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Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris admits playing with a head injury was a massive risk
HUGO LLORIS risked his life playing for Tottenham – but insists it will not happen again.
The Spurs keeper was knocked out cold in a collision with Romelu Lukaku at Everton last November.
He played on after receiving medical treatment – but admits now he regrets taking such a huge gamble with his own health.
And he is backing tough new Premier League rules on head injuries that take such decisions out of a player's hands for their own safety.
If Lloris suffers a head injury against QPR today, a doctor will decide whether he is fit to continue – and could even overrule his manager.
The Frenchman said: "It's definitely a good thing we don't have to play if a medical professional thinks it's better that we don't.
"I don't know if it was the biggest decision of my career. But it was a big one"Hugo Lloris
"I was subjected to a head injury so it's easier for me to understand that decision.
"I realised after it happened that I definitely took a risk with my health –it won't happen again.
"Sometimes when you are out there you don't want to leave the pitch. Now the rules are very clear and it will be better for everyone."
Lloris admits he made a big decision in commiting his future to the club by signing a new fi ve-year deal in the summer despite a lack of Champions League football this season.
The French No.1 had plenty of big clubs sniffing around him but chairman Daniel Levy convinced him good times are just around the corner at Spurs.
Lloris said: "I don't know if it was the biggest decision of my career. But it was a big one.
"Sometimes you have opportunities in life and you have to take them. I had a good chat with the chairman about the ambition and the future of the club.
"All the conditions were good so we came to an agreement and I was very happy about that.
"I'm a competitor and I know it's very hard to win trophies in England because there are a lot of top clubs.
"But there is a lot of ambition and we are going to grow up as a club and try to improve every year.
"We need to keep our ambition high and continue to improve. We have a lot of young players who are getting better and better.
"Everything at Tottenham is done to help players improve. We need some stability after two years with two different managers.
"We have to keep a good spirit in the dressing room and work together to make some great performances. We didn't do enough against the top teams last season."


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After some deliberation, it has been decided that invisibility, greater invisibility, and similar effects will no longer provide a +20 bonus to Stealth checks to avoid being noticed. The reasons are simple, but I will explain it in detail so that there is no confusion as to why this was done, and I will explain what it means for those who plan to make use of spells like invisibility or items like the ring of invisibility.
The Issue: Invisibility makes the subject immune to all sight-based methods of being perceived. However, it also added a flat +20 modifier to Stealth checks or Perception DCs which resulted in both a game balance issue and a verisimilitude issue. From a game balance perspective, the spell made the Stealth irrelevant except against creatures with see invisibility or true seeing. From a verisimilitude perspective it made little to no sense that being harder to see would make you harder to notice in other ways. Effectively, a person with a 1 Dexterity and a -6 armor check penalty would be able to take 10 and clank past most people without being notice. Likewise, it seemed to be limited to creatures under the effects of invisibility or the invisible condition and not an effect of total concealment. This means that if you have 3 people standing in a room, one blind, one invisible, and one normal, the blind guy can hear the regular guy with a Perception check but cannot see him, while the invisible guy gets a +20 to avoid being noticed by the blind guy.
The Change: Invisibility works as written except effects that make you invisible do not provide a bonus to Stealth. You have total concealment and you cannot be noticed by sight. That means that you can walk right past someone and unless their Perception beats your Stealth check they cannot see you. Yes this means Stealth doesn't automatically solve issues of walking around in heavy armor or carrying heavy loads, but it shouldn't have helped that to begin with.

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You may have noticed some unhappiness online this week about the US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect IP Act (Pipa). Wikipedia and other sites went "dark", while while Google censored its name. With its constant battle between copyright owners and people who want to use their content "creatively", YouTube is at the centre of online debate, so it's not surprising protest has surfaced on the site.
Set to the tune of Don McLean's American Pie, The Day The LOLcats Died eloquently puts the case against Sopa. Wittily namechecking Gawker, Reddit, Tumblr and other sites, it makes the plea: "Our web means more than lawyers, lobbies and lies/So speak up before the internet dies." There's also a guest appearance from Cheezburger chief Ben Huh.
If you want to find out more about Sopa, you can read the Guardian's news story and interactive explainer, and UK commentator John Bain has put together a video titled WTF is SOPA? aka The American Government trying to ruin the internet.
Elsewhere, if you've ever had a bicycle stolen, you'll identify with the video-makers who chained a bike outside in New York's Soho and filmed it every day for a year. There's something sad yet hypnotic about the resulting time-lapse footage of the bike being slowly stripped. Continuing the New York theme, there's also video of the city's annual No Pants Subway Ride (less extreme than it might sound to UK readers). And it's over to Las Vegas for a demo of Samsung's "smart window" – a glimpse of the house of the future.
Finally, we turn to a couple of clips that have got web users barking. First, there's an unbelievably cute video of a dog searching for a ball in a pile of leaves. Then there's The Bark Side, a Volkswagen viral that has attracted nearly 3m views in two days. Featuring 11 dogs of various sizes barking out the Imperial March theme from Star Wars, it's a teaser for the-car-maker's Superbowl ad. Building on Volkswagen's 2011 Passat advert, which featured a boy dressed as Darth Vader, it makes you wonder: can the full ad possibly be as good? We'll have to wait until 5 February to find out.
Guardian Viral Video Chart. Compiled by Unruly Media and chopped around by Dugald.
1 Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2
High-octane bike v car video that has clocked up 6m hits in a week.
2 The Gay Rights Movement
Anti-discrimination film that has stirred up debate on YouTube.
3 I'm Elmo and I Know It (ORIGINAL LMFAO Parody)
Sesame Street goes rave.
4 The Day The LOLcats Died - #SOPA #PIPA Protest Song
Way better than Madonna's cover of the song.
5 No Pants Subway Ride 2012
Total (no) pants.
6 CES - Samsung's Smart Window
Minority Report or minority appeal?
7 The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser
Can you work out which characters the dogs are?
8 Shit Single Girls Say
Best of this week's "Shit ...s Say" clips.
9 LIFECYCLE: 365 days in the life of a bike in NYC
Amazing how long the bike lasts.
10 Dog with leaves (Dog vs. Leaves) **ORIGINAL**
No leaf unturned.
Source: Viral Video Chart. Compiled from data gathered at 1800 on 19 January 2012. The Viral Video Chart is currently based on a count of the embedded videos and links on approximately 2m blogs, as well as Facebook and Twitter.


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Issue Date: June 1, 2009
Joseph Priestley's Story
Keywords: Joseph Priestley, Books
New & Noteworthy
Food: The Chemistry of its Components, 5th Ed.,by Tom Coultate, RSC Publishing, 2009, 501 pages, $59.95 paperback (ISBN: 978-0-854-04111-4)
Investigates food components that are present in large amounts (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, and water) and those that occur in smaller amounts (colors, flavors, vitamins, and preservatives). Food-borne toxins, allergens, pesticide residues, and other undesirables are also given detailed consideration. Attention is drawn to the nutritional and health significance of food components. This classic text has been extensively rewritten for its fifth edition to bring it up-to-date, and many new topics have been introduced.
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life,
by Carl Zimmer, Pantheon Books, 2008, 243 pages, $25.95 hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-375-42430-4)
Delivers big lessons about life from a very small creature, Escherichia coli. The author explores how this microbe, known to most of us for its deadly outbreaks, is actually leading scientists to a new understanding of what it means to be alive. From altruism to death, genetic destiny versus individualism, and the possibility of life beyond our planet, E. coli can answer many of our deepest questions about existence.
IN 2007 and early 2008, when economic skies were blue, I took part in a committee charged by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) to submit a plan to increase the number of visitors to Joseph Priestley's home in Northumberland, Pa., and enhance their experiences there. The house that Priestley and his wife designed and built about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia at the joining of the two branches of the Susquehanna River is a handsome one, unique among the nation's surviving 18th-century houses for its attached chemical laboratory.
But the committee soon agreed that the real interest in the site is Priestley the man, best known to chemists as one of the discoverers of oxygen, but who also was a founder of the Unitarian religion; a political thinker whose ideas helped shape our American political system; and an educator who, among other contributions, advised Thomas Jefferson on the curriculum for the University of Virginia. A visitor can see where he performed experiments, wrote books, conducted Unitarian services, taught neighborhood children, and lived and died.
How to make Priestley, today a virtually unknown figure to the general public, communicate with modern audiences? The committee had no shortage of answers such as livening up the presentation of the laboratory of this consummate experimentalist with videos of a few of his classic experiments (nowadays only occasionally performed by Ronald Blatchley, a retired chemistry teacher and Priestley reenactor) and opening up discussions with visitors of a number of Priestley's issues that have resonance in our times, such as the role of religion in the American political scene or the fate of immigrants to this country.
