts with WHAT IS POLITICAL CORRUPTIONReplyDelete
every time i log into your llanito blog it starts with its December blogs
I do not know why you are having a problem ... try refreshing the page,which you can do by clicking on the title also, but I log on to my August posts without a problem.
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 11:51
The Opposition hold their collective cards so close to their collective chests that nobody knows what it stands for.
Oh! I forgot they stand for "socialism" and "the workers", whatever that is supposed to mean.
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 13:41
Anon @ 11:51ReplyDelete
Doesn't surprise me in the least, you wouldn't know what socialism & workers meant in a million years!
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 13:50
I wonder whether the oppo is just too comfortable with its easy anti- Caruana discourse and have nothing else to say. Problem is that the opposition MPs draw salaries for doing nothing and saying nothing of particular interest or depth.What does surprise me is the lack of zest of the PDP.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 19:14
Just how much do MPs earn now? I estimate it's close to £100,000 for an MP (close to £140,000 for the CM - more or less the same as David Cameron) and close to £50,000 for an Opposition MP. Does anyone have the latest figures?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 19:41
Money down the drain hay mas pagas muertas en "Parliament" que en culaquier otro lado.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 19:47
have read all the above posts with interest.ReplyDelete
For those of you that think that Gibraltar is immune to the worlds financial woes, you scare me ( or at least the fact that you may be a policy maker and cannot see as far as your own nose scares me ). . . .
I currently work for one of the major players in world finance, and for the last 3 years, the personal advice to us from people who earn a living from reading trends has been the same. Get out of debt, as quickly and responsibly as possible.
Advice my fellow blog readers, I recommend you ALL follow, while you still have the ability to do so in Gibraltar.
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 19:57
What I want to know is what the GOVERNMENT have planned, after all they take the decisions that affect us and not the opposition.ReplyDelete
I note anon @ 10:42's comment and, as we all know who's behind this move, one can only reach the conclusion that more cronyism is in the pipe-line.
Over the last 16 years, the rich and connected seem to have become extremely richer still, in recent years, blatantly so. The dishing out of contracts lately is mind-blowing and quite disgusting.
Its almost as if everything is being put into place before the election is called just in case the GSD does not get in, at least the contracts will ensure the gains remain with the chosen few.
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 21:01
Tyronr Duarte says:ReplyDelete
Anon 19:47, don't worry! Ya menearan mas container de tabacco pa pagar por todo! Si no el FCO no hacen como a Turks and Caicos y todo ta tranquilo.
Es que manda huevo lo ke tiene ke ta viendo uno. I don't work for a mayor financial institution, but the talk here in the UK is of Italy going bust. To top it all off we are likely to end up with the kind attentions of the PP again. The financial risk we are at is quickly going to translate to political risk- y nos van a tener cogio por los cojones.
- Anonymous7 August 2011 at 21:46
Tyrone, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if that was the intention all along, to place us in a position where by UK is not interested in bailing us out and Spain is more than happy to assist.ReplyDelete
Por los cojones y el cuello!
- Anonymous9 August 2011 at 02:34
The problem with the opposition is that the Government has been hellbent in doing much of what the opposition has set out in previous manifestos whether because they have been good ideas or whether they feel that by doing all the things the opposition say that they will do, they limit their ideas or policies in the future. If the opposition would state what they would do with the MOD properties you can bet that the government would use the opposition ideas as if they were their own and score political points. This would be true even if the opposition were the government and visa versa. Personally I think that the government should not plan on doing anything with the newly acquired properties, call an election and then the next government be it the GSD or the GSLP may then sensibly ponder on the best use for the properties. There is so much more than can be done with them than just flogging them off for a pretty penny to decrease debt! Election time is desperately needed so that the future 4 years may start evolving be it with whoever.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9 August 2011 at 20:46
Anon 19:37. Expect nothing less and more of the sane from the likes of cornflakes. They are truly desperate to paint any picture that discredits the GSD. Funny, cornflakes wants to do away with gangsters. Ai mi Gibraltar adonde esta?ReplyDelete


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The other weekend I decided that I wanted to start making my own soups, hummus and other sorts of healthy good food, so I went on the hunt for a stick blender. The annoying part is that I have one at home. In Christchurch. In storage. Totes not helpful.
I had a quick look at Target, not expecting to find what I was after, and instead I found something even better!! For 3o bucks I got more than just a stick blender. I got a Bellini stick mixer set! It comes with a detachable head and four parts – the stick blender, a whisk, a smoothie beaker and a mini processor!! I could hardly believe my luck.
So I have been itching to use it ever since. I had a failed attempt at soup (the blender worked fine, the soup did not). But this weekend came with two absolute successes, which I would like to share.
First, after an impulse buy at Daiso, I decided to make popsicles!
Banana-Passion Pops
Was soo easy – all I did was place the below into my processor and turn that bad boy on for a bit.
- 1 x banana, chopped
- 1x passionfruit
- 1c greek yoghurt
- 1t maple syrup
Then I poured into my cute new popsicle moulds and popped them in the freezer. The hard part was getting the ice blocks out once they were frozen!!
Beetroot Hummus
My other great idea was home-made hummus, using this recipe (I reduced the quantities, and didn't have garlic so skipped that bit).
Again, into the processor went:
- 1 x 225g can beetroot, drained
- 1/2 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 1T tahini paste
- 1T lemon juice
I whizzed all that up, and then added 2x T olive oil, one tablespoon at a time, whizzing after each one.
Both recipes were delicious! I intend to make more hummus, as it was so quick and easy. And today, I made more popsicles, substituting strawberries instead of the banana/passionfruit.
What else could I make with my new toy?
Also – how cute is this?!
(I totes got one.)
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Pearl of an Antispam Program
ActiveState's PeerMessage application uses probability modeling to determine whether a particular email message is or is not spam. Savvy Perl programmers like the flexible nature of this product.
