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World Congress of Families Gather to Inspire on Day One!
The World Congress is about children and the future of the family. Essentially, this is a "family of families" and a fight for the family. We can't do it alone and this is why WCF is so critical. Allan Carlson, founder of World Congress of Families, talked about the debates in the UN and about the nature of the family and said that:
"The World Congress of Families envisions a culture of marriage where young women are growing into wives, homemakers and mothers. Where young men are growing to be husbands, home builders and fathers."
Honorable Greg Smith, Attorney General of NSW Australia said, "Thank you for not avoiding a discussion about the more controversial and difficult topics!"
A fascinating speech was given by Konstantin Malofeev of Russia (bio forthcoming). He talked about Communism and the huge advances Russia has made towards Christianity. 30 years ago, Christians from the West helped Russia out of Communism and out of a culture of erasing God and religion from their life. Now, the tables have turned. The Western culture is in the process of erasing God and religious belief out of life. Ironically, Russia is becoming more pro-family and pro-religion. "Like the Christians 30 yrs ago that helped us overcome Communism, now it is our turn to give back to you and help you with family and Christianity." (His speech was powerful and emotional—wait for the video!)
Dr. Ian Harper, Australia's best known economists: "I'm a well known economist but more importantly, I'm a husband, father and grandfather." "Healthy families are essential to healthy economies. Where economies struggle, look at the structure and nature of the breakdown of the family."
Kids thrive on stability and two parent homes. Strong families are due to strong fathers and mothers in the home, but it is the father in the home that really makes the difference in the success of his children educationally. The value of two parent families are contingent upon the father and how engaged he is.
Honorable John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and religious leader:
- Why isn't the pro-family, pro-religious movement not gaining more traction?
- What can each of us do when we return to our communities to affect change?
- Why is it so difficult to affect change?
What can we do together?
1. Recommit and remodel our own commitment to absolute truth. How can we expect deep committed relationships in our children if the world around them doesn't honor commitment? We must be a model of commitment for the rising generation.
Dr. Patrick Fagan, Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council in Washington D.C.
Farming analogy:
The quality of the seed (children) sown is dependent on the quality of the farmers (parents). The family is the future of the world. The woman in the home raising children is of greater value than the husband in the marketplace. Divorce alone creates 1/6 drop in the economy each year in the USA. Key: Chastity and monogamy. The restoration of chastity is essential!
William B. May, USA "Getting the Marriage Conversation Right":
There is a campaign of intimidation and silence. The victims are our children. We need new ideas, new ways of thinking and opening up a new front so that we are on the offence and not the defense. The battle for marriage is in our home and we need to learn ways to teach it so our children can speak and defend it without fear. How can we do this?
2. Research: Get well versed in research on the need for mothers and fathers. Religious sermons are wonderful but we need to be able to talk about marriage from a non-religious perspective as well because this is what will ultimately cut right to the heart of the matter with non-religious people.
3. Identify false premises that are being taught in the media. We need to speak truth: Marriage unites a man and a woman with each other and any children born from their union
The #1 thing to remember is that marriage is worth fighting for! The dominant elitist left would want you to think you are losing so you won't fight. But remember: History is not written yet.
Peter Westmore:
Jose Ureta, France. Marriage for All, the French Experience: (This was a fascinating presentation!)
1.5 million French citizens marched on Paris against gay marriage, making it the largest rally in all of French history. This movement interestingly enough was driven by the younger 20-30 something aged generations. Why? They have seen the result of their parents' generation which was rife with divorce and moral relativism, and they have had enough. There is an awakening of faith filled youth in France! The younger generation is more conservative than their parents. They are rising and ready to fight for family values. They are rejecting moral liberalism.
*The neatest thing happened in this session! I was sitting by the young man (probably in his mid 20's) who was one of the top rally leaders against gay marriage in France. Someone started cheering in the audience for the courage of these French young people, and then they started, one by one, singing La Marseilles, the French anthem. The whole auditorium started clapping and everyone who knew the words started singing. It was incredible and inspiring!!
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Janice Crouse, UN Delegate on Commission for Women, Presidential Speech Writer...
The family is under attack in numerous and unprecedented ways. It is imperative for each of us to understand social science and use this evidence to teach the future generations.
- When we deviate from the norm, fixing the broken pieces of the family is extremely complex and difficult.
- Every child needs an adult who is absolutely crazy about him/her.
-Children are the only future the family and any nation have.
Question and Answer Panel of Experts:
John Anderson:
- Western Society is doing to ourselves voluntarily what communism did to the world (i.e. erase God, religion and morals from society).
- Let's understand that we have not equipped our children with the framework or moral vocabulary to combat moral relativism. What we need to do a.s.a.p: 1) Get our own houses in order and humbly extend our examples of family life and religious belief to others; 2) Get ready for battle. We're fighting for our children and the future of the world.
- Live a life that is worthy of our children to follow.
- We need to be courageous; we cannot afford to be complacent.
- It is UNBELIEVABLY important for our children to have a mother and a father. Yes, there will be single parents and often they will feel offended or feel sensitivity to this issue. But truth is truth and we must still teach the ideal and show the research of how important it is that children have a married mother and father. But it must be taught with sensitivity and kindness and gently work through the issue and research in a supportive way.
Angela Fallentine reporting directly from The World Congress of Families conference, Sydney, Australia, May 15, 2013.
Photography: Angela Fallentine
Mormon Children's Choir
World Congress of Families convention floor
Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, Angela! I don't know about the rest of you, reading her report, but I am overwhelmed with the amount of information she has sent to us from WCF, and I can truly feel the Spirit of the conference, and Angela's spirit of enthusiasm in being there on our behalf. What a treasure trove of fabulous and inspired counsel; and to think she has given us only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak of what she's actually experiencing, and what will come out of this conference and be made available to us very soon!
I also have one more treat for you, from Angela, that I will post a little later today!
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SSH Passwordless Login – CentOS 7 / RHEL 7
SSH is a client and server protocol, and it helps us to access the remote system over the network through the encrypted tunnel. Whenever the client access the server, the client downloads the secure key from the server and at the same time-server also downloads the key from a client. Those two keys make the encrypted tunnel between the server and client, so that data transfer very securely over the network.
SSH is widely used as the alternative to FTP, as you know any thing that uses TCP network asks password to collect data. SSH is also a TCP service, and it requires a password to access the remote machine. If the organization has a large number of servers, every time admin has to enter the password to access the remote system. It is a pain to enter the password multiple times; SSH comes with new feature called password less login, that helps to access the remote machine without entering the password.
To enable the password less login, we have to put the public key entry of client host name and user detail on the remote server. That key entry will be on the following file (~/.ssh/authorized_keys) (~=Home directory of the user) according to your remote user.
Follow the steps to create the password less login. Here we have two machines with two different usernames.
Machine 1 :
Hostname: server.itzgeek.com
IP address: 192.168.12.6
Username: raj
Machine 2 :
Hostname: client.itzgeek.com
IP address: 192.168.12.8
Username: ram
Here I will be using a hostname instead of ipaddress; you can replace it with real ip addresses. I have logged in as raj on server.example.com, create a pair of keys using the following command.
[raj@server ~]$ ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/raj/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory '/home/raj/.ssh'. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Press Enter Enter same passphrase again: Press Enter Your identification has been saved in /home/raj/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /home/raj/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
Once you have created, you will find two files inside the .ssh directory. id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. We are going to use id_rsa.pub as a base file.