Now science writer Steven Johnson quite independently is trying to engage the public with Priestley in his very readable "The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America," a book that reflects as well on the state of knowledge and politics in 21st-century America. But this book, with its potential of inspiring visits to Priestley House, may have come too late to save the house museum, which stands now on the brink of being declared one of six (out of 22) sites operated by PHMC to shut its doors in the current economic crisis because of low visitation (C&EN, April 6, page 9).
Johnson has an enviable record of finding readers. Among his other works are three bestsellers: "Ghost Map" (2006), about the way the cause of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London was determined and the general impact of this method; "Everything Bad is Good for You" (2005), on the positive effects of popular culture; and "Mind Wide Open" (2004), about how recent technological breakthroughs help in understanding brain function. Johnson is, moreover, the founder of several websites—most recently of http://outside.in, which tracks news and views in nearly 12,000 towns and neighborhoods. Since Johnson's interests, however seemingly diverse, all have to do with innovation, interdisciplinary thinking, networks, and the transmission of ideas, Priestley is in many ways an ideal subject for this biographer. Priestley was an innovator in several fields, and he was for much of his adult life one of the best networked individuals in the 18th century.
Johnson has not written a standard biography but incorporates Priestley's life into a very big picture. He diagrams his multidisciplinary and multiscale approach, which he calls "Long-Zoom," in flow charts sure to intrigue scientist readers. The flow moves back and forth from neurochemistry through individual biography, social networks, information networks, and energy flows, with more layers in between. Luckily for the reader, the book is organized in the usual manner of a biography in terms of consecutive periods of its subject's life, with only one interruption of the basic human story, which I will describe later.
ON THE WHOLE, the book is best when the focus is on what Priestley did and wrote. Uniquely among Priestley biographies, it explores in some depth Priestley's friendships with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Jefferson. Occasionally, Johnson waxes overenthusiastic about Priestley's scientific accomplishments, but Priestley needs a cheerleader now. The most problematic of Johnson's efforts is the overlay of the human narrative with the history of changing energy systems and their effects on the planet and human history.
In the prologue, Johnson captures the reader's attention with descriptions of waterspouts and Priestley's observations of them during his two-month-long passage in 1794 from England to the U.S. aboard a merchant ship. One learns of Priestley's famously inquisitive mind; of his long friendship with Franklin, who had also taken advantage of transoceanic voyages to study Atlantic phenomena; and of Priestley's sanguine disposition. He was fleeing in fear of his life because his support of the French Revolution (and the American Revolution before that) and his Unitarianism made him an enemy of England's establishment. At the age of 61, he was ready to start a new life in a new country.
Chapter 1, "The Electricians," flips back to Priestley's maiden scientific book, "The History of Electricity" (1767) and the roles in its composition of Franklin, then representing several American colonies, and a London coffee house, the 18th-century version of the Internet. Chapter 1 also describes Priestley's discovery, while pottering around a neighboring brewery in Leeds where he had just been chosen to lead a Unitarian congregation, of the means of artificially carbonating water (1767).
Oddly enough, given Johnson's complex systems approach to history in which individual genius has a relatively minor role, he occasionally reverts to a very old way of writing history by making priority claims for Priestley that do not ring true. For example, concerning Priestley's "History of Electricity," Johnson writes, "He had invented a whole new way of imagining science; instead of a unified, Newtonian pronouncement, Priestley recast natural philosophy as a story of progress, a rising staircase of enlightenment, with each new innovation building on the last." Newton is Johnson's straw man here because he wrote the "Principia" (1687) in Latin and presented its arguments as principles. There is no mention of Newton's "Opticks" (1704), which was first published in English and in which the author drew his conclusions from carefully described experiments and ended with famously open-ended queries that inspired at least a century of scientists. Nor do we hear about Priestley's several predecessors and contemporaries who put together progress narratives within such disciplines as astronomy and chemistry.
The next chapter treats Priestley's principal contributions to the chemistry of gases. Upending historical tradition, Johnson gives far less attention to Priestley's discovery in 1774 of what he called "dephlogisticated air" (known to us as oxygen) than to his experimental proof in 1771 that plants restore air to breathability—in Priestley's terms, remove phlogiston. Despite the unusual terms of Priestley's discussion, his capturing and testing of air changed by mint and other vegetation growing under glass is generally regarded as an early solved piece of the puzzle of photosynthesis.
Phlogiston was a very useful concept introduced in the early 18th century by German chemist Georg Stahl to explain what occurs in seemingly diverse processes: the combustion of plant and animal materials; their respiration; and the smelting and calcination of metals. In one group of these processes, something was lost or given off. In the other group, something was taken up. That something was phlogiston, which imparted various properties such as inflammability, luster, and vitality. Changes in such qualities as these could be tracked; the confusing changes in weight were not equally regarded.
On the basis of correspondence between Priestley and Franklin concerning Priestley's work on plant respiration, Johnson describes Franklin's point that trees around houses should be spared, not chopped down, "the first stirrings of a genuinely new way of thinking about life on Earth and our role in that system." He thereby transforms Franklin and Priestley into very early "green" chemists. Considering the hoary tradition of viewing man as an integral part of various natural cycles and predicting doom should man violate the natural order, Johnson's analysis is an exaggeration. For a more specifically chemical view of the role of living beings in nature's economy that is closer to Priestley's time, one could cite Stahl's suggestion that the phlogiston released in burning and putrefaction is recycled by plants and animals. To be sure, Stahl did not provide the experimental proof that Priestley obtained.
The answer to the implied question of the book's title, "The Invention of Air," appears in a 10-page "Intermezzo" chapter, which races through several epochs of geological history. Who did invent air? Not Priestley, who might be said to have discovered oxygen—a feat that can also be ascribed to Carl Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier, as Johnson correctly points out. The path to atmospheric air, as we know it, was initiated 2 billion years ago by cyanobacteria, the real inventors of air in Johnson's telling of the Priestley story. These microorganisms developed a metabolic strategy that released oxygen from water and increased the oxygen content of the atmosphere from 1% to double digits.
In the 18th century, Priestley showed that plants are responsible for making oxygen, in a manner of speaking. Later in the book, geology comes back into the Priestley story as coal in the Midlands of England. Like most coal, it resulted from the remains of giant plants that flourished during the Carbonaceous era, 300 million years ago. They increased the oxygen content of the atmosphere to an amazing 35% (which was later reduced by an evolving ecosystem to today's homeostatic 21%).
The biography resumes with Priestley's Birmingham period, 1780–91, but it is overarched in terms of a conflict of energy systems. Priestley had literally moved from a horse-powered agrarian economy—where he had worked as companion and tutor in the service of Lord Shelburne, whose lands and palatial country residence were in Wiltshire—to Birmingham in the Midlands, where he was called to lead another Unitarian congregation and his scientific endeavors were supported by the Lunar Society. The members of this society were titans of the coal-fired, steam-driven Industrial Revolution who were interested in discussing scientific and industrial innovation.
Meanwhile, Priestley's own diverse interests in science, religion, and politics were converging with those of his new benefactors. They opposed England's established religion and a political system that awarded them no seats in Parliament, since representation was still based on the concentration of wealth and population in the south of England during the Middle Ages.
For Johnson, the mayhem of the Birmingham Riots of 1791 was nearly inevitable, since he rather quixotically claims they were underpinned by conflicting energy systems. These riots, which Johnson vividly describes, cost Priestley his meeting house, home, laboratory, and the homes of his closest associates in the Unitarian Church. In attempting to understand how and why Priestley had become the focus of such rage, Johnson admittedly gives scant attention to Priestley's intellectual lineage, close reading of his published work and correspondence, or the political pressures and conflicts of the time. True, asking readers to understand the complexities of 18th-century British political parties and the varieties of philosophical and theological materialism afloat in the 18th century would be a tall order.
WE HEAR NO MORE from Johnson about energy systems once Priestley immigrates to the U.S. in 1794. He was after all coming to the land of several highly influential friends. True, Franklin had died (1790), but Adams, whom he had known from Adams' days as the first U.S. ambassador to England (1785), wanted him to settle in Boston. Jefferson, whom he had not yet met in person, was an enthusiastic reader of Priestley's "History of the Corruptions of Christianity" (first edition, 1782), which Jefferson later wrote was the book that returned him to the Christian fold. And Priestley and his family had chosen to live way up the Susquehanna River near where his sons had planned to found a Utopian community far away from hotbeds of political controversy like New York City and Philadelphia.