ActiveState's PeerMessage application uses probability modeling to determine whether a particular email message is or is not spam. Savvy Perl programmers like the flexible nature of this product.
Founded in 1997, ActiveState started out by building what Chris Kraft, ActiveState director of product management describes as "quality assured open source distributions." The company used basic programming tools such as Perl, Python, and Tcl,but branched out into building developer tools for open source languages. Today, ActiveState claims to have built working relationships with over 4 million developers through sales channels and online forums.
ActiveState developers decided that Perl was the best open source text processor, so naturally it would be a good foundation for an antispam application. The company launched PerlMX over a year ago and sought out enterprise-class clients as its primary target. Two months ago, ISPs starting taking an interest in ActiveState's antispam applications. As a result, the company is currently working with service providers to make its antispam solution more attractive to ISPs.
Set to debut in mid-November, ActiveState's PureMessage application uses probability modeling to determine whether a particular email message is or is not spam. The application incorporates other open source antispam initiatives including blacklists and SpamAssassin. Some day, ActiveState hopes to incorporate the SIEVE antispam language (IETF RFC 3028) into the application.
The program can recognize basic spam techniques, such as dictionary attacks. It also performs reverse domain name server (DNS) lookups on incoming messages. The program examines email messages for spam characteristics, which include:
The application completes a probability assessment that determines whether the email is unsolicited based on the percentage of spam-like characteristics the message exhibits. Next, it reviews settings to determine whether the email is rejected or sent through to the end user. ActiveState claims its antispam product rejects 98 percent of all unsolicited email.
A special policy enforcement bundle is capable of forwarding questionable email to a quarantine box and can also enforce corporate email policies or append a legal disclaimer to every outgoing email. Through an OEM agreement with McAfee, the company provides McAfee antivirus to PureMessage users.
Hugh Messenger, senior network administrator at Andalusia, AL-based AlaWeb, said the key advantage of PureMessage is its adaptability.
"Before we adopted PureMessage we used Lyris MailShield, which is a very good product, but it required a lot of hands-on configuration and updating," Messenger said. "We like PureMessage because we don't have to keep up with who's doing the spamming. As long as we have the latest package, it identifies the junk by itself."
Like most system administrators, Messenger said he takes spam very seriously. But ISPs have to balance antispam technology with the demands of different users.
"We've got two vocal classes of users. One group does not want us to touch their mail, and another group assumes that all spam they get is from us," Messenger said. "We're an ISP, not a big corporation, and we cannot make sweeping policy decisions about what mail people can and cannot receive. In a corporation you can install a filter and announce that it's company policy, but when people are paying to get email, you need to listen to their needs."
In order to respond to customer's needs, Messenger set up a special Web page that allows them to determine how the spam filter is used. He said building the form and adding the opt-out feature was relatively easy.
"It's 317 lines of Perl. Developing it was not too difficult because we already had set up a Web page for customers to manage their accounts," Messenger said. "It's not a feature in the current version of the product, although they may add it in future versions."
AlaWeb customers are allowed to choose from three options: opt out of email filtering entirely, accept all filtering, or ask that each filtered email be forwarded with an altered subject line. Messenger said that the altered subject line shows the spam probability percentage that the filter assigned to that particular email.
"We'll just prepend something like 'Spam 87%' in the subject line," Messenger said. The company calls this feature "subject striping."
When a customer complains about not receiving desired email messages, such as a newsletter subscription or other bulk notices, they can add the newsletter to a whitelist and allow the messages to reach its target. But Messenger advises that novice Perl programmers precede with caution.
"Perl is a powerful language," Messenger said. "You can get into trouble with any language that makes it easy to do cool things. Nobody should ever work on live servers."
Messenger is monitoring the success of the program with his own email account.
"I get about 100 spam messages per day, and perhaps six get through," he said. "I've had only one or two false positives in six months. I use the subject striping option."
AlaWeb uses a pair of Linux boxes, each a dual processor 1.2 GHz box with 3GB of RAM, although Messenger is planning to upgrade to 4GB of RAM. He estimates that AlaWeb receives 600,000 email messages each day, of which 40 percent are spam.
"Six months ago, we saw what we feared was the elbow of a massive spam curve," Messenger said. "We were right. Email traffic doubled, and the percentage that is spam rose from about 25 percent to 40 percent or even 50 percent."
Messenger is glad to have been prepared for the surge in junk email. He said the best benefit, however, was the positive responses from users.
"We got many thank-you notes from users when we switched to the new product, even from people who did not yet know what we'd changed," Messenger said.
Pricing and availability
The product is available now. Pricing is based on a one-time, per-server license fee, making it potentially very appealing for use in an ISP environment.


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Who, What, When, Where, Why, How Chakras
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who. ~ Rudyard Kipling
The "Five Ws and an H' refer to the six interrogative questions that writers ask in order to get the full scoop when writing a story. These six questions are who, what, when, where, why, and how. If we were to ask ourselves the "Five Ws and an H" questions of our own life stories, we would get different kinds of answers depending on where and how we looked. Our minds would produce a list of information about who we are, where we live, and what we do, a story full of facts and events. Our bodies will have a very different kind of answer. Our bodies hold our life stories in the story of our health, and the growth and healing we've experienced. While the chakra system, as a bridge between the body and the mind, will tell the story of our lives on the level of our energy.
From the solar plexus chakra, we express the energy of who, who we are as the main star of our story. This chakra at the level of the base of the ribcage, is in the central area of our bodies just as our personal identities are central to our life story. This chakra is the ego center. All of our self identifying information exists within the ego/solar plexus chakra. From here we radiate the energy of who we believe ourselves to be as an individual and as part of a larger community. It contains our histories, education, culture, gender, and personality. Any energy or information that makes us the incredible individual that we are is expressed from the solar plexus.