[raj@server ~]$ ll ~/.ssh/ total 8 -rw-------. 1 raj raj 1675 Nov 25 10:43 id_rsa -rw-r--r--. 1 raj raj 404 Nov 25 10:43 id_rsa.pub
Use the ssh-copy-id command with an input file of id_rsa.pub; it creates ~/.ssh/authorized_keys if not present, other wise it would replace the key. The key contains the information about the host and user name.
[raj@server ~]$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub email@example.com The authenticity of host 'client.itzgeek.com (192.168.12.6)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is a1:cb:88:60:46:16:fd:d3:93:31:4b:5f:94:5e:78:f8. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Type Yes and Enter /bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to filter out any that are already installed /bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: 1 key(s) remain to be installed -- if you are prompted now it is to install the new keys email@example.com's password: Enter password of ram (client machine user) Number of key(s) added: 1Now try logging into the machine, with: "ssh 'firstname.lastname@example.com'"and check to make sure that only the key(s) you wanted were added.
Now access the remote machine using SSH. It will take you to the shell directly without asking password.
[raj@server ~]$ ssh email@example.com [ram@client ~]$
That's All. This password less login saves the time and energy of the system admin.

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Interested to dive or snorkel in the Galapagos Islands?
Dena and I aren't divers – but we do love to snorkel. The Galapagos waters are incredible – we saw tons of colorful fish. We plan on filming some of our snorkeling adventures the next time we return.
Here's a video highlighting scuba diving in the Galapagos. We saw many of these fish while we were snorkeling.
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Flying SUV Comes Through Windshield
Enjoy your life while you can because you never know what's coming at cha. This unfortunate Korean family was just rolling down the street minding their own business, and all of a sudden a car from the other side of the divider jumped over and landed on their car. The baby crying sound made this video even more hard to watch.
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Stay Alert of The Vehicle Behind You
If the traffic calls for you to slow down majorly in the middle of the highway suddenly, make sure you keep an eye of the car behind you in your mirror. He could be half asleep or texting or eating a burger and not notice the sudden slow down. BAM. You become one of those cars in the Vegas scene in that new Bourne movie.
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Look Both Ways Before Crossing A Street
A mom and two kids walked into the street without looking and the two kids got rammed by a moving vehicle. What's crazy is instead of pushing her kids out of the way, the mom dodged the car herself and let the children get rammed by the car instead.
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Impatient BMW Driver Rages to Instant Karma
BMW drivers ain't got no time for this! They go places, they don't wait for your slow ass, they don't line up for nothing. If you're in their way, they will pass you like you don't exist.
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Dangerous Drunk Driver Gets Trucker Justice When He Stops For a Piss
The video shows a drunk driver swerving left and right on the highway until slowing down to a complete stop in the middle of the highway for a piss. It wasn't just a piss, it was a long piss, a long ass piss. There was more water than all the California's reservoirs combined.
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LPT – Check For Cops Before Road Rage
Not everyone drives smart, not everyone gives a shit about their surroundings. There are always times when other drivers would cut you off or do some dumb shit that would make you scream "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!??" Your basic instinct would be wanting that person know what he/she has done was wrong, was stupid, and that he/she should never do it again.
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Horrific Crash at F3 Race in Spielberg, Austria
Earlier this summer during the last five minutes of Formula 3's season opening race in Spielberg, Austria, a car spun out and stopped in the middle of the race track. The race car kicked up a lot of dirt making it impossible for cars behind to see what's going on. As many of you may have expected a car rammed into the stalled vehicle in full speed kicking it high up into the air with a hard landing. Another race car also rammed into the spun out car but without taking off. The driver who was in the flying car suffered with a few broken bones, others were unscratched.
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Thug Punches Bus Driver Served with Instant Karma
According to my unreliable source, the young Muslim man got onto a bus without a bus ticket. He argued for a free bus ride but the Sicilian bus driver didn't allow it. The Muslim man got pissed, started yelling and cursing, and eventually punched the bus driver in the face.
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Little Girl Destroyed The Poor Boy
Children play rough, at times they could be real mean. But no one is as evil as this little girl here. She destroyed all hopes in this poor little boy.
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OceanGeo Receives Ocean Bottom Seismic Contract Award
Jan 29, 2014, 04:55 EST
HOUSTON and RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OceanGeo B.V., a geophysical company specializing in multicomponent ocean bottom seismic acquisition, today announced that it has been awarded a contract for a 510 square kilometer ocean bottom 3D seismic survey in the Gulf of Paria offshore Trinidad for Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (Petrotrin). Acquisition of the survey began in late December 2013 and is expected to be complete in April or May 2014.
Jamaludin Khan, Petrotrin's Vice President Exploration and Production, commented, "The Gulf of Paria has produced in excess of 1.5 billion barrels of oil since 1955 and still has significant hydrocarbon producing potential. Meeting Petrotrin's five-year strategic challenge of reserves replacement and increased production requires a new and superior quality seismic data set in the Gulf of Paria. A best-in-class ocean bottom seismic 3D survey provided by OceanGeo will provide the wide azimuth data we need to identify deeper Cretaceous plays and bypassed opportunities adjacent to existing reservoirs."
Colin Hulme, OceanGeo's Chief Executive Officer, added, "We are extremely pleased to announce this award. While we have a new name and ownership, we have a proven track record of successfully acquiring ocean bottom seismic data, safely and efficiently, with over five years of operation offshore Brazil, delivering superior reservoir understanding for our E&P clients. We are now pleased to put that expertise to work for Petrotrin. Ocean bottom seismic continues to rapidly grow and gain market share from towed streamer by meeting oil and gas companies' requirements for higher quality seismic data to better develop and manage their reservoirs. With the full support of our parent companies ION and Georadar, we are well positioned to compete and thrive in the growing ocean bottom seismic market, and we are truly excited about the future of OceanGeo."
About OceanGeo
OceanGeo is a global geophysical company specializing in multicomponent ocean bottom seismic acquisition. The company provides a full suite of ocean bottom seismic services, including survey design, planning, and optimization, data acquisition, and geophysical QC and, through ION, provides data processing, interpretation, and reservoir services. A joint venture of ION Geophysical and Georadar Levantamentos Geofisicos S/A, OceanGeo is headquartered in Houston and Rio de Janeiro. To learn more about OceanGeo, visit www.oceangeo.co.
Colin Hulme
Chief Executive Officer
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The information included herein contains certain forward-looking statements, such as benefits expected to be achieved and other statements that are not of historical fact. Actual results may vary materially from those described in these forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include risks associated with the OceanGeo business and related markets and other risks that could impact the company's business and results.
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The ExecutionBook
Dick Wolf's second installment in his bestselling series starring NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk pits him against a top assassin working for a nefarious cartel.
A number of bodies are discovered on the United States' border with Mexico, each marked with a hummingbird symbol. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it as the calling card of a killer called Chuparosa. Garza has been pursuing this man for years, yet knows little about him, except that he's heading to New York City--along with the rest of the world.
It's United Nations Week in Manhattan and Jeremy Fisk can't let a devastating loss keep him from safeguarding the city and the world's leaders. Complicating matters is the news of a mass murder in the city--and the arrival of a very determined Mexican detective.
To stop Chuparosa, these uneasy allies must learn to work together--and Fisk will have to learn the hard way that justice is not always blind.