Aside from the personal tragedies of the deaths of Priestley's beloved youngest son and his wife, perhaps the greatest blow that he endured in the U.S. was a threat from Secretary of State Timothy Pickering to have him imprisoned during the Adams Administration under the terms of the notorious Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798. Priestley had allegedly contributed to the publication of handbills written by fellow chemist and liberal Thomas Cooper that sharply criticized Adams' policies. Adams got Priestley off the hook by writing to Pickering, "He is as weak as water, as unstable as Reuban, or the wind. His influence is not an atom in the world."
Johnson's book finishes with an analysis of the Adams-Jefferson correspondence that resumed in 1812 and lasted to their deaths in 1826. The two had become political enemies with rather different views about how the U.S. should develop politically and economically, differences that led to the founding of our first two political parties. Astonishingly, Priestley, who died in 1804, was mentioned by name 52 times in the 165- letter correspondence; Franklin, five times; and George Washington, three. Adams was in 1813 positively describing Priestley as "a Comet in the System" and trying to explain why he had ever called Priestley weak-minded.
Johnson searches for what these Founding Fathers so valued about Priestley. What does that say about their own values––and perhaps about what heritage we should adopt? He concludes that Adams, Jefferson, and Priestley all thought that science serves a critical role in the seamless web of knowledge, which they refused to strictly compartmentalize into science, faith, and politics. While they all maintained a belief in man's progress, Priestley was the most optimistic of the three. Priestley and Jefferson, but probably not Adams, recognized that science and reason would inevitably undermine the institutions and belief systems of the past, and they welcomed this prospect.
In Johnson's hands, Priestley becomes a man of hope to emulate in our times and an early green chemist—well worth a turn off Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania to visit his American home.
- Chemical & Engineering News
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An MVNO is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator. This is one of the more unique industries available today because the MVNO sector is very buoyant. It receives lots of interest from all of its market participants and is continually focuses on new opportunities that may occur in the future. The MVNO business model has a number of variations to it, from fully integrated network activities to community-based options.
Sometimes the business model is to take on a brand partnership above anything else. Red Bull Mobile is proof of this.
So what makes a company like Virgin Mobile become stable and successful, but other companies fail over time? It all boils down to the selecting the right business model.
Is Market Integration the Best MVNO Business Model?
These virtual network operators are using an established network that is being leased from another agency to provide services. This means that their level of participation with network servicing and maintenance is going to be a key factor in the charges that they will face to provide services. For Virgin Mobile, many of the services that are required of a traditional network operator have been incorporated into the MVNO.
For other companies that are primarily ad-funded, they are finding that the margins are just too low to be manageable for mobile services. Some MVNOs try to compete on price alone as their business model and these companies are getting squeezed out of the market consistently year after year. This happens because there is no differentiation or value between the virtual and the traditional service providers.
To counter this, big brands have come together to support an MVNO opportunity. A great example of this is the partnership between Tesco and O2. Times might be changing, however, as MVNOs look to potentially copy a page out of the social gaming business model.
Could Freemium Services Be the Future of the MVNO Business Model?
When you download a free game from your preferred app store, you are given the option to pay for premium upgrades. Sometimes games will allow limited upgrades if you're willing to watch advertisements that are 15-30 seconds in length. This gaming profile is called "freemium" and new MVNOs are looking at this as a way to increase revenues exponentially.
Here's how this MVNO business profile works. Users will sign up for the brand's services, which typically include an unlimited talk, text, and voice plan today. In return for lower plan costs, users of the MVNO are asked to watch up to 45 seconds of advertisements immediately upon signing up for the service. They are then subscribed to watch more videos every other hour throughout the day.
Some might think this type of business model is crazy for an MVNO, but it is working. Wifog, which is based in Sweden, has seen their market share goal of 1% reached already. The advertising arrangements help to cover the costs and the extra advantage is that the required engagement results in a higher-than-average CTR rate for advertisers.
This means a company like Wifog can command higher advertising rates because they can prove bigger results. It also sets the stage for international expansion, something that has often been out of reach for the MVNOs of the past.
Is a Multilevel Approach the Best Business Model?
Many MVNOs are looking at a diversified system of services and tools that will bring in multiple revenue streams. Sometimes this means purchasing data rates at wholesale prices and then turning around to resell that data to consumers at retail prices. Some MVNOs like Voiamo in the UK are offering retail partners the chance to become their own MVNO with a comprehensive packages of ready to implement services that can take a company live in 12 weeks.
In looking at the MVNO business models that exist today, it is clear that the fracturing of this industry is going to continue for some time. New business are likely to find a more innovative approach, while giants like Virgin Mobile are going to stick with their more traditional approach.
What we can learn from this industry is that an individualized business profile is sometimes the best course of action to take. Just because one business has found success in a specific way doesn't mean that your new business will see the same success by adopting the same profiles and plans.
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The FCA has won a crucial legal victory after the Supreme Court ruled that it had not wrongfully identified a former senior banker at JP Morgan blamed for the American Bank's "London Whale" trading scandal.Find out more >
This guide contains contributions from eminent practitioners the world over, who have, on the basis of their experience, set out what they regard as critical within their own jurisdictions. Each chapter is similarly structured for ease of reference with similar headings to enable the reader to compare remedies with those in other jurisdictions, and each contributor has been subject to a strict word limit.Find out more >
Getting the Deal Through: Asset Recovery 2017Find out more >
A practical guide for legal practitioners to fraud proceedings in Jersey.
Investigating and pursuing serious and complex fraud claims is about staying ahead of the game. Most serious frauds will have an international element, whether in the substantive action or in asset recovery. It has therefore become increasingly important for fraud lawyers to have knowledge of offshore centres' laws and procedures in freezing and tracing assets as well as possible substantive remedies.Find out more >
This chapter featured in Jersey - Business Crime 2017 briefing.Find out more >
1. It has never been clearly decided what limitation period applies in Jersey to a claim alleging breach of fiduciary duty against a company director or other fiduciary. There have been judgments pointing in different directions. Some suggested it was 10 years; others more recently have inclined towards 3 years.
2. A new judgment of the Royal Court may point the way to a resolution. The recent judgment of the Master in CMC Holdings Ltd and another v Forster, RBC Trust Company (International) Ltd and another supports the 3 year period for non-fraudulent breaches of fiduciary duty. It does this by applying Article 57 of the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984.Find out more >
The States of Jersey's Chief Minister's Department recently issued a consultation paper on a proposed 7th amendment to the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984. The consultation paper canvassed views on whether to amend the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984 in twelve areas in which there were perceived either to be difficulties with the current legislation or where it was thought improvements could be made.Find out more >
This year Baker & Partners sponsored the University of Leicester Law Review Essay Contest, with the winner Jeremy Elliott receiving a week's placement with the firm. As part of the work he undertook with Baker & Partners, Jeremy produced the following briefing paper.Find out more >
Does Jersey law recognise an actionable duty of good faith in contracts?Find out more >
This chapter featured in The Asset Tracing and Recovery Review - 3rd Edition.
As a major offshore financial centre, the Island of Jersey has, unfortunately, all too often been one of the jurisdictions of choice for those seeking to hide assets that have been fraudulently obtained from others and to launder their ill-gotten gains. Encouragingly the Island's regulatory, legislative and judicial bodies have in recent years adopted a robust approach to financial crime and to ensuring that, through the civil court process, victims of fraud are properly compensated for the wrong done to them.Find out more >
This chapter was originally published in The Dispute Resolution Review - 8th Edition.
Jersey is a self-governing British Crown Dependency. It is the largest of the Channel Islands. It is not part of the United Kingdom and is not a member of the European Union. Originally part of the Duchy of Normandy, it has owed its allegiance to the British Crown for over eight centuries. It has always maintained a separate legal system from Britain, as well as its own legislature and tax system.Find out more >
This article appeared in the 2016 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Business Crime; published by Global Legal Group Ltd, London.Find out more >
This chapter featured in The International Insolvency Review 2015 - 3rd edition.
Jersey has two principal forms of insolvency procedure – désastre under the Bankruptcy (Désastre) (Jersey) Law 1990 and creditors' windings up under the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 (the Companies Law), the latter being for Jersey-registered companies.Find out more >
This chapter featured in Getting the Deal Through: Asset Recovery 2016.
What are the key pieces of legislation in your jurisdiction to consider in a private investigation?
In the pretrial and investigation stages the following may be important:
• Service of Process and Taking of Evidence (Jersey) Law 1960;
• Royal Court Rules 2004, which deal with court procedure, including
interlocutory applications; and
• Service of Process Rules 1994, which include rules about the circum-
stances in which process can be e ected upon defendants outside Jersey.
It has been reported in the United Kingdom that public resources are so stretched that police officers have attended the scenes of crime by bus. There have been repeated press reports of the reductions in the number of investigating police offices. There have been suggestions that police forces should be sponsored by commercial organizations.