The sacral chakra is the energy center from which we express our creativity. This chakra radiates within the center line of the body, from the heart of the pelvic bowl. Whether or not we create consciously, we are continuously in the act of creating our lives by responding to events, needs and desires. It expresses at the level of the sex organs and is therefore connected with the ultimate creative act of creating new life. Some of us choose to become parents or artists or both. Those that do, engage sacral chakra energy in a powerful way. The energy of what we choose to create is sacral chakra energy. What are you creating in your life story?
The root chakra is the energy center that connects us to where our story is happening. For all of us, the larger answer to this question is the same. Our home is this planet earth that we are tethered to by gravity, but individually, the answers vary greatly. They could include mountain or desert, ocean or plain, tropical or cold. In these modern times, we can move great distances at great speed and our home environments can change as many times as we wish them to, but no matter what, our stories are always held within the container of space. From a standing position, the root chakra expresses energy downward to the earth from the pelvic floor and anchors us wherever we go in our story.
We often ask one another "How are you?" What we are really asking is "How are you telling your story today?" How as a question means in what way? There are many ways in which to communicate our stories and we are often in the act of telling and retelling the events and our reactions to the adventure of our days. Our voices and words are powerfully creative. How we use them will have an important impact on the ways in which we understand and interpret our stories for ourselves and for others. The ways in which we choose to speak about our lives will color our epic tale. If we complain, we are telling the anecdote of a victim. If we look to the bright side of things, we shade our story with lighter hues. The throat chakra is our communication center and it is from this chakra that we tell our life story. How are you using your words to create your story?
The third eye chakra focuses on the when of our story. Of course, this includes when in history we are living, but more specifically, this chakra expresses the energy of our constantly changing consciousness. As thoughts pass through our awareness, the third eye chakra flickers through time. Thoughts of past, present and future fly through our minds at lightning speed. When a pattern in thinking emerges, it reshapes our life story. For example, when we are overly focused on an event in our past, we bring the energy of past events into our story whenever we think about them. As we live in the present, our story becomes about the past. Those who meditate, work to gain control of the mind by bringing it into the present moment. This allows the third eye chakra to align with the life story as it is happening.
The why of our story is impossible to explain. Why do we live? Why are we here having these life stories? This is the big question tackled by most major religions. It is a mystery and therefore, open to interpretation. But if there is an answer to the question of why, it exists within a higher order of reality that is beyond our knowing. Even though we cannot fully grasp this higher realm with our minds, we are still connected to it through our crown chakras. This is exactly where our crown chakra is pointing: up, out, and beyond our minds. We may never know the why, but we can remain open to the answer to this question on an energetic level by feeling up and opening to the energy that passes into and through our crown chakras.
The heart chakra does not have a question associated with it but it does hold an answer. In a way, it is the answer to all the questions. Who, What, Where, When, Why and How? Because. Because of love. The heart chakra holds the energy of love. Why do we live? We live because we can know and learn about Love. Every aspect of our lives can be seen from the perspective of love. Generosity, compassion and intimacy are easily connected with love energy, but what about greed, envy and anger? These are lessons about the absence or withdrawal of love. Experiencing an abundance of love and a vacuum of love are both necessary spiritual lessons about love.
A fish learns a lot about water when it leaps out into the air. In that moment, it learns about the temperature, density and gravity of its home. As spirit, we exist within a unified field of love and like the fish, we cannot know what that world is like until we leave it temporarily by living lives. But like early underwater divers, we are still tethered to the love of our spiritual reality through our chakra system. We are living lives and creating stories in these miraculous bodies because we are here to learn about the love we know from our spiritual home.
The Five Ws and an H…and a B
Who? We are embodied spirits with individual identities. Although each of us is an individual our identities are created by our connections to others.
What? Our lives are creations and the what of life is what we create of our lives.
Where? We live here on earth in three dimensional space and in our homes and towns and landscapes.
When? We live here now in the present moment and sometimes in the past and the future.
How? Stories need to be told and the way in which we tell our stories to others is the truth of how our stories go.
Why? Perhaps we cannot know why. The source of intelligence that created us is beyond our knowing. But we can feel why…
Because. Because we are here to learn about love and feeling love is at the heart of who we are.


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Chris had a work conference in California this week—all week, seven days. Meaning it was just the kids and me…all week. I'll be honest; at the start of the week I was in a bit of panic mode. I started making lists. I was teaching at both Rock Bridge and MU and had to present at a research symposium, James had two track practices, before school tutoring, an orthodontist appointment and a science fair on Saturday. The week started and I proverbially held my breath.
Through Wednesday, the kids and I leaned on each other. At night James made my coffee for the next morning. And at 5:15AM each morning when I sleep stumbled into the kitchen to already brewed coffee it made my heart melt.
We were doing okay. But every night I was exhausted. Crazy tired. And the first three nights it thunder stormed which terrified my golden retriever who jumped into bed with me, hid under the covers and velcroed herself to me all night.
True to my character, I had efficiency plans in place to make this work. My plans afforded us ten minute windows here and there between picking up one kid and dropping the second at another activity. Of course ten minutes windows don't work in the fields of education or parenting. Although I allowed an hour after school to help my students with their homework and questions, students still had questions after 4:00PM, James' bottle rocket wasn't finished by our pre-planned bedtime, and I couldn't take the jogging stroller out in the rain.
Then on Thursday, I got a call from Lilah's school. She was sick. We are blessed with very healthy children, so such calls are unusual. I left work to pick her up, missing two meetings after school. I scooped her into my arms and asked her what she needed. "Momma cuddles." She said, nuzzling my neck.