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text: Lainate to Siderno trains might be a good value for money solution: travelling in Italy by train is often rather cheap and faster than taking a bus indeed Trains leave from Salerno, Rho and arrive at Siderno every 60 minutes on average. If travelling with Trenitalia, you need to know the Lainate to Siderno train schedule: the first train leaves at 02:21, while the last ride is at 19:28. A Lainate to Siderno train cost about 41.1 €. But how long is the train ride from Lainate to Siderno? Your journey takes about 9 hours on average.


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Kostya Tszyu vs. Corey Johnson
Making the third defense of his IBF Super Lightweight Championship on his home turf in Australia, Kostya Tszyu destroys challenger Corey Johnson in four one-sided rounds. Tszyu tears into Johnson from the opening round and hurts him in the second with a straight right hand. After taking a knee from an accumulation of body shots in the third round, Johnson goes for broke in the fourth, but Tszyu beats him down to a knee once more with a body assault. Johnson looks to his corner and opts to remain down while Referee Billy Males counts him out.
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Viswiss Review
Viswiss has some positives and some negatives but its hard to call this product a buy. We wouldn't buy it. The product has some ingredients in it like Yohimbe that are respected in the male enhancement category, but there is not much else in this formula of value. The ingredient list either has the right ingredients with not enough in it or the wrong ingredients altogether. There's not much more to say about the product, it has the ingredients that should be about ok, not more or less than that.
The company:
Shipping from labs overseas means no US government oversight but it also means that the product cannot possibly be as fresh as product manufactured in United States laboratories. It is packed sealed and shipped from abroad.
The website gives very little information about the product, so much seems ridiculous. The testimonials seem pretty phony, they have before and after shots of penises where the bottle itself is obviously Photoshopped into the picture, absurd! They have testimonials that seem fake with no last names, They use logos from news sources without any backup of the mentions.
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Cayman Bank Accounts
With no direct taxation, the Cayman Islands are a thriving offshore banking and finance centre. The Cayman Islands financial services industry has developed along a path similar to that in other offshore centers, on the strength of private banking and company registration. While meeting the needs of high net worth individuals is still an important aspect of the industry, recently the focus has moved very much towards institutional business.
The Cayman Islands offer a full range of offshore financial services and products, including: asset management and protection, commercial banking, company formation, investment management, trust and fund administration, private banking, and shipping and aircraft registry. Surrounding the core financial services are a range of financing support services.
Outstanding Financial Stability
Both institutions and individual investors are assured that establishing a bank or placing assets in Cayman will afford the best opportunity to maximize the potential of their assets with the added value of confidentiality, unparalleled professionalism and efficient regulation. This assurance is as a result of the high ethical standards in government and among financial service providers in addition to clear and fair laws and regulations (applied by a competent judiciary based on the English common law system).
Advantages of a Cayman Islands Bank Account
- No capital gains tax, corporation tax, withholding tax, property tax, payroll tax, or income tax payable by employees.
- Absence of exchange control, allowing free transfer of funds in and out of the Islands, in any currency, with equal freedom to open and maintain accounts in any currency.
- No reserve asset requirements.
- Statutory confidentiality of client information.
- Competitiveness in the Euro currency markets.
Statutory confidentiality of client information is provided by the Confidential Relationships Law, though it should be noted that the Governor in Council can authorize disclosure of information where there is evidence of criminality. This can apply to transactions effected outside Cayman if, had they taken place within the Islands, they would have constituted a criminal offense. In addition, in 1990 the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United States Government came into effect. The treaty provides for the exchange of information required in the investigation of a range of criminal activity. It excludes tax matters. The "Central Authority" for the treaty in the Cayman Islands is the Chief Justice or his designate.
Opening a Cayman Islands Bank Account
While many of the banks in the Cayman Islands are involved in the movement of billions of dollars around the world in business operations, the Islands' major banks also offer opportunities for investors on a smaller scale to take advantage of Cayman's tax-free climate protected by a confidentiality law which ensures privacy for all reputable transactions. This opportunity is taken up by many overseas investors who see a Cayman Islands bank account as a secure and discreet place for the deposit of funds which can earn tax free interest. There are no exchange control or reporting requirements in the Islands, and funds may be converted into other currencies and moved in an out of the Islands freely.
The major banks in Grand Cayman will open an account for a new depositor on receipt of a reference from the depositor's home banker, and for obvious reasons they will not accept large sums in cash. Funds may be deposited in US dollars, or other currencies by arrangement, and can be delivered by cheque (which can take up to 17 business days to clear), by banker's draft, or by telegraphic transfer. Checking or savings accounts may be opened, but the most popular method is the fixed-interest or on time deposit (usually for a minimum of US$5,000) paying the interest quoted on receipt and for an agreed time. Interest rates on the various currencies may vary daily, and schedules of them may be obtained from the major banks.
The Cayman Islands are a Reputable Offshore Offshore Finance Centre
Resolute measures have been taken by the Cayman Islands Government in recent years to protect and enhance the reputation of the islands as a base for offshore financial operations. This action includes the signing of a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United Kingdom and the United States aimed at narcotics-related and other crime, though specifically excluding tax offenses, which of course do not exist in the Cayman Islands. The positive outcome of this government policy has been the continued steady rise in the number and quality of banks seeking a license to have a global presence within the Cayman Islands.
The Cayman Islands is recognised as one of the top 10 international financial centres in the world, with over 40 of the top 50 banks holding licences here. Inter-bank bookings between onshore banks and their Cayman Islands branches or subsidiaries account for more than 80 percent of the US$1 trillion on deposit and booked through the Cayman Islands, representing a low risk profile for money laundering. This statistic reflects the recognition of the Islands' stature in international finance as well as its position as one of the leading centres of the global Euro-currency market. Banks licensed in the Islands represent 54 countries. Some of the reasons influencing their decision include the Cayman Islands' strong reputation for sensible regulation, professionalism, confidentiality, tax advantages, asset protection, political stability, good infrastructure and geographical location.
There are currently 395 banks and trust companies licensed by the Cayman Islands Government as of the end of the first quarter of 2011 to carry on banking and trust business in the Cayman Islands. Around 16 banks have the Category "A" licenses which allow them to carry on business with residents and nonresidents of the Islands. The remaining companies hold Category "B" licenses and are for the most part restricted to offshore transactions with nonresidents.
Cayman Islands Banking Supervision
Government policy is to protect the Cayman Islands' status as a reputable international financial centre through strict examination procedures for new licenses and close supervision of the business of existing licensees.
The main government controls are...
- The appointment of a professional Inspector of Financial Services who leads a banking supervision team which examines all applications for licenses, makes recommendations to the Governor in Council -- the Islands' "Cabinet", which must approve all bank licenses -- and closely monitors the activities of licensed banks.
- Strict insistence on the submission of regular returns and compliance with all Government requirements, including an external audit by approved local auditors.
- The power to revoke a license if it is found that the licensee is carrying on business in a manner detrimental to the public's interest or to the interests of depositors and other creditors.
A number of features have enabled the Islands to attract and retain both wealthy individuals and major corporations and institutions. Some are obvious and frequently cited: political and economic stability; a business-oriented government; a tried and tested legal regime and an effective regulatory framework which meets international standards but is not burdensome or cost-prohibitive.
Other features are more subtle. Notably, they include an infrastructure of professional service providers with considerable international experience and expertise across a number of disciplines whose work ethic and commitment is just as strong as the best of their onshore counterparts. Particular attractions for institutional clients are the absence of burdensome regulation, the user-friendly legal regime and the tried and tested nature of the transactions and structures. All of this means that transactions can be completed in much shorter timescales than would be possible onshore and at a significantly lower cost.