Within that context it is unsurprising that in the United Kingdom it appears that there is no expertise, no will and no resources to deal with certain crimes.
Those crimes are frequently financial crimes, where the sheer volumes of paper and electronic material, and the layers of complexity can seem overwhelming to all bar the most battle hardened investigatory fraud lawyers. Why would public sector decision makers set any store on tackling such cases in circumstances where there are continuing cuts to the resources necessary to do the job even to a minimum acceptable standard?Find out more >
In a recent judgment the Royal Court has provided helpful guidance to local businesses operating under "lock down" directions issued by the Jersey Financial Services Commission ("the Commission") as to what constitutes a payment in the ordinary course of business. The Court also considered the extent of its jurisdiction to grant declaratory relief.Find out more >
This judgment of the English High Court deals with the duty of care that a director of an English company owes to the company. It emphasises that directors should not take into account the interests of others, including shareholders and other parties.Find out more >
In the time of Dickens, there were three prominent debtor's prisons in London: The Fleet, where Mr. Pickwick was held, The King's Bench, where Micawber was an inmate, and the Marshalsea, where Dickens' father was imprisoned, as well as the fictional William Dorrit (in Little Dorrit). Typically, a debtor was accused by the person to whom money was owed. The accused was held several days in a sponging house, such as Coavin's in Bleak House or Moss's, in which Rawdon Crawley is held in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. If, in a few days, the money could not be raised, the debtor was imprisoned until the debt was paid. Colourful history yes, but imprisonment for debt is surely now confined to the pages of Victorian novels? The Jersey answer to that question is….almost.Find out more >
In a recent decision of the Jersey Royal Court In the Matter of the V & W Trusts, Baker & Partners acting for a beneficiary, have secured a significant early victory in a legal battle for the court ordered removal of a Panamanian trustee of significant Jersey real estate.
In a significant intervention in the administration of what, on their face, appeared to be foreign law trusts, administered from Panama, with a non-resident trustee, the Royal Court has accepted jurisdiction to hear an urgent application to remove and replace the Panamanian corporate trustee, with a regulated Jersey trustee; G.B. Trustees Limited (an affiliate of Garfield-Bennett Trust Company).Find out more >
On 23rd September 2015, The States voted to legislate to enable same-sex marriage by January 2017 at the latest. However, The States has used the opportunity of extending marriage to include same-sex couples to also consider the issues around divorce and the dissolution of marriage (both heterosexual and same-sex) generally.Find out more >
Ed Shorrock and William Redgrave have contributed the Jersey-specific chapter to 2015 Edition of The International Insolvency Review.Find out more >
This Privy Council decision goes to the heart of what financial institutions should know about the commercial rationale behind transactions and the source of customers' funds.Find out more >
Signing a contract of employment with a new employer is usually a positive event in a person's career. Whatever the profession it signifies new prospects and an opportunity to take a step up the career ladder. Many new employees will be looking forward to the new challenges that their new job provides as well as thinking about what they can bring to the business that they're about to join.Find out more >
You are divorced. You thought it was over and then you hear the names "Wyatt" and "Vince"; does a shiver run down your back or do you throw a party and go to see a family lawyer? According to the popular press coverage it depends on whether you are the party with money or not. Is this right?
In this briefing, Kirsty Thomas explores the implications for divorcing parties.Find out more >
When a marriage breaks down and one party issues divorce proceedings it can be a difficult time for everybody involved. Once the issue of the financial settlement is reached things usually become more fraught.
A thorny issue which some believe is raising its head again is whether the contribution made by the "breadwinner" (usually the husband) is more important than that made by the homemaker in cases where the assets are large and capable of meeting the needs of both husband and wife.
Kirsty Thomas explores the issues facing divorcing parties in depth in this article.Find out more >
This Guidance Note, produced by Advocate William Redgrave and James Sheedy is about dishonest assistance and will explore the legal position of those in the Island's professional trust and fiduciary services businesses who have carried out client instructions without first considering or investigating the legitimacy of their client's activities. It will use practical examples to illustrate what can go wrong, particularly centering on the recent decision of Jersey's Royal Court in Nolan v Minerva Trust, and will suggest how businesses should act to avoid the risk of being held to have dishonestly assisted a client in a breach of trust or fiduciary duty.Find out more >
Advocates William Redgrave and Charlie Sorensen have contributed the Jersey-specific chapter to 7th Edition of The Dispute Resolution Review, published by Law Business Research and edited by Jonathan Cotton of Slaughter & May, London.
The Dispute Resolution Review is an excellent resource, written by leading practitioners across the globe. It provides an easily accessible guide to the key aspects of each jurisdiction's dispute resolution rules and practice, and developments over the past 12 months. It is written with both in-house and private legal practitioners in mind, as well as the large number of other professionals and businesspeople whose working lives bring them into contact with disputes in jurisdictions around the world.Find out more >
This Guidance Note, produced by James Sheedy, will cover a host of practical issues for trustees seeking to step down from office and the practical implications of some recent court decisions on applications to remove a trustee. It will also cover legal issues for both outgoing and incoming trustees and their beneficiaries; such as knowing when a trustee should jump before being pushed if it is experiencing friction with beneficiaries, practical points to consider when facing a court application for removal – parallel claims for breach of trust, conflicts of interest, costs, and the importance of tying up loose ends – and also trickier points in negotiating and structuring appropriate indemnities.Find out more >
On 17 March 2015, BBC Jersey reported that HSBC Bank is closing all accounts on Jersey belonging to customers living in the United Kingdom. This is part of the bank's remediation exercise which comes amid pressure to ensure that offshore accounts cannot be used to hide money from the UK tax authorities.
This action is only the most recent and visible example of the increasing political pressure being placed on financial institutions and their advisers. The distinction between tax avoidance, which is lawful, and tax evasion, which is unlawful and criminal, is apparently being quickly forgotten. Politicians no longer speak of the criminality of evasion but the immorality of avoiding tax. It would be foolish to ignore that shift in language.
Individuals and institutions need to take proper steps to protect themselves and to make sure they are not vulnerable to international tax investigations. They need to have dealt with historic relationships and also to have proper processes in place for new clients and ongoing relationships.
In this briefing Stephen Baker, Senior Partner of Baker & Partners, examines the practical steps that all financial institutions and their advisers should take if the are, or may be in the future, the subject of an international tax investigation.Find out more >
Secret commissions and bribes have unfortunately become an increasingly common feature of doing
business in certain parts of the world. The Jersey and UK courts have now provided the answer to the vexing
question of who owns a bribe. Once established, ownership gives rise to an ability to trace the proceeds of a
bribe or secret commission into the hands of a third party. That calls for an understanding of the different
approaches to tracing, particularly when Jersey's differs from that adopted in the UK.
This in-depth analysis of the Supreme Court's judgment in FHR European Ventures LLP v Cedar Capital Partners LLC [2014] UKSC 45 was written by Baker & Partners Associate, James Sheedy, and first published in October 2014 in the Jersey & Guernsey Law Review.Find out more >
Advocate Stephen Baker has again contributed the Jersey-specific chapter to The Asset Tracing And Recovery Review, published by Law Business Research and edited by Robert Hunter of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP.
The guide contains contributions from eminent practitioners the world over, who have, on the basis of their experience, set out what they regard as critical within their own jurisdictions. Each chapter is similarly structured for ease of reference with similar headings to enable the reader to compare remedies with those in other jurisdictions.Find out more >
The first Jersey-specific chapter to The International Insolvency ReviewFind out more >
This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through: Asset Recovery 2015Find out more >
The recent judgment of the Royal Court of Jersey in Nolan and others v Minerva Trust Company and others [2014] JRC078A is a wake-up call to offshore fiduciaries and corporate service providers: slavish loyalty to client requests can be a very costly mistake, if your client turns out to be a fraudster and the Court decides that you helped him when you had reason to suspect that he was up to no good. For doing his bidding you could be branded dishonest, and ordered to compensate the victims for their losses out of your own funds.