So we went home and cuddled. She fell asleep holding my hand. All afternoon and evening she was sick. I had to do emergency laundry because went through all her pajamas and clean sheets. I was worried. She couldn't keep anything down. She told me her head hurt and all she wanted was to cuddle. She clung to me, looked up at me through sleepy eyes as I pulled the quilt around her shoulders and rubbed her back until she fell back to sleep.
The next morning I figured out how to use the new sub system and called in to stay home with my daughter. After a long night of cuddling, cleaning her up and changing her pajamas yet again, she woke up with some sunshine in her cheeks. I took her in to the doctor. She swung her legs off the table and told the doctor she felt "Much better. Thank you, Doctor." (Yes, really.) It turns out it was just a nasty virus. By the time I took her in, it had already passed. Thank goodness.
We drove home together singing. And on that drive my perspective on the week changed. Yes, I missed a couple meetings. No, I didn't get my paper turned in before the weekend. Yes, I responded to emails at night rather than right as they came in. No, my efficiency plan didn't work and yes, it was kind of silly to begin with. Listening to my daughter sing her mash ups of "row row row your boat" and "ABC" reminded me to focus not on the time I'd lost, but on the time we made:
Time to nap together. To fall asleep holding hands.
Time to walk around the garden and watch things bloom.
Time to perfect that bottle rocket, which did fly, and earned fourth at the science fair.
Time for breakfast together.
Time to read an extra book at bedtime and six extra books after work.
Time to shoot hoops.
Time to smell the flowers.
Time to drive over to my parents' house and hang out.
Time for my daughter to style my hair.
Time to invent monkey dancing.
Time to explore.
Time for a glass of wine with my sister.
Time for longer conversations with my son over milkshakes.
Time to run.
Time for another walk through the park.
I did not solve any of the eternal questions of balancing family, and work, and school. It's probably not a coincidence that my lesson in perspective came while I was away from work on a sick day with my daughter. And I was lucky to have the help of my parents and sister to drive the kids around. Instead, I write this to highlight a lesson my almost two year-old reminded me of: the importance of shifting our focus away from quantity and back to quality. As I take stock of our week, I won't remember the emails I didn't send, but the conversations I had with young people (I have amazing students). I won't remember the laundry I didn't get put away, but all those sweet moments I had with my own kids (I have amazing kids).
I'm still learning. You only get so much time each day and so you want to fill that time with the things that matter, things like: cheerio dates, bottle rockets, and family dance parties in the living room.
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Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Central Tanzania
In the article, "Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Tanzania" written by Kristin Phillip, Phillips examines the East African food crisis of 2006 and its effect on Tanzania. She discusses how food was being used as a political weapon against the people of Tanzania. The Tanzanians were forced to suffer through a drought that took away all their means of living and food. Food aid that was being received were used as political leverage between the leaders and the poor villagers had to fight for the food that was originally given to them but controlled by the government. The people had to rebel and fight for their food but still rural farmers suffered the most. With the drought the farmers are suffering and continues not to see the food aid because the government uses it as political power. This enforces the socioeconomic privilege of the people in power and of the richer people. While middle class Tanzanians are given food, the poor still remain hungry. The leaders exploited the poor during the time of hungry, by basically selling life.
"The news that some regional and district leaders had come by sacks of grain to sell at increased prices raised suspicion about the real whereabouts of food aid."
This article goes back to this weeks reading about the health disparities of the poor from Framer's book. This is proof how the poor are denied access to what should be basic human rights/goods but are denied it due to lack of money or political level. The socioeconomic status determines the quality of life you have and resources you are able to afford. An interesting fact I learned from this article is how good glows are gendered. Depending on your gender your food flow would be different. This shows women are often better for the community as a whole since they focus on the importance of food and family, rather the importance of wealth.
"Whereas the flows of food among women (food of the farm) generally tend
to produce material reciprocity, flows of food among men (food of wealth)
tend to produce political obligation gendered food flows"
Zimbabwe has been accused of using food aide for political power. The New York Times ran an article about it in 2008 —– > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/world/africa/12zimbabwe.html
This is a blog piece about Zimbabwe also.
Medical Ethics
In Chapter 8 of Paul Farmer's, Pathologies of Power, Farmer focuses on the bioethics of the current world and how the gap between the poor and rich is widening because of expanding globalization. The human right to have health care and be offered life and death services if they are available. The only thing keeping many people in developing countries from dying is the access to health care that can be solved by making it a global human right for everyone. Global equity can not be achieved unless the capitalist mindset is erased and people live with compassion and universal moral laws. The need for money is higher than the end to save a human life. People who are poor are seen as non-existent and not important. The cost of a life of someone who is poor is not relevant for people who rich and ignore the health disparities which exist between them. Farmer mentioned the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where the marginalization and the violation of the African American mens' human rights by using them in medical research because of their skin color.
This is a perfect example of genocide due to lack of resources. Poor people are unable to have the proper procedures, medical research, and access to physicians. If physicians were forced to do a certain number of years in an extremely poor part of their country or another country before they were able to practice in their own firms or privately. Universal health care is helping the poor in United States thanks to Obama. Now we just have to get universal health care for the whole world. Hopes and Dreams.
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Disparities in Health: Inequities Create Great Risks for Poor, Adolescents, and Women in Developing Countries —-> http://www.dcp2.org/features/12/disparities-in-health-inequities-create-great-risks-for-poor-adolescents-and-women-in-developing-countries
Benevolence or Manipulation?
In Kristin D. Phillip's article, "Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Central Tanzania" the author discusses how low socioeconomic status was manipulated so that politicians can gain power by distributing food aid. Therefore, under the guise of attempting to feed the have-nots and cure famine relief, Tanzanian leaders are able to amass support. The people of Tanzania support the government because they have no one else to go to.