Cayman vehicles are frequently used by large corporate groups and institutions to structure transactions because of the tax neutral and proportionate regulatory environment available. Whether those vehicles facilitate legitimate tax deferral on foreign source trading income, serve a treasury function, hold intangibles or enable an international joint venture, they provide true economic benefits for the shareholders and other stakeholders of those onshore groups and institutions.
The Cayman Islands is a recognized center of excellence in three specific areas of institutional business: investment funds, captive insurance and structured finance.
Investment Funds
A true heavyweight in the investment funds arena, the country has carved out a particular niche in respect of hedge funds and other alternative investment funds such as private equity and real estate. Some 80 per cent of the world's offshore hedge funds are domiciled here with recent figures indicating that, on a worldwide basis, the hedge funds industry is now a trillion dollar industry. At the end of the first quarter 2011 there are over 9,200 regulated investment funds registered in the Cayman Islands.
Why has the Cayman Islands been so successful in attracting hedge funds? A key feature is a balanced regulatory framework which recognizes that purchasers of hedge funds are highly sophisticated investors. Also relevant to Cayman's appeal to fund managers specializing in alternative investments is the absence of unnecessary licensing provisions and significant flexibility with regard to investment objectives, risks, service providers and other commercial matters.
The United States remains the single most important source of business in this area but other regions of the world, particularly Europe and the Far East, are increasingly important. Frequently, it is the fund manager's onshore legal counsel who will direct their client to the Cayman Islands. Structuring flexibility - whether stand-alone, master feeder, side by side, fund of funds or protected cell company - is frequently an important factor.
Captive Insurance Business
Cayman is also regarded as a leading offshore domicile for captive insurance companies, particularly those writing hospital and medical malpractice cover. The objective of a captive is to provide the same if not better insurance cover at a lower cost because of the avoidance of the expenses and margin that the commercial insurer builds into the premium. Whatever captive structure is used - single parent, association, group, rent-a-captive or protected cell company - Cayman is ideally suited for this sector. The expertise of Cayman professionals is key: insurance managers who understand the industry and can react quickly to the needs of their clients; and law and accounting firms that have niche insurance specialization. In addition, there is a modem straightforward insurance law, user-friendly regulation (including low minimum capitalization requirements) and an accessible regulator. As at 31 March 2011 there were 749 captive insurance companies established in the Cayman Islands and it is likely that this sector will continue to thrive, even with a softening insurance market.
Structured Finance
Structured finance has been and remains an enormous growth area in the global financial services industry, providing issuers with cheaper and more efficient funding combined with greater balance sheet flexibility and investors with a broad selection of fixed income investment alternatives with a high credit rating and stable cash flows combined with protection against the bankruptcy of the issuer. Cayman is acknowledged to be the largest offshore center for structured debt transactions, whether that be simple euro paper issues, repackagings, aircraft financing, or the more complex securitisations of mortgages, credit card receivables, car loans, music royalties and the like.
The Cayman piece of any structured finance transaction will be the establishment of a bankruptcy remote vehicle which owns the assets, the subject of the transaction and the provision of service providers to the entity (principally, the directors and the trust company which will own the shares in the entity) to ensure that the integrity of the structure is not tainted in any way. The integrity of the structure is of paramount importance. The vehicle must have its own voice in the relevant transactions, hence the importance of experienced Cayman professional directors who have a high level of expertise in structured finance.
Many of the features that have contributed to the development of the investment funds business in the Cayman Islands equally apply to structured finance. In addition, the absence of withholding tax and exchange controls, a creditor friendly legal system and the ability to readily obtain an investment grade rating, are particularly significant. Challenges clearly lie ahead as a result of onshore developments post-Enron but structured finance in the Cayman Islands nevertheless remains in good health.
The outlook for Cayman's institutional business and financial services industry generally is very good. There is no reason why investment funds, structured finance and captive insurance in particular should not continue to be significant contributors to Cayman's expanding financial services industry.


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Directed at policy makers, legislators, educators, parents, the legal community, and anyone concerned about current public policy responses to sexting and cyberbullying, this book examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences. It offers an analysis of reactive versus preventive legal and educational responses to these issues using evidence-based research with digitally empowered kids. Shaheen Shariff highlights the influence of popular and 'rape' culture on the behavior of adolescents who establish sexual identities and social relationships through sexting. She argues that we need to move away from criminalizing children and toward engaging them in the policy development process, and she observes that important lessons can be learned from constitutional and human rights frameworks. She also draws attention to the value of children's literature in helping the legal community better understand children's moral development and in helping children clarify the lines between harmless jokes and harmful postings that could land them in jail.Unpublished term paper forWRIT 491Term Essay 1course, Prof. Shauna Van Praagh, Faculty of Law, ... An Act toprevent and stop bullying and violencein schools (Bill56), 2012. Cybersafety Act, SNS 2013 c.2. Safeand Supportive Minnesotaanbsp;...
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BT Home Hub 5G WiFi doesn't work with MacBook or iMac
We have now discovered this problem with two of our client's MacBook Airs and an iMac. If your Apple computer is compatible with 5 GHz WiFi (you can check this here) then you may experience issues connecting to the 5G WiFi network on your BT Home Hub 4 or 5 we have discovered. The only ... read more
Posted in Apple Repairs, Wireless Networks on 2nd April 2015
Restart Procedure
If you are experiencing network or broadband issues, often a complete restart of your equipment will resolve these issues. We would turn the equipment off and back on in the following order: Shutdown (not sleep or hibernate) all desktop PCs and laptops Turn off all printers Turn off any network attached hard drives Log into ... read more
Posted in Broadband, Wired Networks, Wireless Networks on 12th July 2014
Running CAT5 and CT100 Cable
Here's Charlie running CAT5 cable for the networking requirements of a barn conversion in Rye. We also put down the TV and Satellite CT100 cable whilst we were at it. Always best to run cables so they can be hidden in walls and ceilings! ... read more
Posted in Wired Networks on 14th June 2014
Using Old Routers as Access Points
If you have black spots in your WiFi network and want to have a better wireless coverage you may be able to do so without spending as much as you thought! Most people have a cupboard or drawer full of old computer equipment and if you have an old wireless router that you no longer ... read more
Posted in Wireless Networks on 27th September 2013
Apple Time Machine and RAID
One of our clients have several MacBooks and iMacs and required a central backup solution that was protected with a mirrored RAID 1 array. RAID is a common method for combining several hard drives that can either be duplicated (mirrored) or joined (striped) or both. The benefits for mirroring drives are that if one drive ... read more
Posted in Apple Servicing, Backup Solutions, Wired Networks on 10th July 2013
Protecting a Public WiFi Network
This is a bit of a catch 22 situation. Our client has a coffee house in Rye and wants to provide free WiFi to its clients by giving them the password to the wireless network. However, they have recently been hit with a £70 broadband bill when their bandwidth was exceeded by 40Gb! Even though ... read more
Posted in Wireless Networks on 25th June 2013
Rye Museum Kiosk Terminals
We have just serviced the two old computers in the East Street Rye Museum site. The machines were used to allow their visitors to browse www.ryemuseum.co.uk but had been turned off for years as the machines had become so slow and the WiFi network was unreliable. When we serviced the desktops we found they just ... read more
Posted in Desktop Repairs, Desktop Servicing, Wired Networks, Wireless Networks on 11th April 2013
12th Century WiFi Installation
We always enjoy the diametric irony of installing WiFi in old buildings, wondering what the original inhabitants would have made of the technology. Setting up a network in the famous 12th century Mermaid Inn was particularly satisfying in this regard. We used a combination of three Netgear WG103 business access points and the existing router's ... read more
Posted in Wireless Networks on 19th November 2012
3G Mobile Broadband WiFi
For those in broadband black spots desperately looking for a reliable internet alternative to conventional landline ADSL, check out your local 3G coverage. We setup a directional panel antenna for a client near Maidstone that points at his nearest 3G mast (you can find the locations of your nearest masts here). This antenna was mounted ... read more
Posted in Broadband, Wired Networks, Wireless Networks on 5th October 2012
Country Mansion WiFi
Installing a wireless network in such a large old building, especially one that looks like a castle was quite strange. We're pretty sure the original owners didn't have WiFi in mind when they had the place built! Nonetheless we've setup five Netgear wireless access points to cover the required areas so that residents can easily ... read more
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Stir It Up! Successful dieting demands real food
OK, you're "on a diet." EVERYONE is on a diet. As a culture, in fact, it has been said that we have a national eating disorder: our obsession with healthy eating.