The implications of this judgment are relevant to everyone working in the trusts or financial services industry and the following briefing has been produced by Advocate William Redgrave.Find out more >
The 5th Edition of the Business Crime GuideFind out more >
The available remedies in bribes and secret commission cases.Find out more >
The 8th Edition of the Corporate Recovery & Insolvency GuideFind out more >
Jersey financial services businesses need to be strategically aware of the changing boundaries.Find out more >
Two central questions lay at the heart of the trial in Dalemont.Find out more >
The Jersey Court has made a finding regarding the basis upon which a institution holds money.Find out more >
Whether you are a husband or a wife in such a position, what can you do?Find out more >
Court considered a number of objections made by the debtor and creditors to the adjudication.Find out more >
A parent does not have a private cause of action arising from a breach of the Children (Jersey) LawFind out more >
A Jersey Foundation was found to have committed contempt of court.Find out more >
Courts in England & Wales may determine the beneficial interests of unmarried couplesFind out more >
Investigating and prosecuting serious and complex fraud is about staying ahead of the game.Find out more >
The UK's new Bribery Act came into force on 1 July 2011.Find out more >
Appeal by Mr Leslie-Smith against a decision by the Commission to issue a Direction under Article 23Find out more >
A Pre-Nuptial Agreement was the subject of the recent English Supreme Court decisionFind out more >
Application by the Australian authorities to have Philip De Figueiredo extradited to AustraliaFind out more >
An application to set aside a mistaken disposition into trust by a settlorFind out more >
Proceedings in order to help the underlying clients of a failing financial services business.Find out more >
Ed Shorrock analyses a recent application by a defendant to discharge a freezing order.Find out more >
Joanna Woods considers three key matters; the provision of information, submission.Find out more >
Federal Republic of Brazil and Another v Durant International Corporation and Another [2012] JRC 211Find out more >
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Location: Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado
Senior Day at the Capitol is an opportunity for seniors to meet legislatures (and usually governor) who are active in legislation that affects seniors and senior providers. Senior Day at the Capitol has been scheduled for Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Program and other details are in the planning stages. Building upon last year's successful Senior Day, the planning committee is looking at comments submitted by attendees and planning adjustments to make the 2012 event more successful and informative. The Baptist Church on 14th and Grant will be available for lunch.
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This cute little bee won't sting you, and will never get stuck bopping himself off a closed window!
The pattern came about after I was stuck on a delayed flight with two, non-crafting friends. I managed to get a crochet hook on board, but they were getting bored, so, they demanded a prize from me for the person who won a game of "Dots". I proposed, off hand, to make a bee for the winner.
This is the bee.
I hope you enjoy the pattern as much as the winner enjoyed getting her little bee. : )
If you make this, or any of my other projects, please link me if you're on ravelry.com or send me a photo! I'd love to see your finished projects.
I like to provide patterns for people to try out, and I truly get a kick out of seeing people's finished projects, but I also think it's important to give people the opportunity to say thankyou for the work that has gone into creating the pattern, if they so wish.
So, I have the pattern written out below, in UK stitch names, but if you'd prefer an easy-to-print pdf of the pattern, with both UK and US stitch names catered for, then please, click below, give whatever you feel is appropriate, let me know your email address, and I'll happily email the pdf on to you.
Free Bee!
This pattern is written with UK stitch names
This bee can be used as an air-freshener in your car by adding a few drops of your favourite essential oil, is can be used to keep mosquitos away from barbecues by infusing a few bees with lot of citronella, and hanging up around the party area, and they also look great on a child's mobile!
The pattern came about after I was stuck on a delayed flight with two, non-crafting friends. I managed to get a crochet hook on board, but they were getting bored, so, they demanded a prize from me for the person who won a game of "Dots". I proposed, off hand, to make a bee for the winner.
Aoibhe Ní Shúilleabháin
3.5 mm hook,
scraps of 4-ply wieght yarn in yellow, white and black, and enough to stuff a 5.5cm bee body,
Darning needle.
a round of 16 dc = a circumference of 8 cm
I know this seems like a strange way to check guage, but it's difficult to get a bee to sit still long enough to be measured!
Abreviation Key:
ch chain
sl st slip stitch
dc double crochet
dc2tog dc two together
Finished Size:
Finished circumference approx 16 cm
Finished length 5.5 cm
Bee Body:
In White Yarn:
1. 2, and dc 8 into 2nd ch from hook, ss to first of 8 dcs to close circle. (8 sts)
2. ch1, *dc, [2dc]* repeat 4 times in total, ss to close circle. (12 sts)
3. ch1, *dc 2, [2dc]* repeat 4 times in total, ss to close circle. (16 sts)
In Yellow Yarn:
4. ch1, dc 16, ss to close.
5. repeat step 4.
In Black Yarn:
6 ch1, dc 16, ss to close.
7. repeat step 6.
In Yellow Yarn:
8, ch1, dc 16, ss to close.
9. repeat step 8
In Black Yarn:
10. ch1, dc 16, ss to close.
11. repeat step 10.
12. repeat step 10.
13. repeat step 10.
In Yellow Yarn:
14. ch1, dc 16, ss to close.
Note: Stuff body full of yarn scraps or your choice of filling. I'd suggest using black, as this won't show as much through the stitches.
In Black Yarn:
15. ch1, *2dc, dc2tog* repeat 4 times in total. (12 sts)
16. ch1, *dc, [dc2tog]* repeat 4 times in total (8 sts)
17. Cast off, leaving a long tail of yarn. Thread needle, sew a running stitch through one loop of each of the remaining 8 sts, pull tight, secure with a few discrete sts and hide tail inside bee's body.
To make your bee look nice and crazy, fix two big beads with an embroidery french knot to its face.
Pull the last black yarn scrap through to the back of the bee to be used a its sting.
The legs are just yarn, sewn from one side of the body to the other and secured, knotting upon itself.
Knotting at different angles will give your bee's legs more life.
In White Yarn:
18. ch 6, [dc2] into 2nd ch from hook, 3 dc, 1ss. (6 sts)
19. turn work, don't add a ch, but ss back into the nearest st to hook, 4dc, [dc2]. (7 sts)
20. ch1, [dc2], 5dc, ss (8 sts)
21. turn work, ss into nearest st to hook, 5 dc, [dc2] (9 sts)
Repeat for 2nd wing.
Sew wings to back using yarn tails on wing as shown below.
Add a scrap of yarn to the centre of the bee's back to hang your lovely new bee up and show him off to the world!


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Take this post as advice for your love life or your career. Works either ways.
Some people spend their entire lives looking for love, never finding it.
I can't recall where I first read or heard this line. Perhaps from a movie, a book or judging from the simplicity, an original realization that hit me during a profound moment of clarity. All I can recall is that this mantra, if you will, has dictated a major part of my past decade.
Finding something, someone you love is no doubt tough. And especially if you are young and early twenties, finding these takes up most of your time. At least finding someone to love does take priority over finding something that you love doing.
I won't lie, I'm a geek and I've spent more time finding something to love than someone. Mostly because I presumed finding that girl was easier than figuring out what I loved to do. Or to be honest I expected that girl to just walk into my life, the moment marked by two violins playing in the background, bright flash of sunlight and people around me moving in slow motion. And then somebody, very wise, gave me advice which can be most eloquently summarized in Hindi as, 'Beer ho ya ladki, mangna padta hai.' In English, 'Be it a beer or a girlfriend, you have to ask for both.' Now that's life advice. You don't always have to win over hearts, sometimes just asking for it is enough.
I've been very fortunate to have found both only to realize that these can be multiple people and 'things'. You get rejected or fall out of love either ways you know who you are not meant to be with or what you do not love.
Today when I see friends going about their lives and continually struggling to figure out what jobs they should take up or wondering what they are good at, I am reminded of my old self hoping for that girl to walk in to my life. To find out what you are good at or what you love doing, you have to look. Look under rocks, behind doors, talk to other people. And the job's not done after you think you've found it. That is the equivalent of having a crush on somebody you don't know very well yet, you are not sure if she's fun, loyal, etc. You really have to spend time with this girl to figure out if there's a future worth committing to. And more often than not she's not the right girl. So there is never going to be a day when you'll suddenly realize that you are really meant to be an accountant, if you have not already spent hours and hours accounting.
Frequently very early we end up committing more than we ought to and that really does mess things up. That's like taking a job because you think the great pay will make up for the lousy work, or going to graduate school because you want to postpone deciding what to do with your future. So kiss that boy but don't utter drunk 'love you' until you are sure. It might not seem like it right now but there are boys more right for you out there. You HAVE to look.
Start with reading a lot and talking to interesting and passionate people. Almost all interesting people are already in love and they are the best people to point or nudge you in the direction where your love lies. But most importantly remember to look around and then try. If you are neither failing nor succeeding, then that's a sign that you are not trying. A friend of mine told me he's been rejected by over a dozen girls but he had happier endings with 4-5 others. I've worked on more than half a dozen start-ups and had moderate success with only one. Yes, you are not the only person who's been heartbroken. The truth is every time we try, we become better at it and every time we fail, we become smarter.
What I mean by trying is, trying to learn more, spending more time on it and trying to get good at it. Remember the time when you really loved physics or literature? It was only because you were immersed and focused on getting really good at it. Today we are all distracted people blindly groping around.
I'll stop.