The article reminded me of the Cambodian genocide. After gaining independence, the newly established democratic republic government had not been doing so well which was one of the factors that allowed the Khmer Rouge communist forces to come into power and eventually commit mass genocide. When the city was evacuated, people were promised a better future and a new improved society. Instead, 2 million perished under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. Additionally, the US government supported the Khmer Rouge with aid after their regime ended because the US was fighting against the Vietnamese at the time.
These events demonstrate how many underlying political and economic forces are in play when government promises better living conditions for their citizens (i.e. by providing welfare/food aid.) When developed countries assist a poorer country, there always seems to be a hidden agenda. In a recent article about US and North Korean relationships, the US was cautious about its food aid deal for political reasons; I'm not saying we should ignore the complex relationship between countries but this article implies that politics seem to dominate over a general concern for public health.
Learn more about the US's food aid deal with North Korea: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/01/u-s-cautiously-optimistic-after-food-aid-deal-with-north-korea/
Food Politics
In Kristin Phillips' article, "Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Central Tanzania" she discusses the politics of food. The people of Tanzania are being stripped of their agency because of their dependence on food. Food aid is converted into political power in order to acquire the people's votes. Once the elections are over, the food aid trickles down to nothing until the next elections. By doing this, people do not protest the structures of power that is keeping them in poverty and keeping them dependent on food aid. They are often faced with food shortages, "in the last decade… the Nyturu ethnic group, have faced three severe food shortages. Interestingly enough, hunger and shame go hand in hand. Political figures are criticized when people die from hunger, and it's so deeply connected with politicians, that regional government medicals officials were deployed to a village in order to counter the claims of deaths from starvation.
Governments have a duty to their people to make sure that its citizens, and what would even be ideal, is that there would be enough jobs so that people would have enough to buy their food and serve the economy. In a way it's in a country's best interest to provide for its citizens because when mass starvations occur, people are too weak to really contribute anything to the country.
In North Korean during the 1990s "widespread famine devastated North Korea, killing over 2.5 million, and perhaps upwards of 3.7 million." It wasn't the result of a natural disaster, but the result of government diverting its resources. Food is used to control the population, but the result has been many deaths, and by denying food the government participated in genocide by neglect
More on North Korean's mass starvations:
Medical Ethics
In chapter eight, of Paul farmer's "Pathologies of Power," medical ethics is discussed, and he states that healthcare should be provided for everyone, he make a great point by stating that "if by everybody" we truly mean everybody" (212). Groups can easily be denied access to healthcare if they are not view as citizens of the nation. In a developing country, if a doctor does not provide healthcare to a patient simply because the patient does not have the proper passport or documentation, people would be up an arms for such an injustice to occur. Here in the U.S,. law have been passed—Prop 187—to prevent undocumented people from having any access to public services.
It goes back to who is considered human enough to have human rights and having access to healthcare. If people are not considered citizens than it is easier for them to be denied services, and it's easier for them to be ignored just as senior citizens were in the Chicago heat wave.
More on Prop 187:
Article on Health Care Reform and Undocumented:
Changing the Face of Medical Ethics
The founding of medical ethics can be partly be attributed to the actions of Nazi doctors during the Holocaust. These "doctors" violated the sacred contract between physician and patient. While these heinous crimes are on the extreme end of the spectrum, are doctors living up to the expectations of medical ethics today? But first, what is forefront of bioethics today? In a chapter entitled "New Malaise" in Paul Farmer's "Pathologies of Power," Farmer argues that no, today's bioethics is catered towards the privileged (ethical dilemmas include genetic testing, doctor-patient relationships, life-prolonging techniques, etc.) instead of considering a large percentage of the world's population who are living in poverty, unable to access the healthcare necessary to sustain their livelihoods. Global healthcare equity should be at the forefront of bioethics and when we say healthcare for everybody, it should be for everybody as opposed to just the privileged.
However, even if health professionals and governments adopt this mindset, I still do not believe that we will ever come close to achieving global health equity. Who is obligated to pay for a global healthcare system and how do we not allow socioeconomic status to determine who gets better healthcare? Will the affluent really be willing to sacrifice the privilege of a high socioeconomic status in order to provide healthcare for the destitute? I don't think so. Despite the intricacies of implementing a global healthcare system, health professionals and policymakers should, however, strive for global health equity as much as possible.
Read about complications for bioethics created by the Nazi era: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1484488/
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by 'Anglo' writer-friend Frank Maguire
From the Arizona Trenches May 2, 2010
It's my routine to leave the house early in the a.m., often around 5:00, and head for the foothills here in the desert around Arizona City . It is quiet and beautiful, and I watch the sun rise over the mountains to the east. I read, think, and write.
Because the area is part of what the Border Patrol calls the "pipeline," where human-cargo "coyotes" and drug-smugglers head north from the border, about 80 miles to the south, it can be a dangerous location. I have observed incidences of activity over the past three years.
My writing place is 12 miles south of Casa Grande, adjacent to the huge Tohono O'odham (formerly called "Papago") Nation reservation, close to the junction of U.S. Routes 8 and 10. The thousands of square miles of desert and the surrounding mountains make it very difficult for the Border Patrol. There is a large BP office in Casa Grande, and another, smaller, just north of rt. 10, in Eloy, less than a mile from where routes 8 and 10 connect.
Every morning I chat with BP Agents who gas-up at the large Love's Truck Stop on Sunland Gin Rd. , in Eloy. I have gotten to know a number of them, and I've written some articles on the dangerous conditions here in the "pipeline." Per the advice of my Agent acquaintances, I am always armed. I carry a Colt Commander MK-80, Series IV .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, with Hydro-Shok ammunition in the magazines. Sometimes, if there have been recent goings-on, I include a Marlin .44, lever-action carbine, or a Mossberg .12 gauge riot shot gun. I don't go looking for trouble, but I would prefer to survive it if it presents itself.