The person who made this observation was Michael Pollan, the food journalist, activist and author. Pollan is also the author of what is perhaps the best advice on healthy eating: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
By this, he has explained, he means, first, eat "real" food -- not any food with more than five ingredients or ingredients that you can't pronounce, or food that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize, or food that won't eventually rot. Second, make sure that plant matter -- fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes -- makes up the major part of what you eat. Third, don't overeat.
This is not very complicated advice. It does not involve combining certain foods, or counting calories, or eating certain things at certain times of day, or avoiding whole categories of foods like fats or carbs. It doesn't involve writing anything down, mail-ordering special meals or supplements, or attending meetings.
But simple advice is often the hardest to follow. Which is why a book like "The Fast Metabolism Diet" rocketed to No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list. The book, written by Haylie Pomroy (described in her press materials as a "celebrity nutritionist"), details a three-phase, 28-day plan that will "turn your body into a fat-burning furnace." It includes rules about eating ("You must eat five times a day"), hydrating ("You must drink half your body weight in fluid ounces of water") and exercise ("You must exercise three times per week"). It also prohibits consuming the following: wheat, corn, dairy, soy, refined sugar, caffeine, alcohol, dried fruit or fruit juices, artificial sweeteners and fat-free "diet" foods.
Without endorsing or dismissing Ms. Pomroy's plan, it can be safely observed that anyone giving up wheat, corn, dairy, refined sugar, alcohol and fruit juices, while keeping well-hydrated and exercising regularly, is almost guaranteed to lose at least a little weight and probably feel better. If you like a plan with a lot of steps, "phases," scientific claims, and a list of "dos" and "don'ts," this one might be for you.
But even if you don't embrace Pomroy's strategy, you may want to check out some of her recipes in "The Fast Metabolism Diet Cookbook." They are healthy, satisfying and also interesting. They involve "real" food, mostly plants. Enjoy this one.
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Yield: 3 servings
For the dressing:
1 tangerine, peeled and seeded
1/2 cup diced cucumber
2 tablespoons water, or more if needed
Pinch of stevia
1/8 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
Sea salt and white pepper to taste
For the salad:
1 cup uncooked quinoa
12 ounces pork tenderloin, sliced 1 1/2 inches thick
3 tablespoons organic chicken broth
1 small red onion, peeled and sliced
1 1/2 cups diced zucchini or yellow squash
3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
Generous pinch of crushed red pepper flakes, or to taste
Scant 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro
6 cups fresh spinach
3 cups fresh blueberries
1 red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped (optional)
Make the dressing: In a blender, combine all of the ingredients, adding a bit more water if needed to reach desired consistency. Cover and refrigerate.
Cook the quinoa: Cover quinoa in cold water and let soak for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse well. Place in a pot and cover with 2 cups cold water. Cover the pot, bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes, or until the quinoa grains begin to open. Remove from heat and let sit, covered, for 10 minutes. Fluff with a fork. Set aside.
Make the salad: In a large nonstick skillet set over medium heat, sear the pork slices for about 1 minute on each side. Remove the pork from the pan; add the broth and onion and cook for about 2 minutes, stirring to prevent sticking. Add the squash and cook for 1 to 2 minutes, until it begins to soften. Return the pork to the pan and add the lime juice, pepper flakes, salt and cilantro, and cook for about 20 minutes or until the pork is cooked through and the squash is tender.
Mix in the cooked quinoa and heat for 1 to 2 minutes to make sure everything blends nicely.
Assemble the dish: Place 2 cups spinach in each of three large, shallow bowls. Divide the cooked mixture among the three bowls. Garnish each bowl with a cup of blueberries and a sprinkling of bell pepper (if using). Dress lightly.
(Recipe slightly adapted from "The Fast Metabolism Diet Cookbook" by Haylie Pomroy; Harmony Books, 2013.)
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In five years as comptroller of the currency, John Dugan did not draw the limelight shined on other regulators.
But as he gets ready to depart, there is no shortage of opinions on his legacy. To some, he was the classic behind-the-scenes operator, imposing his will quietly. Others say that as a crisis regulator he was too quiet, and quick to defend banks more than others.
Dugan counters that he was out in front on the issues most relevant to his agency, even if that set him apart from other regulators.
"Different agencies have different challenges which require different kinds of responses. As an exclusive supervisory-focused regulator on the commercial banks, we provided the kind of vocal leadership that we should have," he said in an interview. "I don't think of us as having been shrinking violets."
A former banking attorney, Dugan will leave the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Aug. 14 after a five-year term.
During that time, Dugan said, the OCC was an effective crisis manager, worked to soften the impact of financial turmoil on national banks and sounded off on certain regulatory issues relevant to those banks, such as the need for better loan underwriting and the risk of being too reliant on commercial real estate lending.
"On the places where giving a speech would have helped, I think we spoke our minds on those as we should have," he said. "We were right up front on nontraditional mortgages, and a lot on the [2006] commercial real estate guidance. … There have been a bunch of places where we were very outspoken, so I don't think that was an issue."
But for many, Dugan's mark in the face of unprecedented upheaval was not strong enough for a regulator in such an important post, especially when compared to higher-profile counterparts such as Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair.
"He's been relatively silent throughout the whole process," said James Barth, the Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance at Auburn University and a senior fellow at the Milken Institute. "I don't think he was on vacation throughout the crisis. But publicly I don't know exactly what he thought on most of the issues."
His defenders say Dugan did not need to be flashy to be important. They say he had considerable influence over national banks, while also having an impact in the debate over regulatory reform. The final legislation restricts preemption, but not as severely as originally proposed, and observers say he deserves credit for that.
"If you mean he wasn't making statements … that may be true," said John Hawke Jr., a former comptroller and now a partner at Arnold & Porter. "He was certainly visible to the industry that he was regulating."
Eugene Ludwig, another former comptroller and now the head of Promontory Financial Group, agreed. "I don't think visibility is the issue," Ludwig said. "The question is: What did you accomplish? John Dugan preserved the independence of the" OCC, "when all agencies were under scrutiny, and he maintained a steady hand at all times."
Dugan said the OCC took charge on singular crises for which it simply has not gotten credit. For example, he said, he was heavily involved in the decision to provide Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to PNC Financial Services Group Inc., which in turn used the capital to buy the faltering National City Corp. While the policymakers were criticized for not doing more to keep Nat City as a locally run institution, Dugan said "if you knew what the alternatives were, this was by far the best outcome possible."