I hope you find a little inspiration in this post and I really hope we all find what we are looking for. It is extremely tempting and easy to not try but you'll all agree, 'It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
Good luck!


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Obama czar pick: 'Raving animal rights nut'
Nominee advocated hunting ban, giving creatures right to file lawsuits
Cass Sunstein
President Obama's friend and nominee for "regulatory czar" is a "raving animal rights nut" who has a secret agenda, according to one consumer group.
David Martosko, director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, told Fox News' Glenn Beck that Cass Sunstein, the Harvard Law professor nominated by the president to become the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is a "raving animal rights nut" and devout disciple of Peter Singer.
Singer, a bioethics professor at Princeton University, is a leader in the animal rights movement. He has also argued that abortion should be permissible because unborn babies as old as 18 weeks cannot feel pain or satisfaction.
Singer once explained his belief that, "killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living."
In 1993, Singer said infants lack "rationality, autonomy and self-consciousness."
"Infants lack these characteristics," he said. "Killing them, therefore, cannot be equated with killing normal human beings, or any other self-conscious beings."
Martosko told Beck, "When you embrace this whole utilitarian idea, guess what else comes in the back door? Some animals, according to Singer, are worth more than some humans. A smart border collie, he says, is worth more, inherently, than a retarded child. … Cass Sunstein has embraced the whole enchilada. … He believes that animals should have some of the same rights as humans, in fact, greater rights than some people – including the right to follow lawsuits."
Sunstein has also supported outlawing sport hunting, giving animals the legal right to file lawsuits and using government regulations to phase out meat consumption.
The center quotes Sunstein's 2007 speech at Harvard University, where he argued in favor of "eliminating current practices such as … meat eating" and proposed: "We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now."
He also said, "[Humans'] willingness to subject animals to unjustified suffering will be seen … as a form of unconscionable barbarity… morally akin to slavery and the mass extermination of human beings."
According to the group, Sunstein was editor of the 2004 book "Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions" that said "animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives … Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be represented by (human) counsel, who would owe guardian-like obligations and make decisions, subject to those obligations, on their clients' behalf."
Martosko believes if Sunstein becomes "regulatory czar," he could "spell the end of animal agriculture, retail sales of meat and dairy foods, hunting and fishing, biomedical research, pet ownership, zoos and aquariums, traveling circuses, and countless other things Americans take for granted."
"Cass Sunstein owes Americans an honest appraisal of his animal rights agenda as America's top regulator," Martosko said in a statement. "Americans don't realize that the next four years could be full of bizarre initiatives plucked from the wildest dreams of the animal-rights fringe."
As WND reported, Sunstein has also been an outspoken proponent of tough restriction on gun sales and ownership and what has been characterized as a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet. Revelations about Cass Sunstein's views on the "Fairness Doctrine" come in a book by Brad O'Leary, " Shut Up, America! The End of Free Speech." Sunstein also has argued in his prolific literary works that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing.
Several senators have expressed concern about Sunstein's stances, and two "holds" have been placed on his nomination.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., blocked Sunstein's nomination last month.
"Chambliss worries that Sunstein's innovative legal views may someday lead to a farmer having to defend himself in court against a lawsuit filed on behalf of his chickens or pigs," The Hill reported.
Chambliss told The Hill that he blocked Sunstein's nomination because the law professor "has said that animals ought to have the right to sue folks."
However, Chambliss later removed his hold because he said Sunstein had assured him that he "would not take any steps to promote litigation on behalf of animals," and that he believes the "Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess guns for purposes of both hunting and self defense."
But Sunstein is now facing another hold on his Senate confirmation process.
According to Fox News, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas., believes Sunstein could use the position to push a radical animal rights agenda and impose restrictions on agriculture and hunting.
"Sen. Cornyn finds numerous aspects of Mr. Sunstein's record troubling, specifically the fact that he wants to establish legal 'rights' for livestock, wildlife and pets, which would enable animals to file lawsuits in American courts," Cornyn spokesman Kevin McLaughlin, told the news organization.
The American Conservative Union is offering an opportunity for Americans to sound off on Sunstein's agenda. The organization has created a website called Stop Sunstein through which readers can submit petition signatures to members of the U.S. Senate. It also provides a 12-page list of Sunstein's most controversial quotes.


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10 Sep September 2016 Update
With Fall quickly approaching, the change in season provides a great opportunity to let you know what our team has been working on over the summer months.
We would like to answer some of the questions we hear most frequently. If you have any additional questions that aren't answered here, please contact us and we look forward to sharing more information over the coming months.
Q: What is the current status of the project?
A: All of our engineering and design drawings have been completed for sometime, including roadways, landscaping, water and drainage. We are working on final approvals with Rocky View County. This has proven to be a lengthy process, however, we expect to have final approvals in place this Fall, with construction starting Spring 2017 to put us in a position to welcome our first retailers late 2017 or early 2018.
Q: Do you have any updates on your transportation plan?
A: Our team has been working with Alberta Transportation and Rocky View County to finalize the transportation designs. Our priority remains on the creation of the off ramp from Highway 1, traffic circles and the widening of Range Road 33 and Township Road 250. These road improvements will allow for easier and safer access to and from the site.
Q: We've heard there are some changes being proposed for the wastewater treatment plant. Can you explain?
A: As a result of new and improved technologies since the time of our original application, we have applied for an amendment to our existing approval to provide us the opportunity of benefitting from the enhanced system.
Other than the technology itself, there are no deviations from the previously approved standards and all remains the same as related to the disinfection system, odour control system, treated wastewater storage, wastewater irrigation performance and groundwater and soil monitoring of the surrounding area.
We are currently working with Rocky View County and Alberta Environment on final approvals for this change. We hope to start stripping and grading the area of this waste water treatment plant as soon as possible.
Q: What is the status of your landscaping plan?
A: All landscaping drawings have been approved for the municipal reserve and pathway system. This will create an attractive environmental enhancement and welcoming space for the community.
Q: When will you be announcing what retailers will be opening at Bingham Crossing?
A: While a delay in receiving approvals and the status of the current economy have slowed our leasing process, we're in the process of negotiating leases with several new retailers for the project and leasing continues to progress. Our team has been travelling around North America to secure the best tenants for our retail mix at the project.


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She knows that money can be intimidating to women which is why she developed the Sexy Money training program to take the scariness out of money and help women make more, have more, and give more. Taught by someone who bootstrapped her business without investments, a trust fund, loans, or using credit cards. Denise believes that all women everywhere have a special gift for the world and just need the proper training and mentorship to develop a mindset that demands what they are worth AND treats money with respect, a whole lotta self worth, and a dollop of good old fashioned Josephine Baker-style flirtation, irreverence, and spunk.
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'Baby-lution' unites Bosnians for 'first time in 20 years'
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Fed up with political and economic stagnation, protests against the government's inability to create a law allowing for the registration of newborn babies have united Bosnians across the political and ethnic spectrum.
In a rare show of inter-ethnic unity, thousands of Bosnians have been protesting in Sarajevo and towns across the country, angry at their government's inability to legislate on the registration of new-born babies.
The protesters in Bosnia's "Baby-lution", as the movement has been dubbed, are demanding the end to an extraordinary situation that has left all children born since February without an identity number.
Not having an identity number means that these babies cannot, theoretically, access public healthcare.
More worryingly, they cannot be given travel documents, an issue that sparked the protests after a three-month-old girl was unable to go to Germany for essential medical treatment because she didn't have a passport.
"This little girl has serious health issues that cannot be treated here in Bosnia," 24-year-old protester Zinajda Besic told FRANCE 24. "But she can't travel because Bosnian babies don't have identity numbers."
Beyond the administrative headache, the reasons behind the government's inability to find a solution are deep-rooted.
Sabina Cehajic-Clancy, a professor at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, told FRANCE 24 the impasse is the result of bickering between lawmakers of rival ethnic groups that had ground to a halt the debate on a proposed law.
"The political leaders of the Republika Srpska [Bosnian Serb Republic, one of two political entities that constitute Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina] have demanded that the law allows them to allocate identity numbers independently," she said. "Parliament refused to let this happen."
The country's constitutional court in February ordered a halt to all registrations of newborn babies until the issue was resolved.
Political and economic stagnation
The issue, however, is far from resolved, and the divisions which have hamstrung politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina since the end of the 1992-1995 war remain an open sore that are preventing any meaningful political progress.
The people, however, have had enough.
"People from all regions and all ethnic groups have joined together for the first time in 20 years to fight for their children," said one of the movement's organisers Fedja Stukan, an actor better known for his starring role in Angelina Jolie's 2011 film "Land of Blood and Honey".