Yesterday morning, Saturday May 2nd, I was out at my regular hour. At about 7:00, on the dirt road just east of the mountains, about 500 yards from where I sat, two Pinal County Sheriff's vehicles accompanied by two Deputy Sheriffs on ATV's and an unmarked SUV drove up to some trails that run westward into the mountains. I watched until I could no longer see them, and then I drove into the desert where I would be able to regain sight of them.
The patrol cars had stopped at one trail-head, and the ATV's were climbing the trail. We were quite close and I chose to leave since I didn't want to be a distraction to them.
Later in the day, I saw the news that Border Patrol Agents, Casa Grande and Eloy Police, and Pinal County Sheriff had raided a number of local houses that were being used by human-cargo and drug smugglers and had arrested a large number of illegals. Also, one Pinal Sheriff's Deputy had been shot by an Ak-47 wielding drug-runner. A few of the smugglers had managed to get away, and the police agencies were searching for them. The location they described is exactly where I was situated that morning.
You are watching the war against Arizona being waged by despicable lying politicians and complicit business persons who have their own reasons for not obeying the federal and state laws in re. illegal entrance into the United States . As you watch, remember this: you are being lied to, and you and your families are being placed in serious jeopardy by the very people who are saturating the news networks with accusations that Arizona is a haven for hateful bigots. The reality is, contrary to the deceitful hypocrites who are far from the border wars that we in Arizona deal with every day, Arizonans are persons who take the U.S. Constitution seriously, and who do not rationalize or sentimentalize the laws of our nation away.
Consider, fellow citizens, that we in Arizona are acting as your first line of defense. If you join in the efforts against Arizona , you are guaranteeing that the war against illegal entry across America 's sovereign borders will get even worse. And even you in the silly sanctuary cities established by fools and liars will be forced to contend with a virtual alien army as your "neighbors."
In closing: the area in which I live with my Hispanic wife, Helen Isabel Estevez Maguire, is at least fifty-percent Hispanic in population. I choose to live here. Other than the continuous invasion by illegals, who are hidden in stash houses in Arizona City , Eloy, and Casa Grande, the citizens here get along very well. Contrary to the accusations of ethnic hatred, there is a neighborly atmosphere. As we, here, watch the hypocrites attacking Arizonans while they live in their protected, lily-white communities, we just shake our heads in disgust. Our advice? If such as these want to see what hypocrisy and hatred look like, all they need to do is to check out their faces in a mirror.
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Dotterel on the shoreline this morning at Ringstone.Flew off with Golden Plovers late morning and no sign by 18:00.
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Another great find what else does 2014 have to offer. Already we have had Eider, Hoopoe, Wryneck and Buff-breasted Sandpiper to name a few.
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Plenty of time left yet Nick!
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Very well done Dave.
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Watch and Pray....
Too often our prayers become a chore and hard work. On the river I have been reminded that if we "watch" and pay attention more carefully to our surroundings, prayer becomes a wonderful gift!
Dave - your pictures and musings are wonderful and inspiring! Keeping you in my prayers and hoping for nothing but good paddling ahead!
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They are street gangs accused of criminal activity, and they operate in Edgewood, Aberdeen and other areas of Harford County; gang-related crime is no longer confined to Baltimore neighborhoods or Washington's suburbs. Towns such as Salisbury, Woodlawn, Columbia and Waldorf are finding evidence of the same in their backyards. It's a problem that calls for local law enforcement to share intelligence, focus on potential recruits and investigate these groups as suspected criminal enterprises.
Why wait for suburban groups to become as entrenched as some drug gangs in Baltimore or the Latino MS-13 organization that operates in Montgomery and Prince George's counties? In fact, several jurisdictions aren't waiting and, with the help of $2 million in federal grants, are developing anti-gang units and programs across Maryland. These strategies will be profiled Thursday at a daylong summit hosted by state and federal officials.


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The Advantages Of Having A Mobile App For Your Business
The technology we have and enjoy today has changed the way business owners market their products and services. If you own a business, it is important for your to recognize that we are now in the digital age. In addition to this, most of your potential customers own a smart phone and they do a lot of their shopping online. You have to take advantage of this because this is your key to success.
In this article, allow me to share with you some good reasons as to why your business should have it's own mobile application.
1. You will save a lot of money.
Having a mobile app for your business is one of the cheapest ways to market your goods and services. Because it is your app, you can even introduce your products and services in detail so that more people would appreciate your business.
2. You will have new customers.
If you want your business to become successful, you to find a way to gain customers every now and then. To do this, you have to introduce your business in the mobile world. The more popular your mobile app becomes, the more customers you are able to gain and the bigger your income becomes.
3. This is an excellent way to reach out to your customers.
Keep in mind that it is your customers that is keeping your business alive. This is the reason why you must do everything to keep them happy and satisfied. One way to do this is by letting them know that their opinions matter.
When making a mobile app for your business, do not forget to include a comment or a suggestion box. This way, you will know what your customers like about your products or services and vice versa. This will benefit you and your customers, you will be improving on the weak points of your business and your customers will be very pleased.
It is best to look for a good mobile app developer if you don't have the skill, knowledge, and tools to create your own mobile app. Developing mobile apps is their bread and butter.
When in search of a good mobile app developer, it is best to utilize the internet. They use their websites to advertise their services to the public. Once you are on their website, researching on their educational background, experience, and services will be a piece of cake. To determine the quality of their work, it is advisable that you download some of their mobile apps.
Create a mobile app for your company today and you will reach your business goals in no time.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday evening rolled out a red carpet welcome for US companies with promises of a predictable tax regime and open and welcome business environment, while US President Barack Obama pledged $4 billion in bank loans to increase trade with India and explore "untapped potential."
Earlier on Monday, Mr Obama became the first US President to be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade, watching India showcase its culture and military prowess in a parade on Rajpath that included armaments purchased from Russia.