"We would have had to resolve the company and haircut creditors and the crisis would have been far worse," he said. "I don't like to be compared to others. The place where I think we played a significant role is in the trenches of providing supervisory information and dealing with institutions as they got into trouble.""
But the experience of national banks during the crisis is a key area in which his performance — as that of his agency — sparks debate. Dugan said the agency does not get enough credit for helping to keep losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund stemming from national bank failures low relative to other types of institutions. (Since the start of 2008, 45 national banks have failed.)
"We have quite a good record dealing cooperatively with the FDIC and if you look at the number of the institutions that have failed and how many of them that have been national banks compared to the total number of institutions, or the total asset size of the institution or the losses as a percentage of assets of those institutions that did fail, we came out pretty well," he said.
Yet critics point out that those losses would have been much higher if the largest national bank subsidiaries — including those of Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. — had not received lifeboats through the unprecedented aid packages granted by Tarp.
"The only reason they are still open today is because of hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds thrown in to keep them open," said Camden Fine, the president and chief executive officer of the Independent Community Bankers of America.
Dugan says those banking subsidiaries are not to blame for the poor underwriting in mortgages that helped produce billions in losses for large firms through their securities arms. He says he has been a consistent advocate for stronger underwriting.
"Some of our big national banking organizations … thought they weren't taking subprime risk, only to find out that their securities arm had structured these securities with loans from third party subprime loans that were much lower quality that ended up causing big problems," he said.
But others said national banks and their regulator are not immune from the blame.
"The OCC bears a large part of responsibility for the subprime fiasco because not only were large banks involved in the purchase and securitization of subprime, they were also involved in the derivatives and CDOs," said Chris Whalen, managing director at Lord, Whalen LLC's Institutional Risk Analytics.
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Cold and flu season is upon us, meaning that 1 in 5 of us are currently suffering with the telltale coughs, sore throats and congestion. Those who feel run down with these symptoms more than a couple of times each year would do well to boost their body's defences and take natural measures to ease symptoms.
Read on for the top three ways to support your immune system and stay fighting fit this winter.
The Perils of the Party Season
Colds spread quickly in winter, as we tend to congregate indoors in large groups. This means that we need to take special care to protect ourselves against infection.
Two well-known 'anti-nutrients', which deplete our immune defences, are found everywhere during the party season – sugar and alcohol. Both sugar and alcohol deplete levels of immune boosting nutrients such as magnesium, zinc, vitamin C and selenium. Eating or drinking 8 tbsp of sugar, the equivalent of a couple of mince pies and a hot chocolate drink, can reduce the ability of white blood cells to kill germs by forty percent. Alcohol also suppresses the ability of white blood cells to multiply, meaning that infection can take hold more easily.
Avoiding sugar and alcohol completely can be hard during the party season, but a couple of simple measures will help protect your immune system. Try eating a high protein snack before a party, to reduce sugar cravings later on. Keep alcohol intake to no more than two drinks each day.
Prevention is Better than Cure
The immune system is dependent upon a whole host of nutrients to keep it functioning optimally. However, there is one particularly critical nutrient which tends to be lacking in winter months. Vitamin D levels begin to fall in October as the days get darker. A recent study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that daily vitamin D supplementation should reduce the risk of colds and flu, especially in the winter months (1).
It is difficult to obtain adequate vitamin D from food sources, meaning that supplementation is normally recommended. Public Health England recently advised that during the autumn and winter, all children and adults should be taking supplements with ten micrograms (mcg) of vitamin D daily.
Fighting the Virus
If a cold has already taken hold, there are some effective ways to lessen its duration and reduce the severity of symptoms.
Recent studies have found that probiotic bacteria have immune boosting benefits. They have natural antibiotic properties, and they help to boost the activity of white blood cells which fight off the cold virus. Taking a probiotic supplement has been shown to reduce the duration of the common cold by two days. Probiotics also appear to reduce the severity of symptoms and the incidence of fever. They are also considered safe and beneficial for children. Children taking probiotics are also less likely to suffer with fever, coughing and congestion, and have fewer days off school due to illness. The types of probiotic found to be most helpful are lactobacillus and bifidobacterium (2,3).
Other studies have found zinc to be useful in fighting cold symptoms, with zinc lozenges proving particularly useful in reducing cold symptoms and the duration of illness (4). During an infection, zinc is used by the body to activate lymphocytes, to attack and kill the cold virus. Zinc deficiency impairs cell-mediated immunity, meaning that viruses can take hold and multiply more easily.
While there is no cure for the common cold, there are certainly ways to boost your natural defences, and to quicken your road to recovery. Keeping your immune system fighting fit can help to ensure that you enjoy a happy and healthy festive break.
1. Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data. BMJ 2017;356:i6583
2. Probiotic effects on cold and influenza-like symptom incidence and duration in children. Pediatrics 2009;2008-2666
3. Probiotics for prevention and treatment of respiratory tract infections in children. Med 2016 95(31):e4509
4. Zinc gluconate lozenges for treating the common cold. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Ann Intern Med 1996;125(2):81-88


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A great snack, quickly prepared, is pan fried edamame. You can use peas as well. I like to do this with shelled peas and beans, but you can also make this with peas and edamame in their pods. Simply suck them out of the shell between your teeth after cooking. This can even be made with broad beans.
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Also try these beauties: Mung Sprout, Edamame and Radish Salad, Fava Bean Puree with Dill, Glorious Five Bean Salad, and Broad Bean and Butter Bean Spread.
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Take a pan or kadhai and heat some ghee or oil until hot. Add the edamame, peas or broad beans, and stir over the heat. Add enough salt for it to be salty. It might take more than you imagine, but this is to be a snack, so taste and add until you are happy with the taste.
Add chilli flakes or chilli powder to taste. I use a home made powder made from grinding chillies and dried curry leaves. I love this mix and it goes well with the peas. But use what you have.
Continue to stir fry till hot and the first touches of colour appear on the peas from the heat.
Remove to a bowl and serve as a snack.


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The current Broadway revival of "The Glass Menagerie" has won rave reviews for John Tiffany's dreamy, minimalist staging and the performances of Cherry Jones and Zachary Quinto as the onetime Southern belle Amanda Wingfield and her rebellious son, Tom. But there have been also exceptional notices for the two lesser-known young actors who round out the cast: Celia Keenan-Bolger, who plays Tom's disabled, beyond-painfully shy sister, Laura, and Brian J. Smith as Jim, who arrives in the second act as her first, and presumably last, gentleman caller.
In their nearly 30-minute scene alone together, the rest of the world falls away as they awkwardly converse, dance, kiss, then part in a devastating moment. It recapitulates the disappointments of the other characters — "It's not just a play within a play, it is the play in a lot of ways," Mr. Tiffany said — while revealing a more substantial Laura and more wounded Jim, two fellow "unicorns" as unsuited to the harsh ordinary world as Laura's glass animals.
Mr. Smith was cast first, with Ms. Keenan-Bolger added after an audition that included, unexpectedly, a full run-through of the scene together. "I had only been given five pages to prepare, but in some ways that was really freeing," she recalled.
The pair discussed with Jennifer Schuessler how they built the scene, hailed by Ben Brantley of The New York Times as possibly "the best version of it we'll ever see," and how it evolved from the run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., to Broadway. These are excerpts from the conversation.
Settling In
Jim, who doesn't recall knowing Laura in high school, suggests they sit on the floor. Sometimes, Mr. Smith pulls at his socks. "This is one of my favorite things he does," Ms. Keenan-Bolger said. "It feels so intimate, but it doesn't happen every night."