Stukan explained that the "Baby-lution" was just one manifestation of Bosnians' frustration at their country's political and economic stagnation.
"There is too much corruption in our political system," he told FRANCE 24. "That corruption is keeping the majority of Bosnians in poverty. The people have woken up to the fact that they have to fight for their rights, and that no one else is going to do it for them."
Amra Daisy Huric, who has been taking part in demonstrations in the northern Bosnian town of Brčko, said she and her fellow Bosnians, of all ethnic and political stripes, were fed up with the country's political divisions.
"There are three political wings in Bosnia – the Serbs, the Croatians and the [Muslim] Bosniacs," said the law graduate who has been unemployed for the last three years. "Each are trying to achieve one thing only, namely to propagate inter-ethnic hatred and stay in power, instead of investing in the country and creating jobs.
"After 20 years of lies, the people have had enough. We are united, we have the same problems, and we have finally realised that we are all the same and that we have far more in common than we thought."
After a week of protests, the Bosnian government announced it would find a temporary solution so that the three-month-old baby whose fate sparked the protests can go to Germany for treatment.
This has not mollified the protesters, who are demanding that the government pass a registration law by the end of June.
Proud of what his movement has achieved, Fedja Stukan said he believes "a new chapter in Bosnian history is being written."
Sabina Cehajic-Clancy is more measured: "It is possible that Bosnia is moving towards a new era. These protests have united the people across ethnic boundaries, but no one can predict how far this will go."


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New Yamaha Distributor for Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas
January 2014
Smiths South-Central Named New Yamaha Multi-Purpose Engine Distributor
We are excited to announce that Smiths South-Central Sales Company has been appointed as the Exclusive Yamaha Multi-Purpose Engine Distributor for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas.
As the exclusive Yamaha engine distributor, Smiths' responsibilities will include supplying the outdoor power equipment dealer, rental, and OEM customer base with all Yamaha multi-purpose replacement engines, engine parts, technical, and warranty services.
Smiths South-Central Sales Company's long history serving sales, service, and rental dealers in the outdoor power equipment industry makes them the ideal choice for supporting the Yamaha outdoor power equipment growth objectives. Yamaha multi-purpose engines are currently standard equipment for many recognized worldwide equipment brands, with the expectations of many new OEM's to be added as Yamaha expands its multi-purpose engine product line.


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PODCAST | Township revival offers opportunities
Abigail Makhubele Absa Business Banking and Dr Ivor Blumenthal ArkKonsult discuss how the establishment of informal businesses has been driven by necessity for economic survival.
Township revival offers opportunities
During the first quarter of 2018, South Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 2,2% according to Stats SA. This low growth trap followed a period of cautious optimism and highlights the need for creative thinking from all role players in the economy.


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Hope and Joy in Egypt
Day One in Cairo
Greetings from Cairo. We left on Tuesday, and today is Thursday. What happened to Wednesday?! It does rather seem like that given we left on Tuesday afternoon and arrived in Cairo on Wednesday night. We're all here despite a Lufthansa strike that rerouted half our team.
After a much needed night's sleep, we had a terrific day today at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC). This school is a long time and important partner of The Outreach Foundation and recently celebrated 125 years of service to God's kingdom. There are more than 320 students here studying for masters degrees in divinity and theology and a unique program in organizational leadership. They prepare and send pastors all over Egypt and beyond.
We met Joseph today. Joseph will graduate next spring with a DMin. Last summer he served an internship in a small church in Upper Egypt. It was small because they haven't had a regular pastor for 100 years! Joseph went and began knocking on the doors of Christians in the village of Jarf, telling them he was starting services at this old church. By the end of the summer, more than 70 people were regularly attending services, sometimes as many as 100. We asked him where he will go after he graduates, and he said "Probably back to the church at Jarf." He is committed to bringing the church to this small, dusty village. He said the two scriptures he follows are Romans 5 and 8 where Paul speaks of hope. Joseph has hope for the church in Egypt – you can see it in the joy of his face and his words. This is the type of pastor that ETSC is preparing.
As only God can do, shortly afterward we went to Chapel where Deena gave a very meaningful message on the subject of hope from Isaiah 40. Much has happened here in the last few years, particularly since the 2011 Arab Spring. But seminary President, Dr. Atef Gendy, shared that since then, he has seen more people come to Christ than ever before. Hope. There's plenty of reason for it here in Egypt.
Many more stories, too numerous to tell in this space, came from the day. But ask us about them when we return.
Could we offer several prayer requests?
- that the barking dogs at the police academy behind our dorm might go silent at night, allowing restful sleep!
- that Russ and Tom's lost luggage would show up so they don't have to wear the same clothes each day
- that we would be an encouragement to those we meet, just as they are such encouragers to us
- that our last two team members, John and Roger, will arrive safely on Saturday
- that God will open our eyes and hearts to what He wants us to see and feel
Blessings from the team.
Tom Widmer


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The first foreign acquisition of First Man on Mars from the American Film Market has happened! Tomcat Films has confirmed that South Korea has bought the rights for cable, pay-per-view and other platforms and we are expecting a few more countries to sign in the next few months.
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After having made Etsy our home for 4 years and following all the rules, they shut down for good both our shops. Here we are sharing our story with you, providing all pertinent details and letting you judge for yourself.
The making of the cuff you see in the pictures was required as proof by Etsy, these cuffs were made at the beginning of last year, listed and relisted (the same one, as not a single piece sold there) on Etsy since May last year, and as most of our jewelry, these were limited edition (10 pieces total made in the only batch we produced). Note that each cuff is unique, the elements are free form and placed randomly, therefore no cuff is the exact same.
Etsy has been closing down stores unjustly, arbitrarily and indiscriminately for a while now, we didn't know until it happened to us. In a lot of cases this happens due to reports sent by nameless and faceless members, who without any evidence and knowing nothing about you, report your store and make you a target.
The first time we had our shops suddenly "suspended" (that's how Etsy calls a temporarily or definite shut down) was October last year, we were closed for a total of 7 days while asked to provide all sort of documents, images and other confidential information showing that our jewelry was handmade by us, we supplied all they asked for with extensive detail, including step-by-step process documented with photographs of us producing one of our gold plated brass rings, the one they chose.
After their review both our shops got reinstated (second shop was a supplies only store and got closed down by association) with the following message: "Thank you so much for taking the time to send us these pictures and information. We're happy that you're a member of our community and glad to learn that your items are handmade!"
The experience left us scarred, though, as your shops represent your livelihood and you consider them your home, waking up one day and finding yourself locked out is a huge shock, you feel lost, confused and so worried about the implications this will have with your costumers and your reputation.
But we hadn't even recovered from this traumatic experience when just four months later, this past February, Oh surprise! out of the blue we found our shops suspended again and this time they wanted us to show them the process we used to manufacture one of our cuffs (obviously it had to be the most intricate piece we had in the shop), documenting all the process with pictures, just the same way we had done it before, but this time no other written statements or any other documents were required, only pictures.
We did request that they let us produce this cuff partially as it is a very time consuming piece and since it is a repetition of soldered pieces, making half of it would have showed amply the process we use and prove we made this piece ourselves, well, they refused and demanded we made the whole thing, so we did…but after having sent them all the images (see slide show in this blog), even more detailed than what we are showing here. This time our shops didn't get reopened, instead we got the following message: "We've looked over the materials you submitted, but unfortunately, this does not confirm that your account complies with our policies"
So we wondered, what was the point of asking us to submit this proof if it doesn't prove anything according to them, we requested a more specific reason as to why they thought this wasn't good enough, and got this:
"Thank you for your email. Our team has reviewed this matter, and we have determined that we will not be able to reopen your shop at this time.
Upon close review of the documentation that was presented about how your items are made, we have determined that the items in your shop do not qualify to be sold on Etsy.
We wish you the best in your future endeavors.."
This vague answer was all we got, not even the decency of a concrete explanation or what policy were we violating. But wait a second, what??? did you hear that, the way we make our items do not qualify us?? Nothing in their polices determine how craftsmen/sellers should make their wares, when it comes to the tools or methods used or how many pieces of an item should be produced at one time, nor can they dictate that (or can they?). Our items are designed and produced by us, with our own hands in our small NY studio, and do not infringe on any of their policies and/or rules, so we'll never know what they meant by "how your items are made.."
We think the fact that we sent a communication to Etsy's CEO and to the Integrity Team after this second closing, pointing out the fact they that are doing nothing about big resellers but instead harassing and hurting little people, didn't help our cause, Etsy is notorious for retaliating against people that criticize them.