Mr Modi's invitation, and President Obama's attendance as chief guest, and the agreements reached over two days of summitry are seen by many as confirmation that India has begun to move away from its traditional non-aligned stance.
"We will guide you and walk with you in your projects. You will find a climate that encourages investment and rewards enterprise," Mr Modi said at the India-US Business Summit, attended by nearly 500 business leaders from American and Indian industry. He underlined his government's endeavour to make it easy to do business in India. "Our immediate target is to bring us from the rear ranks of the world into the top 50," said Mr Modi.
During their interaction with top CEOs from both countries, Mr Modi promised that he himself would monitor big projects.
On the concerns of US business about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection, the Prime Minister said his government will nurture innovation and "protect your intellectual property".
He said business sentiments in India are the strongest among major Asian markets. Mr Modi said US companies will find a tax regime that is predictable and competitive.
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PM Narendra Modi said his government would ensure that the uncertainties related to doing business in India would be removed soon.
"We have removed some of the excesses of the past. We will now soon address the remaining uncertainties," said the Prime Minister.
US President Barack Obama in his address sought "consistency" and "simplicity" in the regulatory and tax environment in India and redressal of issues relating to intellectual property rights to increase bilateral trade.
He said US exporters are "very concerned" about issues like IPR as the US economy was increasingly becoming a knowledge-based economy. The US President said "absence of effective intellectual property protection" in India was affecting business.
"We tend to operate at the higher ends of the global value chain," said Mr Obama. "There are still too many barriers, hoops to jump through, bureaucratic restrictions that make it hard to start a business, or to export, to import, to close a deal, deliver on a deal," Mr Obama said.


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1. The plaintiffs bring the suit on the ground that they are sons of Gobinda and Gopal, who many years ago absconded from the village, leaving their property in the hands of their co-sharers as trustees, and they rest the proof of the trust on an entry in the administration-paper of 1864. The defendant pleaded in effect that the plaintiff's are not the persons they represent themselves to be, and that there was no such trust created as they assert, and that the property in suit was for years possessed by Sahib Earn, Param Sukh, and others, whose rights and interests therein were bought in 1912 sambat, or 22 years ago, by the defendant at public auction, and the claim has become barred by adverse possession on the defendant's part. The Court of First Instance found in favour of the several pleas advanced by defendant and dismissed the suit.
2. The lower Appellate Court has decreed the claim, holding that the plaintiff's are the persons they represent themselves to be; but it is silent as to when and how those whom plaintiffs represent deserted their village; it holds that under the entry in the administration-paper Sahib Earn must be considered to have become trustee for the absconders, and no period of limitation will bar the suit against him, or against his representative, the defendant, who purchased at auction-sale his rights and interests.
3. This decision is clearly open to the objections taken in appeal. Accepting the finding that plaintiffs are representatives of Gobinda and Gopal, who at some time or other deserted their villages, in order to establish the fact that Sahib Ram and the others held their property as their trustees, there must be evidence that they accepted such a trust, and this fact cannot be taken as proved by a vague and general entry made in an administration-paper of a date subsequent to the relinquishment of the property by the absconders, and which refers to future years, to which Sahib Earn and the others were no parties, and which merely states in general terms that absconders from the village shall receive back their property on their return; and further, could such trust to Sahib Earn and the others be established, the claim is clearly barred by the limitation of twelve years, since the defendant is a purchaser in good faith for value from Sahib Earn and the others, and is not his representative within the meaning of Section 10, Act IX of 1871, and it is not shown that he bought with any notice of the trust.
4. We decree the appeal and reverse the decree of the lower Appellate Court and dismiss the suit with all costs.


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This might be a stupid question as I know absolutely nothing of game development but..
Why doesn't FM look anywhere near as good as games like FIFA? I know it's not the most important aspect of the game and I still enjoy it but it has me curious.
Is it due to the amount of people working on FIFA compared to FM? Budgets? Can't be spec can it as I'm sure people are always saying that pc's have higher specs than consoles?
Will FM ever have super realistic in-match graphics? Sure would add to the realism.
Well according to wikipedia EA Sports has 8000 employees working across seven current games. Using some very basic mathematics, that's over 1100 people per game. If only a third of those work in development, that's still over 350 people.
As Miles said in the recent Q&A (and some of you may have seen on the FM Documentary credits) SI has 99 employees. And we're not all coders.
Not trying to Fut 15 Coins Cheap make excuses, but I don't think there's quite as many people working on how the match looks at SI than there are at EA. But we make different games and both teams do the best they can!


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The first thing people notice when they walk into our office are the orange and yellow walls. Eventually, they notice something else: the music. Sometimes it erupts in that they finally comment on the range of styles they've heard in the span of a few minutes; sometimes it's a sidenote about its mere presence; other times it is simply the supportive energy during a creative silence. We didn't invent the idea; we simply benefit from it.♦
A recent article cites a study that shows music in the workplace "releases a listener's endorphins, reduces stress and improves creativity." Furthermore, behavioral scientists also suggest listening to music in the workplace boosts employee relations. The article points out that music is a universal tool of nearly every background and generation, and it offers a great way of making connections.
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July has been a busy month for us here at topcoder with 5 releases of new functionality for the platform. In addition to a bunch of small enhancements and bug fixes, here is a recap of some of the new major features that may be affecting you:
The first thing you should take a look at is your member profile page. We made significant improvements to the loading time of the profile pages; check out Pshyo's for instance. There's a lot going on inside the profiles but we performed some client-side magic to make the page load much faster!
We also made a number of tweaks and enhancements to the registration and login processes. It should now be much easier and straightforward to get started with topcoder. Take a look at the new Getting Started and Member Registration Thank You pages for example. We are quite happy with them.