Mr. Smith said he wasn't quite aware of the gesture and wondered if it came from his own high school memories. "One night during performance, I must have been messing with my socks, just a nervous tic," he said. "I found myself remembering a behaviorologist who came to my school, and one of the things she said was that one of the signs of attraction is you're with someone and you're fiddling with your socks. I'm not sure if it was a bunch of bunk."
A Duet Joined, Hesitantly
Laura pulls out a high school yearbook and opens it to a photograph of Jim singing in "The Pirates of Penzance," an image from his vanished glory days that delights him. "This is one of the first times where I feel like he's not just giving me something, I'm giving him something," Ms. Keenan-Bolger said. "All Laura does in her family is — a lot of people cry and feel disappointed with her. The fact that she gets to experience that look on his face is very significant."Continue reading the main story
Jim belts out a hearty line of Gilbert and Sullivan, and Laura answers with a tentative line of her own — something not in Tennessee Williams's original script. "John Tiffany had planted the seed, and I just tried it one night in Boston," Ms. Keenan-Bolger said.
The Sharing of Delicate Secrets
"Sometimes I get a little disappointed when someone in the audience snickers when Laura tells him about her glass collection," Mr. Smith said. "But nothing about Laura weirds him out. It's a decision we made early on that guided everything we did." Still, he said, it took him a while fully to accept Mr. Tiffany's vision of Jim. "One time early on, I looked at the unicorn, and I got really depressed, and John gave me a note saying, 'You see something great, but I'm not going to tell you what it is,' " Mr. Smith said. "Then he started saying, 'Jim's a unicorn, too.' "
It wasn't until rehearsals in New York, however, that Mr. Smith was persuaded by Mr. Tiffany's idea that Jim doesn't really believe his own speeches about self-improvement and progress. For Laura, Ms. Keenan-Bolger said, when Jim holds the unicorn up to the light, it's the first time anyone has really seen her, and the first time she can really look at Jim: "I can see the pores on his face, smell what he smells like. It's the first time I don't worry he's going to catch me looking."
A Pas de Deux of Excited Intimacy
The couple steps out onto the fire escape to look at the Paradise Dance Hall across the alley. Jim pulls a real card out of his pocket with a flourish, and asks Laura if her dance card is full. "I wanted to do it like a magician," Mr. Smith said. "He seemed like the guy who would have a lot of stupid human tricks."
For the dance, Mr. Smith wanted something close, "like something people would do in a bar after a few drinks." But Steven Hoggett, the show's movement director, insisted on a proper waltz. During the dance, they collide with a table and the unicorn is knocked over, breaking his horn. Williams says that Jim breaks it, but Mr. Tiffany thought it should be Laura, who knocks the table less out of clumsiness than abandon.
"Once she's in the dance, the whole world goes away," Ms. Keenan-Bolger said. "It feels like it almost needs to get out of control in a way."
A Hopeful Peak, Then a Plummet
In the transfer to New York, Jim became softer, less bitter but also "more neurotic," Mr. Smith said. And Laura became subtly bolder. In the pair's kiss, instead of waiting for Jim to put her hand on his waist, she started placing it there herself. During initial rehearsals, the cast immersed itself in Tennessee Williams's life, and Ms. Keenan-Bolger said she was interested in making Laura like his disturbed sister, Rose, who ended up being lobotomized: "But during the break, I started thinking what happens if, when all the circumstances align, Laura can actually feel and function as a full person? The kiss in Boston was pretty clinical. I remember thinking: In New York it should feel like a kiss that could end the world."
The moment, of course, doesn't last. Jim tells Laura he's engaged and won't be calling again. In New York, the pair shifted, at Ms. Jones's suggestion, so Laura was open to the audience. "Cherry said, 'We want to see her face,' " Mr. Smith said. "It's a terrible thing to see every night. Jim knows what he has done."Continue reading the main story


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I volunteer to help out Croydon Cats Protection where I hold a stall at the bazaar. I chose to help these guys over other charities as all of my moggies came from them. I have Fletch who is a black boy (17 yrs) and Fletch's sister Biscuit who is a torty female (17yrs).
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As the general election officially began, we set out to review the very basics - campaign slogans. These short sound bites are designed, to sum up, the candidates' overall positions and platforms in just a few easily repeatable words. The idea behind a campaign slogan is twofold: 1) convince voters to choose that candidate, and 2) create easy repeatability that can be chanted, repeated to friends, and maybe even go viral. So how did the two major candidates do with their slogans? Without considering the issues, the candidates' likeability, their platforms, or any other factor that will sway voters this November, let's dissect just the actual slogans.
1. Evoking Socialism: Hillary Clinton fought a fierce battle in the primaries against Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders. The fact that she beat him indicates that perhaps her party, nevermind America as a whole, rejected that particular ideal. Presumably, Clinton's team is hoping to draw in Sanders' fervent supporters, but the vaguely socialist connotation of the slogan's word choice could be a risk in the national election.
2. Copycat Branding: Donald Trump has run his entire campaign on the idea that he is the strong, tough leader that America needs. No matter what you think of him, the bravado some might say is the total of what he is offering. While the Clinton campaign appears to be trying to differentiate its candidate by pointing out that no one person is as strong as an entire community working together, that idea is a bit high-minded for a slogan. Using the word "strong" enhances the appearance that Clinton is responding to Trump rather than defining the narrative herself.
3. Possible Alienation of Voters: Studies consistently show that the word "together" evokes the stereotypically feminine ideals of cooperation and empathy. Its use in a campaign slogan also implies that we should all aspire to work cooperatively with others. That message resonates with those who embrace those ideas, but what of those who embody the stereotypically male traits of independence, stoicism - the refusal to ask for directions? It will be a tough sell to convince these voters that they should suddenly reject individualism and embrace cooperation.
1. Aspirational Wording: Wherever your personal politics fall, and whatever your view of the issues, it is hard to deny that making America great is an excellent goal. The fact that the word "great" is so nebulous and non-specific makes this even stronger, as each person is free to project his or her unique vision of an ideal, 'great' America onto it.
2. American Identity: The inclusion of the word "America" suggests patriotism and national pride. We might all be wildly different from each other, but we all think of ourselves as Americans and are proud of that identity.
3. Loss and Hope: Notice that the slogan doesn't tell us to make America great. It tells us to make America great *again*, suggesting that we were once great, but lost our way. However, the slogan assures us, we can make it right. Tapping into very primal emotions that acknowledge our individual and collective grief, and gives us hope for the future.
4. Nonthreatening and Inarguable Word Choices: While Clinton's slogan uses a high-minded appeal to the power of collectivism, Trump's slogan is intentionally so vague as to be all-inclusive. There is no direct way to disagree with the slogan's content, it does not highlight any particular viewpoint, and it is simplistic enough to make an excellent soundbite.Of course, elections are not decided by campaign slogans. Debates, press conferences, social media, and many other factors will play into the final results. Still, in a tightly contested race, every element matters. A slogan should provide a simple, tightly focused message in a compact package that is easy to remember and repeat. The power of a well-designed slogan should never be overlooked, as you never know when it might tip an undecided voter into one column or the other. Disclaimer: Internal polling of First Source Interactive employees shows support for both candidates as well as neither. We will focus our election analysis on the branding and marketing aspects of the campaign and avoid political positions (which don't matter anyway).