So that's the status, both our Etsy stores closed and erased from the face of the earth, when they do this they take all your feedbacks, files and commercial history with the click of a button. Our Accessorability jewelry shop was 2 years old and managed only about 150 sales, we had about 170 items listed when it got closed down (don't think for a second that the shutting down of our stores is improving the sales of the person(s) who reported us). While our Gemarama shop was a supplies only store, it was up and running for 4 years, had close to 4000 transactions, 0 negatives and 3 neutrals. We first started Gemarama on eBay in 2007, selling only excellent quality, hand-picked gemstone beads and few findings, we moved from eBay to Etsy in Feb.2009, bringing with us many of our customers.
The way we see it is that we, along with many other shops fell victims to Etsy's double standards and lack of professionalism, not to mention the lack of respect and consideration for the human beings that use their site.
So you guys decide for yourselves. Just imagine this happening to you!


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From the Desk of Teresa Marie
Welcome to my office, and I'm so glad you are here! I can't wait to share with you my secrets to better health and more happiness. Let me start by sharing a little personal story about my past…and how not-so-perfect it's been…
I had a very unhealthy start.
I was one of those girls who was born with a sweet and salty tooth meaning I loved to eat everything in sight but I also always felt the need to be thin. I didn't really understand how the body worked or what was reasonable or realistic. All I knew is that I liked candy and being skinny. As a teenager and into my 20's when I naturally started to put on weight, I did all kinds of crazy diets to take it off. I would eliminate entire food groups and even sometimes food all together and have broth only. I remember one plan that let you eat a different fruit every day and that was it. I remember being so starving and nutrient deprived that I could hardly carry a conversation. I really did do all the wrong things, but I also don't think I was completely alone in my misguided efforts. But most importantly, it played an important roll in who I am and what I advocate today.
Eventually, I figured it out.
It took a decade or two, a bachelors in nutrition and a career in corporate weight loss, but eventually I realized that I could have it all. That I could balance cocktails and cravings and still be healthy and happy. It was just going to take a little extra work and attention to detail. Today, I call all of my findings "Simple Secrets" because once I discover them, that's what they seem. So obvious! But then why did it take me so long to figure it out?
My life's purpose.
Because I devote so much time to this research, it simply can't be for my own personal benefit and it has always been my mission in life to help others benefit from my findings. It brings me so much satisfaction to know that my findings go beyond my experience, into yours and that I get to help people discover the simplicity of better health and more happiness every-single-day.
My Clean and Colorful Solution
While there simply isn't one "diet" that will work for all people, I have found there are several principles that all people can live by to improve the quality of their lives by leveraging the power of food. I feel strongly that if more of us worked towards achieving these on a daily basis and created a lifestyle that made doing these four things easier, we could actually reduce the incidence of obesity and its related diseases.
- Eat Less Processed Food.
- Eat all 5 Colors Everyday.
- Swap one Snack or Meal per day with a Juice or Smoothie
- Exercise at least 21-Minutes a Day 6 Days a Week.
Over the years I have learned…
I believe strongly that "dieting" in the traditional, restrictive sense of the term is a sure-fire and fast-track course to failure. The last thing you need is another talking head telling you what you can't eat or make you feel bad about the choices you've made. Or even if the diet focuses on what you can eat, most of them still don't address the real problems…and that's building the foundation of a healthy lifestyle that supports making better decisions more often. It's as simple as that.
My dad taught me when I was really young that if you tell people what they can't have, they only want it more. So results are irrelevant if you can't sustain the lifestyle that any given diet dictates.
This is why my workshops, programs, challenges, coaching and the Clean and Colorful Concept all focus on teaching you the simple shifts you need to make so "dieting" becomes a thing of the past. My goal is to give you the tools, support and strategies that empower you to never come searching for weight loss information again. This is the last time you spend time on the internet looking for what to try next and who you can trust on your path to better health.
Now that you know what my philosophy does not entail, let me tell you what I will help you with…
I tell you what, if anybody get's "busy" it's me. I know you don't have time to read hundreds of pages to understand what to do next. I know you don't need another complicated plan. I've learned through my career and personal experience that simplicity is a key to success in life, I'm sure you've heard KISS (keep it simple sweetheart). That's a promise I'll stand by with quick instructional videos, easy to follow recipes, simple to understand worksheets that teach you one-by-one everything you need to know about building a healthy lifestyle that will last a lifetime.
Trust me. I love my food. And I love my treats and I do love the occasional cocktail. These are all things I feel passionate about and know that I'm not alone here. I promise to share with you my secrets to flavorful, quick to prepare and super satisfying meals. My recipes include everything from indulgent Mac and Cheese to clever cobbler recipes. Skinny Fettuccini that tastes good? I know the secret! And it's simpler than you would think. If you love it, let me teach you how to enjoy it the right way.
I created the 30-Day Challenge Series and the 21-Day Clean and Colorful Challenge because I know people like to challenge themselves. Its fun to push yourself outside of your comfort zone and surprise yourself with your abilities. I'll make sure you stretch yourself, but not so far that you're the rubber band that snaps back into place, breaks or moves backwards. I believe strongly that "if it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."
We are creatures of habit and we crave comfort. While I advocate and make sure you're challenged, you must also find comfort in your new actions and the lifestyle that those choices are creating. Whether it be by way of tradition, words of encouragement or a supportive community. If it's not comfortable in the long run, it just won't stick. Finding the balance between challenge and comfort is my strong suit.
This is real life ladies and I get it. I know that if we all locked ourselves inside, cancelled every event, hired a chef and had unlimited resources to buy any and every health related device or support tool, we'd all be "perfect." Right? This is why I always say, "It's not about being perfect, it's about being better." Perfection is the devil and you can't let it stop you from making progress. The holidays will come every year, you will be invited to parties and you will not always have control over your kitchen. This is why my programs are always packed full of simple to prepare recipes, supper affordable resources, and I always include tips, tricks and strategies to manage the "tough stuff."
My ultimate goal is to help you achieve better overall wellness. This is not about a certain number on the scale or squeezing into the size you were in college. This is about being comfortable in your own skin, being proud of the food you're preparing and smiling from the inside out.
Weight Loss
While wellness is my ultimate goal, we do have a problem with obesity in this nation and 2/3 of us can stand to lose a few pounds on our path to overall wellness, greater health and more happiness. The way I have structured my programs, giving you the tools, resources and strategies to build the foundation of a healthier lifestyle makes weight loss just about inevitable. It allows weight loss to be a byproduct of better decisions, not necessarily the focus, which is a while lot more fun.
That's what I believe in.
Those are the things I am committed to helping you find for yourself. I've literally helped thousands of people achieve better health and more happiness following this core philosophy. I hope that you will let me help too. If you haven't already, make sure you sign up for my community and get instant, free access to my Clean and Colorful Kickstarter Kit!


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Kansai Paint Group has gained approval from the USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint.
The Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint is designed for interior use and contains a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide.
The paint has been shown to significantly reduce the presence of mosquitoes in painted areas, contributing to effective mosquito population control and reducing the spread of many mosquito-borne diseases.
Formulas for all base colours have been approved for use in this product, enabling Kansai to offer a wide range of attractive colours.
"Development of the Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint marks a major milestone, not only for our company but also for the worldwide effort in fighting the spread of infectious diseases," said Hiroshi Ishino.
"For generations, people all over the world have struggled with mosquito-borne illnesses and the effects they have on families and communities.
"Kansai is proud to be the first company in the world to develop a safe paint, approved by the EPA that addresses this challenge in a creative and effective way."
Kansai Paint Group began development of the Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint in 2013.
After several years of extensive testing, the application was officially submitted to the EPA in early 2017.
Approval was secured in just over 12 months, marking a near-record authorisation time for products in this industry.
The Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint is the only anti-mosquito paint that is approved by the EPA.
It is currently approved in Uganda and Zambia and is expected to be available in the USA by summer of 2018.
Contact with the active ingredient in Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint disables the nervous systems of mosquitos and prevents them from flying and biting.
Use of the active ingredient in this product has not shown to be dangerous for humans, either by physical contact or oral ingestion.
Further, presence of the active ingredient does not affect the paint's aesthetic quality, as the Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint provides a smooth, matte finish with superior opacity and whiteness.
"Our testing has showed that the Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint was able to exterminate on contact more than 90% of mosquitoes and is effective for at least two years," noted Kalpana Abe, Vice President, President's Office, Kansai Paint Group.
"It will deter various species of mosquitos, which can carry several viruses present in the USA, including Zika and the West Nile."
Production of the Kansai Anti-Mosquito Paint in the USA will be led by U.S. Paint, a subsidiary of the Kansai Paint Group, acquired in 2016.
While the product has been available for limited sale around the world, approval from the EPA marks a significant advancement in the company's ability to compete in the USA market.
EPA approval is also expected to hasten approvals abroad.