We also delivered some improvements to the challenge process in general. We simplified the challenge terms flow by integrating DocuSign into the process and made some visual enhancements to the challenge page including a more pronounced status/phase and type.
The Coderbits guys are onboard and working hard on the integrations. We've migrated the new users and are working on profile enhancements. Definitely more to come.
Want to see where you stand in the ratings? The Top 10 leaderboard on Community page is now complete for Design, Development, and Data Science. W00t!
We also launched Code Your Way In where you can win a free ticket to TCO14 simply by solving an algorithm challenge. What you may not know is that Code Your Way In sits on top of our new web-based Arena architecture using node.js and socket.io. The UI for Code Your Way In is a much simplified version of the new Arena and, by design, doesn't have all of the bells and whistles. However, we think it's pretty slick.
Speaking of the Arena, we spent a lot of time this month working the kinks out of the new web-based Arena, including competition pages, dashboards and contest listing pages, contest pages (contest Info, room summary and division summary) and Broadcast and Chat. We've ran a couple of internal SRMs in the US and India and things went well. It's an understatement to say that we are excited to roll out the new Arena. We have a lot of plans for it.
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah more ego stuff to talk crap about good old cwest days how i miss it
My translation: They speak "crappyknightonlineweryturkmusunperuviannoeducatio nenglish" and those that play USKO for a living can easily descent to this level of stupidity, due to the game slowly killing their brain cells.
You know my grandfather was an idiot and I feel like you guys share the same philosophy. "They will understand if you just say everything loud enough, regardless of the language."


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Doing dishes never looked this good! Haha, not really. Doing dishes never looks good. But you can try to bring some joy to it by making cute dish towels.
I like to embroider stuff, as you probably know. And I think it's important to add a little homemade flourish to your life. Consequently, most of the gifts I give tend to be on the homemade side of things and tend towards wonky as most of the things I make end up slightly askew. I like to call it character. Or maybe style. Yes! That's it! Wonky is the style I intend every time I set out to make something... :)
Anyhow, I digress. Have I mentioned my lovely boyfriend before? And especially how lovely it is that he appreciates my penchant for things homemade? I made these as part of his Christmas gift and just got around to taking pictures yesterday.
The first one came out of my head. Or at least, I think it did. But chances are I saw it somewhere, cataloged it in the deepest region of my brain for future reference, forgot I saw it, and then produced it thinking it was solely mine. I imagine I should be attributing the idea to someone, somewhere, but who knows?
The second one is the kitchen gnome. Kitchen gnomes make doing dishes magical, didn't you know? He comes from Andrea Zuill's blog BadBirds. Every month she posts a free embroidery pattern and they are dripping with awesome! Check out her blog here and download the gnome here.
And for the record (and just for fun!)... Me: cookies, wasabi, coke and eggs. Dave: milk, sushi, rum and ham. :)
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Does it feel like the days are getting shorter very quickly? You're not imagining it. From mid-August to the beginning of November, we lose at least two and a half minutes of sunlight a day. Today, we'll have 17 minutes less sunlight than we did a week ago, and an hour and 15 minutes less of sunlight than we did a month ago.
Rather than dwelling on how depressing it is to have shorter and shorter days, we'd like to point out a cool pattern in nature. It turns out that day length is a lovely sine wave:
The times shown here are for the latitude of Washington, DC. As you move toward the equator, the curve flattens out; at the equator, days are about 12 hours long all year round. As you move toward the poles, the curve gets more extreme. Thus, the arctic circle's midnight sun in the summer and endless nights in the winter.
Temperatures follow a curve of a similar shape, but they're lagged behind daylight.
Because the earth has so much mass, it takes a while for the surface to cool off in the winter or warm up in the spring. So, even though we'll be back to having 12 hours of light by mid-March, we won't be back to average highs in the 70's until late April.
Ok, now we're depressed again. We'll just have to enjoy the symmetry of it all.


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Call him Mr Vader, call him Mr Wrong
This is certainly a case of a salesman using too much 'Force'.
I love this reference to the 'Winsford woman's answerphone'. I think it's the new 'middle England'.
Winsford Guardian, 22 September 2010 (story):
'Darth Vader' man found guilty
A 29-YEAR-OLD who left a message in the style of 'Darth Vader' on a Winsford woman's answerphone has been found guilty of aggressive commercial practice.
On the opening day of the trial, the court heard how the defendant, who worked for Luton-based Forever Active, had called Valerie Rawlins, aged 57, on June 17 with the intention to sell her a mobility scooter.
Peter Moss, prosecuting, said: "The claimant was not a person who needed a mobility scooter.
"She remembered receiving a letter through her letter box and the defendant phoned at 12.03pm with a view to engaging her with the prospect of purchasing a scooter.
"She immediately said no because of the leaflet.
"She said 'I do not want to buy one thank you, good bye', and put the phone down.
Some wonderful lawspeak there: '…with a view to engaging her with the prospect of purchasing a scooter'. They make it sound so sordid. And rightfully so.
BUT IT DIDN'T STOP THERE. Oh no…
"Undeterred by that this defendant between 12.03pm and 12.15pm then embarked on a mission.
"He made his first set of calls in a 12 minute period and the calls became increasingly menacing."
Mr Moss added that the defendant had threatened he may stop her benefits or pension if she did not buy a scooter.
He said that on a voicemail message Honegan had put on a false voice, and said: "It was a Darth Vader voice, a menacing voice, in which he said 'we know where you are'."
Honegan is to be sentenced on October 8, at Chester Crown Court.
Which of us hasn't adopted a joke Darth Vader voice at some point in time…? It's surely an everyday occurrence, and not really worthy of a sentencing. PC gone mad, etc.
Thank you to Peter Ball, no relation to Johnny.
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Perhaps she thinks she's being treated unfairly?
(Just throwing a bone to you ESB fans out there!)