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Woodland Snowfall by LHN
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That#s a lovely design that I have stitched, too, right away after buying the magazine. This little blackbird is lovely with its red beak.ReplyDelete
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Love the design - great choice! I really like the squirrels.ReplyDelete
Great finish. I'll have to look through that issue on my CD again!ReplyDelete
Gillie, so very pretty - like Jo, I need to look through the CD but I do also need to find it first! lol!ReplyDelete
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Travel Chapter's flagship brand is Holidaycottages.co.uk, one of the leading holiday lettings providers in the UK. Led by CEO James Morris, the business currently manages over 3,500 high quality self-catering holiday properties throughout the country and attracted roughly 12 million website visits. Phoenix invested in Travel Chapter Group in April 2016.
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A buy-and-build strategy is being developed by the Travel Chapter team and Phoenix, with a focus on acquiring smaller, regional holiday lettings agents in a fragmented sector. Accelerating organic growth in property numbers is also a priority, as is improving yield management and marketing effectiveness. Travel Chapter Group is being transitioned from family ownership, and a highly experienced non-executive chairman has been introduced to the business.
"We are delighted to be working alongside Phoenix Equity Partners. From the first meeting when we met David and Will we felt confident they would be the right partners to help us grow the business. They approach things in a very professional yet approachable manner and bring a wealth of knowledge to the table. We were also given the opportunity to meet the wider team at Phoenix throughout the early stages of the investment process and that was something that we felt was of real benefit. We are looking forward to working with Phoenix to help develop and grow the business."
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Sun, Oct 20, 2013 10:00 AM
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The "I Heart Animals Film Festival" is a 2-day film festival exploring the connections between people, animals, and the environment. All screenings are free.
For a small fee, you can park in the lot located behind Thorne's Marketplace. The Frances Crowe Community Room, located at 60 Masonic St., is a short two-block walk from Thorne's Marketplace. More details are as follows:
"Short and long-term parking are available in Northampton's E.J. Gare Municipal Parking lot which is located at 85 Hampton Avenue, Northampton, MA. This lot provides convenient skywalk access to Thornes Main Level. Handicapped parking is available on Level 3 of the Gare Municipal lot.
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Sinn Féin 'will work positively to address health pressures'
Sinn Féin has said the party will "look positively" at addressing pressures on the health service.
On Wednesday, Northern Ireland's health minister accused Sinn Féin of "undermining" and "attacking" the health service due to its stance on welfare reform.
Edwin Poots was addressing an emergency meeting of the health committee to discuss the recent budget crisis.
He has warned the executive that he can not deliver £140m of savings.
Speaking after the emergency meeting at Stormont, chair of the health committee, Sinn Féin's Maeve McLaughlin said the health service was "too important to be caught up in party politicking".
"There are clearly pressures on the health service and we need to ensure there is adequate funding to meet the needs of the sick and vulnerable," she said.
"That requires additional resources and additional scrutiny and the minister has said that there is still waste in his department.
"Sinn Féin will come at this positively," she added.
Sinn Féin is refusing to endorse welfare reforms, which has resulted in Westminster withdrawing money from the Northern Ireland block grant.
Mr Poots has previously said this would put extra pressure on the health budget.
On Wednesday, Mr Poots said he had managed the health budget to the best of his ability but there were still savings to be made.
Ms McLaughlin referred to comments made by DUP Finance Minister Simon Hamilton when he referred to "mismanagement of the budget".
She added: "There are, clearly, very real questions in relation to the management of your budget.
"That has, minister, been backed up again by your party colleagues and, indeed in my view, by your admittance quite publicly that you can't or won't deliver these proposed cuts."
Addressing the committee chair, Mr Poots said: "You would need to go, madam chair, and look at how your party has performed in this.
"Your party has performed despicably. And they have attacked the health service in a way and undermined it in a way which has put me in a wholly untenable position."
Ms McLaughlin said the problems in the health department long pre-dated the "debacle around health reform".
The chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, told the committee that the implications, in term of the cuts, were "quite wide-ranging".
In his first public comment on the health crisis, Mr McBride said: "The choices we are being faced with are short-term, short sighted and, in short, I cannot recommend these to the minister."
Last month, Edwin Poots warned the executive that he could not deliver £140m of savings.
During a BBC interview he said as a result they would have to find someone else to do it, do it themselves, or find the additional money.
The move prompted a huge response with some politicians accusing the minister of grandstanding, while others called for him to explain how he has been managing the annual budget of about £4.5bn.
Last week, a leading GP said the potential cuts could be "catastrophic" to patient care.
Ahead of the meeting, chair of the health committee, Maeve McLaughlin, who convened the emergency meeting, said that while Sinn Féin had made it clear it supported more money being made available for health, it had a responsibility to ensure any additional money would be spent on relieving pressures on frontline services.
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Daniel Hunter Challenges Us to Handle Empire's Fall
Daniel Hunter is one of the amazing young adults who have grown up in the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. In his early 20s, he has already finished a term as a BPFNA board member. A community organizer and nonviolence trainer, Daniel has written his first book, which revises and updates methods of training for nonviolent social change. He is the son of Bob Hunter, campus minister at Earlham College, and Caroll Hunter, Professor of History at Earlham (and brother to Rae, whom I profiled here after last year's peace camp).
Daniel gave us an excellent analysis of the crumbling of the American empire and both the opportunities that will mean for justice and peace struggles globally, and the challenges that will bring, especially in the U.S. It was both realistic and hopeful and did much to set the agenda of our conference.
Some empires (e.g., the British empire and the Soviet empire) have collapsed without a great deal of damage–and sometimes with more democracy and justice flourishing at home. But empires can cause much damage when they fall and some of our job as peacemakers may be–not to prop up the empire (heaven forfend!), but to try to stear for as soft a landing as possible. This crumbling empire (seen in our huge debt to China, our bogged down and over stretched military, our vulnerability to terrorism, our dwindling influence in the world, etc.) will remind us of our true loyalties and teach us to cultivate faith, hope, and love in a time of fear.
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Hillel welcomes students of all backgrounds and fosters an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel. As the largest Jewish student organization in the world, Hillel builds connections with emerging adults and inspires them to direct their own Jewish journey.
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The University of Iowa has had a prominent Jewish presence since early in the 20th century. The Department of Religious Studies (formerly the School of Religion) has had a professor of Jewish studies for decades and offers courses in Judaism. Hillel has been functioning on campus since the 1920s. The local synagogue, Agudas Achim, and Hillel have worked closely together to provide for the needs of Jewish students. In recent years, Chabad has established a presence on campus, working in conjunction with Hillel and Jewish Greek houses.
The Hillel at the University of Iowa boasts a large space made for Jewish students to come together to learn, study, eat, pray, and celebrate. The University has hundreds of Jewish graduate and undergraduate students. Many of those students are involved in the Greek system, in both traditionally Jewish and non-Jewish houses. Hillel is active in social justice and community service around campus and Iowa City. Arts and culture programming are popular as well. UI students integrate into the local Jewish community, serving as youth group advisors and religious school teachers.
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Greenwich Palace
This place was the home of King Henry VIII and was the site of the Royal Court.
This place was the royal residence.
Tower of London
This place was a prison and a royal residence in London.
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This place was in Northern England and where British troops were stationed where they contracted the plague.
Kirk O'Field
This place was a royal residence and where Darnley was killed.
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This was a royal residence located in Berkshire.
The North Country
This place was the site of a rebellion in 1569.
The United Provinces
This was a group which created the Netherlands.
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